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Israeli Military Exercise Directed At Iran
June 20, 2008 in Elections, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Bush, eh, exercise, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East, military, Olmert, Politics, terrorism, U.S., War
New York Times: Israel carried out a major military exercise earlier this month that American officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Several American officials said the Israeli exercise appeared to be an effort to develop the military's capacity to carry out long-range strikes and to demonstrate the seriousness with which Israel views Iran's nuclear program.
More than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighters participated in the maneuvers, which were carried out over the eastern Mediterranean and over Greece during the first week of June, American officials said.
Luke Russert's Eulogy of His Father, Tim Russert
June 18, 2008 in Elections, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Sports, Video
Tags: eulogy, funeral, funny, Humor, Luke Russert, Meet The Press, memorial, MSNBC, NBC News, Russert, Tim Russert, tribute, Video
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Jon Stewart On California Gay Marriage
June 18, 2008 in Elections, Gay, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized, Video
Tags: California, Comedy Central, daily show, funny, Gay, gay marriage, George Takei, Humor, jon stewart, Sulu, Video
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Michelle Obama on The View
June 18, 2008 in Elections, Humor, McCain, Obama, Politics, Uncategorized, Video
Tags: Barbara Walters, elizabeth hasselbeck, fist bump, Humor, joy behar, McCain, Michelle Obama, Obama, The View, Video, View, whoopi goldberg
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Gay Obama Accuser Speaks To National Press Club, Then Arrested
June 18, 2008 in Elections, Gay, McCain, Obama, Politics
Tags: arrest, cocaine, Elections, Gay, limo, National Press Club, Obama, Politics, Sinclair
Politico:
A footnote to the story of Larry Sinclair, the gadfly whose long criminal record I wrote about this morning: He was arrested by Washington, D.C. police after his press conference there today, two officials at D.C.'s First District station confirmed to Politico.
Sinclair is wanted in Colorado on theft and forgery charges, but police officials I spoke to wouldn't discuss the charges. Reason's David Weigel first reported the arrest.
McCain Debates Himself On Oil Drilling
June 18, 2008 in Elections, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Veepstakes, Video
Tags: Alaska, ANWAR, Bush, drilling, Florida, gas, Iran, Iraq, Israel, McCain, Middle East, Obama, off-shore, oil, prices, terrorism, War
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Polls: Obama Opens Lead In Key Swing States
June 18, 2008 in Alabama, Elections, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Veepstakes
Tags: battleground, blue, Elections, Florida, McCain, Obama, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Politics, purple, red, states, swing
CNN: Sen. Barack Obama is leading Sen. John McCain in the crucial swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to a new survey.
Obama lost the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania by 9 percentage points. But a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows him leading McCain by 12 points, 52 to 40 percent.
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In Ohio, a state Obama lost to Sen. Hillary Clinton by 10 points in March, he's leading McCain 48 to 42 percent.
And in Florida, where he did not campaign this primary season and lost an unsanctioned Democratic contest, he leads McCain 47 to 43 percent.
McCain As Creepy Husband On SNL
June 18, 2008 in Elections, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Uncategorized, Video
Tags: Amy Poehler, Chris Matthews, creepy, Elections, funny, Humor, husband, John McCain, McCain, Politics, Saturday Night Live, SNL, Video
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Tim Russert, Saint Peter, and Tim's Next Meet The Press Victim
June 18, 2008 in Elections, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion
Tags: cartoon, Elections, funny, God, Heaven, Humor, News, pearly gates, Politics, Russert, Saint Peter, St. Peter, Tim Russert
God Hates Fags: Westboro Baptist Church Pickets Gay Marriages in San Francisco
June 17, 2008 in Elections, Gay, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Video
Tags: California, Elections, Fred Phelps, funerals, Gay, gay marriage, God Hates Fags, homophobia, McCain, Obama, Phelps, picket, Politics, protest, Religion, San Francisco, Westboro Baptist Church
These people are just sheer comedy.
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Meet John McCain's Most Prominent Democratic Supporters
June 17, 2008 in Elections, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics
Tags: Bob Wise, Democratic, Democrats, Elections, endorsement, Icky Frye, McCain, Phil Frye, Philip Frye, Politics, supporters, West Virginia
Jed Report: Yesterday, John McCain proudly announced that thirty "prominent Democratic and unaffiliated leaders and activists" had endorsed his campaign and along with Joe Lieberman would "rally Americans of all political parties to support John McCain's candidacy."
Notwithstanding Joe Lieberman, it sounds impressive until you find out that one of John McCain's thirty most "prominent Democratic and unaffiliated" supporters in the country is Phillip "Icky" Frye, a television and VCR repairman from West Virginia who decided to run for governor to seek revenge against then Governor Bob Wise, who had engaged in an extramarital affair with Frye's wife, a state employee. (Their affair was a media goldmine, complete with an e-mail trail.)
McCain brags that Frye is a "former Democratic gubernatorial candidate" from West Virginia. That's technically true, but Frye never won the Democratic nomination. He didn't even come close, in fact. In the 2004 primary, he finished in 7th place — out of 8 candidates. He received 2,892 votes — good enough for 1% of the vote. (The winner took 149,362 votes.)
Here's the details: Frye's wife, Angela Mascia-Frye, had been having an extramarital affair with the then-incumbent governor, Bob Wise. After Frye filed divorce papers, Wise admitted to the affair.
West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, a Democrat, took a potentially damaging blow to his political career when he admitted to being "unfaithful to my family" on Monday. Wise's confession came after the Charleston Daily Mail contacted his press office with allegations of an affair with a state employee.
A divorce case filed by Philip Frye against Angela Mascia Frye, who is the director of European operations for the West Virginia Development Office, implicates Wise as the reason for the couple's split. Frye told the Charleston Daily Mail that his wife of seven years had been having an affair with the governor for months. "I had private detectives all over this thing. I've got pictures and documents — all kinds of hard evidence," Frye said.
Frye then decided to seek revenge by challenging Wise, later explaining his decision to run for office in blunt terms: "It was fueled by revenge to some degree, and I wanted to embarrass Wise." Frye, who criticized Wise a "typical Democrat," also said he hoped to cash in on his story:
Frye referred to Wise as a "little weasel-faced bastard" and a "typical Democrat," but he will not release the details of his allegations because he hopes to sell his story, the Daily Mail reports.
And there you have it: Icky Frye, one of the thirty most prominent Democratic supporters of John McCain in the entire United States of America.
Makes you wonder…who the heck is vetting these lists? And who in the press is fact-checking them?
Hil and Barry, Together Again
June 17, 2008 in Elections, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Veepstakes
Tags: Barack Obama, Clinton, Democrats, Elections, event, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, joint event, McCain, Obama, Politics, veeep, Veepstakes, vice president, VP
New York Daily News: Hillary Clinton will join Barack Obama for a joint appearance in Washington next week to persuade her donors to begin giving to the Democrats' nominee, the Daily News has learned.
It's the first known plan to bring together the victor and vanquished from the Democrat primary race and put their pledges of unity for the fall campaign into action.
Jonathan Mantz, Clinton's national finance director, sent top Clinton fundraisers an e-mail today inviting them to the event on June 26.
