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Gwendolyn Pra, the agency's administrator, hired former Army Lt. Col. William "Bill" Steele anyway and did not share his past with her oversight board.
But an audit of the North Florida transit authority's financial records turned up the details of Steele's 2007 conviction by a militiary court for wrongful possession of classified materials, disobeying an order and having an inappropriate relationship with a female interpreter.
He was sentenced to two years at the military prison in Fort Levenworth, Kan., with time deducted for confinement during prosecution, and dismissed from the Army.
Steele was cleared of more serious charges of aiding the enemy during 2005 and 2006 when he served as the warden of the holding facility for security detainees at Camp Cropper in Baghdad.
Camp Cropper once held ousted Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein and several members of his Baath Party. Steele had been accused of allowing three juvenile prisoners to use his cellphone to make unauthorized, unmonitored calls to their parents.
"We confirmed that William H. Steele, who was employed by the SVTA, was the former U.S. Army officer by contacting the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth and comparing Social Security numbers, date of birth and a photograh of the inmate that had been in custody," said Robert E. Clift, inspector general for the Florida Department of Transportation.
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Several Petaluma restaurants are hosting dine and donate events in memory of Alyssa Byrne, a 19-year-old Petaluma girl who went missing in Lake Tahoe on New Year's Day and was found deceased on Friday, Jan. 4.
According to the family's wishes, all the proceeds for the upcoming events are going to be donated to the Polly Klaas Foundation, KlaasKids Foundation, and The Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Beyond the Glory is hosting its dine and donate event on Saturday, Jan. 5 from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. 5 at the restaurant, 1371 N. McDowell Blvd. Suite 130.
Pongo's Kitchen & Tap holds a dine and donate event from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6 at 701 Sonoma Mountain Parkway. Pongo's will donate 15 percent of sales.
Mi Pueblo restaurant on Petaluma Boulevard is holding its dine and donate event from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7. The restaurant will be donating 10 percent of all sales.
Mi Pueblo is located at 800 Petaluma Blvd. North.
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The 4th of July celebration kicked off with a big bang in Scottsville. Both grown-up and pint-size Scottsville residents all came out to show their support for America's birthday. The little river town of Scottsville pulled out all the stops for the Fourth, starting with a big parade through town.
One woman even drove all the way from Virginia Beach to enjoy the day's festivities.
"We came back home with the kids to do a traditional hometown 4th of July," said Ersella Rockefeller. What does she think was the kid's highlight of the parade?
"Probably catching the candy," said Rockefeller.
Of course, what is a parade without candy, and lot's of it? But according to her son, Kaleb, his favorite part was a little different.
"The horses are cool, I like the horses," said Kaleb Rockefeller.
Everyone involved in the parade road down the street in something different. Whether it was on top of a horse, or on top of a fire truck, in a wagon, a bulldozer, a lawnmower, or miniature cars, they all showed their support for the red white and blue until the very end.
While some onlookers packed up and headed home after the parade, others are packed up and moved down the street to downtown Scottsville where the fireworks celebration will begin.


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Today, endangered bats are killed by windmills in Pennsylvania.
President Obama is pushing windmills in Pennsylvania and other states, even though they have ruined the beauty of our forests.
Where are the environmentalists?
Windmills, ethanol gas and sun energy have been very costly experiments, producing little energy relief. We have all the oil, gas and coal energy we need, but the president throws our tax money away on alternative fuels.
We're going to have some pollution because we have a modern society using great amounts of fuels. But we could make a deal with the environmentalists where cheaper fuels could be used successfully.
Our whole country suffers because high fuel costs are tied into our economy.
Gov. Tom Corbett is doing a great job cutting out waste in our state.
Our highways and bridges are in sad shape. Let's help him, instead of condemning him.
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Guns, ammo: What drove us to this point?
The Tribune-Democrat reported Friday that, "Gun enthusiasts fearful of new weapon controls and alarmed by rumors of government hoarding are buying bullets practically by the bushel." Amazing.
I wonder what the lines would be like at gun-sales counters if it were announced that trigger guards, gun safes or home-security systems were to be outlawed.
The mentality is not Second Amendment driven. It is a lack of understanding of what drove us to this situation: People being slaughtered by weapons not designed for hunting or even sport, but intended only to discharge an excessive number of bullets at an unbelievable rate.
We can't even sacrifice these weapons in the hope that this type of violence can be marginalized.
We're the greatest and worst nation on earth, and when the NRA's answer to gun violence in schools is to put guns in the school, it's time NRA members speak up.
Look at your public schools. Consider the size and design characteristics. Now consider that the Sandy Hook shooter discharged 154 bullets in less than five minutes, and tell me that a security guard could have responded from anywhere in time to stop that.
We should be working hard to not let a threat into a school, and equally hard to be trained to deal with a threat.
Also, spare me the "guns don't kill people, people kill people," because if you believed that, then background checks and waiting periods would be supported by the NRA and its ilk.
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Bradley Manning said he was sorry for hurting the United States during his sentencing hearing at Fort Meade on Wednesday, saying, "I only wanted to help people, not hurt people." But hours of testimony presented earlier by his defense team showed that wasn't Manning's only reason for downloading thousands of classified documents and giving them to WikiLeaks. Manning, they said, felt isolated, and showed signs of mental instability, suffered from gender identity disorder, had a mild type of Asperger's, and showed symptoms of slight fetal alcohol syndrome. Capt. David Moulton, a Navy psychiatrist, said Manning was in a "post-adolescent idealistic phase," which is a line from Clueless.
The goal of the defense testimony, of course, is to evoke sympathy in the military judge, Col. Denise Lind, in order to get a lighter sentence. Some of the testimony seemed more likely to do the trick than others. Nevertheless, it offered a fascinating portrait of who Manning was before his leak. The defense suggested there were three things affecting his mental state that influenced his decision: that he was a naive idealistic kid, that he had biological mental disorders, that he was that he was transgender.
