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Recession busters - making a list
With prices rising and fears of recession all around, it's well past time for thrifty wine lovers to start making lists of really good, drinkable affordably priced wines to see us through the hard times.
That's no challenge for us at WineLoversPage.com, where quality-for-value has always been a priority, and the quest for wines of "Quality-Price Ratio" is a constant guidestar.
We're not talking about wines that are cheap and taste cheap here: I hope you'll never catch me making excuses for a mediocre inexpensive wine that's "good enough for what it is."
But when gasoline hovers around $4 a gallon and the cash-register receipt at the grocery store can make you suck in your breath, it's time to re-double at least a good part of our effort to finding those wines that offer real drinking pleasure without costing an arm and a leg.
I'm not saying we won't continue to throw a midrange or even high-end wine at you from time to time. Variety is the spice of life and, as Oscar Wilde famously said, "nothing succeeds like excess."
But you may have noticed recently that I've been kicking up the proportion of reports on good wines in the $10 range; and at least until the economic picture looks brighter again, I'll endeavor to include at least one such wine of "QPR" in every week's reports.
Today's featured wine, Tiziano Chianti (a Tuscan blend of 95 percent Sangiovese and 5 percent Canaiolo grapes, strikes me as a benchmark for good, modest Chianti, with its bright cherry flavors, dry, food-friendly acidity and, best of all, a simple elegance that moves it a step above the old-fashioned "spaghetti red." That's a lot to like for $10 or so; in some U.S. markets it's available for several dollars less.
I'd love to hear your reports on your favorite "recession buster" wines. Please reply to this thread (or start your own "WTN" tasting report topic) to tell us about your budget winners.
Tiziano 2005 Chianti ($10.99)
Dark ruby with crimson glints. Good ripe black-cherry aromas with just a discreet touch of spice. Fresh and crisp fruit well balanced with food-friendly acidity. Simple but appealing, good and characteristic simple Chianti; at this price, a recession-buster. U.S. importer: William Grant & Sons Inc., NYC. (July 25, 2008)
FOOD MATCH: Simple Chianti is a stereotypical match with pasta in tomato sauce, but it's food-friendly and versatile, pairable with a range of Italian dishes. It was excellent with simple beef meatballs poached in beef broth with touches of aromatic smoked paprika and cumin for spice.
VALUE: With prices rising and fears of recession around, it's time to start making a list of really good, drinkable $10 wines like this to see us through the hard times. Note also that Tiziano may be found for well under $10 in some markets.
WHEN TO DRINK: This 2005 is drinking just as a simple Chianti should right now, but a couple more years on the wine rack or in a cellar certainly won't hurt it.
The U.S. importer's Website offers this Tiziano fact sheet:
Look for vendors and compare prices for Tiziano Chianti on Wine-Searcher.com:
http://www.wine-searcher.com/find/Tizia ... g_site=WLP


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Willie Fritz has directed Sam Houston State to a 31-10 record in his three seasons as Bearkat head football coach. The 31 wins rank as Sam Houston's most victories in a three-year span.
With back-to-back Southland Conference titles and NCAA Division I Football Championships finals appearances in 2011 and 2012, Fritz has reaped both regional and national honors.
The awards include 2012 Liberty Mutual NCAA FCS national "Coach of the Year," American Football Coaches Association "National Coach of the Year" in 2011 and "Regional Coach of the Year" both in 2011 and 2012 and Southland Conference "Coach of the Year" in 2011.
During his tenure as SHSU head coach, 28 Bearkats have earned All-Southland Conference honors a total of 49 times, eight players have been named All-America and Kats have won Southland awards for "Player of the Year", "Offensive Player of the Year", "Defensive Player of the Year" and "Newcomer of the Year."
The team's 14-1 record in 2011 and the 11-4 mark in 2012 represent the two highest single season victory totals in Sam Houston history.
Fritz, who has produced an overall record of 167 victories, 62 losses and one tie as a head coach, became the 14th head football coach at Sam Houston State University on December 18, 2011.
During his 31-year career, Fritz has been part of programs both as a head coach and an assistant that have rolled up an overall record of 251 wins, 88 losses and five ties. The record includes 10 appearances in post-season play (bowl games or playoff appearances) and 11 conference titles.
Fritz came to Huntsville from the University of Central Missouri were he stands as the "winningest" coach in the Mules' 114-year football history.
Fritz rolled up a 97-47 record in 13 seasons as Central Missouri head coach. In 11 of those seasons, Central Missouri posted winning records. He is the only Central Missouri head coach to produce eight consecutive seasons of seven or more wins.
Fritz served as a graduate assistant for Bearkat squads that went 16-6 in 1984-85 and won the 1985 Gulf Star Conference championship
He was the secondary and special teams coach for the Bearkats in 1991 and 1992, helping lead Sam Houston to a Southland Conference championship and starting a special teams success tradition that lasted more than a decade. The "block party" saw Kat special teams block 80 punts, field goals and extra points in the 14 seasons from 1991 to 2004.
From 1993 to 1996, Fritz was head coach at Blinn College where turned around a program that had gone 5-24-1 in its three previous seasons. In just a short time, he produced a 39-5-1 record and two national junior college championships. For his efforts at Blinn, Fritz has been inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame.
As head coach at Central Missouri, Fritz led the Mules to their first post-season berth in 32 years when they defeated Minnesota-Duluth in the 2001 Mineral Water Bowl. A year later, Central Missouri earned its first NCAA Division II playoff berth after winning the Mid-America Athletic Association (MIAA) championship. Fritz coached 152 All-MIAA performers including 41 first team selections and 24 All-Americans. Fritz ranks No. 15 among active NCAA Division II head coach in victories.
In his 13 years at UCM, the Mules enjoyed an 84 percent graduation rate with three Academic All-Americans, 14 Academic All-Region and 144 MIAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll selections.
Fritz was the second member of his family to coach at Central Missouri. His father, the late Harry Fritz, was the Mules' head football coach in 1952 and later become executive director of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
Fritz played college football at Pittsburg State University. He was a four-year starter as a defensive back and played on two conference title teams. He was a student assistant coach for the Gorillas in 1982 and was an assistant football coach at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Kansas in 1983 and Willis High School in Texas in 1986 and was defensive coordinator at Coffeyville College in Kansas from 1987 to 1990.
Fritz and his wife Susan have three children, Wesley, Elaine and Brooke.

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Atrial Fibrillation
How Your Heart Beats
The electrical heart conduction pathway must be followed to ensure the heart pumps properly.
The heartbeat starts in the right atrium when a special group of cells (the sinus node or "pacemaker" of the heart) sends an electrical signal.
The signal spreads throughout the atria and to the atrioventricular (A-V) node.
The A-V node connects to a group of fibers in the ventricles that conduct the electric signal.
The impulse travels down these specialized fibers to all parts of the ventricles.
What is an arrhythmia?
Arrhythmias (or dysrhythmias) are abnormal rhythms of the heart which cause the heart to pump less effectively.
Normally, as the electrical impulse moves through the heart, the heart contracts – about 60 to 100 times a minute. Each contraction represents one heartbeat. The atria contract a fraction of a second before the ventricles so their blood empties into the ventricles before the ventricles contract.
Under some conditions almost all heart tissue is capable of starting a heartbeat, or becoming the pacemaker. An arrhythmia occurs when:
- the heart's natural pacemaker develops an abnormal rate or rhythm.
- the normal conduction pathway is interrupted.
- another part of the heart takes over as pacemaker.
What is an electrocardiogram (ECG)?
The electrical activity of the heart is measured by an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG). By placing electrodes at specific locations on the body (chest, arms, and legs), a graphic representation, or tracing, of the electrical activity can be obtained. Changes in an ECG from the normal tracing can indicate arrhythmias, as well as other heart-related conditions.
How does the physician know what an ECG means?
Almost everyone knows what a basic ECG tracing looks like. But what does it mean?
- The first little upward notch of the ECG tracing is called the "P wave." The P wave indicates that the atria (the two upper chambers of the heart) are contracting to pump to the ventricles.
- The next part of the tracing is a short downward section connected to a tall upward section. This next part is called the "QRS complex." This part indicates that the ventricles (the two lower chambers of the heart) are contracting to pump out blood.
- The next short flat segment is called the "ST segment." The ST segment indicates the amount of time from the end of the contraction of the ventricles to the beginning of the "T wave" before the ventricles begin to contract for the next beat.
- The next upward curve is the T wave. The T wave indicates the recovery period of the ventricles.
