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South Park, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Book of Mormon
"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone chat about what inspired them to do a Broadway musical about Mormons. Plus, the team tells which Mormon brother and sister act served as a muse for the play.
Prepare yourself. The creators of "South Park" are heading to the Windy City with a satirical group of Mormon missionaries in tow.
"The Book of Mormon," the popular Broadway musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez (known for his work on "Avenue Q"), will launch a new company in Chicago beginning in December 2012, Broadway in Chicago announced early Wednesday. The show will run for 12 weeks at Bank of America Theatre.
During its New York run, "Mormon" won nine Tony Awards among a pile of other accolades, including glowing reviews and an oft-sold out audience.
Think Chicago will love it too? Parker and Stone are prepared to make it so.
"We plan to be involved every step of the way just as we were on the Broadway production," they said in a statement. "We're incredibly excited about doing everything we can to deliver a great show for the Chicago audience."
It's a long time coming, according Lou Raizin, president of Broadway In Chicago. "Since the show began there hasn't been a day that goes by without questions from our patrons about
when the show is coming to Chicago," Raizin said. "We are thrilled."
Though tickets for the general public have yet to be announced, tickets for groups of 15 or more are available for purchase by calling Broadway In Chicago Group Sales at 312-977-1710.


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Staff Report
Kelsey DeZalia went 2-for-3 with a double, two runs and two RBIs on Friday, leading SUNY Cobleskill to an 11-2 softball victory over visiting York College in the first game of a non-conference doubleheader.
The Fighting Tigers won the second game, 15-13, to complete the sweep and improve to 12-8 this season.
Cobleskill scored eight times in the third inning of the opener, helping Brianne Gray to the pitching victory. Gray struck out four and walked none and allowed two unearned runs in five innings.
Mattea Bagley contributed a triple, a single and two RBIs for Cobleskill, which received a double and three RBIs from Julia Lull in her 3-for-3 effort.
The Fighting Tigers jumped to a 9-1 lead in the second game before the Cardinals (3-18) rallied to take a 12-10 lead entering the bottom of the fourth inning. Cobleskill then struck for five runs and held on for the triumph.
Madeline DeMilio went 3-for-5 with four runs and two RBIs in the second game, which featured two doubles, a single and three RBIs from DeZaile.
Gray went the distance for the pitching victory to improve to 5-5 this season.
The Fighting Tigers will visit Cazenovia at 1 p.m. Saturday for a North Eastern Athletic Conference doubleheader.
NYU-Poly Invitational
Travis Deuel earned medalist honors with a 4-over-par 74 at the Van Cortland Park Golf Course, leading Cobleskill to a team victory at the New York University-Polytechnic Invitational.
Don Cervantes finished second with a 75 for the Fighting Tigers, who won the team title with 324 strokes - 41 better than runner-up NYU-Polytechnic.
Cobleskill will compete in the Palamountain Invitational at the Hiland Park Country Club on Saturday and Sunday.
Nazareth 17, Hartwick 4
Visiting Nazareth (7-6, 3-2) scored six times in the opening 5 minutes, 7 seconds en route to a road victory in the Empire 8 Conference.

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Soquel Knights (home team) vs Santa Cruz Cardinals on Tuesday Jan 22nd, game ended in a tie (1-1)
Soquel Knights came out strong w/ #16 scoring early off a corner kick. Santa Cruz Cardinals rallied hard but could not score before the end of the 1st half. Soquel Knights thought they had scored a 2nd goal at the beginning of the 2nd half, only to be called back due to a Knight being offside.
Santa Cruz Cardinals managed to get around the Knight's defenders and secure a goal toward the end of the 2nd half. Soquel Knights tried hard to make their long ball play work and had one last steller effort by #15 who caused the Cardinals to bobble the ball in their back field.
#15 out ran all defenders, made the perfect cross but not enough offensive players rushed the goal to capture the end of that cross. A great game to watch, but in the end the Cardinals were well organized and maintained possession during a majority of this game.


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Check out Terrelle Pryor look every bit like the third round the Raiders used to obtain the former Ohio State Buckeye.
Cal and Arizona miss each other on the Pac-12 schedule this season. CGB nevertheless takes a look at the Wildcats. What can we expect from Rich Rodriguez's first season in Tucson?
Juron Criner a value pick for the Oakland Raiders in NFL Draft
Wes Welker is the poster-child for NFL talent going unnoticed in the NFL Draft. Arizona Wildcats wide receiver David Douglas could follow an eerily similar path.
Nick Foles and Juron Criner failed to stand out at Arizona's pro day this week due to some inclement weather. How will their draft stock be affected?
The St. Louis Rams had coaches and scouts out looking at receivers on Monday.
Consider the fact that the Washington Redskins wide receivers have lacked yards after the catch (YAC) and overall play-making ability last year. Therefore, in determining the WR's who the skins...
More than Foles or Wade, Criner has the much to gain at the NFL Combine
The most touching sports-themed novel written, in this blogger's humble opinion, is 1956's Bang the Drum Slowly. It was adapted into a film starring Robert DeNiro nearly two decades later, and a...
Draft-related links from around the Internet.
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By Michael Schaffer - Managing editor
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The Centerville City Council Monday at City Hall voted to accept Kim Crego's retirement request.
Crego by email on Dec. 7 announced her retirement due to health reasons. Crego's retirement was effective as of Dec. 16.
Crego's first day as the Centerville city clerk was July 26, 2010. In November of 2010 Crego would take on the additional role of commissioner of municipal services.
A portion of Crego's retirement letter was published in the city council's agenda packet.
"Please consider this as my official retirement notice effective Dec. 16. It has been my honor to be able to assist the city with their vision. Unfortunately my health will not allow me to continue. I am certain the Council will take the city where it needs to go. Best wishes."
Councilman Rob Lind went on the record regarding Crego's retirement.
"I would like to state for the record that it's been a difficult year-and-one-half to two years trying to chart a new course for city government but I think Kim did a very good job in many areas to get us on that course and with the proper lead and I would just like to say that I appreciate what she has done," Lind said. "The things that she worked on and helped us get this far. It wasn't no easy thing and it's bound to continue to kind of evolve as we go along."
