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WASHINGTON - Ten years after their arrest and five years after their imprisonment, John and Timothy Rigas continue to fight for their freedom.
They're awaiting a federal judge's decision in their effort to win a new trial, making the case that overzealous prosecutors, not their own actions, landed the former Buffalo Sabres owner and his son in the Allenwood Federal Corrections Complex in Pennsylvania.
The Justice Department already is under fire for sloppy prosecutions involving everyone from the late Sen. Ted Stevens to former Sen. John Edwards to baseball great Roger Clemens, and the lawyer for the former Adelphia Communications Corp. executives thinks he's got an important case to make.
"There's been a recognition that the prosecutors have been playing a little fast and loose," said Lawrence C. Marshall, a Stanford University law professor who has taken up the Rigases' case.
Marshall contends that's what happened in the Rigas case, where a key potential witness with evidence that could have cleared the Rigases - an outside lawyer for Adelphia Communications Corp., the Rigas family company - refused to talk to the defense before their 2004 trial.
What's more, prosecutors refused to give notes of an interview with that key potential witness to the defense.
"We affirm that the government interfered with the defense's ability to put on its case," Marshall said.
For their part, federal prosecutors respond to that argument with the legal equivalent of a groan.
"Most remarkably of all, four years into their sentences, the Rigases show not a trace of remorse for the massive, $4 billion fraud that they orchestrated," Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, in court papers. "Instead, they seek to keep litigating, 10 years after the fraud came to light."
The Rigases were arrested in July 2002 and convicted two years later of fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors said they "looted" the company of $100 million while hiding billions of dollars of debt and lying to banks and investors about Adelphia's earnings.
John Rigas, 87, is now serving a 12-year sentence, while his son Timothy, 56, is serving a 17-year sentence.
Their lawyers advised the Rigases to turn down a Buffalo News request for an interview.
Asked how his father and brother were doing in prison, Michael Rigas said: "They're doing about as well as can be expected."
But they might be free men, their lawyers argue, had Carl Rothenberger testified at the Rigases' 2004 trial.
Rothenberger was the Pittsburgh-based lawyer who signed off on many of the complicated financial transactions that prosecutors blamed on the Rigases, Marshall said.
Rothenberger knew a lot about the complicated criminal case against the Rigases - and he revealed what he knew in a 2004 interview with prosecutors.
The notes from that interview never surfaced during the criminal trial, but a judge in a separate tax case against the Rigases ordered the notes to be turned over last year.
The Rigases contend that the interview notes contradict the argument that they fraudulently misled investors in government filings, that they failed to disclose important company transactions and that they artificially inflated Adelphia's earnings.
What's more, the notes show that Rothenberger signed off on the company's major decisions, thereby undercutting the prosecution's argument that the Rigases concocted a massive fraud, Marshall said.
"He had blessed and advocated all their actions," Marshall said of Rothenberger. "To show criminal liability, you have to show criminal intent."
For that reason, prosecutors didn't want Rothenberger to testify at the trial, said Michael Rigas, who won freedom thanks to a mistrial just as his father and brother were convicted.
"They were afraid of what he would say," Michael Rigas said.
The government couldn't disagree more, saying the Rothenberger interview notes merely show him sanctioning the Rigases' dubious financial practices.
"There is nothing exculpatory - let alone materially exculpatory - or impeaching in the Rothenberger interview," save for some details on a minor issue that were shared with the defense, assistant U.S. attorneys David B. Massey and Justina Geraci said in a letter last month to the federal judge handling the case.
The Rigas attorneys and the government also disagree profoundly over just what happened with Rothenberger in 2004 and why the defense didn't know what he was saying at the time.
"In a normal setting, he would have been a witness for the defense," Marshall said. "But he was refusing to speak to the defense at all."
To which the government asks: Why not subpoena him, then?
"It defies all logic for the Rigases to continue to blame the government for their decision not to call Rothenberger," Bharara, the U.S. attorney, said in court papers.
Marshall said, though, that the Rigas defense team was shorthanded, meaning some potentially important strands of the case might have been neglected.
"They never had the resources prior to the trial to do a thorough investigation," he said.
The Rigases had the resources, though, to fight their conviction all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and they've lost every step of the way.
Conditions have changed since then, Marshall contends.
For one thing, the Rothenberger notes were revealed in that tax case against the Rigases - and prosecutors subsequently decided to drop all charges.
For another, just last month a federal appeals court reversed the conspiracy convictions of former brokers at Merrill Lynch & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings.
The reason?
The prosecution withheld evidence from the defense - which is just what the Rigas defense argues in its case.
That federal appeals court reversal in a case called U.S. v. Mahaffy points to an important new reality, Marshall said.
"There's some real scrutiny now on the ways prosecutors deal with cases," he said.
Then again, prosecutors said the Rigas defense is "flatly wrong" to cite the Mahaffy case as a reason for the court to give the Rigas case another look.
The Mahaffy case did not involve pretrial interviews of nonwitnesses as the Rigas case did, the prosecutors said in their Aug. 31 letter to the judge. Instead, it involved sworn depositions of people who were later called as witnesses - rendering this an apples-to-oranges comparison.
U.S. District Court Judge Leonard B. Sand, who presided over the trial where the Rigases were convicted, will decide on the Rigases' new case.
That's the same judge who, when first sentencing John J. Rigas in 2005, said:
"The man I have to sentence is the man reflected in the evidence, a man who long ago sent Adelphia on a track of lying and cheating and defrauding. Regretfully for everyone, this was not stopped over 10 years ago but continued and got more brazen and culminated in one of the largest frauds in corporate history."
As if that were not bad enough, Marshall acknowledged that the Rigases' latest attempt for freedom is a legal long shot.
In such cases, "relief is rare," he said. "But these circumstances are rare."
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Hi Experts,
according to the page below, "new" functions for abap developers have been implemented with EHP2:
What's New in ABAP with SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP2
i just started searching for arguments and information how we (the developers) can get these new functionalitys. now i am at a "totaly confused" state:
- we can not install EHP2 only, we need to install the newest EHP (which is now 6, in older posts, its stated that EHP5 has to be installed)?
- EHPs can be installed for specific components, which do we have to use to get the ones mentioned above?
- do we need to activate any business function?
it would be nice if you can help clarifying these points to me.
best regards
btw. according to the info given by SAP, the EHPs will not change any business function, even in a heavly enhanced environment (many custom programmes and some enhancements). so in short, it should be possible to install EHP5 / EHP6 without involving any changes to the usual users, right?
