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Monday, March 18, 2013
PM Harper Joins World Leaders In Congratulating China?s President
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Source: www.ibtimes.com --- Saturday, March 16, 2013
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined the world leaders Friday to congratulate the newly nominated China?s President Xi Jinping. ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
53-year-old musher becomes oldest Iditarod champ
Mitch Seavey became the oldest winner, a two-time Iditarod champion when he drove his dog team under the burled arch in Nome on Tuesday evening, March 12, 2013. He sits with his two lead dogs, Tanner, left and Taurus, right. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth) LOCAL TV OUT (KTUU-TV, KTVA-TV) LOCAL PRINT OUT (THE ANCHORAGE PRESS, THE ALASKA DISPATCH)
Mitch Seavey became the oldest winner, a two-time Iditarod champion when he drove his dog team under the burled arch in Nome on Tuesday evening, March 12, 2013. He sits with his two lead dogs, Tanner, left and Taurus, right. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth) LOCAL TV OUT (KTUU-TV, KTVA-TV) LOCAL PRINT OUT (THE ANCHORAGE PRESS, THE ALASKA DISPATCH)
Mitch Seavey leaves White Mountain in Alaska, Tuesday, March 12, 2013, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth) LOCAL TV OUT (KTUU-TV, KTVA-TV) LOCAL PRINT OUT (THE ANCHORAGE PRESS, THE ALASKA DISPATCH)
Mitch Seavey leaves White Mountain in Alaska, Tuesday, March 12, 2013, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth) LOCAL TV OUT (KTUU-TV, KTVA-TV) LOCAL PRINT OUT (THE ANCHORAGE PRESS, THE ALASKA DISPATCH)
A musher travels across Norton Sound on their way to Koyuk in Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday, March 11, 2013. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth)
Aliy Zirkle puts booties on her dogs prior to leaving Koyuk on Monday, March 11, 2013, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth)
NOME, Alaska (AP) ? A 53-year-old former champion has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the oldest winner of Alaska's grueling test of endurance.
Mitch Seavey and 10 dogs crossed the Nome finish line to cheering crowds at 10:39 p.m. Alaska time Tuesday.
"This is for all of the gentlemen of a certain age," he said on a live stream posted to the Iditarod website after completing the race in temperatures just above zero. His race time in the 1,000-mile race was nine days, 7 hours and 39 minutes.
Seavey's victory came after a dueling sprint against Aliy Zirkle, last year's runner-up, along the frozen, wind-whipped Bering Sea coast. Zirkle crossed the finish line 24 minutes after her rival, who greeted her after a while.
"You did a good job," Seavey told Zirkle as a camera crew filmed them. "You're going to win this thing, probably more than once."
After finishing, both mushers rushed to pet their dogs, with Seavey singling out his main leader, 6-year-old Tanner, posing for photos with the dog and another leader, Taurus, wearing yellow garlands.
Zirkle's dogs wagged their tails as she praised them. "My dog team is my heart," she said.
The pair jostled for the lead, with Zirkle never more than a few miles behind, in the final stretch.
"I just now stopped looking over my shoulder," Seavey said after winning.
Also trailing by a dozen or so miles was four-time champion Jeff King, who was followed by a cluster of contenders, including Seavey's son, Dallas Seavey. The younger Seavey at age 25 last year became the youngest Iditarod winner ever, beating Zirkle to the finish line by one hour.
Mitch Seavey first won the Iditarod in 2004. Before his Tuesday night win, King had been the oldest Iditarod champion, winning his fourth race at age 50 in 2006.
The oldies were still stellar performers in a race that ended last year with a top field featuring many finishers in their 20s and 30, noted Iditarod race spokeswoman Erin McLarnon.
"Last year, we saw a lot of those youngsters in the top 10," McLarnon said. "Some of those 45-plussers are taking back the lead this year. They are showing the young 'uns what they can really do out there on that trail."
Zirkle, 43, had hoped to be only the third woman to win the race and the first since Susan Butcher won her fourth Iditarod in 1990. Before this year's race, Zirkle noted the long time that had passed since a woman won.
"This is my 13th year, and I've wanted to win every year," she said before the race, which began March 2 with 66 teams at a ceremonial start in Anchorage.
The competitive part of the race began the following day in Willow 50 miles to the north. Since then, the race changed leaders several times. Those at the front of the field included four-time champions Lance Mackey and Martin Buser, who later fell behind.
