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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 2, 2012) – The FIVB announced Sunday during the World Grand Prix Council Meeting that it will expand the FIVB World Grand Prix from 16 teams to a record 20 teams starting in 2013. The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team has captured the last three titles of the annual premier international volleyball tournament.
The 2013 event, which runs Aug. 2 to Sept. 1, will consist of three preliminary round weekends with five groups of four teams each. During the opening weekend, the U.S. will face two-time reigning Olympic Games champion Brazil, reigning FIVB World Champion Russia and Poland in Group A held Aug. 2-4. Team USA resumes action Aug. 9-11 in Group F against Serbia, Netherlands and a team to be determined from South Africa. The Americans conclude the preliminary round Aug. 16-18 in Group M against Czech Republic, Japan and Bulgaria.
The FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round will return to Japan for the first time since 2009 and take place in Sapporo from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1. Host Japan and the top five finishers in the preliminary round will advance to the six-team FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round. Japan has hosted the World Grand Prix Final Round four times in the past with Sapporo being a fifth host city after Tokyo in 2009, Yokohama in 2008, Sendai in 2005 and Kobe in 1997.
Teams qualify for the FIVB World Grand Prix either through continental or tournament berths, FIVB appointments or automatic qualifications. The U.S., Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico were the top four NORCECA finishers in the 2012 Pan American Cup, while Brazil and Argentina qualified for South America from the Pan American Cup. Czech Republic, Bulgaria, The Netherlands and Serbia qualified from the European League, while Thailand and Kazakhstan advanced to the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix from the Asian Volleyball Confederation Cup.
Japan, China and Poland all qualified automatically for the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix. FIVB appointments to the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix include 2011 FIVB World Cup champion Italy, Russia as the reigning FIVB World Championship winner, 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix bronze medalist Turkey and Germany. One spot into the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix remains to be decided from the African Confederation.
A detailed schedule with host cities for each preliminary round group will be announced in the near future, according to a FIVB press release.
The World Grand Prix featured eight teams in its debut season of 1993 and from 1995 to 2002, while 12 teams were in action in 1994 and from 2003 to 2010. Sixteen teams have been involved in the 2011 and 2012 editions.
FIVB World Grand Prix Preliminary Round Weekends
Aug. 2-4
Group A: USA (WR1), Brazil (WR2), Russia (WR6), Poland (WR15)
Group B: Dominican Republic (WR8), Serbia (WR9), Puerto Rico (WR19), Czech Republic (WR15)
Group C: Japan (WR3), Thailand (WR12), Turkey (WR7), Africa TBA
Group D: China (WR5), Cuba (WR13), The Netherlands (WR22), Bulgaria (WR44)
Group E: Italy (WR4), Germany (WR10), Argentina (WR18), Kazakhstan (WR32)
Aug. 9-11
Group F: USA (WR1), Serbia (WR9), The Netherlands (WR22), Africa TBA
Group G: Brazil (WR2), Dominican Republic (WR8), Puerto Rico (WR19), Bulgaria (WR44)
Group H: Japan (WR3), Germany (WR10), Poland (WR15), Kazakhstan (WR32)
Group I: China (WR5), Turkey (WR7), Argentina (WR18), Czech Republic (WR15)
Group J: Russia (WR6), Italy (WR4), Thailand (WR12), Cuba (WR13)
Aug. 16-18
Group K: Brazil (WR2), Cuba (WR13), The Netherlands (WR22), Kazakhstan (WR32)
Group L: Russia (WR6), Thailand (WR12), Germany (WR10), Puerto Rico (WR19)
Group M: USA (WR1), Czech Republic (WR15), Japan (WR3), Bulgaria (WR44)
Group N: China (WR5), Serbia (WR9), Poland (WR15), Argentina (WR18)
Group O: Italy (WR4), Turkey (WR7), Dominican Republic (WR8), Africa TBA
2013 FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round
Aug. 28 to Sept. 1 – Sapporo, Japan


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A few days ago I published a new release of the ANTLR4 extension for Visual Studio Code, which contains a number of fixes and new features. The light color theme is now complete as well and you get railroad diagrams for your grammar rules and even entire files. These can be saved to disk (as HTML with embedded svg), so that you can use them in other documents. Code lens support was added as well, which allows to (optionally) show rule reference counts. Hope you enjoy the new release.

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Nintendo made a few big announcements for the 3DS today, touting a huge leap in sales for the portable console in 2013 and lining up four games set to release in Q1 2014 to help push those number even further, including a new Yoshi's Island, Professor Layton and a brand new title, Disney Magical World.
At this point, we've all heard how well the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 did in 2013, with Microsoft and Sony's new home consoles pushing 3 million and 4 million units respectively. Now Nintendo has chimed in, letting everyone know just how well its 3DS is performing, with 2013 figures for game sales up by 45 percent over 2012, and hardware amassing a lifetime sales of more than 11.5 million in the U.S.
In order to keep the chest-beating nice and loud, The Big N also dropped a few more stats concerning the 3DS' success this past year, saying in a press release that "more great games [will] continue the momentum in 2014."
For starters, more than 16 million physical and digital 3DS games were sold last year, highlighting how fare the console's library has come since its first year or so of struggling to keep a steady stream of games available. And Nintendo argues that they're providing quality as well as quantity these days, with seven of last year's offerings earning a Metacritic score of 85 or higher, including The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Fire Emblem Awakening, both of which scored in the 90's.
"Nintendo 3DS is a powerhouse with games and experiences that appeal to all kinds of players," said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America's executive VP of sales and marketing. "We're not slowing down in 2014. With more games featuring fan-favorite franchises on the way, the best days of Nintendo 3DS are still to come."
Big words, especially considering how many pillar franchises (Pokemon, Zelda, Animal Crossing) had major releases last year. But while games like the new Smash Bros. are still TBD in the ole release date department, Nintendo has bolted official dates onto a handful of 2014 early arrivals, starting with Yoshi's New Island.
Produced by Takashi Tezuka (the dude behind the original Yoshi's Island for the SNES, which also happens to be one of my personal all-time favorites), the admittedly lazily titled Yoshi's New Island will put players back in control of the egg-tossing, tiny-Mario-babysitting green dinosaur as he goes on a brand new adventure. Look for it on March 14th.
Today's announcements also put in a friendly reminder that Square-Enix's new RPG, Bravely Default, is due out Feb. 7, while Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy completes that series' second trilogy on February 28th.
