Obama nears deadline on gay marriage decision

President Barack Obama speaks at the Business Council dinner in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Business Council dinner in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The next phase of President Barack Obama's evolving position on gay marriage may come Thursday, the deadline for his administration to weigh in on a landmark Supreme Court case that could determine whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed.

Gay rights supporters are pressing the administration to file a friend-of-the-court brief urging the justices to overturn California's gay marriage ban. Obama is not required to file a brief, though he raised expectations in his second inaugural address when he declared that gays and lesbians must be "treated like anyone else under the law."

An administration brief would not be legally binding. But it could offer the clearest insight into Obama's views on gay marriage, which he supports but has said should be governed by the states.

On Thursday afternoon, with the filing deadline just hours away, White House spokesman Jay Carney wouldn't say whether the administration planned to file a brief and referred questions to the Justice Department.

The Proposition 8 ballot initiative was approved by California voters in 2008 in response to a state Supreme Court decision that had allowed gay marriage. Twenty-nine other states have constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, while nine states and the District of Columbia recognize same-sex marriage.

Also Thursday, 13 states, including four that do not currently permit gay couples to wed, urged the court to declare California's Proposition 8 ballot measure unconstitutional.

Delaware, Illinois, New Mexico and Oregon joined with the nine states and the District of Columbia that allow same-sex marriage in telling the justices that states encourage marriage because it enhances economic security and emotional well-being for the partners, and is better for children.

"All of these interests are furthered by ending the exclusion of same-sex couples from the institution," said the brief signed by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and also joined by Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Washington.

More than 100 prominent Republicans have also signed a friend of the court brief in support of gay marriage. Among them are former GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman and Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Gay rights advocates are anticipating the administration filing a broad brief, one that would ask the justices to not only strike down the California measure, but also rule that the Constitution forbids any state from banning same-sex unions. But the administration could also file a narrower brief applying only to California.

Even the latter brief would appear to mark a shift away from the president's contention that states have the right to determine whether to allow same-sex marriages.

While an administration brief alone is unlikely to sway the high court, the government's opinion does carry weight with the justices.

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli would formally file a brief, though he has been consulting with White House officials. And it's almost certain that Obama, a former constitutional law professor, made the administration's final decision.

In his inaugural address, the president said the nation's journey "is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law."

"For if we are truly created equal, than surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well," he said.

Obama has a complicated history on gay marriage. As a presidential candidate in 2008, he opposed the California ban but didn't endorse gay marriage. As he ran for re-election last year, he announced his personal support for same-sex marriage but said marriage was an issue that should be decided by the states, not the federal government.

Public opinion has shifted in support of gay marriage in recent years. In May 2008, Gallup found that 56 percent of Americans felt same-sex marriages should not be recognized by the law as valid. By November 2012, 53 percent felt they should be legally recognized.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case on March 26. One day later, the justices will hear arguments on another gay marriage case, this one involving provisions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The act defines marriage as between a man and a woman for the purpose of deciding who can receive a range of federal benefits.

The Obama administration abandoned its defense of the law in 2011 but continues to enforce it. In a brief filed last week, the government said Section 3 of DOMA "violates the fundamental constitutional guarantee of equal protection" because it denies legally married same-sex couples many federal benefits that are available only to legally married heterosexual couples.

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Associated Press writer Mark Sherman contributed to this report.

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Michelle Obama highlights obesity progress in MS

First lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray greet students at a "Let's Move!" program at the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools in Clinton, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Obama and Ray visited with the children and conducted a cooking contest between the schools chefs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

First lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray greet students at a "Let's Move!" program at the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools in Clinton, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Obama and Ray visited with the children and conducted a cooking contest between the schools chefs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

First lady Michelle Obama speaks at a "Let's Move!" event for 400 children at the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools in Clinton, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Obama and television chef/personality Rachel Ray visited with the children and conducted a cooking contest between the schools chefs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

First lady Michelle Obama motions before speaking at a "Let's Move!" program for 400 children at the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools in Clinton, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Obama and television chef Rachel Ray visited with the children and conducted a cooking contest between the schools chefs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

First lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray discuss the lunches students from the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools receive "Let's Move!" program at the Clinton, Miss., schools Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The pair visited with the children and conducted a cooking contest between the schools' chefs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

First lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray discuss lunches that students from the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools receive during a "Let's Move!" program at the Clinton, Miss., schools Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The pair visited with the children and conducted a cooking contest between the schools' chefs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

CLINTON, Miss. (AP) ? Michelle Obama on Wednesday congratulated this Southern state for a more than 13 percent drop in its child obesity rates and said its example should inspire the rest of the country.

It's the reason the first lady made Mississippi the first stop on a two-day tour to promote her signature effort, the anti-childhood obesity campaign she launched three years ago called "Let's Move."

In remarks at an elementary school near Jackson, Mrs. Obama cited new research showing that childhood obesity rates among elementary school pupils in the state had declined by more than 13 percent between 2005 and 2011.

"What's happening here in Mississippi is really what 'Let's Move' is all about," she told an audience of state officials, school nutrition professionals and parents. She urged them to keep on doing what they've been doing.

"It's the story of what you all have achieved here that we want to tell. It's the story we want to be telling in every state all across this country," the first lady said.

When she visited Mississippi three years ago, she said, it had just been declared the most obese state in the nation.

Mrs. Obama attributed the decline in childhood obesity rates here to efforts by state lawmakers, the Board of Education and individual school districts, which she said took such steps as setting new standards for food and drinks in school vending machines, serving more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and replacing food fryers with steamers, to which she exclaimed, "Hallelujah."

Some churches even declared "no-fry" zones for their congregations, where only healthy food and nothing fried was allowed.

"So there's no reason why this success can't happen in cities and states all across the country ? if we're willing to work for it," Mrs. Obama said. "So now is the time for us to truly double down on these efforts. We know what works. We're seeing it right here. We know how to get results. Now we just need to keep stepping up."

The first lady said Mississippi, and other parts of the country that also have seen their childhood obesity rates come down ? including California and New York City and Philadelphia ? are showing others what works. After all, she said, "love for our children" is the motivating factor.

