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Last month I joined 300 colleagues in attendance at the AASM's sold-out winter course in Phoenix on "Emerging Clinical and Business Trends in Sleep Medicine." I commend co-chairs Kannan Ramar, MD, and Tilak K. Verma, MD, MBA, for putting together an outstanding course that addressed the most relevant and critical issues in the field of sleep medicine.
Topics discussed included a payor's perspective on sleep apnea, the Affordable Care Act, measuring treatment outcomes, managing perioperative OSA patients, and advanced PAP modalities. As you might expect, the presentations that seemed to generate the most discussion focused on out of center sleep testing. These included lectures by former Sleep HealthCenters medical director Lawrence Epstein, MD, on moving to a comprehensive care model and using OCST to diagnose sleep apnea, and another presentation on a business model for OCST. If you were unable to attend the course, many of the presentations soon will be available as learning modules in the AASM Online Learning Center.
The challenge issued to all attendees was that sleep centers must make plans immediately to integrate OCST as health care policy makers continue to focus on cost containment and efficiency. The way this is done will vary depending on your sleep center's business model.
Some sleep center directors will determine that the best option for their center is to outsource specific OCST services to a national contractor. These sleep centers will benefit from the AASM's new program to recognize national contractors offering OCST services that meet AASM accreditation standards. These national contractors can earn the Approved OCST Provider designation from the AASM.
The voluntary program will give you confidence that your sleep center will maintain its high standards when it makes a business arrangement with a national contractor for OCST. These national contractors offer to provide logistics of OCST such as equipment distribution and retrieval, allowing you and your staff to focus on interpreting the sleep study, diagnosing the patient and providing long-term care. Learn more about Approved National Contractors for Out of Center Sleep Testing on the AASM website and by reading the OCST Policy Statement that the AASM released in February.
Certainly, outsourcing OCST services to a national contractor is only one model. Many sleep centers will choose to develop an in-house OCST program. The AASM will continue to provide more resources, such as a forthcoming OCST Integration Guide, to help you evaluate the options for your sleep center. Regardless of the model you choose, you will need to ensure that your sleep center follows the Standards for Accreditation of OCST, which were updated in February.
AASM accreditation remains the gold standard by which insurers, referring physicians and patients can evaluate sleep medicine services. All AASM accredited member centers continue to receive a listing in the Find a Sleep Center directory at www.sleepeducation.com, which is a valuable marketing tool.
Lastly, I hope you had a chance to read the editorial Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Health Benefits Purchasing: An Employer Perspective, which appears in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. The author, Bruce Sherman, MD, a former sleep center co-director, provides valuable insights for us as we continue to adapt to the changing landscape of medicine in the U.S.
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14.21 ▶ Questioner: How long is one of your cycles?
Ra: I am Ra. One of our cycles computes to seven five oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh [750,000,000(?)], seven five million [75,000,000] of your years.
14.15 ▶ Questioner: Going back to the start of this 75,000-year period, there was the harvesting 25,000 years after the start, which would make it 50,000 years ago, I would assume. Can you tell me how many were harvested from our planet at that time?
Ra: I am Ra. The harvest was none.
7.6 ▶ Questioner: About how many entities at present are calling from planet Earth for your services?
Ra: I am called personally by three hundred fifty-two thousand [352,000]. The Confederation, in its entire spectrum of entity-complexes, is called by six hundred thirty-two millions [632,000,000] of your mind/body/spirit complexes. These numbers have been simplified.
16.26 ▶ Questioner: Well, roughly how many total planets in this galaxy of stars that we're in have aware life regardless of density?
Ra: I am Ra. Approximately six seven, oh oh oh, oh oh oh [67,000,000].
28.8 ▶ Questioner: Let's take as an example the planet that we are on now and tell me how much of the creation was created by the same Logos that created this planet?
Ra: I am Ra. This planetary Logos is a strong Logos creating approximately two hundred fifty billion [250,000,000,000] of your star systems for Its creation. The, shall we say, laws or physical ways of this creation will remain, therefore, constant.
6.22 ▶ Questioner: How many years ago in the past did you use the bell-shaped craft to come here?
Ra: I am Ra. We visited your peoples eighteen thousand [18,000] of your years ago and did not land; again, eleven thousand [11,000] years ago.
70.16 ▶ Questioner: Have there been any Wanderers on this planet for the past 50,000 years now?
Ra: I am Ra. There have been a few. There have been many more which chose to join this last cycle of 25,000 years and many, many more which have come for harvest.
20.2 ▶ Questioner: Then the second-density entities that did not get harvested at the beginning of this 75,000-year period, some are still in second density on this planet. Were any of these who remained in second density harvested into third density in the past 75,000 years?
Ra: I am Ra. This has been increasingly true.
21.25 ▶ Questioner: Just to quickly refresh my mind— how many years ago did Lemuria suffer its catastrophe?
Ra: I am Ra. This was approximately fifty thousand [50,000] of your years ago. The origins being approximately five three, fifty-three thousand [53,000] of your years ago. The damage being completed in that last small cycle of the first master cycle.
20.14 ▶ Questioner: Assuming a major cycle is 25,000 years, at the end of the first 25,000-year cycle, how long was the life span?
Ra: The life span at the end of the first cycle which you call major was approximately seven hundred of your years.
