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1. Physics promises wireless power
From: George Lessard
2. Portside Mission Statement
From: George Lessard
3. I Am Macaca
From: George Lessard
4. Al Jazeera English all set to launch
From: George Lessard
5. Google Earth maps history
From: George Lessard
6. TSUNAMI : BREAKING NEWS: Pacific Tsunami Warning Area Expanded After
From: David P. Dillard
7. HEALTH: RESEARCH: New Family Health History Projects Focus on Alask
From: David P. Dillard
8. TRANSPORTATION: AIR AIRLINE AIRPLANE AVIATION : BUSINESS:
From: David P. Dillard
9. MEDICAL INSURANCE: DRUG PLANS AND DRUG COVERAGE : ELDERLY AGING
From: David P. Dillard
10. ENTERTAINMENT: AMUSEMENT AND THEME PARKS: Some Sources Regarding th
From: David P. Dillard
11. Philippines: Bound to the Bottle
From: ze_idler
12. SIX AIRLINES TO INTEGRATE IPOD INTO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS
From: George Lessard
13. DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY : PRESS
From: David P. Dillard
14. DATABASES : POLITICAL PARTIES : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION
From: David P. Dillard
15. EDUCATION: COLLEGE: STUDENTS : LIBRARY RESEARCH: SKILLS : INFORMATIO
From: David P. Dillard
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1. Physics promises wireless power
Posted by: "George Lessard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] themediamentor
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:10 am ((PST))
Physics promises wireless power
Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6129460.stm
[excerpts]
Plugs and wires could soon become a thing of the past
The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic
gadgets could soon be a thing of the past.
US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could
deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players
wirelessly.
The concept exploits century-old physics and could work over
distances of many metres, the researchers said.
Although the team had not built and tested a system, computer models
and mathematics suggest it would work.
"There are so many autonomous devices such as cell phones and laptops
that have emerged in the last few years," said Assistant Professor
Marin Soljacic from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one
of the researchers behind the work.
"We started thinking, 'it would be really convenient if you didn't
have to recharge these things'.
[...]
Old technology
The team from MIT is not the first group to suggest wireless energy transfer.
Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented
with long-range wireless energy transfer, but his most ambitious
attempt - the 29m high aerial known as Wardenclyffe Tower, in New
York - failed when he ran out of money.
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See also
Wardenclyffe Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
The Tesla Wardenclyffe Project
http://www.teslascience.org/
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2. Portside Mission Statement
Posted by: "George Lessard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] themediamentor
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:23 am ((PST))
Portside Mission Statement
"Portside aims to provide material of
interest to people on the left that
will help them to interpret the world
and to change it."
Portside http://portside.org/ is a community of people on the left and an
alternative medium of communication. While the
commercial media are becoming steadily more monopolized
by the same giant economic interests that control
finance and industry, we are dedicated to realizing the
democratic potential of the Internet and other new
communications technologies. We are part of the
movement to create an alternative information
infrastructure. We are beholden to no corporate
interests.
The moderators believe that a new and more just social
order must be imagined before it can be built. We
intend portside as a space that fosters such imagining.
We aim to be a catalyst to imagination by sharing
dreams and experiences, political programs and
struggles, which are the raw material of imagination.
We believe that we are all emboldened and reinforced by
knowing about the real efforts, all around the globe,
to achieve a better world.
The moderators all think we can do better than
capitalism -- and had better do better, if we and our
children are going to have a future -- without
proposing a neat blueprint for the future or a well-
drawn roadmap to it. We believe that the search for
alternatives must be based on working class solidarity
and on principled opposition to all forms of
exploitation, racism, sexism, homophobia and
ethnocentrism. We seek a society based on democracy,
social and economic justice, and racial and gender
equality. We believe in globalization from below: in
development of international ties in the interest of
peace and social progress. We know that our future
depends on developing and implementing new models of
sustainable social reproduction and guardianship of
nature.
With the aid of readers and contributors, we search the
Internet every day for relevant, insightful, critical,
informative, perhaps funny, material and deliver it to
your digital doorstep. In deciding what to distribute,
we seek information from diverse sources. We encourage
debate. We respect our readers as people who think for
themselves. We strive for variety in subject matter and
opinion. We look for things that are topical. We also
look for things that are analytical, probing and
challenging. We rely on readers to help provide those
things.
