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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Nasdaq cracks 3,000; stocks dip on Fed outlook (AP)
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TC@MWC: Hands-On With The Surprisingly Solid Asus Padfone
The Padfone is a peculiar beast, to be sure. Given the right accessories (and enough money, I suppose), Asus's newest smartphones can easily transform into a tablet and a faux-notebook in the blink of an eye, but how well does the thing work? Asus was kind enough to let us play with one for a short while in their booth here at Mobile World Congress, and we've put together a quick video for your viewing pleasure.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/zVjHyvknCSc/
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Our Academy Awards of Nonprofit Books | Nonprofit Community
It?s been quite an awards season (or year, if you will) in our neck of the woods. These books may not be wearing designer gowns or dripping in millions of dollars of priceless jewels, but they can work the red carpet like nobody?s business. Plus, you don?t have to sit through any awkward acceptance speeches to find out about them!
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Are Santorum's comments on higher ed out of step? (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - When Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum calls President Barack Obama "a snob" for wanting all Americans to attend college, he may be out of step with the public's overall view of higher education.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
N. Korea's Kim III fires up rhetoric amid war games
SEOUL?? Thousands of South Korean and U.S. troops opened annual war games today against the background of strident rhetoric from North Korea.
The verbal blasts from Pyongyang appeared considerably more inflammatory than usual, raising searching questions as to the nature and intentions of a regime now ostensibly led by the untested third-generation heir to the North's ruling dynasty.
U.S. and Korean analysts worry about the meaning of the threats from North Korea as the country?s youthful new leader Kim Jong Un asserts his authority in increasingly strong terms. The critical question is whether the rhetoric is just a somewhat louder version of the denunciations regularly fired by North Korea during war games before the death of Kim?s father, Kim Jong Il in December.
"We don't know if Kim Jong Un plays by the same playbook or by something wholly different given his lack of experience and the need to legitimize himself as a 'strong' leader," says Victor Cha, who directed Asian affairs for the National Security Council during the presidency of George W. Bush.
Cha says he's watching "with greater apprehension any negative rhetoric coming out of the North. Before, we could chalk it up to typical North Korean tactics."
'Ready to fight'
Tensions escalated Monday as thousands of U.S. and South Korean troops opened two weeks of war games. Pyongyang?s Korean Central News Agency declared its forces "ready to fight a war" in which "the war mongers will meet destruction."
N.Korea says Kim Jong Un spearheaded past nuke testing
Kim Jong Un, in the role of "supreme commander" that he has had since his father died in December, vowed "powerful retaliatory strikes" if U.S. and South Korean troops enter North Korean waters.
Mr. Kim made the threat in a visit to a military unit by the Yellow Sea last weekend, evoking memories of the artillery barrage on nearby Yeonpyeong Island in November 2010 in which two South Korean marines and two civilians died. North Korea accused the South Koreans, who were conducting military exercises at the time, of opening fire on their territory.
By staging the current exercises, said the Korean Central News Agency, U.S. and South Korean forces were "guilty of unpardonable infringement upon the sovereignty of North Korea."
The U.S. command has been careful to stress the harmless nature of the exercises in which as many as 200,000 South Korean troops and several thousand Americans conduct exercises more often than not on computers. The command said the exercises -? called Key Resolve -? were "entirely non-provocative in nature."
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North Korea fired its loudest rhetorical barrages after two days of talks in Beijing last week between the new U.S. envoy on North Korea, Glyn Davies, and the veteran North Korean negotiator Kim Kye Gwan. Mr. Davies, stopping here on the weekend, said the talks were "serious" and "substantive" and had made "a little progress" but did not go into details.
Hot-and-cold rhetoric
A spokesman for North Korea?s foreign ministry, explaining the hot-and-cold nature of its rhetoric, said Monday the North was "fully ready for dialogue and war" -? an ambivalent remark that suggested uncertainty among North Korean leaders.
It was North Korea, not the United States, that requested the talks, apparently to see about getting direly needed food aid, but North Korean rhetoric indicated the North was not about to yield to demands for signs of giving up its nuclear program. Instead, on Saturday, the North put out a reminder of the danger posed by long-range missiles capable of carrying warheads with a statement to the effect that "the U.S. is sadly mistaken if it thinks it is safe as its mainland is far across the ocean."
Scott Snyder, director of U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, assumes "the two sides failed to come to terms" in the Beijing talks but holds out hopes for eventually returning to six-party talks on the North?s nuclear program, last held in Beijing in 2008. The question, he says, is whether "something different has developed in North Korea?s leadership transition" -? possibly pressure to show military strength.