MoveOn's Controversial "Not Alex" Ad
June 17, 2008 in Elections, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Video
Tags: Ad, Elections, Iraq, McCain, military, MoveOn, MoveOn.org, Not Alex, Obama, Politics, terrorism, War
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Obama On California Gay Marriage
June 17, 2008 in Elections, Gay, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Veepstakes, Video
Tags: California, Elections, Gay, gay marriage, marriage, McCain, Obama, Politics, same sex
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New Yorker Profiles MSNBC's Keith Olbermann
June 16, 2008 in Elections, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Sports
Tags: Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Countdown, Elections, Iraq, Keith Olbermann, McCain, MSNBC, NBC News, Obama, Olbermann, Politico, Politics, Rove, Special Comment, terrorism, War
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It was nearly midnight before Keith Olbermann left the NBC News election studio on May 13th, having spent five hours on the air, co-anchoring coverage of the West Virginia Democratic primary. Olbermann had a short ride home from Rockefeller Plaza to his condominium on the Upper East Side, and he was in bed by 2 A.M. But he lay wide awake, overcome by an urge to get up and move about.
He has been given a diagnosis of Wittmaack-Ekbom's syndrome, also known as "restless-legs syndrome" (and also "the kicks," "Jimmy legs," and "jitters"), a neurological disorder that produces a prickling, itching, or crawling feeling in the legs, profoundly disturbing sleep.
Reclining exacerbates the condition, so Olbermann got out of bed, took a pill for the ailment, and, while waiting for the drug to kick in, scrolled through his BlackBerry, scanning recent messages. One arrested his attention. It was a link to the Web site Politico, which featured an interview conducted that day with President Bush. Olbermann was struck by two questions from the interview, and by Bush's answers to them: CONTINUE READING
Same Sex Marriage Legal In California
June 16, 2008 in Alabama, Elections, Food, Gay, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion
Tags: California, Del Martin, Gavin Newsom, Gay, gay marriage, marriage, Phyllis Lyon, same sex
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History was ushered in at 5:01 pm PST today as California began marrying same-sex couples, becoming the second state in the nation to do so.
In San Francisco, 87-year-old Del Martin and 84-year-old Phyllis Lyon were married after being together for more than 50 years. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom officiated:
"Well-wishers cheered when they emerged outside Newsom's office after the ceremony. Dozens of couples gathered outside the clerks offices in Alameda, Sonoma and Yolo counties, where hours were extended to accommodate gay couples who wanted to be among the first to marry. Derek Norman, 23 and Robert Blaudow, 39, from Memphis, were in the Bay Area for a conference and decided to get married at the Alameda County clerk's office. 'We might wait a long time in Tennessee, so this is our chance,' Blaudow said. First in line to pick up a marriage license in Sonoma was Melanie Phoenix, 47, and Terry Robinson, 48, of Santa Rosa. They have been together for almost 26 years and plan to be wed in August."
Al Gore Backs Obama For President
Tags: 2000, 2008, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bush, Cheney, Elections, endorsement, Gore, McCain, Michigan, Obama, Politics, Veepstakes, vice president, VP
CNN: Former Vice President Al Gore endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday, urging Americans to reject what he called the Bush administration's legacy of "incompetence, negligence and failure."
"Americans simply cannot afford to continue the policies of the last eight years for another four," Gore, the party's 2000 presidential nominee, told Obama supporters at a rally in Detroit, Michigan.
Matt Lauer's Today Show Interview with Luke Russert
June 16, 2008 in Elections, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Veepstakes, Video
Tags: 2008, Big Russ, Boston College, Catholic, Catholicism, Elections, interview, Luke Russert, Matt Lauer, MSNBC, NBC, NBC News, Politics, Religion, Tim Russert, Today, Today Show, Video
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Why Isn't the Media Reporting the Fact That John McCain Called His Wife the C-word?
June 16, 2008 in Elections, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Video
Tags: Cindy McCain, cunt, Cyndi McCain, Elections, funny, Humor, John McCain, media, Obama, Politics
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Big&Digital Releases "Napa Valley Dreams," First Documentary Released in Dolby Atmos
Las Vegas, NV, USA — BIG & Digital, LLC has announced that Napa Valley Dreams is available worldwide to the network of Giant Screen Theaters located in museums and attractions. The film is produced by Rodney Vance of Singular Entertainment and premiered at the
Cameo Cinema in the heart of Napa Valley on May 15, 2013.
Rodney Vance, award-winning producer and writer, and noted cinematographers Christopher Rusin and John Tagamolila created a stunning visual portrait of what many consider to be one of the most beautiful places on earth– Napa Valley, California. The film represents a place everyone knows, but not everyone has visited, including a few places never before captured on film.
Napa Valley Dreams captures the exquisite light, color and texture of the landscape and the community in a journey from soil to soul. "Napa Valley is a soulful place," explains Vance. "This place is more than just home to world-class wine and cuisine and we wanted to capture the experience of that, the enchantment of that, and what it's like to live there and experience the Valley season by season."
Audiences discover the people, the places and the heart of Napa Valley and get to explore areas rarely seen by visitors, including environmentally sensitive parts of the valley that have never before been professionally filmed. Many consider the Archer-Taylor Preserve and the Dunn-Wildlake Preserve, both filmed for Napa Valley Dreams, to be the most beautiful sections of the Napa Valley. The cinematography is stunning and includes the night sky over Lake Hennessy; off-road biking in the redwood-filled forests; and glimpses into the daily life of local sustainable farms, wineries and spas.
The film highlights Hollywood's love for wine and features iconic Napa personalities, including; musician Ray Manzarek—The Doors, Donald Hess–The Hess Collection, Glass Artist Gordon Huether, 3-Michelin Star Chef Christopher Kostow of The Restaurant at Meadowood, and Chocolate Atelier Wendy Sherwood with cameos by Eleanor Coppola and the Mondavi family.
Napa Valley Dreams is the first documentary to use the cutting-edge technology of Dolby Atmos™, a break-through, next-generation audio solution that changes the way people experience entertainment sound. Atmos creates an immersive atmosphere of sound that comes from the ceiling as well as all around you. The sound of a bird, or a waterfall, comes from a specific location within the theater.
The score, composed by Scott Greer, utilizes international instruments and features the song 'Wine Country Cowboy' written by Shane Soldinger and performed by The Silverado Pickups, a local band.
"We are excited to distribute Napa Valley Dreams. It is a beautiful and enchanting film and will be appreciated by all ages," states Tina Ratterman, of BIG & Digital. "It's perfect to program with exhibits of related topics and to be shown for member, corporate, and fund-raising events. There is so much theaters can do to have fun with this film. It's a perfect film for parents who desire an escape to Napa Valley and for children who find the landscape visually stunning."
The run time is 41 minutes and can be leased for Digital 2K and 4K Theaters and can also be shown using Blu-Ray and DVD for Special Events and Private Rentals.
For more information and to request a screener, please contact BIG & Digital at 702-932-4045 or email Tina Ratterman at [email protected]
Film website – www.napavalleydreams.com
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There's Always More to Discover at the Manitoba Museum.
Enjoy immersive human and natural history experiences in the nine Museum Galleries.
The renewed Nonsuch Gallery has been revitalized with stories of adventures, fascinating details about the building of the replica ship, the Hudson's Bay Company's nautical history, and the company's contributions to science. We've developed a new guided program to highlight the immersive light show and soundscapes, and show off more artifacts and specimens from the HBC collection.
