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When Google announced that they had invented a device that put a computer in front of your eye, the world collectively gasped. Google Glass was, and is, a stunning technological accomplishment.
From the moment the actual product was revealed many saw the immense potential of it. You could video anything you are seeing. You could have a map in front of you wherever you walked. You could have a computer and the internet ready at a moment's notice, taking your experience of life to a whole new level.
But what happened to Google Glass?
In the last 2 weeks Google has let it be known that they're taking it back to the lab. The product, at least in it's current incarnation, is over. It was worse than simply a product that didn't catch on, even in it's pre-release, from a sales point of view it has been a monumental failure.
The question is why?
Why weren't there long lines of people ready to fork out around $1500 to get this amazing device?
The answers are simple. And any of us wanting to sell our own products successfully should heed the important marketing lessons Google Glass's failure teaches.
Here's my coaching view on why Google Glass didn't make it.
The product was launched in a novel way – give early adopters and a whole slew of celebrities Google Glass and let them be the advertising.
In one way this worked brilliantly – Glass got oodles of P.R. But in following this strategy Google dropped the ball on some fundamental and compulsory aspects of launch marketing. The first being that any product launch once announced publicly, must complete the launch by revealing an actual date the product can be purchased. This never happened with Glass.
It's not enough to show a product off and engender desire for purchase. You have to have a specific day when the public can get it.
If Google Glass had such a date then I for one missed it. Apple of course do this superbly.
If you seek to launch a global product, then history has shown it's best to support it with announcement advertising. Doing PR is fine, but you are never fully in charge of the message. If you want to sculpt public perception exactly to your specifications, it really helps to use paid media to get your key points across in the clearest way. Having spent presumably hundreds of millions of dollars developing Glass, Google should have spent at the very least $10 million explaining it. Instead, they left it all up to their public relations department and soon lost control of the key benefits messaging.
With any totally new product or service, companies must be very clear about telling the public why that product is great. The core benefits must be spelt out – and no more than three key points should be emphasized again and again. If you try to say too much, (or even worse, don't make a clear argument on the product's behalf at all ), then don't be surprised if it doesn't catch on. Any product that needs the public to spend time working out themselves why it's valuable has already lost the battle. One of the problems with Glass was it arrived with great fanfare, but most of us were not sure how we could use the product.
It's all fine and dandy to tease the launch of the product and not initially have it available for purchase. but after a few months you've got to distribute it through physical outlets or the net. Otherwise you lose the buzz and then when the product is finally introduced in stores, the launch energy has been lost. Google teased us for far too long, then by the time they saw that the world's intrigue for Glass was waning, it was almost too late. The hot new product had become first a warm new product and then just an oddity no longer even garnering much press.
The lessons for all companies and entrepreneurs looking to launch a product are as follows.
Launch with buzz like Google did with Glass, but use paid media if you can afford it to strengthen your PR, then make the everyday benefits of using your product crystal clear. Finally be sure to release the product quickly and widely to take advantage of the momentum.
None of this is difficult, but most of it was simply not done by the Google Glass team.
On a personal note, I really hope Google can come back from this and relaunch Glass with great success. Google's intention to not just be a search/advertising company but to use their immense cash flow to sponsor moonshot projects to help the world, is in my view truly wonderful. Glass is just the first of a myriad of exciting products that will soon emanate from the Google X lab. This is a magnificent company with mighty, world changing aims. It is a company with a genuine ability to change the world, many times.
Let's just hope they get their marketing right.


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The information on this website has been compiled by the New York State Society of Pathologists to assist pathologists, clinical laboratory workers, and interested parties to understand the background and implications of NY's clinical laboratory technology practice act, commonly referred to as the lab tech licensure law. The information on this site is divided into 6 major sections:
1. The clinical laboratory technology practice act: A call to arms
2. Useful addresses
3. The laboratory personnel shortage
4. CLIA '88 personnel standards
5. Policy statements for licensure of laboratory personnel
6. The NY clinical laboratory technology practice act: The law and the regulations
I. Categories of Clinical Laboratory Practitioners
II. Educational Requirements
III. Certifying Examinations
IV. Limited Permits
V. Point-of-Care Testing
VI. Out-of-State Licensed Laboratory Exemptions
The clinical laboratories of New York are facing a looming crisis in their ability to recruit and hire appropriately skilled workers due to the 2004 passage of the Clinical Laboratory Technology Practice Act. The law itself was unnecessary in these post-CLIA '88 days, but even worse are the very unfortunate current regulations written to interpret and implement the law. Because this is a licensing law, the NY State Education Department (SED), and not the NYS Department of Health (DOH), is responsible for implementing the regulations. Beyond merely registering laboratory employees and confirming their educational and training backgrounds, the law and the regulations have dramatically altered educational requirements and definitions of laboratory workers. Quite bluntly, the current regulations, issued as emergency regulations, reflect a profound misunderstanding on the part of the SED of the practice of clinical laboratory science. To add insult to injury, the SED has chosen to exempt out-of-state New York-licensed laboratories. At the very least, the mandates of the law, purportedly meant to protect the health of New York's citizens, should apply to all labs supplying medical testing to New Yorkers.
The information on this website is intended to offer background information on laboratory personnel licensure and how implementation of this state law is interfering with the ability of New York's clinical laboratories to provide high quality medical care to the citizens of New York. The New York State Society of Pathologists strongly encourages all affected and interested parties to communicate their concerns (via email, letters, phone calls, personal visits) to the State Education Department, Senator Balboni (the prime sponsor of the legislation) and your local state senator.