The port side, in nautical parlance, is the left side
of the ship when you are facing forward.
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3. I Am Macaca
Posted by: "George Lessard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] themediamentor
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:14 am ((PST))
I Am Macaca
By S.R. Sidarth
Washington Post - November 12, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR2006111001381.html
[excerpt]
This past summer, between my third and fourth year of
college, I decided to volunteer for the campaign of
Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb in my home state
of Virginia. For most of the summer, I worked behind
the scenes at the campaign headquarters in Arlington,
helping set up field offices statewide and performing
other odd jobs. In the second week of August, I was
dispatched by the campaign to serve as Republican Sen.
George Allen's tracker on a "listening tour" across the
state. Tracking was a rather solitary pursuit; I
videotaped Allen's public appearances whenever I was
admitted into an event and killed time between stops in
places I had never been to before.
Then, on Aug. 11, my experience took a strange -- and
now famous -- turn. On that day in Breaks Interstate
Park, located on the Kentucky border, Allen
acknowledged my presence for the first time in one of
his stump speeches. I was singled out at a GOP picnic,
identified as "macaca or whatever his name is" --
despite the fact that Allen knew my name, as we had
been traveling the same route for five days -- and then
"welcome[d] to America and the real world of Virginia."
Allen's actions that day stood out because they were
not representative of how I was treated while traveling
around the state. Everywhere I went, though I was
identifiably working on behalf of Allen's opponent,
people treated me with dignity, respect and kindness. I
cannot recall one event where food was served and I was
not invited to join in the meal. In southwest Virginia,
hospitality toward me was at a high point.
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4. Al Jazeera English all set to launch
Posted by: "George Lessard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] themediamentor
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:16 am ((PST))
Al Jazeera English all set to launch
Al Jazeera's English-language television news channel is all set to
reach 80 million homes worldwide. At 1200 GMT on Wednesday, Al
Jazeera English will begin broadcasting from the network's main
studios in Doha, Qatar.
Full Story
<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6BB60A7B-C169-4762-87ED-415752862B5E.htm>
Subject: From Russell Merryman, the Editor-in-Chief of the Al Jazeera
English website
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:54:01 -0000
[...]
As you may know, Al Jazeera's new English channel is launching and as
part of that the English website will be relaunching at the same time.
The current website has served us well since it launched in 2003, but
with the arrival of the English channel, we decided our website
should reflect the new service.
We've introduced a new design and new sections as well as improving
the navigation and functionality. It has also given us an opportunity
to add new features including many which were missing from the old
site, and which some of you have already taken the time to write to
us about.
What won't alter is our commitment to high quality, worldwide
coverage of news and current affairs, indeed, backed by the extensive
newsgathering operation of the new channel, there will be new stories
to tell and new ways to tell them.
On a practical note though, the new website is built on a completely
new content management system, and that does mean we have to ask you
to register with us again when the new site is live; however as well
as being able to sign up for the new e-mail newsletters, this will
also allow you to take part in our online debates.
We hope the new version of the English website will meet your
expectations - do let us know what you think and whether there are
any ways in which we could make it even better.
After all, you are the best critics we have.
Kind regards
Russell Merryman
Editor-in-Chief, Web & New Media
Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar
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5. Google Earth maps history
Posted by: "George Lessard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] themediamentor
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:22 am ((PST))
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Google Earth maps history
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Google added historic map overlays to its free interactive online globe
of the world Monday to provide views of how places have changed with time.
Google Earth engineers digitised one of the largest US map collections
and integrated the information into its program, which lets users
virtually navigate the planet and swoop in for closer looks. The collection
of David Rumsey Historical Maps dated from 1680 to 1892 and included
Cassini's Globe of 1790; Africa in 1787, and a map of Asia from 1710.
There have been over 100m downloads of the Google Earth program to
computers since it was launched in June of 2005.
Source:
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061114-054103-8205r - AFP,
Middle East Times
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6. TSUNAMI : BREAKING NEWS: Pacific Tsunami Warning Area Expanded After
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:29 am ((PST))
TSUNAMI :
BREAKING NEWS:
Pacific Tsunami Warning Area Expanded After 8.1 Quake
Pacific Tsunami Warning Area Expanded After 8.1 Quake
By Nick Allen and Aaron Sheldrick
Bloomberg News
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601087&sid=au2KZcfJ7POY&refer=home>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yn4zsu>
Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A tsunami warning area was expanded from eastern
Russia to Guam after a magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck in the northern
Pacific off the Russian Kuril Islands.
