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responsible for directing the fiscal functions of the corporation in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, other regulatory and advisory organizations and in accordance with financial management techniques and practices appropriate within the healthcare industry.

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-??? Develop the finance & accounting strategy and metrics for the organization including debt management, financing, cash flow management, etc.
-??? Act as the Finance and Accounting Subject Matter Expert for the organization
-??? Create and manage strategic relationships with external Finance & Accounting service providers, including banks and auditors as well as establishing and maintaining strong relationships with internal senior executives to identify their needs and provide a full range of business solutions.
-??? Collaborate with the executive team and other individuals on operational issues as they arise; provide strategic recommendations based on financial analysis, projections and other relevant data as appropriate.
-??? Provide advice, counsel and creative approaches for managing emergent finance, accounting, information systems, facilities and business issues as necessary
-??? Lead all aspects of fiscal oversight, planning and management for the organization.
-??? Lead development of financial policies and procedures.
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Go raw: How raw food transformed this foodie | Vegan

Christina Ross, food editor at Natural Child World Magazine, is a raw food advocate. She?s followed the raw food diet, had a a mind-body transformation, and wants to share her experience as well as her favorite raw food dessert recipes.

Miso Vegan: Why did you adopt the raw food diet?

Christina Ross: I adopted a raw food diet once my life partner and I met. We fell in love and instantly started making healthier lifestyle changes. Our goal individually and as a couple was to gain more energy and clarity to be able to express our creativity more. I never imagined having more energy, happiness, clarity, and vibrancy and through my diet alone I discovered a whole new meaning of what food was and how it worked with the human body on a mental, physical and spiritual level and I also lost 15 pounds in the first month and have kept it off easily ever since.

Miso Vegan: Do you eat raw food exclusively or do you also cook some dishes?

Christina Ross: For the first year and a half I ate strictly raw foods and over the past couple of years I have added cooked organic and vegan foods to my diet as I found myself longing for warmth and variety in foods such as quinoa, romanesco, artichokes, eggplant and tempeh. My approach to food now is more balanced than ever before, and I can?t imagine any other way to have achieved this balance if it weren?t for the profound transformation raw foods had over me and my partner.

Miso Vegan: How has the raw food diet changed your life?

Christina Ross:?With the new found energy I gained I went on to start?PatisseRaw, a line of raw and vegan desserts, I knew I had to share the wealth of delicious and vibrant cuisine with the world, it became my mission after two weeks of eating raw foods to enlighten others about the transformational powers that our diets can have in our life and what better way to learn a good lesson than over a piece of cake that is nutritious and delicious. It?s been a sweet journey since my first step into raw foods and one that has greatly transformed my life beautifully forever.

Miso Vegan: What basic tips can you give readers to adopt a raw food diet?

Christina Ross: There are many but here are my top recommendations:

1. Start simply with fresh pressed juices, smoothies or fruit salads for breakfast, have salads for lunch and easy and delicious dinners such as vegetable ceviche or try replacing your regular pasta with zucchini noodles.
2. Approach eating raw as an exciting new experiment, get curious and get excited to play with and discover food in a whole new way.
3. Make a dessert for yourself. This alone may get you hooked to eating raw not to mention the added bonus of clear skin, mental clarity, more happiness, energy and vitality that will have you energized for leading a life full of happiness and health.
4. Have fruit, veggies, nuts, seeds, hummus, guacamole, nut butters and raw chocolate on hand for snacking.
5. Eat only raw foods for two weeks and that alone will have profound transformation over your future food choices. Chances are you too will lose weight, get rid of food addictions to things like sugar, coffee and carbs as well as have an abundance of energy that you will be ready to put to great use.

More about Natural Child World Magazine

Natural Child World Magazine is a sophisticated, sustainable lifestyle magazine for the modern family. Natural Child World is a multimedia platform that addresses the needs of the modern family. It is the #1 resource for parents who want to make better choices for themselves and the people they love the most, without sacrificing the things they like the most. From design in Copenhagen to fashion in New York, to lifestyle and well-being around the globe, Natural Child World offers a global look at parenting in the modern world. Natural Child World is sold nationwide at top retailers including; Whole Foods, Barnes & Noble, Target, and many more. For the digital version, go to NaturalChildWorld.com.

