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WaveMaker Software™, the open cloud development platform, today announced that MARA has deployed its malaria prevention application using WaveMaker and Amazon EC2. This application makes malaria research data available through a secure yet highly accessible web site (http://www.mara-database.org).
The Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa (MARA) initiative started in 1996 as a non-institutional group effort. This effort teamed a group of scientists across the African continent and in Europe, working co-operatively to generate and present malaria risk maps.
Since 2006, MARA has been maintained by the Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) in Basel, Switzerland. The project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Durban, South Africa.
MARA was implemented using the WaveMaker cloud development platform and the MySQL database and then deployed to Amazon EC2. The application and underlying database are available free of charge to registered researchers.
"WaveMaker and Amazon put a great deal of development and deployment power into the hands of a user," said Aurelio Di Pasquale, Lead Software Developer at MARA project. "WaveMaker is so easy to use we were able to build a complete web application with minimal learning curve and in less than half the time it would have taken with traditional web tools. Amazon EC2's low cost and robust performance make it a great fit for hosting high-profile, non-profit web applications, and with WaveMaker's one-click cloud deployment, launching the application on Amazon EC2 was a breeze."
"MARA is a great example of the WaveMaker community in action," said Ed Callahan, Community Manager at WaveMaker. "With over 15,000 registered WaveMaker developers, we are starting to see the true potential of WaveMaker as a platform for democratizing web and cloud application development."
"We're excited to see MARA and WaveMaker putting Amazon EC2 to use for this great cause," said Steve Rabuchin, General Manager for Sales and Business Development, Amazon Web Services. "Amazon Web Services offers any developer or business the tools and technology to launch an application quickly and cost-effectively."
Sub-Saharan Africa carries the highest per capita burden of disease in the world of which malaria is the single largest contributor. Of global deaths attributed to malaria 90% now occur in sub-Saharan Africa.
MARA was initiated to provide an Atlas of malaria for Africa, containing prevalence data to help determine how to allocate anti-malaria resources and constitutes an important global resource to help non-profit organizations to coordinate their malaria control activities.
In the absence of such data it is impossible to rationalize allocation of limited resources for malaria control. Detailed mapping of malaria risk has been done in Africa. However, an open-access real-time malariometric database was not available until recently.
About Wavemaker Software
WaveMaker Software™ is the only open source cloud development platform, with a 15,000-strong developer community and a leadership role in the Cloud Quick Start Program in partnership with IBM, Amazon and RightScale. WaveMaker makes it ridiculously easy to build, deploy and customize cloud applications with drag and drop development tools, one-click cloud deployment and end user self-service customization. WaveMaker customers like the Center For Disease Control, Macy's and KANA have built amazing-looking web applications with minimal learning curve and up to 98% less code. For more information, please visit http://www.wavemaker.com.
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About MARA
MARA is a comprehensive collection of malaria time and space specific points prevalence data from Africa. MARA was started in 1996 as Pan-African initiative and ran in its first phase until 1999. Currently, MARA is being maintained by the Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) in Basel, Switzerland in collaboration with the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Durban, South Africa (Phase II). MARA's goal is to maintain an open-access and user friendly internet based platform to extract and display row data and disease burden estimates. To date over 13,000 data points have been collected from published and unpublished sources. This represents decades of malaria research in Africa, much of which was on the verge of being lost. Today, many major documents on malaria in Africa make use of MARA data. More information is available at http://www.mara-database.org.


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I wrote Sunday about Sister Virginia Welch and her work at the Padua Center. They are on to something there.
Sr. Virginia Welch
I was struck with three things: First, Padua is a small organization. That means that it is almost impossible for a parasitic bureaucracy to grow on top. It also means that, whatever Sister Ginny and her team do, it is personal — friend to friend and not service provider to client.
Second, Padua respects the folkways and customs of the neighborhood and tries to address what people say they want and need. Conversation, rather than imposition.
And, third, Padua does not limit itself. Its emphasis is early supplemental education, but Padua has branched out into community gardening and nutrition — because that is a need Sister Ginny perceived.
So, the keys to the success I see at Padua are flexibility, listening, community roots, and a reasonable scale.
