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Candice, a senior theater major from Plano, Texas, currently is performing at SMU in Fabulation. The play by Lynn Nottage combines comedy, satire, and wit to tell the story of an African-American woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband is caught embezzling and she must return to the family she once shunned. The play runs from Oct. 25-29, 2006, in SMU's Margo Jones Theater.
Final Curtain Call
The show finally ended yesterday and its really bittersweet. I had a hard time holding together during curtain call, because I was genuinely sad it was over. Being in Fabulation has been my most incredible and memorable theatrical experiences of my life thus far. The response from people who have seen it has been overwhelming. I've never been in a show with this much genuine and kind response. It makes me feel wonderful to be apart of something like that. The comments I usually get from shows I am in are: "You were great!". And that's what people are saying about this show too, but more than that I am getting: "I loved the entire show!!!". That means the world to me, because the play spoke to them and on top of that they loved everyone in it. We really became a tight-knit ensemble throughout this experience. Everyone involved in this production held their own. Without each and every one of us, it would be such a different show.
Through the run of the six performances I really came into my own, I feel like. Once we were up in front of an audience, I really found so much more in my character than I ever did in rehearsals. Each night, it just got better and better for me, and I really started to have more and more fun! Who would have guessed that Ms. Serious could be funny! This was my first true comedy and it has left me with the confidence to do more. I think I have the bug, now.
Finally, Thank you to everyone who came to see the show or tried to, to those of you who kept up with my blog, and those of you who sent kind messages to me through Facebook and e-mail and in the halls. Your support is incredible and I thank you dearly. Be on the look out for me soon!
Smooth Sailing
We opened last night! Wow, 6 weeks of hard work and late nights and we finally showcased what we'd put together collectively. I rarely get nervous before a performance, but before this show I was a little short of a wreck. Thank goodness I had the rest of the cast there telling me I was going to be fine. As soon as the curtain speech was over and I walked out onto the stage to begin my first line, things were smooth sailing from there. I just had to get out there and start and I knew I'd be OK. The crowd was amazing. As I looked around I saw friends, faculty members, and tons of new faces I didn't know but knew I wanted to share this story with. It was a really communicatory experience in that theatre last night. The best part about it, was it was just plain fun to do! You really can't ask for anything better. There were a few small blunders but nothing major, so overall the opening went fantastic.
The opening speech delivered by the Chair of the Dept. Cecil O'Neil was amazing! He reminded the audience that their participation in attending is what keeps this program and the theatre in general alive and that what they were about to experience was real-time and would be unlike any other performance of the show. That's the beautiful thing about theatre. Every night of the show is different. The audience is different, the vibe is different, and the experience shared in that small theatre between the audience and the actors is different every night. That is what makes theatre what it is, rather than film or television. It's a great thing to be apart of. It also pumped all of us up backstage when he mentioned to the audience that they were watching actors who were following in the footsteps of Academy and Tony award winning performers. What an honor, huh? That could be any one of us in this program years down the line.
Its all really bittersweet. I've been waiting for this week since we started the process and now that it's begun, I know it's going to pass sooner than I realize. Working on this show with the cast, crew, and especially the director Stan, has been one of my most memorable, enjoyable, and successful learning experiences of my life in the theatre. You can only hope to work in a show like this continually or even a few times. I have been cast in comedies only a few times in my life, and to top that I've portrayed a black woman zero times! So, this has opened my eyes to endless possibilities. And that, my blogger friends, is an empowering feeling!
So tech week has been really busy, which explains why I haven't written in a while.
Nervous and
We've been working late nights to try and put the finishing touches on the show. I always get really nervous and self-conscious during technical rehearsals and start to worry about the show. It seems to be a natural thing for me. I'm a worrier and a perfectionist, which doesn't serve me well at times.
Today is our last rehearsal before we open tomorrow and I really want to make the best of it. I just want to solidify some final trouble spots and feel super secure by the end of the night, because tomorrow we open to a sold out crowd!!! Yep, you read correct! What a way to start of the run of the show.
Talking to the
I don't know whether this is going to fuel my performance or scare me to death. I guess I will only know when the show starts and I talk to the audience for the first time. I still haven't had that full experience of talking to a full audience yet. During rehearsals it's usually the director, assistant director, stage managers, etc. sitting in the audience that I have to deliver my lines to and they have heard the play so many times, it's probably not terribly funny to them anymore. So tomorrow will be like taming a whole new beast.
I have no idea if the audience will laugh, what they will laugh at and when. I just have to be present and ready for whatever. I guess all I can really do at the end of the day is the work I have prepared and hope people connect with it. If you are still planning on coming get your tickets soon at the Meadow's box office.
The Show Must Go On, Right?
This Friday we did a run through for the crew members and the designers working on the show. It was their first time to see the show up on its feet completely. It was really intimidating to be honest, and it definitely got the best of me at times. I flubbed a lot of my lines and got so nervous I sped through a lot of it. Of course, I feel as though I didn't do well, but every actor feels that way most of the time. I left rehearsal that night really bummed and doubtful of whether I was capable of leading this show.
Back on Track
But like we all know, the show must go on. Saturday we returned to regular rehearsals at 10 a.m. and we just worked moment by moment in the show fixing any problems we had. The great thing about working with Stan is that he knows how to get the best out of his actors. He knows how to correct through encouragement, making you feel like all of your choices are viable, but at the same time defining which ones are the best one for your character. After rehearsals Saturday, I felt back on track and ready to work as hard as I can this last week and half to put a show together that people will love and enjoy! I always seem to reach this doubtful peak in every rehearsal process I go through. "Why did they cast me?" "Will people like my interpretation?" "Am I doing this role justice'. Blah Blah Blah... All actor fears!!!! At some point you have to put those to rest or you'll never continue to work past it and it can get the best of you.
So that's where I am at. We go into technical rehearsals on Tuesday, which means more focus on the technical (lighting, costumes, set, etc) aspect of the show and less on the acting. Everything is coming together faster than I thought!! The 25th will be here before I know it.
Facebook Invite
I posted an event on Facebook for Fabulation. It's an open event. So join and get information on the times and where to get tickets! It's a small venue with only 7 performances. Tickets will go fact. Get yours!! Can't wait to see you all!!!!
Work Resumes
Fall Break is over and hard work has resumed. Today we moved into the Margo Jones Theatre upstairs as planned. It was really strange being in a new space after four weeks. So, today's rehearsal was mostly about going through the show and adjusting to the new space. Everything looks and feels different. The space is much bigger than the rehearsal hall so what we hoped would work in the rehearsal hall is now proving impossible in the actual theatre and small adjustments need to be made accordingly. My dialogue to the audience is much easier to deliver in the theatre, however, because at least there are chairs to focus on. In the rehearsal hall the white walls were proving difficult to talk to after a while, lol.
Being in Your Character's Clothes
Last Friday I had my costume fitting. It's really fun being in your character's clothing for the first time and really feeling it all come together. My character starts out in a fun, foxy, business type outfit (high-waist pencil skirt, pointy heels, and a flowy leopard top). She gradually looses her status and all of her money and heads home to live with her parents again, broke and pregnant. For this latter half of the show, Undine is in a high-waist simple dress (so that I can easily put my pregnant pads on under it) and sandals. Once I put these costumes on I just felt so much more like Undine. It's a strange feeling to explain, but once you're in your character's shoes and clothes you immediately begin to stand like them, walk like them, live like them. Maybe you've experienced something like this during Halloween. It's the one time of the year you can be anybody you want and sort of get away with it. Maybe that's part of why I love acting so much!!