Explore the wonders of science with hands-on interactive activities for all ages.
Our popular racetrack exhibit has been upgraded to provide even more engineering and design activities for your students. The giant slot-car track is still there, but the car construction and design stations have been completely rebuilt based on teacher and student feedback. Car construction is easier, with clear instructions while still encouraging the "design-test-redesign" process of real engineering. This gives students practical hands-on experience with the design, construction, and testing processes.
In addition to these improvements, a gravity-based race track has been added, to allow for further experimentation with pre-built cars to do loops, jumps, and ramps. We also have a full-scale race car that you can sit inside, thanks to our friends at Red River Co-op Speedway. Engineered for Speed is included with Science Gallery admission as part of the self-guiding portion of your visit.
Featuring Digistar® technology, the Planetarium's virtual reality capability creates a new sense of depth to the known universe. Fly to familiar constellations and see them in new ways. Every show includes an introduction to the current night sky.
Hear the 14-billion-year saga of how we came to be. It's a journey from the microscopic plant cell to the vast universe populated by billions of galaxies swirling in space. This show includes a brief night sky update.


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Windows 8.1 Update Reaches Consumer Install Deadline
For individual Windows 8.1 users, Tuesday marked the installation deadline for Windows 8.1 Update.
The June 10 deadline to install the update was extended from Microsoft's original specification of May 13 for consumers. The deadline means that consumer Windows 8.1 users who did not install the update by June 10 will no longer receive future operating system security patches from Microsoft.
It should be noted that the Tuesday deadline does not apply to Windows 8 users, who have until Jan. 12, 2016 to move to Windows 8.1. Also, organizations have a longer leeway to install it, with a deadline of Aug. 12.
Windows 8.1 Update. mostly adds improvements benefiting keyboard and mouse users. It is somewhat different from a traditional update from Microsoft in that it changes the OS' features. In addition, the update sets a new service "baseline" for the OS. Future patches from Microsoft after June 10 will target Windows 8.1 Update, not Windows 8.1.
Users updating Windows 8.1 who have existing Windows Store Apps (formerly known as "Metro" apps) on the system will have to reinstall those apps. They won't necessarily have to install their Desktop apps, though. The update performs a precheck to see if the desktop apps will run on Windows 8.1 Update, and will suggest measures to take, if any, to get them ready.
The update takes 30 minutes to "several hours" to download, depending on the Internet connection, but it also requires a reboot, which can take from 20 minutes to an hour to complete, according to Microsoft's estimate. Microsoft recommends backing up a system's files and apps before applying the update, according to a help article.
The Windows 8.1 Update is described by Knowledge Base article KB 2919355. Microsoft required a "servicing-stack update" as a prerequisite for installing the update, which is described in Knowledge Base article KB 2919442.
Microsoft points out some known install issues that people may encounter in this help article. Users could be experience problems from missing or damaged files needed by Windows Update (error code 0x80073712), incompatible software drivers (error code 0x800F0923) or connection problems to the Windows Update servers (error code 0x800F0922).
Lots more problems (sometimes with solutions) can be found in Microsoft's help forum pages here.


The Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan has been indispensable to the success of RELATE. By believing in our mission from the outset and providing us with both financial resources and personnel, RELATE was able to become the first science communications training program of its kind at Michigan.
We're excited to continue our partnership with Nerd Nite Ann Arbor! It's a match made in heaven: they have an amazing space for science (and other nerdy) communication, and they welcome RELATE speakers to the NNA2 stage! Over 15 RELATE speakers have taken the Nerd Nite stage for rousing discussions on the science of everything from obesity to fear to bubbles to LEDs.
Since 2016, RELATE has partnered with the Michigan State University Science Festival and Nerd Nite Ann Arbor to host special events during each year's April Festival! These science-only nights have featured amazing speakers discussing science across the spectrum. The 2017 event is scheduled for April 20 at LIVE (102 S 1st Street, Ann Arbor). Hope to see you there!
In 2015, RELATE worked with AAAS to bring a science communication on social media workshop to the University of Michigan. AAAS Public Engagement Manager, Jeanne Braha, gave a public lecture on the importance of social media in science communication followed by a practice-based workshop for a select group of participants.
ELI at the University of Michigan is a valued partner in our training process. The Institute has extensive experience in interactive instruction on communication with a focus on extensive feedback. Their participation has added significantly to the success of our practice sessions for participants in the summer workshop.


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7 things Trump's new DOL pick knows about benefits
Life Health > Health Insurance > Your Practice
by Allison Bell
February 20, 2017 at 02:45 AM Share & Print
Last week, President Donald Trump named Rene Alexander Acosta to be his new Labor secretary pick.
Some benefits lawyers glanced at Acosta's biography and assumed that he must not know much about health insurance.
Acosta has a bachelor's degree and a law degree from Harvard.
He served as a member of the National Labor Relations Board from 2002 to 2003; as the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2003 to mid-2005; and as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida from mid-2005 to mid-2009.
Since 2009, he's been the dean of the Florida International University law school.
Trump nominated Acosta to be his Labor secretary after Andrew Puzder, a California fast-food chain executive, withdrew his name from consideration.
Related: Puzder withdraws as Trump's Labor nominee amid Republican doubts
Many news organizations have covered Acosta as if he is just a mild-mannered law school faculty member who apparently knows something about Americans with Disabilities Act compliance.
In reality, from 2005 through 2009, while Acosta was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida — the top federal prosecutor for the region that includes Miami, and all of the federal crime that occurs in Florida from Key West up past West Palm Beach — he started the country's first health care fraud task force.
While Acosta was managing the effort to prosecute Jack Abramoff for fraud and major cocaine importers for importing cocaine, he was also leading an effort to charge about 700 people with $2 billion in health care fraud, or about $1,900 in fraud per Medicare enrollee in South Florida.
Related: Medicare fraud attracts gangsters
Acosta testified in 2011 at a House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee hearing that, in 2008, his district accounted for 32 percent of the country's health care fraud investigations.
Knowledge of health care claim fraud could be useful to a Labor secretary, because the U.S. Department of Labor is the parent of the Employee Benefits Security Administration. EBSA oversees group health benefits and other employee benefits, such as group disability insurance. Acosta may not be a specialist in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, but he knows plenty about something that may be even more important to the plan sponsors, administrators and insurers: minimizing waste, fraud and abuse.
Here's a look at some of what Acosta knows and has said about fraud against Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurance programs, based mainly on testimony from a 2011 House hearing and from testimony at a 2008 hearing on Medicare and Medicaid fraud organized by the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
In 2003, Acosta faced Ted Kennedy, Orrin Hatch, Jeff Sessions and other senators at a nomination hearing for a Justice Department post in the George W. Bush administration.
1. Hearings
To become Labor secretary, Acosta needs to get a majority vote in the Senate, at a time when Democrats are facing intense pressure from constituents to vote against all Trump nominees, and a few Republican senators are crossing party lines to vote against some nominees.
Acosta has already gone through Senate confirmation processes to serve on the National Labor Relations Board, to become the assistant attorney general for civil rights, and to become the U.S. attorney for South Florida.
