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2006: Named Second Team All-Sun Belt Conference ... Started 12 of 13 games and led the Blue Raiders in rushing for the fourth straight year with 882 yards ... Also added 16 receptions and 11 rushing touchdowns to lead the Blue Raiders and the SBC in scoring ... Voted by his teammates as one of four permanent team captains ... Named the Preseason SBC Offensive Player of the Year and First Team running back by Sporting News ... Selected Preseason First Team All-SBC by Blue Ribbon College Yearbook ... Had the best spring of his Blue Raider career ... Led the White team in the Blue-White Spring Game with 158 yards on 21 carries and two touchdowns, including a 65-yard burst ... Also hauled in four receptions for 30 yards ... Earned the Most Dependable Running Back award for his play during the spring ... Scored the game-winning touchdown in win over FIU and finished with a team-best 76 rushing yards to go with one reception ... Joined DeMarco McNair as the only players on offense to earn a "winning performance" from the coaching staff against FIU ... Scored the Blue Raiders lone touchdown at Maryland to go along with 74 yards on 13 carries and earned another "winning performance" ... Played sparingly against Tennessee Tech but did have a touchdown and earned a third straight "winning performance" ... Rushed for 88 yards on 20 attempts to go along with two touchdowns and two receptions at North Texas ... Added 50 yards on 13 carries and three catches against no. 8 Louisville ... Registered his first 100-yard rushing game of the season and the sixth of his career with 100 yards on 21 carries and a touchdown at Louisiana-Monroe ... Collected 94 yards rushing and one touchdown to go with two receptions in win at Louisiana-Lafayette to earn a "winning performance" ... Voted Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week after registering a career-best 208 rushing yards on 21 attempts and two touchdowns against FAU ... Also had a career long run of 76 yards along with a 56-yard scoring play in the win over the Owls ... Turned in 79 rushing yards on 15 carries and a touchdown in win over Arkansas State ... Rushed for 48 yards on 11 attempts and had a catch in loss to South Carolina ... Scored the team's first touchdown in the Motor City Bowl against Central Michigan on a 3-yard run.
2005: Played in all 11 games and started nine times on his way to earning second team all-conference honors ... Led the Blue Raiders in rushing with 724 yards and a career-best 13 touchdowns while catching a personal-best 33 passes for 277 yards and a touchdown ... Led all Sun Belt running backs in receptions and led the league in scoring with 84 points ... Voted the team's most valuable skill player against Alabama and North Texas ... Rushed 28 times for 129 yards and a touchdown against North Texas ... Caught a season-high five passes for 29 yards against Akron ... Earned the team's most valuable skill player award following the win over Vanderbilt after rushing 19 times for 72 yards and a touchdown to go along with two receptions ... Voted the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week after gaining 131 yards on a career-best 30 carries and scoring a personal-best four rushing touchdowns (tied for second-best mark in school history) to lead MT to a win at FAU ... Also reeled in three receptions for 27 yards versus the Owls ... Led the Blue Raiders with 54 yards rushing on 15 attempts against ULL to go along with five catches for 35 yards ... Rushed for 75 yards and two touchdowns in win over Arkansas State while also collecting three receptions ... Paced the Blue Raiders with 86 yards rushing and three touchdowns against Louisiana-Monroe while also picking up his first collegiate touchdown reception with a 37-yard grab ... Finished the ULM game with four total catches for 58 yards ... Led the Blue Raiders with 57 yards on the ground in 16 attempts while adding five receptions for 42 yards in a reserve role at NC State ... Rushed for 54 yards and two touchdowns in the first half against Troy before going out with a bruised quad ... Threw his first collegiate touchdown pass when he hit quarterback Clint Marks on a 19-yard play against FIU.
2004: Earned the offense's Best Attitude award during 2004 spring drills ... Played in all 11 contests with five starts, leading the team with 412 rushing yards and seven touchdowns on team-leading 103 carries ... Also caught 24 passes for 233 yards to pace all backs ... Rushed 12 times for 37 yards and career-high three touchdowns, including game-winning three-yard burst with 2:03 remaining at Akron ... Left game in first quarter against Florida Atlantic with an ankle injury ... Rushed 16 times for 66 yards and one TD at Louisiana-Lafayette ... Had season-highs of 20 carries and 113 yards with one TD as well as career-high six receptions for 45 yards at North Texas ... Rushed 15 times for 47 yards and one TD and caught four passes for 46 yards versus Arkansas State ... Had 16 carries for 53 yards at Florida ... Did not play versus Louisiana-Monroe because of injury ... Scored once versus Utah State ... Rushed seven times for 46 yards including season-long 37-yard scamper in finale at Troy.
2003: Played in all 12 games and earned seven starts (6 at running back and 1 at quarterback) ... Led the Blue Raiders in rushing with 735 yards and 10 touchdowns ... Also tallied 25 receptions for 172 yards to lead all backs ... Was the team leader in kickoff returns with 26 for 467 yards (18.0 average) while ranking second in all-purpose yards (114.5) ... Opened his collegiate career against FAU with 19 carries for 86 yards and a touchdown, including a 21-yard run ... Had just nine yards on five carries at Georgia ... Registered 159 all-purpose yards at Clemson with 122 yards on kickoff returns and 37 on the ground ... His 122 kickoff return yards ranked as the seventh most in a single-game at MT ... Also added a four-yard touchdown run versus the Tigers ... Led the team with 77 rushing yards at Missouri to go along with a 38-yard pass completion ... Rushed for 80 yards on 14 carries against Temple ... Tallied his first 100-yard rushing game when he rambled for 102 yards on 25 carries in the win over NMSU ... Had a 46-yard run against the Aggies ... Rushed for a career-best 141 yards and a touchdown in the win at Idaho, including a personal long 51-yard run against the Vandals ... Reeled in a career-best four receptions at Utah State and equaled that feat against Troy State the following game ... Led the Blue Raiders with 59 yards rushing and two touchdowns in win over Arkansas State.
2002: Sat out the year due to NCAA academic requirements.
High School: Helped lead Statesboro to a perfect 15-0 mark and a AAAA State Championship in 2001 for Coach Buzz Buzby ... Voted to all-region team ... Was the team's starting quarterback in a wishbone scheme ... Completed 25-of-56 passes for 502 yards and five touchdowns ... His long pass completion was a 68-yard touchdown ... Rushed for 620 yards and enjoyed a long run of 46 yards (TD) ... Rushed 11 times for 83 yards and a touchdown in the championship game ... Played safety on defense and came away with two interceptions.
Personal: Parents: Eugene Sr. and Debrah Gross ... Born: 2/26/83 ... Major: Physical Education.


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|2012-09-23 11:58:14
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|Thanks for your comment about Jeannie's vernacular. I was a big fan of the TV show and felt that my portrayal of Jeannie had to rely on the way that she said things. Thank you for picking up on that. I really like writing stories based on TV shows.
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HOUSTON -- An upscale Houston restaurant has been threatened with a lawsuit if it doesn't change the name of its "Double-Double" hamburgers.
