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Are you sure? Even I sometimes go back and still get new details I did not notice the first time. Ex. Dead Space. First playthrough, not much scare. Second playthrough, I noticed the voices, and thought I was hearing things
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I also only get clothes. It was a gift from my friend.
I also only get clothes. It was a gift from my friend.
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There's a woman singing ******* ******* (second link) one of the voices you hear. That one is noticeable. There's another, both man and woman(not at the same time), that's a hell of a lot harder to hear. Only reason I noticed it was because I was playing with headphones the second time. They are whispering
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Farmers such as John Barnes need Latino laborers to harvest the sweet potato crop in Nash County. High-tech entrepreneurs such as SAS Jim Goodnight of Cary rely on a supply of American-educated software engineers and statisticians from South Asia.
This is called supply and demand. If there were native-born Americans lined up for those jobs, they could be hired.
Similar stories could be told in the construction and hospitality industries.
All the liberal activists in the world praying and fasting on the National Mall as they did last week are unlikely to have much of an effect on the Republican-controlled U.S. House when it comes to changes in the immigration laws.
But businessmen, lawmen and evangelical preachers might.
Seventy-percent of the labor force in agriculture is undocumented, Bert Lemkes, co-owner of Van Wingerden International, a greenhouse manufacturer in Western North Carolina, said at a forum in Raleigh recently.
Something has to be done, Lemkes said. The other 30 percent will lose their jobs if the other 70 percent does not show up. There is a large group in the population that does not understand that the undocumented here work hard, pay taxes, pay (into) Social Security.
The forum was sponsored by the N.C. Farm Bureau and a group called Bibles, Badges and Business, a coalition that brings together business, law enforcement and evangelical leaders to push Republicans for changes in the immigration laws.
Some of those groups were recently in Washington, lobbying GOP members of Congress such as Reps. Renee Ellmers of Dunn and George Holding of Raleigh, urging them to act. The greater Triangle area is ground zero in this Republican debate a mixture of agribusiness, high-tech companies, a substantial Latino community and two fairly conservative GOP lawmakers.
This summer, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed, with bipartisan support, an immigration bill that provides for a lengthy path to citizenship for most undocumented immigrants.
But such legislation is a harder sell in the Republican-controlled House, where some lawmakers see any concessions as amnesty and harmful to job-seeking Americans.
Immigration underscores the fault lines in the GOP between conservative populists, many of whom are party activists, and more business-oriented Republicans, many of whom are the partys financial backers.
Chris Sinclair, a GOP consultant in Raleigh, said there are not only economic consequences for the country if immigration reform is kicked down the road. But there are political consequences for the Republican Party.
Latinos have now surpassed African-Americans as the nations largest minority group. And Republican leaders say they must make an effort to appeal to such a large group of voters, if they are going to remain relevant in the future.
We have to go into the Latino community and talk to them, Sinclair said. If we do not, we are going to pay the price as Republicans. We have to stop listening to the extremes of our parties. We have open that door up to people who might be with us on some of the issues.
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But the issue is a difficult one for Republican House members. While GOP lawmakers understand both the practical issues (businesses need for workers) and the politics (the need for Republicans to reach out to the nations largest minority), it doesnt look that way in their own districts.
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Last week, Blackbaud released a report about online giving for 2011. It continues to grow...up 13%.
Frank Barry, in a follow-up to the report, pointed out new donor acquisition through online channels is hotter than any other for charities; that online donors give more, on average, than off line donors; and that they represent higher household income than other donors.
So, why do nonprofits not worry about their online thank yous as much as their mailed thank yous? Why do thank you letters seem to warrant time and attention while the attitude toward online thank yous seems so nonchalant? This seems especially odd given that we also know that attrition for first time donors, especially online, is extremely high. Those donors are worth a lot, but only if we keep them.
Why do I even think that there is less concern about thanking online donors? Well, when I look at the stats for my content, I find that my articles about writing thank you letters (as in mailed ones) are some of the most popular content on my site. My material about online thanking barely registers on the meter. I also accumulate a lot of online thank yous because that is my preferred way of donating. They are not very good.
I'm going to guess the reasons:
- Many people in nonprofits don't think getting a thank you after making an online donation is all that important. Possibly they never learned the art of writing thank you notes. I hang out with a lot of folks who have grown children and grandchildren. A big complaint among this set is that their children and grand kids don't write, call, or even send a thank you for a birthday or holiday gift. Sure, the little kids are usually enthusiastic, getting on the phone or Skype and gushing their enthusiasm, but after about 13 or so....nothing.
