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What Is Medical Home Health Care?
Medical home health care, also just called home health care, provides you with the same type of care you would receive in a facility like a nursing home right in your own home. This type of care can include skilled nursing care, physical therapy, and assistance with medications, but really depends on what's been prescribed by your doctor.
Medical home health care is licensed medical care provided in your home. It is very different than non-medical home care, in which caregivers help with daily activities such as bathing, getting dressed, grooming, moving about, and managing and taking medications.
Medical home health care is typically provided by licensed medical professionals like nurses or physical therapists, who will only perform specific tasks that have been prescribed by your doctor.
What Is Medical Home Health Care Like?
With medical home health care, licensed medical professionals such as RNs and LPNs will give you the medical care you require right in your home. However, they will only provide the specific services prescribed by a doctor. The medical professionals who come to your home to care for you are typically assigned by a state-licensed home health care agency.
It's important to note that your doctor's orders are typically needed to begin home health care. Once your doctor refers you for services, the home health care agency will usually schedule an appointment and come to your home to talk to you and your family about your needs, and to ask questions about your health. And as the agency's staff cares for you, they will provide the doctor with updates on your progress.
Home health care is often used following surgery, when you are able to leave the hospital, but still require medical attention. If that's the case, the nurses caring for you will perform tasks like changing bandages on wounds, inserting and removing catheters and IVs, giving you injections for pain and monitoring your progress. You may also need home health care if you're suffering from an illness or have an unstable health status, and want to stay in your home.
Besides medical care, home health care services will often include educating the patient and family on how to provide ongoing care and on things like diet and nutrition.
Medical home health care may be delivered in conjunction with other types of home services, such as companion care, in which a home companion spends time with you and helps with household chores, cooking, errands and transportation; and non-medical home care, which is when a home care aide assists you with personal care like bathing, grooming, going to the bathroom, and moving about in your home.
Is Medical Home Health Care Right for Me?
Consider these statements below to determine if they describe you:
- I need medical or nursing care on a regular basis.
- I like having my own living space.
- I like being independent.
- I do not want to leave my home.
- I prefer to live on my own, but do not have a relative or friend who can stay with me all the time.
Daily Living
- I need help getting in and out of the bathtub or taking a bath or shower.
- I need help getting dressed.
- I need assistance with personal grooming.
- I get my medicines mixed up or can't remember when to take them.
- I can no longer cook or need help preparing meals.
- I can no longer drive or can only drive very short distances.
- I no longer feel safe in my home.
- I feel isolated in my home.
If most or all of the above Independence statements apply to you, then medical home care is a good option if you are able to stay in your home.
- If you are unable to stay in your home, then also consider skilled nursing care.
- If most or all of the Daily Living statements also apply to you, then you should consider companion care, in addition to medical home health care, if you are able to stay in your home.
If most or all of the above Independence and Daily Living statements apply to you, but you do not need nursing or medical care on a regular basis, then companion care may be a good option for you if you are able to stay in your home.
- If you are unable to stay in your home, then you may want to consider assisted living.
What to Expect from Medical Home Health Care?
According to Medicare, home health care staff should typically perform the following tasks when caring for you:
- Check what you're eating and drinking.
- Check your blood pressure, temperature, heart rate and breathing.
- Check that you're taking your prescription and other drugs and any treatments correctly.
- Ask if you're having pain.
- Check your safety in the home.
- Teach you about your care so you can take care of yourself.
- Coordinate your care. This means they must communicate regularly with you, your doctor, and anyone else who gives you care.
If you receive home health care following surgery, they may also provide the following types of services:
- Changing bandages on wounds
- Inserting and removing catheters and IVs
- Giving you injections for pain
- Administering medication
- Monitoring your progress
Keep in mind that services will vary depending on what your physician has ordered.
Costs for Medical Home Care
Home health care costs can vary based on where you live and the length of time you need care. Home health care that is ordered by a doctor is typically covered by Medicare, but only for a limited amount of time.
According to Genworth's 2017 Cost of Care Survey, the National Daily Median cost of Home Health Care in the United States is $135 per day.


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Los Lobos at the Marin Fair
No other band suffers such a disparity between their widely perceived "one hit" and their actual creative prowess as Los Lobos. It's still one of the great misconceptions in rock and roll: while Los Lobos' albums Kiko, Colossal Head and Good Morning Aztlan rank amongst the most invigorating and exciting listening experiences of the last fifteen years, drunk accountants in Cabo Wabo T-shirts at the Marin Fair last night still yelled for "La Bamba."
"Not yet, man," countered Cesar Rosas, no doubt resigned to the request by now. "If we play it, you'll all leave!"
No true Los Lobos fan really gives a damn about hearing "La Bamba"—I've seen them twice before, and they didn't play it, and no one asked for their money back. But a County Fair is a different story altogether, and Los Lobos knows this. So you've gotta hope that the old trick worked; namely, saving the payoff until the end, while in the meantime providing a look into one of the great catalogs of American music.
I, for one, am completely enamored of Los Lobos, which puts me in the company of bugeyed ex-Deadheads, aging Latino expatriates from L.A., and Sierra Nevada-swillin' dudes with hairy shoulders. So be it. I love Los Lobos fans, if only to imagine them crawling into work the next morning, bedraggled in the best possible way, while their coworkers chug lattes and try to out-chipper each other with peppy chitchat.
Indeed, the large tent at the Marin Fair—on an island in the middle of a man-made lake—was packed with people preparing to feel like crap the next day. Dancing, swaying, drinking, singing along, and having the time of their life on the ever-festive last night of the fair. At certain moments, such as the ferocious three-way soloing pinnacle David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas and Louie Pérez achieved in "That Train Don't Stop Here," it felt like the entire tent might explode.
Other highlights included "Short Side of Nothing," "The Neighborhood," "Kiko and the Lavender Moon," and "This Time"—the latter of which Hidalgo started, then looked puzzled for a second, and finally asked the crowd, "Hey. . . who knows the first verse?"
If I'm not mistaken, the band played nothing from Colossal Head nor Good Morning Aztlan, but it didn't matter—they're so good live, and so dependent on how they play, that it's somewhat negligible what they play. A few cumbias, a long blues jam, some newer songs, a guest saxophonist, and hey, they still rule.
If there's any shrug to be had with the set, it's that it was almost identical to the last time I saw Los Lobos, an entire five years ago. Then as now, covers included Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy" as well as a sing-along of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" segueing into the Dead's "Bertha," which sent the twirl brigade off and spinning on the fringes of the island.
But it was the final cover of the night that really lit people up: an encore of "La Bamba." I made my way around the crowd and saw nothing but smiling, laughing, and getting down; and to my surprise, the aforementioned drunk accountant knew every Spanish word of the song. When Los Lobos seized on the chord progression and interpolated the Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'," the place went nuts. How can you argue?
I got a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich, watched the fireworks, rode the Merry-Go-Round, and then walked along the railroad tracks, to the rhythm of the bassline of Colossal Head's "Revolution," stuck in my head, back to my car.
