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Stop rigging system against small biz
I meant what I said.
I stood before a group of voters in Massachusetts last year and talked about what it would take to move forward as a nation. I laid out how we all needed to invest in our country, to build a strong foundation for our families today and make sure the next kid with the great idea has the chance to succeed.
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But too often that kid can't succeed because the system is rigged against him.
Small-business owners bust their tails every day. They're the first ones in and the last to leave, six and often seven days a week. That's how my Aunt Alice ran her small restaurant, where I worked as a kid. My brother and my daughter both started small businesses. And I've visited and talked with small-business owners across Massachusetts. From the insurance agency in Brockton to the coffee shop in Greenfield and the manufacturing plant in Lawrence — all started and run by people with good ideas and a determination to succeed.
I believe in small businesses. They're the heart and soul of our economy. They create jobs and opportunities for the future.
Washington politicians line up 10-deep to claim they support small businesses, but they avoid talking about a harsh reality: The system is rigged against small business. These owners can't afford armies of lobbyists in D.C., but the big corporations can. It's those armies of lobbyists that create the loopholes and special breaks that let big corporations off the hook for paying taxes. While small businesses are left to pay the bills.
We've got to close those loopholes and end the special breaks — so small businesses have a level playing field and a fair chance to succeed.
When small businesses grow and flourish, we should applaud their success, and the companies should benefit from their hard work and clever ideas. But here's my point: If a business makes it big, the reward shouldn't be the ability to rig the system to stop the next guy.
If a business takes its profits to the Cayman Islands, ships its jobs overseas or finds a loophole to avoid paying its fair share of taxes, then that business now has a leg up over every small business and start up that can't take advantage of those loopholes. Sometimes the big can get bigger not because they are better but because they can work the system better. That's bad for every small business in America.


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Rachel Joanna (Rebok) McFerren, 99, of Waynesboro, died Friday, April 19, 2013, in the Waynesboro Hospital.
Rachel Joanna (Rebok) McFerren, 99, of Waynesboro, died Friday, April 19, 2013, in the Waynesboro Hospital. Born Nov. 6, 1913, in Waynesboro, she was the daughter of the late F. Oscar and Kathryn (Sleichter) Rebok. She was a lifelong resident of the Waynesboro area. She and her husband, the late Lloyd McFerren, were married on Aug. 22, 1932, at the United Brethren Church in Greencastle. They resided in Mont Alto until 1966 and then retired to Waynesboro. Mr. McFerren died on May 2, 1985. In addition to homemaker and mother, she worked at the Waynesboro Knitting Mill, Mont Alto Forestry School, Hess's Orchards, and also ran a daycare service for children in her home in Mont Alto. She was a member of Mont Alto E.U.B. Church and later Faith U.M. Church, Waynesboro; Ladies Auxiliary of the Mont Alto Fire Co. where she served as secretary and treasurer; president of the Waynesboro Senior Center for 27 years; and for many years was a member of the AARP Kitchen Band. She is survived by one son, Harold L. McFerren and his wife Priscilla (Greco) McFerren of State College; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; one brother John Rebok of Waynesboro; and a number of nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by one son, Donald Ray McFerren and his wife Sally A. (Bragunier) McFerren; two sisters, Carrie Matthews and Gertrude Lever; and one brother, Leslie Rebok. Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, 2013, in Mont Alto Cemetery, Mont Alto, Pa., with Pastor Mark Shover officiating. The family will receive friends from 1 until 2 p.m. Monday afternoon, in Grove-Bowersox Funeral Home, 50 S. Broad St., Waynesboro. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: The Mont Alto Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 602, Mont Alto, Pa. 17237. Online condolences may be expressed at: www.bowersoxfuneralhomes.com

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This blog first started with the idea that I would make an Eagles website for fans living in Hoboken. Then, I just canned that idea because I barely have enough time coming up with creative ideas for my blog.
After living in Hoboken the last 10 years, and being an Eagles fan, I used to spend my days at The Farside bar, watching the game with the regulars. Since I was behind enemy lines, my game was usually with no sound - and I had to endure years of a crappy Eagles team and the ridicule that came with it.
About two years ago when I was bartending at Dipper's, I was always thinking about making it a "Eagles Bar", but never went through with it. I seriously never thought we would get that many people into the bar, and I didn't think the owners would like that so much since he was a Redskins fan.
Last summer I told a friend of mine about my ideas, and it turned out that McMahons Brownstone would be a good fit for the idea that I had: Find a bar that was willing to show the Eagles games with sound (instead of the Giants or Jets) and make it an "Eagles Bar". Organize a bunch of people, get them to one bar in town & take over the place with a sea of Eagles green. The idea morphed from an "Eagles Bar" into trying to promote an "Eagles Club" (and not necessarily tied down to the Brownstone - we did Monday Night Football at different bars).


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Earlier this week, we featured a blog post about art inspired by student research. Teagan tell us a little more about her creative process and how choice in creating learning products can ignite student passion for research and inquiry!
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Video Interview: The Importance of Choice for Igniting Student Passion and Learning Through Research Projects
Art Gallery Inspired by Student Research and Content Creation
This fall, The Unquiet Library has hosted a unique art installation inspired by student research this past spring. Some of you may remember Teagan from this past winter and her unique approach to creating mindmaps. Teagan and her partner Kristiena (whom you may remember as one of my co-authors from this fall for a Knowledge Quest article) created a digital multigenre research composition on veterans and PTSD. Both Teagan and Kristiena were part of a group of students who generously shared their insights and reflections on being immersed in a participatory culture of learning. In their words, they set out to explore "…PTSD, the effects it has on veterans, and how veterans can receive help from this mental illness. It is very important to understand the severity of this undermined illness because without knowing about the organizations that help these veterans, the specific treatments these organizations use, and what we can do as a community to help, we are letting our country's veterans down." Their inquiry was inspired by their readings of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac, and Ghosts of War by Ryan Smithson.
Teagan, who is a gifted photographer, decided to create her own original images to depict some of the key ideas and findings from their research and integrate them into the multigenre digital text. I was so struck by the artistry of her work that this fall, I asked her if she would consider letting the library create prints of her work and have a research inspired art gallery. She graciously gave me permission and used excerpts of her research to create informational placards for each print. After we mounted the prints and placards on art easels, we arranged Teagan's artwork in the sequence she outlined for us so that viewers could follow the narrative of her artistic creations. Students and teachers alike have been impressed not only with her moving and striking photography, but they have also been pleasantly surprised to learn that it was sparked by the information she discovered in her research and that the gallery is an alternative representation of those findings. Not only did Teagan photograph and process the photographs, but she and her father both served as models for the prints.
The research inspired art gallery has not only helped others learn about PTSD and its impact on veterans, but it has also nudged people to see research as something more than an assignment and that it is a mode of learning that can far beyond a class assignment. I am hopeful that future galleries featuring inquiry inspired creative works will be commonplace and can incorporate additional participatory mediums for interacting with the gallery with a feature like panels coated in IdeaPaint where people can respond to the art and ideas. On behalf of the library and our learning community, I would like to thank Teagan for generously sharing her talent and wisdom with us.