A man in the audience who didn't identify himself, immediately following the council's 5-0 vote, said, "Hallelujah. It's about time."
The council during their Dec. 3 meeting appointed Joyce Davis as temporary city clerk due to Crego's absence.
The council in December considered a resignation and a retirement request. On Dec. 3 Davis, city bookkeeper, submitted her resignation but later reconsidered after several department heads spoke about the city's need to keep her as an employee. Monday night, it was Crego's retirement.
In other action, the council approved:
• The appointment of Debra Smith as cashier and customer service representative at City Hall.
• Salaries for Ryan Moore, Centerville fire department captain at $14.974 per hour per union contract effective Nov. 1 and Smith at $14 per hour effective Nov. 15.
• Lead man pay for Joe Sivetts retroactive to March 1, 2012. The agenda packet doesn't show what that pay will be.
• City Hall will be closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and News Year's Day.
• A public hearing for Jan. 7 to consider an offer to purchase lot 26 in Sunnyside Addition for $10 by Chariton Valley Regional Housing Trust Fund. CVRHTF plans to construct a new house at the site and adjoining property.
• Employee health insurance renewal as proposed by TriStar Benefit Administrators and the health insurance premium rate increase recommended in the renewal. The employee premium increase per month for single is $9.90, family $49.47 and retiree $36.59.
• Amending the city's employee handbook to include nine paid holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, July Fourth, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas. Other employee handbook sections amended deal with harassment, equal employment opportunity and family medical leave act inserts.
Before the meeting adjourned at 5:55 p.m. a moment of silence was held for the 26 killed in Connecticut.
The next Centerville City Council meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 7 at City Hall.


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The First United Methodist Church of Stamford, Connecticut welcomes all who seek peace and fellowship within an atmosphere of hospitality, forgiveness, and …
First United Methodist Church has been an important part of the Stamford community for over 200 years. Our history dates back to 1788 when circuit-riding preachers formed the society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Stamford and class meetings were held in private homes. In 1813, our first church home was built, a small frame house in what is now downtown Stamford. In 1858, a new church was built at the corner of Main and Washington Avenues, which boasted the largest auditorium in Connecticut. Our congregation worshipped there for the next hundred years, when it moved to its current location in 1961.
The bell at the entrance to our church is a visible link to our past: for 101 years, it rang out at the old church location, for weddings, special occasions, to alert the city to the burning of Town Hall, and to mark the end of the Civil War. Today, it stands as a reminder of our long history in this community.
Part of that long history has been serving the community's needs as they have changed and grown. Food drives, working for social justice, mentoring children, organizing interfaith initiatives to serve people with AIDS/HIV, donating land for affordable housing for the elderly -- in these ways and many more, First United Methodist Church continues to carry on 200 years of tradition in the Stamford community.
Rev. Dr. Douglas A. McArthur, Senior Pastor
Dr. McArthur, an ordained elder in full connection in the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, has served in ministries in Westchester and Nassau Counties, NY, and in Fairfield County, CT for the past 18 years. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Counseling from Andover Newton Theological School.
Dr. McArthur also received graduate certificates in Pastoral Psychotherapy and Marriage and Family Counseling from Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute. Prior to his ordained ministry, Dr. McArthur was a missionary for three years in Iwakuni, Japan. He is married to Eileen Birchett McArthur and they have three children.
Sara Ofner, Interim Assistant Pastor for Congregational Nurture
Sara recently graduated from Yale Divinity School with a Master of Divinity degree, and is pursuing ordination in the United Church of Christ. Previously, Sara has served churches in Colchester and New Haven, CT, and has served as a Chaplain at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She has also worked in the non-profit sector in New Haven, Los Angeles, and Boston.
Prior to her work in ministry, Sara received a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Millikin University and a Master of Music degree in Early Music Performance from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA.
Patricia Grimm, Director of Music and Organist
Pat has served congregations through music ministry for more than 25 years. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Sacred Music from Duquesne University, a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Kent State University, and a Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano from the Hartt School of Music. She is currently completing Ph.D studies in music history and music theory at the University of Connecticut. She also holds the Choir Master certification from the American Guild of Organists..
In addition to serving in music ministry, Pat is a founding member of the Cypress Piano Quartet and is an active freelance accompanist and chamber music performer. She and her husband Al have two sons and a daughter-in-law and have called Connecticut home since 1993.


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Employers can find Aboriginal employees through a range of services and coordinators.
Aboriginal Workforce Participation Coordinators are located across metropolitan and regional South Australia. They provide:
Contact your nearest Aboriginal Workforce Participation Coordinator :
Eastern-Northern Adelaide/Adelaide Hills Region
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Aboriginal Access Centres provide information on Aboriginal recruitment and retention as well as information about cultural, historical and contemporary issues that may assist workplace cultural awareness. The program is facilitated by Aboriginal people and is tailored to suit the employer's needs.
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COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) - Authorities in Newton County say a double shooting that left a husband and wife dead in their home was a murder-suicide.
The bodies of Robert and Lendene Dendy were found inside their house in Covington Monday morning by relatives.
Newton County officials worked with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and an autopsy determined that 44-year-old Robert Dendy's wounds were self-inflicted.
His 39-year-old wife, Lendene, was a teacher at Live Oak Elementary School.
Officials are unsure of the motive behind the shooting.
Covington is about 35 miles east of Atlanta.
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Judging from the amount of submissions my company gets (we buy websites), everyone and their niece wants to sell their website - preferably for six figures. We completed a couple of six and seven figure sales, so let me share my experiences.
Who Is Your TargetFirst of all, who do you sell to? The two common options are
- industry buyers like us or other media companies that regularly buy online businesses, or
- an end user in the industry the website is about.
Our first sale was to an end user: a consultancy targeting companies in the country the website was about. Since an end user is likely as familiar as you with the website's topic, it's important to create a high value that is of strategic fit to their business. In our case the fact that we dominated Google for keywords related to the site's topic was in fact more important than the revenue multiple. The site therefore sold for a price that would not be justifiable just by looking at its revenue.
