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|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Grated lemon rind
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|Mandarin almond cream sauce
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1) In a 15- x 10- x 1-inch jellyroll pan added melted butter and keep aside.
2) Drain the oranges and keep aside the liquid for later use.
3) In a dish, add eggs and 2 tablespoons orange liquid and mix well.
4) In another dish, add breadcrumbs, salt, and lemon rind and mix well.
5) Coat the fish with the egg mix and then with the breadcrumb mix.
6) Place in the jellyroll pan and turn once to coat with butter.
7) Place in the oven, uncovered, at 350° for 35 minutes, till the fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
8) Serve with Mandarin-Almond Cream Sauce.
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Calories 367 Calories from Fat 212
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 24 g37%
Saturated Fat 13.1 g65.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 203.7 mg67.9%
Sodium 929.4 mg38.7%
Total Carbohydrates 19 g6.5%
Dietary Fiber 1.9 g7.7%
Sugars 9.3 g
Protein 19 g38.6%
Vitamin A 25.3% Vitamin C 37.1%
Calcium 8.7% Iron 8.3%
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|Green chili
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|1⁄4 , chopped fine
|Fresh garlic/10 cloves dry garlic, chopped fine
|4 Clove (20 gm)
|Fresh fenugreek leaves
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|Coriander leaves
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|Green tomatoes
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|8 Tablespoon
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Calories 1559 Calories from Fat 1137
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 129 g198.9%
Saturated Fat 75.4 g376.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 451.7 mg150.6%
Sodium 1171.8 mg48.8%
Total Carbohydrates 43 g14.5%
Dietary Fiber 8.9 g35.6%
Sugars 12.1 g
Protein 63 g126.2%
Vitamin A 60.1% Vitamin C 158.3%
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Several neighbors spoke against the proposed facility at last week's meeting. Their criticisms included that the proposed facility is much larger than the current eight-bed group home and much larger than homes in the neighborhood, that it would set a precedent that might result in whole rows of group homes, and that it would generate more traffic and emergency vehicles.
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Alderman Karl Kastner, who voted for the split along with Linda Lubotsky and Shirley Saryan, said simply that the split met all city requirements as to size and other issues.
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"I don't see a problem with another eight-bed CBRF on the other piece of land," Lubotsky said. "An eight-bed home is not a bad neighbor by any means."
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Voting against the land split were aldermen Tom Pietrowski, in whose district the area lies, and Pam Akers. Pietrowski agreed with neighbors that they were not being listened to.
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Add lima beans and the remaining cup of broth.
Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes.
Add the corn and the black pepper.
Simmer for 5 minutes more.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 699 Calories from Fat 31
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 3 g5.2%
Saturated Fat 0.39 g2%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 1104.5 mg46%
Total Carbohydrates 137 g45.8%
Dietary Fiber 32.8 g131.2%
Sugars 12.4 g
Protein 29 g58.3%
Vitamin A 32.1% Vitamin C 136.2%
Calcium 84.8% Iron 40.6%
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The central aim of the proposed research program is to evaluate a set of specific hypotheses about the basis for nonverbal cognitive impairments in children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q). The proposed series of studies builds directly upon the exploratory analyses tested in the first period of funding (4/1/03 - 3/31/08). Specifically, we propose that this genetic syndrome leads to early developmental changes in the structure and function of clearly delineated neural circuits for basic spatiotemporal cognition. During childhood, this dysfunction cascades into impairments in basic magnitude and then numerical processes, because of the central role that representations of space and time play in their construction. We propose that this is due to "spatiotemporal hypergranularity";the increase in grain size and thus reduced resolution of mental representations of spatial and temporal information. By raising detection thresholds and introducing error into all spatiotemporal processing, this representational degradation defines the hypothesized "alterations in these basic processes [that] will generate explanations of [...] impairments in the domains of visuospatial and numerical cognition" (p.1 previous application). The result is that spatiotemporal processes develop atypically and thereby produce the characteristic impairments in nonverbal cognitive domains that are a hallmark feature of 22q. The chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (encompassing DiGeorge, Shprintzen and Velocardiofacial Syndromes) is quite prevalent (~1:4000 live births) yet little is known about its neurocognitive implications.
Two Specific Aims are designed to 1) Identify dysfunctions in the interaction of spatial and temporal processing and measure the resolution of spatiotemporal attentional selection, and 2) Identify neural substrates of spatiotemporal dysfunction and of hypergranularity. The former will employ a battery of cognitive and psychophysical experiments to define and measure spatiotemporal cognitive impairments in children with 22q. The latter will examine a specific neural circuitry hypothesis using structural, connectivity and functional measures. Specificity will be addressed by comparing results from children with 22q to typically developing controls and those with sex chromosome aneuploidies, another developmental disability group with stronger spatial than verbal abilities. We expect results to create a neurocognitive explanation of spatiotemporal and numerical impairments in 22q specific enough to be directly translated into therapeutic interventions in the next funding period.
