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I know someone named Anne Howe (she married a man named Howe) and someone named Mary Mee (married a man named Mee).
I know someone named Anne Howe (she married a man named Howe) and someone named Mary Mee (married a man named Mee).
I think I will have a snack and take a nap before I eat and go to sleep.
Matchy names for twins. Those have to go.
On a somewhat related note, I used to work at a place where they thought it confusing to have more than one person with the same first name (even though there were less than 30 of us). It was months before I found out that Kristina was actually Judy, which happened to be the name of the one of the bosses. I drew Kristina in the Christmas gift exchange, so I gave her a bag load of office supplies with the name Judy on it.
I'm amazed so many agreed to this, especially in a profession where networking is a big deal and people move around a lot. But most were entry level and I guess didn't know better or feared fighting the bosses. Personally, there's no way I'd give up my own name!
I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work. ~ Thomas A. Edison
My dad's name is Lauri, because we are Finnish-American, and just yesterday my sister posted up a picture of a note NPR sent him (a handwritten note) addressed to him and my mother in a way that clearly indicated they thought they were a lesbian couple. More hilariously, they divorced 12 years ago. I thought it was great and apparently it is now on my fridge back home.
Parents name baby "Hashtag"
Hashtag Jameson was born at 10 o'clock last nite," the proud parent announced on Facebook Saturday night. "She weys 8pounds and i luv her so much!!!!!!"
Spelling-challenged friends started leaving equally creative congratulations in the comments.
"Aww babes you finally had youre Tweetybird xxx," one wrote
Others tweeted slightly crueler hashtags of their own: #Foolishparents, #YourParentsHateYou, #StupidestNameEver. Many, many commenters all over the internet wondered about the parents' mental stability.
named their daughter Like. Now it's moved on the Twitter names. Next up, Pinterest? Baby Pin?
I hadn't seen this thread, and there are some sad/hilarious names in it!
So I feel a need to donate.
I once worked with a named Harry Cox.
Not Harold, Harry, after his uncle Harry.
Whenever anyone was annoyed with him, they always called by his full name
I had a professor in college, who was a Dr. Bliss. His given name was Francis, and his wife's name was also Frances. They went by Fran & Frannie. He had a relative named of all things "Free Love Bliss"
At a department picnic, the subject of funny names came up, including the names of the Blisses, who were present. However, the last entrant in the bad name contestant was given by Frannie Bliss. She said she had grown up with a boy who was the youngest of 10 children in the Oliver family, by name "Revilo Oliver" and she thought that was a horrible thing to do to a child. The snippest graduate student in the dept. said she thought that wasn't that bad a name, and Frannie said, in her thickest Southern accent, "My dear, Mrs. Oliver was so out of names when she reached the tenth child, that she named him Revilo because Revilo is Olvier spelled backwards.
Well, better Revilo Oliver than Oliver Oliver.
Depending which name he likes better, maybe he could get married and become Revilo Wife'slastname.
I knew a couple who were both named Franci(e)s. He was Fran and she was Cis.
I ran into one I'd never heard before on LinkedIn
Qwerty Smith, presumably after the keyboard.
I had to google the name to figure out that Hashtag is a twitter word. At first I wasn't understanding the problem, yeah, it's different, but it just sounded German or Nordic. There's a poster on here, and I am so blanking on it, with an interesting name that I've only associated with a movie "X and the Angry Inch". I wish I could come up with that name. So Hashtag reminded me of that. What is the name? It was a funny movie. But I understand now the dislike. But at least it wasn't something so blatantly out there. I'm sure many intelligent persons like myself might think it has some meaning and move on.
One of my ex-boyfriends is named Damian. People would always spell it Damien and/or think he was named after the creepy kid in The Omen.
Also, my dad's name is Fedde, a very Dutch name, pronounced "Feh-duh", and was always called Freddy in school, so he eventually just started going by Fred.
Finally, I've had an ice skating student named Cinnamon, who goes by the nickname "Cinny".
Subbed today. Had two spelling tragedies: "Izzaballa" and "Jakeb". And a child named "Chai".
The ancient Egyptians worshipped cats as gods, and the cats have never forgotten.


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The Classic Tradition
Starting in 1979 with 902 participants, the Allstate Sugar Bowl Crescent City Classic has long been a New Orleans tradition and leading fitness event in Louisiana. Described as the original "party race," our 10k, held the Saturday before Easter, attracts over 20,000 runners, walkers, and partiers each year.
Today, the CCC has expanded to include 3 more races: the CC Bridge Run, a 4-mile race across the Mississippi River; the Fall Classic, a 5k qualifier for the Classic; and the Celebration in the Oaks Run*Walk, a unique 2-mile run through the Christmas light show in City Park.
All CCC events are produced by the Crescent City Fitness Foundation, a not-for-profit entity whose sole purpose is to promote health, fitness, and a better lifestyle for the people of the New Orleans metropolitan area.

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In a thrilling game from start to finish, the Mystic Valley boys' varsity basketball team defeated Greater Lawrence Regional High School, 54-51, away from home on Tuesday, January 24.
With the win, the Eagles (10-2 overall, 6-0 in the Commonwealth Athletic Conference), officially qualified for the state tournament for the fifth consecutive year.
"Like every team in Massachusetts, making the state tournament is the ultimate goal, and I'm glad we secured a berth at this time of the regular season," said Mystic Valley head coach Tony Ferullo. "I'm proud of my players for their accomplishment and they deserve all the credit in the world."
Against Greater Lawrence, a very quick and athletic CAC Upper Division squad, the Eagles scratched and clawed from beginning to end. Mystic Valley led by eight points at halftime (28-20), and only two digits (41-39) after three quarters.
The fourth quarter was a cardiac arrest special, with everyone holding onto their seats during each possession. It was a seesaw battle for the entire fourth frame, with the Eagles holding on at the end for the impressive victory.
Mystic Valley's top scorer for the game was senior guard Joey Foley, who scored a career-high 23 points (15 of them coming in the second half).
"Joey was definitely the star of the game." said Ferullo. "He played his heart out at both ends of the court, and it seemed every time we needed a basket, he was in the right place at the right time."
The Eagles' next two games are Friday, January 27, when they travel to Lexington to play Minuteman High School in a 4:45 p.m. contest, and Sunday, January 29, when they host Maimonides High School of Brookline in a 3:30 p.m. tipoff.


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Bruins fans, voice your opinions on the moves made at the trade deadline.
The Boston Bruins added veteran winger Mark Recchi from the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Bruins acquire defenseman Steve Montador from the Anaheim Ducks.