For an end user buyer a number of things may be more important than just revenue:
- a trusting relationship to you
- that you will be there to provide assistance and training
- financing options
If on the other hand you want to sell your websites for six figures to a buyer from the online marketing industry, you absolutely have to have an income producing website. Be it AdSense, direct advertising, affiliate or ecommerce income - without a substantial business behind the website it likely won't sell.
How Much Is My Site WorthThe question is: how much income do you have? Since websites normally sell on a multiple of monthly or yearly revenue, it's easy to determine if you want to sell for six figures. In our experience (and keep in mind that our websites are monetized primarily with AdSense), the sweet spot at which a website sells fast is 2-3x yearly net profits. To reach that $100,000, you would need net profits of at least $50,000 over the past 12 months or $4,100 per month. That's doable AdSense revenue with around 10,000 visitors per day.
Of course there are a few factors that may make it possible to sell for a higher multiple
- a significant, sustained growth trajectory on the site
- if the site is in a niche that is currently in high demand
- a premium domain
- sheer luck
Dress Up The BrideWhat else do you need to prepare a successful sale?
- Ideally you have 2+ years of operating history and can show that in Google Analytics and financials.
- Prepare a site-specific P&L statement that includes your development or maintenance time.
- Compile a short executive summary that lists the site's strengths, stats, key numbers and addresses possible questions from buyers. Create a document that you can show proudly - this is likely the first or second thing potential buyers will see. No spelling errors, please, and hire someone to design the layout unless you are a professional designer.
- If you are not in the US or UK, you have a disadvantage. Some buyers simply don't want to deal with "foreigners" because they are afraid of the risk of geographical (and legal) distance in case of disputes. You may want to consider establishing a US or UK holding company, especially on high value websites.
Frequent Questions
A number of questions come up again at every sale, so it makes sense to prepare them before hand and list them as a FAQ in the offer sheet. Here are some we include routinely:
- What is included in the sale?
- What is the operating cost?
- How much time do you spend on the site?
- What technical knowledge is required to operate the site?
- Who is the hosting company? Can the server be taken over?
- Will you provide migration assistance after the purchase?
- Who is behind the site?
The Conf Call
After a potential buyer has seen the executive summary or the broker's offer memo, the next step is usually a conf call.
You may think the goal of the conf call is to answer the buyer's questions. It's not. The ultimate goal is to build trust and give buyers the confidence that you created something worth buying and will be there to support them even after the sale. Savvy buyers will have most answers already before going on the call, and they will check your answers for plausibility.
Keep in mind that most buyers may not be aware on the intricacies of your particular industry. Tone down the jargon and explain things like for a six year old. Let the buyer take the lead on how technical to allow the conversation to become. The worst case is to have a buyer pretend to understand a conversation and then fail to put in an offer because he was actually confused the whole time.
Be absolutely honest. Do not exaggerate. Don't avoid the hard questions. Everything will be discovered during due diligence and can derail deals and open you up to potential legal liability.
Try to keep negotiations out of the first conf call. The ideal is when you can defer them to the broker and focus on building a healthy relationship where you are the good guy.
Negotiation 101
Once you are after a conf call and sense some real interest from the potential buyer, the temptation is great to take the deal as done. Don't start spending your new money mentally yet. It's best to assume that the deal will fall through, as it likely will anyway. Don't get distracted too much and keep working on the site. It's business as usual until the money is on your bank account.
It's fair to assume that for every successful sale you need at least five conf calls (ie seriously interested parties).
It's fair to assume that for every successful sale you need at least five conf calls (ie seriously interested parties).
The very best negotiation tactic is to maintain your walk-away power. Be prepared to abort if your asking price is not met. I realize how hard this is when you need the money and have an interested party on the table. However, you will never sell for $500,000 if you don't refuse a $250,000 offer.
Due Diligence
After a Letter of Intent has been signed or principal agreement has been reached, the buyer will usually perform additional due diligence before executing the purchase. With most sites this is rather straight forward and may involve things like
- switching to the buyer's Google Analytics,
- testing the buyer's AdSense codes for a couple of days, or
- performing additional revenue testing with the buyer's affiliate accounts
- confirming and validating supplier relationships
When we sell a site, we prepare a Handover document that we give out once Escrow started. Here is the table of content of one of our actual guides:
- Overview
This summarizes the site, lists its highlights and explains again why this is a good purchase. Just to reassure the buyer that he is making a good decision.
- Operating The Site
Guide to daily or weekly tasks.
- Site Logins
Admin panel, server (ssh) login, MySQL, datacenter, Twitter/FB accounts, etc
- SEO and Promotion Tips
Provide the new owner with all necessary information to keep running and growing the site. Share your best practices here. Once we have sold the site, we share everything we have ever learning about online marketing.
- Monetization
Share AdSense and affiliate tips.
- Key Contacts
List all affiliate, supplier and internal contacts.
- Technical Details
CMS and plugin details, backup guides, system administation guides.
This is also the time to come forward about your own person. Add the buyer on LinkedIn. Make sure he sees a professional summary of you somewhere in the documents. Do everything you can to build further trust.
EscrowSales are usually completes through an escrow account, provided either by the broker or by a company like Escrow.com or Sedo. This is quite straight forward. Buyer wires money to escrow account, domain and website are transferred, and after an inspection period funds are released to you.
Make sure to be available during the inspection period for 24 hours a day.
Remember that things can still go sour. We had multiple instances when escrow was fully funded and the buyer backed out last minute for reasons entirely his own. We even had a case where I fucked up during escrow and pushed a faulty update to the production server, updating another site (instead of the site being sold) with its AdSense codes. This obviously spooked the buyer (it would scare me off too - suddenly you see the AdSense code on other sites, in fact putting a question mark on the whole revenue). I refunded the escrow fee plus some and that was that. So don't party until the money hits your bank account.
The Aftermath
It's pay day. Make sure to open some champagne and take a day off. Then get back to work. Follow up with the buyer every couple of days after the transition to answer questions and help with operations. The more you work with the buyer now, the more likely he will be to buy a second site from you.
