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- by Jill Quadagno
Hank at Insureblog has written a thought-provoking review of my book, One Nation, Uninsured. I appreciate his willingness to take on this task and welcome the opportunity to engage in a debate about how we finance health care in this country.
First, let's consider Hank's claim that I consider our current system unfair. Guilty as charged. How can the wealthiest nation in the world leave 46 million of its citizens without coverage of their basic health care needs? Why should the United States be the only industrialized nation that places people at risk of losing their health insurance if they lose their jobs, become widowed or just get sick?
Is this a problem? Of course it is. Most uninsured people do not have a regular family doctor and thus do not receive preventive care like cholesterol-lowering drugs or screening for cancer and heart disease. Frequently, the care they do receive is in an emergency room where there are no follow-up services. Many receive no care at all because hospitals in poor neighborhoods, where there are large numbers of uninsured people, have been closing.
Can the private sector resolve this dilemma? I think not. The employer-based system that most people of working age have relied on since the 1950s is unraveling at the seams. Each year for more than a decade a smaller percentage of employers have offered health insurance coverage. The only reason the situation doesn't look worse is that the government is picking up the slack – through Medicare, Medicaid and coverage provided to government and other public-sector employees.
Guaranteeing universal coverage does not mean nationalizing the health care system. There are many ways to achieve universal coverage without eliminating an industry. Most other countries allow, and some encourage, private insurance as an upgrade or second tier to a higher class of service and a fuller array of services. Some even depend on private insurance companies for basic coverage. But the practices of these companies are heavily regulated to prevent them from engaging in the more pernicious forms of risk rating. That is not the case in the United States, where private insurance companies are allowed to use sophisticated forms of medical "underwriting" to set premiums and skim off the more desirable employee groups and individuals.
If history provides any lesson, it is that vast, politically influential industries cannot be eliminated. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't hold them accountable. Nor does it mean that the government has no role to play, whether that be through more regulation of private insurance companies, expanded public programs for those who are uninsurable in the private market or vouchers for people cannot afford to pay premiums on their own.
LINK to review at InsureBlog.
Read more from Jill Quadagno on OUP Blog HERE, HERE and HERE.
6 Responses to "Response to InsureBlog"
I don't think the fact that we have a private health care system in the US is the problem. I believe the problem lies at a more fundamental level. The structure of our health care system is based on at least two bedrock beliefs that make the cost structure as expensive as it is. One is that cost should not be a factor in determining the amount of care a patient receives. Hence we have a system where the consumers as well as the providers of health care services have very little knowledge about the cost of the services they are receiving and providing. This leads to a system where 30% of health care spending goes to 1% of the population.
The other belief is that we have to spend an inordinate amount of money to train only the best qualified doctors and that those doctors should be held punitively accountable for their inevitable mistakes, as well as thinks that are outside the control of a doctor. The result of that belief is that doctors are not as plentiful as they should be. Therefore supply and demand plus the costs of being a doctor (liability insurance and schooling costs) dictate that doctors salaries will be high. As a result 25% of health care spending is to pay doctor's salaries. Being a doctor is the highest paid profession in the US. It need not be. It's not the case in most other countries.
Unless we address these underlying beliefs how we distribute health care will matter little. Already 14% of our GDP goes to health care spending where in other western countries it's usually more like 7-8%. I would not be concerned with that number if we actually got what we paid for. But looking at medical statistics such as life span, cancer survival rates, infant mortality, etc. it hardly seems like we are. But even switching to a government administered health care system will not bring down the cost and bringing down the cost is what will make universal health care possible. To put it another way there are two specific areas where market forces are not allowed to limit the rise of costs and as a result they have risen precipitously. The people who are hurt by this are the people at the lower end of the economic ladder (or those who are too stupid to realize who easy it is to game the system).
As one of the 46 million uninsured, as a former health care worker and as the sufferer of a non-life-threatening but quality-of life-destroying chronic disease, I have had ample reason to ponder these issure.
I am a little confused by the above post. Mr.Bandsma seems to both think doctors are overpaid and that their liability is too high, causing those same potentially overpaid individuals from taking up the profession and causing a shortage. I can't make out what disallowed "market forces" he thinks would resolve these issues.
He is right about our overspending as a percent of GDP and what we get for our money. But among the most wealthy countries we are most definitely not suffering a shortage of physicians per capita. In per capita terms We have almost triple the number of doctors as Canada, 35% 0 40% more than France or Germany, almost 3-1/2 times the number of the UK. (These are rough, but I just looked this up on the UN Development index last week and it was shocking.) In Canada and the UK the claim is that poor pay discourages doctors from practicing there. That may well be true. When I worked in Detroit we had an astonishing number of doctors crossing the international border to practice on the American side. Americans have heard plenty of horror stories about Canada's physician shortage and long waits for care. The long waits may be true but on every indicator that matters, Canada does much better than we do in outcomes. So, maybe doctors aren't the problem or the answer.
I am not sure about what percentage of the American health care dollar goes to doctors. 25% seems high, especially once one looks at what insurers actually pay per visit as opposed to what physicians' offices bill. Maybe it's a big city thing, but the physicians here in the city of Chicago seem far more concerned about their patients' inability to access care than they are about malpractice insurance premiums, Which is the thing we heard so much about in the last election cycle. Talk about a manufactured crisis when there is a much more deadly one afoot. Without insurance getting care IS possible but it is difficult, slow, time-consuming, frustrating and frightening. An example: Last March I knew I was overdue for a mamogram. It was mid-May before I could get in to see the primary care doc. who could write the order. It was July before I had the test. Another set of pictures was needed. Got those, end of July. A biopsy is needed. It is now November 3rd, 8 months since I started this process. I will not have a biopsy and know the results until Thanksgiving. So much for early detection and treatment.
I also knew last March that I needed physical therapy for a damaged tendon. My 1st appointment after going through the proper managed-care channels of the county system? Mid-November again. The day after the biopsy. Do I DARE postpone?
Drug costs in this country are staggering. So are insurance premiums for those of us with chronic conditions. Just one of my Arthritis meds cost over $1400.oo per month retail. There was a period of time, before my life savings were wiped out, when I was paying out of pocket over $2000.00 per month, just in insurance and meds – and that was AFTER I stopped taking the pricey drug mentioned above, which was probably the one that helped the most. All that spending and I was still only partly treated.
