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S&P's latest report, which came out on Thursday, shows the global speculative-grade bond default rate increased to 8.58% in July, up slightly on June, and a massive hike on the record low of 0.79% hit in November 2007.
It is less clear what will happen next. Earlier this year the agencies predicted defaults amongst speculative grade borrowers could reach 20 percent — a huge increase — but now agencies have rowed back and are painting a slightly less bleak picture.
S&P's new report says the number of "weakest links" — companies with low (B- or worse) ratings on review for a downgrade or with a negative outlook — has declined. This, the agency says, is because the increased number of defaults has knocked out many of these weak credits.
A sliver of silver lining around this grey cloud is that the rate of companies falling into weakest-link territory is lower than the number of companies defaulting, which may suggest the default rate may ease sooner rather than later.


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FLIR Systems, Inc. is proud to introduce the FLIR A310 ex, an ATEX compliant solution featuring a powerful thermal imaging camera housed in a protective, flameproof enclosure.LISTED UNDER: Instrumentation & Controls | Monitors | THERMAL ANALYSIS Systems
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The new ethermVIEW™ liquid crystal thermographic analysis system provides optical temperature measurements of active PCBs and components using the color response of thermochromic liquid crystals (TLC) for non-invasive thermal studies.LISTED UNDER: Thermal Analysis | THERMAL ANALYSIS Systems
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Why Health Insurers Make Lousy Villains
Insurance companies might be infuriating, but data show they're not as greedy as critics claim.
One of the fresh spectacles we're likely to enjoy this fall is moral outrage—real or feigned—over health insurance companies that may or may not be rapacious.
President Obama has already singled out insurers as the villains responsible for exorbitant healthcare costs that are bankrupting families and businesses and making care unattainable for millions. Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has asked 52 insurance providers for detailed data on pay and perks for executives, junkets for employees, and other ways they spend the money that comes from premiums paid by policyholders.
[See the industries hurt most by soaring healthcare costs.]
It seems likely that such an ambitious fishing expedition will reel in a few morsels useful for tarring the whole industry. But on the whole, blaming insurance firms for runaway healthcare costs is a weak argument, because the insurance industry isn't all that profitable to start with.
Some critics would like to see a healthcare sector that's entirely nonprofit, but most Americans seem comfortable with the existing system of for-profit healthcare providers, at least at some levels. Otherwise, the majority of Americans wouldn't say they're satisfied with their existing coverage, and there wouldn't be so much discomfort over the idea of government-funded healthcare. So if you're comfortable with the profit motive, the next step is to determine a fair profit margin for companies in the healthcare industry. This is where there's bad news for Obama, Waxman, et al.
[See the trouble with healthcare reform, in numbers.]
Overall, the profit margin for health insurance companies was a modest 3.4 percent over the past year, according to data provided by Morningstar. That ranks 87th out of 215 industries and slightly above the median of 2.2 percent. By this measure, the most profitable industry over the past year has been beverages, with a 25.9 percent profit margin. Right behind that were healthcare real-estate trusts (firms that are basically the landlords for hospitals and healthcare facilities) and application-software (think Windows). The worst performer was copper, with a profit margin of minus 56.6 percent.
If you're wondering about Exxon, with its history of gargantuan profits, its profit margin was 9 percent over the past 12 months, according to the research firm Capital IQ. The average for the oil and gas industry overall was 10.2 percent, three times the margin in the health insurance industry. And that's nothing compared with high-fliers like Google—which had a 20.6 percent margin—and Microsoft, at 24.9 percent.
Profit margins basically reflect the percentage of revenue left over after paying salaries, expenses, taxes and lots of other things. So it's possible for firms to pay their executives a lot and still have a low profit margin. That's why Merrill Lynch, as an example, was able to pay huge bonuses to some employees while the company itself lost epic amounts of money.
[See 8 industries that will sit out a recovery.]
Government interrogators are unlikely to find abuses on that scale among health insurers. While the rest of the economy has collapsed, most parts of the healthcare sector have remained reasonably stable. So odds are that any bonuses paid at least went out of profitable firms. With profits in many other industries depressed, health insurance profit margins probably rank higher than they normally would, compared with other industries. And a number of health insurance organizations, such as Kaiser and the Blue Cross plans, are nonprofits. They can still pay high salaries, but since there's no stock or stock options, there are fewer ways for big shots to earn lavish bonuses.
Among the large, for-profit health insurers, profit margins line up with the industry as a whole. UnitedHealthGroup, the biggest health insurer, had a 4.1 percent profit margin over the past 12 months. WellPoint, the next biggest, had a 4 percent profit margin. Aetna, Cigna, and Humana came in below that.
Health insurers turn out to be underperformers compared with the other parts of the healthcare sector. Pharmaceutical companies have a profit margin of 16.4 percent—seventh highest of the 215 industries that Morningstar tracks. Others segments of healthcare with margins well above the median include healthcare information (9.4 percent), home healthcare firms (8.5 percent), medical labs (8.2 percent), and generic drugmakers (6.5 percent).