Ross also shared two of her favorite raw food recipes for the holidays:

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Family Home and Life: Winter Comes Color Palette

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Milk drinkers may yet get heart-healthy omega-3s by the glass

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2012) ? Not everyone has a taste for fish, even though it is a natural source of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids.

And while a growing number of omega-3 enriched foods may net health benefits for people who resist the lure of salmon or sashimi, milk remains the product that has gotten away in what has become a billion-dollar health industry.

But now, food science researchers at Virginia Tech may have reeled milk into the omega-3 delivery system, showing it is possible to incorporate fish oil into milk and dairy-based beverages in amounts sufficient to promote heart health, without destroying the product's taste or limiting its lifespan.

Even better, the milk passes the sniff test. Twenty-five volunteers evaluated one-ounce cups of standard 2 percent milk alongside samples of skim milk containing 78 parts butter oil to 22 parts fish oil in institutionally approved study conditions.

"We couldn't find any aroma differences," said Susan E. Duncan, a professor of food science and technology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "We were concerned the fish oil would undergo a chemical process called oxidation, which would shorten the milk's shelf life, or the milk would acquire a cardboard or paint flavor by reacting with the fish oil. It appears we have a product that is stable, with no chemical taste or smell issues."

The study, featured in the November issue of the Journal of Dairy Science, tested four different ratios of butter oil to fish oil in the production of pasteurized, fatty acid-fortified beverages.

The aroma-free formulation delivered 432 milligrams of heart-healthy fatty acids per cup, close to the 500 milligram daily target for healthy people suggested by a broad range of health studies. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suggests daily consumption of 250 milligrams per day in healthy adults.

Research has shown omega-3 fatty acids are helpful for preventing coronary disease, reducing inflammation, assisting infant brain development, and maintaining brain function.

Meanwhile, the American Heart Association recommends eating two servings of fatty fish per week, citing research that has shown omega-3 fatty acids decrease the risk of potentially fatal heart arrhythmias, decrease triglyceride levels, slow growth of atherosclerotic plaque, and slightly lower blood pressure.

But fish hasn't caught on with everyone, making room for new foods and beverages fortified with omega-3s in an expanding marketplace. Sales are expected to reach more than $3 billion in 2016, according to marketing analysts.

"I think the dairy industry can look at our study and determine whether it is plausible to modify its products," Duncan said. "I would like to help people who love milk, yogurt, and dairy, which have intrinsic nutritional value, address an additional need in their diets, especially if they don't like to eat fish or can't afford it. One of these dairy servings a day apparently is enough to sustain enough continuous omega-3 to benefit heart health."

If such a product catches on with consumers, Duncan said the next step for researchers is to follow groups of volunteers in an epidemiological study of whether the food improves health outcomes.

"Milk was first fortified with Vitamin D as a way to fight rickets -- a disease that leads to soft or weak bones," said Kerry E. Kaylegian, a dairy foods research and extension associate with Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who was not involved in the research. "It was a good approach to address a dietary deficiency disease, because so many people drink milk, which is already loaded with nutrients. This study describes fortification of milk with omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA. We can't say lack of those compounds definitively causes cardiac disease, but there is evidence that they protect us and contribute to heart and brain health. Milk would be a good delivery vehicle for those nutrients."

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Swisscom rolls out first LTE in Switzerland on November 29th

The European LTE landscape is unfortunately a fragmented one that favors large countries with large carriers. We can chalk up at least one victory for the smaller nation states, however: Switzerland is getting its first LTE network on November 29th. The country's main provider, Swisscom, is launching initial 4G coverage in 26 cities and regions using the LTE-equipped HTC One X (One XL abroad), quickly following up with the early December availability of the Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II and Nokia Lumia 920. A Huawei USB stick and a ZTE hotspot will also be on tap. Customers won't need to spring for a new plan to use the new network on a basic level, although Swisscom's uncommon speed-based phone plans mean they'll be paying a stiff 169 francs ($181) per month to max out the 4G network. We imagine at least some will bite if it means speedy data in Zurich.