When it comes to addressing the causes of blight or crime — like lack of jobs, family disintegration, or mediocre schools — part of the remedy may lie with smaller, more flexible organizations than city government or Toledo Public Schools.
I first heard about Padua from Councilman Jack Ford. Last year he insisted that I cover a fund-raiser where the art of Padua students was auctioned off.
Padua is essentially self-sustaining and this art auction is its major fund-raiser. This event also includes a dinner and a lecture, which was given in 2013 by Dr. Lynne Hamer of the University of Toledo. Ms. Hamer has done extensive research with Padua and on Padua.
In that talk, about seven months ago, Ms. Hamer spoke of "intervening institutions," which are basically voluntary associations that fall between the individual and the family at one end of the scale and large official and semiofficial institutions on the other end — like the state, the city, and TPS.
These smaller organizations have greater resources than individuals and families but can respond to human needs in a more personal and creative ways than officialdom.
If you are hungry, you need shelter, or you need help cutting the grass, you don't think of the city, necessarily. You may not even think of your church.
But you may think of a neighbor. Sister Ginny and Padua are neighbors.
Most of the shelters in town are intervening institutions.
Food for Thought, which runs mobile food pantries and distributes sandwiches to folks downtown on Saturdays, is an intervening institution.
This vehicle of the intervening institution is a middle way to reform and where we probably should put more of our money and effort. And I'll be writing about other examples in this city in the future. This may be the most promising mechanism now available for breaking cycles of poverty and dependence.
Sam Melden, who manages Food For Thought, summarizes the strength of an intervening institution when he talks about his gang handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches each week across from the library: "The thing is, it's impossible to tell the so-called server from the so-called served."
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6 things you never knew about Heir's Park Hyung-Sik
With Heirs coming very, very, soon, it's important to know the actors who are going to partake in the drama! Park Hyung-Sik is one of the lesser known actors who will be participating in the show, so I'm here to fill you guys in on him. Did I mention I'm a huge fan of his? Because I am! Okay, let's go!
1. He's an idol!
In case you didn't already know, Hyung-Sik is a member of the nine-member group ZE:A. Before his acting debut, many people only knew him through his Kpop group. However, it seems these days, he's the one bringing fame to ZE:A!
2. This kid can sing!
Okay, you might have guessed that he could sing considering he's in a K-pop group. But I mean he can really, really sing! Watch him cover a song by Davichi (one of the most vocally talented groups in Korea) with ease! Oh, and he's the one on the right side! Impressive, is it not?
3. He's 6'1"!
Hyung-Sik is tall. Really tall. He easily dwarfs all of the ZE:A members, including Im Siwan (pictured above) who is also a well-known actor. So if you like tall guys, definitely keep an eye out for Park Hyung-Sik. He's certainly going to be one of the tallest characters in Heirs.
4. He's besties with Kwang-Hee!
Seeing as they're in the same group, it's not surprising that Kwang-Hee and Hyung-Sik are friends. However, they're more than friends. They're best friends! Check out this adorable video of them going to McDonald's together. Sharing food: isn't that what friendship is really about?
5. He's in the army!
Well, not for real. However, he is on the hit show Real Men which takes idols, actors, and all types of people and shows them what it's like to join the army. On the show, Hyung-Sik has earned himself the title of "baby soldier" for his lack of knowledge about his new setting. Fortunately, he seems to be adjusting quite well!
6. He gained popularity for his acting with Nine: Nine Time Travels!
Heirs won't be the first time Hyung-Sik has acted. The idol-turned-actor made a big splash with his impressive performance in the time travel drama Nine: Nine Time Travels. In the show, he played the past version of the main character, which was quite a difficult role to pull off. After gaining favorable reviews for his performance, he's been asked to join more dramas! Phew...so we won't have to worry about his acting chops!
There we have it! Six facts about Park Hyung-Sik to prepare you for his upcoming comeback in Heirs. Now the anticipation is even greater, right?


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Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights: Texas Industries, eBay and Fifth Third Bancorp
Jan 08, 2013, 09:30 EST
CHICAGO, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights Features: Texas Industries (Nasdaq:TXN), eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY) and Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq:FITB).
