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The Atlanta Lyric Theatre presents Beehive: The 60's Musical by Larry Gallagher. This "rafter-raising musical" will be performed at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre in Marietta, February 15 through March 3.
Beehive is a rockin' musical celebration of the girl groups who left their mark on 60's music and on many of our lives. Relive music's golden era and an empowering time in history with "The Name Game," "The Beat Goes On," "Respect," "Natural Woman," "My Boyfriend's Back," "One Fine Day," "To Sir With Love," "It's My Party," "Proud Mary," "Downtown" and more.
Through the hits of Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Shirelles and others, six energetic women and one hot band take you on a journey through the look, the sounds and the electricity of the times. In what Time Magazine calls, "A Cherry Coke show with plenty of fizz!" Beehive: The 60's Musical will leave audiences of all ages dancing in the aisles.
The original stage presentation of Beehive: The 60's Musical was first presented in 1985 and ran for over 18 months Off-Broadway at the Village Gate Theatre in New York City.
The cast of Beehive: The 60's Musical at The Lyric is Lisa Manuli (Anything Goes), Mary Nye Bennett (White Christmas), Kayce Grogan-Wallace (Hairspray), Jamie Wood Katz (Legally Blonde), Chimere Scott (Little Shop of Horrors), and Christy Clark.
The Lyric's production of Beehive: The 60's Musical is directed and choreographed by Ricardo Aponte (Ain't Misbehavin').
The creative staff also includes BJ Brown, musical director; Findley Hansard, assistant choreographer; Pamela Hickey, set designer; Lindsey G. Paris, costume designer; George Deavour0s, wig designer; Michael Wolmer, lighting designer; Bobby Johnston, sound designer; and Amy Radebaugh, stage manager.
All performances are held at the Strand Theatre at 117 N. Park Sq., on Marietta Square. For tickets and information call 404-377-9948 or visit AtlantaLyricTheatre.com.
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RALEIGH — A Raleigh man owes $842,000 to the Department of Defense after pleading guilty Thursday to charges of a conspiracy to defraud the federal government.
Dwight Woolard steered subcontracts to his spouse and her company for much of his tenure as a U.S. Army research scientist in Durham, according to a release from the eastern North Carolina district of the United States Attorneys Office. Woolard was a program manager at the Durham office from 1998 until his termination in December 2012.
Woolard sent data-entry work, website development and conference-planning jobs to his wife, who was not named in a written release, and the company Qtronika, the release states. Qtronika has no apparent Internet presence and is not listed in North Carolina government records.
I really have no comment, said a woman who answered a phone number associated with the business. She declined to say whether the business still exists.
Over 11 years, Woolards wife and Qtronika received about $842,000 in government-funded projects, according to the United States Attorneys eastern North Carolina office.
For almost a decade, Dwight Woolard abused the Armys trust and stole monies meant for the development of innovative ways to protect and defend American military personnel in battle, U.S. Attorney Thomas Walker said in a written statement.
Woolard faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and forfeiture of fraudulently gained assets; hell be sentenced in January 2014.
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My Diet Coach - Weight Loss
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Reviewed by Anna Grace / Mar 07, 2014
Receive tips and follow your diet to the letter
My Diet Coach Tips is a women-addressed application that aims to offer motivation and advice to all those people who're experiencing problems when trying out diets.
The app presents sveral types of difficulties you might be facing: food craving, emotional eating, dining out, food temptation, family meal, workout laziness and other more psychological aspects like motivation facts.
Select your concern and learn tipes on how to overcome them.
InspiredApps (A.L) LTD is the developer of My Diet Coach Tips, an app designed to resist temptation and gain force of will to accomplish your objectives.
Download the pro version for more obstacles and specific diets. The idea is pretty good, but some of the tips are pretty bland and predictable, we don't know how much effect they can have.
Join thousands of happy users!
My Diet Coach will motivate you, help keep you on track, resist food cravings, emotional eating, exercise laziness and other obstacles by motivational arguments, guidelines, tracking challenges, getting virtual rewards for your achievements, helpful reminders and notifications with your goal and your motivational photos .
*** Yay! I lost 10 lbs!Ever since I started my diet and exercise program, I have used this app to remind me of what my goals are to keep me motivated. Excellent app!
