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Opinion 13-12
January 24, 2013
Digest: A Family Court judge may not serve on the advisory board of the children's rights division of a not-for-profit organization.
Rules: 22 NYCRR 100.2; 100.2(A); 100.3(A); 100.4(A)(1)-(3); 100.4(C)(3)(a)(i)-(ii); Opinions 06-120; 06-108; 06-83; 01-64 (Vol. XX); 96-96 (Vol. XIV).
A Family Court judge asks whether he/she may serve on the advisory board of the children's rights division of a not-for-profit organization. The judge emphasizes that he/she would "serve strictly in an advisory capacity" and would not have any governance or fund-raising role. According to the judge, the organization's mission statement is to preserve human rights world-wide by, among other things, taking steps to "bring offenders to justice" and "hold abusers accountable." The organization's children's rights division has issued reports on both domestic and foreign issues, "including children discharged from foster care to homelessness in California, life without parole for minors, and the use of solitary confinement for minors." The judge states that a recent report "covered practices in New York State" as well as other jurisdictions.
The judge notes that the board meets four times a year, and board members listen to presentations of forthcoming reports. They "are invited to provide feedback and suggestions as to advocacy strategies." The judge states that he/she "could refrain from providing such feedback and/or suggestions where domestic child welfare and juvenile justice matters are an issue." In any event, the judge would not participate in fund-raising efforts and notes that the organization "does not represent individuals and there is no likelihood that the organization would ever be a party or amicus in a matter before me."
A judge must always avoid even the appearance of impropriety (see 22 NYCRR 100.2) and must always act to promote public confidence in the judiciary's integrity and impartiality (see 22 NYCRR 100.2[A]). Generally, a full-time judge may serve as an officer, director, trustee or non-legal advisor of a not for profit charitable or civic organization unless it will be engaged in cases that ordinarily would come before the judge or be engaged regularly in adversary proceedings in any court (see 22 NYCRR 100.4[C][3][a][i]-[ii]). Since a judge's judicial duties take precedence over all of the judge's other duties (see 22 NYCRR 100.3[A]), a judge must ensure that his/her extra-judicial activities do not cast reasonable doubt on his/her capacity to preside impartially, detract from the dignity of judicial office, or interfere with the proper performance of judicial duties and are not incompatible with judicial office (see 22 NYCRR 100.4[A][1]-[3]).
The Committee has previously applied these principles, concluding that a judge should not be a board member of a not-for-profit organization if it champions issues directly related to issues the judge may be called upon to address in his/her judicial capacity, as to do so would cast doubt on the judge's independence and capacity to serve impartially (see e.g. Opinions 06-120; 01-64 [Vol. XX]; 22 NYCRR 100.4[A][1]).
Thus, the Committee has advised that a County Court judge should not serve as a member of a Domestic Violence Task Force that, inter alia, seeks to promote "offender accountability" (Opinion 06-108); a judge who presides over felony matters (presumably including drug and related offenses) should not serve on a local committee that will ask the New York State legislature to mandate drug testing for all middle and high school students (see Opinion 06-120); a judge who presides in an Integrated Domestic Violence Court should not serve on the advisory board of an organization that provides representation and serves as a courtroom advocate on behalf of alleged victims of domestic violence (see Opinion 06-83); a Family Court judge should not serve on the board of a local advocacy entity involved in public lobbying on various family and children's issues (see Opinion 01-64); a judge who issues orders of protection and handles arraignments and misdemeanor trials concerning allegations of domestic violence must not be a member of an advisory committee to a victim services agency (see Opinion 96-96 [Vol. XIV]).
Here, the not-for-profit organization is clearly an advocacy organization. Indeed, its mission statement includes the concept of bringing offenders to justice (cf. Opinion 06-108 [organization promotes "offender accountability"]). The children's rights group focuses on issues that could easily come before a Family Court judge, and thus the inquiring judge's proposed participation on its advisory board would call the judge's impartiality into question, even if the judge abstained from providing feedback on reports relating to domestic children's rights issues.


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How The FCC Has Failed To Take On The Real Broadband Issue: Competition... And Why
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Finally, some are noticing. Scientific American has an article pointing out that other countries have a lot faster speeds, at a lot lower costs -- and the key point is that they have a lot more competition:
Phone companies have to compete for your business. Even though there may be just one telephone jack in your home, you can purchase service from any one of a number of different long-distance providers. Not so for broadband Internet. Here consumers generally have just two choices: the cable company, which sends data through the same lines used to deliver television signals, and the phone company, which uses older telephone lines and hence can only offer slower service.The article's authors complain that in the fight over net neutrality, the FCC has carefully avoided tackling this issue, and suggests it may be because of the political power of AT&T and Comcast. Thankfully, Broadband Reports drives home the point of why politicians won't take on AT&T:
The same is not true in Japan, Britain and the rest of the rich world. In such countries, the company that owns the physical infrastructure must sell access to independent providers on a wholesale market. Want high-speed Internet? You can choose from multiple companies, each of which has to compete on price and service. The only exceptions to this policy in the whole of the 32-nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development are the U.S., Mexico and the Slovak Republic, although the Slovaks have recently begun to open up their lines.
