As the state government in India, district magistrates and local
hospitals probe an overwhelming number of possible insurance medical
fraud cases, women victims on the receiving end of medical procedures
are suffering with lives that will never be the same again.
What has been described as ‘unwarranted surgical procedures; are now causing a crisis for women throughout India.
In
what may include manipulation of locally administered welfare programs,
including false claims made by processing offices, clinic teams as well
as doctors, have been placed under investigative scrutiny by local
magistrates.
But exactly what are those who are accused of the
crimes accused of doing? Across the Chhattisgarh District of Raipur,
3,500 separate cases of women living in 90 separate villages, many of
them younger than 30, have undergone what a majority of them now feel
were completely unnecessary surgeries.
In a region known before
2008 for its lower than average rates of hysterectomy surgeries, the
State of Chhattisgarh in India is now the opposite.
According to
an exclusive poll taken by Reuters Trustlaw last July, India is
currently the ‘worst place to be a women’ compared to all other world
nations who are part of the G20. The poll indicates that India ranks
especially low on issues that cover violence, exploitation, safety,
gender equality and access to decent healthcare.
“Officials
estimate more than 2,000 women were talked into having their wombs
removed in the last six months,” said the BBC news in a report on
Chhattisgarh made in July 2012. Current legal accusations in what may be
exposed as a criminal medical negligence include 34 medical centers who
are currently being investigated for insurance fraud after
opportunistic doctors ordered unneeded hysterectomies for their women
patients.
The problems are not an ‘India only’ problem. Unwanted hysterectomies have also been an going issue inside the United States.
“Each year 750,The most famous china mosaic
of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.000
hysterectomies are performed and 2,500 women die during the operation.
These are not sick women, but healthy women who go into the hospital and
do not come out,” says Dr. Herbert Goldfarb, a gynecologist and
assistant clinical professor at New York University School of Medicine
in his book “No Hysterectomy Option: Your Body–Your Choice.”
The
widespread use of cashless healthcare smart cards in India initiated
RSBY – Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana smart card healthcare program in
2008, may also be part of the problem. Providing government monies and
an easy-to-use credit card that has worked to bring healthcare to
millions of people in India,There are generally three different
configurations of industrial laser cutting machine.
regardless of their poverty level, the Indian government began
distributing the cards in 2008 to enable families from all levels of
Indian society to have access to better high quality medical care.Online
shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection.
The
smart cards allow payment of healthcare to be immediate, with coverage
of up to 30,000 Rs ($555 USD). It may seem like a good deal, but this
amount is shared among all the members in one family per year. There is
no doubt the smart cards have allowed many patients to receive
life-saving medical procedures, but they have also encouraged some
medical doctors to prescribe hysterectomies that have not been needed.
Each
smart card includes 11 types of software that provides a patient’s
information, medical history and medical expenditures. The program seems
amazing where a patient can choose from almost 1,000 private or
government hospitals throughout India.
“The general ward of
Beena Prakash hospital – situated in the small, breezy town of Bijnore
in western Uttar Pradesh – has been bustling for the past few months.
Locals claim that this heightened buzz of patients is ‘unprecedented’,”
said OneWorld South Asia in 2009 after smart cards were distributed to
many districts in India. The 2009 story may show how the cards have
improved healthcare in India, but in 2013 the increase in medical
procedures is showing a trend toward misuse of government funds.
While
the smart cards seek to provide assurance that the correct person is
receiving the right medical treatment, along with monitoring and
limiting double charges for the same service, the cards do not protect a
patient from going ahead with a surgery based on manipulative and
inaccurate advice from a doctor.
Actions of physicians who have
been accused of taking advantage of India’s healthcare system have
caused numerous human rights activists to question the impunity of a
medical doctor who delivers misaligned advice as a ‘medical expert’ and
feels they cannot be questioned or challenged by a patient.
“The
pervasive spread of corruption is not limited to the public sector. The
private sector is also working under low thresholds
of integrity.
Patients are exploited by being made to undergo unnecessary tests only
for making money,” outlined the WHO – World Health Organization.
Unnecessary
treatments and prescriptions by medical providers are considered to be a
key ingredient in contributing to corruption within government
sponsored healthcare programs, said Oxford Journal Health Policy and
Planning in a 2008 release.
All the women in the Sahu family, in
India’s mostly rural State of Chhattisgarh, have undergone what they
now claim are unneeded medical procedures under hysterectomy procedures.
These procedures, which doctors advised were necessary, continue to be
questioned.
Without realizing the great impact the decision to
remove their uterus would have on their lives, the decision to allow
their surgeries to go ahead as advised is now being seen as a ‘grave
mistake’ by the women of the Sahu family. Included in the family is Ms.
Pancho Bai, along with her sister-in-law Ms. Budhiyari Bai, as well as
two daughters-in-law Nadani and Kesar. All are different ages. All were
told that removal of their uterus was their only option to rid them of
problems that, in the end, may prove otherwise.
In 2008, when
Nadani complained of back pain she made an appointment with a woman
doctor who worked in Chhattisgarh’s capital city of Rapipur, which
numbers over one million people. After performing a diagnostic
ultrasound, the physician told Nadani that she had a severe internal
infection. She also told her that the infection had spread to the uterus
which would have to be surgically removed immediately to save Nadani’s
life.
As the youngest woman in her family, Nadani underwent her uterine surgery when she was only 24 years old.This solar lamp
and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without
electricity. Because of what has been described by her as “an
unnecessary procedure” she is now frustrated, depressed and unable to
have children.
“Our profession is entrenched in terms of doing hysterectomies,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an IC card.”
said U.S. based Ernst Bartsich, M.D., a gynecological surgeon and
professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York,
outlined CNN in 2007. “I’m not proud of that. It may be an acceptable
procedure, but it isn’t necessary in so many cases,”continued Dr.
Bartich.
“In fact, he [Dr. Bartshich] adds, of the 617,000
hysterectomies performed annually, ‘from 76 to 85 percent’ may be
unnecessary,” continued CNN.
At the time when Nadani was told by
the doctor about her condition she was worried, but did assume the
doctor’s assessment must be correct and true. To make sure her patient
would go through with the surgical procedure, Nadani’s doctor asked her
to sign a ‘contract’ that also outlined the price due for the procedure.
“The doctor took [had me sign] a ‘contract’ for Rs 9,000 ($180
USD) for the operation,” outlined Nadani. This service also required
specific medicines to be purchased from the doctor.
2013年2月19日星期二
Ascert Releases VersaTest Automator
Ascert announced today the general release of VersaTest Automator
version 1.7. This release contains a number of new features many of
which, as is customary, were demonstrated at Ascert's annual User Group
held in November in London. "As use of VersaTest Automator increases we
need to ensure its users are given the best possible tools for managing
and controlling the tests that have been created." says Simon Miles,
Ascert's Product Architect for the VersaTest product line. "VersaTest
Automator has enabled users to reduce testing time and effort which in
turn has enabled them to expand their test coverage. This means that
there are many more test cases being produced. Release 1.7 has expanded
on features to help manage these tests."
Within this latest release, changes have been made to extend the way environment templates can share common data and tests across multiple similar test environments. This improves the maintainability of the large enterprise testing environments typically found in VersaTest installations. The existing test case search facilities have also been enhanced to allow a more refined search operation to be performed. The significant benefit is that it allows users to more easily find test cases that have particular fields and data.