We open two weeks from today!! Somehow it feels like its sneaking up on me! That day will come sooner that I realize. Focus for these last two weeks is pertinent. I hope to see all of you there filling up those seat that are now empty!
Needed: Stamina
We've started running the show on occasion to get a feeling of the play as a whole and its rhythm. In the last few days I've really started to understand how heavy of a load my part in this production is. Fabulation is a pretty short show and can run about an hour and a half not including intermission. We're playing with the idea of not having an intermission, which means I would be on stage for almost the entire show!!! For anyone who has done this kind of work before, it is tiring. I'm struggling right now to make it through the entire show. It's a physically, emotionally, and mentally demanding kind of work. I'm hoping that over the next three weeks I can acquire a stamina of sorts, but right now it's very difficult. I have a lot of lines, and I often need a drink of water from talking so much. We'll probably end up working water onto the stage as some sort of prop so I can refuel.
Fall break is upon is,
and I desperately need it. Class all day and rehearsal all night is difficult.
Sometimes it becomes overwhelming and you want to just throw in the towel.
But this is the business I chose and it's only going to get harder, so I might
as well get used to it. People who are majors outside of Meadows sometimes
don't seem to understand how much work we put into our major. We may not be
hitting the "books" as much, but we're in the studios all day
and all night on our feet "working" in our own way. A lot of my colleagues
get home around midnight or later from a full day of work only to be up the next
couple hours studying for other classes and writing papers with a 9 am alarm
clock waiting for them. Food and sleep are hard to come by sometimes, but there's
a hunger for that "bug" we just can't get out of our systems which
keeps up going.
Moving to Margo Jones
On a happier note, I'm off book!! For the most part anyways. I still have to call for line on occasion, which is normal, but at least I don't have to carry my script around. And we get to move in the Margo Jones Theatre (where the show is) right after we get back from Fall Break, which is a week before our technical rehearsals begin. Shows rarely rehearse in the theatre they are going to be presented in. Instead, we rehearse in a rehearsal hall and only move into the actual theatre about 2 weeks before the show opens on what we call "tech week". Kind of strange, huh? This is because other shows are usually in that space, so we have to rehearse somewhere that won't conflict with a performance. So for us to move into the theatre 3 weeks before we open, is really rare and a huge advantage!! Well, I've sufficiently ranted enough. Until next time friends...
Infinite possibilities
It's incredibly hard waking up on a Saturday for a rehearsal that starts at 10 am. Especially when you've gone out the night before. Eeek! Lessons are always hard to learn. But as usual, rehearsal was incredibly fun, so I got over being tired very quickly! The great thing about this show is that we really get to play and just have fun with our characters. We usually can't get through a scene without one of us breaking character from laughing at something another character is doing. That's the really amazing thing about Lynn Nottage's work. She has written characters that are incredibly funny on the page, but leave infinite possibilities for the actor performing them.
Breaking the fourth wall
My character breaks what is called the fourth wall in the theatre and speaks to the audience directly for a lot of the play, much like soliloquies in Shakespeare. So, the audience is very much an active participant in the story and joins my character Undine through her journey. She looks directly into their eyes and shares her most intimate thoughts with them. I hope this won't freak some of you out, lol. My acting professor, Michael Connolly, says people in the audience usually do one of two things: either turn away averting their gaze or keep eye contact with the actor and somewhat engage. During rehearsals the audience isn't there of course, so I mostly speak to blank white walls. The energy when an audience arrives will be much different, and I hope it enhances my work and doesn't spook me too much!
Brain overload
Currently, I'm getting off book, which means putting my script down in rehearsals and trying to memorize the lines all the while remembering my blocking, acting and making choices for my character. It can be brain overload at times. Thanks to our wonderful stage manger and his assistants all I have to do is call for a line or ask where I was supposed to move to and they are usually there with a helping hand. Hopefully within the next week I will be completely memorized and can feel freer to play. I'll let ya'll know how that goes. Until next time...
Behind the Scenes
Hello Bloggers! I'm really eager to begin sharing my rehearsal process with you all. Hopefully by the end of this, you all will have a better understand of what we basically do to put a show up for performance. Every show is unique and works a little differently, but the basics are all still there. So, here we go!
The cast of Fabulation includes about eight actors but the show contains numerous characters, so everyone but myself will be playing multiple characters, (which in itself should be fun). We are currently ending our third week of rehearsal.
Week One
Week one consisted of table work in which we all read through the script several times out loud asking and answering questions about the play and its characters to get a better understanding of the story and how to go about telling it.
Week Two
Week two was devoted to blocking the show, which simply means putting it on its feet and marking where each character moves and when. This last week and for the next few weeks we will continue to work the play on its feet, concentrating on specific moments.
A Change of Pace
Today was a nice change of pace. Our incredible director Stan Wojewodski thought it would be cool if instead of rehearsals we went to the Dallas Theatre Center to watch Da Verse Lounge poetry night where 21-year-olds and younger present their spoken word poetry. It was beyond incredible and inspiring to see what such young minds had to say and in such lyrical way. Kevin, who plays Herve/Guy in the play, even got up and presented a piece. The next poetry night is Nov. 10 and I was so artistically inspired by this art form, that I'm highly considering writing and performing my own piece then. You guys should come! It's free admission with free Starbucks coffee!!! Tonight was motivating and was a nice reminder why I do what I do. Talk to all of you soon.


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Now that Janesville has entered the national spotlight thanks to Paul Ryan, the documentary As Goes Janesville shines a new light on the city.
After the GM plant closed in Janesville in 2008, Brad Lichtenstein decided to start a documentary to show how the closing affected the citizens of Janesville. He follows five people representing different perspectives of the city. Three women are former employees of the GM plant, one women works for a bank and is trying to get businesses to come to Janesville, and one is a politician. Little did Brad know when he started making the film that Wisconsin would turn into a political battleground.
The movie does not take sides but shows how each family is struggling. The families go on living and two of the women commute to Fort Wayne, Indiana to the GM plant there and the other one goes back to school for the first time in a long time.
At the same time, politics turn ugly and we get an inside view of Tim Cullen, who was one of the Democratic state senators who left the state in protest of Gov. Scott Walker's repair bill. We also see businesses in Janesville applaud Scott Walker for his efforts to bring jobs back.
What I like about this movie is that it does not take sides. It shows the real lives of Janesville people most affected by the GM closure. The point of the movie is to show that what is most needed in the city, the state and this country is compromise. Neither side is entirely right or wrong but the ability to talk to each other gone.
The trailer caused a little bit of controversy when it came out during the recall election because of a clip of Scott Walker talking about his plan to "divide and conquer" unions. While the movie tries not to take sides I will admit it does not portray the governor in a very positive light. But as far as the subjects of the movie, they all appear to be concerned citizens and trying to do what is right.
I think this is an important movie especially here in Wisconsin and I hope as many people see it as possible. It will premiere on PBS at 9 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8.

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By Richard Whitby
The Daily Star
---- — The sap is running — and so are the region's maple syrup producers.
After a down year in 2012, they said they're hoping that this season will provide a sweet recovery. So far, the weather is cooperating.
"If everybody hates the weather, then it's probably good for us," said Reed Baker of Baker's Maple Products in Bainbridge. "Raw, blustery March weather generally is good for production."
The ideal weather, Baker said, is a series of cold nights and warm days.