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CVC Highlight: How to think outside the litter box: Managing cats with nonobstructive idiopathic interstitial cystitis
Current evidence suggests that some cases of idiopathic cystitis represent a systemic disorder variably affecting the bladder and other organ systems rather than a primary bladder disease. Idiopathic cystitis may account for clinical signs related to the urinary system of irritative voiding (dysuria, stranguria, pollakiuria, gross hematuria, periuria) in up to 70% of cats that are less than 10 years old. In contrast, only about 5% of cats older than 10 years with such signs have idiopathic cystitis—instead, more than half of the cats in this age group have bacterial urinary tract infections with or without urolithiasis.2
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I thought I was getting unusual amounts of HD compression. Had a technician come over who ran tests. Everything came through with flying green colors. He said the compression is designed so that at the optimal viewing distance of the TV, little to no compression artifacts can be easily made out which is partly true when I stand at the optimal distance for my 46" which is 10.5'. I sit at my desk which is immediately to the right of the TV. So I'm up close when working and glancing over at the screen. The compression artifacts are just awful up close.
I can understand trying to save on bandwidth but just barely squeezing by for the optimal viewing distance is unsatisfying. I've been up close in front of my friend's TV which has Comcast hooked up and the picture quality has a "wow" factor. I don't get that wow factor at all with my AT&T U-Verse picture quality. I've exhausted optimazing the settings on my TV, trying different cables, ports on the router, and even replacing the box only to get the same picture quality. Honestly, HD should be provided for free by AT&T. That's how sub-par the quality is to the competition.
A supervisor on the chat support said that the sales department may be able to increase the bandwidth to get better picture but I think he was giving me the run around. Sales was closed when he referred me so I'll have to wait until Monday.
After doing some research I've noticed many people have noticed the sub-par HD quality all because of the compression with discussions dating back to 2008. It looks like AT&T is doing little to nothing to try and improve the picture quality. Their cabling and hardware is more than capable of delivering clear, crisp HD picture but they choose to bottleneck the bandwidth in order to save money.
If AT&T increased their bandwidth 2x for each HD stream, AT&T would be the best TV service provider by a mile. The compression artifacts are the only con holding them back from being great. I consider AT&T U-Verse TV as tolerable. I hate going over to my friends house now because his HD picture is so clear and crisp. I was embarrased when he genuinely thought something was wrong with my TV when he noticed how bad the quality was.
AT&T fix this. It's easy and you'll be king of the crop.
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- edited 11-26-2012 11:23 AM
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So in other words I'm crap out of luck for a long time and that AT&T U-Verse TV provides the worst HD picture quality of all providers of the same class? Great...
If I lived by myself I would request a drop in simultaneous HD streams just for better picture quality but my mom and siblings are constantly watching and recording things so that isn't an option for me right now.
I'll have to live with it until I'm living on my own. I just hope AT&T can increase their picture quality by the time I have to choose a TV provider for my own residence because I really like the reliability and features. The only con of the service is the picture quality. It should be their number one priority right now, internet should be number two.
So I got in touch with chat support and the guy took 20 dollars off my already promotioned bill. So I'm paying 71 bucks a month for 12 months. I guess that's good compensation for the bad HD picture quality. I'm not thrilled to look at the picture but for such a low price I can't really complain?
Congrats on getting something for the lousy pq. Unfortunately it really doesn't help when you sit down and have to watch a picture that is not very good. U-verse pq has been terrible from day one and it doesn't appear that it will ever equal the pq from many of the other providers.
I'm glad you got some level of satisfaction, DRN94.
I wonder about the posters who are not U-verse customers who still find the time out of their busy schedule to come by and rag U-verse about HD compression, especially when the forums of their preferred providers (e.g.. Comquat) are littered with those posting about their dissatisfaction with the HD compression on that service.
You makes your choices and you pays your money.
- edited 11-27-2012 10:18 PM
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Found out the previous technician charged me $99. No wonder the guy I talked to was so quick to take off 20 bucks from the bill, they practically made back the difference with the fraudulent charge. I will remind you that the technicians are obligated to inform the customer what billing will be added to their account, this technician did no such thing.
This morning my DVR experienced connection issues and was shutting itself off and on. Talked to tier 2 and he had me test the DVR on the coaxial connection rather than the Ethernet and the coaxial connection worked fine. Tier 2 said it was signal interference on the Ethernet side of things. He's having a technician come over tomorrow morning to fix it. After an episode of the signal failing every minute or so the DVR appears to be working. Tier 2 gave me his email to make sure no billing is applied to my account and that the previous fraudulent bill is taken off as well.
I've had it up to here with AT&T. The previous technician came to my house, told me I'm sitting too close to the TV as a pathetic excuse to the inferior picture quality, said he couldn't do anything about crosstalk when tier 2 promised me the technician would fix the crosstalk, and then walked out and charged me $99 without informing me like they are obligated to discuss with the consumer.
I hope I get the same technician tomorrow just to smile and say, "By the way, I took that $99 charge off my bill you gave me. Nice try." That condescending technician told me I was standing too close to the TV and he put that in the notes on my account! You can't deny the difference in picture quality. I mean it's math and science... MPEG2 at 11-12kbps (Comcast) > MPEG4 at 5-6kbps (AT&T U-Verse).
Comcast vs. AT&T
I'm done being treated like I'm stupid. I know what the heck I'm talking about and I'm not too close to my TV. That has got to be the most insulting and ludicrous excuse for the blatantly inferior HD picture quality AT&T offers. Both technicians had the same excuse, verbatim: "Well from back here you can't see anything. Look up the size of your TV and the viewing distance. You're supposed to be that far away or else you'll see pixelation."
I showed him a BluRay from my computer through HDMI at 1080p that was crystal clear even close up, he said "Oh, that's in 1080p." Changed my PC output to 1080i, still as clear as can be. Even played a YouTube video in 720p and it was still clearer and more consistent than AT&T U-Verse's picture quality. Still the technician was trying to come up with excuses. Just tell me the picture quality sucks! Stop sugarcoating! That technician probably felt dumb and is why he fraudulently charged me $99.