When your physician studies your ECG, he/she looks at the size and length of each part of the ECG. Variations in size and length of the different parts of the tracing may be significant. The tracing for each lead of a 12-lead ECG will look different, but will have the same basic components as described above. Each lead of the 12-lead is "looking" at a specific part of the heart, so variations in a lead may indicate a problem with the part of the heart associated with the lead.
What is atrial fibrillation?
Atrial fibrillation is a type of arrhythmia. With atrial fibrillation, the electrical signals in the atria (the two small chambers of the heart) are fired in a very fast and uncontrolled manner. The atria quiver instead of contract. The electrical signals then arrive in the ventricles in an irregular fashion. When atria do not contract effectively, the blood may pool and/or clot. If a blood clot becomes lodged in an artery in the brain, a stroke (brain attack) may occur. About 15 percent of strokes occur in persons with atrial fibrillation. Aspirin, warfarin, and cardiac medications may be used to treat atrial fibrillation.
How is atrial fibrillation treated?
According to the latest recommendations from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians, for most patients with atrial fibrillation, slowing heart rate with atenolol, metoprolol, diltiazem, or verapamil is the most appropriate treatment. Patients with atrial fibrillation should receive blood thinners to prevent stroke unless they have a condition that would make anticoagulation dangerous (such as alcoholism with frequent falls).
Patients who choose conversion to normal heart rhythm instead of rate control because of symptoms can select electrical or medical cardioversion. For patients who choose cardioversion, outcomes are similar whether patients have immediate cardioversion following a special test (transesophageal echocardiogram) to make sure no blood clots exist or if they delay cardioversion until blood thinners take effect. Most patients should not take medications to maintain normal rhythm after cardioversion, the two national medical groups suggest.


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Before Transformation
Toby Bost, CEO of O'Neill Clothing, USA, one of the largest surf wear and active lifestyle brands, learns how to put designs on t-shirts at the company's screen printing warehouse, on UNDERCOVER BOSS, Friday, Feb. 22 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Bost, before transformation. Photo: ©Studio Lambert 2013 All Rights Reserved.


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Jason Bateman
Jason Bateman has been on television since the 1980s, but these days he's best known as Michael Bluth, the semi-sane center of the oddball family in Arrested Development (2003-06). He started off his career in TV with Little House on the Prairie (1981-82), and he hit his stride as a popular co-star of Silver Spoons (1982-84). That led to his own short-lived series, lots of guest roles and, to wind up the decade, a regular role on Valerie's Family (1986-91). He appeared in TV movies and guest roles during the 1990s, but spent most of his time living off the fruits of his teen labors. His anchoring job on Arrested Development put Bateman in the spotlight again, despite that show's inability to reach a broad audience. He's since taken on more big-screen roles, usually playing a boyish, comically befuddled straight-man. His recent films include Smokin' Aces (2006, starring Jeremy Piven), Juno (2007, starring Ellen Page), Hancock (2008, starring Will Smith), Up in the Air (2009, starring George Clooney) and Horrible Bosses (2011, with Jennifer Aniston).
Bateman's sister, Justine, was also a 1980s TV star. She played Michael J. Fox's sister on Family Ties (1982-89).
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Justin Bieber's Affair with Rihanna, Adele's Baby-Raising Heartbreak + More in This Week's Tabloids
We read the National Enquirer, Life & Style, the Globe, Star and Us Weekly this week — so you didn't have to. We're givers.
Along the way, we learned that O.J. Simpson had some unexpected relationships in prison, Justin Bieber had an affair with Rihanna just like every young boy dreams, Bill Clinton was involved in a teenage prostitution scandal even though he hasn't been a teen in decades, Adele has a broken heart and all kinds of new album material, Khloe and Lamar have decided divorce is not an option because they're so good at marriage, and all sorts of other really real stuff.
National Enquirer
We're sure the Dow must have gone up this week because Kris and Bruce Jenner reached a $175 million divorce deal. We expect the show to be on E! next fall. Mama Kardashian was so excited about the deal, she collapsed.
She woke right up when she heard the O.J. Simpson shocker, though - someone revealed his intimate relationships with prison homosexuals. We know it's true because people who are in prison are very noble and never lie. They are also innocent and got screwed by their lawyers.
The real sparks of the week flew when Lisa Marie Presley turned 45, and she reportedly had an ugly fight at her birthday bash. It started out innocently enough, but it seems one of her friends is really good at "your mama so ugly" jokes, so it went on for hours.
Mohammad Ali's family has denied he's near death, but a source called "brother" has heartbreaking claims of a physical abuse nightmare. Based on recent pictures of Ali at various events, this "brother" watches a lot of Oxygen or something and his imagination has gotten the best of him. Much like the writers of National Enquirer.
Life & Style
Things heated up in Life & Style, where we found out that Justin Bieber humiliated Selena Gomez with an affair with Rihanna. Or maybe Selena was having the affair and was humiliated when he found out. Hard to tell, but that seems even more implausible because she could probably make some serious coin with even a brief upload of a Selena/Rihanna lip lock. All we know is there was a hotel room, Rihanna and humiliation. You know, Tuesday.
Also all part of a typical weekday: Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom have separated. In the midst of the usual drama, Lamar walked out, grinded on a club girl and then Khloe had a breakdown. Maybe an affair with Rihanna would be just the mood-booster Khloe needs.
The first baby bump pics of Kim Kardashian and Kate Middleton have been published. Through the magic of modern technology, if you look closely enough, you can see the impression of a silver spoon on each of their burgeoning bellies.
And, just in case you missed your smart phone alert, it is now time to think pink. Which means you're all set if you need help with indigestion, a panther or insulation.
In salacious Royals news, Kate Middleton's new home has been bugged. Nobody knows if the two listening devices discovered were planted by Camilla or not. She's had all that Scotland Yard spy training, so it's really hard to say.
Also, seems Bill Clinton is back in the news. Just when his divorce woes had passed, he got caught up in a teenage hooker scandal. The whole thing has been a horror for Hillary. But let's be real: It's really kind of a horror for us all. Probably even Bill because teenage girls aren't very good at sex. They ARE good at tweeting about it though.
We found out where the kids from 'Father Knows Best' are now. Unfortunately, no one will confirm nor deny that they have been earning money installing listening devices in royal homes.
And, in court drama, a grand jury shocker answers the question "why didn't JonBenet Ramsey's mom and dad go to jail?" Still unclear: If a grand jury answers a question nobody's asking, does it make a sound? Perhaps that's the secret Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters took to her grave.
Get out your little black book because Star magazine has your crib sheet for the best and worst celebrity lovers. Someone likes sex on a jet ski, but who wouldn't? They're so spacious and comfortable. One A-list actress also apparently dresses as a rodeo clown during sexytime. We can see the Victoria's Secret clown-inspired lingerie on the runway already. And someone's the queen of dirty talk – likely saying things like "jet ski" and "rodeo clown" to heat things up in the bedroom.
Coco Austin dropped the massively unexpected bombshell that she cheated on Ice-T. With coffee. You know what they say - once you go black, you never go ... wait. That doesn't work here.
Meanwhile, Adele is heartbroken to have to raise her baby alone. The worst part? She's afraid that every time she tries to sing the baby to sleep, she'll have to stop and accept a Grammy for Best Improvised Lullaby.
Us Weekly
It's time to update your LeAnn Rimes vs. Brandi Glanville scorecards, so stop denying that you have one and get it out already. The really really real story is that Brandi cheated first. NEENER. She supposedly slept with a Hollywood playboy a mere six weeks after having Eddie's baby. Of course she's now playing the victim and totally blaming LeAnn because that's in the contract they have that helps keep them both relevant.
Something that isn't LeAnn's fault? Adam Brody and Leighton Meester are secretly dating. And hey, if we're all careful and don't say anything, maybe they won't know we all secretly know they're secretly dating.
We got to take a peek inside Jessica Simpson's new home. Someone should really go over there and help her figure out what she has and where to put it. The boxes have labels, but those just seem to confuse her more.
Despite previous reports of walking out, club grinding and breakdowns, Khloe and Lamar have said that divorce is not an option. Unless they can find a way to get a TV deal out of it, of course.


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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., May 13, 2012 — Two students whose academic and cultural endeavors have taken them from the classroom at St. Bonaventure around the globe were named the 2012 Ideal Bonaventure Students.
