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Danger!
Dia's eyes snapped open. She was suddenly and completely awake, memories flooding her of both the crown prince's frightening attack and the glorious interlude with Caelon that had followed. Indeed, that remembered pleasure was so vivid that her body was enveloped in a languid sensuality that was not usual for her, even as her mind was preternaturally alert. It was difficult to make herself move, but her mind knew, if her body did not, that she had to get away from here now.
The delicious languor faded from her limbs as, once again, the sense of a vivid danger, drawing ever closer, invaded her senses and dispelled pleasant memories. Dia did not question the impulse. She simply rolled out of her bed and dressed herself quickly in her cool, travel clothes. As the unseen threat seemed to grow stronger, she began to get frightened and her fingers shook as she fumbled with her clothes, haste making her clumsy. Within minutes, she was hurrying out of her room, moving as silently as possible and keeping to the shadows. Yet, the shadows did not seem to offer friendly concealment; they were cold, threatening, and she looked around nervously as she crept through the corridors of the imperial palace.
Why was she skulking about the palace in this absurd fashion, anyway? she asked herself in some irritation, trying to dispel the peculiar notion that she had somehow left the ordinary world behind in favor of an enchanted world full of unknown wonders and unseen horrors. She had done nothing wrong! The law allowed a woman the right to refuse her favors to any she chose, and the crown prince was not above the law. There was no cause for her to steal away like a common criminal from the gutters. She was a daughter of Shae, scorch it!
Still, she crept on, impelled by that sense of approaching danger. Being a daughter of Shae did not stop that disgusting Prince Maermat from trying to ravish me, she told herself ruefully. Nor was it likely to mean much to the headsman's blade, if the Emperor took it into his head to declare that she either be wed to his son or be outlaw. Better to be safely away from here. She would contact Caelon once she was within the stables. He would be looking for her.
Dia stealthily let herself out into the palace courtyard and, after peering around carefully, made her way across to the stalls. The sun had been climbing steadily in the eastern sky during her stay in Ormaerand, and the air inside the sheltered stable yard was still and terribly warm. She would have to make sure she brought adequate water supplies for the journey, still trying to think pragmatically, even if she was sneaking away as inconspicuously as possible. She hoped there was a well inside the stable complex, so that she could get the water she needed while staying out of sight. She wondered if she dared to wake any of the servants who had accompanied her up from Shae. Better not, she decided. There isn't time.
She stepped into the dim stables and stopped short, her jaw dropping in amazement. The figure standing before her was carefully shrouded in a white robe with the cowl turned up to conceal his face, but the familiarity of his presence left her in no doubt of his identity. Relief flooded her. "Phoebus!"
Phoebus, archpriest of the Phoenix, appeared to be a man of middle years although Dia knew that he had been in service to the Grand Dukes of Shae for some six or seven generations. The archpriests did not possess the Phoenix Gift, but among the Talents of those who rose to the purple in the service of the Phoenix was the Secret of holding Time at bay. Phoebus was only as tall as Dia but the white and purple robes of his station gave his lean body the appearance of great height. Overall, he gave one an impression of quiet, of stillness and of repose.
The priest unhurriedly lifted a hand to push back the hood of his robe. He gave her a keen glance and then, to complete her astonishment, he dropped lightly to one knee before her. "My lady," he said, bowing his head.
She had never seen Phoebus bow to anyone and she was profoundly embarrassed to be greeted with such reverence. "Please, good Phoebus, do get up!" she implored him. "I do not deserve such homage, I assure you."
Rising easily to his feet, Phoebus smiled his faint smile but did not reply. Instead, he said, "Do you feel well, my lady?"
"Yes, yes, of course I am well," she said hurriedly, staring at him. "How do you come to be here?"
"The Phoenix comes, my lady," he told her, and his smile widened. "I have some small part to play in the dawning of the New Age."
"As do I?"
At that, Phoebus actually chuckled. "Just so, my lady. But come, we must leave this place before you are discovered here."
"Oh!" She glanced back toward the castle and hesitated. "But what of Lord Caelon? He was to accompany me and . . . "
The priests shook his head. "Lord Caelon does not travel with us at this time," he said with finality, "but will travel in another fashion to meet us at another time." She looked at him doubtfully, unable to make sense of his words and, for some peculiar reason, reluctant to leave his lordship at the palace without her. Phoebus, seeing her reluctance, said again, "Come, my lady. We must not tarry here. Will you not trust me?"
Of course, she knew that she could trust Phoebus as she had once trusted Daerus. Indeed, she thought with wry amusement, she had been pursuing ends and means that she did not understand ever since she had arrived at the palace. Why should she cavil now? The sudden twinkle in her mentor's eye told her that he had heard her impious thought, and she grinned. Still, and in spite of her momentary levity, the sense of danger had not lessened, and Dia was assailed once more by its urgency. She turned away from her old friend and began to saddle her horse.
Colonel Lord Caelon of Aerandos stalked down the corridor, on his way to his mother's rooms. That he was angry would have been obvious to anyone observing the absent scowl he wore as he walked. He had encountered none of the Emperor's guests, for which he was thankful. He was in no mood to endure the sly winks and twitters with which he was likely to be greeted by his peers, who, he privately snarled to himself, had minds like cesspools.
If the truth were known, Caelon was angry with himself. He did not like being manipulated, and his loss of control infuriated him. Not that my lady had complained; she had seemed positively eager for his embrace. That did not excuse him, however. No doubt her ladyship would, if taxed with her unmaidenly behavior, spout some nonsense of prophesy and surrender and such. Well, if that was what she needed to believe in order to live with herself, so be it. Caelon preferred to assume that he was responsible for his behavior, even when his behavior left a great deal to be desired. He also chose to disregard the voice that had commanded him and overcome his will to resist. No doubt that irresistible command had been nothing more than the demands of his own lust.
In fact, Dia's obvious trust in him made his capitulation to his appetites that much more dastardly. His feelings for her were both new to him and more complex than he could easily evaluate. In a more orderly universe, he would have taken the time to decide what those feelings really were and then, if it had seemed appropriate, he would have very properly offered to make her his lady. Even if he had decided that he did not care for her, he would still have been inclined to treat her with respect. She was, after all, a daughter of Shae.
Caelon had not been suffering from any of this doubt or dismay when he had awakened to find her sleeping beside him. He had lay there for a few moments, simply watching her and remembering. She had spoiled him for anyone else, he had thought ruefully. Coupling alone was pleasant enough, but when combined with the mind-touch he had shared with Dia, the act transcended love and lust and every other emotion for which he had a name. His body remembered, as well, and had awakened, clamoring for more. He wanted to reach for her, to rouse her to repeat that incredible act of union. But he did not. Instead, he contented himself with gently pushing aside a stray tendril of her soft, dark hair with infinite care. Then he rose, dressed and quietly made his way back to his own quarters. He would be escorting her back to her home; he had plenty of time.
Once he had refreshed himself with a wash and fresh clothing, he decided, he would make his way to his mother's sitting room to take his leave of his parents. He was certain they would already be awake and breakfasted; even in the timeless time since the days had become years, his father kept military hours and could be counted upon to be up and about when all others were still abed.