Either way, I've lost all respect for AT&T. The only person who has come clean and candid with me was the Tier 2 guy I talked to today who will be taking any repair charges off. He gave me his email and escalated the issue to the previous technician's supervisor who will be calling me after the service tomorrow morning.
The thing that has me most angry is the DVR is now consistently staying on and not freezing like it was earlier now that the chat is over. All I can say is the thing better stop working while the technician is over because I'm done doing the run around trying to get AT&T's broken equipment to work correctly. This is becoming a nightmare. I'm about to lose it.
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Checked UVRealtime and sure enough for the first time it's reading severe errors and blocks needing correction and uncorrected blocks within the last 24 hours. Definitely a connection issue going on. I will show the UVRealtime stats as proof if the DVR is functioning correctly when he comes over tomorrow morning. Saved the screenshot and still have the previous screenshot showing the error table when it was empty.
Why don't you post your screenshots here (IP Profile, Error Table, and Bitloadoading), so someone here can take a look and maybe give you a direction to point the techs as most of them wouldn't know a bitloading graph from a picture of a pony eating grass. After all, UV Realtime was written by a forum member and customer (Somejoe) for this purpose (and others).
As far a Uverse being worst in their class. That's a loaded statement, because technically, nobody else is in their class (so, I guess that would make them best in their class also). I'm not aware of any other major provider that uses this delivery method (hybrid fiber/twisted pair) and the delivery method is what determines available bandwith, and thus the required compression rates.
Somejoe is right in that back when Uverse was new, PQ was much worse. I can't attest to the PQ at this point, but in the year that I had it (back in '08), it did incremently improve.
How can you be in two places at once, when your not anywhere at all?
I really want to become a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off.
There are three kinds of people, those that can count, and those that can't.
"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them." :Bertrand Russell
I will second what SJ and CJ have said about PQ. I recently did a test during a football game using our local FOX affiliate. The Thanksgiving day Dallas game......I started on the Uverse HD channel 1029 and then changed the input on my TV to receive the over the air HD broadcast from my antenna I have hooked up and to me the Uverse picture was superior. The colors were deeper and richer versus the over the air picture. This was with my UV STB set to 720p since this is what our Fox affiliate broadcasts their OVA signal at. Again the Uverse picture was better.
In all fairness, I did use the HD Net test pattern several years ago to calibrate my TV's to the Uverse signal. Now that the channel has changed to AXS TV do they even do that anymore? That sure was a good tool and I would think if AT&T put something like that on some stand alone HD channel number allot of people complaining of HD PQ issues could go there to calibrate their TV's and be so much happier.
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Technician came today and apparently some 14,000 people experienced service drops in our area. Technician swapped out the modem/router with the newer black 2wire. Checked the connections and ran tests and everything appears to be working as it should. He also replaced the DVR because he said the DVR shouldn't turn itself off in the case of a signal interference. Showed him the UVRealtime error logs to confirm the previous block errors and severe communication errors.
But back to the calibration and PQ. No amount of color gamut, brightness, contrast, and post processing settings on a TV will make up for the detail lost to the starved bitrate. That being said, the only thing you can do is limit the color range and flatten the contrast to hide the macroblocks a little but not eliminate them at all. It's really ridiculous that you have to limit your TV's displaying capabilities to cope with sub-par HD PQ.
My friend has Comcast on a calibrated Sony Bravia and the picture quality is astounding and puts my PQ to shame. I have a Samsung UN46ES6100 and use professionally calibrated settings posted on a review site and the picture is great with my computer and Xbox 360 but my U-Verse picture quality still sucks. I know the TV is capable of delivering superb picture because my computer is able to display BluRay movies in their full glory over the same brand and tier of HDMI cable. No amount of calibration settings, sharpness adjustments, or color dampening will make up for the detail and motion detail lost to the low bitrate. It'll only attempt to hide the artifacts and take away from the full contrast capability of your TV.
Compression artifacts are due to not a high enough bitrate to tell the pixels what to display. AT&T uses MPEG4 which is one of the most advanced compression algorithms out there and they think that's an excuse to starve the bitrate I guess. All of their broadcasts are downconverted to a 5-6 kbps signal so no amount of distance, loop length, or crosstalk will cause the picture to degrade or get better. It's the same for everyone.
I'm going to email the tier 2 guy tonight who is working billing and he will be taking any and all charges made for repair of my account. Especially the fraudulent charge made by the second to last technician. The technician that came out today was superb and I was thoroughly impressed by his work ethic and respect. He made a good impression for AT&T and has taken some of my distrust and anger away.
This last week has been a nightmare with AT&T. I'm just glad everything is fixed and that all I need to do is get that $99 dollar charge off my account. I'll keep my mouth shut about the inferior PQ, I just don't want this run around anymore.
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In all fairness, I did use the HD Net test pattern several years ago to calibrate my TV's to the Uverse signal. Now that the channel has changed to AXS TV do they even do that anymore?
They stopped doing it a little more than a year ago - long before it became AxsTV. Even when they did do it, it was hard to find, as TV listings almost always had it as "Off Air".
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All AT&T needs to do is provide dedicated fiber optic lines for TV. They should engineer a cheaper more cost effective fiber optic line that is specifically designed to carry just TV programming. It would allow them to send in excellent HD picture and not eat up the bandwidth used by the internet and phone services.
Just a thought. Haven't fully educated myself on the practicalities of a fiber optic medium but Verizon FIOS and Google Fiber get great HD picture because of the use of pure fiber optic lines whereas AT&T uses a hybrid of copper and fiber optics.