"We need it to freeze and thaw," he said. "You have to have that shift — 25 (degrees) at night, 45 during the day."
For Rick Newman of Breezie Maple Farms in Roseboom, the weather hasn't quite reached a nominal point.
"It's been an all-right season," he said. But "it hasn't gotten that warm that many days in a row."
Newman and Baker are among the many maple producers in New York state who will be marking the season's peak this weekend and next with open houses, showing visitors their sugar bushes — the trees from which they obtain sap — also sometimes called sap bushes or wood lots.
They'll also be showing off their sugar shacks (also called sap houses) — where the sap is boiled down into syrup. It takes 20 to 50 gallons of sap to produce a gallon of syrup. It's a delicate process: too thin, and it can spoil; too thick and it can crystallize.
Baker, who has been in business for 31 years, said that these days he hopes to get about a quart and a half of syrup from each tap, but that 20 years ago, his rule of thumb was 2 quarts.
"We don't see the long, cold, slow springs like we used to," he said.
Newman said he expects that each of his trees, some of which are less-productive "soft" maples, such as red and black maples, will yield an average of about a quart.
"I would hope that I'm going to produce over 4,000 gallons" of syrup this year, he said.
That would be an improvement on last year, when an unusually warm March severely depressed output locally and throughout New York and New England. U.S. production was down 32 percent from 2011, according to U.S. Agriculture Department figures, and New York — usually a distant second to Vermont in U.S. syrup production — fell into a tie with Maine for No. 2 on the U.S. list with 360,000 gallons. New York produced 564,000 gallons the year before.
Canada, especially Quebec, is the real heavyweight, accounting for 85 percent of global production. The United States accounts for the remaining 15 percent.
"What happened (last year) is that it got so warm so quick," Newman said.
Baker explained that the warm weather caused the trees to bud early, which, in turn, caused the trees to start producing amino acids that promote leaf growth but turn the sap bitter.
"You can make all the syrup you want, but nobody can stand it," he said.
As if the vagaries of late winter and early spring weren't enough, Newman said the summer that precedes a harvest — when the trees' leaves produce sugar for the sap that's tapped in late winter — also affects sap quantities and sugar content.
He uses a vacuum system and hoses to collect sap from his trees.
"With the vacuum, you get about three times the amount of sap you normally get without vacuum," he said.
Baker, on the other hand, taps trees in and around the town of Bainbridge.
"We have a bunch houses in the middle of one of our sap bushes," he said. "We lease, rent trees all up and down the valley, wherever there's a little string of trees, and we drive around with a truck to pick up the sap."


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Unlike pastoral counselors who use a therapeutic method based on a theory such as: Adlerian, Freudian, Person-Centered, Gestalt, or Cognitive Behavioral, spiritual directors are much more free-form. We generally do not give homework to our directees, nor do we set goals for them. We are taught that the directee sets the agenda. Our job is to listen for the Holy Spirit, discern God's action, and to assist in cooperating with it. The Holy Spirit is the actual spiritual director.
We say things like: "What do you think God is inviting you to in that situation?" "Where is evidence of God acting there?" "Have you prayed about it?" "Why do you perceive that God is not responding to you?" and "What do you discern when you pay attention to your interior movements?"
During my spiritual direction internship, we (my spiritual directees and I) had an education process to go through and a steep learning curve. Some of them discontinued the process, and others never were really engaged in it at all. Perhaps spiritual direction was not what they expected? Analogous to when Vernon Ware lamented about his counselees in his excellent article "The Nerve of Some Clients," perhaps my directees had one idea of what their experience of spiritual direction should be and I had another.
I am in my last semester in the M.A. in Spiritual and Pastoral Care program on the spiritual direction track. I am in the throes of writing my professional seminar paper and working out how I will respond to resistance in spiritual direction . . . more to come on that subject in an upcoming blog article.
I am far from having all the answers, but what I do know is that I want to meet my spiritual directees in the middle somewhere so that we can take each others' hands, and together navigate that sometimes arduous journey of the spiritual life. I want us all to one day see God's loving face smiling back at us. After all, isn't that the purpose of why we are here in the first place?


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With over 20 years in business and 3 generations of family running this Kenai River lodge, we hope you will take advantage of our experience and expertise in planning your ultimate Alaska vacation. Our lodge is centrally located at mile ten on the lower Kenai River, within 10 minutes of the Historic town of Kenai. There you will find plenty of restaurants,grocery stores and Gift shops.
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We're family owned and operated since 1991 and we've built our reputation on being very clean with a personal touch that makes your Homer Alaska lodging experience a great memory. A majority of our business comes from repeat customers or word of mouth referrals and we're so thankful for our guest's encouragement.
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Majestic mountains, beautiful scenery and, in the midst of The Last Frontier, a modern Alaskan hotel to return to after a day filled with activities. Enjoy King and red salmon fishing, jet boating, airplane sightseeing, berry picking, hiking, hunting and wildlife viewing. Or perhaps you'd prefer to visit the historic communities of McCarthy and Kennicott, site of the richest copper strike in history which operated in the 1920s.
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Downtown B&B Inn offers travelers to Valdez Alaska excellent accommodations year-round. We feature cozy and clean rooms, private bathrooms, and great continental breakfasts. Our location is perfect for visitors who are interested in fishing, sightseeing, and glacier tours in Prince William Sound.
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We are a 28-room hotel, with all rooms having private baths, queen beds, televisions and phones. We are a non-smoking establishment, and offer roll-away beds and cribs for no extra charge. Our hotel is an exceptional value for lodging at Denali National Park.
Review - "My family and I stayed at the Nord Haven June 21 and 22, 2009 while on a vacation drive through Alaska. The staff was friendly and the rooms were quiet, clean, and comfortable. The continental breakfast was satisfactory and the box lunches prepared for Denali were very good. A computer was provided for guests to check email etc. Rosies cafe was within walking distance next door and they provided a good full breakfast if desired. I was pleased that we stayed at the Nord Haven as opposed to the tourist mecca in the cruise lodges a little closer to Denali."
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Burnt Paw Cabins & Outback1314.3 Alaska Highway · Tok · Alaska · 99780 · 907-883-4121
Bed & Breakfast in Unique Cabins! Alaska Gifts! Tok Alaska is the crossroad of Alaska! In Fact, if you're driving to or from Alaska, you have to go through Tok, Alaska! Here at Burnt Paw & Cabins Outback we are eager to help you plan your visit to Tok, Alaska.
Review - "Thank you for such a good breakfast and a clean beautiful cabin."
Totem InnMile 248.7 Park Hwy · Healy · Alaska · 99743 · 907-683-6500
The Totem Inn is located 11 scenic miles North of the Denali Park entrance, at mile 248.7 Parks Hwy. We are a second generation Alaskan owned and operated, full-service lodging facility.
Review - "A good overall stay. This is classed as a motel but you cannot get you car to the door of the room. However this is a popular motel with business travellers which is a good sign. I arrived at 1pm out of main season and got the last of 50 rooms. Its attractions are that it is only 12 miles from Denali NP, has small but clean rooms with large bathrooms ,large tv and wireless internet, all for around $70. Its restaurant has attracted adverse comment in the past which I can understand.It is quirky but the food is ok. You have to enter thru the bar and if you want a drink with meal you have to sit in a seperate area and get the drink yourself from the bar! This is also a smoking area. A smoke free meal with a glass of wine is not possible. This seems strange but then I am English The reception is laid back; not sure if we have a room but friendly. I would stay again."