The last produced the most arresting evidence. In an April 24, 2010 email to his supervisor at the time, Master Sgt. Paul Adkins, Manning confessed he was transgender, and that he joined the Army, basically, to "get rid of it." He included this selfie, in which he's dressed as a female with long blonde hair. The subject line was "My Problem." The email said,
This is my problem. I've had signs of it for a very long time. It's caused problems within my family. I thought a career in the military would get rid of it. It's not something I seek out for attention, and I've been trying very, very hard to get rid of it by placing myself in situations where it would be impossible. But, it's not going away; it's haunting me more and more as I get older. Now, the consequences of it are dire, at a time when it's causing me great pain it itself…
I don't know what to do anymore, and the only "help" that seems available is severe punishment and/or getting rid of me.
Adkins had written memos in December 2009, April 2010, and May 2010 about Manning's instability.
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Can't wait to see what you have to say next PG. You are just such a "natural," no foolin'.
Glad I'd already swallowed most of my coke ... (as in coca-cola), prior to reading your devilish post.
Hey folks, did you all check out that Skating magazine link I posted with the pic of Ashley and Kwan together? They are such strikingly lovely ladies. Seems to me that they both probably admire each other in equal measure. Plus both their smiles in that pic are so "natural."
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Didn't she say not so long ago that she was inspired by Lipinski?
By the way, another very contrasting difference between Wagner and Kwan is that Kwan used to work so hard on her exhibition programs. The details in East of Eden, Winter, Dante's Prayer, Les Mes, Red Violin, Hands, Fields of Gold... are incredible as exhibition programs. On the other hand, Wagner's exhibition programs looked like she spent only 2 hours practising them.
I know - Kwan used to get a lot of $$ from appearance fees at those pro-ams and shows etc and that's why they had to be good. But now that Wagner is winning or at least medalling a lot more, she needs to have thoughtful programs too, especially if she wants to grab more show opportunities in US and in Asia and if she wants to be taken more seriously as an artrist and be compared to Kwan...
Not to be disrespectful to Tara because I really love her Nagano LP performance but I think Ashley's change of heart tells something about what she learned from watching and "studying" Michelle: winning skating and secure career. Sadly, artistry of Michelle seems to be a long long way for Ashley. Well, that goes for everyone else so, I don't blame her. You can't really compare MK with anybody really. Michelle was truly one of a kind, to come out once in a thousand years at least.
Along with being Ashley's idol, Tara was Ashley's mentor for a brief period of time.
^So, mystery of who's whose idol is solved, I guess?
With points to rack up and so many other details to consider, it makes me wonder if Janet Lynn would have been the same kind of free skater under CoP?
Seriously, is this even a proper question? Been few weeks since I visit FSU, but desperation I seethe, USA demand the return of the KWAN, and they will do anything!!!
What I will say is Ashley's Red Violin has nothing to do with the red violin of the music or the mystery of the film which the music was written for. While Kwan's drew you in and haunt you just like the film, Ashley's version wins competitions - that's about it, she won in a weak ladies field without any WC podium finishers from the last quads.
While I really enjoyed Ashley's Black Swan last year, this year clearly the emphasis was on the packaging rather than substance. She sells it well, but missing the heart/emotion of MK's skate every time she steps on the ice as if she is living in the moment. As a result, Ashley's performance will not be memorable to me this year, although yes it will still win competitions, very much like how Miki has done. (Of course Ashley is still tons better than Miki in terms of performance and projection.)
Ultimately Ashley should be own her lady, I think give her something star spangled banner in a cheer leader outfit, she'd totally ace it. Just like one of those girls from the movie 'Bring it on'. I can totally see her live up to the US Champion title this year. (Come on Mirai.. what are you doing?! Bring the 3:3 back, what have you got to loose?)
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People have already summed up how I feel really.
When I look at Wagner, I am impressed - but what it is impressing me is her obvious work ethic and application. She clearly knows what she wants and knows how to get it - a quality in itself. However, there is also a slightly "contrived" feel to her skating in comparison to some others (not just Kwan) as I don't think she's necessarily a natural, neither artistically nor athletically. I just think she's tremendously determined above all else. And it's probably going to get her far.


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The Canton Police Department has identified the young man whose body was discovered behind the Canton Marketplace Sunday morning.
In a press release, the department named 19-year-old Sergio Oliverio Padron as the person located in a wooded area by hunters at roughly 9:30 a.m. on Sunday.
Police have ruled out foul play in Padron's death, according to the same release. Authorities said that the death was initially labeled as suspicious due to Padron not carrying any form of identification or being listed as a missing person.
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TO THE EDITOR: The SUNY Plattsburgh Summer Safari 2013 offered a summer theater workshop for young performers, ages 8 to 18.
Under the incredibly multi-talented direction of Gilles and Mary Fortin and Kym Taylor, 45 children in 13 short days were transformed into the world of live theater. What an experience they had. Every participant was able to demonstrate the confidence he or she acquired in the art of acting.
It is difficult to realize that in this short period of time these young inexperienced novices found themselves presenting a remarkable, full-scale, professional performance of Disney's "My Son Pinocchio Jr." It was awesome.
On a personal note, I had the lifetime opportunity of observing my 9-year-old granddaughter, Sophia Anna, change from a shy but willing, insecure but eager-to-become-involved-beginner to a self-confident, excited and devoted student of acting. I am confident that other parents and guardians can give similar testimony.
Mary, Gilles and Kym have touched the lives of these young performers forever. Bravo and thank you.
Also, kudos to Kate Chilton, the SUNY Plattsburgh director of college services, for making this live theater event become a reality through Summer Safari.
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TO THE EDITOR: Advocates and activists in the community of disabled persons have worked for years to educate people in government, private business and health-care providers about issues of disability that remain barriers in our County, regardless of the many laws that have been passed to create equal access and opportunity for all.
In a Jan. 6 article in the Press Republican, I was interviewed regarding advocacy I have been doing for years to further our progress. I am sad to report that much of our county, many private entities and some health-care providers remain inaccessible to people with disabilities. All efforts, both individually and collectively, seem to fall on "deaf" ears.


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The Montreal Canadiens are chafed that Sabres center Paul Gaustad allegedly said, "Where's Chara?" in the direction of Max Pacioretty following Patrick Kaleta's empty-net goal late in the third period of Tuesday's 3-1 Buffalo victory. The quip, of course, is in reference to the ghoulish hit Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara put on Pacioretty last season that resulted in a broken neck.
