Since Amtrak derives its funding from the govt, every congresscritter wants the train to stop in their district. Amtrak cannot say no to congressman x because they won't get his vote on future funding. Thus, the train stops when there is no valid business reason to do so. As long as Amtrak relies on funding from congress, this will not change.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up your remains Roll onto your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your God like a soldier.
I've purchased many classical discs from the DGM website and have been very happy with them. I also like that the download package includes a very nice pdf of the liner notes, which can be very useful. I have not purchased anything from them since they redid their website earlier this year. I am not sure that this is the place to go to find new and unknown artists, however. I'd also like to thank the original poster for mentioning Ligetti. I've got a couple of discs of his material in my mp3 player, and am listening to one of them as I type this.
I used to have an eMusic subscription before they changed their business model. Back when downloading any track counted as downloading a track, I would download operas from one of the Italian labels . They had encoded the opera with each act being a track, so I could download an opera and it would count as three tracks. Shoot, I downloaded one where the entire opera was one track! When they changed their pricing model so that an album counted as 12 tracks, I canceled my subscription.
The war ending strategy of the Japanese Government was expressed in the slogan "100 million die together." They were prepared to fight to the bitter end using sharpened bamboo spears, which do not require fuel. They knew that they could no longer win the war, but felt that if they inflicted enough casualties during an invasion of the home islands, that the American public would call for an end to the war. At the very least, it would give them an opportunity to die honorable deaths, rather than suffer the dishonor of surrender. It was only when Hirohito decided to "endure the unendurable" after the second bomb and surrender that the war came to a less bloody end. You might want to read "The Rising Sun" by John Toland.
I recently completed a Masters in Medical Informatics from Northwestern University online through their School of Continuing Studies. The program was initially offered on campus and online. Since I have a job, and do not live in Chicago, the online option worked for me. They have phased out the on campus version of the program, as enrollment dropped and they could no longer scrape together enough students to justify offering the classes in person. The online version of the program, on the other hand, is booming. I learned a lot in the program, and also learned how much I already new. Many established universities have distance learning options.
Thank you, slashdot. I learned a new word today. I had never encountered the word "cosplay" before and had to look it up. I must lead a sheltered life. Get Off My Lawn!
Those upper level auto employees are "evaluating" the vehicles, so that doesn't count as part of their compensation. They don't pay tax on the value of the vehicle, because they are "evaluating" it. Of course, when I was at Ford, the big shots were all "evaluating" Jags and Land Rovers, while lesser mortals got to evaluate Tauruses. If the company was really mad at you, you got to "evaluate" a lime green Escort.
Actually, I see lots of "old IT" folks working in Healthcare IT. At the hospital system that I worked for, there were many folks who had been working there for over twenty years. Also since the life span of systems in healthcare is quite long, you tend to need older IT folks to maintain a system that is over ten years old, as they don't teach kids that technology in school any more. There is a lot of cruddy, old Healthcare IT written in MUMPS, and very few who are under the age of 40 know MUMPS.
While many of the Healthcare IT front end apps run in Windows, there is a lot of Unix running behind the scenes. The Cloverleaf Interface Engine that I worked on ran on IBM AIX, and it ran like a tank. We had virtually no downtime. The Unix admins begged us to stop the engine so that they could perform maintenance on the box. We told them that if they needed the engines to be taken down, they should call the downtime and let it count against their downtime stats.
Regarding certification, if you do not have a certification requirement, how can you be assured that the product actually performs the functions that an EHR system is required to perform? The cost of certification is the cost of doing business.
Would you be upset if your doctor was using other medical supplies that were not certified?
bad in the old ways the doctor made a few salient notes here and there and 90% of the time was used to address issues and or questions about my sons health instead of dicking around with a computer.
The problem with the "bad old ways" was that no-one could read the doctor's writing. If the data is entered into the EHR, not only can all of the other care providers that see your son understand what your doctor entered, but if the entries are coded correctly using one of the standardized medical vocabularies like SNOMED-CT, for example, then the computerized decision support systems can look at your son's condition and alert the provider before the inject him with something that will kill him. Being able to see your son's complete medical history, including medications, conditions and allergies will go a long way to prevent medical errors. If I cannot read your doctor's hand written notes, there is no medical history. One doctor described having to prescribe medications without being able to see the patient's current medications and medical history as "prescribing blind."
