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Special to The Star
The Meridian Star
SCOOBA – A team of young National Civilian Community Corps members has been hard at work at East Mississippi Community College.
Seven young men and women representing AmeriCorps NCCC arrived at EMCC's Scooba campus May 23 and immediately set to work on a long list of infrastructure and landscaping projects, completing mandatory eight-hour work days punctuated by breaks for special recognitions at campus events. One of those welcome breaks from the summer sun came Tuesday during a reception at EMCC's F.R. Young Student Union to thank the team for its work.
"College campuses are such a great fit because we have these young people yearning to make a difference. And community colleges, with their satellite campus system, help us reach more deeply into Mississippi communities," said David Mallery, executive director for Volunteer Mississippi, speaking to the AmeriCorps volunteers, EMCC administrators and special invited guests.
Volunteer Mississippi works with national service organizations like AmeriCorps NCCC to identify and facilitate service opportunities in Mississippi.
The AmeriCorps NCCC team, whose members range in age from 19 to 25 and hail from communities across the country, has worked at several locations, primarily in the South, participating in community service projects. The team formed in February at the Southern region AmeriCorps campus in Vicksburg and will continue its service mission until December.
"We worked in the Louisiana bayou to restore barrier islands. We spent two weeks working with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans. Then another three-and-a-half weeks with Habitat in the Waveland area," said team leader Megan Rawson, 25, of Newtown, Conn.
Until its departure Monday, the AmeriCorps team continued installing underpinnings for mobile cottages used for student housing at the Scooba campus and will complete a beach volleyball court behind the student union. Earlier the NCCC members planted flowers, built signs for the cottage areas, painted classrooms and replaced ceiling tiles.
While the student housing and cafeteria meals provided at EMCC are more luxurious than the team is accustomed to receiving, Scooba campus Vice President Dr. Andrea Mayfield says the AmeriCorps volunteers have more than paid their way with their labor.
"These young people have been sweating in the Mississippi heat and couldn't have a better attitude about it. The contributions they've made to the campus are immediately noticeable and the Lion family will enjoy the fruits of their labor for years to come," said Mayfield.
Linda Gates, EMCC's district director of Job Placement and Work-based Learning and a commissioner for Volunteer Mississippi, suggested bringing an AmeriCorps team to EMCC and completed the application to NCCC. She said the experience has been a complete success and hopes to bring another AmeriCorps team to EMCC next year, possibly to work at EMCC's Golden Triangle campus.
"We didn't know what to expect from this but the success has been overwhelming. Don Clark (regional director for the NCCC Southern campus in Vicksburg) was just talking about wanting to build a long-term relationship with EMCC. We're serving as a pilot and a model for other community colleges in Mississippi," said Gates.
Clark, who oversees 11 states as Southern regional director, said Gates and EMCC showed "great initiative" in reaching out to NCCC.
"I hope to see more community colleges get involved with NCCC," he said Tuesday at the Scooba campus.
Each member of the AmeriCorps NCCC team will receive a $5,000 scholarship to go toward a college education or to pay student loans when they complete their 10-month tours.


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American Horror Story Episode 108
"Rubber Man"
Written By: Ryan Murphy
Directed By: Miguel Artera
Original Airdate: 23 November 2011
In This Episode...
Nora is still wandering through the house, confused and missing her baby. Hayden tries to explain to her that she is dead, and trapped in this house with other "lost souls." She hatches a plan to take Vivien's twins and give one to Nora so that they each get a replacement baby for the ones they lost. Nora is pretty much useless, but Hayden starts haunting her by making the lights flicker and throwing knick-knacks from shelves. At first, Vivien thinks it is side effects from the anti-nausea medicine her doctor gave her. But Moira tells her that she should get out of here - the house is possessed. Vivien heeds her warning, wakes Violet up, and the two jump in the car, intending to drive to Viv's sister's house in Florida. In the car, the ladies see two of the home invaders that tried to kill them, and they race back into the house.
Ben thinks that Vivien is coming unhinged. The cops found no evidence of the intruders in the car. When asked, Violet lies and says she didn't see anything; she told the cops what her mom wanted to hear. Violet, of course, did see what mom saw; she had just lost her virginity to Tate and he told her not to tell anyone because they would think that she was crazy and lock her up. So she lied. Ben decides he is staying at the house that night - not for Vivien, but for Violet.
Vivien goes through a whole ritual before going to bed, checking under the bed, in the closets, and behind the curtains for the boogeyman. Satisfied that it is all clear, she crawls into bed. It is mere seconds before she hears a creak... a squeak... she gets up to investigate... a shadow runs behind her. Viv starts screaming and hits her panic button. A shadowy figure runs into the room. Terrified beyond reason, Vivien grabs the gun she stole from Marcy earlier in the day, and shoots blindly. The "intruder" is Ben.