Then there is the whole new bureaucracy that has arisen – and which we also pay for with our healthcare dollars– which exists mainly to put in place the "limits" on spending that the consumer is unwilling to place upon herself. An entire apparatus of billing co-ordinators and specialists, coders, reimbursement specialists, claims specialists, etc. has developed and grown exponentially since 1980 when the insurance industry began to be deregulated by the government, only to produce its own gargantuan internal reimbursement regulation apparatus. The amount of person-hours spent on fruitless phone calling to get claims reimbursed or approved or re-submitted is staggering. For every doctor's order that is written, there must be at least a dozen people that it has to pass by before the order is transcribed, filled, billed, submitted, approved, entered as paid and, hopefully, finally reimbursed at some reduced rate negotiated on the other end by the insurer. Then there are the glitches- when something doesn't go as it should — which happens often when dealing with 3rd party insurers and hospital billing systems that are patched together and poorly understood by half the people who use them. I am still battling over two visits from 7 years ago that I paid out of pocket because I knew insurance wouldn't cover them, only to have the hospital submit them to the insurer anyway and have them denied. So, they re-billed. Using different codes and cost centers, making it virtually impossible for me to prove I did NOT make two emergency visits to a clinic I never set foot in.
Then there are the tricks of the insurers, seemingly designed to wear down the supposedly insured. My last policy refused to pay for standard bloodwork + liver and kidney function tests – a necessity periodically for people on long-term meds.
It also did not pay for a pap smear. the reason: pre-existing condition. "Well, yes," I said to the unable-to-help, $10.00 an hour "customer care" person who got my call after 12 tries of getting busy signals and 25 minutes on hold, "I did have a uterus, kidneys & liver before that labwork was done, but as far as I know they were all 'conditionless.'" His supervisor was also unable to help. Someone would call me back. It never happened. I tried calling back several times but I never got to speak to a live person again. The claim was still denied.
How on earth does this make sense?
Obviously, I was incorrect (who'da thunk that?!)
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS. How much progress are we making? Two good approaches to answering this question, from the Center for Global Development and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC):
The Center for Global Development's HIV/AIDS Monitor tracks the aid effectiveness of the three biggest financing mechanisms responding to the epidemic: the Global Fund, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the World Bank Africa MAP.
GBC and Booz Allen address the private sector's progress to date in the fight against the disease in their publication The State of Business and HIV/AIDS (2006): A Baseline Report. They find that the food/beverage, mining and minerals, and energy industries have the most extensive programs in place. Congratulations to the winners at the recent GBC annual awards for outstanding business action on HIV/AIDS: Unilever, L'Oreal, National Basketball Association, Xstrata, Merck and American Express.
Talk about a manufactured crisis when there is a much more deadly one afoot. Without insurance getting care IS possible but it is difficult, slow, time-consuming, frustrating and frightening. An example: Last March I knew I was overdue for a mamogram. It was mid-May before I could get in to see the primary care doc. who could write the order. It was July before I had the test. Another set of pictures was needed.
Maybe it's a big city thing, but the physicians here in the city of Chicago seem far more concerned about their patients' inability to access care than they are about malpractice insurance premiums, Which is the thing we heard so much about in the last election cycle. Talk about a manufactured crisis when there is a much more deadly one afoot.


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Can You Afford to Be a Politician?
As civic-minded people know, politics is a money game. Do you have what it takes to play?
In early July, a Gallup poll showed that 64 percent of Americans don't want their children to become politicians. Which is probably just as well. Most children seem to harbor hopes of becoming movie stars, professional athletes and veterinarians, and not of someday being Speaker of the House or judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. It's the adults who daydream about running for office.
But as civic-minded people know, politics is a money game. Running for office, especially once you get to the state level, requires raising vast amounts of money. Beyond that, it also requires having green stuff of your own.
One may wonder why. After all, most politicians raise money from other people. As long as you have a legal place of residence, you could live in government-assisted housing and run for governor – and yet so many politicians are attorneys, physicians and businesspeople.
In fact, in the 113th U.S. Congress, there are 45 former or current lawyers and 22 businesspeople in the Senate, and 128 lawyers and 108 businesspeople in the House of Representatives. One member of the House was a youth camp director before running for office. Another was a mill supervisor. But generally, politics is akin to trying to join a posh country club. The rich people do it.
[See: 10 Golden Parachutes to Make Your Head Spin.]
It's nothing personal, though. Here are some reminders of why it helps to have money when you're competing in politics.
You need a career that will allow you time off. Politics can pay well, or reasonably well. The President of the United States currently makes $400,000 a year. The salary for most members of Congress is $174,000. The mayor of Omaha, Neb., who just requested a pay cut, will receive $102,312 a year, starting in 2014.
Whatever you make while in office, running for office is a job in itself that no one will pay you for, observes Rick Wade, a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
"A candidate has to consider that the mortgage, car payment, utilities, child care, dog care and all of the other bills still have to be paid," says Wade, who now runs the Wade Group, a Washington, D.C.-based global business development firm.
Chris Randolph, based in Philadelphia, can attest to that. Randolph ran as an independent for U.S. Congress in 2004, when he was 33 and at a point in his career when he could take some time off work. He didn't have a family to support, and he was a contract researcher for a think tank. He didn't have to quit a job; he simply stopped working for his employer for five to six months.
While he spent $5,000 of his own money to win about 1,000 votes and ultimately be crushed by the incumbent, it was the not making money where he really lost out. "I lost almost a half a year's salary," says Randolph, who is now selling books and records online and is in the midst of starting a nonprofit.
Randolph didn't plan on spending $5,000 of his own money on his campaign, but things came up due to the difficulties of running against an incumbent and as an independent. Much of his five grand went to hiring an election lawyer and defending the signatures he collected to get on the ballot. Even if you don't encounter these obstacles when running for office, you may need to spend money on things you might not have considered, like childcare if you're off campaigning a lot, a new wardrobe or odds and ends like campaign signs and pizza for volunteers if the fundraising isn't going as well as you hoped.
[See: 10 Questions That Will Help You Earn More Money.]
Of course, not every office requires the same sacrifices. Some positions, like city council, mayor and county supervisor can be part-time and don't require as much time to campaign for, points out John Oxford, a director of external affairs and PAC chairman for Renasant Corporation, a bank holding company in Tupelo, Miss. Before aligning himself with a bank, Oxford ran numerous campaigns on the local and regional level.

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That night, I had wanted Butyrskaya to win.
And Gusmeroli to get bronze.
Maria SP... probably the best one ever :p
That night, I had wanted Butyrskaya to win.