Abhimanyu Aggarwal and Manuela Marin Salcedo were recognized as Ideal Bonaventure Students on Saturday, May 12, at the university's Honors Ceremony and again Sunday, May 13, during St. Bonaventure's 152st Commencement Exercises. The Ideal Bonaventure Students exemplify the spirit of St. Bonaventure and the ideals of St. Francis through community service and academic excellence. They are selected by a committee that considers nominations from the campus community.
Aggarwal, son of Drs. Rajiv and Madhu Aggarwal of Leesburg, Va., was a member of the Franciscan Health Care Professions Program, graduating with an honors degree in bioinformatics as well as an MBA.
Marin Salcedo, daughter of Drs. Alberto Marin and Teresita Salcedo of Weston, Fla., earned an honors degree in journalism and mass communication and minors in Italian and English.
The honorable mentions were Alicia D'Alessandro, a journalism and mass communication major from Niskayuna, N.Y., and Arkeno Greenaway from Bronx, N.Y., who earned a BBA in accounting and an MBA.
Abhimanyu Aggarwal is well recognized across campus as serving on a number of clubs and boards.
A four-year member of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Aggarwal started the organization's technology empowerment program, which was charged with installing donated computers in schools in developing countries. He also was on the Student Activities Board for four years, including service as the treasurer, where he managed the financial budget for the organization and assisted in planning events for students.
School of Business faculty member and SIFE adviser Dr. Todd Palmer describes Aggarwal's work ethic among students as "legendary."
Last year, Aggarwal led an effort to place 150 computers in during SIFE's annual Bahamas trip. His work led to the creation of six labs in schools; five of the schools had no computer technology prior to Aggarwal's involvement.
"Whenever a project is brought up, his name is shorthand for the students in terms of getting something done effectively and efficiently," Palmer said.
And that passion is what led Aggarwal to run a successful startup business — processing medical billing — and led to consultations with small businesses and nonprofits to aid in setting up websites. In a recent consulting project with the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, Aggarwal redesigned the mission society's web presence and aided in rebranding efforts.
"Abhi is prominent in every single area that we hold important at this university – academics, service and spirituality. But it goes beyond this. Abhi is a person who has in his 21 years done more for his community and the world than most of us do in a lifetime. Yet the amazing thing is that Abhi is just getting started," Palmer said.
Aggarwal is a member of Phi Eta Sigma and Pi Mu Epsilon honor societies as well as the professional organizations the American Chemical Society and Mathematical Association of America.
As part of the university's combined degree program, Aggarwal plans to pursue a medical degree at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., this fall.
An honors student and a Division I athlete, Manuela Marin Salcedo approaches the tennis court and her studies with the same care, competence and precision.
Marin Salcedo played the No. 1 position on the tennis team since her freshman year, leading the team as captain this season. This year, she posted 23 wins, including a team-best 14 doubles victories.
In early May, Marin Salcedo was named to the Atlantic 10 Conference Women's Tennis All-Conference Second Team in voting conducted by the league's head coaches. The honor marks the third time in her four-year career that Marin Salcedo has garnered an All-Conference nod.
Her 23 overall wins were second-best on the Bona roster, and her 14 doubles victories led the Brown and White. She posted a 14-6 doubles record on the year, with all but one match occurring at the No. 2 doubles slot.
Marin Salcedo is as fearless with her camera as she is with a tennis racket.
As a youngster, she traveled to several nations in the Mideast where she trained to be a professional diver and to South America as a competitor in international tennis tournaments. She routinely immersed herself photographically into the cultures.
For her Honors Project, Marin Salcedo spent eight weeks of fieldwork in the small coastal village of Rincón del Mar, Colombia. She immersed herself in the culture, lives and laughter of the villagers, attempting not only to witness, but experience what it is like to be a resident of Rincón. The final product was a glimpse at the villagers' lives, from beginning to end, through an extensive series of interviews and photographs.
Marin Salcedo has done internships on three continents.
In August and September 2011, she interned at PHOTO magazine in Paris, where she drew on her language skills to conduct and translate interviews in French, Spanish and English. She also wrote book reviews and two cover stories for the magazine (in French) that were published in September.
On campus, Marin Salcedo's work has appeared in The Laurel literary magazine, The Bona Venture student newspaper, and The Intrepid, an online student newspaper.
"Manuela is among the finest undergraduate writers and thinkers I have ever coached," said Dr. Denny Wilkins, who was Marin Salcedo's academic adviser and professor in four courses. Wilkins also served as the university's faculty athletics representative.
"Manuela has shown the skills, aptitude, humanity, social grace and emotional resolve needed to perform under pressure in a world that has difficult problems to solve and needs capable people to solve them," said Wilkins.
In addition to being named an Ideal Bonaventure Student, Marin Salcedo was the recipient of the 2012 Dr. Mary A. Hamilton Woman of Promise Award and the Father Cornelius Welch Award for Achievement in Photography.
She plans to attend graduate school this fall at Syracuse University, where she will study photojournalism.
About the University: Inspired for more than 150 years by the Catholic Franciscan values of individual dignity, community inclusiveness, and service, St. Bonaventure University cultivates graduates who are confident and creative communicators, collaborative leaders and team members, and innovative problem solvers who are respectful of themselves, others, and the diverse world around them.
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2016 US Code
Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 7 - Social Security
Subchapter XI - General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification
Part A - General Provisions
Sec. 1320b-12 - Research on outcomes of health care services and procedures
|42 U.S.C. § 1320b-12 (2016)
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§1320b–12. Research on outcomes of health care services and procedures
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(a) Establishment of program
(1) In general
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, shall—
(A) conduct and support research with respect to the outcomes, effectiveness, and appropriateness of health care services and procedures in order to identify the manner in which diseases, disorders, and other health conditions can most effectively and appropriately be prevented, diagnosed, treated, and managed clinically; and
(B) assure that the needs and priorities of the program under subchapter XVIII are appropriately reflected in the development and periodic review and updating (through the process set forth in section 299b–2 1 of this title) of treatment-specific or condition-specific practice guidelines for clinical treatments and conditions in forms appropriate for use in clinical practice, for use in educational programs, and for use in reviewing quality and appropriateness of medical care.
(2) Evaluations of alternative services and procedures
In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall conduct or support evaluations of the comparative effects, on health and functional capacity, of alternative services and procedures utilized in preventing, diagnosing, treating, and clinically managing diseases, disorders, and other health conditions.
(3) Initial guidelines
(A) In carrying out paragraph (1)(B) of this subsection, and section 299b–1(d) 1 of this title, the Secretary shall, by not later than January 1, 1991, assure the development of an initial set of the guidelines specified in paragraph (1)(B) that shall include not less than 3 clinical treatments or conditions that—
(i)(I) account for a significant portion of expenditures under subchapter XVIII; and
(II) have a significant variation in the frequency or the type of treatment provided; or
(ii) otherwise meet the needs and priorities of the program under subchapter XVIII, as set forth under subsection (b)(3).
(B)(i) The Secretary shall provide for the use of guidelines developed under subparagrah 2 (A) to improve the quality, effectiveness, and appropriateness of care provided under subchapter XVIII. The Secretary shall determine the impact of such use on the quality, appropriateness, effectiveness, and cost of medical care provided under such subchapter and shall report to the Congress on such determination by not later than January 1, 1993.
(ii) For the purpose of carrying out clause (i), the Secretary shall expend, from the amounts specified in clause (iii), $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1990 and $1,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 and 1992.
(iii) For each fiscal year, for purposes of expenditures required in clause (ii)—
(I) 60 percent of an amount equal to the expenditure involved is appropriated from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (established under section 1395i of this title); and
(II) 40 percent of an amount equal to the expenditure involved is appropriated from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (established under section 1395t of this title).
(b) Priorities
(1) In general
The Secretary shall establish priorities with respect to the diseases, disorders, and other health conditions for which research and evaluations are to be conducted or supported under subsection (a). In establishing such priorities, the Secretary shall, with respect to a disease, disorder, or other health condition, consider the extent to which—
(A) improved methods of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and clinical management can benefit a significant number of individuals;
(B) there is significant variation among physicians in the particular services and procedures utilized in making diagnoses and providing treatments or there is significant variation in the outcomes of health care services or procedures due to different patterns of diagnosis or treatment;
(C) the services and procedures utilized for diagnosis and treatment result in relatively substantial expenditures; and
(D) the data necessary for such evaluations are readily available or can readily be developed.