Additionally, the release includes a new feature to give per-user persistence allowing the state and layout of the interface to be saved between uses. The user experience has been enhanced in other ways as well, in that panels and menus can now be customized based on user access levels. This allows a user’s experience of the product to be tailored depending on their operational role.
Also included in this release are enhancements to the documentation of test cases, allowing extra descriptive information to be included in a form readily understood by business analysts.
In addition to time savings in testing, VersaTest Automator decreases the time involved in analyzing testing results. With an easy to use GUI interface and “audit capture” functionality, the product increases both testing accuracy as well as ROI. To find out more about VersaTest Automator, visit the Ascert Web Site or call one of the local Ascert offices.
Ascert is recognized as a leading provider of premier testing software solutions. Ascert was founded in 1992 to provide automated software testing solutions that help companies measure the performance, reliability and scalability of their mission-critical back-end servers and applications. With over 100 clients worldwide, Ascert's products and services are used at some of the world's most successful companies. Off-the-shelf simulators include solutions for EFT testing, POS testing, ATM testing, IFX testing, EMV/chip card testing, ISO8583 testing and 3270 & 6530 terminal testing. Ascert’s custom simulators have been used for testing air traffic control systems and biometric payment systems. Ascert's products assist testing professionals across industry segments to better manage their testing processes and environments through an end-to-end tool set.
Tilera's Tile CPU was one of the first massively multi-core processors with the firm announcing a 32-core Tile-Gx chip as far back as 2007,There are generally three different configurations of industrial laser cutting machine. and now the firm has more than doubled the core count and improved connectivity. Tilera's 64-bit Tile-Gx72 chip sports 72 cores clocked at between 1GHz and 1.2GHz with each core having 256KB of Level 2 cache, and is aimed at the networking and high performance computing (HPC) markets.
Tilera has spent a lot of effort beefing up external connectivity support in the Tile-Gx72, from quad channel DDR3-1866 support to 32 gigabit Ethernet controllers and 24 lane PCI-Express support. Tilera claims that bandwidth between the cores, which use the firm's Imesh interconnect,This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. has now surpassed 100Tbit/s.
With Tilera pitching its Tile-Gx chips at the networking market,The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. the firm said its Mpipe packet engine can support 120 million packets per second in duplex.Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. The firm's Mica security core supports 80 threads and can do 40Gbit/s cryptography.
Tilera's Tile Gx-72 chip can be had as a standalone chip or placed on a network card. The firm said that most of its customers opt for the standalone chip, though it told The INQUIRER that the number of "off-load NICs", where the Tilera chip is used as an accelerator on an x86 machine, is growing.
Tilera told The INQUIRER that its Tile-Gx72 chip is being fabbed by TSMC on its 40nm process node, showing that chip designers not burdened with legacy ISAs can create many core chips without the need for costly leading edge process nodes. The firm also told The INQUIRER that the Tile-Gx72 chip consumes between 50W and 60W of power depending on the application.
Although Tilera's chip is very much a niche product, given that Intel and ARM vendors are looking at getting into the networking market with the growing popularity of software defined networks,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an IC card. Tilera has a considerable advantage by already having been in the market for a number of years. As Bob Doud, director of processor strategy for Tilera told The INQUIRER, Tilera "already has 64-bit today and [is] packing 72 cores on a single chip", and it might be a while before even Intel's chip manufacturing skill enables it to match Tilera's core count.
Within this latest release, changes have been made to extend the way environment templates can share common data and tests across multiple similar test environments. This improves the maintainability of the large enterprise testing environments typically found in VersaTest installations. The existing test case search facilities have also been enhanced to allow a more refined search operation to be performed. The significant benefit is that it allows users to more easily find test cases that have particular fields and data.
Additionally, the release includes a new feature to give per-user persistence allowing the state and layout of the interface to be saved between uses. The user experience has been enhanced in other ways as well, in that panels and menus can now be customized based on user access levels. This allows a user’s experience of the product to be tailored depending on their operational role.
Also included in this release are enhancements to the documentation of test cases, allowing extra descriptive information to be included in a form readily understood by business analysts.
In addition to time savings in testing, VersaTest Automator decreases the time involved in analyzing testing results. With an easy to use GUI interface and “audit capture” functionality, the product increases both testing accuracy as well as ROI. To find out more about VersaTest Automator, visit the Ascert Web Site or call one of the local Ascert offices.
Ascert is recognized as a leading provider of premier testing software solutions. Ascert was founded in 1992 to provide automated software testing solutions that help companies measure the performance, reliability and scalability of their mission-critical back-end servers and applications. With over 100 clients worldwide, Ascert's products and services are used at some of the world's most successful companies. Off-the-shelf simulators include solutions for EFT testing, POS testing, ATM testing, IFX testing, EMV/chip card testing, ISO8583 testing and 3270 & 6530 terminal testing. Ascert’s custom simulators have been used for testing air traffic control systems and biometric payment systems. Ascert's products assist testing professionals across industry segments to better manage their testing processes and environments through an end-to-end tool set.
Tilera's Tile CPU was one of the first massively multi-core processors with the firm announcing a 32-core Tile-Gx chip as far back as 2007,There are generally three different configurations of industrial laser cutting machine. and now the firm has more than doubled the core count and improved connectivity. Tilera's 64-bit Tile-Gx72 chip sports 72 cores clocked at between 1GHz and 1.2GHz with each core having 256KB of Level 2 cache, and is aimed at the networking and high performance computing (HPC) markets.
Tilera has spent a lot of effort beefing up external connectivity support in the Tile-Gx72, from quad channel DDR3-1866 support to 32 gigabit Ethernet controllers and 24 lane PCI-Express support. Tilera claims that bandwidth between the cores, which use the firm's Imesh interconnect,This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. has now surpassed 100Tbit/s.
With Tilera pitching its Tile-Gx chips at the networking market,The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. the firm said its Mpipe packet engine can support 120 million packets per second in duplex.Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. The firm's Mica security core supports 80 threads and can do 40Gbit/s cryptography.
Tilera's Tile Gx-72 chip can be had as a standalone chip or placed on a network card. The firm said that most of its customers opt for the standalone chip, though it told The INQUIRER that the number of "off-load NICs", where the Tilera chip is used as an accelerator on an x86 machine, is growing.
Tilera told The INQUIRER that its Tile-Gx72 chip is being fabbed by TSMC on its 40nm process node, showing that chip designers not burdened with legacy ISAs can create many core chips without the need for costly leading edge process nodes. The firm also told The INQUIRER that the Tile-Gx72 chip consumes between 50W and 60W of power depending on the application.
Although Tilera's chip is very much a niche product, given that Intel and ARM vendors are looking at getting into the networking market with the growing popularity of software defined networks,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an IC card. Tilera has a considerable advantage by already having been in the market for a number of years. As Bob Doud, director of processor strategy for Tilera told The INQUIRER, Tilera "already has 64-bit today and [is] packing 72 cores on a single chip", and it might be a while before even Intel's chip manufacturing skill enables it to match Tilera's core count.
Art Escape
At first glance, 21c Museum Hotel looks like any other building in
Louisville’s urban museum district. Architecturally beautiful, its stone
facade blends in with the surrounding historic neighborhood. That is,
until you look up and a bright red penguin overlooking the main entrance
catches your eye. Turn the corner and a 38-foot Styrofoam and steel,
gold-painted replica of Michelangelo’s “David” hints there is something
different about this particular spot.