Kathleen M. Doyle, PhD, Executive Secretary
NYS Board for Clinical Laboratory Technology
NYS Education Dept, 2nd floor, East Wing
89 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12234
Deputy Commissioner Johanna Duncan-Poiter
Office of the Professions
NY State Education Department
State Education Building- 2nd floor
89 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12234
Senator Michael Balboni (the law's major sponsor)
Legislative Office Bldg, Rm 803
Albany, NY 12247
518 455-2471 or 516 873-0736
Assemblyman Ronald Canastrari (the assembly sponsor)
Legislative Office Bldg, Rm 722
Albany, NY 12248
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NY SED website on this bill and the regulations: www.op.nysed.gov/clp.htm
College of American Pathologists: www.cap.org
American Society for Clinical Pathology: www.ascp.org
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science: www.ascls.org
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Approximately 80% of medical decisions depend on laboratory data.
In response to a 2004 CAP House of Delegates resolution, the Council on Government and Professional Affairs (CGPA) released a memorandum on the laboratory personnel shortage at the 2006 HOD meeting. The CGPA memo shows that demand for laboratory workers remains strong- Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employment in this sector has grown 17% over the past 5 years as compared to a 14% growth in overall employment. Sixty percent of laboratory workers are employed in hospitals, 15% in physician offices, 14% in independent laboratories, and 11% evenly distributed in education, research and manufacturing, and government.
The CAP report quotes an ASCP survey revealing that 46% of medical labs report problems in recruiting qualified staff, especially those in small hospitals and rural areas. The hardest positions to fill were for Medical Technologists and Medical Laboratory Technicians. The survey shows an average of 3 to 12 months to fill a position. Although a trend for decreased vacancies are noted, there is no true understanding of the definition of a vacancy- some of the fluctuations could be due to budget constraints and subsequent FTE reductions and the use of part-time or temporary staff.
The CAP report noted a number of factors involved in the current shortage of lab staff, including the shrinking pool of available students (the traditional pool of workers in their 20s and 30s is shrinking while the population, on the whole, ages), reductions in the number of training programs, and low wages. In the 1970s, the number of clinical laboratory science/medical technology programs was approximately 800. Today there are 234. Training programs for clinical laboratory technicians/medical laboratory technicians has remained somewhat more steady- currently there are 205 programs. As expected, this translates into fewer graduates of these training programs. Over a 10 year period, the number of graduates from accredited programs declined 50%, down to 4, 265 in 2003.
The CAP report quotes data that suggests that wages of clinical laboratory workers are increasing and outpacing inflation; however, the overall level of wages is still below other positions with similar levels of education in the health care area- an average of $21/hour for lab workers versus $23/hr for a diagnostic medical sonographer and $24/hours for RNs.
The CAP report summarized some key findings. Labs are finding it necessary to substitute lower-paid lesser qualified personnel as well as high-paid, shorter-term personnel to fill staffing needs. The role of automation and its efficiencies is counterbalanced by the growing requirements for more sophisticated and complex testing protocols. There is likely a need for more training programs and educational opportunities to increase the labor force, and cures for the lab personnel shortage will likely have to address salary trends and working conditions. The CAP report states that "many of the strategies are 'macro' in nature and are difficult to control with public policies with the exception of reimbursement and training issues."
The ASCP policy on state licensure of laboratory personnel notes no difference in average wages or labor force supply between states with and without licensure.
Those of you on the ASCP's listserve recently received a summary of their 2006 laboratory wage and vacancy survey. The ASCP reports that almost 44% of laboratories claim current difficulties recruiting or hiring medical personnel, that certified medical technologist staff vacancies were most severe in the Far Western and North Eastern states, that the average hourly wage is rising more slowly (at 3.5% annually versus about 7% between 2003 and 2005), and that about 30% of labs indicate non-traditional working shifts for their staffs to accommodate needs.
Personnel standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment of 1988 (CLIA '88) were published in the Federal Register in 1992. CLIA '88 was passed in response to problems reported in cytology laboratories and resulted in educational requirements across the clinical laboratory that were greater than those in CLIA '67. These standards defined personnel standards according to the test complexity level of the laboratory (waived, provider performed microscopy, moderate complexity, and high complexity) and required explicit assessments of personnel competency.
The standards under CLIA '88 are, in general, as follows:
Waived testing: no standards
Moderate Complexity: minimum requirement of a high school diploma or equivalent and documentation of training for testing performed.
High complexity: minimum requirement of an associate degree with an accredited or approved clinical laboratory training program or appropriate laboratory training in the specialty in which the individual performs testing.
General supervisor: Bachelor's degree in suitable field with at least 1 year experience with high complexity testing OR associate degree in suitable field with at least 2 years experience with high complexity testing.
Eleven states plus Puerto Rico have state laboratory licensure laws. All but New York's were passed prior to CLIA '88- meaning states were trying to deal with some of the issues that CLIA '88 eventually addressed with regard to personnel standards. And today, many of the staffing issues facing laboratories are not related to inadequate personnel standards- they are problems due to the shortage of qualified individuals.
· College of American Pathologists
The CAP Council on Government and Professional Affairs approved a policy on licensure in October of 2003 that states it is the policy of the College of American Pathologists that clinical laboratory scientists and other laboratory personnel are sufficiently regulated by the federal requirements and standards of CLIA '88. State laws requiring the licensure and regulation of laboratory personnel are unnecessary and increase administrative burdens without improving patient care. The College believes that it is the appropriate responsibility of the laboratory director, consistent with CLIA requirements, to select, assign and qualify persons for laboratory positions.
· American Society for Clinical Pathology (licensure policy approved June 2005)
The ASCP policy on state licensure of laboratory personnel states that "because the important work performed by the laboratory professional affects the health, safety and welfare of the public, the American Society for Clinical Pathology believes that states should license laboratory personnel." This policy (available on their website) notes that their "review of the literature has not revealed any studies that have directly examined the question of whether licensure of laboratory practitioners improves test quality; however, there are studies that provide support for the idea that education, training and/or experience, and certification of laboratory personnel are linked to higher quality testing and performance." The supportive articles quoted in the policy rely on studies comparing the results of proficiency testing performed in physician office laboratories and waived testing facilities versus such testing in hospital or independent laboratory settings. The ASCP policy advocates equivalent personnel standards and licensure for all testing sites; however, state licensure bills, including New York's, exempt physician office laboratories (POLs) from licensure.