9.12 ▶ Questioner: 75,000 years ago?
Ra: I am Ra. This is approximately correct.
70.18 ▶ Questioner: I'll ask this question to inform me a little bit about what you just stated. When you came to this planet in craft 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, these craft have been called, I believe, bell craft and were photographed by George Adamski. If I am correct these craft looked somewhat like a bell; they had portholes around the upper portions; and they had three hemispheres at 120° apart underneath. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.
21.13 ▶ Questioner: At the end of this first 25,000-year cycle, then, was there any physical change that occurred rapidly like that which occurs at a 75,000-year cycle or is this just an indexing time for a harvesting period?
Ra: I am Ra. There was no change except that which according to intelligent energy, or what you may term physical evolution, suited physical complexes to their environment, this being of the color of the skin due to the area of the sphere upon which entities lived; the gradual growth of peoples due to improved intake of foodstuffs.
19.8 ▶ Questioner: Well, did this second density to third density transition take place then 75,000 years ago? Approximate?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.
6.15 ▶ Questioner: What is the length, in our years, of one of these cycles currently?
Ra: One major cycle is approximately twenty-five thousand [25,000] of your years. There are three cycles of this nature during which those who have progressed may be harvested. At the end of three major cycles, that is, approximately between seventy-five and seventy-six thousand [75–76,000] of your years, all are harvested regardless of their progress, for during that time the planet itself has moved through the useful part of that dimension and begins to cease being useful for the lower levels of vibration within that density.
21.23 ▶ Questioner: In other words, there was no attempt 46,000 years ago by the Orion group to contact. Is that correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.
14.4 ▶ Questioner: I understand [from] previous material that this occurred 75,000 years ago. Then it was our third-density process of evolution began. Can you tell me the history, hitting only the points of development, shall I say, that occurred within this 75,000 years, any particular times or points where the attempts were made to increase the development of this third density?
Ra: I am Ra. The first attempt to aid your peoples was at the time seven five oh oh oh [75,000]. This attempt seventy-five thousand [75,000] of your years ago has been previously described by us. The next attempt was approximately five eight oh oh oh, fifty-eight thousand [58,000] of your years ago, continuing for a long period in your measurement, with those of Mu as you call this race or mind/body/spirit social complex. The next attempt was long in coming and occurred approximately thirteen thousand [13,000] of your years ago when some intelligent information was offered to those of Atlantis, this being of the same type of healing and crystal working of which we have spoken previously. The next attempt was one one oh oh oh, eleven thousand [11,000], of your years ago. These are approximations as we are not totally able to process your space/time continuum measurement system. This was in what you call Egypt and of this we have also spoken. The same beings which came with us returned approximately three five oh oh [3,500] years later in order to attempt to aid the South American mind/body/spirit social complex once again. However, the pyramids of those so-called cities were not to be used in the appropriate fashion.
Therefore, this was not pursued further. There was a landing approximately three oh oh oh, three thousand [3,000], of your years ago also in your South America, as you call it. There were a few attempts to aid your peoples approximately two three oh oh [2,300] years ago, this in the area of Egypt. The remaining part of the cycle, we have never been gone from your fifth dimension and have been working in this last minor cycle to prepare for harvest.
22.16 ▶ Questioner: Well, then, as the cycle terminated 25,000 years ago, what was the reaction of the Confederation to the lack of harvest?
Ra: I am Ra. We became concerned.
20.15 ▶ Questioner: Then in 25,000 years we lost two hundred years of life span. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.
9.4 ▶ Questioner: The way I understand the process of evolution [of a] planetary population is that [a] population has a certain amount of time to progress. This is generally divided into three 25,000-year cycles. At the end of 75,000 years the planet progresses itself. What caused this situation to come about… preciseness of the years, 25,000 years, etc.? What set this up to begin with?
Ra: I am Ra. Visualize, if you will, the particular energy which, outward flowing and inward coagulating, formed the tiny realm of the creation governed by your Council of Saturn. Continue seeing the rhythm of this process. The living flow creates a rhythm which is as inevitable as one of your timepieces. Each of your planetary entities began the first cycle when the energy nexus was able in that environment to support such mind/body experiences. Thus, each of your planetary entities is on a different cyclical schedule as you might call it. The timing of these cycles is a measurement equal to a portion of intelligent energy.
This intelligent energy offers a type of clock. The cycles move as precisely as a clock strikes your hour. Thus, the gateway from intelligent energy to intelligent infinity opens regardless of circumstance on the striking of the hour.
21.5 ▶ Questioner: That's what I thought you'd say.
Well, now we'll get back to the business at hand— of doing the book. I want, as we cover this early part of the 75,000-year cycle, I would… I would like to go back a little bit, quite some distance perhaps, before the 75,000 years occurred, and take one more look at the transfer of entities from Maldek to clear up this point. I'd like to check the time that you gave us, because we had some distortions in numbers back in the early part of this, and I'm afraid this might be distorted. These entities from Maldek were transferred how many years ago?
Ra: I am Ra. The entities of which you speak underwent several transitions, the first occurring five zero zero thousand [500,000] of your years, approximately, in your past, as you measure time. At this time, the entities were transformed into a knot. This continued for what you would call eons of your time. Those aiding them were repeatedly unable to reach them.
