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Serving Size 6 Tablets Servings Per Container 15 Amount Per Serving % DV Total Carbohydrate 1.00 g 1% Dietary Fiber 1.00 g 3% Vitamin A (as Retinyl Palmitate) 5000.00 IU 100% Vitamin C (as Ascorbic Acid) 60.00 mg 100% Vitamin E (as Natural d-alpha Tocopherol Succinate) 30.00 IU 100% Thiamin (Vitamin B-1)(as Thiamin Mononitrate) 1.50 mg 100% Riboflavin (Vitamin B-2) 1.70 mg 100% Niacin (as Niacinamide) 20.00 mg 100% Vitamin B-6 (as Pyridoxine HCl) 2.00 mg 100% Folic Acid 400.00 mcg 100% Vitamin B12 (as Cyanocobalamin) 6.00 mcg 100% Biotin 300.00 mcg 100% Pantothenic Acid (as Calcium d-Pantothenate) 10.00 mg 100% Calcium (as Calcium Carbonate) 500.00 mg 50% Iron (as Ferrous Gluconate) 9.00 mg 50% Zinc (as Zinc Gluconate) 7.50 mg 50% L-Arginine 2.50 g 0% Korean (Asian) Ginseng Root Extract (aerial part and root) 100.00 mg 0% Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract 50.00 mg 0% Damiana Leaf 50.00 mg 0% ** Daily Value (DV) not established
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Women: Switching from Carbs to Proteins May Help Hormonal DisorderWomen: Switching from Carbs to Proteins May Help Hormonal DisorderA high-protein diet offers more control to women with polycystic ovary syndromeThe high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet has been popularized in recent years as a heart-healthy weight-loss diet. In a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, blood sugar control, weight loss, and cardiac risk were all improved in women with a common hormonal disorder known as polycystic ovary syndrome.
Poly, what?
Polycystic ovary syndrome is a condition that affects the hormone balance in women, favoring the production of male hormones like testosterone over female hormones like estrogen and progesterone. This imbalance can lead to symptoms such as menstrual problems and infertility. Many women with this condition also develop insulin resistance, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.
Looking to dietary protein for help
The new study included data collected from 27 women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Participants were assigned to either a high-protein diet or a standard-protein diet for six months. Both groups received regular nutritional counseling and were guided to reduce their intake of sweets and soft drinks.
The aim of the high-protein diet was to get 40% or more of each day's calories from protein and less than 30% of calories from carbohydrate. To achieve this, women in the high-protein-diet group were instructed to replace sugary and starchy foods with either protein-rich foods like meat, eggs, fish, and dairy foods, or with vegetables, fruits, and nuts. The aim of the standard-protein diet was to get less than 15% of calories from protein and more than 55% of calories from carbohydrate. There were no calorie restrictions with either diet.
A high-protein diet wins
At the end of the study, the following differences between the groups were seen:
- Women on the high-protein diet lost 4.4 kilograms (10 pounds) more than women on the standard-protein diet.
- Almost all of the extra weight lost by the women eating the high-protein diet was body fat, not muscle.
- The high-protein diet was associated with a greater reduction in waist circumference, indicating a greater loss of abdominal or belly fat. This type of fat has a strong link to cardiovascular disease.
- Women on the high-protein diet had lower blood glucose and C-peptide levels. C-peptide is a protein that is linked to insulin production. These findings show that blood sugar control improved more in this group than in the standard-protein diet group.
"We found that the replacement of carbohydrates with protein in a generally unrestricted diet can lead to increased weight loss and improved blood sugar control in women with polycystic ovary syndrome," said lead study author Lone B. Sorensen, a research scientist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. "Our findings suggest that switching to a high-protein diet may help women with this syndrome to manage their condition and improve their overall health."
Making the switch to more protein
A high-protein diet offers more control to women with polycystic ovary syndrome by providing a way to improve their health through day-to-day food choices. The benefits of eating more protein and fewer carbohydrates-weight loss, blood sugar control, and reduction in abdominal fat-are all associated with better cardiovascular health.
Here are some changes you can make to reduce carbohydrates and increase protein:
- From cereal to eggs. A couple of poached or hard-boiled eggs with a side of fresh fruit can be a very satisfying breakfast.
- Lose the bread. Choose a salad with meat or fish or soups made with beans and vegetables instead of a sandwich for lunch. Have a larger portion and skip the side of bread.
- Snack on meat. A strip of smoked turkey or a piece of grilled chicken with some raw carrots or cucumber slices can take the edge away between meals.
- Pass on pasta. Have an extra helping of vegetables with dinner instead of potatoes, pasta, and other grains.
(Am J Clin Nutr 2012;95:39-48)Maureen Williams, ND, completed her doctorate in naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University in Seattle and has been in private practice since 1995. With an abiding commitment to access to care, she has worked in free clinics in the US and Canada, and in rural clinics in Guatemala and Honduras where she has studied traditional herbal medicine. She currently lives and practices in Victoria, BC, and lectures and writes extensively for both professional and community audiences on topics including family nutrition, menopause, anxiety and depression, heart disease, cancer, and easing stress. Dr. Williams is a regular contributor to Healthnotes Newswire.
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I began taking this product to boost my previously nonexistent sex drive. I started taking the dosage recommended on the label, but this only lasted one day. The next morning, I had developed a mild edema and painful tingling in the feet. This caused a great deal of discomfort, especially when walking. After this, I stopped taking the pills and the problem resolved. I attribute this problem to fluid pooling in my feet as a result of the vasodilation effects of the drug.
I recently began taking Arginmax again, except I have only been taking 2 pills a day instead of the suggested 6. I have not had any more problems with swelling at this dose, and have noticed a considerate boost in my sex drive.
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I've been somewhat depressed by the horrible news of late: Murders, embezzling, sexual assaults and reports of other various crimes in our fair city and counties. And just when you think it can't get worse, it does. I mean, come on, a 12-year-old robs a lemonade stand!
How and when did we lose our way? Is it possible to correct course before we completely run aground?
"Someone has to do something about this," some say. Others opine, "If we just had more money, we could make a difference."
We've seen thorough crime analysis with recommendations. Is it Section 8 housing? Is it the public housing units? Is this madness driven by the want for and/or use of illegal drugs?
Some will cry it's a racial issue or a racist issue. Others will blame poverty, lack of education, less opportunities or being underprivileged. All are valid hypotheses. And I won't pretend to have many answers, either.
But what I do know as surely as the sun shines is this: The strength of the nation and our community lies within the family.
Imagine how different society could be if husbands and wives truly loved and cared for and respected each other and their children. Imagine the difference it would make if every father were actively engaged in the lives of their families.
What kind of world would we have if every parent viewed their roles as a sacred duty to rear their children in love, teaching them to honor and obey the laws of the land and of God?
What kind of world would we have if every parent took seriously the responsibility of providing for their children's physical, emotional and spiritual needs?
What would our community look like years from now if all parents taught their children, by example, to live by the golden rule?
I firmly believe that I, as a father, and my wife, as a mother, will one day be held accountable to our Heavenly Father for what we did or failed to do as parents.
I also believe children have the right to be born into families where mothers and fathers are legally and lawfully wedded.
So what can we do as parents to help make this world and our community a better place?
May I suggest some strategies that I believe will help correct our undulating course:
1) Encourage your children to write personal journals. Keeping journals will give them something to look back on in later years. And provide them with a valuable document their children will one day love to read. After all, are we not a product of our past? They can learn from their past, good or not so good. I'd suggest parents also keep or begin a family history book. What would I now give for a written history of my parents' parents' family? To me, it would be priceless.
2) Hey, Mom and Dad, how about holding family councils as often as you can. Fathers, gather your families around and include everyone in important matters of the unit. Let everyone, even the youngest, offer opinions and solutions.
3) I believe one of the most important things parents can do is to show children how much you love each other. And that nothing in this world could ever come between you.