Drumroll, Please: YALSA Teens' Top 10 Winners!
We are delighted to share that YALSA has announced the results of the voting for the 2012 Teens' Top 10 awards! Congratulations to all the winners below—and be sure to read the YALSA Hub for features and profiles of all the winners! Learn more about the Teens' Top Ten Award by clicking here.
2012 Teens' Top Ten
- Divergent by Veronica Roth (HarperCollins)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Penguin)
- Legend by Marie Lu (Penguin)
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books)
- What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen (Penguin)
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis (Penguin)
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer (Macmillan)
- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
- Where She Went by Gayle Forman (Penguin)
- Abandon by Meg Cabot (Scholastic)
College Bound Juniors and Seniors: New AP, ACT, SAT, and College Essay Prep Materials
We've just received a new shipment of SAT Prep, ACT Prep, AP test, and college essay writing materials updated for 2012-2013! Check out the photoshow below of our new test and college application prep materials–they are new and ready for you to use.
Titlewish is LIVE: Help The Unquiet Library Purchase Student Selected Titles!
Help us meet our goal of $500! You can make a direct donation to our Titlewave account in any amount of your choice. All books that we purchase will be student selected titles! Our donation site is now live and ready for your contribution!
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Mendut Temple Indonesia : Spiritual Portal to the imposing Borobudur temple
Mendut Temple Indonesia. The small Buddhist Mendut Temple in Central Java forms an inseparable part of a pilgrim's progress to the mighty Borobudur temple. Serving as an introductory portal before ascending the Borobudur temple, Mendut has an array of narrative reliefs and most important Buddha statues that spiritually prepare pious pilgrims and the general visitors for their journey to the top of Buddhism's cosmic mountain at Borobudur. The temple itself is located in the village of Mendut in the Magelang Regency in Central Java .
Situated 3 Km east from Borobudur Temple, the temple is on a north to south straight line with the Borobudur and Pawon Temples. Local legend relates that long ago a brick-paved road led from Mendut to Borobudur, closed in by walls with niches built into them. According to Dutch archaeologist JG de Casparis, the temple forms part of a once huge temple complex together with the Pawon and Borobudur temples and, chronologically speaking, is the oldest among the three.
History of Mendut temple Indonesia
According to a Karangtengah inscription, the temple was built and completed during the reign of King Indra of Sailendra dynasty. The inscription dated 824 AD mentions that King Indra of Sailendra built a sacred monument named Venuvana which means "bamboo forest". Casparis connected the temple mentioned in the Karangtengah inscription with the Mendut temple and Bhiku Sri Pannyavaro Mahethera, in the documentary movie entitled "The forgotten gems, Buddhists Temples in Java" mentioned that the original name of the Temple was Venuvana Mandira meaning "The Palace in the Bamboo Forest".
The 26.4 meters tall temple faces northwest. The stairs projecting from its northwest' side square elevated base is adorned with a Makara statue on either side. The side of the stair wall is carved with bas-relief of the Jataka fable narrating the animal story of Buddhist teaching. While the square terrace surrounding the body of the temple is meant for pradakshina or the ritual of circumambulation, walking clockwise around the temple. The outer walls are adorned with bas-reliefs of Bodhisatvas (Buddhist divinities), such as Avalokitesvara, Maitreya, Cunda, Ksitigarbha, Samantabhadra, Mahakarunika Avalokitesvara, Vajrapani, Manjusri, Akasagarbha, and Boddhisattvadevi Prajnaparamita among other Buddhist figures.
Originally the temple had two chambers, a small chamber in the front, and the large main chamber in the center. The roof and some parts of the front chamber walls are now missing. The inner wall of the front chamber is adorned with bas-relief of Hariti surrounds by children, Atavaka on the other side,
Kalpataru, also groups of devatas divinities flying in heaven.
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The main chamber houses three beautifully carved large stone statues. The three statues are the Buddhist main divinities revered at Mendut which can explain the spiritual purpose of the establishment of this temple. At the center of the chamber is a grand 3 meter tall stone statue of Dhyani Buddha Cakyamuni or Dhyani Buddha Vairocana facing west, sitting in the dharma Cakra Mudra hand position (turning the wheel of Dharma). This central statue is believed to symbolize the turning of the wheels of all life on earth.
On the right of the central statue is the Boddhisatva Avalokitesvara in a seated position with the left leg crossed, while the right leg touches the ground. The hand position is varamudra which illustrates the Buddha delivering his teachings. The statue portrays Buddha in his grand costume complete with the jewelries and wearing a crown.
The third statue is the Bodhisatva Vajrapani which sits on the left side of the Budha Cakyamuni. Just as the Bodhisatva Avalokitesvara, this statue also portrays the Buddha in his grand costume with reverse crossed legs to those of the Bodhisatva Avalokitesvara. Also called the Bodhisatva Maitreya, the hand position is simhakarnamudra which is similar to varamudra but with closed fingers, and represents the Buddha as the salvation of mankind.
For Buddhists in Indonesia and abroad, the Mendut temple holds special significance. The existence of the three gigantic Buddha statues holds its own fascinating beauty both as sacred monuments and as works of art. The three statues sitting in the temple are still considered to radiate an aura of blessedness. Today, the temple is visited by many visitors and Buddhists pilgrims from around the world before proceeding to Borobudur. Mendut Temple also becomes the staging point for the annual ritual ceremony of Vesak, where the holly waters from the pristine springs of Jumprit and the torch with the natural eternal flames at Mrapen are kept, before the monks and congregations conduct their ritual procession from Mendut to Borobudur.
Get There To Mendut temple Indonesia
Mendut's proximity to the famed Borobudur Temple makes it easy for you to visit both temples when you decide to rent car from Yogyakarta , which will only take an hour's drive. The public buses to Borobudur from Yogyakarta are aimed mostly for Indonesian visitors, with only a few tourists venturing aboard. If you are adventurous, the Trans-Jogya service runs from central Yogyakarta to Jombor bus terminal in northern Yogyakarta (IDR 3,000), where you can change to another bus to make a stop at Mendut Temple. It takes about 60-90 minutes, and should cost around IDR 10,000-15,000 one way, but bargain with the bus staff to get a good price.
Buses run regularly from Magelang to Borobudur via Muntilan and are widely advertised there. The journey takes about 1 hour.
To get from or to the Hindu temples of Prambanan, take a Yogyakarta bus and get down at Jombor Terminal (90 min, Rp 15,000 for visitors, Rp 7,000 for Indonesians). From Jombor take TransJogya route 2B to Prambanan (45-60 min, Rp 3,000). It will require 3 bus changes: 2B from Jombor to Terminal Condong, 3B from Terminal Condong to Maguwo (Jl. Solo) and 1A/B from Maguwo to Prambanan.
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For all the important moments in Thursday's victory, two in particular stood out.