Regency Fairbanks95 Tenth Avenue · Fairbanks · Alaska · 99701 · 907-459-2700
Our 128 guest rooms include a mix of Suites, Whirlpool Rooms, and Traditional Rooms. All rooms & suites feature fully appointed kitchens with range/oven, microwave, refrigerator, cookware & coffee maker. Additionally, each room includes a work area & digital phone with modem port and voice mail, wireless internet service, cable television, and hairdryer.
Summit Lake Lodge51826 Seward Highway · Moose Pass · Alaska · 99631 · 907-244-2031
Welcome to Summit Lake Lodge, a historic Alaskan log lodge, in the heart of the Chugach National Forest. Remote yet accessible. Make this your home base for your authentic Alaskan adventure.
Tok MotelsMile 124.5 Glenn Highway · Tok · Alaska · 99780 · 907-883-2852
Tok Motels offers the best value for lodging in this unique Alaska town.
Hotel Seward221 5th Avenue · Seward · Alaska · 99664 · 907-224-8001
We are Seward's best hotel, located in downtown Seward at the shores of Resurrection Bay! Whether you come to Seward for our world class Alaska Sea Life Center, sightseeing tours, Halibut and salmon fishing, Whales Watching, business, or just to relax, you will leave with unforgettable memories.
Murphy's Motel911 Fourth Avenue · Seward · Alaska · 99664 · 907-224-8090
Our motel is located near Kenai Fjords National Park Visitor's Center & the small boat harbor, the departure point for all fjord tours and fishing charters. Just a reminder, keep a watchful eye for whales in the bay!
Dukes 8th Avenue Hotel630 West 8th Avenue · Anchorage · Alaska · 99501 · 907-274-6213
Whether you're considering lodging with us for a week, a month, or longer, Duke's 8th Avenue Anchorage Hotel offers affordable priced kitchenette suites in the heart of downtown Anchorage Alaska, along with the exceptional service of friendly staff to make your stay effortless and trouble free.
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The Ridgewood Inn is the latest Motel in lodging for Fort McMurray opening last January. It is locally owned and operated.
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The Banff Inn offers modern hotel accommodations located on Banff Avenue, only minutes away from the downtown shops, restaurants and many of Banff's attractions "Parking your car basically across your room is quite convenient. For the rest, standard but neat hotel.
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Our bed and breakfast accommodations consists of 4 rooms, king and queen size suites, ensuite bathrooms, gourmet breakfasts either in the dining room or on the private patio over looking the property, a large private in-ground pool and more.
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Explore the historic downtown district of The Dalles, Oregon. The Dalles Inn is the only hotel in the heart of the city. Stroll the charming streets of The Dalles, dine at wonderful restaurants, visit the local winery, and explore the Columbia River Gorge with its many outdoor activities.
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St. Pete Police Working Early Morning Shooting
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla (970 WFLA)-St Pete police are investigating a shooting near the New Plaza Motel in North St. Pete.
Police say 45 year old Anthony G. Taylor, a former motel security officer, at the New Plaza Motel, shot at the motel manager several times because he had recently lost his job at the motel and received an eviction notice.
Detectives converged on the motel after the shooting, the former security officer ran toward the 3500 block of 3rd Avenue North.
Police say they found Taylor with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at a vacant lot near by. He died at the scene.
The motel manager Jerome Horacek was shot several times in the upper body. Paramedics transported him to Bayfront Medical Center. He has been treated and released.
The investigation continues.


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Musical evening comes to South Boston Public Library
- Last Updated on 12:39 PM 07/10/12
- BY The Gazette-Virginian
The South Boston Public Library will host classical guitarist Peter Fletcher at 6:30 p.m. July 19.
This free concert is being brought in as a special event for Summer Reading 2012, according to South Boston Library branch Manager Jessika Pettit.
Fletcher has studied, played and taught music for over three decades. He began playing at the age of 7 and has appeared in concert halls across North America.
This past January, Fletcher made his fifth appearance at Carnegie Hall.
The Halifax County South Boston Public Library System is pleased to have such a distinguished artist give a concert at the library for Halifax County residents to enjoy free of charge, Pettit said.
Fletcher will play selections from his musical career, as well as, take questions from the audience.


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ONEONTA — Virginia R. Hayes, 87, of Oneonta, passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at Binghamton General Hospital.
She was born on Sept. 24, 1925, in Oneonta, the daughter of Sebastian and Maude (Pizza) Giudice. She married her husband of 61 years, Harold Hayes on Oct. 22, 1944. He predeceased her on Nov. 25, 2005.
Virginia worked for 27 years as a lunch aide at the Riverside School in Oneonta.
Virginia was of Italian-Sicilian decent. She received great joy when she attended a family reunion with her cousins who travelled here from Australia and Ragusa, Sicily.
She loved to travel with her family and thoroughly enjoyed the trips to Vermont and Pennsylvania.
She is survived by two daughters, Bonnie Lee Budine and her husband, Dennis of Unadilla and Madeline "Maddy" Hayes of Otego; a grandson, Jeffrey Gardner, who she adored and his wife, Amy Jo of Oneonta; three great-grandchildren, Amethyst Noel Gardner, Brandon Jeffrey Gardner and his twin, Tiffany Elizabeth Gardner. She is also survived by her brothers, Frank (Connie) Giudice of Oneonta, Vincent (Louise) Giudice of Horseheads, Nicholas (Mary) Giudice of Oneonta; and a sister, Viola (Wilfred) Jurjens of Meridale.
Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her brothers, Paul, Albert, and Joseph Giudice and two sisters, Lucy Russell and Rose Springer.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, July 17, at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand St., Oneonta with the Rev. Teressa Sivers, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Ouleout Valley Cemetery, Franklin.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.
Condolences to the family may be made online by visiting at www.grummonsfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.


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Cons: Small, but uncrowded
We saw this place online and had to give it a try. Went as a family, My son and daughter needed to learn to ski.What great instructors. they spent over an ... Full review


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Several weeks ago, I gave you glimpses of the project I thought I would be showing you within a day or two.
I should have known that was a stretch, but I've been chomping at the bit and I guess I hoped if I blogged about it, the project would be completed sooner.
Well, it took longer than I'd hoped and I really wanted to be able to photograph the room with a wide-angle lens, but there comes a point when you just have to call it good.
Some of you guessed it was a bathroom remodel I was talking about and you were right. Not only does it feel great to have this bathroom remodeled, but this is a "ladies only" bathroom (meaning my daughter and I & guests). We'll be remodeling another room that is a laundry/bathroom combo
for the guys in the next few months.
I had more fun than should be legal decorating this room.
I primped it like a teenage girl before prom.
I'll admit - you'll either like it or hate it,
but I love it!
So, without further ado....
Welcome to my Ladies' Room!
I'll show you the whole space in a few shots first, then show you the details up close.
ladies room is such a pleasure for me,
you have to remember what it
looked like when we moved here in October.
a thousand words, I'll step aside
and show you the details of the transformation,
{and there are oodles}
while attempting to keep my talking to a minimum.
{Antique Cabinet now a Sink Vanity}
& Chippy Old Latch on Cabinet}
Dish created from an antique saucer
& a cast iron base removed
from another decorative piece
A perfect combination
It has a pretty border at the top and bottom.
I bought this at a yard sale years ago.
Confession - I placed this above the mirror to
cover up the misplaced nail holes from hanging mirror
He's "molting", but still adorable.
I made this to fit the narrow space
between the toilet & the tub.