The Underbelly Restaurant, located on Westheimer, received a letter from In-N-Out Burgers explaining it had trademarked the name "Double-Double."
The burger chain ordered Underbelly to stop using it.
Underbelly's Executive Chef and Owner Chris Shepherd said he's never been to an In-N-Out.
"I thought it was pretty funny," Shepherd said.
So he decided to change the name of the burger to the "Cease and Desist," in reference to the lawsuit threat.
"I understand. We have things we don't want people using too," Shepherd said. "I didn't know the words would be trademarked."
The "Cease and Desist" is made with double meat and double cheese.
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Fidelity Bank owns two large buildings along Blazier Drive in McCandless. One of them, Trader Horn, has enjoyed a steady customer base for years. The other, not so much.
The last long-term tenant of 551 Blazier Drive was Bally's Health club. When LA Fitness opened in McCandless Crossing, Bally's quickly closed.
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A day after the Los Angeles City Planning Commission recommended that certain medical marijuana storefronts be granted "limited immunity" from enforcement, Special Assistant City Attorney Jane Usher said Friday that her office is still waiting for state authorities and the state's Supreme Court to help resolve a key issue surrounding California's highly ambiguous medical marijuana laws: Where would the dispensaries procure their marijuana?
The question points to a "serious, debilitating shortcoming in the state's Compassionate Use Act," Usher told Patch in an interview.
"A city cannot fix that deficiency because we're preempted from doing so by state law," Usher said. "We can only enact where a medical marijuana business is established, located and how it operates."
In an effort to provide some regulation to L.A.'s complicated and severely contested medical marijuana landscape, the planning commission, an advisory body that does not make policy decisions, voted 5-0 on Thursday to back the city's so-called "Limited Immunity Ordinance" governing medical marijuana facilities, according to Charlie Rausch, a zoning administrator in the Department of City Planning. (Only five of the planning commission's members were present, Rausch said. The commission currently has eight members with one open seat.)
The proposed Limited Immunity Ordinance was recently crafted by the city attorney's office in accordance with a plan proposed by Councilman Paul Koretz earlier this year. The planning commission's recommendations will now go before the City Council's Public Safety Committee as well as the Planning and Land Use Committee. The City Council, which will be able to make changes to the recommendations, is expected to eventually vote on the matter.
The proposed ordinance starts out by banning "medical marijuana businesses," avoiding the term "dispensaries."
"The reason is there has been tremendous abuse of the term," Usher said.
The ordinance then goes on to define what a medical marijuana "business" is. It does not include, among other groups, up to three qualified cannabis patients or primary caregivers collectively growing or processing their own marijuana in a residential dwelling; or hospices, licensed clinics and facilities where qualified patients get medical care of supportive services.
"We think this is the best way to go," Don Duncan, California director of Americans for Safe Access, a nationwide medical marijuana advocacy group, told the Los Angeles Daily News. "We would urge there be more time granted to relocate the clinics."
The proposed ordinance specifies that medical marijuana businesses will be granted limited immunity only if they meet a total of 15 conditions, Usher said.
Those conditions require that dispensaries:
• Be registered with the city's so-called "Interim Control Ordinance" of 2007, which fixed at 182 the number of dispensaries in the city and placed a moratorium on the creation of new dispensaries.
• Be registered with the city's so-called "Temporary Control Ordinance," which went into effect in January 2010 but was amended in 2011 and has since expired.
• Not be located within 1,000 feet of a variety of "sensitive uses," such as schools, public parks and religious institutions, as well as 1,000 feet from each other.
• Pay any taxes owed to the city, besides agreeing to pay future taxes.
"Except for registration [issues], which we already know, the rest of the conditions will be up to the dispensaries," Usher said, adding: "Are they going to be in compliance regarding their location and in compliance with city taxes?"
Of the 15 conditions, Usher said, one emphasizes that dispensaries that were closed following a law enforcement action, court order or settlement agreement would not qualify for limited immunity.
Further, Usher said, the Limited Immunity Ordinance also states that none of the dispensaries that are allowed to remain open will be protected from enforcement actions by the state or federal government.
Rick Coca, director of communications for Councilman José Huizar, called the Planning Commission's recommendation "an exercise in legal futility until the state legislature steps up and changes its flawed law and until the state Supreme Court rules."
Huizar helped prepare an ordinance, approved by the City Council in July, that would have banned marijuana dispensaries. However, after medical marijuana advocates successfully petitioned to put a referendum on the ballot calling for a repeal of the ban, the council rescinded the ordinance in October.
Usher said the Planning Commission will continue to work with the medical marijuana industry on the proposed ordinance's regulations and the City Attorney's office will step in "if there are any legal clarification issues." She said her office is already in touch with medical marijuana advocates regarding certain changes to language in the ordinance.
"I will go with what most clearly communicates the goal and intent of the ordinance," Usher said. "We're waiting to see what the City Council does."
Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly stated that the Limited Immunity Ordinance requires medical marijuana shops "be located" within 1,000 feet of each other and from schools, public parks and religious institutions. The error has been corrected to read that the shops "not be located" within 1,000 feet of each other and from schools, public parks and religious institutions.


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A gruff looking man with a thick, gray mustache stepped to the microphone at Linwood Cemetery on Saturday morning as cars rushed obliviously by behind him on Interstate 75.
Standing before about 200 people who had come to the hillside to see the new memorial for Marine Sgt. Rodney Davis, Randy Leedom paused to control his emotions before putting it plainly.
If it hadnt been for him, I wouldnt have had two sons and two granddaughters, he said. I would not have been married to Kitty for 42 years.
Davis, Macons only Medal of Honor recipient, didnt just put himself at great risk to save the lives of others. In the blink of an eye, he flat out gave up his life.
On Sept. 6, 1967, in the Quang Nam Province of Vietnam, Davis and Leedom were in a trench together just a few feet apart and under attack from a larger North Vietnamese force. Leedom saw a grenade land in the trench and dove away from it. Davis dove on top of it.
After the ceremony, Leedom said there were about a dozen men within the blast radius of the grenade.
It was the chaos of combat that brought the two into the trench together. The two men never actually met, but Leedom said he has thought about Davis about every day ever since.
Leedom lives in Oregon, and several years ago he was in Nashville for a Marine convention with his wife when they decided to drive down to Macon to visit Davis grave. Leedom didnt like what he saw. The site was overgrown with weeds and a wooden sign marked Davis sacrifice. He thought Davis deserved better.
Although he credits the actual work to others, that sparked an effort led by the 1/5 Vietnam Veterans Association, named for the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines that fought in the battle that day. In a fundraising effort that went much faster than expected, they raised almost $80,000, enough to pay for the memorial and create a scholarship fund in Davis honor.
The new memorial includes an etching of Davis in uniform, with the story of his sacrifice scrawled around the base. It is on a large platform with four granite benches.
Alice Jackson, president of the Macon Cemetery Preservation Corp., declared it Macons greatest memorial.
I know this is going to be a landmark for Macon, for our country and maybe all of the world, she said.