Pedro Strop's two scoreless innings for the win and Jim Johnson's perfect 13th for the save.
Johnson had just blown Game 3's save by allowing a homer to Raul Ibanez in the ninth. He also gave up four runs – including a Russell Martin homer – in the ninth in Game 1. He admitted he badly wanted the ball as soon as possible.
"Yeah, it was the same response from Game 1 to Game 2. You want the ball right away," Johnson said. "You want to be able to come back right away for your teammates. And, obviously, that's the way this game usually works out, just like that."
Johnson led the majors in saves with 51. He blew just three opportunities during the regular season. He was about as lockdown as any Orioles closer in recent memory – certainly since Randy Myers.
So he had the trust of his teammates and his manager. And, I'd assume, the majority of the fans. But after two rough outings in his past three, I'm sure it was a relief for many that he came back so strong Thursday.
Johnson was bothered by the less-than-perfect outings, too. But he's shown he can move on during the regular season. And he has proved it twice more in the postseason.
"Obviously, it bothers you for a little bit because that's human nature. But … I am never going to beat up myself too bad because I know I've put the effort forward. I've put the work in," he said. "Everything I've put into it, I left it all out there. So I can't be upset if I make a bad pitch because I've done everything I can except for maybe I've made a mistake. So I can't beat myself up for mistakes. I mean, nobody's perfect. So you trust everything that you do. And then the next day you come back out and trust yourself again."
Strop has said all along that he has confidence, too. But he struggled as the season ended and hadn't pitched at all in the postseason. In fact, he hadn't pitched a full inning since Sept. 24. He hadn't gone two innings in one outing since May 6.
"It was extra innings. Everybody had to pitch," Strop said. "Everyone was asking me, 'Why are you not pitching?' I was like, 'We're fine. I'm not pitching, but we're fine.' I don't want to pay attention to why I'm not pitching. I just wanted to be ready for whatever situation there was for me to help the team."
On Thursday, he was asked to pitch the 11th and 12th and responded tremendously in what was the first playoff appearance of his career. He faced seven batters and retired six, allowing only a Derek Jeter single up the middle.
Most important, he threw a first-pitch strike to five of the seven hitters he faced. That is huge for Strop, whose problems can be directly linked to his lack of command. But that wasn't the case Thursday. He threw 16 of his 23 pitches for strikes.
"Because I was struggling, (Orioles manager Buck Showalter) didn't have the flexibility to use me in those kinds of games," Strop said. "Now I showed I can help and was just ready for the situation."


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if you have not seen or played the titan target, you should not be allowed to vote because you would be sadly ignorant of their beauty, durability and abilities. my 2 cents, and yes they are expensive. best permanent baskets available.
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Some cities are like love affairs, beginning with butterflies and thrills, then going through adjustments where you aren't sure if this is the relationship you want at all, and finally to the realization that this force (or person, or city) has completely changed you for the better and you aren't the same without it.
Coming to SF was a fluke– or was it? I am a girl from the small town of Pittsburgh, PA who was supposed to vote Republican, have babies , cheer for the Steelers and conform.
It started out as a surprise– I came to the Bay Area with my running partner (and inspiration) to run the Big Sur marathon in 2000 and decided it was about time that I lived somewhere beautiful and close to the ocean. I hadn't expected to fall so hard for this amazing place, but it happened.
In 2005, my love affair with San Francisco began. Initially I lived in Palo Alto which, much like new love, was shiny and not quite real. As much as I wanted this polished life, it didn't quite fit.
Then I moved into the Sunset and was an N-Judah girl, still in the flush of love-enjoying days at Java Beach and runs on the ocean. Then, much like any romance, the bloom was off of the rose as I experienced the cold summer days and nights in the Sunset (where is the sun I ask???).
Finally, I found my home on Polk Street and my love with San Francisco matured. Polk Street, much like myself, is a dichotomy of things-not as glitzy as Russian Hill, not as rugged as the Tenderloin. Instead, it is a bit of both: amazing boutiques and cafes, bars that are lit on fire on the weekends, dirty streets and genuine smiles. I can walk around sweaty from yoga or dolled up for a night on the town and Polk Street always treats me like a Lady. It is here that I embark on adventures past and present-cocktailing at the Fillmore-heading out to spin fire poi at Ocean Beach or teaching yoga in the Mission. No matter what I do, I am loved and accepted.
All good love stories deserve a happy ending as I am told-well, I can tell you that I have found my bliss in San Francisco. Bliss while hula hooping in Dolores Park, bliss in a late night Bob's Donut, bliss as I run and touch the handprint on the Golden Gate Bridge, bliss in a well mixed drink at Bigfoot and bliss as I thank the Gods for delivering me to my True Love.
I found my heart in San Francisco…


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I already created a topic about the Catamount Trail in the "NorthEast" board, but it is also relevant to "Backcountry".
The Catamount Trail is a 300-mile backcountry cross-country ski trail in Vermont that extends the length of the state from north to south. It is the longest such trail in North America.
The Catamount Trail is maintained by a non-profit organization, the Catamount Trail Association (http://catamounttrail.org). The CTA organizes ski tours and other events.
In the last couple of years, the CTA has expanded its mission to support and advocate for backcountry skiing elsewhere in Vermont, including alpine-style backcountry skiing and snowboarding.
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Good artists borrow, great artist steal.
I've generally heard this quote attributed to Pablo Picasso but also to Igor Stravinsky. It's interesting to think that since they knew each other, one might have stolen it from the other. Related, I glossed over this post on About.com. I didn't read it carefully, but I agree that the quote is misunderstood. I've had discussions in the past with friends who simply invoked the quote to justify lifting parts of someone else's work in the pursuit of trying to create. But as I'd say to them, that isn't stealing, it's only borrowing. If you steal something, you make it yours, making it work so well in your image that it's no longer immediately recognizable as having belonged to another.
Anyway, this post is about digital music notation. Or so says the title.
I've long wondered – even going back to music school in the 1990's – about using a stylus to enter music onto a drawing tablet or what not. And I'm thinking about it more and more. I saw this thread about the possibility of MuseScore on Android tablets, etc. and using the touchscreen interface on a tablet computer as a desktop/mouse replacement, but I keep thinking about the stylus.
Why? Because I hate entering music in score editors. I find it infinitely faster to write music with pencil and paper. I think a large part of this is that there's no translation occurring in my mind between hearing/visualizing what I need to enter and then mapping that into how that gets entered in a score editor. Arguably, some of that irritation would get reduced with practice, but not really in my case because I just don't think that graphical entry via keyboard or a note palette is the way to go.
When I write with pencil, I usually jot down the notes for a small phrase, etc. and then add the stems in afterward. I think that way the part of my brain thinking about notating pitch and duration are slightly separated which for me, at least, makes the process faster. Sometimes I enter each pitch and its duration note-by-note, but it's not conscious and it's still fast. With digital, I find it a royal pain in the ass trying to enter pitches first and then changing their durations. Often, it seems to "break" the measure and cause encoding problems. Going the other route (entering the durations first) doesn't work either. They're both so much more work than the traditional pencil and paper routine. And I end of spending more time thinking about notation entry than Music.