What would society look like if children saw this type of example in every home? Would our young men and women grow up with more respect for one another?
4) How different would they act if they heard more soft tones accompanied by uplifting words of encouragement?
5) What impact would it have if parents held regular, personal interviews with their children? Not to berate them, but to listen to them, and share parental wisdom, expressing confidence and support.
Yes, I believe the strength of this nation and our community lies within the family.
Can we do better?
Yes, I know we can.
And I believe it begins and ends within the family.
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — When baseball's general managers gather each year for their annual meetings, it's often much more of a reunion than it is an introduction. Perhaps no one best understands what the GMs go through on a daily basis better than their peers and most of the men in the group have known one another for years.
So it was no surprise to Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo that his fellow GMs were offering plenty of congratulations and support for the impressive season the Nationals had, despite its sour ending.
"I think it's good for baseball that the Washington Nationals are a team on the rise and a good team," Rizzo said. "I've known all these guys for a long, long time. Worked with some, battled against some, it's been a very supportive first day… I think they seem to be happy for us."
So as Day Two of the GM Meetings gets underway out here in California, here are a few odds, ends and rumblings…
– The Nationals are getting close to finalizing Davey Johnson's managerial contract for next season with news expected to come down fairly soon about the finalist for the BBWAA National League Manager of the Year award.
Rizzo left very little room for speculation to the contrary on Wednesday saying simply "I expect him to be the manager of the team."
And once that's finalized it's expected that Johnson's coaching staff will be announced shortly thereafter. The Nationals aren't expecting many changes in that regard, though obviously they need to fill the vacancy left when third base coach Bo Porter became the manager of the Houston Astros.
In that regard, it sounds like the club is leaning toward moving first base coach Trent Jewett to third base and then filling the spot at first base. MLB.com reported Wednesday that roving outfield instructor Tony Tarasco may be the choice there as Tarasco could assume Porter's responsibility of working with the outfielders.
– Rizzo said "pretty authoritatively" that the team was not "down the road" on anything at this point in the offseason but the Nationals are aware they have plenty of options available to them.
As a result of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, the offseason is structured a little differently this year with the dates for certain decisions moved up and while Rizzo said that hasn't necessarily changed the team's approach to their plans, it has changed how quickly they need to make them.
"It has changed the amount of hours we put in right after the end of the season," Rizzo said. "There was a time we'd kind of take a deep breath and sort things out. And especially for playoff teams, and if you went deep into the playoffs, it's time to jump right back into it."
For the Nationals it appears they have plenty of flexibility to be players both in the trade and the free agent market, depending on how things unfold. Rizzo declined to discuss specifics when it comes to payroll, but it does sound as though he'll be given the room to make an impact move if they feel it's the right course for the team long-term.
"The Lerners have been very fair with the payroll the way they dealt with us," Rizzo said. "We make plans, we present it to them, if it makes sense to us in dollars we go for it and if it doesn't make sense, then we won't. And it's really too early in the free agent season to be putting numbers out there because it's kind of a fluid target."
– If the Nationals do end up re-signing first baseman Adam LaRoche, it would seem to give them some leeway to trade outfielder Michael Morse and perhaps get a quality return. Since Morse was in the midst of his breakout season in 2011, teams are always interested in bandying his name about in potential trade talks.
Morse is an affordable (he'll make $6.75 million next season) middle-of-the-order bat who hit .303 with 31 home runs just two seasons ago. And he hit 18 homers with a .291 average in 2012 in roughly three-quarters of the at-bats he'd had in 2012.
Those are also all the reasons he's important to and valued by the Nationals.
– Speaking of the outfield, Rizzo said he's comfortable with two important aspects of the Nationals' current configuration: Bryce Harper remaining in center field and Jayson Werth remaining at the leadoff spot in the lineup.
There are some big name (and big money) center field free agents on the market this season in Michael Bourn, B.J. Upton and the like, but the Nationals don't feel the same type of urgency that they once did to fill specific needs — like a leadoff-hitting center fielder — because they've found other ways to fill them.
"Good, impact players are attractive to us," Rizzo said. "We've got the flexibility that we're not keyholed into center field, leadoff, first base. We've got a team that's versatile enough that we can look at a broader picture and get an impact player for us if his skill set fits our club.
"We don't necessarily have to look at a leadoff center fielder like we did a couple years ago because we can move Harper to the corner, get a guy in center, keep Harper in center, get a corner guy, keep guys in the corner, stay with the team we have. There's a lot of (options)."
For what it's worth, the Nationals were extremely impressed with Harper's adjustments in center field, particularly by the end of the season. Porter and Johnson noted toward the end of the year that it was evident Harper was "gliding" more than running in his routes to balls.
There's certainly the thought that eventually he'll find his way to a corner position but for now there's no issues with him in center.
"I thought he played terrific center field especially toward the end of the season," Rizzo said. "I thought he really got the feel for his angles and his routes. I thought he was running a lot lighter on his feet than he did at the beginning of the year. You could see the 20-year-old legs. I think this year he'll be stronger toward the end of the season because he'll have done it for a full extra month than he's every done it before."
And then comes the word eventually again, as there's always the fear with center field and power hitters that the demands the position puts on their legs could hurt them at the plate. Right now that's not a concern for the Nationals with Harper.
"The word eventually is key there," Rizzo said. "He's a 20-year-old kid. He's got great energy and great stamina and strength, so I'm not worried about tiring him out at 20 years old just from playing in center field. He's going to play everyday somewhere and he's going to play at 110-miles an hour wherever he's at."
As for Werth at leadoff, the right fielder fit the role well for the Nationals when he returned in early August from a broken left wrist. Werth's history is, of course, more as a middle-of-the-lineup hitter, but Rizzo again said he wouldn't have an issue if the 33-year-old being the Nationals' leadoff hitter.
Werth hit .309 with a .388 on-base percentage in 38 games as the Nationals' leadoff hitter (170 plate appearances).
"I think if you just looked at him in a vacuum and didn't know who he was he had a very successful leadoff man season, for the short time he was a leadoff man," Rizzo said. "I think you're going to see a guy who can hit in the middle of the lineup because I think he's going to revert back to his normal power numbers (with a fully healthy wrist) and a guy who always took a lot of pitches, always had a good OBP and has a good, unselfish attitude that he can leadoff or hit fifth or play center, play right, wherever."
– Rizzo was fairly straightforward when it came to his explanation for the team not extending a qualifying offer to free agent right-hander Edwin Jackson. By not doing so, the Nationals assured that they would not receive draft pick compensation if Jackson declined the one-year, $13.3 million offer and signed elsewhere.
Rizzo said it was a simple evaluation of the player and how he fit on the team.
"Those are decisions that you talk about internally," Rizzo said. "We felt with the depth we had at the major league level and the depth of free agents that we had out there that we had as good or better options."


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Dean Kane Dean Christian Christian Kane Fan Art Part 1
(This was originally published on Facebook, but since someone decided to delete her FB account, I'm also publishing it here.)
(Title: Sketchbook Dump #13 (or, Unfinished Sketch of Christian Kane as a Shirtless Avenging Angel). Sorry for the watermark, but you know how TehInternetz can be. Also, sorry for the crappy scan.)
Now for the explanation…
I'm not big on doing fan art that doesn't involve fictional anime characters. The last one I did was of Aaliyah when she was still alive, if that says anything.
But, one morning at God-Isn't-Even-Awake-Yet o'clock my phone rings. It's my friend J, but let's call her Bucket o' Crazy (BoC for short), who says, "You have to check your email right now!!!!1!! *squee*"
Me: (still half asleep) What's email?
BoC: NOW!
Thinking that the world is on fire, I reluctantly check my email to find a crapload of pictures.
Me: You woke me up at this unholy hour to look at pics of some random guy?!?
BoC: It's not some random guy, it's Christian Kane and I need you to draw him.
Me: The glue you've been sniffing must have gone bad.
BoC: With wings.