Hi Steve,
For more information regarding the various enhancement packages availability please refer the link
EHP5 is the latest enhancement package available for ERP 6.0 as EHP6 is still in the ramp-up phase and is not in the general
And EHP2 is the latest enhancement package for SAP Netweaver 7.0
For more information about the technical usages please refer the note 1165438 & 1324838 and select the usage according to your business requirement.
Thank You.
Hi Deepika,
thanks for you answer and the links!
so no need for EHP6 then
Edited by: Steve-Wesley Emmert on Dec 28, 2011 2:02 PM
Hi Steve,
As of now EHP6 is not required as it is still not released. If you are satisfied with the reply then i would request you to kindly mark this thread as closed giving your valuable feedbacks.
Thank You.
Hi Deepika,
no it is not closed as there are still open questions from the first post AND i am going through the documentation on the SAP website.
What i now know is that we have to install EHP5 for ECC 6.0 to get the EHP 2 for Netweaver. I am not shure if we have to activate something afterwards to get the new ABAP / Coding functionality like the code completion for a function module.
Hi Steve,
Regarding activating a business function in your system to enable new functionalities please refer the SAP KBA
1641394 - Activating Business Function in Switch Framework (SFW5)
To select the business function of interest, the needed techical usage need to be selected while generating the stack xml file for the upgrade.
A Business Function is always enabled by installing a Technical Usage.A Technical Usage is a logical grouping of ABAP software components,Java software components, XI Content, or Portal Content.
In order to implement a Technical Usage, you have to have an SAP ERP 6.0 system in place, or you are in the process of upgrading your system landscape to SAP ERP 6.0. See the Master Guide for SAP enhancement
package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 for more details.
If you are in the course of an upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0, you may include parts (i.e. "Technical Usages") of the Enhancement Package directly in the upgrade.
The procedure is supported by the SAP Solution Manager (note 1155041) and is described in the ERP Upgrade Guide at:
https://service.sap.com/erp-upgrade -> SAP ERP Upgrade Guides.
Identify the appropriate technical usage with the help of the attached
mapping document 'EhP5_BF_TU_Mapping.pdf'.
And also refer the note 1287216 - MOPZ: pre-select technical usages
Thank You.
Hi Steve-Wesley
For EHP5 keep in mind that you must have Solution Manager SP23 at least. The latest version is SP28 and is highly recommended.
Regarding the business function and switch framework.
It doesn't matter if you have or not business functions activated in your ERP system, mopz will do the check and will perform the calculation based on the source components and the business functions activated in SFW5.
During the first steps of mopz, you'll see that you need create some specific RFC (Read RFCs) between solman and the ERP system. This RFC is needed to solman connect in the managed ERP system and check the Switch framework, so mopz will take in account this information during the calculation.
For example.
You activated the business functions of IS-OIL, let's suppose that this is a BF that you can't deactivate, and you'll receive this information during the activation, it doesn't make sense for mopz calculate the BF for the other components as you can have just only one activated in your system, so mopz will ignore the other components.
Hi both,
maybe i need to rephrase my question.
there are many new ABAP functionalities and functions for the ABAP Workbench (TC: SE80 etc.) comming with EHPs 5 (& 2). As these are for developing and not for any "new" business functions i do not think that i have to activate any business funtion. But i did not find an simple and clear statement about this.
What i want: have the new developers tools without affecting the enduser. What i need: some basic answer to the question: do i get this by just installing, or is there anyting else to consider.
another rephrasing:
--> Can i talk to the key user and say: we developers need the EHP5. If we install it, we have some great new stuff and can test and develop even better. But you, loved user, wont see any difference and all your processes wont change (except the SolMan crew forgets SPDD / SPAU). But you, user, are able to get new functions by just activating them, someday in the future.
(Info: The customer does not want new business functions. but the developers want an up to date development environment)
Edited by: Steve-Wesley Emmert on Dec 28, 2011 4:01 PM
Upgrade does not effect any existing business processes. But when you plan for upgrade then lot of new functionality will be delivered that time you need to do complete testing. Users will see some differences as some new functionality comes in new patches that time you need to do the testing.
As far as business activation is concerned that you can do anytime after upgrade.
It looks quite ambiguous. As mentioned Deepika Paturu, you must figure out these two things :
- Enhancement Packages exist for the ECC part of your SAP ERP systems (EHP1, EHP2,...,EHP5,EHP6 in ramp-up)
- Enhancement Packages exist for the Netweaver part (EHP1 for NW, EHP2 for NW, EHP3 for NW...)
Both Enhancement Packages are related as Netweaver EHP's are now prerequisite for ECC EHP's installation :
- Enhancement Package 4 for ECC requires Enhancement Package 1 of Netweaver
- Enhancement Package 5 for ECC requires Enhancement Package 2 of Netweaver
- Enhancement Package 6 for ECC requires Enhancement Package 3 of Netweaver
But it is impossible to implement EHP2 of Netweaver without upgrading the ECC part to 605. You seem to have considered it.
In my point of view, you shouldn't consider to upgrade to EHP5 for ECC (then... EHP2 of NW) for development reasons. You'll have to import Support Packages during the Upgrade and new Software Components for SAP_APPL EA-APPL for exemple. Even if you don't activate any Business Function, you'll have to do a full test regression of your solution.
You must consider other things :
- Enhancement packages for the ECC components are made of activable Business Functions. Changes are only made after an explicit activation.
- Enhancement packages for the NW components are not made of Business Functions. Changes are immediatly effective for the technical components. The improvements that you want for the development team are in Netweaver Enhancement Package 2
Best regards,
Hello Christian,
many thanks for your answer!
Best Regards,
Hi Steve,
I'm going to do well in your same stage of the upgrade.
Can you give me some feedback ?
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Affordable Care Act Glossary
Accountable Care Organization: A group of health care providers who give coordinated care, chronic disease management, and thereby improve the quality of care patients get. The organization's payment is tied to achieving health care quality goals and outcomes that result in cost savings.
Advanced Premium Tax Credit: The Affordable Care Act provides a new tax credit to help you afford health coverage purchased through the Marketplace. Advance payments of the tax credit can be used right away to lower your monthly premium costs. If you qualify, you may choose how much advance credit payments to apply to your premiums each month, up to a maximum amount. If the amount of advance credit payments you get for the year is less than the tax credit you're due, you'll get the difference as a refundable credit when you file your federal income tax return. If your advance payments for the year are more than the amount of your credit, you must repay the excess advance payments with your tax return. Also called premium tax credit.