The EMTs arrive and want to take him to the hospital. The shot was just a through-and-through flesh wound; Ben says he will be fine. Luke, the security guard, arrives and is not happy to see Ben there, trying to tell the cops that he and Vivien are separated. The two argue about who is crazier: Viv or Ben. Ben gave Vivien a Valium to settle her down. The Valium just makes her dopey, so when Hayden returns to haunt her, it is even crazier and more surreal. Hayden taunts her, wanting her babies and telling Vivien that she is dead. Tate, dressed as Rubber Man, comes in and attacks Vivien, throwing her on the ground and raping her. Ben shakes her out of her haze - it is Ben who is on top of her, Luke at her side. They get her to her feet and reveal that she is going to the hospital for evaluation. Vivien doesn't put up a fight; after all, "At least I'll be out of this house."
Fun fact: it is Tate who is the father to Vivien's twins, which explains why, if she strays too far from home, she gets ill. If her babies are half-ghost, they will need to stay around the house.
Dig It or Bury It?
In a show like American Horror Story, having random flashbacks is an interesting choice. In a typical show, you can figure out the time frame based on where people are in their lives. But with AHS, just because someone is dead doesn't mean that it isn't the present. So while it wasn't confusing, it was jarring.
Also jarring is the time-of-day. For example, Moira is telling Vivien to get out of the house during the day; the next scene is Vivien, in a panic, dragging Violet from bed in the middle of the night. Did I just assume the previous scene was during the day? Was the script supervisor asleep? Does the house control the hours of the day? Am I making too big a deal of this?
Full Disclosure
It was Chad who bought the rubber suit. He saw hardcore S&M chats that Patrick was having online, so in an attempt to entice him back into bed, Chad visits a high-end sex shop. He is intimidated by all the contraptions, but the salesman sells him on the rubber suit by telling him if it doesn't work out in the bedroom, he can always wear it for Halloween. And Chad loves Halloween. Chad surprised Patrick with the suit, but he is not interested. In fact, it leads to a fight that ends with Patrick leaving, telling Chad that he "likes leather, not latex."
Tate assures Nora that once he gets Chad and Patrick out of the house, a new family will move in that can give her "what she wants" - a baby. Tate dresses in the rubber suit and drowns Chad and beats Patrick. He drags them into the basement for their killing blows, but is stopped by Moira, who hands him a gun that belonged to the guys. "They have families who will be looking for them." Tate stages it to look like a murder-suicide to prevent a police investigation. Just before he died, Chad reached out weakly in an attempt to hold Patrick's hand. Tate finds it romantic - they will be together forever.
Constance Harm
No Constance this week. That is harmful to my viewing pleasure.
The psychic is back, telling Constance about the end of the world, something about the pope... it was a little scatter-shot. But it does seem like Ben is starting to believe that Vivien was attacked.

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Gov. Scott Walker delivered the weekly radio address titled Talk With Walker on Thursday. The following is the transcript:
Hi, this is Scott Walker.
As we continue our work on the next state budget, I've been meeting with people throughout the state about what is important to you, and how to reach our goals.
At these events we've held in places including La Crosse, Green Bay and Madison, I laid out my top priorities – creating jobs, developing our workforce, investing infrastructure, transforming education and reforming government.
The input we have received so far has been great. People offered input and suggestions, voiced concerns and asked questions on topics ranging from health care to education.
What I've heard so far is that people want a government that operates on common sense. You want lower taxes and less waste. You want clean air and water, and reasonable regulations for business.
You told me you want an unemployment system that helps people move on and move up.
We talked about the need for more good-paying jobs, and I heard support for investment options for businesses and environmentally sound mining.
You told me you want an education system that allows you to get credit for the skills and the knowledge that you have. We talked about ways to promote manufacturing to the younger generation.
This is a great start. We have more Talk With Walker events planned and I look forward to gathering more information as lay out the financial plan to move Wisconsin forward.
The state partnered with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association to produce and distribute brief radio address once a week. Audio files and a written transcript of this radio address can be accessed on http://www.wi-broadcasters.org and http://walker.wi.gov/Weekly-Radio-Addresses. To download an mp3 file, you can right click the radio address link and click "save link as."


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Millions of people will "drop, cover and hold on" during a statewide earthquake simulation Thursday.
The Great California ShakeOut is an annual event that aims to raise awareness about how to prepare for a major earthquake.
The ShakeOut will begin at 10:18 a.m., when participants across the state will practice what to do when an earthquake hits. More than 9 million people have registered to join the exercise so far, including 2.8 million in Los Angeles County. Find out who's participating here.
Here are other ways to participate in the ShakeOut. Search events by county or area here.
The ShakeOut is intended to simulate the impact of a magnitude-7.8 earthquake originating from the southernmost area of the San Andreas Fault. Under this scenario, a tectonic shift would produce waves of movement for hundreds of miles over four minutes.
Click here to register for this year's ShakeOut. Promote the exercise and earthquake preparedness using these resources.
Think you know what do when an earthquake strikes? Test your knowledge with this quiz. And see if you'd "Beat the Quake" here.
—City News Service contributed to this report.
