| State agencies feel chill from Jindal’s hiring freeze
State agencies from health care to higher education are seeking relief from Gov. Bobby Jindal’s employee hiring freeze. "It’s a serious issue for us," said Fred Cerise, who as vice president for the LSU System’s health care and medical education is over the state’s charity hospitals. LSU hospitals today have 456 vacancies, Cerise said Wednesday. Commissioner of Higher Education Joseph Savoie, who oversees the state’s vo-tech schools, colleges and universities, complained to Jindal’s money manager about the hiring freeze the governor issued last week. "It is somewhat ironic that now that funding is available, we may still be restricted in our ability to use those resources in securing the personnel so vital to our mission," Savoie wrote.
Burnout Paradise Ships for PS3, Xbox 360
Electronic Arts today shipped Burnout Paradise for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in North America. Burnout Paradise will be available in Europe for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on January 28. Burnout Paradise takes a new direction for the franchise, with an open-world design that includes a seamless online and offline mode. Using the open-world model, players can decide for themselves when and where the action begins, simply by pulling up to any intersection and deciding whether to engage in that challenge or not. Burnout Paradise lets players go online casually with the "EasyDrive Friends List" and just putter around town in Freeburn Mode. Then, if you'd like to take them on, players can immediately issue a challenge for up to seven of your friends or join forces to complete more than 300 online challenges.
The Chris Webber Karma Could Hit Pacers’ Coach Jim O’Brien
He clearly was toward the end of his career. It became very apparent he wasn't going to give the 76ers everything we had hoped for. Webber didn't practice at all that year prior to coming to us. He didn't practice at all the previous six weeks. I think he was just at the point where he didn't necessarily feel where he was in need of practice, or could practice, or couldn't practice and play at the same time. "He said, 'Coach, I don't do the low-post thing anymore,''' O’ Brien recalled. "We just made a major trade to bring in this (6-foot-10) guy and he said, 'No.' I said, 'Yes, you do.'' My Quick Take: Not exactly a glowing reference for C-Webb, huh? O’Brien, his former coach in Philly, is right. After surgery, Webber’s game changed. Shifting from the post to a jump-shooting big man limited his effectiveness.
UK 2017: under surveillance
Fridges have RFID scanners which tell the neighbourhood grocery store that pensioners are running short on provisions. The goods are then delivered direct to the doorstep. Huge databases in hospitals are able to compare tests on patients throughout the country. This allows doctors to red-flag risk factors earlier than ever before, meaning that a patient's statistical risk of suffering, for example, a heart attack, are predicted with much greater accuracy. The NHS will be locked in a battle with insurance companies who want access to health information for commercial purposes. The temptation for the NHS is the large amounts of money on offer. The authors point out that Iceland sold its national DNA database to private companies for research and profit in 2004. The data shadow Those rich enough can sign up to "personal information management services" (Pims) which monitor all the information that exists about an individual - a person's so-called "data shadow".
Xbox is crack for kids
In the dog-end of the Christmas holidays my sons and a friend were re-creating the rolling boulder sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark by charging up and downstairs pursued by my new purple gym ball. As the crashing reached a climax and Harrison Ford slammed his head into the bannister, I found myself thinking: oh, why can't they just sit down nicely and watch TV for a bit? I soon stamped on this heresy, of course, since children doing vaguely energetic, imaginative things must be celebrated, at whatever cost to the nerves. These days the mother who parks her kids before the Dave channel in order to work is no better than the one who shoves chips through the school railings to her children or feeds the family dog two-quid unhappy chicken just to hack off Jamie Oliver.
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