While he had busied himself with the first part of this program, he considered the tidings that he had been taking to her rooms when he had been waylaid by Lord Daerus and his ambushers. He considered her likely reaction to the news that she had gained a reprieve in the matter of the Emperor's insistence that she be immediately wed to Prince Maermat. Not that His Imperial Majesty had made any promise not to pursue the matter; in fact, Emperor Kaerkas had never spoken of it.
Caelon and his father had reported to the imperial conference room for their usual meeting with the General Staff after midmeal. They had both had a notion that the Emperor would want to try to pressure Caelon into releasing Lady Dia from their fictitious betrothal. Instead, Emperor Kaerkas greeted them in a businesslike fashion, expressed the hope that they had enjoyed a hearty midmeal repast and, then, launched his firestorm.
"Gentlemen," said His Majesty when the generals were all gathered as usual, "I have been giving some thought to the matter of the spiritual doings of the Empire."
Everyone stared. No one spoke.
"I will declare this evening before endmeal the institution of a new religion to replace what was lost when the sorcerer Phoenix was killed," Emperor Kaerkas continued, remaking history, as rulers are sometimes apt to do. Each of the generals, including Lord Saeros, was pinned briefly by a beetling imperial stare. "I fully expect considerable resistance to the idea of a new religion for Ormaeranda, particularly from the uncouth peasants in the hinterlands, and I shall require the assistance of all the armies of Ormaeranda to quell any unrest and to compel the observances of respect and worship of our new God."
Another member of the General Staff, a General Lord Baenar of the Duchy of Gedbaen, asked rather diffidently, "If you will forgive me, your Imperial Majesty, exactly Who is our new God?"
Emperor Kaerkas stared frowningly for a moment before he replied, "Why, Ormaeranda will be dedicated to the glorification of Lord Septha, of course!" He paused, seeming to wait for protests. The silence was deafening. His Majesty continued. "Saeros, you are to pull the armies of Aerandos away from the northern border and position them about the northern quadrant of the empire. You will be responsible for the area north of the Aerie Wood. General Kraetus, I want you to place the Third, Fourth and Seventh Infantry units in the foothills of the Tamaer Mountains and I want extra men … "
His Imperial Majesty was abruptly interrupted. Without ceremony, the door opened and in walked a young woman. She wore a deeply cowled, white woolen robe with a bleached rope belt. Her feet and head were bare and she carried no weapon and no purse. Her manner was deferential but determined. She seemed neither afraid nor cowed, and she walked in unannounced.
When she reached the conference table, she bowed deeply but she was very obviously angry. And then she spoke. "For five wakings have I awaited word from thee, Emperor of Ormaeranda. My sisters can wait no longer. Wilt thou hear me?"
"Hear you!!???" the Emperor all but screamed. "How dare you simply walk into this meeting, uninvited and unannounced! Did I not advise you … "
"Indeed, Emperor of Ormaeranda, thou didst instruct me upon my arrival some five endmeals ago that thou wouldst hear my urgent message as soon as thou didst have some leisure," she agreed readily, her eyes as hard as steel. "If it was thine intent to ignore we who have commended ourselves to thy care, it would have been as well if thou hadst the temerity to own it when first I did arrive."
Dear, me, thought Caelon, thoroughly enjoying the scene and wondering what was afoot.
"Since it is plain that thou wouldst prefer to ignore thine obligations, I but thought to present our plight directly to thy generals. Mayhap, as military men, they will comprehend the urgency of the matter as clearly thou dost not." The Emperor was yanking the bell pull, obviously intending to summon servants or guardsmen to expel this determined woman. She ignored him, turning her attention to the men sitting around the table. "Gentlemen, the matter is simple. The Throk, evidently despairing in their hopes that the Long Interval had dulled the wits of the armies of Aerandos, have left their usual points of attack and have, instead, come east and south, and now threaten the eastern border of Lemantia."
Both Caelon and his father sat straighter in their seats upon hearing this news. Lemantia was a tiny nation, a matriarchal theocracy without a standing army. Infinitely vulnerable, Lemantia had always looked to its powerful neighbor for protection. In practice, however, Lemantia had actually been protected and defended by Aerandos, and the heirs to Aerandos had always been instructed, from early in their military careers, in their obligation to the preservation of Lemantia.
The messenger, observing the alert attention of the gentlemen from Aerandos, had nodded in satisfaction. She then said, "No doubt, General Lord Aerandos, thou dost well perceive the implications of this new threat to Lemantia."
"It is of no moment, ma'am, what you imagine Aerandos to perceive!" the Emperor said, regaining control of the conversation. "I have other uses for the forces of Aerandos at this time; they are not free to come to your aid and, indeed, I do not see that the matter is of any consequence."
"Art thou then ready to proclaim to The Chosen, and to the world as well, that thou art without honor, Kaerkas of Ormaeranda?" she asked him.
"Honor be ashes!" exclaimed the Emperor. "The armies of Ormaeranda are available only in the service of my God; they will aid you only if you forsake your Goddess and bow down to worship Him."
The woman stared at him for a moment. Then her face blanched. "Forsake Divine Istha to worship Septha the Destroyer?" she whispered, appalled.
"That is my price," said Emperor Kaerkas.
She said nothing. She cast a brief, worried glance at Lord Saeros. Caelon could not know what she saw in the thoughtful face his father wore as he observed this scene, but it seemed to reassure her. And then, for the first time since she had entered the room, she had looked at him and her eyes widened briefly. Only for a fleeting moment did their eyes meet but that was long enough for Caelon to realize that he had somehow been … there was really no other word for it … he had been recognized. Now, what's afoot? he wondered.
Her gaze swept the rest of the men sitting at the table. Then she turned and swept from the room.
But, as he watched her retreating back moving toward the door, for the second time in his life, he heard a woman's voice in his mind. Have a care, Caelon of Aerandos.
And then, she was gone.
Caelon wondered now whether he would not be better employed riding north to direct their forces in the relief of Lemantia. He did not for one instant imagine that Lord Saeros would simply leave the tiny nation to its own devices, regardless of what plans his Imperial Majesty might have made for their army. He would see my lady on her way first. She had a sizable retinue; she would be safe once she was away from here. Still, Caelon decided, he would see what plans Lord Saeros might have made for his heir.
His ablutions completed, Caelon's thoughts turned back to the Crown Prince and his iniquitous attack on Lady Dia. He was puzzled by it; what would the rape of the lady have accomplished? It seemed that their object cannot even have been marriage, for a lady so abused had often been known to take her own life rather than be forced to take her ravisher to husband. Lord Daerus and Prince Maermat seemed willing to take that chance. Did they perhaps believe that Lady Dia would not do such a thing as to take her own life? Or did they care? What could their object be, that it could be accomplished simply by bedding her?
He had been flinging a few items into a saddlebag but, as his thoughts progressed, his hand slowed. Indeed, he realized, what could their object be other than to get her with child? Once again, he grew outraged at the thought that Prince Maermat and Lord Daerus would be willing to use my lady so callously. She was not a chambermaid or a whore, or even a brood sow. She was a daughter of Shae. She deserved to be treated better.