I did a guest post on Cycle Like the Sedins about the Bruins and the decisions that Peter Chiarelli faces at the NHL trade deadline. Check it out.
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Update on the NHL Trade Deadline with James Murphy.
TSN is reporting that the Bruins, Flyers, and Capitals are all in negotiations with the Phoenix Coyotes to acquire defenseman Derek Morris.
There is a good chance that Pronger is coming to Boston
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John Bogle's Dim View of the Asset-Management Industry
To Vanguard's Bogle, asset management has become an extractive industry.
Vanguard's John Bogle wants the asset-management industry to return to traditions of stewardship.
No self-respecting intellectual, academic, or independent person could possibly believe that. What happens is something a little bit different. There's always going to be a firm that does an outstanding job, and then they will fall from grace. You get caught up in this idea that it's easy to beat the index. There's always somebody who can say "look at how easy it is; here's what I've done." Look in chapter 9 [of The Clash of the Cultures] at those charts on reversion to mean. If you don't get the message there, you're a very unwise investor.
Has the switch to defined-contribution plans from defined-benefit plans been good for workers or bad?
On balance, I would say bad. The 401(k) was designed as a thrift plan, not a retirement plan, therefore it has the flaws I identify in the book: It's easy to get out of the plan when you change jobs, spend it all, start all over again. Also, it's been inflicted on people: When a company says it's going to give you a defined-contribution plan instead of a defined-benefit plan, they don't ask for your approval. They just do it. It's more expensive, we know that, because individual funds cost much more than institutional funds. Individuals by and large are less intrigued by indexing than pension funds. The biggest pension plan in America—the thrift savings plans of the United States government—is indexed. So, you can make it work but you've got to keep the employees there. We have to revise the system.
[See Index Funds That Go Outside the Box.]
What's your response to PIMCO chief Bill Gross's assertion that the "cult of equity is dying," and that investors should no longer expect 7 percent returns? Is he making faulty assumptions about how accurately the stock market reflects the real economy?
I think the love affair with equities, which were growing at 18 percent a year for two decades, in the 80s and 90s, is certainly over. That was the romance. That was a fling. What follows is marriage—marriage for a lifetime. If [Gross meant] investors will stop owning equities, I think that's absurd. Somebody's going to own them. If it's not investor A, it's going to be investor B.
But Bill is not so far from where I am on future returns. They're not going be up to the past levels, because we don't have the same circumstances as in the past. It was very nice to get these returns when you bought stocks for 10 times earnings, but in the long run, we know that total returns represent the total of dividend yield and earnings growth. I say the return of a portfolio that's half stock and half bonds should be in the general range of a nominal 5 percent. If I take inflation out, that's a 2.5-percent real return. That's not far from where Bill is.


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Using Facebook to Build an Email List
Marketers interested in reaching more customers on Facebook can now do so with the introduction of email targeting tools such as Custom Audience Targeting and Lookalike Audiences. With these tools marketers are able to reach and connect with people that similar to their existing audience or reacquaint with estranged customers. The first step to targeting by email address is to collect email address from interested parties. There are a number of strategies to collect these email addresses through Facebook marketing.continue


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U.S. figure skating at a low point
There's little optimism for 2014 Olympics (aside from dance) as national championships begin in Omaha.
U.S. figure skating at a low point
There's little optimism for 2014 Olympics (aside from dance) as national championships begin in Omaha.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hasn't Hersh already written this article several times?
what happened to his love for Gold.. surely she alone can get the 3rd spot back..
Lol at the use of the word stumblebums.
The pairs stuff is the Same in every article.
There could have been more enthusiasm for Wagner!
Unfortunately, it's true. The US needs specifically to figure out the Pairs problem, which has been going on for some time now. The rest of it could just be a natural lull.
Apparently the Olympics aren't an international event in his book.U.S. men have generally been such stumblebums internationally since Lysacek won worlds in 2009 that there has been undue enthusiasm over one good recent performance by Ross Miner — in the long program at the Grand Prix event in Japan.
"The Devil is joining in, and that's never a good sign." Phil Liggett
Maybe Phil needs to lace up and show everyone how it's done.
Poor Mirai...Mirai Nagasu, 19, who has shown little evidence of being able to regain the skills that got her fourth in the 2010 OIympics.
Awww...poor Phil is even more full of doom and gloom (as well as being full of shit) now that his perennial darling, Alissa Czisny, is out of Nationals after dislocating her hip.
I feel like Phil has a template for these posts that he has been using for the last 7 years. At this point these articles must take him 5 minutes of work.
It's nice to see skating still gets some major coverage, but does it have it to be all 'woe is us?'
And, this was good
So, why are we titling the article 'US figure skating at a low point,' because that just shows how even-keeled and balanced the good and bad points are?It's not all doom and gloom. Barring injury, Meryl Davis and Charlie White will be deserving winners of a fifth straight ice dance title and the only certain U.S. medal at worlds, where they have gone silver-gold-silver the past three years.
Having a World Champion is a low point?
I don't know how to spell it, but my gut reaction to Phil's "doom and gloom" assessment would be the sound that Dan Hollander recently made in reaction to Dave & Jenny naming a certain skater he seemed blase about: "Annnh!"
Or better yet:
I guess Phil is suffering from withdrawal symptoms or a huge hangover after attending Kween's wedding, and therefore cannot summon up any enthusiasm nor even fake having enough creative imagination to plumb the depths of the very real, substantial and exciting storylines that actually exist in Omaha at the U.S. National Championships this week. For Phil it seems that only medals, preferably gold or silver at Worlds and Olympics are the only things that matter in figure skating.
Even among the pairs, despite the astonishing break-ups and the unfortunate injury to Coughlin, if Phil wasn't so lazy and apparently inept, he could write an entire article about the talented teams who will be vying for medals and a top position to debut on the Worlds stage.
I mean really, where does Phil think Champions come from? Does he think they just magically appear out of nowhere and grab gold medals like "automatons"? There is so much to write about even re the novice and junior events that have been taking place over the past few days. It seems as if Phil would like the skaters to make his job easy for him by winning all the time and every time. Got news for you Phil, winning is NOT everything that figure skating is about. Just ask Michelle Kwan.