My experience is that Healthcare IT is almost as conservative as healthcare. They are using systems and methodologies that are old. The deployment of EHR and HIEs will create jobs for IT to do things like network administration, database admin, backup/recovery, etc. There is going to be more work than the talent that is available. I, for one, will be happy for all the help that I can get. If I don't have to explain the basics of encounters and the importance of security to the newbies, I will be a happy man.
To me it's a series of erratic starts and stops, hardly any time is spent actually playing?! I get as much out of it as I would from a recital of Armenian poetry.
I believe it was George Will who described American Football as "violence, punctuated by committee meetings."
"Our union's hope is that this venture will give first hiring preference to former NUMMI employees who are already trained and highly skilled," Ron Gettlefinger, UAW.
NUMMI was the only Toyota plant in the US that was unionized.
You could call the first bomb on Hiroshima that. But the second one, on Nagasaki? Why?
We dropped the second bomb because the Japanese were still unwilling to surrender after Hiroshima. They were prepared to die together as a nation, and the shock of the second bomb convinced Hirohito that surrender was preferable to complete annihilation.
Maybe you should read some real history. The war ending slogan of the Japanese Government was "100 million die together." That doesn't sound like they were looking for a way out. The Japanese Army insisted on fighting to the death. It took the combined shock of the second atomic bomb, and the Russian declaration of war to convince Hirohito to "suffer the insufferable." Hirohito told the Army that Japan should surrender, and they want along with his decision because he was Emperor.
The second bomb wasn't gratuitous. It ended the war.
The alternative would have been to continue to firebomb Japan's cities, followed by a very bloody invasion.
A good book on the war from the Japanese perspective is John Toland's "The Rising Sun."
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That's good. However, I saw it as "a stream of naught and crosses in your R-A-M." :-)
It was ten times more powerful than Britain's pre-war joke.
Since Amtrak derives its funding from the govt, every congresscritter wants the train to stop in their district. Amtrak cannot say no to congressman x because they won't get his vote on future funding. Thus, the train stops when there is no valid business reason to do so. As long as Amtrak relies on funding from congress, this will not change.
It is actually reworked Kipling.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains
And the women come out to cut up your remains
Roll onto your rifle and blow out your brains
and go to your God like a soldier.
I've purchased many classical discs from the DGM website and have been very happy with them. I also like that the download package includes a very nice pdf of the liner notes, which can be very useful. I have not purchased anything from them since they redid their website earlier this year. I am not sure that this is the place to go to find new and unknown artists, however. I'd also like to thank the original poster for mentioning Ligetti. I've got a couple of discs of his material in my mp3 player, and am listening to one of them as I type this.
I used to have an eMusic subscription before they changed their business model. Back when downloading any track counted as downloading a track, I would download operas from one of the Italian labels . They had encoded the opera with each act being a track, so I could download an opera and it would count as three tracks. Shoot, I downloaded one where the entire opera was one track! When they changed their pricing model so that an album counted as 12 tracks, I canceled my subscription.
The war ending strategy of the Japanese Government was expressed in the slogan "100 million die together." They were prepared to fight to the bitter end using sharpened bamboo spears, which do not require fuel. They knew that they could no longer win the war, but felt that if they inflicted enough casualties during an invasion of the home islands, that the American public would call for an end to the war. At the very least, it would give them an opportunity to die honorable deaths, rather than suffer the dishonor of surrender. It was only when Hirohito decided to "endure the unendurable" after the second bomb and surrender that the war came to a less bloody end. You might want to read "The Rising Sun" by John Toland.
If the rules were ignored when they originally built the place, then it's hard to feel sorry for them.
If the store had been in operation for two generations, then the ADA rules did not exist when they "built the place."
I recently completed a Masters in Medical Informatics from Northwestern University online through their School of Continuing Studies. The program was initially offered on campus and online. Since I have a job, and do not live in Chicago, the online option worked for me. They have phased out the on campus version of the program, as enrollment dropped and they could no longer scrape together enough students to justify offering the classes in person. The online version of the program, on the other hand, is booming. I learned a lot in the program, and also learned how much I already new. Many established universities have distance learning options.
Thank you, slashdot. I learned a new word today. I had never encountered the word "cosplay" before and had to look it up. I must lead a sheltered life. Get Off My Lawn!
