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This Day in Sports History — November 16
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on November 16:
1924 — The Canton Bulldogs lost to the Frankford YellowJackets, ending a record 31-game undefeated streak. (More info.)
1957 — Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics grabbed a then NBA-record 49 rebounds, as his team beat the Philadelphia Warriors, 111-89, at Boston Garden. (More info.)
1957 — Notre Dame beat Oklahoma, 7-0, at Norman, Okla. to stop the Sooners' win streak at 47 games. (More info.)
1991 — Top-ranked Florida State lost to No. 2 Miami, 17-16, when the Seminoles' Gerry Thomas pushed a 34-yard field goal attempt wide right with seconds to play. (More info.)
1999 — Pedro Martinez of the Boston Red Sox won the American League Cy Young Award in a unanimous vote. (More info.)

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Mugen Power is reported to be working on external casing for Windows Phones. Said cases would wrap around the handset to provide extra battery juice in emergencies when a power outlet is nowhere to be found. A jacket is to be produced for the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X, while a different solution is planned for the Lumia 820 (since it sports interchangeable covers).
The company published a post on its Italy Facebook page asking those who are subscribed, "Do you have or plan to buy a Nokia Lumia 920, HTC 8X, 4 Nexus, Sony Xperia Z? Stay tuned, we will soon have news for you" (rough translation). Windows Phone Italy got in touch with Mugen to query exactly what the company was hinting at regarding Windows Phones. They were provided information on external enclosures (jackets) for the smartphones mentioned in the quote.
The above image shows just what Mugen could be bringing to the platform. Such cases are available for the HTC One X family of devices, which sport non-removable batteries. The company admits that while the cases (or jackets) will add extra weight and considerable size to the smartphone, the benefits of that extra spark of charge to the on-board battery is more than worth it. The case can be removed when not needed - it's pretty much an emergency charger, if you will.
As well as the jackets for the Lumia 920 and 8X, Mugen will also bring to the table an extended battery for the Lumia 820 (as mentioned above). This will replace the removable battery (1650mAh) supplied by Nokia. It's not known if the new battery will add weight and size to the device, requiring a new shell that can contain such an upgrade. Hopefully it'll be the case where the new battery will leave no footprint.
Should you be running through the battery quicker than desired, be sure to keep an eye out for upcoming battery extension jackets. This isn't the first time Mugen has supported Windows Phone, we previously looked at a HTC TITAN replacement battery.
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Dr. Popovici received her B.S. degree in Mathematics from University of Craiova, Romania, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematical Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Loyola, she was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Utah, and an Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University. Her research interests are in Analysis, specifically Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations.
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Mitt Romney sweeps primaries in five states
Updated: 11:49 p.m. ET
(CBS News) Mitt Romney won all five Republican presidential primaries Tuesday night, completing a sweep of contests in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Romney boasted more than 50 percent of the vote in all five states.
In Connecticut, with 91 percent of the expected votes in, Romney led Ron Paul 67 percent to 13 percent. In Rhode Island, with most of the expected votes counted, Romney led Paul 63 percent to 24 percent.
In Pennsylvania, with nearly all of the votes in, Romney had 58 percent. Rick Santorum, who dropped out of the Republican presidential contest earlier this month, followed with 18 percent of the vote.
In Delaware, with most of the votes counted, Romney led Newt Gingrich 56 percent to 27 percent. And in New York, with 75 percent of the expected votes in, Romney led Paul 62 percent to 16 percent.
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Romney is likely to add more than 200 delegates to the 692 estimated delegates he had already secured before the evening's five contests.
Romney will still lack the 1,144 delegates necessary to formally clinch the Republican nomination after Tuesday -- but the former Massachusetts governor is clearly claiming the mantle of presumptive Republican nominee. Even as he continues to put in the requisite work toward officially sealing up the Republican nomination, he pivoted to the general election in a speech Tuesday night in New Hampshire.Romney: "A better America begins tonight"
Has Newt Gingrich damaged his brand?
Santorum, Romney to meet next week
After string of losses, Gingrich hints at an exit
Speaking to supporters, the presumptive GOP nominee focused his attention solely on President Obama. Romney did not mention either of this remaining Republican rivals by name, instead casting himself as an improvement over the current president and promising "the start of a new and better chapter."
"A better America begins tonight," Romney told the enthusiastic crowd. "Tonight is the start of a new campaign to unite every American who knows in their heart that we can do better. The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do. But it's not the best America can do. Tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years."
The Obama campaign immediately hit back against the Romney camp, arguing in a statement that Romney's speech "should have been Back to the Future, because he has proposed a return to the same policies that got us into the economic crisis in the first place."Primary Results: Connecticut | Delaware | New York | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island
"Mitt Romney has spent the past year out on the campaign trail tearing down the President with a negative message that even Republicans who have endorsed him have criticized," Obama for America Press Secretary Ben LaBolt said in the statement. "This marks the end of that monologue. Now he must put his record and his agenda next to the President's."
Despite what increasingly looks like Romney's inevitable success in securing the Republican nomination, Newt Gingrich on Tuesday vowed to continue campaigning in North Carolina. He indicated , however, that he plans to reevaluate his run in the wake of his losses, and said Tuesday his campaign would in the coming days "look realistically where we're at."
The former speaker, who has only won two nominating contests, was counting on a strong performance in Delaware Tuesday to get a "bounce" that might prompt donors to take another look at his candidacy. He has vowed to stay in the race until the Republican presidential convention in Tampa this summer, but his presidential campaign is more than $4 million in debt and the pace of its fundraising has fallen significantly behind its spending, according to figures released by the campaign Friday evening.
Gingrich suggested that if Romney does clinch the nomination, he will support his candidacy.
"If he does end up as the nominee, I think every conservative in this country has to be committed to defeating Barack Obama," Gingrich said.
In an appearance on CNN Tuesday night, Santorum declined to explicitly endorse Romney, but said that "If he's the nominee, I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he defeats Barack Obama."
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AS A RS SOPHOMORE (2013-2014): (XC) Ran in his first race of the season at the Stanford Invitational with a time of 26:43 in the 8k … finished 32nd at 25:37 at the 8k WCC Championships.
AS A SOPHOMORE (2012-2013): (XC) Started the season at the WCC Preview 7,770 meter race with a time of 24:41.34 … Competed at the Stanford Invite 8k in 25:35 … Earned a personal best time in the 8k at the Bronco Invite in 25:10 … Finished 32nd at the WCC Championship in the 8k with a time of 25:06.4 … Ended the season at the NCAA West Regional Cross Country 10k in 31:32. (TRACK) Ran 15:12.49 for 8th place in the 5k at the Chico Distance Carnival … Raced in the 5k run in 14:53.89 at the Brutus Hamilton Invite ... Earned 15:14.48 in the 5k at the West Coast Invite.
AS A FRESHMAN (2011-2012): (XC) Did not race due to injury. (TRACK) Competed in the 5k at the SF State Distance Carnival in 15:40.46 … Earned 15:53.40 in the 5k at Woody Wilson Invite … Earned 15:22.74 in the Brutus Hamilton Invite 5k … Ran in the Sac State Open 800m in 4:12.65 … Finished his first track season in the 5k at the West Coast Invite with a time of 15:16.48.