Finally, Nintendo today announced Disney Magical World, a game that lets players customize their own character with Disney gear and help famous Disney character's solve various problems while tending a garden and running a café. Look for that one to become available to the public at large starting on April 11th.


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Lindsay Kujawa is a self-described "paranoid" mother.
"I'm always 'that' mom," Kujawa, a lifestyle blogger at Delighted Momma and mother of two, told me. "I'm always thinking about the worst case; I'm a helicopter mom, I feel like I'm always thinking about things before they happen."
Which is exactly why, when Kujawa settled in next to her then two-year-old son Ronin on the steps of the pool at her niece's birthday party, she thought he would be safe.
"I was sitting right on the edge of the outside of the spa, just a few inches from where Ronin was playing," Kujawa wrote on her blog about the incident that changed her life. "I shifted my sitting position to talk to my sister-in-law. I turned around for maybe 5 seconds tops. I turned back around to take a peek at Ronin and he was not on the step."
It was then, Kujawa says, that "mom panic" set in.
"It was literally the most terrifying feeling in my gut," Kujawa told me, describing the moment when she realized that she could no longer see her son. "It was sheer panic, my eyes scanned the pool and my heart just dropped … I was trying to find my son and almost everything just went white."
Almost immediately, she spotted her son's head, bobbing up and down by the whirlpool jets, frantically trying to get air. Kujawa quickly pulled him out and although he was coughing and sputtering water as one would expect, he otherwise seemed fine.
"He wasn't blue when I pulled him out," she notes. "I have firefighters in the family — everybody was there, and they were like, 'he looks totally fine.' We didn't have to do CPR or anything crazy. He was fine."
Kujawa estimates that the whole ordeal — from the moment she turned around for that split second to the moment she fished her son out of the pool — was only about 20 seconds. "It was a very short amount of time," she explains. Although she noticed that her son seemed extra tired after the incident, Kujawa rationalized that the stressful event was likely to blame, and she and her family soon returned home.
But instead of improving at home, Ronin acted even less like himself.
"He was acting so lethargic," Kujawa said. "You know your kids. We got home and he was just really, really acting beyond tired. I was putting his pajamas on and he was acting like he wanted to fall asleep. He's high-energy, so it was so unlike him."
Kujawa decided to call her son's pediatrician, just in case. "In the back of my mind, I was thinking, 'he seemed totally fine, he was under for such a brief amount of time,'" she said. But instead of getting reassurance from the doctor, the pediatrician insisted that he go to the emergency room right away.
The family rushed to the ER, where Ronin received swift treatment as he went downhill right in the hospital waiting room. "He was basically asleep, like unconscious," Kujawa remembers. "There was no color in his face."
Kujawa was shocked to be told that her son had suffered from what is sometimes called "secondary drowning." Basically, her son had aspirated water into his lungs as a result of his drowning incident and the resulting inflammation in the lungs interfered with his body's ability to exchange oxygen properly.
And while stories of "secondary drowning" or "dry drowning" have been making their way around the Internet recently, it's important to realize that those terms aren't really accurate.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine and the World Health Organization's definition, drowning is drowning. Terms like "dry drowning" or "secondary drowning" are actually misleading, because the truth is, any experience when an individual goes underwater and there is some kind of respiratory impairment that happens as a result (in Ronin's case, the tiredness was because his body wasn't getting enough oxygen), it's a drowning.
You can survive a drowning, you can recover from a drowning, you may not even need medical attention from a drowning, but it's still a drowning.
The primary risk of drowning is the threat to proper air exchange in the body. I spoke to pediatrician Dr. Carlo Reyes, assistant medical director of the emergency department and vice chief of staff at Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, CA to get his advice for parents. Dr. Reyes says in many fatal drownings, it's not actually the lungs filling up with water that causes death, but actually spasms that occur when water hits the airway, causing the body's supply of air to be cut off. This can lead to complications in the brain from lack of oxygen, among other issues.
When water does enter the lungs, there's a whole host of complicated stuff that goes down that can cause major complications even after the person is rescued. Basically, the water that gets in the lungs causes inflammation and the lungs will not work properly, which can lead to symptoms like Ronin's that appear somewhat delayed and worsen even hours after the drowning incident.
Although Ronin was lucky to make a full recovery after his drowning, Kujawa will never forget what a close call her son experienced that day. "They said it would have been pretty bad," she explains. The medical staff somberly told her that had she and her husband simply put Ronin to sleep that night, he might have never woke up.
Kujawa's story is a scary one — and it can also be confusing as you are most likely wondering (as I did in interviewing for this article) how in the heck you can know if your child is in danger after going underwater. After all, even a small amount of water can cause serious harm if it gets in the lungs or causes the airway to block air, so when do you need to seek medical attention and when is it safe (literally) to just keep swimming?
1. Know the definition of drowning
"People blur the distinction from a brief choking to an actual drowning," explains Dr. Reyes. "If we make the definition of drowning as respiratory impairment from submerging in liquid, if someone is briefly under the water and come up right away, that's not a drowning. If it's witnessed, if it was seconds, they coughed a bit and then they were fine, that's not a drowning."
2. Assess the situation
Dr. Reyes gives a helpful breakdown of the different types of drownings that may occur to determine what level of medication attention would be necessary. A drowning is:
- If a child is in the water for a period of time and either loses consciousness or has respiratory distress when coming out of the water.
- If the individual loses consciousness.
- If the child is under the water for a period of time, but gagging as they come up and has persistent coughing and any difficulty breathing.
3. Understand the symptoms
Dr. Reyes explains that parents probably don't need to call if the underwater incident was witnessed ("A lot of these drownings look fine, because we underestimate the period of exposure especially because it was unwitnessed," he explains), the child has no respiratory distress, and looks completely fine. But, for any of the following symptoms, a trip to the ER is warranted.
- Any loss of consciousness
- Persistent difficultly with breathing
- Extreme lethargy
- Persistent cough — looking back, Kujawa describes how her son had a "small, wheezy" cough throughout the evening.
- Any change in mental status
- Any sign of respiratory distress
In the end, knowing that even around "paranoid" mothers, accidents can happen, it is important to know what to do in the event that your child drowns.
