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The giants of the tech industry are uniting to wage a campaign for sweeping reforms to the National Security Agency.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn and AOL are setting aside their business rivalries to demand that Congress and President Obama scale back the government's voracious surveillance.
These companies had little to no qualms about teaming up with the US government back when it was all done in relative secrecy, but now that it's out in the open, they're acting like heroes. This campaign would never have been launched if Snowden hadn't blown the whistle, which means the motive behind this new campaign is money - not morality.
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This is financially sounding...
I think they will just grow their firewalls taller.
(and I mean whoever)
wants inteligence from their silos
will have to pay top dollars for it.
Sometimes PR gets something more efficently
(on the form on public pressure)
than just technology.
(Words -like mine- are cheap.)
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This corporative conglomerate
is not fighting what NSA
did with their consent.
The conglomerate is fighting
what NSA did without their consent.
Now, on defense of NSA:
The boys and girls of NSA are doing what
they were grouped on to do.
And they are doing it well, very well.
Someone should stand by them.
Now, on mea culpa,
This 'universal' internet
has had all of the problems common
to mono-cultives, to quasi-infinite clonning,
to DNA engineering;
And I did not care about it.
It was just a matter of time
for the 'super-bugs'
to come on in, at serve at will.


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Eliza Lynn had never considered making an album this way. "This was the idea of a guy who I just met on the street in Asheville," she says.
"He became a huge fan of my music, and really supportive of it financially and otherwise. He was like, 'What if you got everybody who loves your music to sponsor a song, and you did a cover album with Nanci Griffith's "Other Voices Other Rooms" (1993) as a template?' He was like, 'I'll sponsor one, and I bet you can get ten other people to sponsor them.' "
"Together" is Lynn's fourth album, and Paul Campbell is the music enthusiast behind the plan — he's listed on the album as co-producer of Bill Morrisey's "Ellen's Tune," Doc Watson's "Life Is Like A River," and Dougie Maclean's "This Love Will Carry."
"This album's different than anything I've done. It's weightier, because it's not just my thing.
All these people have invested in the project, choosing their favorite songs, and it had so much meaning for them."
Lynn was born in Nashville, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois, balancing her time between gymnastics, dancing and singing. "My parents are from Georgia. We'd come south every year, and I always wanted to live in the mountains."
The mountains helped draw her to Warren Wilson College. "I lived out on Warren Wilson island for four years, just soaked up the experience," she says.
"Went to India and Africa, studied world religions, and played drums in the Common Ground Drum & Dance Ensemble. I took clawhammer banjo with Wayne Erbsen, and that helped me get more instrumentally focused."
After graduating from Wilson she worked at several non-musical jobs, including as Diabetes Wellness Coordinator for the Asheville YWCA. "That was an amazing opportunity," she says. "Oddly, it helped me understand that I had the skills to pursue music."
She switched to music full-time in 2005 and recorded "Frisky Or Fair," becoming an instant favorite among roots music fans in the area. In 2007 she released "The Weary Wake Up," and in 2008 had a track included on a Putumayo Records "Americana" compilation. "Haven" followed in 2009.
Lynn's father suffered a stroke a month before recording began for "Together."
"To have these songs, it was like everything else fell away and this project was the only thing that I could be slightly normal with," she says.
"Jeff [engineer Jeff Knorr] said the session was like a spiritual experience. It was unbelievable, the people involved, the musicians. We had so much music to record, and it was just an effortless, therapeutic thing that occurred. It was unbelievable."
"Together" was recorded at Collapseable Studios in Asheville. Will Straughan co-produced and wrote arrangements, in addition to playing dobro and lap steel. Jon Stickley added guitar and mandolin, Rayna Gellert played fiddle, and Alia Clary added vocals.
Lynn's mother, an Episcopal minister, co-sponsored the Old Crow Medicine Show song, "We're All In This Together," which became the title track, and features the line,"We're all in this thing together, walking the line between faith and fear." Her father, also a minister, co-produced James Cleveland's "Sit Down Servant."
"These songs are part of my repertoire forever," Lynn says. "'I Hope You Dance,' a totally mainstream country thing, was wonderful to record and make our own. There's almost no electric — there's lap steel on one song — and it's just very sparsely and intimately produced.
"It was truly wild to me that as I made my first non-original album, the songs that were chosen were exactly the songs I needed."
Eliza Lynn performs at The Purple Onion in Saluda at 8 p.m. Saturday and at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Hendersonville at 8:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday. For more information visit www.elizalynn.com.
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Eliza Lynn had never considered making an album this way. "This was the idea of a guy who I just met on the street in Asheville," she says.

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Mitt Romney entered the conservative lion's den and lived to tell about it.
In fact, in the teetering GOP frontrunner's address to a ballroom full of conservative activists Friday, he wielded the word "conservative" (or a variation) as if it were his shield – 29 times in a 26-minute speech.
"I know conservatism because I have lived conservatism," Mr. Romney told the crowd at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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He told us about being raised in a home that was "shaped and rooted in conservative values." He talked, as always, about his 42-year marriage to Ann, their five sons, and their faith: "These conservative constants have shaped my life." In business, he said, "if you're not fiscally conservative, you're bankrupt."
But it was Romney's time as governor of liberal Massachusetts – the trickiest part of his resume for a Republican presidential candidate – that merited an upgrade: "I was a severely conservative Republican governor," he said, asserting that he "fought against long odds in a deep blue state."
"Somebody please buy him a thesaurus," long-shot candidate Buddy Roemer suggested via Twitter, over the phrase "severely conservative."