Nick Warr of the 1/5 Vietnam Veterans said it would have taken longer to get the memorial up had it not been for its maker, Chad Brown, owner of Standard Granite in Elberton. When Brown was enlisted for the project, Warr told him he didnt know when they would raise enough money to pay him. Brown started on it anyway and had it nearly completed before he was ever paid anything.
The audience included retired Marines, Boy Scouts, Davis family members and others.
John Hollis, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter who is married to Davis niece, is writing a book about Davis. He has interviewed many of the eyewitnesses.
He said one thing many people may not know is that during a time when race riots were occurring in the U.S., the five men closest to Davis in the trench that day were white.
The beauty of it is, all of these guys were brothers, he said. It didnt matter what color you were. It was a brotherhood that lasts until this day.
Also, Hollis said, Davis was serving in London when he volunteered to go to Vietnam, though he had a wife and two daughters. He was there for only three weeks before he was killed.
The battle was so vicious that of the 48 men in Davis platoon, by the end of the day all but 11 were either killed or evacuated for injury, and seven of those still left received Purple Hearts.
Davis older brother, Gordon Davis, said Rodney Davis always wanted to be a Marine.
If you had known him like I knew him, you would not be surprised at what he did, Davis said. He would not have gone to Vietnam and got shot like anybody else. That was not his style.
To contact writer Wayne Crenshaw, call 256-9725.


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It's a big day for the Buffalo Infringement Festival, which is hosting in the area of 58 separate performances (and that's not counting the myriad ongoing visual art installations) in venues across the city. Here is stab at five, among many, that I can recommend as worth your while:
From 12 to 9:45 in The Vault (702 Main St.) will showcase some of the Infringement Fest's coolest musical acts, including one of my personal Infringement faves, the indomitable Jack Toph. His description at the Infringement site is shockingly accurate: "Jack Topht raps super hard, he does rap and punk better than everyone else too, his air-horn sample gets people wicked pumped." I can attest to at least some of that. Topht, who plays at 6 p.m., will be joined by nine other acts well worth checking out, including Charles Quagliana and Ted Reinhardt.
At the same time as The Vault show, the neighboring Wasteland Studios (700 Main St.) hosts a daylong slate of bands and art itself, for which more details are here. (There also huge concerts at Merge, Nietzsche's, DBGB, SP@CE 224, Filigree's and Soundlab today, among other venues. Seek the Infringement schedule for details. The volume of local music you can hear today within the city limits has got to be unprecedented.)
From 5 to 5:45 in Rust Belt Books, Franklin LaVoie performs his story "Incident at Deer Lick" as Mark Twain. Having seen this production at last year's Infringement Fest, I can hugely, whole-heartedly recommend it.
It would not be Infringement without Shakespeare in the Parking Space, Ron Ehmke and Brian Milbrand's interactive Shakspeare project that gives a whole new meaning to street theater. it's one of the longest-established, most creative and best-loved parts of the annual festival.
From 8:30 to 11 p.m., 464 Gallery hosts an outdoor movie night, the highlights of which will be Jeff Maciewski's documentary "The Loft ... Riding Into the Sunset," Jason Klinger's "The Empire Strikes Bank," followed by a showcase of local DIY docs.
There's way too much to do at Infringement today. Hope you all have a great time doing it.
--Colin Dabkowski
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Avik Roy, Forbes Staff
Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), who is retiring from the House this year, now says that President Obama made a "mistake" in pushing for his signature health law. "I think we paid a terrible price for health care," he told Jason Zengerle of New York magazine. "I would not have pushed it as hard. As a matter of fact, after [Republican] Scott Brown won [Sen. Kennedy's old seat in Massachusetts], I suggested going back. I would have started with financial reform but certainly not health care." But Frank's reasoning carries pitfalls for conservative reformers as well as liberal ones.
Frank explains that it's difficult to enact reforms that threaten to disrupt the arrangements of those who already have health insurance and are happy with the care they get. "Obama made the same mistake Clinton made," says Frank. "When you try to extend health care to people who don't have it, people who have it and are on the whole satisfied with it get nervous." (h/t Jim Geraghty.)
Obama, says Frank, overinterpreted his mandate from the 2008 election. "The problem with health care is this: Health care is enormously important to people. When you tell them that you're going to extend health care to people who don't now have it, they don't see how you can do that without hurting them. So I think he underestimated, as did Clinton, the sensitivity of people to what they see as an effort to make them share the health care with poor people."
Let's leave aside Frank's accusation that the reason Obamacare is unpopular is because the middle class doesn't want to "share the health care with poor people." (The middle class does plenty of sharing already.) Before Republicans start chortling at Barney Frank's admission of Obamacare's unpopularity, it's worth remembering that the overall problem he identifies makes sweeping market-oriented reforms difficult too.
That's why, for example, Democrats go on about Republicans supposedly "ending Medicare as we know it," even though that is patently dishonest, and why the new Republican plan for Medicare, endorsed by Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, (1) doesn't affect anyone over the age of 55, and (2) retains an option for people to stay on traditional Medicare if they so choose.
Many Republicans have aggressively pushed the critique that Obamacare prevents people from keeping their current arrangements, if they like them. But that critique would also apply to any plan that, say, eliminated the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored insurance, in order to help fund universal coverage (an idea favored by people like me).
If Republicans are lucky enough to gain power in November, they will face two challenges. Democrats will instinctively push back on any changes to our three health-care entitlements: Medicare, Medicaid, and the employer tax exclusion. In addition, much of the conservative base does not appreciate that health care reform is urgently needed, because conservatives tend to be the people who are happiest with their current arrangements.
What's the solution? The solution has two parts. First, any proposals to replace Obamacare must be implemented gradually, over time, so as not to overly disrupt the arrangements that many Americans like. Secondly, the solution ought to be bipartisan, by pairing free-market reforms with expansion of coverage (a liberal priority).
For all the partisan bluster right now, if Obamacare is overturned or repealed, it's hard for me to see centrist Democrats voting against a significant expansion of coverage sponsored by Republicans, out of spite. But I could be wrong.
Follow Avik on Twitter at @aviksaroy.
The solution is stop trying to figure out ways to pay for it for everyone and start looking at why its so expensive.
If passing Obamacare as we know it was such a mistake, why did Frank vote for it?
Perhaps the same reason he and the other 211 who voted for it did so without even bothering to read it or at least know what was in it. They took Pelosi's advice and now they face the consequences of their malfeasance.
Mr. Frank is talking about the political process and not the law itself. The headline makes it sound like he takes issue with the provisions in the law. He doesn't. He's musing about how things get done in Washington.
Precisely. To make a headline that says Frank said the law was a mistake is intellectual dishonesty–it is deliberately changing the entire issue and manufacturing a desired position.
This is the opposite of journalism.
Just one additional thought. There are rare occasions when something just needs to get done. Were we going to incrementally phase in women's right to vote? It just got done. The state of healthcare today….needed to happen in a big way now.
Let's focus on what Obama said on Feb. 23, 2009: "Today I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office," Obama said. "Now, this will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we've long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay, and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control."
First, you blur the lines between two completely different topics; health care & health insurance. We have a health insurance problem in this country; people have to go through middle men to gain access to health care.