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Behold, Their Terrible Shapes
The Color-Wraiths, lost in an eternity of lifeless solipsistic madness, have long since shed any semblance of humanity. Their ectoplasmic forms are semifluid and amorphous, melting and shifting in a constant predatory dance, sometimes spastically morphing and othertimes languidly flowing into new shapes. They generally retain a few certain characteristics, resembling the general outlines of some kind of strange extraterrestrial squid, with a round, blind bloated headbody and a multitude of loathsomely-jointed or tentacular limbs (some armed with mangled hands or talons, others alien pads of fluttering cilia, others stabbing insectile claws). The Color-Wraiths' unwholesome bodies sometimes manifest strange staring eyes like those of crabs or men, or bloom forth purposeless, unnatural organs which hang horribly lank from their molten bodies. They constantly drip a slime of pleromatic filth, visible only from certain angles, which stains the air translucently before evaporating away into nonreality.
Of course, the Color-Wraiths' most noticeable feature is their constantly shifting, hypnotic hues. At all times, a Color-Wraith's oozing flesh is patterned in kaleidoscopic, brilliant colors- virulent greens and purples, broiling pinks, muted loathsome yellows, the dark reds and browns of rotting meat, screaming electric blues, and a myriad of other tones. This ever-changing panoply is a disgusting and yet hypnotic spectacle, which leaves many witnesses to these otherworldly horrors dumbfounded and stupefied before the ghosts' hungry tentacles.
Color-Wraiths seem to have an inherent sense of mortal life. When they perceive it, they seek it out, silently hunting and drawing near until they can envelop the unsuspecting prey and consume it, consuming and recycling its matter into its own. When the Color-Wraiths eat, they leave behind only blood, streaked and spattered through their hunting ground; the red fluid seems useless to them, unlike the rest of the mortal body.
The bodies of Color-Wraiths are only pseudo-present, like an ectoplasmic shadow or shell which is splattered on the fabric of the mortal world. Mortal weapons cannot harm them. Only sorcery, fire, and the light of the sun can blast apart the awful corpuses which the disembodied entities draw about them, and even then, only for a while. A destroyed Color-Wraith does not die (and perhaps it cannot ever die) but will linger without presence, watching, waiting to cannibalize the matter of a dying mortal being or suitable mass of living or once-living material and transform back into a bloated, shifting, amoebic mass.
Gor-Kashesh The Haunted
It is in the haunted burrows of Gor-Kashesh that the Color-Wraiths drift, stalking through the shattered hallways, silent galleries, and blind passageways, weaving squidlike through arcades of ancient pillars straining to sustain the weight of ages, and sucking silently in low alcoves and desecrated tombs.
A city so ancient that the land has grown over and above it, Gor-Kashesh lies buried deep within the grey slopes of great Mount Kashesh, which rears its gleaming white head above the Tlorkal Badlands. The city strains to hold up the tectonic weight of the peak above it, and periodically, earthquakes and great slides will rearrange the face of the sprawling catacomb which once was a mortal metropolis.
Silent, cold, hungry beyond human measure, the Color-Wraiths, ghastly remnants of the ancient and nameless doom of Gor-Kashesh, roil in eternal waking through this sleeping world of dust and abandonment, their un-minds bound in a web of unfathomable madness. They have been awake so long that they have forgotten what it is like to sleep, for a night or for forever, and in the cold embrace of unlife they have forgotten what it means to be alive, to be mortal.
The nomads who herd goats through the wilderness and the villagers who scrape a pitiful sustenance of hard-shelled squash from the stony foothills of Mount Kashesh shun the blind mouths of the dead city's tunnels, kept away by ancestral fear of the darkness within those crushed galleries. Even the promise of the timeless riches buried within cannot dispel the sense of nameless horror which surrounds the tunnels into Gor-Kashesh like an ominous shroud. On occasion, foolhardy adventurers, swollen with mercenary pride, or scholars of the Empire of Flowers seeking ancient magics, will enter the sunken pits of antiquity. Some come out mad and are never again the same; most never return.
What Do They Want From The Mortal World?
Who can say?
It seems that the Color-Wraiths are driven only by hunger, aimless and drifting until they sense the vibrations of a fluttering mortal lifeforce, which excites them into a state of twitching predatory fervor.
And yet, at times, their strange madness seems not so much like madness, but more like something driven by an unfathomable intelligence, a mind which sees not into this world but into a world hidden within every angle, a world in which, perhaps, the Wraiths are the masters.
The Color-Wraiths never leave Gor-Kashesh, not even to drift down the slopes of Mount Kashesh (which they might certainly do at night), but neither do they seem overconcerned for the ancient dust-choked glories of the galleries through which they wander or the piled remnants of ageless treasure which they leave unmolested on the claustrophobic streets of that burrowing place.


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We at Dorkly asked you to elect the greatest N64 game of all time by casting your votes. The competition was tough. Palms were decimated by frantic joystick spinning, countless Capri-Suns were consumed, and Glover was left with only three fingers. Alas, the time has come to announce the games you picked as the console's best. Out of a pool of 118 titles, here are the top 25.
It had everything you'd want in a Mortal Kombat and then some. Mortal Kombat Trilogy boasted the biggest roster of any MK game up to that point, including every character from the previous games and a whole slew of new ones. This meant ninjas, demon ninjas, purple ninjas, and robot ninjas that used to be regular ninjas. MK Trilogy let you play as virtually anyone you could ever want to play as -- secret characters, bosses, classic characters -- and introduced a myriad of new moves and stages. If you didn't love Mortal Kombat Trilogy, then you didn't love Mortal Kombat.
Sure, you could play Super Bomberman with four players, but only with a multi-tap and two extra controllers. And, honestly, who had enough allowance to spend on such an extravagance? For most people, Bomberman 64 was their first foray into four player Bomberman, and it was glorious. Whereas most games in the series require power-ups to perform any kind of special move, Bomberman 64 allowed players to pick-up, kick, throw, and pump up bombs right out of the gate. Couple the awesome multi-player with a solid single-player platforming experience and you've got arguably the best Bomberman game of all time.
Following its success on the Playstation, Resident Evil 2 was ported to the N64 in 1999 with a few new features. Item placement could be randomized (allowing for multiple unique playthroughs), new documents delved deeper into the lore, and cosmetic options offered new costumes and a way to adjust the violence level. Bottom line, Resident Evil 2 is a great game regardless of which platform you played it on. Before Resident Evil 4, it was frequently cited as the series' best, and continues to be a favorite among diehard fans. Yes, Resident Evil 4 corrected the clunky controls of the previous games and developed an item system that allowed for less ammo conservation and more zombie-killing, but there was something unique about the unpolished control scheme of the original games. Resident Evil 4 might be considered a better game overall, but Resident Evil 2 is the best true Resident Evil game.