And at that moment, Caelon, himself born to one of the Great Houses of the Empire, realized the enormity of his weakness. Lady Dia was not a chambermaid or a whore. She was a daughter of Shae, and she had a right to be treated with respect by both the Crown Prince of Ormaer and the Lord Caelon of Aerandos. He should have resisted base impulse and left her untouched — no matter that their joining had felt as if it were so right as to have been fated since the beginning of time, a niggling little voice in the back of his mind reminded him.
Caelon continued to wrestle with his conscience, torn between his lack of real remorse for his behavior — how could he be sorry he had laid with her when it had been such an extraordinary interlude of multi-layered intimacy? — and his awareness of the constraints of his and Dia's heritage. So involved was he in this self-castigation that he did not see the young man standing partly concealed in the shadows of the corridor until he had nearly walked into him. A sneer curved Caelon's lips. "You are abroad early, Lord Daerus," he said in greeting. This young man was surely the last person he wanted to see at this moment!
"I have something I must attend to," Lord Daerus replied hoarsely. Caelon looked at him sharply. Dia's twin brother was looking terrible; his eyes were puffy and bloodshot and haunted. He looked as if he had been through a terrifying experience and Caelon, recalling his brief encounter with the imprisoned reality of Daerus of Shae instead of recalling his most recent encounter with the fellow, felt himself relax slightly with remembered sympathy.
And that slight relaxing proved to be Caelon's undoing. When Lord Daerus moved suddenly, Caelon thought only that his lordship would pass on his way to complete his errand, and so he courteously stepped aside with a polite nod.
Instead of going on his way, however, Lord Daerus thrust the small, light sword he had been holding in the shadows straight into Caelon's chest, puncturing heart and lung. Pain seared Caelon's suddenly shallow breathing; he stared in shock at the man who had just killed him. Lord Daerus' face twisted with some intense emotion — perhaps it was grief or remorse, perhaps it was grotesque triumph, Caelon did not have the time to decide. His knees buckled and he began to fall. As the blackness slowly crept across his sight, his last thought was of Dia, of the fact that he would never again clasp her hand, and of the fact that he had failed her.


Why did the editors of Webster's Third drop this lexicographic A-bomb (another addition to the dictionary)? Because views on dictionaries, indeed on language itself, had changed. Instead of laying down rules on how people should write and speak, dictionaries became records of how people did write and speak. And that meant all the people, not just those who spoke the educated language of New England. The new trends in lexicography went along with the growth of scientific method and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution: lexicographers observed what was happening to the language, rather than handing down precepts.


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Q: Android - Dynamic ColSpan not working I am having two table rows in one of my activity. First row will always contains 2 textview and second might contains one or two textview (it depends on userinput). Whenever I am having one textview in 2nd row, I tried to span it to two columns. I am trying something this
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But its not working. What happens is, second txtview in first row is pushed out of the screen. So can anyone here tell where i am making mistake?

A: I made this example, hope it helps you.
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A: Explaining the answer marked as correct - looks like you need to set layout params after adding the view to it's parent. for instance, add the textview to a row and then set layout params

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India's Secret to Low-Cost Health Care – HBR
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Article link: http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/indias-secret-to-low-cost-health-care/
A renowned Indian heart surgeon is currently building a 2,000-bed, internationally accredited "health city" in the Cayman Islands, a short flight from the U.S. Its services will include tertiary care procedures, such as open-heart surgery, angioplasty, knee or hip replacement, and neurosurgery for about 40% of U.S. prices. Patients will have the option of recuperating for a week or two in the Caymans before returning to the U.S.
At a time when health care costs in the United States threaten to bankrupt the federal government, U.S. hospitals would do well to take a leaf or two from the book of Indian doctors and hospitals that are treating problems of the eye, heart, and kidney all the way to maternity care, orthopedics, and cancer for less than 5% to 10% of U.S. costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production.
The nine Indian hospitals we studied are not cheap because their care is shoddy; in fact, most of them are accredited by the U.S.-based Joint Commission International or its Indian equivalent, the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals. Where available, data show that their medical outcomes are as good as or better than the average U.S. hospital.
The ultra-low-cost position of Indian hospitals may not seem surprising — after all, wages in India are significantly lower than in the U.S. However, the health care available in Indian hospitals is cheaper even when you adjust for wages: For example, even if Indian heart hospitals paid their doctors and staff U.S.-level salaries, their costs of open-heart surgery would still be one-fifth of those in the U.S.
When it comes to innovations in health care delivery, these Indian hospitals have surpassed the efforts of other top institutions around the world, as we discussed in our recent HBR article. Today, the U.S. spends $8,000 per capita on health care; if it adopted the practices of the Indian hospitals, the same results might be achievable for a whole lot less, saving the country hundreds of billions of dollars.
A key to this is that, faced with the constraints of extreme poverty and a severe shortage of resources, these Indian hospitals have had to operate more nimbly and creatively to serve the vast number of poor people in need of medical care in the subcontinent. And because Indians on average bear 60% to 70% of health care costs out of pocket, they must deliver value. Consequently, value-based competition is not a pipe dream but a reality in India.
Three major practices have allowed these Indian hospitals to cut costs while still improving their quality of care.
A Hub-and-Spoke Design
In order to reach the masses of people in need of care, Indian hospitals create hubs in major metro areas and open smaller clinics in more rural areas which feed patients to the main hospital, similar to the way that regional air routes feed passengers into major airline hubs.
This tightly coordinated web cuts costs by concentrating the most expensive equipment and expertise in the hub, rather than duplicating it in every village. It also creates specialists at the hubs who, while performing high volumes of focused procedures, develop the skills that will improve quality. By contrast, hospitals in the U.S. are spread out and uncoordinated, duplicating care in many places without high enough volume in any of them to provide the critical mass to make the procedures affordable. Similarly, an MRI machine might be used four to five times a day in the U.S. but 15 to 20 times a day in the Indian hospitals. As one CEO told us, "We have to make the equipment sweat!"
U.S. hospitals have been developing similar structures, but there are still too many hubs and not enough spokes. Moreover, when hospitals consolidate, the motive often is to increase market power vis-à-vis insurance companies, rather than to lower costs by creating a hub-and-spoke structure.
Task Shifting
The Indian hospitals transfer responsibility for routine tasks to lower-skilled workers, leaving expert doctors to handle only the most complicated procedures. Again, necessity is the mother of invention; since India is dealing with a chronic shortage of highly skilled doctors, hospitals have had to maximize the duties they perform. By focusing only on the most technical part of an operation, doctors at these hospitals have become incredibly productive — for example, performing up to five or six surgeries per hour instead of the one to two surgeries common in the U.S.
This innovation has also reduced costs. After shifting tasks from doctors to nurse practitioners and nurses, several hospitals have even created a lower tier of paramedic workers with two years' training after high school to perform the most routine medical jobs. In one hospital, these workers comprise more than half of the workforce. Compare that to the U.S. system, where the first cost-cutting move is often to lay off support staff, shifting more mundane tasks such as billing and transcription onto doctors overqualified for those duties — precisely the wrong kind of task shifting.