"He's got a big mouth and he likes to run it," Habs goalie Carey Price said of Gaustad. "What can you do? Can't worry about what he's got to say. He doesn't do much out there."
For one night, at least, Gaustad did as he put together his first three-point game since December 9, 2010. Will be interesting to see what kind of response Gaustad has this morning prior to the Sabres' game against the Rangers. Some Montreal players apparently asked him where he was when Ryan Miller got plowed in November by Milan Lucic. Fair comeback.
The Chara-Pacioreetty play is seen below, followed by clips from the Habs' locker room Tuesday from Price (who starts in on Gaustad at the :55 mark) and winger Matthew Darche. Those clips are from the Montreal Gazette.
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Sandown, NH — Surrounded by his loving wife and children, Jim passed away on Saturday, July 7 at Exeter Hospital following a long illness.
Jim worked for U.S. Gypsum Co. and Eastern Tool and Stamping Co. where he retired as Union President of Local IUE #263. He moved to Sandown, NH in 1996 where he led a rich and wonderful life enjoying his home by the lake, playing golf with friends, and especially enjoyed ballroom and square dancing with his wife Joan (Petricone) and their many friends all over New England.
Born and raised in Chelsea, MA, his parents were Ernest and Anna (O'Regan). Besides his loving wife, he will be deeply missed by his children Michael, Sharon, Steven and James Jr. and his step-children Donna and her husband Jim Gabriel, Michelle Proto and her fiancé Rich Mullins and Robert Proto, as well as his sister Hazel and her husband Bill Cordeau and brother Charlie Pinksten. Jim was predeceased by his brother Robert and sister Joan McCann. He lovingly embraced his eight grandchildren, Alanna, Erik, Michael, Jenna, Allison, Ryan, Brooke and Emma and many, many friends.
ARRANGEMENTS: Relatives and friends may call on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, from 4 to 8 PM at Brookside Chapel & Funeral Home, 116 Main St. (Rt. 121A), Plaistow, NH. His Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, at 11:30 AM in the funeral home.
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There were a lot of interesting aspects to last night's vice-presidential debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden. Most of the media commentary has focused on Biden's 82 interruptions of Paul Ryan's remarks. I'd like to discuss the substance of the debate on health care and tax reform, where Joe Biden told one whopper after another in an attempt to help President Obama regain lost campaign momentum.
(DISCLOSURE: I am an outside adviser to the Romney campaign on health care issues. The opinions contained herein are mine alone, and do not necessarily correspond to those of the campaign.)
Moderator Raddatz's biased, factually wobbly performance
The debate's moderator, Martha Raddatz, embarrassed herself at several points in the evening. Her low point from my standpoint was when she asked Ryan a wildly inaccurate question about the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan. "What is your specific plan," she asked Ryan, "for seniors who really can't afford to make up the difference in the value of what you call a premium support plan and others call a voucher?" At several points in the debate, egged on by Raddatz, Biden repeated this falsehood.
It's one thing for Biden to repeat a falsehood that the Obama campaign has been shopping for months. It's another thing for a moderator to do it, one who presumably had time to actually do some homework on how the Romney-Ryan plan works.
Ryan patiently explained that, under the competitive bidding model, not a single senior is exposed to rising health costs relative to the level of premium support. Biden kept interrupting Ryan so as to prevent him from completing his sentences, and then falsely claimed that Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden opposed the Romney-Ryan plan. Indeed, Ron Wyden supported a plan to the right of the Romney-Ryan plan.
The Wyden-Ryan plan capped the growth of Medicare spending at GDP plus 1 percent. The Romney-Ryan plan contains no cap on the growth of Medicare spending. Here's Sen. Wyden, in his own words, explaining why he supports these reforms.
Wyden does oppose other aspects of the Romney-Ryan approach, namely that the Republicans seek to repeal Obamacare and block-grant Medicaid. But Wyden has not renounced Wyden-Ryan, as much as Democrats would like him to.
Biden invents budgetary savings from Medicare drug-price negotiating
Biden also falsely claimed that negotiating drug prices under the Medicare prescription drug program would save the government money. "Martha, if we just did one thing, if we just…allow Medicare to bargain for the cost of drugs like Medicaid can, that would save $156 billion right off the bat," he said.
But when Democrats in the Senate proposed a bill to do just that in 2007, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that its impact would be nearly zero. Allowing the government to directly negotiate drug prices in Medicare Part D, the CBO said, "would have a negligible effect on direct spending."
Biden dissembles on Obamacare's Medicare cuts
Biden repeated the Obama campaign's dishonest talking points regarding Obamacare's $716 billion in cuts to Medicare. "What we did," he claimed, "is we saved $716 billion and put it back—applied it to Medicare." That's not true: the $716 billion was used to fund $1.9 trillion in new spending under Obamacare. If Biden wants to insist that the money was "put back" into Medicare, then he's also stating that Obamacare increased the deficit by $716 billion more than the administration otherwise claims.
For my detailed fact-check of these misleading statements, see the piece I wrote about them in mid-August, and also the piece I wrote about the first debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama.
Biden also claimed that seniors have "more benefits" today than they did before Obamacare: "Any senior out there, ask yourself: Do you have more benefits today? You do. If you're near the doughnut hole, you have $600 more to help your prescription drug costs. You get wellness visits without copays. They wipe all of this out." However, as I described last week, Obamacare's ratio of Medicare cuts to spending on "new benefits" is 15 to 1.
When Paul Ryan pointed out that Richard Foster, the actuary of the Medicare program, stated that "one out of six hospitals and nursing homes are going to go out of business because of [Obamacare]," Biden denied it. "That's not what they said," said Biden. Here's a direct quote from Foster's Congressional testimony on the topic: "Simulations by the Office of the Actuary suggest that roughly 15 percent of Part A providers would become unprofitable within the 10-year projection period" as result of Obamacare's Medicare cuts. Even more would become permanently unprofitable in future years; i.e., broke.