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Egypt: 200,000 Gather in Tahrir Square to Condemn President Mohammed Mursi Powers Grab [VIDEO + PHOTOS]

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HP Pavilion P7-1235

Although much of the spotlight has lately been focused on ultrabooks and all-in-one systems, desktops have steadfastly continued to remain a viable option, especially for users on a budget. This rings especially true in the case of the HP Pavilion P7-1235 ($539.99 list), an affordably priced general desktop PC whose perks?like USB 3.0 connectivity and a spacious 1TB hard drive?help elevate it above a standard bare-bones budget system. That said, its so-so AMD A8-550 CPU and lack of an included monitor serve as a reminder that, ultimately, better options exist.

Design and Features
The P7-1235 comes in a relatively unassuming black matte-finished chassis that measures 15 by 7 by 17 inches (HWD). Like the Acer Aspire AM3970G-UW10P and the Asus Essentio CM6870, a glossy black plastic face complements its metallic body, providing a mild aesthetic flourish while also serving the practical purpose of housing an optical drive (a SuperMulti DVD burner, in this case) and an array of card readers (xD/Smart Media/Compact Flash/SD/MMC/Memory Stick); the lower portion of this plastic panel slides down to reveal headphone and microphone jacks as well as a pair of USB 3.0 ports. Aside from a silver trim lining the edges of the plastic face, the P7-1235 more or less resembles a traditional, old-school desktop that could fit in 2002 just as easily as it does in 2012.

Unlike the Acer AM3470-UC30P or Acer AM3970G-UW10P, the P7-1235 does not come bundled with a monitor, which is understandable at this price point but nonetheless belies the notion of affordability since it forces users to shell out extra cash to obtain one. It does, however, come with a wired mouse and keyboard, and there are plenty of available USB ports to plug them into. In addition to the ports found on the front of the system, the rear houses two additional USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, VGA and DVI ports, an Ethernet port, and several audio outputs to accommodate front and side speakers as well as a subwoofer. There isn't an HDMI output, though, so users looking the port would be better served with the Gateway DX4870-UR11P or add a graphics card with HDMI capabilities sometime later.

Beneath the hood, the P7-1235 offers some potential for expandability. There's an available internal 3.5-inch bay for a second hard drive as well as an empty 5.25-inch bay for adding an internal optical drive like, say, a Blu-ray player. Meanwhile, the Pavilion P7-1235's 8GB of SDRAM occupies all four of the motherboard's DIMM sockets, so anyone looking to upgrade to the maximum 32GB RAM will have to discard some of the included memory in order to do so. The 8GB should be enough for most home users, even the ones who edit their snapshots. The motherboard also features one free PCIe x16 slot as well as three available PCIe x1 slots, though users looking to upgrade the P7-1235 with a beefier GPU should heed this critical caveat: the system's 300W power supply limits the options to midrange graphics cards, which don't consume as much power as their high-end counterparts.

The P7-1235's 1TB hard drive comes loaded with software. While this isn't much of a surprise for a system in this price range, it still means that users must initially contend with the usual bevy of bloatware (unnecessary toolbars, games of questionable value) trialware (30-day trials of Norton Internet Security, Norton Online Backup), as well as the occasional useful program (Office Starter 2010). The Pavilion P7-1235 also comes with a one-year limited warranty.

Performance
The P7-1235 is equipped with a 3.2GHz AMD A8-5500 CPU, which is one of AMD's second-generation A-series (otherwise known as "Trinity" in tech circles) accelerated processing units (APUs), which combines the Pavilion P7-1235's CPU and its integrated AMD Radeon HD 7560D GPU onto a single chipset. As compared to another APU-equipped system in its class?namely the Acer AM3470-UC30P?the P7-1235 fared well in our benchmark tests. However, when stacked against systems equipped with second- and third-generation Intel Core-equipped systems, the P7-1235 struggled to maintain equal footing. This much is evident in its PCMark 7 score of 2,548 points, which easily breezed past the Acer AM3470-UC30P (2,081 points) but fell short of the rest of the pack, including the Acer M3970G-UW10P (2,611 points) and, to a greater extent, the Gateway DX4870-UR11P (3,540 points). Its multimedia performance similarly fell flat compared to others.

