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NEW YORK (AP) ? Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.
Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta planned Sunday night to cancel all flights into and out of three area airports in New York, the nation's busiest airspace. Delays rippled across the U.S. and the Atlantic, affecting travelers in cities such as San Francisco, Chicago and Paris.
Cancellations are mounting. According to the flight-tracking service FlightAware, more than 7,200 flights had been canceled for Sunday and Monday as of late Sunday evening. Both Philadelphia International Airport and Newark International Airport, a hub for United Airlines, each had more than 1,200 cancellations for the two days.
The disruption spread to Asia where numerous airlines canceled or rescheduled flights to New York and Washington from cities such as Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul, South Korea. Flight cancelations from European cities also mounted.
At New York's LaGuardia on Sunday, crowds filled the American Airlines terminal near midday, with families sitting on the floor waiting for a flight out ? any flight out. A few travelers were sitting at a bar having a beer, watching football. Others nervously paced before flight information boards showing canceled flights, hoping their flight wouldn't be added to that list. It was almost double the normal crowd. Travelers were calm, but anxious.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs five airports in the area, said it expects all carriers to cease operations Sunday night. It advised passengers to check with their carriers before heading to the airport.
Passengers on Sunday were reporting multi-hour wait times at airline call centers.
Eileen Merberg, 50, was booked on a United flight from her home in Rochester, N.Y. to New Orleans, connecting at Washington D.C.'s Dulles airport.
First, the airline sent her an automated message via email saying that her Washington flight was canceled and that she had been rebooked on a flight through Newark. About an hour later that flight was canceled. Another email informed her she was rebooked through Chicago.
By that point, she already had told the higher education conference that she was scheduled to speak at that she wouldn't be coming. She tried to cancel her flight but United's phone lines were jammed. First she waited 62 minutes before her phone battery died. After recharging, she then spent 45 minutes on hold before a recording told her it would be at least another hour before a customer service employee would be available.
"Then I hung up," Merberg said.
Sandy is expected to make landfall Monday, likely in New Jersey. Already, nearly 5,600 flights have been canceled, more than 2,500 of those at Newark, LaGuardia Kennedy airports, according to FlightAware.
A spokesman for United Airlines parent United Continental Holdings Inc. said the carrier has suspended an unspecified number of flights to New York and Washington-area airports beginning Sunday evening with plans to resume Tuesday as conditions permit.
JetBlue Airways Corp., which flies out of JFK, said it has canceled more than 1,000 flights from Sunday through Wednesday morning.
American Airlines and American Eagle canceled 140 flights Sunday and canceled another 1,431 flights Monday through Wednesday due to Hurricane Sandy, the company said.
US Airways said it had suspended all operations at the three New York airports Sunday evening and Monday and at Philadelphia and Washington on Monday.
Disruptions on the East Coast of the U.S. also impact international carriers. Air France has canceled four Monday flights into JFK and two departures. Lufthansa canceled three flights to the Northeast and one flight out of Newark.
South Korean flag carrier Korean Air delayed a flight scheduled to leave Incheon International Airport for JFK on Monday by 22 hours. Asiana Airlines delayed its JFK flight from Seoul by 26 hours. Hong Kong's Cathay canceled two Monday flights to New York. A total of 8 flights out of Tokyo's Narita International Airport to New York, Newark and Washington were canceled.
Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph as of Sunday afternoon, was blamed for 65 deaths in the Caribbean before it began churning up the Eastern Seaboard. It was expected to hook left toward the mid-Atlantic coast and come ashore late Monday or early Tuesday, most likely in New Jersey, colliding with a wintry storm moving in from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic. Experts say the rare hybrid storm that results will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.
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Got problems in your relationship it?s time to Ask Hafeez. Relationship expert Abdul Hafeez Muhammad offers straight talk for straight understanding dealing with spiritual, communication, financial, expectations and conflict aspects effecting relationships.
Marx & Julie chat with British filmmaker Chris Stone, the writer & director of the Victorian vampire web series turned feature film called Blood and Bone China. As if that wasn't enough, we also speak to our featured indie music artist of the week, Birthrite.
Health & Fitness is on tap when international fitness model Charles Flanagan and IFBB pro fitness competitor Donna Jones from Australia tackle everything from nutrition & exercise to the psychology of living well. They will be speaking to callers LIVE.
Big Blend Radio talks with outdoorsman and naturalist Jay Erskine Leutze about his acclaimed book STAND UP THAT MOUNTAIN: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail.
We have Grammy award winning record producer Mr Bangladesh for a special 2 hour special, promoting his new artist and music career.
