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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- While nearly all maritime activity on the Potomac River will be halted on Inauguration Day, a handful of Mall-goers will sail from Virginia to Washington on water taxis.
Some people will cross the Potomac River via water taxi on Inauguration Day.
Working closely with the United States Coast Guard, the Potomac Riverboat Company, based in Alexandria, Virginia, plans to ferry up to 3,200 passengers from across the frigid Potomac on seven climate-controlled boats.
The service is partially a response to the closure of all bridges from Virginia to D.C. on Inauguration Day, a measure that prompted an uproar among Virginia residents.
According to maritime authorities in charge of the region, PRC is the only company being allowed to taxi across the river on the 20th.
"Because the taxi service provided us with a security plan that we examined and deemed adequate to provide good security, I granted them a waiver to operate at an increased security level," National Capitol Region Port Captain Brian Kelley says.
"The taxis are going to operate on a strict schedule and a strict route."
The Coast Guard established a temporary security zone on waterways in the National Capitol Region, stepping up restrictions day-by-day leading up to 11 p.m. on January 19. At that point, all vessels must be docked and only boats with an approved sail plan will be allowed to operate.
John Lake, a ship captain and the general manager of the company, said the sail plan he submitted was approved only a week ago and details nearly every move taxis will make.
"All the departures are scheduled times. And those departures are supposed to leave on-time," Lake said. "We have to call in on each departure to the Coast Guard, let them know we're preparing to get under way, and get the permission, basically, to get under way."
The boats depart the Alexandria Marina for the 40-minute trip beginning around 6 a.m. and must be docked on the southwest D.C. shore by 10 a.m. From there, it's a cold, mile-long walk to the Mall, so Lake has some advice for passengers.
"Show up early to get through the security check and dress warm," he said. "It's going to be nice and toasty on the boat, but not so much outside."
Return trips, tentatively scheduled for around 6 p.m., are not allowed to depart D.C. until after the inaugural parade events have concluded and President Obama is secured.
In keeping with the Coast Guard's security measures, Lake says all passengers must arrive at least an hour early for a full screening. Passengers that want to stay in D.C. after the early evening departures will have to find other transport back across the Potomac.
PRC Vice President Charlotte Hall says tickets went on sale Monday and the initial response from customers has been enthusiastic.
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The Plateaus range from 1/2 mile to 1 mile across and there are six plateaus in total. The lower plateaus are homesteads for those that travel into the underdark to mine or hunt while the two upper twin plateaus are the seat of commerce and the home to a large market place where creatures of all type come to peddle their wares, seek information or gather goods before heading into the unknown. Magic is common for sale here and the artificers here have managed to protect those that dwell here from natural and unnatural disasters alike with magical protections and retractable bridges, yes even the land bridges are magically retractable at this point in time.
At the time this abyss was discovered it was filled with nasty creatures that time had forgotten which lived off the aquatic life that swims in the watery depths below.
Upon his return from his solo adventure Dargain met up with the friends he had lost and told them of the place he had found. Due to its location he figured it could be a goldmine of commerce for those traveling below ground but it would require trusted partners, skilled traders and strong but fair rulership. With friends and hired laborers, Dargain and company cleaned things up. The subterranian terradactills were captured and trained (and are now a popular form of transportation). Once the main passage (first entrance) was fortified, the first bridges where built. The fish below were dubbed glutton gulper for the way they ate all in their paths. They are large predatory fish that thrive on all matter of aquatic life that is washed into this large underground basin. They provide a great food source as well as scrimshaw and oil. The meat is very bland but allows for various different tastes depending on preparation. It has the consistency of ostrich and is a great source of protein. The bones can be made into a variety of carved trinckets, jewelry and needles for working with leather of hide. The oil is not flammable therefore making an ideal cooking aid or lubricant. Amidst the depths are a few strange form of plant life, the northern shore is a good source of mushrooms and strange mosses grow just above and below water level on the jagged rocky walls and bases of the plateaus
Five seats exist and from these seats so they rule. The rulership of this place is based solely on guilds and one appointed official known as The Speaker of the Steppes. Each guild has a representative and the guilds are as follows: The Mage Guild, Merchant Guild, Laborers Guild, Adventurer Guild. The Speaker has the following options when it comes to passing a law or finalizing a judgment. He may favor one side in the case of a tie or give his vote to the people. In the second case the anonymous votes from the people are tallied and the outcome goes to the side with the most votes.
Mage Guild - need I explain, ok all things magic. Some rivalry with the merchants. Visiting mages may conduct business with the Mage Guild or as a Merchant but few are foolish enough not to conduct business with the Mage Guild.
Merchant Guild - Controls commerce, deeds for shops and collecting merchant taxes. All merchants pay taxes. Visiting merchants have two options, they may pay up front or pay at the end provided they have something for collateral.
Laborers Guild - All forms of laborers may join the guild if they so wish. Benefits gained are often worth joining and laborers pay dues but not taxes.
Adventurers Guild - In order to join and reap the benefits you must serve as militia for 2 years. The militia revolves so no one person is ever on active duty throughout the entire year. Normally you serve 3 months on 3 months off etc. They benefit by the guilds backing by getting better supplies to start. They may also choose to sell unneeded magic and treasure to the guild instead of selling in the market square where they'd have to pay taxes. Granted the money gained at the market could be better but the guild always gives fair market value especially for magic that can be used in the Steppes defense.

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We're going to a black tie event on Saturday night. It's an Academy Award event honoring, among others, Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall. Government issued id required at the door. And don't wear orange.
I really didn't have anything to wear, so I set off looking for a formal gown. I've experienced a lot more of mall life in the last three days than I'd ever want to otherwise.
Things I learned along the way:
- In spite of Michelle Obama, department stores are still pushing the Betty Ford look in formal wear: big bows and bigger collars.
- If the dresses don't look like Betty Ford wore them, they look like 1940's swimsuits with big skirts and glitter. The lampshade look is everywhere.
- Another option is a dress with one strap only, ala Tarzan.
- Every single dress I saw was made in China, every one.
- Don't imagine the dresses you see online will be in the stores. Too much of a risk that they won't sell.
- There are no velvet dresses to be had. Maybe they forgot how to make velvet in China.
- Nearly everyone working or shopping at malls in the middle of the day has a middle eastern accent.
- Formal wear is freaking UGLY!
Getting desperate, I ordered a dress from the Neiman Marcus catalog, sent overnight, and when I tried it on all that was missing was the pink bunny slippers. A combo design of nightgown and mummy outfit, with wrapping bands all around the top that added to its ugliness.
Ah but I was inspired. I remembered I had a velvet dress from the 1920's. I haven't worn it in 20 years myself. Pulled it out of the costume trunk, tried it on, miracle it still fit. Now I am mall free! You don't tell people you pulled it out of the costume trunk, you just say it's vintage, right?


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The Maryland Senate passed Gov.Martin O'Malley's gambling expansion bill on a 28-14 vote Friday, sending the legislation to a more closely divided House of Delegates when the General Assembly's special session continues Monday.
Approval came in the early evening after senators spent much of the afternoon debating and defeating hostile amendments proposed mostly by Republican opponents of a plan to allow a casino inPrince George's County.