This project tests a very specific account of changes in the minds and brains of children with a common but ill-understood genetic disorder called chromosome 22q11.2 deletion. This account might explain the learning difficulties that they experience. If this explanation is supported by the research, problems in thinking and reasoning about measurements of space, time and numbers could be reduced or remedied by using the results to design computer based interventions that could benefits many tens of thousands of children.
|Schneider, Maude; Debbané, Martin; Bassett, Anne S et al. (2014) Psychiatric disorders from childhood to adulthood in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: results from the International Consortium on Brain and Behavior in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Am J Psychiatry 171:627-39
|Sellier, Chantal; Hwang, Vicki J; Dandekar, Ravi et al. (2014) Decreased DGCR8 expression and miRNA dysregulation in individuals with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. PLoS One 9:e103884
|Wong, Ling M; Riggins, Tracy; Harvey, Danielle et al. (2014) Children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome exhibit impaired spatial working memory. Am J Intellect Dev Disabil 119:115-32
|Hwang, Vicki J; Maar, Dianna; Regan, John et al. (2014) Mapping the deletion endpoints in individuals with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome by droplet digital PCR. BMC Med Genet 15:106
|Villalon-Reina, Julio; Jahanshad, Neda; Beaton, Elliott et al. (2013) White matter microstructural abnormalities in girls with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, Fragile X or Turner syndrome as evidenced by diffusion tensor imaging. Neuroimage 81:441-54
|Srivastava, Siddharth; Buonocore, Michael H; Simon, Tony J (2012) Atypical developmental trajectory of functionally significant cortical areas in children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Hum Brain Mapp 33:213-23
|Simon, Tony J (2011) Clues to the foundations of numerical cognitive impairments: evidence from genetic disorders. Dev Neuropsychol 36:788-805
|Awate, Suyash P; Yushkevich, Paul A; Song, Zhuang et al. (2010) Cerebral cortical folding analysis with multivariate modeling and testing: Studies on gender differences and neonatal development. Neuroimage 53:450-9
|Stoddard, Joel; Niendam, Tara; Hendren, Robert et al. (2010) Attenuated positive symptoms of psychosis in adolescents with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Schizophr Res 118:118-21
|Karayiorgou, Maria; Simon, Tony J; Gogos, Joseph A (2010) 22q11.2 microdeletions: linking DNA structural variation to brain dysfunction and schizophrenia. Nat Rev Neurosci 11:402-16
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The Carolina Panthers signed safety Thomas DeCoud to a two-year contract on Thursday night. He was a starter for the Atlanta Falcons for the past five years after being drafted in the third round out of Cal in 2008. He made the Pro Bowl in 2012 but was cut as a cap casualty this offseason after career lows in tackles and interceptions in 2013.
With adding DeCoud, it makes the future of long time starter Charles Godfrey a little muddy. He missed the final 14 games of 2013 and carries a $7.1 million cap figure into next season. Godfrey could be the next casualty of the secondary if he's unwilling to take a pay cut or the team doesn't trust his health. "He's part of the evaluation. He's got to get healthy first," Dave Gettleman said at the league meetings in Orlando last month. "We're evaluating." Gettleman's tone when discussing Godfrey comes across as eerily similar to the comments he made regarding Steve Smith prior to releasing him.
DeCoud joins former Pro Bowler Roman Harper and former first round pick Antoine Cason as new additions to the Panthers' secondary this offseason after losing Mike Mitchell, Quintin Mikell, Captain Munnerlyn, and Drayton Florence in free agency.


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Rosemary Focaccia
|Active dry yeast
|1 Tablespoon (1 Package)
|Warm water
|1 1⁄4 Cup (20 tbs), divided (105° To 115°)
|All-purpose flour
|3 3⁄4 Cup (60 tbs), divided
|1 Teaspoon, divided
|3 Tablespoon, melted
|Chopped fresh rosemary
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), divided
|All purpose flour
|2 Tablespoon
|Olive oil flavored vegetable cooking spray
|1 Tablespoon
|4 Clove (20 gm), minced
Combine yeast and 1/4 cup warm water; let stand 5 minutes.
Combine yeast mixture, remaining 1 cup warm water, 2 cups flour, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a large mixing bowl; beat at medium speed of an electric mixer until mixture is well blended.
Cover and let rise in a warm place (85°), free from drafts, 1 hour or until doubled in bulk.
Punch dough down; stir in 1 3/4 cups flour, melted margarine, and 1/4 cup rosemary.
Sprinkle 2 tablespoons flour evenly over work surface.
