Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Obama's Medicare nominee gets GOP leader's support

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2005, file photo, Marilyn Tavenner is seen at a news conference where she was named Secretary of Health and Human Resources by then Virginia Gov.-elect Tim Kaine at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. President Barack Obama's Medicare nominee Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, got unexpected support from one of Congress' Republican stars. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told The Associated Press that Tavenner is ?eminently qualified? to run Medicare. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2005, file photo, Marilyn Tavenner is seen at a news conference where she was named Secretary of Health and Human Resources by then Virginia Gov.-elect Tim Kaine at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. President Barack Obama's Medicare nominee Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, got unexpected support from one of Congress' Republican stars. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told The Associated Press that Tavenner is ?eminently qualified? to run Medicare. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

(AP) ? President Barack Obama's Medicare nominee Tuesday got unexpected support from one of Congress' Republican stars. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told The Associated Press that Marilyn Tavenner is "eminently qualified" to run Medicare.

It may be too soon to contemplate a truce in the political wars over health care. With Tavenner, major players on both sides may be able to shift from confrontation to problem-solving.

The White House announced Tavenner's nomination last week to replace current Medicare chief Donald Berwick, who had run into a wall of opposition from Republicans and couldn't even get a hearing in the Senate. As head of Medicare and Medicaid, the former nurse would be responsible for programs that already provide coverage to 100 million Americans, as well as for putting in place the new health overhaul law to cover the uninsured.

Cantor said he met Tavenner years ago when he was a state legislator in Richmond, Va., and she was a senior executive for Hospital Corporation of America, a major hospital chain.

"She was an individual with a wealth of knowledge about the complexities of the health care system, and she came forward with solutions that actually made sense," said Cantor. "I always found her to be extremely professional and understanding of the value of the private sector in health care."

Tavenner, 60, is currently Medicare's principal deputy administrator. She started her career as a nurse and worked her way up to hospital executive before entering government service as Virginia's health care secretary. She came to Washington last year as Congress labored in the home stretch to pass Obama's health care law.

Cantor is not a member of the Senate, so he does not get a vote on Tavenner's nomination. But his views are influential with other conservatives.

"I would hope to be able to support her," said Cantor. "Obviously, I'm not in the Senate, so I don't have that vote, but I do think she is qualified. Obviously, she'll be working for a president with an agenda that's quite different from mine."

Cantor said he is convinced that Tavenner is committed to preserving the role of the private sector in health care. Responsibility for health coverage in the U.S. is close to evenly split between federal and state programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and workplace and private insurance. Republicans charge that Obama is trying to engineer a complete takeover by government, while the president insists his way is the best approach for preserving a system of shared responsibility in the face of unsustainable cost increases and millions of uninsured.

Tavenner "is somebody who understands the private sector and business concerns" said Cantor. "Marilyn Tavenner has experience as a nurse at the practical level, and as a health system administrator of a very larger national company. Hopefully she'll bring that type of experience."

Tavenner's nomination has been endorsed by groups representing hospitals, doctors and the health insurance industry. Some congressional Democrats may question her over her tenure at Hospital Corporation, which was embroiled in a major Medicare fraud investigation in the 1990s. None of that seems to have involved Tavenner, however.

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The Rise of the Quiet Luxurians

As the 1 percenters run for cover, the world of quiet luxury is enjoying the biggest growth spurt in its history. I?m talking not just Herm?s, but sportswear by Brunello Cuccinelli, suits by Brioni, Isaia and Kiton, handmade shoes by Lobb, and Delvaux or Valextra handbags. There is a feverish and growing appreciation for exquisite, hand-crafted clothing and accessories that subtly shimmer with excellence rather than blaring their belogoed names. This puts we fashionistas in a bit of a bind. On the one hand, we enthusiastically support the causes that are synonymous with Occupy. Yet our lives and our incomes are dependent on the ability of the top 1 percent to plonk down absurd amounts of cash for both quiet and noisy luxury designer goods. We?re sort of like Madame Defarge, knitting and cackling at the revolutionary spectacle, but, unlike Madame D., we are secretly shilling our handicrafts to the doomed elite. Quelle horreur!