Romney's brand of conservatism in Massachusetts may need elaboration, but "severe" doesn't come to mind. "Moderate" may be more like it. Romney, after all, authored the health-care reform that served as the model for President Obama's. It was his signature accomplishment, but he didn't mention it at CPAC. Instead, he emphasized fiscal conservatism.
"We cut taxes 19 times and balanced the budget all four years," he said to cheers. "I cast over 800 vetoes, and I cut entire programs. I erased a $3 billion budget shortfall and left office by putting in place over $2 billion in a rainy-day fund."
Then there are the social issues, which he emphasized in his unsuccessful 2008 campaign and has largely ignored this time around. But at CPAC, they were all the rage – especially in light of the brouhaha between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church over the mandate that religious employers include birth control in their health coverage.
Mr. Obama announced an "accommodation" right before Romney was due to speak. Church-affiliated employers now don't have to cover birth control. It is the insurers that now face the mandate to provide contraception – for free.
Romney didn't mention the controversy, but he alluded to it.
"I will reverse every single Obama regulation that attacks our religious liberty and threatens innocent life in this country," he said. It was the final point in a litany of promises aimed at proving he would be a "pro-life president."
So how did Romney do? Scott Kamp, one of the legions of college students in attendance at CPAC, said he's a Newt Gingrich fan, because he's such a "great speaker." But Mr. Kamp thought Romney's speech was "pretty good," and he would happily vote for him for president.
"He did pander a bit," said Kamp, who attends Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. "But he has to do that here."
There's no doubt that CPAC 2012 wasn't Romney's crowd, in contrast to 2008, when he was seen as the conservative alternative to eventual nominee John McCain. This was Rick Santorum's year at CPAC – social conservatism is his bread and butter, and the crowd loved his speech. He's favored to win the CPAC straw poll; the results will be announced Saturday afternoon, including a pick for vice president.
Some attendees noted that Romney didn't have a table in the vendors' area, while Mr. Santorum and Mr. Gingrich did. (Ron Paul, who won the 2010 and 2011 CPAC straw polls, didn't attend this year, and didn't have as large a contingent in attendance as the previous two years.)
But there seemed to be plenty of folks wearing Romney stickers, and in a burst of excitement, a parade of chanting, Romney-sign-carrying college students wended their way through a crowded hallway at the Marriott Wardman Park late Friday afternoon – well after Romney had left the building. It felt a bit like Occupy, conservative-style.
One sure vote against Romney at CPAC was actress and comedian Victoria Jackson, late of Saturday Night Live. She's now a big tea party activist, and a fan of Santorum. "He would base his decisions on the Bible," she says. Would she ever be willing to vote for Romney? "No," she says. "I don't think he's a conservative."
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Delay after delay has kept the Obama administration from giving a final go ahead for construction of the Keystone pipeline and the upwards to 42,100 jobs it would create. Now the State Department is saying the decision will be pushed off again-this time until 2014.
This newest hurdle was put in place with a demand by environmentalists that the government investigate a supposed conflict of interest with the contractor that was hired to write a report on the pros and cons of the pipeline project. The review rated the project favorably.
The State Department's Office of Inspector General announced on August 23 that the results of the investigation into whether or not Environmental Resources Management has ties to pipeline builder TransCanada Corp. won't be ready until January.
This late release of the results of the investigation almost assures that the government won't begin making any decisions until 2014.
The President has done everything he can to distance himself from having to make this final decision. He's demurred many times to definitively say where he stands on the project and has even diminished the number of jobs the pipeline will create, characterizing the whole project as inconsequential.
Earlier in the year, Obama said that the pipeline would only create 2,000 jobs and that the whole project was just a "blip" in the big jobs picture. This is a claim even the left-leaning PolitiFact.com called false.
Not long after that, the President absurdly downgraded his estimate even further, claiming that only 50 jobs would be created by the project.
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SOURCE: Quantum Corporation
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Former Active Storage Founder and Apple Senior Director's Appointment Is Latest Demonstration of Increased Strategic Investment in Big Data Management
Former Active Storage Founder and Apple Senior Director's Appointment Is Latest Demonstration of Increased Strategic Investment in Big Data Management
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 28, 2013) - Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today announced that Alex Grossman has joined the company and will focus on bringing Quantum's big data content solutions portfolio to a broader range of media and entertainment customers and partners. Grossman, who most recently served as founder and president of Active Storage, has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, including six as a senior director at Apple responsible for its server and storage products. Today's announcement reflects Quantum's strategy of building on its long-standing leadership in high-performance file sharing and archive and the related investments the company has been making in growing its big data business.
"Over the last 18 months we've introduced 11 StorNext® appliances and our new Lattus™ wide area storage solutions to help customers better manage and protect their digital content," said Janae Stow Lee, senior vice president, Filesystem and Archive, Quantum. "We are very excited to have Alex on board, as his experience and industry relationships will enable us to serve a much broader base of users, including through new partnerships with application providers."
In 2007, Grossman founded Active Storage, a developer of media and Apple-centric workflow storage solutions, and served as its president for the last six years. From 2001 to 2007, he was an executive in Apple's Worldwide Product Marketing group, where he led the development, marketing and management of the company's server and storage products. Prior to joining Apple, Grossman spent 12 years as vice president of Sales, Marketing and New Product Development at MicroNet Technology Inc., a developer and manufacturer of storage solutions for creative professionals and IT managers. In addition, he has contributed to several patents associated with media management and storage technology and led the team that developed the first FireWire-based Storage Area Network.
"I think Quantum has a unique opportunity in the media and entertainment market," said Grossman. "Its StorNext software is used by all the top players in the industry, and the company's recently expanded portfolio enables a whole new range of customers to benefit from its proven expertise and innovation. I look forward to showing these customers all that Quantum has to offer so they can maximize the value of their digital assets."