And Gusmeroli to get bronze.
Maria SP... probably the best one ever :p
Gusmeroli was 7th in the qualifying round. She would have needed to beat Maria by 5 spots in the LP, Irina by 4 spots in the LP, or Kwan by 3 spots in the LP to pass one for a medal. Hughes would have needed to beat Kwan by 2 spots in the LP, Irina by 3 spots, or Maria by 4 spots.
Does anyone know what Gusmeroli landed in the qualifying?
Was she that bad?
How the heck does Maria have so many votes. Are you people crazy. Maria is a dog. It is a bad enough the judges awarded 1 World title to such a poor skater, never mind giving her a 2nd, especialy over both a clean Slutskaya and clean Kwan, the two biggest stars of ladies skating the last 20 years. Maria is the Russian version of Tonia Kwiatkowski, an old glorirfied journeywomen.
At the 1996 Worlds Maria skated 2 clean programs and didnt even come close to beating a young Slutskaya for the bronze who took a hard fall and had other wobbles. In 1997 she was the only one besides Tara doing clean programs, especialy at the GPF where she skated perfectly and Irina and Kwan were horrible and still came 4th. At the 1998 Olympics she skated her best and lost to a technically weak Chen with poor quality jumps and poor quality spins (even the clean ones) and also alot of mistakes. At the 2002 Olympics she skated a clean short and got a 5.0 and a 10th place vote. She just sucks and the judges know it too. I have no idea how she won her World title, I think only since it was a super weak field, Kwan skated crappy, the rest of the girls sucked, and there were probably some bloc judging too. Like I said she is the Russian Kwiatkowski, an old croaky journeywomen with no special qualities. The Russian Jennifer Robinson might be another example.
'96 Worlds - Maria returned to Words after not qualifying for the FS in '93. She was up again Slutskaya, who just won her first European title, while Maria had only won a bronze medal. From a pure clout perspective, Irina had the reputation points. Maria skated really well at Worlds - but wasn't clean in the FS and landed only 5 triples. Slutskaya wasn't clean either but landed 6 triples. Slutskaya finished 3rd, Butyrskaya finished 4th - what Slutskaya put out on the ice justified the win over Butyrskaya. It was not as you intimated that the judges simply thought Butyrskaya was a B-grade skater and that a clean skate from her didn't compare to a subpar performance from Slutskaya.
'98 Olympics - Maria did not skate her best in the FS - in fact, it was probably her worst performance of that FS. She landed 3 triples, and arguably 2-footed the 3lutz, 3flip and doubled a 2nd toe attempt. Her jumps were the shakiest I've seen her do them - compare that to the 7-triple performance she gave at '99 Worlds. And with that content, she missed the bronze medal by just one judge's placement. That's a testament to the strength of her overall skating that she can place that high even with content that poor (consider that Slutskaya finished 5th and her FS was much cleaner than Maria's). Let's not forget that Maria also finished 3rd in the SP after skating 1st out of 30 skaters, and was clearly viewed by judges to be in another league to Lu Chen who was 4th in the SP with a clean skate.
2002 Olympics - she was clean in the SP, but her combo and flip were shakier than how she had done them earlier in the year (see, for example, Europeans). Yet, she still got a good number of 3rd place ordinals. In any event, the ordinals were crazy in that Olympics SP.
How did she win '99 Worlds? Simple, she skated clean and to her potential. 7 triples in her FS - very good speed, solid landings throughout. She skated the way the judges always believed she could skate and saw her perform in practices. There was no bloc judging, and Kwan aside, the other girls were quite strong that year. Not many ladies can claim they won Worlds with a 7-triple performance, and Maria with all her ups and downs can. Her 2000 Worlds SP a year later proved that if she could nail the elements without getting tripped up by her nerves, then the judges were willing to mark her very highly. The only regrettable thing about Maria's career is that more often than not, she did let the nerves get the better of her. That she won so many medals and titles inspite of her nerves was a testament to the quality of her skating and that the judges most definitely did not view her as a second tier skater.
Group A
1) Slutskaya (2nd)
2) Kwan (1st)
3) Hughes (5th)
4) Volchkova (6th)
5) Nikodinov (9th)
6) Robinson (8th)
7) Gusmeroli (4th)
8) Onda (12th)
but then in the other group
1) Butyrskaya (3rd)
2) Kierkgaard (11th)
3) Sebestyén (7th)
4) Liashenko (10th)
5) Malinina (18th)
6) Douchine (17th)
7) Drei (15th)
8) Lundström (20th)
7 of the top 10 finishers overall were in Group A
Awww, Mikkeline! That was her year, second in her qualifying group, just crazy! She fell through a bit in the sp, stepping out of her 3l, but came back with a strong, really gorgeous FS. She didn't need the harder triples to be a totally special skater I could watch all day.
Anna Lundström was also a beautiful skater, don't know what happened to her.
Back to topic, my favourite at these worlds were alway Gusmeroli. How much I loved Maria, her FS was blah, Irina and Kwan didn't do much for me either, and Volchkova couldn't skate a clean program to save her life. So then, who wins? I didnt really care, I just wanted a medal for Vanessa so badly. (btw didn't Liashenko skate her beautiful FS to Grieg'a piano concert. Loved that to!)
The panel was all European judges so obviously one of Slutskaya or Butyrskaya. Based on how they scored the long programs, probably Slutskaya. Butyrskaya made mistakes but didnt skate that much worse than Slutskaya, yet her scores were much lower, so if both skated great it probably would be 1. Slutskaya, 2. Butyrskaya, 3. Kwan. Maria was much more artistic than Irina, but it never seemed to matter and the Russian federation always favored Slutskaya over Butyrskaya. It makes no sense since with people like Kwan, Chen, and Cohen they should have favored the more artistic skater who was also strong in technical to combat such people, yet instead chose the path of trying to push and promote a technical only skater and have to fool people into thinking she was artistic too. Maybe it is because they never forgave Maria for costing Russia a spot at the 1994 Olympics which humiliated the whole country forever, or since she was already too old when she started skating her best in 1996.
Maria would have won the title then the sport of figure skating would have had a new judging system even sooner since a crappy skater like Maria winning Worlds over clean Kwan and clean Slutskaya would already be enough to show they needed to break down how they were scoring it. So COP would have just arisen two years sooner is all.