That's what I love about Lilypond. I love how I can just enter into a simple text string just the note names and then go back and add the durations – there's no digital/graphical veil. In terms of computing, it seems a more native and natural approach to use simple text entry than to try and emulate ideas from the pencil and paper world (but do it less efficiently). In fact, Lilypond is the only thing I could use to notate a score as I compose it. That's what I did with this piece for solo guitar. It would be great if MuseScore had something similar to a text-only entry box that rendered as graphical notation after-the-fact, kinda like what happens on weblily.net. I almost want to say Finale does (using some custom text notation syntax) but I can't seem to find a screenshot or anything in the online Finale manual.
I just feel like maybe we're borrowing when we should be thinking about stealing. If we're going to pursue graphical ways of digital notation entry, I think we've got to think about being able to offer users the ability to draw their music with a stylus (more precise than a finger) and having that instantly recognized via OMR. That experience won't be too great on a tablet, but maybe one day with better digital paper and smart pens:
What happens when you have to erase something?
Maybe I'm just an old fogey, but for now I'll stick with pencil and paper and just using a computer to make the music more legible after the fact. There's one enormous advantage to this, too, and it's a musical one: it forces conscious consideration of revision upon me as I "re-notate" the music. Honestly, I doubt I would ever want to not use pencil and paper anyway. Music is the one thing I can do without needing a computer at all.--------------


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Poppin' was one of many sessions tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded in the late '50s and early '60s but remained unreleased until the late '70s and '80s. It's hard to say why this album sat on the shelves, since it as good as the other records he cut at the time. Leading a sextet featuring trumpeter Art Farmer, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones, Mobley plays a selection of five originals and contemporary jazz songs with passion and vigor. All of the musicians turn in fine performances (Clark in particular stands out with his lithe solos and tasteful accompaniment), and the result is a winning collection of straight-ahead hard bop that ranks as another solid addition to Mobley's strong catalog. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine


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CMS recently held a national provider call(www.cms.gov) designed to help family physicians and other health care professionals understand how the agency plans to implement its new value-based payment modifier initiative, as called for in the proposed 2013 Medicare physician fee schedule.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires that Medicare implement a value-based payment modifier that would apply to Medicare fee-for-service payments beginning in 2015. CMS has proposed phasing in use of the modifier beginning in 2015 by applying the requirement only to physicians in groups of 25 or more eligible health professionals; participation by all physicians and groups would be implemented by 2017.
In an interview with AAFP News Now, Kent Moore, the AAFP's manager of health care financing and delivery systems, said the most important take-away message for family physicians in groups of 25 or more eligible professionals is this: Successfully participate in the physician quality reporting system (PQRS) in 2013 to avoid a penalty in 2015.
- CMS' proposed 2013 Medicare physician fee schedule includes the agency's plan to implement use of the value-based modifier payment required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- Medicare proposes phasing in the value-based modifier payment beginning in 2015, but the payment modifier initially would apply only to physician groups that have 25 or more eligible professionals.
- Satisfactory reporting for the physician quality reporting system (PQRS) in 2013 effectively shields physicians from being assessed penalties in 2015 related to PQRS or to the value-based payment modifier.
"Physicians who successfully report for PQRS in 2013 will be shielded from the assessment of penalties in 2015 related to PQRS and to the value-based payment modifier," said Moore. "That's the bottom line for now."
CMS estimated that as many as 6,000 physician groups have 25 or more eligible health professionals and, thus, would be subject to the first phase of the proposal, said Moore.
Family physicians who may be unfamiliar with the value-based modifier proposal can learn more about it by viewing a CMS slide presentation(www.cms.gov). The presentation includes information about
- quality measures and reporting methods for provider groups,
- interaction between group and individual PQRS reporting,
- calculating cost measures,
- value modifier scoring, and
- specific actions groups of eligible health professionals can pursue to be ready by 2015.
Two other key points also were noted during the Aug. 1 provider call:
- physicians participating in Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) -- both the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer ACO Model -- and those who practice in federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics and critical-access hospitals paid under the method II payment rules are exempt from the value-based purchasing modifier in 2015; and
- physician practices chosen to participate in the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CMS intends to release those names in the next few weeks) are not exempt from the value-based payment modifier proposal.
The final 2013 fee schedule will be issued on or about Nov. 1. The AAFP currently is reviewing the proposed fee schedule and will submit comments on items that affect family physicians -- including the value-based payment modifier -- on or before CMS' Sept. 4 deadline.
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1.a. Portage Files
Configuration Directives
Portage comes with a default configuration stored in /etc/make.globals. When you take a look at it, you'll notice that all Portage configuration is handled through variables. What variables Portage listens to and what they mean are described later.
Since many configuration directives differ between architectures, Portage also has default configuration files which are part of your profile. Your profile is pointed to by the /etc/make.profile symlink; Portage' configurations are set in the make.defaults files of your profile and all parent profiles. We'll explain more about profiles and the /etc/make.profile directory later on.
If you're planning on changing a configuration variable, don't alter /etc/make.globals or make.defaults. Instead use /etc/make.conf which has precedence over the previous files. You'll also find a /etc/make.conf.example. As the name implies, this is merely an example file - Portage does not read in this file.
You can also define a Portage configuration variable as an environment variable, but we don't recommend this.
Profile-Specific Information
We've already encountered the /etc/make.profile directory. Well, this isn't exactly a directory but a symbolic link to a profile, by default one inside /usr/portage/profiles although you can create your own profiles elsewhere and point to them. The profile this symlink points to is the profile to which your system adheres.
A profile contains architecture-specific information for Portage, such as a list of packages that belong to the system corresponding with that profile, a list of packages that don't work (or are masked-out) for that profile, etc.
User-Specific Configuration
When you need to override Portage's behaviour regarding the installation of software, you will end up editing files within /etc/portage. You are highly recommended to use files within /etc/portage and highly discouraged to override the behaviour through environment variables!
Within /etc/portage you can create the following files:
More information about the /etc/portage directory and a full list of possible files you can create can be found in the Portage man page:
$ man portage
Changing Portage File & Directory Locations
The previously mentioned configuration files cannot be stored elsewhere - Portage will always look for those configuration files at those exact locations. However, Portage uses many other locations for various purposes: build directory, source code storage, Portage tree location, ...
All these purposes have well-known default locations but can be altered to your own taste through /etc/make.conf. The rest of this chapter explains what special-purpose locations Portage uses and how to alter their placement on your filesystem.
This document isn't meant to be used as a reference though. If you need 100% coverage, please consult the Portage and make.conf man pages:
$ man portage $ man make.conf
1.b. Storing Files
The Portage Tree
The Portage tree default location is /usr/portage. This is defined by the PORTDIR variable. When you store the Portage tree elsewhere (by altering this variable), don't forget to change the /etc/make.profile symbolic link accordingly.