(2) Preliminary assessments
For the purpose of establishing priorities under paragraph (1), the Secretary may, with respect to services and procedures utilized in preventing, diagnosing, treating, and clinically managing diseases, disorders, and other health conditions, conduct or support assessments of the extent to which—
(A) rates of utilization vary among similar populations for particular diseases, disorders, and other health conditions;
(B) uncertainties exist on the effect of utilizing a particular service or procedure; or
(C) inappropriate services and procedures are provided.
(3) Relationship with medicare program
In establishing priorities under paragraph (1) for research and evaluation, and under section 299b–3(a) 1 of this title for the agenda under such section, the Secretary shall assure that such priorities appropriately reflect the needs and priorities of the program under subchapter XVIII, as set forth by the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
(c) Methodologies and criteria for evaluations
For the purpose of facilitating research under subsection (a), the Secretary shall—
(1) conduct and support research with respect to the improvement of methodologies and criteria utilized in conducting research with respect to outcomes of health care services and procedures;
(2) conduct and support reviews and evaluations of existing research findings with respect to such treatment or conditions;
(3) conduct and support reviews and evaluations of the existing methodologies that use large data bases in conducting such research and shall develop new research methodologies, including data-based methods of advancing knowledge and methodologies that measure clinical and functional status of patients, with respect to such research;
(4) provide grants and contracts to research centers, and contracts to other entities, to conduct such research on such treatment or conditions, including research on the appropriate use of prescription drugs;
(5) conduct and support research and demonstrations on the use of claims data and data on clinical and functional status of patients in determining the outcomes, effectiveness, and appropriateness of such treatment; and
(6) conduct and support supplementation of existing data bases, including the collection of new information, to enhance data bases for research purposes, and the design and development of new data bases that would be used in outcomes and effectiveness research.
(d) Standards for data bases
In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall develop—
(1) uniform definitions of data to be collected and used in describing a patient's clinical and functional status;
(2) common reporting formats and linkages for such data; and
(3) standards to assure the security, confidentiality, accuracy, and appropriate maintenance of such data.
(e) Dissemination of research findings and guidelines
(1) In general
The Secretary shall provide for the dissemination of the findings of research and the guidelines described in subsection (a), and for the education of providers and others in the application of such research findings and guidelines.
(2) Cooperative educational activities
In disseminating findings and guidelines under paragraph (1), and in providing for education under such paragraph, the Secretary shall work with professional associations, medical specialty and subspecialty organizations, and other relevant groups to identify and implement effective means to educate physicians, other providers, consumers, and others in using such findings and guidelines, including training for physician managers within provider organizations.
(f) Evaluations
The Secretary shall conduct and support evaluations of the activities carried out under this section to determine the extent to which such activities have had an effect on the practices of physicians in providing medical treatment, the delivery of health care, and the outcomes of health care services and procedures.
(g) Research with respect to dissemination
The Secretary may conduct or support research with respect to improving methods of disseminating information on the effectiveness and appropriateness of health care services and procedures.
(h) Omitted
(i) Authorization of appropriations
(1) In general
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section—
(A) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1990;
(B) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1991;
(C) $110,000,000 for fiscal year 1992;
(D) $148,000,000 for fiscal year 1993; and
(E) $185,000,000 for fiscal year 1994.
(2) Specifications
For the purpose of carrying out this section, for each of the fiscal years 1990 through 1992 an amount equal to two-thirds of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), and for each of the fiscal years 1993 and 1994 an amount equal to 70 percent of such amounts, are to be appropriated in the following proportions from the following trust funds:
(A) 60 percent from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (established under section 1395i of this title).
(B) 40 percent from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (established under section 1395t of this title).
(3) Allocations
(A) For each fiscal year, of the amounts transferred or otherwise appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary shall reserve appropriate amounts for each of the purposes specified in clauses (i) through (iv) of subparagraph (B).
(B) The purposes referred to in subparagraph (A) are—
(i) the development of guidelines, standards, performance measures, and review criteria;
(ii) research and evaluation;
(iii) data-base standards and development; and
(iv) education and information dissemination.
|Source Credit
(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, §1142, as added Pub. L. 101–239, title VI, §6103(b)(1), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2195; amended Pub. L. 106–129, §2(b)(2), Dec. 6, 1999, 113 Stat. 1670; Pub. L. 108–173, title IX, §900(e)(1)(C), Dec. 8, 2003, 117 Stat. 2371.)
|Editorial Notes
Sections 299b–1 to 299b–3 of this title, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), were in the original references to sections 912 to 914 of act July 1, 1944, which were omitted in the general amendment of subchapter VII of chapter 6A of this title by Pub. L. 106–129, §2(a), Dec. 6, 1999, 113 Stat. 1653. Section 2(a) of Pub. L. 106–129 enacted new sections 912 to 914 of act July 1, 1944, which are classified to sections 299b–1 to 299b–3, respectively, of this title.
Subsec. (h) of this section, which required the Secretary to report biennially to Congress on the progress of the activities under this section during the preceding 2 fiscal years, including the impact of such activities on medical care (particularly medical care for individuals receiving benefits under subchapter XVIII of this chapter), terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, item 10 on page 94 of House Document No. 103–7.
Another section 1142 of act Aug. 14, 1935, was renumbered section 1143 by Pub. L. 101–508, title V, §5111(a)(1), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388–272, and is classified to section 1320b–13 of this title.
2003—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 108–173, §900(e)(1)(C), substituted "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services" for "Health Care Financing Administration".
1999—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 106–129 substituted "Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality" for "Administrator for Health Care Policy and Research" in introductory provisions.
Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, §1000(a)(6) [title II, §229(b)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–357, provided that:
"(1) Study.—The Administrator for Health Care Policy and Research shall provide for a study that, with respect to the provision of ultrasound under the medicare and medicaid programs under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq., 1396 et seq.], compares differences in quality between ultrasound furnished by individuals who are credentialed by private entities or organizations and ultrasound furnished by those who are not so credentialed. Such study shall examine and evaluate differences in error rates, resulting complications, and patient outcomes as a result of the differences in credentialing. In designing the study, the Administrator shall consult with organizations nationally recognized for their expertise in ultrasound.
"(2) Report.—Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1999], the Administrator shall submit a report to Congress on the study conducted under paragraph (1)."
Pub. L. 101–239, title VI, §6103(b)(2), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2198, provided that: "Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 19, 1989], the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall report to the Congress on the feasibility of linking research-related data described in section 1142(d) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1320b–12(d)] (as added by paragraph (1) of this subsection) with similar data collected or maintained by non-Federal entities and by Federal agencies other than the Department of Health and Human Services (including the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs and the Office of Personnel Management)."
1 See References in Text note below.
2 So in original. Probably should be "subparagraph".
|Publication Title
|United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
|Bills and Statutes
|United States Code
|SuDoc Class Number
|Contained Within
|Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Part A - General Provisions
Sec. 1320b-12 - Research on outcomes of health care services and procedures
|section 1320b-12
|Laws In Effect As Of Date
|January 6, 2017
|Positive Law
|Statutes at Large References
|103 Stat. 2195, 2198
104 Stat. 1388-272
113 Stat. 1670, 1536, 1653
117 Stat. 2371
|Public Law References
|Public Law 101-239, Public Law 101-508, Public Law 104-66, Public Law 106-113, Public Law 106-129, Public Law 108-173


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Fan fiction is a name given to any fictional story or material based in and around the Star Trek universe, that is not produced with the input of the creators or licensees who create new Star Trek material for Paramount Pictures. Although the most common form is in prose, similar to the various novels, it can also come under the form of scripts, poetry, reference material, games, audio recordings, and films.
It is illegal to buy or sell "fan-produced" memorabilia for profit, due to the copyrights of the name Star Trek, in addition to the copyrights of the major names involved, being owned by Paramount. Despite this, some fans take it upon themselves to create their own versions of Trek on a "not-for-profit" basis.
A related concept is "fanon", a contraction for "fan canon". Fanon is a belief held by fans that is not canon. Fanon can range from discounting part of Star Trek as non-canon to making up a explanation for unexplained inconsistencies such as the differing appearance of the Trill.
Fanzines Edit
In the early days of fan fiction, the easiest way for fans to read, and circulate, their works was through fanzine or folios. Some of these fan productions were even used in Star Trek productions, such as pages of fan-published reference manuals being used on screen as background artwork, and some were created by authors who went on to work on legitimate Star Trek productions. Paramount has even supported the professional publication of fan fiction through their The New Voyages, The New Voyages 2, and Strange New Worlds series of books.