After the champagne leaves your head, you will also realize that you are missing recurring income now. So better start working on new sites again. If you can do this repeatedly, you are in business. Good luck!


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Where/When? Whole Foods (Fair Lakes) on Wednesday, March 16 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Why Go? Messy, yummy fun – tacos are delicious and making them at Whole Foods means they are just a notch healthier. Bonus: All proceeds benefit "The Whole Planet Foundation".
Pricing? $5 per child (register at Customer Service: 703-222-2058.
Where/When? y on Wednesday, March 16 at 7 p.m.
Why Go? Lovely lullabies, good luck stories and more to celebrate Irish-style. For ages 3-6 with their adult.
Pricing? Free, no registration is required.
Where/When? , March 17, 18 and 19 at 8 p.m., March 19 and 20 at 2 p.m.
Why Go? The Lion in Winter by James Goldman is fast-paced and incredibly funny, this show has delighted family audiences for many years.
Pricing? $10, $15, $20 per person
Where/When? on Saturday, March 19 at 9 a.m.
Why Go? Fishing! Plus a naturalist will be there to talk about all the flora and fauna in this favorite little pond.
Pricing? $6 for county residents and $8 for non-county residents. Registration is required (bring your own pole and bait).
Where/When? Claude Moore Recreation Center (46105 Loudoun Park Lane, Sterling) Saturday, March 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Why Go? Time to shake off winter and get your body busy. Hiking, biking, skating, canoeing, kayaking -demonstrations, free classes, and more.
Pricing? Free
Where/When? Manassas Battlefield Park on Sunday, March 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 .m.
Why Go? Artillery drills (meaning muskets and and more noisy firearms) will be conducted on Henry's Hill at Manassas Battlefield Park. Slip back in time and imagine the conflict that raged.
Pricing? Free


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(Editor's note: the following is a Letter to the Editor written by council members Dave Emanuel, Bobby Howard, Diane Krause and Mayor Pro Tem Tom Witts.)
Without question, 2012 had more than its share of challenges, but it was also a year of great accomplishments for the City of Snellville. Some of these include:
A New City Manager
Arguably the most important person in city government, the City Manager runs the day-to-day operations and supervises all department heads. After interviewing four exceptional candidates, the City Council selected Butch Sanders as the best of the best. In his first few months on the job, he has done an outstanding job, and has already made significant improvements in City operations.
The Snellville Farmer's Market
For the third consecutive year, it achieved national recognition as one of the best in the country The Market was ranked #1 in Georgia and the #2 medium sized Market in the U. S.
The Community Garden
Still in its embryonic stage, the Garden is starting to blossom. During 2012, the original plans became a reality and set the stage for the Garden to reach full bloom in 2013.
Lower Taxes, Improved Financial Condition
Like other cities in Gwinnett County, Snellville benefited financially from settlement of the SDS lawsuit. Although there was a bit of disagreement, the majority of Council prevailed and rather than spend the extra funds, approved a conservative budget along with a lower tax rate. But in spite of lower taxes, the implementation of a responsible fiscal strategy actually improved the city's financial condition.
Code Red
The safety of our citizens is always a top priority and Snellville took a big step towards ensuring that with the implementation of an emergency warning system. Code Red is a sophisticated system that sends warning messages by phone, text message and e-mail. It is free to all residents.
Aimee Copeland Fundraiser
Volunteers from both inside and outside the City came together in an exceptional display of compassion, and raised over $19,000 for Aimee, who has suffered the effects of a rare flesh-eating bacterial disease.
Snellville's Portable Stage
Delivered in early 2012, the new portable stage made it possible to have live entertainment at almost every Farmer's Market, and significantly reduced the cost of entertainment at Snellville's events. The stage was purchased with SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) funds earmarked for parks and recreation expenditures, so it did not cost city taxpayers anything.
Relighting the Eternal Flame
In 2005, the Vietnam Veterans monument was moved to the site of the new City Hall, but the eternal flame was not relit. That situation will be corrected with the construction of an all new monument and flame—one that will be dedicated to all veterans. Plans were completed in 2012 and construction is slated to begin in 2013. It will be paid for entirely by donations.
Give Hunger the Boot
In its first full year of operation, Give hunger the Boot worked with Snellville businesses to raise of $10,000 in food and financial donations for the Southeast Gwinnett Food CoOp. The CoOp supplies food and financial assistance to local families.
Festivals and Fun Events
Snellville Tourism and Trade Association's (STAT) series of events combined with City-sponsored events had the good times rolling throughout the spring, summer and fall. From the 39th Annual Snellville Days, to the first ever Beach Blast, Flag Day Celebration, the "Live on the Lawn" concert series, "Popcorn in the Park" movie nights, "Star Spangled Snellville" Fourth of July celebration, "Around the World Visits Snellville" , "Fall Festival" and annual "Christmas Tree Lighting", these events emphasized "community" with a capital "C".
Without doubt, 2012 will be a tough act to follow. And we're committed to making 2013 even better.
For further reading:
- Snellville 2012: The Year in Photos
- Summer 2012 in Snellville


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Three Wichita-area state senators on Monday introduced a second bill to relieve property taxes on Kansans who lose their homes to tornados and other disasters.
The Senate version seeks to accomplish the same overall goal as a House bill that went to hearing Monday – but the two bills take a substantially different approach to the problem.
Senate Bill 165 was introduced by Sens. Mike Petersen and Michael O'Donnell, both Wichita Republicans, and Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, a Wichita Democrat. It would allow county commissioners to decide whether to collect taxes after a home or business is "destroyed or substantially destroyed due to fire, wind or other calamity."
The House version, House Bill 2063, was introduced by Rep. Brandon Whipple, D-Wichita and Joe Edwards, R-Haysville. Their bill would compensate disaster victims by providing a state tax credit for property taxes paid after the destruction of a home in a designated disaster area.
Both bills are aimed at fixing a quirk in state law that sets the tax value of property on Jan. 1 of each year, making the property owner responsible for the full year of taxes even if the home or business is destroyed early in the year.