At a period approximately two zero zero thousand [200,000] years in your past, as you measure time, a Confederation entity was able to begin to relax this knot from which none had escaped during planetary annihilation. These entities then were transformed again into the inner or time/space dimensions and underwent a lengthy process of healing. When this was accomplished, these entities were then able to determine the appropriate movement, shall we say, in order to set up conditions for alleviation of the consequences of their actions. At a time four six zero zero zero, forty-six thousand [46,000] of your years in your past, as you measure time, this being approximate, these entities chose incarnation within the planetary sphere.*
9.11 ▶ Questioner: How long ago did this transfer occur from the Red Planet to Earth?
Ra: I am Ra. In your time this transfer occurred approximately seven five zero zero zero [75,000] years ago.
6.12 ▶ Questioner: How long ago did this happen in our years?
Ra: I am having difficulty communicating with this instrument. We must deepen her state.
This occurred approximately five hundred thousand [500,000] of your years ago.
63.12 ▶ Questioner: Approximately how many are here now who have come from other planets third density harvestable for fourth-density experience?
Ra: I am Ra. This is a recent, shall we say, phenomenon and the number is not yet in excess of 35,000 entities.
21.6 ▶ Questioner: I see. Then no incarnation occurred before this master 75,000-year cycle of Maldek entities. Correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct in the sense of incarnation in third-density time/space*.
20.37 ▶ Questioner: Now, what was the approximate date in years past of the construction of these heads?
Ra: I am Ra. This approximately was six zero, sixty thousand [60,000], of your years in the past time/space of your continuum.
21.21 ▶ Questioner: I see. I want to clear up a point here, then. When was the first contact by the Orion group? In years?
Ra: I am Ra. As we have said, the Orion group attempted contact approximately six zero thousand [60,000] of your years in the past, as you measure time.
14.5 ▶ Questioner: Was the Egyptian visit of 11,000 years ago the only one where you actually walked the Earth?
Ra: I am Ra. I understand your question distorted in the direction of selves rather than other-selves. We of the vibratory sound complex, Ra, have walked among you only at that time.
43.11 ▶ Questioner: What is the… can you even state the average lifespan in the fourth density of space/time incarnation?
Ra: I am Ra. The space/time incarnation typical of harmonious fourth density is approximately 90,000 of your years as you measure time.
21.7 ▶ Questioner: Were there any of these entities then incarnated in second density before the 75,000-year cycle?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. These particular entities were incarnate in time/space third density, that is, the so-called inner planes, undergoing the process of healing and approaching realization of their action.
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Today marks the third anniversary of the murder of the Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya (Getting away with murder, 16 September). Yesterday the human rights organisation Reach All Women in War presented the annual Anna Politkovskaya Award, set up to recognise women defending human rights in zones of war and conflict, to the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality in Iran. This group of women are risking their lives to collect signatures in support of a petition to change the laws which discriminate against women. Many have faced imprisonment, and torture and abuse in detention; they have been banned from travelling abroad and their lives have been in danger. But this has not stopped their determination to struggle for equality. They live a life of courage in the face of danger, just as Anna did.
In October 2007, we presented the first Anna Politkovskaya Award to Natalia Estemirova for her courage in seeking and telling the truth about the torture, disappearances and murders of civilians in the war in Chechnya. We were outraged by the killing of Natalia on 15 July. Nobody has been charged for this crime and two other humanitarian aid workers helping children disabled by the war, Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alek Dzabrailov, were abducted and killed in Chechnya on 10 August.
We call again on the Russian government to bring to justice those who killed Anna and Natalia and their colleagues in Chechnya, and to end the killings of journalists and human rights defenders in the Russian Federation. We also call on world leaders to take action to protect the journalists and human rights defenders in areas of war and conflict. We owe it to the memory of Anna and Natalia to protect those who still speak out on behalf of those to whom nobody wants to listen.
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Steffy: Slashing Big Bird is just chicken feed for fiscal woes
If we want to find out how serious the presidential candidates are about deficit reduction, future debates need to avoid the Big Bird Syndrome.
That's when politicians imply they will fix the country's massive fiscal problems by eliminating what amounts to chicken feed in federal spending.
The term, of course, refers to the lone highlight in an otherwise wonky exchange between challenger Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama Wednesday night.
Romney, calling for spending cuts to reduce the $1.1 trillion deficit, outlined a few specifics: eliminate Obamacare and the federal subsidy for the Public Broadcasting Service. Later, he also mentioned cutting federal subsidies for Amtrak and the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.
He noted he would cut funding for PBS even though he's a huge fan of "Sesame Street" icon Big Bird.
Obama had his own bout of Big Birdism, declaring at one point that he had cut government programs that weren't working and went after Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Yet the deficit has fluttered well above $1 trillion during his tenure.
"Politicians tend to target what some people think of as waste," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan research group that advocates a balanced federal budget. "The public basically has a view that the government is bloated and there's a lot of waste. The conversation always seems to go to these small programs."
In Romney's case, the cost of health care reform hasn't really kicked in, so eliminating it won't make a dent in the current deficit. PBS gets $444 mil- lion in government subsidies, Amtrak gets $1.4 billion and the arts endowment gets $146 mil-lion. Taken as a whole, the programs come to slightly more than $2 billion, which is so insignificant against the $1.1 trillion deficit that it's not worth mentioning.