The big money, in other words, isn't in the insurance industry. If it's anywhere, it's in the pharmaceutical industry. But the Obamanauts appear to have reached a kind of détente with Big Pharma in exchange for that industry's tepid support for some kind of reform. So Obama and his foot soldiers need to look elsewhere for black hats.
[See why your health insurer might have had trouble running "Cash for Clunkers."]
To give a clearer picture of which healthcare firms are earning the most, I've compiled some data from Capital IQ showing net profit margins over the past 12 months for a number of well-known companies. The following list includes the three largest firms in each of five different sectors: biotechnology, drug manufacturers, healthcare plans, healthcare services, and medical equipment. Some of these numbers are sure to be off-putting to Americans who are making sacrifices to pay for healthcare or can't afford it at all. Yet industries like pharma and biotech remain strong job creators that have held up well during the recession, and they represent parts of the global economy where America still enjoys a leading position. If you were Obama, desperate to find a few bright spots in a troubled economy, you might be reluctant to pick on them.
Sources: Morningstar; Capital IQ. Similar data on the most recently quarterly profit margins for a number of industries and firms are available on the Web at the Yahoo Finance Industry Center.


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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Animals at the Oakland Zoo were treated to a buffet of tropical fruit after a truck spilled its shipment on a freeway. Full Story
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We coax visitors up the 248 stairs at the historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse to the breathtaking vista that awaits at the top. We wobble by their side across the Mile High swinging bridge at Grandfather Mountain, squeal and splash on the rapids of the Nantahala.
We share legal moonshine, pig pickins and world-class dining; jug bands and symphony; Broadway plays and outdoor drama; golf the year round; and at this time of year, some of the best college hoops in America. Not to brag, but we Tar Heels might reasonably claim we have it all.
So how do you choose where to go and what to do when visitors come to town? What are the places and activities that you consider must-see and must-do to take advantage of North Carolinas splendor and diversity? We want to share your favorites with our readers.
Please go to http://nando.com/ncplaces and tell us about the three places or activities that you consider must-see or must-do. Tell us about the well known and the little known. If you took a photo youd like to share, post it, too. Tell us who you are and how to reach you if we need more information. (We wont publish your phone number.) The deadline is Feb. 15.
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QUESTION: What about a waiver that the Secretary probably has signed making thousands of Burmese eligible to emigrate here?
MR. MCCORMACK: Sure. There's a fact sheet that we have either put out or are going to put out.
QUESTION: Not out yet (inaudible).
MR. MCCORMACK: We're going to be putting it out. Let me walk you through this because it's a pretty complicated issue. The context for this: There is a refugee camp along the Thai-Burmese border call the Tham Hin refugee camp. In this refugee camp there are a number of ethnic minorities from Burma. Among these ethnic minorities there's a group of about 9,300 people from the Karen, K-a-r-e-n, ethnic -- Burmese ethnic minority..
So recently, over the past -- I'm not sure exactly when it started, but over a past period of time representatives of the Department of Homeland Security have been going through this refugee camp and interviewing individuals to see whether not they meet the criteria for possible resettlement in the United States as refugees.
Now, in the course of these interviews, the representatives discovered that there were members of the Karen National Union, combatants of the Karen National Union and those who might have provided some "material support" under the law to the Karen National Union.
Now, under the law, the intersection of the Patriot Act and the Clear ID Act of 2005, those who have -- might have provided material support to what, under that act, might be considered a terrorist organization, would not be eligible for possible resettlement in the United States. Now, I distinguish between a foreign terrorist organization and what might be considered a terrorist organization under the Clear ID Act. There are several different tiers of this. It's referred to as a tier three organization..
So that's the overall context for where we stand right now. Now, what the Secretary did was she exercised the waiver authority -- and this is under the Immigration and Nationality Act -- so that certain refugees who might otherwise meet all the criteria for refugee resettlement in the United States could be considered for resettlement in the United States. So this waiver is not a guarantee that individuals might be resettled in the United States, but merely something that allows the Department of Homeland Security to consider them as potentially eligible, even though they might be considered under the law to have provided what I referred to as material support. That's the term under the law.
So that's where we stand now in the process. So to my knowledge, there haven't been any individuals who have actually been designated for resettlement here. And there's one important -- one more important point here, and that is anybody who might be a combatant or a member of the Karen National Union would not be eligible for resettlement in the United States, even under this waiver authority.
QUESTION: Let me see if I understand. I think I do.
MR. MCCORMACK: Okay.
QUESTION: There was a blanket exclusion of all these refugees, whether or not there was evidence that they supported terrorism until now..
MR. MCCORMACK: Not all the refugees in the camp. It's an important distinction because you have a group of -- an ethnic minority -- about -- a little more than 9,000 people. So some subset of them might be considered as potentially providing material support to the Karen National Union. So I'm not saying all of them. I'm just saying some group of them.
QUESTION: So it is a waiver.
MR. MCCORMACK: Yeah. This waiver would potentially affect a subset of that 9,300 people. And so that's -- I just want to draw that distinction between all of the refugees from this ethnic minority and those who -- some subset of them who might otherwise have been automatically excluded because of the Patriot Act or the Clear Idea Act.
QUESTION: Were there people who, all along, have been eligible to resettle here in that group? It sounds like (inaudible) go through the area and made a more discerning distinction between potential terror supporters and just people.