It’s a museum masquerading as a hotel at night. And it’s a hotel with the most impressive contemporary art collection outside of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. It’s no surprise 21c has been touted as one of the world’s coolest places to stay.
Contemporary art collectors Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson had two passions. The first was to contribute to revitalization efforts in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The second was to share their love of contemporary art and help make it a part of peoples’ daily lives. They partnered with renowned architect Deborah Berke to renovate five former warehouses, and in 2006, their dream materialized in the form of 21c Museum Hotel. The name itself pays homage to the 21st century, when all the art in the museum hotel was created.
By its very nature, contemporary art is mutable and experiential. It’s an event that changes with each interaction, and it’s rarely passive. The art housed at 21c exemplifies that; much of it is designed to be interactive. For example, those red penguins that greet visitors were one of the museum’s first exhibitions. Patrons and staff alike could (and still sometimes do) move these recycled plastic creatures around the museum and hotel at will, so they were rarely in the same place twice. Some guests even found them inside their rooms at check-in.
“That is exemplary of the kind of art that you can find at 21c. It’s about an interactive experience,” says Stephanie Greene, the museum’s public relations manager. “There’s art everywhere. You experience art whether you’re dining or attending a meeting. There really is art everywhere on the property.”
Another guest favorite greets visitors as they approach the elevator bank in the main building. Called “Text Rain,” this interactive piece projects a person’s image onto a huge, blank wall. There, falling words settle on the image of the person standing in front of the wall (you as you wait for the elevator), mimicking falling rain.
Some pieces are as functional as they are intriguing. The art car “Pipmobile” is a working limousine covered in red glass beads to mimic the interior of a pomegranate. VIP guests can opt to be picked up from the airport, for example, by hotel staff driving the flashy limo.
Contemporary art isn’t limited to display pieces at 21c, either.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. There’s a monthly poetry series, as well other cultural programming such as artist and curator lectures, musical performances and film showings.
True to the founders’ vision, 21c is making contemporary art more accessible and more immersive than ever before. There is no admission fee for the museum portion of the establishment. And it’s open 24 hours a day, every day of the week, with guided tours offered most Fridays and Saturdays.
Installations are a mix of permanent pieces, like “Text Rain,” commissioned exhibitions and rotating thematic displays, which change about twice a year. Alice Gray Stites, chief curator and director of art programming, works with the rest of the curatorial staff to carefully select work from up-and-coming artists. Additionally, 21c hosts traveling exhibitions and borrows from and loans to other contemporary art museums.
“The art is really carefully selected … with an eye toward exceptional art,” says Gray Stites. “When a topic is provocative, that’s a good thing. It’s thought provoking.” The non-traditional style of 21c actually lends to a more flexible, open-minded approach to contemporary art, she adds.Parking industry's first and only truly unified parking management system. “When you create a framework where people can be more relaxed and engaged, you can provoke people a bit for the sake of broadening perspectives.
Art permeates every inch of the five-building complex, including its 90 rooms, which feature high ceilings and large windows to better display the pieces. Charming, industrial elements like exposed brick walls and pewter mint julep cups complement modern decor and conveniences such as iPod docking stations, luxurious bedding and plush bathrobes.
Guests can choose between city and atrium views for their standard rooms or suites.Our fully automated parking system increase parking up to 100% by sliding cars closer together. The well-appointed Corner Suite features gorgeous views of downtown Louisville through four enormous windows, a dinette set, sitting area and a 42-inch flat-screen HDTV. Some suites include a semi-private rooftop terrace that overlooks the historic Seventh Street, but the real jewel of the 21c’s hotel portion is the Rooftop Apartment. This exclusive retreat boasts 1,300-plus square feet of living space, including a bedroom, a full bath plus two half baths, a full kitchen, an open concept living and dining area and a private garden terrace.
A variety of packages include themes such as birthday celebrations, romance, bourbon and, of course, art exploration. With special perks, including a dining credit to 21c’s in-house restaurant, Proof on Main, or a bottle of champagne waiting for you in the room, you’re sure to feel like royalty.
It’s no surprise to discover that the museum’s exhibitions and displays carry through into the dining and bar areas of Proof on Main—a restaurant touted as one of the best in the city. The rotating exhibitions change about once a year, but the menu is updated seasonally, and sometimes even weekly,Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. Greene says. The upscale, familiar food offerings are locally sourced from Kentucky farms. The main source for menu items is Woodland Farms, which is owned by 21c founders Brown and Wilson. Woodland Farms supplies fresh eggs, sustainably grown produce, heirloom fruits, Hereford and Mulefoot hogs, and even hormone-free, grass-fed bison.
Although the menu is based on what’s locally available, hearty offerings such as bison burgers and bone-in pork chops are standard fare. In the warmer months, look for house-made gelato and heirloom tomato salads.
And don’t forget to check out the bar at Proof on Main, too. It has a library of more than 50 Kentucky bourbons and was named one of GQ magazine’s “New Whiskey Temples.” Try a small batch or single barrel bourbon, or sample one of the bourbon and rye tasting flights. The innovative cocktail list is full of fresh ingredients,The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. and it changes seasonally to complement changing menu items. Of course, the best beverages make the list of signature, year-round cocktails.
“It’s very much a place for locals in addition to hotel guests,” Greene says. And with its status on the famous Louisville Urban Bourbon Trail (see “Five Things To Do”), it’s not hard to see why. To celebrate this status, Proof on Main has hand-selected a unique collection of small batch bourbons that celebrate artisan craftsmanship.
It’s a museum masquerading as a hotel at night. And it’s a hotel with the most impressive contemporary art collection outside of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. It’s no surprise 21c has been touted as one of the world’s coolest places to stay.
Contemporary art collectors Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson had two passions. The first was to contribute to revitalization efforts in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The second was to share their love of contemporary art and help make it a part of peoples’ daily lives. They partnered with renowned architect Deborah Berke to renovate five former warehouses, and in 2006, their dream materialized in the form of 21c Museum Hotel. The name itself pays homage to the 21st century, when all the art in the museum hotel was created.
By its very nature, contemporary art is mutable and experiential. It’s an event that changes with each interaction, and it’s rarely passive. The art housed at 21c exemplifies that; much of it is designed to be interactive. For example, those red penguins that greet visitors were one of the museum’s first exhibitions. Patrons and staff alike could (and still sometimes do) move these recycled plastic creatures around the museum and hotel at will, so they were rarely in the same place twice. Some guests even found them inside their rooms at check-in.
“That is exemplary of the kind of art that you can find at 21c. It’s about an interactive experience,” says Stephanie Greene, the museum’s public relations manager. “There’s art everywhere. You experience art whether you’re dining or attending a meeting. There really is art everywhere on the property.”
Another guest favorite greets visitors as they approach the elevator bank in the main building. Called “Text Rain,” this interactive piece projects a person’s image onto a huge, blank wall. There, falling words settle on the image of the person standing in front of the wall (you as you wait for the elevator), mimicking falling rain.
Some pieces are as functional as they are intriguing. The art car “Pipmobile” is a working limousine covered in red glass beads to mimic the interior of a pomegranate. VIP guests can opt to be picked up from the airport, for example, by hotel staff driving the flashy limo.
Contemporary art isn’t limited to display pieces at 21c, either.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. There’s a monthly poetry series, as well other cultural programming such as artist and curator lectures, musical performances and film showings.