Turn dough out onto floured surface, and knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes).
Divide dough in half.
For each focaccia, roll or press 1 portion of dough into an 11-inch circle on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
Poke holes in dough at 1-inch intervals with handle of a wooden spoon.
Coat top of each round with cooking spray; sprinkle evenly with remaining 1/4 cup rosemary, remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, and garlic.
Bake at 400° for 20 minutes.
Cut each circle into 12 squares or wedges.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 2375 Calories from Fat 516
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 58 g89.6%
Saturated Fat 9.9 g49.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 1992.9 mg83%
Total Carbohydrates 398 g132.8%
Dietary Fiber 20.6 g82.2%
Sugars 1.5 g
Protein 59 g118.9%
Vitamin A 46.9% Vitamin C 19.6%
Calcium 21.1% Iron 153.6%
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Thursday, September 4th, 2014
5:26 pm
Another post about Epic Fantasy series...
When I was still an undergrad, and regularly spent time in MITSFS, I had at least passing knowledge with all the major fantasy series (and even some of the more obscure ones, like PC Hodgell's God Stalk... which, I note, after publishing 3 books between 1982 and 2006, has gone on a spree of 4 books in 8 years... which maybe I'll track down and read now). Not so true for books post graduation (though I did read the first couple Game of Thrones books before they became cool. Do I get hipster sf cred? Or is "hipster sf cred" self-contradictory?). Anyway, one of the major series that I totally missed was Steven Erikson's Mazalan series.
So... I picked up the first one a few weeks ago. And found it... not really my cup of tea. It is billed as being like Glen Cook's "The Black Company", and, indeed, that's probably the closest analogue I can think of... but I enjoyed the Black Company (despite some drawbacks) and I felt like the Mazalan book had less cohesion and more confusion. The thing that I found most annoying was that it seemed like characters changed allegiances willy-nilly with little support in the text - at best, there were allusions to off-screen events and information that apparently were important but often these events were either unclear to the reader or, in those instances where the reader knew about them, it was unclear how the character knew or why it would have been sufficient to change their minds.
I did feel like the book improved somewhat over its course, so I am considering trying a second one, but... maybe I have better things to do with my reading time. Does anyone want to try and convince me one way or the other?
(in related news, the Shadows of the Apt series has finished. I quite like the series as a whole, though it appears I differ in this from several of the people I would have expected to like it. I did find the last book felt hurried, as if the author had set up a bunch of potential hooks in previous books and then chose to skip them because he wanted to be done)
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Monday, January 27th, 2014
8:50 pm
good playreading plays?
So, a couple months ago I hosted an Arcadia playreading party in DC, and a lot of my friends here really enjoyed it and have been pestering me to host another one. So... the question is, what play? My ideal play would have multiple central characters, a number of supporting characters, a decent number of female roles, and not too challenging language-wise (e.g., probably not Shakespeare, and maybe light-hearted plays over deep dramas). Hapgood came to mind because it is an obvious Arcadia sequel (yay for science in plays!), but it is only 8 roles, so could be better...so, wise LiveJournal hivebrain, what else can you suggest for me?
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013
10:57 pm
The Wisdom of LiveJournal and Smartphones
I figure it is about time for me to join the world of the smartphone enabled, and before leaping into it, I thought I'd check the collective wisdom:
Given that I am a mac-user and a Verizon customer, are there any good reasons not to go with the default of an iPhone5 and a verizon plan?
More detailed questions about choices and apps behind cut
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
12:11 pm
Those of you who are my facebook friends may have noticed some posts by me about various voting issues - bemoaning my lack of Senator or Representative, for example - but also pointing out what I think is an interesting paper by a family friend of mine on gerrymandering (google stephanopolous gerrymander to see a few of his articles).
The recent election, and the Republican majority in the house, demonstrates the results of gerrymandering quite nicely:
. I did a quick calculation on Pennsylvania, and determined that though a majority of Pennsylvanians voted for Democratic House of Representative candidates (50.7% to 49.3%), the state as a whole elected 13 Representatives to 5 Democrats.
One question I have is that, while the PA gerrymandered districts look ridiculous, would fixing them actually solve the disproportionate representation problem? After all, urban centers vote 80 to 90% Democrat, and most mapping schemes, whether by geographic compactness or by "spatial homogeneity" (see the Stephanopolous Law Review article), are going to keep the urban area as an intact entity. So I think even a neutrally designed PA map will end up having a Republican advantage. Another option that Stephanopolous raises is multi-member districts - this seems like it would help improve the fidelity of representation (and could possibly be combined with some kind of preferential voting system), make third parties more viable, and reduce extremism.