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Union Leader rejects Romneyism (Politico)

By endorsing Newt Gingrich for president, the New Hampshire Union Leader opted to reject local front-runner Mitt Romney in favor of the latest ? and maybe last ? anti-Romney conservative.

Just as striking is how firmly the paper rejected Romney?s framing of the Republican primary and the 2012 general election.

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In his front-page editorial Sunday, publisher Joe McQuaid did not mention the words ?jobs,? ?economy,? ?employment? or ?growth? ? the core vocabulary of Romney?s campaign. Instead, he focused on the more subjective qualities of leadership and character, explaining that the Union Leader wanted a candidate with ?courage and conviction? who is ?independent-minded [and] grounded in their core beliefs.?

Drew Cline, the Union Leader?s editorial page editor, expanded on that point in a CNN appearance, dismissing Romney as a ?play-it-safe? candidate? more suited for the presidency in the ?late 19th century.? What the country needs now, Cline said, is a ?candidate [who] is bold in his leadership ? [who] has a vision for where he wants to take us as a country and knows how to get there.?

Romney has sought the GOP nomination with the basic assumption that both Republican primary voters and the country in general will end up rallying behind the candidate who is most credible on the issue of job creation. If Romney is right, Newt Gingrich should not be a particularly frightening opponent: Gingrich can?t match Romney for private-sector experience, and he has only an attenuated claim to creating jobs as speaker of the House. When it comes to jobs and the economy, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman and maybe even Herman Cain all have a better and more straightforward story to tell than Gingrich.

But that?s not the rubric the Union Leader used for its endorsement. To the extent that the paper is in touch with the spirit of the GOP primary electorate, its focus on abstract personal qualities over tangible economic accomplishments could be a worrisome sign for Romney.

In fairness to Romney, it remains to be seen just how in touch with GOP primary voters the Union Leader is. The paper has only endorsed two candidates ? Ronald Reagan and John McCain ? who went on to win the Republican presidential nomination. Skeptics of the value of the Gingrich endorsement have already pointed out that the Union Leader also endorsed Pete DuPont in 1988 and Steve Forbes in 2000, a jab Cline pushed back on via Twitter.

What?s more, much as Gingrich doesn?t have much of a jobs record to run on, he?s also an imperfect messenger when it comes to character. Republican primary voters may see him differently as a potential president the more they hear about his personal life and his web of Washington business interests. But for now, as long as Gingrich can set up the primary race as a choice of strength versus weakness, boldness versus timidity, confrontation versus compromise, that will play to his advantage far more than Romney?s.

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Stonehenge new 'sun worship' find

Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected.

The pits are positioned on celestial alignment at the site and may have contained stones, posts or fires to mark the rising and setting of the sun.

An international archaeological survey team found the pits as part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project.

The team is using geophysical imaging techniques to investigate the site.

The archaeologists from the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection in Vienna have been surveying the subsurface at the landmark since summer 2010.

Procession route

It is thought the pits, positioned within the Neolithic Cursus pathway, could have formed a procession route for ancient rituals celebrating the sun moving across the sky at the midsummer solstice.

A Cursus comprises two parallel linear ditches with banks either side closed off at the end.

Also discovered was a gap in the northern side of the Cursus, which may have been an entrance and exit point for processions taking place within the pathway.

These discoveries hint that the site was already being used as an ancient centre of ritual prior to the stones being erected more than 5,000 years ago, the team said.

Archaeologist and project leader at Birmingham University, Professor Vince Gaffney, said: "This is the first time we have seen anything quite like this at Stonehenge and it provides a more sophisticated insight into how rituals may have taken place within the Cursus and the wider landscape."