- Many young people at nonprofits think that an online donor doesn't care much about a thank you. The donors are probably young, like them, and it just doesn't matter that much. After all, we don't expect IKEA to gush over us every time we buy a DIY bookshelf, do we? So...sending a brief, receipt-like online thank you is just fine. Who has time to read a thank you anyway when your email box is so crammed?
- But, many fundraisers do assume that a check in the mail means that the donor is probably from an earlier generation and is going to get mad if a thank you letter doesn't arrive in the mailbox. How do we write those again? God, will we be glad when everyone is online.
Actually, it's a multichannel world for all generations. Older donors might respond with an online donation even when they got a mailed appeal; and online donors may switch to sending a check in response to direct mail after that first online gift.
That's why I was so happy to see Simon Norris and Juliet Richardson's article, Why thanking donors online is powerful, which is part of a white paper from the very smart consulting firm, Nomensa.
Simon and Juliet, I think, get to the heart of the matter: we confuse an online donation with a commercial online transaction when they are nothing alike. Simon and Juliet point out:
"The psychology of online giving is definitely not the same as online shopping and should be treated very differently. Thanking the donor appropriately is a key part of the donation process--donors need and expect more than a 'receipt' for their consideration and their money. In fact, there is a rule of thumb that donors should be thanked seven times before you ask for their next donation."
Simon and Juliet go on to cite powerful psychological research that shows just how motivating a good thank you is: donors who are thanked well are more than twice as likely to give again.
I'm pretty darn sure that these psychological effects happen to anyone at any age. Young people...the ones who might be sitting at the social media controls in your nonprofit...might THINK they don't care if they are thanked, but, in fact, they do. They just might not know it yet.
Thanking is a reward and a validation of a genorous act, as Simon and Juliet point out in their article. Donating is so different from buying that it is only that the two seem so alike online that the two transactions confuse people. Donating is altruistic, emotional, personal and expectant of engagement; while buying is calculated, narcissistic, and a one-off exchange. Really, the only resemblance between an online donation and an online purchase is the exchange of information and provision of a credit card number.
I love looking at a thank you letter as a 'reward.' When you buy a hot pink teddy from Victoria's Secret, the teddy in your hand is the reward. But, when donating online, the reward is the knowledge that you're helping, the thank you that lets you know you've done a good thing and are thus valued, and the promise of future engagement with this cause. Your post-donation actions are not an after thought...they are a bridge to the future.
Simon and Juliet connect thanking with the psychology of reward and point out that it involves three factors:
- Reciprocity. Donors are giving a gift, so telling them how valued that gift is completes the reciprocity loop.
- Expectation (and prediction). Donors have expectations about how they want to be treated; they will predict how they will be treated; and when expectation, prediction, and reward (the thank you) match, they feel valued.
- Reinforcement. A social relationship is set up when a donor is asked to give, he or she makes the gift, and when the gift is acknowledged. A good thank you reinforces this particular giving choice and motivates future giving.
Simon and Juliet have some very specific ways to make your thank you landing page and your thank you email reward your donors in a way that will engage, motivate, and fulfill their expectations.
Post donation landing pages can be designed to make an immediate impact, followed up by a thank you email that looks as little like a commercial transaction as possible. Follow Simon and Juliet's instructions, and you'll be a long way toward seeing and creating the differences that make saying thank you for a donation something special and that will get donors to come back for more.
My thanks to Pamela Grow for pointing me to this article.
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- February 21, 2012 at 10:47 am(1) Dave Parker says:
Great post as usual.
Your correct about the shift demographics of giving. I was on the Board of the Seattle Union Gospel Mission in Seattle for five years up until about five years ago. We saw a significant shift in our outreach moving from Direct Mail dependence to a more significant jump in online giving.
I think the data validates the assumption that our younger giving base continues to mature and the overall online giving base continues to grow.
Now that you've acquired a donor/customer it's time to keep them engaged!
- February 21, 2012 at 12:09 pm(2) nonprofit says:
Thanks, Dave! Love your comments. Yes, I think nonprofits have been a bit lax about online donors up until now. I guess it feels like an accomplishment just to set up the ability to take online gifts. Now it's time to get more sophisticated with thanking and engaging for the long haul.