(P.S. Steve Berlin, if you are reading this—I've always wanted to ask if you've got any idea whether Lee Allen intentionally quoted both "Andalucia" and "Across the Alley from the Alamo" during his saxophone solo for "Roll 'Em Pete" on the Blasters' live EP, Over There, or if it was merely a musical accident. I'm totally serious—it's plagued me for over ten years. Any clue?)
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Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.4 to fix nagging shutdown glitch
06/13/2008, 03:06 pm
The next maintenance update to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will add support for the company's rebranded suite of internet services but also patch over a dozen other bugs that have withstood earlier updates to the operating system.
Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update to address Adobe CS3 file corruption
06/05/2008, 08:06 am
As expected, Apple on Wednesday evening delivered to its developer community the first pre-release copies of its upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update, which repairs a critical flaw in saving files from Adobe's Creative Suite bundle.
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Apple, less than a week away from its annual developers conference, is preparing to begin widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.4, its fourth maintenance and security update to the Leopard operating system, AppleInsider has learned.
Mac OS X 10.5.3 users grapple with bugs in Adobe CS3, graphics
05/30/2008, 09:05 am
Those early adopters of Apple's latest major patch for Mac OS X Leopard are finding bugs with Adobe's Creative Suite 3, as well as persisting graphics glitches for MacBook portables.
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update
05/28/2008, 01:05 pm
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iPhone deals for Nordic and Baltic nations; new Leopard seed hits
05/27/2008, 09:05 am
Apple has signed on with TeliaSonera to sell its next-generation iPhone in the Nordic and Baltic markets. Meanwhile, a new pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard was pushed out ahead of the holiday weekend.
Mac OS X 10.5.3 moving along, on course with iPhone 2.0?
05/15/2008, 11:05 am
Apple continues to plug away at the next maintenance and service update to Mac OS X Leopard, which may be on track for a release around the same time as the company's iPhone software v2.0, according to one tipster.
New Time Machine option in 10.5.3; Boston store opens Thursday
05/12/2008, 05:05 pm
A new option scheduled to arrive alongside Mac OS X 10.5.3 will allow Time Machine users to chance backups while on battery power. Meanwhile, Apple has announced that its Boston flagship shop will open its doors this Thursday. And Ireland is the latest European country to see substantial iPhone discounts.
Briefly: Mac OS X 10.5.3; AT&T iPhone hotspot access; Vista sales
05/08/2008, 12:05 pm
Apple on Wednesday broadened the testing focus for developers evaluating the next update to Leopard. Meanwhile, AT&T has officially announced free WiFi Hotspot access for iPhone plan holders; iPhone Software v2.0 will deliver limited YouTube support within Safari; and Vista has passed the 140 million sales mark.
Apple's cash; new 10.5.3 seed; 3G iPhone photos; Boston store size
05/05/2008, 05:05 pm
Apple's cash reserve is rapidly approaching that of Microsoft's. Meanwhile, Apple has seeded yet another build of its impending Mac OS X 10.5.3 update; some fresh photos of a purported 3G iPhone have appeared on an overseas discussion forum; and Apple's latest flagship retail store to open in Boston may be the company's largest yet.
New 10.5.3 seed; custom Intel iMac chips, MacBook Air SSDs
04/28/2008, 06:04 pm
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O2 iPhone boost; Jobs interview tonight; 10.5.3; AT&T adds 1.3m
04/22/2008, 11:04 am
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Apple plants two more Mac OS X 10.5.3 seeds
04/15/2008, 01:04 pm
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04/14/2008, 10:04 am
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04/04/2008, 10:04 am
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Apple rapidly seeding Mac OS X 10.5.3 test builds
04/01/2008, 02:04 pm
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Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update
03/28/2008, 10:03 am
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text: Hey guys, just figured I'd do a quick post on some tips and tricks I found with CM7 that others may not know about. Holding a Notification Power Widget Button- Holding one of the power widget options in the status bar will take you to more options for that button. For example, holding the wifi button will take you to wifi settings, bluetooth button to bluetooth settings, etc. Swiping Away Certain Notifications- One option I always liked in the Gingerblur ROMS was the ability to clear certain notifications while leaving others. On CyanogenMod, you can hold your you finger on a notification and swipe it left or right to clear it from the notification bar. Using the Menu Button to Unlock the Phone- If you go into Settings-> CyanogenMod settings-> Lockscreen-> Unlock Options, and check menu unlock, you can set it so that when your at the lockscreen you only have to tap the menu button to unlock as opposed to sliding the tab Built-In Screen Shots In RevNumber's Newest Nightly- If you are using nightlies from Rev's site, you can take screenshots by using the built in option (Only available in the newest build) If you hold the power button, there will be a new screenshot option. This may also be available in the official nightlies but I'm not sure. Rev's Nightlies also include 1% battery increments Viewing Previews of Pictures Inside an Album- This feature is available on any AOSP ROM, but I figured I'd post it anyway. If you pinch and zoom your fingers on an album in the gallery, it will flow through a few of the pics and give you little previews of the first couple pictures Making the Keyboard Pop-Up by Holding Menu- One feature of android I love is the ability to hold the menu button and make the keyboard jump up and down. However, CM does not come with this enabled. To re-enable it, go to settings > CM settings > Input > Long press menu settings > and set it to soft keyboard. There are also other options for it if you so choose. Showing More Than 8 Most Recently Used Apps- If you go to settings > CM settings > Input > Long press home settings and select number of recent apps, you can set it to show 12 or 15 apps when holding your home button. Hidden Zombie Art Easter Egg- Not so much a tip as a hidden easter egg. If you go to Settings > About Phone and continuously tap on your android version (2.3.4) a hidden picture will pop up! Enabling Incognito Browsing- This will let you browse the web without history, cookies, etc. being saved. It will also hide any downloads you made from the downloads app. To do this, open up the browser, hit menu > more and at the very top there will be an incognito option. You could also slide out your keyboard, press the soft menu button with the i button on your keyboard. When in incognito mode, you'll see an eye in the URL bar. Quick Reboot From the Keyboard- This applies to any ROM for the D2, even stock but I'll add it in anyway. If you press Shift+Alt+Del your phone will reboot. Good for when it freezes up and you can't use the power menu. Profiles- CM7 has options for different profiles. Within these profiles you can configure sounds and notifications as well as different app groups. I don't use this feature but it's certainly nice to have Volume Toggle + Camera Button Music Controls- In CyanogenMod settings under input you can set it so when long pressing these buttons, you can control music while your screen is off. Holding the camera button will play or pause, holding the volume up button will move to the next track, and holding the volume down button will go to the beginning of the track, or the previous track. Works with any app that plays music. DSP Manager- The DSPManager comes with CyanogenMod, and allows you to set all different equalizer effects for the speaker, headsets, and Bluetooth devices. This feature works great and really makes a difference listening to music or watching videos from my phone. Power Widget Disappear After Applying a Theme?- Whenever a theme is applied, the notification power widget disappears from the status bar, and you are forced to reboot to get it back. With the app "Notification Restart" you can get it back without a reboot. It's free in the market and can be found HERE Quiet Hours- CM7 comes with the ability to set quiet hours, which can mute notifications and vibration and even dim the LED light. Note- Incoming calls behave as usual. Thanks tnygigles66 That's it for tonight, but I will be adding more to my list and hopefully it will get stickied! If you have any tips, post them below and I'll add them to the OP! Be sure to check out Redflea's auto brightness tutorial HERE as well! CyanogenMod Theme Thread Here NOTE- DO NOT USE THE BOOTSTRAPPER WHEN ON CM7. USE ROM MANAGER OR POWER MENU > REBOOT > RECOVERY. Good idea Redflea tb110895


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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- Referee Matt Loeffler injured his right leg in the second quarter Saturday night in Texas A&M's game against Missouri.