If you alter the PORTDIR variable, you might want to alter the following variables as well since they will not notice the PORTDIR change. This is due to how Portage handles variables: PKGDIR, DISTDIR, RPMDIR.
Prebuilt Binaries
Even though Portage doesn't use prebuilt binaries by default, it has extensive support for them. When you ask Portage to work with prebuilt packages, it will look for them in /usr/portage/packages. This location is defined by the PKGDIR variable.
Source Code
Application source code is stored in /usr/portage/distfiles by default. This location is defined by the DISTDIR variable.
RPM Files
Even though Portage cannot use RPM files, it is able to generate them using the ebuild command (see The Ebuild Application). The default location where Portage stores RPM files is /usr/portage/rpm and is defined by the RPMDIR variable.
1.c. Building Software
Temporary Portage Files
Portage's temporary files are stored in /var/tmp by default. This is defined by the PORTAGE_TMPDIR variable.
If you alter the PORTAGE_TMPDIR variable, you might want to alter the following variables as well since they will not notice the PORTAGE_TMPDIR change. This is due to how Portage handles variables: BUILD_PREFIX.
Building Directory
Portage creates specific build directories for each package it emerges inside /var/tmp/portage. This location is defined by the BUILD_PREFIX variable.
Live Filesystem Location
By default Portage installs all files on the current filesystem (/), but you can change this by setting the ROOT environment variable. This is useful when you want to create new build images.
1.d. Logging Features
Ebuild Logging
Portage can create per-ebuild logfiles, but only when the PORT_LOGDIR variable is set to a location that is writable by Portage (the portage user). By default this variable is unset.
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1994: "Cheaper, Faster, Simpler"
Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard
January 18, 1994
Like legislators and governors, judges and lawyers hope the public will have confidence in the work they do. Just as public opinion polls revealed last year that the voters hold government itself in lower esteem than ever before, however, they show that lawyers were less popular than anybody but stockbrokers and politicians. With lawyer jokes at an all-time high, one hardly needed polls to hear the message. Though public complaints frequently focused on lawyers, they were more often aimed at the larger legal system of which lawyers are a part and at the court system in which lawyers practice their trade.
Lawyer jokes aside, the public's attitudes about the legal system are remarkably consistent. People most often mention three things they find frustrating about the nature of their legal system: It costs too much. It takes too long. It is too complicated.
As with other public institutions under attack, the temptation is to think that the public just doesn't understand, or that we are not using the right techniques to get our message across, or that with a little less public bickering amongst ourselves our rating with the voters will rise. These explanations are tempting, but they do not weigh for much in light of the fact that the people who are the best informed level the harshest criticisms. People who know a lot about the legal system have very unfavorable opinions, and those who admit they know little or nothing about it like it the most. These same polls show that college graduates are among the most negative of all. Those in the legal system, like those in government itself, cannot brush off these judgments by our fellow citizens, however distasteful they may seem.
And so, in preparing to report to you and to the people of Indiana, I have asked myself the questions pollsters tell us the voters themselves would want to ask. What have you done to make it cheaper? What have you done to make it faster? What have you done to make it simpler?
Making It Cheaper
There is not much doubting that the legal system can be expensive. The cost of modern litigation can be downright breathtaking. These expenses are onerous enough for people of means, but those who suffer the worst are the poor, who cannot afford a lawyer at all, and the middle class, for whom legal services can be a crushing expense. We have done several things this year to help place legal help within the reach of more people.
First, boosted by expressions of support from the General Assembly and the state's lawyers, after more than a decade of dispute and debate the Supreme Court has approved a program for interest on lawyer trust accounts. This permits the pooling of small sums held in trust accounts which have not traditionally earned interest. The interest which will now be paid on these accounts can be used to provide civil legal services to the poor.
Second, and closely tied to the IOLTA initiative, the Supreme Court will launch a further effort to expand the availability of legal services. Indiana will have one of the first state-wide pro bono programs in the country. Every one of Indiana's 13,000 lawyers will be asked to participate somehow in providing legal assistance to people who cannot afford it. We envision a collective effort by state and local bar associations, law schools, and legal services programs. It should make available tens of thousands of hours of legal assistance for people who need it and cannot now afford it.
Third, we are also working to reduce the legal expenses incurred by the 100,000 Hoosiers who become divorced each year. It is a sad fact that far too many parents use their children as tools to continue fighting the battles which led to divorce in the first place. They spend money litigating disputes over custody and visitation which they ought to be able to work out for themselves. These battles can be an expensive drain on family budgets already overextended.
In this last year, more and more Indiana trial courts began requiring parents who file for divorce to take at least minimal training on the effects of divorce on children and how to avoid the damaging battles which make divorce even more difficult for kids. These are very inexpensive programs organized jointly by local courts and agencies specializing in families and children. Thousands of people a year now go through these programs (usually titled "Children Cope With Divorce") in Marion, Porter, LaPorte, Vanderburgh, Gibson, and Noble Counties, to name a few. Just last Saturday, Dearborn, Ripley, Franklin, and Ohio Counties also began to send divorcing parents through such a program.
The evidence so far is that this minimal investment of time and money is worthwhile. Information collected from divorced parents in five counties in central Indiana indicates that most of them come away understanding better that children should not be involved in struggles between parents. Some 82% of the parents involved predict they will use what they have learned. These are lessons most people would not have learned unless the courts caused them to take divorce training. Our judges institute these programs because they believe that investing just four hours in such training at the beginning will eventually save a lot more in court time, lawyer time, client time and client money. It is another way of making the legal system cheaper for people who are short on money to begin with.
Our Court also became one of the first in the nation to issue guidelines on the use of paralegals. This is another technique which can reduce the cost of legal services.
Finally, we are looking for new ways to make the court system cheaper for the public as taxpayers. When somebody asks you to create a new court, for example, they can usually demonstrate that the existing courts are busier than they used to be, but there is no good way to measure whether they are busier than courts in other counties. We have asked one of the best committees of the Judicial Conference, the Judicial Administration Committee chaired by Judge Thomas Snow of Richmond, to begin work on a weighted caseload measurement system. We hope to provide a reliable measure, apples to apples, which will show where we need new courts and where we do not.
We also support the changes in the way we provide care for children in need of services, mentioned by Governor Bayh in his address last week. These ideas were generated by the Special Committee on Welfare Property Tax Reform, chaired by Frank Sullivan, now Justice Sullivan, on which I also served. The Committee has proposed to reform the County Welfare Fund so that taxes for the foster care of children are easier to identify and manage. Representatives Bauer and Turpin, and Senators Mills and Gery have sponsored legislation for this purpose. Legislation about the way we finance mental health, sponsored by Representatives Crosby, Bayliff, and Goeglein, should allow Indiana's courts to serve more severely emotionally disturbed children at less expense to Hoosier taxpayers.