At this point I should have known better. I should have rolled over, gone back to sleep, and left it alone. But damn my curious nature.
Me: Why with wings?
BoC: Because he kind of looks like an avenging angel, doesn't he?
*anotherpause* As I stare blankly at the computer screen.
Me: Er…um…since when do avenging angels wear Stetsons?
BoC: And he has to be shirtless.
Me: He has to be…oh sweet baby jeebus and all that is good and sane, WHY?!?
BoC: Because he's so pretty.
(Here, my darlings, is where I do you a kindness and remove the portion of the conversation that centered on his hair for 10 minutes.)
Me: o_0 … if I agree to do this will you hang up and let me go back to sleep?
BoC: I know what you're trying to do and it's not going to work.
Knowing that arguing would be no use, I set the phone down, went to make myself a pop tart and poured some juice. When I returned, bless her sweet little heart, she was still going on about hunting me down or kidnapping my first born or some such nonsense.
Me: If you stop, I'll draw your damn picture of Dean Kane, shirtless with wings.
BoC: CHRISTIAN!
Me: Sorry, Dean Christian.
BoC: You and I are no longer friends.
Me: Seriously? Does that mean I don't have to draw the picture?
BoC: No.
Me: But you said we weren't friends. Hehe.
BoC: STFU and draw!
Yeah, I'm also wondering why the hell I'm still friends with her too.
And J, before you beg me to finish it, I don't like how it's turning out, so for now it'll just be a stub. Maybe, in the future, if I feel so inclined, I may start over and do an illustration that I'll ink/color in Painter…maybe.


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By Jenni Luckett
A few months ago, Justin Redona hadn't heard of the song Dust in the Wind, much less the band that made it famous.
But next week, the Pacific University sophomore will be on stage with classic rock band Kansas, closing out one of its hit numbers with a solo on his viola.
Though the band reached its peak in the late 1970s and throughout the '80s—about a decade before his birth—Redona says he now knows just who Kansas is.
"Like any music, the more you listen and practice, the more it sticks with you," he said. "I don't typically listen that that genre every day, but their music is good."
The Pacific Philharmonic, which features about 60 students and 20 community members, is the latest participant in Kansas' Symphony Rocks collegiate tour. The band performs its songs in concert, accompanied by college orchestras around the country.
Redona said he enjoys listening to pop tunes, as well as to traditional Hawaiian music (he's from Oahu). When he's playing, though, it's mostly classical.
He's been practicing both the piano and viola for about 10 years, since he was inspired by an elementary trip to the symphony and came home asking for an electric keyboard.
When he started picking out recognizable tunes by ear, his mom got him piano lessons. A year later, when his school offered a strings program, he signed up. He said his parents never forced him into music, but when it came time to pick a strings instrument, Mom did get a say.
"She listened to them all, and she said the violin was too squeaky, and she didn't want me lugging a cello all around school," Redona said. That left the viola.
Through middle and high school, he played both instruments. He participated in his schools' music programs, the local symphony, the school jazz band, while also satisfying a proclivity for science in the classroom.
When the time came to choose a college, Pacific University's College of Arts & Sciences offered him the best option: he's double majoring in chemistry and music and a pre-med track. Pacific boasts a high admissions rate for medical school and the opportunity to continue performing his music, along with a scholarship for his musical talent.
"I got the best package from here," he said. "I get the good of both the science and music here.
"I want to go to med school, but I can't let go of the music."
He's not alone, said Bryce Seliger, music professor and conductor of the Pacific Philharmonic, which she has built from almost nothing in her 10 years with the University. Many participating students aren't even double-majors; they are natural or social sciences students who fulfill their passion for the arts through on-campus music groups.
She said she hopes that the Kansas concert will provide yet another avenue for bridging interests—this time for people who are less comfortable with classical music.
Seliger has long been interested in the relationship between classical and rock music and that is, in fact, how the Kansas-Pacific University link came about: She is preparing for a sabbatical in which she plans to study rock music for orchestras. In her preliminary research, she learned about the Kansas Symphony Rocks tour and started working to bring it to Pacific.
She said she believes connections like this make classical music more accessible to people to whom it hasn't been marketed. Rock, she said, invites the audience to participate. In classical music, the audience is more passive, and that can be intimidating to people.
"You sit, you don't even know when to clap. It's uncomfortable," she said, adding that she'd like to find ways to bring the energy and accessibility of rock to classical music.
Last year, she had the Pacific Philharmonic playing music from the video games Angry Birds and Super Mario Bros. and from movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark, prior to introducing classics like Beethoven to the audience.
"They love that, too, they just don't know that they do," she said. "I don't think Beethoven has gone out of style. I think we just forgot how to market it."
She said she believes audiences can participate in classical concerts, that they can find connections and help build the energy they way they do in a rock concert.
"I want the orchestra to feel that way: We're rock stars, too."
Redona, at the very least, will get his chance to feel that next week.
His solo comes at the end of Dust in the Wind, in a "rock solo," he explained.
It's a little different from the classical solos he's used to, the ones that are carefully scripted in sheet music. In rock, you have to ad lib, do a little more riffing.
"It's a learning process, the whole experience. It's broadened the way I play," he said. "Basically, I'm doing what a guitar would do, except on the viola."
The Pacific Philharmonic performs with Kansas at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, at the Roseland Theater. Tickets are available at TicketsWest.com, at Safeway Tickets West outlets, at any Music Millennium store, or by phone at 503-224-8499. General admission seating is $40. Standing room only is $30, and reserved seating is $50. Pacific students with valid ID receive discount tickets for $25.


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Earlier this year, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a bill that would make aerial fireworks legal in Minnesota.
At the time, Dayton said fire officials convinced him that some Minnesotans are not responsible enough to light fireworks that explode in the sky.
A day before the 4th of July, we want to know what you think of the law.
Can you have enough festive fun with sparklers and ground spinners? Or do you feel you should be able to light bottle rockets, firecrackers and aerial spinners?
Answer our poll questions and explain how you feel in the comments.
(Oh, and have a wonderful Fourth of July, everyone!)


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Bills veteran scout Darrell Moody answered questions from the media at One Bills Drive today, the last day the team made its regional scouts available heading into the 2012 NFL Draft. Moody was a 31-year coaching veteran before joining Bills General Manager Buddy Nix as a scout with the San Diego Chargers in 2002. He re-joined Nix with the Bills in 2010. Moody's coaching career included stops at North Carolina State, Southern Mississippi, Louisiana State, Appalachian State, Tulane, North Carolina and Clemson.
Here were his comments in response to questions about some of the top Southeastern Conference propsects in the draft:
On South Carolina cornerback Stephon Gilmore: "I think he's a physical player. He's got excellent size, and he has a good body of work. He's been a three-year starter. I think he has played well against the run and played well against the pass, bump and Cover 2 and off-man and off-zone. I think he's a complete player."
On Alabama safety Mark Barron: "I think he's a complete football player. He has an excellent body of work. He's been a productive player in a very good league. He has been a leader on a very good football team. He's physical against the run. He can play the run from the strong safety position and he can also move into the linebacker position in your dime package. I think he's got good cover skills against tight ends and running backs, and I think he's adequate against wide receivers. He's like most safeties in coverage. You'd like to have a little help behind him against elite receivers. But I think his cover skills for a safety are real good."
On Georgia tackle-guard Cordy Glenn: "He struggled early. He had been playing guard the majority of his career. They went through a process at Georgia where they had been knocked around a couple years in the SEC and they decided they were going to become a bigger, more physical football team. … I think as the season progressed and him moving to left tackle, I think he adjusted to it and I think their whole offensive line - at the end of the year they were probably one of the better offensive lines in the Southeastern Conference. I think they all made a lot of progress and adjusted to their size. I don't see any reason he can't play left tackle in this league because he's got size, he's got length and he's got pretty good footwork. It's hard to get around somebody that big and with that length."