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My Diet Coach app will help you to break bad eating habits and guide you into weight loss routine by setting up helpful reminders (like drink water reminder, weigh in reminder, cook healthy food, record in your diet diary what you have been eating ).
My Diet Coach app will increase your weight loss motivation by giving you notifications with your goal, your motivational photo and motivational quotes.
My Diet Coach will help you in making healthy lifestyle changes by setting up daily challenges and tracking them (go to the gym, jogging, walking, home workouts, avoiding junk food, eating healthy food and much more…)
My Diet Coach will give you virtual rewards for being committed and "doing the right thing"
We all know that in order to lose weight we should consume less calories than we burn. Sounds easy, doesn't it? Do sentences like "I live once, Who cares about nutrition?", "I can't resist that food" or "Healthy recipes are boring" pop into your head and ruin your diet efforts? Half of the road to fat loss is sticking to your diet, but the other half is mental – My Diet Coach will help you to resist these destructive thoughts up to the point resisting becomes natural to you! start losing weight quickly today!
My Diet Coach has five main features:
Reminders - Add custom diet reminders!
Perseverance Tips – Just touch the button with the obstacle you are facing. Relevant motivational tips with inspiring pictures will appear.
Motivational watchers – Motivational photos, your goal reminder and motivational quotes!
Challenges - Set and track your challenges
Rewards - Get points and virtual rewards for doing the right thing, a really playful game like experience!
You can upgrade the lite version to Pro ( For additional fee: by in-app purchase or by downloading the pro version)
The Pro features include:
*** Diet and Meal Planner:
> Calorie counter and calories burned calculator
> BMI calculator and BMR calculator
*** Diet Journal (Pro)
> Account for everything you eat and do during the day – journal meals and exercises (New! online food database)
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• Its main focus is to keep you motivated, help you lose weight quickly and teach you how to lose weight efficiently.
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And… It's a free app !!! insanity (:
Sorry guys – currently the app is only for women
> Customize your avatar and dress it up with the virtual fashion items you've earned
> Male configuration
> New images for tips
> Some errors fixed
Some lists where this application appears: Reviewed by Anna Grace.
Its amazing I love how you get rewarded and how it motivates you
Good app..
Very helpful!
Very helpful tips and diet advice!
Best app
Good tips. Love the daily challenges. Adds color and fun to weight loss which is hard and not fun.
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Availability: Maistra Villas Rubin Resort
Standard Twin RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Standard Triple RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
Family fun at the shore
This Rovinj hotel is set on the beach a short distance from Golden Cape Forest Park, Rovinj Marina, and Monkodonja Hill Fort. Also nearby are Church of Our Mother of Mercy and Romanesque Church of the Holy Trinity.
Hotel Features
At Maistra Villas Rubin Resort, hit the beach where you can enjoy water skiing, then dine onsite at Onsite dining venue.
Room Amenities
Televisions come with satellite channels. Guestrooms also feature sofa beds, safes, and desks.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Maistra Villas Rubin Resort Amenities
- General
In addition to a seasonal outdoor pool and a children's pool, Maistra Villas Rubin Resort provides outdoor tennis courts and a waterslide. Wired high-speed Internet access is available for a surcharge. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. This beach hotel also offers a children's club, tour/ticket assistance, and an arcade/game room.
- Babysitting or childcare (free)
- Supervised childcare/activities (free)
- Outdoor tennis courts 10
- 24-hour front desk
- Arcade/game room
- ATM/banking
- Tennis on site
- Bar/lounge
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Total number of rooms - 357
- Children's club
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Multilingual staff
- Poolside bar
- Children's pool
- Television in lobby
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Waterslide
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Internet
Available in some public areas: Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Room Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
- Sofa bed
- Patio
- Daily housekeeping
- Complimentary toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Dining
Onsite dining venue - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Bonaca - This restaurant specializes in local cuisine.
Pizzeria Kantun - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine.