In 2003, when Acosta was on his way to becoming the assistant attorney general for civil rights, the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee panel that reviewed his nomination included Orrin Hatch of Utah, who is still serving in the Senate, and the late Ted Kennedy. Another member of the panel was Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who just been confirmed as Trump's attorney general.
Sessions asked Acosta about ways to protect voters' rights while speeding up the Voting Rights Act claim review process.
Related: 3 ways the big life app checker bureau could grow
Acosta's health care fraud fighters fought hard to get access to unidentified Medicare claim data. (Image: NASA)
2. Claim data
Acosta testified at the 2011 Medicare and Medicaid hearing that the South Florida health care anti-fraud office was as productive as it was because it had persuaded Medicare program managers to provide access to Medicare claim data, with the patient names stripped out.
The office hired a nurse practitioner to go through the data and look for billing spikes.
Related: Dealing with the Data
Acosta has been a major advocate for increased use of predictive analytics in health care anti-fraud efforts. (Image: Thinkstock)
3. Math
Acosta testified at the 2011 hearing that health care fraud investigators need predictive analytics tools, or statistical data, to look for unusual billing patterns.
"[With]credit cards, if your spending patterns deviate at all, they call you up," he said, according to the hearing transcript. "Why can Medicare not do the same thing?"
Acosta said a health care program, insurer or vendor has to screen the claims before the claims are paid.
Related: Investigators Find Suspicious Medicare Billing at 2,600 Pharmacies
Acosta's fraud fighters used a wheelchair to show members of Congress and others what they were doing. (Photo: Thinkstock)
4. Visual aids
Acosta testified at the 2011 hearing that he likes to bring members of Congress and others along on health care fraud-fighting ride-alongs, and that he likes to show guests a wheelchair stored in the fraud-fighting unit's facility.
"The wheelchair was billed again and again and again," Acosta said. "The same wheelchair not used by patients. We call it the million-dollar wheelchair, because it was billed that many times."
In another case, Acosta said, his office had a picture of a "pharmacy" that was supposed to be selling large numbers of brand-name asthma inhalers.
"In fact," Acosta said "the pharmacy was a broom closet. There was nothing there."
Related: Medicare: Purchasing changes coming for diabetics
Some of the South Florida health care fraud battles involved requirements for long-term care providers. (Photo: Thinkstock)
5. Long-term care facilities
At the 2009 Senate hearing, Acosta talked about federal Medicaid standards for nursing homes and assisted living facilities. He described efforts to market antipsychotic drugs to nursing homes for off-label uses, and efforts to identify and investigate long-term care facilities "that provide services so substandard as to constitute worthless services and constitute a complete 'failure of care.'"
Related: Medicare fraud affects home care for seniors
Acosta's anti-fraud team handled complaints about HIPAA privacy violations. (Image: Thinkstock)
6. HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 includes provisions that were supposed to support efforts to fight health care fraud, protect patients' privacy, and improve health data security.
At the 2009 and 2011 hearings, Acosta did not talk about the HIPAA data security provisions, but he did talk about the HIPAA fraud-fighting and patient privacy provisions.
In 2009, for example, Acosta said that the U.S. attorney's office in South Florida worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights on prosecuting criminal HIPAA privacy violations.
Related: HHS cracks down on health care privacy violations under HIPAA
Acosta made a point of mentioning private health insurers at the 2009 hearing. (Photo: Thinkstock)
7. Private health insurers
Both Democrats and Republicans in Washington often talk as if health insurers are a necessary evil, and they sometimes seem to have a hard time understand the insurers' point of view.
Acosta testified at the 2009 and 2011 hearings that his office worked regularly with private health insurers, because health care fraud schemes frequently affect private health insurance plans.
Acosta quoted data from the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, group that includes private insurers along with government officials, and he noted that his office ran working groups that included health insurance investigators.
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The GPC's renewed vision and outward looking Strategic Framework represent a deepened operational focus, engagement of new partners and an emphasis on new thinking. This is reflected in a new governance structure, which directs attention to supporting the field in delivering protection programmes.
The High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) will be convened by the UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, bringing to bear the convening power of the Office and based on existing experience with an advisory group on gender, forced displacement and protection. People who have proven to be thought leaders and change agents from around the World participate in the HLAG on a personal basis rather than because of the office they fulfil.
The Programming Reference Group (PRG) brings together twice a year the Areas of Responsibility, Task Teams of the GPC, and several field coordinators. The group is chaired by the GPC Coordinator and its ToRs were created based on a proposal from the Operations Cell. The over-riding objective of the group is to ensure coherence in protection programming at the field level. This group should also help create and dissolve Task Teams upon completion of their work.
The Technical Working Group (TWG) provides oversight of the implementation of the Work-Plan 2016-17. It is chaired by the GPC Coordinator and meets on a quarterly basis. The group is formed of 5-6 humanitarian agencies, based on operational relevance and geographical and language diversity, and will last as long as the life of a Work-Plan. It will create its ToRs based on a proposal from the Operations Cell.
The Technical Working Group has oversight of the implementation of the Work-Plan, and through that, the work of the Operations Cell within the limits of its existing accountability. The remaining groups are outward-looking, focused on programme coherence and strategic direction. The relationship between the groups is not hierarchical.
The GPC is guided by the Principles of Partnership, which underscore that participants respect each other as equal partners, undertake tasks with transparency, adopt a results oriented approach, show responsibility in the implementation of activities, and ensure complementarity of participants' activities.


Even a theoretical physicist can't explain it! Stephen Hawking said in a new interview that Donald Trump's growing popularity is beyond his understanding.
The 74-year-old cosmologist sat down with ITV's Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, May 31, where he was asked to explain the appeal of the Republican presidential nominee, 69.
The Brief History of Time author, who was diagnosed with a motor neurone disease in 1963, is one of the world's most renowned scientists. He was recently portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the 2014 Academy Award–winning film The Theory of Everything.
Last week, Trump reached the number of delegates required to clinch the GOP presidential nomination. He has been the Republican front-runner for months, while Hillary Clinton is close to officially clinching her number of delegates to defeat Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race.


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Chris Cosentino
Judged by: Adam Sachs
Adam Sachs is a Contributing Editor at both Travel + Leisure and Bon Appétit magazines. His column The Obsessivore for Bon Appétit chronicles the culinary questings and unhinged projects of an amateur enthusiast in the kitchen. His work also appears with some regularity in GQ, Details, and The New York Times T Travel Magazine, among others. Nominated four times for James Beard Journalism Awards, Sachs grew up in Kentucky, lives in Manhattan, and is soon moving to Brooklyn with his girlfriend and 14-month-old omnivorous son, William.
Cosentino and Bloomfield are both known for muscular, meaty cooking that elevates all the lesser bits of the animal. In their new books, A Girl and Her Pig (Bloomfield) and Beginnings: My Way to Start a Meal (Cosentino), both pay tribute to Italian culinary traditions, filtered through personal experience and enthusiasms. And that's basically where the similarities between these books end.
For one, Cosentino's is explicitly not a full download of the chef's worldview. It is a book of starters. Chapters and recipes are arranged by seasons, bookended by brief, not terribly useful primers on salumi and cheese. (On buying cheese: "If I like it, I buy it. It's that simple!") Vegetables are emphasized, a conscious contrast to the offal he's known for. A gutsier title would have been A Shitload of Salads, but I can see how a marketing department might reject that. One complaint about the generally appetite-encouraging photography: page 72. The visual deal-killer for me here is the cheffly schmear, the poo-poo streak of blackened onion charcoal wiped across the plate. The skidmark style of saucing has gotten really old in restaurants and just has no place in a book for civilians.