Good, Old-Fashioned Frugality
There is a lot of waste in U.S. hospitals. You walk into a hospital in the U.S., and it looks like a five-star resort; half of the building has no relation to medical outcomes, and doctors are blissfully unaware of costs. By contrast, Indian hospitals are fanatical about wisely shepherding resources — for example, sterilizing and safely reusing many surgical products that are routinely discarded in the states after a single use. They have also developed local devices such as stents or intraocular lenses that cost one-tenth the price of imported devices.
These hospitals have also been innovative in compensating doctors. Instead of the fee-for-service model, which creates an incentive to perform unnecessary procedures and tests, doctors at some Indian hospitals are paid fixed salaries, regardless of how many tests they order. Other hospitals employ team-based compensation, which generates peer pressure to avoid unnecessary tests and procedures.
Innovation has flourished in the U.S. in the development of new pills, clinical procedures, devices, and medical equipment, but in the field of health care delivery, it appears to have been frozen in time. In too much of the U.S., system, health care is viewed as a craft and each patient as unique. But by applying principles of mass production and lean production to health care delivery, Indian doctors and hospitals may have discovered the best way to cut costs while still delivering high quality in health care.
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It is time to move beyond the myth that U.S. health care is costly because it is of exceptional quality.
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Indian hospitals could show U.S. hospitals how to save money without cutting quality
By Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti, Published: November 1
Vijay Govindarajan is a professor of international business at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Ravi Ramamurti is a professor at Northeastern University and director of its Center for Emerging Markets. They are co-authors of the article "Delivering World-Class Healthcare Affordably," in the current issue of Harvard Business Review.
No matter how the fight over Obamacare shakes out, the biggest challenge facing U.S. health care will remain reducing costs while improving quality of care and access for patients. The experience of a few innovative Indian hospitals may point the way forward.
India's health-care system as a whole has many problems, but our research has uncovered nine private hospitals that provide quality health care at a fraction of U.S. prices. Most of these hospitals are accredited by the U.S.-based Joint Commission International or its Indian equivalent, the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers. At a hospital where the procedure is performed, a patient would pay $120 for cataract surgery, $250 for a caesarean-section delivery, $2,000 for a knee or hip replacement, $2,000 for an angioplasty, $2,900 for cancer radiation treatment and $3,200 for open-heart surgery — 5 percent to 10 percent of U.S. prices. These private hospitals deliver medical outcomes comparable to that of good U.S. hospitals, as measured by medical complication rates or post-treatment survival rates. Furthermore, they're profitable.
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Even if Indian hospitals paid U.S.-level salaries for all health-care staff, which are as much as 20 times higher, their prices would be one-fifth of U.S. levels. That is because these nine hospitals are super-efficient at using resources — doctors, equipment and facilities — and because they work incessantly to improve every process. Their services have to be affordable because their patients are poor and typically pay 60 percent of their medical costs out of pocket.How do the Indian hospitals do it? They have innovated in three areas, and for each of these, U.S. hospitals would do well to follow their example.
The first innovation is using a hub-and-spoke design, with hub hospitals located in major cities and spoke hospitals in rural areas. This strategy concentrates the best equipment and expertise within the hub, with telecommunication links that allow hub specialists to serve spoke patients remotely. Since these specialists perform a high number of specific procedures, they quickly develop skills that improve quality. By contrast, hospitals in the United States are uncoordinated, duplicating specialized care without enough volume in most of them to make procedures affordable. Even when hospitals consolidate, the motive is often to gain pricing power over insurance companies rather than to lower costs.
The second innovation is task shifting, or the transfer of responsibility for routine tasks to lower-skilled workers. This leaves doctors free to focus on complicated medical procedures. Several hospitals have created a tier of paramedic workers with two years of training after high school to perform routine medical jobs. As a result, surgeons, for example, are able to perform two to three times as many surgeries as their U.S. counterparts. Compare that with the United States, where hospitals reduce costs by laying off support staff and shifting mundane tasks such as billing and transcription to doctors, who are overqualified for those duties.
Finally, the Indian hospitals save money through old-fashioned frugality. They shepherd resources by building hospitals at a fraction of the cost spent in the United States, replacing imported devices with local equivalents costing a fraction of the price or, for example, sterilizing and reusing clamps for open-heart surgery that are routinely discarded after one use in the United States. In contrast to the American fee-for-service model, they often pay their doctors a fixed salary. One hospital sends a daily message to all doctors with the previous day's financial results, encouraging them to consider the cost-effectiveness of their medical choices. In contrast, U.S. hospitals often resemble luxury hotels, with much wasted space and underutilized equipment. Their doctors, and sometimes even their chief financial officers, are unaware of how much procedures cost.
How realistic is it that U.S. hospitals will adopt the Indian model? U.S. hospitals are constrained by regulations and norms unlike those in India. Nevertheless, some progressive U.S. hospitals are adopting some of the practices of our Indian exemplars, and more should follow their example.
It is time to move beyond the myth that U.S. health care is costly because it is of exceptional quality. Better outcomes at lower costs have been established in many other countries. The Indian experience shows that costs can be dramatically reduced and access can be expanded even as quality is improved. U.S. hospitals should prepare for this new world. And in so doing they should study and embrace innovations from all corners of the globe.

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Philippe Coutinho left Liverpool in 2018 with Barcelona splashing out £142million on the Brazilian. The midfielder has since been linked with a move back to Anfield
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Philippe Coutinho admits playing for Liverpool in the Premier League was "exciting" and says he will always be grateful for having represented the Anfield club.
And the Brazilian has left the door open to a possible return, although says his focus is purely on Barcelona at this moment of time.
Coutinho left Liverpool in 2018 with the Catalan club splashing out £142million on the Brazilian, who was the Reds' best player at the time.
The midfielder struggled at first and was subsequently sent on loan to Bayern Munich. This campaign he is back at Barcelona and an important player under new boss Ronald Koeman.
Talk that he could leave Barcelona at the end of the season has died down, but Coutinho has admitted he may one day return to England.
Philippe Coutinho admits playing in the Premier League was "exciting" (Image: Alejandro Garcia/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Coutinho told World Soccer: "The Premier League is one of the most exciting leagues in the world and to have the chance to play there with a team like Liverpool will always be something I will feel grateful for.
"It is impossible to say what might or might not happen in the future - but what I know is that right now my only focus is on being successful with Barcelona."
Coutinho's agent Kia Joorabchian often speaks out on his client, and has been honest in the past in regards to looking for a new club for him.
He was recently asked about Coutinho, and whether he is looking to leave Barcelona, but categorically ruled out a move.
Coutinho was a big player for Liverpool before leaving for Barcelona (Image: Liverpool Echo)
"I have not heard anything and we have no plans to move from Barcelona, and yes that Coutinho can contribute to a successful season," Joorabchian told Mundo Deportivo.
Coutinho won the Champions League at Bayern Munich, in what turned out to be a successful loan spell in Germany for the 28-year-old.
On his time in the Bundesliga, Coutinho added: "I won three trophies, including the Bundesliga and Champions League, so I don't think [the loan move] can be anything other than a success.
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"Winning the Champions League has always been a big ambition of mine and to win it with Bayern was a big thing. Now my ambition is to win it with Barcelona.