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
12:13 pm
Price Gouging and other such issues
I have a number of economic/policy/market imperfection posts that I've been tempted to post about for a while. In the wake of Sandy, a friend's post about hour-long lines at a gas station in NJ, and a Slate article that was surprisingly close to my own view on it, I'm going to address Price Gouging. Hopefully more to follow.
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Sunday, August 12th, 2012
1:33 pm
Cooperative Strategy Games
I've played two cooperative strategy games in the past couple weeks, and it highlighted some game design issues for me.
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Friday, July 13th, 2012
6:13 pm
Portland people?
Do I know anyone who lives in Portland who might put up a guest for a night or two?
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
6:58 pm
So, my mom has gotten hold of the forwarding bug, and in return, I have taken to consulting snopes fairly frequently in the hopes of limiting the wrongness that is being forwarded around the internet. Recently, she forwarded a document which accused aspirin of being responsible for a very large number of deaths, mainly due to the very large number of aspirin consumed, with blood thinning being the mortality factor. My google-fu failed me: while I was able to come up with a large number of websites citing the deaths (including some accusing aspirin of 1918 Spanish Flu mortality), none of them were what I considered to be reputable sources, and in contrast, I was unable to find any reputable sources which discussed the aspirin mortality claim either pro-or-con.
(the aspirin-Reyes syndrome link seems more solid, as do the benefits of aspirin for several conditions)
Any of my medically-competent friends want to weigh in here?
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
10:21 am
Crime & Leadishment
An interesting paper was brought to my attention today... remember the whole freakonomics thing about linking abortion rates to violent crime reductions 20 years later? Well, apparently, there may be another factor at work in the crime rate decreases of the past 2 decades: lead abatement.
Now, I admit that I am probably predisposed to think this is a good paper because it matches my preconceived notions of "EPA good! Pollution bad!" And I haven't really dug into the numbers. If you want the key results, I'd suggest reading the abstract and then skipping all the way to Table 6 on pg. 59 (the panel results data) and Figure 5 (pg. 70).
Extended discussion of the results of Table 6
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
8:36 am
Oh Canada, even you?
If even Canada has riots over the results of a sports game with burning police cars and looted stores, how can we ever hope that areas of the world with real issues (eg, the middle east) will ever stop the cycle of violence?
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
8:54 am
badastronomy was right: a green laser pointer is an amazing tool for stargazing purposes. Sadly, my particular one doesn't like the cold weather and eventually stops working (though it was briefly shone a weak red... that was kind of weird). Also, lunar eclipses are neat.
Betelgeuse is also surprisingly red. I don't know that I'd noticed that before. I mean, it is a _red_ supergiant, but.. its really red.
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
2:36 pm
For humor-enjoying paper submitters
Journal editors with a sense of humor:
(mind you, I'm currently doing the journal merry-go-round with reviewer responses on a couple papers, and it is exhausting...)
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
10:53 pm
For humor-enjoying economists...
Stand-up economist comedian:
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
3:28 pm
Home Chemistry (and other stuff) experiments
Back when I was doing chemistry demonstrations for schools and stuff, I found a series of great books by a guy named Shakhishiri that had tons and tons of good demonstrations. Recently, I found that he has a webpage that lists a bunch of the easy, can-do-at-home ones:
(Sadly, I am still on the lookout for a good carbon dioxide/heating experiment: most of the ones on youtube turn out to have a fatal flaw in that they are picking up the different convective properties of CO2, not the different radiative properties: see, 'Climate Change in a Shoebox: Right result, wrong physics" which was a nice paper demonstrating this error by using Argon as a control gas. IR camera experiments do work, but don't have the same visceral connection as seeing a temperature difference)
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
4:40 pm
For fans of Daniel Abraham and/or Economics
A short story:
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
5:51 pm
Summary of Climate Change Policy Philosophy
The CBO director has posted a nice summary of the tenets of a good climate change policy:
I appreciate the nod towards non-market solutions as well as price-based solutions (a common example of why more than just a price signal may be required is the "principal-agent" problem, where, for example, a landlord has no incentive to put in insulation because the tenant pays for the heat - or alternatively, in apartments like mine where utilities are included, I have no market incentive not to use excessive heat and or air conditioning because my landlord pays for it).
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1:25 pm
Changing Last Names
I had a discussion with a colleague at work today about changing last names (don't know how we got there given that I know our conversation meandered through unions, climate change, Paris, and workplace performance reviews). Two things I hadn't really thought about before:
1) Keeping one's own name: I'd known that it means having a tough decision about what last name one's kid will have: what I didn't realize is that apparently for traveling on airplanes, this requires that the parent with a different name have a certified letter of some kind attesting to relationship with the kid to prove they aren't kidnapping it.