- Recreation
A children's pool and a seasonal outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include outdoor tennis courts and a waterslide.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Beach volleyball on site
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Aerobics on site
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Motor boating on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
Maistra Villas Rubin Resort Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is 10 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed, Only dogs and cats are allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Pet fee: HRK 73 per pet, per day
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Facts and Information on Solar Energy
Every fact about the Sun is hard for most of us to take in. The numbers are so huge it makes us and our Earth seem very small and insignificant. When we feel the heat of the Sun on our face, it is hard to believe that it has come from 150 million km away. Just a tiny fraction of the Sun's energy hits the Earth, yet every minute enough energy arrives to meet our demands for a whole year if only we could harness it properly.
Is the Scale of Climate Change overstated?
Many people say:
"The scale of the negative effects of climate change is often overstated and there is no need for urgent action."
What does the science – and the Royal Society – say?
Under one of its mid range estimates, the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world's leading authority on climate change – has projected a global average temperature increase this century of two to three degrees centigrade. This would mean that the earth will experience a larger climate change than it has experienced for at least 10,000 years. The impact and pace of this change would be difficult for many people and the ecosystems to adapt to.
However, the IPCC has pointed out that as climate change progresses it is likely that negative effects wold begin to dominate almost everywhere. Increasing temperatures are likely, for example to increase the frequency and severity of weather events such as heatwaves, storms and flooding.
Furthermore there are real concerns that, in the longterm, rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could set in motion large scale and potentially abrupt changes in our planet's natural systems and some of these could be irreversible. Increasing temperatures could, for example, lead to the melting of large ice sheets with major consequences for low lying areas throughout the world.
And the impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor – those who could can least afford to adapt. Thus a changing climate will exacerbate inequalities in, for example, health and access to adequate food and water.
Has Climate Change become the new Religion?
For many people, their opinion on climate change is more a religious type of faith rather than one based on science. It's understandable because most of us are not experts and must rely on the work of those who are.
Number of Sunspots effect Earth's Temperature?
People want to believe climate change isn't happening. One common argument used used is:
It's all to do with the sun – for example, there is a strong link between the increased temperature on earth and the number of sunspots on the sun.
But what does the science – and the Royal Society – say?
Change in solar activity is one of the many factors that influence the climate but cannot, on its own, account for the change in global average temperature that we have seen in the 21st century.
Changes in the sun's activity influence the earth's climate through small but significant variations in its intensity. When it is a more "active" phase – as indicated by a greater number of sunspots on its surface – it emits more light and heat. While there is evidence of a link between solar activity and some of the warming in the early 20th century, measurements from satellites show that there has been very little change in underlying solar activity in the last 30 years. There is even evidence of a detectable decline – and so this cannot account for the recent rises we have seen in global temperatures. The magnitude and pattern of changes to temperatures can only be understood by taking all of the relevant factors – both natural and human – into account. For example, major volcanic eruptions produce a cooling effect because they blast ash and other particles into the atmosphere where they persist for a few years and reduce the amount of the sun's energy that reaches the earth's surface. Also, burning fossil fuels produces particles called sulphate aerosols which tend to cool the climate in the same way. Over the first part of the 20th century higher levels of solar activity combined with increases in human generated carbon dioxide to raise temperatures. Between 1940 and 1970 the carbon dioxide effect was probably offset by increasing amounts of sulphate aerosols in the atmosphere, and a slight downturn in solar activity, as well as enhanced volcanic activity.
During this period global temperatures dropped. However, in the latter part of the 20th century temperatures rose well above the levels of the 1940s. Strong measures taken to reduce sulphate pollution in some regions of the world meant that industrial aerosols began to provide less compensation for an increasing warming caused by carbon dioxide. The rising temperature during this period has been partly abated by occasional volcanic eruptions.


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Colin Hill, Contributor
Big Data analytics and the future of healthcare and drug development
What will healthcare look like in the year 2020? One thing is certain: we can't afford its current trajectory. Left unchecked, our $2.6 trillion in annual spending will grow to $4.6 trillion by 2020, one-fifth of GDP. With almost 80 million Baby Boomers approaching retirement, economists forecast these trends will likely bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid in the near future. And while healthcare reform ignites a number of important changes, alone it does not resolve our issues. It's critical we fix our system now.
Growth in Literature
Over the past 50 years medicine has grown dramatically. We now have more preventive, diagnostic, and treatment alternatives than ever before, with more being developed all the time.