Native American Movement founder Russell Means was laid to rest yesterday at his home on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. He is remembered with comments, stories, and prayers.
Listen to an exclusive interview with the brother of the late GREAT Benjamin "Benji" Wilson; Jeff Wilson. To discuss the 30 for 30 documentary "BENJI" on the life and death of Benji WIlson.
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Gus Speth, author of AMERICA THE POSSIBLE, shares his vision of comprehensive and deep change rooted in a political economy that sustains people, communities and nature. Long time Washington insider, he now is part of the protest movement.
One of Radio One?s top DJs, DJ Kayotik will be on with us to talk about career, current mixtape KAYOTIK KHRONIKLES VOL. 1, and youth organization.
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Back in August I had the great opportunity to present at The 21 Convention alongside longtime friends Keith Norris, Skyler Tanner, Greg Swann and...Dr. Doug McGuff. After Doug's presentation, we headed over to Skyler's house for a meal just hours before I was to fly out.
A few days later I blogged about Doug's presentation in detail:?Dr. Doug McGuff?s The 21 Convention Presentation in 2 Words: You?re Fucked. Lot's of good comments on that post expounding upon the problem.
So just today, the video of his full presentation has been released on YouTube. His previous 21 Convention presentation a few years back stands at nearly 190,000 views, so that's an indication of the quality, depth and insight Doug always brings. Of course, those who have read his co-authored book,?Body by Science, already know the kind of knowledge and experience Doug brings to the table.
So here you go. Make yourself some available time and watch this, and then spread it around, especially in a time when everyone's going on and on about who's gonna pay for there health care besides themselves. Here's a true look, from the inside and in the trenches.
If I've ever met a nicer guy than Doug, I just don't remember it. Here's a guy who has practiced as an ER doc for 23 years?a place where seconds count and there's never a second chance. He cares deeply for people, yet is no willy-nilly bleeding heart. He knows what it really takes to provide real medical care competently.
Unfortunately, guys like him will never have a seat at the healthcare policy table, when in reality, guys like him are the only ones who ought to have such a seat.
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Source: http://freetheanimal.com/2012/10/dr-doug-mcguff-on-fitness-health-and-liberty.html
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When a colleague of mine announced her retirement recently, she said she was going to miss her patients ? but not the pressures of running a practice, nor the plethora of new insurance regulations and initiatives to improve the way doctors run their offices.
Unlike her colleagues still practicing, she would no longer have to heed measures like Medicare?s ?meaningful use? regulation, which pushes doctors to use electronic health records with a financial incentive at first, then a penalty later if they do not. She could ignore the new pay-for-performance plans that linked reimbursement to quality measures with little proven effect on patient outcomes. And she could choose to overlook the hullabaloo surrounding the so-called medical home, a strategy to reorganize doctors? offices so that patients have access not just to their familiar doctor but also to a team of nurses, physician assistants and other medical assistants, with minimal delays, and on weekends and evenings if needed.
?Where?s the proof?? she asked tensely, forgetting for a moment that she was retiring. ?Why is it that I can?t prescribe a medication without studies to back me up, but we doctors must overhaul our practices without data to show that the changes will actually make a difference??
She is not the only doctor asking that question.
In blogs, discussion forums and private conversations, a growing number of doctors are voicing serious doubts about the new schemes to improve medical practice. All agree that change of some kind is necessary, but many doctors feel trapped by a reform process that links ?voluntary? changes to reimbursement. Others are overwhelmed by the amount of effort and financial investment required. Still others worry that patient care will end up suffering.
All of these doctors share a common concern: that the changes won?t work because the assumptions underlying them are, well, just assumptions.
Now a study in The Annals of Family Medicine confirms that these doubting doctors may be right.
The study analyzed a central assumption of one proposed change to medical practice: that patients who enjoy regular access to their primary doctors cost less, since they are less likely to go to an emergency room or to require hospitalization than patients who are unable to see a doctor regularly. Continuity of care is a central goal of primary care improvement efforts, because it is assumed that physicians? offices operating as medical homes, with office hours during weekends and evenings, will yield better health outcomes, improve patient satisfaction and save money.
To test this assumption, researchers from the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine in Sacramento analyzed the records of more than 30,000 patients, only some of them enrolled in a medical home. As expected, patients whose doctors offered extended office hours had total health care costs that were at least 10 percent less than patients who could see their doctors only during standard business hours. There were no significant differences in mortality rates.
But when the results were analyzed more closely, it turned out that the savings was not a result of fewer emergency room visits or hospital stays. Rather, costs were lower because doctors offering extended hours tended to prescribe fewer expensive drugs, blood tests, X-rays and other procedures commonly associated with normal office visits.