The ASCP also has a policy on personnel standards for laboratory professional in which they state that such standards should include academic and clinical training, competency examinations by an approved national certification organization, and continuing competency standards. These standards assert that technologists should have a bachelor's degree from an accredited or approved training program or specified work experience, and that technicians should have an associate degree from an accredited or approved medical laboratory training program.
· American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (licensure policy approved July 2006)
A position paper of the ASCLS for laboratory personnel licensure states that "laboratory personnel licensure is essential to protect the public from substandard laboratory services and possibly misleading information by assuring that only adequately educated and qualified individuals perform testing." Their paper notes that the society, as well its predecessor, the American Society for Medical Technology, has supported licensure as far back as 1977. They further note that when CLIA '88 "developed into a facility regulation with personnel standards inadequate to protect the public, ASMT renewed its efforts to press for state licensure to accomplish this goal. The ASCLS paper quotes no objective studies from the literature to support their position relating licensure to testing quality.
Ironically, the ASCLS also has a position paper on independent practice in which they state that clinical laboratory testing "is the defined practice of qualified clinical laboratory personnel and includes the performance, supervision, direction and interpretation of laboratory testing." In other words, the ASCLS advocates that "(t)he current economic and regulatory healthcare environment benefits from expanded roles for non-physician allied health professionals in order to provide quality, cost-effective assessment, diagnosis, treatment and information for healthcare consumers." No supportive references are quoted in this policy and one is left to wonder if such expansion of the scope of practice by non-physicians would (to paraphrase their licensure policy) protect the public from substandard and misleading assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
The New York legislature had been presented with several precursor licensure bills over the years preceding passage of the clinical laboratory technology practice act in 2004. At the 2002 Assembly hearings on a licensure bill, Harriet B. Rolen-Mark, MA, MT(ASCP) presented the views of the ASCP. During her testimony, Ms. Rolen-Mark stated that "licensure can be an effective tool to strengthen the quality of laboratory testing" and the ASCP appreciated "efforts to license medical laboratory personnel in New York." However, the ASCP had several criticisms of the 2002 bill: it did not require medical technologists to have a bachelor's degree, it did not require medical lab technicians to have an associate degree, there was no continuing education requirement, and although the bill required an examination it did not specify a "competency-based national certification examination."
The successful 2004 bill addressed the issues raised by the ASCP; however, given that the current New York regulations would deny future employment to MT(ASCP) and MLT(ASCP) candidates, the ASCP has distanced itself from the New York licensure bill. In a recent communication to their members, the ASCP noted that New York's approach to licensure appears markedly different than that of almost every other licensure state. Furthermore, they noted that "those considering possible employment in New York, even if it is years from now, should consider applying for licensure now." In other words, the ASCP certification standards don't meet the qualifications demanded of New York's licensure bill.
It is generally acknowledged that beyond the support of such organizations as the ASCP and ASCLS for state licensure, the New York bill was passed due to the enthusiastic support of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Senator Michael Balboni of Nassau County was the important Senate sponsor. Because this is a licensure bill, its implementation is under the jurisdiction of the State Education Department (SED) and not the Department of Health (DOH). Many pathologists in New York, who are licensed by the SED, have a certificate of qualification (C of Q) from the DOH and work in laboratories accredited and licensed by the DOH.
The following 6 sections discuss major problem areas with the bill and the regulations. Four of them are within the power of the SED to fix (regulatory relief). Two of them (limited permits and point-of-care testing) will need legislative relief. You may have additional issues that should be addressed in your communications to the SED.
I. Categories of Clinical Laboratory Practitioners
· LANGUAGE OF THE LAW: The actual language of the bill defines 3 categories of clinical laboratory practitioners: clinical laboratory technologist, clinical laboratory technician, and clinical laboratory cytotechnologist. The bill's language often mimics ASCP's language, including defining clinical laboratory technology to mean "the performance of microbiology, virological, serological, chemical ..cytological or histological procedures." This "or" is very important as it acknowledges that there is subspecialization within the clinical laboratory and effectively allows the SED to define subcategories under the 3 main laboratory personnel categories
· THE REGULATION: The regulations do not recognize subcategorization, despite long-standing practice in the clinical laboratory. The SED, in its implementation of the law, changed the "or" in the law's definitions to an "and" in the regulations. This little change essentially removed the subspecialties, including that of histotechnology and led to the board's decision to mandate that medical technology and technician programs include histological techniques. However, there has been less discussion about other categories of workers in the lab- the grossing assistants, the prep techs, and pathologists' assistants (who now have an ASCP certifying examination). Those who have attempted to ask the SED for clarification on these employees have been told "to read the regulations and applications forms." In other words, the SED has no clue about who works in the laboratory and how best to define them, leaving laboratories and their employees to try to decide which of the 3 categories (each with its own application form) is a "best fit."
· IMPACT: As currently written, the regulations erase the subspecialty of histotechnology, and possibly pathologists' assistants, and require that medical technology and medical technician programs incorporate histological techniques into their programs.
· REMEDY: The SED has the authority to establish subcategories of laboratory clinical practitioners based upon the language of the law and a proper understanding of the practice of clinical laboratory science.
II. Educational Requirements
· LANGUAGE OF THE LAW: The actual language of the bill allows for the education of clinical laboratory technologists to include "a bachelor's degree in clinical laboratory technology from a program registered by the department or determined by the department to be the substantial equivalent, or have received a bachelor's degree that includes a minimum number of credit hours in the sciences and received appropriated clinical education in an accredited clinical laboratory technology program or a program to be determined by the department to be the substantial equivalent."