Kim Jong Un's ascension offers window to ease North-South tensions
"North Korean rhetoric has always been way over the top," says David Straub, former Korea desk officer at the State Department. "Recently, however, the tone and the threats seem, if anything, even more menacing."
In view of North Korea?s nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 and "uncertainties surrounding the new leadership," says Straub, associate director of Korea studies at Stanford, the U.S. and South Korea "need to be even more militarily vigilant than usual." At the same time, he cautions, "they need to take care not to gratuitously offend or give excuses to North Korea by word or by deed."
Martial arts display
Against the backdrop of strident rhetoric from the North, the agency responsible for the president?s security put on the display of defensive expertise Monday. Martial arts experts battered one another, armored black limousines roared and screeched, and explosions crackled on cue in front of the Blue House, the office and residential complex of South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak.
"We are well prepared to deal with any provocation. We are watching very seriously," says Eo Cheong-soo, chief of the presidential security service, as he watched his men.
Also in attendance was South Korean Lt. Gen. Shin Hyun-don, who said he was not worried. There was "no sign of North Korean troop movements," he says. "There?s always more of a threat. We go on preparing more defense."
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HTC One X exclusive to AT&T in the US, brings LTE, Beats, ICS and Sense 4 to Ma Bell
Just frothy thinking about HTC's recently unveiled superphone, the One X? Well, for those of you that call the US home, outside of importing HTC's latest, you're going to have only one network choice, and that's AT&T. Unlike the global Tegra 3 version announced today, Uncle Sam's variant swaps out that quad-core goodness for an LTE radio paired with a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 by Qualcomm -- specs which curiously match a video titled One XL, which we've embedded after the break from its YouTube page. This also marks the first occasion a Beats by Dr. Dre-powered handset has made an appearance on the carrier. Other then that, you're looking at the same gorgeous 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 HD screen, 8-megapixel f/2.0 shooter and Sense 4 running atop Ice Cream Sandwich. As for when it'll land? The duo's playing coy, only mentioning it'll come in the "coming months." Stay tuned for a hands-on.
Update: If you're wondering how the dual-core switcheroo will impact performance, AnandTech lays out some thoughts on the brain swap.
Update: If you're wondering how the dual-core switcheroo will impact performance, AnandTech lays out some thoughts on the brain swap.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Skejo Studios? Operation: Eradicate now available on Apple App Store
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Irvine, California ? Mobile game developer, Skejo Studios today is please to announce its debut turn based strategy game, Operation: Eradicate for the iPad and iPhone has been released. Operation: Eradicate is a cooperative strategy game where the player controls up to four characters across the world to beat back the spreading ?infected? hordes.
Operation: Eradicate is a unique challenge, quick to learn with the in-game tutorial and difficult to master with over 20 different possible character setups and 3 different difficulty levels. Forethought and a bit of risk taking is needed to navigate this game of resource management, location and timing. Travel across the world, fight the hordes, and launch counterstrikes before the ?Infected Ones? spread across the planet. Operation: Eradicate also comes with the ability to match with friends in Turn Based Matches through Game Center, as well as racing up the leader boards and scoring achievements.
Features:
* Board Game feel, iPad looks
* Cooperative Turn Based Strategy mechanics
* Game Center Turn Based Multiplayer available
* Five specialized characters to command
* Play a 2, 3 or 4 character game for vastly different challenges
* Includes hand drawn commissioned artwork
* Three different Difficulty levels
* Game Center Leader boards & Achievements
* Multi-step tutorial to quickly learn the game
Device Requirements:
* Optimized for iPad/iPad 2 and iPhone4/4S/4th Gen iPod Retinal-graphics
* Playable on non-retinal devices
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 14.0 MB
Pricing and Availability:
Operation: Eradicate will have a launch discount of 50%, priced at $1.99 for one week and is available worldwide through the App Store in the Games category. Regularly priced at $3.99.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Ukraine's president hints at Tymoshenko reprieve (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - Ukraine's president is hinting that new legislation being debated in parliament may allow reconsideration of the case of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
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Opening statements due in NJ webcam spying trial (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - A prosecutor and defense lawyer will make their initial pitches to jurors Friday in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Chinese leader expected to be at political session (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - A top Chinese government adviser says he expects the leader of the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing to attend next month's annual legislative session despite a scandal surrounding a key subordinate.
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Faster-than-light neutrinos explained?
