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God bless whoever invented the traditional electrical outlet so many decades ago. Where would we be without the ability to conveniently tap into some current every ten feet or so? Problem is, the outlet weve come to depend on is decades old
born long before rechargeable razors, curling irons and baby monitors began fighting for plug-in supremacy. We live in a time where a lot of the electrical products that add convenience to our lives (many of them cordless) come with bulky plugs.
Historys greatest revolutions are borne out of societys desperate need for change. If youve ever tried charging two cell phones in the same outlet you know what we mean. It just so happens that this particular revolution is particularly about revolution. For the first time in history, the sockets in your wall outlet can actually rotate 360°, providing the flexibility needed to make full use of both outlets.
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Danyelle Martin
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Campus Involvement
Hometown? Morongo Valley, CA
Favorite thing about Washington College? My favorite thing about WAC would have to be the people. There are so many interesting and wonderful people to get to know - professors, staff members, and of course fellow students.
What would you never leave at home for college? USB flash drive… very handy.
What not to bring to college? I would definitely leave behind some pairs of shoes; you'll most likely end up wearing a favorite pair of flip flops as much as possible.
Why are you an RA? I love the sense of community found at WAC, and I wanted to become an integral part in that.
Where are you an RA? Queen Anne's Second Floor - a.k.a. best floor ever!
What is one thing you believe the freshmen should know before coming? Come with an open mind; try something new. There are so many great clubs and groups at WAC. Get involved with something you may have never tried before be it ballroom dance, fencing, or an IM sport.

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I think I may have mentioned this before, but just to underline the absolute truth of it, I love bringing home food stuff from my travels. It is, in book at least, the best souvenir**. Each little morsel that I take with me represents a mouthful of where I have been, encapsulating a perfect, "bite-sized", snapshot of a place that I can re-experience back home.
Spain is a haven for food shopping, what with their wizardry in curing and preserving meats. Anyone who has tasted a gossamer-thin, glistening slice of jamon iberico de bellota can attest to that. In Barcelona in particular you also have the famous La Borqueria, the city's famous market that can trace its history back to almost 800 years. In and around you have places that have been there for centuries, offering up specialties perfected a hundred times over, sitting shoulder to shoulder with establishments captained by brazen new chefs pushing their envelopes in the most delicious ways.
I know food is not the most permanent of souvenirs (I have another favorite as well not to worry**) but really, when you are back home with the phone ringing and the emails pouring in and the weather going to pot, and you are dreaming of one more day in Barcelona, wouldn't you rather be biting into this than scrambling to find space for yet another mug?
Montadito de Pan con Tomate, Chorizo, y Huevo
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 slices of baguette or pain de campagne
- 1 tomato, bordering on overripe, cut in half
- 1 clove garlic, cut in half
- Extra virgin olive oil, the best you have
- Sea salt (the flakey type)
- 4-5 slices Spanish chorizo (one that is meant to be eaten cured, not cooking chorizo)
- A small handful of micro arugula
– Toast or grill the bread. Rub the toasted bread with the garlic, cut side down. Rub the bread with tomato halves, crushing slightly so the bread is smeared with the tomato juices and pulp.
– Meanwhile, heat a couple of swirls of olive oil in a non-stick skillet. When hot, add the eggs and, as the bottom sets, push the set parts around gently with a wooden spatula. Continue pushing gently until you have softly set curds of egg (you can cook it more if you like your scramble firmer). Remove the egg from the pan immediately so it does not continue to cook.
– Drizzle the garlic/tomato-rubbed toasts with the best olive oil you've got. Sprinkle with sea salt flakes. Congratulations, you've made pan con tomate!
– Divide your chorizo between the pan con tomate. Top with egg and micro arugula.
This is really a tapas type dish, but if we can eat dessert for breakfast I don't see why we can't have a bit of Spanish bar chow for breakfast either. It's got cured and seasoned pork (and not just from any pig but from some of the best in the world!), egg, bread, and even greens. A breakfast for champions certainly. And if you decide to make many mini versions for an appetizer spread, well that's allowed too and I can guarantee it will go over famously with your guests.
This was my first encounter with micro arugula and it will surely not be my last. I chanced upon them in my weekend market from a newish purveyor who sells a variety of micro greens (along with grass-fed beef and pork!) and had to try them, seeing how much I love their "macro" versions and sprouts in general. They have a milder version of regular arugula's peppery kick. They are wonderful in this montadito, and are just as perfect in a homemade chicken salad sandwich.
I used chorizo iberico de bellota here but feel free to experiment with other Spanish cured meats such as salchichon iberico or fuet. If you are feeling particularly luxurious you can try this with jamon iberico de bellota instead. You can also replace the micro arugula with other micro greens or sprouts. I procured this chorizo from my godmother's friendly neighborhood xarcuteria (charcuterie). It's a fantastic, treasure trove, kind of place with jamon ibericos hanging from the ceiling, a platter of handpicked cheeses set out on a table for the customers to try, and one of the owners behind the counter to help you along in your selection.
My kind of souvenir shopping 😉
**My other best kind of souvenir is jewelry. Preferably a small pendant I can place on my necklace 🙂


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Flash-sales e-retailer ideeli Inc. has raised $12 million in a fifth funding round, a spokeswoman for the company confirmed today. The company outlined the investment Friday in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ideeli declined to provide further details about the investors or its plans for the funds.
Last June, the retailer raised $30 million in a Series D financing round. In 2011, it raised $41 million. In 2009, it raised $20 million, and in 2007, the year it was founded, it raised $3.8 million. That brings the retailer's funding to date to $106.8 million.
In March, ideeli hired a new CEO, Stefan Pepe. Pepe had formerly worked for flash-sales site Gilt Groupe Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
Ideeli is No. 154 in the 2013 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. Gilt is No. 54 and Amazon is No. 1.
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You'll likely be storing a bunch of your favorite music, movies and apps on your Droid X2. The provided 8GB microSD card that the Droid X2 comes with is better than average, but may still not be enough for the power-user that has the above-average library of multimedia. By using memory cards for the Motorola Droid X2, you eliminate the risk of effecting performance of your device by adding that extra 16GB or even 32GB of space to your phone.
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The "Otaku" or "enthusiast" Tenkeyless Tactile Touch keyboard provides all of the same features of the FC200RT/AB Tenkeyless, but in minimalist form. N-key Rollover is standard functionality along with the metal plate mounted "soft tactile feel" key switches. Additionally, soft 2-angle rubber feet which provide traction on uneven surfaces, 3-channel cable management, and a detachable cable make this board a versatile and portable tool for on-the-go typists.
This special edition keyboard comes with a built-in touch-typing tutor: blank keycaps!
The "N-key Rollover" feature allows any number of simultaneous key presses to be recognized by a keyboard. For some keyboards, true N-key Rollover works only with a passive PS/2 adapter since using a USB connection may limit the key Rollover function to 6 keys, plus 4 modifiers (Ctrl, Alt, Pgup, etc.), at a time.
Keyboard Features
- USB interface with PS/2 compatibility (PS/2 must be used for full N-key Rollover, adapter included)
- 87 Key US ANSI Layout w/Non-Printed Keycaps
- Cherry MX series 2.1oz actuating force keyswitch with tactile feel and silver/gold contacts; aka "Cherry Brown Switches", 4.0mm travel, 50 million actuations
- Dimensions: 362 x 140 x 33mm (14.1 x 5.4 x 1.3in)
- Cable Length: 1.8m (5.9 ft)
- Weight: 0.9kg (2lbs 1oz)
- 3-direction cable channels for cable management
- Blue in-key LEDs indicators (CapsLock and Scroll Lock)
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- FC200RT/ABN 87-key Keyboard
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Friday, March 03, 2006
Don't Believe The 'ype
In fact, the Beatles sing with what I call "Standard English Singing Pronunciation," which is a standard shared by most Anglophones, including Americans. Its salient (or perhaps typifying) feature is that it is non-rhotic. Indeed, just about the only popular American music that is rhotic is country music.