Affordable Care Act (ACA): The comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010. The law was enacted in two parts: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010 and was amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act on March 30, 2010. The name "Affordable Care Act" is used to refer to the final, amended version of the law.
Broker: An agent or broker is a person or business who can help you apply for help paying for coverage and enroll in a Qualified Health Plan (QHP) through the Marketplace. They can make specific recommendations about which plan you should enroll in. They're also licensed and regulated by states and typically get payments, or commissions, from health insurers for enrolling a consumer into an issuer's plans. Some brokers may only be able to sell plans from specific health insurers.
Certified Application Counselor (CAC): An individual (affiliated with a designated organization) who is trained and able to help consumers, small businesses, and their employees as they look for health coverage options through the Marketplace, including helping them complete eligibility and enrollment forms. Their services are free to consumers.
Co-Insurance: Your share of the costs of a covered health care service, calculated as a percent (for example, 20%) of the allowed amount for the service. You pay coinsurance plus any deductibles you owe. For example, if the health insurance or plan's allowed amount for an office visit is $100 and you've met your deductible, your coinsurance payment of 20% would be $20. The health insurance or plan pays the rest of the allowed amount.
Creditable Coverage: Health insurance coverage under any of the following: a group health plan; individual health insurance; student health insurance; Medicare; Medicaid; CHAMPUS and TRICARE; the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; Indian Health Service; the Peace Corps; Public Health Plan (any plan established or maintained by a State, the U.S. government, a foreign country); Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or a state health insurance high risk pool. If you have prior creditable coverage, it will reduce the length of a pre-existing condition exclusion period under new job-based coverage
Deductible: The amount you owe for health care services your health insurance or plan covers before your health insurance or plan begins to pay. For example, if your deductible is $1,000, your plan won't pay anything until you've met your $1,000 deductible for covered health care services subject to the deductible. The deductible may not apply to all services.
Employer Shared Responsibility Payment: The Affordable Care Act requires certain employers with at least 50 full-time employees (or equivalents) to offer health insurance coverage to its full-time employees (and their dependents) that meets certain minimum standards set by the Affordable Care Act or to make a tax payment called the ESRP.
Essential Health Benefits: A set of health care service categories that must be covered by certain plans, starting in 2014.
The Affordable Care Act ensures health plans offered in the individual and small group markets, both inside and outside of the Health Insurance Marketplace, offer a comprehensive package of items and services, known as essential health benefits. Essential health benefits must include items and services within at least the following 10 categories: ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization; maternity and newborn care; mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care.
Insurance policies must cover these benefits in order to be certified and offered in the Health Insurance Marketplace, and all Medicaid state plans must cover these services by 2014.
Exchange: See now Health Insurance Market Place.
Exclusive Provider Organization(EPO): A managed care plan where services are covered only if you go to doctors, specialists, or hospitals in the plan's network (except in an emergency).
Federal Poverty Level: A measure of income level issued annually by the Department of Health and Human Services. Federal poverty levels are used to determine your eligibility for certain programs and benefits.
(The amounts below are based on 2013 numbers and are likely to be slightly higher in 2014.)
- $11,490 to $45,960 for individuals
- $15,510 to $62,040 for a family of 2
- $19,530 to $78,120 for a family of 3
- $23,550 to $94,200 for a family of 4
- $27,570 to $110,280 for a family of 5
- $31,590 to $126,360 for a family of 6
- $35,610 to $142,440 for a family of 7
- $39,630 to $158,520 for a family of 8
Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC): Federally funded nonprofit health centers or clinics that serve medically underserved areas and populations. Federally qualified health centers provide primary care services regardless of your ability to pay. Services are provided on a sliding scale fee based on your ability to pay.
Guaranteed Issue: A requirement that health plans must permit you to enroll regardless of health status, age, gender, or other factors that might predict the use of health services. Except in some states, guaranteed issue doesn't limit how much you can be charged if you enroll.
Health Insurance Marketplace: A resource where individuals, families, and small businesses can learn about their health coverage options; compare health insurance plans based on costs, benefits, and other important features; choose a plan; and enroll in coverage. The Marketplace also provides information on programs that help people with low to moderate income and resources pay for coverage. This includes ways to save on the monthly premiums and out-of-pocket costs of coverage available through the Marketplace, and information about other programs, including Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The Marketplace encourages competition among private health plans, and is accessible through websites, call centers, and in-person assistance. In some states, the Marketplace is run by the state. In others it is run by the federal government. Formerly known as the Exchange.
Health Plan Categories: Plans in the Marketplace are primarily separated into 4 health plan categories — Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum — based on the percentage the plan pays of the average overall cost of providing essential health benefits to members. The plan category you choose affects the total amount you'll likely spend for essential health benefits during the year. The percentages the plans will spend, on average, are 60% (Bronze), 70% (Silver), 80% (Gold), and 90% (Platinum). This isn't the same as coinsurance, in which you pay a specific percentage of the cost of a specific service.
Health Status: Refers to your medical conditions (both physical and mental health), claims experience, receipt of health care, medical history, genetic information, evidence of insurability, and disability.
In-Person Assistance Personnel Program: Individual or organizations that are trained and able to provide help to consumers, small businesses, and their employees as they look for health coverage options through the Marketplace, including helping them complete eligibility and enrollment forms. These individuals and organizations are required to be unbiased. Their services are free to consumers.
Medicaid: A state-administered health insurance program for low-income families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, people with disabilities, and in some states, other adults. The Federal government provides a portion of the funding for Medicaid and sets guidelines for the program. States also have choices in how they design their program, so Medicaid varies state by state and may have a different name in your state.
Medical Loss Ratio: A basic financial measurement used in the Affordable Care Act to encourage health plans to provide value to enrollees. If an insurer uses 80 cents out of every premium dollar to pay its customers' medical claims and activities that improve the quality of care, the company has a medical loss ratio of 80%. A medical loss ratio of 80% indicates that the insurer is using the remaining 20 cents of each premium dollar to pay overhead expenses, such as marketing, profits, salaries, administrative costs, and agent commissions. The Affordable Care Act sets minimum medical loss ratios for different markets, as do some state laws.
Medical Underwriting: A process used by insurance companies to try to figure out your health status when you're applying for health insurance coverage to determine whether to offer you coverage, at what price, and with what exclusions or limits.
Medicare: A Federal health insurance program for people who are age 65 or older and certain younger people with disabilities. It also covers people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).