Perhaps we need to cut these programs because they're inefficient or we don't believe government should fund them or we simply don't like them. But as a deficit reducer, it's like throwing a few grains of sand over the rim of Grand Canyon and saying you're fighting erosion.
Trillion-dollar hole
"Non-defense discretionary programs are the smallest part of the budget and the least threatening when you think of the fiscal future," Bixby said. "Those aren't the programs that are growing faster than the economy."
We have to start somewhere, of course, but if we're serious about reducing our trillion-dollar spending hole, how about we start with the cause of the problem?
Entitlement programs are the fastest-growing part of the deficit. Yet Wednesday night, the candidates argued over how they weren't going to cut Medicare. Obama alluded to "tweaks" in Social Security, but didn't go into detail.
The questions that need to be asked in one of the upcoming debates: How do you plan to reduce the deficit without cutting entitlements? Would you cut Medicare or Social Security first and in what way?
These questions need to be followed up with specifics such as whether Social Security can be fixed by raising the retirement age, increasing payroll taxes, or changing inflation adjustments, for example.
Then we need a Big Bird buzzer that goes off if they start talking about chicken feed.
On the tax side, we need similar candor. Romney, for example, has proposed a revenue-neutral tax overhaul, but again, few specifics on how to get there.
Every year, for example, the U.S. gives up about as much revenue, $1.2 trillion, in deductions as it collects in income taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center. Eliminating them would go a long way toward closing the deficit gap, but talking instead about tax credits to oil companies or deductions for corporate jets, as Obama did Wednesday night, is just more Big Birding.
'Tax entitlements'
Making meaningful headway on the revenue side of the deficit equation means targeting what Bixby referred to as "tax entitlements" - deductions for home mortgage interest, charitable donations and employer-provided health care.
Which of these three would the candidates slash first?
They aren't easy cuts, and they won't be politically popular, but solving our deficit problem isn't as simple as canceling Big Bird's allowance.
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On a recent weeknight, one Aquebogue church is barely visible from Main Road in the pitch dark.
But around back, the lights are on and 13 cars are parked in the rear lot, one van having just left. Inside Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, some of the area's homeless are gearing up for a hot meal and warm place to stay.
Our Redeemer is just one of two houses of worship sheltering the homeless across the East End this night, part of a group of nearly 40 that unite each week during the winter — through local nonprofit Maureen's Haven — to put a roof over the heads of the local homeless population.
It's an effort that has required a heavier lift this year than in seasons past; Maureen's Haven appears on track to serve more homeless this winter than ever before. After topping a previous high last season, housing 312 individuals over 108 nights, the organization has already served over 80 percent of that total this year, with nearly another month to go.


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As I mentioned the other day, the historic Catholic throne in Baltimore has a new archbishop and he also happens to be an emerging leader in America's increasingly tense debates about religious liberty. Just wait until some of these issues hit the U.S. Supreme Court (and you know that they will). In addition to the belated coverage in The Baltimore Sun (the newspaper that lands in my front yard), the move to Charm City by Bishop William E. Lori -- who leads the U.S. bishops' new Committee on Religious Liberty -- drew the attention of the well-known liberal Catholic blogger David Gibson of Commonweal, who also does news reporting for Religion News Service. His story included a wealth of details that will interest a wide variety of Catholics, including the kinds of details that one expects out of a wire service that focuses on religion news -- period.
I am sure that some Catholic GetReligion readers will have a few bones to pick with this feature (Gibson has that affect on many Catholic readers). Still, this is must reading. I was especially interested in the human details in this chunk:
Quiet and soft-spoken, Lori nonetheless brings a single-minded focus to defending sacred principles while also deploying the kind of double-edged humor that a religious leader needs to do battle in the public square. He can be sharp to the point of sarcastic but also self-effacing in regards to his own career.
"They say timing is everything," Lori said with the quiet laugh of a man who tends to see the irony and absurdity of so many aspects of modern life.
Now, with the move to Baltimore -- the oldest archdiocese in the U.S. -- timing is again Lori's ally. At just 60 years old, his new post will put him that much closer to the action, and now he'll have a papal imprimatur to bring with him.
Unlike the gregarious Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lori is slightly-built and almost shy. He likes nothing more than reading history, and loves books so much that he named his pair of sibling Golden Retrievers "Barnes" and "Noble."
Read it all. However (and you knew this was coming), as you read this report pay special attention to some of its language that frames Lori and his work in ways that are not always very fair.
Consider, for example, this passage:
While Lori is known for his orthodoxy on doctrine and social issues, he was praised by many for taking a hard line in dealing with abusive priests, and in dealing with subsequent financial scandals that emerged.
Catch that? It's all about that crucial word "while."
Even though Lori is theologically orthodox, he was also willing to take a hard line against abusive priests who did everything they could to shatter both their vows and the church's doctrines, on multiple levels. Why is it hard to believe that someone can be orthodox and, well, just?
Well, yes, there were tons of supposedly orthodox Catholic leaders who did everything they could to hide the serial rapists and molesters in their midst. Then there were orthodox Catholic leaders who insisted that the abusers have their necks sized for millstones, pronto.