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Never let it be said that a natural disaster should stand in the way of a healthy profit.
The triple-whammy that recently rocked Japan (earthquake/tsunami/nuclear power plant damage) has inspired commerce to take necessary precautions, lest their bottom line suffer along with the inhabitants of that beleaguered island nation.
In a recent story from the Associated Press, consumers were alerted that prices on certain popular cars, manufactured in Japan, are on the rise due to the "potential" of shortages arising from that nation's recent inconvenience.
Similarly, the "potential" for oil shortages because of political unrest in Middle East, most notably in Libya, has forced prices at the pump to jump higher and faster than the title character from Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Apparently, the mere hint of trouble is reason enough to gouge consumers, even in these recession-plagued times.
Of course, the wonder of it all, is that every business everywhere hasn't yet caught on to the ruse and implemented their own "what if" scenarios to boost their own profits.
What if the recent increase in solar flare activity prevents your ISP from granting constant access to the web? The potential for lost tweets and clogged email should be reason enough to hike prices, don't you think?
What if national health care reform really has a snowball's chance of passing? That, of course, would cause corporate profits to take a noteworthy hit. Imagine paying benefits to everyone who works for you? But, hey, this is America and crazier things have happened. Just to be safe, let's boost prices now, on the off-chance that it might actually be voted into law.
From the perspective of my world-weary eyes, it seems that everywhere you look, greed is not only showing its ugly face but grinning at you like a Cheshire cat.
It used to be that, in America, making a good living was enough. Now, everybody wants to be millionaires — at your expense. The erosion of the middle class in this country may well be traced back to corporate greed and the quest for record-breaking profits.
Local business, which was previously the backbone of national commerce, has taken a beating along with the consumer. When corporations decide to pay executives a king's ransom just to go away, for instance, they often simply raise prices across the board to pay for their largess. The trickle-down effect hits local businesses in the till and, in turn, local consumers in the wallet.
Some possible "what ifs" to watch out for:
1. What if there's an "artic freeze" in Florida this August? Would that mean that the price of orange juice at would bypass that of a gallon of gas at the Mobil?
2. What if the NFL doesn't play their season due to a strike? Would that raise the price of buying a football at retail? Having kids actually play the game instead of simply watching it could result in a massive pigskin shortage.
3. What if scientists prove that the moon is really made of green cheese? That might be reason enough for the dairy industry to raise prices, reasoning that the increased competition calls for bolder and more expensive marketing campaigns. A double-cheese pizza at could end up costing more than your house.
4. What if we discovered that pigs can, actually, fly? Think about it. Given the sheer volume of their gastronomical emissions, this isn't beyond the realm of possibility. Of course, this would immediately impact the airline industry. Owing to the fact that it might be expensive to upgrade to an entire fleet of oinkers, it'll cost more to travel.
5. What if pharmaceutical companies successfully lobby to have aspirin classified as a controlled substance? In order to cure a headache, you won't find your Bayer on the shelves at . You'll be required to visit your doctor at your HMO which, in turn, will have to check with your insurance provider who, no doubt, will automatically decline the request, due to the rising cost of pain medication, which makes anything short of an exploding head an unnecessary procedure.
And, lastly: "What if we all come to our senses and realize that unchecked greed is like a cancer, eating away at the American ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?"


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Strength From the Inside Out
by Carey Burkett | August-September 1991
This article is adapted from an interview with N. Gordon Cosby in Washington in mid-June 1991. Sojourners' Carey Burkett began by asking Gordon Cosby what we have to be thankful for, as we look back over the past 20 years. -- The Editors
As a movement, as people of faith, we can be thankful we have survived the past 20 years. Survivability is very difficult when we try to take an alternative position and try to be alternative communities in the midst of the sort of atmosphere and climate we've lived in. But we have developed a capacity to hang in there, and not only survive but grow.
There are a lot of us on the same page. We've got a common language. That to me is a very important thing. We have good people, who are seeing these issues of justice, peace, concern for the poor, work with the inward life, and the importance of prayer.
What Sojourners contributes to this network is a national and international voice that deals with the same issues local groups are. For those people to have access to the thinkers and the commitment and spirit Sojourners brings provides support that is very important for all of us working with these concerns. To have someone out there saying "Amen" is probably more important than most people know.
One of the great weaknesses of our movement, however, is that while we've talked a lot about the inward journey, I doubt any one of us has actually worked with the inner life in the depth that is crucial. Many of the groups working with justice and peace issues have not developed structures that really take people into their depths. So we have an idea, a concern, an aspiration, but it remains an idea because there are too many inner blockages.
Parker J. Palmer has addressed this issue in a very straightforward way:
The question is, why would anybody want to take such a difficult and dangerous journey? Everything in us cries out against it. That's why we externalize everything: It's easier to deal with the external world. It's easier to spend your life manipulating an institution than it is dealing with your own soul. We make institutions sound complicated and hard and rigorous, but they are a piece of cake compared with our inner workings!