Few of the votes were close, and most amendments failed by about a 3-to-1 margin as Senate PresidentThomas V. Mike Millerflexed his political muscle to pass the bill, which would permit table games at the state's five licensed casinos as well as the one proposed for Prince George's. Five senators were absent.
Miller declined to speak to the bank of television cameras and assembled reporters after final passage.
Hearings on the bill in the House Ways and Means Committee continued into the evening, with MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blake among those testifying in support. House members are expected to consider amendments over the weekend before holding a vote Monday in the Ways and Means Committee.
Senators also passed legislation creating a strict liability standard for dog owners whose pets bite people without provocation — eliminating a standard allowing a dog not previously known to be vicious one free bite.
The bill, which also heads now to the House, would overturn a Court of Appeals ruling that imposed strict liability standards only on pit bulls.
Senate passage of the gambling measure came after a brief debate during which Minority LeaderE. J. Pipkin, an Upper Shore Republican, criticized the way O'Malley put together his version of the bill. Rival House and Senate gambling expansion measures failed during this year's regular 90-day session.
"We can't have a process with secret meetings and have a product we can be proud of," Pipkin said, referring to closed sessions held by the work group named by the governor to forge a consensus on legislation.
The group fell short of a consensus in June, but its work helped bring the Senate and House closer together. After negotiations that continued through much of July, O'Malley called the special session that began Thursday.
Earlier Friday, critics of gambling expansion used the bill as a platform to propose various ways to redirect the money it would raise — rolling back the recently passed income tax increase on high earners or undoing a recent toll increase or increasing spending on the developmentally disabled.
All were soundly defeated.
Among the failed amendments was one that would have stripped from the bill its approval of a new casino inPrince George's County— the most controversial change to the state's current gambling program.
The amendment, offered by Baltimore County Democratic Sen. Jim Brochin, would still have allowed the addition of table games such as poker, blackjack and roulette at the five already-licensed slots-only casinos. It was rejected on a 9-33 vote.
The only amendments accepted were those that had been approved by a committee firmly controlled by Miller, the architect of the strategy of tying the Prince George's casino to the more broadly popular table games measure.
Among the amendments approved was one offered by Sen. George Edwards, a Western Maryland Republican. That change would allow the operator of the planned casino at the Rocky Gap Lodge and Golf Resort in Allegany County to redirect 0.5 percent of its revenue into capital improvements at the site.
Edwards said the largely symbolic change was made to encourage the company, Evitts Resort LLC, to move faster in replacing the conference space it plans to occupy when it begins operations at Rocky Gap with 500 slot machines.
Evitts now has 36 months to either build new conference space or an addition to the lodge to accommodate the casino. The company recently scaled back plans for a casino with 850 slots after reporting that it was having difficulty securing a construction loan for its planned casino.
Evitts is continuing to seek a lender, Edwards said. The senator said passage of the bill could help in those efforts because it would add table games to the expected revenues.
Edwards was one of five Republicans who joined 23 Democrats in supporting the bill. Without GOP support, the measure would have fallen one vote short.
Among the Republicans who supported the bill were three who represent counties that saw local gambling bills pass Friday. They were among the few other measures Miller allowed to come to the floor, as other bills were bottled up in the Rules Committee.
The counties getting their bills were Carroll, represented by Sens. Joseph Getty and David Brinkley, and Dorchester, in the district of Sen. Richard Colburn. All voted aye.
Eight Democrats and six Republicans opposed the bill.
O'Malley was out early Friday morning, stalking the halls of the House office building in his efforts to win passage of the bill in that chamber next week.
The governor met with the Prince George's and Montgomery county delegations amid signs that his efforts and those of legislative leaders were falling into place.
Asked how he assessed the bill's prospects, an ebullient O'Malley said: "I think they're going swimmingly."
Observing the scene was Del. Michael Smigiel, an Upper Shore Republican.
"The governor's walking through the halls smiling, so someone must have succumbed to the water-boarding," he said.
What happens next
House gambling subcommittee will meet at noon Saturday to work on expansion bill.
House meets 10 a.m. Monday for introduction of Senate bill.
After session, House Ways and Means Committee meets to work on the bill.
Senate will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. to consider any changes the House might make to the bill it approved.
The Maryland Senate passed Gov.Martin O'Malley's gambling expansion bill on a 28-14 vote Friday, sending the legislation to a more closely divided House of Delegates when the General Assembly's special session continues Monday.


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By mikeinaz on Saturday, December 22, 2018I want to love this vehicle, I really do but GM's lack of customer service is going to make me get rid of it and because of their overall service, I will never buy another GM car again. Overall, the vehicle checks the boxes if you are looking for a large SUV that has good room inside, is styled nicely inside and out and can tow a decent amount. I purchased the Platinum trim level new in 17. As soon as I drove it alone w/ nobody in the passenger front seat I noticed a ticking noise coming from that seat. Think of someone pressing a computer key as rapidly as possible. Long story short, vehicle has been into two different dealers almost twenty times for the same issue (among others), the seat has had numerous parts replaced, engineers from corporate have come by to try to diagnose it, I opened up a claim with corporate GM. All I want is a new seat since they cannot fix the problem. They refuse to do it and told me the noise is 'normal'. No its not! I have driven a few others of the same year and none make the noise. They have closed my case and refuse to help me or fix the seat and I cannot keep a vehicle that taps and rattles all the time. Especially a vehicle I paid $60k for. Shame on GM for not doing what is right and taking care of a customer. No way a vehicle should be back close to twenty times for the same issue and then told to deal with it basically. I will be trading this vehicle in on another brand SUV and I will never come back to GM again.