MR. MCCORMACK: Right. Well, you'll have to talk to Homeland Security for exactly where they are in the process, whether or not they were actually individuals who had already met the eligibility --
QUESTION: That's what --
MR. MCCORMACK: Homeland Security would have a better read on that, Barry, for exactly where they stand in the process. So what the waiver does is it opens up a possibility for some subset of those group of people, but it would not include people who are either members or combatants in the Karen National Union.
QUESTION: Is there some nuance about whether -- last question -- whether that group, you said may be considered -- is it fair enough to say it's designated as a terrorist group?
MR. MCCORMACK: Well, it's -- under -- there are various different classifications, as you know Barry, foreign terrorist organizations being something completely separate. But under this law, the Clear ID Act of 2005, is a very expansive definition of what might constitute a terrorist group and that group, the Karen National Union, would fall under that designation.
QUESTION: Thank you.
MR. MCCORMACK: Anything else on this?
QUESTION: When was the waiver issued?
MR. MCCORMACK: She signed the waiver on Wednesday.


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SYLVANIA - The Screven County Gamecocks struggles to get anything going until the fourth inning, but the floodgates opened to the tune of six runs in the frame as SCHS (11-12) took Game 3 over East Laurens, 8-3, to advance to the Region 3-AA title game Monday.
There's still a long way to go, but the Statesboro boys and girls track and field teams are both in competition to defend their Region 2-AAAA titles.
After a grueling regular season schedule, a pair of local teams is ready to make a run in the Class-AA postseason.
BROOKLET - The Bryan County girls track team tallied 155 points to claim the 2011 Region 3-A title, and the Jenkins County boys took the top prize with 163 points Thursday at the Region 3-A championships held at Southeast Bulloch Tuesday and Thursday.
MARTINEZ - The Bulloch Academy boys' track team did something Wednesday that no other Gator or Lady Gator team has ever done.
BROOKLET - Southeast Bulloch ended its regular season schedule on a high note, pummeling Liberty County by a score of 13-3 in six innings Wednesday evening.
SYLVANIA - The Screven County Lady Gamecocks cruised past Fitzgerald in the first round of the GHSA Class AA state plauoffs Tuesday to advance to the second round without dropping a set.
After four years spent dazzling Blue Devil fans, Jaqawn Raymond will be showcasing his talent on one of the biggest stages in the country.
With the postseason just around the corner, Bulloch Academy is looking to one of its biggest guns to lead the charge toward the state playoffs.
Although she is only a sophomore, Breanna Gates has already left her mark on the Southeast Bulloch record books.
Bulloch Academy pounded out 11 hits Tuesday against Region 4-AAA foe Trinity Christian School but still came up on the short end of the stick.
After a solid regular season, the Metter Tigers set their sights on an appearance in the Georgia High School Association state baseball playoffs this afternoon as they host Johnson County in the Region 3-A playoffs.
It's been a rough season for Statesboro baseball, but the Blue Devils put a silver lining on their year with a 7-6 win over Evans on Friday night at Mill Creek Regional Park in the last game of their Region 2-AAAA schedule.
BROOKLET - The Southeast Bulloch Yellow Jackets continued to roll, defeating Bryan County by a score of 10-2 Thursday night in a non-region matchup.
AUGUSTA - The Screven County Lady Gamecocks (21-2) cruised past Dodge County Thursday at the Fleming Tennis Complex to make it to the Region 3-AA championship, but fell to Bleckley County in the finals to clinch the No. 2 seed in the GHSA Class AA state playoffs.
Coming off of its first losing season in 12 years and with a new head coach leading the ranks, it's clear that Bulloch Academy has plenty to strive for this season.
BROOKLET - As fall practices begin throughout the state, few schools carry over as much momentum as the Yellow Jackets of Southeast Bulloch.
Students around the state are ready to get back to school, but 16 teams from around south Georgia are already on the softball diamond as Bulloch Academy hosted the first day of the third annual Miriam Burnette Memorial "Striking out Alzheimer's" tournament Wednesday on the grounds of Georgia Southern University.
PORTAL - No matter the expectations, the preseason preparations rarely change for the Portal Panthers.
Putting answers next to preseason question marks and replacing departed seniors is an annual exercise for high school football teams everywhere.
The Bulloch Academy varsity softball team will do its part to bring an end to a horribly devastating disease by hosting the third annual Miriam Burnette Memorial "Striking Out Alzheimer's" softball tournament on July 30-31.
Barbara Conner, the backbone of Bulloch Academy for nearly 30 years, was recently inducted to the Georgia Independent School Association Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
BROOKLET - No matter the strategy of any football team, it's pretty likely that the team's head coach will preach special teams as one of the most important factors for success.
With Friday night's Fourth of July celebrations fresh in the minds of local residents, it's hard to believe that in just 50 days the midair explosions of fireworks will be replaced with the pad-crunching hard hits of Statesboro High football.