Mrs. Obama was joined by Food Network star and daytime talk-show host Rachael Ray, who arranged for two school chefs to compete to prepare lunches that meet newly adopted federal nutrition guidelines.

"I'm here to say, Mississippi, thank you. Thank you so much. Congratulations on your work," the first lady said. "Thank you for taking the lead on this issue. Thank you for serving as an inspiration for states and communities across the country."

About one-third of U.S. children are overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk for heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure, among other ailments.

Mrs. Obama launched "Let's Move" with the goal of helping to reduce childhood obesity rates within a generation. In response, a range of industry groups and others, including food companies, restaurants, retailers and others, promised to make their food healthier and make it easier for kids to get needed exercise.

Among the changes: Wal-Mart is now putting special labels on some of its store-brand products to help shoppers quickly spot healthier items. Millions of schoolchildren are helping themselves to vegetables from salad bars that have been donated for their lunchrooms. Kids' meals at Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants are automatically served with a side of fruit or vegetables and a glass of low-fat milk.

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World powers and Iran end talks, sides to meet again

ALMATY (Reuters) - World powers ended two days of talks with Iran on Wednesday with no sign of a breakthrough, and the two sides have agreed to meet at expert level in Istanbul next month and to hold further high-level negotiations in Kazakhstan in April.

At the talks that ended in the Kazakh city of Almaty, the six world powers - France, Germany, the United States, China Russia and Britain - offered to lift some sanctions if Iran scaled back nuclear activity the West fears could be used to build bombs. Tehran denies seeking nuclear weapons.

Hopes of a significant easing of the deadlock in the decade-old dispute were dented when Russian media cited a source close to the talks as saying there had been no clear progress.

"So far there is no particular rapprochement. There is an impression that the atmosphere is not very good," Interfax news agency quoted the source as saying shortly before the talks ended.

Iran said the expert-level talks between the two sides would be held in Istanbul on March 18 and another round of political negotiations in Almaty on April 5-6.

Russia's negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, said the Istanbul meeting would take place on March 17-18 and gave the same dates as Iran of April 5-6 for the Almaty talks.

The meeting in Almaty that ended on Wednesday was the first between the world powers and Iran in eight months. Western officials described the first day of the talks as "useful". Iranian state television described the atmosphere in the discussions as "very serious".

The outcome will be closely watched in Israel, which has strongly hinted that it could attack Iran's nuclear sites if diplomacy and sanctions fail to stop Tehran's uranium enrichment program.

Iran says Israel's assumed nuclear arsenal is the main threat to peace and denies Western allegations it is seeking to develop the capability to make atomic bombs. It says it is only aiming to produce nuclear energy so that it can export more oil.

In their latest attempt to break years of stalemate in the dispute, the powers are offering Iran a relaxation of some of the sanctions that are taking a heavy toll on its economy.

Western officials have confirmed the offer includes some limited sanctions easing if Iran closes a underground site where it carries out its most controversial uranium enrichment work.

Diplomats had seen scant chances of a conclusive deal with Iran before a June presidential election - with the political elite preoccupied with domestic issues - but they had hoped to hold follow-up talks soon.

(Additional reporting by Yeganeh Torbati in Almaty, Zahra Hosseinian in Zurich, Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow, Dan Williams in Jerusalem and Marcus George in Dubai; Writing by Timothy Heritage and Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Pravin Char)

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Clever battery completes stretchable electronics package

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Northwestern University's Yonggang Huang and the University of Illinois' John A. Rogers are the first to demonstrate a stretchable lithium-ion battery -- a flexible device capable of powering their innovative stretchable electronics.

No longer needing to be connected by a cord to an electrical outlet, the stretchable electronic devices now could be used anywhere, including inside the human body. The implantable electronics could monitor anything from brain waves to heart activity, succeeding where flat, rigid batteries would fail.

Huang and Rogers have demonstrated a battery that continues to work -- powering a commercial light-emitting diode (LED) -- even when stretched, folded, twisted and mounted on a human elbow. The battery can work for eight to nine hours before it needs recharging, which can be done wirelessly.

The new battery enables true integration of electronics and power into a small, stretchable package. Details will be published Feb. 26 by the online journal Nature Communications.

"We start with a lot of battery components side by side in a very small space, and we connect them with tightly packed, long wavy lines," said Huang, a corresponding author of the paper. "These wires provide the flexibility. When we stretch the battery, the wavy interconnecting lines unfurl, much like yarn unspooling. And we can stretch the device a great deal and still have a working battery."

Huang led the portion of the research focused on theory, design and modeling. He is the Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

The power and voltage of the stretchable battery are similar to a conventional lithium-ion battery of the same size, but the flexible battery can stretch up to 300 percent of its original size and still function.

Rogers, also a corresponding author of the paper, led the group that worked on the experimental and fabrication work of the stretchable battery. He is the Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Huang and Rogers have been working together for the last six years on stretchable electronics, and designing a cordless power supply has been a major challenge. Now they have solved the problem with their clever "space filling technique," which delivers a small, high-powered battery.

For their stretchable electronic circuits, the two developed "pop-up" technology that allows circuits to bend, stretch and twist. They created an array of tiny circuit elements connected by metal wire "pop-up bridges." When the array is stretched, the wires -- not the rigid circuits -- pop up.

This approach works for circuits but not for a stretchable battery. A lot of space is needed in between components for the "pop-up" interconnect to work. Circuits can be spaced out enough in an array, but battery components must be packed tightly to produce a powerful but small battery. There is not enough space between battery components for the "pop-up" technology to work.

Huang's design solution is to use metal wire interconnects that are long, wavy lines, filling the small space between battery components. (The power travels through the interconnects.)

The unique mechanism is a "spring within a spring": The line connecting the components is a large "S" shape and within that "S" are many smaller "S's." When the battery is stretched, the large "S" first stretches out and disappears, leaving a line of small squiggles. The stretching continues, with the small squiggles disappearing as the interconnect between electrodes becomes taut.

"We call this ordered unraveling," Huang said. "And this is how we can produce a battery that stretches up to 300 percent of its original size."