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By BeBe on Thursday, April 18, 2019The Tahoe Premier is Top quality, Big, Tall, Bulky, Massive and a great vehicle for empty Nesters. Since we travel this vehicle can handle the distance. We drove the 2000 Tahoe LTZ which has less than 10,000 built until we found the 2017 Premier. It's solid! The body commands a second look and The engine purr's. We're accustomed to the police package used in police pursuit vehicles housed under this hood. Its a power house of energy! The premier does not disappoint. There is nothing that makes you smile like the sound of that V-8 engine kicking into gear. Picks up speed instantly and glides on the highway with its Magnetic ride control (MRC). We average up to 33mpg on the highway and in town about 14.8 mpg. The higher octane the better the milage. I feel the ride is equal to the Escalades for price and features. We drove the Escalade and prefered the Premier. With the MRC the ride is smooth and the shocks equal out rough road surfaces. The running board provide easy access and the assist bars are well placed. The doors are weighted, when you close them you hear and feel its solid sound and they seal tight. But they are light weight and easy to open and close. The premier is easy to handles in tight spaces and turns on a dime. The back up cameras were hard to get used to but once engaged you can't do without them. Bumper sensors alert in the drivers seat jolt you, right or left when backing out or wondering into next lane with out a turn signal. As well the steering wheel will correct itself when wondering into next lane. Easy parking and you don't need massive room. We opted for leather Bucket seats front and Back. Love the heated and cool air seats front and back. Pay special attention when cleaning the leather, pores can become clogged with the wrong cleaning products. The Tahoe seat 5 comfortably. The 3rd row seat useless, with less than 12 inches of leg space. Only the center of the 3rd row seat is useable if you have bucket seats on the second row. When 3rd seat is folded down it makes the rear too high and inconvenient for loading and unloading. Hidden compartments for valuables are a plus. And a rear seat reminder for your package is a life saver. USB ports front and back for easy access. High Tech features will have you overwhelmed but time and usage will make it a breeze. Its equipped with an On Star Automatic Crash Package. Until I mastered programing my maps on occasion I'd call On Star for assistance and they would send step by step instructions to the display or stay on the line with step by step instructions. How did I ever live without them? Biggest disappoinment the seats not as comfortable as my 2000 Tahoe, they should be better. I like the plush comfort not the slim seat used in a cock pit. Instrument panel is impressive and easy to view and use. The console is too big and massive, intrusive. To large, too deep and too high, too wide. It's the size of an Arctic 15 can day cooler. My handbag is usually tossed on the passenger seat or on back floorboard very inconvenient . The mirrors are an obstruction for me I'm 4'11" and I'm eye level with them. No matter how I position the drivers seat the mirror is a problem, Leaving a blind spot. Problem when entering traffic and making a tight left turn.The carpet leaves a lot to be desired it's just cheap. Would have expected better. Only 2 cup holders in front. Tall drinking cups cause problem removing things from my hand bag, or reaching across to the passenger seat, forget reaching over and trying to get something off the floor board. If somethings falls on the passenger floorboard you'll have to stop, pull over and walk around to pick it up, extremely inconvenient. The storage pockets on the door are too slim and hardly usable. The door pocket will hold a bottle of water upright though, thats how narrow they are. The Tahoe 2000 had nice large pockets. When washing pay special attention to the back all the additional detail makes hidden spots for dirt and takes extra time to clean. Overall I'd recommend this vehicle to my girlfriends I'd give it 4 star just because the interior was not built for women. Over all Mechanically this baby is sound, its a Beast and you'll love its performance. Girls just like power.
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steamed buns, baozi, hobbang (red bean bun)
for whatever reason, i had a steamed bun craving the other day so i decided to attempt to make it from scratch. i spent the entire day trying different techniques and recipes but pretty much failed to replicate what i thought was a very good steamed bun.
the problem is, every single recipe i've found on the internet is for a bun that is chewier, more to the liking of a dumpling then a steamed bun.
i've eaten these things in korea (the country) and china town (new york), and they are HUGE, pillowy, airy, fluffy, pillows of greatness. nothing i've seen or tried could get that texture.
i've seen some one recipe that called for almost 3-4 hours of resting the dough, to allow the yeast to really work. the longest i rested my dough was 1 hour, letting it double in size. the resulting bun 'looked' great, white, round, pillowy, but upon biting into it, i once again got a chewy texture. it was good no doubt, but not right.
the closest i've gotten to the right texture was to use all cake flour, no yeast, and to mix until just combined to minimize gluten developement. the problem with this though is that the outside surface is not that smooth and pretty bumpy. the texture is close, but not as airy and light as i would want and because of the cake flour and lack of yeast, the buns do not rise that much.
in terms of the 'regulation' recipe that 99.9% of internet sources pimp of ap flour, yeast, sugar, baking soda, etc. i don't need help with that because outside of 'maybe' the fact that another 2-3 hours of resting the dough would create the bun i am looking for (which i doubt), i just don't see how this recipe could produce the bun i want.
my next two attempts will be to use bread flour and allow at least 2 hours of resting, and to use all cake flour with a good amount of baking powder.
edit: i finalized my recipe which can be found further down. i included a pic of my results for the hecks of it. ENJOY!


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Gillian Flynn | Photo: Robert Benson | October 8, 2012
One of SoCal's most celebrated projects gets brought back from the past.
When busloads of visiting architecture students descend on San Diego, the first stop is La Jolla. No, not the Salk Institute. Nor the Neurosciences Institute. It's a beeline to Gravilla Street to El Pueblo Ribera, the much-studied, much-storied compound designed by Rudolph Schindler in 1923 near Windansea Beach.
The 12-unit concrete icon is a study in indoor-outdoor interplay, proving Schindler's visionary status—not to mention his giddy excitement over sunny SoCal, according to L.A.-based architect Jeff Fink, who recently remodeled a Ribera unit for an L.A. homeowner.
"He came from Vienna and he was blown away by the climate," says Fink, a restoration architect who has renovated 13 Schindlers from Silver Lake to Echo Park and Hollywood to Studio City. "He recognized the ability to live outside year-round at Pueblo. It was liberating to come from Europe to a freedom of architecture and freedom of climate."
Every inch of the design speaks to that.
When Fink was tapped for the renovation, the homeowner, a modern furniture aficionado, wanted to bring the two-story unit back to its original state, including the sleeping porch, a signature Schindler amenity featured in several of his early houses. "We revived the sleeping porch as the upper level was enclosed. Now it's a deck and it feels like camping out at the beach," he says.
For the redesign, Fink went one step further, unearthing Schindler's original plans to create custom furniture, including a kitchen table and benches, bookshelves, chairs, a daybed, nightstands and a sleek bedroom vanity. Those original furniture plans, marked "void," were cut due to cost when the house was built.
"We built pieces that were never constructed," says Fink, who enlisted Santa Monica master craftsman Ed Moosbrugger. "Of all the Schindlers I've done, this house represents the pinnacle."
And painstaking attention went into integrating every last detail, says Fink. Take, for example, the sliding door track, made of molded concrete rather than aluminum. "There's no interruption between the inside and the outside. There's no threshold," says Fink. "It's a beautiful detail even though it's on the floor."
When Fink's client bought the house more than four years ago, it was in near-complete disrepair, yet unlike the neighboring units, it boasted the most original details. "We called it the hippie crash pad. But it was one of the only 12 that had not been burned down, rebuilt or dramatically altered," says Fink.
Today, it's a weekend beach retreat where you can check the surf from the rooftop, and once inside, the space commands tranquility. It almost orders you to light a fire or grab a book. Or even better, a sleeping porch nap.
"It's very Japanese. It's a stripped down-primitive hut," says Fink. "There's a serenity and calmness to it."
In Santa Barbara, where Schindler's archives are housed, Fink stumbled upon the drawings for Pueblo. Some of the plans feature the essential horizontal bands that line the house, where the furnishings are meticulously matched. One look at the vanity set against the measured concrete wall can take away the breath of any Schindler die-hard. It is that exacting.
"In the early days, there was less of an interest. It was less intense," says Fink of the restoration process. "Now there's a recognition of the legacy of this Southern California architecture. The value has peaked and so there's a knowledge and willingness among owners, which wasn't always the case."
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Blockchain is a disruptive technology platform that uses cryptography and a distributed messaging protocol to create a shared ledger between trading counterparties to execute simple transfer of asset ownership or more complex transactions using 'smart contracts'. The data on the ledger is pervasive and persistent and creates a reliable 'transaction cloud' as that transaction data cannot be lost or corrupted by any of the participants
There are many possible applications of blockchain technology in investment banking. Suggested use cases in testing mode include KYC/AML data sharing, trade surveillance, regulatory reporting, collateral management, trading, settlement and clearing. This transformation has the potential to make trading processes far more efficient, improve regulatory control and eliminate unnecessary intermediaries.
