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An initiative aimed at improving intelligence sharing has done little to make the country more secure, despite as much as $1.4 billion in federal spending, according to a two-year examination by Senate investigators.
The nationwide network of offices known as "fusion centers" was launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to address concerns that local, state and federal authorities were not sharing information effectively about potential terrorist threats.
But after nine years — and regular praise from officials at the Department of Homeland Security — the 77 fusion centers have become pools of ineptitude, waste and civil liberties intrusions, according to a scathing 141-page report by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs permanent subcommittee on investigations.
The creation and operation of the fusion centers were promoted by the administration of President George W. Bush and later the Obama administration as essential weapons in the fight to build a nationwide network that would keep the country safe from terrorism. The idea was to promote increased collaboration and cooperation among all levels of law enforcement across the country.
One can speculate that there is a high degree of probability that the Oakland Domain Awareness Center will cooperate with the San Francisco area fusion center.
One doesn't need to be conspiratorial to see how a national surveilance system is incrementally developing.
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When the time comes to take businesses to the the next level, we provide world-class investment banking services through Oberon Securities LLC.
Oberon Securities is a New York-based boutique investment bank that addresses the financial needs of small and midsize companies across a broad range of industries. Our company was founded in 2001 by senior professionals who have extensive Wall Street experience in investment banking, venture capital and research. Oberon provides customized financial solutions to small and midsize companies who are seeking assistance with their M&A and financing needs. Oberon's professionals have an average of more than 15 years on Wall Street; that combined experience and our small and middle market focus allow us to bring a level of service and expertise normally available only to large companies.
Our firm emphasizes simplicity, creativity and speed and has developed a reputation for providing clients with innovative solutions that enable them to address their needs. We help our clients evaluate their strategic alternatives, define key business issues and find the right solutions. The Oberon team has a wealth of experience raising growth capital, acquisition financing and debt capital, as well as facilitating mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

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See what was happening in Redwood Falls 50, 25, and 10 years ago this week.
1964—50 years ago • The Treasury Department released the first 26 million half-dollar coins bearing the likeness of the lately assassinated President John Kennedy, but demand was so high Redwood residents had to travel to the Twin Cities to find any for purchase. • Sgt. John Holz, a soldier who served in Kennedy's funeral honor guard, visited his uncle in Redwood Falls, Karl. Holz. • Antique automobile clubs based in Tracy and Hutchinson announced they would schedule their summer shows in Redwood Falls to help celebrate the town's 100th anniversary. • The first day of spring was celebrated with a blizzard. • Redwood area women's clubs together voted on a plan to create a bookmobile in Redwood County. 1989—25 years ago • After two years of study, the Minnesota Department of Transportation declared Redwood Falls a "significant center" because the town falls on the intersection of Highways 19 and 71, and Highway 67. • Redwood district school announced the cafeterias would continue to serve apples since none of the suppliers used apples that had been treated with alar, a chemical used to enhance the fruits' color and crispiness. • Reede Gray Elementary School third grade made 1,000 folded-paper cranes to send to the Japanese city of Hiroshima in memory of the Japanese citizens who died in the atomic bomb dropped there at the end of World War II. • Area Boy Scouts collected over a ton and a half of food for the local food shelf. • The Cardinal girls basketball team of 1979 reminisced about their trip to the state tournament 10 years earlier. 2004—10 years ago • Redwood Falls Senior Dining celebrated its 30th anniversary. • Professional farrier (horse shoe maker) Richard Gurska how he made and shod horses at the Gilfillan estate. • With the Junior Gold hockey team set to merge with the Redwood area school district's teams, the hockey association was considering the possibility of starting girls and junior varsity teams. • A group of retired area teachers that meet once a month totaled up the number of years they had all been friends with each other: it came to over 500 years. • At a public meeting to debate the future of the Lower Sioux Agency Historic Site, officials from the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) stated it didn't have enough funding to keep the site open at the location where the U.S. / Dakota conflict of 1862 actually occurred. When Redwood area residents pointed out the MHS was planning a Twin Cities-based million dollar exhibit about the Morton-based conflict, society officials explained that Morton is just too far for most Twin Cities residents to drive to.


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Urban Nutcracker: Anatomy of a Ballet This performance documentary goes behind-the-scenes of Anthony Williams' adaptation of the holiday classic performed by a diverse group of dancers from the community. Challenges include uniting the multi-ethnic team of dancers, artists and stage crew to present a professional-quality stage show on a non-profit budget. The show incorporates the chronology of The Nutcracker itself while capturing the preparation, real-life stories of performers and putting the show onstage before packed houses.G
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The Artist Toolbox "Hugh Newell Jacobsen" "Every morning when I walked this block and a half to my office and I saw the sad people in their cars heading to some awful job, I just thought, I can't wait to get at it again," says acclaimed architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen. "I found something I was good at, and it was just so thrilling." In this very special episode of The Artist Toolbox, walk with host John Jacobsen, son of the award-winning architect, through his childhood home and his father's Georgetown office as they discuss a career in ground-breaking architecture half a century strong. D
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Sun Studio Sessions "Chris Milam" Chris Milam is a Memphis based singer-songwriter who was the first runner-up in the Resorts Tunica "Sing" competition. In this episode, Chris performs several songs and talks about the influences that shape his musical style. D
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Austin City Limits "Raphael Saadiq/Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears" Saadiq highlights songs from his old-school soul album Stone Rollin'. Lewis and The Honeybears pound out bluesy soul nuggets.G
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Great Performances "Dance In America: NY Export: Opus Jazz" The five movements of the jazz score by Robert Prince blend ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing with Latin, African and American rhythms. Now this Jerome Robbins 1958 "ballet in sneakers" takes to the streets with New York City Ballet principal dancers Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi, filmed on locations all over the five boroughs of New York City. The 16 emblematic characters are city kids drawn together by their youth, energy and hunger for life, but this Opus Jazz takes them out of the 1950s and into today.G