There were also liberal Catholics who hide the criminals. Yes, and there were liberal Catholics who fought the good fight on behalf of reform.
The bottom line: There was shame on both sides of the doctrinal aisle during the multi-wave, multi-decade clergy sex-abuse scandals. There were people on both sides who deserved praise, too. This giant scandal was too complex for simple labels.
Consider the following quotes. Are these harsh words from a liberal or conservative Catholic?
"If the bishops had not coddled these priests, if they had not hidden them and then put them back into parishes full of children and parents who were kept in the dark, they could have prevented evil acts against thousands of victims. ... There were bishops who could have acted and they should have acted. But they didn't act. ... For some reason they never got angry and, as a result, they never acted to protect the laity, especially the children."
"There are evils in this world that we can do something about and we should get angry about them. ... In any battle, it's hard to act in an effective manner without a kind of appropriate anger that energizes your actions. Without that anger, innocent people will suffer and evil will win the day."
OK, so the art up at the top of this post gives this one away. That's the very conservative Catholic writer Leon J. Podles, author of a fierce, take-no-prisoners tome called "Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church."
WHILE Podles is known for his orthodoxy on doctrine and social issues, not that there's anything wrong with that, he also has been praised by many for taking a hard line on how the church should deal with abusive priests.


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COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri System Office of Research and Economic Development will award up to $250,000 to a Columbia start-up company as part of its investment program to spur economic development in the state.
MedSocket of Missouri, a startup venture from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, helps improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. The company competed against 13 other applicants for funds available through the university's Enterprise Investment Program (EIP).
"Our financial investments continue to make a difference—serving as a catalyst between our researchers' innovative technologies and the marketplace," said University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe. "And with this investment, MedSocket has been able to leverage external funding from our partners."
In addition to the UM system's contributions, MedSocket has obtained $250,000 from the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) and $166,500 from Centennial Investors. MTC and Centennial Investors have been constant partners of the EIP program and continue to make strategic investments in university startups to help grow technology-based Missouri businesses.
"We are thrilled to partner with the University of Missouri and local investors to help accelerate research from the laboratory to the marketplace," said Jason Hall, Deputy Director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development. "MedSocket represents another exciting breakthrough to grow Missouri's economy through entrepreneurship and the creation of new high-tech companies."
MedSocket's patented technology allows doctors to enter patient information and instantly retrieve the best evidence-based guidelines and clinical decision support information. Physicians and medical students at University of Missouri Health Care have already put this product into practice.
"Not only has this enhanced care and improved patient safety, it has saved untold hours of unnecessary work," said MU Health Care Chief Medical Information Officer Thomas Selva.
MedSocket will also receive funding through MTC's Innovation Development and Entrepreneur Advancement Funds, commonly known as the IDEA Funds. The IDEA Funds, launched in 2011 by Gov. Jay Nixon, support entrepreneurs and the development of science and technology-based businesses in Missouri. To date, the IDEA Funds have helped Missouri entrepreneurs in raising nearly $50 million of start-up capital.
David Keller of Centennial Investors, a Columbia-based angel investing organization, said its financial commitment to MedSocket epitomizes the power of public and private capital to commercialize emerging technology developed at the University of Missouri. "The end result is positive for all parties concerned: the University, the investors and the inventors," he said.
Besides access to capital, MedSocket's team has worked with the investors to develop business milestones and fine-tune its business plan.
"The knowledge and resources that these funding organizations bring to the table are so beneficial to early stage companies like ours," said Karl Kochendorfer, who is CEO of MedSocket.
The MedSocket team is composed of five executive members and has licensed from the university its one-click decision support tool developed by Kochendorfer and Jared Coberly. The company's patented technology is expected to improve patient care, save money and increase provider satisfaction. The university was also instrumental in the early stages of this technology development. Kochendorfer received funding in the first round of the UM system's FastTrack program.
The UM system started the EIP program in 2008 to expedite innovations from university labs to the marketplace and create new Missouri jobs and attract investors.
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We believe that multi-color can grab our eye easily. This is basic though of this idea to make an urban space more attractive. This 'colorful' idea is used by architect to design the Rainbow Bridge (found on Fubiz) which is placed in Magong, Penghu County, Taiwan. For your information, this bridge is a pedestrian walkway. However the bridge is just for pedestrian, the architect has a perfect idea to decorate this bridge become different than the common bridge.
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We are is a small independent graphic design studio based in rural East Lothian, Scotland. Since 1997 we have been involved in thousands of graphic design projects for local businesses, charities, clubs and private individuals as well as with a growing number of website design projects.
We prepare artwork for print (see graphic design) and build small functional websites (see website design). We also do a lot of things in between, neither for print nor for the web - so it's up to you what it will be.
Most of our graphic design clients are located in East Lothian, Midlothian and Edinburgh. This is largely for practical reasons. Although we deal with clients via phone and email, it's still nice to meet and have a chat. So if you live in East Lothian, Midlothian or Edinburgh, or in the rural areas in between, why not give us a call to arrange a free informal meeting. Of course if you live further afield we would also welcome your work, but you will have to appreciate that you will either have to travel some distance to our studio in East Lothian or be content with email and phone.