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Fiber provides more bandwidth with fewer issues like crosstalk. However, it's got its own maintenance and installation issues which makes it more expensive to install. The copper is already there and has the capacity to carry more signal (using more modern technologies, such as shadow circuits) than it is today.
Verizon quit rolling out FIOS several years ago. Google is requiring certain subscriber densities and commitments to justify the costs.
Google Fiber is actually a reasonable 2 year contract at $120 dollars a month. Give you gigabit internet speeds, crystal cleal HD picture, and many practical features such as cloud storage. They haven't expanded much and it's only experimental but if their business model is good they'd easily have the capacity to expand in the not so distant future. If worse comes to worse when I start living on my own, I'll just move to a place that offers fiber optics at a reasonable price.
The profit margins of these service providers are fairly large. AT&T has the capacity to overhaul a lot of their network and to increase the HD stream bitrates. I hope they think of something soon. Seems like service providers aren't interested in innovating themselves. Fiber Optics will only get more affordable to maintain as the hardware kinks are worked out.
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The profit margins of these service providers are fairly large.
Humm, what is your source for that statement? Google Fibers only recently went live for a few homes in the Kansas City area.


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By Vi Ransel
sow the seeds of future perversity.
Animals are the means we use to teach
our children not only the basics of speech,
but to give them the tools they're going to need
to begin elementary reading.
We ask "What does the cow say?"
"P is for pig" we tell them
while their animal friends scream in agony
as we mechanically and mercilessly slaughter them,
renaming their dismembered body parts
beef, pork, mutton and poultry
in order to distance the abattoir
from the innocence, the purity, of the nursery.
And as children learn that they are complicit
with their nuggets, wings, ribs and cheeseburgers,
they lock it down deep in denial,
repressing interfamilial murder.
Further, children learn god has given them
"dominion" over all other animals
and some of them practice what's termed
"animal husbandry." The 4-H is an example
of the indoctrination of impressionable children
into support of this hypocritical debacle.
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It teaches children to care for an animal,
to feed her and groom her and name her,
grow up with her, win a blue ribbon,
and sell her to a restaurant in a stone cold betrayal.
In another perverse twist, we take kids into the woods
and arm them with deadly, high-powered weapons
and teach them to hunt down their animal friends,
who are essentially defenseless against them.
And since we no longer need them as food,
having made factory farms a mass murder industry,
their desecrated bodies are abandoned,
their stuffed heads prove their killers' masculinity.
Thus what were once
bunnies, Bambi and myriad birds,
cows, sheep, chickens and pigs
who taught us our very first words
are changed into "game", trophies and edible commodities,
which are undeniably tasty and outrageously profitable.
The point, however, is not sport,
not animal husbandry, nor even macho display,
but to inculcate in children that the value
of friends, love, loyalty and especially fair play
may be dispensed with in simple self-interest,
in particular with regard to "the other",
thus turning them all into Cain, that they may
more easily make money off and murder their brothers.
It divorces the force of children's emotions
from the consequences of having a conscience
in the service of their Financial Masters,
for whom they are willing to perpetrate violence
and from responsibility while feeling entitled to rape,
slaughter, plunder and excuse mass atrocities
with not an inkling of compassion or compunction
for either animals or the rest of humanity.
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Penny's Puppet Productions presents a fun, musical puppet show that celebrates the wonders of trees. This delightful sing-along show is entertaining and educational!
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State deficit at $627 million
ST. PAUL - Minnesota's projected budget deficit for the next two years is lower than expected at $627 million, the Minnesota Management and Budget reported this morning.
Legislators and Gov. Mark Dayton will use this information to set the state's budget over the next three months. Lawmakers have discussed the budget, but have been waiting for the updated number to dig into debate.
The projection also shows a surplus of $295 million for this year, most of which will go to repay money the state borrowed from schools.
Today's forecast comes after a Dec. 5 prediction of a $1.1 billion state deficit.
Dayton's proposed plan would spend $38 billion over the next two years. He will provide an updated budget in the coming weeks using the new figures.
State economists said in December this forecast would be more stable because federal issues would be clearer. But the state could be affected by automatic federal budget cuts set to begin Friday if President Barack Obama and Congress do not come to an agreement.
A budget must be set by July 1 to avoid a state government shutdown.
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The 100% Tree-Free Bamboo-Based Bathroom Tissue and Kitchen Towels Offer an Eco-Friendly Option to Environmentally Conscious Retailers and Consumers Who Want to "Go Greenest"
The 100% Tree-Free Bamboo-Based Bathroom Tissue and Kitchen Towels Offer an Eco-Friendly Option to Environmentally Conscious Retailers and Consumers Who Want to "Go Greenest"
CAPE CORAL, FL--(Marketwired - Jan 23, 2014) - Green Innovations Ltd. (OTCQB: GNIN) (OTCBB: GNIN) ("Green Innovations" or the "Company") and the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Green Hygienics, Inc. ("Green Hygienics"), is pleased to announce that SuperValu has authorized full distribution and will be placing their first orders of Sensational® Bamboo Bath Tissue and Sensational® Bamboo Kitchen Towels for distribution in their 711 stores located throughout the Northern and NorthWestern United States.
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Green Innovations Ltd., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Green Hygienics, Inc. (http://www.greenhygienics.com), is the exclusive licensed North American distributor of American Hygienics Corporation's 100% tree-free bamboo-based product line, including personal care and paper-based goods. The marketplace for tissue paper products, diapers, wet wipes, feminine care products, and adult care products, is in excess of $29 billion annually in the United States. The Company is committed to providing consumers with quality products that are designed and manufactured to the highest standards in FDA-accepted manufacturing facilities without compromising product performance. Green Innovations is a member of the International Green Energy Council (IGEC) and dedicated to ensuring a more healthy and sustainable planet.