Minimum Essential Coverage: The type of coverage an individual needs to have to meet the individual responsibility requirement under the Affordable Care Act. This includes individual market policies, job-based coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, TRICARE and certain other coverage.
Minimum Value: A health plan meets this standard if it's designed to pay at least 60% of the total cost of medical services for a standard population. Starting in 2014, individuals offered employer-sponsored coverage that provides minimum value and that's affordable won't be eligible for a premium tax credit.
Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI): The figure used to determine eligibility for lower costs in the Marketplace and for Medicaid and CHIP. Generally, modified adjusted gross income is your adjusted gross income plus any tax-exempt Social Security, interest, or foreign income you have.
Navigator: An individual or organization that's trained and able to help consumers, small businesses, and their employees as they look for health coverage options through the Marketplace, including completing eligibility and enrollment forms. These individuals and organizations are required to be unbiased. Their services are free to consumers.
Non-Preferred Provider: A provider who doesn't have a contract with your health insurer or plan to provide services to you. You'll pay more to see a non-preferred provider. Check your policy to see if you can go to all providers who have contracted with your health insurance or plan, or if your health insurance or plan has a "tiered" network and you must pay extra to see some providers.
Open Enrollment Period: The period of time during which individuals who are eligible to enroll in a Qualified Health Plan can enroll in a plan in the Marketplace. For 2014, the Open Enrollment Period is October 1, 2013–March 31, 2014. For 2015 and later years, the Open Enrollment Period is October 15 to December 7 of the previous year. Individuals may also qualify for Special Enrollment Periods outside of Open Enrollment if they experience certain events. See Special Enrollment Period and Qualifying Life Event
You can submit an application for health coverage outside of the Marketplace, or apply for Medicaid or CHIP, at any time of the year.
Out-of-Pocket Costs: Your expenses for medical care that aren't reimbursed by insurance. Out-of-pocket costs include deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments for covered services plus all costs for services that aren't covered.
Payment Bundling: A payment structure in which different health care providers who are treating you for the same or related conditions are paid an overall sum for taking care of your condition rather than being paid for each individual treatment, test, or procedure. In doing so, providers are rewarded for coordinating care, preventing complications and errors, and reducing unnecessary or duplicative tests and treatments.
Penalty: Starting January 1, 2014, if someone doesn't have a health plan that qualifies as minimum essential coverage, he or she may have to pay a fee that increases every year: from 1% of income (or $95 per adult, whichever is higher) in 2014 to 2.5% of income (or $695 per adult) in 2016. The fee for children is half the adult amount. The fee is paid on the 2014 federal income tax form, which is completed in 2015. People with very low incomes and others may be eligible for waivers. See also, Fee.
Premium Tax Credit: The Affordable Care Act provides a new tax credit to help you afford health coverage purchased through the Marketplace. Advance payments of the tax credit can be used right away to lower your monthly premium costs. If you qualify, you may choose how much advance credit payments to apply to your premiums each month, up to a maximum amount. If the amount of advance credit payments you get for the year is less than the tax credit you're due, you'll get the difference as a refundable credit when you file your federal income tax return. If your advance payments for the year are more than the amount of your credit, you must repay the excess advance payments with your tax return.
Qualified Health Plan: Under the Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014, an insurance plan that is certified by the Health Insurance Marketplace, provides essential health benefits, follows established limits on cost-sharing (like deductibles, copayments, and out-of-pocket maximum amounts), and meets other requirements. A qualified health plan will have a certification by each Marketplace in which it is sold.
Qualifying Life Event: A change in your life that can make you eligible for a Special Enrollment Period to enroll in health coverage. Examples of qualifying life events are moving to a new state, certain changes in your income, and changes in your family size (for example, if you marry, divorce, or have a baby).
Referral: A written order from your primary care doctor for you to see a specialist or get certain medical services. In many Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), you need to get a referral before you can get medical care from anyone except your primary care doctor. If you don't get a referral first, the plan may not pay for the services.
Reinsurance: A reimbursement system that protects insurers from very high claims. It usually involves a third party paying part of an insurance company's claims once they pass a certain amount. Reinsurance is a way to stabilize an insurance market and make coverage more available and affordable.
Rescission: The retroactive cancellation of a health insurance policy. Insurance companies will sometimes retroactively cancel your entire policy if you made a mistake on your initial application when you buy an individual market insurance policy. Under the Affordable Care Act, rescission is illegal except in cases of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of material fact as prohibited by the terms of the plan or coverage.
Rider (Exclusionary Rider): A rider is an amendment to an insurance policy. Some riders will add coverage (for example, if you buy a maternity rider to add coverage for pregnancy to your policy.) In most states today, an exclusionary rider is an amendment, permitted in individual health insurance policies that permanently excludes coverage for a health condition, body part, or body system. Starting in September 2010, under the Affordable Care Act, exclusionary riders cannot be applied to coverage for children. Starting in 2014, no exclusionary riders will be permitted in any health insurance.
Self-Insured Plan: Type of plan usually present in larger companies where the employer itself collects premiums from enrollees and takes on the responsibility of paying employees' and dependents' medical claims. These employers can contract for insurance services such as enrollment, claims processing, and provider networks with a third party administrator, or they can be self-administered.
Social Security: A system that distributes financial benefits to retired or disabled people, their spouses, and their dependent children based on their reported earnings. While you work, you may pay taxes into the Social Security system. When you retire or become disabled, you, your spouse, and your dependent children may get monthly benefits that are based on your reported earnings. Your survivors may be able to collect Social Security benefits if you die.
Special Enrollment Period: A time outside of the open enrollment period during which you and your family have a right to sign up for job-based health coverage. Job-based plans must provide a special enrollment period of 30 days following certain life events that involve a change in family status (for example, marriage or birth of a child) or loss of other job-based health coverage.
State Continuation Coverage: A state-based requirement similar to COBRA that applies to group health insurance policies of employers with fewer than 20 employees. In some states, state continuation coverage rules also apply to larger group insurance policies and add to COBRA protections. For example, in some states, if you're leaving a job-based plan, you must be allowed to continue your coverage until you reach the age of Medicare eligibility.
Subsidized Coverage: Health coverage that's obtained through financial assistance from programs to help people with low and middle incomes.