... It would be wonderful if the phrase "inner work" could become a central term in our schools and in our churches, if we could help people understand that the phrase really means something ... A second thing we can do is to remind each other that while inner work is a deeply personal matter, it's not necessarily a private matter. There are ways to be together in community to help each other with that inner work ... in a way that is supportive but not invasive, that asks a lot of questions but never renders judgment or gives advice ... in a way that respects the mystery of the human heart, but that still allows people to challenge and stretch one another in that work.
I think each of our local groups needs to be working with whatever would be the appropriate structure for that particular community, that particular local situation. For instance "compassion groups" could provide opportunities for people to explore their own blockages to compassion and love. People in "discernment groups" could talk about their own calls. "Mission groups" could aid their outer work with times of gathering for prayer.
We as a movement should place a serious emphasis on the inner work that needs to be done. And it isn't something that is going to happen around the edges. I think the lack of inner work is impeding us more than any other thing.
Another serious impediment to the movement, in my view, is related to this inner work: the shadow side of power and leadership. I think many of our leaders have power needs that they are unconscious of, and it comes to be an addiction that they are not able to handle.
It seems to me that the issue of power for all the Christian organizations is very crucial. We have a difficult time committing ourselves to the power of love, the power of the lamb, as opposed to the dominant, controlling power we see in most of our lives -- in business and politics. It is just natural that many Christians are using this kind of power for the sake of the poor and for the sake of peace.
But it's not the power that's going to advance those causes and those issues in the world, because we are using the same sort of power that is talked about in the temptation accounts in the Bible, the same sort of power that is ultimately rejected at Gethsemane for the life of the cross. I think we've created a lot of very large, strong organizations that are not necessarily injecting the power of the cross into the ongoing common life of the society.
To quote Parker Palmer again:
What does all of this have to do with leadership and with the relation of leadership to spirituality? I'll give you a quick definition of a leader: A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to project on other people his or her shadow, or his or her light. A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to create the conditions under which other people must live and move and have their being -- conditions that can either be as illuminating as heaven or as shadowy as hell. A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him or her self, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.
If I have unexplored needs in my own heart that I have not looked at -- my own darkness, my own shadow, my own needs for power -- then I will project those onto others. So I'm giving leadership in a Christian institution, but it's not going to be any more healing, any more humanizing, or make any more difference in society, because the people I work with are not growing in that capacity for themselves. To project the light of the gospel and to be the instruments of that light takes mental inspiration. Not to have done that inner work means the leader is able to do more harm than good, and do it unconsciously.
And I might add that this is something we should all keep in mind. Today's leaders emerged as leaders somewhere along the line. People who are in the ranks now will be emerging as leaders later. So this applies across the board. A leader who is doing his or her job will be helping everybody in the organization to work with their own inner issues. The only way a person can become an effective servant leader is to begin the work now in taking this inward journey.
One advantage to doing this inner work (and indeed the work of the movement) in a group or community setting is that it helps keep us balanced and focused. If we're doing the right work for us, and we're doing it with the support of a community that cares about us and loves us, then the work in itself is renewing. It is not exhausting work. If we're getting burned out, either the work is not right, or the balance is not right, or we don't have the support system. Community helps keep these things in their appropriate balance.
Then as we need to evolve into new phases of ministry that are right for our spirit, rather than just doing what we have been doing for years, we are helped to discover that new blood of our new call, which is going to be energizing. We can let the work that is no longer energizing go, and pick up the new work.
MY VISION FOR THE coming 20 years? I don't have one. My assumptions about future vision are that we corporately design our call, which will be determined by events in the world, as well as by the deepening inner life of each of our communities. And the future will be determined by the people God will bring into the community who are not in it now. So that call will evolve.
I am very wary of a community that sets about to design a five-year plan, or a 10-year plan, or a 20-year plan. I think for a community, an organization, or an institution to do solid thinking about what might emerge in its missions is fine. We're not supposed to be sloppy in our thinking, but I would hold very loosely to the thinking and depend much more on the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the moment.
I think God has a lot of exciting things for us to do in the next 20 years. But I think we're going to discover them by being on this inward journey, by being in community, and by being rooted deeply in prayer.
Gordon Cosby was a Sojourners contributing editor and the founder and pastor of Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C., when this article appeared. Carey Burkett was assistant to the editor and food columnist for Sojourners.


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Jim Goldsworthy, Columnist
Cumberland Times-News
"He loved America," said his sister.
Yes, I replied, he did. As much as anyone I've ever known ... and a small, but significant, segment of America loved him in return. I know, because I was part of it.
You might have been part of it, yourself. If you've spent much time in downtown Cumberland around the Liberty Street parklet, you've seen him.
On warm and even not-so-warm days, when his health allowed it, he sat across from the fountain in a white plastic chair.
"I hate cold weather," he told me each year as it grew closer. That's when he had to stay home.
Home was a considerable hike away. When I asked how long it took him, he'd say "Forty minutes or so." I never believed this, because it would have taken me far longer, and my legs were considerably better than his.