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"When a man, a business corporation or an entire society is approaching bankruptcy, there are two courses that those involved can follow: they can evade the reality of their situation and act on a frantic, blind, range-of-the moment expediency — not daring to look ahead, wishing no one would name the truth, yet desperately hoping that something will save them somehow — or they can identify the situation, check their premises, discover their hidden assets and start rebuilding. America, at present, is following the first course.
"The grayness, the stale cynicism, the noncommittal cautiousness, the guilty evasiveness of our public voices suggest the attitude of the courtiers in the story 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' who professed admiration for the Emperor's nonexistent garments, having accepted the assertion that anyone who failed to perceive them was morally depraved at heart."
Ayn Rand said this in 1960. Wow !
Someone has to be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally, ethically and economically bankrupt.
Do not expect the Mediacracy to do that. No, they have installed their president and regardless they will continue to redefine reality with their last gasping breath.
Rand said, "Bankruptcy is defined as the state of being at the end of one's resources.What are the intellectual values or resources offered to us by the present guardians of our culture?
"In philosophy, we are taught that man's mind is impotent, that reality is unknowable, that knowledge is an illusion, and that reason is a superstition. In psychology, we are told that man is a helpless automaton, determined by forces beyond his control, motivated by innate depravity.
"In literature, we are shown a line-up of murderers, dipsomaniacs,drug addicts, neurotics and psychotics as representatives of man's soul — and are invited to identify our own among them — with the belligerent assertions that life is a sewer, a foxhole or a rat race, with the whining injunctions that we must love everything, except virtue, and forgive everything, except greatness."
In politics, we are told that America, the greatest, noblest, freest country on earth, is politically and morally inferior to socialist states, that have led to the bloodiest dictatorships in the world — and that our wealth should be given away to be fair, with apologies for the fact that we have produced it, while others have not.
If we look at modern politicians, we are confronted with the grotesque spectacle of such characteristics as spineless denial, uncertainty, crusading cynicism, dogmatic agnosticism, boastful selfabasement and self-righteous immorality all used for the attainment of power at any cost.
Cosmetic political correctness which is divisiveness designed to maintain power over those who pay the bills that they create. If this is not bankruptcy, what is?
"The child is the father to the man." Wordworth said.
There are children out there who will pay for all of this. But does it take one of them to tell us that we need to grow up?
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The owner of the historic brick brewhouse below Tumwater Falls has proposed an improved access road to the property, the first sign of potential development activity there since he bought the building and surrounding property in 2010.
Developer and owner George Heidgerken recently met with Tumwater development officials, seeking feedback and requirements for widening, paving and regrading a road that leads down to the brewhouse. Heidgerken said the road needs to be changed if he hopes to attract a tenant to the 200,000-square-foot brewhouse.
"They won't put up with a single (vehicle) access road," he said about prospective tenants.
Heidgerken proposes to widen the road for two-way access, including a curb and sidewalk, to accommodate the public and emergency vehicles.
The road is steep – it has a grade of more than 20 percent in places – so he also proposes to decrease the grade, Tumwater permit manager Chris Carlson said.
Carlson said the city standard for street grades is no more than 15 percent, although the city is pushing for 12 percent because emergency vehicles don't like to access steep grades.
Heidgerken also learned at a recent city meeting what will be required to upgrade the road.
Carlson said the requirements include a shoreline substantial development permit, which includes a public hearing before the hearing examiner; critical area reports because the property is near wetlands; and upgrades to sewer and water systems.
Trees likely will be removed during construction, so Heidgerken will need a forester's report, including an inventory of trees, as well as a site development permit to move dirt and install the road, Carlson said.
"We'd love to be under construction this year, but the process might hold us up for two or three years," Heidgerken acknowledged.
Heidgerken paid $1.4 million for the brewhouse, 32 acres of property and two parking lots in a deal that closed in September 2010.
He also owns the warehouse at 240 Custer Way SW. Both the warehouse and the brewhouse once were part of the Olympia Brewery.
Since acquiring the property, Heidgerken has heard from "brewers, wineries and bakeries," about occupying space in the buildings, but nothing has materialized.
The more modern brewhouse and related buildings south of Custer Way is still owned by a company called Capital Salvage of California, which came to control the property after a failed attempt to bottle water at the brewery. The brewery closed in June 2003.Rolf Boone: 360-754-5403 firstname.lastname@example.com theolympian.com/bizblog


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In Texas, these bats occur in agave and desert-scrub woodlands at elevations of 4,900 to 7,500 feet. They are seldom found far from the agaves and cacti upon which they depend. These bats are found north of the US border only from June to August. They roost in caves, abandoned mines, and cliff-face cavities in groups ranging from a few to several thousand. Many appear to make relatively long seasonal migrations, remaining active in warm climates year-round. These bats are seldom seen except at night at hummingbird feeders.
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She materializes from the void at the end of a fog-enshrouded corridor. Ominous music plays as her long body pierces the fog and plays about her long legs; she approaches the lens as if in a trance. The camera moves in for a close shot of the seductive, long-haired woman in a skin-tight black dress.
And then she screams.
Scary, sexy and trend-setting, that was Vampira, the ghoul's pin-up girl of the 1950s. As host of The Vampira Show, Maila Nurmi (Dec. 11, 1922-Jan. 10, 2008) is a legend among fans of classic television and film science fiction. She is credited as the first television horror-movie hostess, creating a venue that would be repeated at television stations across the nation, including the "Ghoulardi" character at WJW in Cleveland.