The issue arose after a devastating tornado ripped through areas in and around south Wichita on the night of April 14 last year. The storm destroyed 11 houses and 134 mobile homes in the Pinaire Mobile Home Park.
Damage was estimated at $146 million, enough to trigger federal aid to help local government clear debris and re-establish public services – but not enough for displaced residents to get individual federal disaster aid.
Those residents were surprised and dismayed eight months after the disaster, when they received property tax bills for their homes that had been bulldozed and hauled away to a landfill.
Tax bills ranged from $29 on an older mobile home to $3,323 on a single-family house.
While the senators and representatives agree that it's not fair to tax people for property that no longer exists, each says their approach is the better way to rectify the problem.
Petersen and O'Donnell said if the tax is to be forgiven, it would be best not to collect it in the first place.
Petersen said it would cause extra hardship for lower-income people like the Pinaire residents to have to come up with the up-front payment and then file to get it back.
"We don't want people going out to get payday loan after payday loan to pay their taxes," Petersen said. "People do not have to pay first and get it back in our version."
O'Donnell said another way the Senate bill is better than the House version is that it would make the tax relief retroactive to the beginning of 2012, which would make the Pinaire residents eligible for refunds.
Supporters of the House bill acknowledge it wouldn't help those who lost their homes in April, including Edwards' own brother. The Rev. Doyle Edwards, rode out the storm in the Pinaire park with his wife as their mobile home came apart around them.
But Reps. Edwards and Whipple said their bill would be better going forward into future disasters, because the tax relief would come from the state, not the county.
That would protect residents of small counties that have low population and a small tax base, where commissioners could be reluctant to grant tax relief if it would leave a big gap in their budget.
Whipple said he doesn't think small counties hit by disaster would be able to forgo the tax income, which they'd need to pay for their own damage.
"One of the reasons our bill has been popular is it keeps the county whole," Whipple said. "It keeps everyone whole."
Following a hearing on House Bill 2063 on Monday, the Taxation Committee referred it to a subcommittee where it will be "tweaked a little," Whipple said.
And although the Senate bill is different, Whipple said the important thing is that both chambers are working to provide tax relief for disaster victims.
He said he thinks both bills will pass and that a stronger law will emerge after the necessary give-and-take to reconcile the two bills into one.
"The final product will be the one that is the best for the people," Whipple said.


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The Union-Recorder
The Baldwin County Fire Rescue is collecting toys for its third annual Kids-Yule-Love Toy Drive. The follow stations are drop points: Allen Memorial Drive, Central State Hospital campus, Carr Station Road, Highway 22 and Lovers Lane and Log Cabin Road. The Lemon Tree downtown, as well as all Exchange Bank branches and Dr. William Lee's office, 2715 N. Columbia, are also drop points. Toy collection will run until Dec. 18.
Flu vaccines are now available at the Baldwin County Health Department. They will offer both the traditional flu shot and Flu Mist, which is a nasal spray. Vaccines will cost $25 but are available at no charge to those on Medicaid, Peachcare, Wellcare, Amerigroup, Medicare Part B, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia or a State Benefit Plan through United Healthcare or Cigna. Flu vaccines will also be offered in the schools this year. Parents will receive permission slips from their child's school in the coming weeks.
Tuesday, Dec. 4
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: NBC will host a casting for dynamic teams of two for a new competition reality series hosted and mentored by Bear Grylls. Casting in Atlanta will take place at The Georgian Terrace Hotel, 659 Peachtree St. N.E.
10:30 a.m.: A Senior Olympic badminton club will be held at the Baldwin County Recreation Department gym.
10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.: The Mary Vinson Memorial Library, 151 S. Jefferson St. will host a Toddler Time program for ages 18 months to three years. For more information, contact (478) 452-0677 ext. 129.
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Cafe Central is open every Tuesday at Freedom Church in Milledgeville. A free meal will be served to everyone who comes. For information on volunteering, call (478) 453-4400.
12:45 p.m.: The Milledgeville Kiwanis Club meets at the Milledgeville Country Club. Visitors are welcome to the program and to lunch with a club sponsor.
1 p.m.: The Eatonton Duplicate Bridge Club, an official member of the American Contract Bridge League, meets at the Eatonton Performing Arts Center on Madison Avenue in Eatonton. Come with a partner or e-mail Pat Turney at firstname.lastname@example.com for a possible partner match.
3:30 to 4 p.m.: The Mary Vinson Memorial Library, 151 S. Jefferson St. will host a Story Time program for ages three and up. For more information, contact (478) 452-0677 ext. 129.
3:30 to 6:30 p.m.: Digital Bridges Open Computer Clinic is open in the Knight Community Innovation Center, 127 W. Hancock St. Work station availability is limited. The clinic is designed to teach basic skills to adult beginning computer users. Participants may come with specific questions or for general knowledge. For more information, call (478) 387-0254 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to reserve your slot or to volunteer.
5 p.m.: The Central State Hospital Redevelopment Authority is sponsoring a caroling event in Central State Hospital's pecan grove. There will be holiday-inspired refreshments and door prizes. There will be an encore performance at 7 p.m. in the auditorium.
6 p.m.: The County Commission meets in the Baldwin County Courthouse in Rm. 319.
6:30 p.m.: American Legion Auxiliary Post 523 meets at 430 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. All members are urged to attend.
7 p.m.: The Sweet Georgia Sound Sweet Adeline Chorus meets at Vineville Christian Towers to practice, socialize and sing. It is for women only. (478) 932-5387.
7:30 p.m.: The Knights of Columbus Council 9458 meets in Flannery O'Connor Hall for a regular business meeting at Sacred Heart Church, Hancock and Jefferson streets. Tom O'Neill (478) 456-0901 or (478) 451-0745, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It's an irony that the once-powerful book publishing companies that lobbied for the "insane" idea of copyright will finally cease to exist soon. They were dinosaurs. Now this weird combination of Amazon (running on a basis of OSS-licensing, which uses copyright against itself), trade-secrets (their software is not available), and DRM (no need for copyright there) supersedes them.
One possible result is fewer industries have a need to maintain copyright (yay), though usually because something much worse and monopolistic replaces it. Now it's just Disney & Friends that want copyright. There's also music studios, though I expect them to go like the book publishers soon.