The stretching process is reversible, and the battery can be recharged wirelessly. The battery's design allows for the integration of stretchable, inductive coils to enable charging through an external source but without the need for a physical connection.

Huang, Rogers and their teams found the battery capable of 20 cycles of recharging with little loss in capacity. The system they report in the paper consists of a square array of 100 electrode disks, electrically connected in parallel.

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Coral comeback: Reef 'seeding' in the Caribbean

In this May 30, 2012 photo released by the Puntacana Ecological Foundation, a diver works on a coral reef restoration program in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, live coral coverage in the Caribbean is down to an average of just 8 percent, from 50 percent in the 1970s. Caribbean islands ranging from Bonaire to the U.S. Virgin Islands, conservationists are rearing and planting fast-growing coral species to try and turn things around by ?seeding? reefs. (AP Photo/Puntacana Ecological Foundation, Victor Manuel Galvan)

In this May 30, 2012 photo released by the Puntacana Ecological Foundation, a diver works on a coral reef restoration program in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, live coral coverage in the Caribbean is down to an average of just 8 percent, from 50 percent in the 1970s. Caribbean islands ranging from Bonaire to the U.S. Virgin Islands, conservationists are rearing and planting fast-growing coral species to try and turn things around by ?seeding? reefs. (AP Photo/Puntacana Ecological Foundation, Victor Manuel Galvan)

In this March 16, 2012 photo released by the Puntacana Ecological Foundation, coral grows in a coral reef nursery as part of reef restoration work in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Advocates say the reef restoration work, focused on the region?s fast-growing but threatened staghorn and elkhorn coral species, can boost rates of recovery and improve the outlook for coral. The efforts will never resurrect the vibrant reefs of 50 years ago, they acknowledge, but they believe they can help preserve some of a reef?s functionality and beauty. (AP Photo/Puntacana Ecological Foundation, Victor Manuel Galvan)

In this April 13, 2012 photo released by The Nature Conservancy, coral grows in a coral reef nursery as part of a Caribbean coral reef restoration program off Cane Bay, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Across the globe, reefs that have proven resilient for thousands of years are in serious decline, degraded by over fishing, pollution, coastal development and warming ocean waters. And threats to coral are only expected to intensify as a result of climate change and ocean acidification due to greenhouse gases. (AP Photo/The Nature Conservancy, Kemit-Amon Lewis)

In this March 16, 2012 photo released by the Puntacana Ecological Foundation, a healthy coral grows in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Some scientists predict that coral is headed for extinction, possibly within this century. (AP Photo/Puntacana Ecological Foundation, Victor Manuel Galvan)

In this Oct. 18, 2011 released by the Puntacana Ecological Foundation, a healthy coral grows in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The tropical islands' reefs protect fragile coastlines by absorbing energy from waves during hurricanes and normal conditions. In the face of decline of coral reefs, some coral specialists and conservationists say passive inaction would be a grave mistake. (AP Photo/Puntacana Ecological Foundation, Victor Manuel Galvan)

ORACABESSA BAY, Jamaica (AP) ? Mats of algae and seaweed have shrouded the once thick coral in shallow reefs off Jamaica's north coast. Warm ocean waters have bleached out the coral, and in a cascade of ecological decline, the sea urchins and plant-eating reef fish have mostly vanished, replaced by snails and worms that bore through coral skeletons.

Now, off the shores of Jamaica, as well as in Caribbean islands from Bonaire to St. Croix, conservationists are planting fast-growing coral species to try and turn things around by "seeding" reefs. The strategy has doubters, with one expert joking that prayer might be as effective, but conservationists say the problem is so catastrophic that inaction is not an option. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, live coral coverage on Caribbean reefs is down to an average of just 8 percent, from 50 percent in the 1970s.

Lenford Dacosta grew up in the north Jamaican fishing village of Oracabessa Bay and spear-fished the waters for most of his 46 years. Now he is part of a crew that tends to a small coral nursery in a fish sanctuary, hoping to revitalize the reef that sustained his village, whose shoreline is now dominated by ritzy resorts.

"I used to think that children would only hear about coral reefs and fish in books," said Dacosta, expressing hope that his work will yield fruit.

Seascape Caribbean, the fledgling company that employs Dacosta and touts itself as the region's first and only private coral restoration business, uses low-tech coral nurseries consisting of buoys and weights with small fragments of staghorn coral suspended from them on strings. The fragments grow on the strings until bits of tannish coral with the beginnings of antler-like branches are ready to be planted onto reefs. Other specialists grow coral fragments on concrete pedestals placed on the seabed.

Advocates say the reef restoration work, focused on the region's fast-growing but threatened staghorn and elkhorn coral species, can boost rates of recovery and improve the outlook for coral. The efforts will never resurrect the vibrant reefs of 50 years ago, they acknowledge, but they believe they can help preserve some of a reef's functionality and beauty.

"Coral cover is getting a little better here and I believe it will keep improving in the gardened areas," said Andrew Ross, a Canadian marine biologist and entrepreneur who founded Seascape Caribbean.

Reef-building coral is a tiny polyp-like animal that builds a calcium-carbonate shell around itself and survives in a symbiotic relationship with certain types of algae. Its reefs serve as vital spawning and feeding grounds for numerous marine creatures. It comes in some 1,500 known species, ranging from soft, undulating fans to those with hard skeletons that form reef bases.

But across the globe, reefs that have proven resilient for thousands of years are in serious decline, degraded by overfishing, pollution, coastal development and warming ocean waters. And threats to coral are only expected to intensify as a result of climate change and ocean acidification due to greenhouse gases.

The stakes couldn't be higher along the Caribbean Sea, which has nearly 8,000 square miles (20,720 sq. kilometers) of coral reefs.

The tropical islands' iconic reefs protect fragile coastlines by absorbing energy from waves during hurricanes and normal conditions. Financially, the Caribbean has a multibillion-dollar beach tourism and commercial fishing economy. In Jamaica alone, reef fisheries support up to 20,000 fishermen.

Caribbean coral has deteriorated so badly in recent decades that a new report from a team of international scientists says that the rocky structures of the reefs are on the threshold of gradual erosion.

