By Howard Gleckman, Contributor This week, the PBS program Frontline investigated care at the nation’s largest assisted living company— Corp. The program’s message was powerful—and highly controversial: Residents of some Emeritus facilities are dying as a result of poor care by insufficient and poorly trained staff and a lack of government regulation. …read more
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By Richard Eisenberg, Contributor
If you’re considering moving your parent into an assisted living facility or your mom or dad is one of the roughly 750,000 Americans already living in one, I implore you to watch Frontline’spowerful exposé, Life and Death in Assisted Living, premiering Tuesday, July 30, at 10 p.m. Eastern time on PBS (check local listings). Frontline will also be holding a chat about the program Wednesday, July 31, at 2 p.m. Eastern time; below, you can submit questions and attend the chat. …read more
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Maybe you have seen her show, Irish Food Trails, on PBS? Or maybe you have seen her cookbook, “Homemade?” If not don’t worry – Clodagh McKenna may not yet be a household name in America, but she is in Ireland, where her multiple TV shows, books, and an eatery in Dublin’s top department store have made her a food star. Now she is taking the next step. …read more
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If you’ve recently joined the ever-growing ranks of the cable cutters, you’re far from alone. More and more people (myself included) are getting fed up with service providers’ outdated subscription models and absurd pricing—and canceling their service.
And why not?
There are more legal alternatives than ever, and if you’re willing to wait a little longer to catch up on your favorite shows, you can save a ton of money. In addition to online services like Netflix, Hulu, and Crackle, you can still watch some over-the-air channels like ABC , NBC, FOX, and PBS free of charge, but you have to be… more
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, as well as the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Fast Company Magazine named Daring Greatly one of the top ten business books of 2012. She has spent the past twelve years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Her groundbreaking research has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, The Katie Show, and Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday.
By Jane Levere, Contributor Dan Stevens, the late, lamented heartthrob of the wildly popular PBS series, Downton Abbey, is slumming it these days, portraying a Brooklyn drug trafficker in a new film currently being shot in Brooklyn.
By Walter Pavlo, Contributor We all know that top banks/bankers seem to have avoided criminal prosecution. Hell, they have avoided missing a bonus. PBS‘ documentary The Untouchables did little more than tell us the obvious that not one banker involved with the financial crisis have even been prosecuted, much less been hauled off to jail. American Banker‘s piece on the problems with government oversight came to the frustrating conclusion that the reason bankers were not prosecuted was because: “Government oversight of financial companies has not worked well in the past, is not working now and little is being done to make it better in the future.” As if that was not discouraging enough, Attorney General Eric Holder testified in March before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying: “I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.” In summary, big banks are too big to jail, or fail.
From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2013/04/15/just-right-to-jail-small-bankers-do-go-to-prison/
WASHINGTON — Sometimes, congressmen just want to have fun.
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., said he wasn’t flirting with singer Cyndi Lauper earlier this week when he tweeted to her that he “couldn’t believe how hot” she was.
The tweet Tuesday — and its deletion 21 minutes later — were all part of a joke designed to get publicity for a PBS documentary airing next week about the music scene in Memphis, the city Cohen represents in Congress, the lawmaker said Friday at a news conference.
Cohen tweeted to Lauper, “great night, couldn’t believe how hot u were. See you again next Tuesday. Try a little tenderness.”
Lauper, famous for ’80s hits like “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” ”Time after Time” and “True Colors,” recorded her most recent album, the critically acclaimed “Memphis Blues,” in Memphis, and the singer is featured in the PBS film.
Read more at Official Wire. By Henry C. Jackson.
From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/dem-tweet-calling-singer-hot-a-prank/
In what may be the year’s most unusual PR stunt, Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen claimed Friday that a flirtatious tweet on Cyndi Lauper was merely meant to drum up publicity for a PBS program on his city’s music scene.
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We are pleased to announce the first beta release of the Open Chemistry suite of cross platform, open-source, BSD-licensed tools and libraries – Avogadro 2, MoleQueue and MongoChem. They are being released in beta, before all planned features are complete, to get feedback from the community following the open-source mantra of “release early, release often”. We will be making regular releases over the coming months, as well as automatically generating nightly binaries. A Source article from 2011 introduced the project, slides from FOSDEM describe it more recently, and the 0.5.0 release binaries can be downloaded here.
These three desktop applications can each be used independently, but also have the capability of working together. Avogadro 2 is a rewrite of Avogadro that addresses many of the limitations we saw. This includes things such as the rendering code, scalability, scriptability, and increased flexibility, enabling us to effectively address the current and upcoming challenges in computational chemistry and related fields. MoleQueue provides desktop services for executing standalone programs both locally and on remote batch schedulers, such as Sun Grid Engine, PBS and SLURM. MongoChem provides chemically-aware search, storage, and informatics visualization using MongoDB and VTK.
Avogadro 2 is a rewrite of Avogadro; please see the recently-published paper for more details on Avogadro 1. Avogadro has been very successful over the years, and we would like to thank all of our contributors and supporters, including the core development team: Geoff Hutchison, Donald Curtis, David Lonie, Tim Vandermeersch, Benoit Jacob, Carsten Niehaus, and Marcus Hanwell. We also recently obtained permission from almost all authors to relicense the existing code under the 3-clause BSD license, which will make migration of code to the new architecture much easier.