The P7-1235 completed our Handbrake video-encoding test in 1 minute 59 seconds, which outpaced the Aspire AM3470-UC30P (2:33) but came nowhere near the Gateway DX4870-UR11P (1:05) or the Asus Essentio CM6870 (1:03). The Pavilion P7-1235's Cinebench R11.5 score of 2.76 points, meanwhile, came within striking distance of the Acer AM3470-UC30P (2.93 points) but withered in the face of its competition, like the Acer M3970G-UW10P (4.91 points) and the Essentio CM6870 (7.50 points). The 5 minutes 5 seconds it took the P7-1235 to complete our Photoshop CS5 test was slightly faster than the Acer AM3470-UC30P (5:55) but, once again, was outgunned by comparable Intel Core-equipped systems such as the Acer M3970G-UW10P (3:28) and the Gateway DX4870-UR11P (2:50).

The P7-1235's integrated AMD Radeon HD 7560D GPU, on the other hand, allowed it to cross the 30 frames per second (fps) playability threshold in medium-detail settings. Accordingly, it churned out 49fps in medium-quality settings in our Crysis benchmark test, which trumped most of its class, save for the Asus CM6870. In very high quality-settings, its performance of 7fps landed between the Aspire AM3460-UC30P (5fps) and the Asus CM6870 (11fps). The P7-1235's 3DMark 11 scores surpassed the rest of the litter (1,732 points in Entry-level mode; 338 points in Extreme mode), including the Acer AM3470-UC30P (1,567 and 283 points, respectively), and only fell short of the class-leading Asus CM6870 (2,832 and 532 points, respectively).

For users on a budget, the HP Pavilion P7-1235 is a decent system that doesn't entirely skimp out on niceties like USB 3.0 ports, light to moderate 3D prowess, or hard drive capacity. However, better options exist, especially for users who don't already own a monitor. For only $60 more, the Editors' Choice-winning Acer AM3470-UC30P sports a similar processor and comes with a generous 23-inch monitor. Users who already have a monitor, meanwhile, would be better served by a system that sports more robust Intel Core processing power, like the Gateway DX4870-UR11P.

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Lower Water Levels Dry Up Business On Great Lakes

The Great Lakes drought is affecting the survival of some of the small harbor towns located on North Michigan's shore. Melissa Block speaks with Russell Dzuba, the harbormaster in Leland, Mich., where a line of sand is cutting through his harbor.

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Further north, people around the Great Lakes are also hoping for rain or a lot of snow this winter. Because of the drought, water levels have fallen to alarming lows, with near-record lows on Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. For communities along the lakes, that means a financial squeeze if it creates trouble for boats and keeps tourists away. Russell Dzuba is seeing this firsthand. He's the harbormaster in Leland, Michigan, and he joins me from his office looking out over the harbor. Mr. Dzuba, welcome to the program. Thanks for being with us.

RUSSELL DZUBA: Thanks for having me.

BLOCK: And let's place you there. If Michigan looks like a mitten, right, you're up where the top of the pinky would be, right, in the northwest, near Traverse City, right on Lake Michigan?

DZUBA: That's correct.

BLOCK: Well, if you look out your window right now, looking out at the harbor, tell us what you see. What does it look like?

DZUBA: There's a strand of sand that would allow me to walk around the entire inside of the harbor, and that ordinarily is not a good thing in a harbor. At this point, I'm looking at cormorants and seagulls and ducks lulling about on a beach inside of my harbor, so it's not a pleasant sight.

BLOCK: Mm. So you've got some beachfront where there shouldn't be beachfront.

DZUBA: Absolutely.

BLOCK: Have you ever seen the lake this low before?

DZUBA: I remember back in 1964 I lived over on the Lake Huron side in that time, and it was low, but this is drastic. West Grand Traverse Bay is low. Folks who live along that shoreline now have an extra 100 or 150 feet of beach, and believe me, it's not sand. It's rock, and it's not a very attractive asset to lake-front property.

BLOCK: Well, what does it mean for Leland when water levels drop like this? What's the effect?

DZUBA: Well, for us, you know, the one thing that we learned right away that word travels across the water much faster than it does through the air. And if folks get an idea that there's a problem navigating a channel at Leland, they will just go by us. And if we miss out on two or 10 or 20 boats a day, it hurts us. It hurts the grocery stores. It hurts the restaurants. It hurts the shops. It hurts the harbor. And so we need to keep the channel dredged, and we need to have navigable space to accommodate our guests.

BLOCK: And what about dredging? Is there a hang-up there?