A Big Thumbs Down to you @olyphil
11th doesn't sound like a bad debut for a (then) quadless 20-year-old man at an ISU championship that had to be postponed for a month due to an unforeseen disaster, and it's not as if he scored way outside the top ten in overall points, either. Of course, if it's nonsense to be "taken more seriously" if one isn't a World title contender this season, then I suppose those points are irrelevant.Miner, 22 on Thursday, thinks he should already have been taken more seriously for finishing third at the past two nationals, no matter that he was 11th in his lone world appearance (2011).
^^ Yeah, thanks falling_dance! Phil should spend time brushing-up on the past few seasons in figure skating, get an eye examination, and then take his "undue enthusiasm" to the wilds of Canada and learn how to write about winter sports like curling. Might be an excellent sabbatical for him and good motivation for learning how to appreciate subtleties, and how to expend the necessary effort to write more effectively, informatively and less insultingly about everyone and everything.
Here's hoping Mirai goes to Worlds and medals-just so he'd have to write about that.
Still waiting for Hersh's perennial article about the new junior ladies champ in which he declares the new junior ladies champ the next great thing to happen to US ladies figure skating, just as he has in the past few years with Courtney Hicks and Gracie G. Think he has a template for that one for sure! (I do like Polina Edmunds and think she has a great future.)
Maybe we won't see the new junior ladies champ article this year?, or have I missed something? since he seems to have his current fave in Seniors this year?
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Interesting to see Phil drooling over White/Davis' international results, when a few years ago he said words to the effect that he didn't consider ice dance a sport.
You should never write words with numbers. Unless you're seven. Or your name is Prince. - "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Word Crimes"


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We at 8thBridge are excited to announce that we have partnered with Ticketmaster to launch an awesome new app today that people can add to their Facebook Timeline to share their plans to attend concerts, concert attendance itself, and ticket buying with their friends. Users can purchase tickets in the app without leaving Facebook.
We believe deeply in the value of social shopping experiences at 8thBridge and shopping for tickets is no exception. In fact, we believe it to be one of the most truly inherently social activities you can do on the web. Whether an individual is looking for a friend who shares his passion for an artist to join him at a specific event or he just wants to be certain he never misses the on-sale date of his and his friends' favorite artist, shopping for tickets just isn't the same without your friends.
Starting today, people will discover artists, events, and venues that are new to them using the incredible discovery opportunity social shopping creates while connecting them with friends, favorite artists, tickets friends purchase, and so much more in Ticketmaster's app for Facebook Timeline.
Once a person has added the app to their Timeline, they can receive event recommendations based on their Likes and Listening activity through music services like Spotify, integrated with Facebook. That's right, the app allows people to discover such things as dates when an artist they listen to will be in their area.
Social commerce leader, 8thBridge, and the largest seller of tickets globally, Ticketmaster, provide fans new ways to express their connections with Music, Sports, Arts & Theater and Family events by making it easier to add to their Timelines the activities people are already regularly sharing with their friends: such as what they are listening to, the events they want to attend, the events they will attend, and the tickets they've bought.
"This is the first time we can make personalized recommendations based on a Facebook user's listening behavior and Likes," said Wade Gerten, CEO and Founder of 8thBridge. "We have been able to help Ticketmaster stay at the leading edge of technology through the launch of this app."
"We're excited to have worked with 8thBridge to bring this great new social commerce product to market and think it's a big step forward in driving innovation and improving the live event experience," said Kip Levin, EVP of eCommerce, Ticketmaster.
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By John Vogl
Elias Lindholm
Position: Center
Foreign team: Brynas (Sweden)
Born: Boden, Sweden
Measurables: 6-foot, 181 pounds
2012-13 stats: 48 games, 11 goals, 19 assists, 30 points
Central Scouting rank: No. 3 (European)
Lowdown: Lindholm continually excels outside his peer group. He was a 16-year-old star playing against 18-year-olds, tore up an under-20 league as a 17-year-old and performed admirably this season against men while turning 18. The progression should continue once he reaches the NHL.
Lindholm is a two-way center who has drawn comparisons to countryman Peter Forsberg. He has outstanding passing vision, and he knows how to find the net. He's averaged 14 goals, 33 assists and 47 points in 41 games the past three seasons while steadily climbing the competition ladder. What sets Lindholm apart is his defensive awareness. He knows what to do at both ends of the ice.
Lindholm isn't a big middle man, but he could fill out. He learned to sidestep checks in the Swedish elite league. He intends to play at least one more season with Brynas, according to TSN, so teams who want him in North America immediately might take a pass.
They said it: "He can be a tremendous player. He has the smartness and he has the grit to play. He has the most important combination, and that is both the will to compete hard and the smarts to be a really good player." – Roger Ronnberg, Lindholm's coach on Sweden's world junior team, to Yahoo.com.
The Buffalo News is profiling 30 prospects in 30 days leading up to the NHL draft June 30.
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No 1 & Original Sunset Boat Party, Tuesday (San Antonio)
At Pukka Up Boat - San Antonio, Ibiza on 28 Aug 2012 from 18:00
Pukka Up Boat + Space!
This summer Pukka Up returns to Ibiza for its ninth season of boat parties and club nights. Since 2003 Pukka Up has been one of the most talked about daytime-to-night time party on the island, holding residencies at Privilege, Es Paradis and 2012 for a third year running, Carl Cox at Space.
From June 19th through til September 18th you'll be able to get a five star dose of Pukka Up every week on Tuesdays from San Antonio. Expect slick production, fun concepts, give-aways, hot tunes and of course the return of the Pukka Up Girls!
On Tuesdays the Pukka Up boats leave from the area opposite the fountains in the middle of San Antonio. The boat party runs from 6pm – 9pm.
You must exchange your ticket for a wristband at Plastik in San Antonio by 5pm latest. Pukka Up staff will then walk you to the boat.
Your ticket includes the boat party and transport and entry to Space (Carl Cox from 3rd July to 18th September). For the first two parties in Space, other DJs to be announced.
One free drink is included. The on-board bar is very reasonably priced.
Dress to Dance!
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The Chopra Center's Free 21-Day Meditation Challenge™ Supports the American Heart Association's Campaign for Healthy Living
With heart disease ranking as the number one cause of death in the U.S. and worldwide, the world-renowned wellness center founded by Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D. offers free instruction in meditation – a powerful tool for the prevention and reversal of cardiovascular disease.
San Diego, California, March 05, 2012― Through their popular 21-Day Meditation Challenge™, the Chopra Center for Wellbeing to date has taught more than 200,000 people a simple mind-body healing practice that helps prevent and reverse the underlying causes of heart disease. As scientific studies have found, a regular practice of meditation decreases blood pressure and hypertension, lowers cholesterol levels, and reduces stress.