Now this is an odd situation, and it merits some consideration. There may be research on the topic, but since this isn't my field I don't need to know about it. Although an alarmingly high percentage of my readers are linguists, especially now after Ben Zimmer mentioned me in a post on Language Log, so I should perhaps think twice before flaunting my ignorance. Except ignorance is so fun to flaunt.*
In short, the situation is not that the Beatles sing with American pronunciation, but that Americans sing with British pronunciation, more or less. And yes, I know that there are rhotic British dialects and non-rhotic American ones. In fact, the latter will come to play in my made-up explanation. Firstly, though, it is well known from early recordings that for public occasions Americans (or at least Americans from a certain background) would adopt a very strange non-rhotic accent. It could be that singing, as a kind of public performance, also had this "fancy" pronunciation in America in some contexts. Perhaps then this became a convention that is retained to this day as a hallmark of musicality. On the other hand, not all music lends itself to conventions associated with prestige and formality; I think that in these cases (non-black) Americans sing non-rhotically in partial imitation of African American vernacular, which has, of course, had a profound effect on all American music. Thus non-rhotic singing has associations that are both formal and not formal. I think that now we are closer to understanding why country music, alone among styles of American music, adopted rhotic pronunciation, despite the number of country singers from the South, a region where there is fairly widespread derhotacization: in order to project an image of folksiness, country singers couldn't use a fancy non-rhotac pronunciation, nor were they eager, as white Southerners, to co-opt a hallmark of African American pronunciations. Indeed, the most famous African American country singer, Charley Pride, sings with a markedly rhotic pronunciation, even though he's from the Mississippi delta, where African Americans (but not whites) derhotacize.
On the other hand, a large number of Country singers are from fully rhotic Texas, and this is probably a factor too, as is the fact that the center of the industry is in rhotic Nashville. Hank Williams presents an interesting case; he is from southern Alabama and he sings with a strong rhotic pronunciation. According to a map on Wikipedia, which is based on Labov et al., the isogloss runs right through this area. I haven't been able to find any recording of Williams spekaing, though I'm sure they exist; it would be interesting to know whether he had a rhotic pronunciation or not.
So when, as a kid, I identified the Beatles' singing pronunciation as American, I wasn't entirely off the map. I believe I was also noticing the contrast between their Liverpudlian "Scouse" dialect and there more generic singing pronunciation. It seems that increasingly, though, U.K. musicians are starting to use distinctly local pronunciations. One prominent example is the "it" band of the moment, the Arctic Monkeys, from Sheffield, Yorkshire. So far they are following a now all-too-familiar pattern with British pop musicians: intense media hype followed by a nasty critical backlash in the equally nasty British music press. Others attack them for using too many localisms in their singing, which I think is sad. I must say, though, I don't really hear that many localisms, though I haven't listened to enough of their music to judge; I haven't heard them sing "tha" (thou) for instance, one of my favorite Yorkshire features, but I did catch an "owt" (something/anything). Here's a video of a live performance, and you can hear their dialect for yourself, although it is markedly less strong when they sing than the spoken bit at the beginning, my favorite part of which is when, in reference to all the flap in the press about them, the lead singer says "Don't believe the 'ype," pronouncing "the" as /ði/.
Speaking of videos, British musicians and their dialects, and backlash against heavily hyped bands, check out the following clip of the Beatles performing a very silly skit on a British T.V. show, I'm guessing in 1963. Notice their exaggerated Scouse dialect, but notice too the reaction of the crowd. In addition to the de rigueur screaming, there is a considerable amount of heckling, most of which consists of "shut up" and "go back to Liverpool." In a way it's comforting to think that even the Beatles had to face hecklers.
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- Ben Zimmer said...
Peter Trudgill wrote an article discussing the changes in the rhoticity of Beatles songs ("Acts of Conflicting Identity: The Sociolingistics of British Pop-Song
Pronunciation" in On Dialect Blackwell, 1983 -- also in Sociolinguistics: A Reader, ed. by N. Coupland and A. Jaworski, St. Martin's Press, 1997). Trudgill writes that in the early '60s the Beatles frequently used American rhotic pronunciations, but by the late '60s they returned to non-rhotic pronunciations. (The Stones followed a similar trajectory.)
One classic bit of early-Beatles hyperrhoticization is the line in Paul's version of "Till There Was You", where he sings "I never sawr [sO:r] them winging". So the Beatles clearly had rhotic American models that they were mimicking (or over-mimicking) in the early days. But they returned to their non-rhotic Scouse pronunciation later on, which would also match some of the non-rhotic singing models you mention.
Oh, and by the way, the speaking voices in Yellow Submarine don't belong to the Beatles -- they were actors playing the Beatles (who hammed up the Scouse accents). I have fond childhood memories of the movie too, so I was a bit disturbed when I first found that out.
- Ben said...
I'll have to track down the Trudgill article. Sounds interesting, though I think I disagree, which is easy for me to do, not having read it. After I read it I'll post on the topic again. My doubt stems from this: how can early Beatles/Stones rhoticity (whose existence I doubt, aside from the /sO:r/ in "Till There Was You" (which I think was meant to be a sort of distancing ironic comment on the fact that they were recording an stuffy old standard) be modeled on American antecedents if American singing is non-rhotic (aside from country music)?
Yeah, I think I knew that about the voices in "Yellow Submarine" being actors. There was also an animated Beatles series that was still on the air when I was a kid which also used Scouse-faking actors. It must have been pretty campy, because I found it campy even as a first grader.
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New Technical Guidance for HIV Prevention Among MSM Around the Globe
May 31, 2011
The HIV PJA joins the Global Forum on MSM & HIV in welcoming the recent release of technical guidelines for HIV prevention among men who have sex with men (MSM) from the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC). If implemented appropriately, these new guidelines could make a significant impact on the epidemic among MSM around the globe, whose rates of HIV are as high as 30% in countries like Jamaica and Thailand. More than half of MSM around the world lack access to life-saving services like HIV education, testing and treatment.
OGAC oversees PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. As such, it is charged with implementing the new MSM guidelines in country missions around the world.
The guidance document takes a significant step forward in recognizing that human rights abuses, stigma, discrimination, and criminalization of same-sex activity must be addressed as part of an effective HIV response for MSM. It explicitly identifies community-based outreach, condom and lubricant distribution, HIV counseling and testing, linkages to care and treatment, targeted information, and screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections as six key elements of a comprehensive strategy for HIV prevention among MSM.
Promising as these steps are, particularly in a context of stigma reduction and human rights, OGAC released the document without a formal announcement, and there is no clear implementation structure or articulated strategy to involve MSM groups as partners in this work. Allies for prevention justice must continue to press OGAC to make a formal announcement to all PEPFAR stakeholders that the new guidelines are out there, that they must be implemented in every country mission operated by PEPFAR, and that sufficient resources must be allocated to this process.
Read the full press release from the The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) or review OGAP's Technical Guidance on Combination HIV Prevention.
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Earning a doctoral degree, climbing to the 3,952m summit of Jade Mountain (玉山) or embarking on a journey around the country by motorcycle. These are not just the dreams of young people, but things that have been accomplished by Taiwanese senior citizens.
Everyone has dreams when they are young. However, upon growing up, some people become inactive and see their dreams as unaccomplishable, while others hesitate and make excuses. Only a few people have the courage to act on their dreams.
A new Taiwanese film featuring a cross-country octogenarian scooter brigade may inspire people to pursue their dreams, director Hua Tien-hau (華天灝) said.
The 90-minute film, entitled Go Grandriders (不老騎士), was based on the true story of 17 people— with an average age of 81 — who decided to embark on a motorcycle journey around the island five years ago in a bid to fulfill their dream of seeing every part of Taiwan, Hua said.
Aiming to portray the spirit that "one is never too old to do anything," Hua, 31, said he himself was deeply touched while filming the documentary-like movie.