DZUBA: Well, dredging is the issue. That's what gets people in and out. A brief history is the harbor is a federal harbor of refuge, and along with that came maintenance dredging every year till about 1999, and the corps no longer dredged recreational shoal draft harbors.

BLOCK: This is the Army Corps of Engineers.

DZUBA: The Army Corps. And then - we then had to ask our legislatures for an earmark, an appropriation each and every year, and that worked until 2007 when Congress abolished the earmarks.

BLOCK: Aha.

DZUBA: Since then, '07, we had to pay for it. We had a fundraiser and collected, and then we had to pay again last year, and it amounts to $175,000. And so we're, you know, plodding along - fundraising and, you know, trying to cook up ideas on how to keep the channel open.

BLOCK: Well, you've got to be hoping for a lot of snow this winter to bring those water levels up.

DZUBA: Absolutely. We had an incredibly warm season - warm winter season last year, and we lost a lot of water to evaporation, and that takes place during the whole winter, as well as the summer. And if we can get some snowpack up on Lake Superior and then, of course, freezing. Traditionally, we don't freeze as we did in the old days. It used to freeze all the way across the channel, 11 miles out to North Manitou Island. That hasn't happened here in a number of years. It's an uphill battle, but, you know, who thought we'd be praying for snow and ice-cold temperatures.

BLOCK: Well, Mr. Dzuba, best of luck to you. Thanks for talking with us.

DZUBA: Well, thank you so much.

BLOCK: Russell Dzuba is the harbormaster in Leland, Michigan, right on Lake Michigan.

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Your Health and Fitness Quesions Answered - Week 5/6 | Rocofit ...

Your health and fitness questions answered by me every Monday for 6 weeks. Here is week 5 of 6.

This week I had some more amazing questions to answer.

1. What snacks to you eat when you know you won?t have time for a proper meal?

2. What is the best approach to eliminating wheat and sugar?

3. How do you get rid of back fat?

Here are my responses. Feel free to comment below if you have more questions or would like to add to the responses.

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Great Leadership: Mental Maps Part 2 ? How to Upgrade and ...

Trying to navigate unfamiliar business terrain with an outdated self-image would be like to trying to make one?s way over rough territory with old GPS data. It may be possible, but you are likely to reach your destination more quickly and successfully by updating your mental map to a version that helps you accurately find the most promising path to success and satisfaction.

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Remains of the Day: Find Out How Much Surface with Windows 8 Pro Will Cost You

Surface with Windows 8 Pro gets a price, Pocket updates it's iOS app, picking up an iPhone 5 in-store gets a lot easier, and rumor has it that T-Mobile will get the iPhone next week.

• Next Up for the Surface Family: Surface with Windows 8 Pro ? Pricing Today Microsoft announced the pricing for its high-powered Surface with Windows 8 Pro, due in January. The tablet will come in 64 GB and 128 GB standalone configurations with only a kickstand and pen in the box. Touch or Type Covers will have to be purchased separately. [Microsoft Blog]
• iPhone 5 Supply Stabilizes in the U.S. for First Time Since Launch In a note to investors earlier today, Apple stated that they had overcome most of the supply issues facing the iPhone 5. Supplies in the majority of Apple's retail outlets have reached a point where they believe that most customers will have no problem purchasing the phone in-store. Online shipping estimates have improved as well, down to one week long from the previous two to five weeks. [Apple Insider]
• Pocket for iOS Update Includes Improvements for Evernote, Twitter, Tweetbot and More The latest update to Pocket for iOS comes with major improvements to the application's Evernote and Twitter support. Evernote sharing has been revamped, with tag and comment preservation along with the option to include entire articles. Twitter attribution was also redesigned, with support for favoriting, retweeting, and replying to tweets in Safari. [Pocket Blog]
• [Rumor] Merrill Lynch: T-Mobile USA May Get the iPhone Next Week Merril Lynch analyst Scott Craig stated in a note today that speculation is increasing for T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telecom to announce a deal that will bring the iPhone to T-Moblie USA. We'll find out for sure on the upcoming analyst's day December 6th-7th, when the announcement is expected to take place. [Fortune Tech]

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Expiration Of Wind Tax Credit Kills Jobs, Senators Say

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of legislators said Wednesday that the failure to expand a critical subsidy for renewable energy could cost Americans tens of thousands of manufacturing and construction jobs.