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Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation for Multiple Extremity Amputations
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Know the risks and potential benefits of clinical studies and talk to your health care provider before participating. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01293214
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : February 10, 2011
Last Update Posted : July 20, 2018
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|Condition or disease
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|Procedure: Limb transplantation
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Limb transplantation surgery, the transfer of the limb(s) from a deceased human donor to a patient with amputation of one or more limbss, is an experimental reconstructive procedure that has the potential to significantly improve the lives of amputees.
Limb transplantation is similar to face transplantation in that the tissues transplanted include skin, tendons, muscles, ligaments, bones and blood vessels. The transplant team at Brigham and Women's Hospital includes a wide variety of medical and surgical specialties. The team hopes to build upon the success of their first face transplantation to provide amputee patients with the significant benefits of limb transplantation.
Toward this goal, BWH is actively seeking qualified candidates for the limb transplant research study. We will be studying a small group of people to learn more about:
- How to advance the science of limb transplantation
- How to support and limit transplant rejection issues
- How people do after limb transplantation
We describe limb transplant surgery as a life-giving procedure because it has the potential to dramatically improve, that is to restore, both a patient's mental and physical health and his/her ability to function and integrate in society. However, as with any other type of organ transplantation, this improvement will require the patient to make a lifetime commitment to taking medications that suppress the body's immune system.
Conventional reconstruction methods are always considered first, but they may provide less than optimal results for certain patients. There are many sophisticated prostheses that satisfactorily replace the basic function of a missing limb. However, replacing limbs (in whole or in part) with prosthetics remains suboptimal in that prostheses do not provide sensation and do not have a natural appearance. Limbtransplant surgery, however, has the potential to deliver these desired functional and aesthetic benefits. Functionally, limb transplant surgery can provide a patient with new limbs that, after extensive rehabilitation, allow him/her to perform daily activities and, in most cases, return to work. Furthermore, the ability to restore a near-normal aesthetic appearance of the limb(s) can lead to tremendous psychological benefits, including elevated confidence and mood.
From the time we begin our search for a qualified limb transplant recipient to the continuing care we provide following surgery, a significant amount of time, expertise and attentiveness is contributed toward making the procedure a progressive success. Limb transplant candidates go through an extensive screening process that is likely to last several months. This screening includes a psychiatric and social support evaluation and a series of imaging tests to help determine a patient's physical and mental readiness for the procedure. If, upon completion of the screening process, it is determined that a patient is a suitable candidate, we will place the patient on a transplant waiting list. We will then begin working with the New England Organ Bank (NEOB) team to find a donor who matches the recipient's tissue requirements - for example similar age and correct blood type. This search could take many months, and, if a suitable donor is not found within one year, we will speak with the patient to determine whether he/she is willing to continue waiting.
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|Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation for Multiple Extremity Amputations
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|December 2020
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Experimental: Transplantation
Subjects will undergo single or multiple limb transplantation
Procedure: Limb transplantation
Other Name: vascularized composite allotransplantation
- Outcomes of limb transplantation [ Time Frame: Subjects will be followed for 18 months after transplantation ]We will undertake an objective evaluation of the results of limb transplantation in an "outcome-oriented" study
- Efficacy and optimization of the immune suppression protocol [ Time Frame: 18 months ]We will evaluate the risks of rejection or likelihood of tolerance induction by measuring specific parameters in the blood or tissue, including: Serum alloantibodies concentration, numbers/phenotype of specific T cell alloreactivity in the peripheral blood, phenotypic characterization of graft infiltrating cells and local gene expression of cells and cytokines.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age between 18 and 60 years.
- Single dominant hand or multiple limb amputation.
- Time elapsed since amputation more than 6 months but less than 15 years.
- Patient has tried prosthesis without success.
- Level of amputation anywhere from the wrist (or ankle) joint to just below the shoulder (or hip) joint, which should be functional.
- Signed written informed consent.
- Willing to complete psychological and social evaluations.
- Willing to take immunosuppressants - drugs that help prevent rejection of the transplant - for life.
- Willing to comply with extensive post-transplant rehabilitation for a minimum of two years.
- Willing to return for follow-up visits as determined by the treating physician.
- Willing to receive standard vaccinations prior to the transplant, such as influenza and hepatitis B.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Single, non-dominant hand amputees.
- Active malignancy.
- High risk of return of malignancy.
- History of persistent non-compliance.
- Findings of psychological evaluation that indicate inability to comply with physician's orders or mental instability.
- Any diagnosis that puts the subject at risk from limb transplant surgery or life-long immune suppression.
- Inability to ensure adequate follow-up of post-transplant care and immune suppression.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01293214
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Today, President Obama established an Interagency Trade Enforcement Center (ITEC) by Executive Order. This is warmly welcomed by NAM as manufacturers suffer from significant barriers to U.S. trade and investment abroad.
Manufacturers are adversely affected by a wide variety of non-tariff barriers including standards and conformity assessment issues, import licensing, investment limits, onerous customs procedures, requirements to balance imports with exports, forced technology transfer, subsidies, favored companies or "national champions", export bans, and other measures to restrict the fruits of American innovation around the world. They can add significantly to the cost of an export, often a multiple of the tariff rate that is charged.
We hope the ITEC will tackle these kinds of barriers as well as non-tariff trade barriers which may be illegal under international trade rules. The focus cannot be simply on filing cases and tallying a win/loss record, but also on getting fair market access for manufacturers.
There are many approaches governments can employ to resolve trade barriers, working one-one-one with trading partners, as part of a coalition of countries, through formal market opening trade negotiations like the TransPacific Partnership talks now underway in Melbourne, Australia, or through informal partnerships like the US-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth. The NAM has provided suggestions to the Administration, along with other trade associations, in recent months with respect to investor-state dispute settlement in the TPP, and European trade relations, and trade barriers in Argentina.