Second, just because a plan to let ppl over 55 stay in a current system of Medicare doesn't mean that Medicare isn't changed. The charge has been on for years to dismantle medicare. One component was the Bush prescription drug plan, which prevented medicare from negotiating drug prices.
By maintaining medicare for persons over 55 and destroying it for people under that age doesn't fix the money problem. This plan still allows the most expensive health care consumers (as well as the largest population size, and the largest VOTING population) full free reigns to consume as much medicare as possible. Kicking people off doesn't make people healthier. It just saves the gov't money that is then passed back to wealthy persons in the form of tax breaks.
The whole health market is screwed up. Until you remove a middle man that charges 30% to pass money from users to producers, you will continually have a system that costs far more than what is gotten out of it.
AVIK can you please reach out to me I may have information for you which you can expound on. Here is a small sampling, do you have my email via the login or do I need to send it to you. I posted the following on a discussion group.
want to simply make some arguments regarding the ACA that are in fact already present we can digest. But I think all would agree that we should find a way to insure all citizens have access to quality care at affordable prices, so we at least agree. But we can't close our eyes to this bill and it's many flaws
Since enacted several parts are already in place, lifetime maximum benefits are gone, children with pre-existing conditions must be covered, dependents must be covered on parents plans till age 26, preventive women's service like mammograms must be covered for free. So what did these enacted parts give us outside the social benefit?
Premiums have risen for like plans have risen over 25% in two years, now don't be fooled by overall insurance costs because more than 16 million patients have been forced into high deductible plans so they are getting less coverage for more money.
Patient out of pocket as a result has risen to all time highs of 31%. So the net result to the actual patient is higher cost of care and insurance, the opposite of what the bills promise was intended to do
In addition new powers granted HHS have resulted in mandated EMR installs, 5010 compliance driving payer denial up 25% this year, new audit procedures driving more denial from Medicare and Medicaid, more stringent meaningful use rules and the looming ICD-10 compliance that is expected to increase denial by 50% at least the first year.
The net result of these actions have driven expenses for providers up and thus the cost of actual care up, again the opposite of what was promised.
The bill provides 500 million dollars to start to the IRS to enforce new taxes, mandates for insurance and the penalties and added 14,000 more IRS revenue officers, again driving the cost of care up as these costs are absorbed by the industry.
And finally removing the restriction on hospitals owning physician groups have driven the largest consolidation of private practices into larger systems than ever before resulting in less choice for patients
And more doctors went broke or retired last year than ever before to avoid the new law and more hospitals closed than ever before. And we have not even rolled in the 40 million uninsured.
Surely this is not what the intention of reform was or should be, but the unintended consequences are making things worse not better for the very people it is designed to protect is it not? Why would it take 2700 pages to reform, when most agree there are a few fixes that would have dramatic impacts, like allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines, like reforming malpractice liability laws and insurance costs, like removing restrictions on the collection of medical debt, like making claim processing uniform so the cost to do so comes down. I could probably list a handful more that could have been written into a twenty page bill and simplified delivery of care, but instead we have a behemoth bill that we still don't know all the effects of.
Again I think there are mechanisms in place to care for those in need between community centers, county or state owned hospitals and Medicaid and Medicare there are ways to treat those in need.
If we go back and review who the uninsured are it tells a story 18 million who choose not to be insured, most under the age of 34,10 million non citizens, regardless of legal or not, 14 million eligible for Medicaid right now but just have not applied, probably beause they don't need the care yet or their pride is keeping them from asking for help.
So if you look at these numbers the only group truly affected by non existing systems are the group that chooses no insurance, and if they don't want it and don't want to pay for it why are we forcing them to buy it, the answer is the system needs their money to pay for those using the care.
It makes the argument about the grand goal of insuring everyone cloudy does it not.
And if we look at how ACA will get everyone insured, it appears that it is not worth all these additional efforts
The projection is that 14-16 million will be added to Medicaid, and they could do that right now.
It will subsidize those who can not afford the full cost of private insurance in state exchanges and the CBO released a report a few weeks back saying they had grossly under estimated how many employers would drop coverage and push employees into exchanges, increasing the cost of ACA dramatically versus original projections.
And the 10 million non citizens can go to an emergency room today and those here legally require them to demonstrate they have coverage or buy a short term policy before giving them a visa to be here.
Leaving the 18 million who do not want to buy insurance to fend for themselves which they choose to do.
I hope at least I have explained the issues with this particular bill well enough at least to get you to think that perhaps this was not a well thought out reform, it is not a step in the right direction in my opinion, it is actually two steps backwards. But that is an opinion.


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I'm no fan of diet drinks or drinks in cans, although I suspect I am a convert when it comes to Diet Ale 8 after sipping down a couple of cans a new friend left at the office for me.
You may remember a recent request from a reader to have others help in the effort to get the Kentucky-born beverage onto local store shelves in the form of 12-pack cans, and I promised to find out why the cans were preferred over the readily available bottles. I received the following response to that question. "The reason I like them? I find no difference in the flavor from the bottled diet, but I prefer the cans because they fit better in the refrigerator, you can take them on trips that may not allow bottles, such as at sporting events or beaches, and they are easier to grab when you are heading out the door and you want something that will fit in your vehicle's cup holder. And, you also can fit more in a small cooler and they are less expensive."
I thought it was an excellent set of answers to such a simple question.
Beyond a big burger
We all know I love a good cheeseburger, especially if it is loaded with bacon, although I don't think I am in any way up to a challenge I was told about last week.
The folks at The Lamp Post Café in Ashland will be celebrating their six-month anniversary on the final Friday of the month. As part of the festivities they will devote 10 percent of the day's sales to the locally based I Believe Foundation while also working to promote the city's downtown business district with a drawing for "one big basket full of stuff" crammed with things like $25 gift cards from nearby shops, tickets to a show at the Paramount Arts Center and an evening at a hotel. I tried not to notice when the café's spokesman repeated the fact the basket included a free haircut.
The part I got excited about, however, was The Lamp Post Challenge. Just hearing about it made me hold my big belly. Anyone who can beat the challenge between 3 and 7 p.m. during a live remote by WLGC-FM will get their picture on the café's "pillar of fame" as well as a $25 gift certificate. What is the challenge, you might ask?
"It is a double Full Moon Burger with everything — all the toppings, plus cheese and bacon, plus two pounds of fries and a strawberry croissant. You have to eat all of it in less than 30 minutes to win the challenge," I was told.
"No one has done it yet," the spokesman continued, adding a family of three recently tried to eat the same amount (the challenge must be completed by a lone diner) and couldn't quite do it. "But,I think it can be done."
If you think you are up to the challenge, just show up at the restaurant on the corner of 15th Street and Greenup Avenue and go for it while the local radio station is on the air. For more information, call (606) 325-5283.
Business breakfast
Aside from the start time, one of my favorite events to cover every year is the Morehead State University Northeast Kentucky Small Business Awards breakfast at Advance Memorial United Methodist Church in Flatwoods, which honors small-business owners who have distinguished themselves in Boyd, Carter and Greenup counties.