Indeed, when Ernie Anderson's Ghoulardi character was first transmitted into Ashtabula County homes on the night of Jan. 13, 1963, he was treading on the trendsetter's home turf.
Nurmi, born as Maila Elizabeth Syrjaniemi, spent most of her childhood and adolescent years in Ashtabula, where her parents landed after immigrating from Petsamo, Finland, circa 1924. The family lived in Ashtabula until 1939, when they moved to Oregon. After graduating high school in Astoria, Ore., Nurmi headed for Los Angeles, where she worked as a model, had a small film roll ( "If Winter Comes") and made a name for herself in the stage show, "Spook Scandals," in which she "screamed, fainted, lay in a coffin and seductively lurked about a mock cemetery," according her Wikipedia.org entry.
In 1949 Nurmi married Dean Riesener, who coined the name "Vampira" for her character, influenced by the Dragon Lady from "Terry and the Pirates" and the evil queen of Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
It all started with a costume that Nurmi wore to a 1953 party, Bal Caribe Masquerade, held by choreographer Lester Horton. Inspired by Morticia Addams in "The New Yorker" cartoons of Charles Addams, Nurmi sported pale white skin and a tight black dress, which no doubt caught the attention of many of the male partygoers.
Hunt Stromberg Jr., a television producer, tracked down the stunning woman after the party and offered her an opportunity to host horror movies on KABC-TV. A preview of her show, "Dig Me Later, Vampira," previewed 11 p.m. April 30, 1954. From then on, it aired at midnight as "The Vampira Show," gradually moving earlier and earlier into the evening. By March 5, 1955, the show had moved to the 10:30 p.m. slot, where it stayed until the station canceled it later that year. Nurmi transported her name and show to a competing station, KHJ-TV.
As host, Nurmi introduced the night's show after her trademark scream and used the commercial breaks as opportunity to insert horror-related comedy. She talked to her pet spider, Rollo, and gave her comedy spiels while reclining on a skull-encrusted Victorian couch.
She was always looking for a publicity stunt and to that end ran as the Night Mayor of Hollywood. Her platform was "dead issues."
Vampira made national news in June 1954, when she hit the pages of Life Magazine and "The Red Skelton Show" featured her in a comedy skit with a horror theme. That same year, she was nominated for an Emmy as the "Most Outstanding Female Personality." After her show as canceled, Nurmi returned to acting in films — "Too Much, Too Soon," "The Big Operator" and "The Beat Generation."
It was in the 1959 film, "Plan 9 from Outer Space," that Nurmi created her iconic science fiction role, that of a Vampira-like zombie. Several other films followed: "I Passed for White," "Sex Kittens Go to College" and "The Magic Sword."
Vampira's film career was as short lived as a zombie. By 1962 she was making her living installing linoleum flooring. She also sold antiques and handmade jewelry and clothing. Attempts to resurrect her Vampira character fizzled, but she has attained cult status among many science fiction fans.
She lived in a small North Hollywood apartment until her death in 2008.
Although married three times, Nurmi had no children. She is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.


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When Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett was a state senator in Nashville, he learned about New York's Kendra's Law shortly after a shooting at a Knoxville restaurant. The woman the law was named after was killed when a man suffering from untreated mental illness pushed her in front of a bus. The law provided a way for people who are trying to deal with mental illnesses to get treatment without being committed to a hospital or facility full-time. Similarly, it was determined the man involved in the Knoxville shooting suffered from mental illness.
"It's not a sexy issue," Burchett says, but there was a great need to help people with mental illness rather than let them wind up in jail, and he got to work creating a bill patterned after Kendra's Law.
"The prisons now—we're filling them up with drug addicts and mentally ill people," Burchett says. "And the truth is those people need to be sent to another facility to be treated. They don't need to be locked up in a prison. You don't treat somebody [with mental illness] by locking them in a jail cell with a bunch of criminals."
Burchett's mental health bill didn't go anywhere in the Legislature.
But that changed this spring when a similar bill passed the state Legislature and was signed by Gov. Bill Haslam, creating a program similar to the one enacted in New York. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Becky Duncan Massey and Sen. Doug Overbey, who joined Burchett and Commissioner of Mental Health Doug Varney in announcing the new program the legislation created last Friday on the steps of the Helen Ross McNabb Center.
Overbey, who joined Burchett's original effort as a House sponsor of his bill, agrees with the mayor's belief that jail isn't the place for the mentally ill.
"Right now we're treating far too many mental health patients in our jails. Our jails have become the largest place to treat mental health rather than in a facility where they ought to be treated," Overbey says.
The pilot program created by the law will provide two years of funding for 10 people to be treated as outpatients each year through the Helen Ross McNabb Center. In order to get into the treatment program, a court order will have to be issued by a judge. The program is designed to prevent full-time commitment of people with mental illness whose behavior is putting themselves and others at risk for injury and/or jail time. The pilot will start in Knox County, but Massey hinted it could eventually extend to all of Tennessee. It will be the only state-funded outpatient program for mental illness in the state.