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Canucks' win eliminates Predators from playoff raceby John Manasso
NASHVILLE – Vancouver Canucks center Ryan Kesler has missed 31 games this season with two different injuries so the idea that he hasn't shown any rust in the last few games tickled him.
"Ha," the former 41-goal scorer said. "A little bit. I was able to work on my shot when I was off there so I think that's really coming into form. It's just a product of everyone around me playing well."
On Monday, Kesler scored twice, giving him three goals and three assists in four games since returning from a broken foot that sidelined him for 19 games, in a 5-2 win at Bridgestone Arena that eliminated the Nashville Predators from the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The loss was the Predators' seventh straight, tying a franchise record that the club set more than 13 years ago in its second season in the NHL.
The day before the game, Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault tinkered a bit with his lines. He toyed with the idea of playing Kesler on right wing with Derek Roy at center. Instead, when it came game time it was the newly acquired Roy who moved to the wing with Kesler at center and Jannik Hansen at the other wing. Roy earned first goal with the Canucks since arriving in an April 2 trade from the Buffalo Sabres. Hansen had two assists and Roy also added an assist.
"It was all right," Vigneault said of the line. "I thought it had some good moments. ... They showed some good offensive abilities."
Vancouver rebounded from a 4-3 loss to Colorado on Saturday in which it blew two third-period leads. The win was the Canucks' fifth in their last six games.
Vancouver went 2-for-4 on the power play, including the game-winning goal from Jason Garrison at 17:02 of the second period. Hal Gill received two minutes for roughing after knocking Alex Burrows to the ice after the whistle. Six seconds later, Garrison blasted a slap shot from just inside the blue line with Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne screened on the play.
Nashville had qualified for the playoffs seven times in the previous eight seasons, advancing past the first round in each of the past two. However, injuries have decimated the Predators' lineup.
"It's frustrating, I don't think anyone is happy with what has gone on this year," Gill said. "I guess it's something we'll … when we're done with the season we'll look back on it and try and evaluate it, but right now, it's a tough pill to swallow. You want to go out and give everything you got every night, and to play for nothing is tough.
"I mean, that's my one goal right now. Luckily it's not points, assists or goals, it's win the Cup, that's the only goal I have on my mind, it's very frustrating to not have a chance at that."
On Monday, the Predators iced a lineup in which 11 forwards had played a combined total of 1,066 NHL games, compared to the 889 of the 12th forward, David Legwand.
"We know what went wrong, it's mostly the injuries, that's where it all went wrong, for the big part of it," coach Barry Trotz said, "and there are other things that come off of that."
Such a huge influx of new personnel for Nashville had the negative side effect of communication issues going awry. Despite keeping the puck in Vancouver's zone after the initial faceoff, the Predators were whistled for too many men on the ice when they went to change following the game's first shift.
Vancouver made them pay when Kesler took a feed from Henrik Sedin and beat Rinne with a wrist shot from the slot at 1:34.
Exactly three minutes later, the newest Predator, defenseman Mattias Ekholm, who was called up on Monday and arrived a few hours before game time, could not clear a rebound of a shot by Canucks defenseman Dan Hamhuis, an ex-Predator. Roy put it in for his fifth goal and a 2-0 lead.
Nick Spaling broke a scoreless streak by Nashville of 89 minutes 22 seconds with a goal at 1:34 of the second period to make it 2-1. Spaling snuck right in front of the crease and roofed a pass from Sergei Kostitsyn, who was behind the net, over Roberto Luongo.
Bobby Butler tied the game at 11:40. In the second period, the Canucks' defense was leaving a big gap for the Predators' forwards and they took advantage of the extra ice. Skating down the right wing off the rush, Butler had plenty of space to rip a wrist shot low to Luongo's blocker side.
Vancouver made it 4-2 just 50 seconds into the third period when Burrows redirected Henrik Sedin's shot form the high slot. Kesler added his second goal at 15:53 with a 19-foot wrist shot.
"He's a fun guy to play with," Kesler said of Roy. "He's very crafty out there. He's good all over the ice."
In goal for Vancouver, Roberto Luongo had to withstand a 19-shot onslaught in the second period – Nashville's most in a period this season. He finished with 36 saves and has played in two of the last three games for the Canucks, winning both, after an 11-game stretch in which he played only once while Cory Schneider started the other 10 games.


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Loyola University Chicago's Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing offers the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program that is designed to provide additional knowledge and skills so that nurses may further enhance the health and well being of the individuals and communities with whom they work. The changing demands of the nation's complex healthcare environment require the highest level of scientific knowledge and practice expertise to assure high quality patient outcomes. The DNP curriculum builds on current master's programs and provides education in evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and systems thinking. The DNP program enables nurses to become expert nurse leaders and collaborators in solving problems in health care systems.
As the terminal degree for nurses, a DNP offers an alternative to research-focused doctoral programs. The DNP program provides nurses with the knowledge and skill for providing innovative leadership to the profession and for ensuring high quality health care across all settings through the dissemination of evidence-based practice initiatives to patients, families, communities and populations. These DNP leaders will be well-positioned for advancing the practice and translating the science of nursing as nursing leaders, clinical faculty, and/or practitioners.
Courses are offered primarily online, with a required two-three day class incorporating course work, seminars, and presentations held once, each semester at the Loyola University Health Sciences Campus in Maywood, IL.
Loyola's DNP program centers on the "Health of the Public" and the translation of evidence-based practices to improve outcomes. The program focuses on populations at risk for disease, populations that are experiencing alterations in health, populations across the nation and globe, and systems that promote safe and efficient health care environments. The program emphasizes leadership in the implementation of transformational change in the student's area of practice. Completion of a faculty-supervised Capstone Project provides opportunity for students to demonstrate this expertise.