Franz Joseph was one of the first to publish fan reference material starting in 1973 when he created and published his blueprints Booklet of General Plans – USS Constitution-class for the USS Enterprise. His blueprints were used in a number of the early Star Trek films. Other creators that began with fan publications include Rick Sternbach, an illustrator for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the spin-off series, and Geoffrey Mandel, a scenic artist on Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Star Trek: Insurrection.
Kirk, Spock, and the creation of Slash Edit
The friendship between Kirk and Spock created a subculture of Star Trek fans who believed the relationship between the two to be not merely platonic, but explicitly romantic – in 1974, the short story "A Fragment out of Time" by author Diane Marchant was the first explicitly sexual fanfiction piece featuring two men to be published in a fanzine, although they were not mentioned by name. In the next edition of that fanzine, Marchant confirmed that the two men were Kirk and Spock and wrote an essay defending the pairing.
Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture revealed that Spock thought of Kirk as his "t'hy'la", a Vulcan word meaning "friend/brother/lover." When asked about this possibility, the actors and Roddenberry neither confirmed nor denied this interpretation. Gene Roddenberry, when interviewed for the authorized William Shatner biography Shatner: Where No Man..., was asked about comparisons between Kirk and Spock and the historical relationship of Alexander the Great and his friend and sometime second-in-command Hephaestion, two men widely believed to have been lovers. He replied:
- "Yes, there's certainly some of that, certainly with love overtones. Deep love. The only difference being, the Greek ideal... we never suggested in the series... physical love between the two. But it's the... we certainly had the feeling that the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style of the 23rd century." (He looks thoughtful.) "That's very interesting. I never thought of that before." (Shatner: Where No Man..., p. 148)
The notion of "slash" as a genre – or the idea that certain relationships between two men or women in popular films, television shows, and literature are subtextually homoerotic – has since spread to fans of other entertainment media.
Mary SueEdit
Another major concept that originated in Star Trek fan fiction was the idea of a Mary Sue. This was an original character, stereotypically an adolescent girl, written as if it were an insertion of the writer in some sort of wish-fulfillment fantasy. A Mary Sue character would often be exceptional in many ways, have Kirk, Spock and/or McCoy fawning over her, and save the day in some unrealistic way. In short, she would just implausibly have everything going for her and be the center around which the whole ship revolves.
The name originated from the short parody story in the fanzine "Menagerie", "A Trekkie's Tale" [1]. Writer Paula Smith had observed the trend towards including such characters in fan fiction stories, and stirred up considerable sentiment with her lampshading of the phenomenon. Contemporary opinions on Mary Sue characters ranged from not seeing anything wrong with it to passionate hate. When deliberately invoked, the concept is subject to ridicule.
The term remains widely known to this day and has spread far beyond Star Trek fan fiction circles, to all kinds of fan fiction and regular fiction. The definition of what constitutes a Mary Sue is very fluid, and has sometimes even be used to decry strong and capable characters intended to be likable but not received as such.
The concept came full circle when Wesley Crusher became criticized for being a Mary Sue by some, because, among other things, he was serving on the Enterprise at an unusually young age and shared Gene Roddenberry's middle name.
One contemporary example of the Mary Sue character would be the alternate-reality based webcomic parody "Ensign Sue Must Die!".
Fan films and games Edit
One of the more recent phenomena in fan fiction is the fan film. These films vary in length from short clips to full episodes, some even comprising of several seasons of episodes. In the past, production technology and cost were major limitations to amateur projects, but in modern times, films can be distributed cheaply via the Internet, and convincing visual effects can be created using home computers. Some of these productions are popular enough to have some production staff lend their support.
In addition to films, a number of spinoff TOS series exist including Star Trek Continues, Star Trek: Axanar, Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, and Star Trek: Phase II.
Some fan-produced games have joined into licensing agreements with Paramount including Star Trek: A Call to Duty and the Star Trek Simulation Forum. The Simulation Forum was created in 2002 as the official chat based role-playing game of StarTrek.com, but had lost its official affiliation by late 2007.
In the mid-1970s, Star Trek Lives! was published by Bantam Books documenting the fan culture around Star Trek. In the late 1990s, a film, Trekkies was released documenting the fan culture twenty years later.
Paramount and CBS have tolerated non-profit fan films, but view for-profit fan films as an infringement of their copyright. As of late 2015, non-profit fan films were still permitted, but CBS filed an injunction against the film Star Trek: Axanar, which paid its producer with funds generated from crowdfunding. [2] Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin expressed outrage at the lawsuit, with J.J. Abrams later announcing the case would be dropped and that CBS and Paramount were working on a new set of guidelines for fan films. [3]
On 23 June 2016, StarTrek.com announced fan film guidelines in a short letter to the public. [4] Axanar producer Alec Peters responded the guidelines were too restrictive, effectively canning the project due to the limits imposed on fan film running times and budgets. The lawsuit remains pending. [5]
In 2017, it was announced that CBS was launching a training school to enable and teach future Star Trek fan film makers. [6]
External links Edit
- Star Trek Expanded Universe – a wiki created to collect information about and from various fan-made projects, including RPGs, fan fiction and fan movies
- Fan fiction at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- Fan fiction at Wikipedia
- Slash fiction at Wikipedia
- Fan film at Wikipedia


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Sadie's Grey, Chartreuse & Pink Charmer
Name: Sadie
Location: Studio City, CA
I had the best time decorating for my little girl. It was something I thought about before I was even pregnant. Since people can see right into the nursery from our entrance, we wanted to keep it from looking too babyish, but friendly enough that she would actually enjoy being in it. Once she was here, it continued to be added to.
The room started as our office, and was beige and orange, so we really had to scrap everything and start over. I had the couch recovered and organized our grown-up books into rainbow order, so they at least appear kid-friendly. I also added in some doo-dads to accent the colors (note the sparkly pink TOMS that I can't wait for her to grow into).
My color inspiration was that amazing dress that Cate Blanchett wore to the Oscars. Pale pale lavender, and pops of bright chartreuse. I picked a wall color that was basically grey but with some purple undertones, and then used chartreuse as the accents. Then, once she was born I started to add more hot pink.
The amazing Johanna Mac, of Austin, took my maternity photos, so those had to be displayed for Sadie to look at. Her daddy also wrote her emails while he was away for work, so I did a nice lay-out and printed it for above the couch. There is also a print from her "first" concert which we went to when I was 8 weeks pregnant, and had to have a souvenir for her.
Next to her crib are a few special items: her foot prints at 3 months, a collage of cards that were written to us, another mat photo and a couple other things I made.
Source List:
• Sadie Banner: Victorian Station
• Banksy print: Davey Knew
• Heart mobile: made myself
• Crib: Oeuf sparrow
• Sheets: made with Liz Scott's Sugar Pop in mod bud chartreuse
• Shag rug, white globes: Crate & Barrel
• Lamp, pillows: CB2
• Curtains, dresser, sidetable and bookshelf: Ikea
• Curtain tie-backs: Anthropologie
• Maternity photos: Johanna Mac
• Paint: Benjamin Moore in Stormy Monday
Thanks Amy!
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Having served his four-game suspension for failing a drug test for Adderall, Giants safety Will Hill thinks the league needs to re-examine its policies on the drug, which falls under the performance-enhancing drug policy.
Hill, who was prescribed Adderall before he signed with the Giants this spring for ADHD, said denying the drug from players who need it could have unintended consequences.
"It is a medical condition and people do take it for medical (purposes)," Hill said, via Newsday's Tom Rock. "I know there are other people who do take it for like, to be up, to have fun, things like that, but some people really need to take it because if they don't take it, then what?
"There's going to be problems. People are going to be agitated and things are going to go on. There'll be people like me, I can't take it no more."
Hill's been looking for ways to treat his ADHD as long as he can remember.
"As a kid, my grandmother tried to give me Ritalin to slow me down because I was all over the place," he said. "When I was in college they had different things. I had multiple tutors. I had like three tutors in one class with me so I could get things down. There was always a different way to go around my disability."
The league allows a medical exemption for the drug, provided a player files the proper paperwork and goes through the proper channels. Giants teammate Andre Brown is among those who did.
Until he can, Hill said he's going to have to manage without the medication.
"I have to find a different solution," Hill said.
While players can claim the "Adderall defense," and not be called on it (since the league maintains confidentiality of failed drug tests), there are doubtless plenty of players who legitimately need it.
For those who do, there needs to be a streamlined process for approval, so a legitimate medical condition doesn't go untreated.