Bloomfield's book is, by contrast, a more enveloping affair. It is intimate and roaming. Growing up in blighted Birmingham, she meant to be a cop, we learn, but she got pissed at the pub and turned her application in too late. Cooking was a runner-up career choice, and lucky for us. There are sweet asides about her time at London's River Cafe and a nice little chapter called "My Fussy Recipes" in which we are smartly instructed on the art and purpose of blanching and peeling tomatoes. There isn't a ton of photography but what's there is evocative and in some cases instructive: a two-page spread usefully illustrates the precise consistency of various sauces (lemon-caper, romesco, salsa verde, and more).
Onto the cooking! It's impossible to really compare a book of first courses to a book of bits of everything. Seeking parity, I decide to cook complementary dishes from each. This (at the time) being fall, I'm pretty much morally obligated to limit myself to Cosentino's "Fall" chapter. This presents some issues. For instance, 14.2% of his fall recipes involve sprigs of Douglas fir, (okay, that's only two recipes but I'm trying to be scientific here), and I'm not in the mood for Christmas tree. I rule out trying something called "Dirty Vegetables" on the basis that it is called "Dirty Vegetables." The first recipe in the chapter is a drink: the Bloody Roman. I'm halfway through the lengthy shopping list—heirloom tomatoes, Red Boat fish sauce, Aleppo pepper, check, check, check—before I realize there's no vodka indicated. There is Anchor Steam beer and oysters. This is less a bloody variant, more a drinkable cioppino or maybe a seafood michelada. I track down Aleppo pepper at Dean & Deluca, I shuck the briny oysters myself, I pass my late-season heirlooms through the food mill. I do it all, short of investing in chile thread garnish. The result: beer and tomato juice are not, for me, ideal companions. My oysters do not float atop the drink as they do in the photo and I find myself searching the depths of the glass for them, wishing this was a tiny little shooter instead of an expensive pint.
Continuing with seafood and tomatoes, I turn to Bloomfield's chapter "Meat Without Feet" and select a slow-cooked garlicky stew of octopus, tomato and butter beans. I make many mistakes. I use old beans and don't soak them. I buy baby octopi that emit none of the octopus broth Bloomfield promises. Still, the whole thing works beautifully and is dead easy. I whip a batch of her Green Goddess dressing together, add the suggested bright green dollops to the stew and I am a hero to my dinner guests. I want to give a high-five, times eight, to my forgotten friend, the forgiving, chewy-crisp octopus.
It's a tighter race when we come to the Meatball Showdown. Cosentino's Pork & Porcini Polpettini in a mushroom broth are fluffy but rich and remind me of canederli dumplings I had in the Dolomites. They too are easy, relatively fool-proof, and utterly satisfying but I have a quibble here too: an ingredient (Porcini Brodo) that leads me to a recipe in the back that itself contains two more recipes (Chicken and Pork Stock) is one soup step too many.
Bloomfield's Lamb Meatballs with Yogurt, Eggs and Mint is a more complex assemblage but worth the effort of grinding your own lamb shoulder—especially if you don't, as I did, make the near-fatal mistakes of overworking the meat and idiotically substituting panko for fresh breadcrumbs which result in a too-tight meatball. Still, the thing tasted good: the lamb and sweet spice of the tomato sauce giving ballast to the creamy contrast of yogurt and runny eggs added at the end. Finishing it with mint and cilantro is ingeniously elevating.
I try a couple of salads from Cosentino's book because, as I said, there are a shitload of salads up in here. Apple, Dandelion & Hazelnuts didn't do much for me. Occasionally you'd get all the right bits in your mouth at once and there was a certain harmony to it, but the apple cider vinaigrette tasted muddled and limp to me and I resented making a cup and a half of it for a salad that only serves six. I strayed into the "Winter" chapter for a salad of Treviso, Pomegranate & Pistachios. Visually arresting, it was better seen than savored; it was a promising notion that, with a little more tweaking, might grow up into a good idea.
The morning after I found myself returning to Bloomfield's book, yearning for pig's ear salad and eton mess. Here's the basic thing: one of these cookbooks vibrated on my personal frequency and one didn't. I'm sure Cosentino could make all these recipes sing, but I didn't have great luck with them and didn't feel drawn back to them.
For breakfast I made Bloomfield's Baked Eggs with Anchovies and Cream. I liked her way with languid language ("chop the garlic with the rosemary until the mixture looks a bit like blue cheese") and I liked the result even better: buttery, homey, salty, satisfying. I scraped the ramekin with crunchy grilled bread. The Girl and Her Pig makes me want to try pretty much everything between its covers -- and that's why it handily dominated this showdown between worthy competitors.
A Girl and Her Pig: Recipes and Stories
MsMora February 18, 2013
A Girl and Her Pig for sure. Delightful book by an even more delightful chef. April is a gifted cook with natural instincts. Yes, those lamb meatballs are that delicious. But don't miss making her oatmeal recipe. April's book vibrated on my personal as well, Adam. Nice job.
GregoryBPortland February 17, 2013
I like the cover of Bloomfield's cookbook, but we're never going to come to a consensus about it, so moving right along, Adam Sachs rightly underlines the issues of chef cookbooks, particularly in regards to Consentino's exotic-ingredient-heavy recipes. I'm a firm believer that if you want that sort of food, go out to a restaurant. Our kitchens are loaded with all sorts of exotic things we'll never use again in a sweaty attempt to recreate these dishes. Besides, isn't that the chef's job? Good of Sachs to underline this.
sherwood February 15, 2013
What a horrific cover to have on a cookbook! Would you wrap yourself in a dead dog or cat for the cover of a book. What the heck is wrong with people!
StevenHB February 16, 2013
Oh, please! It's a cookbook. It's about eating dead animals, particularly pigs. It's a perfect cover for a book with that name.
sygyzy February 26, 2013
I am penning a hippie cookbook and plan on fashioning a kale tuxedo for the cover.
Connie C. March 6, 2015
Intellectually I understand the point of the cover, but I do find it off-putting. I want to turn my head away or scroll quickly past it.
mainecook61 February 11, 2013
Ah, the high-low style of reviewing, all the way down from a finished dish that is "ingeniously elevating" to "shitloads of salads," with a stop along the way to mention "the canederli dumplings I had in the Dolomites." It's hilarious, although I don't think it was meant to be.
krissi February 11, 2013
I enjoy both books, but A Girl And Her Pig I Love!
garlic&lemon February 10, 2013
I really appreciate that each reviewer (so far) has given each book a fair shake even when things about a certain book does not appeal to them. When I look at cookbooks in a bookstore, if I do not see a fair number of recipes I think I will like, I do not buy it, much less cook from it (obviously). In past Piglets, some reviewers have not actually cooked from the books they reviewed and many of us cried "foul!". I like that this year's reviewers have personal experiences to report on each book. I also believe that a reviewer can be a curmudgeon. Not all of us are gracious cooks or feel like eating outside our comfort zone on any given week. Having eaten at Salumi (Cosentino's stall in the Ferry Building in San Francisco),I can understand why these books were placed in the same bracket. And I think there is an East Coast bias in Mr. Sach's review. After all, Cosentino lives in the Bay Area; you want him to ignore all those stunning veggies? In the end, though, I can certainly follow why Mr. Sachs picked "A girl and her pig", and suspect that I might have made the same choice.