Summary of Benefits and Coverage: An easy-to-read summary that lets you make apples-to-apples comparisons of costs and coverage between health plans. You can compare options based on price, benefits, and other features that may be important to you. You'll get the "Summary of Benefits and Coverage" (SBC) when you shop for coverage on your own or through your job, renew or change coverage, or request an SBC from the health insurance company.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI): A monthly benefit paid by Social Security to people with limited income and resources who are disabled, blind, or 65 or older. SSI benefits aren't the same as Social Security retirement or disability benefits.
Tricare: A health care program for active-duty and retired uniformed services members and their families.
Total Cost Estimate: The total amount you may have to pay for health plan coverage, which is estimated before you actually have the coverage and have health expenses under the coverage.
Value-Based Purchasing: Linking provider payments to improved performance by health care providers. This form of payment holds health care providers accountable for both the cost and quality of care they provide. It attempts to reduce inappropriate care and to identify and reward the best-performing providers.
Wellness Programs: A program intended to improve and promote health and fitness that's usually offered through the work place, although insurance plans can offer them directly to their enrollees. The program allows your employer or plan to offer you premium discounts, cash rewards, gym memberships, and other incentives to participate. Some examples of wellness programs include programs to help you stop smoking, diabetes management programs, weight loss programs, and preventative health screenings.
These definitions taken from, and the full glossary of terms available at, www.healthcare.gov.


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This week, the International Myeloma Foundation welcomed a group of physicians from China's top medical institutions to the IMF's 2nd annual Myeloma Master Class.
This comprehensive unique educational forum was created and led by IMF Chairman and Co-founder, Dr. Brian Durie. The immersion course included three days of class time and featured speakers, Dr. Durie, Dr. Sagar Lonial of Emory University in Atlanta, and Dr. Joseph Mikhael of the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The course was structured to include a site visit to the University of California at San Francisco, where Dr. Tom Martin took them on a tour of one of the country's leading myeloma cancer facilities. While in San Francisco, the visiting doctors had the opportunity to attend an IMF Patient & Family Seminar. They went to Onyx to meet the Onyx team and visit the campus and learn first hand about of the new and promising novel agent Kyprolis. They were also able to sit in and observe patient-consult discussions with Dr. Durie and Dr. William Bensinger of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.


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The American Red Cross is helping five children and four adults displaced by a fire that damaged their 2½-story frame house at 45 Cambridge Ave. tonight.
The fire, called in about 6:30 p.m., began on the first floor and spread to the second floor and attic.
No injuries were reported. The blaze caused an estimated $25,000 in damage to the structure and $10,000 damage to its contents, Buffalo fire officials said.
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Baseball is in full swing again. Will you go to a pro game this year?
I'll try to get to a few Scrappers games. Indians have priced themselves out of my market after adding parking ,meals and beverage at the game.
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The Indians are in town here in Houston tonight. I'd like to go but couldn't clear my plate enough. Bummer.
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CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. - Just having the name Tea Leaf Green meant the group would be labeled a jam band. While that's perfectly fine with guitarist Josh Clark, he laments the moniker.
"That's what happens when you name your band when you're 19 years old," he said. "If I only knew then what I know now."
Tea Leaf Green's year-old studio album, "Radio Tragedy," could hardly be described as jammy. It's orchestral. The musicianship is superb, and the influences sound like Paul McCartney from his Beatles period, some spacious M. Ward delivery, and just a pinch of Cracker-Camper Van Beethoven David Lowery.
If that buildup isn't enough, expect the next record to be even better. The band has been working on it for more than a year, and the release date could be around Christmastime. On Highway 80 en route to a studio to put electric guitar licks on top of the songs, Clark waxed esoteric.
"We are building textures and sonic landscapes rather than to flex our chops even though we have three very powerful soloists in the band," said Clark, who said none of the material on the upcoming album has been played live, which is the opposite approach from the band's half-dozen records.
"It is being built up from the ground and are we pushing up the songs in the studio environment which is lending itself to a lot of interesting things for us creatively," he said. "No one has a preconceived idea of what their part should be. We are able to experiment with our individual parts and collectively with the arrangements.
We are a year into working on this. This week we're putting the finishing touches on it. It's taken shape. We know what it looks like now."
Tea Leaf Green's live show is another matter. The band has relentlessly toured for more than a decade, including annual winter "Frozen Tundra" tours in the Midwest, an icy journey most successful veteran bands eliminate when its members pass the age of 30.
Now a quintet with the addition of percussionist Cochrane McMillan, Tea Leaf Green has more than 300 original songs, with about 100 in its working set rotation. With its members living in San Francisco, Tea Leaf Green often plays the Crystal Bay Casino, where it has built a large fan base.
"Crystal Bay is one of my favorite venues to play in the country," Clark said. "Hopefully we'll be back where there's snow because I like to hit the slopes."
Last winter the band played two consecutive nights in the Crown Room. It plays just one show this week, Saturday. Jelly Bread, an ascending band from Reno, opens. Solos and improvisation come out in the live shows.
"Sometimes I pig out and go wild and do too much," Clark said of his guitar playing before naming his two greatest influences.
"I am constantly returning to (Pink Floyd's) David Gilmore," he said. "Everything is so well stated and composed, it's perfection to me in those records, as far as an understated sort of thing. And then I go to Jimi Hendrix, a wash of electricity and I get so fired up about that. There are so many ways to go and I try to strike a balance. Live, it's amazing to manipulate electricity."
So the band's name, its hometown peers and its tendency to improvise live have ensured a jam band classification. Clark is cool with it.
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ALBANY – Mark J. Grisanti spent an average of $20,000 a day over the last three weeks on keeping himself in office and Republicans in control of the State Senate.
Of the $431,000 his campaign reported spending, $400,000 went for television ads.
Meanwhile, his opponents continue to struggle financially in advance of next week's election.
Grisanti's latest spending report was made public Monday by the state Board of Elections. It showed him raising $448,000, spending $431,000 and having $67,000 in the bank.
Donors included businesses, unions and trade groups doing business at the State Capitol, as well as New Yorkers and out-of-state residents still thanking him with donations because of his vote last year to legalize gay marriage.
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a marriage-equality advocate who helped convince four Senate Republicans to break with their party to back the law's adoption, donated $6,500.
Grisanti's other big donations included $10,000 from the Building and Construction Trades Council of Buffalo and $2,000 from Georgia-based gun manufacturer Glock.
He also got some Democratic backing in the form of $500 in leftover funds from a committee run by former Assembly Majority Leader Paul A. Tokasz, now a lobbyist with a politically wired firm in Albany.