As a kid, I was a little disappointed when I picked up Shadows of the Empire and realized I'd be playing as Dash Rendar, a new character to me, instead of childhood hero Luke Skywalker. My doubts were quickly dashed, however, when it became abundantly clear that Rendar was a Han Solo level badass. Shadows of the Empire had everything: run-ins with IG-88, Stormtrooper shootouts, space combat, a battle with Boba Fett, and, most importantly, the privilege to participate in the Battle of Hoth and trip an AT-AT with a tow cable. The game made you feel like an active player in the Star Wars universe and it was certainly exciting to see what was happening behind the scenes during The Empire Strikes Back. This was 1996, so Star Wars fans were still naively excited about the expanded universe and exploring the world outside of the original movies. That was until Phantom Menace hit theaters in 1999.
Pokemon Snap will forever be remembered as a classic for the mere fact that it took a series based on epic monster duels and turned it into a cutesy photography game without totally ruining it. Not only was it not bad, Pokemon Snap was really, really good. You played as a photographer collecting research pictures for Professor Oak in a play-style similar to a rail-shooter. It was a brave move for the franchise, ditching the highly successful formula of previous games and creating something entirely unique. It offers something no other Pokemon game does. While it might not be the series' best, it's certainly the best photography game.


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While on a recent trip to Austria, I grabbed a copy of Amor Towles' The Rules of Civility. My brain was a bit fried from so much German, that I popped into an international bookshop with not much of an idea of what I would find. I perused the shelves and didn't really see anything until I came upon it. I remembered the title from a then-recent post over at Literary Man. So, I snapped it up and was happy to have a new book to read as I next traveled to Berlin.
It is more than an ode to New York. The main character is the 25-year-old native New Yorker, Katey Kontent, who on New Years Eve in 1937, meets the enticing Tinker Grey. What comes is the next year of Katey's life as she moves around the city with new jobs and new friends. The dialogue is snappy and the author makes sure to add an authenticity to the story by dappling the text with vogue establishments and trends of the time. One of my favorite lines was,
"Doesn't New York just turn you inside out."
It is repeated a few times and that is exactly was happens throughout the novel. The Rules of Civility was a real page turner and great relief to my brain which has been thinking German for too long. I popped in to a bookshop today with an international section. I won't reveal what the novel is yet but it is British and it's incredibly addicting.
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It happened today – 31 August
The 31st August 1947 was the day Luca di Montezemolo was born in Bologna, the same year that the first Ferrari branded car saw the light of day. This is not the place to explain who Montezemolo is, nor what he represents in the history of the company. However, we would like to celebrate his birthday, remembering other numbers from his life in red, starting with 19 Formula 1 world titles (five when he was Sporting Director and fourteen as President,) split between 8 Drivers' crowns and 11 Constructors.' Staying with the Formula 1 theme, there are the 118 wins from 370 Grand Prix starts, along with 321 podium finishes, 494 in the points, 97 pole positions, 109 fastest race laps and 3,687 points.
On the road car front one notes that from 1993 to today (2012 figures) the numbers of cars sold has grown from 2366 to 7450, turnover has gone from 230 to 2,433 million Euro and the trading profit from -3.8 to 350 million Euro. The number of markets in which Ferrari is present has grown from 29 to 62 and the number of employees has risen from around 1600 to around 3000. To summarise, the turnover has increased tenfold, sales three fold, while the number of markets and staff have doubled.
Over the years, the Ferrari brand has had a new impetus and is recognized as the strongest in the world: today, there is a theme park in Abu Dhabi dedicated to the Maranello marque and there are over fifty Stores around the world, along with an e-commerce business that sees an average of 20,000 visitors a day from 165 countries. This incredible popularity is proven by the fact that 95 Prancing Horse branded items are sold every minute, with 400 million official Ferrari products bought over the past ten years, while its Facebook page has been "liked" over 12 million times.
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Climate simulation center tests new 40G Ethernet equipment for research network
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation is putting some of the first 40G Ethernet technology through its paces to see if equipment using the new high-speed networking standards is ready for its high-performance research network.
Engineers at the supercomputing facility, housed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., began working with beta versions of the 40G Virtual Interface Module from Extreme Networks on a laboratory network this month and will be doing a public demonstration at the Super Computing 2010 conference Nov. 13-19 in New Orleans. The modules will return to Goddard for more testing, said J. Patrick Gary, leader of the center's High End Computer Networking Team.
Gary described the technology, built on the newly ratified IEEE 802.3ba standard for 40/100G Ethernet, as "one step short of bleeding edge."
The modules have largely met expectations in early testing, Gary said, and he expects to use them when the production models become available early next year. The announced price of about $1,000 per 40G port is a little more expensive than 10G Ethernet equipment and will provide an efficient alternative to aggregating individual 10G links, he said.
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Ethernet is a family of local-area networking standards. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ratified a standard for 40 gigabit/sec and 100 gigabits/sec Ethernet in June. Previously, the highest speed under the IEEE 802.3 standard had been 10 gigabits/sec. One of the earliest announced 40G Ethernet standard products is the Extreme Networks module for its X650 Switch.
Climate research requires the accumulation and manipulation of large datasets in the gigabyte and terabyte range. Goddard is home to two of the world's premier climate modeling groups, at the Greenbelt facility and the Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York. It also collaborates with other organizations, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"This is the kind of problem that takes supercomputing capacity," Gary said. It also takes high-performance networking to move the data. Goddard's Greenbelt campus has between 16,000 and 20,000 computers in more than 30 buildings, with a local-area network that provides connections from 10 megabits/sec to 1 gigabit/sec. There also is a second high-performance science and engineering network for the 5 percent to 10 percent of the scientists who need access to speeds of 1 to 10 gigabits/sec.
"We've been deploying this kind of networking for at least five years, and we're beginning to get requests to look beyond that," Gary said. The next step is 40/100G Ethernet, and Gary's team has established a laboratory network to test the new technology. "This stuff doesn't happen overnight," he said.
Networks can achieve higher throughput rates by aggregating 10G links. But aggregation algorithms assign each traffic flow to only one link at a time, so using multiple 10G pipes is not as efficient as a single, larger pipe. With 40G Ethernet, "you know that the flows are not going to get queued up behind each other because of the link aggregation algorithm," Gary said.
The new module from Extreme Networks provides four 40G Ethernet ports as an option to its X650 10G Ethernet switch. Now that the standards have been finalized, "what is challenging is that the switch has to have the computing power to do this," said Darius Goodall, senior product marketing manager at Extreme Networks. The technology has reached the point that "we're ready to go to a customer and put our money where our mouth is."