Greenstuff February 10, 2013
Good thoughts! But I thought you were going to say that it was East Coast-centric, because he rejected the Doug fir sprigs! (I confess to being a little baffled by the proliferation of piney tastes out there.) And a small note, Cosentino's place in the Ferry Building is called Boccalone. It's great.
Thanks for the correction,Greenstuff! That is older age catching up with me. Or maybe all that fat from the salami cones at Boccalone!
rosalind5 February 10, 2013
This review is snarky, at times, but it is also informed and funny. For truly pointless, stupid reviews - go to Amazon - where vegans/animals rights activists are out in force against "A girl and her pig" because there is a dead animal on the cover.
Jason February 8, 2013
I think The Tournament of Cookbooks is a brilliant idea. I follow and adore The Morning News' Tournament of Books and I think it makes even more sense when applied in this context. Simply put, there are many different ways to make a cookbook, with many different purposes. Some promise to give recipes that are used in your best restaurants, others promise to show you how your favorite chefs cook at home. Some compile 1000 recipes spanning decades, and others detail the recipes of a blogger in his/her kitchen. Too often in the reviews of these books, we focus on the photography and the quality of the food within. At the end of the day, what makes this different is that it doesn't promise to find the BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR. Quite the opposite, the winner is bound to be an accident of circumstance depending on who reviewed it and their personal taste. Instead, it breeds a thoughtful anthology of smart people discussing what they think is important in a cookbook, and what they look for when making a cookbook purchase. Mr. Sachs does a brilliant job discussing his utilitarian method, and its one I appreciate. The book called to him, he wanted to cook more things from it and therefore it wins. Does that mean that Ms. Bloomsfield's book is objectively better? Of course not. But one gains an understanding of what makes a cookbook tick, at least in the opinion of Mr. Sachs.
petitbleu February 8, 2013
A good review, and thorough. I can definitely appreciate where he's coming from and why he made the choice he did. I didn't find the review to be mean or dismissive--after all, he gave the books a fair shake, one appealed to him and seemed to result in better finished dishes, and the other didn't. He admits as much. Whether or not the judge is a professional or not doesn't matter much to me. He can cook, but he's not a chef. Both of these cookbooks sound like cheffy books, but one seemed better suited to the adventurous home cook--good to know. I also got a sense of the writing style of both authors, which I appreciate, as half the fun of some cookbooks is in the prose.
dymnyno February 7, 2013
I think that we have to take account of the judges...some are real professionals who write review of cookbooks on a regular basis In this tournament we have some " guest" reviewers who have the passion but not the experience...we have to accept them all...that's the game!
gretcheninbrooklyn February 7, 2013
This site has become my go-to for searching recipes, but all the "community" talk make me want to go cold turkey. A real "community" wouldn't need the advertising. Call a spade a spade.
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ATG117 February 7, 2013
Great review. I really appreciate that the reviews this year are thorough, reasoned, and honest enough to give us readers a sense of the books and the reviewers.
thepeche February 7, 2013
Why the hell are you having a competition between cookbooks? This has to be a joke, right? A site that is known for building community is actively supporting tearing down authors and chefs in a false context. This isn't thoughtful criticism you're doing here. This is false comparison. And it is more than disappointing.
Mr. Sachs' pointless snark misses the mark and seems to suggest he is judging without even trying the recipe ("14.2% of his fall recipes involve sprigs of Douglas fir...and I'm not in the mood for Christmas tree." That's not funny or witty and seems like Mr. Sachs is just pointlessly shitting on Chef Cosentino). Flaccid attempts at humor aside, Mr. Sachs, from the opening paragraph, clearly states that these are not similar books.
So why the comparison? What is the value of this bracketed tournament? What is the point?
This isn't how people cook from books. We don't pit them against each other. We include them in our lives at the moments we need them most. There are times when Chef's Bloomfield's recipes speak to us, and there are times when we will want Chef Cosentino's Shitload of Salads.
What we don't need, however, is for food52 to continue on with a shitload of pointless competition.
nightkitchen February 7, 2013
This is my favorite part of food52. I think the NCAA-style bracket is all in good fun and the reviews are usually just honest examinations of what's it like to cook from a certain book. It turns people on to a lot of good cookbooks, even when they lose. You just have to read between the lines sometimes.
@nightkitchen I'll trust that you're right that this is usually all in good fun. But this one wasn't. There was nothing fun about it. It was mean and dismissive.
chardrucks February 7, 2013
Whoa. You sound as mean-spirited as you claim this competition and judge are. I'll tell you why we've been doing this tournament for 4 years: It's because we love cookbooks and believe your average review doesn't give you a sense of that personal relationship that a each of us has with a cookbook. It's subjective, of course it is. We want to celebrate great writing--that of our judges and that of those who wrote these cookbooks. Most of all, though, we want to celebrate these cookbooks. We take a lot of time and give a lot of thought to the 16 nominees, and, in our minds, they're all winners. We try to champion those cookbooks that we think have something original to share. We ask our judges not to think of each cookbook in comparison to the other as much as in competition with itself. If each cookbook puts forth a promise--a point of view, an philosophy about food, a story--then the question becomes how well did each live up to that promise. The one that does that more successfully, as per the judge, is the one that advances. We have the bracket system to make sure the final cookbook chosen has passed through a number of hands. If you don't like a judge's writing, then maybe don't follow him/her on twitter or read his/her book. But please, don't disparage an entire tournament you appear not to have any prior knowledge of. Thanks, Charlotte.
P.S. Thank you, @nightkitchen. You summed it up beautifully.
Charlotte, thanks for your response.
I have followed your tournament since last year and a couple of my friends are judges for it. I'm not as ignorant as I might appear. Stupid, sure. But not ignorant.
I love what you wrote about how you select books for the tournament. Really. Could you possibly explain to me how that love and celebration of an author's book is present in this review for Chef Cosentino? Was it the skidmark comment? Or the description of the primer that wasn't terribly useful? Something tells me the team at his publishing house weren't thrilled with the way you all show your love. I'd hate to see what you encourage from your reviewers when you hate a book.
I'm also confused as to your support of the reviewer's responsibility to judge a book fairly, but I'm not supposed to judge the fairness of a review or the appropriateness of your tournament. And if I do either of those, I'm mean.
With the risk of being called mean, let's apply your explanation of why you do tournament (which really is great) to this review. It utterly fails to live up to what you state is the intention of the tournament. Perhaps that's more the responsibility of an editor to help shape and guide. Was there an editor on this? Is this piece really what the tournament is all about?
But I'm mean. And stupid.
I'll just trust your intentions from now on and not judge what you actually publish.
This is one of my favorite aspects of food52. Not everyone needs to love every cookbook and not everyone can buy every cookbook. I thus very much enjoy honest and reasoned reviews, from which I can decide what I agree or disagree with and whether the cookbook is for me. I understand that you may not like this competition, but I do not think your view is representative of many members of the food52 community.
So, this is how the food52 community shows love and celebrates cookbooks?
To follow your reasoning, what you really want from your reviews is to have a chef's plating techniques compared to shit streaks in underwear. This is the honesty you desire. This is food52.