Ben Harrington, director of the Mental Health Association of East Tennessee, says that the people who will most likely be using the new resource will be poor and uninsured. They will have probably been in and out of mental-health treatment and stopped following a treatment plan for various reasons. Harrington says when people start to feel better on their treatment plans, they sometimes decide they don't need to continue with it, and fall back into unhealthy patterns.
"For some folks, this is the last resource," Harrington says, adding that people who ignore their mental illness are likely to wind up jail. "Eventually it will lead to something dramatic."
That's where the court order would come in. Under the pilot program, families will be able to present a judge with evidence that a person suffering from mental illness has repeatedly sought treatment, improved with that treatment, and then—for whatever reason—stopped treatment and has become a danger to him- or herself. If the judge decides the outpatient treatment program is suitable, an order will be issued for the person to go into the program.
"It has a coercive element. It's a court order to get them into outpatient treatment," Varney says. "[But] you don't have to wait till a person gets so seriously ill that it's much more difficult [to get help]. It's really to prevent people from getting committed to a hospital."
Harrington says there have been similar programs in Tennessee in the past, but without funding, those programs couldn't accomplish much. Under the new program, $125,000 will be available to use each year for the next two years. Compared to full-time institutional commitment, Harrington says, the outpatient treatment program is much cheaper. Full-time commitment at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, for example, cost $900 per day.
Massey says the funding for the program will cost less than keeping people who could have used this program in jail. The program, she says, will effectively keep more people out of jail.
"We can't just do the treatment after the fact. We've got to do more preventative care because it really does cost us more dollars afterwards," Massey says. "I think this program will be an important step in helping individuals not go into psychiatric hospitals, not go into the jails, which are a lot more expensive."
The program announcement comes weeks after Lakeshore closed. Harrington says he doesn't know if the program will help bridge the gap left by Lakeshore's closing, but Varney says the program would provide a service the institution did not. Only full-time commitment was hosted at Lakeshore, in addition to screenings, Varney says.
Emily Scheuneman, the public relations coordinator at the Helen Ross McNabb Center, says the center took in 11 of Lakeshore's patients and started a program called Intensive Long-Term Support, which is intended to actually pick up the slack left by Lakeshore's closing. Scheuneman says the program is funded by the state, and the center partnered with the state Department of Mental Health to create the program, as they will again do with the outpatient program.
"We were just approached by the legislators and the Department of Mental Health and asked if we wanted to participate," she says of the new program. "We do want to fill [Lakeshore's] gaps."
Varney says there is no definite timeline for when the outpatient program will begin. He says the Mental Health Department and the Helen Ross McNabb Center are in the process of working out the details of the program—from which judges will be involved in signing the orders, to which doctors will serve patients, to the practical budget. Unfortunately, all that planning takes time.
"There is a considerable amount of work and coordination involved in the planning to ensure that the processes established will be effective and efficient," Varney says.
There are resources, Varney says, through the Helen Ross McNabb Center and the Department of Mental Health that people can access in the meantime.
Burchett says he's glad someone's finally taking a public stand for people living with mental illness.
"Until some big-shot's kid is shot or harmed by somebody like this, you never see legislation. And that's just the truth," Burchett says. "Apparently the leadership is taking another look at this and I'm glad the governor and everybody else found the funding."
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An early start to day two of the Holiday Hoopfest at Thomasville High resulted in a "sluggish" game between the Thomas County Central Lady Jackets and Bainbridge Lady Bearcats.
Blown layups, missed free throws and constant turnovers were the story of Central's 38-24 win Friday over its Region 1-AAAAA rival.
"It was real sluggish," Central coach Deatrice Hose said. "Both teams were very sluggish. It was hard to get anything going. We barely had anything in the third quarter.
"I think early in the morning, both teams were still asleep."
The Lady Jackets were held to just eight points in the third period. Bainbridge, though, mustered just four points. That followed a scoreless second quarter for the Lady Bearcats, who were outscored 14-0, en route to a 20-7 halftime deficit.
Central converted just 4-of-11 free throws, while Bainbridge made only 2-of-10 from the charity stripe.
Kaeci Guyton and Kamaria Lewis each paced Central with 10 points. Guyton scored eight in the second quarter.
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FROSTBURG — Britton Junior Nestor, 92, of Frostburg, passed away at WMHS Regional Medical Center on Friday, May 10, 2013.
Born May 2, 1921 in Phillipi, W.Va., he was the son of Renna Britton Nestor and Ida (Stalnaker) Nestor. He is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Edith Mercey (Hutchins) Nestor; brother, Wetzel Ray Nestor and three sisters, Marie Mouser, Marada G. Grimm and Pansy P. Ritter.
Mr. Nestor was a World War II Air Force Veteran. He was retired from Maryland Coal and Realty Company as a laborer and a farmer his entire life.
Surviving is a daughter, Valerie I. Davis and husband Roger; grandchildren, Lisa Rafferty, Brian Rafferty, Michelle McGee and husband James, and Terry Klein and husband Dave; great-grandchildren, Matthew Portmess, Trevor Klein, Jesse Rafferty, and Wade McGee, Isaac Taylor, Emily McGee, and Jacob Klein; great-great grandchildren, Braiden and Mason Portmess.