"I will always remember and be thankful for my time and success there, but I am back with Barcelona now and that is where my focus is."
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Engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory today may hear the first transmissions from NASA's Viking Lander 1 (the Thomas A. Mutch Memorial Station) since last November.
Listen-only tracking will begin at 10:03 a.m. (PDT) and continue until 11:05 a.m. Engineers will use the 64-meter (210-foot) Mars antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Network station in the California desert.
Communications with Viking Lander 1 were lost in November 1982, and engineers at JPL have repeatedly sent commands in efforts to contact the station. The command sequences were based on detailed studies of possible failure modes.
Today's events are predicated on the assumption that the lander may still be operating. The lander contains an internal program in its memory that could automatically initiate transmissions to Earth. The program is initiated after nine weeks pass without commands from Earth. Today is the first opportunity for such automatic transmissions to occur.
Two more opportunities exist to contact the lander in case it is operating but can not initiate communications on its own. The first will be on May 13. Engineers will send commands to the lander ordering it to switch to different components of its transmitter. The final set of commands will be sent on May 20. Those commands will attempt to switch the transmitter to the last possible configuration of components.
Viking Lander 1 was renamed the Mutch Memorial Station in memory of Dr. Thomas A. Mutch, former Viking Lander Imaging Team leader, and former Associate Administrator of NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications. Dr. Mutch disappeared during an attempt to climb Nun Kun, peak in the Himalaya, in September 1980.


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When I first opened Midlife Mouse by Wayne Franklin I had no expectations. I was attracted to it because of the Disney hook and the fact that I do feel like I need to open myself up to the wider world of fiction. But as a middle aged man, who still feels 16, I really did not believe that a story of one man's midlife crisis would actually pull me deeply in. Three days later, I reached the point where one character's true identity was revealed, I smiled and mentally congratulated Mr. Franklin on a job well done! Because he has truly written a fictional story that Disney fans, especially history fans, will love!
Midlife Mouse tells the story of Bill Durmer. As we open the book we find Bill and his daughter holed up in a Walt Disney World hotel room as they are surrounded by the WDW Swat Team (yep I said it). We begin to flashback through Bill's life and we learn that Bill is a solid family man and citizen within his Alabama hometown. However, Bill's life has taken a downward turn as he is forced to close his family business and his coastal community experiences a disaster which Bill blames on himself. Bill believes the key to rediscovering his purpose lies at Walt Disney World, a place where he was truly happy. He runs away to the resort with one of his children and begins an adventure steeped in Disney history as those who continue the traditions of Walt Disney seek to discover if Bill is the fulfillment of Walt Disney's last great prophecy. Along they way, Bill faces danger, fantastical situations, Disney historical truths, and a journey of self discovery to rediscover his purpose.
Bill Dumer's story is one where two genres collide. First, Franklin provides us the drama driven midlife crisis story. This book lives in the same neighborhood as fictional books like Our Kingdom of Dust, where our main characters attempt to escape the complexities of their life by fleeing to Walt Disney World so they can be happy. This theme can also be found in non-fiction books like Cast Member Confidential, proving people do run away to Mickey in real life. But compared to both of these examples Midlife Mouse is a more family friendly offering. I would let the Between Tween read this book if asked. However, Our Kingdom of Dust is something the Between Tween is still a few years away from due to the intense imagery. Second, Midlife Mouse is a fantastical mystery adventure. I kept getting the feeling that the story was an adult Kingdom Keepers. Franklin's tale is full of mystery and secrets within Walt Disney World, where one is not only taken on a ride but also learn real Disney history in a fictional book.
The mystery adventure revolves around a prophecy made on Walt Disney's deathbed. Durmer and the reader discover that a group of nine separate Disney fans/employees are either seeking the fulfillment or delay of Disney's last prophecy. I was delighted that each of the groups was descended from Walt Disney's Nine Old Men. So for history fans, Franklin tickles the imagination by using names like Marc Davis and Ward Kimball in the fictional mystery. I smiled as I read how each group descended from the original Legends to others including Mary Blair, Don Bluth, Card Walker, Frank Wells, and I believe Jefferey Katzenberg (not mentioned by name) amongst others. And I really enjoyed how the groups dealt with the problem of Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas due to their close relationship. I felt the fictional edits to the histories of these real life legends was true to their histories and legends. The mystery also allows Franklin to share some of his own opinions on the current state of Disney and Disney fandom.
The midlife crisis portion of the story is highly effective and makes you feel for Bill. I am guessing that most people have someone like Bill's sister Nancy in their lives, loving but controlling. And as a husband and father I could feel the complexity of his personal problems. Though I probably could not run away to Orlando without the Between Wife! I think anyone who is at the midpoint of their life can understand much of inner dialogue and quest for purpose.
Midlife Mouse is billed as a Southern fantasy. I was concerned living in Betweenland I would be missing some of the color of the story. I found that was not a concern. I felt Franklin did a good job of giving Bill's hometown of Decent Chance the color of the south from sweet tea to religion in a small town without leaving me behind.
I think the release timing of Midlife Mouse is perfect. This text is a great summer reading choice. I could see carrying this to the beach, on the airplane or a comfy bench in a Disney park (okay that's a lie I can't read in a Disney park when there are rides to be checked off. My only complaint is Franklin refers to Walt Disney World as Disney World. But when I found out the identity of Bill's spiritual guide Red, well everything was forgiven (really that's all I could complain about). You can't go wrong by grabbing a copy of Midlife Mouse and taking yourself through a mystery through the Magic Kingdom Park.
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As is apparent from documents available from WinFuture, Google is currently working under high pressure on the Google Pixel 3 series. It obviously relies fully on the experienced smartphone developers acquired from HTC after the billion dollar deal, because the project runs as a hardware partner without the support of a well-known smartphone manufacturer.
Instead, like most other smartphone manufacturers, Google relies on internal development, while production is delivered to a contract manufacturer in line with the usual standard. Specifically, Google will rely on the Taiwanese group Foxconn, which is also one of Apple's commissioned producers of iPhones and also builds for countless other brands their devices.
Specifically, FIH Mobile was commissioned to produce the Google Pixel 3. It is a Foxconn subsidiary and also one of the partners behind HMD Global and the revival of the Nokia brand and its Android smartphones. According to the documents available, there will again be two Pixel smartphones. Both will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC. No other technical details are known yet.
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Apparently, the top model, which is only listed under the abbreviation "Google GB1", will be equipped with "new display hardware", new sensors and cameras. The smaller model is referred to as "Google GC1" and will probably come along with some "more traditional" hardware. Recently, images appeared in China showing two display protective covers, which in one case have a "notch" and in the second case have a "normal" edge at the top of the device.
As far as the launch of the Google Pixel 3 smartphones is concerned, you have to be patient. It is believed that the phones will be announced in August or September 2018 is mentioned, although these statements come from developer circles. The other two Pixel phones were launched on October 4. In general, the information quoted here comes from an absolutely reliable source, but timetables and project details can change at any time.