He walked with a four-footed cane. On its shaft were an American Flag, a U.S. Army flag and a POW/MIA flag.
His jacket bore patches that said "Dec. 7, 1941," "June 6, 1944," "Sept. 11, 2001" and other dates, plus one that was "In Memory of 58,479 Brothers Who Never Returned From Vietnam." Elsewhere on the jacket, you could read some of their names.
It irritated him when people didn't know what the dates meant.
His sister said someone had read about him and asked if he was the guy who fed the birds.
That was him, a loaf of stale bread at a time, and he caught hell for it more than once. Didn't faze him any more than it did the birds.
"What are they gonna do?" he asked me with a grin. "Send me to Vietnam?"
His sister said they would have dressed him in his Army uniform, but it burned up in the fire that destroyed his home a while back.
I never expected to see him in a suit, but he looked good in it. He also looked at peace and vigorous; a lion, just resting for a spell.
It pleased me that they didn't shave off all of his whiskers. He'd done that a few times for medical reasons, and I always told him he looked naked.
"Won't take me long to grow it back," he'd say, and it didn't.
When he started calling me "Brother," I called him "Little Brother." He was by no means a tall man.
Before long, I decided there was nothing little about him and changed that to "Brother." (Goldy's Rule 147: The size of the body does not reflect the size of the person who lives in it.) If he ever noticed, he never let on.
He asked about my neckwear — a POW/MIA choker that consists of alternating black and white beads, with a POW/MIA pin hanging from it.
I'd bought the pieces at the store operated by Chapter 172 of the Vietnam Veterans of America on Liberty Street, and a jeweler friend of mine put them together.
I told him I'd worn a POW/MIA pin since the day I went to Arlington National Cemetery for the burial of a man who'd been Missing In Action in Vietnam for more than 30 years.
"I like it," he said, "and I like the reason you wear it." A few days later, I gave him one like mine, and he began to wear it.
Once when we were by ourselves, he said he didn't think anybody cared about him. I told him he had no idea how many sets of eyes were watching out for him, including mine.
If he didn't show up for a few days, regulars to the downtown would ask me or his other friends if anything was wrong with him. They hadn't seen him and were concerned.
I asked if he remembered the night he had to carry a bunch of money to such-and-such a bar and noticed that four guys he didn't know were following him. He did.
"And do you remember that when you got to the bar, one of them came up to you and asked if this was where you were going, and would you be all right, now?" He did.
He let it slip one time that he wasn't receiving any benefits from the Veterans Administration, even though he qualified.
We asked him, "Why not?"
"Other guys need it more than I do," he replied. It took a while, but his friends at the VVA chapter convinced him he was wrong and helped him get what he had earned.
We called him "The Rat" because he was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. That means they gave him a flashlight and a pistol and sent him down into tunnels to see if the Viet Cong were hiding in them.
He said he'd done it three times, and volunteered each time. From what I've heard, this was one of the fastest ways to get yourself killed in a land where death waited at every corner.
I asked him why he would do such a thing.
"All of my buddies had wives or girlfriends back home, and I didn't," he said.
Greater love hath no man than this ... .
On Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist attacks, he went to the Army Recruiter's Office and tried to re-enlist.
"They were polite," he said, "but said they couldn't take me. They said they'd call me if they needed me. Made me mad as hell. I can still sit there and fire a Ma Deuce (a .50-calibre machine gun)."
"Tell you what," I said. "If they decide they need you, you give me a call and I'll go with you as your crew." I would have, too. Nobody else I'd rather have my back, and I'd be damned proud to have his.
This isn't the first time I've written about him or mentioned him in a speech, nor will it be the last.
"I heard you wrote about me last Sunday," he once said. I told him that was true, but I hadn't said who he was. When I write about one of them, I'm writing about all of them ... with the exception of times like today.
"Thank you," he said. "I'm proud that you would do that. I'll have to get it and read it."
The only other thing you need to know about Bobby Divelbliss is that he had more guts and was beyond question tougher than any other human being I've ever met.
He probably should have been dead 30 years ago, but never stopped putting up a fight when he had to. He never gave up — not on America or himself or any of the people he cared about to the point where he put them first ... even if he didn't know them.
Most of all, he had a heart that was as big as the country he loved.
That's why a small, but significant, segment of America loves him in return. I know, because I am part of it.
Welcome Home, Brother.


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---- — A major portion of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) went from concept to reality on Tuesday as the 50 states brought their health exchanges online.
There were (and will continue to be) glitches. As hundreds of thousands of users tried for the first time to get information about the array of health care plans available, New York's "State of Health" website and phone line were bogged down and at times unreachable Tuesday. But New Yorkers have until Dec. 15 to enroll in a plan, so there's time yet to get answers.
Some critics who are determined to see Obamacare fail will point to this as a fatal flaw in the multi-phase plan, which will eventually require all employers with 50 workers or more to provide health insurance.
But let's not jump to that conclusion just yet.