En route to Nome, the race turned into an aggressively contested run among veterans along an often punishing trail.
Conditions on the Yukon River required dogs to go through deep snow and navigate glare ice. Above-freezing temperatures also led to overflow along the trail, a potentially dangerous situation where water has pushed up through the ice and refrozen, creating a weak top layer of ice that teams and mushers can break through.
For reaching Nome first, Seavey wins $50,400 and a new 2013 Dodge Ram pickup truck. The rest of the $600,000 purse will be split among the next 29 mushers to cross the finish line under the famed burled arch on Front Street, a block from the sea.
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Associated Press writer Rachel D'Oro reported from Anchorage. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/rdoro.
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Online:
http://iditarod.com
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Draft Is The Best Word Processor You Can Write With Today
The to-do list has gotten Asana, the calendar has gotten Fantastical, and the inbox has gotten Mailbox, but nobody has made a word processor for this decade. Until Draft, which is launching today to solve major problems with Google Docs... in ways that make me nostalgic for my own startup, WriteWith.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Am36MoNYOZ8/
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Speed cited in Ohio crash that killed 6 teens
WARREN, Ohio (AP) ? The mother of one of six teenagers killed in a northeast Ohio crash says the victims and two boys who survived the accident were close friends and lived in the same neighborhood.
A sport utility vehicle carrying eight teenagers smashed into a guardrail and flipped into a swampy pond early Sunday in Warren, killing five boys and the young woman driving. The State Highway Patrol says two boys escaped from the submerged vehicle and ran a quarter-mile to a home to call 911.
Deanna Behner tells Youngstown TV stations WKBN and WYTV that her 15-year-old son, Kirklan Behner, and the other teens lived in the same area of Warren's east side.
It's unclear where they were headed. Investigators have focused on speed as a key factor in the crash.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/highway-patrol-high-rate-speed-ohio-crash-063431955.html
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New Registry Cleaner, PC HealthBoost Saves Computers and Gets ...
Boston, MA (PRWEB) January 14, 2013
Software developers Amit Mehta and Peter Dunbar have released a registry cleaner that has received rave reviews from nearly all of their customers. The duo decided to create PC HealthBoost (http://www.pchealthboost.com) because of what they saw as poor offerings in the market: few registry cleaners really did what they were supposed to.
Those that did, sometimes did the wrong thing and wrecked consumers? Windows operating systemsthen failed to offer adequate support. Mehta and Dunbar built PC HealthBoost to be different.
We developed PC HealthBoost for over 3 years before we felt confident that this is truly as good as it gets, says Dunbar. This is a quality program that will save a lot of people a lot of trouble. We?re proud to have our names attached to it.
PC HealthBoost Software Endorsements
PC HealthBoost is endorsed by software review site TuCows, and carries its 5 Cows award (http://www.tucows.com/preview/1475930), the highest given by TuCows. It has passed the rigors of McAfee and Norton Antivirus testing, and has been certified McAfee Secured (https://www.mcafeesecure.com/RatingVerify?ref=pchealthboost.com) and Norton Secured (http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=pchealthboost.com). This PC optimization software has also undergone the intensive screening from StopTheHacker, which scans and screens the software on a daily basis.
Boost Software is also a Better Business Bureau Accredited Business (http://www.bbb.org/boston/business-reviews/computer-software-publishers-and-developers/boost-software-inc-in-boston-ma-121711/) with an A- rating. According to the Better Business Bureau report on PC HealthBoost, BBB has determined that Boost Software Inc. meets BBB accreditation standards, which include a commitment to make a good faith effort to resolve any consumer complaints.
But what exactly does PC HealthBoost do? It is designed to speed up PCs by cleaning and maintaining a vital part of the Windows operating system: the registry. The registry is where all tasks are assigned and delegated, making it the switchboard of the Windows OS.
PC HealthBoost Testimonials
Some customers have also reported that PC HealthBoost has saved them from having to buy a new computer entirely. How does the software do this?
To understand that, it helps to know a little bit about how the Windows registry can be damaged. Programs like viruses, Trojan horses, and adware insinuate their own code into a computer?s registry, while often deleting other important code (especially those related to security and startup functions).
I ran into a problem due to malware [malicious software such as viruses, spyware, or Trojan horses] on my system, said Kathleen Novotny of Wisconson, a PC HealthBoost customer. Your tech, Chris, did everything in his power to get me up and running. Since we were able to get past the errors this PC is faster and better than when it was new. Thank you all.