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Midwest retailer to keep Salvation Army ringers (Providence Journal)

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Automotive supplier doubles in size after adopting HPC - Page 1 ...

Many small to mid-size manufacturing companies do not use high performance computing (HPC) to create and test potential parts and products virtually because of cost concerns. But one firm that did make the investment in HPC developed a new product line -- and subsequently doubled in size.

The company, L&L Products, in Romeo, Mich., is an automotive supplier that makes proprietary chemicals that can be used in any number of applications. Its products include high-strength adhesives that will bond to any material and structural composites used to strengthen vehicles.

L&L began using high performance computing about six years ago to build a new structural composite line for automotive makers. To accomplish this, it needed to design and test its products in vehicle crash simulations to see how they could be best applied in automobiles. The composite line became a new product line for the company, one that would have been impossible to start without HPC resources, said Steven Reagan, the computational modeling manager at L&L.

Reagan uses HPC by first creating a virtual model of a part to add to a vehicle design. He will run automotive crash simulations on his Linux cluster to test its performance.

"It doubled our business," said Reagan, adding that the firm now makes about $220 million annually and has about 900 global employees.

Before the introduction of HPC, "we didn't compete in this market," said Reagan. "There is no way to compete in this market without that tool ."

Reagan is now helping Jon Riley, a former L&L employee who helped to launch the HPC operation, to create a national HPC effort. The goal is to provide technical talent, compute resources and HPC applications to small-and-mid-sized firms.

"If we want to get them (small and mid-sized manufacturers) to be contributors to our national economy, you have to give them the tools to do that," said Reagan. "You have to give them the hardware tools, the software tools, and the people with experience who know how to use them."

Riley, as executive director of design and engineering programs at the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) in Ann Arbor, Mich., is working on a program to create about a dozen centers throughout the U.S. to connect manufacturing firms with HPC resources.

The plan is to establish these centers near universities and national labs to tap into local expertise. NCMS will run the centers and take on collaborating employees -- people who don't work for NCMS, but bring various skills to help manufacturers.

Each center will cost about $15 million to $20 million to establish and will offer portals and a cloud -based set of tools that connect manufacturers with modeling and simulation resources, said Riley. The non-profit NCMS will charge fees for services, with the goal of making the centers self-sustaining after a few years of operation.

The compute resources will be "behind a curtain," and invisible to customers. Potential clients "don't know what InfiniBand is and they don't want to know," said Riley. "What they want to do is get the job done."

Rile, who hopes to have two centers established next year with the help of state and federal funding, believes there are some 300,000 companies that may benefit from such a service.

Earl Joseph, an HPC analyst at IDC, called the NCMS effort a "fantastic idea," saying it is "absolutely right thing to do. I would just like to see it dramatically larger."

Joseph said the number of manufacturing firms likely to see the most benefit from HPC is probably closer to 25,000. He would like to see a program that can reach at least 2,000 of these companies a year.

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DNC ad targets Romney over flip-flops (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Democrats are using humor to try to undermine Republican Mitt Romney, pushing a movie trailer-style ad that portrays his candidacy as "the story of two men trapped in one body."

The new ad released Monday is part of effort by Democrats to call attention to Romney's inconsistencies on a number of issues important to conservative voters as he seeks to challenge President Barack Obama next year. Democrats are trying to slow the former Massachusetts governor's progress with six weeks remaining before Republican primary voters begin picking their nominee.

The Democratic National Committee ad, called "Mitt versus Mitt," argues that Romney has changed his views on health care and abortion rights. It shows contradictory clips of Romney on the issues. "From the creator of `I'm running for office for Pete's sake,' comes the story of two men trapped in one body," the ad says.

The DNC is running the ad in Albuquerque, N.M., Raleigh, N.C., Columbus, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Washington. It directs viewers to a website, http://www.MittvMitt.com, with a longer version.

Romney's campaign blasted Obama's handling of the economy in return, saying the White House didn't want to have to run against Romney and "be held accountable for the many failures of this administration."