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Dooooooo!!! Say it with me: Doooo!!! And I'm not talking about Bryan Doo. If you followed the Celtics back in the early 80s you may remember the calls from the Garden for this week's WTHHT player, Terry Duerod.
Terry was a 3rd round pick of the Pistons in 1979 after having a very successful career at the University of Detroit (playing with future NBA players Terry Tyler, John Long and Earl Cureton under coach Dick Vitale. [Tangent time: how did Vitale swing that? The University of Detroit Mercy with 4 NBA players? Granted Cureton didn't play with Long (off by a year) but still. The most successful player out of there in the last 30 years has been Willie Green]).
After getting plucked in the expansion draft from the Mavs in 1980 [tangent 2: how many WTHHT guys were picked in expansions drafts? To this point it's been: Mel Counts, Bud Olsen, Jeff Judkins, Steve Kuberski, Mark Acres, Blue Edwards, Zan Tabak and Acie Earl. If I ever consider changing the name of this segment, anything with "Expansion" in the title might work. The Expanders? The Expandables? The Expansion Draft Crew?] Terry would be waived by the Mavs just 2 months into the season.
|Left to right: Terry, Max, Gerald Henderson, Red, Larry O'Brien, Chris Ford
"I was getting decent playing time," said Duerod. "My shooting touch was good, and I was fifth on the team in scoring. Next thing I know, they call me in after a practice to tell me they had released me. No one explained why."A tough break (similar to what Carlos Clark encountered in Sacramento). Fortunately for Terry the Celtics were interested and signed him to a 10 day contract. After sticking around for a second 10 day contract, Duerod would put on a shooting exhibition in a game against the Nets in January. Knocking down jumper after jumper (during the last 5 minutes of a blowout win) Terry got the entire crowd going, chanting "DOOO, DOOOO, DOOOO." When the final buzzer sounded the fans were still cheering. Duerod recalls the night:
"I guess I was smiling, I don't remember. It was like being in The Twilight Zone. I couldn't believe how the crowd had reacted. I mean it was just garbage time...To see and hear everyone cheering for me like that, it was unbelievable, something I'll never forget."Terry appeared in 10 games during the playoffs that year, when the Celtics would win their 14th championship. Terry was proud:
"Being a part of that team, getting my ring, those are memories I always think about."I never got to see Terry play, but he sounded like an Eddie House or Tony Delk: a guy who could come in and provide great outside shooting and score lots of points in bunches.
He would stick around for the following season too, 1982, being kept mostly on "injured reserve" (before NBA teams were allowed to have 15 players per roster there would always be guys with mysterious injuries). He'd play 5 games with the Warriors the next season before moving onto the CBA where he played with the Detroit Spirits. A season with Scavolini in the Italian League (just like Darren Daye) and two years in the Phillippines, Duerod retired from basketball.
For the past 20 years Terry has been a firefighter in Detroit for Engine 8. His official title is FEO, which stands for Fire Engine Operator, as he's recently become able to drive the trucks as well. Apparently he has a little bit of Johnny Bach in him as well artistically-speaking: at the Engine 8 Firehouse there is a mural that Terry painted. Despite scouring the web I unfortunately couldn't find any recent pictures of Terry (although according to this site he now sports a bulging paunch). His last known address was 17346 Pembroke Ave, Detroit, MI 48235 where he lives with his wife Rosemary, if someone can snap us a picture of him!
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The Rain Bird® CYCLIK™ wireless control system is battery operated for economical automation of an irrigation system, without AC power and without control wires.
The Rain Bird® CYCLIK™ wireless control system is battery operated for economical automation of an irrigation system, without AC power and without control wires.
The CONTROL MODULE has a 9-volt battery located in a weatherproof enclosure and operates latching solenoids to interrupt water flow to the valve chamber and provide on/off control of up to four valves.
The FIELD TRANSMITTER uses simple programming steps to create a coordinated irrigation schedule for up to 85 control modules. Programs are loaded into the optical port of the control modules through an infra-red link.
The simple programming menu in the field transmitter is used to set up the irrigation schedule for each valve. Then, the transmitter is taken to the field to load the program into each control module via the optical port. After the programs are loaded, each valve will operate until a new program is entered. The programming can be created to repeat a sequence, or operate one time, then remain off.
There are two models of field transmitters for different irrigation applications:
|Accurate, synchronized control without control wires or AC power
|Low cost installation
|Weatherproof optical port
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|Simple menu-driven programming
|Saves time and reduces errors
|Programming changes are made only through the field transmitter
|Unauthorized individuals cannot change irrigation programs
|One year control module operation with one 9-volt alkaline battery
|Battery is reliable for one irrigation season
|On/Off rainy weather control via the field transmitter
|Saves water by allowing shut-off during rain without losing the stored program
|Synchronized control of up to 85 irrigation blocks
|Economical system, even for large farms
Manual control
All Cyclik products have the option of manual control with the field transmitter to close or open a valve immediately.
ON/OFF Control
An ON/OFF mode is also available. In the OFF mode, the program is kept from operating (and valves are not allowed to open) until the control modules receive an ON command. This feature is used often during rainy periods when the grower does not wish to irrigate, but wants to store the program in the control modules for activation in the future.
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The system also allows the grower to take the field transmitter to the field and review the program in each control module by connecting the optical port and choosing this key.
CYCLIK control module shown operating two Rain Bird
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This morning I caught a little bit of an interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy on BBC Radio 4. Something he said struck a chord (maybe even literally) with me. He said that people in their sixties and seventies can still enjoy playing musical instruments even though they might not be as good at playing them as they once were.
I wonder whether one of the things that is holding back the digital inclusion of older people is the tendency to enthuse over the shiny and new gagets and marvel at the new opportunities they offer. I know I am as guilty of this as many people. Perhaps what really matters to older people is the ability to carry on what they have always done and enjoyed, and which they might be losing the ability to do.