Gary said initial tests have been satisfactory but work remains to be done on the software suite that enables the module to work with other equipment. "It's not there yet, but it's coming along, and things are very positive," he said.
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It's not like you don't already give money. Think about it. The occasional quarter in that little plastic tray at your favorite grocery store's checkout line. A crumpled dollar bill tossed to a homeless person on the street. Almost everyone gives something to charity. Almost anyone can afford two dollars. Almost everyone has given two dollars. Now what if everyone took all those little contributions and added them all together? Suddenly spare change wouldn't be a drop in the ocean, it could change the tide!
Where did the Archimedes Alliance come from? A 13-year-old boy saw a world filled with hunger, poverty and disease and he wanted to change it, but he didn't have a million dollars lying around. And he knew there were other 13-year-olds like him. And 30-year-olds. And 83-year-olds. And he was inspired by Archimedes, the Greek philosopher and mathematician who said, "give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the Earth." The Archimedes Alliance is that place to stand. You are the lever. Together, we will move the Earth.
The Archimedes Alliance is built on one simple principle: a very large number of very small contributions can have a significant effect. The Archimedes Alliance uses the power of social media to attempt to reach 1 million people and convince them to donate $2 each. Every donor can vote on 1 of 3 charities to receive the money. All the money raised is then donated to the organization selected by the contributors, and a new cycle begins.
1,000,000 people? Impossible. You'll never reach that many. Not true. Think of it this way: If you convince just ten people to give two dollars, and each one of them gets ten more people to donate, and each of them gets ten people to donate, and this happens just three more times, that's 1,111,110 people! That number doesn't seem so big now does it?
And you don't have to be a billionaire to change the world. Two dollars. That's all it takes. That's about as expensive as a bag of your favorite potato chips. How many bags of chips have you bought in your life?


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NEWPORT, RI-Junior right-hander Ashley Felaccio (Acushnet, MA/Fairhaven HS/Massasoit CC) pitched a four-hit shutout in the opener as the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's softball team blanked host Salve Regina, 3-0, in the first game of their non-conference doubleheader at Toppa Field Friday. The Seahawks won the nightcap, 4-3, and earned a split of their doubleheader.
Felaccio walked two and struck out seven in the opener. Junior designated hitter Brittany Eldridge (Raynham, MA/Bridgewater-Raynham HS) singled home the only run she would need in the top of the first inning. Freshman shortstop Emily Pontes (Tewksbury, MA/Essex Agricultural Tech HS) singled home an insurance run in the fifth inning, and the third run scored on an error. Pontes, Eldridge and junior catcher Diane Barry (Norwood, MA/Norwood HS) each had two hits for the Corsairs. Felaccio improved to 2-3, while SRU's Jen Cruver took the loss and fell to 8-16.
The Seahawks grabbed a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning of the nightcap. Shortstop Ali Muehlbronner tripled with the bases loaded to make it 3-0, and center fielder Christina Walsh singled her home. UMass Dartmouth scored three times in the top of the fifth inning, getting two runs on an error and another on an RBI single by Pontes. The Corsairs were not able to get the tying run across. Marissa Simpson went all the way for SRU and earned the win, improving to 7-9. Felaccio took the loss and dropped to 2-4.
"Ashley pitched really well, she came back strong today," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Amy Sasin. "Our defense played well, and we went out and got some runs. Ashley was hitting her spots and letting the defense do their work. We had runners in scoring position a couple of times, and we couldn't bring them in. We played well overall, and it helps to build confidence, which comes with success."
The Corsairs are now 10-23, while the Seahawks are now 15-25. UMass Dartmouth will return to action when they visit Southern Maine Saturday.


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Its the most wonderful time of the year – yep my FAVORITE time – Christmas!! Last year I put together some awesome DIY ideas in a 2 part post for delicious food and libations (DIY Holiday Dinner Party – Food & Drinks) AND amazing DIY decor ideas (DIY Holiday Dinner Party – Decor). This year I'm going to share some awesome DIY Christmas decorations that I have found across the web and Pinterest, PLUS I've got an amazing holiday giveaway for you as well!
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While "Jersey Shore" is to the country's collective brain matter what UV rays are to skin, MTV isn't going to stop putting out the product.
The network is lining up a pair of specials for the end of the show's stupendous second season. And when we say stupendous, we mean equal parts stupid and tremendous.
The Hollywood Reporter states the cast will be brought back to together for a cast reunion show to air Oct. 28 after all the Miami-set episodes have aired. The cast can talk about their favorite bar fights and legal run-ins from the past year.
The second special will be a behind-the-scenes look at the show. No premiere date has been set.
Season 3, which brings the "Gym, tan, laundry" set back to the actual Jersey Shore, will launch next year.
MTV's desire to capitalize on the continued "Jersey Shore" mania is understandable. After a pop-culture altering first season, the gang has managed to keep the momentum going through season two. Each episode this summer has set a new all-time high for the show, with the most recent drawing 6.5 million viewers.
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As early as the 13th century, Catholic missionaries primarily Dominicans and Franciscans had been active among the faithful of the Assyrian Church of the East. This resulted in a series of individual conversions of bishops and brief unions, but no permanent community was formed.
In the mid-15th century a tradition of hereditary patriarchal succession (passing from uncle to nephew) took effect in the Assyrian church. As a result, one family dominated the church, and untrained minors were being elected to the patriarchal throne.
When such a patriarch was elected in 1552, a group of Assyrian bishops refused to accept him and decided to seek union with Rome. They elected the reluctant abbot of a monastery, Yuhannan Sulaka, as their own patriarch and sent him to Rome to arrange a union with the Catholic Church. In early 1553 Pope Julius III proclaimed him Patriarch Simon VIII of the Chaldeans and ordained him a bishop in St. Peters Basilica on April 9, 1553.
The new Patriarch returned to his homeland in late 1553 and began to initiate a series of reforms. But opposition, led by the rival Assyrian Patriarch, was strong. Simon was soon captured by the pasha of Amadya, tortured and executed in January 1555. Eventually Sulakas group returned to the Assyrian Church of the East, but for over 200 years, there was much turmoil and changing of sides as the pro- and anti-Catholic parties struggled with one another. The situation finally stabilized only on July 5, 1830, when Pope Pius VIII confirmed Metropolitan John Hormizdas as head of all Chaldean Catholics, with the title of Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, with his see in Mosul.