What is blockchain in the investment banking context?
Blockchain is a disruptive technology that uses a distributed messaging protocol to create a shared ledger between trading counterparties to validate transactions. The data on the ledger is pervasive and persistent and creates a reliable 'transaction cloud' so that transaction data cannot be lost or can only be technically corrupted by any of the participants at very high costs.
What is different about blockchain compared to other technologies?
Blockchain technology has a fundamentally different set up than traditional technologies in the capital markets environment. It was designed to allow participants to trust the blockchain network itself via a consensus mechanism, which means there is no traditional governance assumed as the maintenance of the ledger is performed by a network of communicating nodes running dedicated software.
The cryptographic distributed ledger is replicated amongst the participants in a peer-to-peer network which does not rely on a third party and leaves a cryptographically auditable trail. The blockchain concept removes the third party intermediary holding custody on the asset rights as that is managed by 'smart contracts' which execute themselves meeting pre-defined conditions.
A distributed ledger shared near real-time between the capital markets participants and validated among separate nodes creates a platform which promises to remedy existing pain points in the current banking landscape, such as:
Supplant major middle- and back-office functions
Introduce unprecedented cohesion to the internal bookkeeping processes
Show a record of consensus with a cryptographic audit trail of transactions
Create near real-time settlement
Strengthen risk management through stronger auditability and counterparty ties
For what can it potentially be used?
There are many possible applications of blockchain technology in investment banking. Suggested use cases in testing mode include KYC/AML data sharing, trade surveillance, regulatory reporting, collateral management, trading, settlement and clearing. Some banks are looking at the technology to explore it internally first within their own middle- and back-office operations.
Blockchain supported distributed ledgers are particularly useful for complex financial assets where there is no clear central authority to regulate, arbitrate, and/or mitigate risk of trade or counterparty failure, hence products benefitting from the technology will be Public & Private Stocks/Bonds, FICC derivatives, Syndicated loans, Corporate Bonds, Factoring, Letters of Credit, and Derivatives Margin/Collaterals.
What are the benefits?
Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt business models through automation, smart controls and risk and cost reduction. The ability to settle currency, equity and fixed income trades almost instantaneously through permissioned distributed ledgers may create a significant opportunity for banks to drive efficiency, improve regulatory control and eliminate unnecessary intermediaries.
Leveraging blockchain technology within the capital markets industry will be significant if the existing legacy technology, operations and infrastructure landscape within the established capital markets players is considered. The number of applications within and outside the banks will be reduced as the blockchain transaction contains all relevant information for the successful transfer of assets and/or related contracts.
What are the blockchain unknowns?
As the technology is maturing, various concerns will need to be addressed. Here are just some of the questions investment banks will need to ask themselves before diving into blockchain technology:
How can client privacy and security be respected?
What is the cost/benefit of supplanting or introducing this technology with current systems?
How can blockchains scale better with processing speed?
Will counterparties need to be identifiable and linked to a legal entity?
Should access to the blockchain be controlled or open?
Can the ownership of a financial asset that is not crypto currency be transferred using the distributed ledger concept with certainty and finality?
Can this financial asset be legally enshrined in computer code as a smart contract, such that any legal dispute could be decided by how the code of the smart contract executes on a distributed network?
Can a smart contract be programmed to execute the lifecycle events of a financial asset?
How will we establish a legal framework across both smart and traditional contracts?
How is the ledger version controlled?
What is the likely regulatory framework to define the good practice?
What are other associated risks which need to be considered?
Is that the same as Bitcoin?
Blockchain is the underlying Bitcoin technology providing the distributed ledger structure. The Bitcoin blockchain was originally designed to be a decentralized permissionless ledger with anonymous consensus which is primarily and growingly used for virtual currency transfers. The validation of the transactions are happening via a mining mechanism which burns energy as equivalent to ensure the node network stays incorruptible. As of this writing, more third-party solutions for Bitcoin are increasingly permission-based.
Blockchain utilization in capital markets looks beyond the money transfer and tries to address more complex issues. When we talk about the blockchain in capital markets, we do not envisage an energy consuming mining mechanism to validate transactions but rather alternative technical consensus mechanisms. By design, permissioned, distributed ledger systems are more congruent with the existing needs of capital markets participants while also supporting growing regulatory requirements.
Finally, we believe Bitcoin will continue to serve a very valuable purpose and we anticipate a number of new innovations and apps to be built on Bitcoin going forward. However, we also believe that Bitcoin based applications for capital markets will be limited by a number of factors, including the fact that Bitcoin was not built with specific capital markets business needs in mind.
Is Blockchain technology worth considering or is it a passing fad?
The short answer: Blockchains could become the critical backbone of the future capital markets infrastructure addressing significant industry issues, including the reduction counterparty risk minimization, reduction of settlement times, improvement of contractual term performance and increased regulatory reporting transparency.
Banks and venture capitalists have begun investing significantly in blockchain technology. We can envisage various stages of technology adoption, starting from an internal utilization within a bank to an intermediary stage where capital markets participants run private (permissioned) blockchains until regulation or legislation catches up and defines a new industry technology standard.


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The Xperia Play, Sony Ericsson's first mobile platform making use of the PlayStation Suite, has seen part of its UK release delayed after a telcom provider found several bugs in the phone's software.
"We've been testing the phone non-stop for several weeks," says O2's lead tester Stuart Hibberd, "and have found some bugs in the software that, if they're not fixed, means customers won't have a great experience."
"We've been working with Sony Ericsson to get these bugs ironed out, but haven't been able to get them fixed in time for us to be able to launch the phone on April 1 as we originally planned."
At the moment, O2 is the only provider in the UK to announce such a delay (no revised release date was provided), but if there's enough bugs to hold up its release for one company then don't be surprised if others follow suit.
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Newcastle United fans, look away now. If losing Yohan Cabaye was painful, it probably won't help to learn that he's not even getting in the Paris Saint-Germain team at the moment.
As one of the stars of Lille's 2010-11 double-winning team and a core member of the France side that engineered November's famous comeback against Ukraine in World Cup qualifying, Cabaye is not short of admirers in his home country, but he is not playing for PSG for the simple reason that he is not Marco Verratti.
Since swapping the Bigg Market for the Champs Elysées in January, Cabaye has made only four starts. Instead, he is becoming the player that Laurent Blanc turns to when Verratti needs a breather, starting in the second leg of the Champions League last-16 encounter with Bayer Leverkusen (after PSG had put the tie to bed with a 4-0 victory in the first leg) and coming into the team for Friday's 1-0 win at Nice, when Verratti was rested before this week's meeting with Chelsea.
French pundits believe that PSG's neatly balanced midfield trio of Verratti, Thiago Motta and Blaise Matuidi will give them the edge in their quarter-final against Chelsea, and if Motta supplies the brains and Matuidi the lungs in that triumvirate, Verratti is the wildly and erratically pumping heart.
A short, stocky midfield organiser with incongruously delicate facial features, 21-year-old Verratti brings what the French call a brin de folie (touch of madness) to complement the guile and energy alongside him. Like his countryman Andrea Pirlo, with whom he is often compared, he started out as a No10, before being converted into a deep-lying playmaker, but the positional switch left his sense of daring fully and thrillingly intact.
