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Reuters built an algorithm to battle fake news on Twitter
The pernicious effect of fake news has become a major talking point in the wake of the US election. Do social networks such as Facebook and Twitter have a responsibility to curb misinformation? How should they go about doing this in the first place?
Reuters has one idea on how to tackle this. The news organisation has developed a tool to help it spot and verify breaking news on Twitter, using algorithms to filter tweets in real-time – sorting credible reports from dubious stories.
Reuters News Tracer has been in the works for two years, but has only now been spoken about publicly, in interviews with Nieman Lab and the Columbia Journalism Review. Reg Chua, Reuters’ executive editor of data and innovation, told Nieman Lab that the tool was born out of “an existential question for the news agency”.
“A large part of our DNA is built on the notion of being first, so we wanted to figure out how to build systems that would give us an edge on tracking this stuff at speed and at scale,” Chua said. “You can throw a million humans at this stuff, but it wouldn’t solve the problem.”
The News Tracer organises tweets that it deems relevant to breaking events. On a basic level, this means tweets that feature the word “bomb”, for example, are clustered together. The more complicated task, however, is verifying the newsworthy content against a mass of opinions and potential misinformation.
To do this, Reuters’ algorithm assigns scores to tweets based on 40 factors – ranging from whether the tweet is coming from a verified account, whether the tweet includes images, and the syntax of the tweets themselves. Tweets written all in capital letters, for example, are less likely to be true, according to Chua.
If a story cluster has a certain verification level, Reuters will tweet out its own breaking news report about the event. Reporters will then follow up on the story themselves. The idea is that this system brings an element of automation into the reporting process, but is nuanced enough not to spread misleading information.
Given the speed of information enabled by smartphones and social media, tools such as this are arguably necessary to keep pace with breaking events. Perhaps more important is the ability for the system to verify reliable reports at a speed that outflanks the spread of misinformation.
Other news outlets, such as Le Monde, are experimenting with methods to squash fake news. Moves by news organisations are only one side of the equation, however. Social media platforms such as Facebook will also need to contend with how they prioritise verified stories over dubious reports.


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Terry Myerson, Microsoft Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group speaks about Microsoft's Windows 10 "Creators Update" at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 26, 2016.
The driver behind the move is the forthcoming departure of Terry Myerson, a 21-year Microsoft veteran who serves as executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group.
The reorg includes the creation of two large new engineering groups inside Microsoft, focused on Experiences & Devices, led by Microsoft Office head Rajesh Jha; and the company's Cloud + AI Platform, led by Microsoft's cloud and enterprise chief Scott Guthrie.
Microsoft has launched another major restructuring that will see the software giant focus its efforts less on the Windows operating system, and more on the cloud and AI going forward.
Nadella said that with this change comes transition, and he revealed that Terry Myerson is leaving Microsoft.
A new team, dubbed AI Perception & Mixed Reality, to be led by Alex Kipman, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and the inventor of the Kinect and HoloLens devices. CEO Satya Nadella sent an email to all Microsoft personal to let them know of the upcoming changes. Myerson's departure without a supporting statement may indicate there was a clash between Myerson and Satya Nadella in the direction of Windows.
The reorganization is "really doubling down on the cloud as the fundamental platform for Microsoft", said Ed Anderson, an analyst at Gartner.
SpaceX blasts off with Iridium satellite payload
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Jose Mourinho definitively debunks rumours surrounding Pogba and France manager Didier Deschamps
But I think he's very fine after the injury. "I needed more time for this process, which I unfortunately didn't get". He plays the football that I wanted to play with Manchester United .
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Smith remains disconsolate but is putting on a fearless face and vowing to rebuild his legacy. Australia are next due to travel to England for five ODIs and a single T20 game in June.
"Having a chief product officer is an indication that the company is leaning more into hardware products, not backing off", he told SiliconANGLE.
"Joe Belfiore will continue leading our Windows experiences and will drive Windows innovation in partnership with the PC and device ecosystem", Nadella wrote. Jason Zander is being promoted from corporate vice president to executive vice president of Azure. The team will be zeroed in on Microsoft's mobile offerings, Windows, and its Microsoft 365 productivity suite for the most part.
The other part of the Windows team, dealing with the operating system will be merged into a new "experiences and devices" group. It will be responsible the development of Azure and the company's rapidly growing portfolio of artificial intelligence tools, a good portion of which are hosted on the cloud platform. AI + Research will remain a separate, third engineering team under Harry Shum.
Scott Guthrie, now president of the Microsoft Corp.
AI Ethics Group Nadella also announced the formation of a new committee charged with navigating the legal and ethical issues resulting from advances in AI.
"We'll talk more about these changes at the Q&A next week and the important work ahead", Nadella said.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016
CES 2016: Ford Triples Autonomous Driving Fleet
Ford is tripling its fleet of fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid test vehicles – making it the largest in the automotive industry – and will use a new-generation sensor technology as the company further accelerates its autonomous vehicle development plans.
This year, Ford will add 20 Fusion Hybrid autonomous vehicles, bringing the company's autonomous fleet to about 30 vehicles being tested on roads in California, Arizona and Michigan.