The School of Nursing began offering the DNP degree in 2009. It is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC, 20001, (202) 887-6791. Admission is competitive, based on the strength of application materials and interview.
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Washington lawmakers are "guaranteeing very, very small deals" on the federal budget, which means investors should sell, OptionMonster's Jon Najarian said Wednesday.
"I would sell with both hands because I think that when we hit January, we are going to be hitting a wall with all the folks that are going to want to take tax losses," he said. "They're not taking them now."
On "Fast Money," Najarian said he believed that Washington lawmakers would take the economy over the so-called "fiscal cliff," which would trigger tax hikes and federal spending cuts on Jan. 1 if a budget agreement fails to materialize.
"It's not going to be a drop of thousands of feet or anything like that. This'll be like going off a very high curb," he said. "In other words, we're going to fall and the car's going to feel it, but we're not going to crash after this."
The U.S. Treasury Department would likely take steps to postpone the nation's debt limit, he added.
StockMonster's Guy Adami sounded positive on budget negotiations.
"I think something gets done," he said. "A headline is worth, probably, a 25-, 30-point rally in the S&P. I think that's when you have to make a decision, and that decision would be to fade that move.
"But in the meantime, I don't put a lot on emphasis on what happens today. This is obviously a holiday-shortened week and volumes are light. As long as we stay around that 1,425 level, I'm cautiously optimistic."
Josh Brown of Fusion Analytics said there was "nothing we feel compelled to do."
"The outcome of the year is already known," he adding, noting that the only people trading heavily are those who need to do so.
Trading, Brown said, is seeing action in stocks with high beta, low volume, "things that can be juiced."
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NVIDIA's Ion platform combines the well-known Intel Atom 1.6Ghz processor to the GeForce 9400M GPU, providing a powerful graphics core in netbooks (in fact, the same GPU powers Apple's new MacBook). While release dates are as of yet unknown, the platform is supposed to arrive in the coming months.
In any case, NVIDIA is in a precarious position. Basically every netbook sold today is an all-Intel machine, from the graphics core down to the processor. Considering the use-case of most of these netbooks - quick, on-the-go computing - most users probably won't need a really powerful GPU. The screen is mostly the limiting factor here. This obviously hurts NVIDIA, because they see a fast-growing market they're not part of.
So what do you do when you missed a major market explosion because you were caught sleeping on the job? Well, you do what all other big companies do in the same situation: you start talking said market down (see Apple and AMD). Huang does so by the book, and leaves no stone unturned. However, in doing so, his complaints borderline on clinging-to-straws. About netbooks, he says:
I think we all have to be very thoughtful about the proliferation of PCs that are inferior to what people think a PC should be, yet still is a PC."
Despite the fact that his claims are debatable, at best, one also has to wonder if, assuming his complaints really are true, they actually have any relevance to people buying netbooks. Is the prime reason you buy a netbook to play the latest and greatest Electronic Arts game? Do you buy it to do serious Photoshop editing?
To me, it simply seems as if NVIDIA is a little scared it won't ever make serious inroads into the netbook market, especially now that Intel's second generation Atom processor will have the GPU on-die. Ati obviously doesn't have this problem, being part of AMD and all.
Curiously, Huang has a lot of nice things to say about Via's Nano platform. "Nano is a fabulous processor. You could argue that it's architecturally one generation beyond Atom," he states, "The amount of software and hardware outside of the CPU is so much, unless you have tier-one capabilities, you can't build a tier-one-capable machine. That's really VIA's weakness. They don't have the resources to build the GPU in the system to be competitive."


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Issue 9.9 is in stores now! It's red…We haven't done red in a long time but our fashion industry sources tell us that red is going to be the hot new color this fall / winter, so once again, it feels great to be ahead of the curve. Did we mention that Danny Harf is on the cover? Yeah he's going to be hot this fall as well…Mark our words.
Apparently photographer Bryan Soderlind is too cool for school these days hanging with big dogs like Shaquille O'Neal for his Best and Worst interview photo. Not a bad gig Bear, should we get him a board? This interview is a must read for anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to live like a pro and hang out with playboy models all day long.
On the inside we bring you one of the years most anticipated lists of the year…"The List 2009". It's loaded with all the best and worst happenings of the 2009 season such as Wrapped moves and the two hande crow-mobe 540…We'll let you guess which of the two we prefer…
Next up we take a cable adventure throughout mid America stopping at all the hottest wake parks like KC Watersports, Texas Ski Ranch, OKC, and we get a chance to fill you in on a new hotspot in Dallas. Jeff saved a drowning bird, Corey almost drowned in the blood and guts of the band Gwar, and Tom Fooshee proved that he will be the king of cable for years to come.
You can also find answers to all of your wildest wonders about Body Glove's new team video "Slick City" in our inside interview with producer Greg Browning. Not to boast or anything, but the guy does all the drive thru surf shows on fuel…Hangs out with Andy Irons and Kelly Slater on the reg.
Finally, chek into the Dustpan to read the latest and greatest lyrics from the one and only Dan Hampson – This issue features Dan's Lyrical talent from the title track "Wake Barbie." 9.9 is waiting…Buyer's beware – This S#%t is HOT!
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The Paralympic Games opened Wednesday with 4,350 athletes demonstrating first-hand their creed: "The heart knows no limits; everybody has a heart."
Wheelchair daredevil Aaron Wheelz showed the spirit in the opening act.
As a countdown from 10 reached its end, Wheelz raced down a giant ramp and somersaulted in the air through a giant 0 on the stadium floor. That finished the countdown and shattered more stereotypes about what athletes with disabilities can do.