I always pay particular attention to whoever gets their name inscribed on the New Business of the Year award. I write about many new business ventures that never make it to the one-year mark, and am well aware of the difficulties involved with a start-up venture. This year's honor went to Carl and Amanda Johnson of Olive Hill, who own Bubba's Towing & Recovery.
I caught Mr. Johnson on the phone that afternoon and he was hauling a car away from the interstate as we discussed the award, which came as a surprise to he and his wife.
"I told her we would go and see how it works, but I said there ain't no chance of us winning," he said, adding he was so sure they wouldn't be called into the spotlight he suggested they both wear work clothes so they could get straight to the job afterwords. "That just blew me away. It really makes me want to try harder."
Before we got off the phone, Johnson said he is a 1997 graduate of West Carter High School and his wife, Amanda, is a member of East Carter's class of 2000 (I joked I thought such a union was illegal in Carter County). He explained he had always been interested in the towing and recovery business and "used to loaf around with" a friend in the business before another friend with tow trucks and equipment hit hard times and offered them an opportunity to go to work for themselves.
Johnson said the company name is easy to explain.
"That's my nickname — Bubba. I've had that nickname all through school. Nobody knows me by Carl," he said.
Johnson also acknowledged they were up against some serious competition in that category, facing fellow nominees Dr. Phiilp R. Dowdy of Bellefonte Foot Care in Ashland; Matt Rucker of Matt's Pressure Washing in Ashland; Angel Pope of Angel Pope Photography in Grayson; April Conley and Patricia Conley of Mutt Cuts in Ashland; Bill Hornbuckle of Screentronix in Ashland; Kelly Madden of It's a Dog's Life in Ashland; Debra Harman of the Olive Hill Council for Planning & Restoration; and William E. Carter II of Specialized Therapy Group in Ashland.
Each deserves an award for just surviving in the current business climate. I encourage everyone to give their companies a try if they offer goods or services you can use.
TIM PRESTON can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (606) 326-2651.


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San Francisco 49ers
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Smith's two TD passes lead 49ers past Raiders
Alex Smith threw second-half touchdown passes to Michael Crabtree and Vernon Davis and the San Francisco 49ers finally won their first game, beating the Oakland Raiders 17-9 on Sunday in a sloppy, penalty-filled game.
Niners insider: Rachal shouldn't be starting
One team insider can't understand why Chilo Rachal is starting at right guard for the 49ers ahead of Adam Snyder, according to NFC West Whispers.
Former Eagles OL Peoples dies
Former Eagles OL Woody Peoples died Tuesday evening at the age of 67, the team announced Thursday.
49ers claim S Spillman
The 49ers claimed S C.J. Spillman off waivers from the Chargers on Tuesday and waived CB Tramaine Block.
Singletary sticks with Smith as 49ers' QB
49ers head coach Mike Singletary told reporters on Monday that embattled QB Alex Smith will start in Week Six vs. the Raiders.
No team 4-0 for first time since 1970
The Colts 19-9 win over the Chiefs in Week Five marked the first time since 1970 that no team will start the season 4-0.
Kolb leads Eagles past winless 49ers 27-24
Kevin Kolb passed for 253 yards while capably filling in for injured Michael Vick, and Quintin Mikell returned Alex Smith's fumble 51 yards for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter of the Philadelphia Eagles' 27-24 victory over the ...
Former 49ers RB Coffee arrested on gun charge
Former 49ers RB Glen Coffee was arrested on a gun charge Thursday night and charged with possession of a concealed firearm.
Readers: Singletary most likely to be fired
The Niners' Mike Singletary is the head coach most likely to be fired before next season, according to a just-concluded poll of ProFootballWeekly.com readers.
49ers release SS Lewis
SS Michael Lewis had his request granted on Monday when the 49ers released him.
Eagles dealing with rib injuries for Vick, McCoy
The Eagles continue to suffer crucial offensive injuries as QB Michael Vick and RB LeSean McCoy both suffered rib-related ailments in Sunday's loss to the Redskins, leaving their availability up in the air.
Bryant saves Falcons with last-second FG to beat 49ers
Matt Bryant kicked a 42-yard field goal with 2 seconds left to lift the Atlanta Falcons to a 16-14 victory over the winless San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
AWOL Niners SS Lewis requests his release
After leaving the team Friday, Niners starting SS Michael Lewis has requested his release.
New 49ers offensive coordinator earns high marks
Word is Mike Johnson was on track to become the Niners' offensive coordinator next season even if Jimmy Raye had been retained this season.
49ers SS Lewis out for personal reasons
49ers SS Michael Lewis has left the team for personal reasons and will likely not play Sunday vs. the Falcons.
San Francisco's district attorney won't file criminal charges against Crabtree after reviewing evidence of an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers.||||||| After examining a "thorough investigation" submitted by police, District Attorney George Gascon said Friday his office determined that no charges would be filed "at this time." Crabtree's attorney, Joshua Bentley, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment, and the team has referred all questions about the matter to him.
Crabtree is starting in the NFC championship game against the Atlanta Falcons after he was interviewed in connection with an alleged sexual assault.||||||| The alleged assault occurred in a San Francisco hotel room last Sunday.
Crabtree has voluntarily met with police in their investigation into an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers last weekend, his attorney said Saturday.||||||| The statement comes after police said they were investigating a sexual assault allegation involving Crabtree in a San Francisco hotel early Sunday. Crabtree hasn't been detained or arrested, and has agreed to be available for more questions in the future, police said. The 49ers said Crabtree made the trip to Atlanta. The team referred all other questions about the matter to Crabtree's attorney.
Crabtree caught touchdown passes of 49 and 7 yards and finished with a career-high 172 yards on eight receptions, leading the 49ers to another rout of Arizona after a slow start.||||||| Crabtree's outstanding outing was the best by a 49ers receiver since Terrell Owens' 166-yard performance on Nov. 25, 2002, against Philadelphia.
Crabtree had 107 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 6:25 to go, as the San Francisco 49ers earned a playoff berth by withstanding a 28-point comeback from New England and beating the Patriots 41-34 on Sunday night.||||||| Crabtree has 301 of his 868 yards over the last three games. The fourth-year receiver is seven yards shy of topping his career-high total from 2011, and has a personal-best 73 receptions and seven TDs.


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Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2013
Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2013
- Mobile Payments & Mobile Wallets
- NFC Technologies
- Mobile Money Transfer & Mobile Remittance
- Mobile Banking
- Banking the Unbanked & Microfinance Services
- Profiting from Mobile Payments Services through Strategic Partnership & Alliances
Conference: 18-19 April 2013
Eaton Smart Hotel, Hong Kong
Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2013 will draw together highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile network operators, banks, money transfer providers, mobile transfer networks, mWallets, retailers, public transit providers, 'interoperability hubs', handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers to share their latest efforts in launching mobile payments services and the key challenges facing them.
The most exciting session at the conference will be the panel discussion represented by all the stakeholders of the ecosystem to discuss Strategic Partnership, Alliances and Joint-Ventures in providing Innovative and Sustainable Mobile Payments services.