The first waves were detected in northern Japan and measured up to 30
centimeters (1 foot) on the island of Hokkaido, the U.S. Pacific Tsunami
Warning Center said. Wave heights of 20 centimeters were recorded north of
Tokyo, Japan's meteorological agency said. Japan later downgraded its
alert for Hokkaido to an advisory.
``That's good news because it was a fairly big earthquake,'' Victor
Sardina, a geophysicist at the center in Honolulu, Hawaii, said in a
telephone interview. ``The wave is pretty small and we don't expect
extensive damage. We will still keep monitoring to make sure it doesn't
represent a threat.''
The quake struck today at 8:15 p.m. Tokyo time at a depth of 30 kilometers
(19 miles), the Japanese agency said. Residents of Japanese coastal areas
were urged to flee after the agency said the tsunami could produce a wave
up to 2 meters (6.5 feet) high in northern and eastern Japan.
The tsunami warning area also included Taiwan, the islands of Marcus, Wake
and Midway, and the North Marianas and Marshall islands, the Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center said in an e-mailed statement. A warning also was
issued for the Alaskan coast from Sand Point to Attu.
Tsunami Watch
A tsunami watch was declared for Hawaii, the Philippines, Indonesia,
Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and
Vietnam, the center said. A watch also was declared for the stretch of
North American west coast from Sand Point, through British Columbia, to
Cape Flattery, Washington.
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Russian islanders take shelter after tsunami warning
(AFP)
15 November 2006
Kahleej Times
<http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/
theworld/2006/November/theworld_November511.xml§ion=theworld>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ycr7pw>
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Some 10,000 inhabitants of the Kuril Islands in far
eastern Russia were taken to higher ground on Wednesday after a strong
earthquake prompted a tsunami warning, officials said.
The far eastern division of Russias emergency situations ministry said
waves up to three metres (10 feet) high were expected after the earthquake
struck 390 kilometres (242 miles) north east of the island of Iturup in
the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Residents flee impending tsunami
15/11/2006 14:29 - (SA)
News24.com
<http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2030836,00.html>
Tokyo - Residents along Japan's Pacific coast were told to flee an
impending tsunami after a powerful earthquake with preliminary magnitude
8.1 hit the Kuril islands north of Japan late on Wednesday.
The quake struck about 390km east of the Etorofu islands north of Japan at
11:15 GMT, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency, which issued a
tsunami warning 15 minutes later.
A tsunami of about two metres or more could hit the Pacific coast of
Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido and main island of Honshu after
12:10 GMT, the agency warned.
Local authorities along Hokkaido's coast have ordered residents living
along the northern and eastern coasts of Japan's northern main island of
Hokkaido to evacuate to higher ground, according to public broadcaster
NHK.
In the city of Kushiro, fire department and city officials were urging
residents to move to safety, city official Masatoshi Sato said.
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7. HEALTH: RESEARCH: New Family Health History Projects Focus on Alask
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:30 am ((PST))
HEALTH: RESEARCH:
New Family Health History Projects Focus on Alaska Native, Appalachian
Communities
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:35:17 -0500
From: "NIH OLIB (NIH/OD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New Family Health History Projects Focus on Alaska Native,
Appalachian Communities
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NIH News
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
<http://www.genome.gov/>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
CONTACT: Rebecca Ayer, 202-205-1178, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Geoff Spencer, NHGRI, 301-402-0911, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jeanette St. Pierre, CDC, 770-488-8226, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NEW FAMILY HEALTH HISTORY PROJECTS FOCUS ON ALASKA NATIVE, APPALACHIAN
COMMUNITIES Acting Surgeon General Urges Americans to Know Their Family
Health Histories
WASHINGTON -- As part of the effort to educate all Americans about the
importance of knowing their family health histories, Acting Surgeon
General Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.D., M.P.H., today announced two new
outreach projects involving Alaska Native and urban Appalachian
communities.
"This Thanksgiving, we will celebrate the third annual National Family
History Day. As families across the nation come together to relax and give
thanks, it's an ideal time for each of us to start learning more about our
family health history," Dr. Moritsugu said. "This is not just knowledge
for knowledge's sake. Knowing your family health history can save your
life, as well as the lives of those you love."