The detector at the Gran Sasso end of the OPERA experiment. Credit: OPERA
The faster-than-light neutrinos seen by the OPERA particle physics experiment last year may have just been explained. By a loose cable. I wish I was joking.
To back up a little, the OPERA collaboration based at the Gran Sasso laboratory underneath the mountain of the same name in Italy published a paper to pre-print server arxiv.org last September saying that they had seen neutrinos, a type of sub-atomic particle, travel faster than the speed of light. They recorded neutrinos, which had travelled from CERN, Geneva, through the Earth to Gran Sasso, Italy, arriving at the laboratory 60 nanoseconds faster than they would had they travelled at the speed of light.
Since then, scientists around the world have been collectively scratching their heads and publishing papers that tended to fall into one of two categories: suggesting an error with the experiment (such as the clocks at the two laboratories not being synchronised properly), or suggesting an addition to the current theory of particle interactions that could explain the strange result (for example, a new dimension that the neutrinos could have skipped through to make their journey shorter ? so they would have never actually travelled faster than light at any point).
But I don?t think anyone expected it to be something as simple as this.
Today, Science is reporting that a fibre optic cable connecting a GPS receiver and an electronic card in a computer was loose. They go on:
After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fibre, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed
This news (though still unconfirmed) rather casts a shadow over another recent explanation, involving something slightly less ridiculous.
In a paper published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, Claudio Germana of the Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy, suggests that there was a problem with the synchronisation of clocks at the two ends of the experiment. His calculations suggest that if the experiment had been run at a different time of year, the neutrinos would in fact have arrived 50 nanoseconds
I spoke to Carlo Contaldi, a physicist at Imperial College London, who last year published a paper on arxiv.org pointing out a possible problem with clock synchronisation, about the new paper. Though he thought the calculations and the large effect the calculations seemed to show were ?interesting?, he had some reservations:
[Germana] does not seem to mention the latest measurements that were carried out by OPERA in November 2012. Those showed a consistent value for the neutrino?s time of flight as the previous results and it would be interesting to see how that time frame fits in with these corrections.
It?s an interesting hypothesis though ? and one that is easily testable by running the experiment at a different time of year.
This paper is just the latest in a long string of attempts to explain the faster-than-light neutrinos. For more of the explanations that have been offered over the last few months, have a look at a timeline I made that follows the story right from the beginning until now.
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All of these papers could have been for nothing, of course, if the new report of a loose cable is true. It would be a little disappointing if this turns out to be the case. I?m going to reserve judgement for now, at least until the ?sources familiar with the experiment? become something a little more concrete.
I?ll be updating the above timeline as the story unfolds.
UPDATE: The Nature News Blog now has an official statement from OPERA, that says they have ?identified two issues that could significantly affect the reported result? ? you can read the full statement over there.
UPDATE 23rd Feb: The OPERA experiment has issued an official statement. Here it is in full:
The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an influence on its neutrino timing measurement. These both require further tests with a short pulsed beam. If confirmed, one would increase the size of the measured effect, the other would diminish it. The first possible effect concerns an oscillator used to provide the time stamps for GPS synchronizations. It could have led to an overestimate of the neutrino?s time of flight. The second concerns the optical fibre connector that brings the external GPS signal to the OPERA master clock, which may not have been functioning correctly when the measurements were taken. If this is the case, it could have led to an underestimate of the time of flight of the neutrinos. The potential extent of these two effects is being studied by the OPERA collaboration. New measurements with short pulsed beams are scheduled for May.
So, there was a (possible) faulty cable that might have led to an underestimate of the time it took the neutrinos to reach Gran Sasso, which would led to an overestimate of their speed. But there was also another fault that might have led to an underestimate of the speed. Looks like we will have to wait for the new measurements in May to see just how much each of these faults contributed to the early arrival of the neutrinos and whether they can add up to the 60 nanoseconds to fully explain the result.
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How Can Businesses Raise Money?
All businesses, from the smallest start-up company to large multinational corporations, constantly have to worry about raising money. Fortunately, there are numerous ways to do so.
Start-up businesses without an established track record often have to get creative when trying to raise money. This can include using personal credit cards, hitting up friends and family for loans, taking out a home equity loan or using a peer lending site. A small-business owner may even resort to payday loans if he has no other option. This stage of raising money, in which the owners and founders use their personal assets, is called seed capital
Start-up businesses that have self-funded and made it on their own may be able to attract investors. There are a couple of different levels of investment that small, start-up companies, especially those in technology-related fields, may attract.