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Kristen Stewart - Governors Awards 2012
Kristen Stewart stuns on the red carpet at the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' 4th Annual Governors Awards held at Hollywood and Highland on Saturday evening (December 1) in Hollywood.
The 22-year-old actress wore a Talbot Runhoff dress with Christian Louboutin heels and an Iwona Ludyga Design bracelet.
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The event pays tribute to filmmakers Hal Needham, D.A. Pennebaker, George Stevens Jr., and studio executive Jeffrey Katzenberg will be honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic work.
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Doubtful Sound Kayak – full day guided tour
- Duration: 10 Hours (approx.)
- Location: Te Anau, Fiordland
- Product code: PB65SS
Your Doubtful Sound Kayak adventure is the longest kayaking day tour of Doubtful Sound. During your 4 hour paddle you will journey up to 15km* into Doubtful Sound following Hall Arm, "The Sound of Silence".
We are a local company showing Doubtful Sound to 10 guests per adventure. This ensures a personal experience is provided by your Kayak Nature Guide.
Meet us in Te Anau or Manapouri. Car parking is available in Te Anau at our office. Your Doubtful Sound Journey includes a coach from Te Anau, relaxing cruise on Lake Manapouri and transport over spectacular Wilmot Pass into Deep Cove.
Launch your kayak into Doubtful Sound at Deep Cove. Wildlife encounters may include Dolphins, Seals or Penguins. Your return to Deep Cove is via Water Taxi Cruise
Key Points of Difference:
- Kayak on Doubtful Sound + Water Taxi return Cruise on Doubtful Sound
- Small local company offering the longest day tour of Doubtful Sound by Kayak (and water taxi)
- Tour includes Doubtful Sound's Hall Arm, famously referred to as "the sound of silence"
- Water Taxi cruise from the end of the tour back to Deep Cove (Doubtful Sound)
- At least 4 hours Kayaking plus a Cruise on Doubtful Sound
- Cruise on Lake Manapouri
- Transport from Te Anau included
- Full briefings are given - this trip is suitable for beginners, novice and experienced kayakers alike.
Tour reporting time in Te Anau is at 6.30am; parking is available at our office for the day. We then transfer you to Pearl Harbour, Manapouri with our mini coach to the awaiting vessel.
Your journey is packed with adventure and scenery all the way.
Start with a 30 km cruise across Lake Manapouri to West Arm at the head of the lake. Lake Manapouri is a very beautiful lake with its many wooded islands, coves, sandy beaches and mountainous surround.
Stopover at the informative West Arm Visitor Centre to change into wetsuits before traveling 22 km by coach over the Wilmot Pass Road. Stops along the way allow you to take in the many spectacular views including a view of the Sound (weather permitting) 670 mts above sea level before descending to Deep Cove. Once at Deep Cove, it is time to paddle Doubtful Sound.
Clean paddling and safety gear is supplied and includes: long john wet suits, paddle-jackets, polypropylene clothing, hats, pogies, life-vests, spray skirts and camera bags.
Paddle in modern, stable double sea- kayaks all fully equipped with steering rudders. Before you set out on the water, comprehensive safety and paddling briefings are provided (support is ongoing from the guides throughout the tour). Information and interpretation on local history, flora, and fauna is provided throughout the day.
As you paddle this remote fiord you will enjoy and experience awesome views of towering mountains and ice carved valleys with rain-forests clinging precariously on the steep sides. Waterfalls tumble down over the mountainsides (even more dramatic after or during heavy rain!).
'Listen' to the 'sounds of silence' and nature as you paddle in this landscape created by ice of many ages gone by.
Under towering Commander Peak, at the entrance to Hall Arm take time out for a lunch break (note; lunch is not provided – please bring food that can be eaten easily) with a complimentary cuppa. Feel the ever changing atmosphere and surroundings permeate into your being – take time to gather your thoughts and reflect on what really matters in life…
After refreshments continue your paddle into Hall Arm – the most sheltered scenic and safe part of the fiord to continue your kayaking adventure. Explore the sheltered coves and shorelines – get really close to Nature. Your paddling adventure concludes deep in Hall Arm in solitude with awesome views of Mt. Danae towering to 1500 metres above you. Enjoy magnificent views of the valley beyond.
Explore a spectacular landscape created by ice of many ages gone by – at water level it is an overwhelming experience!!!
At approximately 2.45 pm, our vessel will pick you up from the end of your paddle and begin the return cruise back to Deep Cove. Time to leave this land that time forgot and that we have been privileged to visit and return back across the pass for the relaxing return cruise back down the lake to civilization at Manapouri.
Return time back to Pearl Harbour, Manapouri is 5.15 pm and Te Anau 5.30pm.
We cater for small groups (no more than 10 people) providing a personal experience with many personal comforts. Your friendly skipper/host and kayak guide will ensure that you have a safe, enjoyable experience that you will treasure for a lifetime.
Note regarding weather: Route may vary due to conditions at the time of the tour. Fiordland is a very high rainfall area – we seldom cancel tours due to rain – the rainy days are the some of the most spectacular with mountain mist and a profusion of waterfalls everywhere. Our main concern regarding the weather is strong wind forecasts for the coastal area that can on occasion cause cancellation of tours.** Important notes**
As the kayak cockpit is a fixed size, to ensure "fit" into our kayaks we must impose a weight limit of 115kg. HOWEVER Kayakers who are wider at the hips or who have long legs please call and speak with us to discuss if it will be practical to fit into a kayak.
Children 14 years minimum age - children must have kayaked some distance before. Each child must be traveling with a strong adult (as they will be in a double kayak with parent) and be at least 1.4 metres plus tall and plus at least 45 kg in weight.
What to bring on your Doubtful Sound Kayak and Cruise;
To ensure maximum comfort, memories and enjoyment of your Doubtful Sound Kayak we recommend that you bring the following items to Doubtful Sound:
- A packed lunch & a water bottle or drink to take on the kayak with you
- Sunblock, sunglasses, sunhat
- Insect repellent
- Camera plus extra film and or spare memory card, spare batteries
- Raincoat plus warm jacket/fleece
- Swimwear (for under the wetsuit)
- Towel
- Spare soft shoes & warm socks
- In a small day pack or small carry bag
Note: please come prepared for both wet/cold and fine weather as conditions can be changeable throughout the day. Large tramping packs are not suitable to bring on the tour as storage space is limited but we can store luggage items for you at our office.
Once you leave Manapouri and board the boat there is no opportunity to visit a shop to purchase items – please have everything with you that you need for the tour as we will leave shops behind for the duration of the tour!
Our office is located at Te Anau Lakeview Holiday Park, 77 Manapouri-Te Anau Road, Te Anau
For accommodation bookings please visit http://www.TeAnauHolidayPark.co.nz or phone (+64) 3 249 7457 or 0800 483 262
If you choose to stay at Te Anau Lakeview Holiday Park prior to your kayaking trip, when you call the Holiday Park to book please advise them that you are kayaking Doubtful Sound with Doubtful Sound Kayaks.