The Chaldean Catholics suffered heavily from massacres during World War I (1918) when four bishops, many priests, and about 70,000 faithful died.
The location of the Patriarchate shifted back and forth among several places over the centuries, but gained a measure of stability after it was set up at Mosul in 1830. In 1950 it moved to its present location in Baghdad after substantial migration of Chaldean Catholics from northern Iraq to the capital city.
The Chaldean Catholic Churchs relationship with the Assyrian Church of the East improved dramatically after the signing of a joint christological agreement between the Pope and the Assyrian Patriarch in Rome in November 1994. In August 1997 the Holy Synods of the two churches formally instituted a commission for dialogue to discuss pastoral cooperation at all levels [see Assyrian Church of the East].
Chaldean candidates for the priesthood study at St. Peters Patriarchal Seminary in Baghdad. In 1991 the Chaldean Holy Synod established Babel College for Philosophy and Theology next to St. Peters Seminary. It aims to provide a higher scientific education for priests, monks, nuns and interested lay people, and is affiliated with the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. Today the largest concentration of these Catholics remains in Baghdad. There are ten Chaldean dioceses in Iraq, four in Iran, and four others in the Middle East.
The Chaldean liturgy can be traced back to the Syriac Christian culture of Edessa, and attained its present basic structure in the 7th century. The liturgical language is Syriac, and a number of Latin customs have been adopted.


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A new book by St. Bonaventure University sociology professor William Elenchin, Ph.D., explores the paradox of today's culture, where society's dependence on overconsumption is often accompanied by a growing sense of sadness.
Elenchin's goal in writing "Happy Without the Meal: Reflections from Catholic Faith and Reason" is to shine light on some of the key social changes that have created a toxic cultural atmosphere in the midst of material abundance.
"The more we have, the more we're struggling," he said.
No generation has ever had such an abundance of material goods at its fingertips. An already saturated marketplace is flooded with products. Yet in the midst of such plenty, many people experience distress and a growing sense of sadness in spite of excess possessions.
Elenchin maintains that the pursuit of the "goods life" has been confused with seeking a good life.
"My sense is that we have reached a point in history where we can readily see how false has been the promise of happiness and fulfillment through a life of consumption. New discoveries in the social sciences are aligning with old teachings from faith traditions and point toward the same true north regarding principles of wellbeing and happiness," Elenchin said.
Elenchin cites the book "Character Strengths and Virtues" as an example. In the book, scholars extract six character traits established by research in the social sciences shown to enhance health and happiness. The authors note that these same character strengths align with St. Thomas Aquinas' seven heavenly virtues from a millennium past.
Elenchin's motivation for writing "Happy Without the Meal" stems from his experiences as a therapist, a sociologist and as a parent.
"There's such a force out there, we need to understand this myth that's saturated our senses," he said.
Happiness can't be bought, eaten or somehow consumed. In the chapter "The Stress of Leisure," he describes the overconsumption of food and increase in obesity in the United States.
"Food is now marketed primarily as a source of happiness, not nutrition," Elenchin says. And that marketing plays a critical role: Corporations spend 30 times more money to advertise preserved products than they do fresh food.
In his eighth year of teaching at St. Bonaventure, Elenchin's sociology classes are populated by a generation that has grown up in this culture.
"The teachings of the Christian faith are anchored in a natural joy and freedom, peace and strength. The cheap counterfeits of these virtues are passed off as pleasure and license in an ever-expanding culture of consumption," Elenchin said.
The author is not suggesting technology should be abandoned — but notes it's dangerous to confuse ease with progress.
"Those who make that mistake risk losing a life of meaning and purpose," he said.
For instance, in 2012, Facebook reported that 83 million users, almost 10 percent of its accounts, were fake.
"It's important to recognize the simple truth that a virtual life is not a real life. Cyber life doesn't nourish us like real life. We always want more because there is little and at times no sustenance," Elenchin said.
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TechRepublic has provided a spreadsheet model to help you determine the right number of people in your IT shop. In their approach, they focus on one category of staff at a time. In each category, a few key questions are used to focus the analysis:
1. Programmers
- Is there a separation between application development and support?
- Do programmers work on multiple business applications?
- Are external clients supported, and if so, is there customized code for individual clients?
- Are major investments needed in software development of critical business applications?
- How big is the programming backlog, and what type of changes are being requested?
- Can the key business processes be accomplished better and more economically with a third-party solution?
- If you have external clients, can programmers be dedicated to and billed to specific clients?
2. Business application analysts and trainers
- Are new applications planned?
- Does the company support the installation of software for external clients?
- How knowledgeable are the departments and clients in the use of their business applications?
3. Help Desk specialists
- Are infrastructure calls separated from business application calls, or is the Help Desk support functions for both combined?
- How responsive do you need to be?
- Does the Help Desk have sound escalation procedures?
- What's the level of client satisfaction for IT support?
- Is the response rate to solve user issues sufficient?
- Do you have a tracking system to monitor support calls, trends, and responsiveness?
- How many calls is the Help Desk handling now?
- What is the percentage of local users (as opposed to remote)?
- Does the company require 24/7 staffing of the Help Desk?
4. Network administrators
- Are major changes or enhancements planned/needed for the infrastructure?
- Is an experienced architect of the network in place?
- What has been the history of implementing infrastructure changes?
- Is there an infrastructure strategic plan?
- Is a change management process in place?
5. Desktop support specialists
- What are the company growth plans?
- Are major changes planned/needed in the desktop hardware/software?
- What is the percentage of remote users (other office buildings, cities, etc.)?
- Is the response rate to solve desktop issues sufficient?
6. Data Center operations staff
- Does the Data Center require 24/7 operation?
- What are the requirements for the Data Center?
- Is a "lights out" operation possible?
- Is the Data Center secure?
Using this model IT staff needs are based upon a number of factors, including the workload, anticipated needs, current capability of the staff, and maturity of the company. As much as possible, we try to quantify all the variables in each set of issues. Ultimately, it's a judgment call based on the variable data, the level of support that you need to provide, and your experience in managing IT. If you can quantify the variables that affect levels of support, you'll be much better equipped to determine your true needs.
A full description of this approach can be found at: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1061079.html?tag=e106
A copy of the IT Staffing Model in an Excel spreadsheet can be found here: http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/5138-6321-730024.html


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Ithaca College academic standards require that students in the School of Music pass 24 credits in any consecutive 12-month period and maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00.