"In the past several decades, researchers have found that being chronically stressed greatly increases a person's risk of heart disease, in part by raising circulating levels of cortisol, one of a number of 'stress hormones.' In fact, one study found that people with high levels of cortisol had five times the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease," said Chopra Center co-founder Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Chronic stress can also cause increased inflammation in the body, which is associated with an increased risk of atherosclerosis - a condition in which the body's arteries thicken and harden, leading to complete blockages that result in heart attack or stroke.
"We now know that lifestyle choices, including meditation, stress reduction, a healthy diet, and exercise, are the are the best way to prevent heart attacks. The 21-Day Meditation Challenge™ offers people access to free instruction and daily online guidance in the stress-reducing practice of meditation. Through the Meditation Challenge, the Chopra Center is supporting the American Heart Association and their mission to help people live healthy lives, free from heart disease and stroke," Dr. Chopra said.
"In our experience at the Chopra Center, someone who is living with chronic emotional stress often makes choices that increase cardiovascular risk factors – such as smoking, overeating, excess alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity," said Dr. Sheila Patel, the Chopra Center's Medical Director and a master certified meditation educator who has created many guided meditations for the 21-Day Meditation Challenge.
"When people start to meditate, even if just for a few minutes a day, they begin to begin to release accumulated stress and respond to life's demands with greater ease and calm. When they're stuck in traffic or facing a tough deadline, instead of reacting with an automatic fight-or-flight response, with clenched fists, soaring blood pressure, and a surge of stress hormones, they are able to maintain a sense of inner calm while still taking care of what needs to get done," she said.
For more information on the Chopra Center, please call 888.736.6895 or to register for the Chopra Center 21-Day Meditation Challenge™ go to www.chopracentermeditation.com. Become part of the Chopra Center's Facebook meditation community here.
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About the 21-Day Meditation Challenge™
The Chopra Center's 21-Day Meditation Challenge™ is a free online program offered several times throughout the year. Each day, participants receive a guided audio meditation and instruction for creating a regular meditation practice. A Meditation Challenge Facebook community is also open to participants who want to share their experiences, ask questions, and connect with other like-minded meditators. The meditations are led by Deepak Chopra and other master certified Chopra Center instructors. Once a "live" 21-Day Meditation Challenge is over, the audios of the meditations are available for purchase as downloads or CDs.
About the Chopra Center for Wellbeing
The Chopra Center for Wellbeing was founded by Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D. in 1996. Located in Carlsbad, California, the Center offers a wide variety of programs, retreats, and teacher training programs that integrate the healing arts of the East with the best in modern Western medicine. The Chopra Center has helped millions of people around the world find peace of mind, physical balance, and emotional healing. The website www.chopra.com is your starting point on the path to wellbeing.


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ANSI/AMCA standards approved
Standards for dampers and louvers receive approval from American National Standards Institute.
The Air Movement and Control Association International Inc. (AMCA International) has announced that the Board of Standards Review of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the following documents:
• ANSI/AMCA STANDARD 510-09, "Methods of Testing Heavy Duty Dampers for Rating." 510-09 establishes testing methods used in measuring the performance of dampers used in the utility and heavy industry.
• ANSI/AMCA STANDARD 550-09, "Test Method for High Velocity Wind Driven Rain Resistant Louvers." 550-09 establishes uniform laboratory test methods and minimum performance ratings for water rejection capabilities of louvers intended to be used in high velocity wind conditions.
The products covered within the scope of ANSI/AMCA 510-09 include dampers, which are used to control flow of a gas (specific gas, a mixture of gas and air, or air alone) or to isolate one section of a duct system from another section of the system. The scope narrows to those dampers generally described as "custom design," "heavy duty," or "severe service," because such dampers are normally used in applications where elevated temperature, erosion and/or corrosion conditions exist.
The scope of ANSI/AMCA 550-09 is intended to demonstrate the acceptability of louver installations in facilities (essential and non-essential) that will remain in operation during high velocity wind conditions, and where water infiltration must be kept to manageable amounts.
These standards are available for purchase at www.amca.org .
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---- — HAVERHILL — Thirty three plays, 172 yards and three scores. No stops.
That was the harsh reality that faced Bishop Fenwick's defensive unit after one half of football against Georgetown Saturday afternoon at Trinity Stadium.
At that point, the Crusaders had a choice: fix the problem and walk away with their expected outcome, or continue to get shredded and watch their unblemished record sink into the turf below their feet.
Fenwick elected to rise, forcing four punts, one turnover on downs, and an interception to spearhead a 32-20 comeback victory that pushed the Crusaders' record to 4-0.
"They came out and punched us in the mouth, no question," Fenwick coach Dave Woods said. "We were just watching our defensive line and the first series we weren't following our keys, we weren't reading who we were supposed to read, and we were backpedaling. At halftime we told them to calm down, relax and play the way we were supposed to play."
One thing that was never in question was Fenwick's ability to produce points.
Even with super sophomore Rufus Rushins feeling a bit under the weather, the Crusaders moved the ball consistently well all afternoon.
Rushins spent a few extra plays standing next to Woods on the sideline catching his breath, but he still managed to run for 197 yards on 20 carries, including a 75-yard smash-then-sprint scoring play that tied the game at 20-20 halfway through the third quarter.
Georgetown also felt the sting of senior quarterback Fran Hannon's return to the Fenwick lineup.
Hannon, who missed the last two games for Fenwick, made up for lost time. The senior captain ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more. He also made all the clutch plays for the Crusaders.
Both of Hannon's TD passes came on fourth-and-goal situations, and his second touchdown run occurred on a fourth-and-goal from the 5-yard line.
That score, even though it proved to be the game-winner, may not have been Hannon's biggest play.
Trailing 20-6, Hannon led the Crusaders to a 13-play, 73-yard scoring drive in the final two minutes of the first half, hitting freshman Matt Renzulli for a 7-yard TD pass with no time showing. Hannon added the two-point conversion rush to trim the Royals' lead to 20-14 at the break.
"That was huge. That was the difference because it gave us momentum and gave us the confidence to move the ball," Woods said. "Fran was a little rusty, but when it came down to it he made some huge plays."
After that, it was all about a more focused defense and a hungry Rushins.
Fenwick's bruising sophomore back had only four carries for 24 yards in the first half, but he got 16 more touches in the second half and produced 173 yards.
"You have to commit so many people to stop him that it kind of opens up the other stuff they like to do," Georgetown coach Paul Sobelowski said. "I thought we did a good job in the first half bottling him up. Maybe if we don't let them score that last TD before the half we go in (to the locker room) with a little emotion. We kind of went into half a little flat."