During the Our Digital Planet project, I have come across a number of people whose eyes have been opened as to how the internet could help them pursue old interests. I am thinking of Ron in Bristol (pictured above), who found a new way of approaching his own photography and art, and I am thinking of visitors in Liverpool who were enchanted to find how Youtube offered an archive of material they had not been able to see for years. In one case this was of Tommy Steele singing his hit records from the 1950s, in another this was seeing Ian St. John in his pomp, playing football for Liverpool in the 1960s. And, also in Liverpool, there was the visitor from Malta, who was able to find archive video of his own wife being visited as a tiny baby in hospital by the then Princess Elizabeth.
Could we use new technologies to help people carry on playing musical instruments as their dexterity declines? I am sure there is work going on in this field. One of the other applications that immediately occurs to me is the use of tablet devices to enable people easily to increase the font size on newspaper articles and books which they might not be able to read in their paper versions due to failing eyesight. This could be used for reading music too. And I know there is lots of other work going on to enable new technologies to be used to help people adapt to the frailties of old age, but I am not aware that any of this is explicitly linked to digital inclusion. If it is not, it should be.
In Our Digital Planet, and in lots of other work I have done, I have been a strong believer in starting from people's interests. I think we need to think a lot more about how we use the internet and new technologies to help people find alternative ways of doing things they have always done, and not alway be seeking for the new.


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At its best, the Royal Academy's autumn show, Bronze, has an alchemy that conjures the luminous and sublime out of dense surfaces and forms
'The past,' as LP Hartley wrote in his 1953 bestseller, The Go-Between, 'is another country: they do things differently there.' Differently, but still implicitly part of our sensual, emotional and imaginatively charged present. Bronze, the Royal Academy's new show, allows us to experience the past not as if it were in a vitrine, but as an alchemy of form, materiality, light, time – and human presence.
The exhibition opens with a Grecian showstopper: the damaged, almost limbless Dancing Satyr from 400BC, his cranium trepanned, his body covered in an exquisite psoriasis of stippled verdigris and darker, smoother patinations. Raised, beautifully lit and alone in the first room, we have everything: formal poise, temporal and emotional tensions, death and, most significantly, a life force that transcends this wonderfully crafted figure.
How many artfully surfaced and detailed modern buildings achieve anything like this sense of presence and communication? How many seem merely virtuosic, or cleverly referential, or expressing dutifully murmured 'haptic qualities'? Why only those qualities? The Bronze show, mounted with restrained clarity by Stanton Williams, may offer some answers and consolations.
The translated Latin inscription on a 13th century German bronze door-knocker reads: 'The wax gives what should be, the fire takes it away, the bronze gives it back to you.'
And here's Louis Kahn's flipside: 'A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable.' The exhibition gives us a sense of both ideas. Craft and the human touch at this level of imagination, execution and range are instructive to any kind of designer.
Yet the figuration of these bronzes is not always their most compelling aspect, despite the brilliantly arranged formal dynamics in pieces such as Barye and Gonon's 1832 Tiger Devouring a Gavial, and Girardon's Laocoön and his Sons from 1690.
The essential magic of most of the pieces lies in qualities of light: not the light that their surfaces reflect, but the light their forms seem to possess in some inherent way. And the most sublime proof is found in one of the show's darkest pieces, Rodin's The Age of Bronze, whose nominally black surface throws out tones of darkest red and toffee that seem to be lit from within, as if the bronze was about to return to its molten state.
There can seem to be too much light. The abstract bird form of Brancusi's Maiastra, with its polished, high brass-content gleam, creates a brilliant graphic punch that is mute. But the bronze stands on a faux ancient, fragmented stone column-head of variable texture that is etched with carved lines and shadow. Presto: a small but potent object-lesson in the tensions of starkly contrasting forms and materials.
Sometimes – just as in crudely illuminated architecture – light is a destroyer. Rustici's otherwise superbly impressive 16th century ensemble, St John Preaching to a Levite and a Pharisee, is rendered as Las Vegas baroque by the way it's lit. We experience little more than a sense of surface, as if the trio had been made of plaster and rescued from a Hollywood props museum.
No such ambiguities in Tony Cragg's 2007 sculpture, Points of View – a fascinating study of the dynamics of light, profile and surface quality. The wobbly whirls of Cragg's asymmetrical bronze spindles morph into distorted facial profiles; sharp edges melt into softness; cold gleams into darkened calm. Umberto Boccioni's Futurist piece, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, dating from 1913, seems uniquely and discontinuously turgid by comparison.
The bronzes at this exhibition give us more than protean riddles of surface, light and texture; they can also possess dense concentrations of stillness – a stillness that somehow seems alive, as in the 14th century shamanistic Seated Figure from Nigeria, whose tranced gaze is eerily hypnotic. There is a similar gnomic power in the 600BC Winged Feline from Spain, a beautifully poised, intensely concentrated Ur-Art Deco figure.
Matisse's massive series of bronzes, Back, generates the same degree of concentration, yet also a wild sense of freedom. His abstracted figures seem half-sunk into bronzed rectangles of earth, their surfaces scarified with brusque scrape-marks and cylindrical indentations. Two of the bronzes, Back III and Back IV, are Corbusian or, rather, what Corb might have dreamed of achieving.
The show's art-historical gravitas is not entirely overwhelming – Benzi's 17th century head, Damned Soul, is a screaming Thomas Heatherwick; Adriaen de Vries's Seated Christ from 1607 gives us an oleaginous Blairite dissembler, desperately trying to hold back a seismic fart; da Firenze's conjoined Satyr and Satyress, circa 1540, is pure twistys.com penetrative porn; the Pop Art bronzes by Jasper Johns and Jeff Koons are turdishly witless; and, though one should admire the 12th century Krodo Altar from Saxony for itself, it does have the look of an architectural satire by Hans Hollein.
No matter. In the penumbral, living glow of that 2,400-year-old Dancing Satyr, we have the complex pleasure of standing on the edge of other times and other places where, as Hartley said, they did things differently. But the go-betweens – the eye, hand, touch, light – are proof against such pat thresholds: they're always with us, vividly, in the here and now.
Jay Merrick is architecture critic at The Independent
Exhibition: Bronze, Royal Academy, London W1, until 9 December, £14
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For Immediate Release, March 14, 2012
Contact: Bill Snape, (202) 536-9351
Bold Steps Needed for New Clean Air Rules Combating Global Warming
Existing Power Plants Shouldn't Be Exempt From Groundbreaking Rules Curbing Greenhouse Pollution
WASHINGTON— U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson is expected to announce groundbreaking new Clean Air Act standards soon to specifically target industrial carbon pollution from power plants. The new standards, however, are likely to apply only to plants built or modified in the future; they may exempt existing power plants, thus allowing them to continue to operate without industrial carbon controls.
"Rather than baby steps, the Obama administration needs to take bold strides to solve the climate crisis," said Bill Snape, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity. "The Clean Air Act only works if the science is followed — and in this case that means dealing with pollution that's being spewed into the atmosphere now, not only at some future time. When we hand out free passes to polluters, no one but industry wins."