In order to assure that students satisfactorily progress toward degree completion over a four-year or four-and-a-half-year period, detailed schematic outlines have been prepared for each degree. Students should follow these outlines closely as they register for classes. All degree programs in music include a number of courses that are sequential in nature and that develop skills in particular areas over several semesters of study. These courses include private performance study, music theory, sight-singing, and keyboard musicianship. For these core areas, which provide the foundation for a music major's study, the following specific registration requirements must be adhered to each semester:
Exceptions to these registration requirements may occur under unusual circumstances. Permission for exceptions must be requested on the School of Music petition to request exceptions to School of Music policies form and reviewed by the instructor of record (when appropriate), the academic adviser, the appropriate department chair, and the associate dean. Students who withdraw from any course listed above must enroll in that course during the following semester. Failure to enroll in and successfully complete the course during the next semester in which it is offered will place the student on academic warning. Deficiencies in any area of preparation may necessitate remedial courses and may delay graduation.
Students who fail to meet College or school standards are subject to immediate suspension or to suspension after a warning period. Each case is reviewed on an individual basis by the dean and associate dean of the School of Music. If the review indicates that a warning before suspension is appropriate, the procedure below is followed. Students should be aware that the offer of a warning period is a privilege, based on individual review, not a right.
A letter of warning notifies the student that the school's academic requirements have not been met. Continued deficiencies may lead to suspension or dismissal from the School of Music. The following are deficiencies that lead to academic warning:
During the semester that academic warning is in effect, the student must fulfill the specific requirements listed in the letter of warning or face suspension or dismissal from the School of Music.
A second or subsequent letter of warning notifies the student of continuing deficiency in some areas listed under warning. Generally, this letter is sent to students who have demonstrated some improvement over the previous semester but have not yet attained the minimum levels required to be removed from formal warning.
During the semester that academic warning is in effect, the student must fulfill specific requirements listed in the letter of warning or face suspension or dismissal from the School of Music. Students may be suspended if this level is not attained; in some cases they may be continued on warning for one more semester.
A letter of final warning notifies the student that only one semester remains to improve his or her academic standing. During the semester that a final academic warning is in effect, the student must fulfill the specific requirements listed in the letter of warning or face suspension or dismissal from the School of Music. These are absolute requirements.
A student being suspended from the School of Music and Ithaca College is informed with a formal letter of suspension. The length of the suspension is specified, and students are informed that they are not eligible to attend courses at the College until the semester specified by the notification letter.
In the formal letter, procedures for applying for return to the College are explained, and the general expectations of performance upon resumption of studies are indicated. As a general rule, students are expected to complete 12 letter-grade credit hours with a semester GPA of 2.30 or better, with no grades of I, W, or F, and no more than one grade below C. Other conditions may be specified in the formal notification.
Readmission to the School of Music following suspension is unusual. However, it may be possible and is contingent upon evidence of a satisfactory record of achievement at another accredited institution of advanced musical training.
Students who meet College academic standards but not those of the School of Music may be dismissed from the School of Music. In such instances, students are suspended from the College for at least one semester. Continued study following the suspension is contingent on the student's being accepted into another school at the College.
In special cases, students with generally creditable records may be dismissed from a particular degree program for failure to meet requirements in that specific program. Such students are eligible to change their major to another program or school, provided they are accepted by the new department and, if applicable, school. Such program dismissals are usually made effective at the end of the following semester to allow the student time to decide upon, and be admitted to, a new major.
At the end of each semester, students who satisfy each of the following criteria are named to the dean's list in the School of Music:
Students who excel in music theory and sight-singing may be selected to enroll in honors sections of these courses. A student may be recommended for honors if his or her work is A-level and if mature study and practice habits are evident. The following are courses with honors sections:
Music Theory I -- Honors
Sight-Singing I -- Honors
Sight-Singing II -- Honors
Music Theory II -- Honors
Music Theory III -- Honors
Advanced Sight-Singing III -- Honors
Advanced Sight-Singing IV -- Honors
Form and Analysis -- Honors
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The Washington Nationals have scheduled a press conference for Monday in which they will unveil "Washington, D.C.'s biggest summer concert and
first-ever musical performance at Nationals Park." Exciting news for the city and for the team. The Nats crew unfortunately needs more experience handling sold-out crowds, and this should expose more people to our great new ballpark, and how easy it is to get there.
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Early Childhood Education Department
The following statements reflect the goals the Early Childhood Education Department has for Early Childhood Education students during their educational experience at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.
The vision of A-B Tech's Early Childhood Education Program is to improve the quality of early childhood education, birth to eight years old, thus positively influencing the lives of the children and their families in Buncombe and Madison counties.
The mission of A-B Tech's Early Childhood Education Program is to provide the knowledgebase necessary for our students to become teachers who make informed decisions therefore providing the best educational experience possible for young children and their families.
The Early Childhood Education Department shares, articulates and supports the vision and mission throughout the curriculum in classroom instruction as well as field experiences.
The Early Childhood Education Department strives to instill in our students a passion and commitment to continually work to improve their lives and the lives of children and their families.
The Early Childhood Education Department endeavors to equip students with a toolbox that has everything they need to know about the following topics:
- Characteristics of growth and development of all children
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- Professionalism, including, but not limited to advocacy for all children and their families as well as advocacy for themselves and their profession
- State-of-the-art technology that will enhance their own lives and the lives of the children and families with whom they work
A goal of the Early Childhood Education Department is to produce independent thinkers confident in their knowledge of young children and their families. This program is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 1313 L St. NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005, (202)-232-8777, www.naeyc.org.
The basic tenets of our philosophy apply to learners of all ages. These tenets are:
- Every person has inherent dignity and worth and should be treated as an individual
- Students of all ages are active learners
- Students learn best in a nurturing and safe environment
- Students will rise to the expectations of the educator
- Educators must honor and support the diverse backgrounds and abilities of each student
- Educators should be constantly aware of the potential life-changing effect they have on their students
- Educators are aware that they are serving as role models
- Education is a reciprocal process
- Education is required for making informed decisions
- Education should entice people to become life long learners
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The Early Childhood Education Department program bases outcomes on the five standards set forth by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
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Standard 3: Observing, Documenting & Assessing to Support Young Children & Families
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The past and present strengths of the Early Childhood Education Department include a dedication to quality instruction, a supportive college administration, community respect, responsiveness to community needs, quality field placements, articulation agreements with local universities, a partnership with Buncombe County Smart Start , and instructors dedicated to students and their families. These strengths result in well-prepared graduates who have a positive influence on the lives of the children and the families with whom they work.