Angel investors are usually wealthy investors who invest, individually or in groups, in promising start-ups. Rather than treating the money strictly as a loan, angel investors usually take an equity stake or a convertible debt stake in the company.
Venture capitalists also invest in promising start-up companies, but they usually invest money that they are managing as part of a fund, rather than their own money. Venture capital investments usually come later than angel investments, and the investors also take an equity stake in the company.
As a business grows and becomes more established, it is more likely to be able to get credit from a bank. This may come in the form of a fixed loan or a revolving line of credit, which the business can tap at any time, as long as there is open credit remaining.
Larger, more established businesses also often offer equity stakes in the company to attract investment. These are similar to angel and venture capital investment, but when the business is more established, it is in a better position to dictate terms. Businesses often issue stock, either privately or publicly, that investors can bid to get in on. When a company decides to sell public stock, it must register with the Securities and Exchange Commission and do what is called an initial public offering, or IPO. Companies usually only do this once they have reached a certain size, because going public severely dilutes the ownership of the company.
Source: http://brandingrband.com/how-can-businesses-raise-money/366.html
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension overturned
FILE-Yhis July 10. 2008 file photo shows Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun (8) celebrating with teammates after scoring a run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Milwaukee. Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned Thursday Feb. 23, 2012 by baseball arbitrator Shyam Das, the first time a baseball player successfully challenged a drug-related penalty in a grievance. The decision was announced Thursday by the Major League Baseball Players Association, one day before the 28-year-old outfielder was due to report to spring training with the Milwaukee Brewers. Braun tested positive in October for elevated testosterone, and ESPN revealed the positive test in December. (AP Photo/Jeff Hanisch,File)
FILE-Yhis July 10. 2008 file photo shows Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun (8) celebrating with teammates after scoring a run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Milwaukee. Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned Thursday Feb. 23, 2012 by baseball arbitrator Shyam Das, the first time a baseball player successfully challenged a drug-related penalty in a grievance. The decision was announced Thursday by the Major League Baseball Players Association, one day before the 28-year-old outfielder was due to report to spring training with the Milwaukee Brewers. Braun tested positive in October for elevated testosterone, and ESPN revealed the positive test in December. (AP Photo/Jeff Hanisch,File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? National League MVP Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned Thursday by baseball arbitrator Shyam Das, the first time a baseball player successfully challenged a drug-related penalty in a grievance.
The decision was announced Thursday by the Major League Baseball Players Association, one day before the 28-year-old outfielder was due to report to spring training with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Braun tested positive in October for elevated testosterone, and ESPN revealed the positive test in December.
"I am very pleased and relieved by today's decision," Braun said in a statement. "It is the first step in restoring my good name and reputation. We were able to get through this because I am innocent and the truth is on our side.
"We provided complete cooperation throughout, despite the highly unusual circumstances. I have been an open book, willing to share details from every aspect of my life as part of this investigation, because I have nothing to hide. I have passed over 25 drug tests in my career, including at least three in the past year."
No reasoning was given for Thursday's decision.
"Today the arbitration panel announced its decision, by a 2-1 vote, to sustain Ryan Braun's grievance challenging his 50-game suspension by the commissioner's office," a statement from the players' association said.
MLB executive vice president Rob Manfred and union head Michael Weiner are part of the arbitration panel, and management and the union almost always split their votes, leaving Das, the independent panel member, to make the decision.
Manfred said management disagreed with the decision by Das. It is the first time a drug suspension has been overturned in a grievance, baseball officials said.
"It has always been Major League Baseball's position that no matter who tests positive, we will exhaust all avenues in pursuit of the appropriate discipline. We have been true to that position in every instance, because baseball fans deserve nothing less," Manfred said. "As a part of our drug testing program, the commissioner's office and the players' association agreed to a neutral third party review for instances that are under dispute. While we have always respected that process, Major League Baseball vehemently disagrees with the decision rendered today by arbitrator Shyam Das."
Braun hit .312 with 33 homers and 111 RBIs last year and led Milwaukee to the NL championship series, where the Brewers lost to the eventual World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Brewers are counting on his offense following the departure of Prince Fielder, who became a free agent and signed with the Detroit Tigers.
Braun already was signed through 2015 when the Brewers gave him a new deal running through 2020 that added $105 million and guaranteed him a total of $145.5 million over a decade.
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Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console Adds Game Gear Next Month - G4tv ...
Nintendo's got some news for you portable gaming fans. The 3DS Virtual Console will soon be updated to include Game Gear games, the latest Nintendo Direct broadcast reveals (via Andriasang).?