Ryan also noted that the actuary projected that "7.4 million seniors are projected to lose the current Medicare Advantage coverage they have. That's a $3,200 benefit cut." Once again, Biden said "That didn't happen. More people signed up."
But, once again, the Medicare actuary wrote: "We estimate that in 2017, when the [Medicare Advantage] provisions will be fully phased in, enrollment in MA plans will be lower by about 50 percent (from its projected level of 14.8 million under the prior law to 7.4 million under the new law)." Robert Book and Jim Capretta calculated that Obamacare's cuts to Medicare Advantage work out to $3,714 per beneficiary.
Biden's made-up claim that Ryan will "knock 19 million people off of Medicare"
Biden didn't use the phrase "throw granny off a cliff," but he falsely claimed that Paul Ryan's House budgets "will knock 19 million people off of Medicare." No. the House budget would not have kicked a single person off of Medicare, and neither would Romney's plan. The Romney-Ryan plan has zero impact on Medicare for anyone over 55, including current retirees, except for repealing Obamacare's Medicare cuts. Biden's figures, once again, are made up out of whole cloth.
Biden repeats false claim that Romney seeks $5 trillion tax cut
Biden repeated the fact-free claim that Romney is seeking a "$5 trillion tax cut" when in fact Romney is seeking a revenue-neutral tax cut. He then went on to say, curiously, that "the American Enterprise Institute study [says that] taxes will go up on the middle class, the only way you can find $5 trillion in loopholes is cut the mortgage deduction for middle-class people, cut the health care deduction for middle-class people, take away their ability to get a tax break to send their kids to college." That's not true.
Indeed, as I discussed earlier this week, American Enterprise Institute tax experts came to the opposite conclusion: that the Romney tax-reform proposal could be revenue-neutral while reducing taxes for the middle class. As Ryan correctly noted, six studies back up Romney's math: Matt Jensen of AEI, Alex Brill separately of AEI, Stephen Entin and William McBride of the Tax Foundation, Curtis Dubay of Heritage, Martin Feldstein of Harvard, and Harvey Rosen of Princeton.
Who won? All I know is Martha Raddatz lost
It appears from the snap polls that came out after the debate that a plurality of Americans believed Paul Ryan won the debate. A CNN poll of 381 registered voters who watched the debate gave it to Ryan 48 percent to 44. To me, relative to the blowout performance of Romney over Obama in the first debate, the veep show looked roughly like a draw.
I came away from the debate unsurprised that Joe Biden said so many untrue things about health care and tax policy. He's been doing that on the campaign trail as well, and the media rarely holds him to account. But I was very surprised by how much Martha Raddatz did to cover for him. Her reputation will suffer for it.
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UPDATE: As Patrick Brennan points out, Senator Biden voted for the bipartisan 1986 tax reforms that lowered rates while limiting deductions, from whence the Romney plan is modeled.
If Biden said
"If you're near the doughnut hole, you have $600 more to help your prescription drug costs. You get wellness visits without copays."
he was also wrong.
You have to be IN the donut hole, not "near" it, to get any of the present manufacturer discounts on brand-name drugs or the relatively minor upcoming government subsidies on costs in the hole (that being said, as a senior I am not going to turn down found money).
And wellness visits never had a co-pay but wellness visits are not physical exams (what Obamacare did was increase the number of useless wellness visits).
This is really quibbling. And let's be clear, the discounts are not minor in the donut hole–they are 50% off. My wife likes to go shopping and to her 50% off is a really good sale. But if that isn't good enough for you, ok. The donut hole will be completely closed by 2020 and the most anyone will be responsible for paying out of pocket is 25%.
It is incorrect that wellness visits were always free. There wouldn't have been a change in the law if that were true. Some Medicare Advantage plans may have covered them, but that was not standard. The wellness visits now covered don't seem so useless to me: annual physicals (most components), mammograms, colonoscopies.
Jan Bernard
You are wrong on all counts.
As for the difference between IN and NEAR, if you think that is "quibbling," than it is impossible to have a discussion. If you are NEAR the donut hole, you do not get any savings. How is that "quibbling?" Biden is totally in error (as usual).
I said the "upcoming (starting in 2013) government subsidies" are relatively minor (something like $12 billion over the next 10 years).
As for wellness visit copays past and present, you are simply wrong. Please read the Medicare and You booklets over the years.
And to say you get almost "all components" of a physical when the part that is missing is the "physical" part is absurd.
Everyone gets a covered full physical when they start on Medicare. In each subsequent year beneficiaries now receive a "wellness" exam. That has no copay. AARP says that the wellness visits and preventive care plans are newly covered under Obamacare. I understand those may not be useful to you personally, but they are available for free: http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ppi/health-care/fs180-preventive.pdf
After reading more closely, you're right that an annual full physical exam is not 100% covered. But it seems like a lot of the tests and exams that are now included with the free personalized preventative plan and other free preventative services are the same things that would otherwise be considered part of a physical. See below for the list. I am wondering what other exams in a phyiscal you would be looking for?
No co-pay covered tests / exams / preventative services:
-blood pressure measurements
-examination for cognitive impairments
-Cardiovascular screening, included lab tests for cholesterol, lipids and triglycerides
-cervical and vaginal cancer screening
-colorectal cancer screening (4 different ways to test this are available)
-prostate cancer screening
-all regular shots
-bone mass measurements (if at risk)
-diabetes screening (if at risk)
(Source: Medicare — http://www.medicare.gov/pubs/pdf/10110.pdf)
Avik, are you bringing up conflict of interest? You are a Romney advisor and have not made one positive statement about the dozens of provisions in Obamacare, many of which started out as conservative ideas. Can the public really expect an even handed analysis of health care policy here? The only reason I comment on this blog is to try to give readers a more balanced view of the topics you write about.
I'm not sure a membership organization like AARP would last very long if it were in the business of supporting policies that harm its members, which is what you're implying. lAso, I cite Medicare, not only AARP, in the post above.
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No I am sorry but you are still not correct re the difference between an annual physical and an initial/annual wellness visit. You do not get a full physical when you start on Medicare or annually. To answer your question about the differences between tests and a physical, a physical involves getting checked out physically.