The Senate Republican Campaign Committee transferred $314,000 to the Buffalo senator during the period, according to the Grisanti filing. That is on top of $180,000 that it gave him in September.
The Republican senator's Democratic opponent in the 60th District, Michael L. Amodeo of Hamburg, reported Friday to the Board of Elections that he had raised $44,000 in the last three weeks, spent $37,000 and had $15,000 on hand.
Charles M. Swanick, a Kenmore Democrat running for the Senate on the Conservative Party line, reported Monday that he received only one contribution during the period: $5,000 from the National Organization for Marriage, a group opposing gay marriage that has previously given to Swanick for his opposition to the marriage-equality law. Swanick still lists $35,000 in outstanding loans he made to his campaign. He reported spending no campaign funds in the last three weeks.
The money flow to Grisanti does not include $60,000 that the Senate Republican Campaign Committee gave him Friday and that was made public Monday in the new filings.
Meanwhile, the state's politically potent union representing teachers has pumped $100,000 into the Erie County Democratic Party's coffers, a portion of which is expected to go to help the financially struggling campaign of Amodeo.
New York State United Teachers, which earlier this month canceled a pro-Amodeo ad campaign that would have cost at least $150,000, donated the six-figure amount to the county party a week ago, according to campaign filings made public Monday.
While the union did not directly give the $100,000 to Amodeo, the county party can spend the funds on behalf of him or any other candidates it may be trying to help elect next Tuesday.
Jeremy J. Zellner, chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, was unavailable to comment.
Local members of NYSUT have been conducting phone-calling operations and neighborhood canvassing on behalf of Amodeo, and the statewide NYSUT union based outside Albany has endorsed him over incumbent Grisanti. The union, among its priorities, hopes to get changes in the state's property tax cap law; Amodeo has said he would support changing the provision now requiring 60 percent of voters to override an annual 2 percent tax cap to a simple majority of 50 percent plus one.
The $100,000 NYSUT donation dwarfed all other contributions that the county party received in the last three weeks. In all, during the most recent reporting period, the county party raised $123,000.
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Millions of Americans have run afoul of the Internal Revenue Service at one time or another. Usually, honest mistakes are involved....
Now this is what I like to see. When you have a questionable candidate, cut them from the ticket until the questions are answered. The FitzGerald campaign announced Kearney's withdrawal as a candidate for lieutenant governor.
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Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2008-09-24
Belongs to: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Julkaisu - Tampere University of Technology. Publication;748
University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Department of Software Systems
In this work we are motivated by the question: "How to automatically adapt to, or learn, structure in the past inputs of an algorithm?". This question might arise from the need to decrease the amount of consumed resources, such as run-time or money. In addition, we also consider, in part, the growing significance of the IO-issues in computation. A major focus is on studying data structures, such as binary search trees (BSTs). They are a common and practical solution to the problem of representing data such as sets; hence it is important to understand their properties. For the most part we work with algorithms which continuously serve requests under uncertainty about future inputs. These algorithms are called online algorithms. To analyze their performance we use the competitive analysis. In it the uncertainty over future inputs is not necessarily modeled stochastically, but rather we deal with the uncertainty by comparing our own performance to how well we could have done had we known the input sequence.
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on December 18, 2012 - 6:43 PM
Niagara Falls police detectives continue to investigate the shooting this afternoon of a 25-year-old man as he was in his parked vehicle at Highland and Calumet avenues.
The victim told police two men he doesn't know approached his car on foot shortly after noon and began shooting repeatedly at him, striking him once in the head.
Detective Lt. Michael Trane told The Buffalo News the injury is not considered life-threatening.
The victim, who Trane did not name, drove himself to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center for treatment but he was transferred to Erie County Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition this evening.
Detectives ask that anyone with any information call them at 286-4553.


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Source: The Hook
quote: A) Adaptation- this usually takes time and is a painful process when a species threatening event occurs.
quote: Mammals didn't immediately develop thicker flesh and fur immediately in the onset of the ice age, adaptation took time and killed off many before a species adapted.
quote: Is it better to avert a danger before it reaches critical mass, or adapt at a time of emergency? We attack countries before they develop nukes, so why do conservatives say something different with regards to oil? Oh yeah, there's money to be made...
quote: B)There's risk with everything, yes. But existing risk doesn't excuse you the responsibility of properly managing it.
quote: I accept oil spills can happen, but we shouldn't have to accept the impact on countless fishing business in the Gulf when you didn't spend the money or properly manage the resources to accomplish the task; let alone the waste of revenue, loss of needed usable energy and increase in oil/gas prices when you spilled it all over the gulf.
quote: C)Thank you for admitting Global Warming is occurring.
quote: What's not occuring is man-made global warming or climate change. The processes that are occuring are largely natural. Man can affect localized areas, i.e. the way LA was covered in smog...but even with LA as bad as it was in the 80s, all that pollution failed to have an effect on even the state of California.
quote: manmade global warming / climate change is a lie fabricated by people who receive funding for environmental research and need to keep the dollars flowing
quote: you didn't even try to take a position
quote: America has been dumbed down enough
quote: No, it is far more likely an alien plot to prepare the planet for colonization. After all, the various "think tanks" spreading the putrid BS you just regurgitated aren't receiving funding from organizations like ExxonMobil, who need to keep the dollars flowing...
quote: Didn't I? I'm with science and reality on this one. Sorry: that means I'm not with you, I'm afraid.
quote: Speak for yourself there, Professor.
quote: Idiots want to believe manmade global warming exists because it means man can do something to stop or fix it.
quote: there is very little man can do in the grand scheme of things
quote: making life miserable for everyone
quote: dimwitted McScientists
quote: Science and reality do not conclusively support or even hint at man made global warming unless the data is manipulated and cherry-picked.
quote: the earth goes through regular heating and cooling phases
quote: Are you enjoying being a proof-of-concept?
quote: Takes an idiot to know an idiot, I guess.
quote: On the other hand, reasonable people believe in syllogisms. When the laws of physics say that X causes Y, and X is a verified observable, then Y must be the expected outcome.
quote: That's where science comes in, and where you don't have the first clue what you're talking about.
quote: You know, lowly little blue-green algae back in the day managed to transform the planet's entire atmosphere from anoxic and noxious into what it is today. Men (at least modern, industrialized men aided by modern technology -- a few billion of them and counting) are far more industrious and prolific over far shorter periods of time. We're terraforming our own planet all around us, and it is definitely within our collective power, as a globe-spanning technological civilization, to do so.