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5. Maria's Lovers (1984)
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directed by David Odell
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National sporting goods retailer Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. managers—operating as Hibbett Sports—opened the company's newest store at 1057 Eureka Towne Center Drive on Friday. The new Eureka-based store will employ approximately eight full and part-time team members.
Jeff Rosenthal, president and CEO of Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. said in a company announcement about the opening: "This convenient, new location is a win-win for our company and the Eureka community. We are very excited to be serving the customers in this area."
Hibbett Sports stocks a large selection of athletic footwear, athletic apparel and team athletic equipment. "With the buying power of a national company, we offer our customers the convenience of buying the best in sports, right in their own neighborhoods," said Rosenthal.
Hibbett Sports also offers customers a customer loyalty program, the Hibbett Sports MVP Rewards program. "Our customers in Eureka can go online and sign up for the program to start earning points with their very first purchases," said Rosenthal.
"We research the markets we enter to learn what the customers of that area want from a sporting goods store," stated Rosenthal. "We constantly update our merchandise assortment to offer the latest in product technology, performance and fashion, so that we can meet the diverse needs of our customer's active lifestyles."
Missouri has been a target of the company's expansion for several years now. With the addition of the Eureka location, the company has 28 stores open in Missouri. Of those stores, Sikeston was the first to open in 1996. The Eureka location joins a growing number of Hibbett Sports retail locations in east Missouri, including stores in Hazelwood, St. Louis and Washington.
In business since 1945, Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc., operates 800-plus sporting goods stores in small- to mid-sized markets, predominantly in the Sunbelt, Mid-Atlantic and the Lower Midwest.


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The man who allegedly robbed Valley Bank and Trust the day before Thanksgiving has been found competent to stand trial.
43-year-old Michael Scott appeared in front of Judges Leo Dobrovolny and Randall Lippstreu in Scotts Bluff County District Court on Monday afternoon during his competency hearing.
Scott has two pending cases in District Court system, so both judges had to make their rulings to determine if Scott has the mental capacity to be charged.
The first case involves the November 21st robbery of Valley Bank and Trust in Scottsbluff. Scott is believed to be the man who entered the bank and forcibly took an undetermined amount of money from one of the tellers.
Scott is also charged with theft by deception during a 2-month long scam of area ATM's. Scott is accused of falsely depositing money, and then withdrawing the money before the bank found out there was insufficient funds.
For theft by deception charge, Judge Dobrovolny will trial that case during the jury term that starts April 1, 2013. A pretrial conference is scheduled for March 21.
For the robbery charge, Judge Lippstreu will hear that trial during the jury term that starts on May 6th. A pretrial conference is scheduled for April 25.


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Warehouse full of exotic cars and muscle cars seized by the DEA and US Marshals in Florida.
A photographer/videographer in February 2011 happened to pass DEA and US Marshall working on seizing a warehouse full of exotic cars and muscle cars. The combined value of all of the cars in the warehouse — not all are shown in the video — is reported to be worth $4 million.
The word on the street is the cars belonged to accused 'pill mill' businessman Vincent Colangelo, a convicted felon and former heroin trafficker, who was recently arrested after being accused of selling as much as $150,000 per day of narcotic pills, including oxycontin.
The information about these specific cars seized and former ownership by Vincent Colangelo is not known by The Cardinal to have been been confirmed by law enforcement. Various media sources report that high prices vehicles, including a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren sports car and two Lamborghinis, were seized related to the investigation of Vincent Colangelo.
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Upper West Side 2 BR/1-1/2 Baths Duplex + Garden Townhouse in Manhattan
- bedrooms 2
- baths 1½
- sleeps 5
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets considered no
- type Apartment
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$ 1,246 - $ 1,946 / week
vacation rental description
Full-service kitchen with microwave, toaster, coffee maker, and dishwasher. Full Bath + 1/2 bath. Sunken Art Deco living room with parquet floors and high ceilings. View and use of a private garden patio, a large Cable TV, and WiFi Internet.
Tasteful Italian-style living. Close to subways and buses, one block from Central Park, and 3 blocks from Riverside Park. On the Gold Coast of the Upper West Side. Very conveniently located near a supermarket and several gourmet stores, plenty of very good restaurants, and lots of shopping.
Nearby: Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Columbia University, Museum of Natural History. Very near subways and bus stations that can take you all over Manhattan–and make you feel like you are a real New Yorker!
Two of the bedrooms are below the ground level and have windows looking up onto the patio. Smoking is not permitted in the apt. You may step outside to the patio if you must smoke.
I live on the 4th floor. The place is very quiet and, at times, it feels like you're in the country–especially in the warm months, when you can enjoy sitting in the backyard.
For insurance/safety reasons, children must be at least 10 years old. No pets are permitted.
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By Mike Pound
Robin Anderson has a cold.
Normally, a cold is a bad thing, but for Robin, having a cold may actually turn out to be a blessing in disguise. See, if Robin can just nurse her cold along for a few more weeks, she will have a second excuse for not jumping into Shoal Creek in February.
And let's face it, when it comes to excuses for not jumping into Shoal Creek in February, you can't have too many.
Robin is the Southwest Area director of Missouri Special Olympics, and on Feb. 9 her organization is holding its sixth annual Polar Plunge. The idea for the plunge — dubbed "freezing for a reason" — is for folks to raise money via sponsorships in exchange for jumping into Shoal Creek.
Robin told me she is not sure who with Special Olympics decided that a Polar Plunge would be a great way to raise money. She assumes that the idea began with a Special Olympics chapter in a cold state such as Minnesota or Wisconsin, which sort of makes sense. I mean, those people are constantly jumping into cold lakes.
I'm guessing at some point, this conversation might have taken place:
"You know, Lars, we've been jumping into this icy lake for years, don't ya know? Maybe we could get somebody to pay us for doing this."
"Oh, you betcha, Olaf."
It could have happened that way.
Regardless, in Joplin the Polar Plunge has become a cool (ha!) deal. At the first plunge, 55 people jumped into Shoal Creek; last year, 160 people hit the water.