"The Caribbean, as a whole region, seems to be in a very poor state," said Chris Perry, a geography professor at the University of Exeter who led the regional coral research.

In the face of this decline, some coral specialists and conservationists say passive inaction would be a grave mistake. They argue that the results of the nascent coral restoration work will be seen in coming years.

In the U.S. Virgin Islands, scientists with The Nature Conservancy have reared some 2,500 coral colonies and transplanted over 1,000 fragments to local reefs with the aid of U.S. stimulus money. In the Dominican Republic, the Puntacana Ecological Foundation in the thriving tourist town of Punta Cana has planted some 1,200 fragments of Acropora coral, a genus that includes staghorn and elkhorn.

"What started as an experiment to protect the endangered Acropora species has become one of the largest nurseries in the Caribbean and a laboratory for other resorts and researchers to conduct restoration work," said Jake Kheel, the foundation's environmental director.

The Key Largo, Florida-based Coral Restoration Foundation, a pioneer in efforts to revitalize stressed reefs, has helped the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire set up coral nurseries. Meanwhile, in southern Jamaica, researchers are feeding low-voltage electricity to young coral to try and spur growth, a method that has been used in places like Indonesia and Malaysia.

Some coral experts say the labor-intensive reef restoration projects may be increasingly popular but they have yet to see any significant successes out of them. These critics believe the scope of the problem is simply too vast and restoration efforts don't address the underlying, accelerating forces collapsing reefs.

"It responds more to the very human need to 'do something' in the face of calamity, even if what you do is really a waste of time. Prayer would be just as useful," said Roger Bradbury, an ecologist and adjunct professor of resource management at Australian National University in Canberra.

Bradbury argues that coral restoration actually diverts scarce resources away from what should be researchers' main focus, which is what to do with reef regions after the reefs are gone. "The reefs just won't be there, but something will ? a new sort of ecosystem," he said.

Phil Kramer, a marine geologist who is director of The Nature Conservancy's Caribbean program, acknowledges that the long term outlook for coral reefs is poor in the face of current threats and projected increases in temperature and ocean acidification. But he says that can't justify the "abandonment" of reefs.

"It is true that Caribbean reefs are generally in bad shape at the moment and that if more interventions are not taken we will continue to lose what remains. But I remain cautiously optimistic about the future," Kramer said.

Helping the various restoration efforts, some regional governments are taking action to protect key species on the reefs. Belize, which boasts the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, has established bans on harvesting parrotfish, a colorful herbivore that grazes on the algae and seaweed that smothers coral.

By contrast, parrotfish are now the most popular catch in heavily-overfished Jamaica, sold at the side of the road and in supermarkets and restaurants.

Increasing sea surface temperatures have led to a dramatic rise in coral bleaching incidents in which the stressed organisms expel the colorful algae living in their tissues, leaving a whitish color. Up to 90 percent of corals in parts of the eastern Caribbean suffered bleaching in 2005, and more than half died.

But on Jamaica's north coast, Dacosta says he is gradually seeing some balance restored to the Oracabessa Bay fish sanctuary where he works to transplant coral fragments and scoop up snails and worms from reefs. He says bigger fish and algae-grazing black sea urchins are seen more frequently.

"I tell you," Dacosta said. "We should have started this a long time ago,"

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Online:

Seascape Caribbean: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seascape-Caribbean/346524898685

The Nature Conservancy's Caribbean programs: http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/caribbean/index.htm

Puntacana Ecological Foundation: http://www.puntacana.org/

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WESTON Director, Case Management Job - FL, 33326

Director, Case Management

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Hospital: Cleveland Clinic Florida
Facility: CLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDA
Department: CASE MANAGEMENT
Job Code: 000854
Pay Grade: 23
Schedule: Full Time
Shift: Days
Hours: 8am-5pm
Job Details: - Registered Nurse (RN)
- 5 years experience preferred

GENERAL SUMMARY

The department director has a multi-faceted role with primary responsibility for assessing, planning, directing, implementing and evaluating all activities in assigned department. The director is responsible for providing counseling and disciplinary action in cooperation with the Human Resources Director. Responsibilities include development and maintenance of an ongoing process and quality improvement program. The director communicates and collaborates with other departmental staff for problem identification and resolution. Through the director, activities are coordinated with other departments. Maintains professional knowledge and skills related to specific area of responsibility. Develops, coordinates, implements and evaluates a program to continuously assess and improve the performance of care and services provided; develops a plan for providing an appropriate number of qualified staff to provide services in the unit/department; determines the qualifications and competency of department personnel; ensures all persons in the department receive the required orientation and appropriate continuing education as needed; develops and implements policies and procedures that guide and support the provisions of department services; ensures decisions and actions are within scope of responsibility and determined in an ethical manner; demonstrates excellent communication skills; demonstrates leadership behavior; operates unit/department within the salary and non-salary expense budgets and within the productivity limits; budgetary performance; avails self with opportunities for professional growth and development; coordinates and integrates interdepartmental and intradepartmental services with hospital functions; follows safety precautions and procedures of all duties in order to ensure a safe environment; responsible for all activities of the Case Management

A. Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Minimum: Current Florida RN License.

Masters degree in nursing or health related field, preferred.

B Required Length and Type of Experience

Five years experience in Utilization/Case Management with five years management in experience in Case Management.

C. Required Licensure, Certification or Registry

Current Florida RN License.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1 Plans and develops effective case management program and maintains manual in the department.

2. Gathers data on an ongoing basis for measurement and evaluation of services provided.

3. Discusses results of case management activities with staff at regularly scheduled staff meetings to provide opportunities for staff input, follow-up and feedback.

4. Supports, develops and participates in performance improvement teams to improve processes, activities and services provided.

5. Identifies and communicates resources needed for department performance improvement program.

6. Ensures ongoing self-education of performance improvement processes and principles through educational activities and participation in related activities.

7. Assures compliance with regulatory agency requirements within their area or responsibility.

8. Assess the needs of the population served or the work to be accomplished and develops plans for recruitment and retention in cooperation with Human Resources.