"Instead of focusing on the economy and creating jobs, President Obama and Democrats are focused on tearing down Mitt Romney," said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul.

Democrats are trying to undercut Romney's standing in the GOP primary race as he competes with a large field of fellow Republicans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and businessman Herman Cain. Democratic party leaders plan to make Romney's character and consistency core parts of their campaign against him.

The DNC ran advertising in Arizona last month hitting Romney on comments he made to a Las Vegas newspaper that the housing crisis needed to run its course and hit bottom.

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British film director Ken Russell dies at 84

FILE- British film director Ken Russell with British model Twiggy during the filming of the movie "The Boy Friend", at Elstree Studios, north of London, England, in this file photo dated Aug. 4, 1971. Ken Russell has died aged 84 it is announced Monday Nov. 28, 2011. Russel, whose daring and sometimes outrageous films often tested the patience of audiences and critics, his films included "The Music Lovers" in 1970, "Lisztomania", and the rock opera "Tommy" in 1975.(AP Photo/file) (AP Photo)

FILE- British film director Ken Russell with British model Twiggy during the filming of the movie "The Boy Friend", at Elstree Studios, north of London, England, in this file photo dated Aug. 4, 1971. Ken Russell has died aged 84 it is announced Monday Nov. 28, 2011. Russel, whose daring and sometimes outrageous films often tested the patience of audiences and critics, his films included "The Music Lovers" in 1970, "Lisztomania", and the rock opera "Tommy" in 1975.(AP Photo/file) (AP Photo)

FILE- British film director Ken Russell at a reception to launch the film "The Boy Friend", in London, England, in this file photo dated April 22, 1971. Ken Russell has died aged 84 it is announced Monday Nov. 28, 2011. Russel, whose daring and sometimes outrageous films often tested the patience of audiences and critics, his films included "The Music Lovers" in 1970, "Lisztomania", and the rock opera "Tommy" in 1975. (AP Photo/Bob Dear, file)

(AP) ? Director Ken Russell got Oliver Reed and Alan Bates to wrestle naked, turned Vanessa Redgrave into a demonic nun and cast Ringo Starr as the pope. Critics and mainstream audiences often hated his films. Actors and admirers loved him.

The iconoclastic British director, whose death at age 84 was announced Monday, made films that blended music, sex and violence in a potent brew.

Only a few of his movies were commercial successes. The best known were "Women in Love," an Academy award-winning adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel, and "Tommy," which turned The Who's rock opera into a psychedelic extravaganza complete with appearances from Elton John, Eric Clapton and Tina Turner.

Pete Townshend, who wrote "Tommy," described Russell as a "grand dame" who brought to his films about music the "lavish affection and the kind of grandiosity only musicians and composers can dream of."

"He believed all artistic work could be made to come alive over and over again," Townshend said.

Russell was fascinated with altered mental states and loved horror, religious turmoil and Gothic excess. Critics could be sniffy ? Pauline Kael once wrote that Russell's films "cheapen everything they touch."

But many in the film industry felt his influence was underrated.

Supermodel Twiggy, who starred in Russell's 1971 film "The Boy Friend," said directors like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas "say that as a kid they would watch Ken Russell movies. I don't think he got the attention he deserved."

Glenda Jackson, who won a best actress Academy Award for "Women in Love," said Russell was an "incredible visual genius."

"It's an absolute shame that the British film industry has ignored him," she said. "It's an absolute disgrace ... he broke down barriers for so many people."

"Women in Love," in 1969, was one of Russell's biggest hits, earning Academy Award nominations for the director and for writer Larry Kramer, as well as winning Jackson an Oscar. It included one of the decade's most famous scenes ? a nude wrestling bout between Bates and Reed.

Reed said at the time the director was "starting to go crazy."

"Before that he was a sane, likable TV director," Reed said. "Now he's an insane, likable film director."