On Alabama linebacker Courtney Upshaw: "I think he can set the edge against the run. he's strong and physical against the run. He's more of a power pass rusher than a speed pass rusher. Most of the time with the elite pass rushers are speed rushers. i think he'll be a solid pass rusher. ... You know waht you're going to get every day. he's a blue-collar, lunch-pail guy who's going to bring what he's got every day."
On Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick: "Dre has got good size. he's physcial vs. the run. i think he's a good tackler. He's got good coverage skills. At times he can guess a little, which most good cover corners can do that. You just gotta make sure you guess at the right time." ... Asked why Kirkpatrick didn't intercept many passes, Moody said: "I would say his hands are average, I don't think they're great. And they probably don't throw as much in his area as they do in other areas, and the Alabama defense gets a lot of sacks."
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And changes everything...
My spiritual program taught me always to say "yes" to a service request.
Will you fold up the chairs after the meeting?
Will you clean up the cigarettes on the sidewalk in front of the meeting room?
Will you invite next week's speaker?
I'd been practicing this principle for more than a decade when I transitioned my legal practice to a mediation career.
By then, I'd built this principle into my new career plan
Say "Yes."
It was second nature to me to say "yes" when I received the following request.
I'm an editor for Wiley Publishing, Inc., acquiring specifically for the successful For Dummies line of consumer reference books. For Dummies is the world's leading knowledge brand, with more than 1,600 titles and 200 million books in print worldwide.
I'm seeking a content expert to work with an expert writer to co-author Success as a Mediator For Dummies. In short, this book will aim to provide readers with an approachable resource to help them with everything they need to know to becoming a top-performing, successful mediator.
I'm looking for someone who really knows their stuff and has a platform (or will commit to building a platform) to promote the book and him/herself. In return, this book will enable the author to gain additional credibility in the field, help market his/her expertise, and open doors to exciting new opportunities. Working with our expert writer will make the process of producing content for our branded format very easy on the content expert.
If you're interested in working with us on this title (or know of a colleague or recommendation who might be), please contact me at your earliest convenience and I'd be happy to go over more of the details.
Call Your Friends and Colleagues
O.K., I didn't say "yes" immediately. First, I emailed colleagues in the business to see whether they'd been approached by Wiley as well.
They had.
"If we're not chosen, it likely was not the most well-matched opportunity for us at the time."
This is really important.
No matter what we do (asking someone out on a date, applying for a job, bidding on a project, etc), we face competition.
We might not be told that we have competition, we might not know who the competition is, and we probably do not know the exact parameters on which we will be judged.
But be assured, we will have competition for the prize.
And when we lose (and trying often results in failure), accept that it was not meant to be.
We win what we deserve to have (sometimes luck – good and bad – comes into play), but we have a surprising amount of input into the decision.
Win or lose (maybe especially win), accept the verdict and learn, because there is always a lesson to be learned.
Love this post, Vickie. Looking forward to Part III.
Did you ever publish a Part III to this? I can't seem to find it on the site.
So, where is your Part II to this article? I hope you haven't abandoned it!


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Rams QB Sam Bradford's first NFL start was action-packed, and though it came in a 17-13 St. Louis loss, it was promising.
Bradford carried a heavy workload in his debut, completing 32-of-55 passes for 253 yards with one touchdown against Arizona. Bradford quickly established a good rapport with newly acquired WR Mark Clayton, targeting him 16 times and connecting with him on 10 completions for 119 yards. However, Bradford threw three interceptions, including one with the Rams just outside the Cardinals' 20-yard line with less than two minutes left in the game. Bradford was also sacked twice.
With Bradford's debut in the books, we explore how every other quarterback selected No. 1 overall in the last 25 years has fared in his first start. Bradford, the seventh rookie quarterback selected No. 1 to start in Week One of his first season since 1985, was the sixth to lose his debut. David Carr is the only No. 1 pick to win in Week One in this period.
Quarterbacks are listed in reverse chronological order by year drafted:
2009 — Lions QB Matthew Stafford
Stafford was intercepted three times in his debut, a 45-27 loss at eventual Super Bowl-champion New Orleans in Week One. Stafford rushed for a TD and completed 16-of-37 passes for 205 yards.
2007 — Raiders QB JaMarcus Russell
Russell got his first start in the season finale vs. San Diego and played one of his better games as a pro, completing 23-of-31 passes for 224 yards with a touchdown and an interception in a 30-17 loss.
2005 — 49ers QB Alex Smith
The Colts limited Smith to 74 yards passing and intercepted him four times in a 28-3 loss at San Francisco in Week Five.
2004 — Giants QB Eli Manning
Manning, who earned his first start in late November, was picked off twice in his debut vs. the Falcons, including once in Atlanta territory. Manning threw for 162 yards and tossed a TD pass to TE Jeremy Shockey, but the host Giants fell 14-10.
2003 — Bengals QB Carson Palmer
Palmer, a backup to Jon Kitna in 2003, made his debut at the Meadowlands vs. the Jets in the opening week of '04 and made an immediately positive impression, throwing for 248 yards and two TDs. However, his lone interception secured a 31-24 win for the Jets.
2002 — Texans QB David Carr
Carr broke a 10-10 tie with a 65-yard TD toss to Corey Bradford as Houston upset Dallas 19-10 in the Texans' first-ever game.
2001 — Falcons QB Michael Vick
Vick, getting his first career start in his eighth pro game with starter Chris Chandler injured, completed just 4-of-12 passes for 32 yards and shared playing time with Doug Johnson, but he did throw a TD pass, and Atlanta beat Dallas 20-13.
1999 — Browns QB Tim Couch
Couch threw a 39-yard TD pass to Kevin Johnson in his first start in Week Two at Tennessee, but he was also sacked seven times, once for a safety, in a 26-9 loss.
1998 — Colts QB Peyton Manning
Manning threw for 302 yards and a TD vs. Miami in Week One, but he was intercepted three times. The last pick, returned for a TD by CB Terrell Buckley, sealed a 24-15 win for Miami.
1993 — Patriots QB Drew Bledsoe
Bledsoe drew the tall task of debuting at defending AFC-champion Buffalo in Week One. He helped New England stay close with two TD passes, but Buffalo pulled away to win 38-14. Bledsoe completed 14-of-30 passes for 148 yards and one pick.
1990 — Colts QB Jeff George
George's debut, which came in Indianapolis' opening game, ended in the fourth quarter when he suffered a concussion. Before the injury, he completed 13-of-24 passes for 160 yards with one TD and no interceptions against host Buffalo, which won 26-10.
1989 — Cowboys QB Troy Aikman
Aikman did not fare well in his debut, throwing two interceptions and completing just 17-of-35 passes for 180 yards in a 28-0 loss at New Orleans in Week One.
1987 — Buccaneers QB Vinny Testaverde
Testaverde, starting in Tampa Bay's 12th game, struggled early against a strong Saints defense, fumbling on each of his two drives, which led to a pair of New Orleans TDs. Later, he settled down and threw for a rookie single-game record of 369 yards with two TDs on 22-of-47 passing. He also rushed for a TD in a 44-34 Buccaneers defeat.


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Elie powers Middle Tennessee to comeback win over James Madison
Blue Raiders place four players in double figuresDecember 12, 2010 · Athletic Communications
Sophomore Icelyn Elie led the Blue Raiders with her first double-double of 25 points and 16 rebounds against James Madison Sunday. (Bradley Lambert)
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Sophomore Icelyn Elie registered her first career double-double to lead four Middle Tennessee players in double-figure scoring, as the Blue Raiders rallied for an 81-75 home victory over James Madison inside the Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Sunday afternoon.
Elie had her best performance in a Middle Tennessee (7-3) uniform, pouring in a career-best 25 points, including the first two 3-pointers of her career, while leading all players with a career-high 16 rebounds, a dozen on the defensive glass, to become just the third active Blue Raider with a double-double. She joins senior Emily Queen and freshman Ebony Rowe in the elite group.