According to a recent report from the American Lung Association, coal-fired power plants are responsible for some 13,000 deaths annually in the United States as a result of particle pollution. Coal-fired power plants produce more hazardous air pollution than any other industrial pollution source in the country. A recent study in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences found that coal costs the United States $500 billion per year, largely as a result of increased healthcare costs.
The Center recently launched "Clean Air Cities," a nationwide campaign urging cities around the United States to call on the Obama administration and the EPA to use the Clean Air Act to make significant reductions in greenhouse gas pollution. So far, more than a dozen cities — including Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Minneapolis — have signed on.
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Linda Weeks' basic baking advice
Little things can make or break your dish
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Whether you're a seasoned baker or if you're just starting out Linda Weeks has a few tips that can make sure your sweets come out great!
Here are a few of the things Linda says all bakers need to keep in mind:
1. Read your recipe
2. Make sure you have all of the ingredients
3. Lay out ingredients before you start baking
4. Make sure you have the measurements correct:
For example: T= tablespoon; t= teaspoon
5. When using measuring cup put it down on level a surface
Get eye level and make sure when you fill it you look eye level
6. When you measure with measuring spoon level it off. You can use your finger or a piece of silverware
7. When you bake Pre-Heat your oven first
8. When coating your baking pans use Pam with flour. Makes nice even coating
9. When filling cake pans fill them 2/3 of the way full
10. Once your cake comes out of the oven put wax paper over it and when pan cools put cake rounds on and turn it over and let gravity flatten it for her
If you have any questions about a recipe, or if you'd like to talk with Linda about planning a special event, give her a call at 904-744-0822.
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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
A certain cynical man went to the house of Rabbi Hillel, and said mockingly, "Your Torah, your wonderful Torah! I will become your student if you can teach it to me while I stand on one foot."
Now Rabbi Hillel knew that the man was mocking his tradition, as there is never an end to the study of the Torah, but he said, "Very well, I shall teach you the whole Torah, and I will do so while I also stand on one foot!" So the Rabbi stood on one foot and said, "This is our Holy Torah: What is hateful to you, do not do unto others."
Then he put his foot down and looked directly at the man, and said, "That is the meaning of the whole Torah. All the rest is commentary." The man instantly became a disciple of the great Rabbi.
– Edited from a posting on the Sufi Family Yahoo Group.
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Code In The Cloud
by Mark C. Chu-Carroll
This book teaches you what a cloud service is and how it differs from traditional applications. It shows you how to build a cloud service using Google's AppEngine, and uses the iterative development of a simple application to guide you through the different aspects of AppEngine development using either Python or Java. You'll learn about how to build an application as a service; how to manage persistent data using AppEngine; how to build dynamic, interactive user interfaces that run in a user's web-browser; how to manage security in a web application; and how to interact with other services running in the AppEngine cloud.
Developer's Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight
by Bob Brumfield, Geoff Cox, David Hill, Brian Noyes, Michael Puleio, and Karl Shifflett
Prism is designed to help developers more easily build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications, Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), and Windows Phone 7 applications. This guide promises everything you need to get started with Prism and to use it to create flexible, maintainable WPF and Silverlight 4.0 applications. It shows you how to use Prism to implement the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern in your application, and how to use it along with commands and interaction requests to encapsulate application logic and make it testable. It demonstrates how to split an application into separate functional modules that can communicate through loosely coupled events, and how to integrate those modules into the overall application.
Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide
by Ken Howard, and Barry Rogers
This book is a practical user guide to solving the problems agile teams encounter — packed with stories, best practices, exercises, and tips you can actually use. Step by step, you'll learn how to get teams to truly work as teams, not as disconnected individuals. It offers realistic advice on communication, motivation, collaboration, change, group dynamics, and much more.


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Jimmy Archer serves as the Motor Carrier Division director.
Archer is a seasoned veteran of state service, with 26 years at the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, retiring at that agency as chief of the Criminal Investigations Division.
In addition to leading a division focused on state tax law, he also worked extensively with federal, state and local regulatory agencies, and assisted in the development of the agency's strategic plan.
Archer earned a bachelor's degree in political science and pre-law from the University of St. Thomas, and a law degree from South Texas College of Law.


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Ridgefield teen organizes fundraiser for Crohn's Disease
Ridgefield's Jane Searfoss was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease in 2010, when she was 10 years old. As part of her treatment, every eight weeks for two years she had to sit in a chair for many hours attached to an IV at the New York Presbyterian Pediatric Infusion Center in Manhattan. "I was scared and uncomfortable," she said.
While Jane now receives treatment from home by a visiting nurse, she has never forgotten her experience. So, for her eighth-grade social studies civil action project, she organized a fundraiser to purchase blankets to give to other children with Crohn's disease to use while receiving their treatment.
We recently caught up with Jane at a Ridgefield coffee shop, where she spoke about her project, what it involved, and how it will help other kids with Crohn's.
Q: Jane, can you tell us what Crohn's disease is?
A: It's a chronic inflammatory bowel disease where your immune system attacks itself and your GI (gastrointestinal) tract.
More InformationJane Searfoss
She's 13 and lives in Ridgefield with her parents; father Chon Searfoss, 51, is a vice president at Nestle Waters in Stamford; mother Megan Searfoss, 48, is founder of Run Like a Mother women's 5K races; and sisters Abby, 20, and Sarah, 16.
She's an eighth-grader at Scotts Ridge Middle School in Ridgefield. She plays basketball and runs.
She has Crohn's disease and sells race belts in order to raise money to help other children with the disease. Chon, Abby and Sarah also have Crohn's disease.
The race belts cost $9 and can be purchased at Ridgefield Bicycle Co., 88 Danbury Road, and on eBay by searching "Race Number Belt-Run Like a Mother."
About Crohn's
Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract. It may affect as many as 700,000 Americans. Symptoms can include persistent diarrhea, rectal bleeding, and abdominal pain.
While the disease can occur at any age, it's more prevalent in those between 15 and 35. To learn more, visit www.ccfa.org.
Q: What does your treatment involve?
A: I get Remicade, which is an infusion therapy. (Remicade blocks the action of a protein in the body that's made by the body's immune system. Too much of this protein can cause the immune system to attack healthy parts of the body.)
When I used to receive my treatment at New York Presbyterian, I would sit for many hours, hooked up to a bag of medicine. I just wanted to be comfortable and fall asleep, but it was very hard to sleep because I didn't have any blankets or pillows. I knew if there were blankets, I would feel much better.
Q: What did your project involve?
A: My mom created the Run Like a Mother 5K races that are held every Mother's Day in many towns across the United States. So, she made racing belts with the Run-Like-A-Mother logo on them and I sold them at the Ridgefield RLAM race. The belts can be used in place of race bibs. I sold 250 belts and made $1,600.
Q: That's awesome. How will your fundraiser help children with Crohn's disease?
A: In July, with the money I made from selling the belts, I'll be purchasing 300 flannel blankets and delivering them to the pediatric gastro unit at New York Presbyterian. The blankets will be given to children with Crohn's who are getting treatment for the first time. The first treatment takes five hours. The blankets will make them more comfortable. They can bring the blanket back with them each time they receive their treatment.