Robin was one of those who jumped in for that first plunge. But the next year, the number of plungers increased, and Robin was too busy keeping things organized to jump in herself. As the number of participants continues to increase, Robin has gotten so busy that she doesn't have time to even think about jumping in the water.
As excuses go, Robin's is a good one.
And if you add in her cold, Robin is set.
I think it's great that so many people are brave enough to jump into Shoal Creek.
I am not one of those brave people. I don't like being cold. When I open our freezer, I wear a coat. I don't even like jumping into water in July, so why would I want to jump into Shoal Creek in February?
Thankfully, though, a lot of other nice folks don't share my aversion to the cold, and the amount of money raised by the plungers for Special Olympics keeps climbing. In that first year, more than $11,000 was raised; last year, the plungers raised more than $23,000. This year, Robin is hoping the local event raises $24,000.
Last year, Carl Junction High School raised the most money. The Elks Lodge raised the most among civic groups. The Carthage Police Department was the top law enforcement money raiser, and Bill Barksdale, with the Carthage Police Department, was the individual who raised the most money.
By the way, I need to mention that both the Carthage and Joplin police departments are big supporters of the Polar Plunge. I also should mention that law enforcement folks around the region do many other great things on behalf of Special Olympics.
The best way to take part in the plunge is to form a team. It can be a team from work, from a church, from a school, or it can just be a bunch of people who want to jump into a cold creek.
This year, registration gets under way at noon on the day of the plunge, and the plunging begins at 2 p.m.
Robin said the best way to sign up for the plunge is to go to www.somo.org/plunge and fill out the online registration form. If you need more information or a hard copy of a registration form, you may call 417-624-5505.
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By Phil WilliamsChief Investigative Reporter
Does the University of Tennessee have a double standard in how it disciplines students who are not athletes?
That question is at the heart of the case of a 60-year-old student whose masters degree is being held up, putting her dreams of a career on hold. It's all because of something that happened more than a year ago while she was on vacation in another state.
During graduation ceremonies back in May, UT officials called Suzanne Glen's name and appeared to confer the masters in social work degree for which she had worked so hard.
But, for school officials, that moment was all for show.
"It was an awful experience," Glen told NewsChannel 5 Investigates. "It was awful, and it should have been joyful. It should have been a time to say, 'Wow, I really made it. I worked really hard -- and I did it, by God.' But I didn't feel that way that day."
Glen wasn't a star athlete or a student that any UT alum would have known.
At age 50, she had decided to go to college, ultimately graduating from Middle Tennessee State University -- a proud member of the psychology honor society.
"I think UT is being very unfair," said Dr. Carol Ann Baily, who was one of Suzanne's professors at MTSU.
Baily said Glen's whole life has been a struggle. "She had a medical problem when she was in her 20s that could have been debilitating. She went through two divorces. She lost a business in one of those divorces. She was on disability."
In 2008, Suzanne began working on her masters at UT, thinking she'd go on to get her doctorate.
Then, in July 2009, she was arrested for DUI while on a camping trip in Alabama.
But, by September, prosecutors had reduced the charge to reckless driving.
Still, two months later, UT officials called her to Knoxville to tell her that she was being kicked out of school.
"I was all by myself in this office with somebody who's telling me that I've been accused of something that's so bad that I'm going to be suspended indefinitely," Glen remembered. She added that she "never, never saw that coming."
After all, this is the university whose star center Brian Williams pleaded guilty to drug possession earlier this year -- and was not kicked out.
In 2008, punter Britton Colquitt did not get the boot either, even after his fifth alcohol-related arrest
Nor did quarterback Jim Bob Cooter when he was arrested for DUI back in '06.
"I think that if you look at the penalties that were handed down to students who were athletes they were much less than an indefinite suspension," Baily said.
"And I don't know what an indefinite suspension really means -- because it's indefinite."
UT officials would not provide anyone to sit down and answer our questions about Glen's case. But when NewsChannel 5 Investigates caught up with the UT president at the state Capitol, he told me he doesn't think there is a problem.
Is there one standard for athletes and another for ordinary students?
"Not at all," insisted Dr. Jan Simek, the interim UT president.
So why would athletes be treated differently from Ms. Glen?
"I don't know that they are," he answered, "because I don't know the details of this situation."
Suzanne Glen said, "I made a decision at 50. Now, I'm 60. And now everything is just being taken away. So it feels like the bottom has dropped out."
Glen opted to continue with her studies while she appealed -- even though UT officials warned her she might not get the credits for her final semester nor her degree.
"What I was thinking," Glen said, "is that there is such a thing as due process and presumption of innocence, and I was relying on those things to be true."
Now, six months after her graduation ceremony, Suzanne still doesn't have her degree -- and her life is on hold -- for what the courts have said was just a case of reckless driving.
"If I was such a poor representative of the university, why allow the dean to place a hood over my head in public?" she asked.
An administrative law judge heard the case and upheld UT's indefinite suspension of Glen, who has now appealed to the chancellor of the Knoxville campus.
A spokesperson for the chancellor said he has instructed university officials not to discuss Suzanne's case.
As to how the university got involved in an incident that occurred in Alabama, it appears that Glen had a falling out with another student who was on this camping trip. That student, apparently seeking retribution, filed the complaint with the university.
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Whitten, Antogna win Cascade opener
BEND — On a podium stacked with world champions and Olympic gold medalists, track cyclist Tara Whitten (Tibco-To the Top) nipped fellow Canadian Clara Hughes (Cycling BC) and U.S. rider Kristin Armstrong (Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty-12) to take the first race leader's jersey at the 2011 Cascade Cycling Classic.
Whitten, a 31-year-old who won gold at the 2010 UCI Track World Championships in the Omnium and Points Race, covered the two mile out-and-back course through Bend's Old Mill District in 3:52.811, three seconds faster than Hughes, who in turn beat Armstrong for the runner-up spot by two-tenths of a second.