- February 21, 2012 at 12:36 pm(3) Cheri Friedman says:
I have found that by treating our online donors the same as those who donations come in the mail, that we have a great response rate in future requests. There is something about being acknowledged for the good you do that is important no matter what the age of the donor.
- January 2, 2013 at 8:30 pm(4) Elaine Fogel says:
Joanne, it's amazing how many charities have poor thank-you landing pages and badly composed thank-you e-mails. Some are written from an internal perspective without any personalization at all. Not a great brand impression.
I still believe in sending a follow-up thank you by mail. To keep costs low, organizations can send a handwritten or printed personalized postcard including the url (and QR code) for a special landing page that engages them even further. No matter what their ages, I'd bet that receiving that extra note of appreciation would go far in endearing donors to the cause.
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Say,we haven't talked about this for a while. So I thought I'd post this for an update. But who is everyone's fav. Skater? You may choose more then one.
Gracie Gold
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Alissa Czisny
Kirra Korpi
Sasha Cohen
Allexe Gilles
Ya-na Kim
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Jenna McCorkell
Say,we haven't talked about this for a while. So I thought I'd post this for an update. But who is everyone's fav. Skater? You may choose more then one.
Rachael Flatt!
Michelle Kwan from the past and Mao Asada for the present.
Evgeni Plushenko, Artur Gachinski, Joshua Farris, Jason Brown, Max Aaron.
From the past: Ilia Kulik.
Evan Lysacek
Out of this bunch Czisny.
from the past: Christopher Bowman and Tiffany Chin, from 2005 to 2013. Johnny Weir, and I'm rapidly becoming a fan of Jason Brown.
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Danelle Kahle lol….
Daisuke Takahashi
Flatt gets more votes than Gracie ???
Missing Mao Asada on your list...
Ashley Wagner and Jason Brown have my heart! I also love Kevin Reynolds, Alex Johnson, Adelina Sotnikova, Adam Rippon, and Carolina Kostner
At first I didn't notice that retired skaters were up there so I clicked on 'Other' for Mirai although I have more than one favorite.
Fave retired American? Sasha Cohen.
Fave current Ladies skater: Mirai Nagasu.
Fave Men's skater: Adam Rippon
Fave Russians: Adelina, Julia, La Tuk
All time Fave: Oksana Baiul
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Kiira and Yu-na...I might also have a crush on them, but I never made any promises to be objective .
Other would be Oksana Baiul (ultimate fave) and Tara Lipinski.
This is only the ladies of course.
For me...
Ladies : Yuna Kim / Michelle Kwan / Ashley Wagner / Kiira Korpi
Men : Stephan Lambiel / Brian Joubert / Alexei Yagudin / Patrick Chan
Pairs : Shen & Zao
Dancing : Virtue & Moir
Who is Ya-na Kim???
I think you can figure it out if you think hard enough.
FSWer is a long-time skating fan who listed some of his favorites that happened to be retired. If you have issues with his poll choices, just list your faves in your post, like many have done, or start a new poll yourself.
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DURHAM, NC (Ivanhoe Newswire) - More than 760,000 children and adults are living with cerebral palsy. Now, for the first time, doctors are studying a treatment that has the potential to stop the disorder in its tracks.
There's nothing Jenny and JD Stephenson wouldn't do for their son, Weston, and that included banking his umbilical cord blood when he was born.
"We actually felt a little silly saving it because it was so expensive, and we weren't guaranteed to need it for anything," Jenny Stephenson, told Ivanhoe.
But they would need it. When Weston was 10 months old, doctors diagnosed him with cerebral palsy.
"Of course, you want the best for him, and you never want anything to be wrong," Jenny said.
Weston's developmentally delayed and has trouble using the left side of his body. There's no cure for his CP, but there's hope in his cord blood. As part of a clinical trial at Duke University, Weston receives his first infusion. His parents are thrilled.
"This was just the most exciting thing we had heard," Jenny said.
"If this is beneficial, it could really change the lives of those children tremendously for the better," Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D., chief scientific officer medical director at Robertson Cell and Translational Therapy Program at Duke University Medical Center, said.Doctor Joanne Kurtzberg said the theory is cord blood cells can decrease inflammation, coax normal cells into fixing damaged tissues, and grow into new cells.