Some notable new features of Avogadro 2 include:
Avogadro is not yet feature complete, but we invite you to try it out along with the suite of applications as we continue to improve it. The new Avogadro libraries feature much finer granularity; whereas before we provided a single library with all API, there is now a layered API in multiple libraries. The Core and IO libraries have minimal dependencies, with the rendering library adding a dependence on OpenGL, and the Qt libraries adding Qt 4 dependencies. This allows us to reuse the code in many more places than was possible before, with rendering possible on a server
From: http://blog.cryos.net/archives/265-First-Open-Chemistry-Beta-Release.html
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Jack Martin Taps HKS Veterans for Global Leadership Posts in Energy and Crisis
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Company veterans will fill senior positions in the energy and crisis practices at Hill+Knowlton Strategies, the global communications firm announced today. Global Chairman and CEO Jack Martin has promoted Chris Gidez to be the new global head of the firm’s energy practice and Bill Coletti to be the new global co-lead of the firm’s crisis practice.
“We need elite talent in these positions, and I found it within the Hill+Knowlton Strategies family,” Martin said. “Each of these promotions demonstrate how we find, develop, support and push our own talent toward the best possible work for our clients — and how their successes are rewarded here. I have full confidence that each of these leaders will inject even more energy into the terrific momentum we are building in 2013.”
Both will be based in the U.S. and are effective immediately.
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
Musician John Legend has penned the title track for “The House I Live In,” the documentary about the drug war that was released in theaters last year and has its broadcast debut Monday night on PBS.
He’s just one of the many celebrities who have spoken out against the war on drugs: Danny Glover, Brad Pitt and Russell Simmons all also served as executive producers for the film.
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Mark Shields on PBS’s Inside Washington Friday made a comment that perfectly defines how liberal media elites view the financial success of anyone other than themselves and their ilk.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Today is the birthday of B.F. Skinner. The celebrated and sometimes controversial American behavioral scientist, who was born in Susquehanna, Penn. on March 20, 1904 and spent much of his career as a psychology professor at Harvard University, would have turned 104.
Skinner, who died in 1990, is best remembered for his radical ideas about animal and human behavior. A story on the PBS website described him in this way:
Skinner expressed no interest in understanding the human psyche… He sought only to determine how behavior is caused by external forces. He believed everything we do and are is shaped by our experience of punishment and reward. He believed that the ‘mind’ (as opposed to the brain) and other such subjective phenomena were simply matters of language; they didn’t really exist.
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Iconic Inventor, Author, and Futurist Ray Kurzweil to Keynote Kodak Global Directions 2013 Conference
Google Director of Engineering will headline educational event focused on Intelligent Information Management
ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Kodak today announced that renowned author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil will keynote its Global Directions 2013 conference—an annual technology and educational event sponsored by the company’s document capture and enterprise software business unit. The conference, scheduled for September 22-25 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C., will explore “Intelligent Information Management” and how its deployment provides businesses with a competitive advantage. This year’s theme includes topics on the importance of collaboration platforms for enterprise-wide information management, managing social media as a vital information stream, and the next generation of software that not only manipulates and stores vast amounts of data but can also intelligently process the valuable information contained within it.
Kurzweil is uniquely qualified to discuss new approaches to information management. He was recently named Director of Engineering at Google and is widely regarded as one of the greatest inventors of our time. He was the principal developer of the first omni-front optical character recognition (OCR), the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, and the first CCD flat-bed scanner. PBS honored Kurzweil as one of “16 Revolutionaries Who Made America,” Forbes magazine has referred to him as “the ultimate thinking machine” and Inc. magazine described him as “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison.”
“Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer of our industry,” said Dolores Kruchten, President, Document Imaging and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. “Without his contributions, we might not be having this conference. Ray is the perfect headliner for a blockbuster lineup of speakers and exhibitors.”
Business leaders attend Global Directions (http://www.globaldirections2013.com/) to examine solutions to critical issues affecting their organizations. The conference agenda features cutting-edge case studies, end user presentations and technology demonstrations. Notable attendees include some of the most renowned thought leaders, analysts and journalists in the information management industry. The event is designed to advance education, knowledge and actionable business strategies in the application of information management to meet the future needs of the global business community. Topics range from extracting business content from scanned paper documents, to document processing workflows for enterprise platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, to high performance software that can understand, classify, extract and automate data flows from a variety …read more
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Ellie Mae Announces Keynote Speakers for the 2013 Ellie Mae Encompass Experience
PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Ellie Mae® (NYS: ELLI) , a leading provider of enterprise level, on-demand automated solutions for the residential mortgage industry, today announced the keynote speakers for its second annual national user conference, the 2013 Ellie Mae Encompass® Experience, to be held Oct. 13 – 16, 2013 at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, NV.
The keynote speakers, who will offer their unique perspectives on the mortgage industry, economy and business leadership, include:
“The overall feedback we received for Encompass Experience 2012 was incredibly positive,” said Jonathan Corr, president and chief operating officer at Ellie Mae. “Many of the 1,200-plus attendees specifically called out our strong lineup of speakers. We believe the keynotes for the 2013 Ellie Mae Encompass Experience will build on that experience and be even more exciting and insightful.”
The 2013 Ellie Mae Encompass Experience is an invitation-only event for current Ellie Mae clients, including senior management, executives, system administrators, operations managers, loan officers and processors, compliance specialists, closers, secondary market managers and users of all experience levels. This year, Ellie Mae is expanding the summit to add …read more
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