· REGULATION: The curriculum requirements of the regulations require generalized laboratory training (e.g. inorganic chemistry, microbiology, hematology) plus histological techniques for all those who are classified as technologists or technicians. With respect to histotechnology, the level of complexity of the coursework greatly exceeds that necessary for successful performance as a histotechnologist. Similar concerns are being raised about other subspecialties, such as pathologist's assistant, where such coursework is unrelated to the educational and training needs of these employees.
· IMPACT: The current interpretation of the curriculum requirements is at once too broad and too narrow and the overall effect is devastating to the laboratories of New York. The current SED regulations would prohibit laboratories from hiring specialized employees with suitable associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, or post-doctoral degrees in critical areas such as microbiology, molecular methods, blood banking, histotechnology, and gross room assisting (pathologists' assistant), because they do not meet the criteria for a generalized laboratory education. Not only will this inevitably lead to an exacerbation of the shortage of clinical laboratory personnel in NY, it will also make it virtually impossible for New York doctoral-level staff to gain the experience they need to obtain a certification of qualification (C of Q) from the NYSDOH.
· REMEDY: The law allows for education that has been "determined by the department to be the substantial equivalent." Given that that the law allows for subcategorization, the SED has the authority to interpret the curriculum requirements as to bring them into alignment with reasonable and necessary personnel standards.
III. Certifying Examinations
· LANGUAGE OF THE LAW: The law mandates that laboratory practitioners "pass an examination satisfactory to the board" except for those who qualify under the grandfathering exemptions.
· REGULATION: As currently written, the regulations force all clinical laboratory practitioners to take 1 of 3 certifying examinations, regardless of the needs of the employee's subspecialty (e.g. histotechnology, pathologists' assistant).
· IMPACT: Because the SED does not recognize subcategorization of clinical laboratory practitioners, the current regulations do not allow for subspecialty certification. As with the educational requirements, these generalized examinations will sometimes be unrelated to the educational and training background of certain crucial employees and the needs of specialized testing areas in the clinical laboratory. In addition, the advisory board is currently looking at vendors of certifying examinations- suggesting that the SED will develop, with a sole vendor, a single NY examination that will exclude examinations offered for other national certifying organizations.
· REMEDY: The SED has the authority to make the necessary changes in the regulations with regard to employee categorizations and educational requirements, and to accept results of all national certifying examinations in the relevant categories and subcategories. In addition, it is paramount that the SED embrace the concept of permanent limited permits.
IV. Limited Permits
· LANGUAGE OF THE LAW: The law included allowances for limited permits for those individuals who could not meet the grandfather clauses. The law allows for a 2 year period during which otherwise qualified individuals may register under a limited permit prior to taking a certifying examination.
· REGULATION: Unfortunately, the SED is bound by the language of the law.
· IMPACT: There are many vital laboratory practitioners with the appropriate and necessary education, training, or experience to work in specialized areas of the clinical laboratory (e.g. microbiology, molecular methods,) who not meet educational and certification requirements of the regulations. Many of these individuals have associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and even PhDs with education and training in vital areas of medical testing. If this law is allowed to stand as written, New York laboratories will be prohibited from hiring the most suitable candidates, to the greater harm of the citizens of New York.
· REMEDY: There must be legislative relief to allow for permanent limited permits.
V. Point-of-Care Testing
· LANGUAGE OF THE LAW: Although the law exempts testing activities performed by physicians, physician assistants, dentists, podiatrists, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and respiratory therapy technicians, the law makes no exemption for testing performed by nurses or other employees trained in point of-care hospital, clinic, or limited testing sites with NYSDOH licenses.
· REGULATION: Unfortunately, the SED is bound by the language of the law.
· IMPACT: Many essential health care and public health programs are dependant on the point-of-care waived tests performed by personnel without formal laboratory training who, nonetheless, are trained to perform specific waived tests.
· REMEDY: There must be legislative relief to allow for waived testing procedures to be performed by individuals qualified to perform such testing by virtue of specific education and training.
VI. Out-of-State Licensed Laboratory Exemptions
· LANGUAGE OF THE LAW: There is no specific wording in the statue allowing for the exemption of out-of-state clinical laboratories.
· REGULATION: The SED has chosen to exempt out-of-state clinical laboratories with a New York Department of Health (NYSDOH) license from compliance with the statute.
· IMPACT: From a logical point of view, any law regulating medical testing and purportedly meant to protect the health of New York's citizens, should apply to all labs supplying medical testing to New Yorkers. A significant portion of testing performed on New York State citizens is performed in out-or-state laboratories, often by very large national commercial laboratories. This outrageous exemption results in a significant competitive disadvantage to New York State laboratories with regard to their ability to recruit and hire adequately trained and suitable staff.
· REMEDY: The SED can immediately rescind the out-of-state exemption. There is no specific wording in the statue allowing for the exemption of out-of-state clinical laboratories. Title V of the NYS Public Health Law mandates that out-of-state clinical laboratories performing testing on NY patients must obtain a permit from NYSDOH. The language of the Chapter 755 states that "clinical laboratory technology" means the "performance of .procedures and examinations and any other test or procedure conducted by a laboratory as defined by title five of article five of the public health law " Furthermore, the law states that a "clinical laboratory practitioner" means those "who work in licensed clinical laboratories."
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Tony Stark is stepping out of his suit for good and someone else is stepping in.
Riri Williams will be a black female Iron Man, with natural hair! Riri Williams enrolled in MIT at 15 and built her own Iron Man suit in her dorm. This, of course, grabbed the attention of Tony Stark. She still isn't sure if she will keep the Iron Man name though.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis says, "One of the things Tony does to distract himself from all the things going on in his life is he goes to find this young woman who is flying around the middle of America in an armor that's not completely made, to try to find out what her deal is."