Maria would win for sure considering she didnt skate cleanly in 2 of her 3 programs and still was robbed of the gold overall. With both skating cleanly Slutskaya would edge Kwan for silver, as Kwan has never beaten a clean Slutskaya before (I mean the real Irina from 99 onwards, not Irina 1.0).
this doesn't clear up your confusion, briancoogaert, clean out your "In" Box and send me a private message.
Had Maria won the title (probably with or without a cleanish skate) it would have been mostly based on her short program which was truly outstanding, and fully deserving of 1st place. And I say that as a noted Butyrskaya "basher" according to most people here, I do admit I like to give both her and Fumie a hard time over the years. Her Swan Lake was back to showing all the typical flaws of her skating though, when you compare it to say Baiul's stunning Swan Lake or even Urmanov's you just laugh, and then when she made major mistakes with that she was toast as long as Kwan and Slutskaya skated well.
Anyone who thinks Slutskaya wouldnt have won is crazy. Had she just skated a clean program with 7 triples, not even doing a triple-triple like Kwan or a triple-triple sequence like Maria had planned, even that would have won it for her easy. The marks she got for her flawed 6 triple performance already make that obvious. She got very generous marks for both technical merit and presentation, especialy when you consider she sacrificed a large chunk of choreography to throw in another jump she popped and still didnt do it. 5 of the 9 judges gave her a higher technical mark than Kwan, some .2 higher, even with a performance with a mistake and much less completed content. 3 of the 9 judges gave her a higher mark than Michelle for presentation, including 2 who didnt even give her a higher technical mark. So just imagine an even slightly better skate. She probably had planned atleast a triple salchow-triple loop which would have made her win all the more emphatic, but she didnt even need to have bothered with that if she didnt want.
I dont know why more are voting for Maria than Irina. Maria's long program sucked, and could not even approach the level of her short program performance even if she were clean. She didnt have 2 triple lutzes planned like both Kwan and Slutskaya did, and a triple-triple sequence is worth almost nothing extra, it is far less valuable than even the triple toe-triple toe Kwan included. I am not sure if she would have even beaten Michelle in the long program since Michelle skated so great that night and had very good marks, but since a clean Irina was easily winning the long anyway it wouldnt matter since Maria 2nd Michelle 3rd, Maria 3rd Michelle 2nd, both add up to Maria silver and Michelle bronze overall. Those of you who think Maria (or Michelle, but especialy Maria) would have been marked over a perfect Irina are crazy. The judges held Irina up and nearly gave her the gold even with her mistakes, and hammered Maria and gave her super low marks, almost losing to Gusmeroli in the long program with just a couple errors. With Irina's subpar skate, Maria would have come 1st or 2nd in the long to win had she gone clean, but not if Irina also did. I guess Maria fans are crazy as Yu Na Kim ones.


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---- — The United States Constitution starts out the first three words " We the people" with that said, we the people are tired of all the government's lies, cover-ups, and deceptions. If you really want Americans to trust you tell us the truth right away don't use the excuse that it's for national security.
We are not as stupid as you may think. Our government has lied to us for so long, at least 70-plus years, that I think they forgot the truth.
Starting with this next election in 2012, we the people demand disclosure of everything and a change in the way the government does things. Also remember it's we the people who put you in this position and it will be we the people who will also remove you.
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller
As a big fan of the music of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, I was really looking forward to reading this book, and I wasn't disappointed. The lives, loves and dreams of all three iconic singer-songwriters are detailed in this well-researched chronicle by an award-winning magazine journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Emotions and angst from life events and love lost provide material for their heart-felt songs. The talented and ground-breaking artists' lives are intertwined as their careers take off during the early days of the women's movement. This captivating page-turner which is listed on Library Journal's Best Books of 2008 serves as a rock soundtrack of the 60s and 70s and a social history of a wild and momentous era. Library Journal article.
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The University of Dayton holds that the diversity of human perspectives and capabilities is essential to the fostering of educational excellence in the 21st century and beyond. As a Catholic and Marianist community, this commitment to the multiplicity of human ability and experience stands as a firm declaration of love for God's creative and bountiful handiwork. Devoted to inclusion of diversity, the University calls all of its faculty, student and staff to intentionally honor the dignity of all persons, and to treat each other with the respect to which each is entitled. This institutional mission to value and promote human dignity and respect shapes education inside and outside the classroom, influences the demographic composition of our academic community, and sustains the educational and professional climate in the classroom and workplaces.
The University welcomes you to join us in the building of a progressively more diverse, inclusive and robust learning and living environment.
Jack Tak Fok Ling, Ph.D.
Executive Director
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MT. VERNON — Couple things of note for this week's action of area sports:
Woodlawn fall baseball, 4:15 p.m. Wednesday
-The Cardinals won their Midland Trail Conference Tournament opener in dramatic fashion on Monday, for the full story, see here. The Cardinals have a young team but there's a lot of skill there, and they defeated Noble-West Richland earlier this season.
Mt. Vernon Township High School soccer, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. Thursday
-Woah, what happened? The Rams are off to a 7-3 start to the season, and at this point they're on pace to equal the 13 wins of a few years previous, when the Rams made a run to the sectional. After starting the season with a 9-1 shellacking at the hands of Carbondale, Steve Harrison moved senior Matt Nichols back to shore up a youthful defense. The results were immediate. With Nichols alternating betweeen a defensive midfielder and a center back, the Rams build into a midfield run by fellow senior captain David Lee. And up front, the youthful attack has seen the benefits. Joel Duncan, Braden Riley and Louis Grote have found the back of the net most frequently for the Rams, and it'll be interesting to see what happens this Thursday when they meet Carbondale again.
Woodlawn volleyball, 6:15 Tuesday,
-The Cardinals are hoping to win out. Plain and simple. Coach Sara Skibinski said she things her team can do it, and that they've turned a corner in getting back to .500 on the season.
The Cardinals certainly looked like a different team with their two-game sweep of Elverado last week, and they'll rely on the hard-hitting Leah Sutton and Kinzie Verhines going into the season's home stretch.
Mt. Vernon Township High School volleyball, 6:15 p.m. Thursday
-Look! Up in the sky! It's not a bird, nor a plane — that's a winning streak. Katelyn Kombrink's budding program got a little bit of momentum after a few wins at a tournament in Frankfort and then defeats of Salem and Cahokia. Now the Rams are poised for a rematch against Centralia in Changnon Gymnasium on Thursday.