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The Disaster of Zimbabwe's Price Controls
Prices are essential signals for coordinating the distribution of goods in an economy. Prices tell us where scarce resources are most needed. F. A. Hayek's insights on this have been summarized by Peter Leeson:
Market prices, he [Hayek] argues, signal to producers and consumers the relative scarcity of resources. They tell producers how to combine resources in the ways that produce the most value for consumers, and tell consumers when they should expand or contract their consumption of various goods and services.1
So, what would happen if prices were controlled by government policy? The answer: bad things.
Trouble in Zimbabwe
Between 1983 and 1985, President Muhammadu Buhari was General Muhammadu Buhari, the military head of state of Nigeria. He instituted price controls on milk, soap, sugar, etc. Overnight, milk, soap, and sugar disappeared from the shelves in different stores. This is not rocket science; once it becomes illegal for producers and sellers to sell their commodities over a certain price — and that price is less than what it costs to make that commodity available — producers and sellers will not make that commodity available.
For example, say there are one hundred million Nigerians who eat bread. Then, the government passes a law stipulating that bread should not be sold for more than 150 naira (forty-one cents) per loaf. Since many bakeries have different costs of production for their bread, they would be affected differently. Let's say there are one hundred bakeries in the country. Those whose bread costs 150 naira and above to make and who have to sell above that price to make a profit would go out of business. Let's say forty bakeries fall into this category. Now we have only sixty bakeries to provide bread for the one hundred million people. Remember, the quantity of bread demanded did not decrease, yet we now have fewer bakeries selling bread. The result is a reduction in the supply of bread. According to the economic principle of demand and supply, the price of bread will go up, because supply just been reduced and there are more people competing for the limited bread supply. But remember that bakeries cannot sell bread for more than 150 naira.
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If the bakeries continue to sell bread at 150 naira, there won't be enough supply, so people will have to line up for the limited amount available. Shortages will result. You may say, "Why can't the sixty bakeries increase their production capacity to cover the lost supply of the remaining forty bakeries that just went out of business?" In an unhampered market, they easily could. But under a regime of price controls they can't. Why? Because to increase production, bakeries need to buy more equipment and ingredients. But without charging more for bread, it's unlikely that these bakers will be able to cover their costs. That is, increasing production would be financial suicide.
In reality, what happens is that some of those bakeries' owners will be willing to take the risk of going to prison (or, in some cases, losing their lives) to sell their bread to the more desperate customers at a higher price, creating a black market. But the thing with black markets is that since they are illegal and sellers are exposed to the risk of prison or death if caught, prices will be well above the mandated legal price ceilings.
But black markets are not a substitute for a truly free market, and in many cases — such as that of Zimbabwe — price controls mean that the economy comes to a halt, plunging people into squalor and untold suffering.
As a result, President Mugabe of Zimbabwe embarked on "economic" reforms in the early 1990s. But because these reforms did not feature more market freedom, other disasters awaited. By the late 2000s, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe had printed so much money that its supply rose far beyond what was demanded, resulting in hyperinflation. It became so bad that by November 2008 the inflation rate had reached 89.7 sextillion percent per year according to economist Steve Hanke. New money had to be printed to reflect these changes, and the highest denomination of the Zimbabwe dollar during this era was the one hundred trillion note.
By 2009, the central bank had stopped printing currency, as it had become completely worthless. The country started using the currencies of other countries, such as the South African rand. In 2015, the Zimbabwean state announced that it would start using the US dollar as legal tender.
But all this inflation led to a perceived need for even more price controls. Mugabe thus instituted new price controls and the economy came to a halt.
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Thomas Sowell, describing the situation, quotes The New York Times:
Bread, sugar and cornmeal, staples of every Zimbabwean's diet, have vanished, seized by mobs who denuded stores like locusts in wheat fields. Meat is virtually nonexistent, even for members of the middle class who have money to buy it on the black market. Gasoline is nearly unobtainable. Hospital patients are dying for lack of basic medical supplies. Power blackouts and water cutoffs are endemic.2
Hunter Lewis continues,
Zimbabwe … was once considered a breadbasket … of Africa, but in the 2000s began to suffer mass starvation. The principal reason was that President Robert Mugabe promised land reform, but actually gave the once rich farms to his cronies. At about the same time, everything was price controlled, often below the cost of production. The Central Bank was printing unlimited numbers of Zimbabwean dollars so that by 2008 prices were rising 98% a day. Property and market values plunged by at least 99%, but it was hard to say for sure because there were no buyers. While these events were unfolding, Mugabe railed against "greedy entrepreneurs, ruthless markets, and the forces of globalization."3
Mugabe blamed capitalism, and the United States, but it was his regime that destroyed the economy for his people through price controls and inflationary monetary policy. It's ironic that in 2015 the Zimbabwean state started using the US dollar as legal tender. The cycle began again in 2019 when the new regime created a new currency and decreed that all foreign currencies would no longer be legal tender. Again, history is repeating itself.
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1.P. T. Leeson, "Escaping Poverty — Foreign Aid, Private Property and Economic Development," Journal of Private Enterprise 23, no. 2 (2008): 39–64
2.Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Commonsense Guide to the Economy (New York: Basic Books, 2011).
3.Hunter Lewis, Crony Capitalism in America 2008–2012 (Edinburg, VA: AC2 Books, 2013).
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They may be artists, designers, inventors, architects or in current times may work more closely with creativity through new or expanding technologies. Their methods of working with technology will differ from many, as it is based more on "feeling" than on intellectual understanding. They do well at beginning projects, but less well at completing them. There may be lessons to aid Vegans in learning self discipline and will power or they may surround themselves with others who are supportive and will aid in the completion of projects and ideas.
Those from Vega are travelers who seek variety, challenge and understanding of the many questions they have within. They may become bored easily. They tend to analyze, question and doubt all which they do not understand, does not meet their belief system or simply does not "feel" right. Although quite willing to learn, change and grow, Vegans need understanding to occur on an inner level to allow opening within for change to occur. This understanding will not be of a practical, logical nature. It will be an inner comprehension that will be more a "feeling" that leads to "knowing" instead of a technical understanding.
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If only we could hook Bush up to one of these...
Aint this some bullshit!
Last night, a federal SWAT team assisted the RIAA in a raid on the studio of Atlanta musician DJ Drama.
This local news report says the locally famous mixtape DJ is under investigation for piracy. But Drama's supporters say the DJ is a mix artist, not a bootlegger. They say news footage of the raid shows RIAA officials boxing up only recordable CDs filled with mixes, not bootlegs of retail CDs (the local news reporter seems to conflate the two as well).
Assuming for a moment that RIAA and federal officials do indeed know the difference between a mash-up DJ and a bootleg operation, and that they did find evidence of actual piracy in the bust, there's still the problem of why RIAA officials were participating in a police action, and why a SWAT team was used to raid a professional studio under investigation for a nonviolent, white-collar crime.
Yeah, this is bullshit! I personally work with Interscope Records, Warner Brothers, G-Unit Records, and others in their street promotion efforts in Miami. I'll tell you first-hand, as will the average Hip Hop fan, that these major labels actively support (financially and cooperatively) DJ's who produce and distribute mix CDs, such as DJ Drama. The RIAA is out of hand and so is the use of a SWAT team. This is bullshit!
And you wonder why the police gets such a bad rap in the inner city.