I made a matching one to sit on top of the toilet.
The morning sunlight casts a soft glow through them
A 5th feature came from Ann @ Stylish Once Again!
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This is not the first time I've written about the Windows API Code Pack, and probably will not be the last time. However, this time I am reaching out to all Windows Developers who create Windows applications using the .NET framework--this blog post is for you. We want your feedback about the Windows API Code Pack in preparation for a future release. And to all those who wonder whether the API Code Pack is still alive, fear not--it is alive and kicking!
Some Background
You may think of the Windows API Code Pack as the closest thing to an "official" managed API for Windows on top of the .NET Framework. The Windows API Code Pack is a free, managed source code library provided by Microsoft as-is. You should consider this library as if you wrote that code. It is a great starting point and provides a really solid solution for managed code developers who create Windows application and looking to light up their applications. It covers a lot of the new Windows 7 features as well as some more fundamental core features from the Windows Vista timeframe.
The Windows API Code Pack's former name was Windows Vista Bridge, or simply "The Bridge". We began developing the Windows Vista Bridge after Windows Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 were released. Realizing that .NET Framework 3.0 was missing some Windows Shell and other Win32 APIs, which made it harder for managed code developers to use the full power of Windows. The team set out to create a "bridge" that would help developers to cross this gap and allow managed code developers to access some of the more useful features of Windows, such as Search, Restart and Recovery, Glass, and Power Management. The outcome of this process was the Windows Vista Bridge Sample Library.
In the process of updating Windows Vista Bridge, we realized that the old name doesn't fit the new Library. Because this library is no longer tied to a specific Windows release, we decided to change the name to the rather unwieldy but descriptive Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework. Unlike Vista Bridge that shipped after Vista was released, the Alpha version (version 0.8) of the Windows API Code Pack was released on April 20, 2009, six months before Windows 7 shipped. Releasing an early version allowed us to solicit developers' feedback, update our feature list, and discover more bugs. It also allowed us to actually tell a managed code stories for Windows 7, since back then the .NET Framework (3.5) didn't support any Windows 7 features.
Windows API Code Pack Version 1.0.1
A year has passed since the initial 0.8 Alpha release. Since then, we have had 3 more releases. The current version, 1.0.1, released November 18, 2009, includes a great deal of useful features that any managed code developer who is targeting Windows can use, including complete taskbar integration, extensive improvements to Windows Shell and libraries, DirectX 11, Sensor, and many more features.
There have been more than 67,000 direct downloads of the Windows API Code Pack since its release, and about the same number of downloads for other projects, such as the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers, Flashcards.Show, Images.Show. These projects either use the Windows API Code Pack DLLs or include the Windows API Code Pack code. I guess this is where I need to acknowledge all of those who downloaded the Windows API Code Pack – thank you!
Windows API Code Pack Version 1.X
We didn't stop working on the Windows API Code Pack! In the next few weeks/months we'll release another version that will include bug fixing, major code cleanup and standardization, and few new features.
The team working on the Code Pack gave the existing code base a major facelift. Following the Microsoft development process, the original code was reviewed against a number of criteria, including Visual Studio FxCop analysis, updated naming conventions, improved performance, and upgrades, resulting in a much cleaner and more cohesive baseline. This baseline code will serve us internally for future releases, and I know developers will appreciate it as well.
We also added automatic testing for all the major projects (DLLs). Adding automatic testing to the Windows API Code Pack streamlines our internal development process and alerts you if any of your Code Pack customizations breaks anything along the way. The testing framework we use for the Windows API Code Pack is called xUnit. We chose xUnit over Visual Studio (VS) unit testing because unit testing is not part of the free express version of VS, and we didn't want to limit our target audience.
While these code changes do not result in many new features, they do result in a much more robust and easy to maintain and debug code base upon which we can build going forward. We are working on a small set of new features for our next release, which will ship in few weeks.
But fear not, this is where you come into the picture. If you ever wanted to add a feature to the Code Pack, were looking for some specific Win32 API to be wrapped, or just wanted to pass us some feedback, this is your opportunity. Please send us your feedback or file a bug using the Discussions or Issue Tracker for the Windows API Code Pack.
We are especially interested in improving support for the Windows Shell, specifically in the areas of Shell integration, support for file handlers and properties, libraries, and search and indexing. We are also looking into adding social and web APIs related to Windows, as well as some fundamentals around Windows Services and Task Scheduling and Power Management. Again, if you have any additional ideas or feedback, we are listening.
The Windows API Code Pack Team
It looks like the Code Pack is no longer "alive and kicking"... It appears it now exists only in the code.msdn.microsoft.com archives, with Aug. 2010 the last time it got attention. Why is it that you just drop things and leave them in limbo like this? Why not give it the proper end-of-life it, and we, deserve? At least have the respect to your customers and fellow developers to say "we're done with this, and have moved on."
I'm still bothered by the duplication between the API Code Pack and the .NET 4.0 framework. I see no reason I should have to use both ... all the functionality should have been part of .NET 4.0 - not just a subset.
If you are compiling a list of apps using the API Code Pack, our application OpsCentral uses it. It's a personnel accountability application for fire departments written in WPF 4.0
Is there a list somewhere of all the apps that use the API Code Pack? That would be very handy.
In an ideal world, my answer would be yes, however we canot say anything at this stage about .NET 5, but we very much do want to see as much of the code pack in the .NET stack
Will it be integrated in the .NET Framework vNext (e.g.: v5.0)? I think it'd be great if this Code Pack would no require a separate package outside .NET Fx.
@Robert McLaws
Thanks Robert, and a very cool idea!
We'll add this to our list.
You guys need to add a RegistryWatcher that mimics the FileSystemWatcher. All of the Registry monitoring solutions out there totally suck. There is some code in the Conmigo "Contacts.NET" solution, and that would be a great place to start. (conmigo.codeplex.com/.../Show)
It would need to be able to monitor any Hive, and throw an Event when a key is added, modified, or deleted. The event should have the FULL key, the value, and the operation type.
Seriously, it's desperately needed.
@ roteague
Excellent question!
VS2010 WPF support Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay and Progress bar. It doesn't support any of the advance Aero Peek, window clipping, or custom window preview.
WPF also support touch, for WPF.
VS2010 also includes support for Location, but not for sensors.
MFC has a ribbon support as well as touch and Taskbar
There are many features in the Windows API Code Pack that are still missing from VS, and some that simply provide more coverage. Our next release include some small but support cool features that extend the API surface coverage of .NET Framework.
How much of this functionality is duplicated in the .NET 4.0 framework?


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near future to determine if this extra incentive would result in greater attendance at work parties.
10) The Board okayed Dick Pennick's proposal for a "first spike pulling" ceremony on the Coronado branch of the SD&AE to commemorate the historical signifigance of the end of rail service to that community.
11) The Board accepted Dave Parkinson's recommendation to run an ad in the Sunday edition of the San Diego Union's classified section seeking new members.
The ad is to be run on four consecutive Sundays to determine its effect.
1) President Kerr reported the builder's plate on the Shay had been stolen and the other plate had been removed for safe keeping.
2) President Kerr reported on the possible effects of air pollution controls in San Diego County on Museum operations. It was the consensus that most Museum equipment could meet these controls with minor modification.
3) Reporting for General Manager Dave Parkinson, President Kerr announced the rail bus had been moved from the property of Walt Hayward to the property of Bob DiGiorgio.
Dan McLean will be foreman for the line truck restoration project.