9. Recommends an adequate number of qualified and competent persons to provide service for the unit/department.

10. Ensures unit/department is staffed to provide adequate coverage appropriate to meet service needs.

11. Develops a plan and procedure for providing coverage during periods of unexpected staff shortage, increase in service needs or unexpected problems.

12. Determines qualifications and competence of staff who provide services prior to hire.

13. Establishes and maintains position control.

14. Develops job descriptions that define the qualifications and competence of department personnel to include essential job functions, physical demands and age specific competency.

15. Monitors and verifies competency of staff on an ongoing basis. Develops action plans as required.

16. Monitors and verifies competency of staff on an ongoing basis. Develops action plans as required.

17. Explains work assignments, methods, procedures and policies in such a manner that employees understand what is expected of them.

18. Recruits and selects employees of acceptable quality; interviews and hires.

19. Ensures that employee complaints and grievances are considered and facilitates
resolution.

20. Coaches, counsels and disciplines employees as needed according to performance
management guidelines.

21. Develops and evaluates a unit/department specific orientation plan for all new employees.

22. Ensures all new employees complete hospital orientation program at the beginning of
employment.

23. Provides and documents orientation to the department for all new personnel based on the individual?s needs and related to the individual?s job responsibilities.

24. Provides and documents continuing education.

25. Ensures that all personnel attend required annual educational sessions.

26. Develops, reviews and approves departmental policies and procedures that address
department functions.

27. Ensures staff awareness and understanding and the implementation of approved policies and procedures.

28. Performs annual review/revision of departmental and appropriate hospital wide policies and procedures.

29. Ensures policies and procedures are current and readily available to department staff.

30. Maintains confidentiality

31. Ensures service is delivered in a non-judgmental and non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to individual diversity.

32. Ensures service is delivered in a manner that preserves/protects autonomy, dignity, privacy and rights of others, including patients.

33. Provides written and verbal communication that is two-way, timely and appropriate.

34. Forms committees or task forces as needed to resolve unit/department issues.

35. Plans and conducts regularly scheduled staff meetings; not less than 10 a year.

36. Documents, circulates and maintains minutes of staff meetings.

37. Provides appropriate and timely information to staff

38. Negotiates effectively with other department directors, supervisors, coordinators and
Administration.

39. Demonstrates use of Key Principles:
* Maintain or enhance self-esteem
* Listen and respond with empathy
* Ask for help and encourage involvement
* Share thoughts, feelings and rationale
* Provide support without removing responsibility

40. Uses effective problem solving skills.

41. Completes assignments in a timely fashion.

42. Thinks independently and initiates actions consistent with the mission and the vision of the hospital.

43. Complies with all policies & procedures including attendance

44. Annually determines unit/department needs for personnel, supplies and equipment.

45. Ensures supplies are available and charged or expensed appropriately

46. Ensures equipment and the physical unit/department are maintained properly

47. Develops/revises staffing plan annually according to unit/department need

48. Promotes cost effective unit/department operations.

49. Assess, documents and recommend through the hospital mechanism for resource requests, space and resource needs to meet patient care and/or department needs.

50. Participates in the selection of outside services, if needed.

51. Maintains appropriate staffing levels without exceeding budget.

52. Completes bi-weekly payroll & payroll variance reports as required.

53. Formulates annual budget requests and monitors spending of funds.

54. Analyzes monthly budget reports and justifies notable variances.

55. Reconciles expenses, codes for payment and submits for approval before payment is made.

56. Consults with staff, physicians and/or other affected users in the selection of new equipment and procedures.

57. Responsible for assessment and recommendations of off-site sources for needed services not provided by the department/service or the hospital.

58. Participates in at least one management related educational activity relevant to practice area annually.

59. Participates in and supports work of hospital/department committees.

60. Completes identified unit/department specific competencies as required

61. Completes annual safety re-orientation and other mandatories.

62. Attends Department Director meetings.

63. Evaluates own technical/clinical abilities and identifies areas needing improvement.

64. Attends and participates in at least 75% of Department Director meetings.

65. Participates on cross functional teams and other interdepartmental problem solving work
groups, demonstrating regular attendance.

66. Prepares and implements Scope of Care/Service for unit/department.

67. Collaborates with others in providing care and hospital services.

68. Regularly performs job tasks in accordance with hospital and department policies and
procedures including appropriate use of equipment, machines, wearing of physical barriers and safety equipment.

69. Demonstrates complete knowledge of body mechanics by consistent use in the work setting as evidenced by no injuries sustained as a result of improper body mechanics in the evaluation period.

70. Demonstrates a concern for cleanliness of self and work area and practices proper infection control and universal precautions techniques

71. Completes annual safety competency on all staff members

72. Actively participates and encourages employee participation in the identification, reporting and prevention of work-related injuries.

73. Ensures that new employees are assessed of their ability to perform essential job functions during the hiring process.

74. Ensures new employees have demonstrated competency in job-specific body mechanics within 90 days of hire and on an annual basis as part of review process.

75. Staff meeting minutes reflect that Safety Program information is shared with staff.

76. Participates in assignments of the Safety committee and follows through on required
interventions.

77. Completes documentation of unit/department incidents, uses for PI planning.

78. Supports the work injury management program as evidenced by:
- Ensures that an Employee Incident Report is completed for all job related employee injuries or

illnesses and the original is routed to the Human Resources Department.

- Actively participates in the identification of the ?root cause? in employee injuries within 72

hours of occurrence. Completes accident Investigation Form.

- Actively participates in the development of a corrective action plan for each investigation.
- Supports the hospital?s Light Duty Program.

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MetroPCS rakes in $1.3 billion for Q4 2012 thanks to 2.2 million new LTE customers

Over a quarter of MetroPCS' customer base is now on LTE (26 percent), and the company made $1.3 billion in revenue for Q4 and $5.1 billion total in 2012 as a result, it said. Though revenue was down for Q4 over last year to $122 million compared to $215 million for Q4 2011, profits were up year-over-year by 10 percent to $824 million, and the company said it made a record $1.5 billion EBITDA (before taxes, etc.) The company attributes that in part to a 2.2 million LTE subscriber bump, an increase of 117 percent over Q3 2012, but indicated that it lost 93 thousand subscribers total over the same period. It added that churn (customers leaving to other carriers) fell to 3.4 percent, its lowest level ever. Meanwhile, the carrier said it's proposed Deutsche Telecom-backed merger with T-Mobile is moving along swimmingly with a definitive proposal filed yesterday. It anticipates "closing the transaction in early April" ahead of schedule, which it says would make MetroPCS "the leading value wireless carrier in the United States."