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By SHARRON HUDSON
MILLSAP – As we move into July many in the area are looking forward to the 29th Annual Parker County Peach Festival, which is coming up on July 13. The event will be held as usual in historic downtown Weatherford from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
While there has already been much written and publicized about the festival, those around Millsap have a special interest in the Peach Pedal Bike Ride, which is held in conjunction with the festival. Our town is included on the route, of which there is a total of 70 miles to conquer.
This event, which is in its 25th year, is for two great causes: scholarships and other assistance through the Weatherford College Foundation and the promotion of Weatherford through the local Chamber of Commerce.
More than two thousand participants are expected from across Texas and beyond. Along the course there are quite a few rest stops. We are excited about this because one of the stops is a few miles from Millsap at Newberry with another in Millsap. This is always a great day with all of the bikers practically gliding through, and many of our folks are looking forward to seeing the riders and cheering them on.
On a serious note, in an annual survey by the Annie E. Casey Foundation 23 percent of our country's children are living at the poverty level. While there have been gains in education and health nationally, there have been serious setbacks to the economic well being of children since 2005. Poverty rates continue to rise in the middle class, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty. One thing this means to us in Millsap is that there are children in our community who need to be fed, since they are not receiving the breakfasts and lunches provided by the school during the school year.


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Maranda Mills, Austin Hyden win meet MVP's
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Justin Edwards, Virginia Scott named County Basketball Players of the Year
The 2013-'14 high school basketball season was one that saw both Southwestern hoops teams advance all the way to the regional semi finals, while the PC boys won a fifth consecutive district tournament, and the Somerset Lady Jumpers earned a berth in a regional tourney for the second year in a row.
Lady Jumpers hold off Pulaski
It's been a rough few days for first-year head coach Brad Gover and the Pulaski County Lady Maroon softball team.
The 'New' Lady Maroons show no signs of giving up
With the Somerset Lady Jumpers holding the best softball record in the 12th Region, and Pulaski just six days removed from a massive mutiny – nobody expected much of a game.
Warrior anglers win Region
In only their first year in competition, the Southwestern High School bass fishing team wasted little time to show their dominance in the newly recognized KHSAA sport.
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Over the past three seasons, the Pulaski County High School softball program has went through several changes.
Ellison's 3-run blast stuns Lady Warriors
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Coming into the 2014 high school baseball season, Somerset head coach Phil Grundy felt pretty confident that his team was a bonafide regional contender thanks to eight seniors — all with a ton of experience.
Al Gover resigns as Pulaski coach
For the second time, Al Gover has resigned as the Pulaski County High School boys basketball coach after five seasons at the helm.
On Friday, Gover announced he was resigning from the Maroons' head boys basketball coaching position and told his team this past weekend.
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Helen Louise Albertson Tutterrow, age 92, New Castle resident, passed away Thursday, June 14, 2012 at Henry County Hospital.
She was born February 15, 1920 in Cambridge City, Indiana a daughter of the late Clarence and Ethel Rummel.
She had resided in Cambridge City, New Castle, and Madison, Indiana most of her life. She was a graduate of Cambridge City High School. She was a trained nurse's assistant, and worked in that capacity at the State Hospital in Madison, Indiana for several years. She also had worked for Guide Lamp Corporation in Anderson, Indiana. She was a member of the Locust Grove Church, enjoyed being a homemaker, and was a volunteer for the Madison County Historical Society.
She was preceded in death by: her parents; her 1st husband, Orville Albertson and her 2nd husband, Gilbert Tutterrow; 1 son, Ronald Albertson; and several siblings.
Left to cherish her loving memory include: 3 sons, David Albertson (wife Florane) of Indianapolis, Indiana, Gary Albertson of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Delbert Albertson of Tigard, Oregon; 3 grandchildren, Chelsea Albertson, student at Oregon State University, of Tigard, Oregon, Douglas Albertson of Pullman, Washington, and Darren "Scott" Albertson (wife Vickie) of Beaverton, Oregon; 2 great great grandchildren, Griffan Albertson of Beaverton, Oregon and Kyla Albertson of Beaverton, Oregon; 3 sisters, Jean Tullison of Hubbard, Oregon, Jeanette Winchester of New Castle, Indiana, and Wilma Query (husband Harold) of New Castle, Indiana; 2 brothers, Charles Rummel of rural New Castle, Indiana and Herman Rummel (wife Jane) of Hagerstown, Indiana; also, several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Friends may call from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at Macer-Hall Funeral Home & Cremation Services. Funeral will be held 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at the funeral home with Reverend Robert Shaeffer officiating. Burial will follow in Locust Grove Cemetery near New Lisbon, Indiana.
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Bexar County has inked a deal that will give residents a discount on prescription drugs and add funds to another county health program.
The Coast-2-Coast RX Card is free to anyone, and Martin Dettelbach of Financial Marketing Concepts Inc., said it's similar to other prescription discount cards. He said his company has worked out agreements with pharmaceutical companies based on volume.
HEB's Slimdown Showdown came to close this week as 24 contestants selected from all over Texas lost nearly 956 pounds collectively during the 16-week competition.
Slimdown winner Allison Spangler is a school teacher at Stevens High School in San Antonio; she lost 46 pounds during the competition.
"My life is completely different," said Spangler. "I feel fantastic and this is only my half-way point."
Spangler said the lower weight has given her more energy and a healthier lifestyle.
The cities of San Antonio and Chicago are entering a competition to see which one has the healthiest city employees.
It's a battle to see which city can reduce the bulge, put out the cigarette, and create a healthy lifestyle among its workers. The two cities will compete for three months to win a grant from the American Beverage Association.
A new treatment for cancer involves the use of a childhood virus that has been shown to kill cancer cells in mice. The virus is on its way to clinical trials in San Antonio and Houston.
This is a virus that Santanu Bose, Ph.D., at the UT Health Science Center-San Antonio has been researching for 15 years, and he came across its efficacy in killing cancer cells by accident.
"I never expected that we could use RSV for cancer," said Bose. "When we were conducting some experiments with this virus; we were using normal cells and at the same time, we were using cancer cells."
A record number of people flooded Broadway on Sunday for the city's third Síclovía despite the coldest weather in months.
In its third incarnation, Síclovía attracted more than 45,000 people to play in the streets. At the opening ceremony in front of the Alamo, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro said initiatives like Síclovía provide more opportunities for physical activity.
After working with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation on a national testing tour two years ago, the San Antonio AIDS Foundation received a mobile testing unit for use in Bexar County. The van has two cubicles for rapid 20-minute HIV testing.