Zacks' Top ESP Earnings Stocks
Q4 season officially begins this week with the release of Alcoa's numbers tomorrow morning. Even with Sandy, the election, the fiscal cliff and the lingering deficit issues, the market has been extremely resilient. So much so that the S&P 500 has risen over 8% since the November lows, which were hit just as Q3 earnings season was winding down.
What's interesting is that in that time, the total fourth-quarter operating earnings estimate for the S&P 500 has fallen to $25.29 a share from $26.87; the S&P earned $23.73 in Q4-2012. These new expectations represent an almost 50% decrease in year over year Q4 earnings growth from 13.2% to an expected 6.6% in Q4.
One would think that with those revisions we would move markets lower, but obviously there is still hope that the U.S. will continue its slow grind higher; economic data somewhat supports this thesis. It's also important to note that the fourth quarter does looks to be a better earnings season than the third quarter, where earnings for the S&P 500 were down slightly year-over-year, breaking an 11-quarter streak of EPS gains.
Finding stocks with the best chances of winning could be the best path to finding rising stock prices after earnings especially in uncertain times and the Zacks Earnings Surprise Prediction or ESP helps target those stocks.
About Zacks Earnings ESP
Earnings ESP is Zacks' proprietary methodology for determining which stocks have the best chance to surprise with their next earnings announcement. The Earnings ESP shows the percentage difference between the Most Accurate Estimate and the Consensus. The Zacks ESP helps predict earnings surprises to the upside and downside; the greater the ESP (positive or negative) the greater the likelihood for a surprise. I use ESP to help quantify the conviction of the analysts for a surprise and stack the odds in my favor when I combine it with other measurements and statistics.
The Accuracy of ESP
Of course, some ESP numbers are better than others. In our testing, over the last 10 years, we have found that stocks with a positive ESP and with a Zacks Rank of 1, 2 or 3 (Strong Buy, Buy or Hold), produced a positive surprise 70% of the time.
(The other 9% of the time, they reported in line with expectations, with a negative surprise occurring only 21% of the time.)
Bullish ESP Stocks
Texas Industries (Nasdaq:TXN) is a Zacks Rank 3 stock with a positive earnings ESP of 26.47% for the current quarter. The company is expected to lose 34 cents a share, but our ESP readings are looking for a loss of only 25 cents.
As the U.S. continues to slowly recover, we need to turn our attention to our deteriorating infrastructure that is in dire need of repair. TXI focuses most of its energy on Texas and California which both lead the nation in federal highway funding.
With an ever growing populous and recovery underway in both states, TXI should stand to benefit. TXI has been struggling with sales, but are expected to begin growing earnings in the coming quarters.
– Texas Industries reports earnings on January 9th.
eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY) is a Zacks Rank 2 stock with a positive earnings ESP of 6.52% for the current quarter; the Zacks Consensus is for a per share profit of $0.46.
Retail is getting mixed reviews for Q4, but eBay is in its own subsector as mainly an auction site, but with regular sale type items as well. Amazon was recently given an upgrade by Morgan Stanley, which may mean that confidence hasn't been all lost on the sector.
Shares are relativity rich at almost 22 times forward earnings, but if eBay can deliver 13%+ growth, that multiple may be justified. There was a recent flurry of bullish analyst movements ahead of their report in a week. No analysts have lowered their estimates in the last 30 days.
– eBay reports earnings on January 16th.
Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq:FITB) is a Zacks Rank 3 stock with a positive earnings ESP of 3% for the current quarter. The Zacks consensus estimate is for Q3 EPS of $0.42, with the most accurate estimate at $0.435.
Banks and financials are expected to be the shining light in a market with a mostly cloudy forecast.
Several analysts have noted positive developments in the sector; and while Raymond James downgraded FITB from a strong buy to an outperform, their price target on the stock still remains 13% higher than the current price.
The majority of analysts are at least moderately bullish on the name going into their next report.
– Fifth Third reports earnings on January 17th.
ESP Earnings Results
Now that you know which groups of stocks to focus on to increase your chances of a positive surprise, let's look at the size of the ESP that has historically generated the best results.