Our website design clients are not usually limited to East Lothian, Midlothian or Edinburgh. There is no reason why we cannot do a website for a B&B in Stornaway or a boat builder in Sussex, a Fish & Chips shop in Fraserburgh or a camping in Cornwall. It's a small world and we're happy to take your business. Material to build a small website can easily be exchanged by email, the progress is there to see on-line. Again, for practical reasons, it's easier to limit ourselves to UK based websites (domain registration of foreign domains can be quite expensive from the UK), but if you're happy with eu, org, info or net domains we happily cross the border. Please note that we can only accept pounds sterling or euro's for website design work.
This website is not only for our graphic and website design business but also a platform to leave a few thoughts and ideas. Things we've made or seen, things that inspire us and may inspire you. There are so many weird and wonderful things out there and others perhaps best left untouched. Anyway it will be our pick and up to you to take it or leave it. At least we hope that by adding some varied content we may have the pleasure of meeting in this bizarre electronic on-line world.
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MILPITAS, Calif., Apr 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) will host a conference call on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Pacific Time, to discuss its first quarter financial results. To listen to the conference call, please dial 913-312-0941 at least 10 minutes before the call commences. The dial-in password is 3645393.
The conference call will also be on listen-only mode webcast and it can be accessed live from SanDisk's website at http://investor.sandisk.com. The webcast will be made available on-demand following the conclusion of the conference call.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its revenues outside the U.S.
SanDisk's Web Site / home page address: http://www.sandisk.com
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Sites for Statistics and Institutional Research Information
The web sites listed below are excellent resources for national, state, regional, and local statistics and other useful information for planning and assessment. Most of these sites provide additional links to more resources.
|Association for Institutional Research
|The Association for Institutional Research site provides support to members of AIR in their efforts to continuously improve the practice of institutional research for postsecondary planning, management and operations and to further develop and promote the institutional research profession.
|American Association of Community Colleges
|Great site for information and statistics on community colleges nationwide
|ERIC Clearinghouse
|ERIC – the Education Resources Information Center – is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
|Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
|Features links to several data analysis tools that may be used to retrieve statistical information
|League for Innovation in the Community College
|International Association dedicated to catalyzing community colleges. Site includes information on conferences, publications, and many resources concerning community colleges
|National Center for Education Statistics
|NCES is the primary Federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the U.S. and other nations
|NC Community College Planning and Research Organization (CCPRO)
|Official website for NC community college members of planning and research: includes information and links pertaining to NC community college planning and research topics
|NC Community College System
|Links to NCCCS statistical reports, publications, news, and other community college web pages, etc. Direct Link to Reports info: http://www.nccommunitycolleges.edu/Reports/index.html
|NC Department of Labor
|Information on workplace health and safety, workplace ergonomics, OSHA and labor standards
|NC Department of Public Instruction
|Everything you want to know about NC public schools as a citizen, parent and/or educator
|NC Department of State Treasurer
|Includes information pertaining to state retirement and state and local government finances
|North Carolina Department of Commerce
|Includes county and regional profiles and economic scans, NC economic trends, labor market information and population statistics
|North Carolina Employment Security Commission
|Good source for labor market information
|North Carolina's Southeast
|The economic development site for Southeastern North Carolina
|Office of State Budget and Management
|Best site for population estimates and projections, includes statistics, check under the heading of "Socio-Economic and Other Data" for related links
|Society for College and University Planning
|The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), established in 1965, is a collegial community dedicated to sharing, learning, and teaching best practices in planning for colleges and universities. SCUP takes a holistic view of planning; as its name implies, it embraces the full spectrum of planning functions at a postsecondary institution, including, but not limited to: academic, campus or master facilities, budgeting and financial resources, infrastructure, and strategic.
|Southern Association of Institutional Researchers
|This site provides links to institutional research resources as well as information about SAIR membership, links to conferences, and links to various state organizations
|Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
|Website for accreditation information
|Southeastern States Research Organizations
|The Southeastern Association for Community College Research is to provide a regional forum for planning, coordinating, or conducting activities which promote community-based, postsecondary institutions. The Association will serve as a means to identify information and research needs and promote the use of research results on regional, state, and local levels.
|US Census Bureau
|The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. We honor privacy, protect confidentiality, share our expertise globally, and conduct our work openly. We are guided on this mission by our strong and capable workforce, our readiness to innovate, and our abiding commitment to our customers.
|U.S. Department of Education
|Provides the latest findings, statistics and information on education
|Wilmington Demographics and Statistics
|Information on demographics and statistics of Wilmington (a link off the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce site)
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Amid reports the Miami Dolphins are making a "strong push" to re-sign Jake Long, the free-agent bookend tackle is reportedly scheduled to be on his way out of St. Louis.
Citing league sources, Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Long's three-day visit with the St. Louis Rams will come to an end Friday afternoon minus a deal in place. Sources told Thomas the Rams have competition, with "multiple teams" showing interest in the four-time Pro Bowl selection.
With Miami signing weapons on both sides of the ball, the Dolphins -- reportedly with $17 million in cap space after signing tight end Dustin Keller -- can still make a push to re-sign Long. The Rams reportedly were "hammering out a deal" with the tackle, but that process grew lengthy, partly because of Long's injury history. How much do you fork over to a player with a trail of back, shoulder, biceps, triceps and knee maladies?