The Early Childhood Education Department strives to build on past and present strengths while continually seeking to improve the quality of the educational experience for our students. We are committed to ongoing assessment of our curriculum/courses, making necessary improvements to meet the needs of our students and the evolving field of early childhood education.


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Reno, Nevada appointed a four-legged mayor of the town on Thursday for the day. Mayor Everett, a Newfoundland- Lab mix, was adopted two years ago from Nevada's Society for the Prevention of Cruelties to Animals (SPCA). According to the group, Everett's owners attended their annual charity event, "An Affur to Remember," where they were the highest bidders for the mayoral prize.
Mayor Everett spent the day doing what any good statesman would do; he participated in many photo shoots around town with the escort of a limousine.
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After his dutiful dog day, he received a retirement package of a dog bed, a bowl and 60-pounds of dog food from the Executive Director of the animal rights group.
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Pope John Paul II Catholic Church, 353 S. Pagosa Blvd. in Pagosa Springs, will host a Super Bowl party Feb. 3.
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Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sat in the front pew Tuesday as prayers were said in English, Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew.
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SHADAC Insurance Marketplace Enrollment Reports
SHADAC has a variety of resources to help analysts conduct research and understand the results; this technical assistance agenda includes:
Facilitate the sharing of information and expertise among states and provide opportunities for state analysts to interact with federal survey research and design experts.
Help policy makers understand the unique characteristics of the uninsured and conceptualize state programs and interventions that will increase access to care.
Provide assistance to states using SHADAC's Coordinated State Coverage Survey (CSCS), a survey tool for estimating health insurance coverage rates at the state level.
"Since we began in 1991, our goal has been to build an institution that plays a special role as a trusted source of information in a health care world dominated by vested interests. That institution-building process continues today." – Drew Altman, Ph.D. President and CEO
One of Henry Kaiser's favorite sayings was "find a need and fill it," and that's what the Foundation has tried to do. While the Foundation was established in 1948, it is in a sense a relatively young organization. Under the leadership of CEO Drew Altman, Kaiser was completely remade from the ground up beginning in 1991, with the mission, staff expertise, programs, operating foundation legal status and operating style it is known for today.
The KFF has a bounty of additional information on ACA enrollments, including a breakdown of total applications (in addition to enrollments), how many people qualify for tax subsidies (vs. no subsidies) and so on. They also provide a bunch of different ways of sorting & filtering their data. However, their info is also quite a bit out of date because they rely purely on official government reports (which may be seen as a positive or a negative depending on your POV).
TransAmerica Center for Health Studies
The Transamerica Center for Health Studies (TCHS) informs the national health care conversation by bringing clarity to the complex decision-making regarding health coverage and personal health and wellness. TCHS believes that consumers and employers can be empowered in dealing with health care. Through its broad-based analysis and research findings, the Transamerica Center for Health Studies offers consumers and employers a guide to navigate the financial implications of the health care decisions they are facing.
The Transamerica Center for Health Studies (TCHS) is a division of the Transamerica Institute, a nonprofit, private foundation. TCHS is dedicated to identifying, researching and analyzing the most relevant health care issues facing consumers and employers nationwide.
I don't know much about this organization, but this PDF gives a nice breakdown of the month-to-month increase in ACA enrollments on a state-by-state basis, as well as what percentage of those who have applied have actually been processed (ie, enrolled).
Sarah Kliff covers health policy for the Washington Post. Sarah joined the Post in August 2011 from Politico, where she authored Politico Pulse, a daily health policy tipsheet. Prior to Politico, Sarah was a staff writer at Newsweek covering national politics. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic, the BBC, Humanities Magazine and St. Louis Magazine. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Kaiser Family Foundation and University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism.
The WaPo WonkBlog covers various topics and has several contributors; Sarah Kliff specifically focuses on the latest developments in the ACA. For the record, while I did tweet the link to this site to Ms. Kliff a few times over the past few weeks, I had no knowledge of her recent feature story about ACASignups.net until after it was published. I have no connection to her other than us both having an ongoing interest in the progress (or lack therof) of the ACA healthcare exchanges.
The Actuarial Outpost is the largest social networking site specifically made for actuaries. The Outpost itself has three basic subsections: jobs listings, actuarial news, and by far the most important, the discussion forums. These forums are broken into five major sections, subsections, and various number of forums in each subsection. This partitioning allows for the ability to find a specific forum dealing with near any area of actuarial science, as well as having sections exclusive to specific actuarial exams.
The link goes to a lengthy discussion forum of how the PPACA (Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act...the full name of the law) enrollments are playing out from the perspective of the actuarial community. Most of the posts seem to be by one person who's quite skeptical/negative about the law, but there's some worthy discussion for those interested.
Aaron Strauss: (inactive)
OK, this is just a direct link to another Google Spreadsheet, but I would be remiss if I didn't give a shout-out to Aaron Strauss, the guy who actually inspired me to start this project. He started tracking applications/enrollments in early October; I was impressed with his work but felt that there was so much more which could be done with it, so I started tracking the data myself with additional features. Eventually he seemed to either lose interest (or, more likely, simply no longer had the time to keep updating his spreadsheet), but I still owe him a thank-you for sparking my interest.
Enroll Maven: (inactive?)
"Enroll Maven is an independent watchdog website dedicated to tracking Obamacare Qualified Health Plan (QHP) enrollment in the 50 states and the District of Columbia during the inaugural enrollment period that runs from October 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014. QHPs are government-approved health insurance plans being offered through the federal health insurance exchange known as healthcare.gov and health insurance exchanges run by 14 states and D.C."
EnrollMaven.com is openly opposed to the Affordable Care Act, but they're quite up front and transparent about this, and so far their methodology and sourcing has been sound. They don't include Medicaid/SCHIP expansion numbers, because their only concern is the number of actual enrollments in private Qualified Health Plans (QHP's), which is fine. I often use them to cross-check my own data.
UPDATE: They haven't updated their own site since January 1st, an eternity in this situation. I've moved them to "inactive" status until further notice.
The Advisory Board Company: (inactive)
For more than three decades, The Advisory Board Company has been helping health care get better. We aren't just a global research, technology, and consulting firm. We are a performance improvement partner for 165,000+ leaders in 4,100+ organizations across health care and higher education.
Like ACASignups.net, EnrollMaven.com and Aaron Strauss, this organization attempted to do the same thing we are, but stopped posting updates as of November 6th. Included here for completeness' sake.