"Cord blood cells can graft and grow into some types of brain cells in the brain," Dr. Kurtzberg said.Patients in a phase one trial reported improved speech, mobility and movement, but doctor Kurtzberg said that study did not compare the cord blood to a placebo. The new study, that Weston is a part of, does. If Weston got the placebo on his first try, he'll get the cord blood later in the trial.
"It's why you get up every day and go to work," JD Stephenson said.
"My hope is that we see a miracle, really," Jenny said.
Doctor Kurtzberg's trial is still enrolling patients. To be eligible, your child must have a CP diagnosis, be between one and six years old, and their cord blood must be available.
BACKGROUND: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders that can impair brain and nervous system functions. Patients may have issues with movement, learning, hearing, seeing, and thinking. CP is caused by injuries or abnormalities in the brain. Most of these problems happen as the baby grows in the womb, but they can also happen at any time during the first two years of life when the baby's brain is still developing. In some patients, parts of the brain are injured because of low levels of oxygen. Premature infants have a slightly higher risk of developing CP. Other conditions like bleeding in the brain, brain infections, head injuries, infections during pregnancy and severe jaundice can cause CP. (SOURCE: U.S. National Library of Medicine - The World's Largest Medical Library)
SYMPTOMS OF CP: Symptoms of CP may vary, depending on the severity of the disorder, but they usually are present before a child is 2 years old. Some of these symptoms include: muscle tightness, abnormal gait, joint tightness, muscle weakness or loss of muscle movement, abnormal movements, tremors, unsteady gait, loss of coordination, speech problems, hearing or vision problems, seizures, pain, problems with swallowing, and floppy muscles. (SOURCE: U.S. National Library of Medicine - The World's Largest Medical Library)
STANDARD TREATMENTS: There is no cure for CP. Currently, doctors may subscribe medications to lessen muscle tightness and improve functional abilities. Drugs can also relieve pain and manage complications associated with spasticity. Injections of Botox may also help isolated spasticity. Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy may also be used to enhance functional abilities. Surgery may be needed to lessen muscle tightness or correct bone abnormalities caused by spasticity. (SOURCE: Mayo Clinic)
NEW HOPE: Researchers from Duke University Medical Center are studying whether infusions of a child's own cord blood could help improve the symptoms of CP. Children with the spastic form of CP who are between ages 1 and 6 and have their own cord blood available for use may enroll in the clinical trial. The cord blood is infused intravenously. Because it is the child's own cord blood, there is no risk of rejection. "There's a huge need to be able to come up with a treatment for cerebral palsy for children who have lifelong problems," Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D., from Duke University Medical Center, told Ivanhoe. Dr. Kurtzberg says if her research proves to be a success, the next step is to try to use cord blood to prevent CP. She is currently conducting a study where she is treating newborns that have low oxygen at birth with their own cord blood. (SOURCE: Ivanhoe interview with Dr. Kurtzberg)
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, Director of Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program and Director of The Carolina's Cord Blood Bank & Chief Scientific Officer of the Sullen Translational Therapy Program, talks about reversing cerebral palsy.
What is cerebral palsy?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: Cerebral palsy describes children who have problems with spasticity and sometimes abnormal movements that affect their motor development.
What are some of the standard treatments?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: There is no cure for cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy can result from different things that damage the young child's brain, so sometimes that means a baby might have a stroke during gestation or a baby might have low oxygen around the time of birth and have damage to the brain as a result of the low oxygen. In premature babies there can be bleeding in the brain during the period of prematurity that leads to damage to the brain that causes cerebral palsy, but bottom line, regardless of the reason a child might have cerebral palsy there's no cure or therapy, and currently children receive supportive care in the form of physical therapy and medications that help relax their muscles. Sometimes they receive injections of Botox into the muscle to help it relax and then just developmental support of care and trying to find ways to adapt their function with tools and devices.
Tell me about your study.
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: We're studying whether an infusion of a child's own cord blood cells, that would have been collected and stored when they were born, can lessen symptoms of cerebral palsy. The reason we had the idea to do that is because we had been treating children with genetic diseases that affect the brain for years with unrelated donor cord blood transplantation. In those diseases we're using cord blood cells to replace missing enzymes or factors in the blood and in the brain, but in doing those transplants we learned that the cells do go to the brain even though we give them in the blood and that they help the brain repair damage that's been caused by the disease. From that we thought well maybe in the case of a child with cerebral palsy who's damage isn't due to a genetic disease, it's due to something that happened generally in pregnancy or birth, if we gave them their own cord blood cells if could help their body repair the damage.