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Tom Silva
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As a proud member of America's favorite home improvement team since 1986, general contractor Tom Silva has provided years of expert advice to home enthusiasts across the country on - saboteamos.info. He also brings his endless expertise to - saboteamos.info's sister show, Ask - saboteamos.info.
Renovating houses since he was a child, Tom's first major project, working alongside his dad and brother, was installing a basement fallout shelter underneath their 1787 Colonial in Lexington, Massachusetts. After digging out the 20x40x12-foot hole under the house, by hand, and hauling away all the boulders, they framed it and finished it off. "It took us two years, and I felt such pride in what we had accomplished that I knew I wanted to do this for a living," says Tom.
Silva Brothers Construction, made up of Tom, his father, and brother Richard, built the original set for the WGBH-TV Boston production The Victory Garden in the parking lot of WGBH. Russell Morash, the creator of - saboteamos.info, discovered the Silva crew while they were conducting a major restoration on an 1845 Greek Revival-style house. It was then that Russ named Tom and his crew the general contractors for the show.
Tom says, "Each job is unique and different, which is just what I like. Besides loving my work, I've made good friends with the entire crew of - saboteamos.info, and it's been a rewarding experience." Tom has contributed to Complete Remodeling and Complete Landscaping, published by - saboteamos.info Books in conjunction with Sunset Books in 2004, and the Homeowner's Manual, published by - saboteamos.info Books in 2000. He is on the editorial board of - saboteamos.info magazine, published by - saboteamos.info, LLC., where his work and expert advice are featured regularly.
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I'd be interested.
Eligible for NZ, England and Australia myself.
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England, if you weren't aware.
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
England or Ireland or Cremerland
Want to be England and want to be Swann tbph. But if numbers don't allow it I can play for one of the others.
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I'd be interested.
England, obvz. Qualify for Ireland in the football and rugby regs through my maternal grandfather, but not sure about cricket. Think I'd either need to be a citizen (which I'm not, although am eligible for an Irish passport) or have done 4 years residence.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"Brexit is the Tory party's baby; it's been a long and painful labour and, at the very last minute, they've sh@t all over it.'" - Frankie Boyle
In for NZ as a quick bowler.
Excuse me while I fall down a slight gradient at 122 kmph.
President of SKAS - Kat is King | Proud member of CVAAS - One of the best | LRPLTAS - Rosco rocks!
Go Tigers!
R.I.P. Fardin & Craig
Sign-up thread. If you started filling it in before I edited my post, make sure you have batting and bowling aggression in there.
1) Ross is Boss.
2) See point 1.
Leading the charge against nuances being used in posts.
Overrated XI M Bracewell, Burns, Rahane, Don Voges, Bairstow, Alecz Day, Donovan Grobelaar, Luke Ronchi, Faulkner, Dan Christian, Permaul
My "prefers facing" thing seems to have caused confusion. It's asking whether you'd prefer to face inswing or outswing bowling when you're batting, basically.
Also, interesting to note that Clapo's stock ball is a left-arm wrong'un. Paul Adams in disguise?
I'm good for Australia, obvs. Other teams, we'll wait and see.
EDIT: I think we'll almost certainly need many multiples to make this work.
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fade, made to fade
passion's overrated anyway
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The Flying Dutchmen will renew their oldest football rivalry on Saturday (Oct. 13) when they travel to Kalamazoo College for a homecoming showdown with the Hornets.
Kickoff will be 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast by WHTC-AM (1450) and WFUR-FM (102.9).
This series is Hope's oldest current football rivalry dating back to 1910. It has been known as the "Wooden Shoes Rivalry" since 1931. The Flying Dutchmen own a 46-34-6 advantage in the series, including a 45-7 win in Holland last year. Hope has defeated Kalamazoo 11 years in-a-row.
The Flying Dutchmen will be bidding for their 12th consecutive league victory dating back to the 2005 season. Hope's longest MIAA winning streak is 13- in-a-row under coach Ray Smith from 1980-82. Hope also had an 11-game winning streak in 2000-01.
Hope will also be bidding for its 400th alltime victory. The Flying Dutchmen over their 97-year history are 399-311-38.
Senior Joey Goeb (East Grand Rapids HS) is the MIAA's Special Teams Player of the Week. He was outstanding on his returns last Saturday, returning kickoffs 54 and 39 yards and a punt for 36 yards. For the season he is averaging 26.1 on kickoff returns and 13.2 yards on punt returns. The alltime Hope single season mark for kickoff returns is 27.6 yards by Ed Sanders in 1971 and for punt returns it is 15.3 yards by Nick Conrad in 1999. Goeb also caught four passes for 117 yards and a touchdown against Alma.
Senior tailback David Booko's (Three Rivers HS) three touchdowns last Saturday raised his career total to 41 (39 rushing, 2 receiving). The career record for touchdowns scored rushing is 46 by Brandon Graham from 1994-97 and for total TDs it is 47, also by Brandon Graham.
Senior tight end Kevin VandenBosch (Calvin Christian HS) needs two receptions to reach 100 over his career. This season he has 23 catches for 250 yards and for his career has 98 for 1,117 yards.
Senior receiver Doug Van Eerden (Grand Rapids Christian HS) is maximizing his pass receptions. This season he has had seven of his 26 catches result in touchdowns and over the past two seasons he has 15 TDs off 71 receptions. Over his career he is averaging 17.2 yards per reception (77 catches for 1,323 yards and 16 TDs.).


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Jazz an ongoing experiment for McCoy Tyner
When he sits at the piano, McCoy Tyner offers both a lesson in jazz history and a provocative nudge toward the future.
In conversation, he'll freely tell stories about the times Bud Powell and John Coltrane, already greats of the field, stopped by his mother's Philadelphia beauty parlor to join jam sessions he hosted while still a teenager. But his band offers a nightly laboratory in musical adventure, refining the innovations of his mature style while proving there's a world of discovery to be found within the crags of a familiar tune.
"I don't forget my past," he says on the phone from his home in Bergenfield, N.J., "but I'm not trying to repeat it, 'cause it's done. I always try to look ahead and see what's next."
The sole surviving veteran of the group known as Coltrane's "classic quartet," Tyner has continued to rewrite the lexicon of jazz piano after those heady years in the early-to-mid-1960s that yielded some of Coltrane's most admired work, including the peerless "A Love Supreme."
He's brought his distinctive style, marked by a complex harmonic vocabulary and a percussive sensibility (articulated with a forceful left hand), to the big band format and explorations of Latin flavors. But his trio and quartet work has been prolific, freely probing the inner space of unexpected chord voicings and harmonies without jettisoning the song form.
His shows at the Regattabar on Friday and Saturday feature alto saxman Gary Bartz alongside bassist Gerald Cannon and drummer Francisco Mela.
Coltrane's signature quartet bridged his theory-drenched recordings like "Giant Steps" and the much more "out" work of his last years including larger combos and more of a free-form agenda. But no soloist can coherently venture farther than his rhythm section will support.
Tyner pioneered a route along that thorny path, authoring a road map for other musicians to follow.
"Playing with him is very freeing," Bartz says of Tyner, speaking from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he teaches. "His harmonic influence, the way he comps, the way he can follow. I think he was probably one of the first pianists who was able to play behind a soloist who was playing freer, outside of the harmony. He was one of the first to be able to figure out how to do that."
The pianist left Coltrane's band after the leader started venturing toward the stellar regions of jazz, but Tyner says his motivation for the break was a desire to focus on his own recordings. "You can't stay with mommy and daddy forever," he says, breaking into a chuckle.
He's since released a long string of well-received albums, winning five Grammy Awards and earning the honorific of Jazz Master from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tyner continues to seek new contexts for his now-familiar style. The 2008 album "Guitars" features an acoustic trio plus alternating guests including Marc Ribot and Derek Trucks. His most recent album, released the next year, is culled from a live appearance on solo piano. (He says he has the next project in mind, but isn't ready to reveal it.)
Bartz's present spot in Tyner's band furthers a musical relationship stretching back to the 1960s, including some influential dates for the Blue Note label to close that decade and Tyner's Latin All-Stars Band, which released an album in 1999. Bartz was playing a gig in Tyner's combo, in fact, when one Miles Davis walked in and was impressed with his work, inviting the saxophonist to join Davis's band — the snarling, electric combo featured on one half of "Live-Evil" in 1971.
"It's a good marriage," Bartz says of his work with Tyner. "A band is like a laboratory where you're doing experiments and you learn, and once you've done so many experiments, you understand what's happening and so you go with it."