First, just having a positive ESP produces market beating results. Over the last 10 years, using a 1 week holding period (stocks were held for no more than one week after they reported), the average annual return was 23.5%. This is in stark contrast to stocks with a negative ESP which produced a -9.20% return.
Now apply the Zacks Rank of 1, 2 or 3 to that list and the returns jump to 28.3%.
But requiring your stocks to have an ESP of greater than 1%, increases its performance to 29.6%. An ESP of greater than 2%, bumps performance up to 31.6%. While an ESP of greater than 3%, produces an average annual return of 37.2%.
Note: there's no need to hold out for stocks with significantly higher ESP's than 3%. While some stocks with higher ESP's will do fantastic, there's no aggregate increase in performance by ratcheting it up beyond d the 3% threshold. And as the above stats illustrate, simply having a positive ESP (i.e., the Most Accurate Estimate is above the Consensus) still produces stellar results with a high probability of success.
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I don't get out much these days, as I usually stay at home to take care of the kids.
Having finished a few paintings in the "War is Coming Home" series, something got me thinking about the lives of the Talibans or talibs if you will.
What are they like, and what's the deal, you know – really… Some light research ensued and, tadaah!
So here goes – The top 10 list of things you probably didn't know about Taliban:
10: The Taliban consists mainly of Mujahideen and as it were, former allies of the West.
9: Many Talibs actually do smoke, regardless of what Mullah Omar says,
8: The majority of the Taliban movement is made up of Pashtun tribemembers practicing the moral code "Pashtun Wali" which has hospitality as one of it's cornerstones.
7: The Taliban established an Ombudsman in 2009.
6: While not in combat, the Taliban enjoy a good game of rock-throwing.
5: The Taliban numbered roughly 45.000 in 2001, 11.000 in 2008 and 36.000 in 2010.
4: Ahmad Shah Massoud (Leader of the opposing United Front/Northern Alliance) stated in 2001 that without help from Pakistan, the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for a year – Since 2001 Pakistan has received 11,5 bln. USD in military aid from the United States.
3: On october 4 2001, Pakistan refused an offer from the Taliban to have Osama Bin Laden handed over for trial on the grounds that Pakistan could not guarantee his safety.
2: Few Talibs have ever read the Koran, but rather learn it by heart verbally.
1: Since 2004 the Taliban has been known as the "Islamic Insurgency".
I find myself just a tad better informed now, hope you do too.
The painting below "Forever after Silent" is the third in the series "War is Coming Home". If you're from anywhere around Copenhagen you might recognize the backdrop.
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Enjoy an afternoon of luxury and entertainment aboard the Boston Harbor Lunch Cruise. From delicious dining to a breathtaking city skyline, there's no better way to spend the day!Full Description>
- This scenic cruise is by far one of the most unique things to do in Boston, for both locals and visitors alike.
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Sit back and relax on one of the climate-controlled decks. Dine on the bountiful buffet. Watch your talented wait-staff as they delight you with their up-beat renditions of popular favorites. Then kick it into high gear as the DJ spins popular dance hits.
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Is gratuity included in the price package?
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If my party is not able to make it or we miss the ship will we receive a refund?
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Smoking is allowed on the outside decks only.
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How to create a custom user hierarchy
1. Overview
This article demonstrates how to create a custom user hierarchy. In most cases when there are primary-foreign key relationships between facts tables, the levels and relationships are automatically detected by the Hierarchy wizard. Refer to the Automatic joins and hierarchies article for more details.
In case such levels are not automatically detected, you need to create a custom hierarchy, as can be seen from the sample below.
2. Data
For example, you have 3 different excel files, or one excel file with 3 different sheets having the Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 equivalent of the following tables:
- ProductCategory
- ProductSubCategory
- Product
In this sample, the tables above represent different sheets on an excel file. You can also use and combine tables from different data sources. For example, ProductCategory from SQL Server, ProductSubCategory from Excel, and ProductSubCategory from a flat file.
3. Pre-requisite
You need to first create a Data Connector. In this particular sample, an Excel-based Data Connector is used.