Family and friends will be received at Durst Funeral Home, 57 Frost Ave., Frostburg on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will be held at 9 p.m. following the viewing with the Rev. Harold McClay officiating.
Following the service, Mr. Nestor will be cremated in accordance with his wishes.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Kenneth C. Dailey, III, because two veteran homicide detectives failed to properly inform him of his Constitutional rights in 2004.
In 2004, Kenneth Dailey pleaded guilty to strangling a woman and even told police he did it, but Dailey has been freed.
It's been seen on television plenty of times - an officer telling a criminal suspect that he or she has the right to remain silent, but it was the timing of that statement that has allowed an accused killer to go free.
In 2004, someone found Nancy Mary Lyons' decomposing body in an abandoned vehicle at Tommy's Wrecker Service in Nashville.
After interviewing all the employees, homicide detective Mike Roland testified he had a hunch that Kenneth Dailey was the killer. He asked Dailey to come to the police department to get another set of fingerprints although he admitted in testimony the real reason was for an interview.
Eventually, Dailey confessed to Roland and veteran cold-case detective Pat Postiglione in the interrogation room. Detectives then read Dailey his Miranda rights. Dailey then repeated his confession before he was arrested and later convicted and sent to prison.
"An interrogation is not a two-step process from the perspective of the citizen. It's a one step process," said constitutional attorney David Raybin.
Raybin agreed with the ruling filed late Friday.
"That's the danger of these kind of cases. How do you assess when Miranda rights are required? Do you assess it from the perspective of the police officer or from the citizen?" Raybin said.
Raybin said Dailey should have been read his rights immediately. Raybin also said the court ruled correctly in siding with the citizen, in this case, Dailey.
"I think it's a constitutional victory for both police and the defendant and the citizens because, up until this point, there was some ambiguity as to when Miranda rights were required," he said.
Raybin pointed out the justices' final conclusion, a recognition he said of an officer's duty to solve crime balanced with the rights of the public.
"Unsolved crimes injure every member of our society, but so do unconstitutional actions by agents of our government," according to the decision.
Raybin said in this case, the officers did nothing wrong. He instead blames the other legal decisions, saying the officers did not have enough clarity from the courts. This decision, he feels, does clear up some of that ambiguity.
Postiglione said he respects the courts ruling but strongly disagrees with it. The ruling is final. It cannot be appealed because it was decided on state constitutional grounds.


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The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the church, with Jimsey Harjo and Houston Tiger officiating. Burial will follow at Vamoosa Cemetery.
Mr. Harjo died Friday, April 5, 2013, at his home in Wewoka.


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Lexington first-year coach Brian Hucks had little debate on who he was going to send to the mound with the No. 1-ranked Wildcats' season on the line.
Facing an elimination game against rival White Knoll, Hucks turned to A.J. Hart to keep the hope alive. The senior right-hander was up to the task as he pitched Lexington to a 5-1 victory against the Timberwolves in the Class 4A playoffs Thursday night to earn a spot in the Lower State championship tonight.
"We're sitting in an elimination game and I gave the ball to the toughest kid on our team," Hucks said. "He was a warrior out there."
Lexington (27-3) must travel to Ashley Ridge tonight and win twice to advance to the state championship series next week. Ashley Ridge has to win once to advance.
Hart scattered five hits in the complete-game effort and pitched his way out of a huge jam in the first inning. Trevor Bradley led off the White Knoll first with a double but was picked off second by Hart for the first out.
White Knoll eventually loaded the bases with a single by Carl Wise sandwiched around two walks. Hart got a ground ball to third that Colie Bowers threw home for the force out. Hart then got a fly ball to left to end the threat.
"We get off to a good start with the double but have a momentum killer with the pick. But, even with that, we still get going," first-year White Knoll coach Brooks Shumake said. "That was big there for us to come away with nothing after having the first four batters reach base."
Hart, who improved to 7-0, threw 30 pitches in that first inning but once he got out of the jam, he felt settled in. He struck out three and walked two.
"I knew once my adrenaline started pumping I was going to throw that complete game," he said. "After that first inning, I knew I had to throw more strikes. I was getting behind too many batters and that is what happens when you get behind a bunch of good hitters, you find yourself with the bases loaded and one out. I was glad to get out of it with no damage."
The Wildcats jumped on top 1-0 in the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Collin Steagall that scored Bowers. White Knoll tied it in the third inning when Wise scored on a wild pitch with two outs.
After the third inning, Hart held White Knoll (23-8) to one base hit as he retired 12 of the final 13 batters and the final 11 in order.
"After the third inning, he gave up one hit against a very good-hitting lineup," Hucks said. "I was worried we were going to have to make a move in the third or fourth but he settled in."
The fourth inning proved the difference. A walk, a balk and a hit batter put runners at the corners with one out. White Knoll pitcher Ricky Harrison got a slow roller back to the mound to get the second out but No. 9 hitter Dalton Addy delivered a two-out, two-run single to take the lead.