Sens. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Reps. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) and Steve King (R-Iowa) released a petition signed by 3,500 veterans across the country, hundreds of whom have found post-military work in the wind energy industry, urging Congress to extend the wind production tax credit (PTC).

"Already over the past several months we?ve seen the real-life effects of Congress? failure to quickly extend what is a common sense tax credit," Udall told reporters at the Capitol.

While the credit may well be included in fiscal cliff negotiations, he said, it could also be introduced as a standalone bill.

The PTC subsidizes new wind generation by 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour of wind electricity produced, significantly below the price of air pollution damages caused by coal plants. Unless Congress acts to renew it, the credit will expire at the end of this year killing an estimated 37,000 jobs, according to a study by Navigant Consulting.

Indeed, the looming threat of expiration already is making it difficult for developers to plan after 2012, and wind companies are pushing back projects and laying off workers. In Ohio, a wind developer announced plans to scrap a $20 million project that would have employed 200 construction workers; in Pennsylvania, a turbine manufacturer furloughed 165 workers; and in Arkansas, Mitsubishi Heavy named the uncertainty of federal funding as a central reason to not build a $100 million production facility.

There's considerable precedent for such downsizings. A new chart provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows how the sporadic lapses of the federal credit have spurred the industries boom-and-bust cycles:

"People have to plan, know what policies are out there and make plans accordingly," said Grassley, whose home state of Iowa is a top producer of wind energy. "As much energy as possible -- both nonrenewable and renewable -- should be produced at home to create jobs and strengthen our national security. It?s stupid to be importing as much oil as we do and spending as much as we do and shipping those dollars overseas to do harm in some ways to our national security."

The wind industry currently supports about 75,000 jobs, according to the American Wind Energy Association -- most of them in Texas, Iowa and other Midwest states that typically vote Republican. It's little wonder then that the subsidy, which was first enacted in 1992 under President George H. W. Bush, has garnered support from outspoken conservatives like Grassley, King and Karl Rove.

The Senate has already passed a proposal for a one-year extension of the tax credit that will cost $12.1 billion over a decade.

The press conference is part of a two-day fly-in during which veterans will meet with legislators from their home states to discuss the importance of extending the federal credit.

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Did you see that? How could you miss it?

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

You may have received CPR training some time ago, but would you remember the proper technique in an emergency? Would you know what to do in the event of an earthquake or a fire? A new UCLA psychology study shows that people often do not recall things they have seen ? or at least walked by ? hundreds of times.

For the study, 54 people who work in the same building were asked if they knew the location of the fire extinguisher nearest their office. While many of the participants had worked in their offices for years and had passed the bright red extinguishers several times a day, only 13 out of the 54 ? 24 percent ? knew the location.

When asked to find a fire extinguisher, however, everyone was able to do so within a few seconds; most were surprised they had never noticed them. The researchers found no significant differences between men and women, or between older and younger adults.

"Just because we've seen something many times doesn't mean we remember it or even notice it," said Alan Castel, an associate professor of psychology at UCLA and lead author of the study. "If I asked you to draw the front of a dime or the front of a dollar bill from memory, how well could you do that? You might get some elements right. Do you know who the president is? On the dime, is he facing left or right? Does it say 'In God We Trust' on the front of the dollar or the back? Do you know what else it says? You've seen it so many times, but you probably haven't paid much attention to it."

Castel said that not noticing things isn't necessarily bad, particularly when those things are not important in your daily life. "It might be a good thing not to burden your memory with information that is not relevant to you," he said.

But with safety information, such as knowing where fire extinguishers are or what to do in an emergency, being prepared can, of course, be very useful.

"When you're on an airplane, do you know where the life vest is and what to do in the event of an emergency?" Castel asked. "You've been told many times, but how would you respond under stressful conditions, when there could be smoke and people screaming?"

A few months after being asked the location of the nearest fire extinguisher, the study participants were asked again if they knew where the closest one was. All of them knew.

"We don't notice something if we're attending to something else," Castel said. "Fire extinguishers are bright red and very conspicuous, but we're almost blind to them until they become relevant."

What does this tell us about the importance of training, whether for emergencies or something as common as learning a new computer program?