4. Steps
Here are the detailed steps on how to create a 3-Level custom user hierarchy (Product Category -> Product SubCAtegory -> Product):
- Create a new Hierarchy. Use the main menu to create a new user hierarchy.
- Add and Setup the First level of the hierarchy (Product Category)
- Expand your data connector in the EXPLORE window and find the ProductCategory$ table.
- Drag and drop the ProductCategory$ table to the canvas.
- Preview the contents of the level.
- Click Level 1 of the structure to open the dialog.
- Update the details. For example:
- NAME = ProductCategory
- DESCRIPTION = Product Category
- CAPTION = Name
- KEY = ProductCategoryID
- Rename the Hierarchy - use a meaningful name.
Add and Setup the Second level of the hierarchy (Product Sub-Category)
- Select the First Level of the hierarchy and click Append level
- Drag and drop the ProductSubcategory$ table to the DATA SOURCE field.
- Update the details. For example:
- NAME = ProductSubcategory
- DESCRIPTION = Product Subcategory
- CAPTION = Name
- PARENT KEY = ProductCategoryID
- KEY = ProductSubcategoryID
- Add and Setup the Third level of the hierarchy (Product)
- Select the Second Level of the hierarchy and click Append level
- Drag and drop the Product$ table to the DATA SOURCE field.
- Update the details. For example:
- NAME = Product
- DESCRIPTION = Product
- CAPTION = Name
- PARENT KEY = ProductSubcategoryID
- KEY = ProductID
5. Preview
Expand the levels to preview data
6. Using the hierarchy
A typical application for a user hierarchy (such as Product) is in the Data Cube Designer. A user hierarchy can be used to replace an output column of a data cube (such as ProductID) to gain the benefits of multi-level organization.
See Replace a data cube column with a hierarchy for more details.
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"Kris is deeply religious and he believes that the only way he can do that is if his marriage to Kim is annulled. Kris wants to move on with his life just as badly as Kim does – he is constantly getting heckled by NBA players and fans – and he just wants to be able to close this disastrous chapter in his life once and for all. If Kim would just agree to grant him the annulment, they could both move on with their lives," the source added.
Kardashian has said that she's not interested in agreeing to an annulment, because she denies that she married Humphries under false pretenses and solely for publicity.
Meanwhile, she and older sister and mom of two, Kourtney, visited the "Today" show last week and talked due dates and fertility with host Savannah Guthrie. Kardashian is pregnant with Kanye West's child. They have been together for at least nine months.
"I think until I really start seeing, like, a belly, it won't really sink in. It's just a weird realization until you really start seeing the physical changes and every day's different," Kim Kardashian told Guthrie.
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As announced, Canonical has released the preview of its Ubuntu smartphone and tablet platform for Nexus devices. Images and open source code are up for grabs since Feb 21.
The company stated that the images are meant to make the Ubuntu's smartphone platform, familiar to the developers. Tools needed for flashing the phones are also out. However, the company has warned that the version is not ready for consumers- "We recommend to install the Touch Developer Preview only if you are a developer or enthusiast who wants to test or contribute to the platform. It is not intended to replace production devices or the tablet or handset you use every day."
Ubuntu has posted instructions for flashing a phone or tablet device in it's Instal page. The release note posted on the website explains just why the OS must be used for development and evaluation purposes only. the Ubuntu touch preview supports WiFi networking, front and rear cameras and Android developer bridge tool connectivity. Gizbot want's to warn you if you not a developer think twice before going ahead with the installation.
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu said "This release marks the threshold of wider engagement - both with industry and community.".
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Both the House and Senate kicked off their efforts to address the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a flurry of activity from the committees with jurisdiction over the law. As Republican legislators work to come together on a consensus around their "repeal, repair, and replace" plan, the hearings offer some insight as to how the GOP views the issue.
A brief rundown of the activity over the course of the last week or so:
• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee: "Obamacare Emergency: Stabilizing the Individual Health Insurance Market"
• House Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: "Medicaid Oversight: Existing Problems and Ways to Strengthen the Program"
• House Ways & Means Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight: "The Individual Mandate under the Affordable Care Act"
• House Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Health: "Strengthening Medicaid and Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable"
• House Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Health: "Patient Relief from Collapsing Health Markets"
The hearings, while sometimes a bit testy, were less rancorous than the more fiery nomination hearings still occurring in the Senate. The Energy & Commerce hearings looked at several incremental reforms to address Medicaid oversight and eligibility, as well as individual insurance market reforms implemented under ACA.