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This January 20 marks the anniversary of two unforgettable inaugural addresses from two beloved presidents, Democrat and Republican: John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. For Kennedy's speech, this is the golden anniversary, 50 years; for Reagan, 30 years.
Both speeches were extraordinary. Kennedy's lasting line was, of course, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Reagan's most memorable phrase was probably this one: "We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline…. Let us begin an era of national renewal." Reagan's line struck the New York Times, which, the next day, thrust the words "era of national renewal" atop page one.
In both inaugurals, there was no mistaking the message, or the mood that followed. Both initiated a profound, palpable, quite immediate change in the nation's morale and sense of itself. The shift was dramatic. Of course, it wasn't just the speeches that made the difference, but the men who made them, with the inaugurals their starting points.
As evidence of the specialness of these two men and their presidencies, consider what happened in between. Between Kennedy and Reagan there was an extended bipartisan disaster, with two Democrats as bookends, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, and two Republicans in between, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Those four presidencies ended in defeat, despair, debilitation, or even ruin. LBJ was destroyed by Vietnam, and decided not to pursue reelection. Nixon resigned in disgrace and suffered a mental breakdown. Ford, not an inspiring figure, never won an election. Carter lost 44 states to Reagan. Harvard's renowned presidential scholar, the late Richard Neustadt, remarked that watching Jimmy Carter, one wondered if the presidency was "even possible."
Amid all this was Vietnam, the counter culture, Watergate, malaise, misery index, unemployment, double-digit inflation, 21-percent interest rates, energy crisis, oil shocks, the Soviets in Afghanistan, hostages in Iran, and on and on. It was a prolonged national nightmare.
Really, Kennedy's message of hope, so forceful on January 20, 1961, dissipated like dust in the wind.
But then came Reagan, precisely 20 years later, January 20, 1981.
The moment Reagan swore the oath, he committed himself to "national renewal." Unbeknownst to the press, those two words flowed directly from his personal pen. The theme pervaded the ceremony. On the reverse side of the tickets for the inaugural event was this promise: "America–A Great New Beginning, 1981."
It is not an exaggeration to say the change in mood began that instant, as the hostages were freed in Tehran–prompting The New York Times to double its top-of-the-fold headline: "Reagan Takes Oath as 40th President; Promises an 'Era of National Renewal;' Minutes Later, 52 U.S. Hostages in Iran Fly to Freedom After 444-Day Ordeal."
Those who experienced the moment, including presidential scholars in that era, agreed that Reagan achieved that renewal. As quick as the end of Reagan's first term, academic historians and political scientists–most of whom were on the political left–hailed Reagan for his "restoration of morale and trust" to the country and presidency. Specifically, a major 1985 survey by National Journal found scholars commending Reagan for "reviving trust and confidence" in an institution "that in the post-Vietnam era had been perceived as being unworkable." Harvard's Neustadt spoke for many of the scholars when he said that Reagan gave Americans a sense that "all was well," a sea-change from the Carter malaise.
Outside the academy, Time's dean of presidential correspondents, Hugh Sidey, said flatly: "No one can deny that Ronald Reagan restored morale to a country that needed it." Edmund Morris, Reagan's official biographer, and generally a cynic, went so far as to claim that Reagan transformed the national mood "overnight." The change was so rapid, said Morris, "that it can only be ascribed to him."
Most telling, similar assessments came even from the enemy's camp. If Ronald Reagan had read Russian, he would have been blown away by an assessment from the erstwhile Evil Empire. There, the publication, Literaturnaya Gazeta, informed Soviet citizens: "The years of [Reagan's] presidency have seen an unprecedented surge in America's self-belief, and quite a marked recovery in the economy…. Reagan restored America's belief that it is capable of achieving a lot." The communist publication closed glowingly: "Reagan is giving America what it has been yearning for. Optimism. Self-belief. Heroes."
Of course, Kennedy, too, gave that to America.
Today, it seems inconceivable that a president from either party would be universally seen as a hero, inspiring so much optimism and self-belief. Yet, in the last half-century, it happened twice, 50 years ago this January 20, with JFK's inauguration, and 30 years ago this January 20, with Reagan's inauguration. Those were good times, rare times–worth preserving, maybe even recovering.
– Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and executive director of The Center for Vision Values. His books include "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism," and the newly released "Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century."
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TAMPA | A Tampa pathologist who blew the whistle on Medicare fraud will get $4 million for his trouble, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday.
TAMPA | A Tampa pathologist who blew the whistle on Medicare fraud will get $4 million for his trouble, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday.
Dr. Alan Freedman filed a 2004 lawsuit under the whistle-blower provision of the False Claims Act to call attention to an illegal kickback arrangement between a Venice dermatologist and Tampa Pathology Laboratory, dating back to 1997.
The dermatologist, Dr. Steven J. Wasserman, has now settled with the government. He agreed to pay $26.1 million to resolve the allegations, the Justice Department said.
In describing the kickback scheme, the department said Wasserman had entered into an arrangement with the Tampa lab and owner Dr. Jose SuarezHoyos, to increase the lab's referral business.
Wasserman sent biopsy specimens from Medicare patients to the lab for testing, and in return, the government said, the lab made it appear to Medicare that the dermatologist had performed diagnostic work.
He billed Medicare for work he didn't do, the government said.
He also performed thousands of unnecessary skin surgeries at the expense of Medicare, the government said.
Freedman worked at the lab from 2000 to 2003, his federal lawsuit states.
According to the lab's website, the company was established in 1983 to provide pathology services to local hospitals, clinics and physicians. The lab, based on Armenia Avenue, says it process an average of 40,000 biopsies per year and employs a staff of 40 and four pathologists.