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Cuba's Diaz-Canel rose gradually to No. 2 post

Newly appointed Cuba's Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel participates in the closure session of the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2012. Raul Castro accepted a new five-year term that will be, he said, his last as Cuba's president and tapped rising star Diaz-Canel, 52, as vice-president and first in the line of succession. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Newly appointed Cuba's Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel participates in the closure session of the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2012. Raul Castro accepted a new five-year term that will be, he said, his last as Cuba's president and tapped rising star Diaz-Canel, 52, as vice-president and first in the line of succession. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba's new Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, listens to Cuba's President Raul Castro during the closing session at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2012. Raul Castro accepted a new five-year term that will be, he said, his last as Cuba's president and tapped rising star Miguel Diaz-Canel, 52, as vice-president and first in the line of succession. Diaz-Canel has risen higher than any other Cuban official who didn't directly participate in the 1959 Cuban revolution. At center Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Newly appointed Cuba's Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel, left, leaves after participating in the closure session of the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2012. Cuba's President Raul Castro accepted a new five-year term that will be, he said, his last as Cuba's president and tapped rising star Diaz-Canel, 52, as vice-president and first in the line of succession. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

HAVANA (AP) ? The man tapped as the likely heir-apparent to Raul Castro is largely unknown off the island, but his rise to the country's No. 2 job was anything but meteoric.

Miguel Diaz-Canel has spent 30 years gradually paying his dues behind the scenes, earning a reputation as a Communist Party loyalist and rising through the ranks to a succession of ever-higher posts.

"He is not an upstart or improvised," President Raul Castro said Sunday in a speech to lawmakers in which he laid out the reasons for his choice. In the past, Castro has praised Diaz-Canel's "solid ideological firmness."

Tall, dapper and carefully groomed with a 52-year-old's salt-and-pepper hair, Diaz-Canel presents a serious public face before TV cameras, even as some people who know him describe him as a sharp-minded jokester who can be surprisingly relaxed in private.

"He's a much more flexible type than he seems, open-minded and above all intelligent," one official who has known Diaz-Canel since the 1980s told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, lacking the authorization to discuss the man with foreign media.

Others, particularly those off the island, described him in less flattering terms.

"I think it's interesting because Diaz-Canel is not a charismatic person," said Alejandro Barreras, who runs a blog in Miami called On Two Shores that advocates for a normalization of relations between the US and Cuba. "He's kind of an opaque figure."

Diaz-Canel's profile has risen in recent months as he repeatedly appeared on state TV newscasts. One day he was speaking about Cuba's national baseball team, the next he was inaugurating Havana's International Book Fair.

In January he traveled to Venezuela and spoke prominently at a mega-rally in support of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez, arguably Havana's most important international ally.

"Today we are all Chavez!" Diaz-Canel said at the rally wearing a red tropical "guayabera" shirt.

Born April 20, 1960 in the central city of Santa Clara, Diaz-Canel wore his hair long as a youth and was a fan of the Beatles ? even though at the time that could get you into trouble with authorities, who rejected Western influences. Diaz-Canel still listens to the group, acquaintances say privately.

He graduated in electrical engineering and was a radio specialist in the armed forces, as well as a professor at the Central University of Las Villas.

He was involved early in communist youth groups and rose to become the party's first secretary for the central province of Villa Clara. Diaz-Canel also did a turn as a Party emissary in Nicaragua.

In 2003, he was named to the ruling council and became first secretary for Holguin, before leaving that post.

He became minister of higher education in 2009, and last March was named vice president of the Council of Ministers.

Back in the 1980s, Diaz-Canel was part of a group of young Communist leaders headed by former foreign minister Roberto Robaina, who offered fresh ideas and stood out by riding bicycles around the city.

Robaina was relieved in 2002 in what has been an all-too-common tale in Cuba: Icarus-like politicians suddenly falling back to earth. A similar fate also befell people like Felipe Perez Roque and Carlos Lage, who were thought to be potential successors to the Castros.

But Diaz-Canel survived the purges and today is the most highly placed politician of his generation, the second most powerful political figure in Cuba.

Diaz-Canel's gradual rise was likely appealing to a military man like Castro, said Arturo Lopez-Levy, a Cuban economist and analyst who lectures at the University of Denver. That's in contrast to Fidel Castro, who was known for plucking people from below and promoting them "by helicopter," only to sour on them later

"His step-by-step ascent is in line with Raul's logic," Lopez-Levy said.

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Associated Press writers Peter Orsi in Havana and Christine Armario in Miami contributed to this report.

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2 adults, 2 children missing off N. Calif. coast

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) ? The Coast Guard was searching with vessels and aircraft Monday for four family members, including two children under 8, who reported that they were forced to abandon their sailboat because it was sinking south of San Francisco.

The group was approximately 65 miles off Monterey around 4:20 p.m. Sunday when they made a distress call, Coast Guard Lt. Heather Lampert said. Their location initially was reported farther north, but Lampert said investigators using the boat's radio signal and radar now believe the call came in west of Monterey Bay, which is about 100 miles south of San Francisco. The boat did not have a working GPS system.

The boaters said their 29-foot sailboat was taking on water and their electronics were failing.

An hour later, the group reported it was forced to abandon the boat. They didn't have life rafts, so they were trying to make one out of a cooler and life preserver ring, Lampert said.

The Coast Guard then lost radio contact with the group. The Coast Guard has not identified the family, although investigators were able to determine from the broken distress calls that they were a husband and wife, their 4-year-old son and his cousin, Lampert said. The agency has received no missing persons' reports.

The National Weather Service had issued an advisory throughout the weekend warning boaters of strong winds and rough seas around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mariners "operating smaller vessels should avoid navigating in these conditions," the advisory said.