The new section of the online store will launch in Japan on March 14 with three Sega games on offer: Sonic and Tails 2, Shinobi and Dragon Crystal. They'll be priced at ?300 apiece, or roughly $3.75. There's no word yet on release plans outside of Japan, but we know that Game Gear games are definitely going to be making their way to 3DS handhelds in?North America.
Nintendo's Satoru Iwata confirmed that Game Gear games (and TurboGrafx-16 games) were in the plans for the 3DS Virtual Console during his GDC keynote last year, just a few weeks before the Nintendo handheld was released in North America. Sega president Haruki Satomi was there as well to offer some words of support.
"This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Game Gear system, and we believe that releasing these titles on the groundbreaking Nintendo 3DS is a great way to commemorate the occasion," he said. It's not clear what held things up to push the Game Gear VC releases outside that 20th anniversary window, but Sega fans should be pleased to learn today that the update is finally coming.
Source: Andriasang
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
5 Smart And Easy Outsourcing Tips To Help You Grow Your Business
The main goal of any online business is to grow?and when you start trying to grow it can mean that there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish everything that needs to get done? ?well?that?s where outsourcing can help.
Outsourcing doesn?t just pertain to big companies that want to move overseas to save money.
No ? not at all!?Online businesses need the same type of help as well.
When you are a one-person operation, there never seems to be enough time to give the proper attention to each aspect of your business.
In no time at all, things can get out of hand and you might find yourself drowning.
If this sounds like you then outsourcing may be a possible answer for you.
Enlisting the help of other professionals can ease the burden, allowing you to focus on the growth of your business.
So to make your outsourcing easy, below I?ve listed 5 outsourcing tips to help you get started.
Tip # 1: Do Your Research
There are many types of outsourcing professionals that you can use.
Virtual assistants market a variety of skill sets that benefit online businesses looking for help, with items like bookkeeping, accounting, social networking, online marketing, advertising and customer service needs.
Find out what resources are out there and available to you and then start using them!
Tip # 2: State Your Case
When looking for help, state what type of assistance you are looking for.
For example ? if you need one-time help then say so or for ongoing projects you will most likely need a team of professionals who you can count on.
Tip # 3: Choose At Least Three People
In order to see if you have any promising prospects, you need to interview more than one person.
Ask for their references and credentials and examples of their work.
If you like more than three, then choose more. It can only help in your final decision if you have a variety of people to choose from.
Tip # 4: Start Them Out With Small Tasks
Don?t put all your eggs in one basket. Assign small jobs to each one you are considering and evaluate their work.
We are talking about more than formatting and spell check.
Also consider time frame for completion and method of communication.
A team functions best when all parties have similar ways of doing things.
Tip # 5 Evaluate Pricing
Choosing the cheapest professional is not necessarily the best road to take and neither is choosing the most expensive.
Research the market to see what the average rate for the services you need will be.
Then combine that with the results of their test job to choose the right individual or team to help you grow your business.
Need help with your business? You don?t have to be a large conglomerate to consider outsourcing!
Just use these tips to help find the perfect outsourcing personnel for you and you?ll soon be on your way to growing your business!
Want more tips like this? Then sign up for my weekly newsletter -?Solutions for Online Business Success.
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Defense: Ga. suspect says angel told him to kill (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - A Georgia man gunned down his co-worker's husband outside a suburban Atlanta preschool because the murder suspect believed an angel had ordered him to pull the trigger, his defense attorney argued on Tuesday.
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Samsung Galaxy S II announced for US Cellular: 'coming soon' for $230
We already had a strong hunch that it was coming to US Cellular, thanks to the FCC, but now it's official: Samsung's iconic Galaxy S II is finally making its way to the regional carrier in the coming weeks for $230 on a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. This version of the GSII offers the same 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos CPU found in the original version, as well as a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display. Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), an eight megapixel rear camera and 16GB internal storage are also confirmed, though we think it's highly likely this unit will feature the same specs as the rest of the series. Sadly, the device lacks support on USCC's brand new LTE network, so brace yourself for 3G speeds if you plan to pick one of these up. Check out the full press release below for all the details released so far, and we'll keep you posted as soon as we hear an official release date or any other deep dark secrets.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Home visits for asthma: A win for both patients and payers
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Quality improvement program improves asthma outcomes and saves $1.46 for every dollar spent
Boston, Mass. -- Nearly 1 in 10 children have asthma, according to government statistics, and in low-income parts of Boston, nearly 16 percent of children are affected. A program called the Community Asthma Initiative (CAI), developed and implemented in 2005 by clinicians at Children's Hospital Boston, demonstrates the potential to dramatically reduce hospitalization and emergency department visits for asthma -- improving patient outcomes and saving $1.46 per dollar spent through reduced hospital utilization.