The Justice Department characterized the $26.1 million settlement as "one of the largest with an individual under the False Claims Act in U.S. history."
Before the settlement with Wasserman, the government had already agreed to a $950,000 settlement with Tampa Pathology Laboratory and SuarezHoyos.
U.S. Attorney Robert O'Neill weighed in with praise.
"Schemes of this magnitude require extraordinary remedies, and we are proud to have reached such an outstanding resolution for the taxpayers and their health programs," he said in a prepared statement released by the Justice Department.
Wasserman will no longer be permitted to accept payments under Medicare, Medicaid and all other federal health care programs, the government said.


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With an eye toward updating the wiki, I'm trying to identify the most fundamental combat techniques. The wiki is a little uh, overspecific. What I'd like is something basic and universal without being so generic as to be useless. This is what I have so far.
Standard Attack (The Unload)
This is the most basic type of attack. You hit a monster using as much of your health and mana as possible. You use no resources other your innate health and mana.
-A Wizard with 11 mana fireballs a monster twice and then finishes with melee attacks. He will usually want to fireball first and then attack second to maximize burning damage. The 11th point of mana wasn't able to contribute to the fight.
-A Sorcerer attacks a monster until at the death threshold, then fireballs until out of mana, and then attacks again. The Sorcerer will usually want to attack first to take advantage of his Channeling power.
Mid-fight Level Up (The String of Ding)
If you are near a level up threshold and have harmless 'popcorn' monsters available, you can pick a monster that you can't beat in one pass but could beat in two. Unload on the monster, harvest your popcorn to gain a level, and then unload again.
-A 4th level elf character with three fireball's worth of mana is eyeballing a 9th level Wraith. The elf is 1 xp short of hitting 5th level. She fireballs the Wraith three times, murders a hapless 1st level goblin to level up, and then uses her fresh mana pool to fireball the Wraith 3 more time, killing it (and probably leveling up again). She did not use melee because the Wraith's damage was too high for her to soak even one hit. A smart elf would have also taken a melee swipe at some other monster before leveling up, and then finished that monster after nuking the Wraith.
-A Fighter has gotten just a few points shy of level 8, and did it without killing any of the 1st or 2nd level monsters. He also found WONAFYT and used it to slow all of those monsters. He now has a pool of 45 xp that can be harvested at no cost, which will be worth 2 or three levels ups, allowing him to steamroller the boss.
Regen Fighting (Skirmishing)
If your damage is much higher than a monster's, or your healing rate is better, or both, you can sometimes unload on a monster and then explore, refilling your resources faster than the monster can. Each attack pass puts the monster a little closer to death. The rule of thumb is to multiply the monster's damage by its level, and then do the same for yourself. I like to call this number the Power. If your Power is higher than the monster's, you will be able to eventually win through regen fighting. Players also recover mana as they explore, so if you have access to glyphs, you can sometimes beat things that have a better Power than you. Things like enhanced/decreased healing, resistances, and other effects complicate the Power formula and have to be taken into account on a case-bu-case basis.
-Monks have high resistance and double healing. They were designed with regen fighting in mind. For a clear example of how it works, play the Monk Bronze challenge.
-A 5th level Berserker with a base damage of 25 is checking out a 7th level Warlock with 48 damage. The Berserker has 50% magic resistance, and gets a +40% damage bonus for fighting a higher level monster that is also a magic user. The Berserker's true damage will be 25*1.4 = 35, and the Warlocks true damage will be 48*.5=24.
Berserker Power: 35*5 = 175
Warlock Power: 24*7 = 168
The Berserker can just barely win by regen fighting. If he has any glyphs, he can greatly reduce the number of tiles that will be needed.
Threshold Recovery (The Victorious Loss)
If a monster has more Power than you, you can still sometimes explore during the fight to reach a critical threshold, even though the long term effects of exploration would be negative.
-3rd level Fighter: Damage 15 Health 30 Mana 11 has a Fireball glyph
-4th level monster: Damage 20 Health 35
The Fighter can win by unloading (1 attack + 1 fireball). That leaves the monster at 8 health. If the Fighter explores one tile, the monster will be at 12 health, but the Fighter will just barely be able to squeeze out another fireball and win the fight.
-A Priest gets clocked by a monster for 60% of his health. Rather than chugging a health potion and wasting his Good Drink ability, he can explore a few tiles until he is at 61% health. He then attacks again, getting knocked down to 1%, and THEN drinks the potion for a full heal. In most cases this extra attack will be worth more than the healing that the monster got from the exploration.
Here, your actions aren't part of a serious attack on the monster, but are instead designed to create some sort of long term advantage to be exploited later.
-Using WONAFYT or WEYTWUT to capture low level monsters for later harvesting (aka "The Popcorn Bowl")
-Fireballing a monster and then exploring to build up burning stacks in preparation for the real attack
-A Rogue that can't quite beat a certain monster can poke the monster and then explore, hoping for a lucky dodge. If it fails, he can try again, and keep trying until it works or a better target turns up.
-Using WEYTWUT to pull a monster out of a darkened corner, so that a future casting of WEYTWUT won't also create accidental exploration.
-Using BYCEPS to chip away at the resistances of a superior monster, with an eye toward attacking it 'for real' at some later time.
-Using the Martyr Wraps to build up corrosion on a tough monster.
Precasting (The Boy Scout)
Many glyphs and powers can be used outside of combat, and their effects can be carreid with you into future battles.
-IMAWAL should always be cast before engaging the target.
-CYDSTEP is designed so that it can only be pre-cast (except for Warlords, who always pre-cast it anyway).
-ENDISWAL is best used as a precast
-BYSEPS and GETINDERE can and should be kept active while exploring.