This proliferation has been accompanied by an explosion in literature. Fully 35 percent of the 20 million articles indexed in MEDLINE were published in the last 10 years, with the annual pace approaching one million articles.
Despite this vast body of literature, the healthcare system remains starved for evidence of what works. While we have many treatment alternatives, in many cases we do not have much of an idea where best to apply them. Treatments that work well for some work poorly – or worse – for others.
We must learn to distinguish what interventions work, and for whom.
Limited Knowledge
Unfortunately, we have critical limitations in our ability to evaluate treatment effectiveness. First, and despite its volume, medical literature is of variable quality and has limited generalizability. Only a small fraction of studies compare the effectiveness of different treatments, and few evaluate effectiveness in real-world settings.
Evidence of what does work is increasingly overturned. A recent study found that 13 percent of articles concerning a clinical practice published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009 were reversals of previous findings.
And clinical practice guidelines, whose goal is to synthesize research into evidence for use by clinicians, don't fare much better. Their quality is highly variable and, in some instances, quite poor – even the best have a limited shelf life. A 2001 review of guidelines estimated that half had become outdated in less than six years. It is unlikely that the situation has improved since then.
Clearly, and despite all the effort and expense, healthcare remains one of our nation's most well-endowed, yet-poorly-informed, industries, with an approach to creating evidence clearly inadequate to the needs of practitioners and patients.
We must start producing better evidence faster and on a large scale. Before we can reduce costs and deliver meaningful improvements in outcomes, we must have meaningful evidence. Without it, we can never know what works, and for whom.
New Sources of Information
New types and sources of health care data have become available – or soon will – and in overwhelming quantity. The federal government is investing $20 billion in Electronic Health Records; industry is developing new electronic transaction standards; and innovators like PatientsLikeMe, 23andMe, Fitbit and Zeo are helping people generate and share their own data. The era of Big Data in healthcare has arrived.
Can Big Data Fix Healthcare?
A recent McKinsey report called Big Data, "the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity." The Aspen Institute reported on the "promise and perils" of it. The Economist issued a special report about it. O'Reilly Media hosted two conferences on it this year alone. In all of these, Big Data's opportunity to transform health care was featured prominently.
Are these expectations justified? Can Big Data fix healthcare? What analytic technologies will be required to actually deliver on Big Data's promise and discover what works? What other promises need to be met for this to become a reality, and what will reality look like when evidence becomes available at the push of a button?
My name is Colin Hill. I am CEO and co-founder of GNS Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company focused on using observational data directly, and at-scale, to create evidence of what works for whom in healthcare. We'll take on these questions and more in subsequent entries. Welcome to the conversation!
So what do you think? Can big data fix health care?
Data is not a problem. Forever growing demand for improved well being is. We want to grow old very healthy and beautiful, have babies at 60, defeat congenital diseases and all that preferably for free. So we listen to all snake oil salesmen at all levels of science. This generates data and words.
Big data alone cannot fix health care. That data must be managed and integrated, and only then can analytics be applied to address the issues in the article. Collecting the data is an important first step, but that step is of limited value by itself.
A good example here is regarding the FDA. Every new drug that is submitted for approval is submitted with the clinical research data that is necessary to assess that new drug application. After that process is completed, the data is maintained at FDA but is of limited long-term value because — historically — there has been little standardization between submissions and little infrastructure to support the examination of that data in aggregate. Although the 'big data' has existed for years, there is little that has been done with it.
FDA has recognized this issue, and is moving toward the expectation of much better standardized data during the submission process, the modernization and standardization of previously submitted data, the infrastructure to support this process *as well as* the ability to apply analytics to this data. It is a work in progress, but progress is definitely occurring.
Similar examples exist across the health care spectrum. The key here is big data + big analytics, and the will to get the work done.
You astutely point out that big data, in and of itself, isn't going to fix health care. There are book ends to either side of the big data equation, just as there are book ends to the enterprise data warehouse initiatives of the last decade+.
Health care organizations have all sorts of interesting integration and data validation events that are fairly new territory for many of them – after all, data hasn't been a core business for health care organizations.