A study reporting these outcomes and cost savings appears in the March 2012 Pediatrics (published online February 20).
The CAI is a community-based asthma care model targeting low-income families. It includes nurse case management and care coordination combined with home visits by a bilingual nurse or Community Health Worker to educate families about asthma, assess the home for asthma triggers, and provide materials and services to improve the home environment, such as encasements for bedding, HEPA vacuums and pest control.
The CAI team, led by Elizabeth Woods, MD, MPH, of the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, and Shari Nethersole, MD, of the Office of Child Advocacy at Children's Hospital Boston, selected children from four low-income zip codes for the intervention because they had been hospitalized or had made emergency department (ED) visits for asthma. Of 562 eligible children identified, 283 families agreed to participate.
At enrollment, 43 percent of participating children had asthma scored as moderate or severe. Families received an average of 1.2 home visits during the year-long program. "The environmental issues have been much greater than expected, with high rates of pest infestation and dust and mold problems," Woods notes.
After 12 months in the program, the children had a 68 percent decrease from baseline in asthma-related ED visits and an 85 percent drop in hospitalizations. There was a 43 percent reduction in the percentage of children who had to limit physical activity on any day, a 41 percent reduction in reports of missed school days and a 50 percent reduction in parents having to miss work to care for their child. The percentage of children with an up-to-date asthma care plan rose from 53 percent at baseline to 82 percent at 12 months.
All of these improvements were evident within 6 months, and, among children who had follow-up, persisted for as long as two years.
The quality improvement intervention yielded a significant return on investment: When CAI patients were compared with nonparticipating children from four demographically similar communities, the CAI saved $1.46 for every dollar spent. The program cost $2,529 per child, but yielded a savings of $3,827 per child because of reduced ED visits and hospitalizations. "This is a remarkable savings to society and reflects better health outcomes for the children," says Woods.
"Our experience with CAI allowed us to work with community partners to develop a business case for reimbursement of these services by insurers," adds Nethersole.
The CAI has started working with Massachusetts Medicaid and other health care payers to develop and pilot a global or bundled payment system for asthma care. "We expect that the new payment models will incorporate these expanded education and home-visiting services and allow for more comprehensive care for children with high-risk asthma," says Nethersole.
The study was limited due to the lack of insurance data, and was unable to capture data on care at other hospitals, primary care sites and pharmacy claims. The authors believe their analysis underestimated the true cost savings, because it did not include physician fees or financial impacts on families. They suggest that further cost analyses incorporate insurance company data to capture other aspects of care.
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The study was funded by a REACH US grant from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthy Tomorrows from the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Ludcke, BJ's, Covidien and Thoracic Foundations.
Children's Hospital Boston is home to the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries have benefited both children and adults since 1869. More than 1,100 scientists, including nine members of the National Academy of Sciences, 11 members of the Institute of Medicine and nine members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute comprise Children's research community. Founded as a 20-bed hospital for children, Children's Hospital Boston today is a 395 bed comprehensive center for pediatric and adolescent health care grounded in the values of excellence in patient care and sensitivity to the complex needs and diversity of children and families. Children's also is the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. For more information about research and clinical innovation at Children's, visit: http://vectorblog.org.
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Quality improvement program improves asthma outcomes and saves $1.46 for every dollar spent
Boston, Mass. -- Nearly 1 in 10 children have asthma, according to government statistics, and in low-income parts of Boston, nearly 16 percent of children are affected. A program called the Community Asthma Initiative (CAI), developed and implemented in 2005 by clinicians at Children's Hospital Boston, demonstrates the potential to dramatically reduce hospitalization and emergency department visits for asthma -- improving patient outcomes and saving $1.46 per dollar spent through reduced hospital utilization.
A study reporting these outcomes and cost savings appears in the March 2012 Pediatrics (published online February 20).
The CAI is a community-based asthma care model targeting low-income families. It includes nurse case management and care coordination combined with home visits by a bilingual nurse or Community Health Worker to educate families about asthma, assess the home for asthma triggers, and provide materials and services to improve the home environment, such as encasements for bedding, HEPA vacuums and pest control.
The CAI team, led by Elizabeth Woods, MD, MPH, of the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, and Shari Nethersole, MD, of the Office of Child Advocacy at Children's Hospital Boston, selected children from four low-income zip codes for the intervention because they had been hospitalized or had made emergency department (ED) visits for asthma. Of 562 eligible children identified, 283 families agreed to participate.