In the Senate HELP Committee Hearing, witnesses stressed to the committee that Congress must act by March to provide market stability and certainty for insurers, who must submit rates for 2018 by early May. Ways & Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady has publicly stated he intends to move a repeal bill through committee by March, and other members of the GOP leadership have directly and indirectly indicated this is the consensus timeline.
In ACOFP's conversations with GOP Members and their staff, there are three "buckets" to the ACA reform efforts:
1) repeal through the budget reconciliation process
2) administrative efforts through executive actions and secretarial authority through HHS
3) legislative replacement through a series of smaller, targeted bills
Quick Hits
- Price Confirmation Vote Heads to Senate Floor: Rep. Tom Price's (R-GA) confirmation vote is finally headed to the full Senate for consideration, despite a bitter partisan battle in the Senate Finance Committee this week. Finance Committee Democrats staged a boycott earlier in the week, denying the committee the necessary quorum by refusing to appear for the vote to advance Price's nomination to the full Senate (Finance Committee rules require at least one member of each party to be present). In response, Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and GOP members of the committee voted to suspend the rules of the committee, thus allowing for a vote to advance the nomination. Despite the political theater, Price's confirmation is expected to pass without difficulty. The vote has not yet been scheduled, but is expected to take place after some more controversial nominations are cleared out early next week.
- Payment Bump in MA Proposed Rule: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the proposed rule for 2018 Medicare Advantage payments. The rule proposes a payment increase of 0.25 percent, and delays cuts to MA that would have lowered payment rates. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, MA accounts for nearly one-third of all Medicare enrollments, and given the considerable support for the program from Republicans in Congress, Medicare Advantage could play a larger role in future GOP efforts to address Medicare reform.
- "Phrasing!" – Republican Messaging on ACA Beginning to Shift: It might seem like a benign change, but in a political world where every word is poll-tested, even subtle changes matter. Case in point, observers noticed Republican legislators beginning to use the term "repair" instead of the typical "repeal and replace" message that has been a staple since the inception of the Affordable Care Act. At the GOP retreat in Philadelphia last week, legislators were shown polling indicating that "repair" more accurately reflects the majority of what the American public wants from Congress, as opposed to wholesale repeal of the ACA. A growing number of Republicans seem to be uncomfortable with the full-blown "repeal and replace" approach, but the question remains if voters – and members of Congress who campaigned on that message – will settle for that approach.
IL-ACOFP Legislative Update Quarter 4 2016
IL-ACOFP Legislative Update
By Betsy D. Mitchell, MPA
IL-ACOFP Legislative Consultant
4th Quarter 2016
After a very long and very expensive campaign season nationwide, there were a few notable shifts in party affiliation regarding Illinois statehouse races. However, with the start of the next General Assembly set for January 11, 2017 questions still remain regarding how the election results may impact activity (or continued non-activity as has been the case for the past year) in Springfield, and more importantly, how will these results impact IL-ACOFP.
State Comptroller
In the statewide race for Comptroller, the Democratic challenger Susana Mendoza defeated the Republican incumbent Leslie Munger with slightly less than 50% of the vote. The two third party candidates received approximately 6% of the vote. The Comptroller's office is the office that writes and sends the checks after each agency has given their approval.
It is important for IL-ACOFP to have a good working relationship with the Comptroller in Illinois. First, because it is the Comptroller's responsibility to send the checks, it is important for the Illinois Comptroller to understand that Family Physicians are on the frontline when it comes to caring for most patients in need of medical care. Second, in the past the Comptroller has the power to provide a one-time emergency check to providers who can show immediate need.