Two of "the grandriders" were cancer survivors, four wore hearing aids, five had high blood pressure, eight suffered from heart disease and all of them suffered from arthritis.
Despite their illnesses and various objections from their families, they embarked on a 1,178km ride that took 13 days to complete.
"Of course, people age, but their heart shouldn't," said grandrider Wang Chong-tien (王中天), who is 88 years old, but looks like he is in his early 70s.
Describing the trip as the most unforgettable experience of his life, Wang said he not only fulfilled his dream, but had also been inspired to pursue other interests.
"Nothing scares me now," he said, adding that he would love to do it again in his 90s.
Another grandrider Lai Hsiu-sheng (賴秀昇), 89, recalled some highlights of the trip, saying that he felt like he was the president as rode through the southern county of Chiayi and police ensured all traffic lights were green.
Lai's wife Lee Ching-yueh said that during the 13 days he was away, Lai was like a bird set free. He was having so much fun that at one point, he forgot to call her for four days.
"The trip was good for him, though," Lee Ching-yueh said, adding that her husband felt much younger and more energetic afterward.
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As a result of its low birth-rate, Taiwan became an aging society in 1993, when people aged 65 or older accounted for more than 7 percent of the population. The government forecast that by 2018, more than 14 percent of the population will be aged 65 or older.
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"Senior citizens' lives should be more colorful and there should be all kinds of possibilities," said Doris Lin (林依瑩), chief executive officer of the Hondao Senior Citizen's Welfare Foundation, which initiated the "grandrider program."


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MILWAUKEE – The respective head coaches were asked prior to the game Thursday which of their teams was feeling more desperate.
By the end of the night, the Lakers' Mike D'Antoni had it all over the Bucks' Jim Boylan. For all the wrong reasons.
Snapshot of the night, the latest in this tortuous season for L.A.: Kobe Bryant hopping out of the BMO Harris Bradley Center on one crutch, his left foot burning from a bone spur diagnosed after the game. Bryant did not talk with reporters in the dressing room but did say to Yahoo! Sports as he maneuvered toward a waiting car: "Inflamed on me. I'll be all right." The Lakers were staying over in Milwaukee before flying to Sacramento Friday, where Bryant is expected to be examined again.
This came at the tail end of what already had been a lousy night. After the 113-103 loss the Bucks, their eighth-place counterparts from the East. After another defensive collapse and a blown 13-point lead. After point guard Steve Nash exited for good at 5:13 of the third quarter with an aching back and hamstring. After an old, banged-up team – still smarting from Metta World Peace's knee surgery earlier in the day – showed its age, D'Antoni said, then got a little older and more banged-up.
"It's been a long year, there's no doubt about it," forward Pau Gasol said. "A lot of ups and downs. But we're here. We believe in ourselves. We have the weapons. Hopefully we will stay healthy enough to be able to give it our best shot. But it's been difficult, no doubt about it."
Bryant, who sprained his left ankle in Atlanta two weeks ago and missed two games, led the Lakers with 30 points Thursday but shot 6-of-17 from the floor. He was 2-of-8 in the second half, when L.A. got outscored 60-47 by a Bucks club that had dropped four in a row and wasn't playing at all like a team, ahem, peaking for the playoffs.
But Milwaukee, 35-36, perked up and crept within two games of seventh-place Boston in the East. Led by Larry Sanders' career-high 21 points and 13 rebounds, all five starters scored in double figures, and Marquis Daniels' defense on Bryant led an effort that limited the Lakers to 37.5 percent shooting after halftime, including 1-of-11 on 3-pointers.
"When you're losing, it seems like you'll never win again," Daniels said. "Finally we got a win, we can breathe a little bit. Not breathe, but it's fresh air and we've got to continue to build off this."
The fact that D'Antoni's team, 37-36, is sweating out games in late March and figures to do so right through however many it has in April, sums up the failures of its season. Nash is expected to face the Kings Saturday and, given Bryant's recuperative track record, maybe he won't miss time either. But with just nine games remaining, a Lakers team that so often can't control its own scoreboard will be eyeballing others'.
"We have to," Gasol conceded. "We don't need anybody else to be injured, to be out, missing games, especially at this point of the year. So let's see what happens. Hopefully Kobe will be healthy for the next game. Steve will be healthy. I'll get healthier and we'll continue to move forward."
Continue? There was a distinct shifting of gears Thursday but grinding, like something headed toward reverse.


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Adding contact pictures to your address book on stock iPhones will only show the contact picture when you actually click the contact. For jailbreakers, there's a nifty little jailbreak app called Cyntact that'll add them inline. Cyntact was actually one of the first apps available for purchase in Cydia. It was also written by the creator of Cydia, Jay Freeman (Saurik).
To get Cyntact working on your phone, it's as simple as installing the app from Cydia. The current price for Cyntact is $1.00 (USD).
If for some reason you don't see them, respring your phone again. This has happened to me once or twice and a respring fixed it. It only ever happens on a new install of Cyntact. It's a dead simple little tweak but still remains one of my favorite jailbreak apps to this day. If you guys try it out, let us know what you think!
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2012 has been the year of the Facebook IPO. At long last, everybody's favorite (or at least, most often used) social network is going to cash in on its years of data hoarding and future-defining, and this has collectively touched a nerve within the tech community. It's a frenzy, really: every day, there are uncountable new stories about how Facebook stock will plummet or skyrocket, how users should beware, or not care at all, and most depressingly how Mark Zuckerberg wears hoodies.
We've rallied around the Facebook IPO in an almost cult-like, apocalyptic way, and the tech reporting community has turned into a sort of gossipy group of middle schoolers who think they know more about banking and finances than they actually do – which, for the record, is the worst kind of middle schooler.
Is this about Wall Street or the Web?
The moment that Facebook issued its S-1 form, the tech media began salivating. It was vulture-like. And since that moment, it's all spiraled uncontrollably to this point where technology news is completely and utterly obsessed with milking this story for all it's worth and desperately trying to make it more applicable.
There's a natural intersection of business news and tech news because technology and digital media have become huge enterprise platforms. And we've been here before. Maybe not exactly here, but somewhere like it. During the Dot Com rush of the 90s, the Internet captured the attention of investors, entrepreneurs, and everyone in between.
This go round, it's creating an almost unhealthy obsession with Facebook's IPO. Yes, it's crazy that a Website started in a dorm room has spiraled into a billion-dollar company – but there's this attitude that come Friday, everything changes. That the Internet will be different and Facebook will be different; that how we interact with Facebook is being inherently changed. And it's not.
When Facebook launched Timeline or Open Graph or announced its new marketing platform, these things meant something for users and developers and the tech community at large. But this is about investors, and we just couldn't help but blur those lines. And for that…
You deserve an apology
Your news feed has been overwhelming flooded with Facebook IPO buzz and for most of you, it means nothing. It's not entirely unwarranted: many of us have been using, watching, writing, and reading about Facebook since it first started, and that fact that it's about to go public deserves commentary and analysis. But this… this is unacceptable. The desperation with which tech media have fueled the fire is unforgiveable (these are real headlines):
- How Facebook's IPO will change your life
- Facebook IPO: The musical
- How will Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie affect the Facebook IPO?
- Facebook IPO: Good for Jews?
- Investing in the Facebook IPO? You may have a mental disorder
Who needs to care, and who really, really doesn't
Some of the reaching is natural: articles exploring what it means for recent Facebook acquisitions or implications for the company's mobile approach are warranted. But at a certain point, this isn't in readers best interest. The mania of it all makes it ripe for fear mongering, as everyone likely saw with the "Everyone distrusts Facebook! Don't trust Facebook!" articles that have been cropping up. It's like we all know this subject doesn't have a lot of play with the average person interested in tech, because it's about big money and Wall Street, but in order to make it tangible we twist and prod and pull until we find a way to bring it to the mass audience's level. But that's pandering and it isn't good for anybody.