If you trust AARP (I share Avik's general concern but I find Patricia Berry of AARP to be accurate), please see this article to explain the differences
(http://www.aarp.org/health/health-care-reform/info-07-2011/free-medicare-wellness-exam.html). Or as I suggested the best way to see the differences is to read the current, 2011 and 2009 editions of Medicare and You.
Not only is a physical not "100% covered" under Medicare, it is not covered at all as Ms. Berry explains. Seniors pay full price. I believe but have no data on this that many doctors are giving a physical and coding an AWV (or initial wellness visit) and just eating the difference. But other doctors simply refuse to do wellness visits at all as described here by this highly respected health reporter in Oregon (see http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20111110/NEWS0107/311109995/)
Your information about "free annual" preventive visits is also not accurate. Again, look at the government site itself. Most are not annual (and also don't need to be) and the most important ones (a DRE for prostate cancer for men, for example) involve a co-pay. Two of the most hyped "free" tests — PSA tests and mammograms — have been simultaneously slammed by other government agencies as not useful and possibly counter productive.
The five new "preventive tests" for 2013 are particularly loopy. It's hard to see how some of them even apply to Medicare since they are intended for "pregnant people" (how do you like that for political correctness?) And although the new depression test is "free," there is a 20% co-pay for the doctor's visit. It's hard to understand what CMS even means by this unless the receptionist gives the test and decides if you need to see the doctor?
I have to defer to you on what Medicare is requiring co-pays for and what they are not. I am not a Medicare patient and you have real world experience. All I can do is refer to the published information online. The Medicare document I linked (http://www.medicare.gov/pubs/pdf/10110.pdf) says that most of those preventative care visits, and certainly the wellness, are covered without co-pay (e.g. "There is no coinsurance and no Part B deductible for the PSA Test.") The Welcome to Medicare exam does not sound totally comprehensive, based on what AARP put together.
I think there probably is, as you mention, much inconsistency in how doctors bill these services and how they charge their patients (even if they shouldn't be!).
You are right there are some restrictions on the frequency of some preventive exams. I share your concern that they are not needed or helpful very often for most people–so I think the restrictions are reasonable. Few people believe they need a colonoscopy or mammogram annually.
The pregnancy tests are interesting, but I think those may apply to the non-traditional Medicare population, such as those who quality based on disability at a younger age.
-Mr. B
AARP is not a health insurer. They are non-profit organization, not a company, so there are no "profits," which you repeatedly and incorrectly refer to in your article. Every cent of the revenue that AARP does receive goes back into its dozens of programs to serve older Americans and to reduce membership dues.
To be clear, nobody is getting rich off of AARP's revenue. There are no shareholders, there are no multi-millionaire executives. There are just AARP members and staff. These are staff who by the way could make more money working elsewhere, like for-profit companies. But they don't don't, because they believe in what they do. That may be a difficult concept for you, but it's true.
You are implying that AARP members are not sophisticated enough to understand what their organization is doing and that it is working against their members' own interests.
Perhaps Paul Ryan was booed at the AARP annual conference when he pledged to repeal Obamacare because the actual AARP members there just don't appreciate his position. Maybe they like Obamacare and its provisions. Or do you think those members just do whatever they're told by AARP bosses because someone at AARP—we don't know who—is making money hand over fist by lying to its members? I don't buy it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/paul-ryan-booed-aarp_n_1903937.html
The revenue AARP receives related to Medigap plans is simply a royalty for endorsing certain plans they think best serve their members. You're main point that Obamacare is designed to drive seniors out of Medicare Advantage and into AARP-endorsed Medigap plans is wrong. MORE people have joined Medicare Advantage since Obamacare.


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Graphene is a single sheet carbon. It is one of the strongest materials ever known and it is completely flexible. The discoverers of graphene won the Nobel Prize in 2010. However, the method they used to make it, which was taking graphite and peeling it with scotchtape, is not practical. So, we set out to find a better method. We started with graphite oxide, which is a water-dispersible material. We, then, coated on to sheets of plastic. We hit it with a light from a laser. They oxygenates. It turns it into graphene.
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Richard Kaner: But the real discovery was yet to come. I think the eureka moment that you're looking for was not exactly that. The real exciting discovery came when Maher dragged me into the lab and he said; "take a look at this." And he just took a lightbulb and he just turned it on with this little piece of graphene. But then, the amazing thing is, it doesn't stop working. After charging for two or three seconds, he ran this light for over five minutes. I though we had something very important. I thought the world changed at that point.
Maher El-Kady: Okay, let's talk about the future.
Richard Kaner: Batteries have a bad reputation. But what we're working on are supercapacitors. And supercapacitors, you can think of as a charge source device like a battery except it charges and discharges a hundred to a thousand times faster. A battery stores a fair amount of charge but it charges and discharges slowly. A capacitor puts out a high output but it doesn't store much charge. So it is like a flash to a camera. A supercapacitor is one which combines the best attributes of both.
If you think about all the electronic devices you have. Right now, everytime you need one, you realize; "Oh, I forgot to charge it up." But imagine if you can take that same device, plug it on the wall for 30 seconds or a minute and be ready to go. Life would be very different. And eventually, we'll get to things like electronic vehicles. Now, you'd pull into gas stations. Well, soon, you'd pull into a charging station. Within a minute, it would charge up your car.
If you think of batteries, they are composed of a lot of metals. Often, they are toxic metals. And so in fact, you're not allowed to throw a battery away. But if you had something that's carbon-based, it wouldn't matter. You could put it in your compost bin and use it to grow vegetables.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist. And so, my goal has always been to develop something that will change people's lives.


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Thirty-six-year-old James H. Long Jr. will remain behind bars on drug and first degree murder charges. He's accused of killing Vicki Truax, one of the victims in the Orange County double murder, and was denied bond.
Truax, along with William Browning, was found shot to death in a pickup truck early Friday morning, March 18. This happened in the front yard of a home along Old Office Road in Orange County.
Browning's ex-wife, Robin Browning, is also in jail, facing drug and firearm charges. Police say Long and Browning were living together and believe they were with each other at the time of the murders.