quote: Every year we excavate and spew into the atmosphere (and into the carbon cycle) more additional fossil carbon than 100 years worth of natural volcanic activity (yes, that's correct: look it up.) And that amount keeps on growing with each passing year, as the world's economies keep on growing. That's like an extra mega-volcano erupting every year, with clockwork regularity, for a couple of centuries in a row (projected). Nah, that couldn't possibly make any difference -- what, are you insane? Past mass extinctions on our planet have been caused by far less drastic upheavals.
quote: What is making you so miserable about scientific facts and reality in general, pray tell?
quote: And aren't you the bright bulb in the pantheon of science? Who the hell do you think you are to even have opinions on this matter? Do you feel qualified to bloviate or pass judgement on any other field of science where you personally have 0 expertise?
quote: That line of BS has a strong ExxonMobil stench to it. It also has no relationship to any scientific fact or theory, or any manner of truth.
quote: So does your backyard, on a daily basis. Which of course means that your air-conditioning equipment is all a bunch of claptrap, because natural variation excludes ipso facto any possibility of artificial forcing. QED?
quote: Even more to the point, what do you actually know about heat transport through the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect, the balance of incoming solar and outgoing thermal energy on Earth's surface? Have you ever heard of the (hilariously, funded and championed by "skeptics") Berkeley Earth study? Do you know what the Sun's energy output has been like for the past 30+ years? Do you know what's been happening to Earth's glaciers and top-layer ocean heat content in the meantime? Do you think energy conservation no longer applies? Do you know anything about the science involved with these issues?
quote: Are you enjoying flouting your ignorance and brainwashed, programmed talking-point responses in public?
quote: Do you enjoy your open contempt for science and objective thought?Are you an enthusiastic and knowing sock puppet for the likes of ExxonMobil, or are you just another hapless rube?
quote: Science and reality do not conclusively support or even hint at man made global warming unless the data is manipulated and cherry-picked. What the data does suggest is that the earth goes through regular heating and cooling phases...and that the current phase may actually be abnormal - the "normal" for this planet is likely an atmosphere with higher concentrations of so-called "greenhouse" gases, denser atmosphere and a warmer global climate.What kind of life was inhabiting this planet for billions of years? NOT humans and not most of the life we have right now.Just because we exist now doesn't mean that now is the "norm" and deviation from our current state is abnormal. If the earth was a hot, humid rock for the last few eons then by definition THAT would be its normal climate.
quote: it's more likely oil company is the one who's paying their scientist to manipulate the data, perhaps you should check when the warming begins, if it's happen at this rate long before we start using our fossil fuel, than you can claim, ok it's not our fault :p
quote: btw, i don't want to extinct, so even if global warming is so called nature cycle, i would like to disrupt the cycle :p
quote: traditionally when resources get scarce humans go to war.
quote: You left one risk out, traditionally when resources get scarce humans go to war.
quote: If an ice age hit tomorrow, we would be able to survive because we know how to make a fire and stay warm.
quote: What are you talking about? We did. It happened, it was dealt with...get over it. BTW an eruption of the super volcano under yellowstone park will cause a disaster on a global scale that makes any man-made disaster pale in comparsion...but that's how it is - a cycle of creation and destruction that keeps things interesting.
quote: What's not occuring is man-made global warming or climate change
quote: CO2 is a greenhouse gas
quote: The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased
quote: Humans have caused the CO2 level increase
quote: So is water vapor. In fact, water vapor is a BETTER greenhouse gas. How does water vapor behave?
quote: The increase FOLLOWING rises in temperature, not preceding it. Thus, the cause-effect relationship is reversed.
quote: The biggest concern of which is acid rain. There's a whole host of other pollution concerns that take precedence over this "global climate change" malarky.
quote: Just because SOME rise in temperature occurred BEFORE a CO2 increase does not mean that further temperature increases were not caused by CO2.
quote: quote: Just because SOME rise in temperature occurred BEFORE a CO2 increase does not mean that further temperature increases were not caused by CO2. Oh brilliant logic there. Because science works so much better when we throw out observation, fact, and control groups.
quote: Does warming cause CO2 rise or the other way around? In actuality, the answer is both.
quote: 1. increased CO2 causes warming
quote: Maybe with your simplified logic and watered down science, everything has a single cause and that single cause has a single effect, but the atmosphere of this planet is much more complicated than that.
quote: 1. increased CO2 causes warming2. warming causes increased CO2
quote: Right which is why we have proof that when there was 20 times more CO2 in the atmosphere in the past, there was NO runaway "greenhouse effect". Because C02 always causes warming? False.
quote: There's more than enough evidence coming out, finally, that man made global warming is nothing but a hoax, perpetrated by people who sought out to pervert the peer review and scientific process.
quote: I'm not a scientist or a climatologist, and neither are you.
quote: What a very in depth and multifaceted evaluation of the hundreds of systems and elements involved in detailing atmospheric conditions!! Talk about simplified and watered down science.
quote: You're a waste of time, and most likely, a hypocrite. You generate just as much C02 as the next guy here.
quote: Jebus, you're going back 400 million years now, do you know just how different the planet was back then?
quote: I think I've shown that I know more about this than you though
quote: Just because a few of the scientists on the climate change side are dishonest does not mean they all are. And it's not like the anti-climate-change scientists are any more honest.
quote: At least I'm not so stupid as to fall for that "CO2 percentage = amount" argument that the less intelligent climate change deniers fall for :-))
quote: This is not a valid argument. The planet sure was "different", however how C02 interacts with the atmosphere to "cause warming" sure wasn't different.
quote: Oh and the pressure was "probably" lower? That's funny because I've read papers that suggested it was "probably" higher. But, of course, your side is right on that too. Because..uhh, you said so.
quote: Case in point. It doesn't matter if a "few" scientists were dishonest. The point is the data they fabricated, the numbers they massaged, was the very blueprint for the Man Made Global Warming theory that nearly EVERY climatologist based his opinion on.
quote: But true knowledge? You're not showing it at all because you aren't able to form your own opinions. You aren't applying critical thinking, you're arbitrarily deciding something and backing it up with bias. Regurgitation isn't knowledge.
quote: Apparently you're "too stupid" to actually notice that as C02 increases, we're not actually warming. The icecaps aren't melting and flooding the oceans. Etc etc etc.
quote: Don't blame me for mistakes others have made.
quote: You do know that AMOUNT and PERCENTAGE are completely different things now yea?
quote: That's not true and you know it.