True to the founders’ vision, 21c is making contemporary art more accessible and more immersive than ever before. There is no admission fee for the museum portion of the establishment. And it’s open 24 hours a day, every day of the week, with guided tours offered most Fridays and Saturdays.
Installations are a mix of permanent pieces, like “Text Rain,” commissioned exhibitions and rotating thematic displays, which change about twice a year. Alice Gray Stites, chief curator and director of art programming, works with the rest of the curatorial staff to carefully select work from up-and-coming artists. Additionally, 21c hosts traveling exhibitions and borrows from and loans to other contemporary art museums.
“The art is really carefully selected … with an eye toward exceptional art,” says Gray Stites. “When a topic is provocative, that’s a good thing. It’s thought provoking.” The non-traditional style of 21c actually lends to a more flexible, open-minded approach to contemporary art, she adds.Parking industry's first and only truly unified parking management system. “When you create a framework where people can be more relaxed and engaged, you can provoke people a bit for the sake of broadening perspectives.
Art permeates every inch of the five-building complex, including its 90 rooms, which feature high ceilings and large windows to better display the pieces. Charming, industrial elements like exposed brick walls and pewter mint julep cups complement modern decor and conveniences such as iPod docking stations, luxurious bedding and plush bathrobes.
Guests can choose between city and atrium views for their standard rooms or suites.Our fully automated parking system increase parking up to 100% by sliding cars closer together. The well-appointed Corner Suite features gorgeous views of downtown Louisville through four enormous windows, a dinette set, sitting area and a 42-inch flat-screen HDTV. Some suites include a semi-private rooftop terrace that overlooks the historic Seventh Street, but the real jewel of the 21c’s hotel portion is the Rooftop Apartment. This exclusive retreat boasts 1,300-plus square feet of living space, including a bedroom, a full bath plus two half baths, a full kitchen, an open concept living and dining area and a private garden terrace.
A variety of packages include themes such as birthday celebrations, romance, bourbon and, of course, art exploration. With special perks, including a dining credit to 21c’s in-house restaurant, Proof on Main, or a bottle of champagne waiting for you in the room, you’re sure to feel like royalty.
It’s no surprise to discover that the museum’s exhibitions and displays carry through into the dining and bar areas of Proof on Main—a restaurant touted as one of the best in the city. The rotating exhibitions change about once a year, but the menu is updated seasonally, and sometimes even weekly,Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. Greene says. The upscale, familiar food offerings are locally sourced from Kentucky farms. The main source for menu items is Woodland Farms, which is owned by 21c founders Brown and Wilson. Woodland Farms supplies fresh eggs, sustainably grown produce, heirloom fruits, Hereford and Mulefoot hogs, and even hormone-free, grass-fed bison.
Although the menu is based on what’s locally available, hearty offerings such as bison burgers and bone-in pork chops are standard fare. In the warmer months, look for house-made gelato and heirloom tomato salads.
And don’t forget to check out the bar at Proof on Main, too. It has a library of more than 50 Kentucky bourbons and was named one of GQ magazine’s “New Whiskey Temples.” Try a small batch or single barrel bourbon, or sample one of the bourbon and rye tasting flights. The innovative cocktail list is full of fresh ingredients,The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. and it changes seasonally to complement changing menu items. Of course, the best beverages make the list of signature, year-round cocktails.
“It’s very much a place for locals in addition to hotel guests,” Greene says. And with its status on the famous Louisville Urban Bourbon Trail (see “Five Things To Do”), it’s not hard to see why. To celebrate this status, Proof on Main has hand-selected a unique collection of small batch bourbons that celebrate artisan craftsmanship.
Use Tax Credit, Not Minimum Wage
These are worthy goals, but they should be paid for by taxpayers
nationwide, not just by the businesses that employ lower-wage workers.
Instead of redistribution through regulation, Congress should enhance
and improve the earned income tax credit, or start a new
taxpayer-financed program that makes working more attractive for the
poor.
The great appeal of raising the minimum wage is that it appears to reduce inequality without increasing budget deficits. That seductive glimmer is the policy’s greatest flaw. We should have a debate about how much to spend to promote opportunity. We shouldn’t embrace policies that make politicians look caring without requiring them to pay the cost of justifying higher taxes. We should abhor cheap tricks,Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. such as unfunded mandates, and the minimum wage is a bit like an unfunded mandate.
Like the minimum wage, the Americans with Disabilities Act was motivated by worthy goals. I care deeply that disabled Americans suffer less.Our fully automated parking system increase parking up to 100% by sliding cars closer together. But instead of funding remedies with taxpayer dollars, the ADA pushed the burden downstream to local public transit systems, declaring that it was discrimination for a system to “fail to provide” alternatives such as “paratransit and other special transportation services to individuals with disabilities.Parking industry's first and only truly unified parking management system.”
This means that the finances of the Boston area’s transit system, for example, have been deeply strained by the $40-a-trip cost of paratransit, which leads to more than $100 million of annual spending that is only trivially offset by $5 million in federal aid. The costs of righting a widespread social wrong shouldn’t have to be paid for by bus and train riders, who face higher fees and reduced service, as systems work to cover the law’s mandated costs.
Likewise, why should the costs of making the U.S. more egalitarian be paid by the employers that happen to hire lower- wage workers? In January, the unemployment rate among high school dropouts was 12 percent. Only 40 percent of that group was employed at all.
Those scary numbers reflect a failure of entrepreneurial imagination: an inability of American companies to figure out ways to productively employ the less skilled. The most skill- intensive sectors, including my own, won’t pay the price of a higher minimum wage, precisely because they provide so few jobs for people at the low end of the skill spectrum.
The debate over the minimum wage is often depicted as a battle of social justice, calling for higher wages instead of economic efficiency, which operates best with fewer regulatory restrictions. Although providing more for the poor may be social justice, there is nothing just about loading all the costs onto the employers and customers of lower-wage workers. For 20 years, there has been a fierce debate about the impact that minimum wage laws have on unemployment.
Alan Krueger, now chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and David Card, of the University of California at Berkeley, are responsible for the research that reopened the debate on the efficiency costs of the minimum wage.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. They compared fast-food workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and found little decline in employment after New Jersey raised its minimum wage in 1992. Their 1997 book brings together five years of their serious scholarship, which suggests that at low levels an increase in minimum wage does little to discourage employment.
Changes in the minimum wage have been found to reduce employment by Kevin Murphy of the University of Chicago and economists Donald Deere and Finis Welch of Welch Consulting as well as by Janet Currie and Bruce Fallick. These findings are sufficiently disparate so that progressives can plausibly claim that Obama’s proposed minimum-wage increase will do little harm to employment, while libertarians can argue that a 24 percent increase in the minimum wage will lead to more unemployed teenagers and high school dropouts.
We would be stuck between two ideologically driven viewpoints if the minimum wage was our only tool to help lower- income Americans.
There are better ways of making work pay. The earned income tax credit has helped make work pay since 1975. It rises initially with income up to a maximum of $5,236 for families with two children, and then it phases out.
It has downsides, such as administrative complexity and monitoring, but it has been shown to increase employment, especially for single mothers. It can be improved and increased, and it remains the best alternative to raising the minimum wage.