I'll be donating all the leftover money to the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, to be used for pediatric Crohn's research.
Q: I'm so impressed someone as young as yourself has thought of such a wonderful way to help other kids. I understand you spoke to a lot of people when you sold the race belts. What was that like for you?
A: It felt good to educate people about this. My goal is to raise awareness for Crohn's disease. The more people know about it, the more fundraising we can do to help find a cure.
Sandra Diamond Fox is a freelance writer in Connecticut; email@example.com.


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Transfer Case Decisions - Gear Drive vs. Chain Drive
Which One Is Right For You?
In the early days of 4x4s, transfer cases like the Spicer 18, Dana 300, and NP205 were the norm. These cases all feature iron cases and are gear-driven for incredibly strength, but as manufacturers searched for ways to make 4x4s quieter and more fuel efficient the NP231, NP241, and NP271 emerged. By contrast, these transfer cases use aluminum cases and are chain-driven with planetary gears of varying size (depending on the application).
We went to National Fleet Solutions where an NP205 and an NP271 transfer case spilled their guts for us at the hand of shop manager Aaron Lechner. These two transfer cases have been the cornerstone of 3⁄4- and 1-ton truck applications for decades, and both designs have their advantages and disadvantages depending on your budget, space requirements, and how you primarily use your 4x4. Read on to help determine which one is right for you.
|NP271 or NP273, What's the Diff?
|The NP271 that we used for this story uses a manual, floor-mounted shift lever, while the NP273 is essentially the same transfer case with an electric shift motor. The NP273 also adds a synchro ring for shift-on-the-fly capabilities. Otherwise the cases and internals for both transfer cases are identical, and components can easily be swapped between the two cases.


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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin just might motivate the government of her Caribbean homeland to fix the country's chronically rutted roads.
Chin became the season five champ of "The Voice" TV show Tuesday, eliciting jubilation in Jamaica. Her performances on the NBC singing competition were a big topic on the island for weeks and politicians lost no time in congratulating her.
When Chin won a car with the other show finalists, she quipped to host Carson Daly that "we have the worst roads" in Jamaica.
National Works Agency Deputy CEO Earl Patterson said Wednesday that he got the message, telling reporters: "Certainly the point that Tessanne made that the roads could do with more investment, that point is noted."
However, he quickly added that the island's fiscal constraints must be considered.


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Last week at work I received a distressed message from my sister alerting me to an article entitled "Signs You Are Dating a Girl Who Has Been Single For Ages." She warned me that as it had made her (the immeasurably more placid and easy going sibling) annoyed, it was sure to evoke very strong feelings in me. I am a single woman, so at first glance it would appear that this article is more personal to me, and therefore I might have a more averse reaction to it than my coupled up girlfriends would. However, there is actually a much darker and more generalised sexist message behind this piece.
Here is the article in all its glory. I urge you to read it before continuing reading what I have to say, but be warned – it is not for the fainthearted and is likely to cause outrage and indignation, and will certainly make you ask the question "How can an article this unbelievably stupid get published!?" (The banner ad for femfresh will, joy of joys, also slow your computer right down – ed.)
Angry? Yes, I was too. I don't take kindly to being labelled greedy, selfish, sad, and desperate, with an unkempt vag by a person who has never met me, based solely on the fact that I don't have a boyfriend to affirm my worth as a woman. And that's not to mention all of the other sexist connotations that are rife in this article. Furiously, I scrolled to the bottom of the page to find the name of the misogynistic pig who had taken it upon himself to provide such an offensive and unintelligent insight into the traits and behaviours of women who have spent too long without a man and who are therefore no longer capable of sharing, trusting or acting in a socially acceptable manner. To my horror, I found that this had actually been written by a woman. I think it was at this point that my anger turned to sadness and to be frank, embarrassment that another woman could be so sadly misinformed as to what it means to be fulfilled, content and valuable as a female.
Happiness and self-worth do not depend on whether or not you have a man in your life to prove that you are worthy (I should not have to say this_. Single women are not sad. They do not cry to their girlfriends about being single, nor do they beg for reassurance that they are attractive. In reality, they probably just aren't so desperate to be in a relationship that they'll jump into the first one that comes along.
Not all single women are clueless as to how to "manicure their lady garden". The idea that a woman does or should tend to her pubic region purely for the benefit and gratification of a man is unhealthy and demeaning, and the suggestion that women will only "get the hang of" removing their pubes when they have a man to help them out ("You missed a bit"!?!?) is laughable. Furthermore, words can't do justice to the negative impact on society of a woman who writes an article in which she begs forgiveness of men on behalf of those women who choose not to opt for a Hollywood or a Brazilian.
Not all single women go out every Friday night and "snog the faces off" every stranger that they meet in a desperate attempt to reassure themselves that somebody wants them. In the same way, not all single women (in the absence of a man) have nothing to do on a Saturday so resort to staying in, festering on the sofa and not bothering to brush their teeth.
Not all single women like the colour pink. I am a single woman with a younger sister, 6 female cousins, mostly female friends, and I hate pink.
And finally, I will come to what in my opinion is the most offensive point in the whole article. Not all single women watch Keeping up with the Kardashians! We also do not all cry to Whitney Houston and eat Branston Pickle out of the jar. If you insist on shaming women who are independent and too happy on their own to feel the need to conform to your sad and outdated views on the ways in which women should live their lives, at least do them the justice of appreciating that they can independently have a decent taste in film, music and TV.
I will gloss over the wildly inappropriate use of a GIF at point 10 which shows a pre-pubescent child licking her lips after the author makes a reference to masturbation, and make my final point.
It is important that we acknowledge that this article is not just shaming single women. Girls in relationships who feel that they are not also victims of this article need to understand the hidden and very sad message: stripped of your boyfriend you are nothing but a sad, Kardashian-watching loser who fondles her own boobs and doesn't know how to look after herself.
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What did the ancient world of the people of Easter Island look like? Earthwatchers helped researchers unearth and recreate it.
Earthwatch researcher Sonia Haoa Cardinali was born on Easter Island; she is the island's coordinator of national monuments and a leader in the preservation of its heritage.
"When you approach the coastal temples (ahu) and the statue (moai) quarry for the first time, you will have that 'National Geographic' moment," she has said. "They are unforgettable. The archaeology of the domestic sphere of life is also richly detailed. The houses, ovens, chicken houses, stone quarries, and gardens are visible on the surface and present us with many clues about how the past society was organized. With a little experience, what first appear as random clusters of unworked stone soon become recognizable as important features from the past. We are in the process of putting these features together to form a coherent picture of past ways of life."
Ms. Haoa Cardinali was part of the research team that discovered some moai had colored eyes made from white coral and red scoria (lava), emphasizing their importance in religious ceremonies. In addition, she and her colleague (and former Earthwatch scientist) Dr. Chris Stevenson advanced the theory that the infamous collapse of the island's civilization was not the straightforward ecocide by deforestation that researchers and the public had believed. What's more, she's helped demonstrate that her ancestors had, in fact, developed a sophisticated agricultural system of rock-gardening, designed to trap moisture and to retain and fertilize poor soils, in part as a response to diminishing resources.