Long was cleared medically by the Rams, but the Dolphins haven't given up on re-signing him, and likely can come closer than the competition to the reported $11 million per year being sought by the tackle.
With St. Louis having burned through the first three days of free agency in hopes of landing Long, they now watch as the lineman exits on a jet. This should get interesting.
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Epsilon Aurigae was first given serious, systematic, scientific scrutiny in 1821. Early modern astronomers correctly classified it as an eclipsing binary variable star, with an invisible partner that will periodically dim the light as it eclipses the main star from the perspective of Earth. This happens every 27 years, and Epsilon Aurigae's apparent brightness drops for a period of more than a year. The nature of this partner has remained a mystery, even though we've been observing the star for nearly two centuries.
Over the years, different ideas have come and gone. Early hypotheses as to the nature of Epsilon Aurigae was that it is a F-type supergiant star with a mass of over 15 solar masses. For the darker companion, people have proposed that it is an infrared star, a black hole complete with accretion disk, or (most recently) a disk of opaque material orbiting the companion star. The difficulty with the most recent interpretation is the improbability of the orbits.
For the latter case to be correct, then the orbit of the disk around the darker companion star would have to be in the same plane as the orbit of the darker object (companion star) around Epsilon Aurigae, which would in turn have to be the exact same plane as Earth's vantage point in order to produce the sequence of events we observe here on Earth. New, direct, observations show this is indeed the case—look at enough stars, and you'll apparently see the improbable. (Insert something about a large number of monkeys randomly banging away on a large number of typewriters knocking out this exact Nobel Intent article given enough time.)
New observations of the system are reported in a letter in last week's edition of Nature based on data collected using Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy interferometer with the Michigan Infra-Red Combiner. They've produced a series of direct images of the 2009 Epsilon Aurigae eclipse (along with a snapshot from 2008 to use as a baseline).
Combining this data and some that is in press from other research groups, the authors report that the main star has a mass of 3.63±0.68 solar masses (much less massive than earlier estimates), its dark companion has a mass of 5.9±0.1 solar masses. The disk of dust that orbits around the companion has a negligible mass, 0.07 time the mass of the Earth. From the images, they are able to describe the disk, improbable orbit and all, as a cylinder with a radius of 3.81±0.01 AU (the distance from the Earth to the Sun) and a height of 0.76±0.02 AU. The authors conclude that the disk is an optically thick but geometrically thin, suggesting it is a debris disk as opposed to a young stellar object.
Nature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/nature08968 (About DOIs).


text: This past New Year's I went to Istanbul, Turkey to visit my friend, Nico. My friend, Erica, also joined in on this trip. The three of us, with our individual variations on the "quarter-life crisis" (plus my horrible cough) managed to explore one of the world's most fascinating cities. Here is a series of photographs that captures the various moods throughout my week-long trip:


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Treasure_Freedom necesitaba un nuevo diseño de tema de wordpress y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
Treasure Freedom is a blog about financial independence and wealth building. We are looking to reach individuals who have the same passion we do about financial freedom and help them achieve the lifestyle of their dreams.
Our market is anybody that seeks to be financially free, eliminate their debts, and have the freedom to do the things they enjoy in life.
We would like an attractive, widget friendly wordpress theme for our financial freedom blog. Two or three columns will be fine. Please be as creative as you would like. My idea for the header would be possibly an island beach resort theme of the beach, ocean, blue skies, and white sand etc. along with pics of gold and silver coins and bars of to the right side of the header (treasure chest etc). Or possibly a pic of someone on a beach facing the ocean sitting in a chair "working" from on a laptop while enjoying the beach scenary etc. Something that represents freedom or financial freedom. My blog views freedom as enjoying life and having the time to travel and do the things enjoyable to most. Please choose a color scheme that you see fit for the blog. To me the color blue represents freedom because of the blue skies and the ocean and the freedom of being in the open air. I feel that the money and wealth is the means to achieve freedom, they are surely important but the ultimate goal in my view is to be free and enjoy life. Other colors like gold, silver, and green are fine as well.
Please include the tagline under the title Treasure Freedom that reads:
A unique approach to wealth and financial independence


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The Butler basketball team's first season in the Big East got a whole lot tougher Friday.
The team learned that Roosevelt Jones, its top returning scorer and rebounder, will miss the entire 2013-14 season. The junior forward tore ligaments in his left wrist on a hard fall 4 minutes into the Bulldogs' first game in Australia on Aug. 6.
According to Butler coach Brandon Miller, Jones went up for a shot, then as he came down he put his left wrist down to stop the fall.
RANKINGS: Top 50 NCAA hoops players
He left the game and did not play for the remainder of the trip. After returning to Indianapolis, Jones had the wrist re-examined and it was determined he would have to undergo surgery. He will redshirt this season and have two years of eligibility remaining when he returns in 2014-15.
"It hurt me for him to have to hear that," Miller said Friday. "It's just one of those things you can't control. He was having great practices before we left, and was in terrific shape."
Jones' absence will be another challenge facing Miller, who is entering his first year as a head coach. On top of replacing the highly successful Brad Stevens, who left for the Boston Celtics on July 3, Miller will guide the Bulldogs into their first season in the Big East without his best two-way player.