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SOURCE: Nexxo Financial
October 24, 2012 12:03 ET
Alternative Financial Service Experts Say Successful Retailers Are Focusing on Customer Service and Self-Serve Kiosks
Alternative Financial Service Experts Say Successful Retailers Are Focusing on Customer Service and Self-Serve Kiosks
BURLINGAME, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 24, 2012) - Nexxo Financial Corporation CEO David Alvarez shared insights on the evolution of financial service delivery at Money2020 Expo in Las Vegas yesterday. Alvarez spoke on a panel with Green Dot CEO Steve Streit and U.S. Bank Vice President David Smith where they discussed how mass retailers can meet the changing needs of mainstream consumers. They said winning strategies include more robust self-serve options, reducing basic transaction costs through innovative technology, and improving customer service.
"I believe innovation will come from companies serving the bottom half of the socio-economic spectrum... the underbanked and unbanked. It's an extremely large market and there is a need for a better model to cost effectively, and profitably address the market needs. Nexxo's self-service and teller assisted everyday financial services platform helps Banks and retailers generate revenue and deliver services at lower cost...," said Alvarez.
"Given the fee compression programs like Chase Liquid and Amex Bluebird are creating, self-serve technology -- including self-serve kiosk technology -- is essential to cost effectively delivering these services and maintaining profitability," added Alvarez.
Jane Thompson, recently retired from running Wal-Mart Stores Inc. financial services unit, moderated the panel at Money2020. Thompson is a proponent of developing affordable financial products for the underserved.
"One of the impressive things about Nexxo is that they can offer the same services in a small kiosk that Walmart Money Centers offer in 600 plus square feet," said Thompson.
"Banks should look closely at the Nexxo solution for a lower cost model. It can cost millions of dollars to build a branch. Nexxo can offer most of the same services that the underbanked need at a small fraction of the cost," added Thompson.
At Money2020, Nexxo demoed its K3000 which is the only self-serve kiosk offering a full suite of everyday financial services. At the user-friendly screen, consumers quickly and easily complete multiple transactions including: cash checks, buy money orders, load prepaid cards, pay bills, send money, top up phone minutes, and withdraw cash. If consumers want help, they can call for live customer care from the kiosk phone.
Nexxo's technology captures consumers' profiles and transaction history enabling retailers the unique ability to build loyalty and form valuable relationships. Thanks to this portfolio view of the self-serve consumer, providers can target promotions and pricing to expand usage of the full suite of transactions. Nexxo's data shows this personalized approach is successful -- after consumers visit the kiosks a couple of times, they return more frequently and try new services.
Self-serve technology allows mass retailers to offer the "branch of the future" where consumers process their own basic transactions and tellers help when they're really needed. This model lowers processing costs and reduces risk for basic transactions such as check cashing and money handling. Most importantly, it frees time for tellers and representatives to spend on what they do best -- provide customer service.
About Nexxo
Founded in 2003, Nexxo is the leader in self-serve financial solutions. Its Everyday Financial Services Platform (EFS) offers a unified, customer-centric solution that seamlessly handles multiple products (check cashing, money transfer, bill pay, money orders, prepaid card servicing, and phone minute top-ups) and multiple channels (self-serve kiosk, teller-assisted desktop, and via mobile phone). With more than four million transactions and $1 billion processed, Nexxo's technology has been proven at hundreds of field locations. Nexxo offers its turn-key financial solutions and service applications to an expanding network of retail partners, domestic and international banks, and financial service providers. For more information, visit nexxofinancial.com.
Adriana Eiriz
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Rehabilitation of Cognitive Changes in Breast Cancer Survivors
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01182506
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : August 16, 2010
Last Update Posted : September 5, 2018
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|August 12, 2010
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|August 16, 2010
|Last Update Posted Date
|September 5, 2018
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|August 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|August 2019 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Determine the efficacy of working memory training [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
in breast cancer survivors based on improved performance on neuropsychological tests of working memory.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01182506 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Rehabilitation of Cognitive Changes in Breast Cancer Survivors
|Official Title ICMJE
|Rehabilitation of Cognitive Changes in Breast Cancer Survivors
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to test a memory training program for breast cancer survivors who have problems with memory after receiving chemotherapy. Since breast cancer survivors have been reported to have trouble with their memory, a program to help these problems is important. Studies have shown that a 5-week software training program improved memory in pediatric cancer survivors and other disorders like stroke, but it has not been tested for breast cancer survivors. This study will see if breast cancer survivors can improve their memory and attention problems by using either one of two software versions of the program. One version is called Cogmed Working Memory Training, and the other is a comparison version of the software that has the same exercises but is less difficult. People who decide to participate in the study will be randomly given one of the two versions.
|Detailed Description
|Not Provided
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Not Applicable
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Condition ICMJE
|Breast Cancer
|Intervention ICMJE
|Behavioral: Cogmed Working Memory Training Program
Women will be randomized to one of two 5-week rehabilitation software training programs that train working memory called Cogmed Working Memory Training Program.
The training software will be provided to each participant. For each group, training occurs for 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week for 5 weeks. As part of the set-up, training data is uploaded to the internet at a minimum of every 3 days. This function allows the "coach" (in this case, the PI and RSA) to review the training. A weekly "coach" phone call is made to review the training results, answer questions, troubleshoot, and motivate the participant. Participants can load the software onto multiple computers to provide flexibility for them to do training at home, after work, when they are away from home.
|Study Arms
|Publications *
|Not Provided
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|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Active, not recruiting
|Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Original Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Estimated Study Completion Date
|August 2019
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|August 2019 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Note: Any participant who reports tics can be included, however participants will be told tics may increase during the training period.
Inclusion Criteria:
Collateral Participant (if such person is available to the participant, not a requirement of the study) Family member or friend (i.e., collateral) identified by a patient who has at least weekly face to face contact with the patient
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years to 69 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
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|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
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|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|Not Provided
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
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|IPD Sharing Statement
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|Responsible Party
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|Verification Date
|September 2018
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by Mike Masnick
Fri, Jan 7th 2011 2:01pm
Filed Under:
gary locke, patents, quality, speed
I caught most of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke's speech (to a surprisingly small audience) yesterday at CES. There really wasn't that much that was worth commenting on, as it was mostly filled with typical political platitudes, and statements that often were based on questionable assumptions. For example, when he spoke about patents, as he's done before, he talked up the importance of approving more patents faster. But, right after that, he also talked about the importance of increasing the quality of approved patents, and getting rid of bad patents. What he didn't explain is how the USPTO would deal with the inherent conflict. If you speed up the pace of approving patents, you're inevitably going to let more bad patents through. It's nice to just say you want to speed up patent approvals while improving the quality of patents, but you have to at least recognize that the two goals are clearly in conflict. There may be ways to mitigate that (though, I'm not convinced any would actually work all that well in the long run), but it seems like the typical political promises of things that work against each other, such as claiming to want to increase government funded social services, while decreasing taxes. The two concepts are inherently in conflict, but politicians make such promises all the time. Still, if Locke really believes it's possible to bridge that conflict, it would be nice if he actually explained how.
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2011 @ 2:06pmThey can simply reject more patents faster and allow only a very few to be more thoroughly reviewed.
freak (profile), 7 Jan 2011 @ 2:35pm
Re:And the appeals process? And the re-appeals process? And the re^n-appeals process?
Still, I wonder if it would work well if they would allocate the patent approval into "approval" and "appeals", and put most of their people into approval.
(Rather than currently, where I believe the person who initially rejected it is also the person who has to deal with any appeals?)
Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2011 @ 2:58pm
Re: Re:Maybe rejected patents should not be appealable or there should only be allowed one appeal for a rejection (and that should be to the supreme court? Make them actually do some work to have a rejected patent approved).
Richard (profile), 7 Jan 2011 @ 3:23pm
Re: Re: Re:Appeals ProcessDouble the fee for each appeal!
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 7 Jan 2011 @ 3:25pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:Appeals ProcessNah, too many big corporations could still afford it. Square it.
Steve, 10 Jan 2011 @ 6:26am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Appeals ProcessYes! Make it too expensive to apply for a patent and even more expensive to appeal a patent! That couldn't possible hurt a small start-up or a single inventor in any way. that couldn't possibly play right into the hands of the largest companies who want patents to prevent competition from truly innovative and inventive competitors.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 7 Jan 2011 @ 3:23pm
Re: Re:Nah, they just need a "resubmit this and we will come to your house and shoot you in the face" stamp.
See Also...but it seems like the typical political promises of things that work against each other
Shoring up artificially high house prices while working to provide affordable housing.
Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2011 @ 3:33pmA better question would be: Can people make a turd shinny?
ps: Homage to Nina Paley and her infatuation with poop LoL
The eejit (profile), 8 Jan 2011 @ 2:10am
Re:If Adam Savage can do it, then we can too!
Ron Rezendes (profile), 7 Jan 2011 @ 3:39pm
One way would be to....use experts in various fields to review patents before they ever get to the approval/reject stage. The experts should certainly be aware of prior art, baseless patents, etc. and easily dismiss many of the bad patents we see get processed and approved.
Use theses experts to weed out the applications that are beyond questionable or are simply not worthy of further examination and allow the examiners to actually work on only those submissions which need examining to qualify for approval.
Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2011 @ 4:09pm
Re: One way would be to....addendum:
- Make sure that it got eyeballs on it, they need to track the quantity of eyeballs that reviewed it, if it falls beyond a minimum set of eyeballs it is flagged to more scrutiny or automatically rejected.
Alatar, 7 Jan 2011 @ 3:40pm
Not so in conflictLook, there's a solution :
The USPTO could double or triple its staff, and also hire an army of consultants (in every domain) to confirm the non-obviousness of each application. Plus a lot of investigators for the prior art.
This way, reviews will be sped up, and the quality will increase.
And I'm sure that's what Mr Locke meant
Alatar, 7 Jan 2011 @ 3:41pm/sarcasm
Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2011 @ 5:19pmSimple solution: if the clerk reviewing the patent application is not him/herself an expert in that particular field, the application is summarily rejected.
The eejit (profile), 8 Jan 2011 @ 2:16amActually, I'd go in the opposite direction:
1) Accept all patents for a grace period of 4 months;
2) During this grace period, the USPTO searches for prior art and obviousness. IF obviousness is found, then the patent is rejected outright and cannot be refiled by ANY company. IF prior art is found, the patent ia rejected with the option to modify and improve the patent;
3) Patents are monopolised, with a licensing option available, for 7 years. After this time, the patent cannot be renewed.
4) Any patents used to file mass actions come under automatic scrutiny, and the lawsuit(s) is(are) held for a three-month period, pending the review. IF found to be false, then the patent is autopmatically entered into the public domain.
5) Minor improvements cannot be added to or modify an existing patent. They also count as prior art.
I think this should suffice.
abc gum, 8 Jan 2011 @ 8:31amHopefully the SCOTUS will soon get off the fence and proclaim that software is not patentable.
Androgynous Cowherd, 8 Jan 2011 @ 9:39am
Quick patent examinationI know how to change the system so that it never takes longer than 24 hours to decide whether to accept a patent application, nor do any more bad patents get approved.
ken, 8 Jan 2011 @ 11:33am
2 Tier TrackI would hope that we could go in a different tack. Have at least 2 types of patent applications with different lifetimes for the patents. The option with the 20 year term should have a high bar for passing, long review time, peer reviewed, higher filing fee, and needs to be a ground breaking type patent. Then have a lower, 5-7 year term for patents.
Also, have it so if any of the claims are found invalid, all of the patent is invalid. Right now, they'll claim EVERYTHING because there is no penalty for not claiming everything.
And software patents should never have been allowed.
staff, 9 Jan 2011 @ 8:32am
whining"getting rid of bad patents"
What large companies who whine about it mean is get rid of patents owned by small entities that they are subject too. The truth is they really don't care about patent quality or pendancy.
For a knowledgeable analysis of patent issues, please see http://truereform.piausa.org.
Stephan Kinsella (profile), 10 Jan 2011 @ 9:21am
A �Patent Stimulus� to End the Recession?This reminds me of the "brilliant" suggestion of two patent lawyers, Quinn and Halling, to have the President ORDER the PTO to issue more patents, no matter what!
Writes Quinn:
"What we need to do is have President Obama issue an Executive Order directing the Patent Office to start allowing patents. A 42% allowance rate during the first quarter of 2009 is wholly unacceptable. � So while you are at it President Obama, order the Patent Office to issue a patent UNLESS there is a reason to deny it."
See my post A �Patent Stimulus� to End the Recession?.
Patent, 10 Feb 2011 @ 6:56amA patent is a permit by a government to an inventor, llotting the right to prohibit others for a confined period from making, employing or selling the invention all over a country. It is a record in which the invention is ampley illustrated and the scope of the invention identified.
Jin Micro, 19 Jan 2012 @ 10:35amA rejected patent is a rejected patent. That's that.
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text: Recently, the Washington County Riverboat Foundation awarded their Competitive Grant Awards. The Washington County Chamber of Commerce was one of those recipients. Washington Chamber Executive Director Tim Coffey says the money will be used for the completion of their conference room. He says they have a serving and storage cabinet that will be built to match the décor. Coffey says the Washington Economic Development Group also received a grant to enhance the electronic features of the conference room. He says he hopes with the electronic features they will be able to offer their members and the community a high-tech meeting room in which to conduct meetings.