On these and other fronts, I pledge our cooperation to make the legal system serve more people less expensively.
Making It Faster
The most dramatic improvement in the Indiana legal system this year which makes for faster justice is alternative dispute resolution. Almost two years ago now, the Supreme Court adopted rules authorizing methods to resolve people's disputes other than traditional litigation: mediation,
arbitration, summary jury trials, and private judging, for example. The most important of these has been mediation, and Indiana lawyers and others have now spent over 42,000 hours training to be mediators. We now have 1045 trained mediators at work, of whom about 250 are social workers and counselors mediating in domestic relations courts. All of Indiana's judges have also taken training in alternative dispute resolution.
In 1993, this system was up and running full force. The result is that during 1993 some 3045 cases were referred to mediation, five times the number mediated the year before. The judges most active in this effort have been Judges Nancy Boyer and Paul Mathias of Fort Wayne, James Rieckhoff of Elkhart, Dan Donahue of Jeffersonville, Jerry Barr of Noblesville, Mary Lee Comer of Danville, Lorenzo Arredondo and Morton Kanz of Lake County, Judges Kenneth Johnson and Jerry Zore of Indianapolis, Ray Kickbush of Valparaiso, and Charles O'Connor of Shelbyville.
A capable mediator working directly with the parties involved can help resolve a dispute long before it could ever be tried or settled through traditional means. Results vary by case and county, but we estimate that something like 65% of cases sent to mediation are resolved. People get a solution earlier, and they participate directly in creating it. It makes for a faster legal system, and a higher level of satisfaction with the results.
For those people whose cases must go to court, we have begun to use more modern means of communication to provide faster filing, by authorizing trial courts to accept papers faxed to the courthouse. Indeed, we are expanding the boundaries of the traditional courthouse by creating an electronic bulletin board, so that people can read the decisions of the appellate courts within minutes of their issuance.
To make cases move faster in courts which are particularly congested, we have up and running a program for the use of Senior Judges. We now have 16 judges working in 46 different courts to supplement the work of the regular full-time judges. This corps of retired judges works essentially as volunteers, and last year they disposed of several thousand cases. They are volunteers who help people get faster justice, everywhere from divorce court to complex civil litigation.
Speaking of the people who make this system go, I wish to thank the great majority of both houses who voted last year to change the amount judges are paid and reform the way in which they are paid. This bill died in the melee at the end of the session, and I hope you will try again.
Making It Simpler
The law certainly does get more complicated as time goes by and lawyers and judges are frequently guilty of making it so, but we do not do it alone. A hundred years ago, the 1893 session of the Indiana General Assembly passed 380 pages of new law. Fifty years ago, the 1943 General Assembly passed 1070 pages of laws. Last year, you passed 4919 pages of new laws. The executive branch participates in this expansion, too. Fifty years ago there were so few state rules and regulations that they were just simply printed up from time to time in paperback pamphlets. Now we use the Indiana Register, and last year the Register published 2639 pages of new, revised, or proposed regulations. These laws and rules passed because those responsible thought they were good for the public. Still, it's a lot of law for the average citizen.
Sometimes we are able to strike a blow for simplicity; your recodification project, for example, is a fine effort to make law simpler. Last year the judiciary made things simpler by adopting rules of evidence. For the last 175 years, we used appellate court opinions to specify how to submit evidence in court -- how to establish that a document is genuine, what is hearsay and what is not. People in court confronted with these issues traditionally had to search thousands of pages of opinions for
guidance. When they were lucky, they found an appellate opinion giving the answer. If they were not so lucky, they would find two opinions giving different answers.
As of two weeks ago yesterday, those millions of words were replaced by the new Indiana Rules of Evidence, just 24 printed pages covering everything from the definition of hearsay to the limits on methods of discrediting a witness on cross-examination. The rules define, for example, when you need the original of a document and when a copy will suffice; they simplify ways of proving up medical bills; and they describe the use of judicial notice, which means there are some things you can establish without any evidence at all.
There will still be disputes in court about what is admissible, but from now on everybody will be singing off the same page. Lawyers and judges will know which rule applies and can debate how to apply the rule in a particular situation. Citizens who find themselves in court without a lawyer will be able to use this relatively simple handbook to prepare for going it alone. This advancement is the result of thousands of hours put in by people from all over Indiana. Former Justice Jon Krahulik and Judges Thomas Webber of Valparaiso, William Fee of Angola, Kenneth Johnson of Indianapolis, and Richard Young of Evansville led a team of fifty volunteers who made this come to pass. It should make court simpler for everyone who goes there.
The easiest thing for the judiciary, as for other branches, is to keep doing what we have been doing and report that we have done more of it. The hardest thing is to take off our blinders and see our work as the people see it. Judging, like legislating and executing, is something we do not do for ourselves or for the other branches of government. We do it for the people whose servants, not masters, we are. I pledge that in the year ahead we will do all we can to make Indiana's judiciary cheaper, faster, and simpler for everybody.


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GeekCLE Trivia Night
Date(s) - 12/15/2014
8:00 pm
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GeekCLE Trivia Night was featured in Cleveland Magazine's Best of Cleveland Issue!
Starting at 8:30p, we will be giving out prizes to geeks that know the answers to increasingly nerdy questions.
6 rounds of 10 questions, made up of 10 new categories each week comprise our nerdy trivia, brought to you by Bell's Brewery. A prize each round is awarded to each round's top scoring team. You can expect movie and sound clips, weird banter, and sitcom moments.
Grand prize offerings range from Grog Shop tickets to excellent surprises. Our weekly winners also get to have their picture taken for display on our very well made, and much coveted Yoda & Luke Skywalker trophy.
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The election is to fill the position held by Yolanda (Yoly) Griego. Her term expires on August 31.
Candidates for the position include John Wicks, a reviewer for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Monitoring and Standards Division, Brian White, a deputy public counsel for the Office of Injured Employees Counsel, Cheryl MacBride, deputy commissioner of administration for the Texas General Land Office and Veterans Land Board, and Griego, a programmer for the Health and Human Services Commission who is running for a second term.
Created in 1947, the ERS administers a benefits package for state employees and retirees that includes:
- Retirement benefits for employees and retirees of state agencies.
- Health and other insurance benefits in a Group Benefits Program for employees and retirees of state agencies, higher education institutions, Community Supervision and Corrections Department employees and active or retired employees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System and Texas County & District Retirement System.
- TexFlex, a tax-saving flexible benefit program.
- Texa$aver 401(k) and 457 investment accounts.
The contested position on the six-member ERS board is one of three filled through election. The remaining three members are appointed, one each by the Governor, the Speaker of the House and the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Both appointed and elected members serve staggered six-year terms. Member duties and responsibilities include trust fund investment decisions, approval of a legislative agenda and the selection of benefit providers.
Members of the ERS as of January 31, 2009 and retired state employees receiving an annuity from ERS are eligible to vote. Paper ballots are mailed to members' homes. Members can cast their ballots by mail or online at www.ers.state.tx.us. Online voters will need their 11-digit ERS employee identification number and the last four digits of their Social Security number.