quote: The majority of Climate Scientists agree that global warming and climate change is real. Only a few disagree, and most of those that disagree are not climate scientists.
quote: Umm. the earth is warming, the highest temperatures on record were in the last decade. Sorry there's not the perfectly linear increase that you would apparently require.
quote: Excuse me? We're coming out of a 15 year period where when the temps were supposed to be rising due to increased C02 (yes amount and percentage, asshole), we saw no global temperature rise. It's not us that claimed we would see linear increases, again, YOUR SIDE insisted that would be the trend!
quote: Actually, from 98-08 we haven't seen the temperature going up at its previous rate.
quote: Was the Earth the center of the Universe because a then "majority" of scientists agreed it was?
quote: again, YOUR SIDE insisted that would be the trend!
quote: quote: You do know that AMOUNT and PERCENTAGE are completely different things now yea? Why do you keep harping on this? Yes I know that.
quote: You do know that AMOUNT and PERCENTAGE are completely different things now yea?
quote: First off there is no majority, that's a crock
quote: Secondly science isn't a democratic process, or a popularity contest.
quote: Just because CO2 didn't start the problem does not mean that it does not occur.
quote: What's not occuring is man-made global warming or climate change. The processes that are occuring are largely natural.
quote: There are a myriad of peer-reviewed


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It doesn't matter what the charts show. For University of Alabama women's golf fans, it was "high tide" at exactly 4:22 p.m. Sunday at the Country Club of Charleston. That's when Crimson Tide sophomore Emma Talley claimed the 113th U.S. Women's Amateur Championship after Yueer Cindy Feng of China missed a five-foot par putt on the 35th hole of a scheduled 36-hole championship.
Talley was up by three holes after playing 22, but Feng did not fold. Feng won three holes in a row (Nos. 5, 6 and 7 of the second round) with two birdies and a par to square the match after 25 holes. Feng held off Talley for the next two holes, but Talley made a curling 12-foot birdie try on the 26th (No. 10) to take a lead she would not relinquish.
Talley went 2-up after Feng missed a three-foot par putt on the 30th hole (No. 12) but lost the next hole after making bogey. Talley and Feng parred the next three holes and Talley closed the match with her par on the 35th (No. 17) hole.
"At the time, I was just thinking I need a par. Cindy's a great player. I thought she would make the putt even though it was pretty long. I didn't even know the match was going to end," Talley said.
"I can't tell you how I felt. It's amazing to know I just won the biggest amateur tournament in the world. It's a dream come true."
Talley enjoyed overwhelming support from the crowd estimated at 200, many of them Southeastern Conference fans. Among the supporters was her college coach Mic Potter and his wife Kim who made the trip from Tuscaloosa, Ala., and teammate Stephanie Meadow who drove up from Hilton Head for the final after making a sign she carried throughout the day that said "Go Emma Roll Tide."
Talley's father Dan, an optometrist, caddied for her and managed to keep her on an even keel as together they sang songs throughout the match.
"It was great having my dad on the bag. We always have a lot of fun together. I really appreciate it. He was great to me this week," Talley said.
Talley said neither golfer got off to a good start and they looked at each other after the first 10 holes and wondered what was going on.
"The first part was real rough. I don't know if it was nerves or adrenaline," Talley said. "We both kicked in gear about the same time, and from then on it was a match. She would hit some great shots, and then I would hit some great shots. She's a great player."
Talley said that when Feng rallied from a 3-hole deficit to square the match that it didn't bother her because Feng was making birdies.
"I really didn't do much wrong to lose that lead," Talley said. "The goal is to play your game and if you get beat, she deserves to win. I just had to keep playing my game. I made two birdies on her at the end of the first round, now it was her turn."
The 17-year-old Feng, who will head to the first stage of the LPGA qualifying tournament in a couple of weeks, said she was proud to have made it to the final.
"I wasn't ready right off the bat. Luckily, she wasn't either," said Feng, who plays out of Orlando. "The last (18 holes) was where I felt like most of the opportunities slipped away. I had a good run at it, but it just didn't continue. This morning when she wasn't playing well, I played worse. I was close, but it was not enough."


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Great photos! Looks like you all had a fun day!
Minus the white shorts of course...nothing a little bleach can't fix ;-)
I love it. I wish I could find a park that doesn't have a lot of kids there, that would be nice. There was one by our apartment, it was so great.
Oh, and I love that your children are all so well behaved. Do tell, what is your secret? ;)
we love that park for the exact same reasons.
we braved butterfly park today because dad was with us and regretted it the.whole.time.
we have a favorite park like that too.
The girls have white skirts with bloomers that are always getting dirty, even sitting on the floor in the house!! They're super cute though!
Kim- ha! I was kinda being snarky...
(Altho I will say that getting them out to play everyday has helped quite a bit!!)
I'm not good at socialising so love deserted parks bhehe guess however I shouldn't always go to these so my son can interact with othersReplyDelete
Great pics! Are those rainbow Baby Legs Ivy is wearing? Way cute!!!ReplyDelete
We have a park like that very close to us. (it seriously looks identical, except our slide is maroon). I love it! Super crowded parks are difficult. I'm glad I'm not the only to feel that way. :)
Adorable pics. Mind if I ask where you got Ivy's bonnet?
We love going to the park! Adorable children!ReplyDelete
Looks like a wonderful park...love all the green, green grass! A park that isn't crowded is the best kind!!!
Oh and NOW I see why you commented on Ivy wearing white shorts! Yeah... not so white!
Looks like a nice quiet park! Everything is so green!ReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures and even more beautiful children. They look like they were having fun.ReplyDelete
Hehe! Love the little baby bum. Sounds like a very mommy and kid friendly park!ReplyDelete
We love the park too but don't get over there nearly enough. Thanks for sharing your photos with us!ReplyDelete
that park looks awesome. but i'll be straight with you -- i am only commenting today because i want to know more about that super cute hat ms ivy is wearing! teeheehee.ReplyDelete
I hope that's sweet tea your sippin'!ReplyDelete
LOVE the white shorts :) Too cute!!
What a great shot of the four of your kids all together.
Your kids are so cute!ReplyDelete
That bonnet is amazing! Actually, Ivy is just amazing! What a gal! ;)ReplyDelete
I LOVE HER BONNET!ReplyDelete
lol...no more white shorts..too funny!ReplyDelete
That looks like a clean, fun, and "private" little park. Is it within walking distance from where you live? :)ReplyDelete