Those upper level auto employees are "evaluating" the vehicles, so that doesn't count as part of their compensation. They don't pay tax on the value of the vehicle, because they are "evaluating" it. Of course, when I was at Ford, the big shots were all "evaluating" Jags and Land Rovers, while lesser mortals got to evaluate Tauruses. If the company was really mad at you, you got to "evaluate" a lime green Escort.
Actually, I see lots of "old IT" folks working in Healthcare IT. At the hospital system that I worked for, there were many folks who had been working there for over twenty years. Also since the life span of systems in healthcare is quite long, you tend to need older IT folks to maintain a system that is over ten years old, as they don't teach kids that technology in school any more. There is a lot of cruddy, old Healthcare IT written in MUMPS, and very few who are under the age of 40 know MUMPS.
While many of the Healthcare IT front end apps run in Windows, there is a lot of Unix running behind the scenes. The Cloverleaf Interface Engine that I worked on ran on IBM AIX, and it ran like a tank. We had virtually no downtime. The Unix admins begged us to stop the engine so that they could perform maintenance on the box. We told them that if they needed the engines to be taken down, they should call the downtime and let it count against their downtime stats.
Regarding certification, if you do not have a certification requirement, how can you be assured that the product actually performs the functions that an EHR system is required to perform? The cost of certification is the cost of doing business.
Would you be upset if your doctor was using other medical supplies that were not certified?
bad in the old ways the doctor made a few salient notes here and there and 90% of the time was used to address issues and or questions about my sons health instead of dicking around with a computer.
The problem with the "bad old ways" was that no-one could read the doctor's writing. If the data is entered into the EHR, not only can all of the other care providers that see your son understand what your doctor entered, but if the entries are coded correctly using one of the standardized medical vocabularies like SNOMED-CT, for example, then the computerized decision support systems can look at your son's condition and alert the provider before the inject him with something that will kill him. Being able to see your son's complete medical history, including medications, conditions and allergies will go a long way to prevent medical errors. If I cannot read your doctor's hand written notes, there is no medical history. One doctor described having to prescribe medications without being able to see the patient's current medications and medical history as "prescribing blind."
My experience is that Healthcare IT is almost as conservative as healthcare. They are using systems and methodologies that are old. The deployment of EHR and HIEs will create jobs for IT to do things like network administration, database admin, backup/recovery, etc. There is going to be more work than the talent that is available. I, for one, will be happy for all the help that I can get. If I don't have to explain the basics of encounters and the importance of security to the newbies, I will be a happy man.
Of course, how could we forget that "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." What goes around, comes around.
One of my favorite Fripp quotes is: "It is the opinion of most musicians that the music industry sucks. This is because the music industry sucks."
Of course, the Stooges would do a better job.....we have the video to prove it. The episode is called "A Plumbing We Will Go" ...
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/comedy/watch/v19300171xgF4NR2J
To me it's a series of erratic starts and stops, hardly any time is spent actually playing?! I get as much out of it as I would from a recital of Armenian poetry.
I believe it was George Will who described American Football as "violence, punctuated by committee meetings."
"Our union's hope is that this venture will give first hiring preference to former NUMMI employees who are already trained and highly skilled," Ron Gettlefinger, UAW. NUMMI was the only Toyota plant in the US that was unionized.
We're Americans. We drive. We don't take trains. The roads will still work fine.
Japan was not negotiating terms with anyone. What part of "unconditional surrender" do you not comprehend?
You could call the first bomb on Hiroshima that. But the second one, on Nagasaki? Why?
We dropped the second bomb because the Japanese were still unwilling to surrender after Hiroshima. They were prepared to die together as a nation, and the shock of the second bomb convinced Hirohito that surrender was preferable to complete annihilation.
My favorite Chernobyl quote is from Pravda: While there was no panic, there were panic stricken individuals.
Maybe you should read some real history. The war ending slogan of the Japanese Government was "100 million die together." That doesn't sound like they were looking for a way out. The Japanese Army insisted on fighting to the death. It took the combined shock of the second atomic bomb, and the Russian declaration of war to convince Hirohito to "suffer the insufferable." Hirohito told the Army that Japan should surrender, and they want along with his decision because he was Emperor. The second bomb wasn't gratuitous. It ended the war. The alternative would have been to continue to firebomb Japan's cities, followed by a very bloody invasion. A good book on the war from the Japanese perspective is John Toland's "The Rising Sun."