MyNameOnFood February 7, 2013
Loved Adam's personal journey through the cookbooks. Felt like a trial by fire experiential review and it really resonated with me. Now I am (finally) willing to shell my pennies out for this Bloomfield book! Simple prose and extraordinary recipes, perfect combo.
Greenstuff February 7, 2013
I like Boccalone. I always think of their slogan as "tasty salted piggy parts" (instead of pig parts). But today, it sounds like the girl with her pig beat the guy with a way with pig fair and square.
Elissa A. February 7, 2013
BRILLIANT review. Wonderful.
anntruelove February 7, 2013
I love this competition and I really wish Adam Sachs was reviewing more cookbooks. I appreciate his no nonsense, bottom-line assessment of both cookbooks. I borrow a lot of cookbooks from the library, but hardly ever buy one out of fear of major disappointment. With reviews like this, I have high hopes The Piglet winner will be a cookbook that I will purchase, keep, and love for a long time.
cookinginvictoria February 7, 2013
Very well said -- such a convincing, thorough and honest review. So happy to see A Girl and Her Pig advance to the next round. I too love all of April Bloomfield's recipes that I've tried from this book. It's one of my favorite cookbooks from last year.
Alexandra H. February 7, 2013
Agree! I loved the honest assessment of both books, recipes, photos, and overall vibrancy of the end-product food. Thoroughly enjoyed visual references, especially to a "skidmark"- haven't heard that word since my brother was a teenager! I confess that I bought Consentino's book after visiting Boccalone in SF, but was so disappointed in recipes, that I returned it (a rarity for me). Conversely, I bought Bloomfield's book based purely on umpteen gushing reviews on various food blogs, and was not disappointed! Great review!
China M. February 7, 2013
Wow! What a fabulously written judgement. It makes me love A Girl and Her Pig even more than I already did.
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1. The beard is back.
2. Locke confirms–for the first time–what we all already knew: that Boozer did indeed demand a trade last summer, and "the Jazz told him to shut up." (40:15 mark). You go, KOC.
3. A tidbit from Locke that I didn't already know:
"To some extent training camp already started for these guys [with many of the players returning to SLC earlier in the month and playing pickup games and working out together]. The coaches and team are not allowed to be involved until training camp starts." (emphasis mine)
4. Apparently dissatisfied with what Raja (34) and Elson (34) did to raise the average age of the team, the Jazz are signing Earl Watson (31). [When the season ended four months ago, we had a total of ONE player over the age of 30–Memo.]
I don't know much about Watson, except he can't shoot. However, Ross Siler says that "this season's Earl Watson is going to be better than this season's Eric Maynor." That's a big statement, since Maynor was pretty darn great compared to the carnival of last-leg point guards that have paraded through SLC in recent years.
Locke also had this to say:
Watson plays with an edge and toughness that Jerry Sloan is going to like. He is a defender. He battles for every possession. He understands the game and plays hard every night.
In 2006 he said, "The money we make is stupid," he said. "If you play for the money, you lose yourself and have no identity. I play for the love of the game, and I play to win."
Watson brings the number of guaranteed contracts to 11, which is two short of the minimum 13. Five of the eleven are new faces. Yikes. As BBJ points out, turning over half the roster of the team just isn't something that happens in Utah.
I'm assuming (always a dangerous endeavor, I know) that with Watson's signing, Yatta is gone. That leaves OJ, Jeremy Evans, Fes, and/or someone(s) else entirely unexpected to fill out the remaining roster spots. I have to say, I'm really, really curious about Evans.
5. Big Al quote while donating school supplies to a SLC community:
"I'd like to play 10 more years. I hope this is my final team."
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Noncompliance with CCPA is potentially costly. Fines cap at $7,500 per violation. A penalty affecting the data of, say, 100,000 customers risks putting a company out of business.
Moving Toward Compliance
While your organization can't just dust off the work it did for the GDPR and emblazon CCPA across the front, it can leverage the teams, action plans and structures they've already put in place.
Building a compliance roadmap starts with the following assessments:
The customer journey. Examine data across all touchpoints where personal information is collected and utilized. Who has access to it? What personal data elements are gathered? What type and format of data is stored?
Impact on business applications. Because data requests are a new consumer right, you'll need a plan to document and manage the requests. Address data collection points and information-sharing policies, such as application programming interface (API) integration, to capture information and communicate consumer consents.
Data entitlement and processing transformation. With legislation pending in multiple jurisdictions, it's critical to develop a strategy for data security entitlements for all consumers, not just California residents. Global and national banks will also need to consider the patchwork of existing and contemplated privacy laws in states such as Arizona, Washington and New Jersey, as well as the interaction with other regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Governance and change management. Establish a data protection office (DPO) to ensure sponsorship from senior leaders and facilitate funding. The DPO should coordinate all supporting programs and projects, and enable your organization to achieve compliance in a strategic, comprehensive way.
Be ready to execute. Preparation for CCPA is just the first step. The real key to compliance is execution. Will your teams know where to route calls? What physical and machine-based systems will you have in place? What tools will you implement to extract data?
A Clarion Call
Consumer interest in personal data protection is rippling through every industry. While interest in trust and transparency is especially keen in the information-intensive banking industry, it's also affecting insurers, healthcare providers, and communications and media companies. Only 48% of people in the U.S. say they trust businesses, falling from 58% last year. With its emphasis on transparency and responsiveness, CCPA has the potential to make or break companies' reserves of consumer trust.
CCPA should be a wake-up call – make that a trumpet blast – for banks. The bar is set for banks to demonstrate that they value consumers' privacy not just because it's law but also because consumers want it.
Be ready when that first call comes in 2020.
To learn more, please visit our CCPA for Banking website.
Mark Davies
Mark Davies is Vice President and Platinum Client Partner at Cognizant, with responsibility for the relationship and health of key banking and... Read more
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"One Headlight"
"The Difference"
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The Wallflowers Biography
The Wallflowers burst onto the international music scene in the mid '90s during the burgeoning roots-rock revival. The Wallflowers held a special connection to one of the original inspirations: vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Jakob Dylan, son of musical deity BOB. Though he is the son of a legend, Jakob's similarities to his father are occasional - in fact, the Wallflowers are more influenced by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers than original '60s folk-rock, though lyrically, Jakob remains a close companion to the original Dylan.
The Wallflowers face was born in 1970. Jakob Dylan was raised in Los Angeles by his mother, Sara Lowndes, after his parents' divorce in 1977. He studied at private schools in L.A. and New York, and decided to follow in his father's footsteps by the late '80s. He formed the Wallflowers with guitarist Tobi Miller, keyboard player Rami Jaffee, bassist Barrie Maguire and drummer Peter Yanowitz, and signed to Virgin. Released in August 1992, the Wallflowers' self-titled debut album sold poorly, and Virgin soon dropped their contract. Undaunted, Dylan assembled a new Wallflowers - guitarist Michael Ward, bassist Greg Richling and drummer Mario Calire - keeping only Jaffee. The group signed to Interscope and recorded its second album with producer T-Bone Burnett, a long-time friend of the Dylan family. Bringing Down the Horse was released in May 1996, producing the alternative radio hit "6th Avenue Heartache." Late in 1996, the single "One Headlight" was released, and by the spring of 1997, it had become a Top 10 hit, pushing Bringing Down the Horse into the upper reaches of the charts, as well.