Election results will be certified on May 12. A runoff election will be held if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote. The term of the winning candidates runs from September 2009 until August 31, 2015.


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The Real Reason Janet Napolitano Doesn't Like Email -- Accountability
from the don't-make-me-back-up-my-statements dept
We've already detailed the cognitive dissonance created by DHS head Janet Napolitano's statements on email usage. Last September, she blithely pointed out that she doesn't use email "at all," and in fact, "avoids many online services." She went on to say that some would call her a "Luddite" and seemed to present the incongruous situation as comical. Hilarity ensued. Powerful government official says, "What, me internet?" LOLS at 11.
So, we all had a good, if disbelieving laugh at
her our own expense (we're still paying her salary), and Janet Napolitano went back to not checking the email account she doesn't have and not internetting with any regularity -- the sort of thing that might be considering endearing if it weren't for the fact that so many politicians openly brag about their lack of computer skills, while simultaneously crafting, amending, voting on a variety of computer-related laws.
Napolitano broached the email subject again recently at a breakfast organized by the Christian Science Monitor. She restated her view on email as a non-essential annoyance, rather than, say, an extremely useful communication tool.
Ms. Napolitano said she cut the email cord while governor of Arizona "because I was just getting — you know, you get hundreds and hundreds of things all the time."I can understand feeling overwhelmed by incoming email, but many other people have to deal with the overflowing inboxes and, while they may not like the tedium of dealing with the incoming traffic, they also realize it's an important part of their job and a byproduct of changes in the way people communicate. I'm also fairly sure Napolitano has a staff at her disposal and the power to delegate much of email busywork to others.
In her current job, "which has a hundred thousand different things that happen on any given day, [not using email] allows me to focus on where I need to focus," she added.
So, there's the "it's too much" angle. But her followup comment seems to indicate the real reason she's abandoned email.
"I also don't like the process where people could send you an email, then say, see, you were told, or you know this. And then it comes back two years later to say, hey, you got this email — among the thousands you get every day.Oh, I see. Napolitano doesn't want to be accountable. That's
"I want to be a little more selective on how that goes," she concluded.
Cutting off a heavily-used communication form isn't being "selective." It's willful exclusion, and it places Napolitano's self-interest above the interests of the public and the responsibilities of her position. Would anyone cut her any slack if she had announced she took her phone off the hook back when she was governor of Arizona and STILL HASN'T REPLACED THE HANDSET? "I don't like this process where people call you, then say you were told or you know this. And it comes back two years later, hey, we spoke on the phone -- among the thousands of phone calls I get every day." Would that be acceptable?
There are people out there who think Napolitano should be excused for abandoning email. I would imagine many of these people find this form of communication just as tiresome as she apparently does, but their personal antipathy (and hers) doesn't excuse this sort of exclusionary behavior. Many people hate the demands this accessibility places on them. But they just can't ignore it, especially if they're in the sort of position Napolitano's in.
It was already irritating when she was just doing her "I'm a Luddite LOL" schtick. By openly admitting she's not thrilled that stored electronic communication can be used to hold her responsible for statements or actions, she's crossed the line from obtuse into contemptuous. Our leaders are supposed to be accountable for their actions, and yet many of them do everything they possibly can to avoid it. The DC motto has become "With great power comes selective responsibility," and Napolitano's statement is sadly, unsurprising.
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Dupuis to Have ACL Surgeryby Sam Kasan / Pittsburgh Penguins
RALEIGH, North Carolina – Penguins winger Pascal Dupuis will undergo ACL surgery for his knee and could miss the rest of the season.
Dupuis, 34, suffered the ACL injury Monday night in Ottawa after Sidney Crosby fell into his knee following a hip check from Senators defenseman Marc Methot.
"Pascal Dupuis will be going for ACL knee surgery in a couple of weeks and is out indefinitely," Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma said. "The timetable is likely that he'll be out for the remainder of the season, but we'll see after the surgery in a couple weeks."
Joe Vitale assumed Dupuis' spot on the team's top line with Crosby and Chris Kunitz at Friday's morning skate.
Dupuis has a rest period before having surgery. The veteran forward's presence will be missed both on and off the ice.
"There's a lot that he brings," Bylsma said of Dupuis. "He's also a big part of that dressing room. That is part of what we'll miss from Pascal."


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United Airlines Offers Options To Customers Affected By Winter Storms In The Central Plains And Great Lakes Regions
Feb 20, 2013, 07:16 ET
CHICAGO, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines today announced travel options for customers whose flight plans may be disrupted by winter storms impacting the central Plains and Great Lakes regions. Weather conditions will lead to the delay or cancellation of certain flights into and out of several airports, including United's hubs in Chicago and Denver. For a complete list of affected airports, see the "Important notices" page of United.com.
Checking Flight Status and Changing Travel Plans
Customers ticketed on flights to, from or through airports in the path of the storm may reschedule their itineraries with a one-time date or time change, and the airline will waive the change fees. Find complete details, eligible travel dates and updates at united.com.
Customers may also check flight status, change travel plans quickly and create new travel plans conveniently via united.com.
About United
United Airlines and United Express operate an average of 5,472 flights a day to 381 airports across six continents. In 2012, United and United Express carried more passenger traffic than any other airline in the world and operated nearly two million flights carrying 140 million customers. United is investing in upgrading its onboard products and now offers more flat-bed seats in its premium cabins and more extra-legroom economy-class seating than any airline in North America. In 2013, United became the first U.S.-based international carrier to offer satellite-based Wi-Fi on long-haul overseas routes. The airline also features DIRECTV® on nearly 200 aircraft, offering customers more live television access than any other airline in the world. United operates nearly 700 mainline aircraft and has made large-scale investments in its fleet. In 2013, United will continue to modernize its fleet by taking delivery of more than two dozen new Boeing aircraft. The company expanded its industry-leading global route network in 2012, launching nine new international and 18 new domestic routes. Business Traveler magazine awarded United Best Airline for North American Travel for 2012, and readers of Global Traveler magazine have voted United's MileagePlus program the best frequent flyer program for nine consecutive years. United is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides service to 194 countries via 27 member airlines. More than 85,000 United employees reside in every U.S. state and in countries around the world. For more information, visit united.com or follow United on Twitter and Facebook. The common stock of United's parent, United Continental Holdings, Inc., is traded on the NYSE under the symbol UAL.
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Bruno Mars retires signature pompadour hairstyle
R&B singer BRUNO MARS has retired his signature pompadour hairstyle to shave time off his morning routine.
The priority was to get her home safe and sound. A lot of Brits go to Kenya so it was an important operation
The Just The Way You Are hitmaker first began rocking the 1950s look made famous by Elvis Presley when he was only four, and over the past few years it's experienced a major mainstream resurgence thanks to Mars.
Last month (Dec12) the crooner shocked fans by appearing on U.S. breakfast show Today with a curly afro, and the Hawaiian admits he's now ditched his iconic hair-do for something more low-maintenance.