In other words, the doctors who offered extended hours were, over all, just more cost-conscious than those who did not.
?Offering extended office hours could be a marker for doctors who tend to adopt cost-savings measures in general,? said Dr. Anthony Jerant, the study?s lead author and a professor in the U.C. Davis department of family and community medicine.
The study also raises the broader issue of whether certain proposed policies have the potential to offer more bang for the buck than others. Mandating extended office hours, for example, might be a less effective way of holding down expenditures than creating new ways of rewarding doctors for being cost-conscious in the exam room.
?It might be that what we need to do is teach and reward cost-effective decision-making,? Dr. Jerant said. ?But that?s going to be a hard sell as long as doctors are incentivized to do more. They get paid to do and order more.?
Currently, studies that analyze and test the assumptions underlying proposed initiatives to improve care, particularly those involving primary care, are rare. But Dr. Jerant and his fellow investigators believe that such research could have important implications, particularly as politicians and policy makers attempt to institute changes. Such studies could not only assess the strength of proposed policies, but also provide the evidence that practicing physicians need to get on board with changes.
?We have a golden opportunity right now,? Dr. Jerant said. ?We?re scrutinizing health care and practices as never before.
?Why not choose to do what make the biggest difference for practices and their patients??
Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/how-extended-office-hours-save-money/
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Four of Bowling Green?s teams have a perfect 100 percent GSR and they are hockey, women?s golf, women?s tennis, and volleyball. Thirteen of the Falcons? 16 sports represented have a GSR at or above their sport?s national average.
?This annual release of data continues to confirm what holds true as our standard expectation,? Mark Shook, Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Student-Athlete Services, said. ?We expect our student-athletes to compete in the classroom, as well as on the playing field, and to graduate in higher numbers than our peer Division I institutions. All BGSU fans can be proud of the fact that we make every effort to recruit and retain the best students and the best athletes possible.?
The four sports with a perfect 100 percent GSR are all tied for the highest rank among conference schools. Men?s cross country/track and field and women?s cross country/track and field are both third in the MAC, while football and women?s basketball are fourth. Women?s soccer is fifth to also rank in the top half of the league for their GSR rate.
In addition, the overall grade point average for BGSU student-athletes reached a record 3.11 for all 18 sports at the conclusion of the spring 2012 term.
The Graduation Success Rate was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative to more accurately measure the success of Division I student-athletes and it takes into account the many different academic paths followed by today?s college students. Unlike the federal graduation rate, the GSR holds institutions accountable for transfer students. The GSR also accounts for midyear enrollees and is calculated for every sport.
The GSR data released by the NCAA today is based on the four entering freshmen classes in Division I from 2002-03 through 2005-06 and measures graduation within a six-year time frame. The national figure accounts for nearly 105,000 student-athletes.
Source: http://www.bgsufalcons.com/news/2012/10/25/GEN_1025125332.aspx
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We just got some hands-on time with MSI's latest creation, the S20 Slidebook. This ultra light (2.3 pounds / 1kg) and thin (0.78-inches / 19.8mm) convertible Ultrabook runs Windows 8 (naturally) and packs an Intel Core i5 processor (Ivy Bridge), 4GB RAM and a 128GB mSATA SSD. In front, you'll find a gorgeous 11.6-inch 1920x1080-pixel IPS display with a 10-point capacitive multitouch layer plus an HD front-facing camera. This glass panel is surrounded by a glossy white plastic bezel that incorporates the MSI logo and the Windows button. The back cover is made of a silver magnesium alloy with matching plastic antenna covers for the built-in WiFi b/g/n, WiDi and Bluetooth 4.0 radios. Most of the ports are on the right edge along with the power / lock key and LED indicators -- this includes the power input, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, a mini-HDMI output and a pair of USB 3.0 connectors. It features a gigabit Ethernet port on the left side and an SD card reader, orientation lock button and volume rocker in back.
Of course, what sets the S20 apart is its ability to convert instantly from a tablet into a usable laptop. The screen slides up and tilts forward to reveal a quality chiclet keyboard with excellent key travel and decent spacing. You're not limited to any specific angle here -- the display is fully adjustable from flat to almost perpendicular with the keyboard. We spent a few minutes using the Slidebook and came away pretty impressed -- it's incredibly light for its size, the screen is beautiful, the keyboard is comfortable, and it's well made even for a prototype. MSI plans to begin selling this convertible Ultrabook for $1,099 in late November through major US retailers online and in stores. Take a look at our gallery below and hit the break for our hands-on video.
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