Bringing Down the Horse was a big seller throughout 1997, thanks to "6th Avenue Heartache," "One Headlight" and "The Difference," the third single pulled from the record. Early in 1998, "One Headlight" won Grammys for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal. Settling down from the rush of success, The Wallflowers rightfully took a long four-year break from recording.
The Wallflowers continued work its four-year hiatus. On their next album, Breach, released October 10, 2000; the first single was "Sleepwalker", followed by "Letters From the Wasteland." The record was featured on MTV's First Listen show. Guests included Elvis Costello, who lent vocals on "Murder 101." The album was certified gold on September 21, 2001.
The Wallflowers released their fourth studio album, Red Letter Days, in November 2002. RLD was the first Wallflowers record that featured Jakob Dylan playing a majority of the lead guitar parts. The album had a much more aggressive sound than any of their previous releases. The first single and only music video shot was for "When You're On Top." The single was a smash hit on AAA radio stations, but received little mainstream attention. Subsequent singles from the album include "If You Never Got Sick," "Closer to You," and "How Good It Can Get" which received radio airplay across multiple formats. The band was a part of many exclusive performances during promotion of the record, including a Live at the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame concert for MTV, and a special televised concert for VH1, Live at Alcatraz, being the first band to ever play a concert on the famous island.
The Wallflower's most recent release, Rebel, Sweetheart was released on May 24th, 2005. This is the first Wallflowers record available as a DualDisc. The DVD included interviews and exclusive performances and arrangements of many of the band's songs. Brendan O' Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Train) was called in to produce the record and played guitar as well. Fred Eltringham, the newest Wallflowers member, played drums. A video was filmed for their first single "The Beautiful Side of Somewhere" which hit #5 on AAA radio. The second single released was "God Says Nothing Back." In promoting the record, The Wallflowers performed special televised concerts for the Oxygen Custom Concert Series on the Oxygen channel and were also featured on the PBS series Soundstage.
In conjunction with the release of Rebel, Sweetheart the band released an exclusive iTunes Originals album for the iTunes music store. The album featured exclusive performances and interviews with Jakob Dylan. The band also volunteered to perform for sailors on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis as the troops were returning to California.
The song "Into the Mystic" was featured on the American Wedding soundtrack. The Wallflowers also did a remake of David Bowie's song "Heroes" for the Godzilla soundtrack.
The Wallflowers continue to stay active. In 2006 it was announced that Dylan would be appearing with T-Bone Burnett as a guest musician during Burnett's first tour in 20 years. The two share a long history that extends further than just Burnett's impactful production work on Bringing Down the Horse.
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Booking The Wallflowers for corporate events is a great way to thank your employees and clients, and in addition, hiring The Wallflowers for a corporate event is a fantastic way to promote your company's image to your industry. Booking Entertainment can book The Wallflowers for corporate events worldwide, providing you with the fee to book The Wallflowers and their availability on your specific date. We have helped our clients book The Wallflowers and thousands of other acts for almost 25 years. Whether you are looking at hiring The Wallflowers for a corporate event, product launch, trade show, holiday party or an employee appreciation event, your assigned Booking Entertainment agent will be happy to get you the best price for booking The Wallflowers and help make sure that every aspect of the entertainment portion of your corporate event is executed flawlessly.
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If you are looking to hire The Wallflowers for a corporate event and are looking for The Wallflowers's booking fee for corporate events, Booking Entertainment will be happy to get you pricing to book The Wallflowers for your date for free. The cost of hiring The Wallflowers for your corporate event can include just the price of booking The Wallflowers for a corporate event, or we can give you an estimate for booking The Wallflowers that includes absolutely everything that goes into hiring The Wallflowers including all fees, flights, hotel, ground, production, green room requirements and our veteran production team onsite to make sure everything runs smoothly from load in to load out.
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Booking talent for college and university events is something Booking Entertainment has been helping college talent buyers do for almost 25 years. Whether you are looking to book The Wallflowers for a sorority party / fraternity party or a college concert event sponsored by the college entertainment committee, college talent buying is something we specialize in at Booking Entertainment. Simply fill out our form, email us or call the office and one of our college booking agents will be happy to help you make sure that every aspect of booking The Wallflowers or anyone else for you college event is taken care of to ensure your college or university concert runs smoothly and cost effectively.
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When college entertainment buyers book famous entertainers such as The Wallflowers to play for college concerts, sorority parties or fraternity parties at colleges and universities, we know the acts tend to charge a lower fee than they would cost for a traditional public or private concert. Of course, how expensive it is to book college entertainment depending on how big of an act they are, but colleges and universities tend to get a better fee for booking big name entertainment for college and university events. One of our college entertainment booking agents will work closely with you to make sure you get the best possible price for your college's concert.
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Buyers who don't have a lot of experience booking famous acts often find the process frustrating when they try to do it on their own. Our The Wallflowers agent that specializes in booking The Wallflowers can use our reputation and relationships to help you navigate the entertainment buying process and get your offer for booking The Wallflowers seriously considered. The artist's managers want to know that everything will be handled properly, and Booking Entertainment's stellar 23-year reputation and our attention to detail provide them with the peace of mind that the show will be flawlessly executed from beginning to end.
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If you are serious about booking The Wallflowers for a wedding, Booking Entertainment will gladly get you the The Wallflowers booking fee and availability for booking The Wallflowers for your wedding date. The price for booking The Wallflowers will include all of the fees and additional expenses necessary to hire The Wallflowers for a wedding including all production costs, flights, hotels, ground and green room requirements.
If I hire The Wallflowers to perform at my wedding, how do I integrate booking The Wallflowers into my wedding?
Hiring celebrity entertainment for a wedding is a great way to surprise the guests or even the bride or groom. When we book big name acts like The Wallflowers for weddings, we work closely with the wedding planner beforehand to make sure everything involved with the entertainment integrates seamlessly with the flow of the wedding . Our staff of veteran producers will then be onsite at the wedding to make sure when you book The Wallflowers for your wedding, everything runs smoothy from load in to load out.
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Even if you have The Wallflowers contact information, The Wallflowers's management contact info like The Wallflowers's manger's email or even The Wallflowers's manager's phone number, you still need a company like Booking Entertainment to help coordinate everything that is necessary to book The Wallflowers to perform for your event. Agents and managers contact us all the time to help people that find the agency contact info or management contact info and contact the agents and mangers directly. Managers and agents trust our agency to handle everything to the industry standard as we have for almost 25 years.
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As an experienced entertainment booking agency, Booking Entertainment agents represent buyers of big name entertainment, providing pricing fees and full turn key concert events for our clients. We are a full-service booking entertainment agency for clients hosting corporate events, galas, private events, fundraisers, corporate functions, college concerts, private parties and speaking engagements worldwide.
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Booking Entertainment works to get the best possible The Wallflowers booking fee and The Wallflowers price for our clients while also providing the celebrity or famous entertainer with the level of professionalism and industry norms that they expect from an event run by a professional booking agency and production management.
Booking Entertainment uses our agency / management relationships and over 23 years of production experience to help buyers of headline / top name entertainers and does not claim or represent itself as the exclusive The Wallflowers agent, manager or management company for any of the artists on our site.
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