During the 2010 tour, Jill Rips, deputy executive director of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation, said they found a few positive results.
Research at the UT Health Science Center Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute is vital for families with children who have cancer, and is getting a financial boost through a Hyundai Hope Grant.
Encouraging residents to become fit and healthy has been a major goal for the city, and San Antonio Independent School District is now joining in. The district is certifying each of its P.E. teachers in Zumba to promote a healthy lifestyle for students and to offer free classes to the community.


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July 30, 2014
As this basketball season gets going here, there are a lot of high expectations in several corners of our viewing area. What teams will make a deep playoff run? Obviously the Plainview boys are stacked. Sherman could make some noise with a very veteran ballclub. Denison won't be playing with freshmen this year, and made the playoffs last year when they did. The Gunter girls may be our best bet. The Whitewright Tigers went to state last year, they expect to be back. Durant girls? Ardmore guys? Don't forget Stringtown. What do you think?
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Bob Arnett
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"When you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not." Those are the words of country singer Jerry Reed and they apply to golfers as well.
High temperatures haven't seemed to affect play at local courses with Hulman, Idle Creek and Rea all reporting play being up this summer.
Rea Park has hosted hunts since the 1940s. Mike Kaperak sponsored noonday hunts Monday through Friday during the late 1940s and the popular competitions continue today.
One of the current hunts at Rea meets at 8 a.m., except Mondays and Tuesdays when play is at 7:30 a.m. There are usually 25 to 45 players playing four-man teams, with three low scores counting.
Entry fee is $10 per person with $5 for first place, $3 for second and $2 for third, with skins being extra. Players 70 and older get to play from the red tees, players 60-69 hit from the gold, and those under age 60 use the white tees.
On a recent Monday there were 28 players participating. The hunt included the team of Ernie Tom Horrall, Don Campbell, Jim Lindeman and Darrell Guerin, who captured first at 4-under. Two groups tied for second, one consisting of Butch Carson, Travis Turpin, Billy Hughes, Duke Shaker and another consisting of Ezra Evans, Jerry Seeling, Ian Carson and John Roshel.
Other participants were George Amies, John Sedwick, Dan Hileman, Buddy Myers, Jim Cook, Bob Thompson, Davey James and Bob Sanders, Junior Ellinger, Bob Mason, Ross Creasey, Scotty Wittenberg, Dave Cassell, Steve Prevo, Jim Horrall and Mike Higgins.
If your name is George Amies and you have recently shot scores of 63, 64 and 64 at Rea Park, I doubt if the high temperatures have been anything more than a minor nuisance.
Amies, a member of the Terre Haute Golf Association Hall of Fame, has recovered from some extremely serious medical problems, and he is now making up for some time lost on the fairways while he awaited a liver transplant that never materialized.
Amies is a former men's golf coach at Indiana State University. George had assembled a powerhouse team that was set to make a serious bid for an NCAA title before the university decided to dump the men's golf program.
Also seemingly unaffected by the heat is Jim Cook, better known for his tennis ability and being the former North Vigo tennis coach. Cook made his first hole-in-one on the third hole on May 24. His previous outstanding feat in golf was a double eagle with a 4-wood on the first hole at the former Fort Harrison Elks back in 1976.
We'll check out a pair of Hulman Links hunts for our next column.
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Some golf courses have really strange names. For example what golfer in his or her right mind would spend leisure time playing a course named Sarah Shank? That "S" word has been a bugaboo for divot digger through the ages. It's definitely unmentionable.
The Growling Frog is a course in Victoria, Canada. You can't blame a poor frog for growling when there are those out there who would think nothing of amputating and cooking his legs.
Perhaps someone with a nickname like "Tex" as in Tex Kruzan would enjoy the following courses: The Cowboy, The Outlaw, Robbers Roost, Badlands and Hangman Valley.
If you are planning on organizing your own circus, you could use a couple of animals from Kissing Camel located in Colorado Springs. You might also require something light on its feet such as the Dancing Rabbit Golf Club located in Philadelphia.
TIP OF THE WEEK: Tim Tennant, a former Terre Haute City champion and Hulman Links Club champion as well, is also one of the best putters to be found anywhere.
He uses a split grip with the right hand much lower on the club for right-handed players. It will take some practice and experimentation to determine if this method is right for you.
Now, for one of golf's mysteries. Back in the 1970s, I was in Florida and hadn't taken my clubs. I was able to borrow a set of clubs. During 18 holes, I knocked more putts into the cup than I had ever holed before. All the while, the putter did not feel good in my hands. The "lie" of the shaft, the weight of the club, the length of the club, never felt good to me. All that which was good about that Bull's Eye putter was the fact it got the ball into the hole time after time. At the end of the season, the magic was gone and so was the putter.
Final advice: Get a putter that feels good to you unless you find one that feels terrible but insists on sending the ball into the hole consistently.
Keep your head down and your shoestrings tied. We'll be back.


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It's the message that got me - what if there were no music? GASP. HORROR. Life just wouldn't be worth living anymore! Speaking of not living life anymore, you should have seen the Bear and I traipsing up the motorway to get this photo. I'm surprised we didn't cause an accident.
Incidentally, when we saw the graffiti we were on our way to practice on this:
This is the baby grand I'll be taking my exam on soon. Since I only have a keyboard, I thought it would be good to practice on the real thing now and then. That's what dedication looks like, people.
Here I am, plugging away:
It's not Mozart, but it'll have to do for now.
My piano teacher, who has again had the nerve to have a life and go on vacation, told me to "practice hard" while he was gone. Well, practice hard I did. Want proof? Here's your proof:
Do you see that? No? LET ME ZOOM IN FOR YOU.
You know what that is? Blood. Mine. THAT is how hard I was practicing - until my fingers bled. Literally.
Not really sure how it happened, but my thumb started to bleed. I must have been really into my grade 2 music because I would never have known had the keyboard not suddenly turned crimson streaky red. I didn't stop practicing, though. I mean the damage was done by then and I need to practice, practice, practice!
It was a very good day and a very good practice, bloody appendage and nearly getting killed by oncoming traffic aside.
Oh and yes - I'll be sending this post to my piano teacher, rest assured. Everyone say hello.


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Season's Miracle: Recovering Snowboard Star Kevin Pearce Hits Slopes For First Time Since Accident
The snowboard world was hit with a Holiday's miracle today. It's been almost two years since Oakley Star Snowboarder Kevin Pearce strapped into a board. Displaying truly amazing resilience and hope after sustaining traumatic brain injury from a heavy accident while training for the Winter Olympic Games in Utah, the inspirational Oakley Team rider did what many said would never happen again. He dropped in.