Building on more than a decade of Ford autonomous vehicle research, this expansion is a key element of Ford Smart Mobility – the plan to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience, and data and analytics. The newest vehicles are on Ford’s third-generation autonomous vehicle development platform, built using Fusion Hybrid sedans, similar to the second-generation platform.
Ford recently announced its fully autonomous cars will take to the streets of California this year. The company already tests autonomous vehicles at its proving grounds, as well as on public roads in Michigan. Ford was the first automaker to test a fully autonomous vehicle at Mcity – a 32-acre, full-scale simulated real-world urban environment at the University of Michigan.
Ford is using Velodyne’s newest LiDAR sensors – named Solid-State Hybrid Ultra PUCK Auto for its hockey puck-like size and shape – on its third-generation autonomous vehicle platform.
Solid-State Hybrid Ultra PUCK Auto sensors boast a longer range of 200 meters, making them the first auto-specific LiDAR sensors capable of handling different driving scenarios. Ultra Puck will accelerate the development and validation of Ford’s virtual driver software, which serves as the decision-making brain that directs vehicle systems.
Solid-State Hybrid Ultra PUCK Auto’s lightweight, sleek design makes it optimal for packaging on a vehicle, such as on the sideview mirror. The design means Ford can reduce the amount of LiDAR sensors from four to two on new Fusion Hybrid autonomous vehicles, and get as much useful data due to the more targeted field of view.
The vehicle's hardware systems, which interact continuously with the virtual driver, are equally important.
Third-generation autonomous Fusion Hybrid sedans will have supplemental features and duplicate wiring for power, steering and brakes. These supplemental features will act as backups, if needed.
Meanwhile, Ford continues to hone other types of sensors – cameras, radar and ultrasonic devices – to deliver semi-autonomous features to customers today. These include adaptive cruise control, active park assist, lane-departure warning, lane-keeping aid, pedestrian detection, Pro Trailer Backup Assist and vehicle-to-vehicle connection technology already available on millions of Ford vehicles today.


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The first half of August hasn’t produced enough rainfall to help the area of the state that’s suffering the most from dry conditions.
DNR Hydrology Resources Coordinator, Tim Hall, keeps an eye on the midwest drought monitor, which put out a new report today. “Things are creeping a little bit drier and a little bit worse on the drought monitor,” Hall says. “Not a whole lot of change — but the change that was is on the drier side. So, it’s not getting any better yet.”
The water situation is dramatically different from the top of the state where lawns are green and growing — to the bottom of the state — where the grass is brown and crunchy. “It’s a very, very sharp diving line that almost runs right along I-80 between areas that are way below normal for the first two weeks of August, and areas that are way above normal,” Hall says. “So, it’s really a north-south wet-dry pattern that we’ve been in for quite awhile here.”
The drought map shows extreme to moderate drought conditions in south-central and southeast Iowa. Hall says there haven’t been many changes in that area of the state. “Those folks down there in southeast Iowa have been dealing with below normal precipitation for probably two years now,” according to Hall. “You go back 12 months and there are areas down there that are 15 or more inches below normal for the last 12 months. So, it’s an ongoing issue for them.” Hall says the positive side of the drought in that area is their drinking water supplies haven’t suffered.
“Fortunately in many places in southern Iowa individuals get their drinking water through rural water systems which pull out of some of the lakes. So, we haven’t seen a lot of drinking water shortages across that part of the state,” Hall says. “So, on a drinking water side it’s okay. On an agricultural side — clearly those folks could use a lot of rain.” Hall says we are unfortunately getting into the time of the crop development where it may be too late for rain to help in that area. He says the drinking water situation would be a lot different if the northern part of the state was dry.
“The part of the state that’s the most vulnerable to shallow groundwater issues is the northwest part of the state, and fortunately they’ve had pretty healthy rainfall this year,” Hall explains. “Had the corners of the state been flip-flopped — instead of dryness in southeast Iowa, if it had been dryness in northwest Iowa — I think the situation would be much more critical than it is now.”
Hall says that’s no consolation to the farmers in the southern part of the state who need rain. He says they will continue to watch the water situation, as precipitation always drops off as we head into the fall months, and that could make things worse.

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Big majorities make for overweening, unresponsive government. Opposition parties are reduced to spluttering or resigned impotence, and even large rebellions by Labour backbenchers can be easily shrugged off by ministers.
So it's heartening that, on occasion, the juggernaut pauses for a small voice.
Many people think that when the Civil Contingencies Bill was drawn up, it was an oversight rather than a considered decision to leave the voluntary sector out of new provision for emergency planning. Perhaps the parliamentary draughtspeople had an off day, or looked out of the window at the wrong moment.
The result was that the duty of local authorities to give organisations advice on how to survive disasters ranging from floods to a nuclear attack was restricted to commercial companies, while charities and the voluntary sector, for no good reason, were left out.
George Cook of Charity Logistics, a service-providing organisation for the sector, took up the cudgels with two ministers: Douglas Alexander, then at the Cabinet Office, and Fiona Mactaggart at the Home Office. They fobbed him off. He could have shrugged his shoulders and gone home. But instead he persisted, took out press adverts, and recruited Acevo to the cause.