Blessed with a Velcro-like touch and an audacious confidence in his ability to shield the ball from opposing players, watching Verratti is the football equivalent of those sweaty palm-inducing YouTube videos of Russian teenagers clowning around on the top of high-rise buildings. When he's not pulling off outrageous dummies inside his own penalty area, he's toying with rival forwards by embarking upon seemingly suicidal dribbles in those areas of the pitch where the instruction manual specifically advises you to keep things simple.
Antonio Di Battista, the head of Pescara's youth academy, who discovered Verratti playing for his village team, describes him as "a predestinato – someone whose talent is apparent from the earliest age". He adds: "When I found him playing for his team, Manoppello, he was already doing exceptional things with the ball." According to former PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti, Verratti "sees the game before the others, like Pirlo". L'Équipe, meanwhile, have asserted that the young Italian is touched by "genius" and has suggested that his passes – such as a showy, scooped through ball against Benfica last October – might one day be "taught at an École des Beaux-Arts".
Unsurprisingly, however, his compulsive risk-taking occasionally gets him into trouble, both on the pitch and off. After watching Verratti give the ball away one time too many during a 2-0 victory at Dynamo Kiev last season, Ancelotti complained: "It annoys me. He has the qualities to play differently. He's young, but he takes too many risks."
He was also chastised by Blanc, Ancelotti's successor, following a 1-1 draw at Monaco in February. Asked if Verratti took too many chances with possession, the former France coach replied: "The problem when you take such risks is that, if it works, you think it's fantastic. But when it fails, that's the kind of question that you ask me."
Verratti also has an unfortunate habit of getting booked, having accumulated 20 yellow cards in the 53 Ligue 1 games that he has played to date. There are impetuous creases to his game that refuse to be ironed out, but it did not deter PSG from awarding him a new five-year contract in August 2013 that reportedly saw his salary more than double to €2m per year.
While Verratti acknowledges that he needs to repress some of his more flamboyant instincts, he says that he feels an obligation to give PSG's fans value for their money. "Football is entertainment," he told L'Équipe in an interview earlier this month. "A beautiful touch is better than a physical action. Afterwards, everyone can see it as they like. Sport is becoming more physical, more tactical, and therefore less spectacular, because teams are afraid of losing. It's a shame. People who go to the stadiums go to see a spectacle. We're professionals, and we're doing a job. But football has to be a spectacle."
Snatched from Pescara (and from beneath the noses of Juventus and Napoli), Verratti joined PSG for a reported initial fee of €12m in the summer of 2012 and was officially presented to the media minutes before Zlatan Ibrahimović. Sporting director Leonardo joked that there were a lot of people in the Parc des Princes press conference room for someone who was "practically unknown" and Verratti, speaking softly and wearing a grey V-neck sweater, must have felt like something of an aperitif for the main meal that was to follow.
He shuffled off stage shortly before The Zlatan Show swept in, and while there was no Eiffel Tower photo opportunity for the Italian, he has become almost as indispensable to PSG as his headline-hogging team-mate. In L'Équipe's average season ratings, Verratti (6.24) is second only to Ibrahimović (6.30) out of the entire championship.
He has been granted only fleeting opportunities by Italy coach Cesare Prandelli, winning just four caps, and must contend with Pirlo, Daniele De Rossi, Riccardo Montolivo and Claudio Marchisio for a place in the Azzurri midfield. But when he does get into the team (and with Pirlo now 34, a vacancy is likely to open up before long), he could prove impossible to budge. Just ask one of the players who's tried to get the ball off him as he twists and shimmies on the edge of his own penalty area. Just ask Cabaye.
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MIAMI - The U.S. military will no longer disclose to the media and public whether prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike, a spokesman said Wednesday, eliminating what had long been an unofficial barometer of conditions at the secretive military outpost.
Hunger strikes have been employed by men held at Guantanamo since shortly after the prison opened in January 2002 and the U.S. has long disclosed how many are refusing to eat and whether they meet military guidelines to be force fed.
Officials have now determined it is no longer in their interest to publicly disclose the information, said Navy Cmdr. John Fiolstrat, a spokesman for the military's Joint Task Force-Guantanamo.
"JTF-Guantanamo allows detainees to peacefully protest, but will not further their protests by reporting the numbers to the public," Filostrat said in an e-mail. "The release of this information serves no operational purpose and detracts from the more important issues, which are the welfare of detainees and the safety and security of our troops."
The U.S. holds 164 men at Guantanamo, most without charge. President Barack Obama had vowed to close the prison upon taking office but was thwarted by Congress, which imposed restrictions on transfers and releases. The military has long offered members of the media highly scripted tours of the detention center and would provide general information about prisoners, though not identifying them by name.
Human rights groups, lawyers and the media had long used the number of hunger strikers as a measure of discontent in the prison. A mass protest over conditions this year peaked in July at 106 prisoners.
The Miami Herald reported that as of Monday, when the statistics were apparently released for the last time, that there were 15 men on hunger strike, up from 11 in mid-November.


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This should be obvious, but if you want to sell narcotic bath salts masquerading as aromatherapy powder, there's no better packaging than Drew Brees, photoshopped to make it look like he's wearing Heath Ledger's Joker makeup (we think). It's basic marketing. Unfortunately, Blue Brees, the hot new drug on the street, has some startling side effects:
Mary Hughes of Denham Springs, Louisiana says her 16-year-old son got it as a present and smoked it, which led to a frightening night.
"His eyes were basically real droopy," Hughes said. "His speech was very slurred. He had no emotion. He barely could stand and absolutely no emotion, so 'Zombieland' was really correct. He was a zombie."
Hughes admits her daughter, who is of age, bought the product at a Baton Rouge store called Zombieland.
His eyes were basically real droopy. Get this menace off the streets!
Zombieland's owner pointed out that his products are merely for "aromatherapy" and not meant for smoking, to which Hughes sensibly responded, "If I was going to go in and buy something for aroma-therapy or make my house smell well, I wouldn't spend $20 on a little Ziplock baggy."
A spokesman for Drew Brees said his client would take "appropriate action," and an LSU law professor says the store probably infringed on the NFL's copyright.
Previously: LeBron James Is Now Being Used To Sell Heroin


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The "Wisconsin Insurgent Radio Network" show with Jim Mueller, attorney for Wisconsin Election Protection grassroots organizations is now archived for listening. Protecting the security and accuracy of our elections is paramount – as Mueller stated, billions of dollars are being invested in political power. It is critical to assure that election tampering is not unduly influencing our elections; especially at a time post-Citizens United when money already has an outsized influence on democracy. A group of grassroots organizations is in the process of conducting a county-by-county hand recount of recall election ballots. The count will be compared with the electronic results reported on election night and certified by the Government Accountability Board.
New York Times magazine featured an article pointing out the unreliability of electronic voting machines in 2008. Clive Thompson's piece follows election irregularities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and outlines the (at that time) growing concern over computer control of our elections.
A WNYC article from May 9, 2012 documents voting machines "dropping votes" in the Bronx, New York – nearly 30% in one precinct.
A short documentary titled "Hacking Democracy" demonstrates the ease in which vote totals can be changed by remote access on a simple laptop computer.