Inside Re-Assembly: Recovering Star Snowboarder Kevin Pearce Featured in Outside Magazine
If it wasn't the winning SuperPipe run at Winter X Games 15 that sent electric currents through the icy air, it was Kevin Pearce. Oakley's recovering Snowboard Star, who sustained major injuries during an accident in December 2009 while training for the Winter Olympics, appeared at Winter X at the bottom of the Pipe – stoking cheers from the inspired snow fans in the crowd.
Looking Forward: Recovering Snowboard Star Kevin Pearce Talks Inspiration and Future on ESPN Action Sports
We said it before…we'll say it again: Kevin Pearce is a lucky guy. Following a horrific accident during an Olympic training run in Utah last December that threw him into a medically induced coma and inflicted traumatic brain injury, there were doubts about whether he'd ever be able to walk again. But in a courageous display of resilience and hope – touched with a bit of a miracle and family love – Kevin is rehabilitating and inching his way back to riding a board. He's set to attend the Winter X Games in January as a spectator. But there's more…he's already doing kickflips on his skateboard. Read more about his current progress, his recent inspirations and outlook for his competitive future in a recent article on ESPN Action Sports' Snowboarding site.


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Basic lung function is designed to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide. In order to transfer oxygen from atmospheric air to the blood stream three functions must be in place: ventilation, diffusion, and perfusion. Ventilation is the process of air moving into and out of the lungs.
For a technician, the daily assessment of their critical care patients often begins with rounds. After receiving a brief verbal history and synopsis of presentation, diagnostics, and treatments a tech is ready to take over the care of that patient. Of primary importance is an initial hands on assessment.
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Hypoxemia despite supplemental oxygen delivery: PaO2 <80mmHg; <60mmHg PaO2 considered severe and most likely requires ventilation
Sustained hypotension is a life threatening situation where the body's major organs (kidney, liver, brain, and heart) can experience irreversible damage from inadequate perfusion pressure. Veterinary technicians may encounter hypotension frequently when caring for emergency and critical care patients, as well as anesthetized or post operative patients who are frequently at risk of systemic hypotension.
Central line placement has become practical, affordable, and more often indicated in veterinary practice.
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DUNCAN — Duncan firefighters will remain on the scene at Fifth and Pine overnight as they watch for hot spots after spending Monday battling a fire that destroyed the Foursquare Gospel Church and threatened neighboring homes.
Attacking the fire meant bringing in firefighters who were on their days off and bringing in numerous fire departments from throughout Stephens County.
The building was a total loss, Duncan Deputy Fire Chief Dayton Burnside said.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but the building was completely involved by the time the firefighters arrived. It did not appear that anybody was inside the structure. Burnside said the fire is under investigation, which is being led by the state fire marshal and Detective John Byers of the Duncan Police Department.
Burnside said firefighters will remain on the scene throughout Monday night into the morning to watch for hot spots. He said firefighters would rotate every three hours.
"It will probably smolder for a few days," Burnside said.
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I write about business and women's leadership.
Across age groups and job categories, demand is growing for good-paying work that can be done right from home. Nervous about falling 401ks, boomers hope to continue earning income without the hours or stress of office life. Gen Xers, often caring for elderly parents or young children, are thirsty for flexibility. And younger cohorts are attracted to "free agency" more than ever.
"There's less willingness today to be a cube-dweller or lifetime commuter," says Michael Haaren, co-director of RatRaceRebellion.com and co-author of Work at Home Now. "Being able to work from home makes life easier and appeals to the latent entrepreneur."
While there may be a tradeoff to working at home—a salary haircut and less advancement potential—a surprising amount and variation of well-paying professional jobs have a two-second commute. From the health, tech and creative industries, good at-home jobs are springing up everywhere.
According to Haaren, the work-from-home sector reflects what's going on in the brick-and-mortar economy. Today, that means an explosion of new and diverse health-care jobs. Top-paid among them are home-based physicians and radiologists, now being hired by companies like Imaging On Call and Permedion to review and evaluate patient cases. Haaren suspects they earn near the $1,975 median weekly income of physicians, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), making it a six-figure job.
What's more, the burgeoning field of "telehealth" provides quality wages and sometimes full benefits or bonuses. Companies like MedQuist are beginning to hire more at-home support staff, like medical transcriptionists. Haaren estimates they earn between $30,000 and $50,000 a year and says they are eligible for a signing bonus. Similarly, registered nurses working at home earn near the $1,055-per-week industry median to do telephone triage, advising patients about health concerns over the phone.
IT was one of the first fields to latch onto the anywhere mentality, Haaren says, likely due to its young workforce and penchant for abstraction. In 2008, completely virtual IT company MySQL was acquired for $1 billion by what's now Oracle. Its at-home staff means reduced building costs and a bigger talent pool. Plus, it's a boon for the employees. The BLS reports that computer software engineers earn a median of $1,549 each week and $85,000 a year. Computer scientists, programmers and systems administers all earn about $1,200 per week.
Other lucrative at-home knowledge jobs include public relations specialists, graphic designers, writers and authors, and postsecondary teachers. According to the book Make Money Teaching Online by Danielle Babb and Jim Mirabella, if online adjunct professors work hard enough, they can earn six-figure salaries.
Haaren warns that some older fields, like law and high finance, haven't caught up to the flexibility demands of the new workforce but show signs of cracking. For example, JPMorgan Chase sometimes recruits regional home-based mortgage executives. While these positions are limited, financial managers earn a median of $1,227 per week. On the lower end of the spectrum, earning a median of $1,061 each week, home-based tax preparers are being hired by companies like Intuit.
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The author should really be ashamed for not doing any research before setting pen to paper.
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I'm trying to wise up 300 million people about money & finance
As Big Daddy says so powerfully in the hit play "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," 'there's a powerful lot of mendacity in this room."
That's the sordid, shocking, stunning conclusion of a recent global polling– the Edelman Trust Barometer, sponsored by the largest public relations firm in the world. "Less than one fifth of the general public believes business leaders and government officials will tell the truth when confronted with a difficult issue," charges Edelman in what it terms a "Crisis in Leadership."