4) It was reported that there had been a good response from the ad in the classified ads of the San Diego Union. Bob DiGiorgio reported some 40 persons had called the Museum number on the best Sunday.
The Board directed Dave Parkinson to continue the campaign, but place classified ads in different local papers.
5) Bob DiGiorgio reported the Shay had passed her latest boiler inspection in good shape. He also said a steam-up
was possible by early summer and suggested consideration of July Fourth.
6) Chop Kerr announced he had been invited to make a presentation to the "O Gauge Toy Train Association."
7) Treasurer Bill Richards presented the 1970 Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements.
8) Dick Pennick, reporting for the Excursion Committee, presented a list of suggested excursions for the remainder of 1971 and into 1972. It was the consensus of the Board to accept these recommendations as a tentative excursion calendar.
9) Chop Kerr reported on his attendance at a fund raising seminar and the facts and suggestions he obtained concerning PSRMA fund raising projects.
10) The Board voted to sign the Miramar lease as presented by the Navy, and agreed to pay the approximately $825 it would cost to lay a water line into the equipment area as stipulated by the lease for the first year's payment.
11) The Board directed the Editorial Committee to begin preparation of a new permanent Museum brochure.
18 - General Meeting, 7:00 P.M., House of Hospitality, Balboa Park.
24, 25 - Work parties to dismantle wooden water tank, 10:00 A.M. both days, 1463 East Lexington, El Cajon. Contact Dick Pennick, 463-2276, for information.
EDITOR..................... Jerry Windle
LAYOUT......................John Hathaway
CIRCULATION.................George Geyer


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Creator Jean-Marie Massaud sees his Heaven Collection as "a manifesto of elegance, mid way between glamour and timeless sensuality. The airy silhouettes of the chairs, armchairs, tables and vases stage the privileges of open air life with refinement."


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Insights into health care and entitlement reform.
Five days ago, Democrats were cheering the selection of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's choice for Vice President. Democrats thought that Ryan's efforts at Medicare reform would terrify seniors (with Dems' encouragement, of course), thereby handing the election to President Obama. Contrary to their expectations, however, it has been the Obama campaign that has been forced to defend its $716 billion in cuts to the Medicare program, cuts that Mitt Romney promises to repeal. In the weeks ahead, those defenses won't hold up. Here's why.
(DISCLOSURE: I am an outside adviser to the Romney campaign on health care issues, but the opinions in this post are mine, and do not necessarily correspond to those of the campaign.)
Defense #1. Paul Ryan's GOP budget preserved Obamacare's Medicare cuts
Yuval Levin calls this the "Ryan did it too" defense. It has the merits of being factually accurate, up to a point. As I discussed on Tuesday, it's true that the House GOP budget preserved Obamacare's Medicare cuts. But it's hard to see how "Ryan did it too" allows Democrats to say that Ryan is throwing granny over a cliff, unless they are confessing guilt to the same crime.
There are two other points to bear on this subject. The first is that Ryan's Medicare cuts were solely used to extend the solvency of the Medicare trust fund, and not to fund new spending elsewhere. By contrast, Obamacare cut $716 billion from Medicare in order to fund $1.9 trillion in new health care spending, through the law's expansion of Medicaid and its new subsidized exchanges.
The second point is that Mitt Romney is not campaigning on the Ryan budget. He's campaigning on his own budget, which fully repeals Obamacare, and eliminates that law's Medicare cuts.
APOTHEFACT CONCLUSION: Romney's budget doesn't preserve Obamacare's Medicare cuts. Simple as that.
Defense #2. Obamacare's Medicare cuts don't harm seniors' health benefits
"Mitt Romney's Medicare ad is dishonest and hypocritical," claims Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith. "The savings his ad attacks do not cut a single guaranteed Medicare benefit."
This is a deeply misleading statement by the campaign. It's true that the Obamacare Medicare cuts don't make any changes to the Medicare insurance benefit, which means that the health-care services covered by the Medicare insurance plan are technically unchanged. But Obamacare's Medicare cuts are bluntly structured, in ways that will harm seniors' access to care.
Of the $716 billion in cuts, $415 billion come in the form of "updates to fee-for-service payment rates," a euphemism for reducing Medicare's payments to doctors and hospitals. But what happens when you reduce payments to doctors? Doctors stop being willing to see Medicare patients. And if you can't actually get a doctor's appointment, what does it really matter what your insurance plan covers on paper?
We already see this happening in the Medicaid program, where sick and injured children can't get appointments to deal with urgent medical conditions, because Medicaid so severely underpays doctors relative to private insurers. By the end of this decade, under Obamacare, Medicare reimbursement rates are set to fall below those of Medicaid.
The Obama administration's own Medicare actuary, Richard Foster, has explained that the Obamacare Medicare cuts could make unprofitable 15 percent of hospitals serving Medicare patients. "It is doubtful that many [hospitals and other health care providers] will be able to improve their own productivity to the degree" necessary to accommodate the cuts, Foster has written. "Thus, providers for whom Medicare constitutes a substantial portion of their business could find it difficult to remain profitable, and, absent legislative intervention, might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing care for beneficiaries. [Our] simulations…suggest that roughly 15 percent of [hospitalization] providers would become unprofitable within the 10-year projection as a result of the [spending cuts]."
Sarah Kliff cited a study yesterday that showed that every $1,000 that a hospital lost in Medicare reimbursements was associated with a 6-8 percent increase in mortality rates from heart attacks. John Goodman pointed out in the Wall Street Journal that Obamacare's coverage expansion will not be accompanied by an increase in the supply of doctors, which will lead doctors to focus their time on the privately-insured patients who pay them the best.
APOTHEFACT CONCLUSION: Seniors' benefits won't change on paper. But they will change in reality, because fewer and fewer doctors will accept their insurance.
Defense #3. Obamacare cuts wasteful spending from the Medicare Advantage program
Of the $716 billion in Medicare cuts, the next biggest chunk, $156 billion, is taken out of the market-oriented Medicare Advantage program, known to wonks as Medicare Part C. Nationwide, 24 percent of all seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, though that percentage is meaningfully higher in important swing states like Florida (32 percent) and Ohio (34 percent).
The rationale for cutting Medicare Advantage's rates is that, prior to Obamacare, the government paid $1.14 per retiree in an MA plan, vs. $1.00 per retiree in a traditional plan. President Obama has called these differences "unwarranted subsidies [that] pad [private insurers'] profits but don't improve the care of seniors."
But the comparison between MA and government-run plans can't be made on price alone. Due to the constraints placed on MA plans, those plans are incentivized by Congress to offer more benefits at the expense of lower prices. Imagine if you were searching airfares from New York to London, but couldn't shop on price, only on what the planes served for food, and what movies were on board.
However, on an apples-to-apples basis, if you take out the extra benefits, Medicare Advantage plans are 9 percent cheaper than government-run plans. That was the finding of three Harvard economists, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month.
So, how will Obamacare's Medicare Advantage cuts affect seniors who are currently enrolled in MA plans? My co-blogger, Robert Book, published a 2010 paper on this subject, along with Jim Capretta. Robert and Jim found that "Medicare beneficiaries who would have enrolled in the Medicare Advantage program under prior law will lose an average of $3,714 in 2017 health care services." You can see a state-by-state distribution of the effects on the map below.
Personally, I have no problem with eliminating the extra subsidy for Medicare Advantage plans. But that elimination should have been accompanied by regulatory changes, so that Medicare Advantage plans could compete on price with traditional government-run Medicare. That would have saved the government even more money, instead of forcing seniors out of the program.