Perhaps the simplest way to alter the credit is for it to provide a clear per-hour benefit directly to workers earning less than $9 an hour. An extra $1.The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.75 an hour, the proposed increase in the minimum wage, for the 1.67 million workers who currently earn the minimum wage, would cost about $4 billion, which could be easily funded with minor cuts to other programs such as highway spending.
The great appeal of raising the minimum wage is that it appears to reduce inequality without increasing budget deficits. That seductive glimmer is the policy’s greatest flaw. We should have a debate about how much to spend to promote opportunity. We shouldn’t embrace policies that make politicians look caring without requiring them to pay the cost of justifying higher taxes. We should abhor cheap tricks,Online shopping for bobbleheads Figures from a great selection. such as unfunded mandates, and the minimum wage is a bit like an unfunded mandate.
Like the minimum wage, the Americans with Disabilities Act was motivated by worthy goals. I care deeply that disabled Americans suffer less.Our fully automated parking system increase parking up to 100% by sliding cars closer together. But instead of funding remedies with taxpayer dollars, the ADA pushed the burden downstream to local public transit systems, declaring that it was discrimination for a system to “fail to provide” alternatives such as “paratransit and other special transportation services to individuals with disabilities.Parking industry's first and only truly unified parking management system.”
This means that the finances of the Boston area’s transit system, for example, have been deeply strained by the $40-a-trip cost of paratransit, which leads to more than $100 million of annual spending that is only trivially offset by $5 million in federal aid. The costs of righting a widespread social wrong shouldn’t have to be paid for by bus and train riders, who face higher fees and reduced service, as systems work to cover the law’s mandated costs.
Likewise, why should the costs of making the U.S. more egalitarian be paid by the employers that happen to hire lower- wage workers? In January, the unemployment rate among high school dropouts was 12 percent. Only 40 percent of that group was employed at all.
Those scary numbers reflect a failure of entrepreneurial imagination: an inability of American companies to figure out ways to productively employ the less skilled. The most skill- intensive sectors, including my own, won’t pay the price of a higher minimum wage, precisely because they provide so few jobs for people at the low end of the skill spectrum.
The debate over the minimum wage is often depicted as a battle of social justice, calling for higher wages instead of economic efficiency, which operates best with fewer regulatory restrictions. Although providing more for the poor may be social justice, there is nothing just about loading all the costs onto the employers and customers of lower-wage workers. For 20 years, there has been a fierce debate about the impact that minimum wage laws have on unemployment.
Alan Krueger, now chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and David Card, of the University of California at Berkeley, are responsible for the research that reopened the debate on the efficiency costs of the minimum wage.This solar lamp and phone charger can improve the lives of millons living without electricity. They compared fast-food workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and found little decline in employment after New Jersey raised its minimum wage in 1992. Their 1997 book brings together five years of their serious scholarship, which suggests that at low levels an increase in minimum wage does little to discourage employment.
Changes in the minimum wage have been found to reduce employment by Kevin Murphy of the University of Chicago and economists Donald Deere and Finis Welch of Welch Consulting as well as by Janet Currie and Bruce Fallick. These findings are sufficiently disparate so that progressives can plausibly claim that Obama’s proposed minimum-wage increase will do little harm to employment, while libertarians can argue that a 24 percent increase in the minimum wage will lead to more unemployed teenagers and high school dropouts.
We would be stuck between two ideologically driven viewpoints if the minimum wage was our only tool to help lower- income Americans.
There are better ways of making work pay. The earned income tax credit has helped make work pay since 1975. It rises initially with income up to a maximum of $5,236 for families with two children, and then it phases out.
It has downsides, such as administrative complexity and monitoring, but it has been shown to increase employment, especially for single mothers. It can be improved and increased, and it remains the best alternative to raising the minimum wage.
Perhaps the simplest way to alter the credit is for it to provide a clear per-hour benefit directly to workers earning less than $9 an hour. An extra $1.The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.75 an hour, the proposed increase in the minimum wage, for the 1.67 million workers who currently earn the minimum wage, would cost about $4 billion, which could be easily funded with minor cuts to other programs such as highway spending.
2013年2月18日星期一
The Good Life actor Richard Briers has died
The star, who was also known for his Shakespearean roles, had been battling a serious lung condition for a number of years.
Briers, who also starred in shows such as Ever Decreasing Circles and Monarch Of The Glen, recently said years of smoking had been to blame for his emphysema.The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.
Briers died “peacefully” at his London home yesterday, his agent said today.
In 2007 he took part in filming on location at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for the popular series Kingdom. He also appeared in pantomime at Norwich’s Theatre Royal in 1978 playing Dame Nanny Good Life in The Babes in the Wood and as Prospero in The Tempest in 2002.
But he was no less acclaimed as a distinguished Shakespearean actor, a major development in his career, at a point when he said “I realised I had gone as far as I could doing sitcoms”.
He will be best remembered as a bumbling, fussy and occasionally downtrodden figure in some of the most successful TV comedies of his era.
He was the lynchpin of three of the most notable sitcoms ever made in Britain - Marriage Lines, The Good Life (shown in the United States as Good Neighbours) and Ever Decreasing Circles.
But after a long career in popular television, Briers joined Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987, and his already very successful professional life took a new turn as he moved on to major classical roles.
Briers was born on January 14 1934 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he won the silver medal and a scholarship to Liverpool Playhouse in 1956. Two years later he made his first West End appearance in Gilt And Gingerbread. He barely stopped working from that day onwards.It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage.
Your television can watch you while you’re watching it; your notebook can follow you when you surf the Web and your smartphone can secretly scan every corner of your house. All these pictures could then land in the hands of hackers. Such a scenario may sound like part of a Michael Bay movie, but it is a real threat, as our connected devices are equipped with cameras that are not well protected and can allow people unauthorised access with relative ease.
There have been cases of PC rental agencies exploiting such weaknesses to track their customers and even schools have tracked students without their knowledge. Amongst the many things these spying mechanisms allow hackers to do is install malware. And some of the more malicious PC malwares can even lock up a PC and threaten to delete everything on it unless you pay a ransom, and an image of yourself through your own webcam is shown to show you proof of your being monitored.
Besides PCs and smartphones, there are also smart TVs with integrated webcams that can be misused. We show you how dangerous the situation is and how to protect yourself from your own devices.
With an active Internet connection, one or even two cameras and other sensors, your smartphone is an especially rewarding target for hackers on a mission. Unlike a stationary PC, it not only includes potentially compromising photos but a range of information that can be called up together with images connecting you to it—including details such as where and when the photo was taken. Researchers have already manipulated smartphones to create extensive and zoomable panoramas of a room by combining and interpolating a number of secretly taken photos. They could then simply flick through the composite image to find important information.
Even manufacturers of smartphones and their business partners are desperately interested in collecting such information. One such example is ad tracking, which Apple has introduced with iOS 6. It works by assigning a unique number that associates a user with a particular device. When visiting websites and whilst using apps, this number is sent to advertising servers whose operators get an exact picture of what interests you, and which advertisements you’d be more likely to act upon.