The basic problem is that a handful of privately owned companies are controlling the technology and mechanisms controlling HOW our most fundamental right to vote is counted…or not. These corporations have too much control over the process and equipment – to the point of "trade secret" protecting software programming.
You can get involved by going to "Wisconsin Counts" on Facebook, or www.wisconsinwave.org/handcount to volunteer to assist with the public handcounting of the recall election ballots.
For the record, the GAB states that Wisconsin goes through rigorous testing of machines before elections; including running "test packs" of ballots (small samples) to test for accuracy. This testing, according to the GAB, leads to certification of equipment before an election takes place.
Jim Mueller addresses this statement in the interview…you'll have to listen to hear his response.
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The attack on Reginald Denny was an incident in the 1992 Los Angeles riots in which Reginald Denny, a white construction truck driver, was beaten nearly to death by a group of black assailants who came to be known as the "L.A. Four". The attack was captured by a Los Angeles News Service helicopter piloted by Bob Tur and shot by Marika Tur. The video was broadcast live on US national television.
On March 3, 1991, video tape captured Rodney King, a black man, being repeatedly beaten by a group of LAPD officers. More than a year later, on April 29, 1992, all four officers were acquitted when the jury could not reach a verdict. The result sparked outrage about racism across the country, especially in South Central Los Angeles and South East Los Angeles where large groups of blacks took to the streets, many shouting "Black justice!" and "No justice, no peace!" Some of these protests and other large gatherings devolved into mob violence and destruction, in what became known as the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Reginald Oliver Denny (born January 22, 1956), 36 years old at the time, was a construction truck driver. On the first day of the rioting, Denny was attacked by four men, pulled from his truck and brutally beaten, sustaining serious head injuries and other injuries. As a result of the injuries he suffered during the attacks, Denny had to undergo years of rehabilitative therapy, and his speech and ability to walk were permanently damaged.[1]
After the 1993 trial of his assailants, he appeared on the Phil Donahue Show to shake hands with one of the assailants, Henry Keith Watson, after he apologized to Denny for the attacks. Denny largely avoids the media and rarely speaks about his ordeal. As of 2007, he works independently as a boat motor mechanic in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where he moved after an unsuccessful lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles.[1]
The "L.A. Four" was a nickname given to the first four men charged with the attack on Denny: Damian Williams, Henry Watson, Antoine Miller and Gary Williams. Two additional men, Anthony Brown and Lance Parker, were also charged with the attack on Denny but not until after the "L.A. Four" nickname had spread. The six were redubbed the "L.A. Four Plus".[2]
Damian "Football" Williams, probably the best-known of the assailants, was a 19-year-old with a criminal record including arrests for auto theft and robbery but no convictions. A football star in high school, he dreamed of becoming a professional football player and briefly played in a semi-professional league. When he was 16, he dropped out of school and joined a gang called the "Eight Tray Gangster Crips".[3]
Williams became the most recognized participant of L.A. riots due to the live news broadcast of his attack on Denny and his memorable nickname, which was repeated frequently in news media. By computer enhancement of the videotape, which revealed an identifying tattoo, Williams was identified as the man who had assaulted Denny with a brick.[4] Although the Denny beating received great publicity, Williams and his companions also assaulted and beat several Asian and Latino motorists who were passing through the area. Williams was charged with attempted murder, assault, and mayhem.[3]
In 1993, Williams was convicted of mayhem and misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to 10 years. In 1997, Williams was released for good behavior, but in 2003, he received a life sentence at Pelican Bay State Prison for the 2000 murder of Grover Tinner, a drug dealer.[3] He was sentenced to a minimum of 46 years.[3]
Anthony Brown was also a member of Eight Tray Gangster Crips.
Antoine "Twan" Miller was a 19-year-old who lived with Damian "Football" Williams' family. Miller's mother was a drug addict, so as a child, Miller was sent to live with his grandmother. When he was 12, his grandmother killed his grandfather and was convicted of this murder, leaving Miller homeless. Williams' mother, well-known around the neighborhood as kind and caring, took Miller into her home. Miller had previously been arrested for joyriding. On February 1, 2004, at the age of 31, Miller was shot and killed in a Hollywood nightclub.[5]
Lance Parker was a 26-year-old process server, who had no previous criminal record.
Henry Keith "Kiki" Watson was a 27-year-old former U.S. Marine and an ex-convict who had served time for robbery. After his release from prison, he married, had children, and was working two jobs. According to Williams, Watson was known around the neighborhood as a "gentleman" . After he was freed from jail in 1993, he appeared on The Phil Donahue Show and apologized to Denny for the attacks. Later, he would serve three years in prison for a narcotics conviction. Fifteen years after the attacks, Watson said during an interview: "Nobody specifically sought out Reginald Denny to cause him any harm. We got caught up in the moment, just like everyone else." Watson also stated on a VH1 documentary of the L.A. Riots that he does not regret participating in the assault of Reginald Denny. As of 2007, Watson still lives in Los Angeles and operates his own limousine service.[6]
Gary Williams (unrelated to Damian Williams) was alleged to be a habitual crack user, who was routinely reported to have been seen at a local gas station as a beggar.
On April 29, 1992, at 5:39 PM, Denny loaded his red, 18-wheel truck with 27 tons of sand and began driving to a plant in Inglewood, where the sand was due. He left the Santa Monica Freeway and took a familiar shortcut across Florence Avenue to get to his destination. His truck had no radio, so he did not realize that he was driving into a riot. At 6:46 p.m., after entering the intersection at Normandie, rioters threw rocks at his windows, and he heard people shouting for him to stop. Overhead, a news helicopter with journalists Bob Tur and his wife aboard captured the events that followed.
Denny stopped in the middle of the street. Antoine Miller opened the truck door, giving others the chance to pull Denny out. Another man, Henry Keith Watson, then held Denny's head down with his foot. Denny was kicked in the abdomen by an unidentified man. Two other unidentified men, who had led a liquor store break-in earlier that day, hurled a five-pound piece of medical equipment at Denny's head and hit him three times with a claw hammer. Damian Williams then threw a slab of concrete at Denny's head and knocked him unconscious.
Williams then did a victory dance over Denny and flashed gang signs at news helicopters, which were televising the events live; he also pointed and laughed at Denny. Anthony Brown then spat on Denny and left with Williams. Several bystanders took pictures of Denny but did not attempt to help him. LAPD officers in the vicinity did not assist Denny, either.
After the beating, various men threw beer bottles at the unconscious Denny. Gary Williams approached Denny and rifled through his pockets. Lance Parker stopped near Denny and attempted to shoot the fuel tank of Denny's truck but missed.
Bobby Green, Titus Murphy and Terri Barnett (boyfriend and girlfriend), and Lei Yuille (a dietitian), who had been watching the events on TV, came to Denny's aid. Denny eventually regained consciousness and dragged himself back into the cab, driving away from the scene slowly and erratically;.[7] Green (himself a truck driver), boarded Denny's truck and took over at the wheel, driving him to the hospital. At the time Green took over, Denny was on the brink of losing consciousness again, and he suffered a seizure shortly thereafter.