APOTHEFACT CONCLUSION: Medicare Advantage offers seniors higher-quality care at a lower cost than government-run Medicare. Obamacare should have sought to save money by expanding the program, instead of undermining it.
Defense #4. The Romney plan for Medicare is worse, because it would shift costs to seniors
A talking point that President Obama has repeated on the campaign trail is that the Romney Medicare plan would "shift costs to seniors." This is plainly dishonest, and the President knows better.
The 2011 version of the Ryan plan required that those younger than 55 enroll, upon retirement, in privately-run Medicare plans. These future retirees would be able to choose among a menu of plans, and would get a fixed amount of "premium support" with which to choose among those plans. Because the amount of premiums support would increase at the rate of inflation, whereas health-care costs have historically grown at a faster rate, critics have worried that these trends, if continued into the future, would expose seniors to higher health-care costs out-of-pocket.
Advocates of the 2011 Ryan plan, myself included, argue that precisely because of the premium support mechanism, seniors would be incentivized to shop for value with their insurance plans, creating a market incentive that would moderate health care cost growth. But the Congressional Budget Office assumes that market competition would have no effect on spending growth, hence the argument that the 2011 Ryan plan would shift costs to seniors.
However, Mitt Romney pointedly refused to endorse this 2011 plan. Instead, he offered his own plan, one which addressed the above critique of the 2011 Ryan reform using a mechanism called competitive bidding, whereby seniors would be guaranteed to be able to purchase a fully-subsidized plan offering Medicare's traditional set of insurance benefits. Weeks later, Paul Ryan and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) produced a very similar plan, a plan that was incorporated into the 2012 GOP budget.
APOTHEFACT CONCLUSION: President Obama is not being honest about the Romney Medicare reform plan, which was expressly designed to respond to the cost-shifting critique of the 2011 Ryan plan. The Romney plan preserves Medicare's benefits without exposing seniors to rising health-care prices.
Medicare reformers just might win this debate
It's only been a few days since Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. My strong impression is that a lot of Democrats weren't even aware that Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion, which is why they've been caught off-guard by how the 2012 Medicare debate has evolved thus far.
The good news is that we're having a substantive, policy-based debate about the program. The dream scenario is possible: that the 2012 election gives Medicare reformers a mandate to put the program on permanently stable footing. One might even call it the audacity of hope.
Follow Avik on Twitter at @avik.
UPDATE 1: Several commentators have expressed displeasure that Romney won't preserve Obamacare's Medicare cuts. In this post for National Review, I explain why Romney's approach is sensible.
UPDATE 2: As a matter of clarity, I should point out that Medicare reimbursement rates were already set to eventually fall below Medicaid's under the Sustainable Growth Rate schedule instituted with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Obamacare significantly worsens and accelerates this problem with its additional cuts. More details here and here.
UPDATE 3: Lanhee Chen, policy director of the Romney campaign, has put out his own memorandum on this topic:
President Obama knows exactly what [Obamacare's Medicare cuts] will mean. In his own words, sharp cuts to the payments that Medicare makes to providers will "jeopardize … our seniors' health care." You can watch him explaining at length how reduced Medicare reimbursements will harm seniors in this address from 2010. In that context he was referring to the threat of failing to extend the "Doc Fix" for another year, thereby triggering a 21% cut in payments that would cost approximately $280 billion to avoid over ten years. Obamacare's $415 billion in cuts over ten years are deeper.
UPDATE 4: The Wall Street Journal demolishes the "$6,400 myth" that the Romney plan would force seniors to pay more for their health care. "Merely because [Obama] keeps repeating this doesn't mean it's in the same area code of accurate," the editors write.
I write further on the impact of Obamacare's cuts to reimbursement rates to doctors and hospitals in a new piece here.
I don't have time to take the whole thing down piece by piece and comments aren't long enough. So let me just say this article does a great job of ignoring the one key that Wolf Blitzer also purposefully censored Debbie Wasserman Schultz from entertaining us with… If the "Republican Plan" is to "Kill Obamacare on Day 1″ as often professed, then how can they reasonably claim savings or cuts that rely entirely on Obamacare being there in any form? Either they are being dishonest about what's in their budget or they are being dishonest about killing Obamacare – they can't have it both ways. They also cannot continue to switcheroo the Romney and Ryan budgets at will while campaigning. They need to BOTH agree on one and campaign only on that.
One has to go with Romney's plan. At least they are now talking about real issues (the Republicans) not like Obama and Biden who are just name-calling and distorting. Face it, Medicare is going bankrupt. The only responsible plan is one that makes the program sound again. And the soloution is not to take the whole amount of American wealth and throw it at the program which is Socialism. Remember, Socialism fails when you run out of other people's money. We are about to run out…
Florida Squeezed. Its easy to say the Romney/Ryan plan will save medicare/ social security because it will. The numbers, the charts are there.
Obama is bringing us so far down, we may never get back up.
This almost Senior will vote R/R…. I want Medicare/ SS saved for my 3 grown children.
Ray. Excellent point. Many dems including Barack Hussein Obama has spoken very highly of Paul Ryan… lol, till he was running against them.
shoppegirl- Excellent point. The charts are all there, and if you get what you wish for, the new privatized Medicare/Social Security will be your problem to manage,not the new small Ayn Rand government's. You're on your own baby. An ever decreasing Medicare voucher, and a self directed SSI. FREEDOM AT LAST!!! I'm sure your 3 grown children were raised to be independent of anyone's help. They can take some investment courses, and, if they are healthy, can shop the Free Market for the best medical plan. They will be fine.
If you read the article in explains it quite fully. Mitt Romney will be President. His plan is what they will pursue. It will not keep the Medicare cuts that Obama made in the ACA.
Anything is better than government! Id trust myself and free market competition over a governmet monpoly run by beurocrats. Adding 2trillion a year in government spending, will ensure that the country will cease to exist by 2020. That is of course if the death rate from sub par medical care and waiting lists, doesnt out strip the birth rate. Then the end will come much sooner!
They don't claim savings/cuts that rely on Obamacare being there. Where did you get that from? The Wolfman? Anyway the rest of your paragraph is pretty meaningless because your basic assumptions were wrong.
Also your statement "They also cannot continue to switcheroo the Romney and Ryan budgets" is absurd. Have you even listened to Paul Ryan? I have heard him repeatedly state his plan is history and Romney's plan is the plan they are running with. Again have you been listening to the Wolfman? Just because a reporter says something doesn't mean it's true… And besides Blitzer isn't even a reporter but instead offers up his opinion of the news. There is a big difference…he does the same thing O'Reily/Hanity does for a living only from a liberal standpoint.
JoeK you really don't get it. Generation X does not think SS or Medicare will be there when we retire. We are already making plans to buy our own health insurance at 65 because the math does not work. I will take the voucher if it fixes the program and gives me easier access to health insurance in my old age. And I will vote for the candidate who has a plan to fix Medicare. Besides who wants the government run solution anyway? Have you been to a VA hospital vs a private one?