2) I had seen in a couple places proposals for academic publishing to tag every author with a unique identification number: the rationales I remembered hearing were to improve the ability to do author searches in the literature by avoiding confusion of people with the same name, problems with misspellings, and not needing to care about inclusion/exclusion of a middle initial: probably listed in the standard rationales, but I'd never made the mental connection, was that if an academic chooses to change his or her name this would enable searches to still pull up all their articles, which would eliminate one of the arguments for not changing names.
Just some musings. I lean towards being a "keep your name" sort of person - I like my own last name and identify with it and at least at this moment would be hesitant to change it even if that would add a greater sense of "family togetherness" or whatever (I'm assuming that for me, this would only come up in the context of marriage), and it would seem weird to me to have someone who had always occupied a space of -theirfirstname- -theirlastname- in my head to suddenly become -theirfirstname- -mylastname- though I suppose I would get used to it... I also often have trouble remembering whether or not my friends who have gotten married have changed or hyphenated their names or not, which occasionally makes life difficult when I try and write them postcards... Also, keeping names constant makes it easier to find people I've lost touch with even if they've gotten married in the interim (though I suppose maybe we could start using our journal personal identifier as a social identifier too... I mean, my name is unique so anyone can google and find me, but other people are much harder to find online. And I presume some people are quite happy with that status quo. But that's another issue entirely...)
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
12:08 pm
netcdf on os X?
I don't suppose anyone on my friends list has installed netcdf on OS X? I keep getting errors like
"ranlib: archive member: .libs/libnetcdff.a(netcdf.o) cputype (7) does not match previous archive members cputype (16777223) (all members must match)"
when calling the make command... (configuring seems to have worked right after finding that I had to set FFLAGS=-m64)
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
9:27 am
Science Fiction Cagematch
: The concept is so-so amusing (science fiction characters in an NCAA-like bracket match-up). Sadly, the fans seem to keep voting for Drzzzt (do people seriously like drow protagonists that much? I thought they just existed for webcomics authors to make fun of). But the fact that Patrick Rothfuss, George RR Martin, and Naomi Novik actually wrote some snippets for this website - priceless!
(but... what are they doing on this website when they could be writing their next novels???)
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
10:12 pm
Connie Willis
Connie Willis betrayed me... she'd never written anything that didn't stand on its own, and so when I reached the end of Blackout (her new novel) I was kind of shocked that everything was left hanging... and the next book doesn't come out until the fall!!!
On the other hand, I did read her cute novella "Inside Job"
on-line, so that gave me a bit of my Connie Willis fix.
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so far, thus far, up to now, hitherto, heretofore, as yet, yet, til now, until now(adverb)
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Even though it seems that customer service is not a priority in today's society, in the healthcare industry it needs to be a priority. The reason healthcare should be a priority, is because at some point everyone is going to need medical care. And depending on what type of care you receive customer service can determine your outcome. If a customer receives poor customer service, they are likely to complain to some outside source (like the BBB), which can sometimes hurt a business. It can also cause the customer not to heal properly, which means the customer is receiving poor medical care. Because of this poor customer service, the social reform, over the years has currently been making changes to the healthcare industry. In 2006, the HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) a national survey, started randomly administrating these surveys to inpatients at hospitals. (Ruesink, 2012). The purpose of these surveys was:
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In 2010, the Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP), which is similar to HCAHPS. This program randomly surveys patients and rewards acute-care hospitals with monetary incentives based on quality of care they provide to people with Medicare. (Ruesink, 2012). Along with these two surveys, the government and different healthcare businesses have started providing their employees with annual customer service training, hoping to one day be the best at offering customer service.
Customer service in the healthcare field not only deals with medical care, but it also deals with patient education, privacy and billing. Patient education is a service that is provided to the customer free of charge. When educating patients whether it is about a procedure, illiness, are medication be sure to explain it in a way that they can understand. Sometimes you might have to take time with them. Always double-check to make sure you are giving them the right information and prescriptions. Always take the time to listen to them and never rush them, because you must have patience and compassion when dealing with the customer.
You should always inform and explain to the customer about your companies billing practices upfront. Customers should be provided with invoices that show what services that they received and how much each service cost. Medical facilities are required to take measures to protect patient's privacy. As medical professional we should never give or discuss medical information with family or friends unless we have permission.


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SONIC'S ULTIMATE GENESIS COLLECTION takes a slice of gaming history and presents it for new gamers and people who enjoyed this titles fifteen years ago. Sega has gathered over forty classic titles from the Sega Genesis system and a small selection of their arcade and Sega Master System titles, added a new coat of polish and made them ready for today's high definition television sets. With such a massive collection of excellent titles to choose from, Sega covered a variety of genres to appease all gamers. Role playing games are covered with not one, but four complete Phantasy Star titles, in addition to the Shining Force series and Beyond Oasis. Platform gamers will enjoy gems like Flicky and the Sonic series, and action fans are sure to be thrilled with three Streets of Rage titles plus two versions of Altered Beast.