At enrollment, 43 percent of participating children had asthma scored as moderate or severe. Families received an average of 1.2 home visits during the year-long program. "The environmental issues have been much greater than expected, with high rates of pest infestation and dust and mold problems," Woods notes.
After 12 months in the program, the children had a 68 percent decrease from baseline in asthma-related ED visits and an 85 percent drop in hospitalizations. There was a 43 percent reduction in the percentage of children who had to limit physical activity on any day, a 41 percent reduction in reports of missed school days and a 50 percent reduction in parents having to miss work to care for their child. The percentage of children with an up-to-date asthma care plan rose from 53 percent at baseline to 82 percent at 12 months.
All of these improvements were evident within 6 months, and, among children who had follow-up, persisted for as long as two years.
The quality improvement intervention yielded a significant return on investment: When CAI patients were compared with nonparticipating children from four demographically similar communities, the CAI saved $1.46 for every dollar spent. The program cost $2,529 per child, but yielded a savings of $3,827 per child because of reduced ED visits and hospitalizations. "This is a remarkable savings to society and reflects better health outcomes for the children," says Woods.
"Our experience with CAI allowed us to work with community partners to develop a business case for reimbursement of these services by insurers," adds Nethersole.
The CAI has started working with Massachusetts Medicaid and other health care payers to develop and pilot a global or bundled payment system for asthma care. "We expect that the new payment models will incorporate these expanded education and home-visiting services and allow for more comprehensive care for children with high-risk asthma," says Nethersole.
The study was limited due to the lack of insurance data, and was unable to capture data on care at other hospitals, primary care sites and pharmacy claims. The authors believe their analysis underestimated the true cost savings, because it did not include physician fees or financial impacts on families. They suggest that further cost analyses incorporate insurance company data to capture other aspects of care.
###
The study was funded by a REACH US grant from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthy Tomorrows from the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Ludcke, BJ's, Covidien and Thoracic Foundations.
Children's Hospital Boston is home to the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center, where its discoveries have benefited both children and adults since 1869. More than 1,100 scientists, including nine members of the National Academy of Sciences, 11 members of the Institute of Medicine and nine members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute comprise Children's research community. Founded as a 20-bed hospital for children, Children's Hospital Boston today is a 395 bed comprehensive center for pediatric and adolescent health care grounded in the values of excellence in patient care and sensitivity to the complex needs and diversity of children and families. Children's also is the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. For more information about research and clinical innovation at Children's, visit: http://vectorblog.org.
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Personalize Your Classic Computer Game Console | Article Hub
Customize Your Classic Game Console
Classic video games are much more well-liked now than ever prior to. Numerous individuals are collecting vintage games and consoles. The NES, SNES, N64, Sega Birth and so on all had brilliant games that had been enjoyable and simple to learn how you can play. If your like me even if you learn that numerous in the consoles haven?t aged extremely nicely the plastic appears to yellow and occasionally you will find inscription you just cannot eliminate regardless of how hard you clean the method. Even when you are able to learn a method in brilliant condition you might learn which you want a much more distinctive style or that the first style of some consoles is now extremely outdated. Let?s face the details, the NES was honestly maybe the very best console but it looks honestly comparable to a VCR or 8-track player, extremely uncool. What can you do? Redesign the method by repainting the console nevertheless you wish. Sound complex? It just takes the proper tools, a bit imagination, and some practice.
Tools Required
Before you get ongoing you?ll need to make sure you have the aptly tools to get the job done. The first thing you?ll certainly need is a excellent screw driver set for the NES, Sega Birth and other older systems you just need a excellent magnetized medium Philips head screw driver and maybe a smaller one if you plot on also customizing your controllers. If you want to open up a SNES or N64 you will need a unique screw driver called a security bit or game bit. You can find them on eBay for in this area $10. For some newer systems you may need a Torx bit screw driver (Xbox, PS2). You will also need some painters tape, a excellent razor, dish soap, a rag, paint thinner and some high feature spray paint specifically calculated for plastics. If you use a paint that is not calculated for plastics then it will wash off very easily and will not bond to the plastic well (don?t make the same mistakes I did). You will also need some cardboard, a painters mask and gloves.
Style
Now before you start painting you want to have a design in mind. What your design is and what you like is of course really up to you but I find that some of the best designs work within the first design of console. I like to reckon of what insignia I can paint the different parts of the console and what it will then look like when I place it back together. You also have to remember that when first beginning you don?t want to try something overly complicated start with a simple design and work your way up to more complicated designs.