Cross Country: 24:41 in the 7,770m (2012 - WCC Preview); 25:06.4 in the 8k (2012 - WCC Championships); 31:32 in the 10k (2012 - NCAA D1 West Regionals)
Track: 4:12.65 in the 1500m (2012 - Sac State Open); 14:53.89 in the 5k (2013 - Brutus Hamilton Invite)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Jim Bordoni ... Best Marks in Cross Country: Mt. Sac Invite 2.95 miles-15:26, Toro Park 3mile-15:48 ... Best Marks in Track: 1600m 4:26.52 3200m 9:20.39 ...
Top Finishes: 4th Place Central Coast Section D2 XC Championship 2010
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Limbaugh's Hypocrisy On The Fifth Amendment
Despite previously applauding a Bush administration official who invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to testify before a Congressional hearing, Rush Limbaugh is now criticizing IRS official Lois Lerner for doing the same.
On May 22, Lerner, who heads the IRS office for tax-exempt organizations, exercised her Fifth Amendment right during a congressional oversight committee hearing into the IRS' scrutiny of conservative groups. Lerner said she had done nothing wrong, but on the advice of her counsel and due to an ongoing criminal investigation, said she would not answer questions or testify before the committee.
Later that day, Limbaugh said Lerner was using the Fifth Amendment to get out of answering questions and that the Fifth Amendment wouldn't be used by someone who says they "haven't done anything wrong" :
LIMBAUGH: By the way, on this Lois Lerner business folks, about the Fifth Amendment -- the Fifth Amendment is not meant to be used as a way to get out of answering questions. The Fifth Amendment is clearly there to ensure that you don't have to testify against yourself.
The Fifth Amendment-- you're charging me? Then you prove it. I'm not going to incriminate myself. But it's not meant to be used as a way of getting out of answering questions. Particularly when you say first, "I haven't done anything wrong! I have not participated in any criminal activity, I haven't done anything wrong." Well then why are you invoking the Fifth? Just so you don't have to answer questions? Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Limbaugh's statements, however, contradict comments he made about the Fifth Amendment during the George W. Bush administration.
In 2007, the Bush White House came under fire for the allegedly politically-motivated firing of U.S. attorneys. The Department of Justice's White House Liaison, Monica Goodling, was called to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, but instead refused to answer questions after citing her Fifth Amendment right.
During a March 2007 broadcast, Limbaugh responded to a caller's question about Goodling invoking the Fifth by describing the hearing as a "perjury trap," praised her attorney for being "wise to have her plead the fifth," and even taking issue with those who assume that pleading the Fifth is an admission of guilt:
LIMBAUGH: It's a perjury trap. A lot of this stuff is just being set up for perjury traps. That's why they want Rove and Harriet Miers under oath on this whole issue. So, the lawyer says that the obvious lack of impartiality of the Senate and conclusions already reached make anybody, especially Monica Goodling's testimony, perilous here. He's wise to have her plead the Fifth. Now, what do you think about this, though, Matt? The Fifth Amendment is what it is. It's certainly a constitutional right. But most people think, "A-ha! A-ha! Fifth Amendment! A-ha, a-ha! Guilty! You're afraid to go up and show it. You're afraid to admit it." You know that's how people react to people who take the fifth.


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|Statement by Ambassador ZHANG Yesui at the Open Debate of the Security Council on the "Issue of Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts"
New York, 11 November 2009
Mr. President,
At the outset, I wish to welcome you to the Security Council to preside over this open debate. I also wish to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Ms. Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, for their briefings.
In recent years, growing importance has been attached to the protection of civilians in a widespread manner, and the international community has made active efforts to resolve this issue. However, with changes in the characteristics of armed conflicts and the effects of various complicated factors, large numbers of civilians in many regions of the world are still harmed by armed conflicts. The international community still has a lot to do in relation to the issue of protection of civilians. We are deeply concerned over the threat and harm to the lives and property of civilians in armed conflicts and urge parties to conflicts to comply with international humanitarian law and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and to protect the lives, property, and legitimate rights and interests of civilians.
Mr. President,
The issue of protection of civilians involves many aspects and is very complex; the countries concerned, the relevant international agencies of the United Nations, and regional organizations should exploit their strengths and expertise and work in a concerted way, jointly responding to the issue. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Security Council discussion of the issue of protection of civilians in armed conflicts. We should take this opportunity to review and analyze work done over the past decade and engage in serious thinking and study on how to make the Security Council do a better job of playing its due role here in terms of the following several aspects.
First, as the core of the United Nations collective security mechanism, the Security Council shoulders the onerous task of maintaining international peace and security. Undoubtedly, what the Council should focus on and deal with is the protection of civilians in armed conflict rather than anything else. The Council's responsibilities dictate that it should set out clearly-defined goals and priorities for its work and, in particular, focus its attention on the genesis of the problem. While preventing and containing conflicts, it should address the issue of civilian protection within the overall framework of the political process of peaceful resolution of disputes. Efforts to protect civilians should both be conducive to ameliorating and eliminating the harm done to civilians by armed conflicts, and be based on the overall situation to help safeguard and advance the political process of peaceful resolution of conflicts which, in turn, contributes to civilian protection by addressing the root causes.
Second, the primary responsibility for the protection of civilians lies with national governments. The international community and external organizations may provide constructive assistance but, in doing so, they should comply with the provisions of the UN Charter, fully respect the will, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country concerned, and refrain from forcible interference. Dialogue between the UN and non-state armed groups may be helpful for civilian protection, but such dialogue should be conducted within the general framework of cooperation between the United Nations and the country in question and with the consent of its government. On the question of impunity, we support the leading role played by the domestic judicial system of the country concerned. The Security Council can play a positive role in promoting the protection of civilians, but we never approve of the use or threat of sanctions by the Council at every turn. On questions related to the protection of civilians in armed conflict, prudence is particularly warranted when it comes to sanctions.
Third, through efforts over the years, the international community has developed a relatively complete system of international legal norms. The pressing task now is to ensure the comprehensive, just and effective implementation of the existing norms. In this context, the competent UN entities and international treaty bodies should continue to play their important roles. The Council has adopted many resolutions and presidential statements on the protection of civilians. The priority for the next stage should be pushing forward the effective implementation of these documents rather than rushing into making new rules.
Fourthly, for a UN peace-keeping mission to implement the mandate to protect civilians is a decision the Security Council takes on a case-by-case basis. We are of the view that a mandate to protect civilians should be prepared in light of real need, taking into full account the situation on the ground and the existing capacity and conditions of a given peace-keeping mission; a one-size-fits-all approach is not advisable. We attach great importance to the protection of civilians, but we are not in favor of indiscriminately multiplying such mandates while ignoring real conditions and physical viability. It is necessary to emphasize that the key to ensure a successful peace-keeping mission is to stick to the three principles governing PKOs, namely, established local consent, mission neutrality, and non-use of force except in self-defense. Any deviation from the above principles in implementing a mandate to protect civilians will only create more problems than solutions and could even jeopardize the whole peace-keeping process.