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--This post was originally published on the ONE Campaign's blog
March Madness? How about tax madness? Ah, tax season. Whether it's money you owe, or a refund coming your way, I'm sure you know how much it is. But if you're like most us of, you likely don't know where your tax dollars actually go. Think about it. Do you know how your tax dollars are spent? Don't be discouraged, neither did I.
There's so much talk in the news about social security, Medicare, and foreign assistance spending. It got us wondering how much we contribute to each. Well, thankfully we've now got a simple way for you to find out.
Today, we're launching our new Interactive Tax Tool that shows you where your tax dollars go. Just enter your household income and you'll see your tax money break down into eight categories -– national defense, social security, health, unemployment, Medicare, interest on US debt, foreign assistance and other. It's not exact — it assumes you file as a single without exemptions — but you get the picture.
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Most importantly, ONE's tax tool reveals how only a small fraction of the US budget has already dramatically improved the lives of the poorest people on the planet, and how you personally have contributed to that effort. Together, Americans have helped put 5 million people on AIDS medication, halved malaria deaths in 11 African countries and saved the lives of 15 million children. Pretty amazing stuff.
Time and again, research has shown us that when people see how much good is being done for so little, their opinions on foreign assistance change. As a matter of fact, there's no single message that effectively changes more skeptics into believers than the living proof of what has been accomplished for so little. The problem is, not enough people have seen this proof. That's where you come in.
I'm asking you to not only check out the Tax Tool yourself, but to share it with all your friends. And ask them to share it with their friends too. Because the more people who see the proof that foreign aid is working, the more people will stand up to protect it. And after all, that's what ONE is all about.Read more
As Vice President of Field Programs at PATH, I appreciate efforts like World Water Day that call for universal access to the solutions that are the foundation to the health and well-being of communities. I appreciate these efforts both as a public health expert and as a native Nigerian who has seen firsthand the burden of disease in Africa, where diarrhea is now the leading killer of children under five.
I grew up in Nigeria and my family was fortunate enough to have safe drinking water and a toilet. Millions in my country did not, however, and many still don't today. Later in my life, when I became a doctor practicing in Ilorin, I saw many children who were far too small for their age. I remember one mother in particular who visited my clinic several times with her tiny child, who was severely dehydrated. It wasn't difficult for me to imagine why he was repeatedly ill. Lack of access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) is devastating in its own right, but when other family members are ill with diseases like malaria or tuberculosis and waste is not disposed of properly, the dangers are compounded. In these environments, it's no surprise that diarrheal diseases are perpetual and unforgiving, especially among vulnerable children and those who are already ill.
Those of us living in industrialized nations can easily forget the extent to which we rely on safe drinking water and sanitation to stay healthy and to prevent the spread of disease. In fact, no innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than sanitation. And anyone who has suffered with a water-borne illness knows how difficult it would be to be productive in that condition. In nations like the U.S. where diarrhea has become a mere inconvenience, too many are unaware that diarrhea is still the second leading killer of children globally. When it doesn't kill, a long cycle of dehydration and malnutrition takes its toll, and both physical and cognitive stunting are often sad long-term consequences.
Worldwide, millions lack access to safe drinking water and billions lack a latrine: a major contributor to the 1.5 million children who die of diarrheal diseases every year, a security risk for women who have to journey long distances for water and for privacy, and a deterrent to girls' school attendance. The cost of continuing to ignore this crisis is high. Fortunately, so is the opportunity for effective solutions. To defeat diarrheal disease, we need an integrated prevention and treatment approach, and WASH is essential to that equation. Over half of the hospital beds in low income countries are filled with patients suffering with water-borne diseases. Imagine the impact that simple access to WASH could have in those settings. Imagine the impact it could have had on that mother who repeatedly brought her child to see me at the clinic. Chances are, she never would have needed to come. A cup of safe drinking water and a latrine are so much more than health solutions; they are hope for mothers everywhere, all of whom want the same things for their children.
World Water Day is a great opportunity to celebrate success and to renew our commitment moving forward. The recent achievement of the safe water MDG target ahead of schedule is worthy of celebration and shows us what's possible, but the lagging behind of the sanitation MDG target, not to mention the many families who still lack access to safe drinking water, is a sobering reminder that we can't stop here.
We all have a role to play. Just as WASH solutions are simple but powerful, so is our request to advocates on World Water Day: to lend your voice to the cause. Visit waterday.org to sign up your Facebook or Twitter profile and share messages about the incredible impact of WASH. Your voice can help save lives. Join the movement.