Rowe was second on the team with 21 points and seven rebounds, while senior Anne Marie Lanning finished with 17 points and junior Tina Stewart added 10. Lanning, who garnered the start at point guard, handed out a game-best six assists and moved into 34th on the school's all-time scoring list with 872 points.
Freshman Jordyn Luffman earned her first career start after netting a career-high 10 points against No. 4/5 Xavier Thursday and was one of three rookies among the starting five, joining Rowe and KeKe Stewart.
James Madison senior Dawn Evans, who entered the game listed sixth in the latest NCAA statistics for scoring, concluded the day with a game-high 27 points on 10-of-30 field goals, including 5-of-17 from behind the 3-point arc. Teammate Courtney Hamner joined her in double figures with 15, while Lauren Jimenez added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Dukes.
Evans knocked down the game's first points, a 3-pointer, but the Blue Raiders answered with an 11-4 run, including triples from Tina Stewart and Luffman and an old-fashioned three-point play courtesy of Lanning to take an 11-7 edge at the 17:04 mark.
James Madison (5-4) then countered by scoring the next 16 points over a five-minute span, using seven points from Hamner and an Evans trey to open a 23-11 cushion with 12:05 remaining before Elie halted the surge a half-minute later on another old-fashioned three-point play.
Her three-point effort was the beginning of an 8-0 MT streak, capped by a Lanning triple at 10:34, cutting the margin to four, 23-19. Elie's first collegiate 3-pointer came at 9:36 and kept the Blue Raiders within five before Lanning knocked down a jumper at 7:49 to slice the margin to two, 29-27.
The Dukes used a pair of triples to widen the margin back to a half dozen, 35-29, but Middle Tennessee roared back with five straight to trim it down to one, 35-34, with 4:20 to go in the period. A pair of Nikki Newman free throws pushed the nip-and-tuck affair back to a three-point difference at 3:31 before Rowe took control.
Rowe scored the final three Blue Raider buckets of the half, including a jumper at 2:31 to give Middle Tennessee a brief, 38-37 edge, before Evans countered by tallying the last seven James Madison points to send the visitors into the intermission ahead, 44-40.
The second half opened with a Tina Stewart triple and kept the Blue Raiders from allowing the Dukes to open more than five-point lead in the first four minutes. A pair of Tarik Hislop charity tosses at 15:51 gave James Madison its largest advantage of the stanza at 54-49.
Elie and Rowe knocked down a pair of layups over the course of the next minute before Hislop hit another set of free throws at 14:38 for a three-point lead, 56-53. Sophomore Kortni Jones buried a 3-pointer on the next Middle Tennessee possession to knot the score for the first time since 7-7. Lanning then put the Blue Raiders ahead, 59-56, with a triple of her own less than 30 seconds later and forcing a James Madison timeout.
The Dukes, however, did not let Middle Tennessee run away with the lead and Evans converted a pair of free throws and Hamner drained a 3-pointer at 11:58 to put James Madison back on top, 61-59. The two teams traded baskets over the next six minutes, resulting in four more ties, before Jimenez gave the Dukes a 69-67 edge at 4:39 with a pair of free throws.
Finding themselves down two, the Blue Raiders turned to Tina Stewart for a 3-pointer at 4:20 for a one-point edge. Jimenez grabbed her own missed shot and put in the rebound to put the advantage back in James Madison's control before Elie notched her second 3-pointer at 2:25 to give Middle Tennessee a 73-71 lead, one it would not surrender the remainder of the contest.
Rowe pushed the advantage to four with a layup at 1:16 before the Dukes were forced to foul down the stretch, helping decide the final margin despite an Evans triple with 11 seconds to play.
The Blue Raiders will take a week off for final exams before returning to action next Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 20-21, at the UTSA Holiday Classic in San Antonio, Texas. Middle Tennessee will begin the two-day event versus St. Bonaventure before battling Big 12 opponent Kansas State to conclude its action in the Lone Star State.
The tournament will be the first in-season event for the Blue Raiders, not counting the 2008 Preseason WNIT, since traveling to Minneapolis for the Subway Classic in November 2006 where they defeated Maine and Minnesota.
Middle Tennessee Postgame Quotes
Head Coach Rick Insell:
I thought it was a great women's basketball games, two good teams that have a chance to be real good by the end of the year. He (JMU Coach Kenny Brooks) does it right. He does just what we do and that is to schedule games against teams that are as good or better than you are, and play in hostile gyms. This makes you better prepared to go deeper into the NCAA Tournament. You have to tip your hat to them and that is exactly what we are trying to do here at Middle Tennessee.
Most of the time, we had three freshmen on the floor, and I think at the end we had two freshmen and two sophomores. We played hard and they did too. It was just a great game.
Icelyn Elie had the best game of her career (25 pts., 16 rebs., two steals) and we needed it and I hope she will build on that. If she can, it is not going to do anything but help us.
On JMU scoring pretty easily early in the game
The bottom line is that Dawn Evans is probably the best player that has been in this gym since Alysha Clark. She was runner-up to Alysha two years in a row in scoring. I am telling you, Dawn Evans is an opposing coach's nightmare. You cannot stop her. She is phenomenal. She is not big as a minute, but you are not going to stop her. People go to see one of the best players in the game here today in Dawn Evans. I do not know how many points she ended up with (27), probably all she wanted. What a great player.
Later on, when she gave the ball up, Tina Stewart, with her quickness, was able to deny her the ball, and that gave them some problems because they had people handling the ball that were not used to it. If anything, that was the big difference.
We got a couple of big rebounds late, one on a missed free throw on a play that Coach (Lynn) Burkey put in. That is his 40 years of experience that he brings to the table. And Icelyn was feeling comfortable on the three, and that is what we have been needing.
This was just as big a game as the Xavier game the other night. I am not sure they do not have just as good a team as Xavier.
On JMU run
We did not look at the clock, we just kept playing, which is what we teach them. Then they missed a shot or two, and we hit a couple, and we are back in the game. That is big for those young players to be able to do that. Most of the time we had mostly freshmen and sophomores on the floor, without any experience before this year. Maybe I should have played them more last year.
Icelyn Elie:
Yes, you could say I was feeling it today.
On missing a free throw then coming back and hitting a three
I think it was just a focus thing. You just have to have a good mindset and be prepared for whatever.
It was pretty tough inside. We have some big girls, too, and they can go up against that size, and I thought we did real well with the post.
Senior Anne Marie Lanning:
On cutting 12-point JMU lead to only four at the half
We have done a nice job of fighting and not giving up. We know that you cannot score 10 points on one shot, so we had to keep chipping away, and we had to pick up our D. We know the things that we needed to do, and at halftime, we talked about all the things we did wrong in the first half, and we did not want to keep doing them wrong. I thought we did a good job of that too.
Dawn Evans is a great player. I played against her in high school and with her in AAU, so I knew what I was getting into. She is a great player. She is going to take her team far this year.
They were making one move and putting a shot up, and we had to run our offense, which is what we do. If there is a quick hit, Coach really likes for us to run our offense because we have so many options.
This win was huge for our young team. Coach knows he has to be patient with us and he is. In the past, our teams have had multiple seniors and this year we have 11 freshmen and sophomores. I love this team. Our chemistry is getting better every game. We do not give up, we keep battling all the way to the end. This is the second game that we have had to battle to the end, the UCF game was the first.
James Madison Postgame Quotes
Head Coach Kenny Brooks:
On Icelyn Elie and MT's post play
You have to say we were surprised. Anytime you see a kid who averages seven points a game, you do not think in your wildest dreams that they would get 25 and 16 rebounds. We knew that Ebony Rowe was capable of doing that, and we knew KeKe Stewart had the ability to score 20. We knew that they were very talented and they have the type of post players that give us trouble, kids who can move and step out on the perimeter. They exploited that well. I think our defense could do better, especially on the inside. We were going for steals, had bad positioning, and we did not have patience. We have got to get better if we are going to be a good basketball team.