The good news this week is that the pressure has paid off, and the Government will introduce an amendment to include the voluntary sector in the provisions of the Bill.
In one sense, the campaign involved a degree of self-interest, because one of the services sold to the sector by Charity Logistics is disaster recovery. In a more important sense, it was an example of the voluntary sector at its best - awkward, persistent, and prepared to see things through.

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View Full Version : $150 for 1903 Springfield
August 3, 2000, 05:11 PM
I just got back from a local gunshop where I was attempting to trade a 1903 Springfield for a Uberti Henry. After telling the dealer that I wanted $300 for the rifle I was told that since their are a lot of these guns kicking around $150 was the best he could do. I didn't make the trade, but I'm curious who's offer was the most reasonable. My rifle is manufactured by Springfield Armory with a S/N of 399XXX. It appears to be unaltered and it has 80% or better finish remaining on it overall. The stock is in very good condition with a few nicks and dings but no splits and has a nice satin gloss. The dealer told me the reason that he wouldn't go over $150 was that the bore has some pitting in it and also that the serial number places it in a low range where the receivers were brittle (which I was fully aware of when I bought the rifle). I admit that I don't know much about the 1903 Springfield, but I'm curious now. Any information would be appreciated.
August 3, 2000, 08:25 PM
I think the dealer was trying to take advantage of someone who wasn't sure of its value.
1903 prices can get pretty high, in good shape, among the Curio & Relic list group. I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't absolute junk (or a parts gun) that sold for anything like $150.
Try subscribing to that list, and see what they have to say. You might even get some offers, if you put a good description and price in your message.
Here's the address. Put the subject in an otherwise empty message.
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E-mail: subscribe c-r-ffl
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August 4, 2000, 05:44 PM
Thanks for the information Walt. I just ordered a book on the 1903 Springfield, so I guess I'll read it and learn something. I'll also take a look at that gunlist.
NRA, Life Member
August 6, 2000, 09:46 PM
Alex do a search useing springfield 1903.com
You should find the site for collectors of 1903's.If your gun is low number original it should be in the 1000 plus range.I saw one advertized on a site for 2500 but I think it was out of line.I think I would do my business at a different shop.If they try to rip you once they will again
I have a 1903A3 close to original and I turned down 500 on that one.I know yours is worth a lot more then mine.
Bob--- Age and deceit will overcome youth and speed.
I'm old and deceitful.
August 6, 2000, 10:27 PM
Try posting on the 03/03A3 Forum at www.gunandknife.com. (http://www.gunandknife.com.) Describe the rifle in detail, including receiver markings, barrel markings, stock cartouche and any other stock markings, grooved or ungrooved stock, buttplate (smooth or checked), etc.
The folks on that forum are very knowlegeable and will help you. If all original, that rifle would run well over $500, in spite of being low number. FWIW, I don't recommend shooting low numbers.
August 8, 2000, 02:06 PM
i'll give you 300 for it :p
I am looking for an 03 I can shoot though, havent found one yet. Need to have a collector I know come with me as I know nothing about them.
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January 13, 2013, 06:11 PM
I originally purchased my 1903 in Hawaii in 1970. The territorial guard was selling to military personnel I was stationed a wheeler AFB. AD Army. I paid under 100 USD for it, and shot 140 grain Military load. I had lots of that ammo in stripper clips,loaded in the 40 es. and finally used it up in 2008. now I shoot 150 grain target. considered M1 Garrand load. You just cannot find 140 grain any more. The 1903 was never designed to fire a higher load, New loads are offered in 30-06 today up to 220 grain. My 1903 was rebarreled in Dec 1943 and is stamped USMC behind the front sight. I have installed a new stock and a rebuilt new bolt. On the range I fire 5 rounds and inspect, I usually run a patch and clean the barrel. and I fire my 1903 with confidence. Many weapons that were produced in the earily periods of manufacturing, used the same style of heat treatment, Combat 45, Thompson in the early days, and the list goes on. That was just the way they did it. I was on a range 8 months ago The range master kicked me off the site when I was doing my 5 round inspection. All due to my Serial number. I was firing alone nobody around me. I placed 5 rounds at 100 yards just over the size of a silver dollar. All this internet bunk about the 1903 Springfield. I also attended Military School and we fired the 1903 in 1956 I was 10 years old I don't recall the serial numbers but we fired at 50 Yards. I feel the 1903 in any firing shape is worth at least a grand. Just my feelings I really enjoy this site, Be care full and fire clean.
January 13, 2013, 06:25 PM
I don't think I have ever seen, read, or heard about a 140 gr USGI bullet.
Do you have any of that brass or boxes left to help identify the source?
I won't argue about shooting a low number action, obviously it works for you.
January 13, 2013, 10:48 PM
There is an 03A3 at the Cabelas here that has a $850 price tag on it.
Prices of military guns has gone crazy high and they are selling I hear.
I got an 03A3 from the DCM when they were $10 ea!