Both are being held at the Central Virginia Regional Jail. At this time, there are still no charges for the death of William Browning. The Orange County Sheriff's Office says the investigation is still ongoing.


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City police arrested a Grand Traverse sheriff's deputy after witnesses said he assaulted his girlfriend at a downtown saloon.
Officers arrested off-duty deputy Ryan Salisbury today at about 5:30 a.m. after an incident at Union Street Station several hours earlier. Salisbury was a suspect in an assault against another woman last year, but Leelanau County authorities declined to charge him with a crime.
City police and sheriff's officials wouldn't identify the deputy, but Grand Traverse Prosecutor Al Schneider and his attorney identified Salisbury.
City police Capt. Brian Heffner said officers went to the bar at about 12:15 a.m. on a report that a man assaulted a woman.
"We had allegations made that a man and a woman who reside together ... had what witnesses described as physical altercation," he said.
The woman denied being injured, Heffner said, but officers arrested the suspect at his residence. Grand Traverse Sheriff Tom Bensley said the deputy has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the criminal investigation.
Defense attorney Craig Elhart said he will "vigorously defend" Salisbury against any charges that may arise.
"Mr. Salisbury did nothing wrong," he said.
Schneider said he will remove himself from the case because of a conflict of interest and will ask for a special prosecutor to be assigned.
Salisbury was investigated for domestic violence about a year ago. Leelanau County Prosecutor Joe Hubbell was assigned to the case after Schneider removed himself.
Assistant Leelanau Prosecutor Doug Donaldson handled that case, which he characterized as a "shoving match."
"It was not a significant assault," he said.
The female victim later decided she didn't want to press charges, Donaldson said, and none were issued. But the fact that Salisbury was arrested again for an alleged assault complaint made Donaldson think twice about the previous case.
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The whole point of Game Center is to play online with friends and compete for leaderboard rankings. While you can start multiplayer games and challenge friends from within some games, you can also initiate multiplayer games from within Game Center itself.
Here's how:
It's worth noting that you can challenge friends to other games that you don't have in common but they'll be prompted to install or purchase the game if they don't already have it.
i've had my phone for over a year and didn't know a lot about what it can do
Agreed. While i haven't been using idevices for that long i did find out the other day that you can switch apps without going to the home screen ever time. Good stuff.
Thanks for writing an article about Game Center. I've never bothered to open Game Center up to see what it is, and I've been with iOS since the 2nd gen iPodTouch
Wow so simple but so difficult at the same time. Honestly Allyson I never thought about doing that. I have opened the GameCenter one time and I have had iPhones since the 3G came out. Yes I realize GameCenter wasn't available back then...haha. Now I just need to get in there and add some friends so I can whip some butts. Thanks for the info.
I logged into Game Center once in all the time it has been out. Never really understood what it was for. None of my "friends" seem to use it. I'm guessing they have to use it too for it to be useful.
This is so simple yet I never knew how to use Game Center. Thanks Allyson! When I see the screenshots, however, the app looks outdated and not very clean. The interface could use an update.
I actually find this useful. Other how-to's seems boring and not really needed; however, I actually do enjoy this tutorial. The best part is you can tell what games you have and common and can direct them to the itunes store to download/purchase the game you want to play. I think that's one of best parts of Game Center.
Easy, simple to follow tutorial. Thanks!
This is great! I want to challenge my nephews in a game and didn't know how to do this. Let the games begin..... Thanks for the tip!
I didn't know you can do that from the game center. Wow everyday you learn something really new from your iDevices, thanks iMore!!
How do I disable GameCenter so it never prompts me to login to it EVER again?
Every once in awhile it will come up, and I will hit the disable button, and then a couple weeks later it will prompt again & I'll have to disable the stupid thing again. Better yet, how do I delete the stupid thing? I just want to play my games & not be bothered by this thing.
Maybe when the skeuomorphism goes away in iOS 7, I'll use Game Center. I always thought of the app to be an afterthought. I play games and log in with Game Center, but challenging people or even bother to checking the scoreboards hasn't thrilled me to use that part of it yet.


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In the last two months I have this problem happen twice. If i take a trip or go long distances with the truck, I come to a complete stop and go again, when I hit 10mph there is a loud 'clunk' from under the truck and it stops after that. It will keep doing it until I let the truck sit turned off for an hour or two. Then it disappeared and re appeared last night when I was driving on a trip. Same thing, let it sit for an hour or two and it stops. There was an error code thrown when this happened this last time, but I think it was un related, when they tried to pull the code at a dealership i found out there was an issue with my port, no power. Anyone know whats going on ? Truck has 114k miles on it.
after you go for a long ride see if the U joints are all the same temp. if one is hot then that one is starting to go.
Could be u-joints, and they are cheap to replace, but i am thinking it is a tranny problem. Once power is applied to the driveshaft, the slack in a bad u-joint is taken up, and the u-joint would not suddenly make noise at 10mph unless there was deceleration, right? I suppose it could, but I have heard this same issue several times in tranny's that are aging, and when they really get up to the high end of the heat range, they may not fully downshift, they may develop a shudder on initial acceleration, the converter may only partially drop out of lockout (not sure about that one), etc.
Next time it happens, pull up to a full stop and pull the tranny into low and leave it there while you accelerate away just like normal. See if it still makes the bumping noise/feel. If it does not, then I would suspect a trans issue. If it does, it could still be the trans, or something else. Just one of those things that you have to work at to eliminate all suspects (unless, of course, you go get your code read again to see if they were right about the port.
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St. Petersburg – October marks the beginning of cooler evenings and there is no better way to celebrate the end of summer's heat then by sitting under the stars on the St. Petersburg downtown waterfront enjoying free film classics and music. The fun will take place each Thursday evening in October (4, 11, 18, and 25) in North Straub Park on Beach Drive between 4th and 5th Avenues NE. Live music starts at 6 pm and movies at dark. "Music & Movies in the Park" is produced by St. Petersburg Preservation each October and May to help highlight the beauty of our 100+ year old downtown waterfront parks to residents and visitors.