The new Invisible Iron Man series is Marvel's attempt to diversify their cast of characters by having people of color and women be their star heroes. Riri Williams is joining Kamala Khan as the Pakistani American Ms. Marvel and Jane Foster as the female Thor. Bendis creates these characters, like Jessica Jones, Miles Morales, and Maria Hill because he is "inspired by the world around me and not seeing that represented enough in popular culture."
Of course there is going to be some blow back. People are mean on the internet and they don't like to keep it to themselves. People were, and still are, up in arms when Miles Morales was introduced as the new Spiderman. The new Ghostbusters is doomed before the actual release because they are all female.
Even though there are negative comments out in the air now, the majority of people will appreciate the diversity. Young boys and girls of different diversities will now grow up with heroes that look like them. That is the most important thing, representation.
Honestly, Marvel does have a lot of work to do to keep fans after the whole Nazi Captain America thing.


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By Tom Davis
Linear Air will resume its seasonal service from Teterboro to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket this year.
The airline will fly from Teterboro to Nantucket on the weekend of April 29, when the Annual Daffodil Festival is held.
From Memorial Day weekend until Columbus Day, Linear's service will fly weekends only to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, said Bill Herp, president of Linear.
All flights will be $399 one-way.
Linear recently discontinued its Teterboro to Bedford, Mass., per-seat service because of lower-than-desired ridership. Herp said the company wants to focus its energies on one destination from Teterboro.
He said the Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket flights were popular last summer -- justifying their return.
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First Tech Piece for 2067.. in Y!
I wrote this piece for the Y! magazine. One reason to post it here is that I said I'll post my published articles in this blog.Another reason is also to get some practice in categorizing the content within Word Press. Ciao!!
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10's – Touch, Cloud and Go
A new decade is always interesting. Contemporary historians tend to generalize trends in terms of the decades gone. 80s was for the PC, 90s for the Internet, the first decade of the millennia for the Youtube, Facebook and everything that survived the Dot com Crash. What's in store for this year and then onwards for the decade? How would you flashback in a few decades?
The past 30 years of innovation and challenges in end-user computing has been enormous. This has peaked in the last decade with much more innovation happening from a user experience perspective. The cell phone which at the beginning of the decade was at least half a kilo brick is now a sleek device not much larger then a Dairy Milk pack. As Nokia claims – adding a phone to the phone made them the biggest camera manufacturer in the world diluting the line between consumer electronics and communications devices.
Then came the iPhone, which can be credited to starting this focus where users had the world at their fingertips – literally. Then Kindle revolutionized the e-Book world. We will have to wait and see how iPad impacts the world.
The next decade will be how people use the more easily available wireless connection to enrich their online experience with more video. The iPad and other sleeker internet access devices with larger screens are possibly the devices that will make it easier for people to watch video on the move. Instead of the grainy small resolution video, you will be able to watch full screen and even High Density (HD) videos on these devices. You then connect the audio through a blue tooth headset. Your video may be stored locally or be streamed over the network.
These days we don't think twice before uploading our pictures to flickr, facebook or some other photo sharing site. With bandwidth becoming more affordable, and content being easier to access over the network, we'll start seeing more personal videos being uploaded to Youtube and similar sites.
The other big semi visible but important part of technology progress is the increasing use of cloud computing infrastructure. When we use Gmail, or Hotmail or yahoo for e-mail, search and storing information, we are already using a remote computer system and trusting our data to it. While these were limited services, cloud computing itself as a product can enable lots of small business and even individuals to setup online businesses and platforms. It will enable smaller organizations with limited budget to be able to utilize more complex system with a fee. Computing will then becoming a utility brought to you through the internet.
While these are the visible icons of the progress, there has been a lot of other innovation which lie underneath the visible progress. Every year in the past few years, technologies have enabled companies to pack in more components into ever smaller scale. Dual-core and quad-core CPUs enable massive computing power that until a few years ago was only available at specialist labs. Technologist realized that instead of packing in too many components into the same chip, running multiple CPUs actually increased the parallel processing power and at the same time reducing heat dissipation, enabling to build efficient machines.
On the other hand, for those who work in the industry, the greater problems lie in how to manage power and cooling for large cloud computing clusters. Since there are no mechanical parts in computers, almost all energy is radiated out as heat – creating a massive cooling problem when you have larger numbers of computing systems in one place. Research is ongoing on how efficient cooling system can be designed along with efforts in reducing the heat radiation from devices.
There is a lot more happening in this area for those who are interested.
But, what interests us today is how all of this comes to impact us in our daily lives. In the next decade, we can assure ourselves that we'll be using more and more of wireless technology whether at home or mobile. As phones becomes replacements for computers, it's obvious that wireless is the technology to watch. You may still have cables and fiber that bring the internet to your homes and offices, but you will possibly use wireless connection for access – whether it be WiFi or through GPRS or may be even 3G connection.
In Nepali context, we may be able to get the ubiquitous Blackberry service finally in Nepal, producing our own share of crackberries. We may also start seeing more organizations finally sensing the ubiquitous ness of the Internet and choosing to use it more. Banks have been in the forefront of encouraging customers to use e-Banking services without much success – but this will change. It took ATMs the last decade to be the preferred means for personal banking in Nepal, and eBanking will take at least half of that time frame to be widely used.
Another aspect of usage will be the increased focus in education institutions on the use of the network for students use. Universities and colleges have been spending a lot of money and resources in building libraries, but as many international publications and journals make internet the preferred means of delivering texts, research materials as well as other teaching resources, Nepali institutions will need to connect with high speed Research and Education Networks like the Internet2 (US), GEANT (Europe), APAN (Asia) if they want the students to have access to resources. The connection to these international networks will in fact make the local students a lot more competitive when they go abroad, having had access to the resources already.