Glitches aside, Tuesday was a significant day for anyone who is interested in separating fact from fiction when it comes to Obamacare. And that should be, well, pretty much everybody.
For people like Holley White of Hamden, Tuesday was the first chance to see what "affordable care" might actually mean.
"It's hard for small-business people to be able to afford health insurance, but we're going to sign up for it now," White said last week. "We've generally been healthy, and when we've had problems, we've been able to deal with it. But this is going to be something we're going to be looking at, for sure."
Tuesday was also a big day for local employers, such as Oneonta Block Co., where vice president Rebecca Lloyd said her company has been gearing up for months to comply with the ACA.
Lloyd said last week that she and her employees were waiting to see what the most affordable options would be.
"We have no idea because the exchange hasn't opened yet," she said.
Well, now it has. And it's time for everyone — employers and individuals alike — to set aside all the rumors, theories, predictions and speculation about Obamacare and look instead at the facts.
Here are a few facts: The law requires everyone who has to file a tax return to have health insurance by Jan. 1. Those who don't will have to pay a penalty. So each of us has to decide which is more affordable — buying health insurance, or paying this fine.
Here's another fact: The more people buy into the plans offered through the exchange, the more cost-effective they will become — particularly if young, healthy people choose to buy coverage.
We can't tell anyone what choice to make. But we can ask everyone to make an informed choice based on the facts. We have nothing to lose, and much to gain, by finding out what's out there.


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Title: Manning offers simple truths
Brennon Manning, a former ordained Franciscan priest, had a simple but profound message for Anderson University students Tuesday during morning chapel. If you wallow in regret, spend time condemning yourself and worrying about the future, you've refused God the opportunity to extend a healing touch. "God is loving you at this moment just as you are," Manning said. "Not as you should be." Manning, wearing faded blue-jeans patched at the knee, sat on stage at Reardon Auditorium listening as AU students stood and sang before he was introduced.
Manning taught theology at a university in the 1960s and has traveled around the world working among the poor. Manning, the author of several books, spoke so rapidly that some members of the audience leaned slightly forward following his words.
Trust is a ruthless effort, he told the students. Trust in God means daily surrender knowing that where you are on the journey is exactly where you are supposed to be. Trust is the child walking hand-in-hand with the father never questioning the destination or doubting the father's love.
"When we cry out in grief and pain ... when we ask why a loving God would allow such things, at that moment, the seed of mistrust is sown," Manning said. "I do not say in my heart that God exists until I trust. The trusting heart surrenders to God every day. It is the remedy for so much of our sickness, our melancholy ..."
The first conversion is to accept God as savior and the second conversion, Manning said, is from mistrust to trust. And when we convert from self-denial to self-acceptance, he said, grinning at the students, "that is the moment of true salvation. Don't be afraid. You are worth much more than many, many sparrows."
And the evidence of ruthless, unflagging trust in God?
"Gratefulness," Manning said. "Gratitude is the appreciation of our greatness as the beloved child of God. I'm at the point in my life that I believe God is more interested in our gratitude than in anything else. Our gratitude is our gift to God. It is God's pleasure."
And that means gratitude for the good as well as the painful. It requires hard spiritual work.
"Don't be afraid to look at your whole life, and trust that you'll see the hand of a loving God," he said. "To give thanks for an unanswered prayer, my friends, is to whisper a doxology inthe darkness."
Manning was introduced as friend of the Church of God, a man who has been shouting the good news for 25 years.
During his spiritual quest, Manning has voluntarily spent time in prisons, lived for months in a cave in Spain, worked at menial jobs across Europe and, since 1982, has made his home in Louisiana.
His books -- available now at AU -- have included, "Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging," "The Ragamuffin Gospel," and his newest book published by Harper, "Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God," is due to be released in October.
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We have been receiving phone calls, emails and Letters to the Editor nearly every day since the story broke from people who have decided Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a deserter, a traitor or an enemy of the United States. Some who raced beyond speculation to convict and sentence him say the Hailey native is all of the above. A few have gone so far as to suggest such crimes deserve a firing squad.
The authors of these opinions base their argument on an unsupportable extrapolation of one fact: that Bergdahl walked away from his unit five years ago on June 30, 2009.
Much of the vitriol and rush to judgment can be traced to the method used by President Obama and cabinet chiefs to extract Bergdahl - a prisoner swap involving five Taliban warriors. Additional emotion reverberated after soldiers purporting to have served with Bergdahl linked the deaths of some of their colleagues to efforts to find Bergdahl and then free him from his captors.
To be sure, there were some compelling accounts related about attempts to find Bergdahl five years ago. But how can some choose to believe this and not weigh it against what Defense Department Secretary Chuck Hagel had to say last week.
"I do not know of specific circumstances or details of U.S. solders dying as a result of efforts to find and rescue Sgt. Bergdahl," Hagel said at a news conference Wednesday, which was reported by Reuters. "Until we get the facts, until we have ... a review of all the circumstances, it is not in the interest of anyone and certainly I think a bit unfair to Sgt. Bergdahl's family and to him to presume anything. We don't do that in the United States. We rely on facts."