It's long gone.
Sort of glad as it was a cheap looking gun.
January 14, 2013, 01:28 AM
Wow. 13 years after the OP. I think this one is close to being a record.
January 14, 2013, 01:59 AM
PLEASE DO NOT CLOSE THIS!!!! I want to see this zombie brought back again in 2026! that'll make my day when my low number serial will be worth $2500 and I see this guy claiming he was just offered $150. :D
January 14, 2013, 10:29 AM
manufactured by Springfield Armory with a S/N of 399XXX
That is a low number rifle and shouldn't be shot. Having said that, if it's as good as shape as you say, I would value it at $750 Plus, just as a non-shooting collector piece.
If I was you, I'd go to the Bolt Action forum on the CMP web site and get their ideals on the value, I bet you'll find its way north of 150 even $300 bucks.
That would be a place to sell it if that is what you want to do.
January 14, 2013, 04:02 PM
KraigWY, this is a 13 year old thread.... I doubt your concerns have been noted by the OP.
January 14, 2013, 04:37 PM
I think I was the previous national champion when I responded to a 10 year old thread. I guess records are made to be broken!
January 14, 2013, 05:31 PM
KraigWY, this is a 13 year old thread....
Sorry, guess I'm gonna have to read the posting dates better.
I feel like a love lorn cowboy responding to a 20 year old love letter from an old flame who is either married or an old maid now.
January 14, 2013, 06:17 PM
Dang,Kraig,that is beautiful!
I can hear old Festus and the Sons of the Pioneers
"I feel like a lonesome old cowboy
found an old letter I got from you.
But you run off and took my dog with you
I reckon thats why I'm so blue...
January 16, 2013, 10:45 PM
"Home, Home on the Strange".............. :p . :p
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Here's what Jim Cramer had to say on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Wednesday.
Credit Suisse upgraded Alliant Techsystems (ATK) to buy from hold, and Cramer seemed to agree, saying that he likes the stock.
The U.S. government reduced its ownership in General Motors (GM) by $1.2 billion, and Cramer praised Tim Massad, the next chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, who announced the new systematic exiting plan of the Treasury Department in GM stock.
MarkWest Energy Partners (MWE) reported a "very bad quarter," Cramer admitted, but called the company a "very good operator" that he's getting interested in.
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For years I searched for a place to call home. I yearned for a place that felt like my own. Born in Brisbane my family and I moved several times. I remember the first time we moved I asked my Mum if I could take my room with me, to which she replied yes. I was very upset upon arriving at our new house to discover that my room was not there but rather the contents of my previous room.
Wanting a simpler life we relocated to the Sunshine Coast hinterland when I was six years old to a little town called Maleny. Only two years later we moved further inland to the nearby Conondale area and later to a permaculture community called Crystal Waters. Days were spent in nearby waterholes and dams, running barefooted through the bush, often naked, covering ourselves in mud, riding bikes and running away from home only to return a few hours later when we were hungry. There were goats, chickens, geese, turkeys, cats, dogs, wallabies, echidnas, eels in the dam that bit and motorbikes to ride. We went to the beach frequently and soaked ourselves in the heat of the day and finding relief as storms rolled in during the afternoon – the land gave a big sigh out.
As a teenager I left the familiar hills of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and ventured off to live in the bustle of inner city West End, Brisbane before retreating once again to Maleny. My next calling was Lismore in northern New South Wales. I wanted a fresh start and to be anonymous as a young adult. The studios of the printmaking department at Southern Cross University became my home for three years. I was immersed in creative energy and what many refer to as “flow”. Upon completing my degree as the recipient a fellowship I travelled to Burnie, Tasmania to make art. Afterwards I stopped off for a week in Melbourne en route to back “home” to Queensland. Nine years later I am still living in Victoria.
For several years I hosted going away parties, which became meetings in which friends convinced me to stay in Victoria. I lived in the centre of Melbourne – Collingwood, Carlton and also in the inner suburbs of East Brunswick and Preston. But I always felt that something was missing. An inner ache for home, a calling to return to the land. Weekend trips out of the city became my lifeline.
After four years of urban living I moved with my partner to Humevale near Kinglake West just before the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires. The lush, dense bush we were surrounded by soon gave way to charcoal trees. Our little country house suspended on the side of a black hill. A year and a half later we moved yet again to the other side of Mount Disappointment, a place also renewing itself after the fires. Green shoots, bracken, ferns, new growth sprung up all around us in our backyard playground. We spent our leisure time bushwalking and mountain bike riding in the state forest that my partner had spent his adolescence growing up in.
Despite finally fulfilling my desire to live in a regional area I still felt a pang for “home” yet I was not sure where my home was. When I travelled back to the lush, green, temperature weather of southern Queensland my skin relaxed as it soaked up the warmth and the thick drops of rain that falls there. I felt myself literally sinking into my skin. But the faces of my past and memories of ghosts that reside in that landscape haunted me. I scuttled back to Victoria and was swept back into the excitement of trams, of cultural saturation and the unfamiliar sense that comes with a constantly changing city.