Paramedics who attended to Denny said he came very close to death. His skull was fractured in 91 places and pushed into the brain. His left eye was so badly dislocated that it would have fallen into his sinus cavity had the surgeons not replaced the crushed bone with a piece of plastic. A permanent crater remains in his head despite efforts to correct it. Denny had to undergo years of rehabilitative therapy, and his speech and ability to walk were permanently damaged.
On May 12, outgoing Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates started a search for three of Denny's attackers, who were identified from the video of the beating. Gates himself arrested Damian Williams, while other officers arrested Henry Watson and Antoine Miller. Soon afterwards, Gary Williams gave himself up to the police, having stolen Denny's wallet. The arrested three were suspected to be part of the gang 8-Trey Gangster Crips.
Gary Williams pleaded guilty to charges of robbery and assault in the spring of 1993 and was sentenced to three years in jail. Judge John W. Ouderkirk granted Miller a separate trial on the grounds that the strong evidence against Watson and Damian Williams could harm his case. The two, were charged with attempted murder, in addition to assault charges; Damian Williams was also charged with aggravated mayhem.
Edi M.O. Faal was Damian Williams' defense attorney, and Earl C. Broadly was Henry Watson's. On Wednesday, July 28, 1993, Watson's and Williams' trial began. The two were charged with the assault of Denny as well as five other motorists and two firefighters, who were driving past the intersection of Florence and Normandie shortly after the start of the Los Angeles riots on April 29, 1992. At the trial, Denny faced his attackers for the first time since they had assaulted him. On August 12, 1993, a jury of five whites, three blacks, three Latinos, and one Asian was chosen.
As in the Rodney King police trial, the prosecution relied heavily on video shot by a third party, this time in a helicopter. They also planned to build up portraits of Watson and Williams as criminals, antisocial, and beyond likelihood of rehabilitation and redemption.
On Thursday, August 19, Deputy District Attorney Lawrence Morrison delivered the opening statement. A week later, the videotape of the beating was shown. The doctors who treated Denny testified, describing his wounds and their efforts to repair them. Next to testify were witnesses of the beating. The defense was denied direct contact with the witnesses to protect their identities. In late August, Denny's rescuers testified for the prosecution. The prosecution rested on September 17, 1993.
The defense began pleading on September 20, making a case for unpremeditated assault. Faal began by challenging the video evidence and portrayed Williams as a victim of poverty and racism. She and Broadly tried to humanize their clients.
In the closing arguments the defense attorneys claimed Williams and Watson were being used as scapegoats for the L.A. riots. The prosecution counter-argued that the two had knowingly tried to kill Denny and were not victims.
After a few jury changes, a hung jury resulted for all charges except a felony count of mayhem for Williams, and one misdemeanor assault charge for both Williams and Watson on October 18. Watson was then given credit for time served and was released. As the families of the defendants celebrated the lesser sentences, Denny surprisingly approached Damian Williams' mother Georgina and hugged her. Other family members then exchanged warm embraces and words of reconciliation with him.
For weeks afterwards, public debate about racism and whether or not the verdict were just or unjust raged on. As the debate continued, Williams was denied bail and sentenced by Judge Ouderkirk to a maximum of ten years in prison on December 7, 1993. Williams was released early for good behavior in 1997. On December 5, 2003, he received a life sentence for murdering a drug dealer in July, 2000. He will not be eligible for parole until he serves 47 years.
The best available footage of Denny's beating on April 29, 1992 was filmed by Marika Tur from a helicopter piloted by her then-husband, reporter Bob Tur. Together, they operated a company called Los Angeles News Service (LANS). In the rush to cover the riots as they developed, dozens of television networks and stations around the world simply copied and aired the LANS footage without permission.
LANS sued nearly all of them in federal court for copyright infringement; at least one of these lawsuits was successful.[8] The last case was finally settled in 2004. Only a small handful of stations, mostly in California, already had preexisting agreements with LANS or waited to negotiate agreements before airing the footage, and thus were not sued.
In July 2006, LANS sued the site YouTube in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, for copyright infringement. LANS alleged in the lawsuit, that in one week's time, a version of the video uploaded by a YouTube user was viewed over 1,000 times via the site. They argued this hurt their ability to license the video. YouTube requested summary judgment based on DMCA safe harbor, which was denied. LANS voluntarily dismissed the case without prejudice, planning to join a class action against YouTube in New York. YouTube appealed both the dismissal and the summary judgment ruling. However, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed the appeal.[9]
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Program Overview
The Emergency Medicine Residency at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is a three-year, ACGME-accredited program that accepts nine residents per year.
Program Details
Thank you for your interest in Penn State Health's Emergency Medicine Residency Program. It has many advantages for the emergency physician in training:
- Hershey Medical Center is a large academic teaching hospital — the only combined Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center in the state.
- We see more than 75,000 visits per year; 19,000 are pediatric patients. With high patient acuity and a wide variety of complaints, our residents are provided with an exceptional and well-rounded exposure to both common and rare pathologies.
- The emergency department includes more than 60 patient treatment areas. There are resuscitation bays, an ED observation unit, an area of patients with less severe illness or injuries, as well as a recently expanded Pediatric Emergency Department.
- Through Life Lion air and ground EMS services, we provide both 911 and critical-care transport for the local community and greater central Pennsylvania region. All residents are trained in providing medical command, and senior residents take medical command calls in the department under faculty supervision. Residents and faculty also provide event coverage at Beaver Stadium in State College, PA, for home Penn State football games.
- We use the latest technology including a completely electronic medical record, electronic patient tracking system, computerized order entry, a digital radiology system, select point-of-care laboratory testing and point-of-care ultrasound. Residents and staff use a wireless telephone system so they are never tied to a phone.
Our Team
The academic year is broken down into 13 four-week blocks. The 2016-2017 academic year block schedule includes:
- Emergency Department – 7 blocks
- Anesthesia – 1 block
- Cardiology – 1 block
- MICU – 1 block
- Obstetrics and Gynecology – 1 block
- Orthopaedics – 1 block
- Trauma Surgery – 1 block
Emergency Department
Seven blocks are spent in the emergency department during the PGY-1 year, including the first block in July, which is dedicated to orientation. Residents become accustomed to patient care as well as their role in the department. ED blocks are balanced with off-service rotations throughout the year.
This rotation focuses on the perioperative airway and anesthetic management of patients undergoing surgery. Residents work under the direct supervision of an anesthesiologist. Responsibilities include performance of pre-operative history and physical examination, induction and maintenance of anesthesia, airway and ventilator management, intra-operative monitoring and post-operative evaluation.
This rotation is shared between both the acute cardiology and the congestive heart failure services. Residents become familiar with the acute and daily management of common and uncommon cardiac issues.
The Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) is a busy, high-acuity rotation, where residents stabilize and manage a large variety of pathology, including more common conditions as well as more complex cases infrequently seen outside of an academic teaching facility.
Obstetrics and Gynecology – Harrisburg Hospital
The Obstetrics and Gynecology rotation is completed at Harrisburg Hospital, part of Pinnacle Health System. During this rotation, residents familiarize themselves with the stages of labor and delivery, and participate in both uncomplicated and occasionally complicated deliveries.
The orthopaedics rotation focuses on the evaluation and management of musculoskeletal complaints. Residents work under the supervision of Emergency Department faculty, as well as working in conjunction with the Orthopaedics team. Residents learn the necessary elements to complete a detailed musculoskeletal exam, determine any appropriate testing for the complaint involved, perform or assist in relevant procedures, as well as determine management of that complaint.