On this season
I think we have upped the ante with our schedule. We knew it was going to be a very tough and very challenging schedule, and any time that you are going to take on a schedule like that, you need some luck. You need to be healthy too, and we have not been healthy all year. We have had to do a little bit of patchwork. You know, kids are out and you have to try and put new people in. We are trying, but we have had to be perimeter-oriented one minute and then inside-oriented the next. We just have not found that stride we want to hit.
On Dawn Evans
She has really had to carry the team with kids being out. Her percentages are down because she is really forced to take some crazy shots sometimes for us. She has done great, especially considering her health, and not being able to get the practice time that she normally has gotten over the past few years.
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More Women's Basketball NewsJul 11, 2014: Shalon Pillow joins Blue Raider coaching staff
Jun 30, 2014: Rowe Named C-USA's Female Athlete of the Year
Jun 30, 2014: Assistant Coach Mariska Harris resigns from post
Jun 27, 2014: Brinkley named recipient of NCAA Career in Sports Scholarship
Jun 17, 2014: Leonard earns Jim Castañeda Postgraduate Scholarship
Jun 12, 2014: Reuter earns MVP honors at Tennessee-Georgia All-Star game


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Friday, July 6
10 Years
8:30 p.m., the Valarium. $18-$20.
Knoxville's radio-ready modern-rock champions will release their next album, Minus the Machine, on their own Palehorse Records label in July.
Saturday, July 7
Wah Lum Kung Fu Show
6:30-9 p.m., World's Fair Park. $8-$15.
Yes, they will be kung fu fighting at World's Fair Park. Wah Lum of Knoxville will be celebrating its 18th anniversary with demonstrations of kung fu, tai chi, lion and dragon dance, weaponry, and more.
Sunday, July 8
Smoky Mountain Blues Society Blues Cruise
5-9 p.m., Star of Knoxville Riverboat. $13-$18.
Chuggin' down the river listening to the blues (by the band Grits) on a sultry Knoxville summer evening sounds downright romantical.
Tuesday, July 10
City Council Meeting
7 p.m., Main Assembly Room, City County Building.
Yep, this is where it all happens.
Wednesday, July 11
Sign Ordinance Task Force Public Hearing
4 p.m, KCDC (901 N. Broadway).
Last February, City Council created a Sign Ordinance Task Force to research guiding principles for a modern sign ordinance. So if you have some strong opinions on Knoxville's signs, now's your chance to voice them. For more info, visit cityofknoxville.org/citycouncil/sign.
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DANVILLE — DANVILLE – Sign-ups are being accepted for Easter food baskets.
To reserve a basket, call the Montour County Human Services Department from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at 271-3028 through March 20. Photo identification will be required when baskets are picked up from noon to 4 p.m. March 27 in Shiloh United Church of Christ, 500 Bloom St.
The Danville-Riverside Area Food Bank is coordinating the event in cooperation with Anytime Fitness, Bimbo Bakers, CCN, Cole's Hardware, Cotner Egg Farm, Curves, D.E. Whitenight Produce, Danville area churches, Danville Area Community Center, Danville Area High School Key Club, Danville Area School District, Danville Fire Police, The Danville News and Montour County Transit.
Also participating are Giant Foods, Lutz Preschool and Daycare, Maria Joseph Manor and The Meadows, Montour County human Services Department, North Central Secure Treatment Unit, Phoenix Rehabilitation and Health Services, St. Cyril Preschool and Kindergarten, St. Joseph School and Weis Markets.


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Monthly Archive: May 2009
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May 16 2009
Semester Over
This week our first-year medical students have completed their physiology curriculum. Based at it is on rigorous quantitative analysis of biological function, physiology is the most difficult first-year course. Physiology, by definition, is a quantitative discipline in which the mathematical relationships between interacting biological variables are examined, both empirically and theoretically. We have students who …
May 15 2009
Yeah, Yeah
Sorry about the paucity of fucking posts this week. Good things in life intrude, but I plan to have something for you soon!! So hoist a glass of motherfucking Jameson! Slainte!
May 09 2009
Rules of Life
When you are dressing to go out on Saturday evening, and your partner/spouse/whothefuckever asks you how what he or she is wearing looks, for fuck's sake, don't say it looks like it doesn't match.
May 09 2009
Fucking ShakyFoot! (UPDATED)
ShakyFoot is the brilliant creation of Zen Comix, one of the most brilliant cartoonists out there. You can get ShakyFoot and other Zen Comix schwag–such as the totes awesome sweatshirt being modeled by yours truly–at the Zen Comix on-line store. UPDATED: A few readers have expressed concern that they "don't get" ShakyFoot. Here's the dealio: …
May 07 2009
Comrade PhysioProf had dinner and drinks with two fantastic bloggers last night, but he's not telling who!! Hahahaha! What he can say is that his head is fucking killing.
May 06 2009
NIH Challenge Grants
For my readers who aren't biomedical scientists, the National Institutes of Health–the US Govt agency that funds the vast majority of biological research in the US–was provided with $10 billion dollars additional funds (beyond their current $30 billion annual budget) from the so-called Economic Stimulus Package proposed by President Obama and implemented by Congress to …
May 03 2009
What The Fuck?
Friend of the blog Scribbler has a great post up at his place cataloguing the side effects of various forms of booze. This particular entry caught my attention: Irish Whiskey: Possible side effects could include blurred vision, rushes of manly bravado and, (especially if ingested as Jameson's), acute Tourette's Syndrome whereby "fuck" is inserted every …
May 02 2009
Note To Senior Faculty
Dear Unproductive Senior Faculty: If you have proven your total inability to effectively manage a laboratory containing a half dozen scientists, where the fuck do you get the cockamamie idea that you know better than the motherfucking dean how to run a motherfucking medical school with hundreds of faculty and thousands of other scientists? And …


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For the first time in the nation, Wal-Mart has agreed to a higher wage standard at a new store to be built in Chicago, Illinois. The retail giant's commitment was part of an agreement to assure City Council support for zoning approvals, on which the Council voted Wednesday. The deal also concludes a six-year fight over what will be only Wal-Mart's second store in the Windy City. As we reported previously, Wal-Mart reached a stalemate with labor unions in 2006, after the City Council passed an industry-specific wage standard for big box retailers, which was later vetoed by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Under the new agreement, Wal-Mart commits to a starting wage of $8.75, $0.50 per hour higher than the minimum wage for new employees. After one year of employment, Wal-Mart will raise workers' wages by $0.60 to $9.35 per hour. Wal-Mart also agreed to pay prevailing wage, use union contractors to build the store and to provide $20 million to local non-profits over five years. The company claims the deal paves the way for it to move forward with plans to open two-dozen more stores in Chicago by 2015, although the agreement does not cover any other stores.
Legislation Needed to Lock-in Higher Wage Standards: Despite conventional assumptions about the economy, the Wal-Mart case shows that state and local governments still have good opportunities to raise wage and labor standards, particularly on an industry-specific basis. Still, this is a an agreement for only one store, rather than the city-wide policy embodied in the original ordinance approved by the City Council. Wal-Mart was able to negotiate its compromise by fragmenting the opposition with promises of temporary benefits to the building trades and non-profits and avoiding broader legislation. If Chicago enacted its 2006 wage ordinance, the local economy would have benefited from thousands of workers throughout the city's big-box retail sector being lifted out of poverty and depending less on public services.
While the deal represents a first for Wal-Mart, it falls short of other actions cities and states are taking to set higher industry-specific wage and labor standards. For instance, in 2008 Los Angeles passed a law that sets a living wage standard at all hotels near the LAX airport; and in 2009, New York state passed a law requiring labor peace agreements for all hotels developed or financed by the state through its public benefit corporations. New York is also considering a bill that would set a prevailing wage standard for building service workers employed by public utilities.