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This is an online lesson associated with activities during Solar Week, a twice-yearly event in March and October during which classrooms are able to interact with scientists studying the Sun. Outside of Solar Week, information, activities, and... (View More) resources are archived and available online at any time. This is an activity about measurements of solar activity. Learners will observe an image of the Sun and sketch major features, plot data to begin to recognize patterns of solar activity, look for long-term patterns in graphed data, compare X-ray and visible light images of the Sun to find solar features common to both sets of images, and make a prediction of what the Sun will look like in a visible light image after observing an X-ray image taken on the same day. This activity is scheduled to occur during Monday of Solar Week. (View Less)
This is a set of instructions for building a physical model. The model simulates the Sun's paths across the sky at summer solstice, winter solstice, and the spring and fall equinoxes. A bead simulates the Sun, moving along a cord, from rising along... (View More) the eastern horizon to setting on the western. The bead can be moved from path to path to demonstrate solar alignments, the solstices, and equinoxes. The model is created to be unique to the user's latitude, and is useful for including in lessons that teach about the seasons or archaeoastronomy. (View Less)
The 9-session NASA Family Science Night program emables middle school children and their families to discover the wide variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics being performed at NASA and in everyday life. Family Science Night... (View More) programs explore various themes on the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, and the Universe through fun, hands-on activities, including at-home experiments. Instructions for obtaining the facilitator's guide are available on the Family Science Night site. (View Less)
Learners will interpret spectral graphs to determine the atmospheric composition of Earth, Venus, and Mars, and then mathematically compare the amount of the greenhouse gas, CO2, on these planets. Students will brainstorm what things, along with... (View More) greenhouse gases, can affect a planet's temperature. The activity is part of Project Spectra, a science and engineering program for middle-high school students, focusing on how light is used to explore the Solar System. (View Less)
This is an activity about the period of the Sun's rotation. Learners will use image of the Sun from the SOHO spacecraft and a transparent latitude/ longitude grid called a Stonyhurst Disk to track the motion of sunspots in terms of degrees of... (View More) longitude. Using this angular motion measurement, learners will then calculate the sunspot's angular velocity in order to determine the rotation period of the Sun. This activity requires access to the internet to obtain images from the SOHO image archive. This is Activity 4 of the Space Weather Forecast curriculum. (View Less)
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This is an activity about how the Sun can affect the Earth's atmosphere, specifically the ionosphere. Learners will use real data from a Sudden Ionosphere Disturbance Monitor, or SID Monitor, to identify the signatures in the graphed data that can... (View More) be used to determine the times of sunrise and sunset. Although the SID monitors are designed to detect SIDs caused by solar flares, they also detect the normal influence of solar X-rays and UV light during the day as well as cosmic rays at nighttime. There is a distinct shape to a 24-hour SID data graph, with unique shapes, or signatures, of the graph appearing at sunrise and sunset.This activity is part of the Research with Space Weather Monitor Data educators guide. Use of and access to a Stanford Solar Center SID monitor and the internet is encouraged but not required. Locations without a SID monitor can use sample data provided in the educators guide. (View Less)
This is an activity about identifying solar flares. Learners will cross-reference data collected from a Sudden Ionosphere Disturbance, or SID, Monitor, the GOES solar catalog, and SOHO spacecraft images of the Sun to identify solar flares coming... (View More) from the Sun that are affecting Earth's ionosphere. This activity is part of the Research with Space Weather Monitor Data educators guide. Use of and access to a Stanford Solar Center SID monitor and the internet is encouraged but not required. Locations without a SID monitor can use SID data posted online: http://sid.stanford.edu/database-browser/. (View Less)
This is an activity about the magnetic deflection. Learners will observe and measure the deflection that an iron mass causes in a soda bottle magnetometer and plot the data. The data should show the inverse-square cube law of change in the magnetic... (View More) field. This is the twelfth activity in the guide and requires prior use and construction of a soda bottle magnetometer, as well as a six to ten pound container of iron nails (or an equivalent iron mass). (View Less)
This is a lesson about the Kp index, a common numerical indicator of magnetic storminess. Learners will access and analyze Kp index plots of magnetic storm strength and determine the relative frequency of stronger versus weaker magnetic storms... (View More) during periods of higher and lower solar activity. This is the fifteenth activity in the Exploring the Earth's Magnetic Field: An IMAGE Satellite Guide to the Magnetosphere educators guide. (View Less)
This is a lesson to introduce the Kp index, a common numerical indicator of magnetic storminess. Learners will access and analyze Kp index plots of magnetic storm strength and determine the relative frequency of stronger versus weaker magnetic... (View More) storms. This is the fourteenth activity in the Exploring the Earth's Magnetic Field: An IMAGE Satellite Guide to the Magnetosphere educators guide. (View Less)


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Brighten your bleak winter days with this colorful healthy salad of beets, citrus and whatever you've got! Beets can be found from summer thru winter so this salad is versatile!
There are hundreds of variations; if your have beautiful carrots add them in, no green beans - don't worry about, you can even add in some nuts or shaved fennel. Play with the citrus, try grapefruit for more of a tangy flavor or blood oranges for the color & sweetness.
Beet Citrus Salad
3 beets, any color
2 oranges, supremed/sections and juiced
1 red onion, sliced paper thin
handful of green beans, blanched & cut into thirds
olive oil
salt & pepper
Scrub the beets and bring to a boil in plenty of salted water. You'll know they are done when you can easily slip a knife in & out like potatoes. Cooking time will depend on the size of the beets, make sure to boil them whole. Drain them and let cool. When the beets are able to be handled, rub the beets with a kitchen towel to slough off the skins. Cut them into bit-sized chunks.
In a bowl, combine about 4 tablespoons of the orange juice, salt and pepper. While constantly whisking, drizzle in about 8 tablespoons of olive oil (you are looking for a 2 to 1 ratio). (Don't throw out the rest of the OJ - drink it!)
Toss the onions, beets and green beans with the dressing. Check your seasoning and allow to sit for about 15 minutes, until the onions start to wilt a bit. Give the salad one more toss & taste, garnish with the orange supremes.
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Agility is the widely accepted watchword for cloud computing. Customers are embracing a renaissance of thinking that focuses on the idea of DevOps as a means to achieve agility. Any discussion about DevOps, like so many buzzwords, can quickly become mired in semantic arguments, but the one truism we can all agree on is that we need to break the traditional barriers between application developers and IT infrastructure operators.
Most enterprises have created environments in which developers and operators are rewarded for fundamentally opposing goals. This disconnect has existed for as long as I can remember. Developers, operating on behalf of the lines of business, are focused almost entirely on creating new value for the business. Meanwhile, infrastructure operators are focused almost entirely on managing down risk.
For an enterprise developer, getting to market in the fastest manner possible is what matters most. Conversely, infrastructure engineers and architects focus on making sure the network, servers, and storage systems never go down.
Time after time, I hear a similar story from our customers that goes like this: "We went to the infrastructure teams with the long list of requirements for our new application. They told us it would take 18 months and $10 million before it would be ready. So we went to Amazon Web Services (AWS). We didn't get our list of infrastructure requirements and we had to change our application model, but we got to market immediately."
That's because the inherent value of AWS has less to do with its cost and more to do with its delivery model, which is on-demand, elastic, and very developer-centric. If delivering an awesome infrastructure cloud was only about providing virtual machines on demand, then Amazon, Google, and Microsoft would already have serious competition in public cloud -- and they don't.
Developers' overriding concern for the rapid and inexpensive delivery of new applications that support new business initiatives should be obvious. Operators' need to support developers in this mode should also be obvious. If they do not, then developers will continue to go exclusively to public cloud services. Security, control, compliance, cost, and many other factors will almost always take a second seat to driving new revenue opportunities, which is as it should be for any healthy business.
Historically, operators have focused on reducing the risk of new initiatives by gold-plating the initiative: spending as much as necessary to have the "best" solutions, which of course are usually the most expensive as well. In contrast, the public cloud operators usually buy the cheapest, not the best.
Cloud applications designed via a DevOps model deploy themselves, detect server failures and adapt, and do their own data replication. Cloud-native applications route around failures, making gold-plated infrastructure superfluous. In fact, what enterprise IT infrastructure operators want to do in the new model is focus instead on building a single, enterprise-wide private cloud system that is inexpensive, easy to operate, and focused on cloud-native applications.
Now, a new trend is emerging in the enterprise. Both operators and developers realize that open-source cloud platforms such as OpenStack are the ideal building block for the new elastic cloud model. We saw this happen with Linux, which was the ideal building block for web applications and the Internet. Like Linux, OpenStack may ultimately supplant the previous proprietary incumbents that solved similar problems, while also solving whole new categories of problems.
Imagine this: Developers have an elastic cloud to target cloud-native applications; operators have built and designed this private elastic cloud to look like a public cloud; and the cloud is based on open-source tools such as OpenStack.
A wonderful thing happens because suddenly, the fear of failure evaporates. Just as with a public cloud, if a new application initiative fails, you simply shut it down -- no harm, no foul. The cost of failure is inexpensive, which fosters risk taking, which in turn creates a culture of acceptance of failed initiatives. Again, it's hard not to draw parallels to the Linux experience, where the move to industry-standard x86 servers running Linux reduced the cost of failures compared to the legacy RISC UNIX days.
It's this shift toward a new application model that embraces failure that will ultimately demolish the barrier between developers and operators in the enterprise, lead to IT harmony, and deliver true DevOps. This new model requires a change in thinking around how applications are designed and delivered, combined with a change in thinking around how private clouds are designed and delivered. Neither can stand alone.
Embrace change and failure now. Be the person in your organization who helps move to the new elastic cloud model and delivers true DevOps.