Georgetown's chances to pull even late in the second half were dealt a big blow when senior quarterback Niko Edwards injured his knee.
Edwards threw for 102 yards and one touchdown and ran for 48 yards and another score for the Royals.
Hannon ended up throwing for 98 yards while hitting six different receivers, and he also ran for 43 yards. Renzulli caught three passes for 40 yards.
"I thought we did a good job, but they were 3-0 for a reason and they beat Lynnfield for a reason," Sobelowski said. "It wasn't because they weren't good."


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"I think our idea is that their freshman year students take a formal career class that helps them make decisions, not just about what jobs are in what majors," said DuMontelle. "That's just a small part of career development planning. It's also about what are their strengths and weaknesses, who they are and what has God called them to do."
DuMontelle also points out that students need to feel comfortable about the journey process of choosing a major. She encourages students to test it out and take classes in their field of interest, then to gain some actual experience, such as internships and volunteering, as part of their decision making on a particular career.
"Students need a resume with volunteer and actual working experience on it. In the past it wasn't an issue, but now it is because of the economy," said DuMontelle. "It's not just finding a job but building relationships."
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DALLAS (SMU) - The Meadows Jazz Orchestra at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, under the direction of Akira Sato, will perform at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 22 in Caruth Auditorium, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus. Parking is available at Hillcrest and Binkley and in the garage beneath the Meadows Museum. The concert is free, and no ticket is required. For more information, call the Division of Music at 214.768.1951.
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Ill-prepared private client firms could feel the heat if the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) presses ahead with an outright trail commission ban for discretionary managers.
While after 1 April, advisers and platforms will not be able to take trail commission from funds on new business and have two years to eradicate any legacy rebates, discretionary fund managers (DFMs) are not subject to the same restrictions.
Whether discretionary firms want to admit it or not, trail could still account for a chunk of their income. Some suggest that planning for an outright commission ban might be the best course of action.
For businesses that have discretionary fund management as their primary proposition, trail is still 'likely to still form part of their budget and provide a significant slice of revenue', in consultant Mike Browning's view.
While he advises DFMs to manoeuvre out of trail-paying units now, he said the impact of a broader FCA ban will depend on 'how well prepared and organised they are'.
'By now they should be preparing budgets where trail is not part of the profit and loss forecast or cash flow,' Browning said.
Compromising discretionary propositions
George Kirby, a consultant at Knadel, agreed most discretionary firms had recognised the need to move all their clients into clean share classes, although the decision still depends on the firm's business model.
'In a less centralised model, a lot of advisers can stay in dirty share classes until they have to do new business for clients,' he explained.
While trail does not form a significant part of its revenues, Charles Stanley has not yet rolled out a centralised policy regarding trail commission for its discretionary business, preferring to leave it at the discretion of individual brokers.
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Recently, I realized I'm unemployable.
Not employable in the conventional sense, anyway.
The good news is that being unemployable doesn't mean you have to be unemployed.
1. I don't fit in a box
I have never fit in, really. I have been a freelancer for 15 years. I have covered some unusual subjects in my career. I am six-foot-one. I grew up in Berkeley, California. In other parts of the country, the goal is to fit in. In Berkeley, the goal is to not fit in.
When I got downsized, I panicked. That panic led to wishful thinking. I started to believe that if I just got my resume right, if I just sent my resume to the right person, if I just said the right thing in an interview, I would get a real job, just like everyone else.
It's seven months later, and that never happened.
2. If you are different, others may fail to recognize you
This is not to say I am unemployed. I am full-time self-employed. Given the economy, the unemployment rate, and the Great Recession, this is something of a miracle.
Currently, "the average worker who is unemployed has been searching for a job for 40.4 weeks." If you have never been unemployed in a tough economy, you might think people who spend 40 weeks looking for a job are lazy. They are not. It's hard out there for an unemployed person.
As a lifelong freelancer I appreciate your essay. The most difficult period of my self-employment was after a dot-com startup I worked at for 3 years (my only staff position in 35 years) crashed and I had to renew my freelance network list.
Haydn Shaughnessy had a similar article recently (How to Stay Employed in the Jobless Economy). I've been engaging in a decent bit of discussion with him about the self-employed lifestyle, as I've had a similar career path to his and yours.
My question/problem is this- self-employment can be great in terms of freedom to work in multiple fields of interest and not having to fit into a corporate box. But what about health care?
This is a really important but under-examined issue in the freelancing economy. Freelancers are essentially shut out of the US health insurance market if they have any pre-existing conditions.
So freelancing is great as long as you're healthy, but what do you do if you are struck with a chronic medical condition that requires regular visits to doctors?
Now the big-company career seems more attractive. But if your condition is severe enough, big business will not hire you due to your previous "outside the box" career path, and because you will not be able to put in the hours demanded by large corporations.
Now you are in the Catch-22 mode- you need a job that provides adequate health insurance to manage your medical condition, but no company offering adequate health insurance will hire you due to the limitations placed on you by the condition for which you need the health insurance.
I suspect that many young freelancers are in the "I'm indestructible" state of denial. They won't feel that way when they enter their late 30s. And any children they might have will not at all be "indestructible".
So let's say you develop a heart murmur or catch Lyme's Disease, and have a child with a common disease like asthma. How attractive is this business model at this point?
The other alternative is have a spouse with a big corp or government job, and hope that you don't get divorced. And bear in mind that your new medical condition can provoke divorce.
Also, many US insurers consider pregnancy and/or having been pregnant a pre-existing condition.
This is not only an issue for the worker, but also for society.
Americans are continually encouraged to become entrepreneurs and innovators, whether in science and technology or the arts and literary fields. It is much easier to take the risk of starting your own business if you have health insurance. And it seems insane or cruel to attempt to voluntarily follow your entrepreneurial dreams if you are a parent.
As for health care for all, je suis assez bon avec le français, kan Nederlands lezen goed en schrijven een beetje, und kann Deutsch lesen auch.
Vous devez sortir de la boîte, la boîte qui est appelé les Etats-Unis.
Talk to a middle aged guy whose company just laid him off or went under or got bought by a foreign company and now he has no income, cobra for health insurance for a while anyway, and is back in the job search after years of corporate life.
No guarantees in this life. Unless you have a government job.
It will be interesting to see if in the future freelance/telecommuting workers receive the same rights to health care benefits and retirement packages as full-time and part-time employees within corporations. With the way technology is headed, it will become an impossibility to deny such a basic need.