I've seen articles that claim you're an idiot if you aren't trying to get a piece of the Facebook stock and others that call you one if you are. Then there are the unstoppable editorials about users mass deleting their accounts, that the site is a passing fad, that there are new privacy concerns. These articles have been written time and time again, only now they might seem to carry a sense of urgency because there's this other big news about the IPO, and naturally tying them together gives a story more weight and makes it mean something to more people.
In reality, the list of who actually needs be reading this stuff day in and day out is relatively short. If you:
- Work for Facebook
- Invested in Facebook
- Are an investment banker
- Follow the stock market (are you seeing a pattern here?)
Who doesn't:
- Everyone else
For the rest of us, it's interesting for sure, but it isn't life-changing. You will not become richer or poorer and Facebook will become better or worse, which it would have regardless of an IPO.
The Facebook IPO is more about Wall Street than the Website, and that's why followers of consumer tech who realize this drumming up headlines business is nothing more than a game should brace themselves. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.
Editors' Recommendations
- Toyota leads $1 billion investment in Uber's self-driving tech division
- Facebook's privacy-focused clear history tool is set to land in 2019
- Lyft trails Uber in popularity, but it just beat its rival to Wall Street
- Here's how Facebook taught its Portal A.I. to think like a Hollywood filmmaker
- Oh, Zuck, no! Facebook rumored to be creating a voice assistant to rival Alexa


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Planet Jupiter: Facts About Its Size, Moons and Red Spot
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Fittingly, it was named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology. In a similar manner, the ancient Greeks named the planet after Zeus, the king of the Greek pantheon.
Jupiter helped revolutionize the way we saw the universe and ourselves in 1610, when Galileo discovered Jupiter's four large moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, now known as the Galilean moons. This was the first time celestial bodies were seen circling an object other than Earth, major support of the Copernican view that Earth was not the center of the universe.
Physical characteristics
Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system, more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined, and had it been about 80 times more massive, it would have actually become a star instead of a planet. Its atmosphere resembles that of the sun, made up mostly of hydrogen and helium, and with four large moons and many smaller moons in orbit around it, Jupiter by itself forms a kind of miniature solar system. All told, the immense volume of Jupiter could hold more than 1,300 Earths.
The colorful bands of Jupiter are arranged in dark belts and light zones created by strong east-west winds in the planet's upper atmosphere traveling more than 400 mph (640 kph). The white clouds in the zones are made of crystals of frozen ammonia, while darker clouds of other chemicals are found in the belts. At the deepest visible levels are blue clouds. Far from being static, the stripes of clouds change over time. Inside the atmosphere, diamond rain may fill the skies.
The most extraordinary feature on Jupiter is undoubtedly the Great Red Spot, a giant hurricane-like storm seen for more than 300 years. At its widest, the Great Red Spot is three times the diameter of the Earth, and its edge spins counterclockwise around its center at a speed of about 225 mph (360 kph). The color of the storm, which usually varies from brick red to slightly brown, may come from small amounts of sulfur and phosphorus in the ammonia crystals in Jupiter's clouds. The spot grows and shrinks over time, and every now and again, seems to fade entirely.
Jupiter's gargantuan magnetic field is the strongest of all the planets in the solar system at nearly 20,000 times the strength of Earth's. It traps electrically charged particles in an intense belt of electrons and other electrically charged particles that regularly blasts the planet's moons and rings with a level of radiation more than 1,000 times the lethal level for a human, damaging even heavily shielded spacecraft such as NASA's Galileo probe. The magnetosphere of Jupiter, which is composed of these fields and particles, swells out some 600,000 to 2 million miles (1 million to 3 million km) toward the sun and tapers to a tail extending more than 600 million miles (1 billion km) behind Jupiter.
Jupiter spins faster than any other planet, taking a little under 10 hours to complete a turn on its axis, compared with 24 hours for Earth. This rapid spin makes Jupiter bulge at the equator and flatten at the poles, making the planet about 7 percent wider at the equator than at the poles.
Jupiter broadcasts radio waves strong enough to detect on Earth. These come in two forms — strong bursts that occur when Io, the closest of Jupiter's large moons, passes through certain regions of Jupiter's magnetic field, and continuous radiation from Jupiter's surface and high-energy particles in its radiation belts. These radio waves could help scientists to probe the oceans on its moons.
Composition & structure
Atmospheric composition (by volume): 89.8 percent molecular hydrogen, 10.2 percent helium, minor amounts of methane, ammonia, hydrogen deuteride, ethane, water, ammonia ice aerosols, water ice aerosols, ammonia hydrosulfide aerosols
Magnetic field: Nearly 20,000 times stronger than Earth's
Chemical composition: Jupiter has a dense core of uncertain composition, surrounded by a helium-rich layer of fluid metallic hydrogen, wrapped up in an atmosphere primarily made of molecular hydrogen.
Internal structure: A core less than 10 times Earth's mass surrounded by a layer of fluid metallic hydrogen extending out to 80 to 90 percent of the diameter of the planet, enclosed in an atmosphere mostly made of gaseous and liquid hydrogen.
Orbit & rotation
Average distance from the sun: 483,682,810 miles (778,412,020 km). By comparison: 5.203 times that of Earth
Perihelion (closest approach to the sun): 460,276,100 miles (740,742,600 km). By comparison: 5.036 times that of Earth
Aphelion (farthest distance from the sun): 507,089,500 miles (816,081,400 km). By comparison: 5.366 times that of Earth
(Source: NASA.)
Jupiter's moons
Jupiter has at least 63 moons, which are often named after the Roman god's many lovers. The four largest moons of Jupiter, now called Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, were discovered by Galileo Galilei himself, and are appropriately known today as the Galilean satellites.
Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, larger even than Mercury and Pluto. It is also the only moon known to have its own magnetic field. The moon has at least one thick ocean between layers of ice, although it may containseveral layers of both materials.
Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system. The sulfur its volcanoes spew out gives Io a blotted yellow-orange appearance that is often compared to a pepperoni pizza. As Io orbits Jupiter, the planet's immense gravity causes 'tides' in Io's solid surface that rise 300 feet (100 meters) high, generating enough heat for volcanic activity.
The frozen crust of Europa is made up mostly of water ice, and it may hide a liquid ocean holding twice as much water as Earth does. Icy oceans may also exist beneath the crusts of Callisto and Ganymede. Some of this liquid spouts from the surface in newly spotted sporadic plumes at the southern pole. Its potential to host life caused NASA to request funding for a mission to explore Europa.
Callisto has the lowest reflectivity, or albedo, of the four Galilean moons. This suggests that its surface may be composed of dark, colorless rock.
Jupiter's rings
Jupiter's three rings came as a surprise when NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered them around the planet's equator in 1979. Each are much fainter than Saturn's rings.
The main ring is flattened. It is about 20 miles (30 km) thick and more than 4,000 miles (6,400 km) wide.
The inner cloud-like ring, called the halo, is roughly 12,000 miles (20,000 km) thick. The halo extends halfway from the main ring down to the planet's cloud tops and expands by interaction with Jupiter's magnetic field. Both the main ring and halo are composed of small, dark particles.
The third ring, known as the gossamer ring because of its transparency, is actually three rings of microscopic debris from three of Jupiter's moons, Amalthea, Thebe and Adrastea. It is probably made up of dust particles less than 10 microns in diameter, about the same size of the particles found in cigarette smoke, and extends to an outer edge of about 80,000 miles (129,000 km) from the center of the planet and inward to about 18,600 miles (30,000 km).
Ripples in the rings of both Jupiter and Saturn may be signs of impacts from comets and asteroids.
Research & exploration
Seven missions have flown by Jupiter — Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1,Voyager 2, Ulysses, Cassini and New Horizons — while another, NASA's Galileo, actually orbited the planet.