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System design of a 1 MW north-facing, solid particle receiver
Falling solid particle receivers (SPR) utilize small particles as a heat collecting medium within a cavity receiver structure. The components required to operate an SPR include the receiver (to heat the particles), bottom hopper (to catch the falling particles), particle lift elevator (to lift particles back to the top of the receiver), top hopper (to store particles before being dropped through the receiver), and ducting. In addition to the required components, there are additional features needed for an experimental system. These features include: a support structure to house all components, calibration panel to measure incident radiation, cooling loops, and sensors (flux gages, thermocouples, pressure gages). Each of these components had to be designed to withstand temperatures ranging from ambient to 700 °C. Thermal stresses from thermal expansion become a key factor in these types of high temperature systems. The SPR will be housing ~3000 kg of solid particles. The final system will be tested at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, NM.
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Nikon Coolpix S8000A nice design and a couple extra features keep the Nikon Coolpix S8000 from being an also-ran compact megazoom.
[ Music ] ^M00:00:03 >> Hi. I'm Josh Goldman, Senior Editor for CNET Reviews, and this is a look at the Nikon Coolpix S8000. It's a 14-megapixel camera featuring a 30-millimeter-equivalent wide-angle lens with a 10X zoom and a 3-inch high resolution LCD in a pocketable body. As one of Nikon's higher-end compacts, you might expect more advanced shooting modes, but for all intents and purposes, the S8000 is geared for automatic point and shoot use. You do get some control over results in its auto mode, and there's sliders for adjusting color tones, saturation, and brightness, but that's about it. Other shooting modes include a scene recognition auto mode, a selection of individual scene settings, Nikon's smart portrait system with blink and smile detection and skin smoothing, and subject tracking to help keep a moving subject in focus. The S8000 also records 720p HD quality movies at the push of a button. And there's a stereo mike on top for improving audio quality, but unfortunately, you don't get use of the optical zoom while recording. Shooting performance is good but not exceptional, in line with a typical compact mega zoom. It does start up and shoot quickly as long as you're fast to press the shutter. Photo quality is average for its class, producing decent photos at lower ISOs, but low-light, higher ISO photos look more like paintings than photos. I'm Josh Goldman, and that's the Nikon Coolpix S8000. ^M00:01:29 [ Music ]


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I'm in Krakow at the moment, about a week into a month-long wander through Europe ending at Lowlands in Holland. I've been to Vienna, Bratislava and Auschwitz so far and I'll be in Warsaw by tomorrow night, but in keeping with my diligent efforts to conscientiously document my entire experience of live music, I am going to blog for a minute between checking e-mails and train timetables in a net cafe.
I saw Gipsy Kings accidently in a square in the middle of the Old City in Krakow last night. They were pretty funny. Latin rhythm, tourists shaking their bum-bags, gypsy dancers gypsy dancing. My girlfriend loved it. She was brought up on the Gipsy Kings. I, on the other hand, was discovering them for the first time apart from that Bombolayo song that I didn't know was by them.
It was funny. I laughed. The singer kept saying "Polskaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" even though everyone in the square at 10 on a Sunday was an American tourist or a stag night. An experience.


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Hardly any new buildings are rising in Manhattan, a sure sign that New York's construction industry is caught in the nation's economic downdraft, trade experts say.
Just three applications for new buildings were filed in Manhattan in September, compared to 23 in September 2007 – a staggering 87 percent plunge, city Department of Buildings data shows.
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The Difference Between Mass and Customary Weight
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Objective: SWBAT use their shared understanding of mass to estimate the mass of given objects.
Big Idea: Mass and weight are different but it isn't obvious, so students need time to explore this idea.
What is estimation? Why do we estimate? Here we talk about approximate values, units and getting 'close' to the correct weight or amount.
How many counters do you think I have in this cup? Now how much water do you think is in this cup? What about how much this glass apple weighs?
We discuss how things can fill up a certain amount of space (liquid volumes) like pouring water into a cup, or how an object can have mass, which is different than weight.
Building our Vocabulary
We create shared notes and definitions about the different between weight and mass because this can be a difficult idea for 8 and 9 year olds to grasp. I think it is important to take the time to do this so that we all have a shared resource that we can refer back to.