Many diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, can run in
families. Health care professionals can use your family health history to
help predict the disorders for which you may be at risk. Such information
can help health care professionals develop more individualized strategies
for keeping you and your family healthy.
"Gathering your family health history really is the first step towards
personalized medicine," said Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of
the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National
Institutes of Health. "We are working on technology that will enable
doctors to quickly read your genome and devise personalized health
strategies based on your unique genetic blueprint. But we aren't quite
there yet. So, in the meantime, the best approach is to give your doctor
as much information as possible about your family's health history."
To make it easier to compile a family health history, the Office of the
Surgeon General has created a free, Web-based tool that organizes family
health information into a printout that people can take to health care
professionals to help determine whether they are at higher risk for
disease. The recently redesigned tool, "My Family Health Portrait," is
available in English and in Spanish at
<https://familyhistory.hhs.gov>
"My Family Health Portrait" tool is Web-based, which allows it to be
operated on all computers with Internet access running any of several
standard browsers, regardless of the computer's operating system. All
personal information entered into the program resides on the user's
computer only. No information is available to the federal government or
any other agency.
Since the Surgeon General's Family Health Initiative began in November
2004, more than 1 million users have accessed the Web-based version or
downloaded copies of the "My Family Health Portrait" tool from the HHS Web
site. In addition, more than 100,000 printed copies of the tool have been
distributed nationwide. Department of Health and Human Service agencies
that are partnering with the Surgeon General in the family history public
health campaign are: NIH-NHGRI, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration and the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Building upon the foundation laid by the Surgeon General's Family History
Initiative, NHGRI today named two new Family History demonstration
projects - focused on Alaska Native and urban Appalachian populations. The
one-year projects, each of which will receive $100,000, will develop
community-based models to increase awareness among the public and health
care professionals about the value of family history information in
promoting health and preventing disease.
In the first project, a multi-institution team will work with Appalachian
populations living in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area, which
encompasses southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky, and in the Dayton,
Ohio metropolitan area. A major goal of the project is to develop ways of
educating people with low levels of literacy about the importance of
family health history. Another goal will be to raise awareness among
health care professionals working in the targeted areas about the need to
collect family health information. The team will be led by Melanie Myers,
Ph.D., assistant director of the Genetic Counseling Program at the
University of Cincinnati. Other collaborators include the Cincinnati
Children's Hospital Medical Center, The Appalachian Outreach Studies
Program at Sinclair College in Dayton, the Area Health Literacy Program at
Ohio State University and six local community organizations. The community
organizations are Brighton Community Center in Newport, Ky!
.; Lower Price Hill Community School and Urban Appalachian Council, both
in Cincinnati; Life Enrichment Center, Sunrise Center Weed and Seed
Initiative and Volunteers of Greater Ohio, all in Dayton.
The second project will be led by Ruth Etzel, M.D., at the Southcentral
Foundation, which is an Alaska Native health care organization located in
Anchorage. The primary goal of this effort will be to develop tools and
methods for creating a common understanding about the role and importance
of family health history among Southcentral Foundation's staff. The
foundation employs more than 1,300 people, of which more than half are
Alaska Natives. This project will receive co-funding from NHGRI and the
NIH's National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
"We are excited about the potential of these projects to expand the reach
and impact of the Surgeon General's Family Health Initiative. We look
forward to working with these communities to achieve their goals, as well
as to sharing their models with other communities and populations across
the country," said Vence Bonham, J.D., chief of NHGRI's Education and
Community Involvement Branch, which administers the projects.
The new projects will expand upon what is being learned in NHGRI's Family
History demonstration project at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
That effort, launched in November 2005, has been encouraging and
evaluating the voluntary use of the Surgeon General's "My Family Health
Portrait" tool among the hospital's more than 12,000 employees. The
workforce of the 747-bed hospital includes physicians, nurses,
administrative, service and management staff. This month, the Brigham and
Women's Family History Project is expanding to include non-employee
patients and their families. The project's website,
<http://www.brighamandwomens.org/familyhistory>
will post results of the yearlong project as they become available after
the conclusion of the employee survey on Nov. 30.