Pioneer 10 revealed how dangerous Jupiter's radiation belt is, while Pioneer 11 provided data on the Great Red Spot and close-up pictures of its polar region. Voyager 1 and 2 helped astronomers create the first detailed maps of the Galilean satellites, discovered Jupiter's rings, revealed sulfur volcanoes on Io, and saw lightning in Jupiter's clouds. Ulysses discovered the solar wind has a much greater impact on Jupiter's magnetosphere than before suggested. New Horizons took close-up pictures of Jupiter and its largest moons.
In 1995, Galileo sent a probe plunging towards Jupiter, making the first direct measurements of its atmosphere and measuring the amount of water and other chemicals there. When Galileo ran low on fuel, the craft was intentionally crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere to avoid any risk of it slamming into and contaminating Europa, which might have an ocean below its surface capable of supporting life.
Another spacecraft, named Juno, is heading toward Jupiter and will reach the planet in 2016. It will study Jupiter from a polar orbit to figure out how it and the rest of the solar system formed, which could shed light on how alien planetary systems might have developed.
Jupiter's gravitational impact on the solar system
As the most massive body in the solar system after the sun, the pull of Jupiter's gravity has helped shape the fate of our system. It may have violently hurled Neptune and Uranus outward, according to calculations published in the journal Nature. Jupiter, along with Saturn, may have slung a barrage of debris toward the inner planets early in the system's history, according to an article in Science magazine. It may even nowadays help keep asteroids from bombarding Earth, and recent events certainly have shown that it can absorb potentially deadly impacts.
Currently, Jupiter's gravitational field influences numerous asteroids that have clustered into the regions preceding and following Jupiter in its orbit around the sun. These are known as the Trojan asteroids, after three large asteroids there, Agamemnon, Achilles and Hector, names drawn from the Iliad, Homer's epic about the Trojan War.
Possibility of life on Jupiter
If one were to dive into Jupiter's atmosphere, one would discover it to grow warmer with depth, reaching room temperature, or 70 degrees F (21 degrees C), at an altitude where the atmospheric pressure is about 10 times as great as it is on Earth. Scientists have conjectured that if Jupiter has any form of life, it might dwell at this level, and would have to be airborne. However, researchers have found no evidence for life on Jupiter.
Additional reporting by Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor


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Bowling Green, Ky. (January 2, 2013) – Commonwealth Health Corporation (CHC), parent company of The Medical Center, has achieved Accreditation with Distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association. This highest recognition awarded by the ANCC Accreditation Program is granted to CHC for four years, February 2013 through March 2017.
ANCC Accreditation distinguishes organizations that demonstrate quality and excellence in the curriculum design and delivery of continuing nursing education (CNE). Accredited organizations, like CHC, meet comprehensive, evidence-based criteria to ensure CNE activities are effectively planned, implemented and evaluated.
Only organizations that demonstrate zero deficiencies requiring a progress report achieve Accreditation with Distinction. As of September 2012, less than 10% of all ANCC-accredited organizations achieve this honor.
"We are proud to be recognized by ANCC for our commitment to continuous improvement and the highest quality continuing education for nurses," said Connie Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer of CHC. "Nurses throughout Southcentral Kentucky have access to the highest caliber of education to meet their certification or licensure requirements, which in turn contributes to improved healthcare outcomes for patients in this region."
ANCC Accreditation is a voluntary, peer review process intended to strengthen and sustain the quality and integrity of continuing nursing education, making it worthy of public confidence. Accrediting organizations, like ANCC, assess providers of continuing nursing education to ensure they meet rigorous global standards established by ANCC.


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Benitez rues missed chances
Interim manager Rafael Benitez admitted Chelsea had thrown away the chance of a victory over Southampton by failing to kill off the game when they were on top.
Chelsea led 2-0 at half-time, courtesy of goals from Demba Ba and Eden Hazard, and appeared to be cruising to a first home win since before Christmas. But Rickie Lambert pulled Southampton back into the game with a header three minutes after coming off the bench and Jason Puncheon then secured a 2-2 draw with a brilliant volley.
"We should have won," Benitez said.
"We didn't take our chances when we had them. I said we would have to be more clinical and (this) was the same. We had situations where we could score. We didn't and they broke on a counter-attack. We gave them hope they could score and they did it. I was talking to the team at half-time, trying to say 'we have to score a third goal'.
"I think for us we cannot be happy drawing at home. I am disappointed. When you know your players and what they can do it is disappointing. We have to think how we can improve for the next one."
On top of their frustration at Chelsea drawing, the Stamford Bridge faithful were also taking in the news that former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola was bound for Bayern Munich. Benitez, though, had little to say on the matter. "It is fine for him because he decides to go there," the Spaniard said. "No (it is not a surprise). My job is to get three points against Arsenal."
Chelsea beat Southampton 5-1 in the FA Cup just 11 days ago but the Saints arrived at Stamford Bridge with a different game-plan and manager Nigel Adkins urged them not to panic at the interval.
"We know Chelsea are a good side. We knew if we opened up the space they have players who can hurt you," Adkins said. "We came with a game-plan to be compact and frustrate the opposition. It was a big call to leave Rickie Lambert out but we wanted to make sure we were in the game.
"At half-time it was 2-0 and I said, 'stick to the game-plan'. If we had gone and chased it there was every chance we could have ended up with a scoreline like Aston Villa, who conceded eight here.
"We stuck at it. Rickie came on and scored the goal and what a fantastic goal it was for the second one. Not many teams will come back from two goals down against Chelsea."


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BEIJING, April 10 (UPI) -- China, citing a jump in imports, Wednesday reported a March trade deficit of $884 million, a sharp turnaround from February's surplus of $15.25 billion.
Figures released by the General Administration of Customs showed March exports increased 10 percent year-on-year, down from a 21.8 percent increase in February, while March imports rose 14.1 year-on-year after falling 15.2-percent in February, which was largely due to the Lunar Year.
China, in its efforts to lessen its dependence on exports, has been seeking to boost domestic consumption, which may partly explain the deficit.
China's total foreign trade of imports and exports in the first quarter of this year rose 13.4 percent year-on-year to $976.67 billion, up from the 6.2 percent growth year-on-year in 2012, Xinhua News Agency reported. Quarterly trade surplus totaled $43.07 billion, compared with a surplus of only $660 million in the 2012 first quarter.
The Wall Street Journal said the March deficit of $884 million surprised the markets as economists in its survey had expected a $14.7 billion surplus.
However, the report said China's trade data in the first few months of the year are not easy to predict because of the Lunar New Year holiday, which typically falls in January or February and also because manufacturers stock up on imported raw materials early in the year which are then used in exports.
In February of last year, the country had a deficit of $31.48 billion.


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Happy Feet Two - The Videogame - PlayStation 3
- Genre: Adventure
- Publisher: Warner Brothers
- Developer: KMM Games
New dangers are threatening the penguin nation, and it's going to take everyone's favorite penguins, Mumble and Ramon, working ? and dancing ? together to save it from extinction. Players use each character?s dance moves to recruit penguins with unique abilities that help advance the adventure, stun opponents and enemies, as well as manipulate the environment around them to solve cooperative puzzles.


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(Part 1 of 3) The Quinn name has a long history in Ireland, but now DNA and some recorded history says its origin is from the south-west region of the Emerald Island. The Quinn story [dominated by DNA tribal marker R1b-L513, Subgroup O2] can trace their beginnings to what is now County Kerry from 50 BCE. Perhaps the journey begins with the Clanna Dedad; Deda, son of Sen or Deda Mac Sin. The Quinn surname origin is possibly a branch of what will become the Dáirine [R1b-L513] who are found in south Ireland around 300 CE.
(Part 2 of 3) According to research, the Dáirine will join with the Dál Riata of north-east Ireland and invade Scotland around 500 CE. But how could this be? Recent discoveries from DNA testing are unlocking the migration patterns of Celtic tribes as late as 800 CE to 1200 CE. The Quinn story begins in pre-history Ireland but many of his descendants will then move to Kintyre, Scotland where they and other R1b-L513 members will form the Dalriada. This line and many of his kin will then travel to Brittany, France during the Dark Ages.