Mr. President,
In addressing the mandate to protect civilians, the Security Council efforts alone are far from adequate. To treat it by its symptoms while ignoring the root cause of a conflict itself will not help towards finding a fundamental solution to the protection of civilians. Today, most of the conflicts are taking place in less developed areas. The UN should mobilize world resources, provide countries involved with financial and technical assistance to help them develop their economies, extricate themselves from poverty and thereby to uproot conflicts. It's our hope that GA, ECOSOC, UNDP, World Bank and other international institutions and regional organizations will play a role to help countries involved in areas such as economic development, conflict resolution and protection of civilian protection. We also welcome NGOs to play a positive role in this regard.
China is to work with the international community to facilitate more constructive achievements in the work to protect civilians in armed conflicts through pragmatic and effective efforts.
Thank you, Mr. President.


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PALM BEACH, Fla.—The media in Ascent Media—the new owner of Monitronics—is really limited to the company name. That was one of the messages from Bill Fitzgerald, chairman of the board of Ascent Media Corporation, at the Barnes Buchanan conference here in February.
He got some laughs from the conference crowd when he said: "You're looking at me and thinking 'Here come the cable guys again.'"
In some ways, Fitzgerald said, the crowd was right to think that. After all, Fitzgerald came to Ascent Media from AT&T Broadband, formerly known as TeleCommunications, Inc. (TCI). He also still holds the post of SVP of Liberty Media Corporation, whose chairman is cable industry pioneer John Malone.
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Older style cabin which has recently been renovated, designed for the budget conscious or for overnight stays. Ideal for workers travelling through. Double bed with all linen and towels provided. Kitchenette with microwave, fridge/freezer, crockery and cutlery provided. Cooking utensils provided. TV, heating/cooling. All linen and towels provided for all beds
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All bookings taken online or over the phone will be required to pay a one night's stay as a deposit to confirm and secure your booking. Non payment of deposit does not secure or confirm your booking - applies to sites/cabins. GROUP BOOKINGS/SPECIAL EVENTS/PEAK SEASON : One night's stay as a deposit is required within 7 days of making the reservation. Confirmation of numbers within 90 days prior to arrival. (GROUP BOOKINGS ONLY) 50% of remaining balance to be paid 45 days prior to arrival. Full payment required 14 days prior to arrival. No changes or alterations within 30 days to arrival date.
Changes & Cancellations
STRICTLY NO CREDITS TO BE HELD UNLESS YOU HAVE ANOTHER BOOKING DATE. Group Bookings: Cancellations - 30 days prior to arrival will lose one nights deposit on all sites/cabins booked. Strictly no alterations to numbers of persons staying within 30 DAYS of arrival date during Peak season/long weekends or event weekends.
No pets allowed
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Perks+ and VIPerks members Terms & Conditions
- Perks can only be redeemed once per stay and will be provided to the person who is named on the membership card.
- A minimum of one perk will be available during your stay, on request and subject to availability.
- Early check-in is subject to availability and cannot be guaranteed.
- Late Checkout is subject to availability and cannot be guaranteed.
- Accommodation Upgrade is subject to availability and cannot be guaranteed.
- Free Pot of Beer, Glass of House Wine or Soft Drink with the purchase of every main meal(Evening Meals Only) @ The Lake View Hotel
- In-park Perks can be updated at any time and without prior notice.
- In-park Perks are not transferrable or redeemable for cash.
- Some perks like early check-in and late check out may need to be requested in advance, simply check your booking conditions for details.
- In-park Perks terms and conditions are at the discretion of each BIG4 holiday park – they can be conditional on types of stay, such as cabin guests vs site guests and type of membership such as Perks+ and VIPerks.
When booking online, please note we do not accept group bookings for:
- Bucks/Hens parties
- End of year sports team break up trips
- 18th/21st birthday groups.
- Any person under the age of 18 years cannot make a booking in their name.
If you book and pay online you will not be refunded any monies paid if, on arrival, you are deemed to be one of these groups. Please phone on 1800 062 340 (free call) and speak to management if you have questions about this policy.
Balance of account to be paid on arrival by cash, Mastercard, Visa or EFTPOS. Tariffs quoted are based on the number of persons specified on booking. If this number changes the tariff will alter. Prices quoted are current at time of booking, but are subject to review and may change without notice. No cheques are accepted upon arrival to pay for accommodation, cheques need to be cleared prior to arrival.
Later Arrivals: After 7pm Fridays 6pm Saturday to Thursday (inclusive)
If you are going to be a later arrival after 7pm, please let the office staff know at time of booking or add notes into online booking page. We are then able to relay additional information in relation to collecting keys. Any outstanding amount will then be asked for to complete your booking.
Refunds/Cancellation Policy - (Non Group Booking)
- Prior to 14 days of arrival date - Refund of deposit less $20 administration fee.
- 14 days or less of arrival date - No refund unless we are able to re-let the accommodation for the same period of the original booking. Administration fee will apply.
For group bookings- Cancellations 30 days prior to arrival will forfeit a one nights deposit for each cabin/ site booked..
For the health, comfort and convenience of all park patrons the following conditions apply and will be enforced:
- All accommodation and park facilities are smoke free zones.
- Parents/guardians are responsible for the supervision of their children, and others under 18 years in their care.
- At all times, no pets allowed and/or continuous noise will not be tolerated at any time, particularly after 10pm.
- Only one vehicle, per site permitted unless prior arrangement has been made with management.
- No open fires permitted (including wood fueled barbecues). Fire bans to be obeyed at all times.
- Skateboards/Rollerblades are not permitted. Please observe normal laws and regulations regarding bicycle safety No riding bikes, scooters on concrete pathways, particularly around the amenities block. No racing or deliberate skidding. Bikes and/or scooters not permitted inside cabins under any circumstances.
- Jumping pillow is off limits when deflating and inflating and is not to be used after dark.
- Basketball court, mini golf and play ground area are off limits after dark for the safety and well being of all guests particularly children.
- No car or van washing permitted due to ongoing water restrictions in park. Please see reception for the closest vehicle washing facilities in the area.
Park facilities are for the use of park patrons only. Vistors must report to the office. Park management reserves the right to prohibit entry to and/or remove persons from the parks without refund of monies paid.
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Supercritical fluids are quickly becoming an alternative to costly and dangerous organic solvents in chemical processes. As the boundaries between gas and liquid blur at high temperatures and pressure, a supercritical fluid loses surface tension and can act as an impressive solvent. Readers of Nobel Intent have seen the endless stream of CNT coverage as the nanotechnology boom continues—it was only a matter of time before carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and supercritical fluids were put together.
Supercritical fluid processing of CNTs has generated composite materials that, in some cases, are easier and cheaper to prepare, while in others produced entirely new nanostructures. Advanced Materials has put together a review showing the diversity of the structures prepared with supercritical fluids and CNTs.