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Why attend ISU for Health Care Administration
Reasons why students choose the Health Care Administration Program at Idaho State University:
- In its 40th year, the HCA program at ISU remains the only Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) certified program in Idaho.
- The B.S. in HCA degree includes a minor in business, thus enabling graduates to go on and complete a past-track MBA (with healthcare emphasis) in just twelve more months.
- This non-cohort program allows students to matriculate whenever they meet the program's admission criteria, and pace their completion toward graduation on a full or part-time basis.
- Full-time and adjunct faculty bring to the classroom the perspective and wisdom that comes from decades of practical healthcare executive management experience.
- An even combination of classroom-based vs online courses enhances the availability and flexibility of the program, enabling more than 50% of students to work full or part-time while pursing the HCA degree.
- The 4-credit post-didactic internship offers students real-world experience with many of the leading healthcare providers in Idaho.
- Over 85% of undergraduate HCA students successfully go on to graduate school (usually MHA or MBA) or pursue entry-level positions in a variety of healthcare settings.
"Idaho State's Health Care Administration program showed through its courses that I can make a difference in my community and organization without having direct patient contact. I originally started as a Nursing major but changed my major after speaking with Dr. Tracy Farnsworth about ISU's HCA Program shortly after starting my journey at ISU. I learned that my decisions as an Administrator could not only make a difference in a single patients' life but numerous patients' lives at one time."
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"The Idaho State University Healthcare Administration program set the foundation for my career - not only for my future positions as an administrator, but also the foundation to obtain certification as a Certified Medical Practice Executive (CMPE) through the American College of Medical Practice Executives. The program offers a well-rounded educational foundation for success!"
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Julie Gilbert Newrai to Speak at Aug. 13 '1st Tuesday'
The 2012 Minnesota Cup winner will speak to the importance of entrepeneurship.
Minnesota Cup winner Julie Gilbert Newrai will speak to the importance of entrepreneurship at the next Carlson School of Management "1st Tuesday Speaker Series" on Aug. 13 at 11:30 a.m. at McNamara Alumni Center.
Gilbert Newrai ('93 BSB, '99 MBA) is the visionary founder and CEO of PreciouStatus, an award-winning mobile technology startup that connects loved ones to those in care facilities and schools. The technology is now deployed in childcare centers, schools, hospitals, eldercare facilities, and more.
Newrai has held roles in organizations that range from startups to Fortune 100 companies. She has driven new business growth of more than $11 billion for organizations like Best Buy and Deloitte. She serves as founding Principal of Wolf Means Business, a firm recognized globally as the "proven standard" in creating revenue growth via innovation and marketing with women consumers in 53 countries.
The seasoned entrepreneur most recently received the 2013 Executive Healthcare TRUST Innovator of the Year Award, among others for her work. She has been profiled in TIME, Harvard Business Review, and more.
Newrai holds an MBA, with high distinction, from the University of Minnesota as well as a bachelor of science degree in accounting, with high distinction, from the University of Minnesota. She is an active CPA in the state of Minnesota.
Tickets, which include lunch, are available online for $32.
About the Carlson School of Management's 1st Tuesday Speaker Series
The Carlson School of Management's "1st Tuesday Speaker Series" began in 1992 to provide an opportunity for alumni and friends of the Carlson School to continue their management education. The series features top-notch executives as keynote speakers addressing hot topics in business and leadership. The event attracts alumni and business leaders from throughout the corporate community and is a popular networking venue.


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Update: Father speaks of lucky escape after carbon monoxide poisoning leak at Carlton Colville home
PUBLISHED: 09:36 05 March 2014 | UPDATED: 09:36 05 March 2014
A family of four from Carlton Colville have had a lucky escape after they were rushed to hospital following a carbon monoxide leak at their home.
The family – a 50-year-old man, his 40-year-old wife and two children, aged 17 and seven – were taken to the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston for carbon monoxide poisoning after a boiler failed at Wharfedale in Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft, in the early hours of yesterday.
The family called an ambulance at about 2am after the seven-year-old boy passed out while he was in the toilet. His sister passed out as well. After being treated for carbon monoxide inhalation at the hospital the family returned home at about 7am.
The home's gas supply was isolated by the fire brigade with firefighters also ventilating the property, which did not have carbon monoxide detectors.
The 50-year-old man said his family has been feeling ill all week and he would now be getting carbon monoxide detectors for their home.
He said: "Our little boy passed out when he went to the toilet with my wife. He was just unresponsive. Then our daughter came out of her bedroom and passed out as well.
"We called the ambulance and the operator said that it sounded like carbon monoxide poisoning and told us to open the doors and windows. We got the children to the front door and they started to recover. We had a lucky escape."
Suffolk Fire and Rescue received reports of the leak at the property in Wharfedale shortly before 2am.
Two crews from the town arrived to find four people suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Firefighters isolated the gas supply and ventilated the property, returning to base by 2.30am.
A fire service spokesman said: "This unfortunate incident shows just how vitally important it is for residents across Suffolk to be aware of the dangers posed by carbon monoxide.
"The gas is odourless and tasteless which means a leak can often go undetected to the human senses, however the effects of exposure to high levels of carbon monoxide can be fatal.
"We urge all to protect themselves and their families against carbon monoxide poisoning by correctly maintaining gas, oil and solid fuel burning appliances, ensuring adequate ventilation and if appropriate installing a carbon monoxide detector alarm to prevent tragic accidents from occurring."