Labels: Hip Hop, Police State
At 10/28/2008 12:51 PM, Ros said...
Interesting to know.


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Blake reflects on time with Wolves and Blades
When Wolves and Sheffield United lock horns on Sunday, Nathan Blake will be watching on keenly as two clubs close to his heart compete.
The former striker performed in the Premier League as a youngster for the Blades and won promotion back to the top flight in old gold in 2003.
Blake sat down for an extended interview in the official matchday programme, which is available from around Molineux for £3.50 and online here.
Snippets of Blake's interview are available below, with the full version printed across three pages in Sunday's programme.
How important was it for you to achieve that promotion in Wolves colours?
Playing at Bolton and Sheffield United, you'd hear things about Wolves being desperate to get back into the top flight and it didn't materialise, regardless of what they threw at it, so I was really pleased to achieve promotion. The first one is always the hardest, it's the one that gets the wheels turning, and you look at where the club is now, yes they've been down to League One, but winning is a habit and if it isn't started, people tend to forget how it's done.
Dave Jones and Dave Bassett managed the majority of your time at both clubs, how difficult is it to compare them both?
I couldn't compare the two. Dave Bassett and Colin Todd were probably the best managers I played for, along with Eddie May at Cardiff, and I couldn't put Dave Jones in that category for whatever reason, I just didn't think he matched up to them with the way they used to treat players – man-management, so I can't speak highly enough of them.
How did the team spirit compare in the Wolves and Sheffield United camps?
Wolves and Bolton were the best groups I played in. We had a great set of lads at Wolves, with a mix of experience and youth, and we all got on. We had a lot of banter and a lot of fun, every day in the dressing rooms when we used to train in the tennis club, which threw up a few surprises from time to time. It was a brilliant dressing room. Sheffield United was different because I was the youth and there was a lot of experience, by the time I got to Wolves I was the experience. You don't really have responsibility as a youth player, just train and play, but it's slightly different as an experienced player, you're expected to lead and play. We had players like George Ndah, Matt Murray, Joleon Lescott, Lee Naylor, Paul Butler, Shaun Newton, Colin Cameron, Kenny Miller, Dennis Irwin, Paul Ince, we had a really tight bunch of boys who all got on with each other. It was brilliant on a day-to-day basis, we actually looked forward to after training in the dressing room as much as training because the banter would fly about.
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Facebook rolls out fake news labeling tool following backlash
A third-party company will fact check stories and outlets.
Lauren C. Williams Twitter Dec 15, 2016, 7:33 pm
CREDIT: AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
Fake news on Facebook will now come with a warning, thanks to a new feature the company debuted Thursday.
Using a third-party verification service, false stories on Facebook will be "flagged" with a red label that reads "disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers." Users can click the label to learn more about why the information was deemed unreliable.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the tool was in the works, along with better reporting tools, in a statement addressing criticism of earlier comments minimizing the potential effects of fake news.
Fake news isn't all Facebook's fault. Sprawling digital media made it worse.
"Sometimes people you don't like have better facts."
Facebook has been adamant about staying neutral, maintaining the company is not responsible for determining fact from fiction. Instead, the social network has enlisted the help of dedicated fact-checking organizations that have pledged to uphold Poynter's International Fact Checking Code of Principles. Over 40 organizations worldwide have signed on. Users are also encouraged to report content that could be hoaxes.
Facebook's fact-checking warning tool is the latest in response to the spread of fake news that accelerated following the election — an issue that took a serious turn when a man fired a rifle in a Washington, D.C. pizza shop because of an anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory.
Two browser extensions have recently been developed to help readers identify potentially dubious sites and content. Slate released a Chrome version called "This Is Fake," which flags fabricated stories and links to fact-based news reports or research. Another Chrome extension, "Fake News Alert," goes a bit further, flagging satire sites along with sites that are heavily biased or have incomplete facts. That plugin is based on a list of sites compiled by a communications professor for her students, which went viral following the presidential election.
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Each convoy consists of approximately 50 military vehicles of varying size. The vehicles will depart in groups of 10, at staggered intervals, as a safe-driving precaution. Most of the convoys will be conducted at night between the hours of 8 p.m. and midnight, though there may be some conducted during daylight hours.
The Army is coordinating this effort with the Hawaii Department of Transportation.
The 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade is transporting the vehicles and equipment for shipment to the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, Calif.


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Chefs and Servers Reveal the Biggest Ripoffs Restaurants Sell
Restaurant industry workers took to Reddit to dish on why you should be skeptical of the price of pasta, cheesecake, wine, and even those fancy sushi rolls.
By Elisabeth Sherman Updated May 09, 2018
Whenever you go out to eat a restaurant you know there are going to be markups; it's the contract you sign when you let the waiter seat you a table. Sometimes, though, depending on where you're going out to eat, you're looking for the best deal, or at least hoping that someone, back there in the kitchen, isn't trying to take you for a fool. You're hoping that at least the staff, from the waiters to the chefs, aren't trying to pull a fast one on you when it comes to the price of that house wine or the elegant sushi roll that has just arrived at your table. Sure, your dinner may look like it took time and care to prepare, but you might also have the sneaking suspicion that it was actually just reheated, a little spicy mayo dabbed on top, poured out of a box, or pulled out of a freezer. And sometimes, you might just be right.
Recently, chefs, servers, and other restaurant employees took to Reddit to share the "biggest ripoffs that your restaurants sell," confirming some of your suspicions and probably serving up a few surprises, too (they've done similar tell-alls, like this thread in which they reveal the 15 things they'd never order at a restaurant). Here are 15 of the most egregious ripoffs restaurant workers reported on the Reddit thread.
1. "We buy tiny wine bottles for $7 and sell for $37. The house wine [here] is Franzia box wine."
2. "I worked in a fancy country club…A slice of 'homemade' cheesecake was $7 each on the menu. One of the sous chefs stopped by the Giant Food grocery store every day on the way to work to pick up a whole cheesecake for about $5."
3. "Most of our desserts are purchased from the Wal-Mart directly across the street then marked up 500%...We just drizzle a bit of chocolate or raspberry sauce on it so that it doesn't look exactly like the one from Wal-Mart. Also, a smoker outside the building doesn't mean your barbecue is fresh. Most of it is frozen. Sometimes we just throw logs on there so it looks and smells like we're barbecuing."
4. "I worked at a local taco shop that made its own sauces. The hot sauce was basically tomato juice and a buttload of cayenne pepper."
5. "We serve 'hot fresh baked pretzels' for $8.95. We get [them] by the case frozen. Roughly $75 per box. 100 per box."
6. "The baked Camembert. It was literally the Camembert from Aldi. £1 each. Baked and sold for £15 to share."
7. "Noodles are pretty cheap to buy in bulk. A bowl at a restaurant can be anywhere from $8-$16."
8. "I worked at a Japanese for a while and we had this thing called a Volcano roll. It cost $7.25. A California roll there cost $3.75. The Volcano roll was a Cali roll cut into the shape of a triangle and topped with spicy mayo that has been heated up with about $.10 worth of fish."
9. "I used to cook at a seafood restaurant and without a doubt, it was the lobster rolls."