Earthwatch researcher Haoa Cardinali was born on Easter Island; she is the island's coordinator of national monuments and a leader in the preservation of its heritage.
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PARIS Just as Le Corbusier's white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib', Paris's bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change.
Residents here can rent a sturdy bicycle from hundreds of public stations and pedal to their destinations, an inexpensive, healthy and low-carbon alternative to hopping in a car or bus.
But this latest French utopia has met a prosaic reality: Many of the specially designed bikes, which, when the system's startup and maintenance expenses are included, cost $3,500 each, are showing up on black markets in Eastern Europe and northern Africa. Many others are being spirited away for urban joy rides, then ditched by roadsides, their wheels bent and tires stripped.
With 80 percent of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged, the program's organizers have had to hire several hundred people just to fix them. And along with the dent in the city-subsidized budget has been a blow to the Parisian psyche.
"The symbol of a fixed-up, eco-friendly city has become a new source for criminality," Le Monde mourned in an editorial over the summer. "The Vélib' was aimed at civilizing city travel. It has increased incivilities."
The heavy, sandy-bronze Vélib' bicycles are seen as an accoutrement of the "bobos," or "bourgeois-bohèmes," the trendy urban middle class, and they stir resentment and covetousness. They are often being vandalized in a socially divided Paris by resentful, angry or anarchic youth, the police and sociologists say.
Bruno Marzloff, a sociologist who specializes in transportation, said, "One must relate this to other incivilities, and especially the burning of cars," referring to gangs of immigrant youths burning cars during riots in the suburbs in 2005.
He said he believed there was social revolt behind Vélib' vandalism, especially for suburban residents, many of them poor immigrants who feel excluded from the glamorous side of Paris.
"It is an outcry, a form of rebellion; this violence is not gratuitous," Mr. Marzloff said. "There is an element of negligence that means, 'We don't have the right to mobility like other people, to get to Paris it's a huge pain, we don't have cars, and when we do, it's too expensive and too far.' "
Used mainly for commuting in the urban core of the city, the Vélib' program is by many measures a success. After swiping a credit card for a deposit at an electronic docking station, a rider pays one euro per day, or 29 euros (about $43) for an annual pass, for unlimited access to the bikes for 30-minute periods that can be extended for a small fee.
Daily use averages 50,000 to 150,000 trips, depending on the season, and the bicycles have proved to be a hit with tourists, who help power the economy.
But the extra-solid construction and electronic docks mean the bikes, made in Hungary, are expensive, and not everyone shares the spirit of joint public property promoted by Paris's Socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoë.
"We miscalculated the damage and the theft," said Albert Asséraf, director of strategy, research and marketing at JCDecaux, the outdoor-advertising company that is a major financer and organizer of the project. "But we had no reference point in the world for this kind of initiative."
At least 8,000 bikes have been stolen and 8,000 damaged so badly that they had to be replaced nearly 80 percent of the initial stock, Mr. Asséraf said.
JCDecaux must repair some 1,500 bicycles a day. The company maintains 10 repair shops and a workshop on a boat that moves up and down the Seine.
JCDecaux reinforced the bicycles' chains and baskets and added better theft protection, strengthening the mechanisms that attach them to the electronic parking docks, since an incompletely secured bike is much easier to steal. But the damage and theft continued.
"We made the bike stronger, ran ad campaigns against vandalism and tried to better inform people on the Web," Mr. Asséraf said. But "the real solution is just individual respect."
In 2008 , the number of infractions related to Vélib' vandalism rose 54 percent, according to the Paris police.
"We found many stolen Vélib's in Paris's troubled neighborhoods," said Marie Lajus, a spokeswoman for the police. "It's not profit-making delinquency, but rather young boys, especially from the suburbs, consider the Vélib' an object that has no value."
Sometimes the bikes are also victims of good old adolescent anarchic fun. These attitudes are expressed by the "freeriders," and a bicycle forum, where a mock poll asks riders whether the Vélib' can do wheelies, go down stairs and make decent skid marks.
It is commonplace now to see the bikes at docking stations in Paris with flat tires, punctured wheels or missing baskets. Some Vélib's have been found hanging from lampposts, dumped in the Seine, used on the streets of Bucharest or resting in shipping containers on their way to North Africa. Some are simply appropriated and repainted.
Finding a decent one is now something of an urban treasure hunt. Géraldine Bernard, 31, of Paris rides a Vélib' to work every day but admits having difficulties lately finding functioning bikes.
"It's a very clever initiative to improve people's lives, but it's not a complete success," she said.
"For a regular user like me, it generates a lot of frustration," she said. "It's a reflection of the violence of our society and it's outrageous: the Vélib' is a public good but there is no civic feeling related to it."
Still, with more than 63 million rentals since the program was begun in mid-2007, the Vélib' is an established part of Parisian life, and the program has been extended to provide 4,000 Vélib's in 29 towns on the city's edges.
So despite the increasing costs, Paris and JCDecaux are pressing on. The company invested about $140 million to set up the system and provides a yearly fee of about $5.5 million to Paris, which also gets rental fees for the bikes. In return, the company's 10-year contract allows it to put up 1,628 billboards that it can rent.
Although JCDecaux will not discuss money figures, the expected date for profitability has been set back. But the City of Paris has agreed to pay JCDecaux about $600 for each stolen or irreparably damaged bike if the number exceeds 4 percent of the fleet, which it clearly does.
In an unsuccessful effort to stop vandalism, Paris began an advertising campaign this summer. Posters showed a cartoon Vélib' being roughed up by a thug. The caption read: "It's easy to beat up a Vélib', it can't defend itself. Vélib' belongs to you, protect it!"


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Title: Automated analysis of DEMs using R+OSGeo (workshop at Geomorphometry 2011)
Workshop moderators: Tomislav Hengl & Carlos Grohmann
Duration: 1 days
Room: University of Redlands Campus, Lewis Hall room 104
Intended aims and scope: This workshop aims at PhD students and professionals interested to use open source software packages for processing of their elevation data. R is the open-source version of the S language for statistical computing; SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) and GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) are the two most used open-source desktop GIS for automated analysis of elevation data; Python is the programming environment increasignly used to automate DEM data analysis. The topics in this workshop will range from selection of grid cell size, choice of algorithms for DEM generation and filtering, to geostatistical simulations and error propagation. The workshop moderators will demonstrate that by combining R+SAGA/GRASS with other packages such as Python, "raster" and "maptools" R packages and GDAL utilities, we create a powerfull compo of tools capable of handling such demanding tasks as DEM generation from auxiliary maps, automated classification of landforms, and sub-grid parameterization of surface models.
For more info see the SAGA vs GRASS workshop (Zurich 2009).
Intended audience: PhD students and young DEM specialists. Anybody that would like to learn using R+OSGeo for DEM data analysis.