The following Current and Cutting Edge Issues will be addressed in depth with necessary Real World Case Studies:
• Regulatory Issues for Mobile Payments and the Applicable Rules and Regulations
• Current State and Future Trends of Mobile Payments
• New Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Banks in Delivering M-Payments
• For Banks – How to Successfully Align Financial Services with NFC and Mobile Payments Systems?
• Interbank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) and How It Will Affect the Payments Landscape
• Opportunities for Increasing Sales Volume for Merchants/Retailers in Deploying M-Payments
• Retailer Case Study – Mobile Payments in Australia – Are We Advanced or Behind the World?
• Transit Provider Case Study – Evolution of NFC Applications for Mobile Commerce in Singapore
• Operator Case Study – Business Model in A Bank-Led Environment
• Operator Case Study – NFC – More Than Payment
• Innovative Mobile Payments Strategies to Capture New Market
• Additional Revenue Generating Channels through Deployment of M-Payments
• Critical Success Factors in Deploying Mobile Payment Services? – From Each Stakeholder's Point of View
• Benefits and Business Case Drivers for Each Stakeholder
• Comparisons – Operator-Centric, Bank-Centric, 3rd Party Centric or Collaboration
• Critical Success Factors in Implementing Mobile Payments Services – Partnerships, Alliances, and Joint-Ventures
• Profitable and Sustainable Business Models
• How to Handle New Players that Have Emerged Strongly Positioned in Mobile Payments?
• Benchmarking Remittances-The Future of Money Transfer
• International Mobile Money Transfer and Remittance Market
• Enhancing the Lives of the Consumers through Mobile Money and Improve Stickiness
• Addressing Issues of Standardization and Interoperability
• Banking the 'Unbanked' – How to Capture the Mass Market?
• Effective & Sustainable Strategies to Encourage Active Consumer's Usage of Mobile Payments
• Accessing Mobile Users Cost Effectively & Securely
• How to Drive the Consumer Usage of Mobile Payments?
• New Innovative Delivery Platforms for Mobile Payment Services
• Taking Your Mobile Money Services to the Next Level – Enterprise/Corporate Mobile Money Services
• Banking the Unbanked – How to Reach Out to the Mass?
• Innovation & Sustainability in Offering Mobile Payments Services
• Building A Robust and Sustainable NFC Infrastructure
• Handset Technology Development Updates
• Management and Cost Issues in Implementation
• Security Issues – How to Succeed in Mobile Financial Services by Building A Trusted Brand?
• Fraud Mitigation in Mobile Payments
A Line-Up of Highly-Regarded Expert Speakers Representing Mobile Payments Ecosystem from :
• Russell Zimmerman, Executive Director, Australian Retailers Association, Australia
• Nitin Chittal, Vice President & Head, Direct Banking Group, Axis Bank, India
• Solaiman Alam, Head of PR & Communication and Mobile Commerce, Banglalink, Bangladesh
• Salil Bhuvanadasan, Mobile Financial Services, BICS Asia, Singapore
• Zhao Rong, Senior Business Development Director, China Mobile Labs, China
• Fariq Cader, Senior General Manager Mcomm, Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka
• Mir Rashedul Hossain, Head & General Manager-Business Development, Financial Services, Grameenphone, Bangladesh
• Sandeep Indurkar, Head-Mobile Payments, ICICI Bank, India
• Silvester Prakasam, Director (Fare Systems), Land Transport Authority, Singapore
• Philip Yen, Group Head, Emerging Payments Asia/Pacific, Middle East & Africa, MasterCard Worldwide
• Ram Rastogi, Head-Interbank Mobile Payment Service, National Payments Corporation of India
• Tom Wills, Managing Director, Secure Strategies, USA
• Basker Rangachari, Regional Chief Marketing Officer, Hong Kong & North East Asia, Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong
• Dan Armstrong, Partner, Takashi Mobile, The Netherlands
• Sebastien Taveau, Chief Technical Officer, Validity, USA (formerly Astronomer/Principal, Mobile Ecosystems Integration, Paypal)
• Gregg Marshall, VP of Business Development, Western Union, Singapore
• and many more…
For more details of the conference, please visit website or contact Phyllis Goh of Symphony Global at Email: email@example.com


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KNIGHTDALE — Town Council agreed last week to finance $3 million in parks and recreation bonds through SunTrust Bank at an interest rate of 1.97 percent over 15 years.
Knightdale voters in November overwhelmingly supported a bond referendum to help complete phase two of Knightdale Station – a 70-acre park scheduled to open later this summer on First Avenue – and pay for the loan with a 2-cent property tax rate increase.
At the June 3 town council meeting, Knightdale staff presented the results of a private auction in which the town had approached eight local banks. Only SunTrust and BB&T bid on the bonds. SunTrust's bid came in about $600,000 cheaper than BB&T's offer to finance the bonds over 15 years at a 2.56 percent interest rate.
The agreement with SunTrust will cost Knightdale $3.47 million after 15 years, but could cost more if the town opts to pay the sum before then and incur the prepayment penalty.
"With interest rates this low, why would you ever want to pay it off early," James Overton, Knightdale's finance director, said during the June 3 Town Council meeting.
Knightdale town councilmen grinned and shook their heads as Overton read the bid details.
"Wow ... That's a no brainer, " Knightdale Mayor Russell Killen said of the SunTrust bid. "(This is) pretty cheap money, folks."
The SunTrust interest rate is "cheaper than the inflation rate. It's insane," said Jeff Eddins, Knightdale town councilman and branch manager for First Citizens Bank. "What that translates to is a very generous savings to taxpayers they'll see five to 10 years from now."
SunTrust also put in the low-bid for financing the first phase of the forthcoming park. In 2011, SunTrust agreed to loan Knightdale $5 million with an interest rate of 2.33 percent over 15 years.
Knightdale's bond sale is just the latest in a string of deals the town has executed to capitalize on low interest rates.
Last November, Knightdale saved an estimated $710,000 when it refinanced a loan on its Public Safety Building, reducing the interest rate on a $2.1 million loan to 2.3 percent from 4.1 percent.
Last May, the town saved an estimated $80,000 by refinancing $2.1 million in bonds sold in 2002, reducing the interest rate to 2.27 percent from 4 percent.
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Warren - Alice Anderson, 98, died on Saturday, May 28, 2005 at her home in Warren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1, (today) at the Salem Lutheran Church in rural Stephen. Visitation will be one hour before services at the church. Interment will be held at the Salem Lutheran Cemetery.
Alice Albertina Frei was born on September 13, 1906 in Augsburg Township, Marshall County, (rural Stephen ), the daughter of Peter and Minnie (Benson) Frei.
Alice was raised in the rural Stephen area where she attended country school. She attended North Star School in Warren before graduating from Stephen High School in 1927.
Alice went to Teacher Training School in Warren and she taught country school for three years. On March 28, 1931, she married Charles J. Anderson in Detroit Lakes with a former pastor of Salem performing the ceremony. They made their home in Augsburg Township, Marshall County, until 1936 when they moved to Nelson Park Township, Marshall County, (rural Karlstad, MN) where they farmed.