If you think your smartphone and its webcam are protected by Android’s security mechanisms, think again. The operating system is dependent on two basic principles: the user must grant each app authorisations for what it wants access to, and apps are strictly separated from one another. This way malware can only upload stolen data if it has been authorised for Internet access.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. However, proof-of-concept app Soundcomber bypasses all of this. It only requires authorisation for sound recording and disguises itself as a harmless voice memo app. It secretly taps phone calls and extracts numbers entered or spoken into the phone.Polypropylene and polythene can be used in a process called plastic injection mould. It then transfers these numbers to its author by calling up the Android browser, which does not require authorisation. It directs the browser to go to a specific URL,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. which includes the numbers that have been stolen. The URL is interpreted by the author’s server and he gains possession of the numbers. As an alternative, Soundcomber can also smuggle this data through a “dead postbox” to a second identical malware app. For this purpose, it changes the authorisations on different photos in your camera roll in a predetermined sequence. The information is then reassembled by the second app and then transferred via the Internet. Hackers can also transfer images this way.
Besides the camera and the microphone, a smartphone’s motion sensors are also used to spy on users. This is supported by the research project iPhone, which uses the highly accurate accelerator sensors of an iPhone to determine what is typed on a PC keyboard set beside the smartphone on the table. The smartphone registers the vibrations and reconstructs the text typed in from the sequence and a dictionary, although it helps if you know the subject matter that is being typed in advance. The researchers managed a success rate of 80 percent.
Briers, who also starred in shows such as Ever Decreasing Circles and Monarch Of The Glen, recently said years of smoking had been to blame for his emphysema.The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great.
Briers died “peacefully” at his London home yesterday, his agent said today.
In 2007 he took part in filming on location at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for the popular series Kingdom. He also appeared in pantomime at Norwich’s Theatre Royal in 1978 playing Dame Nanny Good Life in The Babes in the Wood and as Prospero in The Tempest in 2002.
But he was no less acclaimed as a distinguished Shakespearean actor, a major development in his career, at a point when he said “I realised I had gone as far as I could doing sitcoms”.
He will be best remembered as a bumbling, fussy and occasionally downtrodden figure in some of the most successful TV comedies of his era.
He was the lynchpin of three of the most notable sitcoms ever made in Britain - Marriage Lines, The Good Life (shown in the United States as Good Neighbours) and Ever Decreasing Circles.
But after a long career in popular television, Briers joined Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987, and his already very successful professional life took a new turn as he moved on to major classical roles.
Briers was born on January 14 1934 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he won the silver medal and a scholarship to Liverpool Playhouse in 1956. Two years later he made his first West End appearance in Gilt And Gingerbread. He barely stopped working from that day onwards.It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage.
Your television can watch you while you’re watching it; your notebook can follow you when you surf the Web and your smartphone can secretly scan every corner of your house. All these pictures could then land in the hands of hackers. Such a scenario may sound like part of a Michael Bay movie, but it is a real threat, as our connected devices are equipped with cameras that are not well protected and can allow people unauthorised access with relative ease.
There have been cases of PC rental agencies exploiting such weaknesses to track their customers and even schools have tracked students without their knowledge. Amongst the many things these spying mechanisms allow hackers to do is install malware. And some of the more malicious PC malwares can even lock up a PC and threaten to delete everything on it unless you pay a ransom, and an image of yourself through your own webcam is shown to show you proof of your being monitored.
Besides PCs and smartphones, there are also smart TVs with integrated webcams that can be misused. We show you how dangerous the situation is and how to protect yourself from your own devices.
With an active Internet connection, one or even two cameras and other sensors, your smartphone is an especially rewarding target for hackers on a mission. Unlike a stationary PC, it not only includes potentially compromising photos but a range of information that can be called up together with images connecting you to it—including details such as where and when the photo was taken. Researchers have already manipulated smartphones to create extensive and zoomable panoramas of a room by combining and interpolating a number of secretly taken photos. They could then simply flick through the composite image to find important information.
Even manufacturers of smartphones and their business partners are desperately interested in collecting such information. One such example is ad tracking, which Apple has introduced with iOS 6. It works by assigning a unique number that associates a user with a particular device. When visiting websites and whilst using apps, this number is sent to advertising servers whose operators get an exact picture of what interests you, and which advertisements you’d be more likely to act upon.
If you think your smartphone and its webcam are protected by Android’s security mechanisms, think again. The operating system is dependent on two basic principles: the user must grant each app authorisations for what it wants access to, and apps are strictly separated from one another. This way malware can only upload stolen data if it has been authorised for Internet access.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. However, proof-of-concept app Soundcomber bypasses all of this. It only requires authorisation for sound recording and disguises itself as a harmless voice memo app. It secretly taps phone calls and extracts numbers entered or spoken into the phone.Polypropylene and polythene can be used in a process called plastic injection mould. It then transfers these numbers to its author by calling up the Android browser, which does not require authorisation. It directs the browser to go to a specific URL,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. which includes the numbers that have been stolen. The URL is interpreted by the author’s server and he gains possession of the numbers. As an alternative, Soundcomber can also smuggle this data through a “dead postbox” to a second identical malware app. For this purpose, it changes the authorisations on different photos in your camera roll in a predetermined sequence. The information is then reassembled by the second app and then transferred via the Internet. Hackers can also transfer images this way.
Besides the camera and the microphone, a smartphone’s motion sensors are also used to spy on users. This is supported by the research project iPhone, which uses the highly accurate accelerator sensors of an iPhone to determine what is typed on a PC keyboard set beside the smartphone on the table. The smartphone registers the vibrations and reconstructs the text typed in from the sequence and a dictionary, although it helps if you know the subject matter that is being typed in advance. The researchers managed a success rate of 80 percent.
Collaboration Made Easy
If you're like half the U.S. workforce, you work at a job suitable
for either full-time or part-time telecommuting, according to a Cisco
survey. But the problem with remote work -- besides no free office
coffee -- is how to stay coordinated.
Crucial tasks become lost in tangles of e-mails, chat sessions and to-do lists, so the software you use to stay on the same page becomes crucial, and few solutions are as jam-packed or agile as Flow, which combines apps, social media-style features and traditional Web and e-mail tools to speed along modern workplaces.
No matter what tool you use, you can easily create new projects and tasks, give them a due date, assign them to a team member and add notes, files and other information, such as pictures, video and text. You can tag tasks to group them under labels, invite team members to view and edit them, and even e-mail them to others. As you add more tasks, you can sort them into folders and projects to stay organized, and flag anything important to capture your team's attention.
The app integrates e-mail nicely into the workflow, too: you can reply directly to e-mails sent from Flow, which will add more files and info to the item. You can even e-mail tasks to the app, which will add them to the list.
That's on par compared to other productivity and task management software, but Flow stands out by how it integrates social media-style features. For example, an Activity Feed gives an at-a-glance view of your project's progress, showing tasks team members have completed or are working on. You can also "follow" tasks and lists to keep in the loop of items not assigned. The app creates social networks around projects, keeping a continuous stream to organizes you.
You need a strong set of tools to coordinate and arrangement tasks for different communication and productivity styles.
Overall, Flow's Web and app components work well together. If you're hoping to work with an app-only tool,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. however, you'll be disappointed -- the app requires you to sign up for a Web account to use it. Youcan only perform higher-level tasks through the Web browser, such as rename or archive lists and projects.
The Web software and app are cleanly designed, and you can jump right into Flow with its streamlined interfaces. Having both to use makes it easy to track and adjust lists and tasks no matter where you are. But with that many features, it takes a while to learn the shortcuts and navigation, especially on the compact iOS version. And features standard in similar apps, like alerts,The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. are missing.
Flow is great on many levels -- its two version inferface and social media-like features. But you'll pay a pretty penny for that convenience -- after a free 14-day trial, it costs $10 a month to subscribe.