"The middleman is being cut out of the marketplace, consumers and creators are learning how to develop relationships that serve both sides better, and the big companies are failing to understand how to work right in the new economy."
Remarkable to me how big companies have the capabilities, the budget, and the influence to reach the most people, but are not. And even when they do, it is often not done in a personal manner that makes every person feel special. I'd love to get your take on what composes of the 'new economy' maybe in a future blog post?
I'm personally convinced that we're going to have single-payer health care relatively soon, and it'll be precisely because we're moving toward either accepting universal health care or forcing employers to cover even freelance workers.
There's a reason Wal-Mart was a big supporter of a universal single-payer system, and even backed new fees on employers to help support the system. One reason was that Wal-Mart smartly realized they could afford such fees, whereas forcing all companies to help support the system would probably put a lot of their competition out of business. But another and typically ignored point is that health care costs have become too much of a financial burden for employers already, but healthy workers and consumers is too important to just ignore coverage for people, so the corporate world is increasingly coming round to the idea that government and society need to find an easy, efficient, affordable way to shoulder the health care costs in order to alleviate the cost burden on companies. Even a small fee on employers will be cheaper, when the cost is spread around evenly and administered through the public sector, than making all companies continue supporting health care for their workers.
And when you factor in the growing amount of subcontracting and freelance labor in our workforce, the pressure to provide coverage is increasing, and there's just no way employers are going to expand health care benefits to cover outsourced and freelance etc laborers. The only viable option is fast becoming a simple, true single payer system.
The last remaining obstacle is, of course, the insurance industries and private health care practitioners who fear that universal coverage/payment will force price/cost cuts and eat into profits, and who also sometimes fear that public health care coverage will eventually incorporate providers into the public sector as well.
But the simple truth of the matter is, insurance companies and private practitioners are outnumbered by the rest of the corporate world, and pretty soon there will be too much financial pressure and too many other special interests who overwhelm the influence of insurance and practitioner lobbying. Letting the general public simply opt to buy into Medicare and Medicaid (combined into a single system to oversee coverage), at a cheaper rate than typical insurance monthly costs, will be the most logical and cost-effective way to bring in added revenue (on top of a small fee on employers, which will be far less than companies are paying for employee insurance coverage now) and achieve universal coverage while maintaining private practitioners (although some costs will have to come down, particularly in the specialist fields).
Then, to get over the last hurdles, include a rule limiting lawsuits and capping malpractice insurance costs (which is all largely a red herring issue, to be frank, but it's throwing a bone and fits within a system of universal coverage anyway, so a minor cap here goes a long way toward getting some opponents on board or at least out of the way).
Bingo, one of the biggest fears of the self-employed and unemployed/unemployable is alleviated. And really, this has to happen to avoid increased business costs — so it WILL happen, I am convinced.


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Puppy drum between 20-27 inches have been caught despite poor weather conditions. Contact: Oregon Inlet Fishing Center 252-441-6301, www.oregon-inlet.com.
Sharks and puppy drum are biting at the point. Contact: Red Drum Tackle 252-995-5414, www.hatteras-island.com; offshore news, Odens Dock 252-986-2555, www.odensdock.com; or www.hatterasharbor.com.
Cape Lookout/Bogue Inlet
Only trout have been caught within the past week, mostly in the creeks and a few in the surf. Contact: EJW Outdoors 252-247-4725; Portside Marina 252-726-7678; www.ncoif.com.
Topsail Island
A few speckled trout and puppy drum reports have been made, but no boats have gone offshore. Contact: East Coast Discount Tackle 910-328-1887, www.eastcoastsports.com.
Wilmington/ Wrightsville Beach
Some smaller trout have been caught in the creeks and waterway, but king mackarel can be reeled in at 40 miles offshore. Contact: Texs Tackle 910-791-1763, www.texstackle.com.
Southport/Sunset Beach
Some black drum and whiting have been caught, in addition to reports of puppy drum and trout. Contact: Dutchman Creek Bait & Tackle 910-457-1221; www.yeahrightcharters.com; or www.oifishingcenter.com.
Falls Lake
The crappie have settled near the bottom, biting on minnows at about 15-18 foot depths. The largemouth bass fishing is slow, but some can be caught on jigs, spoons and blade bait on the shoreline. Water level: normal 251.5, Wednesday 253.92, full pool 264.8. Contact: Outhouse Tackle 919-217-0085; www.wmi.org.
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Boise State, BYU and Utah State are all expected to make bowl games come the end of the season.
Heavily favored Broncos try to keep Mountain West title hopes alive.
Boise State fell to the San Diego State Aztecs this week and as a result has lost its spot in the AP Poll.
Boise State's loss to San Diego State dropped them to No. 24 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
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A young Brookfield resident with a passion for growing pumpkins is harvesting his largest to date on Wednesday — estimated between 1,200 and 1,400 pounds — in time for an official weigh-in at the Durham Fair.
Russ DeGrazia Jr., a sophomore at Hamilton College in New York, has been growing giant pumpkins in his Brookfield backyard garden for over a decade and, since joining a group of growers that call themselves Team Pumpkin, is helping to spread the fruits of his labors.
DeGrazia said he began growing sugar pumpkins in his father Russ Sr.'s garden when he was a young boy. Then, one year at an annual weigh off on the green in New Milford, he met grower Wayne Hackney, a local legend among giant pumpkin enthusiasts. Hackney showed young DeGrazia the ropes and soon he was growing oversized squash of his own.
(DeGrazia also grows other large produce and holds the current state record for tallest sunflower at 14' 7".)
"Every year that you grow, when you start you try to break 1,000 pounds," DeGrazia said. "Then, you just try to grow bigger and bigger."
Judging from the circumference, the king of this year's crop looks to be about 1,200 pounds, however the same seed last year weighed in 20 percent heavier than its size indicated (1,064 pounds), according to DeGrazia, giving him hope that he might break 1,400 this year.
The current world record holder is just over 1,800 pounds and the state record, set last year by a Team Pumpkin member, weighed in at 1,487 pounds.
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The keys to growing the largest pumpkin possible begins with good seeds, according to DeGrazia, and good seeds come from a good line. DeGrazia has been cultivating his seeds for years, but newcomers to the hobby can trace a seed's lineage online going back seven or eight generations.
The second key factor is the shape — a gourd that doesn't grow in a good, round shape is likely to crack when it gets too large and split open. The shape of the pumpkin can be managed by propping it up at the right times during its growth and making sure it has plenty of room in the patch.