A similar fight is looming over Wal-Mart's plans to build its first store in New York City, where the City Council in December stood strong by rejecting another retail project because the developer would not agree to a living wage standard. According to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the question for elected officials is not about creating jobs or not creating jobs, but about what kind of jobs the city should be creating: "We don't want companies that have led the nation in law suits being brought against them by workers," she said. "We don't want companies that have the largest class-action in history brought against them. We don't want companies where women are, over and over, paid less than men and not promoted."
In a disappointing turn of events, Indiana's Supreme Court ruled 4-1 in favor of the state's voter ID law, overturning last year's decision by the Indiana Court of Appeals that deemed voter ID requirements unconstitutional partly because it treated those casting absentee ballots differently from those at voting booths. But in the end, the Indiana Supreme Court majority opinion stated, "It is within the power of the legislature to require voters to identify themselves at the polls using a photo ID."
Disenfranchising Voters: While most states allow non-photo identification to establish identity, such as utility bills, payroll checks, or other government documents, Indiana only accepts photo ID's issued by the state or federal government. Though the state allows those without ID's to vote on provisional ballots, their votes are only counted if they are able to present proper ID within ten days.
The problem is that, while most Americans have government-issued ID's, studies show that 6-10% of eligible voters don't have a state-issued driver's license or ID card, which amounts to potentially disenfranchising as many as 20 million people nationwide who are disproportionately poor, urban, non-white, and elderly.
A De Facto Poll Tax: In all cases, replacing these documents can be expensive and time-consuming — a new birth certificate can cost more than $40, while a new passport costs $97. Replacement citizenship documents for naturalized Americans costs $220. De facto poll tax aside, processing these requests can take as long as a year — during which time an otherwise eligible voter cannot vote.
And photo IDs don't always reflect current information. Surveys show that only 48% of voting-age women with ready access to their birth certificates have a certificate with their current legal name, while only 66% of voting-age women with access to any proof of citizenship have a document with their current legal name. 10% of all voting-age citizens have a photo ID that does not reflect their current address and current legal name. Among those aged 18-24, the percentage increases to 18%.
The burden of voter ID laws is real, and suppresses the vote of a demographic that is overwhelmingly poor, urban, non-white, and elderly. The decision of Indiana's Supreme Court will only serve to further disenfranchise an already-disenfranchised population.
Yet another set of anti-immigrant proposals, this time offered as last-minute amendments to a Massachusetts state budget bill, failed to gain traction last week. Twenty-seven pages of draconian anti-immigrant amendments were reduced to text that simply re-states existing bars on undocumented residents applying for public benefits.
When originally approved on May 28th, the amendment included a slew of anti-immigrant measures that sought to scapegoat undocumented immigrants and prohibit their access to work, shelter, education, and safety in the state. In response, the Student Immigrant Movement and other immigrant advocates organized the MassHope 2010 vigil outside of the State House to highlight the knee-jerk, anti-immigrant nature of the amendments. After 19 days of rallying, protesters celebrated victory.
Failed Anti-Immigrant Legislation Trend : This triumph of reason over politics means Massachusetts joins several other states where anti-immigrant policies have amounted to nothing more than flawed political opportunism and hot air.
As the White House attempts to revive efforts to overhaul federal immigration laws, public and voter support for comprehensive immigration reform remains strong. According to polls commissioned by the group America's Voice, voters on either side of the partisan aisle want common-sense, federal immigration reform that reflects American values, welcomes immigrants and provides them a pathway to citizenship.
While the new Affordable Health Care law provides a variety of funding opportunities for states, one provision in the health law that could shift billions of dollars from cash-strapped states to the federal government. Under the National Medicaid Drug Rebate Program created by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, drug manufacturers are required to enter into agreements that provide rebates for Medicaid purchased drugs, establishing a 15% minimum level of rebates. Up until now, the rebates were divided between the states and the federal government. But under the new health reform law, a significant portion of the rebates will go solely to Washington beginning this year.
Changes in Federal and State Rebate Share: On the positive side, the Affordable Care Act now requires greater discounts in Medicaid rebates by increasing the minimum rebate level from 15% to 23.1% for most brand name medications. This increase, which also applies to manufacturers of generics, is projected to raise $36 billion over 10 years. Under the old policy, states sent Washington a proportion equal to the share of Medicaid funding the federal government paid. But now, the new federal reform law allows the federal government to keep 100 percent of the rebate that falls within the 15.1 to 23.1 percent range. Any rebates above 23.1 percent will continue to be shared. According to the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid the change was necessary to help pay for a $434 billion 10-year increase in federal Medicaid funding.
Some States Stand To Lose Millions: Based on 2009 Medicaid data, states received average rebates of 38.5 percent a year ago, well above the previously required 15 percent, so the change will cost them dearly. California, for instance, could lose as much as $50 million next year alone because of the changes. Indiana predicts losses of $400 million over the next 10 years. And because the new policy is retroactive to 2010, Vermont stands to lose $2.3 million in fiscal year 2010 and $4.2 million in FY 2012.
What States Can Do: If states move quickly, they can secure both federal best price rebates and state supplemental rebates that can realize Medicaid rebates as high as 40-50%- increasing the rebate portion states hold onto and offsetting losses.
One key step is to secure clear state data on base prices from which rebates are calculated. Currently, the federal government is barred by a court order from sharing data on the Average Manufacturer Price (AMP) and federal Best Price with the states, so since states don't get this price data reported to them, state laws need to be in place to require drug companies to report AMP and best price directly to them.
Only Maine and Vermont have apparently passed such reporting laws. To respond to this emergency, Maine Rep. Sharon Treat, who also serves as Executive Director of the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices (NLARx), recommends that State Medicaid directors and State Legislatures need to immediately review their preferred drug lists. They need to make changes from a clinical perspective to reflect retroactive changes in rebate policies that will affect their budgets this year. States also need to pass a state drug price reporting law.
See also model AMP/best price legislation to address this data reporting issue.
Medicaid Rebates Now Available for Medicaid Managed Care Plans: One more twist on the changes affecting Medicaid rebates is that another provision of the federal law will help to offset the loss of rebate dollars in some of the states. For the first time, drug rebates will be allowed for drugs sold to State Medicaid managed care plans. Forty-one states use managed care plans and in total this accounts for about 70 percent of Medicaid enrollees across the country. However, only 16 of them depend on the managed care programs to administer drug benefits, while others have opted to pay for many drugs directly to get rebates. Clearly the new managed care policy strongly favors those 16 states. The provision will encourage more states to use managed care plans for drug coverage, which could lead to a reduction in drug spending. Arizona is one of the states that will see a major benefit. Its entire Medicaid program is run through managed care plans, so the state did not benefit in the past from the federally required rebates.
Economic and Revenue Crisis in the States
Rising Wage and Income Inequality
How Health Reform Saves Consumers and Taxpayers Money: The Affordable Care Act Lowers Costs and Improves Quality - The new health reform links a commitment to coverage with a commitment and a strategy to contain health care costs, which is detailed in this report by the Center for American Progress. It details how it will reduce administrative costs for small businesses and individuals and modernize our health care payment and delivery system to reduce health care spending.
Texas Textbooks: What happened, what it means, and what we can do about it — This People for the American Way report details how religious Right leaders in Texas have been waging war against science and history for the past few decades, with a primary target and battleground over the statewide approval process for public school textbooks. It details how it happened, what it means and what people are doing about it.
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Pella — Sammie Lee Schmidt, 75, of New Sharon, IA passed away Tuesday evening on arrival at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, IA. Sammie, a man with musical abilities, is survived by his wife, Rose Mary (Boyd) Schmidt; their two sons and their wives: Karl and Jennifer Schmidt of Knoxville, IA, Kalvin and Carrie Schmidt of New Sharon; 5 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren; two sisters: Mary Lois Vande Krol and Norma Conover and a brother, Fred Schmidt all of Sully, IA.
Visitation will begin after Noon on Friday, October 19, 2012 at the First Baptist Church where the family will be present Friday from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Funeral Services wiill be held Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at First Baptist Church, Pella, Iowa.