-Someone under the effects of a Quicksilver potion can prod random weak monsters until they get a confirmed dodge, which can then be used on the real threat.
Sometimes you have to dip into your consumable resources. It's okay, that's what they're there for. They let you operate way above your effective level.
-Potions, piety, consumable shop items, etc.
Many of these techniques can be combined, or might transform into another during a fight. Mid-fight levels ups can be combined with anything, softening might suddenly turn into regen fighting when a certain threshold is crossed, etc. Some things are too odd to really fit into any of these categories. BLUDTOPOWA feels like a standard unload, but uses up tiles as well as innate health and mana. There are probably other exceptions.


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Lace and Neon
Added Apr 4, 2012
Tokyo, Japan
Do you like the neon trend? I was skeptical at first but decided to incorporate in one of my handmade creations:)
I added the neon piping to the seamlines. I initially had a different plan for this lace fabric. I was planning on making an I line dress with cut out back, but I saw a cute skater inspired dress in Japanese magazine, so I decided to go for that style.
The bodice is simple and fitted with princess seams. The skirt part is based on my Scallop Waist Skirt (free pattern download at Grosgrain blog). I added side in-seam pockets. The dress is fully lined. Since the lace had some stretch, I ironed on the fusible interface strips on curved seam lines to prevent it from stretching out.
I've already worn this dress five times – I love it! The bodice fits me like gloves. What makes this dress even more special is that it matches with my daughter's dress.
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Material Notes
lace, interface, piping, zipper, lining
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Feb 1, 2014, 06.28 AMby Sanne K. Astrid
lovely combination with the neon piping. :)))
May 18, 2012, 07.52 PMby baka-pepica
I love lace dresses , yours is so great!
Apr 11, 2012, 07.44 AMby Liza Azman
Beautiful and the neon added some 'uniqueness' to the dress :)
Apr 9, 2012, 02.18 PMby lepetithoot
I'm not really into the neon trend but I like what you did with your dress. It's subtle and adds a small pop of color instead of being very overbearing. So pretty!
Apr 6, 2012, 07.39 AMby Kaidi Terasmaa
really pretty..
Apr 6, 2012, 06.40 AMby joost52
Wow, that's just an amazing dress. Great work!
Apr 5, 2012, 11.56 PMby nouvellegamine
what a pretty dress! i like the little green piping. very cute touch!
Apr 5, 2012, 05.40 PMby naama
It's lovely! I like the neon piping (:
Apr 4, 2012, 09.30 PMby schnui
Gorgeous dress and the piping is lovely!!
Apr 4, 2012, 08.58 PMby Julia Morley
I love the neon! Such a great little detail and it really makes the dress :-)
Apr 4, 2012, 07.24 PMby step-van-b
This is gorgeous! I like the neon but only if it's used subtile like in your dress.
Apr 4, 2012, 02.03 PMby skeeler
The piping puts an edge on this dress. Love the fit: it looks great on you!
Apr 4, 2012, 01.26 PMby jadealamode
ooh it's so cute!!I can see why you've worn it five times already.
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A look at how the playoffs would be headed if the proposed realignment was in effect this season (obviously schedules would be altered so points would not be the same)
Refresher on how the divisions were supposed to be aligned:
The results are not drastically different:
In the 2 East divisions
Buf in over Was
NYR plays NJ instead of Buf
Fla plays Buf instead of NJ
-The big thing in the east is that the playoff chase story line would be removed because Washington would be eliminated and the top 4 in each would already be decided. The only thing left to battle for is home ice in the Pens/Flyers series and the Fla/Ott series.
In the 2 West divisions
LA plays SJ instead of Chi
StL plays Chi instead of SJ
-A similar story line in the west. Less drama since Dallas is eliminated and Colorado is a long shot. An interesting side note would be SJ/LA/Pho fighting for who doesn't have to play Van and Nas/Det/Chi fighting for who doesn't have to play StL.
So at least for this year, no big changes to the playoff teams or early rounds. The big differences would end up happening in the later rounds. The 2nd round would potentially be lopsided since there are clearly 2 more dominant "divisions" in the realignment scenario during this year. The last two rounds were not determined, but could have seen East-West matchups in Rd. 3 with an E-E or W-W SCF.


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Nicole Kidman: SAG Awards Smiley
Nicole Kidman is all smiles with husband Keith Urban, pictured below, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards held at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium on Saturday (January 23).
The 42-year-old Aussie actress wore a bronze, red, and teal tulle sequin embroidered strapless gown from Oscar De La Renta and jewels from Fred Leighton.
During the ceremony, Nicole and her Nine co-stars Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson and Penelope Cruz presented the first award of the night, Best Supporting Actress in a Supporting Role, to crowd favorite Mo'Nique from Precious.
Also pictured: Nicole with Keith at the Hope for Haiti Now fundraising telethon.
10+ pictures inside of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at the 2010 SAG Awards…


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Japanese Game Maker Engages In Wiki Edit War With Fansubbers, Then Opts For The DMCA Option
from the making-new-enemies dept
minori holds copyright over all the files made available on this webpage. We, minori, have removed the contents of this page because the owner of this page has not received our permission for distribution of these materials. Please understand [the above statements]. Still, if there are objections, etc., please contact Minori, Inc. in Japanese at email@example.com course, since wikis have an easy rollback feature to prevent errant deletions like this, this change was easily reverted, and after a few more rounds of edits & reverts, the site was slapped with an official DMCA takedown notice. Once again, quashing fansub efforts is a fantastic way to annoy and disenfranchise your most loyal fans, who donate hours of their free labor as a hobby. We've seen ways to engage these communities advantageously (like hiring them to do the official translation), so surely Minori should take note.