Big data, and it's trusty sidekick – NoSQL are tools well suited to the volume, variety, velocity and complexity of data but alas, nothing happens automagically and you still need to do the analytics which requires an understanding of context, conditions and rules.
Yes, there is definitely a role for big data to change healthcare– perhaps even revolutionize healthcare.
Collin rightly identifies the accelerating volume of medical literature, and the rapid pace of change in medical best practices, as opportunities to derive value from large volumes of textual data. To this I would add the large share of clinical documentation that is captured in narrative form via dictation or direct entry by clinicians. Healthcare absolutely needs big data to be a big part of the data analytics solution.
But big data alone cannot "fix healthcare" any more than big data is the exclusive answer to delivering the analytics essential to improving healthcare quality and reducing costs. Equally important, and of perhaps greater urgency, is the need to derive value from structured data — such as lab results, clinical findings and diagnosis — that is already being captured in electronic health records. Unfortunately, this data is frequently inaccessible outside the applications that created it; the data are of suspect quality due to missing fields, inconsistent formats, intentional re-use of fields for multiple purposes; and a myriad of other data quality issues that severely limit the usefulness of the data.
So "fixing healthcare" (from even just a data perspective) requires that we first make the structured data we already have accessible, reliable, and trustworthy so it can be used for high-value analytics. Combining this data with the big data Collin discussed then really does have the potential to "fix healthcare".
Two operating words – 'fix' and 'data'. With so many moving parts in the healthcare system, 'fixing' with one silver bullet sounds just too simplistic. I think the question must be "What parts of and how much can big data fix?"
Michigan is a leader here with its Medicaid records in a data warehouse along with 20 other state agencies. In addition to saving $1 million a day, the data is being used to track treatment programs in areas like diabetes and HIV.
I stumbled across this site at my office the other day and fond this to be an interesting article.
I am a manager of revenue integrity at a hospital and I wish it was as simple as big data being a possible solution. In my humble opinion, it is not until the parable of a "special class" disappears from healthcare culture will it ever get corrected.
A great majority of the clinicians and physicians believe that they should not concern themselves with "charges" or even documentation. This is the same as a factory worker refusing to document putting in a part in a sub-assembly, (be it manual or automation). Imagine Boeing building an airplane and not knowing the cost structure of its products.
Saying it simply, most hospital administrators, clinicians and physicians do not understand what "cost structure" means nor do they care to know. Their normal pricing strategy is to raise prices 5% every year without understanding the cost of a DRG or APC and regardless of fixed reimbursements by the payers, (or it's about patient care and I can't concern myself with documentation). This pushes costs on to the uninsured, who then must file for bankruptcy to get relief from this enormous debt. Which then causes the hospital to try to recover this lost by rising prices again the next year.
It's unsustainable and possibly even criminal.
Readers interested in further thoughts on big data in healthcare might want to check out this…
The Mckinsey Global Institute report on big data is no more than a lengthy essay in fallacies, inflated hyperbole, faulty assumptions, lacking in evidence for its claims and ignoring the two most important stakeholders of healthcare – namely doctors and patients.
The report deals with the macroeconomics of the pharmaceutical and healthcare organization industries.
The MGI report does not offer any correlation between reduction in system-wide costs and improving the quality of care of the individual patient.
You can read the full article explaining in detail why the MGI report is rubbish here – http://pathcareblog.com/why-big-data-for-healthcare-is-rubbish/
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3 Big Challenges Obama Could Fix Right Now
It's time to get the White House back on track.
Unless you've been living on Mars, you know that the president is in a tough spot these days: His job approval ratings have bottomed out, and a stunning 7 in 10 Americans think the country is on the wrong track. Too many people have lost faith in the government. A majority now consider it to be a threat, and massive distrust of government is bad for a democracy. The administration needs to get things moving back in the right direction again – and fast.
To me, the White House faces three big challenges, each of which can be fixed.
The first challenge is a complete lack of focus on the toughest threat we face: stubborn unemployment and sluggish economic growth. When was the last time you heard the president say anything about creating jobs? In Washington-speak, the president needs to "pivot back" to job creation and away from all the distractions.