How you can Do It
When you?ve got your style clearly in thoughts it really is time to buy to perform. Use whatever screw driver applies for your console and open up the case. Now according to the program your operating with this method will likely be just a small distinct but you need to start unscrewing and taking out each of the insides till you?ve got an empty case. Make sure you bear in mind the way to place it back together and place the screws within a secure spot. Most older systems are very straightforward in style and placing it back together should not be too tough. Use just a small dish soap and water to clean the case inside and out. Be gentle older plastic at times breaks simply. Dry using a rag and after that let dry just a small on its personal. Now that you simply have empty case use the painters tape to cover something you do not want painted (I like to cover the rubber pads and each of the stickers that originally came with all the program).
Cut off any excess tape using the razor to be more exact. For painting you will need a few feet interval I recommend using a garage or driveway. Lay down the cardboard and place all the pieces you want the same color down. Place on the gloves and mask. Try to keep the spray can in this area one foot away from what you are painting always keep the spray can moving side to side if not it will come out uneven. If you make a mistake you can use the paint thinner and an ancient rag to clean off the paint and try again. After a few tries though you should get the hang of it. If you do a thorough job it shouldn?t take more than two coats. refer to the paint can to see how long to wait between coats. After the second coat I always let them dry overnight just so the paint is really well bonded. Once the paint is dry reassemble all the parts and place the case back together. Take a excellent look at your work and test out your new customized classic console.
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Proper Lighting For Traffic & Construction Site Safety | Lagnia PPE ...
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Construction remains for one more barracks building in the college campus-like cantonment area in front of the physical fitness center as part of U.S. Army Europe?s 0+ million Efficient Basing Grafenwoehr program, which is set to complete in spring 2010. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Justin Ward)
Proper Lighting For Traffic & Construction Site Safety
Article by Lydia Quinn
For areas of traffic construction, construction sites or even just home improvement, having proper lighting is crucial for safety, most of all, but also for accurate work. There are many types of lights for every job, here is an overview of traffic, construction and home safety work lights.
Traffic Safety Lights
Whether you?re project is near the street or if you?re doing construction on or near a road, traffic safety lights will be an important part of your project. Common types of safety lights include barricade lights, strobe lights, dome lights or warning lights. It?s important to provide a barrier between the street and any sidewalks or paths and your work site. Placing barricade or work lights around the area to mark it is one way to make sure that no one accidentally walks into your work area and hurts themselves. Work lights usually come in amber, red or orange and in the flashing or strobe varieties. Barricade lights are the most effective for warning a person or vehicle of a construction area ahead, as barricade lights can be seen from a good distance away. Some traffic safety lights come in solar varieties, so that no wiring or extra hookup is needed to set them up. Many traffic safety lights use LED lights, which stands for ?light emitting diode?, LED lights tend to remain brighter, for longer periods of time and thus saves on maintenance costs as well.
Construction and Home Improvement Work Lights
While you may or may not be working on your home improvement projects at night, there?s still a myriad of home projects for which you would need lighting. First, when working in an area of poor or no light, such as a basement, attic or a crawl space in your home. In addition, working under sinks, in cabinets or in dark garages. No matter whether you?re painting, sanding, repairing, laying floor, staining or whatever the project may be, you will need good lighting. A work light will fit the job. These lights are usually portable and come in wattage anywhere from 150 to 500 watts and up. A rectangular light box is placed in a low profile coated metal stand. Some work lights can be placed on a taller stand and just about all work lights are completely adjustable in terms of angle of light. These work lights are portable and can be easily carried from room to room. One disadvantage of this type of work light is that the light will be very hot after it?s been on for a long amount of time, this can cause minor burns if not careful. Though most companies provide some sort of barrier between the light casing and the handle, the light can still be very hot to the touch.
No matter the project, proper lighting is crucial and should be a priority for your own safety and accuracy.
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I want to get to 75 construction and im thinking about using stealing creation hammers.
I only have 8mill cash and my construction level is 60.
I do have a crystal hammer is it possible to construct a gilded altar at 70 construction?
Is it worth getting 75 construction for a gilded altar?
If i use stealing creation hammers how many would i need?
And last but not least what would be the cheapest thing to construct?
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Medicare health insurance Changes Established for 2011 | bluroc.tv
As we have been heading in to the final fraction of 2010, many eye lids are on which will come about in 2011 Medicare Supplemental Insurance changes for you to Medicare.
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