The CDC is funding the state health departments in Utah, Oregon, Minnesota
and Michigan to incorporate genomics into their health promotion and
disease prevention activities. All four states are tying activities to the
Surgeon General's initiative to increase awareness about family history
among health providers and the general public. This month in Michigan, the
Oakwood Health Systems will distribute family history information to all
of its employees during a period of open-enrollment for benefits. In
addition, Oakwood will distribute bookmarks with information on the
Surgeon General's family history tool with personnel paychecks and set up
a booth on genomics and family history in the hospital. Oregon is
launching a project with federally qualified health centers to learn about
how family health history is being used by the providers in these centers.
The goal of the project is to determine what resources and technical
assistance will be needed to support providers in using family history to
identify patients at risk for chronic diseases and motivate them to make
lifestyle changes.
The Utah genomics program has produced an award-winning multimedia
project,"Make Family Health History A Tradition," to raise public
awareness about the importance of family history. Utah is in a unique
position to tie their efforts with their population's strong interest in
genealogy. This year, the state health department is sponsoring a "Tell Us
Your Story" contest that encourages families to order Utah's family
history materials, learn about their family histories over holidays and
submit their stories for a prize. Minnesota has developed a number of
facts sheets about chronic diseases in which family history plays a major
role. These fact sheets will be used this month in family history
campaigns in hospitals across Minnesota and at the state health
department.
Additionally, Minnesota and Michigan have begun to incorporate family
history risk assessment into their WISEWOMAN programs. WISEWOMAN is a
federally funded initiative to identify underserved women at risk of
cardiovascular disease, counsel them about diet and exercise, and refer
them for further risk factor screening and follow-up care. All of the four
states are promoting "My Family Health Portrait" as an easy to use tool
for organizing family health history information.
In addition to the Web-based tool, printable, PDF versions and other
resources related to the Surgeon General's Family Health Initiative are
available at
<http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory>
New materials for 2006 include a printable PDF brochure entitled "Before
You Start" and a redesigned, user-friendly PDF version of the tool, both
of which are available in English and Spanish. Other new additions include
links to printable PDF versions of the tool in Chinese, Polish, Portuguese
and French, which were produced by translators with the Brigham and
Women's Family History project.
NHGRI is one of 27 institutes and centers at the NIH, an agency of the
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Additional information
about NHGRI can be found at its Web site,
<http://www.genome.gov>
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- The Nation's Medical Research
Agency -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal
agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational
medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures
for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its
programs, visit
<http://www.nih.gov>
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This NIH News Release is available online at:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2006/nhgri-15.htm.
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8. TRANSPORTATION: AIR AIRLINE AIRPLANE AVIATION : BUSINESS:
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:53 am ((PST))
TRANSPORTATION: AIR AIRLINE AIRPLANE AVIATION :
BUSINESS: ACQUISITIONS MERGERS:
US Airways Makes $8B Bid for Delta
US Airways Makes $8B Bid for Delta
By Associated Press/ Breaking News
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - Updated: 10:28 AM EST
Boston Herald
<http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=167458>
ATLANTA - US Airways Group Inc. made an $8 billion cash and stock bid for
Delta Air Lines Inc. on Wednesday, a deal that would create one of the
worlds largest carriers. The move came despite Deltas repeated statements
it isnt interested in a merger.
The offer to buy Delta once the Atlanta-based airline emerges from
bankruptcy protection by the middle of 2007 would give Deltas unsecured
creditors $4 billion in cash and 78.5 million shares of US Airways stock.
Delta has yet to file its own plan of reorganization.
As it stands now, Deltas common shares are likely to end up worthless
when it exits bankruptcy. In most bankruptcy cases, the debtholders
usually end up with new shares of the company.
Shares of US Airways rose $2.90, or almost 6 percent, to $53.83 in
morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
If the deal is completed, the airline would operate under the Delta
name and serve more than 350 destinations across five continents. US
Airways has not decided where the merged company would be based.
Doug Parker, chief executive of Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways, said in
a telephone interview that he is aware of the comments made by Deltas
management in recent months, but he believes this is a fair offer and that
ultimately Deltas creditors will see that.
"Delta is in bankruptcy and bankruptcy is a very open process," Parker
said. "The process is designed so that the creditors get the highest
possible value for their clients. Given that process, what we have done is
gone public with an alternative to a standalone plan."