What have been the results of the study?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: We have formal safety results knowing that it's safe and feasible. We made some observations in those studies that look very promising, but to really know if this is working we felt we had to do what's called a randomized placebo control trial and we're in the middle of that trial right now.
How many patients are currently enrolled in that trial?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: I can't give you the exact number, but it's between 35 and 40. We will do our first evaluation after 60 patients have been evaluated one year after treatment.
Is it a blind trial?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: It's totally blinded to everyone caring for and evaluating the children, but we do see some children improve and we don't know yet if those are the children who got their cells or if those children would have improved anyway. We really need to wait until the study is done to be able to say for sure.
Will the parents have to save or donated the cord blood?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: Some parents have elected to store their babies cord blood for their own family's use in something called private banking, not because their child will need it, but in case the cord blood has value, they're saving it as kind of an insurance policy for future use. Those are the families that have brought their children who also ended up having cerebral palsy to our study, but if our study were to show benefits, then I think we'd have to rethink when and why parents might want to save cord blood. There's also a public cord blood system where parents donate cord blood for use. We'd have to figure out a way somehow every child's cord blood could be saved but it could be used for them if they needed it or used in the public registry if they didn't.
Who would be a candidate for this study?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: A child with cerebral palsy that predominately is what we call the spastic form, which is the form where children have stiffness of their usually legs or arms, they have to be between the ages of 1 and 6 years and they have to have their cord blood available. The cord blood itself has to have been stored in a way that would keep the cells alive and in a way that we would know the cells are safe. That means they have to be cultured, we have to know that they were sterile, we'd have to get a sample to test to make sure it matches that child.
And how many infusions are there we saw one the other day
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: Um we're in general doing 3 infusions a week um that's not because we don't have more patients that want to come but it's what we can handle in terms of getting all the testing and scanning and things that are required for the study.
How many infusions will each patient need during the course of the study?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: The amount of cord blood that is collected when a baby is born can vary tremendously based on the size of the baby, the condition and health of the baby at delivery and who's collecting it. If the obstetrician is collecting the cord blood and responsible for the care of the mother and the baby, and the baby is also sick, frequently less cord blood is collected than if everything is going very smoothly. On average anywhere from 1 to 10 ounces can be collected and if more is collected, there may be enough up to 3 doses, but if just a little bit is collected there might only be enough for one dose.
Where is it infused?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: It's infused intravenously. A regular peripheral, what we call an IV, is started in the arm, foot or hand, just wherever the child has a good vein and then it's infused just like IV fluid.
How does it work in the body?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: The theory behind how it might work in the body is complicated because it probably works in more than one way. We know that cord blood has the property of some of the cells in decreasing inflammation. We know that when there's an injury in the brain, one of the first ways the body reacts to that injury is with inflammation and inflammation causes damage. We also know that the cord blood cells will home or go to the areas that are damaged and tissues that are damaged and then in those tissues, give out signals that cause the normal cells that are there to start repairing damage. They're recruiting normal cells to fix pathways or reconnect nerve that go to muscles or calm down nerves that are excited. It has an influence on the cells that are normally in the body in that area that's called a paraquin or an atrophic effect. Thirdly, we know in the genetic disease patients, that cord blood cells can graft and grow into some types of brain cells in the brain. We don't know if that would be happening in the patients with cerebral palsy because this is their own cells and we don't have any way to tell the difference between what we put in and what's already there.
What's the next step for this research after this part of the trial is done?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: We expect that if we can treat children at a younger age, we could maybe prevent cerebral palsy instead of lessen effects of cerebral palsy. We actually have a study ongoing now where we're treating newborns who have low oxygen at birth or identified at birth with a problem with their own cord blood. If we find that the current study is beneficial we're going to have to figure out a way to treat the children who don't have their own cord blood. We can't really make this a study that's restricted just to people who happen to save their own cord blood, we have to know how to use the donor banked cord blood safely in a child with CP. Right now we use donor cord blood in children with cancer, but when those children get the cord blood they also get high doses of chemotherapy and sometimes radiation, which both treats their cancer and also makes their body to be able to accept and not reject donor cells. Now, in a child with cerebral palsy, we don't want to give high dose chemotherapy, so they accept a donor cell. We have to figure out a way that will help the donor cells stay in their body for a while and help it repair the brain but not expose them to the high risks of chemotherapy.