I now find myself in central regional Victoria – goldfields country. The dry, rocky soil of the small country town Castlemaine with its frost covered blanket of winter and scorching summers. This old, old town that is full of nostalgia and sentimentality yet is also progressive and growing. I once felt resistance to find beauty in this land – so foreign and different from the tropical setting of my youth. I am now in awe of this ever shifting, unpredictable weather and varied country.
I have come to know that it is sense of place and relationship to the land that develops my identity and notion of home. I have come to know that home is somewhere that is not only a physical place to dwell, a place one returns to at the end of a long day for renewal and sanctuary or place of comfort and connection with loved ones in familial surrounds. For me it is also a place I carry around inside of me. I feel home when I feel safe. I feel home inside my own skin. Home travels within me as I move through different lands and experiences. Rather than feeling a constant uncertainty about where I belong, I now choose to immerse myself in the location I reside for the duration of my stay – whether temporary or a longer time. When the time comes for change my home travels with me to the next location.
Home is embedded in country and also in those I share my life with. But always home for me is about returning to my centre, to restock, refuel and contemplate on whatever emotional and physical state I am in at any given moment. I am home when I lay in my bed with the covers pulled up around my head and I just stare at the wall. I am home when I am lying in the back of our camping trailer next to a river I have only just met, I am home when I travel with only a small backpack between between Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand. I am home when I am within myself.
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written while on holiday at my Mum’s home in Beerwah, Queensland, August 2014

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Patrick Leigh Fermor’s home in Kardamyli
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), writer, scholar and World War II veteran, was one of the most important British travellers of the 20th century. He led a life of adventure and spent much of it in Greece, which he loved as his second homeland. The house he built at Kardamyli in Messinian Mani in the 60s is considered one of the most beautiful homes in the Mediterranean.
Paddy, as he was known to his friends, or Michalis, as his Greek comrades called him, played an important role in the Battle of Crete in 1941 and lived more than two years on that island where, disguised as a shepherd named Michalis, he took part in the Resistance and belonged to the small group of officers who kidnapped the German general Heinrich Kraipe in 1944.
That beautiful man, a mix of Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene, as the BBC described him, lived for many years in Kardamyli with his wife Joan (they were married in 1968) in this house, which was his great love. Designed by Greek architect Nikos Hadjimichalis, this unpretentious dwelling sits right above the sea and is where he wrote so many of his books and hosted so many of his numerous friends from all over the world.
The exterior of the house is deceptively simple, constructed in the local hewn stone. Thanks to the plot which slopes to the south, it appears to have two storeys and is surrounded by roofed outdoor corridors with marvellous views.
Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor bequeathed the house, while they were still alive, in 1996, to the Benaki Museum with the provision that it would be used to host scholars, writers or artists who were seeking a quiet, hospitable place for inspiration and creativity.
Today, subsequent to a donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the Benaki Museum to cover expenses of repairs and preparation of the house for such guests, Patrick Leigh Fermor ’s residence will be entering a second life in the near future.
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"Can I $ u a Shot -- of Espresso?"(TM) Get Free Coffee Thursday at Angora Cafe at BU When You Pay With Your PhoneForget the Plastic(TM) -- PXT Money Smart Phone Payment App Caters to College Students With Discounts and $1 Gift for Each Friend Referred, Plus $ Every Time Friends Pay With PXT Money (January 24, 2012)
ANDOVER, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/24/12 -- PXT Money, a mobile payment and rewards company, welcomes college students back to school with free coffee and a chance to join the pay-by-phone revolution on Thursday, January 26, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Angora Cafe. Also look for PXT Money ambassadors, in PXT Money T-shirts, at Angora Cafe this Friday and Saturday nights after the BU hockey game against Maine at Agganis Arena. Sign up on those nights and get a free $5 gift, which can help pay the tab at Angora and other local venues, such as Sunset Cantina and Vapiano.
Occupy your wallet and take control of your money by going to pxtmoney.com and signing up for a PXT Money account, which is just like a debit card/checking account except without banks controlling how money works. Cafe, restaurant, and store owners decide what discounts and special offers are available. Account holders decide how money behaves because it's completely digital and stored on the phone. PXT Money ambassadors will be at Angora Cafe on Thursday helping people sign up and get free coffee and coffee mugs. They will also tell students about fun paid internships now available, for which BU School of Management students can get both course credit and payment.
Pay with your phone. Earn with your phone. PXT Money has launched the smartphone payment app that lets consumers instantly load money from PayPal, credit or debit/checking accounts onto their phone. After that, consumers pay for food, drinks, and other merchandise by just telling the bartender, barista, waiter, or cashier their cell phone number. Consumers can also send each other money instantly, and pool their money to buy things, just by using smart phones. Owe a friend $10? Paying back is as easy as keying in their phone number and hitting a pay button. Want to go in on a pizza at Angora on Thursday with a couple of friends? Just as easy.
Because money on your phone is completely digital stored value, there are no limits to the discounts and special offers stores and restaurants can offer. Aside from exclusive discounts and special offers, consumers can earn money on an ongoing basis by signing up friends.