Trauma Surgery
Residents will be a member of the Trauma Surgery team and participate in the care of patients meeting trauma criteria, with primary emphasis on evaluation, resuscitation, proficiency in procedural skills, as well as post-operative monitoring and care. The resident is supervised by the team leader (senior surgical resident) and trauma faculty.
- Emergency Department – 8 blocks
- Emergency Department at Pinnacle – 1 and 1/2 blocks
- EMS – 1 block
- Surgical Anesthesia Intensive Care Unit (SAICU) – 1 block
- PICU – 1 block
- Ultrasound – 1/2 block
Emergency Department
Eight blocks are spent in the emergency department during the PGY-2 year. Residents focus on honing the skills obtained during their PGY-1 year, as well as providing more efficient delivery of patient care. They balance this with new skills expected of a senior resident, such as taking medical command calls, coverage for trauma airways, and supervision and teaching of medical students and junior residents.
Emergency Department – Harrisburg Hospital
Six weeks are spent in the emergency department of Harrisburg Hospital, part of Pinnacle Health System. This is an inner-city community hospital in Harrisburg, PA. The rotation is designed to expose residents to all types of patients presenting to a non-academic, non-tertiary care emergency department.
This PGY-2 level EMS rotation is geared towards educating the resident about the structure and function of EMS and the role of the emergency physician in interacting with pre-hospital providers. The resident will work under the direct supervision of the attending physician or senior healthcare provider (RN or paramedic) on scene.
Surgical Anesthesia Intensive Care Unit (SAICU)
A rotation at the PGY-2 level in the Surgical Anesthesia Intensive Care Unit (SAICU) is required of all residents. The rotation is designed to expand the resident's knowledge base regarding the evaluation and management of the critically ill surgical patient. The Emergency Medicine resident will spend two weeks on the Anesthesia Critical Care Service and two weeks on the Surgical Critical Care Service. There is a broad range of pathology seen on either of the two services during the SAICU rotation.
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) rotation is required of all residents. The goal of this rotation is to develop the resident's knowledge base in the evaluation and management of critically ill pediatric patients. The resident oversees a mix of medical and surgical cases, as well as common and uncommon pathologies, while rotating in the PICU at our nationally ranked Children's Hospital.
All PGY-2 residents have a dedicated two-week ultrasound rotation under the direct supervision of the department's Ultrasound Director. The rotation enhances the resident's ability for real-time decision making based on point-of-care ultrasound findings. Preparation for independent practice occurs by furthering their skills in both ultrasound image acquisition and interpretation.
- Emergency Medicine – 11 blocks
- Elective – 1 block
- MICU/Pinnacle – 1 block
Emergency Department
Eleven blocks are spent in the emergency department during the PGY-3 year. This rotation focuses on refining the clinical skills achieved during the first two years of residency and developing the supervisory and administrative abilities required to manage an emergency department. Residents learn the logistics of running a busy department, including the elements of throughput, staffing, and efficiency. They continue to supervise medical students and assist junior residents, in addition to managing their own patients, all in preparation for independent practice.
MICU – Harrisburg Hospital
This rotation occurs in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Harrisburg Hospital, part of Pinnacle Health System. This rotation provides an opportunity for the resident to further their skills in the evaluation and management of multiple critically ill medical and surgical patients, but at a community hospital with a different patient population and varying pathology.
All residents have a four-week elective rotation in their PGY-3 year. Residents may arrange an elective within the Penn State Health system, or may gather information on an outside rotation and apply for approval through the GME office.
Resident Life FAQs
How are the shifts scheduled?
Shifts are nine hours long with the final hour focused on patient disposition and transitions of care. Interns typically work 21 shifts in a four-week block with decreasing numbers of shifts in each subsequent year of residency. There is also a clinical shift reduction for blocks containing vacation weeks.
Do you have electronic medical records in the emergency department?
Yes, Penn State Health is integrated into one EMR. There is an electronic tracking board to assess throughput and optimize patient care in the department. All charting, order entry and result viewing is electronic.
What is conference like?
Every Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., residents have protected time and will attend conference. Didactic material is provided in a variety of formats.
Are there dedicated pediatric shifts or pediatric months?
In order to be exposed to the full breadth that is pediatric emergency medicine, our residents have a longitudinal exposure to pediatric patients throughout all three years of their training. Emergency Medicine residents start seeing children on day one and can expect to see children on nearly every shift. Residents are also scheduled for dedicated shifts with our pediatric emergency medicine faculty.
What fellowships are available?
We currently sponsor an Emergency Medical Services Fellowship.
What research opportunities exist?
Multiple opportunities exist depending on your interest. Dedicated departmental support for resident research is available. Every resident is expected to complete a scholarly activity project during training.
How much vacation do residents get?
Residents get three weeks of vacation each year; during a vacation block, they work a reduced number of clinical shifts. In addition, post-graduate year three (PGY-3) residents are given additional time to attend the national American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) scientific assembly.
What type of benefits do I get as a resident?
The Office of Graduate Medical Education Office offers a competitive package of benefits for our residents. Learn more about benefits here.
How is ultrasound incorporated into the residency?
Residents participate in an ultrasound course during their orientation to the department. Afterward, they are encouraged to use ultrasound each and every shift. Our ultrasound director reviews all of the studies, grades them and offers teaching points when appropriate. The residents have a two-week ultrasound rotation during the second year to further hone and develop their skills.
Is there an orientation period for new interns?
Yes, there is a dedicated period of orientation for new interns upon their arrival in July. All new ED interns will work a reduced number of clinical shifts and participate in a variety of labs, simulations and orientation activities to help in the transition from senior medical students to functioning emergency medicine interns. In addition, all new interns will become certified in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), advanced trauma life support (ATLS) and pediatric advanced life support (PALS).
Where would I go for my community emergency medicine experience?
During the second year of residency, students rotate through Harrisburg Hospital, part of the Pinnacle Health System, approximately 12 miles from Hershey Medical Center. This clinical environment exposes our residents to an urban and community-based patient population, which is distinctly different from that of Hershey Medical Center.
What type of critical-care experience do I get during my training?
Interns rotate through the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Hershey Medical Center, and frequently encounter critically ill patients on their Cardiology rotation as well. Our second-year residents rotate through the Surgical Anesthesia Intensive Care Unit (SAICU) and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. In PGY-3, residents rotate through the MICU at Harrisburg Hospital, part of Pinnacle Health System.
How often do you use simulation during residency?
We incorporate three or more hours of simulation into almost every month of the conference schedule. Residents also have independent access to the Simulation Center; some areas are open 24/7.
To Apply
The Emergency Medicine Residency accepts applications through ERAS and participates in the NRMP Match.
Application Requirements
The completed ERAS application form should include:
- Dean's letter/MSPE
- Medical school transcripts
- Letters of recommendation/SLOEs
- Personal statement
- Medical examination score (USMLE Step 1 or COMLEX Step I)
Visiting Medical Students
Visiting medical students interested in completing an away rotation in our department should apply through VSAS.
Current Residents
Past Residents
Contact Us
General Contact Information
Phone: 717-531-1443
About Hershey
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