What is the benefit of using the patient's own cord blood opposed to a donor cord blood?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: When we use a child's own cord blood in the case of cerebral palsy or other brain injuries, their body will accept their cord blood because it was theirs and it's not anything foreign to them. If we were to give a child with cerebral palsy donor cord blood without any preparation, their body would reject those cells and those cells would not be able to work or have an effect. Your own cells are much safer to administer and will be accepted by your body without any other kind of preparation, whereas donor cells will not be accepted unless the immune system is suppressed so that they're not rejected. When you use your own cord blood there's no risk that the cord blood cells will react against you, when you use donor cord blood there is a risk that the donor cells will react against the patient, that's called graft versus host disease and that's a major limitation and complication of a transplant with a donor cell. Cord blood causes less of that then says bone marrow, but it still causes some and when you use your own cells then you don't have to worry about that. There are different arguments on both sides of the fence if you will, so if you have leukemia you can't use your own cord blood because your own cord blood may have leukemia cells in it, and also can't properly fight off any residual leukemia. So for cancer or a genetic disease where we don't know how to fix genes yet your own cord blood would be effective, you have to use a donor, but when you're thinking of regenerative medicine and you're thinking of repairing tissue, then having your own cells available has much more benefit and it's much less risky.
Can you talk about the public cord bank?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: We run a public bank here and public banks have to support all the costs associated with donation, so no bank can afford to open sites to collect units at every hospital in the country. Our bank actually has been a little bit innovative in that we developed a kit donation program where if a mom lives in an area where there's nothing set up at a local hospital for her to donate, she can contact us and we can send her a kit. As long as her obstetrician is willing to do the collection and meet our specifications, then the cord blood can be sent back to Duke and be banked here.
What happens if they decide they want to use the cord blood in the future?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: If you donated your baby's cord blood to a public bank and your own baby needs it, you can request to have it back, but it has to be there for you to be able to have it. If it was used for another patient by the time you asked for it, then it wouldn't be available for you. Also, not all units donated to public banks actually are stored because they have to meet pretty rich strict criterion in order to be put into the bank. It might not be there because it didn't meet that criterion, so there's not a guarantee that it will be there.
How about private banks?
Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg: The private banks charge a fee to the family both for the initial banking and then a storage fee every year. When you donate to a public bank, there's no fee to the person donating but the bank actually is responsible for all the costs associated with collecting, testing and storing the cord blood needed.
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A Democracy in Crisis
Can the country long survive an ever-growing government?
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the presidency is in crisis. Under the Obama administration, the Internal Revenue Service has targeted conservative and religious organizations. The Environmental Protection Agency has shown preference for liberal groups over conservative ones. The Justice Department has gone after journalists for criminal prosecution in leak investigations, and the State Department has repeatedly been unable to tell the truth about what happened the night our ambassador in Libya was murdered. Most recently, we learned the National Security Agency has been secretly collecting "metadata"– records of calls and emails sent and received – from ordinary citizens.
As bad as all that may be, there's a bigger problem. Our democracy is in crisis.
What is frightening to people is the feeling that under President Obama's watch, we've seen more government overreach and malfeasance than ever before. Polls show Americans are increasingly alarmed that our federal bureaucracy is spinning out of control: A Rasmussen poll out this week shows that 56 percent of likely voters in the U.S. consider the federal government to be a threat to their individual rights – a 10-point jump just since the president got re-elected. A whopping 78 percent of conservatives now see the government as a threat.
[Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.]
In a 50-50 nation split pretty evenly between red and blue, that's a dangerous place to be: Half of the people in this country feel threatened by the federal government. My theory is that's occurring because the federal government has become an unchecked, absolute power that is growing daily.
To hold unbridled, absolute power is to be despotic. Almost 200 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" described how democracies like ours can deteriorate into despotism. When most of us think of despots, we think of tinhorn dictators. But de Tocqueville says that a despot can also be a sole, protective and all-powerful form of government, elected by the people.
In the short run, he warned against the "tyranny of the majority" in the legislature. But in the long run, he foresaw that in times of prolonged war – more than 10 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, for example – "the administrative function of the State is perpetually extended." Government becomes more and more centralized, and over time begins to overreach and fail. In trying to do everything, government does nothing well. "It is almost always by the abuse of its force and the misemployment of its resources that a democratic government fails," he wrote. That's what we're seeing now.
[See a collection of editorial cartoons on the IRS Scandal.]