"PXT Money is designed to help people earn money too," said John Regan, CEO of PXT Money. "Once you have an account, whenever you sign up a friend, you earn $1. Every time that friend purchases something using PXT Money, you also get a percentage of that purchase. And we encourage Boston area college students to let us mentor them gaining work experiences with our paid internship. Apply at Angora Cafe, on Facebook, or on our website. These offers are ongoing, all a part of using new mobile money."
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(BIVN) – Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park has announced the start of Season Two of it cultural video series with the debut of “Hoʻokupu”, featuring Kumu Hula and Executive Director of the Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation, Huihui Kanahele-Mossman.
From Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park:
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is excited to announce that Season Two of the ʻIke Hana Noʻeau (Experience the Skillful Work) video series launched today, April 5, a few days ahead of the 2023 Merrie Monarch Festival. Two new “talk story” documentaries enable a friendly connection to Hawaiian culture and share insights unknown to many.
The first episode, Hoʻokupu, features Hawaiʻi Island Kumu Hula and Executive Director of the Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation, Huihui Kanahele-Mossman. She explains how the Hawaiian practice of hoʻokupu is not just an offering of gratitude or thanks, but an intimate practice of creating growth and recognition between an individual and place. All too often, visitors to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park unknowingly leave offerings at the crater’s edge that can degrade the environment and threaten native species. She suggests that people who do not know the cultural protocols of hoʻokupu should not do it. Respecting traditional practices is an easy and powerful way to support the indigenous people of Hawaiʻi.
Lava tubes, their importance to Hawaiian people and their role in native ecosystems are featured in the second episode, ʻOhi Wai. Former park ranger and naturalist Bobby Camara shares how Hawaiians gathered wai (water) in (ipu) gourds as it dripped through lava tube ceilings, making life sustainable in the most arid of environments. Park archeologist Summer Roper-Todd is also interviewed in this documentary that will be released in May.
Season Two of ʻIke Hana Noʻeau (Experience the Skillful Work) was produced by Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park rangers and filmed on location in the park. The videos are about 12 minutes in duration and are accessible for everyone with audio description and closed captions in English and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language).
The videos will be shared for free on the park website and YouTube starting April 5, 2023 (Season One episodes can be viewed on the same webpage). Big Island Television, which airs in more than 6,000 hotel rooms on the island of Hawaiʻi and on Spectrum Channel 130, will also broadcast the Season Two ʻIke Hana Noʻeau videos to a wide audience.
The park’s non-profit partners, the Friends of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and the Hawaiʻi Pacific Parks Association, helped support and fund the ʻIke Hana Noʻeau video project.
The park created the videos for everyone, including kānaka maʻoli wanting to learn or reconnect to their culture, park visitors, local residents, educators and students.
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HAWAIʻI VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - The first episode, Hoʻokupu, features Hawaiʻi Island Kumu Hula and Executive Director of the Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation, Huihui Kanahele-Mossman.


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Jaune is a stencil artist and urban interventionist from Brussels, Belgium.
His work is based on the paradox between the visible and the invisible, with sanitation workers as the main protagonists in my humorous installations and paintings – an idea that was born from his own experience working in the profession. Despite performing an important public service in garish fluorescent clothing, he observed that they exist in the background of our urban environment, becoming almost invisible to the average person. It was in 2011 that he decided to free these characters from their roles by symbolically placing them in ever more absurd and whimsical scenarios in and around the city streets. Those who were supposed to keep the world tidy have become harbingers of chaos.
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MOUNT GILEAD — The Morrow County Health Initiative Advisory group (MC-HIC) is asking Morrow County residents to respond to their survey on healthcare in Morrow County.
It is a short survey and asks such questions as: where you get your healthcare, your satisfaction with your healthcare, what healthcare needs are not being met and what are barriers to healthcare in Morrow County?
Advisory group members agree that the survey answers can be an important part of their considerations as they make a report to the county commissioners and hospital board.
The link to the survey is: https://forms.gle/ECmZvS9feN5RiU7k8. Response can be made by clicking on the link. Return is requested by April 7, 2021.
The Advisory group heard Morrow County Hospital (MCH) CEO Chad “CJ” Miller and OhioHealth Senior Vice President Cheryl Herbert answer their questions at the March 22 meeting.
Miller began with national challenges that are impacting healthcare in Morrow County. They include the opioid epidemic, cyber security, the Covid-19 pandemic, and violence that causes stress.
Market forces and trends Miller listed are: the focus from inpatient to outpatient care, the need to invest in information technology, a shift from employer pay for healthcare to employee pay, and a big shift from private payer/insurance to a dependency on government pay from Medicare and Medicaid.
Miller, a physical therapist, described the change he observed personally when in past years patients stayed in the hospital five days after a knee or orthopedic surgery. Now most of those surgeries are outpatient with people going home the same day.
Medicaid and Medicare payments now make up 65 percent of MCH compensation with 30 percent from commercial payers/insurance and the rest from other or self-pay.
A local challenge is the county’s geography that makes nearby hospitals a relatively easy drive. The demographics of the rural community are challenging with health problems of diabetes, obesity, heart ailments and aging population.