10. "Short-rib flatbread pizza. We take leftover short rib from the previous night, shred it, put it on $0.05 worth of flatbread with a sprinkle of cheese and some diced red onion, and ship it out for $11.45. It's literally $10 profit. And people love it."
11. "Cake balls. They're maybe 1 inch by 1 inch (rolled in a ball and dipped in icing) but we sell them for $1.65 each. We sell a quarter sheet cake for $20. We sell 1 dozen cake balls, which is maybe 1/3rd the cake, for $19."
12. "Soda Pop. $3 a glass for $0.10 of product."
13. "I was a line cook…A grilled cheese was upwards of $7. Literally just put a slice and a half of cheese on bread, and panini pressed it."
14. "Used to work in this restaurant where the specialty was a seafood pasta. Each order cost the restaurant just $3 but they charged $24.
15. "Cucumber or avocado rolls. Less than a handful of rice, one-half sheet of nori, and about 1/4 of an avocado or it's equivalent in cucumber."
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The most powerful variant of the world's most reliable rocket just launched
Because it is reliant on Russian engines the Atlas V may only fly for a few more years.
Eric Berger - Jun 24, 2016 7:50 pm UTC
The most powerful variant of the Atlas V rocket launched on June 24 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It carried the MUOS-5 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit for the US Navy.
United Launch Alliance
This was the 551 variant of the rocket with five solid rocket boosters at the bottom.
With the fat payload at the top and boosters at the bottom, the Atlas V 551 has a big head and big feet.
And a big kick, which allows it to deliver as much as 19 tons to low-Earth orbit.
The Atlas V rocket on Friday successfully launched the MUOS-5 satellite for the US Navy.
This will provide communications support for warfighters.
The satellite will join four others in a constellation in geostationary transfer orbit.
Here is an earlier photo of the MUOS-5 being lifted and mated to the Atlas V rocket.
Here, the Atlas V rocket, with the MUOS-5 satellite, is rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility.
Trains and rockets...
make for pretty pictures.
Especially when the sun sets.
Even at night.
ULA's next launch is the Atlas V NROL-61 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, scheduled for July 28.
It will also take place from Space Launch Complex-41.
The Atlas V rocket is not the world's most powerful rocket, but it can credibly claim to be the most reliable. Before Friday morning, it had flown 62 times into space, completing its primary mission each time. That 100 percent mission success rate is unparalleled in the history of orbital rockets over so many flights. Accordingly, it's a source of pride for its manufacturer, United Launch Alliance.
The 63rd flight on Friday was also a success, delivering the MUOS-5 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit 31,000km above Earth for the US Navy. This is the final satellite in the five-satellite constellation, which provides war fighters with significantly improved communications.
The launch was also notable because it flew the 551 variant of the rocket. This combines the core stage along with five solid rocket boosters, which burn for 88.3 seconds at the beginning of the flight to give the rocket an initial kick off the launch pad. This most powerful variant of the Atlas V rocket can deliver up to 19 tons of payload to low-Earth orbit and 8.9 tons to geostationary transfer orbit. The 551 configuration first flew back in 2006, when it launched the New Horizons mission to Pluto.
But the Atlas V rocket's reliability has come with a price. United Launch Alliance buys the vehicle's liquid oxygen/liquid kerosene main engine, the RD-180, from Russia. And this engine has carried an increasingly high political price amidst rising tensions with Russia, as some members of Congress have balked at launching US national security payloads on vehicles with Russian engines. United Launch Alliance has a deadline of 2022 to end its reliance on the Russian engine.
To that end, the company has begun working on a rocket to replace the Atlas V, named Vulcan, which likely will be powered by Blue Origin's BE-4 engine. An initial flight could come as early as 2019. As part of that process, the company is developing an upper-stage engine that will be optimized for use near Earth and in cislunar space around the Moon. To that end, United Launch Alliance is in some sense betting on development of a cislunar economy that will need its transportation services.
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Eric Berger Eric Berger is the senior space editor at Ars Technica, covering everything from astronomy to private space to NASA. A certified meteorologist, Eric lives in Houston.
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Throttleman Steve Kildahl and his son, Stephen, are looking toward another win at this year's Suncoast Superboat Grand Prix.
The inaugural Lake Race 2013 at Lake of the Ozarks was met with many more pros than cons.
Thanks to its affordability and fun-factor, the P1 SuperStock USA has attracted a handful of family teams.
Could Indiana really be the next hotbed for powerboat racing? One county in northern Indiana thinks so.
There was non-stop action along Florida's Space Coast as 24 teams took the green flag last weekend at the second stop of the 2013 Super Boat International circuit in Cocoa Beach.
From Bob Teague to Terry Rinker, Team AMSOIL's boat racing relationships run deep.
The race has been a July 4th tradition, not just for Sarasota but offshore racing. So when talk arose that the event might not be held this year, racer and boater were shocked.
In the second of a season-preview series, we take a look at the Super Boat International (SBI) Tour that kicks-off this weekend.
April 18, 2013 0 Ready, Set, Race!
As offshore circuits get ready to take the green flag, Bobbye Miller Kenyon takes an up-close look at the newly formatted P1 SuperStockUSA.
For at least one offshore racing observer, the intrigue of offshore racing this year hinges on the Superboat class.


Karen Horney (16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German-born U.S. psychoanalyst.
[The neurotic] feels caught in a cellar with many doors, and whichever door he opens leads only into new darkness. And all the time he knows that others are walking outside in sunshine. I do not believe that one can understand any severe neurosis without recognizing the paralyzing hopelessness which it contains. … It may be difficult then to see that behind all the odd vanities, demands, hostilities, there is a human being who suffers, who feels forever excluded from all that makes life desirable, who knows that even if he gets what he wants he cannot enjoy it. When one recognizes the existence of all this hopelessness it should not be difficult to understand what appears to be an excessive aggressiveness or even meanness, unexplainable by the particular situation. A person so shut out from every possibility of happiness would have to be a veritable angel if he did not feel hatred toward a world he cannot belong to.
Taking again as an example the need to appear perfect, I would be interested primarily in understanding what this trend accomplishes for the individual (eliminating conflicts with others and making him feel superior to others), and also what consequences the trend has on his character and his life. The latter investigation would make it possible to understand, for example, how such a person anxiously conforms with expectations and standards to the extent of becoming a mere automaton, and yet subversively defies them; how this double play results in listlessness and inertia; how he is proud of his apparent independence, yet actually is entirely dependent on the expectations and opinions of others; how he is terrified lest anyone should discover the flimsiness of his moral strivings and the duplicity which has pervaded his life; how this in turn has made him seclusive and hypersensitive to criticism.
It is amazing how obtuse otherwise intelligent patients can become when it is a matter of seeing the inevitability of cause and effect in psychic matters. I am thinking of rather self-evident connections such as these: if we want to achieve something, we must put in work; if we want to become independent, we must strive toward assuming responsibility for ourselves. Or: so long as we are arrogant, we will be vulnerable. Or: so long as we do not love ourselves, we cannot possibly believe that others love us, and must by necessity be suspicious toward any assertion of love. Patients presented with such sequences of cause and effect may start to argue, to become befogged or evasive.
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