Tyner's bands are not showcases for the leader; he takes particular care to offer repeated solo spots to each of his sidemen throughout a set. (Bartz or the others may even call the tunes.) He sees his band as a place for accomplished players to hone their interplay and make advances.
When the drum chair in his band opened up in 2009, he tapped up-and-comer Mela, a Cuban native who moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music in his early 30s and promptly became an instructor there.
"I like to initiate learning with the younger guys. They come in with a serious attitude, and I like that about them," Tyner says. "I want it to be a school when you play with me. The guys who play with me say they learned a lot, and I'm very thankful they look at it that way."
Though songs from the Coltrane years still dot his sets, Tyner veers away from musical nostalgia. His aim isn't to revisit the past, he says, but to use his history as a launching pad toward the new.
"I recorded a lot of music with John, and I can't describe what I find in it except that it's still interesting, because John's stuff is so rich musically. It's really an experience, just playing the song."
He's traveled a long way since the days of those beauty parlor jams, but Tyner is not yet finished seeking.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller appeared on Capitol Hill once again Wednesday, this time to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary committee regarding recent actions taken by the FBI.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz began his questioning of the director by reminiscing about when he had been an employee of Mueller at the Department of Justice 12 years ago.
"Let me just say any mistakes I make, you will be fully held harmless," Cruz joked before beginning to question Mueller.
"You were clean, not to worry," Mueller quipped back.
Cruz also mentioned that when he worked for Mueller, the current FBI director would start off each staff meeting by asking "Are we locking up bad guys?" something Cruz said he appreciated because it showed Mueller's focus on protecting the innocent.
Echoing the concerns raised earlier in the hearing by Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, Cruz began his questioning by inquiring about the recent Internal Revenue Service scandal, asking, "What level of priority would you characterize the IRS investigation?"
"I would say it's a high priority investigation in that there are- it needs to be handled with care," Mueller said. "But it also needs to approached aggressively because it is a very important case."
Cruz's next question pertained to how many people had been assigned to the IRS investigation, to which Mueller explained that there are currently approximately 12 agents working in D.C., as well as many other around the country because of the "breadth of the investigation."
After Cruz asked, "Do you know if the scope has included whether there was targeting of individuals for political activity by the IRS?" Mueller told the committee that he could not give many details regarding the exact content of the investigation, as it is ongoing. Cruz then urged the FBI not to target groups too narrowly, saying, "The last time there was an instance of an administration trying to use the IRS to target political enemies, it was the Nixon administration and it led to grave consequences."
Cruz then turned his questioning to a second topic: the War on Terror.
"On the one hand, this administration has been less than vigorous in protecting the civil liberties and constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens," he said. "And yet on the other hand, the administration has been less than effective in investigating and going after real live terrorists."
The focus of the question wasn't as broad as the entire Obama administration, however; it was the restrictions he felt were placed on the FBI when it comes to investigating certain cases, as Cruz suggested that he felt the FBI's abilities had been "constrained and handcuffed."
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Besides renewal of the current Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (TRIPRA), the insurance industry is asking Congress to expand and clarify the law to fill gaps in certification and coverage areas.
Duncan Ellis, Marsh's property practice leader, said yesterday in an interview during a Washington appearance that the fact that the Obama administration has been silent, despite industry prodding, in saying whether the Boston bombing last year was a terrorist event points out a primary industry concern about the current law. Philip Edmundson, co-founder of William Gallagher Associates, a Boston national brokerage firm, said in an interview with PC360, "It has been a year since the event, and yet the administration has not clarified whether the Boston bombing was a certifiable event." Under the law, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General must jointly make such a determination.
Edmundson said that as a result of the Boston bombing, he has "seen a continued increase in the number of small and medium-sized businesses that are purchasing terrorism risk insurance. They are now joining larger organizations in buying terrorism risk insurance." He noted the original Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) was enacted in late 2002 at urging of large commercial properties. "Now," he said, "it seems concern about terrorism risk has spread, and that is an important change—more and more business rely upon the federal terrorism backstop for the security of their businesses."
Marsh's Ellis, who spoke to PC360 after a roundtable discussion at the Visitor's Center of the U.S. Capitol, said that so far property and casualty insurers have paid out $23 million in health care cost claims stemming from the Boston bombing and $2.5 million in property claims. But, he said, the bombing highlighted some concerns the industry has with the current TRIPRA. Aside from the certification process, he said, the industry questions whether nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiation events are covered under TRIPRA, and whether cyber attacks can be certified as terrorism events.
"We want Congress to include language in legislation reauthorizing TRIPRA that clearly delineates the whole protocol for certification," Ellis said. Specifically, "we want a 90-day period established for such a determination."
Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Joseph G. Murphy said at a Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) meeting last October in Boston that the fact many businesses did not have terrorism coverage in place would have led to them being adversely affected by the April 15 bombings. Murphy said businesses and public figures took the "unusual" position that no terrorist act took place in order to "preclude carriers from triggering exclusions contained in most business insurance policies." Murphy said officials had no experience and the closure of the sites for more than a week after the bombings made it "difficult to determine exposure or file claims."
Murphy said the lack of clarity on whether the event would be officially declared a terrorist attack under TRIA caused some confusion in the media and among government officials. Murphy said his office submitted data from insurers to the Federal Insurance Office, but the bombings did not reach thresholds for damages under the act, he said.


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This is a tough pill to swallow. For the first time in franchise history the team has lost a series where I really believed they were the better team.
Johan Holmqvist [12] allowed 3 goals on 26 shots in the loss. He did allow a bit of a softie on the short side for Jersey's first goal, but he was good. After his horrible Game One performance, I think Johan did a lot to regain the confidence of the franchise going into an offseason where decisions need to be made concerning the netminder's job. Brad Richards [13] had both Lightning goals on the power play. Filip Kuba [14] had a pair of assists in the game to atone for accidentally knocking over Holmqvist after a Tim Taylor turnover that resulted in the game winning goal. Vaclav Prospal [15] and Vincent Lecavalier [16] also had assists.
Going into the offseason, I feel a lot better about the team's blueline than I did 3-4 months ago. Dan Boyle is one of the best defensemen in the league and Filip Kuba earned every penny of his free agent deal from this summer. I was impressed with how Shane O'Brien [17] quickly factored into the mix and Paul Ranger [18] will be approaching 250-300 pro games by the end of next season so he should start to really hit his comfort zone as a player. It will be difficult if not impossible to retain Cory Sarich and the team might do well to find a younger, more mobile replacement for Nolan Pratt. Now is the time for one of the Lightning's young defensive prospects like Matt Smaby [19] or Vladimir Mihalik [20] or Mike Egener [21] to step up as a player.
In net, Holmqvist probably did enough in the playoffs to earn the starting job going into next season. Marc Denis' nearly $3M per year contract is unsustainable from a budget standpoint and he may be traded or even bought out before next season. That leaves young Karri Ramo [22] in the Lightning's backup role and, mark my words, he could be a Calder contender next season.
I think the most amount of work for this team needs to be done up front this summer. Lecavalier, Richards and St. Louis showed why they're paid premium dollars in this playoff series. The core is sound. The supporting cast, however, is horrible. There was no greater endictment of the Lightning's lack of offensive depth than the fact Andreas Karlsson spent all of today's game playing on the Lightning's second line and second power play unit. What do you do if you're the Lightning? That's got to be the biggest question of this offseason. They have some decent fourth line type pieces (Andre Roy, Nick Tarnasky [23], Evgeny Artyukhin [24]) and some decent third line type pieces (Ryan Craig [25], Eric Perrin [26], Jason Ward [27] should they retain him). The question is whether they can find a couple of more forwards with the skill to play on the scoring lines and possibly a natural third line center.
It's going to be an interesting offseason. If I was a young forward who hasn't fully established himself as a scorer in the league, I'd take a long hard look at Tampa. I have a feeling Lecavalier and Richards could make some young man a lot of money if they latch on here.
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Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Nicki Minaj + More to Perform at 2012 Grammys
The first batch of performers revealed for the 2012 Grammy Awards includes superstars Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson and Nicki Minaj. The Recording Academy announced today that Bruno Mars, Foo Fighters and Jason Aldean will also be taking the stage.
Swift was a big winner two years ago, when she walked away with four awards, including Album of the Year for 'Fearless.' This time around, she's up for three trophies, all in the country categories, including Best Country Song for 'Mean.' We're looking forward to seeing Swift perform too — she's come along way since her flopped 2010 Grammy perf when she brought out Stevie Nicks as a guest.