If you don't need a complex app WorkFlowy is a cheaper solution. It still makes lists, and you can add tags and hashtags to items and group, organize and e-mail them, or create public lists that others can edit and view.
Many people also use Evernote to organize projects. The app can play a valuable role in sharing assets, files and data, but it doesn't have management tools,Polypropylene and polythene can be used in a process called plastic injection mould. like priorities and due dates.
One of the best competitors, though, is Trello. The app garnered a following for its clean, elegant card-based interface and its easy-to-use features. It lets you assign tasks, collaborate in real-time, gather data and opinions and pings you with notifications to keep track of your projects' progress.
If you're more visual, you may prefer Trello -- the interface resembles a bulletin board, so you can pin "cards" and shuffle them into lists and projects. It also has iOS and Android companion apps.
In fact I’m going to meet Giles Long MBE, retired British Paralympic swimmer, in a Dickensian, oak-panelled pub down the road. A fire blazes. Pearl Jam scream. Long is at the bar with a pint of Guinness. Simon Callow is nowhere to be seen.
Along with three Paralympic gold medals, two silvers and two bronzes, Long’s swimming career is dotted with accolades. He broke the world record for the 100m Butterfly at Sydney’s Paralympic Games in 2000, has been decorated with another 13 medals from the International Paralympic Committee’s World and European Championships, and has recently been awarded an honorary doctorate for the invention of his Paralympic classification programme LEXI and his contribution to London’s 2012 Paralympic Games. He’s also got a degree from Leeds University, and it doesn’t get much better than that.
Still, Long doesn’t think swimming is particularly glamorous – too many four-in-the-morning November trips to the pool. Didn’t the success of Michael Phelps, Chad Le Clos, Ellie Simmonds, do anything for the status of professional swimmers this summer? “Well, Michael Phelps is a great swimmer but I wouldn’t say he was very cool. It’s more the experience of the sport than the image. I’ve been incredibly lucky with swimming: I’ve travelled the world and met some amazing people.”
Best place he’s ever swam? “In terms of location: America. We had this swim-meet in Phoenix,It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage. outside, it was night-time, warm, there was a barbecue on the go, huge cactuses surrounding the pool, it’s a completely different thing over there. The sunset in the desert is unbelievable; it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. Another time the European Championships were in Germany and with true efficiency they’d mounted a beer tent onto the side of the fire escape so you could jump straight out of the pool into the bar. Everyone was standing around in towels with pints in their hands. You just have some mad experiences.”
So drinking isn’t as taboo in professional swimming as it is in other sports? Long concedes that the end-of-season meets are more relaxed than the World Champs, but does think swimmers are pretty heavy drinkers in general. “There’s just something about water sports that means there’s a lot of booze involved. Rowers drink a lot, sailors drink a lot; swimmers have a certain demeanour,The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. some of them practically inhale alcohol.”
Crucial tasks become lost in tangles of e-mails, chat sessions and to-do lists, so the software you use to stay on the same page becomes crucial, and few solutions are as jam-packed or agile as Flow, which combines apps, social media-style features and traditional Web and e-mail tools to speed along modern workplaces.
No matter what tool you use, you can easily create new projects and tasks, give them a due date, assign them to a team member and add notes, files and other information, such as pictures, video and text. You can tag tasks to group them under labels, invite team members to view and edit them, and even e-mail them to others. As you add more tasks, you can sort them into folders and projects to stay organized, and flag anything important to capture your team's attention.
The app integrates e-mail nicely into the workflow, too: you can reply directly to e-mails sent from Flow, which will add more files and info to the item. You can even e-mail tasks to the app, which will add them to the list.
That's on par compared to other productivity and task management software, but Flow stands out by how it integrates social media-style features. For example, an Activity Feed gives an at-a-glance view of your project's progress, showing tasks team members have completed or are working on. You can also "follow" tasks and lists to keep in the loop of items not assigned. The app creates social networks around projects, keeping a continuous stream to organizes you.
You need a strong set of tools to coordinate and arrangement tasks for different communication and productivity styles.
Overall, Flow's Web and app components work well together. If you're hoping to work with an app-only tool,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. however, you'll be disappointed -- the app requires you to sign up for a Web account to use it. Youcan only perform higher-level tasks through the Web browser, such as rename or archive lists and projects.
The Web software and app are cleanly designed, and you can jump right into Flow with its streamlined interfaces. Having both to use makes it easy to track and adjust lists and tasks no matter where you are. But with that many features, it takes a while to learn the shortcuts and navigation, especially on the compact iOS version. And features standard in similar apps, like alerts,The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. are missing.
Flow is great on many levels -- its two version inferface and social media-like features. But you'll pay a pretty penny for that convenience -- after a free 14-day trial, it costs $10 a month to subscribe.
If you don't need a complex app WorkFlowy is a cheaper solution. It still makes lists, and you can add tags and hashtags to items and group, organize and e-mail them, or create public lists that others can edit and view.
Many people also use Evernote to organize projects. The app can play a valuable role in sharing assets, files and data, but it doesn't have management tools,Polypropylene and polythene can be used in a process called plastic injection mould. like priorities and due dates.
One of the best competitors, though, is Trello. The app garnered a following for its clean, elegant card-based interface and its easy-to-use features. It lets you assign tasks, collaborate in real-time, gather data and opinions and pings you with notifications to keep track of your projects' progress.
If you're more visual, you may prefer Trello -- the interface resembles a bulletin board, so you can pin "cards" and shuffle them into lists and projects. It also has iOS and Android companion apps.
In fact I’m going to meet Giles Long MBE, retired British Paralympic swimmer, in a Dickensian, oak-panelled pub down the road. A fire blazes. Pearl Jam scream. Long is at the bar with a pint of Guinness. Simon Callow is nowhere to be seen.
Along with three Paralympic gold medals, two silvers and two bronzes, Long’s swimming career is dotted with accolades. He broke the world record for the 100m Butterfly at Sydney’s Paralympic Games in 2000, has been decorated with another 13 medals from the International Paralympic Committee’s World and European Championships, and has recently been awarded an honorary doctorate for the invention of his Paralympic classification programme LEXI and his contribution to London’s 2012 Paralympic Games. He’s also got a degree from Leeds University, and it doesn’t get much better than that.
Still, Long doesn’t think swimming is particularly glamorous – too many four-in-the-morning November trips to the pool. Didn’t the success of Michael Phelps, Chad Le Clos, Ellie Simmonds, do anything for the status of professional swimmers this summer? “Well, Michael Phelps is a great swimmer but I wouldn’t say he was very cool. It’s more the experience of the sport than the image. I’ve been incredibly lucky with swimming: I’ve travelled the world and met some amazing people.”
Best place he’s ever swam? “In terms of location: America. We had this swim-meet in Phoenix,It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage. outside, it was night-time, warm, there was a barbecue on the go, huge cactuses surrounding the pool, it’s a completely different thing over there. The sunset in the desert is unbelievable; it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. Another time the European Championships were in Germany and with true efficiency they’d mounted a beer tent onto the side of the fire escape so you could jump straight out of the pool into the bar. Everyone was standing around in towels with pints in their hands. You just have some mad experiences.”