The third is time and care.
"That's one of the great things about the hobby: your time commitment depends on what you want," DeGrazia said. "If you just throw seeds in the ground, you could get a couple of 300-pounders or even a 500-pounder," but to grow a truly large pumpkin requires a green thumb, hard work and no small amount of vigilance.
A pumpkin can grow 40 pounds a day during the height of the grow season, and a squash raised under optimal conditions during the right stretch will continue to expand.
"Once you get to 1,000 pounds, the gap between 1,400 and then 1,800 gets smaller," DeGrazia explained. If he can grow a gourd 1,400 pounds, "sustain that growth for just 10 more days" and he'll be on the heels of a world record.
In order to maximize growth potential, DeGrazia plants his seeds in May and spends his summers carefully grooming the vine ("Growing it like a Christmas tree"), cutting off budding gourds that aren't on the main stem or don't show potential, weeding and tilling the soil, covering the pumpkins as they grow so that they don't turn orange and ripen and tending the leaves, which tell the story of how a pumpkin is growing.
"Someone will think their pumpkin is doing great but we'll take a look at one of the leaves and know there isn't enough nitrogen in the soil," or some similar issue, DeGrazia said.
That kind of knowledge is exactly why Team Pumpkin was created.
Cultivating a Community
"There are some people out there — not many but some — that try to keep secrets" about their growing process, he said. If that thinking prevails, DeGrazia said he is worried that the hobby won't progress or have as large a following.
Team Pumpkin is comprised of 15-20 core members and welcomes anyone interested in growing giant produce. Their motto: everyone should grow a giant pumpkin and Team Pumpkin wants to help.
To that end, the team holds a meeting every spring and offers anyone interested a packet of good seeds and all they need to know to grow their own gigantic gourds. The only stipulation is that the growers bring their produce for weighing at the annual Durham Fair.
[To reach Team Pumpkin and get advice on starting your own patch, contact them through their website.]
DeGrazia will be harvesting his pumpkin Wednesday morning and preparing it for weighing later in the day along side all the other Team Pumpkin members.
Though he is pursuing a biology major at Hamilton, DeGrazia said he doesn't plan on growing oversized squash professionally.
"It's definitely a passion and a hobby," he said, and one he recommends. "But I'm going to keep it that way for now."


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The rebound in home prices is picking up steam, with the Case Shiller home price indexes growing at their fastest pace since mid-2006 in a year-over-year basis. And while residential investment has now added to economic growth for the past seven quarters, home prices remain about 30% off their pre-crisis highs, climbing to levels last seen in 2003, Tuesday's data revealed. The gradual recovery in housing is set to continue, but expectations that it may drive a broader comeback appear overblown.
Home prices actually fell on a monthly basis, with the 10-city composite down 0.2% and the 20-city sliding 0.1%; 10 of the 20 cities saw falling prices, while New York, Boston, and Chicago have suffered more than six months of declines in the past 12.
Yet, a housing recovery is clearly taking hold. In a year-over-year basis, the 10-city rose 4.5% and the 20-city jumped 5.5%, growing at the fastest pace in more than six years. The southwest is mounting a solid comeback, with Phoenix and Las Vegas marking double-digit gains, closely followed by the southeast (Miami and Tampa); California is looking better as well. As some of the hardest hit areas by the financial crisis rebound strongly, the northeast and the industrial Midwest have been lagging, index chairman David Blitzer noted.
To November, prices have risen 8% to 9% from their early 2012 lows, when the Case-Shiller indexes double-dipped, and remain about 30% off their mid-2006 highs. And the recovery is set to continue: Barclays expects home prices to jump 6% to 7% this year, and then another 5% to 6% in 2014.
Housing is no longer a drag on economic growth, and residential investment has added 0.3 percentage points to real GDP, on average, over the past seven quarters. Housing starts are set to increase, averaging 1 million units in 2013 (they hit 861,000 in November) and new home sales averaging 430,000 (up from 377,000 in November). Returning demand should absorb supply and keep inventories low, Barclays research team says.
Those expecting housing to fuel a solid, broad-based economic recovery appear mistaken, though. Housing went from making up more than 6% of GDP before the crisis to 2.2% currently. A shadow inventory of about 3.1 million units remained alive and well as of mid-2012 (it used to fluctuate around 500,000 units in the years before the recession).
That means about 2.6 million units need to go through the system to cleanse the market. These would, in many cases, be distressed sales, which put downward pressure on prices given their decreased value. Major mortgage originators like Bank of America and Citigroup are still sitting on substantial stocks of depressed homes, while regulators are upping the heat on those involved in the subprime mess during the glory years, limiting credit availability.
Housing is recovering from a very low base and the market has picked up speed. This is clear when one looks at the homebuilders. On Tuesday, DR Horton reported earnings, beating top and bottom line estimates and seeing a jump in their order backlog, their net sales orders, and homes closed. This performance could be mimicked by KB Home, Toll Brothers, PulteGroup and others which have all seen their stock prices approach 52-week highs.
Still, the return of residential real estate is in its early days, and any recovery will be only gradual. As this last Case-Shiller report showed, prices fell on a monthly basis, and they have barely managed to return to 2003 levels. Homebuilders, which have mounted impressive rallies over the past six months, are seeing their valuations become increasingly harder to justify; they could also fall prey to old sins and become overextended. Furthermore, Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve has put all its chips on boosting housing through purchases of residential mortgage backed securities; even with record low mortgage rates, the market is barely picking up.
The conclusion should be that the housing market is clearly in recovery mode, but don't expect that to translate into pre-crisis growth any time soon.
One of Ultimate Lies told by US Media, amongst mountain of LIEs they have told the World, is Ultimate LIE that "US economy crashed in 2008 due to Housing Bubble"!
This cannot possibly be true unless US is in another planet than planet Earth! Given fact that avg House prices in US at their peak, in 2007, were below $200/Sqft, which is WAY less than what avg House prices are now in Europe, Canada, Asia, etc., given that avg House prices in most of Developed World are well above $250/Sqft. In fact you have to go to 3rd World countries to find avg home prices as low as US.
So question is Why US Housing prices have not kept up with rest of Developed World?
1- Lack of essentials such as Universal Socialized health care which would SAVE typical American family $15000 per year, something that rest of Developed World has
2- Our Taxes wasted on one War after another
For more check out: http://www.realnewspost.com/sa.php?a=40908
No. Math is suggesting that there was NO housing bubble in US, given the FACT that avg House prices in US are much less than the other developed Nations, were in 2007 and are much so lower now in 2013.