This means that even when users clear off viruses with the help of antivirus programs, the foundation of Windows still remains damaged. This damage is often left uncorrected by antivirus software.
But a computer doesn?t need to have been damaged by malicious programs in order to suffer from registry errors. Over time, the registry becomes cluttered through regular computer use, slowing the computer down.
This is why PCs and laptops often take longer to start up, and become slower with time. It?s also the reason that Microsoft recommends users uninstall and re-install Windows on a periodic basissomething that nobody really wants to do.
My computer is running faster and I notice that there have not been any freezes or lock-ups where I have to turn the computer off and back on again, said Richard Peterson of OK in an unsolicited testimonial. My computer is running almost like it did when it was new 6 years ago.
PC HealthBoost was created so that users don?t have to re-install Windows or worry about malicious code left by viruses. It works by clearing clutter and malicious code from the registry, while adding and replacing vital entries that may be missing.
The software also gives users more control about what programs begin running when their computer starts up, as well as which programs run in the background.
About Boost Software
Boost Software was founded by Amit Mehta, who took his degree in theoretical physics. Before developing his own software, he worked for MIT Lincoln Lab, which researches advanced technology for national security. He and his partner, programming expert Peter Dunbar, created the software over the course of three years, releasing it in early 2012.
To learn more about PC HealthBoost PC optimization software, visit http://www.PCHealthBoost.com.
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Health Insurance Exchange Implementation: Timeline and CMS ...
In recent testimony to the Senate Finance Committee, Gary Cohen of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gave an update of progress on Health Insurance Exchanges (HIX) implementation, now called Health Insurance Marketplaces. There is plenty to do, as shown in the timeline CMS presented that day, below.
Progress on Health Insurance Marketplace Implementation:
Consumers and small businesses begin to enroll Oct. 1, 2013, for coverage that starts Jan. 1, 2014. Before then, CMS must review exchange blueprints from states that decided to run exchanges on their own or in partnership with CMS. Then, health insurers applying to be Qualified Health Plans (QHP) on the exchanges must submit their rate and benefit designs for review, a process to be completed by July. In the meantime, all technical and IT aspects of the exchange enrollment procedures must be made ready.
?The progress already made and the foundations we have developed give us confidence that the Marketplace will be ready for consumers on October 1,? said Cohen, Deputy Administrator and Director of the CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO)
The end result will be a marketplace that makes health insurance choices simpler for consumers. Consumers will enter basic personal information, the exchange will verify income and eligibility for Medicaid,?or premium and cost-sharing subsidies?for QHPs. There will be one application ? available in a user-friendly format on the web and in more traditional media ? no matter which program the consumer is eligible for.
Establishing State and Partnership Exchanges:
The CCIIO so far has conditionally approved 18 state-run exchanges, or marketplaces, and seven partnership marketplaces. The Affordable Care Act?(ACA) health reform law and subsequent CMS regulations set baseline qualifications for health plans, many of which apply regardless of whether the plans are offered in the exchanges or not. In short, starting in 2014, QHPs must:
States can choose whether to allow all plans meeting those requirements to compete for customers in the Health Insurance Marketplaces, or whether to choose QHPs through a procurement process. States may also impose requirements for QHP certification in addition to the federal standards. In partnership exchanges and federally facilitated?exchanges, CMS has the final say on certification.
For a breakdown of issues health plans must consider before deciding whether to apply for QHP status, see my earlier post: 10 Considerations for Health Insurers Deciding on Health Insurance Exchange Participation.
Some states are further in the process than others. Some have not yet fully described how they intend to run the exchanges. The timeline CMS presented to the Senate Finance Committee says the U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, will make final decisions for the marketplaces in March 2013.
Kip Piper
An expert on Medicaid, Medicare, and health reform, Kip Piper, MA, FACHE, is a consultant, speaker, and author. Kip Piper advises health plans, hospitals and health systems, states, and pharma, biotech, medical device, HIT, and investment firms. With 30 years? experience, Kip is a senior consultant with Sellers Dorsey, top specialists in Medicaid and health reform. He is also a senior advisor with Fleishman-Hillard and TogoRun. For more, visit KipPiper.com. Follow on Twitter @KipPiper, Google +, Facebook and connect on LinkedIn.
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