Paul McGann, who starred in Russell's "The Rainbow," said the director "encouraged an irreverent joyousness on set and usually got it."

"I remember him sat on a camera crane in kaftan and sandals shouting to us through a megaphone: 'Even greater heights of abandon!'" McGann said. "He's how you imagined, and hoped, a movie director would be."

Born in the English port of Southampton in 1927, Russell fell in love with the movies as a child.

In one of his last interviews, he said his whole life, including his filmmaking, had been affected by the death of his cousin Marion, who stepped on a land mine when they were children.

"There was nothing I could do, that was the end of her," he said in the interview for the Sky Arts TV channel. "She was blown to pieces. It was something I couldn't get out of my mind and it remained with me forever."

Attracted by the romance of the sea, Russell attended Pangbourne Nautical College before joining the Merchant Navy at 17 as a junior crew member on a cargo ship bound for the Pacific. He became seasick, soon realized he hated naval life and was discharged after a nervous breakdown.

Desperate to avoid joining the family's shoe business, he studied ballet and tried his hand at acting before accepting he was not much good at either. He then studied photography, for which he did have a talent, and became a fashion photographer before being hired to work on BBC arts programs, including profiles of the poet John Betjeman, comedian Spike Milligan and playwright Shelagh Delaney.

"When there were no more live artists left, we turned to making somewhat longer films about dead artists such as Prokofiev," Russell once said.

These quickly evolved from conventional documentaries into something more interesting.

"At first we were only allowed to use still photographs and newsreel footage of these subjects, but eventually we sneaked in the odd hand playing the piano (in 'Prokofiev') and the odd back walking through a door," Russell said. "By the time a couple of years had gone by, those boring little factual accounts of the artists had evolved into evocative films of an hour or more which used real actors to impersonate the historical figures."

Music played a central role in many of Russell's films, including "The Music Lovers" in 1970, about the composer Tchaikovsky ? Russell sold it to the studio with the pitch "it's about a nymphomaniac who falls in love with a homosexual."

The same unorthodox approach to costume drama informed 1975's "Lisztomania," which starred Roger Daltrey of The Who as 19th-century heartthrob Franz Liszt, with Beatles drummer Starr playing the pope.

"The Boy Friend," a 1971 homage to 1930s Hollywood musicals starring Twiggy, and Russell's 1975 adaptation of "Tommy," were musicals of a different sort, both marked by the director's characteristic visual excess.

Russell's darker side was rarely far away. "Dante's Inferno," a 1967 movie about the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, played up the differences between Rossetti's idealized view of his wife and her reality as a drug addict.

Russell was even more provocative in his 1970 film "The Dance of the Seven Veils: A Comic Strip in Seven Episodes." It presented the composer Richard Strauss as a crypto-Nazi, and showed him conducting Rosenkavalier waltzes while SS men tortured a Jew.

"The Devils," a 1971 film starring Redgrave as a 17th-century nun in the grip of demonic possession, was heavily cut for its U.S. release and is due to be released on DVD in Britain for the first time in 2012.

Russell told The Associated Press in 1987 that he found such censorship "so tedious and boring." He called the American print of "The Devils" ''just a butchered nonsense."

Admirers luxuriated in his overripe, gothic sensibility ? on display once again in "Gothic," a 1987 film about the genesis of Mary Shelley's horror tale "Frankenstein" replete with such hallucinatory visuals as breasts with eyes and mouths spewing cockroaches.

Russell said his depiction of a drug-addled Percy Bysshe Shelley was an accurate depiction of the time.

"Everyone in England in the 19th century was on a permanent trip. He must have been stoned out of his mind for years," Russell said. "I know I am."

Russell's fascination with changing mental states also surfaced in 1980 film "Altered States," a rare Hollywood foray for him, starring William Hurt as a scientist experimenting with hallucinogens.

Later films included the comic horror thriller "The Lair of the White Worm" in 1988, which gave an atypical early role to Hugh Grant as a vampire worm-battling lord of the manor.