So drinking isn’t as taboo in professional swimming as it is in other sports? Long concedes that the end-of-season meets are more relaxed than the World Champs, but does think swimmers are pretty heavy drinkers in general. “There’s just something about water sports that means there’s a lot of booze involved. Rowers drink a lot, sailors drink a lot; swimmers have a certain demeanour,The most famous china mosaic of Ancient times is in Pompeii and shows Alexander the Great. some of them practically inhale alcohol.”
Daugherty returns to work for county
Daugherty lost his Precinct 3 seat, which he had held since 2002, to
Karen Huber in the 2008 election. Last November, he ran against her in
a very tight race, winning by a narrow margin to become the only
Republican on the court.
It’s not easy being the odd man out, but Daugherty is used to it.
“I feel like the odd man out, even when I’m not in office,” he said.
Daugherty didn’t start out wanting to enter the political spotlight. He started out his career as a catcher for the minor league arm of the Boston Red Sox, where he played for three years.
“I figured out I wasn’t going to the big leagues, and I didn’t want to play minor league ball my whole life,” Daugherty said. “I told myself it was time to grow up and get my life started.”
He studied at the University of Texas and worked at Rooster Andrews Sporting Goods, where he learned all about how to run a business. After a few years, he set out to open his own sporting goods store, South Austin Sports Center. Later, he opened a bar and grill with batting cages called The Dugout and built a popular sportsplex on Pleasant Valley in 1984.
“It was during the time that I was doing business in the ’80s and ’90s that I found myself always interested in what was going on with city politics with how it affected businesses,” he said.
He was not in favor of the transportation fee that was included in utility bills and disliked the smoking ban that came into effect.
“I thought it was a little onerous to go and tell the businesses what they could do,” he said. “I was one of those people that would go down to the council and say this is really not very fair.”
Traffic was the issue that finally prompted him to run. Over the years,Our precision manufactured lasers and laser marker systems deliver the highest possible laser marking performance. Daugherty has made roads his number one priority, saddling him with the label of “road warrior,” a label he doesn’t think is necessarily accurate or fair.
“I was wondering along with everyone else, why in the world do we have all of this traffic?” he said. “As early as the ’90s, it was real obvious that we were not keeping up with our roadway network. I do think this community needs a roadway champion, and I’m happy to wear that.”
Being the expansion of roads, such as Texas 71 in southwestern Travis County, is among some of the proudest accomplishments from his first period in office.
When he was ousted from the court in 2008, he decided to take on a different challenge. Having sold his sportsplex before joining the commissioners court, he turned his eyes to his next business venture. He decided to open a restaurant in one of the worst economic recessions in history, and he picked a location, the Y in Oak Hill,There are generally three different configurations of industrial laser cutting machine. that had seen a string of failed restaurants.
“It just never had the right thing in it,” he said.
He and his wife,Our precision manufactured lasers and laser systems deliver the highest possible laser cutter performance on a wide variety of materials. Charlyn, became the primary investors and lined up additional funding. Daugherty is a shrewd businessman and knows what he doesn’t know. He set out to hire some of the best restaurateurs in the business to help make the new venture a success.
“I wanted grade A operators, and I went looking,” Daugherty said. “I found the two guys that made Z’Tejas work.”
Jack Allen’s Kitchen opened in Oak Hill in 2009 and a second location recently opened in Round Rock.
But he was still frustrated by what he described as a lack of interest from elected officials in road projects and made the decision to run for office again in 2012.
He pulled off a narrow victory,Online shopping for Cable Ties from a great selection of Lamps. he believes, by focusing on roads.
“Traffic is never out of sight or mind because you’re always in it,” he said.
During his next term on the court, he hopes to tackle the growth of the county government, get more youth sports facilities for western Travis County and tackle water issues. But foremost on his mind are roads, projects such Highway 45 Southwest, which would connect FM 1626 and Loop 1 South.wind turbine He is also eyeing improvements to Texas 71, 290, Loop 360, RM 620 and more.
“The first thing I think you have to do to have any positive movement at all with roadways is that you’ve got to have a leader,” he said. “You’ve got to have someone willing to say that this is my number one goal.”
It’s not easy being the odd man out, but Daugherty is used to it.
“I feel like the odd man out, even when I’m not in office,” he said.
Daugherty didn’t start out wanting to enter the political spotlight. He started out his career as a catcher for the minor league arm of the Boston Red Sox, where he played for three years.
“I figured out I wasn’t going to the big leagues, and I didn’t want to play minor league ball my whole life,” Daugherty said. “I told myself it was time to grow up and get my life started.”
He studied at the University of Texas and worked at Rooster Andrews Sporting Goods, where he learned all about how to run a business. After a few years, he set out to open his own sporting goods store, South Austin Sports Center. Later, he opened a bar and grill with batting cages called The Dugout and built a popular sportsplex on Pleasant Valley in 1984.
“It was during the time that I was doing business in the ’80s and ’90s that I found myself always interested in what was going on with city politics with how it affected businesses,” he said.
He was not in favor of the transportation fee that was included in utility bills and disliked the smoking ban that came into effect.
“I thought it was a little onerous to go and tell the businesses what they could do,” he said. “I was one of those people that would go down to the council and say this is really not very fair.”
Traffic was the issue that finally prompted him to run. Over the years,Our precision manufactured lasers and laser marker systems deliver the highest possible laser marking performance. Daugherty has made roads his number one priority, saddling him with the label of “road warrior,” a label he doesn’t think is necessarily accurate or fair.
“I was wondering along with everyone else, why in the world do we have all of this traffic?” he said. “As early as the ’90s, it was real obvious that we were not keeping up with our roadway network. I do think this community needs a roadway champion, and I’m happy to wear that.”
Being the expansion of roads, such as Texas 71 in southwestern Travis County, is among some of the proudest accomplishments from his first period in office.
When he was ousted from the court in 2008, he decided to take on a different challenge. Having sold his sportsplex before joining the commissioners court, he turned his eyes to his next business venture. He decided to open a restaurant in one of the worst economic recessions in history, and he picked a location, the Y in Oak Hill,There are generally three different configurations of industrial laser cutting machine. that had seen a string of failed restaurants.
“It just never had the right thing in it,” he said.
He and his wife,Our precision manufactured lasers and laser systems deliver the highest possible laser cutter performance on a wide variety of materials. Charlyn, became the primary investors and lined up additional funding. Daugherty is a shrewd businessman and knows what he doesn’t know. He set out to hire some of the best restaurateurs in the business to help make the new venture a success.
“I wanted grade A operators, and I went looking,” Daugherty said. “I found the two guys that made Z’Tejas work.”
Jack Allen’s Kitchen opened in Oak Hill in 2009 and a second location recently opened in Round Rock.
But he was still frustrated by what he described as a lack of interest from elected officials in road projects and made the decision to run for office again in 2012.
He pulled off a narrow victory,Online shopping for Cable Ties from a great selection of Lamps. he believes, by focusing on roads.
“Traffic is never out of sight or mind because you’re always in it,” he said.
During his next term on the court, he hopes to tackle the growth of the county government, get more youth sports facilities for western Travis County and tackle water issues. But foremost on his mind are roads, projects such Highway 45 Southwest, which would connect FM 1626 and Loop 1 South.wind turbine He is also eyeing improvements to Texas 71, 290, Loop 360, RM 620 and more.
“The first thing I think you have to do to have any positive movement at all with roadways is that you’ve got to have a leader,” he said. “You’ve got to have someone willing to say that this is my number one goal.”
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