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The $#!T list: A weekly roundup of Chicago mayhem
RedEye writer Rachel Cromidas reports on a lot of bizarre bond court cases from the Cook County Criminal Courthouse. Here's her weekly roundup of Chicago mayhem and mug shots of those causing it. Click the links to read her full stories.
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McIlroy fights back
Rory McIlroy roared back on the second day of The Barclays with a brilliant six-under-par 65, but the world number one still trails joint leaders Adam Scott and Cameron Tringale by five shots heading into the weekend.
McIlroy, looking to add to his victories at the Open Championship, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and US PGA Championship, suffered a nightmare start on Thursday as he carded a 74 that left him nine shots behind pacesetter Bo Van Pelt.
However, the Northern Irishman enjoyed a much better day on Friday, recording a blemish-free round that included three birdies on the front nine and three more on his way back - including the 12th and 13th holes, where he dropped three shots in total on the first day.
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McIlroy's efforts left him on three under for the tournament, alongside the likes of Sergio Garcia (68) and Charl Schwartzel (70), although they were some way off the leading duo at the Ridgewood Country Club.
Scott, the world number two and defending champion, matched McIlroy's 65 - the Australian recording seven birdies and a bogey - while American Tringale followed up his opening-day 66 with a 68.
Scott felt his round could have been even lower, saying on www.pgatour.com: "I played the par fives in one over today, so I could find four (strokes) there for you, and missed so many 10‑footers..."
They hold a one-shot lead over a group of three Americans in second place, Kevin Chappell (67), Brendon Todd (69) and Jim Furyk (69).
Swede Henrik Stenson leads the European challenge on six under after a brilliant 64, alongside Scotland's Russel Knox, who shot a two-under-par 69.
Overnight leader Van Pelt (71) and Kevin Na (66) are also in the six-man group on six under, along with Jason Day who matched Stenson's magnificent round of 64 - the lowest of the day - after recording four birdies in his final six holes, and Ernie Els.
Els, 44, said after his second successive 68: "I'm starting to feel like the old Ernie again on the greens. So it's exciting."
Among those to have missed the cut are English duo Ian Poulter and Luke Donald, South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen and Martin Kaymer of Germany.
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AMES, Iowa - After the first day of competition at the 2013 Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Lied Recreation Center, the Texas men and Kansas women lead the field. The Jayhawk women claimed three victories and have a team total of 67 points, putting them 21 points ahead of second-place Texas. The Longhorn men put up a score of 47, 16.5 points ahead of Kansas.
In the women's field events, Lindsay Vollmer claimed the pentathlon title with a total of 4,123 points, breaking her own school record. Vollmer became the first Jayhawk to win the pentathlon since 1998. Also picking up victories for the Jayhawks were Alena Krechyk (weight throw) and Francine Simpson (long jump). Simpson's jump of 21-7.5 (6.59m) set a Big 12 meet record. Texas' Kaitlin Petrillose took home the title in the women's pole vault, breaking a school record along the way.
On the men's side, Nick Miller (Oklahoma State) claimed the first victory of the day in the weight throw. Kansas junior Alex Bishop won the pole vault, clearing a height of 16-11.5 (5.17m). Wrapping up the day's field events for the men was Kansas State's Jharyl Bowry, who won the long jump title with a mark of 21-09 (7.54m).
After four events in the men's heptathlon, Texas' Johannes Hock is pacing the field with a total of 3,345 points. He is followed by Kansas State's Tomas Kirielius who finished the day with 3,219 points. The heptathlon with continue tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., beginning with the 60 meter hurdles.
Betsy Saina (Iowa State) won the women's 5,000 meters for the thrid year in a row, posting a time of 16:07.19. The Cyclones claimed three of the top five spots in the event as Meaghan Nelson took second while Samantha Bluske finished fifth.
In the men's 5,000 meters, Texas Tech's Kennedy Kithuka set a Big 12 record, clocking a time of 13:41.01. The senior finished more than 16 seconds ahead of second-place finisher, Girma Mecheso (Oklahoma State). Kithuka, who won the 2012 Big 12 Cross Country Championship and NCAA Championship last fall, has yet to lose a race during his career as a Red Raider.
In the final running event of the night, the Oklahoma men won the distance medley relay with a time of 9:42.37. Texas claimed the women's DMR title, beating out Oklahoma State, who had won the event the previous two years.
The Championships wrap up on Sunday, February 24, with a full day of events, starting with the final portions of the heptathlon at 11 a.m. along with the field and running events.
1. Texas, 47.0
2. Kansas, 30.5
3. Kansas State, 26.0
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You just can't go wrong owning a church cookbook filled with recipes submitted by church members eager to share the best of their best. Released just in time to help commemorate the 20th year of Bluffton's Lowcountry Presbyterian Church, "Favorite Recipes," highlighting close to 500 recipes in categories that include appetizers, soups, salads and beverages, as well as main dishes, side dishes, breads, desserts (and more), is a cookbook like that. The church's cookbook committee, comprised of chairwoman Andrea (Andy) Hoerner, Megan Aylmer, Bonnie Dove, Bobbie Gasser, Wendy Guise, Dee Lehr, Judy Lowry and Kay Post, gave the best of their best, too, bringing the church's new cookbook to completion in just 4½ months, a monumental achievement when one considers the kind of dedication (and time) it takes to acquire, compile, proofread and get recipes typed into the format that will ultimately become a cookbook. Profits from the cookbook, which cost just $12 (or $30 for three cookbooks), while supplies last, will be overseen by the ministry of the Women of the Church for use where it is needed most by the church. Folks living in the area may arrange to pick up the cookbook at the church office, at 10 Simmonsville Road, Bluffton, by calling 815-6570, where inquiries may also be made about how a book may be shipped to you direct. In addition, cookbooks may be purchased following Sunday worship services, which take place at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Sue Ade, a Lowcountry resident since 1985, is a gourmet baker and collector of vintage cooking utensils and cookbooks. She can be reached at email@example.com or 683-0375.