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North Dakota's fall turkey season is set, and online and paper applications will be available mid-August. The deadline for applying is Sept. 4.
Stan Kohn, upland game management supervisor for the State Game and Fish Department, said 4,020 licenses are available to hunters, 125 fewer than last year. According to Kohn, the slight decline in licenses is a result of four years of poor production, and poor recruitment of young into the population because of wet, cool springs.
"The decrease in the number of licenses is consistent with our management strategy of reducing licenses when the population warrants protection or when turkey numbers have fallen below normal levels within a unit," Kohn said. "If turkey production is exceptionally good this year, an additional 1,300 licenses may be used early this fall in specific hunting units."
An experimental hunting season will continue for the USDA-ARS Northern Great Plains Research Lab in Mandan. A maximum of 30 licenses will be available. These licenses will be available at the Game and Fish Department once a person first obtains a permit from USDA-ARS.
An experimental turkey bow hunting season will continue within the city of Bismarck to help control a growing population of birds in residential areas. A maximum of 25 licenses will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to individuals who are licensed to bow hunt deer within the city. These licenses will be available at the Game and Fish Department in Bismarck once a person has a valid city archery permit.
A maximum of 75 turkey licenses will be issued for a concurrent experimental bow season on the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation land south of Bismarck. Licenses will be available at the Game and Fish Department after a person receives an access permit from NDDOCR.
A maximum of 45 turkey licenses will be issued for a concurrent experimental bow season for the city of Fargo and specific surrounding areas. Licenses will be distributed to those licensed to bow hunt deer within the city limits of Fargo, and will be available at the Game and Fish headquarters in Bismarck after a person has received a valid city archery permit.
Hunting units 21 (Hettinger and Adams counties) and 53 (Divide and Williams counties) will remain closed to fall turkey hunting in 2013 because of low turkey numbers.
The fall wild turkey season extends from Oct. 12 through Jan. 5, 2014.
Prospective hunters, including gratis applicants, can apply online, or print out an application to mail, at the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov. Paper applications will be available from Game and Fish offices, county auditors and license vendors.
Applications are also accepted at the department's toll-free licensing line, (800) 406-6409. A service fee is added for license applications made over the phone.
Only North Dakota residents are eligible to apply in the first lottery. Nonresidents can apply for fall turkey licenses that are still available following the first lottery.


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COLUMBIA - A clear ethical lapse by the Hardeeville election commission chief wasn't a signal to South Carolina's ethics agency to step in and clean up the city of Hardeeville's ballot mess.
So it didn't.
But last week, the S.C. State Ethics Commission did issue a warning and a $250 fee to Joyce Meeks, chairperson of the Hardeeville Municipal Election Commission. The 68-year-old was accused of a conflict of interest when she voted on March 15 to disqualify Scott Ready, the lone challenger to her son-in-law, then a sitting councilman.
"One of the remedies was never going to be to put Ready back on that ballot," said state ethics commission general counsel Cathy Hazelwood on Thursday.
"We do not have that ability, nor any authority, mandated or statutory authority, to get someone on the ballot."
On March 9, the city administration sent its roster of five candidates, including Ready, to the State Ethics Commission. An employee for the state agency emailed a response three hours later that said all of them could appear on the election ballot.
Six days later, Meeks' three-person election commission held a special meeting and ruled Ready ineligible. The reason? He had mistakenly marked "elected" instead of "candidate" on the candidate filing form but quickly corrected it.
In tossing Ready, Meeks' commission contradicted the State Ethics Commission's determination issued days earlier.
But on Thursday Hazelwood said her agency's email in March had been strictly administrative, carrying no legal heft. She said the municipal election officials - not the Ethics Commission - wield authority over candidate eligibility - a fact that was unchanged even after the state Supreme Court
announced its sweeping decision in the Spring on the candidate filing process.
Hazelwood said Ready took to the proper channels when he made an emergency appeal to the court system, and a 14th Circuit Court of Appeals judge reinstated him.
Ready filed a conflict of interest complaint against Meeks with the State Ethics Commission in March and on May 8 defeated Meeks' son-in-law, Roy Powell. Without Ready in the race, there would have been no election, and Powell would have been re-elected automatically.
In Wednesday's consent agreement, Meeks was directed to pay a $250 administrative fee, just a sliver of the possible $2,000 ethics fine she could have incurred. In it she "admits she unintentionally and inadvertently violated" the law that bars a public official from acting in a way that affects a family member's economic interests.
City leaders are split on Meeks' gentle rap from the State Ethics Commission. The climate of mixed feelings reflects an earlier attempt by city leadership to persuade Ready to drop his ethics complaint. Ready had responded that it was in the state agency's domain.
Mayor Pro Tem Mike Sweeney, who was elected in May after filling a vacancy in November, said Wednesday he was surprised Meeks wasn't fined. He noted that the city had already shouldered $1,500 in legal fees from the dispute.
"It continues to embarrass the city of Hardeeville," said Sweeney, who lives in Sun City Hilton Head and is a relative newcomer to the area.
"If we try to get rid of Joyce Meeks, but the majority (of City Council) says she just made a mistake and votes to keep her, then that will be it," said Sweeney. "After I consider everything that happened, I believe we need a new committee."
Sal Arzillo, a Hardeeville resident for 41 years who serves on the City Council, said he represents "Old Hardeeville," and called Meeks "a good woman and an honest woman."
He added: "I'm certainly not going to condemn her."
But Arzillo said it was too soon for him to decide if Meeks should be reappointed to an additional term.
"She might just decide, 'Well, I've had enough,' and just be an advocate for Old Hardeeville," said Arzillo. He knew his colleague on the council, Sweeney from Sun City, probably sees things differently.
"They see things in black and white. They don't know Joyce Meeks. They just think she looks like she's from a good ol' boy system," said Arzillo.
Mayor Bronco Bostick was milder still.
"We are going to look into offering the (election) commission some training, but it is up to the City Council as a whole to decide what will happen," he said. "But I'm glad things worked out with everybody."
That's true, at least, for Meeks.
"I'm satisfied," she said Thursday, when asked about Wednesday's order.
"I would appreciate serving another term," said Meeks, who has one more year on her existing term. "I think I'm highly qualified, and what happened was unintentional an inadvertent. You learn from your mistakes."
The lifelong resident also said she's devoted to the rural 3,000-person Jasper County community.
"I love Hardeeville," said Meeks. "Hardeeville is my town."
Wednesday's agreement says Meeks "maintained that she did not violate the ethics laws as she understands them."
But isn't it obvious that an official shouldn't determine the political success of her daughter's spouse, one that would preserve an $8,000 bump in income?
Apparently not.
Hazelwood said frequent turnover in local election commissions leads to often spotty training within the ranks of appointees.
The Hardeeville case points to another dynamic: How local election officials, appointed by the City Council, may ultimately determine whether the people who appoint them face re-election challengers.
"That's the reality of governing," said Hazelwood.