Last but not least, there are progressing signs that Nepalis, who went abroad 10-20 years ago have finally made a mark in their own fields in their adopted home countries. They are now poised to help the industry, academia and the government in Nepal with expertise and knowledge in their specific areas. They are interested to share their knowledge with local youths and professionals. The use of video conferencing facilities have made this a lot more easy then in the past – whereby they had to travel to Nepal for such knowledge sharing activities. Organizations in Nepal and US are now working to create a regular series of such knowledge transfer initiatives. Computer Association of Nepal with its US chapter has successfully piloted this last year already.
Kathmandu University will soon start regular lectures over video conferencing facilities with faculty in Europe. Doctors at Kathmandu Model Hospital do a video conferencing session with doctors in its satellite hospital in Dolkha every morning, and all of them are regularly joined by experts in New Mexico, US for regular consultation and medical discussion. They are sometimes joined by helath workers in Nangi, Myagdi, also over video conferencing.
The future is there for those are able to use the technology for making their lives easier, and the next year and the decade will be no different. Innovation in technology, Ingenuity in usage and Improvement in user experience is all what's for us in 2010.


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U.S. Navy Seaman Recruit Kevin P. Marker wasn't even born yet when the 40th president of the United States took office in 1981. Even though President Ronald Reagan spent two terms in office, and was known as the "great communicator" and as the "great liberator" for his role in ending the Cold War, Marker admits he was so young that he can't remember even the slightest thing about Reagan's years office.
Fresh out of Akron-Fairgrove High School, Marker entered the U.S. Navy in October. He is now a newly graduated Sailor serving a two-year term as a Ceremonial Guard in Washington, D.C. But while Marker was unable to remember Reagan in his living years, he said the former president's passing is something he won't soon forget.
Reagan, 93, died at his home in Bel Air, Calif., on June 5. For many people around the nation the days that followed his death were spent honoring the former president and remembering his life and his time in office.
But for Marker and others who serve as Ceremonial Guards for the U.S. Navy, those days that followed Reagan's death were filled with endless hours of preparation for the funeral in Washington, D.C.
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The elaborate affair was carried out with military precision, something Ceremonial Guards like Marker practice nearly ever day. Even the security that day was tight for the first such ceremony since President Lyndon Johnson's funeral service in 1973.
Marker said when he heard of Reagan's passing he was unsure if he would get the assignment to take part in the funeral service. Final word came just a day before the ceremonial march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol Building where the president would lie in state.
"I called home to tell my family that I was going to be doing this when I found out for sure, that way they could watch the service and maybe see what I do," he said. "My mom even tried to tape it, but the VCR wouldn't work."
Marker said the 2 1/2 mile ceremonial march was incredible to take part in, because it was so synchronized and the streets were lined with thousands who came to honor the former president.
"A military funeral for an ex-president has 81 people in a marching platoon made up of Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, then members of the Coast Guard. Our job is to make way for the deceased," Marker explained. "When we got up to the Capitol Building we split off into a 27-man marching platoon, preparing for the carrying up of the casket and arrival of the family. It looks really neat. We march in (rows of) nine by nine men, three of them are higher enlisted who give us our orders."
When the ceremonial march was finished, Marker then prepared along with other ceremonial guards for the June 11 funeral service at the National Cathedral.
That Friday morning Reagan's life and legacy were celebrated in a funeral service at the National Cathedral after two days of lying in state at the Capitol, where more than 100,000 people had filed past to pay their respects.
Marker said on Friday he was an usher, seating the mourners who basically represented a "who's who" of the political world. Former presidents Clinton, Bush, Carter and Ford, along with their wives, were seated in the front pews. Key figures from the Reagan administration, including former Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz, were seated throughout the church. And about two dozen world leaders, past and present, traveled to Washington for the service. Among them: British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, and the presidents of Nigeria, South Africa and Afghanistan. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan's partner in ending the Cold War, sat alongside former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a close Reagan friend and ally.
"It was amazing to see so many people. I know at the actual funeral the Cathedral holds more than 3,750, and it was full that day," Marker said. "Prince William, Prince Charles, governors … I was able to seat the president - that was very interesting. That's the closest I've ever been to the president before.
"All of this is a real honor for me to be a part of. I never even heard of a Ceremonial Guard before I enlisted. My family was extremely excited for me."
Marker is the son of Gary Marker of Unionville and Lyndia Marker of Gagetown. When Marker's term as a Ceremonial Guard is finished in January 2006 he said he will start school in Texas to become a military police officer, something he's been wanting to do. And there's no doubt that someday he will tell his kids - and their kids - about the role he played in one of our nation's historic events.


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Year on year the Clifton Cathedral Parish has organised a series of fundraising events to raise money for charitable or other good causes and, in the process, brought parishioners together in a spirit of community. This enterprise has been branded 'Parish Projects'.
During recent years Parish Projects activity has declined due in large part to the shortage of new volunteers to take over from stalwarts that have done such a magnificent job in the past. We now wish to revive the programme with the appointment of a volunteer Parish Projects Coordinator to inspire and lead a new team.
Parish Projects Description
In recent years the Parish has adopted two causes for which money is raised over a 3 year period; one supports needs at home the other abroad. In advance of a new 3 year cycle, causes are invited to present their case to an open meeting of Cathedral parishioners who select the causes to be supported through a secret ballot.
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Saturday, 28 March 2009
The Dis-ease of Separation.