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9. MEDICAL INSURANCE: DRUG PLANS AND DRUG COVERAGE : ELDERLY AGING
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Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:19 am ((PST))
MEDICAL INSURANCE: DRUG PLANS AND DRUG COVERAGE :
ELDERLY AGING GERONTOLOGY GERIATRIC: HEALTH AND HOSPITAL CARE:
Time Again to Choose or Switch Drug Plans
Time Again to Choose or Switch Drug Plans
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: November 15, 2006
The New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/washington/15medicare.html>
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 Starting Wednesday, Medicare beneficiaries can sign
up for prescription drug coverage or switch plans, and many may want to do
so because prices have changed, with some of the most popular plans
charging much higher premiums for 2007.
In every state but Alaska and Hawaii, more than 50 drug plans are
available. Beneficiaries have until Dec. 31 to sign up or change plans,
but federal officials said they should act by Dec. 8 to avoid the problems
that caused turmoil at pharmacies in January, when many people were unable
to get their drugs.
Several recent surveys, including one by J. D. Power & Associates, the
market research company, suggest that three-fourths of the people with
Medicare drug coverage are satisfied. Michael O. Leavitt, the secretary of
health and human services, said: The program is working. People are happy.
The Bush administration says that premiums for Medicare drug coverage will
average $24 a month in 2007, about the same as in 2006. But for many
beneficiaries, the reality may be substantially different.
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10. ENTERTAINMENT: AMUSEMENT AND THEME PARKS: Some Sources Regarding th
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:33 pm ((PST))
ENTERTAINMENT: AMUSEMENT AND THEME PARKS:
Some Sources Regarding the Amusement Park History in the United States
The entertainment park in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, Willow
Grove Park, although perhaps not a "theme park" was a very famous and
valuable entertainment and amusement resource in its heyday that say live
performances of the march king John Philip Sousa.
This Yahoo Images link provides access to quite a collection of
photographs of Willow Grove Park and some of its successor Willow Grove
Mall, a major shopping center.
<http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=%22willow+grove+park%
22&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y73kkl>
The history of amusement parks makes quite interesting reading in itself
and here are some titles regarding the history of amusement parks in the
United States.
Good old Coney Island a sentimental journey into the past : the most
rambunctious, scandalous, rapscallion, splendiferous, pugnacious,
spectacular, illustrious, prodigious, frolicsome island on earth
Author: McCullough, Edo.
Publication: New York : Fordham University Press, 2000
With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830
Author: Ashby, LeRoy.
Publication: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2006
The American amusement park industry :
a history of technology and thrills
Author: Adams, Judith A.
Publication: Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1991
The Great American amusement parks :
a pictorial history
Author: Kyriazi, Gary.
Publication: Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press, 1976
"Step right up, folks!"
Author: Griffin, Al.
Publication: Chicago, H. Regnery Co. 1974
Coney
Author: Ducovny, Amram M.
Publication: Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2000
>From traveling show to vaudeville : theatrical spectacle in America,
1830-1910
Author: Lewis, Robert M.
Publication: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
Coney Island : the people's playground
Author: Immerso, Michael
Publication: New Brunswick ; Piscataway,
NJ Rutgers University Press, 2002
The playful crowd :
pleasure places in the twentieth century
Author: Cross, Gary S.; Walton, John K.
Publication: New York : Columbia University Press, 2005
Here are some websites with information about the history of amusement
parks.
Amusement Park History
<http://history.amusement-parks.com/amusementparkhistory.htm>
The Coney Island Pages
Park & Industry History
Trip Reports
Roller Coasters & Carousels
Book & Video Reviews
Links
Updates
Awards & Recognition
Website F.A.Q.
This Wikipedia article is a useful resource
Amusement park
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_park>
These are additional links
Roller Coaster History
<http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/coasters/history/>
History Series Introduction
Begin your ride through roller coaster history with an introduction from
historian, Adam Sandy. Start Here >
How It Started
The Beginning
The origin, it begins with a simple slide.
Early Years in America
The first American Roller Coaster is born.
Early 1900's
Roaring Twenties
The popularity boom of the Roller Coaster and the sudden building craze.
Coney Island History
Sodom by the sea at America's most famous amusement parks.
Depression and World War
The dark days arrive for the Roller Coaster.
Time of Change 60's through 70's
Sixties Amusement Parks
The demise of the classic amusement park and the birth of a new breed, the
theme park.