Castel stresses that making errors during training is useful. As with the fire extinguisher exercise, errors ? or simple oversights ? can teach us that we don't know something well and need to pay more attention in order to remember it.

"It's good if errors happen during training and not during an event where you need the information," he said. "That's part of the learning process."

The study is published in the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

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'We're lucky': Nordic land rising faster than sea

Alister Doyle / Reuters

Hans Lindberg, a 56-year-old Swede, points toward an area of reeds that has risen from the Baltic Sea, forming a land bridge to what used to be an island where he spent his summers as a child in the early 1960s.

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LULEA, Sweden -- A Stone Age camp that used to be by the shore is now 125 miles from the Baltic Sea. Sheep graze on what was the seabed in the 15th century. And Sweden's port of Lulea risks getting too shallow for ships.

In contrast to worries from the Maldives to Manhattan of storm surges and higher ocean levels caused by climate change, the entire northern part of the Nordic region is rising and, as a result, the Baltic Sea is receding.

"In a way we're lucky," said Lena Bengten, environmental strategist at the Lulea Municipality in Sweden, pointing to damage from superstorm Sandy that killed more than 200 people from Haiti to the United States.

The uplift of almost 0.4 inches a year, one of the highest rates in the world, is part of a continuing geological rebound since the end of the Ice Age removed a vast ice sheet from regions around the Arctic Circle.

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"It's a bit like a foam-rubber mattress. It takes a while to return to normal after you get up," said Martin Vermeer, a professor of geodesy at Aalto University in Finland. Finland gains 2.7 sq miles a year as the land rises.

In the Lulea region just south of the Arctic Circle, mostly flat with pine forests and where the sea freezes in winter, tracts of land have emerged, leaving some Stone Age, Viking and medieval sites inland.

That puts human settlements gradually out of harm's way from sea flooding, unlike low-lying islands from Tuvalu to Kiribati or cities from New York to Shanghai. Facebook is investing in a new data center in Lulea on land that was once on the seabed.

A recent study published in the journal 'Nature' suggests the U.S. may experience a 5 ft. rise in sea level given all of the fossil fuel that has already been burned. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.

But rising land also means costs. Lulea is planning to deepen its port by 2020 to let in bigger ships and offset land rise at a cost of 1.6 billion Swedish crowns ($237.86 million).

"Even if we didn't have the ambition to have larger ships we would still have to do it on a smaller scale just to compensate for the land rise," said Roger Danell, head of the port.

Alister Doyle / Reuters

A view of the Swedish Baltic Sea port of Lulea Nov. 14, 2012.

Shallower port
Dredging just for existing ships would cost $60.46 million as the water gets shallower at the port that was last deepened in the 1970s, construction manager Jeanette Lestander said. Main exports are iron ore and the main import is coal.

But a projected rise in sea levels due to global warming means dredging to offset land rise for the next 40 years will be slightly less than in the 1970s.

Splits between rich, poor nations persist as climate talks open in Doha

"The rate of sea-level fall will be slowing," Lestander said during a visit to the port. The future sea fall is estimated at 0.28 inches a year from 0.35 inches.

In the north of Sweden, 125 miles inland and 558 feet above current sea level, archaeologists recently found a 10,700 year-old Stone Age hunters' camp near Pajala that was originally by the Ancylus Lake, the forerunner of the Baltic Sea.

"We carbon-dated burnt bones from a fireplace," archaeologist Olof Ostlund at the Norrbottens museum said. The hunters would have been near the retreating ice sheet that was once 1.9 miles thick.

In the past century, as the climate has warmed, sea level rise has accelerated. Scientists predict it will only increase, and they're studying changes in the ocean and land to better understand how and why the water is rising. NBC's Anne Thompson reports for "Changing Planet," produced by NBC Learn in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

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Experts examined sediments that showed the camp was on the shore of the former giant lake, briefly isolated from the North Sea by land uplift in the south before breaking through again.

Lulea's old town, with a 15th century church and bright red-painted wooden houses, was originally built on an island for safety when it was as an outpost of the then Swedish-Finnish Kingdom to counter Russian influence near the Arctic Circle.

Now the village is high and dry, out of sight of the sea. Sheep graze on a field in what used to be the port. In one spot, Sweden's coastline has risen about 984 feet since the Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago.