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After dropping first three matches, Ionia wins final two at D-K tournament
A pair of Ionia wrestlers finished undefeated Saturday to help lead the Bulldog varsity team to a 2-3 record on the day at Delton-Kellogg High School.
After dropping matches to Allegan's B-Team (49-30), the host Panthers (54-30) and Charlotte (52-30), the Dawgs defeated Paw-Paw (66-18) and Dowagiac (45-34) to finish strong.
"Individually we did well," Ionia assistant coach Tom Brighton said.
"We have a 6-7 record and for being as inexperienced as we are, we are happy to be where we are at this point in the season."
Jordan Richardson went 5-0 in the 103-pound bracket, while 171-pounder Austin Winter also went undefeated with five wins.
Jacob Washbourn (125), Steven Pettit (130) and Jordan Zamarron (140) each finished the day 4-1, while Philip Sipperley went 2-2 at 171 and 183 combined.
Caleb Richardson finished 2-0 at pounds.
Ionia (6-7) will return to Capital Area Activities Conference Red competition on Wednesday night when the Bulldogs host Fowlerville in their first home match of the season. JV matches are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. with the varsity to follow.


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It's the first of September, the last weekend of the summer, and a holiday weekend at that. Enjoy it with family and friends, but don't forget that the 1st of the month is Backup Day – at least for genealogists who follow Dick Eastman, genealogist extraordinare. (Keep an eye on his article topics regularly shown below on the right for reminders.)
Our BCGS website has a number of suggestions for regular backups. Check our Backup and Cloud Storage page here. No matter which day of the month or week you choose, don't forget regular backups. After all, as some say, it's not if your computer may fail you, it's when.
Setting up an automatic backup for your genealogy files nowadays to a portable drive or to 'cloud' storage is easy and often free or almost free. And an automatic system should ensure your backup is done on schedule – the first principle of backup.
There are other principles too for backup and those include 2. having more than one copy and on different media, so you might backup photograph files, for example, both on an external drive, and on CD or DVD, and 2. storing backups in more than one place, so perhaps using an external drive at home as well as a commercial 'cloud' storage service – and why not give copies to a relative, one copy to store, and one to use and share.
Given the disasters we've all seen on the news lately this last principle is obviously important, as is a 'disaster plan' for your genealogy data, documents and treasures.
A day ago, while reading old filed articles, I also happened to watch a report about the many people affected by hurricane Isaac, This heightened my interest in Winifred Delery Hills's article, "A Genealogist's Reflections on Leaving New Orleans: One Year Later", which appeared in New England Ancestors, Fall 2006 (Volume 7 #4, pp. 30-31) – well worth reading.
Her's is a sharp reminder that when disaster happens, without a plan, much will be lost. Her tips include identifying "NOW" what you want to save, and having containers on hand to hold these, as well as having backup copies stored, You can read the rest of her article and her tips at the BCGS Walter Draycott Library.


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Excel Saga. Love or Hate?
I really like older style 80's-90's anime. However, many of my fellow anime fans cannot stand the humor,art
style,gore..ect of late 80's to 90's anime. The best example I know of is my favorite comedy anime is Excel Saga and
whether it is Excel's "lovely" voice or the style of parody humor it provides. It seem this show is a love or hate thing. So why
do you love/hate it or are you a rebel and just think it is ok?
Bonus question: How do you feel about older 80's- 90's anime and why?
I LOVE Excel Saga, but I have some friends who were a bit turned off by how over the top it was. I loved spotting all the parodies and references that were made in each episode and had a blast. I also enjoy watching older anime from the 80's and 90's, and don't see anything wrong with it. Some of my personal favorites are from this time.
Excel Saga is hilarious. Some episodes are better than others but overall I'd still consider it one of the best comedy animes out there.
It's a great show. I like the style of most 80-90's anime like Evangelion, Gasaraki, Birdy the Mighty, Serial Experiments Lain, Astro Boy, Blue Gender, Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, etc.
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Excel Saga is sheer brilliance. The late 90's were an amazing time for anime, just in terms of originality. I mean that both in artwork and writing, too. Just listing a few comedy titles can end up sounding like an 'all-time-greatest' list.
More than anything, I think it was the "what the heck, let's try it" attitude that you can tell was at work in the production staff. That allowed all sorts of stuff to just come out of the blue at you. In ES, the characters even attempted to assassinate the guy who created ES, and I think that was in the very first episode! I think ES may have been Nabeshin's first anime appearance, too.
But just think about some of the other examples of originality that were coming out back then. Again, just in comedy, you can find GTO, Hana Yori Dango, Tenshi ni Narumon, Space Pirate Mito, You're Under Arrest, and most of the Tenchi titles.
Koko... Doko?
This was a pretty good show, I always enjoyed watching anime from the 80' & 90's. Blue Gender, Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon & many more.. ahh good times.
I have never heard of that. I wish to Google now haha. I feel so left out here. I thought I knew tons of anime shows. But it turns out that I only know like...six percent out of one hundred percent that you guys know of.
Excel Saga is still one of my all time favorite animes. Absurdity at its finest.
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I have never heard of that. I wish to Google now haha. I feel so left out here. I thought I knew tons of anime shows. But it turns out that I only know like...six percent out of one hundred percent that you guys know of.
There's hundreds upon thousands of different anime in the world today. A majority don't even make it to the US, just the ones that we get licenses for. Though that's in the United States, not sure about the rest of the world outside of Japan but I'm guessing it's similar.
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Excel Saga! One of the greatest anime titles produced in my opinion. It's just so out there that you just have to keep watching more and more.
I liked it for some funny moments and shock value up until the last few episodes which I didn't like at all. I felt like they were trying a bit to hard then. But Excel's voice was actually a big plus for me me I really enjoyed her mile a min. mind and the dream scenes .
As far as liking 80's and early 90's anime goes everything on my watch list is pretty much from that era, some of my favorites! Also, the early 2000's had some great ones to..I'm still catching up to current fandoms
Great anime; better Manga,
Thats my opinion
I love it. And I think there should be special section of compiled 80s-90s anime on CR dedicated to those.
The theme song, the in-jokes, the upcoming episode introductions, it's all just so fun.
I agree with Nyanako, though. Excel is best from source. Manga is the best adaptation.
死んでる。Hic nunc est hodie, cras absit. Ad praesens, nusquam quasi nihil.
dunno what u talking about foo. but kenshin was a good anime ! I think its in the 90's correct?
So much to do, SO little time! I'll give someone $100 if they can freeze time !
Excel Saga is the best. All the secondary characters were perfect, especially Pedro.
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Strong Mistral Brings an Exciting Lay Day to Porto Rotondo for the Start of 2013 Melges 32 World Championship
18 September 2013
Porto Rotondo, Italy - On Tuesday at the 2013 Melges 32 World Championship, conditions induced a much stronger than anticipated mistral with wind speeds being clocked at almost 80 knots. The waters just outside Porto Rotondo harbor were over embellished with solid white cap and big spray conditions, a product of the powerful and impressive Sardinian breeze.
Also on Tuesday morning, following yet another amazing Robertissima party last night in honor of birthday boy Roberto Tomasini Grinover, competing owners and board members of the IM32CA gathered at Yacht Club Porto Rotondo (YCPR) for the 2013 Annual General Meeting (AGM). Class President Hank Stuart along with North American Board Member Jason Carroll (Argo), Class Vice President Richard Goransson (Helly Hansen Inga From Sweden), International Administrator Joy Dunigan, European Fleet Secretary Luisa Bambozzi, and International Class Measurer Egidio Babbi presented the year in review, progress and advance.
Immediately following, a beautiful and very elegant luncheon was sponsored by new Melges 32 owner Alessandro Rombelli aboard Azimut by STIG. The almost two hour mid-day affair was enjoyed by owners and their tacticians alike.
Despite the fact that most teams stayed ashore, destruction was inevitable as the building velocity of the breeze prompted the onsite Audi hospitality tent to come crashing down, thankfully no one was hurt. Teams however, came to the rescue assisting the YCPR in dismantling of the wreckage efforts.
Afternoon and early evening hour activities brought about the 2013 World Championship Skipper's meeting and opening ceremonies featuring YCPR President Luigi Dona Della Rosso and IM32CA Partner BPSE. It was obvious teams are really happy to be in Porto Rotondo, as they mingled over AstiHour drinks, food and camaraderie.
Wednesday's forecast does not look promising as the big breeze is expected to continue and may prove to be too much for racing. A Race Committee announcement will be made at 09.00 in Porto Rotondo regarding the intention for the day.
In the way of live streaming the event from Porto Rotondo, a broadcast will be made on time regarding what will be the process and procedure for opening day at the 2013 Melges 32 World Championship hosted by the YCPR in coordination with Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS), B.Plan Sports & Events (BPSE) and Melges Europe.
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1.) Jason Carroll/Cameron Appleton, Argo
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PBS show provides more clues about Sandy Hook shooter
SAN FRANCISCO -- The little boy cocooned in the blue and white snow suit shuffles slowly toward a tree in the home movies shot in Kingston, N.H., in 1996. He is 4 1/2 and out of focus.
In another sense, he will remain out of focus well beyond the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, when he shot his way through the front door of the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and killed 20 children and six adults before taking his own life.
The vintage footage of Adam Lanza is only one of several memorable scenes in "Raising Adam Lanza," a "Frontline" special report airing Tuesday on PBS as part of the public TV network's weeklong exploration of the killings at Sandy Hook and many of the issues surrounding the horrific event.
Working in partnership with the Hartford Courant, "Frontline" fills in a bit more of the picture of who Adam Lanza was. At the same time, it is unlikely that we'll ever get a complete picture of Lanza because the one person who might provide even more clues, other than Lanza himself, was the 27th victim that morning: his mother, Nancy Lanza, who was shot four times in her bed. The 22 caliber rifle used to kill her was the weapon Adam Lanza had first learned to shoot with.
"Frontline" follows Courant reporters Alaine Griffin and Josh Kovner as they track down people who knew the Lanzas, beginning in Kingston, where the family lived before father Peter Lanza was offered a high-paying job at G.E. and the Lanzas moved to Connecticut.
Repeated efforts to interview Peter Lanza, who was divorced from Nancy, were unsuccessful. But other sources, including an unnamed Lanza relative who would only communicate via email, help flesh out the story to some extent, moving it forward by significant inches.
Marvin Lafontaine, who knew the family in New Hampshire through the Scouting program, says there was a "weirdness" about Adam even then and that Nancy had warned him that Adam didn't like to be touched.
More InformationFour stars out of five; or Three out of four: "Raising Adam Lanza," "Frontline," 10 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday, Feb. 19, PBS
"Don't do an `atta-boy' thing or shake his hand or go `way to go, brother,' " Lafontaine quotes Nancy as advising him, adding that Adam would get angry if other kids touched him, as well.
Nancy seemed hopeful the move had been good for her younger son, noting in emails that he had 26 new friends and "was doing well at Sandy Hook," where he was in the first grade.
But she also told Lafontaine that Adam had been diagnosed with Sensory Integration Disorder, a "not widely accepted diagnosis," according to "Frontline," involving difficulty in processing and reacting to stimuli. In middle school, Adam was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.
The unidentified Lanza relative is quoted as saying the noise and chaos of middle school were too much for Adam and marked the start of efforts by Nancy to find a school where Adam would feel comfortable. She placed him in St. Rose of Lima Catholic School, and then in Newtown High School, where the technology club's adviser, Richard Novia, identified him as a student very likely to be bullied.
Novia, interviewed at length in the film, began interacting with Nancy, who, he says, was "failing at bringing him out of his little world."
Novia recalls "episodes" where Adam would completely withdraw. The rest of the time, Adam avoided the halls, which were typically crowded and chaotic.
Novia encouraged Adam to join the technology club and believes he was making progress with the boy. The fact that Adam showed up to be photographed with the other members of the club "proves there was success," Novia says.
Novia thinks Nancy shouldn't have pulled Adam out of Newtown High in 2008 because he was getting support at the school and becoming a little more comfortable being around other people. He believes the abrupt change essentially undid whatever progress Adam had been making at Newtown.
Novia says that Adam was playing "violent video games" at the time -- World of Warcraft, in particular -- and implies a link between the games and the subsequent massacre.
The one deficiency of the "Frontline" special is that while interview subjects like Novia offer credible anecdotal information, the film lacks the context that could be provided by any one of a number of experts on the probability of a link between the video games and the school shooting.
The Courant reporters say they learned from unidentified investigators that Adam carried out the shootings at Sandy Hook consistent with the way you play video games: changing his ammunition magazines frequently, even when they were not yet empty.
Perhaps even more significant to what led Adam to the school on Dec. 14 were the number of changes in his brief life, beginning with the family's move to Connecticut and continuing with the various schools he was in and out of until he quit taking classes at Western Connecticut State University in 2009, the year his mother and father divorced.
By 2010, he'd cut off all contact with Peter Lanza. The same year, Nancy began buying guns that Adam would later use at Sandy Hook.
After all the school changes of his past, Adam may have been getting ready for an even bigger change.
According to Mark Tambascio, the owner of a Newtown restaurant called My Place, Nancy was planning to move away from Newtown to enroll Adam in college.
No one has been able to verify that he'd been accepted anywhere, but Tambascio says the move was "in the advance stages" and that Nancy had even sold her cherished season tickets to the Boston Red Sox.
The Courant interviews John Berquist, a friend of Nancy's who often hung out with her and some other friends at My Place. He describes her as "always very positive."
He adds that Adam was never violent to his knowledge and that Nancy never feared him. The shooting range outings were a way for her to connect with Adam, he says.
"It was an activity they both enjoyed," he says.
David Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle's executive features editor and TV critic. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV


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These are some fun gift cards that resemble a wrapped gift. The cut file is from the Silhouette on line store. The file only cost .99 cents so it is a really bargain (in fact, all their files are 99 cents.) I used some retired SU Holiday paper I had on hand (am trying so hard to use what I have.....I think we all call it our own inventory). Red solid paper is from Joanne's and edges are sponged with brown ink.Open the card to reveal a place to write a note and a gift card holder. (OR folded money!!!!) I used a rub on for the holiday message.
In the back: a special stamped bar code image:
I believe this is the last of the Christmas projects to be posted. Just in the nick of time for 2013..............it's New Year Eve so I just made it!!!! It was a great 2012!!! See you all in 2013!!!! Thank you for checking in on my blog.


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You won't care much about this if you don't obsessively watch the best car show on the planet, UK Top Gear. Then again, if you don't watch it, perhaps you should just curl up in a ball and not do much at all; life isn't worth living when one lacks appreciation for this show… The rest of us however will find it interesting to know that TomTom has released a special "Top Gear Edition" of its GO LIVE GPS navigator. The most obvious features is that your directions will be voiced by the giant himself, Jeremy Clarkson. But that's not where it ends. Other unique features include
Top Gear Points of Interest like "an exhaustive of racetracks and raceways, including the Top Gear Test Track."
Unique Top Gear car icons.
Top Gear start up and shut down screens.
And my personal favorite, "Stig Mode". It renders the satnav instantly silent!
It's $270 and available for Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US.
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SEATTLE — Hundreds of same-sex couples across Washington state started picking up marriage licenses Thursday as a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage took effect.
King County, the state's largest, opened the doors to its auditor's office in Seattle just after midnight to start distributing licenses. But hundreds of people had lined up hours earlier, snaking around the building on a chilly night. By Thursday afternoon, more than 450 licenses had been issued in Seattle, where the mood was festive overnight.
"We waited a long time. We've been together 35 years, never thinking we'd get a legal marriage. Now I feel so joyous I can't hardly stand it," said 85-year-old Pete-e Petersen, who with her partner, 77-year-old Jane Abbott Lighty, were the first to get a license.
After meeting 35 years ago on a blind date in Sacramento, Lighty and Petersen plan to get married Sunday.
Washington state now joins several other states that allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. Gov. Chris Gregoire and Secretary of State Sam Reed certified the election results of Referendum 74 on Wednesday, and the law took effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.
R-74 had asked voters to either approve or reject the state law legalizing same-sex marriage that legislators passed earlier this year. That law was signed by Gregoire in February but was put on hold pending the outcome of the election. Nearly 54 percent of voters approved the measure.
The law doesn't require religious organizations or churches to marry gay or lesbian couples.
Because the state has a three-day waiting period, the earliest that weddings can take place is Sunday. Same-sex couples who previously were married in another state that allows gay marriage, like Massachusetts, will not have to get remarried in Washington state. Their marriages became valid here Thursday, when the law took effect.
Vicky Dalton, the Spokane County auditor, said that as of 4 p.m. Thursday, more than 760 marriage licenses had been issued statewide to same-sex couples, with more than half of them being issued in King County.
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After arriving in 1995, Marek soon found a room for rent on Long Island in a home occupied by a group of young Lindenhurst locals.
"I didn't speak any English at all," Marek said (in unfaltering English). "There was a bunch of American kids living in this house together. I practiced my English by living and working with them."
From the time he arrived 19 years ago, Marek has worked in sales and marketing. He started small, selling paper pads and pens door to door. But after a few years, he began taking on bigger and bigger clients until he found himself traveling internationally in his work for a toy manufacturer.
"At one time I was managing about 500 people under me," Marek said.
Rather than succumbing to the death of the traveling salesman, Marek decided to combine talents with his wife Marta, who has a background in fashion and design. Together, they formed a sales team at Exit Realty All Seasons in Maspeth a little over two years ago.
Marek quickly saw that real estate sales were much more delicate than the manufacturer-to-retail deals he spent much of his career brokering.
"In the beginning it was difficult because I didn't have any experience, I was the new guy, so I had to build it up," Marek said. "It's all about building relationships. When you deliver on promises and you have very good communication with the seller – same thing with the buyer – they will work with you and they will send you more business."
Despite his initial uncertainties, after only a short time working in real estate, Marek has established himself as an industry powerhouse, closing 17 deals for just under $9 million in sales last year.
This feat earned Marek a spot on the Top 100 Sales Volume Agents for Exit Realty International, a real estate firm with over 40,000 agents worldwide.
Marek credits some of his success to mentorship from real estate advisor Ed Escobar, who meets with him once a week to provide industry guidance. The other part, he credits to the same tenacity that drew him to New York in the first place.
"My wife and I work hard," Marek said. "Some people are 15, 20 years in the business and they don't do the volume we did in two years."