CNTs, despite all their glowing press coverage, don't play well with others. The lock-tight carbon-carbon bonding makes it difficult to bond other molecules to their surface, a process called functionalizing, and the low surface tension makes any attempts at sticking particles to the CNT the rough equivalent of trying to glue something to a Teflon frying pan. The difficulties associated with dispersing CNTs in a solution (past coverage of this problem, and one solution, can be found here) makes solution processing and bulk preparation of CNT composites difficult.
Any CNT composite nanostructures are usually the result of a complicated, low-volume, or otherwise exotic processing route. Supercritical fluids, and their uncanny knack for dissolving nearly anything, give a unique opportunity to put CNTs and other substances in close contact in one another. The elevated temperatures, high pressures, and somewhat tunable properties of supercritical fluids certainly help foster favorable reaction conditions, as well.
The CNT composites described in the review fell into three categories, representing an impressive breadth of potential products from the same general processing principle: metal-CNT composites, metal oxide-CNT composites, and organic molecule-CNT composites. Metal-CNT composites were prepared using primarily supercritical CO2 and a mixture of other solvents and precursor materials that could be decomposed to leave metal behind. Particles of Pt, Ru (or both!) on the order of 2-3nm in size were deposited on the CNTs surface with a high efficiency.
Oxide compounds were also deposited, including zirconia (ZrO2) and titania (TiO2). In some cases, a complete shell was deposited on the CNT; the CNT could then be burnt out, leaving behind a pure oxide nanostructure. Other tests show a synergistic effect between the oxides and the CNTs in applications such as absorbing EM radiation or detecting chemicals.
Polymers (or precursor monomers) could be deposited on the CNTs, and usually resulted in the core of the CNT being filled with the molecule. This could then be reacted further to create a completed polymer or any of a myriad of other options that organic chemistry leaves open.
The advantages of supercritical fluid processing are easy to see: simple substances are used as the solvent (water, CO2 and alcohols), and the whole process can be done in one vessel. This makes it one of only a handful of nanotech processes that are easily scalable for industry.
The CNT composite structures mentioned have an impressive array of potential applications. Pt and Ru are noble metals used to catalyze several important chemical reactions, and are are used in green tech like fuel cells. These reactions are usually driven by surface area and, when you are talking 3nm particle sizes, your surface area to volume ratio skyrockets.
Oxide compounds are useful for a variety of sensor applications, solar cells, and semiconductors. Polymer/CNT composites have a nearly infinite applications as well—in my particular branch of materials (the structural variety), CNTs are less than ideal for use in a structural composite because they just slip out of the epoxy matrix. A functionalized CNT that is chemically bonded to the epoxy matrix would allow one to achieve structures that allow for high performance and energy efficiency.
Maybe even more important than the CNT composites themselves is the potential to make higher-scale ordered nanostructures. For all the amazing properties we see coming out of the labs, getting a bulk device to use those properties is a huge obstacle—being able to attach other compounds to a CNT opens the door for self assembly and the precision ordering that nanomaterials demand, which is, in my opinion, the crux of the nano issue.
Advanced Materials, 2008. DOI: 10.1002/adma.200800609


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Three years ago, the West African Ebola epidemic set off a worldwide panic and the biggest global-health security crisis in years. Then Zika struck and the reality of those transmittable disease threats was brought even closer to home in the United States, with more than 5,000 cases reported and America still on high alert. Yet today, an even greater potential threat to the world is sweeping across Brazil.
The disease, yellow fever, is a deadly virus that spreads as rapidly as Zika, with symptoms that can be as horrific as Ebola. It is transmitted by certain species of mosquito, including the same Aedes aegypti that carries Zika. Up to 15 percent of those bitten become severely ill, with symptoms that include black vomit and bleeding from the nose, mouth and eyes. For up to half of those who develop severe symptoms, yellow fever ends in a painful death.
Until about a century ago, the disease regularly caused urban epidemics in the United States, including one in Philadelphia that killed 10 percent of the population in 1793, forcing President George Washington and others in his administration to flee what was then the nation's capital.
Now, with Brazil facing an unusually large outbreak of yellow fever — there are 715 confirmed cases, more than 820 suspected cases and 240 confirmed deaths — another global health crisis looms. So far, the outbreaks have largely been confined to sparsely populated jungle areas. There is serious concern, however, that if the virus starts spreading in a major city, health authorities will be ill equipped to contain it. Rio de Janeiro, for one, is aggressively vaccinating its citizens in hopes of inoculating 12 million by the end of the year.
Yellow fever already kills upward of 30,000 people a year worldwide, though in 2013 as many as 60,000 might have died from the disease. With the threat of yellow fever returning to regions where it was once expunged, that number could rise significantly. What is particularly worrying is the possibility of yellow fever taking hold in previously unaffected parts of the world like Asia. The combination of Aedes aegypti being prevalent there and about 1.8 billion unvaccinated people living in densely populated parts of that continent makes for a potential disaster.
While there is no cure for yellow fever, a licensed vaccine has long been available that is safe, affordable and highly effective, providing lifetime protection with just one dose.
Last year, Angola's capital, Luanda, endured the world's largest outbreak of yellow fever in three decades. A surge in demand resulted in vaccine shortages, particularly when the disease spread to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and farther afield to Kenya. With a large Chinese work force in Angola, many whom were unvaccinated, 11 cases reached China. Miraculously those were contained without further spread.
The shortages made the situation so desperate that the World Health Organization and Unicef had to resort to fractional dosing in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, administrating one-fifth of a normal dose. We got lucky: The Brazilian manufacturer made available up to 2.5 million doses of the vaccine, and the outbreak was curbed.
Now, the situation has reversed. Having already distributed 15 million vaccine doses since the outbreak began in December, Brazil has been forced to request 3.5 million doses from the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision, which oversees emergency stocks financed by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the nonprofit group I manage. With a global emergency stockpile of six million doses and about 12 million people living in and around Rio, it is easy to see why public health experts are worried. If Rio and one other major city experience an outbreak, it is doubtful whether stocks could be replenished fast enough to keep up with demand.
The proportion of people living in urban areas, where diseases can spread far more rapidly than in rural areas with scattered populations, is forecast to rise from one-third of the planet's population in 1950 to two-thirds by 2050. Clearly, we need to revise our risk assessments for infectious diseases to reflect this trend. But just how large should vaccine stockpiles be? And for how many cities should we prepare?
And while these emergency stockpiles are essential, if we have to call upon them we have in some way already failed. They should be our last line of defense. Instead, if we want to avoid a return of the kind of urban epidemic that killed 5,000 people in Philadelphia two centuries ago, we need to prevent outbreaks from occurring in the first place. That means improving mosquito control and simultaneously increasing immunity against yellow fever through routine immunization and pre-emptive vaccination campaigns.
With winter arriving next month in South America, the outbreak will most likely be brought to heel. But as mosquito season approaches in the north, control measures will be essential if we want to avoid yellow fever following Zika's path, making its way north through Latin America to southern states in the United States like Florida.