Bowers reached on an error to extend the inning and Austin Bello had a bloop single that landed just out of reach of a diving fielder to score both runs and make it 5-1.
"That fourth inning was big," Hucks said. "All of that came with two outs. We always talk about it's not how many hits you get, it's when you get them and those two-out hits are special."
It was the third time this season Lexington has beaten White Knoll but this time more was riding on it than a region championship or bragging rights. When Hart got the final out on a fly ball to left field, he turned and blew a kiss towards the Timberwolves dugout in a show of emotion.
"They were trying to get in my head all night so I was just playing games back," Hart said of the kiss.
WP: AJ Hart (7-0). LP: Ricky Harrison (2-3). Hitters: L — Colie Bowers 2-3; Austin Bello 2-3, 2RBI. WK — Carl Wise 2-3. Rec: L 27-3; WK 23-8.


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Apple touts 85 million iCloud customers, sets service as strategy for next decade
Apple made their predictably astronomical financial statements tonight, but one tidbit in particular stuck out - their emphasis on iCloud and its 85 million customers. Specifically, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that iCloud isn't a product, it's their strategy for the next decade.
iCloud is still relatively new, having launched with iOS 5 last summer as a replacement of MobileMe. It's a bit more involved, and offers a lot more in terms of functionality, which you can see in our full iOS 5 walkthrough. It's interesting to hear Apple positioning the service as such a high priority, but since they've pretty much owned the hardware game for the last couple of years, it's the next logical place to go. Having full-bodied services back them up will only serve to cement the iPhone and iPad as leading mobile devices.
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I use it and i love it, moving more and more away from google, waiting for iCloud to implement more functions. Hope they provide more functions.
I use it daily. it syncs well with between my iPhone & Windows PC.
I use it for iPhone back up only.
I use it for backup only too. I still Google for my domain, email, contacts and calendar. Once the iCloud email improves (I give it 6-9 months) I could see myself using it fully.
Although iCloud offers great new functionality, it did kill several very useful MobileMe features, such iDisk and keychain syncing. For me, losing iDisk is a big disappointment.
My whole family uses it for backups. I store my Numbers files on it for accessing on my iPhone. I just they would hurry up with an update for OSX and syncing.
I also use the match service and love it - when it it works.
I use it for back ups only.
Gmail for mail and contacts.
Google music for music (gmusic).
Picasa for photos (web albums).
This helps keep back up size small and totally eliminates iTunes from the equation.
We use iCloud for backup, Photo Stream, and will soon sign up for Music Match.
iCloud is just in its infancy now. It is as important to Apple's next decade as iTunes was from 2001 to now. Without iTunes, iPod would have just been a slightly nicer-to-use MP3 and video device. With iTunes, iPod (and iPhone and iPad) changed human culture forever. iCloud will keep that momentum going.
For me ICloud has been a disappointment, several mobile me features are lost and I can't even use my Mobile me username to sync with Icloud properly, I spoke with Apple customer service several times and they suggested that I use hotmail.
iCloud. Photo stream, find my phone, iOS backup, universal app and iTunes content access -- I like. Contacts, calendar -- OK. Mail and all things files -- terrible. So I use a combination of iCloud, gmail, and dropbox.
iCloud has a lot of potential, and I hope Apple works to improve it. Along those lines, I really hope to see iCloud become more multi-platform friendly. I don't think I will see that.
iCloud is just a name for a bunch of services. The weak point is the data storage service. It is not a replacement for iDisk and Dropbox and very few apps use the data storage. Even iWork on Mac does still not support the storage in iCloud. I really hope Apple gets the issues with this service and enhances it soon.
iOS backups and photo stream. I don't really "use" them, but it's there. I do use Match
regularly to play my music via ATV2. I'm not super impressed with iCloud but there is potential. I'm pretty happy with Google and Dropbox for most of my cloud needs. Apple would have to Introduce something really inovative for me to want to change what I do now. Just copying others' functionality won't be enough.
This made me mad. I'm guessing 85 mill breaks down into:
50 mil don't even know they have it
30 know about it but only use backup
5 use more than backup
That's hardly "85 million customers who love I cloud". Tim Cook sounds like a sleazy used car salesman.


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TULSA (AP) — The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office said Monday it's weighing its options after a federal appeals court ruled the state doesn't have jurisdiction over a death row case in which a man pleaded guilty to killing three people in Indian Country.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voided David Magnan's convictions Friday and ordered him released from state custody, but a three-judge panel said they presumed that federal authorities would arrest and prosecute him "given the nature of the crimes and Magnan's admitted guilt."
Magnan, 50, pleaded guilty in Seminole County District Court to three counts of first-degree murder and one count of shooting with intent to kill in a March 3, 2004, shooting in which three died and a fourth was injured. He was sentenced to death on each murder count and received a life sentence on the remaining count. All of the victims except one were members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.
Magnan, a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, appealed, claiming that the crimes occurred on Indian land, and therefore Oklahoma could not prosecute him.
Agency spokeswoman Diane Clay said Monday the state has three options: Petition the Denver-based 10th Circuit Court for a rehearing, take the matter directly to the U.S. Supreme Court or decline to take action, likely allowing federal authorities to take over the case.
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