To guarantee a good spot at this popular event make sure to arrive early. Food and drink can be purchased from some of Saturday Morning Market's most popular vendors or feel free to bring a picnic basket while listening to live music from local musicians. Movie goers are encouraged to bring their own blanket or seat (a limited number of folding chairs will be available). Convenient parking for North Straub Park is located at the Baywalk garage or in the Pier parking lots.
Movies are free; pay-what-you-can donations are greatly appreciated.
St. Pete Preservation thanks Raymond James for their generous support. Additional generous sponsors include 400 Beach Seafood & Tap House, Museum of Fine Arts, JAllan Studios, City of St. Petersburg, Sylvia Rusche State Farm Insurance and Ale & Witch.
October 4
American President (1995) – The romantic comedy with Michael Douglas & Annette Bening. If only today's politics were more like the movie! Music by local Favorite Rebekah Pulley.
October 11
The Big Sleep (1946) – With Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall. The Oscar nominated classic some think of as a mystery, others as a love story! Live music before film by John Kelly Band.
October 18
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) – Directed by Robert Redford with Will Smith & Matt Damon – great story & gorgeous scenery. Mark your calendar for "Art of Golf", opening Nov. 3 at the Museum of Fine Arts. Music by singer/songwriter Gale Trippsmith.
October 25
Ghostbusters (1984) – With Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd & Sigourney Weaver. You are sure to be laughing as you get in the Halloween spirit with this classic! Music by the Hot Rod Hornets.
To find out about other St Petersburg Preservation events and their historic walking tours call (727) 824-7802 or go to www.stpetepreservation.org.
St. Petersburg Preservation (SPP) is a non-profit organization founded in 1977. Our all-volunteer board and membership work to preserve St. Petersburg's important sites and structures by encouraging thoughtful growth that honors our past and fostering an appreciation of St. Petersburg's shared heritage and culture. Learn more athttp://www.stpetepreservation.org/.
Peter Belmont, St. Petersburg Preservation president
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Fauquier-Warrenton Destinations Plan
Fauquier County Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive Plan
NorthernClaude Thompson Elementary School Recreation FacilitiesSouthern
Marshall Middle/Coleman Elementary Connector trail
Marshall Middle/Coleman Elementary Connector trail
Northern Fauquier Community Park
W. G. Coleman Elementary School Recreation FacilitiesSouthern Sports Complex Concept PlanEastern
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H.M. Pearson Elementary School
John Marshall Birthplace Park Plan
Mary Walter Elementary School Recreation Facilities
Miller Elementary School
M.M. Pierce Elementary School Recreation Facilities
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C. Hunter Ritchie School Recreation Facilities
Vint Hill Village Green Master Plan - Full PlanCentral Sports Complex Layout
Warrenton Branch - Rails to Trails
C.M. Bradley Elementary School Recreation Facilities
ProjectsWoods at Warrenton - 70 acres at Woods at Warrenton include constructed wetlands. Some small sections are still needed in order to finalize the design of a trail through the property and connect White's Mill (completed) and Warrenton Chase (planned) trails. Design is funded by a TEA grant and is about 90% complete.
Extension of the Warrenton Branch Greenway – acquisition of property to extend the Greenway is underway. TEA grant funding will provide for design and limited construction.
Rappahannock Station - 26 acre property located on the Rappahannock River between the Rappahannock Station I and Rappahannock Station II core Civil War battlefields. The Department worked with community partners and historical experts to develop a historically and environmentally sensitive river access plan that includes interpretation of the ecological and historical significance of the site. Plan can be found at: Rappahannock Station I & II Civil War Battlefield Master Plan (size 8.2 mg); 11 X 17 inch foldouts showing Concept A and B – (size 2.4 mb).
Pierce Trail – Transportation Enhancement funding provided to install connection from Pierce Elementary School to Lee's Glen Subdivision. Final design is underway.
Safe Routes to School - $500,000 grant to develop safe routes for children to walk/bicycle to school and access facilities after school hours. Selection of a designer is in process.
Central Sports Complex – design is about 70% complete. Central Sports Complex Layout
Fields – 2 new backstops have been installed at Marshall Community Center and 2 new backstops have been installed at Pearson Elementary.
Miller Elementary – playcourts have been resurfaced and color coating including play stencils now completed.
Brookside trails – first segment of Brookside trails that are to be public have been conveyed and are open for public use.
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Art Detective is a ground-breaking initiative that connects public collections in search of information about their oil paintings with specialists and members of the public with relevant knowledge. Whether it is to discover the name of a beautiful 1930s society hostess or the artist behind a Dutch seventeenth-century still life, Art Detective will help collections put names to unidentified sitters, places and events depicted in their paintings and the unknown artists behind works.
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Art Detective addresses the serious issue of insufficient - and declining - specialist knowledge within public art collections. It is available to all 3,000 or so collections that participate in Your Paintings, the website created by the PCF in partnership with the BBC. The vast majority of these participating collections - many of which are not museums - do not have fine art curators, whilst many have lost experienced curators through funding cuts over the years.
There are approaching 30,000 paintings on the Your Paintings website where the artist is not known and over 15,000 works where the attributions are uncertain. Some 8,000 portraits are missing the identities of the sitters and thousands of other paintings are missing information about the places or events depicted. Ahead of the launch of Art Detective a small number of paintings on Your Paintings have already been firmly re-attributed, notably one to Van Dyck at the Bowes Museum and one to Gainsborough at the Museum of St Albans. The launch of Art Detective promises more discoveries - both major and minor.
Art Detective has been built by the PCF using the support of public funding through the Arts Council's Renaissance Strategic Support fund. It has been developed in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, together with representatives of Manchester Art Gallery, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, Tate, Yale Center for British Art and a number of smaller institutions, the art trade and academia. An Expert Panel comprising Professor David Ekserdjian (Chairman), Alastair Laing, Professor Nigel Llewellyn and Dr Jill Lloyd oversees the appointment of the specialists who lead Art Detective's special interest group online discussions. The website design and build was carried out by Keepthinking.
The principal outcome of Art Detective will be improved knowledge of the nation's oil painting collection. Art Detective will also actively engage the public in the care and curatorship of public collections, and allow them to witness and participate in the processes of art historical research, connoisseurship and knowledge creation that lie behind the displays and exhibitions in our public museums and galleries.