What a novel idea, and one Idahoans especially should embrace.
Bergdahl is recuperating in Germany from his ordeal. There is no evidence he has yet spoken about his leave from his unit or his capture. Thus, there are no new facts yet with which to label him, much less to convict him of anything.
There will be inquiries. There will be a day when all the evidence will be considered and judgment rendered.
That anyone believes this case has been sufficiently investigated and vetted enough to assign guilt to any charge is beyond disgusting and absent of Bergdahl's right to be judged innocent until proved otherwise.
Those unhappy with the way this mission to liberate a member of the U.S. Army, a POW, was carried out should separate that from any consideration of Bergdahl's future fate. It is unfair and un-American to do anything else.
We believe Bergdahl should be held accountable for any decisions he made while in uniform - but not before his health has been restored and he has been reunited with his family.
We are embarrassed for those so overcome with self-righteousness and reckless disregard for justice that they would take it out on Bergdahl's family or community.
Flag Day is Saturday. Father's Day is Sunday. The Fouth of July is just around the corner.
Let us focus on these expressions of America and leave the medical and military evaluations to those with the appropriate expertise and duty.
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Data Domain Inc., Palo Alto, CA, offers the DD200 Restorer, a storage backup and recovery appliance built around SATA disks, plus its proprietary data reduction and compression technology. That software segments the data into chunks as small as 2KB and backs up each chunk only once. Combined with its Replicator product, Data Domain says it can transmit backed up data across a WAN to a remote appliance using 99% less network resources than other disk-based backup and recovery products.
Avamar Technologies Inc., Irvine, CA, provides similar capabilities with its Axion product line. Axion analyzes the backed up data to identify small snippets of data that have already been backed up. It then condenses
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Although the vendors' products are similar, they differ in a fundamental way. Data Domain allows users to run their regular backup process using its standard backup software, for example Veritas' NetBackup or BackupExec-- it just looks like another backup target. Avamar, on the other hand, uses its own proprietary backup software. "Avamar basically reinvents the backup process," says Asaro.
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NEWCOMB — Newcomb, Minerva and Tupper Lake central school districts had all asked voters to approve 2013-14 budgets that topped the state's 2 percent tax-levy cap.
They all needed a 60 percent super-majority to override the cap at the polls in May; Newcomb passed but didn't reach that figure, and voters shot down the Tupper Lake and Minerva budgets.
Now, all three districts will be offering voters revised budgets for a second try on Tuesday, June 18.
Minerva and Tupper Lake pared their budgets to come in under the cap for the revote, while Newcomb made reductions but still doesn't meet the tax cap.
Newcomb Superintendent Clark "Skip" Hults said they've heard from residents that they don't want them to go below the tax cap.
"'Can you give us something in between?' is what they've been asking," he said.
The Newcomb budget proposed now would increase the tax levy 12.7 percent, instead of the 24 percent hike that failed to win voter approval the first time around.
The tax cap for Newcomb is 6.94 percent, so this budget will also require a 60 percent super-majority vote.
Voters supported the first effort 111-104, which was a simple majority but not the super-majority needed to pass.
The tax levy is $4.1 million in the revised budget. The total spending plan is $5.4 million, a 2.72 percent increase of $143,000 over the current plan.
The budget would set a tentative Homestead Act tax rate of $2.81 per $1,000 of assessment, a 1-cent decrease; the non-Homestead rate would be $14.55, a 55-cent increase.
Newcomb cut its Distance Learning Program, plus spending for school supplies and textbooks, extracurricular programs and building maintenance to reduce the budget $400,000 for the new proposal.
Two teaching assistants and a combined teacher-teaching assistant post would be eliminated through layoffs, and a special-education teacher would be reduced through attrition.


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A student has been arrested after administrators found what they believe to be a "hit list" on Monday.
A principal at a campus in the Deweyville Independent School District reported the finding of a "hit list" iinside a classroom on Monday to the Newton County Sheriff's Office. According to one report, the list included the names of several children at the school campus.
Investigators with the sheriff's office have charged a 12-year-old students with making terroristic threats and transported the child to the Minnie Rogers Juvenile Justice Center in Beaumont.
School administrators said the student has been suspended from Deweyville ISD.
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The bicycle route recommended by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) between San Francisco and San Jose follows streets with lower traffic volumes that are often painted with bike lanes that run parallel to Caltrain.
Motorists prefer to travel on the much faster Highway 101 or El Camino Real, which leaves most of the streets along this route relatively free of traffic and safe for cyclists.
Except for a one-mile stretch of Middlefield Road in the unincorporated North Fair Oaks community from Woodside Road to 5th Avenue, just south of Redwood City.
This commercial district, North Fair Oak's "downtown," has high daily traffic volumes - over 17,000 vehicles per day, and among the highest vehicle-bicycle accident rates in the county. Contributing to this is diagonal parking, which requires motorists to back out into the vehicle lane before they can see approaching traffic.