Lampert said Coast Guard crews searched through the night. A California Air National Guard helicopter was assisting with the effort.

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Make a Candle Out of Toilet Paper and a Stick of Butter

Whether the power's out and you need a light source or your romantic evening won't be complete without the scent of butter, this DIY candle from Instructables user The King of Random will give you both in minutes.

The project looks pretty easy, as you can see in the video above. Just cut a stick of butter in half, quarter a square of toilet paper, twist a quarter of the paper towel to make a wick, and use a toothpick to make room for the wick inside the butter. When you're done, you have a candle that'll actually burn for hours. Butter may not seem like a likely source for light, but it'll do the trick.

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Mozilla details apps Firefox OS: Facebook, Cut the Rope, Nokia Here, and ?

Mozilla details apps Firefox OS: Facebook, Cut the Rope, Nokia Here, and ?

One of the more noticeable announcements focused on Firefox Marketplace, detailing HTML5 apps you might have heard of before. Along the predictable likes of Facebook and Twitter, games like Cut The Rope will also make an appearance on the new ?
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All-American final at Match Play Championship

MARANA, Ariz. (AP) ? Hunter Mahan and Matt Kuchar gave the Match Play Championship its first all-American final in five years.

Mahan extended his streak to 166 holes without trailing and defeated Ian Poulter on the strength of his chipping. He holed a chip from just inside 70 feet for birdie on the 12th hole that gave him command of his match, and he went on to a 4-and-3 victory.

Mahan, the defending champion, had a chance Sunday afternoon to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners in the 15-year history of this event.

"I know I'm playing well," Mahan said. "That's the best thing I have going for me."

Kuchar advanced to the championship match for the first time and set up a rematch of last year's quarterfinals, when Mahan beat him, 6 and 5.

He fell behind briefly against Jason Day until the Australian started missing fairways and missing putts, a bad combination in match play. Kuchar took a 3-up lead on the par-5 13th hole when Day laid up into a bunker, flew the green and gave away the hole with a double bogey.

"This has been a lot of golf, and it's fun to continue to survive," Kuchar said.

That's what the four semifinalists had to do Sunday morning in the high desert ? survive.

A week already famous for a snowstorm that caused a one-day delay got another dose of desert weather when a strong, frigid wind showed up as the matches were making the turn. The gusts were 25 mph, and the 10th and 11th hole played dead into it.

Kuchar gave Day a flicker of hope when he drove into the desert on the 10th, but neither could make birdie on the par-5 11th. And when Day chopped up the 13th, it was only a matter of time. Kuchar closed him out with a birdie on the 15th.

"Just wasn't quite as sharp," Day said. "I played great golf yesterday and just came out this morning a little flat and made a lot of mental errors out there, and just pretty much gave the game to Kooch."

The featured match was Mahan and Poulter, two of the best in this format over the last few years.

Mahan wound up winning his 12th consecutive match, dating to his singles win over Day in the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne in 2011. Poulter brought a 19-3-2 record into the semifinals dating to his Match Play Championship win in 2010.

Mahan went ahead for good on the fifth hole. Poulter drove into a bunker, and from about 245 yards into a cold wind, he played an aggressive shot that wound up in a desert bush. He did well to have a 6-foot bogey putt. Mahan couldn't reach the green, but hit a good pitch from 45 yards to 7 feet and made par.

On the par-5 eighth, Poulter went to the left with his layup and couldn't hit his third shot any closer than 18 feet. Mahan, short of the green, hit a delicate chip that settled about 2 feet for a conceded birdie, and Poulter missed.

The strength of the wind and difficulty of the conditions were best illustrated on the next two holes.

Poulter drilled a hybrid and still couldn't reach the 10th green. And on the par-5 11th, Mahan had 106 yards to the flag and hammered a 9-iron that didn't quite get there.

"Guess our 160 club wasn't enough from 106," his caddie said.

They halved the hole with a bogey.

The match effectively ended on the par-3 12th, when Mahan went so far long that the ball rolled under the mesh skirt of a corporate chalet. After getting a free drop, he lofted his chip on the green, over a ridge, and it dropped into the center of the cup with the pace of a putt.

Mahan pumped his fist, as Poulter tried to block it out, showing no emotion as he knelt to place his ball on the green. His 50-foot birdie putt never had a chance.

"It looked perfect as soon as I hit it and it just trickled in, so it was obviously a big turning point," Mahan said.

One other wedge shot from Mahan won't get as much attention. He was 75 yards short of the green in two on the par-4 ninth, with Poulter safely on the green. Mahan's third shot checked up 2 feet away, which allowed him to keep momentum and go to the back nine with a 2-up lead.

Mahan has not trailed in any match since the sixth hole of the opening round last year against Zach Johnson.

"Hunter played very solid today," Poulter said. "He chipped it unbelievably well when he had to."

The last all-American final was 2008, when Woods defeated Stewart Cink. This assured the seventh time an American wins the Match Play Championship, and it makes it a clean sweep of the West Coast Swing for U.S. players the last two years on the PGA Tour.

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Kerry takes case on Syria to Europe, Mideast

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to London in his inaugural official trip as Secretary on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Pool, Jacquelyn Martin)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to London in his inaugural official trip as Secretary on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Pool, Jacquelyn Martin)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to London in his inaugural official trip as Secretary on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Pool, Jacquelyn Martin)

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington. Kerry will make his first overseas trip next week to Europe and the Middle East, but is skipping Israel because that country's government isn't fully formed after recent elections. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? John Kerry embarked Sunday on his first official overseas trip as secretary of state, hoping to bring new ideas to Europe and the Mideast about how to end nearly two years of violence in Syria.

Kerry's nine-nation, 10-day trip will take him to America's traditional European allies of Britain, Germany, France and Italy, along with Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. In addition to Syria, he will focus on conflicts in Mali and Afghanistan, and on Iran's nuclear program.

Kerry has said he is eager to discuss new ways of persuading Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and usher in a democratic transition in the country that wracked by escalating violence that has killed at least 70,000 people.