-- Ayo Ajayi is Vice President of Field Programs at PATHRead more
Summer 2006, rural China: My colleagues and I take a bathroom break at a rest stop on the side of the road on our way to a health clinic. Unlike many female restrooms around the world, there isn't a long line of patrons waiting to use the holes in the ground separated by slabs of cement. I walk over to one of the farthest holes in the room and, my colleague stands in front of my "stall" as a human door. Other patrons giggle at how shy we are using the makeshift toilets. I strategically place my feet as far away as possible from the urine and feces on the ground, remnants from previous guests who had missed their chance to score inside the basket of waste collecting beneath the building.
Summer 2006, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: I am out in the countryside conducting a site visit. I really have to use the restroom. When I ask where the toilet is located, one of the locals points to an outhouse in the middle of the field and says something in Mongolian for my colleague to translate. "He is embarrassed for you to use the outhouse," my colleague tells me. "He says it smells very bad and thinks it is better if you hold it until you get to your hotel."
Fall 2010, Kampong Thom province, Cambodia: We're observing a village health volunteer train a group of mothers on diarrhea and pneumonia. After the training, I ask her how she thinks it went. She tells me that even if we train the mothers on how to prevent diarrhea and pneumonia, they lack basic, critical supplies like soap, water filters, and latrines.
I have encountered challenging situations when having to use the restroom. Factors beyond my control: no toilet paper, no soap, no water, non-flush toilets; things I took for granted at home, at work, and even at most of the shopping malls back home in Utah. When I started to work on the diarrhea and pneumonia project with the PATH team in Cambodia, I learned first-hand how uncontrollable factors such as flooding, dirty water, and poor sanitation contribute to high rates of diarrhea.
My favorite health theory is the ecological model, which explores how environments influence health behaviors and thus health outcomes. My previous post raised the question of how health policies and behavior changes are linked in order to work with one's environmental context. In order to gain a better understanding, I spoke to members of the Technical Working Group for Acute Respiratory Infection and Diarrhea Prevention and Control, who are helping revive programming to address childhood diarrheal disease and pneumonia in Cambodia and are providing guidance on key policies:
-- Mr. Ork Vichit, Program Officer for childhood pneumonia and diarrheal disease at PATH
-- Mr. Chum Aun, Health Officer for maternal and child health issues at UNICEF
-- Dr. Chhorn Veasna, Program Manager of the National Program on ARI and Diarrheal Disease at the Ministry of Health in Cambodia
-- Dr. Bun Sreng, Chief of Bureau of Prevention and Control for the Department of Communicable Disease Control at the Ministry of Health of Cambodia
How did the experience of local health staff inform the revision of the national policy on pneumonia and diarrheal disease?
Mr. Vichit: The new policy focuses on community participation. If we want to strengthen the community level, we have to strengthen all health levels: national, provincial, operational, and health center levels in order to properly prevent, manage, and treat diarrhea and pneumonia. For instance, equipping village health volunteers (VHVs) with ORS and zinc was a key piece of the revised policy, which we incorporated based on community feedback.
Mr. Aun: This is the country's first policy allowing VHVs to administer ORS and zinc. With VHVs being able to provide direct treatment to mild cases, they can prevent severe cases.
Low-osmolarity ORS and zinc are now pivotal parts of diarrhea treatment and prevention in Cambodian clinics.
How important is it that national and local level efforts coincide to prevent and treat diarrhea and pneumonia in Cambodia?
Dr. Veasna: [Because of this pilot] VHVs have now been specifically trained on diarrhea and pneumonia. They are better connected with the National Program and moving forward can bring together national and local-level efforts. This connection is important as we try to have a more coordinated strategy.
Now that the policy has been revised and approved, what needs to happen in order for the changes to take place?
Mr. Aun: Widespread dissemination of the new policy must take place as fast as possible. The accompanying national guidelines should also indicate how health center staff will work with VHVs in ensuring that ORS and zinc are being properly administered in the villages. In addition, the guidelines must also indicate how health center staff will coordinate with VHVs to make sure that they have adequate supplies of ORS and zinc is continuously replenished. Interpersonal communication between VHVs and caretakers of children under five is essential to the success of new programming efforts by the National Program. Furthermore, VHVs must continually be trained on the most updated information on prevention and treatment, made aware of changes in policy, and must communicate this information to caretakers. Residents in rural Cambodia do not have access to mass media such as television and radio, and so VHVs are crucial to linking them with information.
Dr. Sreng: Families, especially the poor in Cambodia, have many things to worry about including making a living and finding food for their children. We need to communicate effectively to them that if they take care of their children by keeping them clean and preventing them from getting sick, they will save money by spending only five cents for a bar of soap instead of $25 (US) to treat severe diarrhea if they were to seek care from a private health care provider.
A Village Health Volunteer educates a mothers' group in her community.