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Please number your paper 1-5. We are going to use what we know about estimating today, and you're going to have to use some really good thinking skills with your group today to figure these out! Remember to discuss together and defend your answers and ideas with our accountable talk sentence stems (Mp3)
1. What is the mass of a penny?
2. What is the mass of a pencil?
3. What is the mass of a school bus?
4. What is the mass of a rhino?
5. What is the mass of Mrs. Maffei?
What did you guys discover today? What made this activity challenging? How is mass different from customary weight?
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When it comes to fighting wars, John McCain stands up and calls for sacrifice. "We never hide from history; we make history," he declared in his convention speech. But when it comes to taxes, McCain is unwilling to demand even a teensy bit of sacrifice. In a McCain administration, Americans would not have to surrender a dime more of their money to a cause larger than themselves.
Why this bipolar attitude toward sacrifice? Start with the answer that McCain himself provides. "My tax cuts will create jobs. His tax increases will eliminate them," he said at the convention, offering one of the speech's few policy contrasts between Obama's platform and his own. In other words, McCain is not calling for tax sacrifice because he believes it would be counterproductive. On taxes, he is saying, you can selfishly avoid sacrifice -- and serve the public good.
This, unfortunately, is a convenient untruth. Tax hikes taken to an extreme can indeed backfire, harming growth and job creation. But it's a stretch to assert that Barack Obama's tax plan would do that. And it's downright scandalous to pretend that the economy can be strengthened in anything other than the short run by unaffordable tax cuts.
The rich would pay more under Barack Obama's tax plan, and the poor and middle-class would pay less, a nonpartisan analysis finds. Under John McCain's plan, the rich would pay much less than they do now, the poor and middle-class would pay a bit less, and the federal deficit would grow, the study found.
McCain would make permanent most of the tax cuts President Bush has already enacted, including those that benefit the middle class, such as elimination of the marriage penalty and the increase in child credits. He would also keep cuts that benefit the wealthy, such as the elimination of the highest tax brackets. Obama would keep the breaks for the middle class but not the ones for the wealthy.
Assuming they would have been renewed anyway, Obama's plan would bring in an additional $700 billion in taxes over the next 10 years, while McCain's would cost the Treasury $600 billion. Assuming legislators would have let the tax breaks expire, Obama's plan would cost the U.S. Treasury $2.7 trillion and McCain's $3.7 trillion.
McCain: The average taxpayer in every income group would see a lower tax bill, but high-income taxpayers would benefit more than everyone else.
Obama: High-income taxpayers would pay more in taxes, while everyone else's tax bill would be reduced. Those who benefit the most - in terms of reducing their taxes as a percentage of after-tax income - are in the lowest income groups.
Democratic rivals Clinton of New York and Obama of Illinois both voted to extend only some of Bush's tax cuts while allowing cuts in income tax rates and investments expire. They joined other Democrats in a 52-47 vote against extending $376 billion of them.
Democrats argued that when the time comes, they'll renew tax cuts aimed at the middle class by closing billions of dollars worth of corporate and other tax loopholes. They also say billions more can be raised by cracking down on tax cheats.
He (Obama) also said he would delay slashing President Bush's tax cuts if he becomes president and the economy is in a recession.
But he vowed to push for his promised tax cuts for the middle class. "Even if we're still in a recession, I'm going to go through with my tax cuts," Obama said.
McCain wants to make permanent the Bush tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of 2010.
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There is a distinct pattern throughout American history: When tax rates are reduced, the economy's growth rate improves and living standards increase.
Conversely, periods of higher tax rates are associated with sub par economic performance and stagnant tax revenues. In other words, when politicians attempt to "soak the rich," the rest of us take a bath.
Lower tax rates do not mean less tax revenue.
According to President John F. Kennedy:
Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits… In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.
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Trickle down economics (called VooDoo Economics by George Bush I) did not work when Pres Reagan did it when in office. Sen McCain was opposed to the tax cuts Pres Bush was for in 2001 stating the country should use the money for other things. He was also opposed to making them permanent. How things change when one is running for President.
The country is trillions of dollars in debt, and went into even more debt with the bailout of the mortgage giants. In the 1980s, the savings and loans industries tanked, and the taxpayers had to pay billions of dollars to bail them out.
A flat tax with just a deductible of @ $20,000 is fair and reasonable. Or else a value added tax (vat) instead, with food being exempted.