Kerry, a former Democratic senator from Massachusetts who succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton in President Barack Obama's second-term Cabinet, has not offered details of his ideas but officials say they revolve around increasing pressure on Assad and his inner circle.

Kerry's first stop is London, where he will hold talks with British officials on a range of issues, from Afghanistan to the status of the Falkland Islands. Britain is in a major dispute with Argentina over the Falklands.

In German, Kerry will discuss trans-Atlantic issues with German youth in Berlin, where he spent time as a child as the son of an American diplomat posted to the divided Cold War city. He also will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the German capital.

In Paris, Kerry plans to discuss France's intervention in Mali, while in Rome he'll attend a meeting with Syrian opposition leaders.

U.S. officials have said the trip will be primarily a "listening tour" when it comes to Syria and won't result in immediate shifts in U.S. policy that has until now stayed clear of military support for the rebels fighting Assad.

Despite the numerous Middle East stops. Kerry will not travel to Israel or the Palestinian territories. He will wait to visit them when he accompanies Obama there in March.

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Union workers at N. Ind. trailer hitch plant set to close this year accept severance package

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GOSHEN, Indiana ? Union workers at a northern Indiana trailer-hitch manufacturer have voted to forego arbitration and accept a severance agreement that will pay the most senior employees $36,000.

Most of the 350 United Steelworkers Local 9550 workers at Cequent Performance Products in Goshen supported the package in votes tallied Friday night, Local 9550 Vice President Deb Hathaway said.

"No matter what they give us it's still not enough for us losing our jobs," she said.

Steelworkers Sub District 4 Director Mike O'Brien said 240 of the 350 union members at the plant voted. He didn't disclose vote totals.

"It was certainly not unanimous but it wasn't close," O'Brien said. "I think a lot of people looked at, 'Well, this is what the company is offering and we take a chance going to arbitration.'"

Cequent, a subsidiary of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan-based TriMas Corp., announced in November it would move operations from the 450-employee plant 25 miles southeast of South Bend to Reynosa, Mexico, to lower shipping costs.

Workers with less than a year's seniority will receive $500 while those with 30 years or more will receive $36,000. Workers also will receive company health benefits for at least a month after they are laid off. The total severance package is worth more than $3.5 million, O'Brien said.

Layoffs began Friday, but O'Brien said he didn't know how many workers lost their jobs.

More than half the employees are scheduled to remain on the job through the end of June, with the last due to be let go in December.

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Castro hints at retirement</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-2992002390598908109' itemprop='description articleBody'> <img alt="" height="406" id="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130222-raul-castro-jsw-130p.jpg" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130222-raul-castro-jsw-130p.photoblog600.jpg" width="600"/><p class="photo_credit">Adalberto Roque / AFP - Getty Images</p><p>Cuban President Raul Castro visits a mausoleum Friday dedicated to Soviet solders who died around the world. Outside the frame is visiting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Castro surprised those on hand when he mentioned retirement and urged reporters to pay close attention to a speech scheduled for Sunday.</p><!-- end17058464 --><p>By Paul Haven, The Associated Press</p><p>HAVANA -- Cuban President Raul Castro has unexpectedly raised the possibility of leaving his post, saying Friday that he is old and has a right to retire. But he did not say when he might do so or if such a move was imminent.</p><p>The Cuban leader is scheduled to be sworn in to a new five-year term on Sunday. Castro urged reporters to listen to his speech that day.</p><p>"I am going to be 82 years old," Castro said at a joint appearance with visiting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. "I have the right to retire, don't you think?"</p><p>When reporters continued to shout questions about his plans for the next five years, Castro replied: "Why are you so incredulous?"</p><img alt="" height="271" id="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130222-fidel-raul-jsw-130p.jpg" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130222-fidel-raul-jsw-130p.380;380;7;70;0.jpg" width="380"/><p class="photo_credit">Javier Galeano / AP</p><p>Between them, former president Fidel Castro and brother Raul have ruled Cuba since the 1959 overthrow of U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista. One of the conditions the U.S. has stated for ending a decades-old embargo against its old Cold War enemy is that neither brother be in power.</p><!-- end17058478 --><p>He said to listen carefully on Sunday.</p> <p>"It will be an interesting speech," he said. "Pay attention."</p><p>Castro's tone was light and his comments came in informal remarks at a mausoleum dedicated to soldiers from the former Soviet Union who have died around the world.</p><p>The Cuban leader has spoken before of his desire to implement a two-term limit for all Cuban government positions, including the presidency. He has also alluded to the limited time he has left to overhaul the island's weak Marxist economy.</p><p>That has led many to speculate that this upcoming term would be his last, though term limits have never been codified into Cuban law.</p><p>Most Havana residents had not heard about Castro's comments, which had not been reported on Cuban television. Many reacted with skepticism.</p><p>"Who would they put in?" asked Marta Alvarez, a 45-year-old housewife walking through Old Havana. "But I don't think it would be now. It would happen in five years."</p><p>Castro will be 86 when his next term ends in 2018. Up until now, all eyes had been on who would emerge as Castro's first and second vice presidents during Sunday's proceedings. The positions are currently occupied by two loyal octogenarians who fought in the 1959 revolution.</p><p>Putting someone younger in one of those roles would be the first sign that Castro was settling on a potential next-generation successor, something he and his brother Fidel have never done, even as many comrades have succumbed to old age.</p><p>As far back as December 2010, Castro began to reflect on his responsibility, and that of his aging generation, to right Cuba's economy, noting that the actuarial tables leave them few remaining years.</p><p>"The time we have left is short, the task is enormous," he told lawmakers in his year-end speech that year. "I think we have an obligation ... to set (the country) on the right course."</p><p>When Raul Castro does leave the political stage, it would end more than a half century of unbroken rule by the two brothers, who came to power in 1959 at the head of a revolution against U.S.-backed strongman Fulgencio Batista.</p><p>Relations with the United States have been sour since shortly after the revolution. One of the key provisions of the 51-year U.S. economic embargo on Cuba stipulates that it cannot be lifted while either of the Castros is in power.</p><p>Castro has implemented a series of economic and social reforms since taking over from his ailing brother in 2006, but the island is still ruled by one party. 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