(Part 3 of 3) Discover their newly found untold story and how forgotten texts bring their story back to life. From the ebook, "The Tribe Within" learn how DNA unfolds this amazing tale and if you look in the right places, how history narrates this evidence. There is another written account of their story, but it is camouflaged in smoke and myth – it will become the tales of King Arthur. Come follow in the footsteps of Deda Mac Sin and visit https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/401207
Looking for relatives of Matthew, Frank and Molly Quinn who emigrated to America early 1900s. Their father was a magistrate, I believe named Frank also - mother was Ellen Kelly. They were from close to Galway, I think. There was another brother who also immegrated and died young.
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I was quite excited several months ago when arts and crafts retailer Michaels began accepting coupons via smartphone at their checkout. I was even more excited to find that they've recently released an app for the iPhone that combines their electronic coupon functionality with some exciting new features.
The app is well laid-out, easy to use, and filled with pleasing visuals such as the screen that greets users on opening.
Once loaded, the app gives customers access to a number of features, most notably the ability to browse sales flyers and search for products.
The "Deals" section of the app provides access to the Michaels weekly ad in a mobile-friendly format. Customers can navigate by category and then drill down to see more details about sale items.
The "Coupons" section will probably be the most-used in the app as it gives customers a way to carry coupons without the hassle of printing them and then remembering to bring them along to the store. Coupons are automatically loaded into the app when available and removed after they have expired. Each coupon can be used multiple times (subject to the current "one per customer per day" wording) and contains a barcode that is scanned at the checkout.
I found the "Projects" section to be surprisingly well-rounded, containing in-depth instructions for craft projects in a number of categories. The images, shown as a thumbnail on the instructions screen, will display a larger version when tapped.
The "Lists" feature provides a place for customers to compile one or more shopping lists to use in the store. It's tied closely with the "Products" section that allows customers to browse available items (the products listed are not tied to a particular store's inventory and may not reflect current stock) and add them to a shopping list. Users can also add items manually by typing in text.
The "Products" section, which I've already mentioned, allows users to browse available items by navigating through categories to find products. Customers can drill down to a specific product to read details, and there is also a space for reviews (though none of the items I browsed had reviews yet). No pricing information is provided for items.
Customers can also view upcoming classes and events at their local store under the "Events" button. The app also has functionality to locate stores nearest to you, just in case you catch the crafty bug while traveling.
The app also provides the ability to read QR (Quick Response) codes to allow customers quick access to information on the web. These codes are "scanned" by holding the iPhone's camera over the code until it is registered by the app, which will then redirect the user to the appropriate web page.
Droid users, don't despair!! Michaels corporate office has assured Scrapbook Update that an Android version of the app is planned, although there is no release date available yet. Scrapbook Update will keep you informed of this and any other developments as the areas of tech, crafting, and retail continue their exciting convergence.
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From Allentown police Capt. William Reinik's perspective, Pennsylvania's law against texting and driving is a challenge to enforce.
"Out on the street, is it very difficult to tell if a person is texting? Yes — I won't make that a secret," said Reinik, who is in charge of the traffic division.
Unless a driver admits or a passenger tells police that a driver was sending a message, it's difficult to make a texting-while-driving citation stick, Reinik said. Otherwise, a person stopped for texting can simply say he or she was making a phone call, which is legal.
That's the main reason, Reinik and other experts say, Pennsylvania's law against texting while driving generated relatively few traffic tickets in its second full year compared with laws in neighboring states that entirely ban the use of hand-held devices behind the wheel.
Many of the state's population centers, including the Lehigh Valley, shared a statewide drop in the number of tickets for texting and driving. But experts said there's not enough information to say for sure whether the law is working as a deterrent.
"I would hate for people to get a false sense of security," said Dr. Bob Barraco, a Lehigh Valley Health Network trauma surgeon who helped develop that organization's Stop Texting campaign. The data, released last week by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, need more context and analysis to be meaningful, he said.
Pennsylvania's texting-while-driving law bans the use of electronic devices to receive or send text-based messages while operating a vehicle in motion. Penalties include a $50 fine and about $90 in court costs.
The law was passed in response to numerous studies that showed texting behind the wheel was a leading cause of distracted driving, which in 2011 contributed to 1,152 crashes and 59 deaths in Pennsylvania.
Across the state, police issued 1,206 tickets for texting while driving between March 2013 and last month. That's down slightly from the 1,235 tickets police issued in the first 12 months after the law took effect March 8, 2012.
But some individual counties saw significant changes.
Philadelphia more than halved the number of tickets its police issued, from 243 in the first year the law was in effect to 91 in the second year. It moved from first to third on a list of counties ranked by the number of citations issued.
Numbers for the Philadelphia metro area, which includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, were 545 tickets in 2012-13 and 428 in 2013-14.
Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, jumped from third to first place on the list, with 108 tickets in the first year, and 126 tickets in the second.
Numbers for the Pittsburgh metro area (including Allegheny and six other counties) were 196 tickets in the first year and 232 in the second.
Lehigh County saw 31 tickets in the first year and 29 in the second. Northampton County saw 19 tickets in the first year and 18 in the second. Those counties plus Carbon totaled 59 tickets in 2012-13 and 48 in 2013-14.
Barraco said those numbers could be misleading without reference to the number of drivers in each county. And he noted some police departments may prioritize enforcement of the law differently.
Jenny Robinson, of the AAA Mid-Atlantic in Philadelphia, which compiled the rankings, said it's unclear what caused the fluctuations. She said one Philadelphia police official speculated this winter's unusually harsh weather may have curtailed enforcement.
But law enforcement officials say it's apparent that states with comprehensive bans on using electronic devices while driving do a better job of enforcing their laws.
In Delaware, where a total ban on using hand-held cellphones behind the wheel has been in effect for three years, police issued 19,610 tickets in 2013. New Jersey issued 90,575 citations in 2011, the most recent year for which numbers are available. And New York police issued 55,000 tickets last year.
Lehigh County Assistant District Attorney A. Renee Smith, who handles drunken driving and traffic cases, said the wording of Pennsylvania's law makes enforcement difficult. A person must be reading or sending a "text-based message" while the vehicle is in motion.
Dialing a phone number or entering an address into a GPS app doesn't constitute a violation. And there's no way to prosecute people who send messages while stopped at red lights who, Smith argues, are unaware of their surroundings and as dangerous as those who text while in motion.
"I think Pennsylvania needs a stronger law," she said.
Barraco said building awareness is important. He and others affiliated with LVH's program use videos and a distracted driving simulator as well as stories of those whose lives were devastated by distracted driving to bring the point home.
In the absence of a law that's easier to enforce, Reinik said, changing attitudes over time may be the best way to win a battle he compared to the fight to convince people that seat belts save lives.
"If we can't teach old dogs new tricks," Reinik said, "we'll teach the puppies that texting while driving is very dangerous."


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Frimpong joins Fulham on loan
Fulham have confirmed the loan signing of Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong until the end of the season.
The Cottagers revealed the move for the 21-year-old on their official Twitter feed, with Frimpong also acknowledging it by writing: "Fulham here I come".
Frimpong has been with Arsenal since he was nine but did not make his Premier League debut until August 2011 after a succession of injuries.
Fitness problems also cut short a loan spell with Wolves last season, with Frimpong needing surgery after rupturing knee ligaments against QPR.
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Leveraging Health IT to Strengthen Patient Engagement
In the spirit of moving innovation forward, I found relevance in the following article about engendering trust using healthcare technology. In the crossfire of my own struggles with technology, I can appreciate the very salient points outlined by the author. Specifically, he asserts that healthcare IT can be the lever for improving the physician-patient relationship through the following means.