I agree that Medicare needs to be reformed and that was offered to Boehner in the Debt Limit debacle last year in exchange for increased revenue/ taxes. That of course was flat out denied by Boehner. The problem with Romney & Ryan's plan is all it addresses are cuts to expenses, many of which are popular to the middle class (just one example is the mortgage interest deduction) in exchange for even more tax cuts for the wealthy. The middle class supports the economy with its spending. I don't see how GDP is going to increase with the 1% shopping at high end stores. And the trickle down theory has not been working – look at the balance sheets of all the companies – they're fat on cash and not hiring. Did banks lend more when the federal reserve rate dropped and small businesses needed loans – no, their assets went up. The middle class needs less taxes, not more if you want the 99% to spend money that makes US corporations profits. And if you're going to mention throwing the whole of American wealth at Medicare you might as well note that the whole of American wealth was thrown out with tax cuts and defense spending (which Ryan wants to increase). Sounds to me like Romney/ Ryan don't think history will repeat itself.


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In Episode 97, the boys break down the loss to St. Mary's, preview Gonzaga, discuss Ty Detmer's possible return to Provo, and prove to you just how nerdy they are.
Where does the disappointing 2012 season sit among the past 41 seasons in BYU football? Maybe a little higher than you think.
Adam finishes ranking the past 40 BYU football seasons, naming the 1984 team as the best. Robbie Bosco and a stout defense brought home a national title.
Adam continues ranking the past 40 BYU football seasons, nearing the top by naming 1980 the second best season. Jim McMahon led one of the most prolific offenses in college football history.
In Episode 73 of the Rise & Shout podcast, Adam and Matt talk Jabari Parker's mission decision, Bronco's NFL draft issue (or lack thereof) and where the 1996 season ranks in BYU football history.
Adam continues his long and arduous journey ranking the past 40 BYU Football seasons. In Part 10 of the 12 part series, he reveals his No. 3: 1996. The Cougars were 14-1 behind the awesome...
In Part 9 of Adam's series ranking every BYU football season since 1972, he gets into the last six seasons, discussing Nos. 6-4: 1979, 2006 and 1983. Check out all the rankings and see if you agree...
This week's episode of the Rise & Shout Podcast welcomes former BYU QB John Beck, who discusses his career at BYU and his NFL journey. Adam and Don talk BYU's 2012 schedule and more on the Utah...
In Part 8 of his series, Adam continues ranking the past 40 BYU football seasons. This time it's Nos. 9-7, including discussions of 1977, 1990 and 1985.
In Part 7 of his series, Adam continues ranking the past 40 BYU football seasons. Nos. 12-10 include 2009, 2007 and 1981.
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People often ask me, when planning their trips, what is the best airline to fly to Israel. The short answer is easy: El AL Israel Airlines is by and large the best way to go. I am not paid to say that, and that is my opinion based on personal experience. However, it must be noted that other major airlines serve Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. All of these offer one thing that El Al does not, which is service on Saturday (El Al planes do not fly on Saturday because of the sabbath). But there are other differences, many of which I will presently recount to give you some details you won't find on the likes of Orbitz or Kayak.com. Without further ado:
United: I flew this airline most recently, and the verdict? Not bad. The 777 aircraft from Newark was clearly recognizable as an "old" Continental plane but was very clean and generally in good-looking shape. Service was friendly if perfunctory. Perhaps the dinner entree of sesame chicken was better than the penne pasta and meatballs I opted for, but, quite alarmingly, the omelette served prior to landing was almost devastatingly delicious.
Delta: I have written for Delta's in-flight magazine, Sky, and byline or no I can say that if stuck on a tarmac at JFK -- where Delta's non-stops to Tel Aviv originate -- I'd rather have their magazine in my hands than United's. Delta is always on-the-ball and I've never heard a bad word about their international service.
USAirways: Recently introduced non-stop service from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv.
Lufthansa: I flew Lufthansa recently from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt and it must be said that it was absolutely the cleanest airplane I have ever been in, period. Flight attendants actually seemed to like their jobs. Highly recommended.
British Airways: Also recommended, but the 767 aircraft used on the Heathrow-Tel Aviv route are not new.
Alitalia: Good food, nice and frequent service. Recommended.
- April 2, 2012 at 1:18 pm(1) Shiri says:
Thanks for this great post. I totally agree about El Al – in my opinion another plus of flying El Al is that it is the safest airline…. I also would like to recommend Air Canada, if you are flying from Canada. They are great – nice planes, good service. I love British Airways too, although it's true that the planes are not new. The service is really good, tasty snacks and lots of room for your tired legs


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Concluding Jan. 20
Peter and the Starcatcher (Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre). Peter and the Starcatcher, the inventive play with music that mixes theatrical storytelling, language and stagecraft, will transfer to Off-Broadway's New World Stages following its acclaimed Broadway engagement. The work, which began its New York City life Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, takes audiences on "a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter Pan become The Boy Who Never Grew Up?," according to producers. "This epic origin story of one of popular culture's most enduring and beloved characters proves that an audience's imagination can be the most captivating place in the world." Visit PeterAndTheStarcatcher.com.
Golden Boy (Broadway at the Belasco Theatre). Clifford Odets' 1937 drama about a young musician who takes a gamble on his own artistic dreams when he enters the boxing ring stars Seth Numrich in the central role of Joe Bonaparte. The cast also includes Anthony Crivello, Tony Shalhoub and Danny Burstein. Here's how the Lincoln Center Theater 75th anniversary revival production is described: "Golden Boy is the story of Joe Bonaparte, a young, gifted violinist who is torn between pursuing a career in music and earning big money as a prize fighter." Visit LCT.org.
Tribes (Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre). Nina Raine's hit family drama Tribes is about a young deaf man who must face leaving his own dysfunctional clan in order to secure his own future. Here's how the play is billed: "In Tribes, Billy was born deaf into a hearing family, and raised inside the fiercely idiosyncratic and unrepentantly politically incorrect cocoon of his parents' house. He has adapted brilliantly to his family's unconventional ways, but they've never bothered to return the favor. It's not until he meets Sylvia, a young woman on the brink of deafness, that he finally understands what it means to be understood." Visit TribesThePlay.com.
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater). Lincoln Center Theater's staging of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's frothy Chekhov-inspired comedy, features Sigourney Weaver, Kristine Nielsen and David Hyde Pierce. Here's how LCT bills the modern-day, Bucks County, PA-set play: "Vanya (Pierce) and his stepsister Sonia (Nielsen) have lived their entire lives in their family's farmhouse. While they stayed home to take care of their ailing parents, their sister Masha (Weaver) has been gallivanting around the world as a successful actress and movie star, leaving Vanya and Sonia to feel trapped and regretful. Their soothsayer/cleaning woman Cassandra (Grant) keeps warning them about terrible things in the future, which include a sudden visit from Masha and her twenty-something boy toy Spike (Magnussen)." Visit LCT.org.
The Piano Lesson (Off-Broadway at the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center). Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, legacy and ghosts, features Eric Lenox Abrams as Avery, Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper as Wining Boy, Brandon J. Dirden as Boy Willie, Jason Dirden as Lymon, Alexis Holt as Maretha, Mandi Masden as Grace, Roslyn Ruff as Berniece and James A. Williams as Doaker. Visit SignatureTheatre.org.
Pippin (Cambridge, MA, at the American Repertory Theater). The Tony Award-winning 1972 pop musical Pippin is presented in a new, cirque-inspired production — shaped by Tony Award-nominated director Diane Paulus and circus artist Gypsy Snider — that will transfer to Broadway following its run at A.R.T. Broadway previews will begin March 23 at the Music Box Theatre. The A.R.T. staging of the dark, coming-of-age musical by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson incorporates circus choreography and acrobatics by Snider of the Montreal-based circus company Les 7 doigts de la main (7 Fingers). Visit AmericanRepertoryTheater.org.