And good reason for that conclusion from the accumulated scandals like the collusive fixing of the LIBOR lending rate, the almost not believable multi-trillion dollar examples of money laundering for rogue states, drug cartels and wealthy Americans hiding their loot from the IRS– as well as the dysfunctional financial crises across Europe and in the U.S. Edelman's informants reckon corruption caused 25% of the loss of trust, the culture of maximum compensation caused 23%, while the rest fingered lack of cops on the beat, banks that were too big to corral and the culture of conflicts of interest on Wall Street.
Government leaders(listen up White House, Senate, House of Representatives, SEC, Justice, CFTC, Treasury) are even less trusted than business leaders due to their inability to solve social issues and make the proper ethical and moral decisions. Time to wake up, people; the art of politics has room for only a small number of exemplary ethicists.
These numbers reflect a well-informed public, according to my friend, CEO Richard Edelman, who just lost the firm's founding father, exemplary in ethics and morality. Richard emailed me yesterday to report that "60 plus percent of general public knows about financial scandals and 63 percent think that the same kind of behavior is prevalent in all businesses." Will this reality mean more doctors, lawyers, social workers, NGO careerists? I've got to doubt it.
Amazing, isn't it, that stock markets have rallied back from meltdowns as central banks pour money into their financial systems to stabilize bank balance sheets, and avoid a world depression? The bottom line, I guess, is that you can trust Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi to tell the truth, even if the states and institutions they are supporting, are not so bloody trustworthy.
The lack of confidence in Europe is more shocking than the U.S. Only a tiny minority of those polled– 7% in the UK, 13% in Germany,10% in France, 13% in Italy, 17% in Spain and 9% in Ireland "trust business leaders to tell the truth, regardless of how complex or unpopular it is."
Take that you profit-making, free enterprise capitalists. Public opinion is much more appreciative of the non-profit sector of the economies. Trust in NGOs was at the 63% mark; the media(I'm surprised unless they mean the FT and the Economist) 57% and business as a whole, i.e. not related to the CEO or any executives, came in with a 58% approval mark. Well, I guess, you can consider business as distinct from banking and finance, where the trust is much lower.
NGOs in Asia ranked even more superbly, with China(81%), Malaysia(78%), Hong Kong(76%) and Singapore(75%). Permit me to suggest to Edelman they identify these superb examples of honesty and high-minded effectiveness next year. Maybe it's because NGOs represent the public interest and are not narrow stakeholders like share-owners, employees, unions, communities.
Perhaps, it's as Edelman reports that "trust is significantly higher among both the general population and informed publics in emerging countries than in developed countries."
Good article Robert…………………..I think it is actually a crisis of leadership. To be an effective leader, you must be believable(good or bad).
Right now, people seem be operating on the mode: "Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see."
The most effective speech of all time was not delivered by melodic resonouce tones. It was not full of flowery alliteration, or bombastic rhetoric.
It was delivered by an old man, in an almost tired sounding monotone. It only lasted about 2 and a half minutes. It was not accompanied by arm or flag waving or bands playing.
But it was the truth———delivered with all the acid and doom that the truth appeared to mean at the time. It was the bleakest of times. Defeat by the armies of darkness seemed inevitable—–to everyone in the world.
Winston Churchill defeated Adolf Hitler and all of his henchmen and legions. And he did it entirely with words. The Nazis were defeated before their armies even got to the battlegrounds—–because Winston Chruchill had replaced the hearts and minds of the British people and their allies with the steel of resolve to fight and win, no matter what the cost.
The cost was high, but the steel of Churchill's resolve did not bend or break.
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NORMAN — The Cleveland County clerk's office is undertaking a pictorial account of the early days that formed Cleveland County.
Officials are asking participants to share photos, copies of photos and newspaper articles that pertain to the creation of the courthouse and the early day settlers involved.
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A public review process now under way will help determine the pros and cons of a County/Cal Fire plan to carve a 4-mile-long, 100-foot-wide firebreak between undeveloped parts of the forest and adjacent neighborhoods in Cambria.
The shaded fuel break meaning larger trees would be left while low-lying vegetation is removed is intended to protect residential areas from a wildfire spreading into town from wildland Monterey pine forest and also to protect the forest from fire spreading there from the residential areas.
The plan was released for public review Aug. 29. Public comment closed Oct. 10. Cal Fire expects to release its compilation this week of responses to comments on the plan, which also is undergoing county review and, possibly, review by the California Coastal Commission.
A county hearing may happen in early December, according to Cal Fire forester Alan Peters. That hearing is expected to be conducted by a planning officer.
Why is a development permit required for a project that will do nothing but remove vegetation? According to coastal development rules, development means the removal or harvesting of major vegetation other than for agricultural purposes, kelp harvesting, and timber operations.
Nearly all of the Cambria area is in the coastal zone, which varies in width from several hundred feet up to 5 miles. Additionally, much of Cambria is considered environmentally sensitive habitat area because of the forest.
Cambria Fire Chief Mark Miller, Cambria Pines By The Sea Ranch owners Ralph and Tracy Covell, conservation easement holders The Nature Conservancy and Cal Fire support the project as planned as a way to protect both the town and the forest.
Others, such as Richard Hawley and Mary Webb of Greenspace The Cambria Land Trust, and some members of the Cambria Forest Committee, say the shaded fuel break concept may be a good one, but the planned firebreak is too big and the method being contemplated using a mechanical masticator is too harsh for the delicate environment.
They and others also say the plan violates The Nature Conservancys $4.5 million conservation easement over the forested sections of the ranch, a document that bans from the property any cattle or off-road use of motorized vehicles.
Covell has said that, after the firebreak is in place, the best method to maintain it will be occasional cattle grazing.
The Cambria forest is the only timberland area in this countys coastal zone, according to Peters, who is shepherding the firebreak project for Cal Fire.
For the firebreak project, he wrote in an email to The Cambrian, Cal Fire could have instead undergone a California Forest Practice Rules process, which also includes environmental review for projects done on timberland.
That process is less time-consuming, but it doesnt involve the community as much as a coastal development permit process does.


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- Type or copy the following address into the browser Address bar: https://www.utdallas.edu/infosecurity/certs/
- Click Enroll for New Digitial Certificate.
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A Pacific University Phonathon Caller is responsible for contacting alumni, parents and friends as a fund-raiser and "friend raiser." Callers will be part of a group of students that will raise over $100,000 for Pacific University academics, scholarships, student programs, faculty development and new technology. As student ambassadors for Pacific University, callers update alumni information, inform constituents about upcoming events and strengthen the relationship between the University and our alumni, parents and friends.
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