There is such discomfort in living in separation. All that we label "trouble" or "cruelty" stems from it. Adulterers being stoned to death by the Taliban are the victims of such extreme separation that not only is God a separate entity, that entity is cruelly judgmental and ruthlessly sadistic. God becomes a personification of fear in a land that is continually violated by invaders and torn by civil unrest, where there is no sense of safety, and where the fundamentals of life are constantly threatened. The Taliban may be cruel, but their existence is hardly a mystery. Separate countries war with each other, defending their piece of land, or perhaps grabbing some more land, the divisions stoked by the promise of safety and the egotistical building up of each nation as "good" and the other as "bad". The mind loves a story, and war stories are popular. We sit with suspicion always, see others who merely look somewhat different or speak a bit differently as so alien that they are mainly a threat, and rarely a breath of fresh air. We dislike differences, and comfort ourselves by pointing these differences out and using them to widen the chasm between "us" and the chimerical "them". Our own children's task and duty is to become more separate, and hopefully to evolve into the most unique and different individual that ever was, with as little resemblance to the parents as possible. This kind of separation is the burden of each small piece of humanity, and is, in fact, labeled "mental health". We seem like islands, alone and isolated, apart with our little thoughts and overwhelming feelings; no one is like us, and no one could ever understand. We are at war with the world, and either try to get to know it, understand it and control it, or set up a fortress against it, engaging with it as little as we can get away with. Yet there is nothing wrong with any of this. Duality is as it must be, it is life looking at itself, but that doesn't mean it's not oneness. We are each other no matter what the colour or flavour of that seems to be. Perhaps when this is recognised there will be less apparent cruelty borne of fear, perhaps there will be more compassion, and more compassionate acts. But there is always balance, no matter how dismaying the extremes are. The balance may be more centered, but there is no guarantee. The stories may abound but this is wonderment, here it is, it never left, it is nowhere to be found; this is it.
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Online lingerie retailer Figleaves.com recently launched a revamped version of its website, aiming for more of a high quality look and feel.
I've taken a look to see how it compares…
The homepage has a simple look and feel to it, with plenty of clear calls to action. The top navigation is clear, products are well promoted and options are clearly labelled.
It is also smaller than the previous version, and requires less scanning and scrolling by visitors.
It's also good to see the delivery charges and free returns policy promoted on the homepage (as well as every other page on the site). These are potential clinchers if a customer is deciding on a purchase, so it's best to make this information as clear as possible.
We would recommend offering free delivery as an effective sales driver, but £2.95 compares well to other online retailers.
The biggest problem about the homepage for me is the screen size: the site only fits roughly two-thirds of the screen, so you are left with a lot of blank space on the right hand side:
I'm not sure why the site has been designed like this; the trend of recent redesigns seems to be towards optimising for higher resolutions, and just over 5% of web users still have resolutions below 1024 x 768.
Either way, it would have looked better centred, as M&S does, or with the background filled with some colours or symbols that go with the brand, as Topshop has done:
Navigation / search
Navigation links, both from featured products and through the menu bar, are clearly labelled and, though a drop down menu has been used for some categories, it isn't too cumbersome.
Visitors can also navigate via the bra finder on the left. I presume the reason for this is because this is the best selling product category on the site.
After choosing a category or entering a search term, users are given further options to fine tune product searches and filter out unnecessary results:
This can be done by brand, price range, type of garment, fabric and more - plenty of options. Individual filters can also be removed easily, while the number of products for that filter option is displayed, which helps customers avoid coming up with no results.
Product pages
The product pages are impressive; all the information a customer is likely to want is easily available to view.
Delivery and returns information is at the top of the page, availability and delivery estimates change according to the size or colour selected, while the products can be viewed from different angles, or zoomed in.
The cross-selling features are excellent too, with up to six other products in the same ranges or brand displayed underneath, alongside a 'customers who viewed this item also viewed…' feature.
Product reviews are also on offer, with a useful visual summary of ratings awarded for each product:
Also on offer is a Q&A section (provided by Bazaarvoice) which allows customers to pose questions about products, which are answered by other users.
I noticed this recently when looking at Halfords, and it's a good idea, though I wonder how much input the website has into the accuracy of the answers, and therefore how much they can be relied upon.
There are plenty of options to 'share' the product with others, with links to Facebook, Digg and Delicious, as well as an option to email friends. I'd be less inclined to send my friends info about pyjamas or underpants than, say, a laptop, but perhaps other people feel differently.
Basket / checkout
No major problems here either, as the basket provides a neat summary of contents and charges, is easily edited, and provides a clear checkout link.
The checkout process is pretty smooth too, no major registration before purchase, data entry is easy enough, and a progress bar lets you know what stage you are at and how many more to go:
Also, the process is almost entirely enclosed, with links to the rest of the site disappearing once a customer reaches the address details page.
As so often on e-commerce websites though, the links at the bottom for contact information, delivery details etc will take customers out of the process.
If this happens, pressing the back button will give them a 'webpage has expired' message, meaning that the process will have to be started all over again: a potential source of frustration / abandonment.
One feature I have never noticed before on an e-commerce site also caught my eye on Figleaves. Instead of merely allowing customers to enter a delivery address, they have the option of having goods delivered to a nearby post office:
I don't know how many users choose this option, but it potentially eliminates the issue of being around to receive deliveries; handy for people at work during normal delivery hours.
The redesigned site is impressive. Details are made very clear to customers using it, delivery charges, stock availability, email signups and more. Product pages are useful, while Figleaves makes good use of user reviews and cross-selling techniques.
The main thing I didn't like is the screen size, which almost spoils the look of the site for me, and it seems unnecessary when the vast majority of web users now have computers capable of handling larger screen resolutions.
Figleaves contacted me about the screen resolution issue; this is a problem with the company's legacy system, and something which will be rectified next year. The site will be centred and stretched to fit more of the screen.
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You know the ones, where your blogger blogs about stuff he or she is up and he or she happens to be out on one of his or her regular adventures and instead of telling you about all the awesome stuff he or she is up to he or she instead is all about weird shit? We all know THOSE blogs.
Here is some weird stuff I saw on just one single day in a small Taiwanese fishing village.
- They had skin care products named after the horrifically plastic surgery deformed Australian minor celebrity for a long ago reality show and banging a rock star – Sophie Monk. Are you kidding me? Tag line – 'you too could look deformed'.