Russell also directed operas and made the video for Elton John's "Nikita."

Married four times, Russell is survived by his wife Elize Tribble and his children.

The director's son, Alex Verney-Elliott, said Russell died in a hospital Sunday following a series of strokes. Russell lived in the town of Lymington in southern England.

"My father died peacefully," Verney-Elliott said. "He died with a smile on his face."

His widow said Russell was working on a musical feature film of "Alice in Wonderland" when he died.

Funeral details were not immediately announced.

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Associated Press writers Meera Selva and Robert Barr contributed to this report.

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'Twilight' shines on with $42 million weekend

The latest "Twilight" movie has plenty of daylight left with a second-straight win at the weekend box office.

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" took in $42 million domestically over the three-day weekend and $62.3 million in the five-day Thanksgiving holiday boom time from Wednesday to Sunday. That raised its domestic total to $221.3 million, while it added $71.5 million overseas, lifting its worldwide total to $489.3 million.

Debuting at No. 2 was the family film "The Muppets," with $29.5 million for the three-day weekend and $42 million over the five-day holiday haul.

Three other family films rounded out the top-five for the three-day weekend: "Happy Feet Two" at 3 with $13.4 million; "Arthur Christmas" at No. 4 with $12.7 million; and "Hugo" at No. 5 with $11.4 million.

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Sr Software Engineer and Do-gooder for an energy-saving SaaS at EnergyScoreCards (New York, NY)

Job Description

Develop cutting edge software AND make the world a better place.

EnergyScoreCards (energyscorecards.com) is a data-driven software-as-a-service for measuring and managing energy use in buildings. Our clients include Bank of America, Xcel Energy, several State governments, and dozens of large property owners. We are less than two years old and alredy have nearly $1M in annual recurring revenue.

Our Grails-based application is at an intersection of software, where we use the latest tools (and contribute some of our code to open source), statistics and building science.

We are looking for a top-notch programmer to become an integral player and a leader on our application development team.

Skills & Requirements

Primarily, we are looking for a great software engineer - the most important things are that you are smart, logical, learn quickly and can get things done. ?Preferably you would have experience working in Groovy/Grails, or at least in Java.

The following additional skills/experience would also be valuable:

  • Data Visualization
  • Engineering/physics background
  • Probability/statistics
  • Previous SaaS experience
  • SCRUM/Agile experience
  • Management expereince

About EnergyScoreCards

EnergyScoreCards is a low-cost Software-as-a-Service that enables smarter decision-making about energy in buildings.? Primarily designed for multifamily apartment buildings without high-tech building management systems, the product helps users to allocate scarce capital dollars on the highest value energy savings projects, and to evaluate the effectiveness of those projects.? After beta launch in March 2010, EnergyScoreCards has quickly gained traction, with 2011 anticipated revenues of close to $1 million. ?

EnergyScoreCards is a subsidiary of Bright Power (brightpower.com), a leader in providing energy efficiency and solar energy solutions for multifamily residential, commercial, and industrial buildings.? Bright Power?s intimate knowledge of buildings and their owners infuses the product that EnergyScoreCards is creating.? The two companies share a young, dynamic, multi-lingual office, where hard work and teamwork are rewarded; employees pursue musical, theatrical and athletic passions after-hours; and geek-out sessions might spontaneously arise on a range of topics from Jupiter?s moons to polyrhythms to the carbon emissions embodied in a gallon of water. ?

Joel Test score: 12/12

The Joel Test is a twelve-question measure of the quality of a software team.

Do you use source control? Can you make a build in one step? Do you make daily builds? Do you have a bug database? Do you fix bugs before writing new code? Do you have an up-to-date schedule?

Do you have a spec? Do programmers have quiet working conditions? Do you use the best tools money can buy? Do you have testers? Do new candidates write code during their interview? Do you do hallway usability testing?

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