And if, or when, it arrives, awareness will also be critical to prevent its spread, especially because very few doctors in the United States have ever seen a case and hardly anyone is vaccinated. As things stand, shortages are already affecting the availability of yellow fever travel vaccines in the United States.
History has shown that preventive approaches can be highly effective at controlling yellow fever, but if they are to work we first need to recognize there is a problem. To quote a long-ago Philadelphian, Benjamin Franklin, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."


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Illinois halts roadwork to speed Labor Day traffic
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Department of Transportation says it will suspend non-emergency roadwork over the Labor Day weekend to help reduce congestion and speed traffic.
Thousands of motorists are expected to hit the roads in Illinois during the three-day holiday.
The state agency is also giving advance notice of lane closures that will remain in place.
The halt in construction will start at 3 p.m. Friday through the end of Monday.
Officials are urging drivers to slow down, obey speed limits and drive carefully through work zone. Construction zone speed limits remain in effect even when work crews are not present.


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Bastor wrote:Yeah...she's going to build a GIANT sand wall in order to protect the tiny castle....?
THEIR tiny castle. Maybe it's representative of a relationship. The measures you put into place in order to stop it getting washed away by the metaphorical tide are usually more substantial than the relationship itself ever was.
Jesus I am cynical. I pity my boyfriend.


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Feb 17, 2014
From staff reports
The Compensation 2014 project team (COMP 2014) continues to make progress towards achieving the project objectives by its Dec. 1, 2014 deadline. The University Human Resources Compensation team initiated the COMP 2014 team to satisfy the requirements of the University's voluntary Resolution Agreement entered into with the Department of Education (DOE) to comply with DOE regulations. The project aims to create consistent job classifications and clear career paths for all administrative, professional and non-bargaining unit classified employees and ensure that salaries are market based.
As of January 2014, the COMP 2014 project team is close to completing the third phase of the project. The goal of phase three is to develop a job framework that includes job families/sub-families and career tracks for classifying positions. There are 25 proposed job families used to group jobs involving similar types of work (e.g. human resources, finance and business, administrative services, etc.) with sub-families providing a further refinement of the family (e.g. human resources sub-families might include benefits, employment, compensation, etc.).
Career tracks further clarify the nature of the work being performed; the team has developed three career tracks for the University: technical and administrative support, individual contributor and management. The job framework will provide consistent position leveling based on requirements, impact and complexity of the role versus an incremental task orientation. The framework also reinforces that advancement to a higher career level is not automatic and requires performing duties that are more complex and have a greater level of impact across the organization.
Currently, members of the Comp 2014 steering committee, as well as subject matter experts across the University, have been asked to review the draft career tracks, job families, sub-families and job family grids and provide feedback to the team by mid-February. The output of this phase will be a framework that includes approximately 25 job families each with 3 career tracks and 14 job levels representing the 1,900 positions included in the scope of the resolution agreement.
Phase four of the project involves the market benchmarking and job mapping phase of the project. This phase includes identifying comparison markets, identifying benchmark jobs and matching benchmark jobs to surveys, and analyzing market data. During this phase, the University obtains market data from surveys of comparable positions among our peer higher education institutions, as well as from market surveys of positions in general industry, where appropriate. The work on phase four has begun and will occur concurrently with phase three and both are expected to be complete by April 2014. Following that time, work in the final phases will begin which include: creation of pay structures, FLSA review, equity analyses, and implementation; which are projected to be completed by Dec. 1, 2014.
As a reminder, while positions may shift grades as the University develops and transitions to the new structure, employee pay will not be reduced as a result of this effort. That commitment was made to employees at the inception of this project and it has not changed. The project may result in increased pay in certain areas, based on a market and equity analysis; however, the University believes that pay is generally competitive, and does not expect that a large number of pay adjustments will be required. The University will continue to work through all steps of the project to determine the results.
Please visit the COMP 2014 website http://www.ohio.edu/hr/compensation/comp2014 for further information about the project.


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Last year, Notre Dame school officials decided to overhaul their community relations and hopefully increase student enrollment.
Last year, Notre Dame school officials decided to overhaul their community relations and hopefully increase student enrollment.
Parents and school officials got to work, creating marketing and student recruitment and retention groups for each school in the system.
At a packed open house on Sunday at the Notre Dame Elementary and High School in East Stroudsburg, it appeared the efforts had been successful.
More than 100 families attended the event.
An open house was also held at the Msgr. McHugh School in Cresco.
"I think word got out through the parenting groups and the newspapers," Notre Dame Elementary School Principal Sr. Mary Alice Kane said.
She praised the Notre Dame system for its "family spirit" and welcoming atmosphere.
Parent Kelli Krechel of Saylorsburg agreed.
"It's like a family," she said.
Krechel has three children in the school system; one in the fourth grade, another in ninth, and her oldest in the tenth grade.
"I put them on the bus and know they will be treated the same as they are at home," she said.
In July 2011, the elementary school on Ridgeway Street in East Stroudsburg was closed and students there were moved to the Cawley Building on Spangenburg Avenue where the high school is located.
Last year, officials from the Diocese of Scranton said they wanted to see increased enrollments in the school system, said Notre Dame High School Principal Jeffrey Lyons.
"We tried in any way we could," he said, whether it was advertising at the annual Stroudsburg Saint Patrick's Day Parade, on television or reaching out to the area's churches.
In October, they reported success, with an overall enrollment growth of 4.9 percent, for a total of 698 students throughout the system.
The highest growth rates were reported on the East Stroudsburg campus where Lyons reports year-over-year enrollment growth of 88 percent in ninth grade.
At the elementary school, Kane cited growth of 35 percent in both pre-kindergarten and sixth grade classes.
The Diocese of Scranton also hired Danielle Rake as school advancement coordinator for the Notre Dame School System.
Decreasing enrollment is an issue that isn't just centralized to the private school system, said Rake, a former student of Msgr. McHugh and Notre Dame.
"When we look at the area, public schools are down enrollment wise as well," she said.
The tough economy has probably created more competition between the private and public schools, Rake added.
Currently, it costs $4,200 per school year for a child active in a Catholic parish to attend Notre Dame Elementary School.
The price increases to $5,000 per school year for those who are not active in a Catholic parish.
Discounts are offered for the second and third child in the family who attend, with each child thereafter offered free enrollment.
Families pay the cost over a 10-month period, Rake said, comparing the cost to a car payment. Several organizations also offer scholarships.
Tuition has remained the same for the past three years, Lyons said.
Sunday's open house coincided with the start of Catholic Schools Week, which lasts through Feb. 2.


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Marion City Library will have a program about "Oceans in Kansas" at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Michael Everhart of the Kansas Humanities Council will talk about how Kansas has been the source of many important fossils. From giant marine reptiles to flying reptiles and birds with teeth, many important discoveries of now-extinct species came from rocks in western Kansas.
Everhart's presentation will take the audience back to a time when the state was covered by an ocean and ruled by giant marine reptiles larger than most dinosaurs. The public is encouraged to bring any fossils they may have for Everhart to look at and describe. For more information, call Marion City Library at (620) 382-2442.