For starters, there's an infrastructure bill to fix ports and waterways that's already passed both the House and the Senate, and the president should sign it – and make a big deal about it. Then he should call for a broader infrastructure bill for bridges and roads. Every state in the union could use construction jobs, and with congressional earmarks a thing of the past, members of Congress are looking for ways to bring home jobs, even temporary ones. A reasonable infrastructure bill has a better chance of getting bipartisan support right now than immigration reform does. And he should consider putting the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles commission back on the table. The president may not like all of the commission's suggestions, but working toward a sound fiscal plan would send a great message to the markets. Right now, the administration has no long-term plan – other than lurching to the next debt limit fight in the new year – for debt reduction and entitlement reform. Hope is not a strategy.
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Second, the administration needs to rebuild its credibility with voters and the press. Simply put, no one believes the White House anymore. The apology for promising "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan," when that clearly wasn't true, was a good start. But there have been far too many times when the official response has been, "The president wasn't aware of that ..."
It's just not credible anymore that the president doesn't know what his government is doing. In fact, it's eroding confidence in our chief executive's competence. We have a right to expect competence in our leaders.
I've thought for a long time that White House press secretary Jay Carney needs to go – and the president would be better served by bringing in an experienced Washington veteran to set a new tone. There are several Democratic former White House press secretaries who come to mind, all of whom are well-respected by the press corps: former Clinton press secretaries Mike McCurry, Joe Lockhart and Dee Dee Myers, for example. If Obama could talk any of them into it, then he could bring some believability to the job again. The status quo is hurting his own stature as president.
And third, there's a widespread feeling that the president's operating style has a lot to do with why no one in Washington will speak to each other. For example, the White House recently postponed the annual congressional barbecue, usually held every summer for members of Congress on the South Lawn. It was originally scheduled for June, then moved to September, and then, according to Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair, cancelled altogether in a terse 53-word email from the White House.
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As I write this, I'm traveling the country interviewing dozens of people for a documentary about my old boss, President George H.W. Bush, and I've learned that not reaching out to people was something he simply never did. One of his first acts as president – long forgotten now – was to make his way across town to the Senate office of Majority Leader Harry Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, to pay his respects. No particular reason, no arm twisting on some bill, just a handshake to start things off. That was after he said, "This is the age of the offered hand," in his inaugural address. Hard to imagine these days. It's no accident that Bush passed a long list of bills with bipartisan support, despite Democratic control of both the House and Senate during his four years.


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All the restFlorida Panthers Executive VP & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has agreed to terms with D Filip Kuba (FIHL-ihp KOO-bah) on a two-year contract.
Filip is an experienced player who adds further depth to our blue line, said Tallon. He is a big, strong and responsible, shutdown defenseman who averaged more than 23 minutes of ice time per-game last season. We are confident that he will fit very well into our top six and help our power play. We look forward to his contributions to our team.


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UPDATED Wednesday, April 18, 2012 --- 12:55 p.m.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Not guilty pleas have been entered to charges against a Milwaukee County man accused of spinning a young girl in a clothes dryer.
The 4-year-old child told investigators that Nicholas Fuchs put her in the dryer "a lot of times" and that it was dark and she was scared. A criminal complaint says Fuchs also broke the girl's arm and assaulted the child's 5-year-old brother. The children were 3 and 4 when the alleged abuse took place last year at the Oak Creek home Fuchs shared with their mother.
The complaint says Fuchs picked the boy up by his neck and threw him on a bed, pinched his genitals and would put the boy's feet in hot water if he urinated in his pants.
WTMJ-TV says Fuchs' attorney entered the pleas in court Wednesday.
Copyright 2012. The Associated Press.
Posted Monday, April 16, 2012 --- 8:50 a.m.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A Milwaukee man is accused of spinning a young child in a clothes dryer, fracturing her arm and choking her brother.
Twenty-six-year-old Nicholas Fuchs is facing six charges, including recklessly endangering safety, false imprisonment and strangulation. Prosecutors say he repeatedly put his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter in the dryer and turned it on because the girl wet her pants. Fuchs is also accused of fracturing the girl's arm.
A criminal complaint says Fuchs also injured the 5-year-old brother's genitals and picked the boy up by the neck, choking him. Prosecutors say the abuse occurred at the couple's Oak Creek apartment between January and October of last year.
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