What's upsetting to so many people is that the massive power of our centralized government also seems unchecked. Our founders set up a system of checks and balances between the judicial, legislative and executive branches, but that system is "off kilter," George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley recently wrote in The Washington Post. He points out that the vast majority of laws in our country are not passed by Congress but are issued as regulations by federal executive agencies. A 2012 study by the conservative Heritage Foundation found that during its first three years, the Obama administration issued four times as many major regulations as the George W. Bush administration, at more than five times the cost. Meanwhile, the number of laws passed by Congress in 2012 was the lowest since Truman.
Turley also points out that the judicial branch has seen its authority decreased by federal agencies. Under our constitution, citizens facing charges are entitled to due process under our court system. Yet as more citizens got caught up in regulatory trouble, Congress created administrative courts outside of the judicial branch. Very few cases are actually decided by the judiciary anymore.
And so, as the reach of this federal administrative state grows unchecked, de Tocqueville explains the consequences: "It would be like the authority of a parent, if like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks on the contrary to keep them in perpetual childhood ... For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness: It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances – what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?"


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France 6 Wales 16
Updated 11:44pm Saturday 9th February 2013 in Sport By Chris Kirwan
WALES' long wait for a Test victory ended in Paris this evening with George North's late try earning a Six Nations success against France.
It was a dour game in the Stade de France but that won't bother coach Rob Howley and his team after they ended their eight-game losing streak.
There was little to choose between the sides in an error-strewn, pedestrian encounter until North won the race to a Dan Biggar chip through on 71 minutes.
Leigh Halfpenny's conversion made it 13-6 and when the full-back sent over a booming penalty the win was Wales', much to the disgust of the home crowd who had been hoping that their side would fire back following their shock defeat to Italy on opening weekend.
Wales had spent the week talking of making a rapid start following their first half debacle against Ireland.
They didn't exactly come flying out of the blocks but they would have been happy to go to the changing rooms on level terms after an insipid half, especially given that they had trailed 23-3 at the same stage in round one.
There was little to report other than a few powerful French driving lineouts and some hard-running Welsh charges.
Frederic Michalak booted the hosts into a 14-minute lead only for Leigh Halfpenny to swiftly respond and that was that until the second half.
It didn't take Wales long to move their tally along, Halfpenny bisecting the posts after 42 minutes, and they would have been just as pleased to hear jeers ring out when France replacement Francois Trinh-Duc botched a drop goal when Les Bleus were well-placed in the 22.
But the jeers turned to cheers when Michalak levelled with another penalty earned by their dominant scrum and it stayed 6-6 entering the final quarter.
And with both sides playing nervously, it took a moment of magic from Biggar and North to settle matters.
Wales scorers: try – G North; conversion – L Halfpenny; penalties – L Halfpenny (3)
France scorers: penalties – F Michalak (2)
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Dai the Milk wrote:Spot on Dai, very good performance, lots of guts and never say die attitude in she'd loads. MOTM well deceived by Halfpenny, both Toby and Andrew played very well again, first onto the team sheet for a fortnight time and Ryan Jones for the captains badge again.
Guts, commitment, character. That's all we asked for. Ryan Jones immense and has to retain the captaincy until he retires. Coombs and Evans awesome in defence too. One to fifteen 8 + out of 10.
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"Hon, have you seen my maroon tie?" he asks loudly. Awakening suddenly, I sit up, still in sleep mode and ask, "Whhhaaat?" Trying to keep my voice at a whisper, as to not wake the kids or myself, I try to focus. Peering through my heavy eyelids, I stare at this man, who has awoken me. "My maroon tie! Have you seen it?"
He is standing in front of his open closet which houses at least 40, if not more neckties; of every color, different designs and patterns. And yet, he is looking for the maroon tie. "You're kidding me, right?" Turning on my side, I lift the blanket and cover my head. I hear some rustling, and then the happy click of the light switch. He's gone. Back to precious sleep for another sweet hour.
Each morning, my husband takes his clothing and shoes into the bathroom, so that he does not disturb my sleep with the light and possible noise, he may accidentally make. This morning was different, however. Light is on. "Kris! I can't find my maroon tie!" I can tell he is getting frustrated, and needs my assistance. From under the blanket, I answer with, "So, wear another color!"