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An expert system shell.
Source: PROLOG programming for artificial intelligence, 3rd Edition, Harlow, 2001, ISBN 0-201-40375-7.
Program source code: shell.pl
% Figures 16.6, 16.7, 16.8, 16.9 combined, with small improvements % An expert system shell :- op( 900, xfx, ::). :- op( 800, xfx, was). :- op( 870, fx, if). :- op( 880, xfx, then). :- op( 550, xfy, or). :- op( 540, xfy, and). :- op( 300, fx, 'derived by'). :- op( 600, xfx, from). :- op( 600, xfx, by). :- op( 900, fy, not). % Program assumes built-in operator: op( 700, xfx, is) % Top-level driving procedure expert :- getquestion( Question), % Input user's question ( answeryes( Question); % Try to find positive answer answerno( Question) ). % If no positive answer then find negative answeryes( Question) :- % Look for positive answers to Question markstatus( negative), % No positive answer yet explore( Question, [], Answer), % Trace is empty positive( Answer), % Look for positive answers markstatus( positive), % Positive answer found present( Answer), nl, write('More solutions? '), getreply( Reply), % Read user's reply Reply = no. % Otherwise backtrack to 'explore' answerno( Question) :- % Look for negative answer to question retract( no_positive_answer_yet), !, % Has there been no positive answer? explore( Question, [], Answer), negative( Answer), present( Answer), nl, write('More negative solutions? '), getreply( Reply), Reply = no. % Otherwise backtrack to 'explore' markstatus( negative) :- assert( no_positive_answer_yet). markstatus( positive) :- retract( no_positive_answer_yet), !; true. getquestion( Question) :- nl, write( 'Question, please '), nl, read( Question). % explore( Goal, Trace, Answer): % find Answer to a given Goal. Trace is a chain of ancestor % goals and rules. % 'explore' tends to find a positive answer to a question. % Answer is 'false' only when all the possibilities have been % investigated and they all resulted in 'false' explore( Goal, Trace, _) :- copy_term( Goal, Copy), % Make copy of Goal with variables renamed member( Copy by Rule, Trace), % Similar ancestor goal? instance_of( Copy, Goal), % Ancestor goal as general as Goal? !, fail. % Abandon Goal because of cycle! explore( Goal, Trace, Goal is true was 'found as a fact') :- fact :: Goal. explore( Goal, Trace, % Assume only one rule about each type of goal Goal is TruthValue was 'derived by' Rule from Answer) :- Rule :: if Condition then Goal, % Rule relevant to Goal explore( Condition, [Goal by Rule | Trace], Answer), truth( Answer, TruthValue). explore( Goal1 and Goal2, Trace, Answer) :- !, explore( Goal1, Trace, Answer1), continue( Answer1, Goal1 and Goal2, Trace, Answer). explore( Goal1 or Goal2, Trace, Answer) :- exploreyes( Goal1, Trace, Answer) % Positive answer to Goal1 ; exploreyes( Goal2, Trace, Answer). % Positive answer to Goal2 explore( Goal1 or Goal2, Trace, Answer1 and Answer2) :- !, not exploreyes( Goal1, Trace, _), not exploreyes( Goal2, Trace, _), % No positive answer explore( Goal1, Trace, Answer1), % Answer1 must be negative explore( Goal2, Trace, Answer2). % Answer2 must be negative explore( not Goal, Trace, Answer) :- !, % Assuming no variables in Goal explore( Goal, Trace, Answer1), invert( Answer1, Answer). explore( Goal, Trace, Goal is Answer was told) :- useranswer( Goal, Trace, Answer). % User-supplied answer exploreyes( Goal, Trace, Answer) :- explore( Goal, Trace, Answer), positive( Answer). continue( Answer1, Goal1 and Goal2, Trace, Answer) :- positive( Answer1), explore( Goal2, Trace, Answer2), ( positive( Answer2), Answer = Answer1 and Answer2 ; negative( Answer2), Answer = Answer2 ). continue( Answer1, Goal1 and Goal2, _, Answer1) :- negative( Answer1). truth( Question is TruthValue was Found, TruthValue) :- !. truth( Answer1 and Answer2, TruthValue) :- truth( Answer1, true), truth( Answer2, true), !, TruthValue = true ; TruthValue = false. positive( Answer) :- truth( Answer, true). negative( Answer) :- truth( Answer, false). invert( Quest is true was Found, (not Quest) is false was Found). invert( Quest is false was Found, (not Quest) is true was Found). instantiated( Term) :- numbervars( Term, 0, 0). % No variables in Term % useranswer( Goal, Trace, Answer): % Generate, through backtracking, user-supplied solutions to Goal. % Trace is a chain of ancestor goals and rules used for 'why' explanation useranswer( Goal, Trace, Answer) :- askable( Goal, _), % May be asked of the user freshcopy( Goal, Copy), % Variables in Goal renamed useranswer( Goal, Copy, Trace, Answer, 1). % Do not ask again about an instantiated goal useranswer( Goal, _, _, _, N) :- N > 1, % Repeated question? instantiated( Goal), !, fail. % Do not ask again % Is Goal implied true or false for all instantiations? useranswer( Goal, Copy, _, Answer, _) :- wastold( Copy, Answer, _), instance_of( Copy, Goal), !. % Answer to Goal implied % Retrieve known solutions, indexed from N on, for Goal. useranswer( Goal, _, _, true, N) :- wastold( Goal, true, M), M >= N. % Has everything already been said about Goal? useranswer( Goal, Copy, _, Answer, N) :- end_answers( Copy), instance_of( Copy, Goal), !, % Everything was already said about Goal not wastold( Goal, _, _), % There was no explicit answer Answer = false. % It follows Answer must be negative % Ask the user for (more) solutions useranswer( Goal, _, Trace, Answer, N) :- askuser( Goal, Trace, Answer, N). askuser( Goal, Trace, Answer, N) :- askable( Goal, ExternFormat), format( Goal, ExternFormat, Question, [], Variables), % Get question format ask( Goal, Question, Variables, Trace, Answer, N). ask( Goal, Question, Variables, Trace, Answer, N) :- nl, ( Variables = [], !, % Introduce question write( 'Is it true: ') ; write( 'Any (more) solution to: ') ), write( Question), write('? '), getreply( Reply), !, % Reply = yes/no/why process( Reply, Goal, Question, Variables, Trace, Answer, N). process( why, Goal, Question, Variables, Trace, Answer, N) :- showtrace( Trace), ask( Goal, Question, Variables, Trace, Answer, N). process( yes, Goal, _, Variables, Trace, true, N) :- nextindex( Next), % Get new free index for 'wastold' Next1 is Next + 1, ( askvars( Variables), assertz( wastold( Goal, true, Next)) % Record solution ; copy_term( Goal, Copy), % Copy of Goal useranswer( Goal, Copy, Trace, Answer, Next1) ). % More answers? process( no, Goal, _, _, _, false, N) :- freshcopy( Goal, Copy), wastold( Copy, true, _), !, % 'no' means: no more solutions assertz( end_answers( Goal)), % Mark end of answers fail ; nextindex( Next), % Next free index for 'wastold' assertz( wastold( Goal, false, Next)). % 'no' means: no solution format( Var, Name, Name, Vars, [Var/Name|Vars]) :- var( Var), !. format( Atom, Name, Atom, Vars, Vars) :- atomic( Atom), !, atomic( Name). format( Goal, Form, Question, Vars0, Vars) :- Goal =.. [Functor|Args1], Form =.. [Functor|Forms], formatall( Args1, Forms, Args2, Vars0, Vars), Question =.. 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Their joy was short-lived this week after the Ohio House voted 98-0 to make the Adena Pipe the official state artifact, a movement backed by students from Columbus State for Girls.