In the first instance, he points out that technology can help a physician provide SMARTER care. With escalating numbers of insured patients attempting to be seen by a shrinking provider pool, new delivery methods must be sought to meet this demand. While the article addresses wellness and preventative care, it is a natural extension to mention patient's interest in mobile visits. Incorporating SMS, video and email into the physician toolbox is tantamount; however, certain touch points require a face to face interaction…and the mobile visit solves this dilemma. In fact, I would dare say that all mediums should be utilized to ensure that the patient's particular learning mode is engaged and the provider's message is reinforced.
Secondly, healthcare IT can optimize physician workflow and remove administrative shackles draining resources and diverting attention from the more complex tasks at hand – treating chronically ill patients. As noted, "technology can take over for clinicians when it comes to some of the more benign data capture and aggregation roles." While this can cover items such as first time visit paperwork, it can also be employed for personal health records, population health management, as well as the patient"s & provider's modification of the medical record. And by lightening the physician's load, they are free to pursue clinical partners and engage them in community health and prevention efforts. At minimum, in celebration of National Public Health Week, there should be a focus on data exchange for immunization and prevention.
Thirdly, one of the core means of establishing trust occurs through the delivery of personalized messages in a format most conducive to each individual patient's learning and retention style. Using technology to engage patients and stay connected during their care demonstrates concern and establishes trust – an integral component to the healing process and a competitive edge for a practice seeking to maximize efficiency and minimize cost.
Last, but not least, the author stresses that technology must be implemented in a safe and secure manner in order to protect and preserve the relationships with one's patients. Specifically, "being aware of the security of the larger ecosystem of which an organization is part is a way to quell data loss and enhance the trust of patients." Perhaps one of the most difficult things to do today, but arguably should not be forgotten in the quest to do no harm.
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ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB Graphics Card and AMD Eyefinity Review
A new GPU for a new DirectX
Let's be perfectly honest here: even though the ecosystem of graphics cards has been getting cheaper for consumers, and we have all been able to get mounds of gaming performance for a very low price, the last time we have seen a full and complete new architecture was with the AMD RV770 architecture back in June of 2008. Before that was the NVIDIA GT200 architecture that preceded it by only a couple of weeks. The two designs couldn't have been more different: NVIDIA went with a huge die size that destroyed AMD for the enthusiast-class single GPU performance while AMD went with the much more power efficient model of creating a GPU for performance segment and scaling both up and down as price points permitted. While the debate would probably continue for weeks if we decided to retroactively declare a winner in that fight, but my opinion sides with AMD overall execution - they created great parts, lowered prices and took a look of market share from NVIDIA's once tightly gripped fingers.
Now, 15 months later, AMD is the first company back with a new design primed and ready for the DirectX 11 API while adding performance in significant amounts. Hardware enthusiasts and news hounds have been hearing about RV870 and/or the Evergreen class of GPUs for quite some time but the team at AMD did a surprisingly good job keeping much of the detail close to their chest until today.
In my review of the ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card we will dive into the DX11 feature set included on the new architecture, explain how this design has changed from the RV770-based core, talk about AMD's new Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming technology and of course dive into the benchmarks and power consumption numbers that will help us to actually decided is all the work AMD has put into the design was worth it.
A new card for DirectX 11
When we first saw the Evergreen architecture demoed at Computex this past June, AMD was already riding high on the claim that its new RV870 architecture would be the first to support the new DirectX 11 API from Microsoft and that NVIDIA would be months behind them in execution. Even if that is the case, AMD needs to prove to gamers and developers that DX11 is something WORTH having, and hopefully worth having before NVIDIA's responses are available.
Luckily for AMD, the new Evergreen series of GPUs has more to stand on that just DirectX 11.
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But what can I say? The color blue is speaking to me.
If any of you have design inspiration, I'd love to hear it......
That type of advice would not be appreciated.
This is probably the LEAST helpful suggestion, but are you on Pinterest? Our even houzz.com?
And, for what it's worth, I love the new paint color. Looks fabulous!
My vote is for the first mirror...love it! I also love the painted fireplace! Good luck with all those decisions!
First of all, I think it was absolutely the right thing to paint the fireplace. It looks great!
For lighting at the piano, is there room on the top of the piano to put a pair of slender lamps, one on each side? Or if not, how about a couple of wall bracket lights above it. You could hang a picture in between the lamps/lights and move the ancestors (love the frames!) over the fireplace.
Since the room doesn't have a carpet (extreme intestinal distress was very nicely put) or curtains, it could use some textiles to soften it a bit. It's hard to see from the pictures if there's enough space to put a couch anywhere, but you could put an upholstered armchair in the corner instead of the little table, with the floor lamp next to or behind it. Also, if you felt like it, a patterned rug could go on the floor.
I agree that the ceiling light is a non-entity; how about an inverted pendant light - one that doesn't hang too low? Generally I think rooms look better with side lighting (lamps) than top lighting, but inverted pendants give out a softer light because it's reflected from the ceiling.
I hope some of this is useful.
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I love your idea about the inverted pendant light......O.K., I'll admit I had to look up inverted pendant light, but I do think it's a great idea!
I also like the idea about the wall bracket lights above the piano. I think I'd prefer not to put something on top of the piano, but if I can talk Lyle into doing a little wiring, maybe the wall lights could work.
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Good move Eileen! I love the white fireplace! I know just what you're going through...searching ideas online....going back and forth on what to do. I've done the same thing with our fireplace and ended up just keeping it the same. Where's my courage? I thought about painting the brick white but several of my children threw a big fit when I mentioned the idea. Who knew that they were so attached to our blaw brick? I'm excited to see what you decide to do with the room. I'm sure it will be lovely and I hope to one day see it in person.


text: McGinley (L) was vice-captain to Montgomerie (R) in the 2010 Ryder Cup which Europe won [GALLO/GETTY]Justin Rose and Martin Kaymer, two heroes of Europe's triumphant Ryder Cup campaign at Medinah Country Club last year, have backed the choice of Paul McGinley as captain for the 2014 edition.The Players Committee announced on Tuesday that Irishman McGinley would skipper the holders against the United States in Gleneagles, Scotland next year."I am very excited for Paul," world number five Rose told reporters on the eve of the $2.7 million Abu Dhabi Championship."I think that could well be a career-definining moment for him. "It's obviously a huge honour and one he's clearly going to take incredibly seriously. He'll do a fantastic job" English golfer Justin Rose "It's obviously a huge honour and one he's clearly going to take incredibly seriously. He'll do a fantastic job." McGinley was one of five captaincy candidates discussed by the committee, along with 2010 Ryder Cup skipper Colin Montgomerie, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Paul Lawrie and Sandy Lyle. Montgomerie had his share of support in the lead-up to Tuesday's meeting in Abu Dhabi, with some players believing Europe had to counter the appointment of Tom Watson as U.S. skipper last month by picking a big-name opponent.Rose, who sank a remarkable 35-foot putt on the penultimate hole of his last-day singles victory over Phil Mickelson inIllinois in September, disagreed with that view."Monty came into the picture to combat Tom Watson and I felt like that was something the European Tour did not need to do," said the Englishman."I felt like we have a pretty good thing going right now in the Ryder Cup and there was no need to counter the U.S. decision. I had quite a lot of conversations with Paul at Medinah...and I believe he'll make some very good decisions."Kaymer, who holed the putt that ensured Europe retained the trophy, also said he was impressed by the way McGinley carried out his vice-captaincy duties under Jose Maria Olazabal in Illinois."What I liked about him was that he really listened," the German said. "There is nothing superficial about him and he gave me some very good feedback."I think he has done a lot for European golf. He deserves to be captain." 'Liked by everybody' Montgomerie was gracious in defeat and supported McGinley's appointment.Asked if there was any bitterness, the Scot said: "Goodness no, nothing to do with that at all."He was voted upon by the committee who run this tour. As a man-manager he is very good and thorough. Preparation is what is required - he will do a very good job."I wasn't in the picture until a week before Christmas when I heard of others who felt there was an opportunity for me tocaptain the team at home in Scotland which would have been a dream come true," said Montgomerie. "He's going to make a great European Ryder Cup captain as I've seen for myself how popular he is and how well he's liked by everybody" American golfer Tiger Woods "It hasn't happened. I haven't pressed this in any way so I was flattered in many ways to be in that position."World number two Tiger Woods, making a rare foray to the European Tour for this week's event in Abu Dhabi, also congratulated McGinley on his appointment. "He's going to make a great European Ryder Cup captain as I've seen for myself how popular he is and how well he's liked by everybody," the American said. "I can see Paul being a good rival to Tom and our American team will need to give him every respect."Woods's Ryder Cup team mate Jason Dufner is also competing here this week and played a few holes with McGinley ahead of Tuesday's committee meeting."His phone was going off a good bit and I didn't know if it was good or bad news so we just kept on playing nine holes and I found out later in the evening that he was selected," said Dufner."I don't know Paul very well - that was the first time I actually played with him yesterday. We didn't really have a conversation about the Ryder Cup, I didn't want to pry too much." SOURCE: Reuters Sport Golf US & Canada Scotland United States


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Thanks to the Web, social media and an exploding culture of sharing pretty much anything online, advocacy groups and political campaigns have unparalleled access to vast amounts of new and very detailed psychographic data on voters interests, hobbies, lifestyles and political leanings. (See "What politicians know about you" in part 1 of this series.) Organizations are grappling with how to best exploit these vast troves of unstructured data without getting burned.