Nicholas Penny, Director of the National Gallery, says, 'Art Detective should provide a central exchange and a podium where expertise can be shared, problems can be aired, and discoveries can be publicised.'
Joyce Wilson, Area Director, London, Arts Council England, says, 'Art Detective is a really interesting project and one that we are delighted to have been able to support through the Museum strategic support fund. Digital technology offers so much potential for arts and cultural organisations and this is a wonderful example of how it can be put into practice. Accessible to all, this website opens up the debate to a much wider national - and even international - audience, creating an excellent opportunity for us all to discover more about the collections that we hold.'
Emma Halford-Forbes, Museum Manager, The Black Watch Castle & Museum, says, 'There are some real gems within our relatively small collection, and Art Detective is going to become an invaluable resource by giving us access to fantastic specialist knowledge.'
Dr Bendor Grosvenor, Art Historian and Dealer, says, 'Art Detective will build on the outstanding achievements of the Public Catalogue Foundation, which has enabled us to discover more about our national collection than ever before. I was lucky enough to find lost works by Gainsborough and Van Dyck thanks to the PCF's photographs, and now I hope Art Detective will allow others to make similar finds.'
Professor David Ekserdjian, PCF Trustee, says, 'Most people presume that all the facts about who painted what and related questions must already have been established, but nothing could be further from the truth. Art Detective will make a huge contribution to our knowledge of the national collection.'
Professor Nick Pearce, Head of the School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, says, 'The objectives of Art Detective to improve the knowledge and understanding of Britain's art collections is a fundamental part of History of Art's research and wider public engagement activity at the University of Glasgow. I am delighted that Glasgow has been a part of this exciting and ground-breaking development from its very beginning.'
Andrew Ellis, Director of the Public Catalogue Foundation, says, 'The UK's regional art collections face substantial challenges, particularly around collection research. Art Detective will provide much-needed assistance and, in all probability, result in some important discoveries.'
Notes for Editors
How Art Detective Works
Art Detective comprises a free-to-use digital network built on top of the PCF's existing art object database and linked to the Your Paintings website; editors based at the PCF; academic support from History of Art staff at the University of Glasgow; an Expert Panel; a small team of Group Leaders; and volunteer contributors of specialist knowledge. Contributors include informed members of the public, academics, the art trade, museum curators, retired practitioners, artists and their estates.
Questions from collections or suggestions from members of the public are entered into Art Detective from the painting pages on Your Paintings. Anyone can follow 'Discussions' - broad public involvement and contributions are sought. The Art Detective editors at the PCF filter out suggestions and questions that can be addressed without the need for public involvement. Those that the collection cannot answer become public Discussions and are attached to 'Groups' with a specialist interest such as portraits or military subjects. We are starting with 12 Groups but this number will grow over time. Each Group has a 'Leader' appointed by the Expert Panel. These Leaders have an established reputation in their field and are responsible for monitoring Discussions and leading them to a conclusion. Firm or qualified conclusions are then sent by the PCF to the respective collection that owns the painting. The collection has the final say on whether to accept the recommendation.
Who Was Involved in Building Art Detective
The Steering Panel that guided the PCF on the development of Art Detective comprised:
Val Boa: Curator, McLean Museum and Art Gallery
Adrian Cooper: Director, Intelligent Heritage
Professor David Ekserdjian: Professor of History of Art and Film, University of Leicester and PCF Trustee
Rupert Featherstone: Director, Hamilton Kerr Institute; Assistant Director, Conservation, The Fitzwilliam Museum
Dr Susan Foister: Director of Collections and Deputy Director, The National Gallery
Dr Peter Funnell: Curator of Nineteenth-Century Portraits and Head of Research Programmes, National Portrait Gallery
Andrew Greg: Director, National Inventory Research Project, and Honorary Research Fellow (History of Art) University of Glasgow
Dr Bendor Grosvenor: Art Historian and Dealer
Dr Pat Hardy: Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Museum of London
Dr Matthew Hargraves: Curator for Collections Research; Head of Collections Information and Access, Yale Center for British Art
Professor Nigel Llewellyn: Head of Research, Tate
Professor Robert Meyrick: Head of the School of Art and Keeper of Art, Aberystwyth University
Ruth Shrigley: Principal Manager: Collections Access, Manchester City Galleries
André Zlattinger: Senior Director, Scottish Art, Christie's
Website Build
The website was created to a specification drawn up by the PCF and their digital consultant Adrian Cooper of Intelligent Heritage (http://intelligentheritage.com) who created the technical specification. The site was built by Keepthinking (http://www.keepthinking.it)
Arts Council England's Strategic Support Fund
The Arts Council's Strategic support fund aims to support excellence, and the potential for excellence, in a wide range of museums across England. It focuses on any gaps (geographical or otherwise) or development opportunities across the sector recognising that excellence and the potential for excellence can be found in museums of all sizes. For more information please visit: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/apply-funding/funding-programmes/renaissance/strategic-support-fund/#sthash.vXtlE4Si.dpuf
About the PCF
The PCF's mission is to help public collections make their artworks accessible for enjoyment, learning and research. It was launched in 2003 to create a photographic record of all the oil paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom. It completed this work in 2012. All these paintings can be seen online through the 'Your Paintings' website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/yourpaintings), created in partnership with the BBC. The website shows 212,000 paintings from some 3,200 collection venues around the UK.
The PCF also run other digital projects. With the help of crowd-sourcing technology pioneered by the Astrophysics Department at the University of Oxford to classify galaxies, and art historical input from the University of Glasgow, the public are invited to go online and help classify or 'tag' the paintings catalogued by the PCF so that the paintings can be searchable by subject matter (http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk/). In October 2013 the PCF launched its annual Masterpieces in Schools programme which involved collections lending paintings by the likes of Gainsborough, Monet and Turner to primary and secondary schools for the day.
In addition to publishing its work online, the PCF has also published a series of printed catalogues that are available for purchase at http://www.thepcf.org.uk. The PCF is a registered charity.
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