Their joy was short-lived this week after the Ohio House voted 98-0 to make the Adena Pipe the official state artifact, a movement backed by students from Columbus State for Girls.
After the vote Wednesday, 80 girls in fourth, fifth and seventh grades went across the hall to lobby the Senate. But Senate President Tom Niehaus, R-New Richmond, told the girls the Senate wouldn't be voting on the bill by the end of the year, making them start the whole process over again.
The girls have spent years lobbying the Statehouse, writing letters and even testify before committee. The process started when this year's group of seventh graders were in fourth grade. The bill has taken a backseat to budget issues in the past.
Now CSG teachers Tracy Kessler and Charlotte Stiverson are urging parents to write letters to encourage their senators to get a vote on the bill by the end of the year.
Here is a portion of the letter:
"We ask that in the next few days, since time is of the essence, you contact your local senator, President Tom Niehaus, or incoming President Pro Tempore Keith Faber to convince them that the time to finally pass this bill is now, not next year or years down the road. Please contact these legislators, and help your daughter finalize the dream!"
You can see the full text of the letter here.
The pipe, which is in the Ohio Historical Society collection, is carved from Ohio pipestone into an effigy of an American Indian man. It was found in the Adena Mound in Chillicothe on Thomas Worthington's estate. According to the Historical Society website, "effigy pipes are highly unusual and the Adena Pipe is virtually unique."
Also, for what it is worth, some think it might be in the shape of a dwarf with a goiter but the historical society says it doesn't have enough evidence to back that claim up.
Rep. Mike Duffey, R-Worthington, who co-sponsored the bill with Rep. John Carney, D-Clintonville, said the students are "fearsome lobbyists" and their testimony was "impressively researched."


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The nation's graduate medical education (GME) programs should be required to adhere to social accountability standards to promote the production of a physician workforce that meets the needs of local communities, as well as the country at large. That's one of the messages of a study conducted by researchers at the AAFP's Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care and published in the September Journal of Graduate Medical Education(www.jgme.org).
The study, which was based on interviews with 18 stakeholders from GME training sites, government agencies and health care organizations, identified what GME programs should be providing, how they should be held accountable and what that accountability should entail. As a first step, the study provided a framework for social accountability that encompassed three overarching themes:
- creating a diverse physician workforce to address regional needs and primary care and subspecialty shortages,
- ensuring quality in training and care to best serve patients, and
- providing service to surrounding communities.
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- Graduate medical education (GME) programs should adhere to social accountability standards to produce a physician workforce that better meets the needs of the country, says a new study.
- The study provides a framework for social accountability and ways of measuring whether GME programs are meeting social accountability standards.
- The study also identifies barriers to changing GME programs, such as a lack of financial incentives to do so.
According to the study, the measurement of social accountability could include
- reviewing graduates' specialties and practice locations,
- evaluating curricular content, and
- reviewing program services to surrounding communities.
"The aim of the study was really to highlight the idea that there should be some accountability, to talk about it and to define it," said family physician and lead study investigator Anjani Reddy, M.D., a former Larry Green Visiting Scholar at the Graham Center.
If GME institutions adopted the study's social accountability framework, the nation's physician workforce likely would "shift to meet the needs of the public," said Reddy, a national research service award fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Medicare provides $9.5 billion in GME funding annually, and it remains the main source of GME funding in the United States. Increasingly, ongoing funding has resulted in calls for financial and social accountability in GME programs. The problem with applying these criteria, however, is that a precise definition of accountability and the specifics for measuring accountability remain elusive, according to the study.
"We realized before doing the study that there is no real definition of accountability or social accountability within graduate medical education," said Reddy. When defining the parameters of social accountability in the study, participants expounded on the three overarching themes of social accountability and agreed that institutions should address the workforce needs of communities and the nation. Opinions varied about what workforce needs exist, however.
Study participants also noted that educating physicians to provide high-quality care is a key accountability measure. "Society deserves to have the best-trained physicians possible," said one participant. "It is the responsibility of GME institutions to do whatever it takes to optimize the quality of their trainees."
Service to local communities was another key component of social accountability. Although some participants defined service as individual patient care, many more defined it as work for the benefit of surrounding communities, geographic patient populations or the nation. According to one study participant, "GME institutions should have 'a broader social mission to care for the underserved and vulnerable populations in addition to the responsibility to care for individual patients.'"
Participants also addressed barriers to change, and pointed out that there are no financial incentives to change the current GME system. "I don't see why professional institutions would change," said one participant. "I don't know if there is pressure to change, unless you changed the funding of GME to be based on social accountability."
In addition, participants noted that aligning financial incentives with social accountability could meet with some resistance. "I am not sure you are going to get buy-in from teaching hospitals, since this could imply that their funding could get diminished," said one study participant.
Study authors suggested that future research should include other potential stakeholders, including community and patient groups, and it should survey program directors to assess the degree to which GME social accountability measures already may be in place.
"By engaging all stakeholders in the development of socially accountable metrics, we may be able to meaningfully address increasing calls for GME financing reform and accountability," said the study authors.
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saintdee wrote:Jackattack wrote:saintdee wrote:Jackattack wrote:migya wrote:Jackattack wrote:While there is a lot to address about poverty, education and overall opportunities in regards to someone like Lovelle, the responsibility ultimately rests on the individual who decides to play that card. So he got a effed up deal in life, that doesn't mean you can kill four people.
True but you know what, that's how nature is and humans are part of nature. You get treated wrongly by a group of people, like police, more than once and/or in an extreme sense where you are violated and abused and you have dislike towards that person or persons who did you wrong and also the group who they are a part of. Police have relatively the same powers and in a particular demographic area, they may abuse those powers. People who are violated in those areas (and those that care about them, like family and friends) have a strong dislike obviously and some get fed up and take action, sometimes extreme action, like killing.
When you are desperate and have had enough of being abused and violated, you either get so scared that you run away to anywhere that you think might be safe (if you have that option that is) or kill yourself or you get very angry and take action. I don't like that people get killed but above all else, justice must reign and by that I mean, things set in balance, like if you abuse someone, you get a consequence. Police have guns and other weapons, they also have the "perception" that all of them are good, in the eyes of most in society, so the police have the weapons and society on their side, basically they have all the power and that can corrupt. Those that get abused get mentally tortured and start having thoughts that they wouldn't have if they were not abused and such things like killing police happen.