The use of unstructured data can help organizations micro-target to specific groups of swing voters and identify messaging that works. But integrating all of that online voter data with traditional offline sources is proving difficult, the return isn't always worth the investment and then there's the creepiness factor: Outreach efforts can backfire if voters feel that their privacy has been violated.
Catalist is a consortium of progressive organizations that maintains a 500 terabyte database of information describing both registered and unregistered voters in the U.S. Like other data aggregators in the political space, the organization is bringing in large volumes of unstructured user data from the Web to match up each citizen's online persona with their related demographic data and voter records.
"What we've seeing this cycle is the integration of online with offline," as well as incorporating different data sources, from voter history to donation history to general consumer data, says John Simpson, director of media at Blue State Digital, a digital strategy agency that specializes in analytics.
Campaigns and advocacy groups are pulling in financial data from aggregators such as Experian and consumer purchase data from multiple sources and tying it all back to voter registration data. The integration of online data is done through cookie-base matching. "How that gets matched up is not clear. It's a black box," Simpson says, adding that "the quality and level of confidence in that matching, to me, is debatable."
Matching up the data is indeed a difficult task, agrees Cathy Duvall, political director at the Sierra Group, which combines its own member data with information provided by Catalist. Online data tends to be tied to a user-generated @name alias, as in the case of Twitter; shielded by privacy policies, as with Facebook; or associated only by a cookie ID. In some cases, she says, the data may never be properly associated with the correct individual.
But even if all that is possible, Catalist CEO Laura Quinn isn't sure her firm could handle all that data. "Big data is the bigger challenge so far as the amount of data we can associate," she says. It's not the amount of data that's at issue, she explains, but the level of difficulty involved with matching up large volumes of data that have missing name and/or address elements. The investment in additional infrastructure to do all of that processing couldn't be justified by the potential success rate, she says.
Many of the data mining and microtargeting approaches in use today were first put to work in 2008, says Patrick Hynes, president of Hynes Communications, a consultancy specializing in online and new media communications strategy that currently serves as an adviser to the Romney campaign. "Nobody has invented anything new apart from the fact that it's been digitized, made mobile and put online. The difference is there's significantly more data out there because people are making more information about themselves available online," and that allows for more sophisticated targeting.
Before, campaigns would segment the electorate by voting precinct or broad demographic groups, such as women. With richer data, messaging can focus on, for example, married women of a specific age and income level, with specific interests, who live in major metro areas in swing states. "You can get a rough estimate of the Wal-Mart mom, which is the key demographic in this cycle," Hynes says.
Blaise Hazelwood, principal at Grassroots Targeting, is a microtargeting specialist whose clients include the Republican National Committee and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, whom she assisted during the recent gubernatorial recall election. It's the psychographic data coming in from online sources that's changing the game, she argues. "We are better able to connect individuals with their online habits than ever before," and that data is very valuable for targeting. It's still difficult to match up offline and online personas but, she says, "There are companies out there that match up cookie IDs with personal information."
Tools are available today to match Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook profiles to voter files, says Patrick Ruffini, president of Engage DC, a firm that handles online advertising and analytics work for the Republican National Committee and individual Republican candidates. "Facebook and Twitter have become a repository for consumer data that's unequalled in history in terms of consumer intent, preferences and political affiliation," he says. Facebook isn't an open database, and user privacy settings restrict access in some cases.
Analyzing social data, including likes, will be the next wave. "Will people who like Lady Gaga be more likely to vote for Obama?" This is the kind of analysis all of the major campaigns will be doing, he says.
Privacy, please
But consultant Hynes says organizations should tread carefully in this area. His clients typically build a model, then find the people who meet the model description and advertise to them through various channels, including blogs, websites and social media. But those people must identify themselves in some way, such as by making a donation or signing an online petition, before they're added to the campaign database.
Harvesting data about people from online sites without their consent is playing with fire, Hynes argues, because people find it unnerving. "If you're scraping data from Facebook, you're potentially creating problems for yourself. Build your own list through permission-based marketing," he advises.
There's still a healthy dose of good judgment that should come into play when it comes to gathering data on voters from online sources and using that for messaging. "There are activities that studies show are effective that the Sierra Club will not do," says Duvall. Often that involves sensitivities about privacy.
For example, one liberal group in Wisconsin came under fire last year when it sent a mailing during the gubernatorial recall campaign. The direct mail piece told recipients the names of their neighbors who didn't vote in the previous election and asked them to talk to those neighbors about voting. "We know these things work, but we won't do it because it crosses the line of what we think is appropriate for a public interest organization," Duvall says.
Simpson still has doubts as to whether the big data approach to campaigning is worth it. "It remains to be seen whether this level of targeting and integrating all of these data sources improves the response over traditional contextual targeting and behavioral advertising. There are a lot of concerns about privacy, being too targeted, and a potential backlash." Today, he says, "The data and the opportunity it presents are 10 steps ahead of the execution."
Predict and test
We are Ohio, a coalition of unions and other groups, didn't have to worry about finding its constituents because many voters were passionate about its goal: Overturning a controversial collective bargaining law that weakened unions' negotiating power. More than 100,000 people liked the organization's Facebook page, and more than 17,000 volunteers launched a get-out-the-vote drive that helped build an email list of more than 600,000 voters.
The group matched up the data with the state voter list, and began identifying "high-value groups" it wanted to reach with targeted email and Facebook ads, says spokesperson Dennis Willard. But with a small staff and limited budgets, it didn't want to waste time and money paying someone to identify all of those Facebook fans and then link them to the organization's database.
"Asking people to self-identify in creative ways is less expensive and faster," he says.
Messaging for each group was refined with A/B testing to determine what would produce the desired response. The group learned that emails with no styling consistently performed better, and that in most cases embedded images and videos didn't increase its response rate. It took the lessons to heart -- and response rates went up. "Our open rates were double and triple what a normal campaign experiences," Willard says.
But in a small organization, there are limits to what can be accomplished with micro-targeting. It's easy to get fascinated with technology and create too many segments and too many different message streams that must be tested. "This is why most new media programs in politics fail," Willard says. "The most important thing to do is prioritize every action according to its ROI."
That said, though, the desire for more data -- and real-time feedback -- is likely to grow. Already, the messaging feedback cycle has accelerated to the point where changes can be made almost up to the last minute, Quinn says. The 2010 election cycle was the first time Catalist clients analyzed early voting data -- which tells who voted -- and adjusted their messaging and target segments in the remaining days leading up to the election. This year more states are offering early voting options. The challenge, Quinn says, will be to gather, analyze, interpret and respond to those early results quickly enough to sway voters.
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