More physicians and physician assistants are needed for primary care and behavioral health.
An aging infrastructure is a major challenge with MCH in its 70th year, as well as needed access to capital.
Strategies to meet
• Always maintain high quality care as a primary goal
• Keep operational excellence with balanced expense management and cash management
• Focus on growth of outpatient services and surgery for services that are supported by the community.
• MCH can be improved with more use by the community and physician recruitment
Jennifer Williams asked about how to turn around the trend of loss of employees.
Miller said the most recent loss of employees is through retirement, management and some loss with the sleep lab closing. He said that many of the full-time employees are now contracted in pharmacy, physical therapy and other departments. He estimated that the number of full-time employees is close to 180 when you figure contracted employees.
The benchmark for critical access hospitals is 188 full-time employees.
Loren Altizer said another concern is the low 16 percent of market share for inpatient services. Miller said this year is an exception with the pandemic; the usual inpatient percent is 20 percent. He added that 95 percent of their business is from outpatient care.
Altizer noted that people are concerned about their jobs and the uncertainty at the hospital.
Miller agreed that the uncertainty has to get better.
“We have got to work together. …” Miller said. “The divisiveness the last couple years is hurting our people and confusing our patients.”
The next meeting of MC-HIC is Monday, March 29 at 6:30 p.m. The link to the meeting by Zoom is on the Morrow County Hospital website.


DGHS team visits SSH Jammu
JAMMU, Mar 25: Finally, hope has arisen for early functioning of Renal Transplant Center in Super Speciality Hospital (SSH) Jammu as a team of licensing authority i.e. Director General Health Services (DGHS), Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, today visited the facility in SSH Jammu for inspection.
Official sources told Excelsior that in the year 2016, PDP-BJP Government in the erstwhile J&K State had announced to establish a Kidney Transplant Center in SSH Jammu and sanctioned Rs 50 crore for the same so that the patients from Jammu and adjoining districts do not have to go outside for availing this facility.
They said although all the basic infrastructure including high tech state of art Microbiology and Biochemistry labs, and in-house Radiological and Imaging, had been raised important high end machinery besides equipment purchased, and requisite staff were recruited by mid 2021 but the Renal Transplant Center could not be made functional as the GMC administration failed to register the center with the licensing authority.
However, sources said in August last year, the GMC Jammu applied for registration of the Renal Transplant Center and accordingly, the inspection of the DGHS team was scheduled for January 2022 but as the COVID Pandemic was at peak that time, the visited was deferred but as the DGHS team today visit SSH Jammu, the hope for early registration of the Renal Transplant Center and its functioning has arisen.
Sources informed that the visiting DGHS team comprised Dr Ashish Sharma, (Transplant Surgeon, PGI Chandigarh) and Dr Himanshu Mahapatra (Nephrologist, RML Hospital Delhi). Accompanied by Dr Shazia Wafai (Regional Director, Regional office of Health & Family Welfare), the DGHS team checked the transplant facility in the Department of Urology and Nephrology in SSH Jammu including ICUs, operation theatres and wards, besides laboratories and radio-diagnostic facilities.
“The team also inspected main ICU, Surgery Theatre and laboratories and all the departments in GMC which are involved in the transplantation as per the prescribed parameters of Government of India under Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, THOTA, 1994,” sources disclosed. They further added that the visiting DGHS team also took personal interviews of Urologists and checked their log books to assess their experience in renal transplant.
Sources revealed that the DGHS team was highly satisfied with the infrastructure and other facilities of the Renal Transplant Center. However, the team suggested minor modifications in the infrastructure of the facility and augmentation of manpower and conduct of more training programme for the staff of the facility.
It is pertinent to mention here that the patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) would be greatly benefitted after getting the registration from DGHS as they don’t have to travel outside for getting Kidney Transplant.
Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma told Excelsior that GMC Jammu is well equipped with the entire infrastructure, experts and other facilities for starting kidney transplant in the institution. She said they are hoping to get the registration from the authorities for performing Kidney Transplantation soon.
Dr Elias Sharma, HoD Urology said that the Department will perform live kidney transplantation as soon as registration is done. “Patients in need of a Kidney Transplantation will have to register themselves with this institute or State Organ and Tissue Transplantation Organization (SOTTO) J&K”, he added.


MACEDONIA -- The city is returning to voters for more money, only this time, it would be non-residents who work in the city paying the increase.
If approved, Issue 3 on the May 2 ballot would bring the city an estimated $2 million per year, according to city estimates. The measure is a 0.5 percent income tax for general improvements, capital improvements, maintenance, current operating expenses, road improvements, and the city parks and recreation center, according to the ballot language.
The city's tax rate is presently 2 percent, but a 0.25 percent income tax approved 20 years ago to pay for the recreation center and city operations is expiring in June. Issue 3 would set the tax rate at 2.25 percent, but residents would be eligible for a refund, meaning they would continue to pay Macedonia 2 percent.
Even Macedonia Councilor Sylvia Hanneken, who has opposed Issue 3, as well as two proposed tax increases that failed last November, says the city's tax rate should be at least 2 percent.