Minaj is among the favorites to win Best New Artist and she's a contender for Best Rap Album for 'Pink Friday.' Mars has six nominations, including Record and Song of the Year for 'Grenade' and Album of the Year for 'Doo-Wops & Hooligans.' Last year he performed on the telecast as part of an R&B medley with B.o.B and Janelle Monae.
Clarkson will probably be performing with Aldean, as her only nomination this year is for their No. 1 country duet 'Don't You Wanna Stay.' Her latest album, 'Stronger,' missed the cutoff date for this year's Grammys and won't be eligible until the 2013 ceremony.
The 54th Annual Grammy Awards air on CBS at 8PM EST on Feb. 12 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Additional performers — possibly including six-time nominee Adele — will be announced in the coming days.


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Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
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Stem spiny-winged
Leaves basal and cauline, alternate, dentate to deeply pinnately lobed, very spiny
Inflorescence: heads discoid, 17, in cymes, in CA; involucre 37 cm diam, (hemi)spheric; phyllaries many, in several series, spine-tipped, outer generally spreading or reflexed; receptacle naked, deeply pitted
Flowers many; corollas (nearly) radial, white to purple, tube slender, lobes linear; anther base acutely tailed, tips awl-shaped; style tip with minutely hairy node, terminal appendage subentire, long, cylindric, minutely papillate
Fruit ± cylindric, 45-angled, glabrous, generally ± cross-roughened, brown to gray-black, mottled; pappus bristles many, barbed or plumose, fused at base
Species in genus: ± 40 species: Eurasia, Medit
Etymology: (Greek: name for cotton thistle)
Plant < 2 m, ± sticky-glandular
Leaves 12.5 dm, pinnately lobed (lobes 68 pairs, acutely triangular)
Inflorescence: phyllaries lanceolate, glabrous, spines < 4 mm
Flowers: corollas 2530 mm, purplish pink, generally glabrous
Fruit 56 mm; pappus 810 mm
Ecology: Disturbed sites
Elevation: < 1400 m.
Bioregional distribution: Sierra Nevada Foothills, n Inner South Coast Ranges, Modoc Plateau
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia's mayor says automatic federal spending cuts that kicked in March 1 have seriously hurt city and local governments.
Mayor Michael Nutter is the immediate past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He says the cuts known collectively as the sequester have transferred costs onto local governments, hindering their ability to pay for basic services. He says there needs to be "a serious conversation about who gets to sit at the federal budget table."
The second-term Democrat spoke Tuesday during a meeting of the State Budget Crisis Task Force at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The event is designed to bring attention to the eroding financial condition of state governments.
Former President Bill Clinton will give the keynote address later Tuesday.
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Ever since the Brian Burke era, the Vancouver Canucks haven't had very much luck with the 2nd round pick of the NHL Draft. With the odd exception, the Canucks' management, whomever is at the helm, would take heat for not using those 2nd round picks to build within the organization. Many of those 2nd round picks since 1998 were used in trade deals, but the Canucks did not trade all of them away. So from 1998 to present, let's see what the 2nd round pick has garnered the Canucks via trade or prospect. How did the team fare overall?
Brian Burke Era
1998: Canucks chose Artem Chubarov in the 2nd round, 31st overall. He spent seven years in the Canucks organization before heading to Russia to play in the KHL. He played 228 NHL regular season games and 27 playoff games. Chubarov is better known for his funny little NHL record.
1999: Brian Burke sent this selection (31st overall) was sent to Colorado (via Washington) as compensation to acquire Marc Crawford as the new head coach of the Vancouver Canucks.
2000: Traded to Atlanta for a 2nd round pick in 2001, plus a swap of the 3rd round picks in the 2001 draft.
2001: The pick traded to Atlanta was turned around in 2000 (42nd overall) in a trade to Nashville for Drake Berehowsky.
2002: Chosen 49th overall was Kiril Koltsov. In the efforts of trying to find the next great Russian player, Burke missed on this pick. Koltsov did not play one game for the Vancouver Canucks but spent 102 games with the Manitoba Moose, the then-AHL affiliate of the big club, before going to Russia.
2003: Marc-Andre Bernier, a right winger, was chosen 60th overall in the 2nd round. He, like Koltsov before him, did not register one NHL game under his belt, but spent his career in the minors, bouncing from the AHL to the ECHL.
Dave Nonis Era
2004: The 61st pick overall was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for backup net-minder,Johan Hedberg. Hedberg only played 21 games for the Canucks with a GAA of 2.52 and a SV % of .900. That was as steep price to pay for a backup goalie for such a short term.
2005: Mason Raymond. One of the 2nd round picks that worked out for the Canucks, for the most part. Raymond played 279 games for the Canucks with one 25 goal season. Most of all, for about four seasons, we the fans, were entertained how many times Raymond fell on the ice, without assistance of a shove, almost each and every game.
2006: The 46th overall pick was traded to the Buffalo Sabres for goalie, Mika Noronen. If you thought Hedberg was an expensive trade, Noronen played only 4 games for the Canucks. With his .870 SV% and his GAA 3.52, Nonis was fleeced.
2007: Taylor Ellington was chosen 33rd overall in an inside-out trade with Buffalo and LA for Dan Cloutier. Ellington spent the majority of his hockey career in the ECHL and was last seen playing in Denmark last season.
Mike Gillis Era
2008: Yann Sauve was chosen 41st overall. He spent the better part of the last six years in the Canucks' system. He was a call up for the big club playing eight games, scoring no points. Sauve is now in Springfield, IL playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets farm team, The Falcons.
2009: Anton Rodin was chosen 53 overall. The Swedish right-winger is currently playing the SweHL for Brynas IF Galve. Another pick really not panning out for the Canucks.
2010: The 55th pick overall was traded to Buffalo for Steve Bernier, and then traded to LA in 2009 and the pick was eventually used by the Bluejackets. Make sense? Not really, but neither have some of the Canucks picks.
2011: The Canucks chose David Honzik, a Czech goalie who played in the QMJHL. Nothing has progressed beyond Honzik's junior career and hasn't been seen on any hockey radar since the 2013-2014 season.
2012: Alexandre Mallet, a left wing prospect chosen 57th overall. He played a few years in the AHL and ECHL system for the Canucks until recently. He is now part of the ECHL Stockton Thunder, an affiliate team of the New York Islanders.
2013: CORRECTION: The Canucks did not have a 2013 pick due to a trade in order to get Derek Roy . Along with the pick was Kevin Connaughton. However they did have another pick in the 1st round and turned it into Hunter Shinkaruk. As per @s0ya on twitter.
Jim Benning Era
2014: A possible goalie of the future in Thatcher Damko, who played in goal for Team USA in the WJC. In development and we are pretty excited to see what happens.
Until now, it seems the Canucks management failed to see the importance and true value of the 2nd round picks, especially when Burke and Nonis were at the helm. With the scouting background of Jim Benning as an asset, perhaps this is a trend that has been bucked and we can look to the future of depth and building within the system. We can all hope.
In 2015, that 2nd round pick has again been traded, but Sven Baertchi looks like his worth the price ,so far since being acquired, down in Utica. Benning and others seem Baertchi as a future regular NHL'er with the proper development. Travis Green knew how to motive and develop Sven in the WHL, and it could be another wonderful realtionship in Utica.
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Reactions to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon's comments on the fiscal cliff on Wednesday at the New York Times DealBook Opportunities for Tomorrow Conferences have been making the rounds on StockTwits and elsewhere
Dimon said the U.S. could see its economy boom in just a couple of months if lawmakers on Capitol Hill and the White House resolve their disagreements over higher taxes and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff.
The banking executive said the U.S. is poised to grow at a robust 4% and add jobs at a clip of 200,000 a month as he held out a carrot for Congress to act despite public acrimony between Democrats and Republicans.
At last check, however, the talks appear to be stalled, according to an AP report.
Dimon said he was flattered by Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett's renewed a call for him to be named Treasury secretary, but ever-modest, he added he doesn't believe a CEO from Wall Street could get confirmed.
A Wall Street chief has already been Treasury secretary in recent times, with ex-Goldman Sachs chief Hank Paulson serving in that role during the Bush administration.
Turning to J.P. Morgan's massive trading losses tied to the so-called London Whale, Dimon said the scandal "accelerated things" in terms of management changes, but said the bank should see more stability going forward.
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