Interment will be made in the Peoria Cemetery at Peoria, Iowa.
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Why I've been fooling around with eyeliner pencils, felt tipped eyeliners, eyeliners that have a brush as the "wand" in a tube of eyeliner, and gel eyeliners with inferior brushes is beyond me (now, of course.... in hindsight )
I switched to LM Tightline cake in the Marine Bleu shade, and honestly can't remember the last time I was so wowed by an eyeliner. In fact, I've probably never been wowed by an eyeliner before!
I do not use this brush to tightline, as I have permanent eyeliner tattooed in my upper lash line. (where tightlining would go) So, I use this brush to draw a traditional line with a flick. It is just perfectionno other words for it.
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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Virginia M. "Ginny" Germain, 87, of Waterford, WI, passed away Sunday, July 7, 2013, at Waterford Senior Living.
She was born in Olean, NY, June 28, 1926, to Frank and Bertha (nee Bell) Nickel. She graduated from South Park High School in Buffalo, NY, before receiving her associate's degree from Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, NY.
On February 7, 1948, she was united in marriage to George Earl Germain in Buffalo, NY. Following marriage they moved to Middleport, NY, where they owned a grocery store called Germain's Red & White. Ginny also sold real estate for 10 years. Ginny and George were members of St. Stephen's Catholic Church. George preceded her in death February 28, 2003.
She was an avid reader, sang in the church choir and different musicals, played piano, collected dolls and was an avid Buffalo Bills fan.
Ginny is survived by her children, Linda Germain Kenyon, Patricia Bebler, Mary Clare (Michael) Houghes, David Germain and Richard (Susan) Germain; son-in-law, Gary Bebler; her grandchildren, Matthew (Angi) Fettes, Kristen Fettes, Brian Fettes, Evan Bebler, Joseph Germain and Michael Germain. She is further survived by a sister, Carol A. Nickel; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and numerous friends.
The family would like to say a special thank you to Gentiva Hospice and Waterford Senior Living for their special care and attention.
Services for Ginny were held Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at Schuette-Daniels Funeral Home, Burlington, WI, at 6:00 PM, with Father Gene Doda officiating. Visitation was at the funeral home on Wednesday from 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM. Burial will take place on Monday, July 15, 2013, at 10:00 AM at St. Stephen's Catholic Cemetery in Middleport, NY. Memorials can be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.
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Aqua North Carolina is asking state regulators for a 19.15 percent rate increase to raise bills for its water and sewer customers by $240 a year.
It's the third rate case in the past five years for the state's biggest private water utility, which already charges twice as much as Raleigh, Durham, Cary and many municipalities. The company has about 88,000 customer accounts in 52 North Carolina counties and provides service to about a quarter of a million people in the state, including more than 400 subdivisions in Wake County.
Aqua is a publicly traded company admired on Wall Street for its strategy of aggressive rate requests to recover investments in pipes and to reward shareholders.
Aqua is expected to win a rate increase here, but the N.C. Utilities Commission is not likely to award the full amount the company has requested.
The request, filed late Friday, has met with instant opposition from advocacy organizations as well as neighborhood groups that form to pack public hearings and stage protest rallies every time the company comes in for a rate case.
Aqua customers have already begun flooding the N.C. Utilities Commission with angry emails.
"I sincerely hope that you ... can stop the Aqua crooks from fleecing the public the way they love to do every year," wrote Aqua customer Jim Anthony, who is also CEO of Colliers International, a real estate services firm in Raleigh.
"They like to argue costs are going up," wrote Anthony, who lives 60 miles southwest of Raleigh in Woodlake Country Club. "Tell them to prove it. They are earning plenty of money already."
Pennsylvania-based Aqua, the nation's second-largest private waterworks, specializes in extending water and sewer service to fast-growing suburbs that are sprouting up beyond the reach of legacy municipal water systems. The company's North Carolina lawyer, Jo Anne Sanford, is the former chairwoman of the N.C. Utilities Commission, the agency that will decide the rate request.
"The rate increase applied for by Aqua is necessary because the company has been unable to achieve the level of earnings authorized by the commission in its last three rate cases," Sanford wrote in Aqua's filing.
"As will be demonstrated by evidence in the case, even with good management, the current rates are insufficient to support the cost required to both invest as necessary in infrastructure and to meet the operation and maintenance needs of the North Carolina System," Aqua's filing states.
Aqua is seeking to boost its revenue in the state by $8.6 million and has requested a ruling in time to raise rates on Sept. 1, less than four weeks away. The N.C. Utilities Commission is expected to deny the speedy ruling and set the complicated case for public hearings in a proceeding that could take six to nine months to resolve.
If the rate increase were granted in full, a typical Aqua water customer would see monthly bills increase from $42.92 to $52.14. A typical wastewater customer's monthly bill would increase from $65.07 to $75.28.
Aqua customers who get only water or sewer service but not both would see their bills go up by about $120 a year, on average. Aqua has 73,578 water customers and 15,010 wastewater customers in North Carolina.
Previous request reduced
In its previous rate request, filed in 2011, Aqua sought a 19.2 percent request. When the Utilities Commission granted a 5.3 percent rate increase, Aqua officials warned that they would be back soon for another rate case.
The company says its rates are higher than municipal services because its customers are spread out in rural areas, requiring more pipes and equipment per customer to deliver water and remove wastewater. Aqua's biggest system has about 10,000 customers, but some have only several dozen and at least one has fewer than a dozen customers.
Aqua also said in its filing that it needs higher rates to compensate for the fact that customers are becoming conservation-minded, buying energy-efficient appliances and using less water.
Critics say greed is motive
But Aqua critics are accusing the company of corporate greed.
"Aqua America, the company's parent corporation, has paid a consecutive quarterly dividend to shareholders for 65 years, and had their strongest financial year ever in 2012," Clean Water said in a statement on the rate request. "Their N.C. customers now fear their bills will go up – again – with a cut of that money going to line the pockets of national executives while their tap water continues to flow brown."
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Just got back from Georgia to pick up a set of SDA-1A's. Four!!
Sat and listened for while to his new HT rig. Martin Logans and "Viennas"(?).
Denon AVR and BIGASS Sony LCD. Tasty.
Got to jawin' about music, gear etc. And before to long he goes into his storage room and comes out with the rest of his old gear. On top of the speaks and Denon power amps. (POA-1500's) He has the tuner, TT and dual cassette deck! Says to me "Here, take these." "How much?" I inquired. "Nothing, I know they will be in a good home."
BONUS!!! After yappin' a little more and loading the van, he treated me to a glass of the sweetest single malt and wished me many good years of enjoyment. I replied "It all starts today."
BTW, HI Joe, One SMALL glass.
Here's the list:
4 SDA-1A's
2 Denon POA-1500 power amps
1 PRA-1000 pre amp
1 TU-767 tuner
1 DP-45F TT w/ Signet diamond cart
1 DRW-580 dual cassette deck
Total duckets dropped: $1050 and $80 for gas.:D:D:D
But there's more!!!
My bestest buddy I've known since we were 10 yrs old lives about 30 miles from the other guy. Hadn't seen him and family in over a year. Dropped by to say Hi. Showed him the loot I plundered. He says "Hey, I still have my brothers stuff in the house." His brother (mine too, more or less) passed away in 2000 from cancer. He pulled it all out, knocked the dust off, and says "Here, take it. It needs to go to a good place, Russ. Chris wouldn't want it any other way." (cue Twilight Zone music).
Almost shedding a tear, I thanked him.
Goodbye's were exchanged,hugs from his kids and wife (a really long hug for the wife, She's HOT!) and I set out for Mooresville.
Along the way home, I realized there are few people who will stick with you no matter what. I set out this morning to to buy some toys, that's all, and came home with more than I ever bargained for. Made a new friend, saw an old friend of 30 years and now have a part of a friend departed.
It was a great day for lightman.