Daily programme:
Day 1 (Introduction and first steps)
- 9:00-11:00 Introduction and software demo
- 11:00-13:00 Software installation and first steps
- 13:00-14:30 Lunch
- 14:30-15:00 Theoretical concepts (variograms, scales, spatial stats)
- 15:30-17:00 Hands-on-software exercises
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For conference organizers
- A workshop room with 12-15 tables in U-shape (example);
- 8-10 extension cables with 20+ sockets for laptops;
- LCD projector and a large screen + whiteboard;
For participants
- WLAN-enabled laptop with Windows or Linux OS;
- R+OSGeo software (R, SAGA, GRASS, Python, FWTools, Google Earth) up and running;
- Some minimum knowledge or R and GRASS are recommended but not a prerequisite;
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As most of you know, I spent years as chief economist and lead economics writer for BusinessWeek. And I have utmost respect for the difficult task that journalists face under deadline pressure.
Having said that, I feel that the NYT article As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living understates the jobs impact of the App Economy in three ways.
First, the article notes that the App Economy "was responsible, directly and indirectly, for 466,000 jobs," as of the end of 2011, based on a February 2012 study that I did for Technet. However, an October 2012 report entitled The Geography of the App Economy, done by myself and Judith Scherer, showed 519,000 jobs in the App Economy as of April 2012. It would have been much more accurate for the reporter to have cited the more recent–and larger–estimate of App Economy jobs.
Second, it's certainly true that App Economy entrepreneurs are not all successful, just like entrepreneurs in other fields. However, "The Geography of the App Economy" paper makes it clear that large companies are hiring droves of app developers in-house to create and maintain apps, listing quite a few by name. That paper identified 10 different categories of App Economy jobs, only one of which consisted of the stand-alone app developers that the NYT article focuses on.
Entrepreneurs know that startup businesses typically take at least 3-5 years to make a profit. How long were the entrepreneurs they interviewed in business? And the skills and experience these people develop in their own ventures make them more appealing to be hired at large salaries by more established companies. Indeed, the article notes in passing that one of the entrepreneurs was then able to get a job as a app developer working for a larger company.
In our research, we have found that one of the biggest problems facing App Economy entrepreneurs is that they are competing with large companies for the same talent pool of skilled computer software engineers, user interface designers, and others with app economy skills. In this industry, talent is the most important input, wages are high and rising, and there's more demand for these skilled individuals than there is supply.
Finally, the NYT article ignores the positive impact of the App Economy on state and local economic development. In an upcoming paper, South Mountain Economics will look at the ways that some leading states and cities are trying to attract app developers and other innovative companies as the foundation for growing their economies. These innovation-minded economic development efforts will turn out to be crucial for economic success going forward.


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Airlines have spent the last ten years subtracting value, instead of adding it.It's a bit like travel bookers talking to each other instead of their customers, but a survey of exhibitors and "business partners" at one of Europe's biggest travel trade shows this month indicates just how big is the hole that the air travel business has dug itself into.
The survey at the ITB Berlin travel show also offers an insight into the plight of national flag carriers like Qantas, created by government but now trying to survive in a dog-eat-dog corporate jungle.
Among its many findings, only nine per cent of respondents said they preferred to book flights with their national airline and only four cent were willing to forfeit value for money to do so.
In other words, "loyalty" these days barely qualifies for its definition. Value is king and, if the price isn't right, the customer moves on.
"Customers reward airlines that offer transparent services and good value for money because they feel they are being treated well," one of the participants, Martin Buck, director of the Competence Centre Travel & Logistics at Messe Berlin, commented.
"If a national carrier is unable to fulfil those demands then it loses its emotional bond with the customer."
That qualification doesn't just apply to national carriers: it's harder than ever for all airlines these days to command customer loyalty.
They shouldn't be surprised when they have set out to alienate their customers on the value-for-money front in the past decade.
The first big change in the value landscape, triggered by the travel recession that followed the US terrorist attacks in 2001, was a massive devaluation in frequent flyer benefits.
Suddenly "free" flights weren't free anymore. "Taxes" (which mostly aren't government taxes at all) and charges were required to be paid for the first time on flight redemptions, meaning a member of an airline loyalty program wanting to travel from Australia to the US or Europe could be required to pay $500 or more to access their "benefit".
It was always going to come to that because frequent flyer programs are schemes built on unsustainable "contingent liabilities" that airlines amass in a desperate attempt to attract repeat business.
Unfortunately, the changed airline economy since 2001 has also meant that airlines have increase their average passenger loadings per flight from about 70 per cent to around 80 per cent.
Sophisticated yield management IT programs have enabled much more precise revenue control, but the window into which frequent flyer seat redemptions are supposed to fit has become a tiny fraction of the available seat inventory.
The shock of 2001 was only a shock or two away from the global financial crisis of 2007-09, which has spurned a second value downgrade for air travellers: the "ancillary revenue" craze, in which the fare is no longer the actual fare you'll pay, but just a component of it.
On top of the "fare" you must now add charges for baggage, use of credit card, seat selection, priority boarding and a host of other optional extras.
Thankfully for consumers, most jurisdictions have begun to catch up with the lying epidemic that has accompanied the ancillary revenue craze: in Europe and the US airlines are now obliged to unequivocally state the all-up cost of an air ticket instead of hiding all or parts of it behind asterisks in the small print.
As Travellers' Check has recently pointed out, the constant downgrading in the consumer value equation has accompanied a further squeezing in the space allocated to economy passengers as airlines increase the comfort for high-value business customers.
But the government's measuring of domestic air fares also shows the lowest discount economy fares are now around 38 per cent cheaper than they were when stats gathering began in 2003.
And, in the past year, business fares have plunged around 36 per cent as Virgin Australia has become a fully fledged competitor to Qantas at the pointy end of the plane.
As the airline business contemplates another Christmas-New Year season of juicy 100 per cent load factors in industry-speak, it may like to contemplate where the tunnel it is digging will eventually lead.
Is the objective to get the unit operating cost per available seat kilometre to as near as possible to zero? After two decades of a continuous campaign of cost reduction, at what point in a mature air travel market like Australia's do airline managers start thinking about radical concepts like value adding, instead of value subtraction which has been their preoccupation for a decade?
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Some time ago I wrote a preprint (this one: http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2651) that contains one main result (Theorem 2.2.1(1)) and several applications for it. Most of the applications could be deduced from the main result automatically using the methods developed in my previous papers.
Now I submitted the preprint, and the referee says: the main result is quite nice, but he does not want me to repeat much of the previous papers; so I should make the 'applications' part much shorter. I don't object against making the paper shorter; yet a reader that knows nothing about my previous work will probably not understand why the main result is important. So, I would like to mention the applications somehow.
Now my main question is: what could be the best way to do this? The referee wants the paper to be really short; so is it reasonable to make a list of applications and ask the readers to read the details in the references? Can I make a reference to the preprint version of the paper (which would be longer)?