I'm not for killing, but things are almost NEVER black and white. If the person or people responsible (I don't know the story other than four police were killed) has had a history of being abused and violated by police (finding that out in itself can be very difficult), they are not that bad in that they had reason to be angry and the actions were incited. If the person or people was just bored and decided to kill police, totally different and they should get big consequence.
Things are not so black and white. Police can have a tough job, very tough, in some areas, but the laws of nature work for them as well, for all of us. If you abuse, things come back around and get you, sooner or later. That's a law of nature for a reason, as it keeps things in justice, be it sometimes seemingly extreme. Things will only be perfect and things like this incident not happen when people are perfect and never do anything wrong. I think that day is still a long way off.
The only way right now for humans is to have great, open and honest communication and next to no hate and bad judgement, as things always come out bad with those thoughts and feelings
great compassion and empathy Mig!
I pretty much feel the same way. This didn't just happen in a vacuum. There is a history and a story that led to these events. I can understand how someone can get that hopeless. and prison is a horrific place. There is a lot to discuss about our society that contributed to him being there at that place in time and in that frame of mind. The frame of mind that said it was time to kill. I'll be the first one to say our effed up society and his bad deal led him to this point. As I said there is a lot to address around that, but that doesn't give someone an excuse to kill.
as Chris Rock said about OJ, "I'm not saying he should've done it, but I understand"
I don't understand why there wasn't so much empathy for the BART cop? Was what the BART officer did so much worse then what this guy did? And don't bother talking about innocence. The cops and SWAT officers killed by this guy were as far as I am concerned doing their jobs.
You guys are pretty quick to make what sounds like excuses for this guy.
could not the BART cop also had history with black males? Maybe he was bullied as a kid? maybe he saw his friends get shot and was extra jumpy. I mean why would you just kill someone in cold blood in front of dozens of witnesses and other cops. There must have been a reason.
read the bold (above and way above) before saying I'm making excuses for the this guy...
you might have said you're not making excuses for him explicitly but look at what you wrote and tell me what you're saying isn't a excuse.
In my mind this is a very black and white issue. You either think he's guilty as a cold blooded murderer who deserves no sympathy.
He's innocent because it was the police's fault.
No one forced him to pull the trigger. No one forced him to kill people except himself. Blaming society for personal problems is the weakest excuse ever. The economy is bad so you gotta rob people? Tough luck everyone is in the same economy but not all of us have to go out and rob people. Live in danger of police abuse everyday? so what we all live with police everyday. We all have to take responsibility as adults for the choices we make in life and not try to shift the blame or else we'll end up with more tragedy like this..its too easy to blame "the man" for everything and justify whatever action you take.
No, you need to take a look at what I wrote again. I was not making excuses for him, just stating some very real things that are in play around this issue. As Migya said, it's all about the discussion. For you it is black and white. For me murder is black or white, but the circumstances that led to this incident are very grey.


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TOPEKA, Kan.– As part of the effort to help Kansans improve their health, each year the Governor recognizes an individual and an organization for their exceptional efforts to model, encourage and promote fitness in Kansas. Take the opportunity now to nominate your favorite health champion for this award and special recognition at the third annual Obesity Summit on Oct. 8 in Manhattan. The deadline for nominations is June 30.
"Besides recognizing exemplary contributions, the awards program identifies models of effectiveness in increasing physical activity that can be reproduced in other organizations and communities," said Virginia Elliott, Governor's Council on Fitness Chair and Vice President of Programs for the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund.
Eligible nominees might include an outstanding volunteer, a school, a local community, a newspaper or individual reporter, a local or state policy maker, or an employer, among others.
Nominees would be expected to have demonstrated:
For more information and to submit a nomination, go to www.kansasfitness.org and click on the link "Health Champion Award". If you have questions about the nomination process, contact Anthony Randles at (785) 296-8060.
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NEW YORK , April 18 (UPI) -- Comic luminaries David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart and Tracy Morgan are to headline the television special One Night Only: An All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles, Spike TV announced.
Rickles is an 87-year-old insult comic whose razor-sharp wit has earned him the nickname "Mr. Warmth." He has appeared in dozens of films, including Run Silent, Run Deep, The Rat Race, Beach Blanket Bingo, Kelly's Heroes and Casino, and lent his distinctive voice to the character of Mr. Potato Head in the animated Toy Story movies.
"The genius of Rickles is in the danger; nobody is safe, and what you can expect is a night of comedy from these superstars worthy of a legend. It truly will be 'One Night Only,'" Casey Patterson -- the show's executive producer and executive vice president of event production and talent development for Viacom Entertainment Group -- said in a statement.
Scheduled to tape May 6 at the Apollo Theater in New York, the 90-minute program will also feature appearances by Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jimmy Kimmel, John Stamos, Bob Newhart, Regis Philbin, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett and others.
The evening will include stand-up performances, short films, pre-taped tributes and personal stories told by Rickles' closest friends, co-stars and comedians whom he has influenced. The evening will wrap up with Rickles addressing his friends and colleagues.
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Flumble wrote:Is there a linuxy way to monitor services and send an email whenever a services dies or comes back up (and preferably every hour while something's down)?
I'm currently using systemd timers to run a small script to log the status of things like the xkcd minecraft server and I could run a sendmail command when the status is negative, but it seems there ought to be a better way.
If there's no linuxy way, I'll look into graphite+grafana or <insert better suggestion>.
you could use OnFailure= in the the unit file with https://github.com/kylemanna/systemd-utils to send an email notification.


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Colombia Denies Family Of Pablo Escobar Trademark On His Name
from the trademark-is-a-hell-of-a-law dept
We've seen cases previously where people have trademarked their own name, or an estate has trademarked the name of a family member. While that concept still strikes me as somewhat silly, those marks are typically used to ensure false endorsements aren't promoted by companies that otherwise wouldn't have received one. And that makes at least some semblance of sense in conjunction with the overarching purpose of trademark law: avoiding customer confusion. In other words, you don't want a famous name associated with a product that hasn't actually been endorsed.
However, I'm at quite a loss as to what the family of famous cocaine-slinger Pablo Escobar imagined they were going to do when they attempted to trademark his name. Did they somehow think that the infamous drug-pusher/murderer was going to show up on Coca-Cola cans? Or perhaps they're planning to release their own line of clothing? More likely they, like so many others, are confused on what the actual limits on trademark law are and wish to use the mark as a censoring tool for how Escobar is represented in documentaries and historical media.
Either way, it doesn't matter, because Colombia has now repeatedly denied the request for the mark.
The Commission of Industry and Commerce said Thursday that granting a trademark would be immoral and subvert public order. It said the name Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria is associated with a dark period of violence in Colombia that claimed thousands of lives as he fought extradition to the United States.Now, I'm not all that fond of the morality claim, but it brings a smile to my face to see a governing body put the interest of the public in front of someone requesting a trademark. It sure would be nice if we saw more of that in the States.
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