Or given the FACT that typical American family of 4 has to pay $20,000 per year for health care costs, while a same typical Canadian family of 4 will pay at most $600 per year for health care costs, and that is why for example in Canada where they have 1/10th of Population of US Housing prices are much higher than US and have nicely gone up every year from 2007 less a slight dip in 2008 amidst the US Crash.
How about trying to move the millions of vacant homes out there before building new ones
Strange world we live in where we root for the price of our homes to go up. Didn't we learn anything in 08. Real estate is a function of rents not speculation.


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DAVENPORT — Former Clinton Fire Chief Mark Regenwether concluded his testimony in the city of Clinton's legal malpractice suit Wednesday morning.
Regenwether was called by the city of Clinton Tuesday as the first witness as the city tries to prove legal malpractice on the part of attorney Michael Walker and his law firm Hopkins and Huebner.
The city claims Walker's negligence in an emergency medical services case resulted in the city reaching a $4.5 million settlement with whistleblower Timothy Schultheis and the U.S. Department of Justice in 2010.
Walker's firm was retained to represent the city's interests in 2009 after Schultheis filed a complaint under the Federal False Claims Act that emergency medical calls handled by city ambulances were being improperly coded. By listing even routine calls as advanced life support calls rather than basic life support calls, Schultheis claimed the city was able to receive higher reimbursement rates from Medicare and Medicaid.
Attorney Mike Hannafan, who is with one of two firms the city hired to pursue the legal malpractice case, started the third day of the trial by asking Regenwether about a meeting that happened in February 2009 with Regenwether, then EMS director Andrew McGovern, former city attorney Paul Walter, Assistant U.S. Attorney Maureen McGuire and Kory Ihnken, an investigator with the U.S. Attorney General's office.
Although Regenwether was unaware at the time because Schultheis's federal lawsuit was still under seal, Schultheis had been in contact with McGuire and Ihnken about the city's alleged Medicare fraud.
Regenwether testified that he understood the meeting was about the fact that 99 percent of the city's Medicare calls reviewed were ALS as was indicated by a letter from McGuire he received in a month earlier, but was not told the city was being investigated for Medicare fraud. During the meeting, city representatives were asked to explain the city's coding and billing procedures for emergency medical services.
Regenwether testified that McGuire and Ihnken were asked if the city needed to change its procedures, but but they did not give the city any direction other than to send more records.
"I was lost. I still didn't know if we were doing anything right or wrong," Regenwether said.
A week after the meeting, Regenwether sent an e-mail to former mayor Rodger Holm explaining the meeting went well and there did not seem to be any illegal activity. Regenwether wrote he was unsure how many errors in coding there were, though he did not predict there were a large number. After the meeting, the city did change one billing procedure that ensured two codes were placed on bills that were sent to Medicare.
Regenwether also testified that he had nothing to gain by upcoding emergency calls or bills to the federal government and that any money the fire department got in reimbursements went into the city's general fund and not specifically to the fire department.
Bob Waterman, with Lane and Waterman, the firm representing Walker, conducted a cross examination of Regenwether on Wednesday morning.
Waterman asked Regenwether about the meeting with McGuire and Ihnken, specifically if anyone from the city's finance department was present. They were not, Regenwether said.
Waterman asked Regenwether if anyone at the fire department verified the bills being sent to Medicare and Medicaid, which they did not, Regenwether said. Regenwther testified he believed the billing and
checking for the codes on the bills was done by the finance department.
It was not until after the settlement had been reached that Regenwether learned finance clerk Sarah Nolan was not checking for accuracy, but performing only data entry.
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With a dispatch protocol, dispatch can code the call rather than the coding assessment being performed by the paramedics on scene.
While an average of 99 percent of the city's Medicare and Medicaid calls were billed as ALS from 2002 to 2008, the time under scrutiny in the whistleblower suit, that percent has fallen to 86 percent since the
Waterman also asked Regenwether about the performance reviews of Schultheis conducted by battalion chief Joel Atkinson.
On Tuesday, Regenwether testified Schultheis was "headstrong" and not the easiest to talk to. However, Schultheis's reviews painted another picture.
"I enjoy having Tim on my shift," Atkinson wrote.
Schultheis also was referred to as "willing to learn" and having an "excellent attitude."
In a February 2008 review, Atkinson wrote that Schultheis needed to accept certain procedures that he had been questioning. Schultheis had verbally complained to McGovern and Atkinson about the emergency call coding procedures by that time.
On May 14, 2008, Atkinson wrote to Regenwether that Schultheis should be removed from his probationary period and promoted to firefighter.
Following Regenwether's testimony, Schultheis took the stand under subpoena as an adverse witness.
His testimony will continue Wednesday afternoon.


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TRAVERSE CITY — The Dec. 19 hockey game between Traverse City Central and Traverse City West has a new venue.
Well, the old venue, actually.
The contest — scheduled to be played at Detroit's Comerica Park as part of the Winter Classic Festival — will now be played at Howe Arena after the Winter Classic was canceled Friday by the National Hockey League as the league continues its lockout of the player's union.
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OPINION: In some states, a narrow margin of victory triggers an automatic statewide recount at no cost to the candidate. California does not have such a provision, and I believe we need one.
OPINION: In some states, a narrow margin of victory triggers an automatic statewide recount at no cost to the candidate. California does not have such a provision, and I believe we need one.
OPINION: When it comes to reducing California's climate emissions, should we allow companies to pollute our local communities, while paying our neighbors in Mexico to clean up the carbon? Should we gamble our climate policies on saving trees in other countries that can easily be destroyed by forest fires, just so that we can indulge in our own emissions instead of reducing them responsibly?
OPINION: There are more than 80,000 franchised enterprises in California, employing nearly a million people. Increasingly franchise owners are seeing our rights slip away as lopsided franchise agreements protect the interests of multi-national franchisors rather than small business owners.
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OPINION: Mountain watersheds can survive without the Delta, but the Delta cannot survive without the watersheds. In focusing on conditions in the statutory Delta, the California Legislature left out any consideration of the mountain watersheds and the ecosystems that provide the water to the Delta.
OPINION: Here in Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, anyone will tell you that casting is key. A film's meaning and potential are lost if it's miscast or missing the right characters. The same could be said about a blockbuster story that has been playing out for decades in California: our bloated and costly prisons. Much attention has been paid to lawsuits about the conditions in these packed facilities, as well as the response by the Governor, Legislature and others.
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