Sixties Wooden Coasters
The calm before the building storm begins again.
Theme Park Building Boom
John Allen and Kings Island make for a winning combination.
Late Seventies
The start of the modern Looping Roller Coaster.
Decade of Innovation
Enter the Eighties
Wood was put aside for more variety in steel with the debut of stand up
and suspended coasters.
Late Eighties
Final years of the decade dominated with Roller Coasters from Anton
Schwarzkopf and Arrow.
Modern Day Scream Machines
Nineties Steel Coasters Part 1
Nineties Steel Coasters Part 2
Nineties Steel Coasters Part 3
Bigger and better Roller Coasters arrive as designers now attempt to push
the limits in size and designs.
Nineties Wooden Coasters
New wooden legends in the making.
Credits and Acknowledgements
History Bibliography
Designers and Innovators
Learn about the people who influenced the design and innovation of the
Roller Coaster.
Harry G. Traver
A Legend... this designer is best known for his triplets of terror.
Walt Disney
The inventor and innovator of today's modern Theme Park.
Noteworthy Designers
Philadelpia Toboggan Company
National Amusement Devices
Prior & Church
Family Designers
Charles Looff
Erwin and Edward Vettel
John Perce
Timeline
Through the years an outline of significant milestones in roller coaster
history. Read Timeline >
Link Library: Amusement Park History
<http://www.themeparkcity.com/itps/L_APhistory.htm>
Hold on and try not to get dizzy.
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11. Philippines: Bound to the Bottle
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Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:03 pm ((PST))
W H A T ' S N E W @ www.pcij.org
16.November.2006
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ADDICTIONS
Bound to the Bottle
by Avigail M. Olarte
OUR latest i Report feature in our addictions series looks at the
problem of alcoholism in the Philippines, which is known to be a
nation of drinkers. There are practically no official statistics that
would show just how prevalent alcoholism is in this country, but
sociologist Ricardo Zarco asserts, "It is the most common form of
addiction you would find among Filipinos."
Indeed, alcohol was the top poison recorded among patients of the
National Poison Management and Control Center (NPMCC) at the
Philippine General Hospital last year. This is no recent development,
but has been the trend for most of the past 15 years, during which
alcohol has traded places with metamphetamine hydrochloride (better
known as shabu), the next leading poison, only a few times. In
addition, cirrhosis of the liver, one of the illnesses linked with
alcohol addiction, was among the 15 top causes of death among
Filipinos in 2004.
Experts say alcoholism is not only difficult to cure, it is also hard
to diagnose. This is because alcoholics are unlikely to admit they
have a problem in the first place. To complicate matters, the World
Health Organization has observed, "Alcoholism is not considered a
medical problem by most Filipinos."
Read on at pcij.org and post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog.
See also:
Shod through the Heart
"To a greater or lesser extent," write the Alfars, "the shoes you wear
express the kind of person you are or the kind of person you'd like
to be perceived as."
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12. SIX AIRLINES TO INTEGRATE IPOD INTO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS
Posted by: "George Lessard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] themediamentor
Date: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:27 pm ((PST))
SIX AIRLINES TO INTEGRATE IPOD INTO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS
Apple Computer said yesterday that its iPod media players will be
integrated with the in-flight entertainment systems of six airlines.
The in-flight deals are similar to ones Apple has made with more than
a dozen automakers to have iPod-compatibility built into car audio
systems.
Passengers on UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, Continental Airlines Inc.
and Delta Air Lines Inc., as well as Dubai-based Emirates, Dutch
carrier KLM and Air France, will be able to power and charge their
iPods during flights and watch video content from their iPods on
seat-back displays.
The service will be available on the airlines beginning in mid-2007.
It will likely help solidify the iPod's dominance in portable players.
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13. DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY : PRESS
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:34 am ((PST))
DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY :
PRESS RELEASE:
Wiley Acquires HEED, the World's Leading Health Economic Evaluations
Database
Wiley Acquires HEED, the World's Leading Health Economic Evaluations
Database
Public release date: 15-Nov-2006
Contact: Susan Spilka
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Eureka Alert
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Chichester, U.K. and Hoboken, N.J. - November 15th, 2006 - John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd., announced today that it has completed the acquisition of
Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED), an online source of health
economic information and evaluations.