Water receding after Biblical flood?
The falling water level puzzled people for generations. Some Christians believed it was caused by still-receding waters after the Biblical story of Noah who built an Ark to rescue the world's animals from a God-sent flood.

Elsewhere in the world, many nations are worried by potential costs if sea levels rise in line with scenarios by the U.N. panel of climate scientists for a gain of 7-24 inches this century after 6.7 inches in the last century.

The panel says that rising temperatures, caused by emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, are the cause.

The U.N. projection excludes the possibility of an acceleration of the melt of Greenland and Antarctica, because that is uncertain.

Even so, many experts expect a quickening thaw and say that sea levels could rise in total by 3.3 feet this century.

Experts say human-produced carbon dioxide is playing a big role in the warming of the atmosphere, which is having a major effect on the world's oceans. Warmer oceans results in rising sea levels and more powerful hurricanes ? but reversing the effects of global warming could take decades. NBC's Robert Bazell reports.

Ice melt found across 97 percent of Greenland, satellites show

Near Lulea, local resident Hans Lindberg, 56, looks out of the wooden seaside cabin that his parents built in 1960 toward what was then the island of Kalkholmen a few hundred yards away.

"We could look out from here and only see the sea," he said, pointing to a muddy bank where reeds are growing and linking the island to the mainland. Residents of the former island say they fear the link may bring unwanted visitors -- perhaps burglars.

Alister Doyle / Reuters

Lindberg shows a family photo from the early 1960s of two girls playing in a sandpit that used to be at his parents' summer cottage near Lulea.

"You can walk to the island now. When I was young my father had a heavy boat that we could pull through the shallow part of the channel. That's now impossible," he said.

As evidence of the change, he shows a faded album with a black and white photo of two young girls -- his sister and cousin -- playing in a sandpit in the 1960s by the cabin.?It shows an open sea with no sign of the muddy causeway.

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Men's Basketball: Idaho vs Washington State , 11/28/12 7:00 PM PT

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11/06/12	vs. Saint Martins ^	Pullman	W, 62-50
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11/10/12	vs. Eastern Washington	Pullman	W, 88-69
11/14/12	vs. Utah Valley	Pullman	W, 72-49
11/16/12	at Pepperdine	Malibu, Calif.	L, 58-56 (OT)
CBE Hall of Fame Classic Championship Round
11/19/12	vs. Kansas	Kansas City, Mo.	L, 78-41
11/20/12	vs. Texas A&M	Kansas City, Mo.	L, 55-54
11/24/12	vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Pullman	W, 66-38
11/28/12	vs. Idaho	Pullman	7:00 p.m. PT
12/01/12	vs. Portland	Pullman	7:30 p.m. PT
12/05/12	vs. Gonzaga	Pullman	8:00 p.m. PT
12/09/12	vs. Fresno State	Pullman	12:00 p.m. PT
12/13/12	vs. Jackson State	Pullman	7:00 p.m. PT
Cougar Hardwood Classic
12/21/12	vs. Buffalo	Seattle	7:30 p.m. PT
12/29/12	vs. Idaho State	Kennewick, Wash.	3:00 p.m. PT
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01/09/13	at Stanford *	Stanford, Calif.	7:00 p.m. PT
01/12/13	at California *	Berkeley, Calif.	1:00 p.m. PT
01/16/13	vs. Utah *	Pullman	6:30 p.m. PT
01/19/13	vs. Colorado *	Pullman	7:00 p.m. PT
01/23/13	at Oregon *	Eugene, Ore.	6:30 p.m. PT
01/26/13	at Oregon State *	Corvallis, Ore.	2:00 p.m. PT
01/31/13	vs. Arizona State *	Pullman	8:00 p.m. PT
02/02/13	vs. Arizona *	Pullman	7:00 p.m. PT
02/07/13	at USC *	Los Angeles	8:30 p.m. PT
02/09/13	at UCLA *	Los Angeles	7:00 p.m. PT
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02/16/13	vs. Oregon	Pullman	4:00 p.m. PT
02/20/13	at Arizona State *	Tempe, Ariz.	7:00 p.m. PT
02/23/13	at Arizona *	Tucson, Ariz.	12:00 p.m. PT
03/03/13	at Washington *	Seattle	12:30 p.m. PT
03/06/13	vs. UCLA	Pullman	6:30 p.m. PT
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