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LOS ANGELES A public agency that provides health care for Los Angeles poorest families has been using taxpayer money on lavish parties and alcohol, reports CBS Los Angeles. The station s investigative reporter David Goldstein reviewed L.A. Care Health Plan s credit card statements and salary information for 2012.The agency s executives spent more than $8,100 for a 59-person dinner at Roy s Hawaiian Fusion in downtown Los Angeles. To wash down the meal, they bought 29 bottles of wine worth more than $1,100.The organization also spent more than $58,000 on a 2011 holiday party for 550 people at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown L.A., $16,000 on American Express gift cards and more than $5,000 on personalized cookies with the L.A. Care logo. In addition, the agency spent thousands of dollars on catered working lunches from the Corner Bakery Cafe and meals at swanky restaurants like the Los Angeles Athletic Club, where one lunch cost more than $1,400.Howard Kahn, the CEO of L.A. Care, defended all the charges Goldstein found,
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stanley cup first all-digital college library. But it gets weirder than that. It a scenario that science fiction writer Vernor Vinge predicted in his near-future novel Rainbows End, where the UC San Diego library grinds all of its books up in a machine that uses shotgun sequencing techniques to reassemble the books in slightly error-prone digital form. At Florida Polytechnic, there are no books to recycle 鈥?instead, there are software programs that allo
stanley mugs w students to access e-books in a variety of ways. Librarians will also no longer work at a reference desk. Instead, the school calls it a 8220 uccess desk. Writing for Reuters, Letitia Stein notes: Without stacks to organize, librarians staffing the main reference desk, which is called a success desk, will steer students to tutoring resources and train them in managing digital materials. While the library is not paperless, students are discouraged from using its printers too much, Miller said. They can buy traditional textbooks in the bookstore, or digital texts when available. Old-fashioned books can be requested on loan from libraries at Florida 11 other public universities. Florida Polytechnic budgeted $60,000 to buy titles through software allowing stu