"Look at me," he says in a demanding way. Slowly, I peek out from under the warm covering. "What do you want?! I see you are wearing a light blue shirt and navy jacket. Wear a navy tie, or a gray one..for heaven's sake! I cannot believe we are having this conversation at 6 a.m.!" I turn away from the man who has awoken me and for a split second, I desperately attempt to fall back asleep.
"Did you give my tie to Jerry?" he asks angrily. I toss off the blanket and sit up. "Did I give your TIE to Jerry?! What are you, insane?!! Why would I do that?!" I am now fully awake and any thought of returning to sleep has been axed. "I don't know! Maybe he needed a maroon tie!" he answered, feeling defeated.
Meanwhile, my oldest daughter is calling from her room, "What's going on in there? Stop talking!"
"Great! You've woken up the kids!" I say. "Put on the navy with gray stripes and go!!" Watching him, curious as to what he will do, I see him yank a gray tie off the tie rack, walk towards the bedroom door and shut the light. Within a few minutes, I hear the front door slam shut. He's off to work. As I lay there, I promise myself that I will go buy him another maroon tie. But promises made, so early in the morning are soon forgotten.
You may be wondering why my husband would involve me in this strange matter. If he can't find his tie, why would he think I have an inkling of its whereabouts? Well, let's just say that he is Felix and I am Oscar, when it comes to our personal belongings. The reason he is faklempt about his tie is because he ALWAYS returns things where they belong. I, on the other hand, will use/wear something, and just return it to a 'spot'. Any hanger works for me. Any shelf is OK. Any drawer is good, as long as there is room in it. Mr. P. has a designated spot for all his "stuff." It may be the military that made him that way, the fire department, or just because, Men are From Mars!
Two weeks passed. It's 6 a.m. He turns on the light, walks to my side of the bed, and shakes my shoulder. I open my eyes. Staring me, in the face, is a tie clasp. I try to focus. He bends at the waist and says firmly, "Where is the maroon tie that was attached to this tie clasp?!" Who would have thought, that after a month, he would FIND the tie clasp that was attached to his maroon tie?! Did he remember which tie clasp was attached to that particular tie? I had tossed it in his little wooden bowl, atop of the dresser. I thought I had BURIED it under all those pennies! I didn't know what to say!
I got up. I walked quickly to my triple dresser and opened the third drawer. Frantically, I moved around a few items. I was crazed. I seized the demonic maroon tie and flung it on to the bed! "There is your beloved maroon tie!" I shouted. He picked it up, or what was left of it. From a striking 57 inch, woolen maroon tie..it was now...maybe, 10 inches. "What the (expletive) happened to my tie?"
"I let your son wear it one day. It was picture day at school. He left it on the shirt. It went in the laundry. I didn't see it, because, because, well, I wasn't looking. Alright?! I washed it! Yes. I accidentally washed it! It shrunk. I was going to replace it, but I didn't. So, there you have it! Your stinkin' maroon tie. Wear it, if you want!!!"
There is a moral to this story. Wear it, but if you ruin it, replace it, immediately!!! Here is to undisrupted sleep, in the mornings!!


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Fred Leuenberger is a light sleeper.
When he awoke to the smell of smoke early Thursday, his electricity was out.
He walked outside his house at the corner of Walnut Creek Road and Alandale Drive and saw neighbors lights on.
Then he noticed the blaze.
I had seen flames and smoke coming out the top of my utility room, Leuenberger said. I told James, a grandson of mine, The house is on fire!
Both men got out safely as flames devoured half of the brick home in a neighborhood off Shurling Drive, but they couldnt find the family dog.
About 30 minutes after firefighters put out the flames, Mater, a Labrador retriever/hound mix they rescued from the swamp, came walking up for a happy reunion.
He rolled over on his back as James Leuenberger rubbed his belly.
Were all right. We got out all right, Fred Leuenberger said.
Macon-Bibb County Fire Department Lt. Roderick Colvard said he was thinking about the safety of the residents as firefighters arrived to find flames shooting from the back of the roof.
One radio report indicated someone could be trapped inside.
They had gotten out safely so we were able to knock the fire down, Colvard said.
Sgt. Ben Gleaton, a Macon-Bibb fire investigator, said a small fire that started Wednesday during the installation of a water heater was not fully extinguished and apparently smoldered and rekindled.
Colvard said the blaze should serve as a warning for folks to make sure their house is protected.
Always good advice to make sure you check your smoke detector, he said. Were coming up on that season where its starting to get cold. People start to turn the heaters on, so we want to make sure everyone has a working smoke detector.