Recipes courtesy of "Favorite Recipes," a collection by Lowcountry Presbyterian Church, 10 Simmonsville Road, Bluffton 843-815-6570; www.lowcountrypres.org
2½ pounds boneless pork shoulder, cut into 2-inch cubes*
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoons olive oil or more if needed
2 cups diced (1/4-inch) onions
1 tablespoon finely minced garlic
1 (28-ounce) can (2 cups) peeled Italian plum tomatoes, drained and chopped
1 tablespoon dark brown sugar
Zest of 1 orange, removed in 1 long strip with a sharp paring knife
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup dry white wine
4 carrots, halved lengthwise then cut into 1-inch lengths and cooked for 3 minutes
4 tablespoons fresh mint leaves
Noodles for serving
Season pork generously with salt and pepper. Place the olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat and brown the pork in batches, about 6 minutes per batch. Remove to a bowl and set aside. Reduce the heat to low, adding more oil as needed, and cook the onions and garlic until wilted, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the tomatoes, sugar, orange zest, chicken broth and white wine. Return pork to the pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, partially covered, for 1 hour. Stir in carrots and 2 tablespoons of the mint; season with salt and pepper. Cook until pork is tender, about 15 minutes longer. Remove and discard orange zest. Sprinkle with the remaining 2 tablespoons of mint and serve over noodles. Makes about 6 servings.
* Kitchen Ade note: When shopping for the pork shoulder, look for "pork should butt" or "Boston butt." Cooked properly, your pork will be "fall-apart" tender.
5 cups cubed seedless watermelon
¾ cup chopped pecans, toasted
Mixed baby greens, washed
1 cup crumbled blue cheese
Combine watermelon, pecans and greens in a bowl. Gently toss together; set aside.
Pepper Jelly Vinaigrette
¼ cup rice wine vinegar
¼ cup red pepper jelly*
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon grated onion
Pepper and salt
¼ cup vegetable oil
Mix all vinaigrette ingredients together and shake or whisk until well blended. Pour over salad, sprinkle with blue cheese and serve. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
*Kitchen Ade note: For the purposes of this recipe, I used Harry & David's brand red jalapeño jelly.
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
¾ cup butter
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar and butter; blend until crumbly. Press mixture into ungreased 13 x 9-inch pan. Bake 12 to 15 minutes until lightly browned.
2 large eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 (10-ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained and chopped, reserving juice
½ cup chopped walnuts
In bowl, combine all filling ingredients; mix well. Pour over crust. Bake 20 to 25 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool.
2 tablespoons butter, softened
2½ cups powdered sugar
3 to 4 tablespoons reserved cherry juice
3 tablespoons flaked coconut
In small bowl, combine all frosting ingredients except coconut; beat until light and fluffy. Spread frosting over cooled bars; sprinkle with coconut. Makes 3 to 4 dozen.


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A New Jersey teenager was killed when his head hit a highway overpass after he apparently stuck it out of a party bus near the George Washington Bridge, which connects Manhattan with New Jersey over the Hudson River.
Daniel Fernandez, a 16-year-old resident of Sayreville, died Friday evening on his way to a sweet 16 party, according to Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman.
He was on the top level of a double-decker bus when he apparently stuck his head out of an emergency hatch in the roof, Coleman said.
His head then struck the underside of an overpass, he said.
The incident occurred after the New Jersey-bound bus departed Queens, New York -- loaded with 65 teenagers -- and had just crossed the George Washington Bridge.
Off-duty emergency medical technician Leon Tyrone McKivor, 52, said he approached the scene to offer his assistance and escorted worried parents to a nearby police station where their children were waiting.
"One individual had on a blood soaked shirt that he refused to take off until police insisted that he change," McKivor told CNN. "A number of other individuals had blood all over them, as well."
McKivor said he tried to console Fernandez's mother.
"She was just crying and crying and hugging me and thanking me," he said.
The horrific scene left several party-goers stunned, according to multiple posts on social media.
"Sitting here with your blood on my foot wishing this was all a bad dream," tweeted teenage party-goer Vicky Budz. "Can't sleep with you on my mind cause the more time goes on the more its settling in."
News of the incident spread quickly via the microblogging site Twitter, with over 500 tweets to the #staystrongdan hashtag within a few hours of the accident.
Fernandez was brought to Hackensack Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, said hospital spokeswoman Nancy Radwin.
Coleman said the teen had suffered severe head trauma, but would not comment further.
The bus is touted online as "the largest custom made party bus in the country," according to Designer Transportation, which released a statement expressing sympathy for the teen's family.
"Our company cares about the well being of our patrons," the statement said.
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Not Securing Your Internet Access To Block Infringement Is 'Negligence'?
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While some of the other lawyers in other such mass lawsuit campaigns have made more general arguments along these lines -- suggesting that since BitTorrent users swarm together it's okay to lump them all into a single lawsuit, this is the first one that specifically targets a single swarm and provides all such details. This also lets Liberty add a "civil conspiracy" charge on top of the copyright charges (both direct and contributory infringement). The conspiracy charge seems pretty weak to me. It seems to suggest that merely downloading the BitTorrent client is a sign of proactively joining a conspiracy. That seems like a huge stretch, as there are plenty of legal reasons to use BitTorrent software. Even if most BitTorrent traffic is infringing, merely downloading the client is hardly evidence of a plan to join a "conspiracy."