"I feel for him," Miller said of Jones. "He's worked extremely hard to put himself in the position he's at. Obviously, when you lose your top returning scorer and rebounder, it hurts. A lot of the things he does don't show up in the stat sheet. He's just a winner."
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Jones was the only Butler player to start all 36 games last year, averaging 10.1 points and 5.6 rebounds. He also led the team in assists, with 3.5 per game.
Miller described Jones as shocked and disappointed Friday. No date has been set for surgery.
"God works in mysterious ways," Jones posted on his Twitter account. "Thank you everybody for your prayers. It is really appreciated. But I'm not counting out our team to still do big things this year."
In a release from the school, Butler athletic trainer Ryan Galloy said of Jones: "His prognosis is good and he's expected to make a full recovery for next season."
Even though he'll be forced to watch from the sideline this season, Miller said he expects Jones to be the same type of leader he would have been on the court.
"He's going to continue to lead from the spot he's at," Miller said. "Roosevelt is a tough-minded, determined young man, and I am confident he will return from this adversity an even better player and person."
Jones provided the second of two memorable game-winners during Butler's 27-9 season in 2012-13. With 3.5 seconds left against Gonzaga at Hinkle Fieldhouse, Jones stole an inbounds pass, dribbled the length of the court and sank an off-balance runner that delivered a 64-63 win.
His teammates will resume conditioning and weight room workouts the first week of September.
Zak Keefer writes for the Indianapolis Star, a Gannett property.


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W3C HTML Validator Invalid
The W3C HTML Validator is getting annoying.
Doesn't Support Data URI Scheme
as of 2014-07-24, the w3c CSS validator doesn't support CSS Data URI Scheme.
here's the sample file: css_data_uri_scheme.css
here's the link http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fxahlee.info%2Fjs%2Fcss_data_uri_scheme.css&profile=css3&usermedium=all&warning=1&vextwarning=&lang=en
Missing Open Tag as Valid
If you have a page without a opening "body" tag, but does have a closing one, W3C HTML validation report it as valid.
Maybe it's technically valid, but quite annoying.
Test page: W3 HTML Validation Problem: No Open Body.
XHTML Style "
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If you use the XHTML style tag such as

, it's also reported as valid. W3C only gives a warning. However, this is technically invalid.
Test page: W3 HTML Validation Problem: Slash End Tag.
"p" Tag in "li" as Valid HTML4
If you have "p" tag inside "li", it's valid! Even in HTML 4 strict.
(Note that technically any ending tag of "p" and "li" can be omitted.)
Test page: W3C HTML Validation Problem: p in li.
ID Value Can Start with a Unicode Symbol!
By W3C spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-name, the value for element attribute (for example, {id, class}) must start with a letter. Quote:
ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").
However, you can start with a Unicode greek α and it passes W3C's validator.

This paragraph has id "ααα".

Here's a test page: Test: Unicode Character in HTML ID Attribute Value.
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Rowperfect needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 7 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
Rowperfect UK
Rowperfect UK sells rowing machines and equipment for watersports rowing and sculling. http://www.rowperfect.co.uk
We are going to the National Rowing Championships of Great Britain and need an eye-catching advert for our exhibition stand to make people come and see our new products and try them out.
We have two new products to promote:
1 - Rowperfect rowing machine
2 - Coxmate SX speed measurement for coxed boats
Rowers, Rowing coaches, parents, spectators,
One page advertisement.
210 x 148 mm
3 mm bleed
Full colour
Must include the company logo, product pictures of the two new products, and contact phone and website URL.
Please supply as hi res PDF and lo res pdf
I will add a photo of the Rowperfect RP3 machine when I get originals - for now use this website as source material http://www.rowperfect3.com
The copy deadline for the artwork is June 29th so please work quickly with your submissions and I will choose a winner before the 7 day contest is ended.


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clarekeenan necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
We require a home page for an international, bespoke, members-only service. It is highly exclusive, having a maximum of 300 members worldwide at any one time. We require a way of prospective memebers to contact us, and current members to log in.
Curtain Call International
This wording needs to be on the page "Welcome to Curtain Call, the service designed for people whose lives are worthy of a standing ovation.
We provide our members with a bespoke planning and management service for all aspects of your funeral, and events to follow, even years after you exit stage left. Our members enjoy the utmost discretion, and a customised parting plan that provides exactly what you want, taking care of those you leave behind.
From scattering your ashes in a breathtaking fireworks display, riotous memorial parties where you can still be the life and soul, to lasting philanthropic legacies — our services are limited only by your imagination.
We invite you to join us in a relationship that lasts longer than a lifetime."
The logo needs to be included (please email email@example.com for the logo). On the stationery, the logo is in gold foil and embossed on white linen, so would like to have the same look on the webpage. Need to have the description in the previous section and a members-only login (name and password)
-Also need a way for prospective members to contact us- tel +64 21 02144646 and email - email@example.com
-simple, uncluttered
-a sense of mystery behind the homepage
-gold, white, black as per logo and not too many more colours (if any)
- need the tagline "International leader in parting plans"
nothing religous or symbolic, no sunsets, sunrises etc
not 'busy'