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Here it is! The final list. Those who have not sent me seat requests Leeana will be getting upper deck seats.
Here is the order that will be going in.
Lower Level
Canada - 3 tickets
Coach - 1 ticket
YZILLA - 3 tickets
HayVern - 2 tickets
Chief31 - 1 ticket
Royalswin- 1ticket
Chieffrom - 2 tickets
Upper Deck are $150-190 I will let you know the final price for sure on Friday
Upper Deck
HH - 2 tickets
Chiefster - 4 tickets
Moefoe - 2 tickets
Tornado - 4 tickets
Tammie T - 2 tickets
Anaeelback- 2tickets
Guru - 1 ticket
Upper deck are $41-59 and I will let you know the final price on those as well on Friday!
A total of 30 Crowders will be attending, Additional tickets are available subject to availability so if you need more let me know ASAP and I will do what I can for you!!
If everyone is good with the Red Roof inn I can reserve a block of rooms there as well. Prices are about $60 a night with one King size bed or $70 a night with two queen beds. I am talking to the manager there on Friday about discounts as well. We should be able to get about 10% (I am guessing) If you need a room let me know how many rooms you want, one or two beds and I will reserve them for everyone. Red Roof Inn is on Noland Rd (3.6 miles from Arrowhead) We can organize a carpool from the hotel on gameday if anyone is interested. Let me know ASAP about Hotel rooms as I would like to reserve them as early as we can!!
Thanks again to everyone for getting me all the info for the tickets. I will be sending out payment info most likely on Friday!!
Old details below.
Here is where we stand with the home opener. Thank you to everyone who has sent me the requested info. I am still missing some things from some people. If you do not send me your contact info, NO TICKETS will be reserved under your name. If you do not tell me how many tickets you want, NO TICKETS will be reserved for you. If you do not tell me how much you want to spend on tickets/where you want to sit, then you will get the $59.00 seats in the 300 level.
He is my updated list or what info I have and what I still need from each person.
Completed orders
Canada - 4 tickets
Coach - 1 ticket
HermHater - 2 tickets
TammieTailgator - 2 tickets
Hayvern - 2 tickts
Chiefster - 4 tickets
Chief31 - 1 ticket
Incomplete orders
Missing seat/price requests
Moefoe - 2 tickets
YZILLA - 3 tickets
Tornado Spotter - 4 tickets
Anaeelbackwards - 2 tickets
People who said they want to go and have sent me nothing
Chief from the North
*Please do not post whore in this thread. This is enough of a pain in the *** trying to keep everyones info in order. Please PM me info ASAP. Remember, if you have not given me contact info or # of tickets you want. You will not get any. If you have not given me a seat request you will be sitting in the 300 level. Final Order with specific seats have to be ordered the day the schedule is announced so PLEASE get them in. I do not want to see any one left out, but I am not paying for anyone else's tickets!!
Thank you for your Cooperation!!


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Climate Tech in Ethiopia? Yes!
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This week marks the launch of the new, World-Bank supported Ethiopia Climate Innovation Center (CIC). The center joins a global network of CICs and is designed to support local Ethiopian businesses that are responding to the challenges of climate change by providing mentorship, financing, access to markets, and policy support.


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Paul Scholes will make a sensational Manchester United comeback, should Sir Alrx Ferguson ask him to come out of retirement, it has been claimed.
The 37-year-old lowered the curtain on his illustrious career in May, but former teammates have since urged him to reconsider.
He has, however, rejected the opportunity to return to the fold at Old Trafford, and has been content with life as a coach.
But, according to The Sun, Scholes is now ready to answer the call of Ferguson and ease United's problems in midfield.
Should it come to fruition, it would be a quite remarkable turn of events and suggest Ferguson should have moved to sign a successor to Scholes during the summer.
United have lacked creativity in midfield in recent weeks, and consecutive league defeats has seen Ferguson's tactics in the transfer market called into question.
The United boss did attempt to sign Wesley Sneijder in August, and the failure to capature the Inter Milan playmaker - or a player of similar quality - has been widely criticised.
The return of Scholes, though, would provide United with a short-term fix for United before Ferguson dips into the transfer market this summer.


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A neurologist is a specialty physician who is qualified in the diagnosis and medical management of diseases of the nervous system (brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and muscles). Examples of central nervous system disorders include strokes, seizures/epilepsy, headaches/migraines, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis. Examples of peripheral nervous system disorders include carpal tunnel syndrome, pinched nerves in the spine/radiculopathy, peripheral neuropathy, shingles, myasthenia gravis and other muscle diseases.Beverly A. Beadle, M.D.Bradley S. Boop, M.D.J. Brett Ironside, M.D.Abdel-Rahman D. Saleh, M.D.Robert R. Silzer, M.D.Christoper Wright, M.D.
Podiatry is a branch of medicine devoted to the study of, diagnosis, and medical and surgical treatment of disorders of the foot, ankle and lower extremity.Naval Patel, D.P.M.
Pulmonary medicine is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the lung. It includes asthma, emphysema, chronic obstructive lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, sarcoid and lung cancer. Diseases of the blood vessels of the lung such as pulmonary embolism or pulmonary hypertension are also included. Symptoms of lung disease include cough, hemoptysis (coughing up blood), shortness of breath, wheezing and chest pain. Critical care medicine is the management of unstable and critically ill patients in the intensive care unit. It includes the mangagement of ventilators, treatment of unstable blood pressure, supervision of antibiotic therapy and management of nutrition.Samer Homsi, M.D.Nutan Bhaskar, M.D.
A rheumatologist is an internal medicine physician who is qualified by additional training, certification and experience in the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis, osteoporosis and diseases of the joints, muscles and bones. Many rheumatologists conduct research to determine the cause and better treatments for these disabling and sometimes fatal diseases.Tamer Alsebai, M.D.James H. Abraham III, M.D.Thomas M. Kovaleski, M.D.Lisa A. Lowery, M.D.Jennifer McCallum, M.D.Cummins Lue, M.D.Laura B. Trigg, M.D.Rachel Wayne, M.D.Alina Voinea, M.D.
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The laboratory at the Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic performs a large range of tests, averaging approximately 1,000,000 tests annually. Tests are performed by personnel that are CLIA-certified for high complexity laboratory testing.
The laboratory adheres to strict testing standards. It is certified by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) through the Department of Health and Human Services. The lab was awarded the COLA Laboratory Excellence in April 2017. The COLA award signifies our laboratory's commitment to performing quality patient testing and overall laboratory practices. Our COLA ID: 18100
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In the years that have followed, medical diagnostic specialists from this country's most respected institutions of medical education have become members of the LRDC staff, and comprehensive diagnostic health services have been made available to assist them in their work.
Today, there are 32 medical diagnostic specialists, all Board certified in Internal Medicine and many in a subspecialty, who are committed to providing adults with the best in healthcare. The Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic is committed to future growth in the medical community utilizing the most advanced diagnostic tools and technology available for diagnostic health services.


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November 13, 2012
2012 Alexandria Chamber of Commerce Business Award recipients posed for a photo after the presentation on Monday night at the Schlesinger Center with Chamber Chairman Andrew Palmieri and Chamber President John Long. The awardees are, from left, Roger Parks of American Advertising Distributors of Northern Virginia for Small Business of the Year, Executive Director John Porter and Chair of the Board Gene Steuerle of the Alexandria Community Trust for Association/Non-profit of the Year, Business Leader of the Year Cathal Armstrong, Anthony Pryor of Marstel-Day LLC for Environmentally Friendly Business of the Year, Robert Shea of Grant Thornton LLP for Overall Business of the Year and Philip Honaker Commonwealth One Federal Credit Union and Philip Honaker for Medium Business of the Year.
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