Because Middlefield Road has four vehicle lanes and no bike lanes here, cyclists are often squeezed between speeding traffic on the left and diagonally parked cars on the right. Ideally, cyclists would get bike lanes, but there's no space for them without a major reconfiguration of the street - either reducing the number of vehicle lanes from four to two, or converting the diagonal parking to parallel parking.
Converting the street to parallel parking would be fiercely opposed by residents, because it would reduce the number of parking spaces. There are several auto mechanic shops and restaurants there, none of which have their own off-street parking lots.
Reducing the number of vehicle lanes from four to two, known as a "road diet", still wouldn't allow bike lanes to be painted, because the diagonally-parked cars would still have to back out into them. But it would give cyclists much more space in which to safely ride.
Such a road diet was completed successfully last August on Arastradero Road between Foothill Expressway and El Camino Real in Palo Alto, a street with similar traffic volumes.
County officials have stressed any changes to the configuration of the street would have to be strongly recommended in the , which is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
At ongoing community meetings designed to gather input from local residents who use Middlefield Road on a daily basis, consultants have heard repeated calls for more parking and improved safety for pedestrians, but little about bikes. But most bicycle advocates aren't calling for such drastic changes anyway.
A very simple and cheap improvement would be for the county to paint "sharrows," or shared lane markings, in the middle of the right-hand vehicle lanes. Sharrows encourage cyclists to ride in the middle of the lane, where it's safer, and they make it clear to motorists that cyclists are supposed to ride there.
Sharrows have long been used on narrow streets with high traffic volumes in San Francisco and Berkeley. Some county officials feel that cyclists should avoid Middlefield Road through North Fair Oaks altogether, and that sharrows or bike route signage would encourage more bicycle traffic and lead to more accidents, for which the county could be held liable.
This doesn't make any sense from a safety perspective though, because a lot of people ride bikes there already, because it's the most direct route between Redwood City and Menlo Park, and because it's a commercial corridor with many retail destinations.
Local residents who work there and who don't own a car have no choice but to bike or walk. There isn't really a safe alternative route.
Bay Road, the county's recommended alternative bicycle route, is also a four lane road with no bike lanes. El Camino Real? Three lanes of rushing vehicle traffic in each direction make that road even more dangerous than Middlefield. Assuming the county doesn't improve the North Fair Oaks section of Middlefield Road anytime soon, what should cyclists do to get through safely?
Sharrows Needed on Middlefield Road in North Fair Oaks
Cycling activist Andrew Boone presents alternatives to costly street modifications.
The bicycle route recommended by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) between San Francisco and San Jose follows streets with lower traffic volumes that are often painted with bike lanes that run parallel to Caltrain.
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Doris Ray didn't hold back her feelings about during a meeting in Falls Church Wednesday night.
Clutching a dollar bill in her hand, the Fairfax resident spoke loudly into a microphone, telling Metro officials their tactics to get riders to use SmartTrip cards were wrong: Under Metro's proposed plan, passengers on local and limited bus routes paying with cash would now pay $2 instead of $1.70. Those paying with SmartTrip would not pay the extra $0.30 per ride.
"This is not an incentive it's a penalty," Ray said of Metro's attempt to get people to use SmartTrip cards instead of cash. Metro said the strategy is designed to simplify Metro's fare structure and encourage the use of SmartTrip cards, which it says would allow buses to provide on time service. "You should not penalize people for paying with cash."
Wednesday's meeting at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School was the second public meeting Metro held on their proposed fiscal year 2013 budget. As a part of the proposed $1.6 billion operating budget, transit users would need to contribute a total of $66 million through fare and fee hikes, which include Metrorail, Metrobus, MetroAccess and station parking.
The plan also calls for an 8 percent increase in contributions from jurisdictions for a total of $53 million.
The proposed $904 million capital budget includes the replacement of Metro's oldest railcars with newer models, track and infrastructure rehabilitation, and escalator and elevator replacements, according to Metro. The Metro board is expected to take action on the budget in June, with any adopted changes going into effect in July.
Shiva Pant, Metro's chief of staff, said the proposed budget is the largest since the transit company broke ground on its subway service 35-years ago. He said since expenses are going up and resources are down, Metro needs $116 million to help with the budget and increases are what will drive that funding.
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Alabama hunters again have the opportunity to help others while they enjoy their outdoor pursuits. The Hunters Helping the Hungry program provides a way that Alabama hunters can give thousands of pounds of ground venison to needy families and individuals in the state. Since the program's beginning in 1999, approximately 450,000 pounds of ground venison have been donated to Alabama Food Banks in the state.
Begun as a joint project of the Governor's Office, the National Rifle Association, the Phillip Morris Company, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Foundation, the program raised funds through the Governor's Hunt for Hunger benefit quail hunts.
Donating food to the needy is just one of the many ways hunters help this state. We encourage all Alabama deer hunters to participate in this program. Hunters who know of local processors not participating in the Hunters Helping the Hungry program are asked to encourage their processors to become involved.
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