In 1991, they moved to the Landmark Center in Warren. Charles died on September 7, 1995.
She was a member of the Salem and Hegland Lutheran Churches and active in church affairs.
Left to mourn her passing are her children, Richard (Ione) Anderson of Viking, June (Gerald) Reese of Brooten and Marlene Anderson of Warren; six grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren; fifteen great-great-grandchildren; eight step-grandchildren; sixteen step-great-grandchildren; five step-great-great-grandchildren; sister, Lillian Lay of Bonsall, Calif.; and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; five brothers, Arthur, Paul, Vernon, Philip and R. Sheldon; two sisters, Vivian and Anna and daughter-in-law, Jean. A00003B2005JN01


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Alfa & advertising
Since the early posters for the new spot: discover the evolution of Alfa Romeo's language in advertising.
1910 The first poster
Posters have accompanied the motor car since its earliest days. The new industrial product was immediately featured on many magazine covers including Tribuna Illustrata, Auto Italiana and Domenica del Corriere The first A.L.F.A. advertising poster is shown here.
1939 A new world record for Alfa Romeo
A new type of language began to become apparent with the advent of fascism. The rhetoric of the empire, the autarky and the homeland radically influenced the advertising posters. The advertising conveys the product's added value not so much to the customer as to a citizen of the empire.
1940s Latin people
In an atmosphere of pomp and propaganda, Alfa Romeo emerges as an industry of excellence. Its products are symbols of homeland power but also of its culture, its good looks and its industry.
1942 Aeronautical achievements
The symbols and values of the empire are represented in fascist period posters: fasces lictoriae, the power of industry, soldiers at the front in North African landscapes, aeronautical feats and naval endeavour.
1940s Marine engines
Just as in the aeronautical field, excellent motor boats were also powered by Alfa Romeo engines.
1940s 800 A bus
The Alfa Romeo brand name is almost automatically associated with car production but we cannot overlook the fact that for more than 50 years, Alfa Romeo was also one of the main manufacturers of passenger transport vehicles, buses and trolleybuses.
1948 6C 2500 Freccia d'Oro
At the same time, people forgot the propagandistic tones and rhetoric of the empire and the dictatorship. The first cars assembled were luxurious 6C 2500 cars, whose roots went back to the 1930s.
1947 6c 2500 Freccia d'Oro
World War II came to an end at last and military aircraft, soldiers at the front and cars with camouflage livery disappeared from the posters. It created an exclusive, high-class imagine designed to appeal to customers.
1900-1950 Experience, class and tradition
The post-war period was the age of optimism and reconstruction. For Alfa Romeo it meant rebuilding a plant destroyed by bombing, resuming car production and saturating a production capacity that had grown out of all proportion during the wartime years.
1950-1951 Vehicles and trolleybuses
In the 1950s motor racing was again the means of bringing Alfa to a mass market - and that applied to advertising as well. 158 cars were winning throughout the world and the posters reflected their triumphs.
1958-1962 2000 Spider
The new Alfa Romeo spider 2000 combined the world of motorsport with elegance. Aesthetic value was also important: sketches, water-colours, photographs with special lighting or focus effects, are designed to be eye-catching.
1919 Alfa Romeo automobiles
The first Alfa Romeo poster at the end of World War I bears the slogan: "Automobili Alfa Romeo, le migliori per città e turismo" (Alfa Romeo automobiles, best around town and for touring). Designed by an artist named Elio, the print shows a winged Mercury, symbol of science and progress, lifting a car.
1963-1965 Giulia sprint GT
Moving onto the Giulia, 'designed by the wind': the posters depicted a sophisticated saloon, an ultra-sporty Sprint and a Spider representing joie de vivre.
1965 Alfa Romeo Mille
The Alfa Romeo truck chronology strikingly reveals that, after Fiat, Alfa was the most long-lived Italian manufacturer of industrial vehicles.
1965 Giulia, designed by the wind
The topic of safety - both active and passive - began to be an issue from the early 1960s. It was raised in the poster for the Giulia, the car "designed by the wind".
1966-1979 Alfa 6 Cylinders
A poster designed to amaze, to amuse, to arouse curiosity, not from a purely design viewpoint but rather from the viewpoint of content. Slogans that are witty and sometimes ironic, witticisms and sometimes even stories, played out in episodes over a series of posters. These range from subtle humour to more evident comic appeal.
1966-1979 Victory within reach
The adverts no longer followed a single aesthetic style. Instead each advert or series of posters pursued its own path and appealed to a different audience. Somewhat conventional images were associated with various degrees of humour with a descriptive text.
1967 Montreal international universal exhibition
In 1967, the magnificent Alfa Romeo Coupè Montrèal was presented in the Italian pavilion at the universal exhibition in Montreal. The theme of the pavilion: "Human conquests ". The final version was then presented at the 1970 Geneva motor show.
1970 Alfa Virus
This was the time of a very fine set of posters for the French market on the "Alfa Virus", describing all stages of the 'disease' that strikes down Alfa enthusiasts.
1970 Alfa Virus (France)
"Alfa Virus": a full blend of what it means to be an Alfista. A disease that strikes at the heart and has no mercy. The poster was the hymn of Alfisti throughout the world. Maybe somebody did not realise its symbolic value but in the end does it really matter?
1971-1972 Spider is Alfa Romeo
"Spider is Alfa Romeo". Spider is moving through nature" or "Giulietta. It turns dads into heroes": this was the fresh and amusing style of posters during the late 1970s.
1973 Alfasud
Another set of adverts for the newly-introduced Alfasud, with cartoon-like graphics and language: "Alfasud, it looks just like its aunt Giulia", "Find out about its family before you fall in love", reveal a carefree and naive approach.
1924 Renè Magritte
Clearly influenced by Cubist art, the poster created in 1924 by Renè Magritte, depicts the car in a surreal urban context. Two elegantly-clad female figures are shown to indicate the class of the motor car.
1975 Alfa wins
The 33TT12 victory announcement in 1975 went beyond celebrating a brand that excels on the track. Instead it recounts a way of being: winning.
1979 Alfa 6
The Alfa 6, a saloon car produced by Alfa Romeo in the Arese plant went on sale with the difficult task of competing with the large German saloons BMW and Mercedes-Benz. "Alfa 6 the Italian alternative" was the claim.
1981 Les chevaux de feu
An Alfa Romeo that takes on a more sporty image that is at the same time more seductive and sensual. The Alfa perfectly illustrates the idea of the "chevaux de feu", the excellent advertising slogan taken from a Russian film produced in 1962 by the Armenian film director Serge Paradjanov.
1986 Alfa Romeo Spider (Spain)
In the 1980s, we find advertising posters that enhance the cars shape and models giving rise to advertising with a double meaning: an Alfa Romeo Spider seduces and conquers.
1924-1925 La voiture italienne de grand luxe
With the exception of specific posters, references to motorsports activities were very low key during the 1920s. The object of desire was extolled only by confirming its technical virtues.