- They had KKK brand white fungus drink – tag line 'Sophie Monk is white so we won't bash her, but man she looks deformed'.
- I saw a dog wearing a diaper/ nappy. Tag line – 'For the owner who wants to show their love with cruel selfishness'. That would make some mean deformed dog poo
- They have a condom design named 'hard shell' – tag line 'for when you really, really don't want to feel it' but if your banging Sophie Monk I recommend shoving them in your eyes.
Wow, Taiwan is full of awesome and amazingly friendly people, but they sure are mean about that Sophie Monk. Although I don't blame them, she is pretty deformed.


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A Little Oil
I've just finished reading the book Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Loveby Heidi and Rolland Baker for the third time. And I've put parts of one of their sections together for this devotion I'm going to share at a nursing home in a couple weeks.
2 Kings 4:1-7 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves."
"Your servant has nothing there at all," she said, "except a small jar of olive oil."
3 Elisha said, "Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don't ask for just a few. 4 Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side."
5 She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 6 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another one."
But he replied, "There is not a jar left." Then the oil stopped flowing.
7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left."
Elisha asked the widow what she had when she cried out for help. And instinctively she said, "Nothing." But then she remembered. "Oh, I have a little oil."
So often we are dismissive of ourselves. We say we have nothing. Nothing God would want to use anyhow. We come up with all kinds of good reasons for why God can't do anything notable or meaningful with us. "I have no special talent, I'm poor, I'm old, I have no connections, no special gift."
"But, wait. I guess I have a little oil."
And that is all God needs to take us and do a miracle.
Then Elisha told the widow to go around to all her neighbors to give her their empty jars.
What an interesting approach to solving her problem! God could have told Elisha, "Pay off her debts." Or "Give her money." But He did neither.
Why? Because God didn't want to just solve her problem; He wanted to change her life, giving her a completely different outlook and perspective. He wanted to transform her faith and grow her trust in God, removing her anger and bitterness.
The process of gathering up all the empty jars was a prophetic act. She cooperated with God, making the statement that something was about to happen, even if she didn't know precisely what. "Go and ask your neighbors for their empty jars." Elisha told her. So she did. And he added, "Don't just ask for a few." Then he told her to start pouring oil.
Think about this. She had a lot of jars and her one jar with just a little oil in it. But she took the step of obedience and began pouring. And the oil didn't run out until every jar was full! God had done a miracle.
She now had the resources she needed to pay off her debts and get out of her bad situation. But more than that she had firsthand knowledge of the supernatural provision of our incredible Father. She had the faith to believe for His supernatural intervention in her life and the lives of others.
Her empty jar had been filled. Her life transformed.
And God wants to do the same for us. He wants to fill our emptiness with His plenty and He's inviting us to take a step of faith, to trust Him completely.
He's looking for is our willingness. He wants us to quit telling Him He can't use us and just say yes. He's looking for empty vessels to fill. He is looking for those people who want to be fully filled with His precious Holy Spirit, who don't have a lot of stuff in the way.
And when we come to Him willing to cooperate He'll do the rest. That's when God is able to display His glory through us.
When the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost and filled Jesus' disciples, empowering them to go out and plant the Church; that wasn't a one time only thing. God is still anointing, filling and empowering those who belong to Him. We should each ask the Holy Spirit to fill us with His oil everyday. In fact, fill us to overflowing so that oil touches the lives of those around us. So that the love of Jesus flows from us.
God wants to use you. When He calls you, go. Now you may be sitting there thinking, "I'm 80 years old and can't drive any more. Where am I supposed to go for God?" Well, yes, I don't think He's going to call you to go to Africa as a missionary! But he may ask you to knock on your next door neighbor's door and make a new friend. Or sit with someone at the dinner table who's alone. Or attend a Bible study. Or write a letter. Or send a card. Or smile at someone. Encourage someone. Make someone laugh! Or listen to their problem without telling them about yours. Or pray for someone. Pray for our country, the church or the world.
God has placed each of us where we are. If we let Him we can be useful to Him.
And whatever He has you do, do it with all your might and for His glory. We are His children and He wants us to burn brightly for Him.
Ask God to empty you of all that hinders His work in your life. Choose to make yourself an empty container. Then He can come and fill you with His presence, and in a moment, everything can change.
Labels: God's will, Reckless Devotion


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Chandeliers: Different Types Available in Market
The combo of light and its glass reflection has been used since a long time as the wonderful dazzling lighting decoration of a large room. Typically used for royal room decoration, often these multiple lights are fixed at one point, which not only create great feel, it add a special splendour too in room decoration and can make your celebrations special.
Combo of light and its glass reflection can be best observed in chandeliers and that is why perhaps these lighting fixtures are widely in demand worldwide. Keeping consumer demand in focus, different types of these luminaries are available in market. Some of the most popular variants are narrated here.
Crystal type: This is perhaps the most elegant verity of this globally famous lighting fixture. Starting from royal houses and huge auditoriums, these crystal decorated luminaries are used in commercial and residential units.
Beaded and shell variety: this is a more contemporary design and has earned huge applause from sophisticated home makers.
Metal made variant: These are durable and easy to maintain. Brass, wrought iron, and nickel made varieties are widely available in market.
Mission chandeliers: These are artistic chandeliers made with creative arts and craft. Mostly these are found made with stained glass and metallic frame.
Antler variants: These innovative luminaries are made of antlers and often look as creative lighting fixture in a custom made interior with somehow rustic look.
Candle Chandeliers: these are perhaps one of the most popular variant of these cluster lamps. In old days candles were used for creating light although presently, electric bulbs are used as light source.
For best quality and awesome looking chandeliers, you may browse the stock in the website. You will surely be happy with the awesome collection of this online shoppe.


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