He tells InStyle magazine, "It was becoming too much. I've seen everybody wearing it, so I retired it. Now I wake up, shower, and leave my hair as is. Curly hair is a pain. That's why I wear so many hats."
The 27 year old also reveals he frequently wears hats to add height to his small stature, adding, "I'm a short guy, so... I've always done the hat thing, but now I'm doing ones with bigger brims."


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Norma L Cooney, MD, FACEP
Current Appointments
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Hospital Campus
Clinical Section Affiliations
- Emergency Medicine: Hyperbaric Medicine
- Emergency Department, Adult
Upstate University Hospital - Downtown Campus
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Syracuse, NY 13210
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Education & Fellowships
- Residency: Texas A&M University Health Science Center / Scott & White Memorial Hospital, 2006, Emergency Medicine
- MD: Texas A&M University College of Medicine, 2003
Clinical Interests
- Dr. Cooney practices Emergency Medicine at the Level 1 Trauma Center and tertiary referal center, Upstate University Hospital, in both the Adult and Pediatric departments. She also provides clinical services and on-call coverage in Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Healing.
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Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Healing.
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- Emergency Medicine
- Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
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- Diabetes and Illness
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When the members of the United Nations Association, Columbus Chapter, launched an international festival nearly six decades ago, Columbus wasn't all that international.
When the members of the United Nations Association, Columbus Chapter, launched an international festival nearly six decades ago, Columbus wasn't all that international.
Nevertheless, the idea caught on, and the 58th edition of the Columbus International Festival is set for Nov. 2 and 3 at the Franklin County Veterans Memorial, 300 W. Broad St.
The hours will be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 2 and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 3.
Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for senior citizens and students, and $2 for children over age 5.
Dr. J.S. Jindal, a retired dentist from Dublin whose practice was in Clintonville, is once again chairman of the event.
He became involved with putting on the celebration of diversity and the various cultures represented in central Ohio 45 years ago.
"We are really fortunate that so many countries, cultures and religions live together in this city," Jindal said.
"Our mission is enhancing cultural education, peace, nonviolence and unity awareness," the event chairman wrote in a letter posted to the website for the festival, www.CIFOhio.org.
"This family-friendly, safe, clean and economical venue provides nonstop cultural entertainment, music and martial arts stage performances," Jindal wrote.
"Guests enjoy the ethnic cuisine, sweets and specialties from many countries of the world.
"Families can shop the cultural clothing, jewelry, artifacts, paintings and fashion items from the exhibitors who represent over 80 countries and cultures.
"The Columbus International Festival officers a unique opportunity to our community and businesses to support, encourage and participate in cultural diversity education to promote the life of peace and nonviolence."
"It takes a whole year to plan it, and really dedicated volunteers," Jindal said in an interview.
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Fernando Alonso believes his Ferrari is capable of beating the Red Bulls and McLaren in front of him on the German Grand Prix grid, although he suspects the Mercedes and Williams will be too quick.
Alonso qualified seventh on the grid at Hockenheim behind the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo as well as Kevin Magnussen's McLaren in fourth. He is resigned to not fighting with the Mercedes and Williams at the front of the grid and instead battling the likes of Red Bull and McLaren.
"I think in front of us Williams and Mercedes are took quick, they are one second in front of us, so that's difficult to fight with them," he said. "But Red Bull, Force India, McLaren can be beatable. We can fight with them but from behind we will have some threats. Button is starting 11th with a new set of tyres and he will be very quick in the race, looking at Magnussen's performance [qualifying fourth], I think Button will be competitive in the race. Hamilton [who had a brake failure in Q1], no doubts, will arrive to us and probably he will pass us. It's not an easy race but we need to manage it in the best way possible."
However, Alonso said in qualifying he could not finish any higher than seventh.
"The level [of performance] we have now is this one. We need to be ready for every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday until November, because the car will be the same and the opponents will be the same. I don't think there is any sudden big changes there, we just need to adapt to every circuit we can and play around with the set-up and characteristics of the circuit.
"Cooler temperatures this year seem to have an effect on being a little bit more competitive. James [Allison, technical director] said yesterday that we have a lot of tyre degradation, especially at the rear because we spin the tyres with the lack of downforce. When it's a hot track temperature this effect is a little bit bigger, but that's more for a race situation than qualifying because the new tyres mask some of the problems with the grip of the tyres. I expect tomorrow to be tougher than the performance we showed today."
Alonso said the removal of FRIC [Front and Rear Interconnected] suspension had not changed his car dramatically.
"It is very similar, the gap we have with the leaders is more or less the same. We have the same balance issues we have had all year and nearly identical set-up in this race compared to other grands prix. We came here thinking of some possibilities for the set-up to adapt the car for no FRIC and we ended up with the car exactly the same as the last races, so I don't think that it is effecting too much. What I heard from other teams it is more or less the same thing, with not much changing with the cars."


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Minneapolis has been ranked one of the top bicycling cities in the country by various cycling publications and groups, as well as the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Bikers' actions contribute to 59 percent of the 270 bike-motor vehicle collisions that the city averages annually, compared to 64 percent for drivers, according to a new analysis of 10 years of crash data presented to the City Council on Tuesday, the Star Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/UO6Wvf ). Sometimes the investigating officers faulted both sides.
Crashes often occur because drivers don't see or yield to bikes, the report said, or when bikers ignore signals to stop or use bike lanes incorrectly.
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"It's so great to know that our crashes are not all random ... and there are things we can do to prevent crashes," he said.
Minneapolis has been ranked one of the top bicycling cities in the country by various cycling publications and groups, as well as the U.S. Census Bureau. It has 81 miles of on-street bike lanes and 85 miles of off-street bike paths.
The report found similarities between bike-vehicle crashes in Minneapolis and across the rest of the state. Statewide data from 2010 show there were 898 bicyclist-motorist crashes in Minnesota. Minneapolis saw 273 that year, accounting for about one-third of statewide total. St. Paul had 110, or about 12 percent of the total.
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The report recommended that Minneapolis continue some existing practices, such as extending bike lane markings through congested intersections and using dashed lines to signal to drivers when they can cross a bike lane for a turn. It also urged continuing bike awareness training for truck and bus drivers, and wide use of online public service videos for other drivers and bikers.
It also called for even-handed enforcement for bikers and motorists alike.
The city's Public Works Department analyzed data from 2000 to 2010 on nearly 3,000 crashes for which accident reports were filed. Bikers were injured in 87 percent of those crashes, and 12 died over the 10-year period. One of five crashes was classified as hit-and-run, with the driver being the fleeing party 93 percent of the time.
The crash rate was lower on streets with high volumes of cyclists than those with fewer bikers, the study found. And while crashes were clustered on arterial streets where traffic concentrates, streets with designated bike lanes tended to have lower crash rates than streets with only partial or no markings.
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The report is available at http://www.minneapolismn.gov/bicycles