Separately, there's a "negligence" charge, which seems even weaker than the conspiracy charge. Here, the negligence claim is used to go after anyone who did not secure their internet connection to prevent such usage. That seems like a huge stretch, and I can't see that getting very far. There's simply no proactive requirement that anyone secure their internet connection to prevent any infringement from happening over it:
Defendants failed to adequately secure their Internet access, whether accessible only through their computer when physically connected to an Internet router, or accessible to many computers by use of a wireless router, and failed to prevent its use for this unlawful purpose.That seems like a huge leap, and I'd be amazed if a court bought that argument. As for the effort to lump together everyone in the swarm... that seems to have a much higher likelihood of success than some of the other lawsuits that have been dumped on joinder issues, but I still think it's a pretty weak claim. The individuals each are totally unknown to each other, may have totally different reasons, defenses, explanations. However, I could see a court much more open to this "swarm" argument than the other random lumping together arguments we've seen.
Reasonable Internet users take steps to secure their Internet access accounts to prevent the use of such accounts for nefarious and illegal purposes. As such, Defendants' failure to secure their Internet access accounts, and thereby prevent such illegal uses thereof, constitutes a breach of the ordinary care that reasonable persons exercise in using an Internet access account.


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Virginia P. Rippon, age 93 of Goshen, NY passed away Thursday, January 10, 2013 at Glen Arden, Gos�hen, NY. She was born on November 30, 1919 in Port Jervis, the daughter of the late Stewart and Phyllis Avery Rippon.
Virginia was a graduate of Pratt Institute where she achieved her BA in Art. She worked as a lithographer, creating maps at Co�lumbia University in New York. Dur�ing World War II Virginia traveled to India serving with the American Red Cross.
She is survived by her nephew, John Waycie of Milford, PA; her great neph�ew, Matthew Waycie; her great niece, Amy Waycie; one great great niece and one great great nephew.
Graveside services will be held Monday, January 14, at 2 p.m. at Pine Hill Cemetery, Sparrowbush, NY. Rev. Nancy Vonderhorst will officiate.
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous, whose website attacks have often been viewed by security experts as annoyances rather than serious threats, could be stepping up its game.
Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, is concerned that Anonymous could have the ability to attack the United States' power grid within two years, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Although Alexander hasn't spoken publicly about Anonymous, he has expressed his concerns about the group during private meetings, including at the White House, according to the WSJ, which was citing sources familiar with the meetings.
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Anonymous steps attacks with hits on Alabama, Mexico and (maybe) the CIA
FBI's Megaupload bust, Anonymous' hacks underscore SOPA battle
And the group, which has claimed a series of high-profile attacks on government and corporate websites, is now promising new attacks every Friday, according to a post to the site AnonOps Communications.
On Feb. 16, Anonymous attacked the Bureau of Consumer Protection's Business Center website and the National Consumer Protection Week site run by the Federal Trade Commission, taking them offline. That follows a Jan. 24 attack on FTC's cybersecurity advice website, OnGuardOnline.gov, which is still offline.
To date, Anonymous hasn't made threats against the power grid, mostly targeting government and corporate sites in protest of what its members say are crackdowns on free speech, privacy or Internet freedom.
A spate of attacks followed the Jan. 18 online protests of anti-piracy legislation in Congress and the FBI's takedown of the file-sharing site Megaupload. More recent attacks, such as those against the FTC sites, have been in protest of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an international copyright-protection treaty that's been in the works for years, but, like the proposed U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act, may have been derailed by protests.
Other government sites targeted recently include those of the FBI, CIA, the U.S. Copyright Office, Alabama government servers and several Mexican government sites.
The post on AnonOps Communications stated: "Each and every Friday Anonymous will be launching attacks…with the specific purpose of wiping as many corrupt corporate and government systems off our internet."
If Anonymous, or any other hackers, are going to regularly target government sites, agencies would be well advised not to make it easy for them. The recently hit FTC sites, hosted in the cloud by a third-party provider, were without security protections because FTC had dropped security requirements from the contract to create the sites, Ars Technica reported.
In fact, quite a few recent hacks, including some of those by Anonymous, were made all too easy by the targets.
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Wouldn't it be rather self-defeating for Anonymous to attack the power grid? Is Gen. Alexander just assuming they have loads of backup power or generators? I don't know about your pc/laptop/router, but mine consume copious amounts of energy every day and would stop working after a few hours if the power grid went offline.... It's possible that the sky isn't falling. Just saying.
I love it when people that have a little knowledge spout off on a subject. The deal with power grids connected to the Internet happened some time ago and in hind sight was not a good idea. The idea of fining a power company that fails does not solve the problem for the area without power. As for the government being the problem, why is it when something goes wrong people want the government to bail them out or ask why isn't there a law, but when they try to put something in place its not the government place. That said I am not an advocate of the government controlling everything, but you need to look at things in context.
Anonymous tipped everyone to their real agenda by stating "our internet". Our internet? Apparently Anonymous has decided that the power to destroy the internet gives them ownership of it and the right to decide what viewpoints will be available. Suppressing dissent is despotism whether it is done through technology or violence. Anonymous has joined with history's other depots like Stalin, Hitler, and Mao to limit the viewpoints that are available. Save the internet from Anonymous' censorship!
guys, if it has power, it can be hacked.
What idiot thinks power grids should be on the Internet in the first place. This is more hysteria to amp up another round of the security paranoia trumping civil liberties. I say, fine any power company that ever fails to deliver power because they were stupid enough to expose their systems to the Internet. This is not a network security problem. This is a lack of common sense problem.
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