HEED was developed as a joint initiative between the Office of Health
Economics (OHE) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA). The database is used by health
economists in the pharmaceutical industry, and academic and key healthcare
decision makers such as The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
(NICE).
The acquisition complements Wiley's expanding Health Economics and
database portfolio, which includes one of the world's leading journals in
Health Economics, Health Economics as well as The Cochrane Library and
InfoPOEMs.
Covering more than 34,000 carefully selected evaluations from around 5000
journals and government-funded publications, HEED publishes over 200
records per month online.
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14. DATABASES : POLITICAL PARTIES : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:02 am ((PST))
Democrats Used Databases In Election Wins Over GOP
The Democratic National Committee spent $8 million this cycle building a
multi-terabyte relational database that contained 300 million records.
By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek
Nov 15, 2006 01:00 PM
<http://www.informationweek.com/management/
showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194400260>
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Pundits have ascribed the sweeping Democratic victories in this year's
midterm elections to a number of factors, including corruption and
dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq. But Democrats had at least one more
weapon at hand during this election cycle that had lagged behind
Republicans in prior elections: vast databases of public and commercial
data that were used to find and target likely Democratic voters in a
method politicos called microtargeting.
Republicans built and have mined their own Voter Vault databases since
2002, and some analysts have credited at least part of President Bush's
win in 2004 to a get-out-the-vote campaign catalyzed by that data.
Democrats built similar databases, but until this cycle they were marred
by problems such as incorrect address formats that had Florida residents
living in the city of Fort and the state of Lauderdale, or data errors
that had more names listed in the data on Colorado than the number of
people who actually live in that state.
But things were different this time around. While Republicans continued to
use micro-targeting, Democrats significantly stepped up their efforts. The
Democratic National Committee spent $8 million this cycle on a
multi-terabyte relational database from Netezza; somewhere between 60% and
70% was filled with data purchased from InfoUSA.
Meanwhile, Harold Ickes, former deputy chief of staff to President
Clinton, set up his own database called Catalist for a group called
America Votes, a Democratic coalition of interest groups that targeted
campaigns in battleground states. "We've caught up to, if not passed [the
Republicans] on the technological level," says Ken Strasma, president of
Strategic Telemetry, a microtargeting firm that works with the Democratic
Party.
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15. EDUCATION: COLLEGE: STUDENTS : LIBRARY RESEARCH: SKILLS : INFORMATIO
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Date: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:01 am ((PST))
EDUCATION: COLLEGE: STUDENTS :
LIBRARY RESEARCH: SKILLS :
INFORMATION: LITERACY :
AWARDS PRIZES HONORS:
Research Prize Gives More Than Money to Students
Research Prize Gives More Than Money to Students
{Soap Box}
By Jacquelin Cason, Ph.D., Department of English, UAA
November 15, 2006
Northern Light Online
Independent Newspaper
The University of Alaska at Anchorage
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display.v/ART/2006/11/15/455b8e864200b>
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When I moved to Alaska in 1992, I had just finished my Ph.D. prelims and
was planning to work on my dissertation once I got settled. When I left
the University of Arkansas, I was still using the card catalog at Mullins
Library, and when I got to the Consortium Library a few weeks later, I
experienced a time warp. The card catalog was gone, and all searching was
done on the computer. I had never heard of the Gnosis system, but I knew I
had to learn fast if I ever wanted to complete my degree.
Fortunately, Alaska had a generous interlibrary loan service, provided
free of charge for all students, so I enrolled in one class and was on my
way. In retrospect, the timing was good because it forced me to learn a
new way of searching for sources. In spite of the new tools, I realized
that the underlying organization was much the same as it had always been,
allowing me to search by subject, author or title with the added
flexibility of keyword searching, even of the complete journal articles in
some resources. Since then, my search strategies have continued to evolve,
even though I still have a lot to learn.
Today, the Internet places a surplus of information at the fingertips of
researchers. In general, the most credible and significant resources are
not free and require subscriptions. By searching through the librarys
electronic databases (and there are almost 200), I can locate
peer-reviewed journal articles on any topic, not to mention all of the
books, reference materials and government documents. If my library doesnt
have them, I can borrow from other libraries around the world. Still,
finding them is in some ways the easy part. The real work is when I have
to evaluate, integrate and credit each resource within my writing.
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