How do you link policy and behavior change initiatives in an environment where there is a lack of basic resources such as latrines and water filters in order to prevent children from getting sick?
Dr. Veasna: The National Program must continue to work with key stakeholders like PATH and other government arms to fill gaps such as the lack of access to these life-saving supplies. PATH's work with water filters is a good example of how we can ensure access to populations in need. What has made this pilot successful is the collaborative effort from stakeholders in all areas. These partnerships are important to support the National Program's core work: helping to decrease morbidity and mortality of the children of Cambodia.
--Gizelle V. Gopez is a Program Associate for PATH's Cambodia Country Program
For more information:
-- Fact sheet: Combining forces in Cambodia to overcome childhood diarrhea and pneumonia
-- Safe drinking water and sanitation are key for the prevention diarrhea and pneumonia. This World Water Day, raise your voice to bring them within reach of the families who need them most.Read more
This blog post is about girls - one in particular – and her name is Nombinqo.
It's not fair to say Nombinqo grew up in rural South Africa. Growing up implies so many things - a sense of completion, inspiration, growth and pleasure – just as many smiles as tears. Perhaps more. No, Nombinqo did not "grow up" in the full sense of the word. Nombinqo worked.
Nombinqo's days were hijacked by the realities of rural life in the developing world – water collection, farming for pennies, seemingly endless efforts to ward off disease. As Nombinqo became a woman, a wife, a mother… these things remained the same. Well into her thirties she lived off of government grants, white rice and an alternative corn meal – spending what time she could spare from the fields collecting dirty water from a distant source.
Nombinqo has always been brilliant, loving and well respected. While born into poverty, she had many of the tools with which women all over the world build families, careers, even empires. What Nombinqo didn't have was access to the basic resources that enable a person to live in freedom. Nombinqo didn't have access to clean water.
Nombinqo's life changed in the late nineties when the government built a well in her village. Without having to collect water, she began to save those extra minutes each day, like pennies of interest, and use them to earn extra income – enough to buy a sewing machine. Nombinqo sewed long skirts, curtains, clothes. She sewed her girls the uniforms they would need to attend school. With the profit from her home business Nombinqo bought wheat, yeast and oil. Combing these simple ingredients with the gift of clean water, she made bread and began to sell her loaves in a neighboring town.
Soon, Nombinqo's daughters were "growing up" in a way their mother never did. Not only could they attend school – Nombinqo's first gift to them – but if you walk through the grassy yards of the village today, you'll find them laughing and playing. Their laughter is affecting, mostly because it's rare. In a place where oppressive poverty pervades every moment of daily life, these children are simply, immeasurably rich.
When I first met Nombinqo she was already a Mama – a middle-aged matron in a small village in South Africa's Eastern Cape. As a wandering girl of 20, I was entranced by the simple beauty of her story. But one question haunted me for months: "How did Nombinqo know what she was missing?"
Surrounded by people who lived no differently than she did, Nombinqo still believed that there was something greater - a more human experience that she longed for. It's the same hope I see in the eyes of countless women I've met since then. As Oscar Wilde famously quipped, "We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." The object of Nombinqo's water collecting, sewing, baking, breathing… was to provide for her daughters an intangible but essential thing of incredible worth. Where I work – we call it dignity.
Unfortunately, pervasive poverty keeps billions of women from fully experiencing the promise of human dignity with which we're all born. Nombinqo's struggle to provide a more complete life for her family was only made possible when her basic needs (in this case for water) were met. For others, the missing element is food, education or the place to express beliefs and opinions.
Without a distinct change – without a paradigm shift like the digging of a local well – Nombinqo's determination could just as easily have turned to desperation or even resignation. If that had happened, I never would have learned my lesson: that with the most basic tools for growth, our will to live in dignity can animate the most beautiful changes in our lives.
What's remarkable about human rights is that they are universal (much like the human experience itself). Nombinqo and I share these rights; they're ours – a bond of humanity that makes her sorrows my sorrows and her story of triumph my joy. Though she may not mark this day on any calendar, Nombinqo will celebrate International Women's Day by providing for her family. I'll be celebrating with her, by putting into practice the simple lesson she taught me. There are some prerequisites to living a life in dignity, and with each basic need comes an equally basic human right.
In observance of International Women's Day – and looking forward to World Water Day on March 22nd – I'll continue to defend women and our human right to clean water. Join me in connecting girls and inspiring futures.
-- Katherine Straus directs development for The DigDeep Right to Water Project. You can reach her here: firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information:
-- Help us bring safe drinking water and sanitation to women and girls everywhere. Donate your Facebook status for World Water Day!
-- DC-based advocates: Join us on March 22 as we raise A Drink to the World, celebrating the impact of water, sanitation, and hygiene.
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