In an April 13 discussion of the issue with the News Leader and Mayor Joe Migliorini, Hanneken said the city needs the keep the 0.25 percent that is expiring.
Hanneken said, "I believe that a quarter percent dedicated to the issues that related to our needs for capital, our needs for road repair, our needs for vehicles, our needs for building maintenance I believe that's the way we should go and we should continue our 2 percent tax which is what we've been paying."
Migliorini says cuts in services will be necessary if the issue does not pass, including deferred road maintenance and repair, the closure of some roads and the elimination of free services for low-income seniors including garbage pick up, snow plowing, gutter cleaning and reduced lunch fees at the city's senior center. Winter snow plowing, and fall leaf pick up would be reduced and programs would be eliminated including the mulch and branch drop off, tool rental, community room rental and the 2018 Spirit of Macedonia Fun Fest.
Also, Migliorini said that without money to subsidize the operation of the Macedonia Family Recreation Center, the facility would be forced to close within 18 months when its fund runs dry.
The facility's operation had been subsidized each year with $350,000 to $400,000 from the expiring 0.25 percent income tax, which had also financed the building's construction.
If Issue 3 is approved, it would enable the recreation center to stay open and preserve the programs listed as being in danger of cuts.
Migliorini says the city would also be able fix as many as 40 roads, as the city would be able to use a portion of its proceeds to finance $20 million in construction.
No road work is provided for in this year's budget.
According to Migliorini, the city's revenue was down around $150,000 last year, and is projected to be down again this year. Also, the city has lost another $550,000 per year in revenue from the state, tangible and estate taxes. He said the city has had to restore positions in the police and other departments that were cut years ago, and also spent money on deferred maintenance in the parks and at city hall.
The Ohio auditor's office has also confirmed the city is in need of revenue on a "fiscal report card" released in Janary. According to the state, the city's revenue has not kept paces with expenses, earning it a grade of "critical" in that area.
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In the first days after, the human toll came slowly, single digits at first, then tens and twenties and hundreds, at this writing about 8,800 people known to have died, with another 12,600 missing and another 370,000 people displaced, living in shelters or fending for themselves in a wasteland, amid the worst and deadliest natural disaster since the Great Kanto earthquake killed at least 100,000 people and laid waste to Tokyo in September 1923.
As the survivors struggle to pick up the pieces after the two parts of a compound disaster that hopefully won’t get any worse, the nuclear drama is unfolding on an almost apocalyptic scale. Even while crews clad in radiation protection suits fought to restore electricity to the reactors, there was damage already done. Radiation, albeit in low and non-dangerous levels, has been found in spinach and milk in the affected areas. Agence France-Presse reported that radioactive iodine and cesium-137 has been found on fava beans in Taiwan.
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As the crisis worsened, there’s been concerns about how much and how quickly the Japanese government was telling its people about the damaged reactors — a consequence of the relationship between the Japanese government and the Japanese news media.
Citing a December 1995 incident at the Monju fast-breeder reactor site in Tsuruga, Japan, in which the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) falsified reports and a video of the event, Michael Hirsh of National Journal observed that “All governments tend to dissemble a bit and play down disasters when they occur.” But cultural traditions play a part: “You have in Japan, despite nominal democracy there, a much more hierarchical approach, where the government plays a paternal role and decides what and what not to transmit to its citizens,” Hirsh said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hardball.”
David Sanger of The New York Times said much the same on the same program: “In Japan you have a news media that, while much more independent than it used to be, still organizes itself around government ministries and is far more dependent on the government for official news.”
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It strains the mind to think that such an in-progress catastrophe almost biblical in scope could have any upside. But there is. Of course there are the stories of survivors pulled from the rubble, still kickin’ against all odds. And people are pouring money into a number of international charities for Japan relief.
The upside gets better, maybe. The New York Times reported Dec. 13 that Japan was preparing new military readiness guidelines that would prepare for a shift of armored and artillery forces from targeting Russia to a more nimble response to China’s emerging presence.
The Times’ Martin Fackler writes: “The new guidelines also call for acquiring new submarines and fighter jets, the reports said, and creating ground units that can be moved quickly by air in order to defend the southern islands, including disputed islands in the East China Sea that are also claimed by China and Taiwan.”
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Xinhua also reported, on Friday, a statement from Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto: “Japan-China relations are of great importance to the two nations, the Asia-Pacific region and the international community at large.”
"With an eye to the peace and prosperity in region as well as economic cooperation between the two nations, Japan is willing to proceed from the overall situation of bilateral ties to substantialize the Japan-China strategic and mutually beneficial relations."
It’s a safe bet that the military realignment Japan was contemplating last year has been tabled, probably indefinitely — a tacit acknowledgement of a fact that, astonishingly, it often take a disaster to recognize: natural calamity is the great leveler of all great nations. When the water that is seven-tenths of this planet imposes its horrific will, hands across that water may be your only saving grace.
Image credits: Rikuzentakata: via The Bangkok Post. Gas mask, Koriyama: Associated Press. Otsuchi: Reuters. Bottom image: via The Huffington Post.

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