1925-1930 Top-class imagery
From the 1920s, information began to give way to communication. The advertising attempted to evoke situations and settings typical of the jet set. It created an exclusive, high-class image designed to appeal to customers.
1930s A car of classic perfection
This style also persisted into the 1930s and during World War II but a different language began to make itself felt with the advent of fascism. The rhetoric of the empire, the autarky and the homeland radically influenced the advertising posters. Despite a much more imposing and propagandistic style, cleverly imbued with a futurist ethos, a pronounced sense of aesthetic and artistic value is also present.
1928-1932 Alfa Romeo gem
Class, elegance and technical perfection: a gem in other words. This is how Alfa Romeo was defined in the 1930s
1938 the Mille Miglia thunderbolt
Alfa Romeo became "the vehicle of autarky", "the most famous sports car in the world", "the Mille Miglia thunderbolt".
1938 blend of perfection and aristocracy
The 4-seater Alfa Romeo 6 c 2300 Mille Miglia combined speed and fast touring with a "blend of perfection and aristocracy".


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Where does the name "Kernwood" come from? The origin of the name is not certain, and why it was chosen as the name of an estate here in Salem, I do not know, but one thing is for sure: Kernwood Street was named for the Kernwood Estate.
Lying on the Danvers River is North Salem land formerly called Horse Pasture Point. Here a magnificent country estate of about 150 acres was established by Col. Francis Peabody.
A gifted entrepreneur in the field of industrial science, this son of Salem merchant Joseph Peabody helped to introduce many practical scientific improvements to industry, including the use of aluminum in dentistry.
On his North Salem land, which he named Kernwood, he built an English-style mansion and landscaped the grounds with a variety of fruit trees and gardens that included a formal Italian garden complete with two marble lions.
According to E. B. Symonds in his publication "Old Northfields," the colonel also built at this location a huge windmill and carpet factory.
When Col. Peabody died in 1867, he was serving as president of the Essex Institute.
In 1883, his son, Major Samuel Endicott Peabody, a widely known banker and real estate investor, purchased the family estate, where he lived eight months of each year until his death in 1909.
In 1913, the Salem Pageant was held at Kernwood. It was a fancy event, organized by Miss Caroline Emmerton to raise money for the Seven Gables Settlement House. Costumed actors presented highlights of Salem's history in scenes. The cast was composed of 1,200 individuals; transportation was prearranged from the center of town to Kernwood; a pageant headquarters was set up in town on Washington Street. The interesting facts of this production are seemingly endless. (The Salem Public Library has a file and copies of the program.)
In 1914, the Kernwood estate was sold to a Boston group that converted the property to a private country club. The mansion is gone, having been taken down in 1956 for a new clubhouse.
Kernwood Street was laid out in the early 20th century, from the junction of Liberty Hill Avenue and Sargent Street to Kernwood Bridge.
In addition to the Kernwood Country Club, the area has a park — the McCabe Marina, a public boat landing with a recreation area and walking trails along the river.
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An Intranet Filing System
Like many of you, I often face challenges when recommending a UNIX-based solution at work. Despite its track record, many managers feel UNIX still has something to prove. So putting a UNIX system in place means working extra fast and decisively. I had just such an opening recently when I put together a system to publish the common file sharing areas of our Microsoft Windows NT-based network. I thought others might be interested in this system and created a distribution, so you too can have your own Intranet Filing System.
One of Microsoft's Windows NT failings is its archaic file system. While many of its inadequacies may be overcome, the users of our internal LAN were having problems finding information among the millions of files spread across thousands of directories located on hundreds of servers across the world. We used Linux, Sun's Solaris and some Netscape products to integrate and publish these file-sharing areas on our Intranet. You can use this system to publish any mountable file system to include FTP sites, Novell and Appleshare File Servers and NFS shares.
If most of the documents on the file areas you wish to publish are in text or HTML format, there are a number of search engines from which to choose: htdig and glimpse, for example. If you want to be able to search non-HTML documents then you might need one of the commercial search engines. We use Netscape's Catalog Server for Solaris, which has the ability to index binary files such as Adobe's PDF and popular office-automation application formats.
Before your "enterprise information warehouse" becomes operational, a few configuration files must be modified on your system. For instance, if you want your system to configure itself after a reboot, you'll need to modify your startup files. Also, make sure your computer is automatically mounting SMB shares into an area accessible by an anonymous FTP session when you boot your system and enable a few features of your FTP server.
First, let's contend with mounting shares automatically. I do this with a standard run-level 3/5 initscript; Listing 1 is an excerpt showing the most critical lines.
The smbmount(8) and umount(8) man pages have more details on what all those flags are about. Basically, we are mounting the shares into a directory accessible via anonymous FTP. Our common shares are read/write for everyone. If your site is more cautious you may want to review the implications of the file permissions and ownership or perhaps impose access controls using your file system and web server's security mechanisms.
Now, let's take a look at scripts used to configure your FTP server. If you start your FTP daemon using the -a option, the /etc/ftpaccess file will allow you to customize many aspects of the FTP server's performance and capabilities. Normally, you enable the -a option of your FTP server in your /etc/inetd.conf file. Some people run their FTP full time, in this case check the startup files in your /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or rc5.d directory and add the option there. Among the benefits of using ftpaccess is the ability to specify header and trailer messages for the directory listings generated by your FTP server.
A piece of our user interface is composed using an HTML file in the root directory of the FTP daemon's file area. The entry in ftpaccess is as follows:
... message /welcome.html login
Now the contents of welcome.html are displayed at the beginning of FTP directory listings. The source of welcome.html is shown in Listing 2.
The best way to understand what this file does is to just load it up and go. In a nutshell, if the FTP listing is contained within a frame then the if part of the conditional is presented. The interface allows the user to press an "upload" button which will pop open another browser instance with the FTP directory as the root window. When welcome.html is displayed as "top" within this browser; it displays instructions on how to upload a file using the FTP capabilities of the browser.
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The Daily Star
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COBLESKILL — James P. Markley, 60, formerly of Cobleskill, died Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014, at Albany Medical Center, following a long illness.
Survivors include his siblings, Phyllis Joslyn of Howes Cave, Linda (David) Butler and Laura Butler (Edwin Brown), all of Richmondville, Paul Markley (Janet Bialkowski), Larry (Anne) Markley and Jeffrey Markley, all of Cobleskill, Henry (Pat) Markley of Richmondville; and two aunts, Judy Holmes of Cobleskill and Arlene Johnson of Freemont, Mich.
A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, at Mereness-Putnam Funeral Home, 171 Elm St., Cobleskill with the Rev. Paul Messner officiating. Family and friends are also invited to a period of visitation to be held at the funeral home prior to the service, from 5 to 6 p.m. A committal service will be held with military honors at 1 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, at Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Marathon for a Better Life, P.O. Box 268, Warnerville, NY 12187 or Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care Inc., 795 E. Main St., Suite 11, Cobleskill, NY 12043.
Further information and the provision for online condolences may be found by visiting www.merenessputnamfuneralhome.com.