Hughes, 38, and Armstrong, 37, have their own collection of Olympic and world championship hardware. Hughes is a Canadian sports icon who has won six Olympic medals in both cycling and speedskating. Armstrong is two-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist in the time trial. When the pair faced off recently at Mt. Hood, they battled neck and neck, with Armstrong taking the prologue win, another stage and the overall, but Hughes grabbing the coveted time trial prize. The pair now sit virtually tied on GC and could be staging a repeat of their Mt. Hood battle, although Cascade's women's field is much deeper than the one they faced at Mt. Hood.
Oregon's Jade Wilcoxson (Now & Novartis for MS) finished seven seconds down for fifth, just one second behind Pascale Schneider (Vaderkitten/Focus), who finished six seconds behind the leader for fourth.
Antogna beats Van Uden by two-tenths of a second
The men's race turned into a matter of milliseconds, with just five seconds separating the top 10 riders. But it was Jamis Sutter Home rider Fernando Antogna's blistering time of 3:35.624 that rose above the rest, although by just two-tenths of a second over runner-up Roman van Uden (Pure Black Racing). The PBR New Zealander, who previously rode with Portland-based Land Rover/Orbea team, was followed onto the podium by teammate Tim Gudsell, who finished two seconds down for third. Bissell Pro Cycling's Frank Pipp grabbed fourth, three seconds in arrears, while Jamis Sutter Home's Tom Zirbel grabbed the fifth spot, also three seconds down.
RealCyclist.com's Francisco Mancebo, the National Race Calendar points leader coming into Cascade, fired a warning shot with a sixth-place finish, just four seconds off the lead pace. Part-time Portlander and Cross Crusade regular Joshua Berry, Mancebo's teammate, finished 7th and wears the Best Young Rider jersey. Jamis Sutter Home placed three riders in the top 10, with Luis Romero Amaran grabbing the 10th spot at five seconds down. Portland's Jacob Rathe (Chipotle Development Team) finished six seconds down for 13th.
Wednesday's stage 2 McKenzie Pass Road Race will test the riders with 73 miles and two significant climbs, the first of which sends them over the namesake pass, which just recently opened to traffic after the winter snowpack finally melted off.
Cascade Cycling Classic
Prologue Time Trial
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1. Fernando Antogna (Jamis/Sutter Home) 3:35.624
2. Roman Van Uden (Pure Black Racing) 3:35.980 @:00
3. Tim Gudsell (Pure Black Racing) @:02
4. Frank Pipp (Bissell Pro Cycling Team) @:03
5. Tom Zirbel (Jamis/Sutter Home) @:03
Oregon Men
*7. Josh Berry (Realcyclist.com) @:04 *Top placed Oregon
13. Jacob Rathe (Chipotle Development Team) @:06
68. Andrew Boone (Team Oregon/Laurelwood Brewing) @:14
96. Ian Boswell (Trek-Livestrong) @:16
103. Kennett Peterson (Hagens Berman) @:16
105. Stephen Mull (Team Oregon/Laurelwood Brewing) @:17
109. Ryan Trebon (LTS/Felt) @:17
135. Scott Gray (Team Oregon/Laurelwood Brewing) @:21
166. Eli Romer (Team Oregon/Laurelwood Brewing) @:25
1. Tara Whitten (Tibco-To The Top) 3:52.811
2. Clara Hughes (Cycling BC) 3:55.710 @:03
3. Kristin Armstrong (Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty-12) 3:55.735 @:03
4. Pascale Schneider (Vaderkitten/Focus) 3:58.387 @:06
*5. Jade Wilcoxson (Now & Novartis for MS) 3:59.071 @:07 *Top placed Oregon rider
Oregon Women
30. Sue Butler (Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) @:19
40. Brenna Lopez-Otero (Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) @:22
43. Ashley Koch (Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) @:23
46. Kelly Benjamin (Colavita Forno d'Asolo) @:24
50. Hilary Billington (Now & Novartis for MS) @:26
62. Elizabeth Newell (Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) @:30
64. Amy Campbell (Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) @:31
84. Anne Usher (Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) @:35
99. Lindsay Fox (Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) @:42
103. Anona Whitely (Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) @:45


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The created by eliminating certain building features in December has been reduced to a cushion of $155,692 due to adding $200,000 in security equipment, which had previously been deferred from the budget. Selectmen Chairman Sean Delaney concurred with Superintendent Kathleen Willis and School Committee member Gerald Venezia that no educational programs would be compromised by cutbacks. They stated that all alternatives to non-essential elements in the original plan are being considered for elimination. For example, rather than incorporating an administrative suite of offices on the building site other office space available in town would be substituted.
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My esteemed colleagues Matt Herper, Bob Langreth and Avik Roy have been in the middle of an exciting debate about whether we spend too much on health care in this country. Roy writes that the problem is we're spending other people's money, so there's no market-forced cost control. Langreth thinks that the problem is there's not enough evidence-based medicine. Herper thinks everyone is missing the point and mistaking ideology for science. They all agree we spend too much. I disagree.
To be honest, I'm not sure whether national health care spending is too high or too low. To me that's a question fit for the Donald Berwicks and Peter Orszags of the world. They would love to control the actions of the rest of us vis a vis our health, and use cost as a barometer.
I'm more interested in the decisions of individual patients, families and doctors.
There's an old expression that my father-in-law is fond of that goes, "When you have your health you have everything." Most people who are sick and dying would trade all their possessions to feel better and live longer. When we toast each other, no matter what the language, it's usually some variant of, "to your good health." There's nothing more important.
You could say that 17% of the economy, about $2 trillion, is a lot to spend on health care if we used to spend less than 10% of GDP and well under $1 trillion not so long ago. On the other hand, where should those dollars have gone instead? Sports cars? Justin Bieber concert tickets? If you don't have good health, the other spending categories like food, housing, transportation, education and recreation don't mean much.
I've recently spent some time with a very productive person whose life was saved by $200,000 worth of cancer care. That included six $10,000 infusions of the targeted therapy Rituxan and $40,000 worth of imaging studies to track the progress of the therapy. It sounds like a lot to pay–but was it really if it extends his life five, ten or 15 years? If he didn't have insurance I'm sure he'd gladly write a check. Most people I know would rush to take out a loan.
Many existing laws and regulations apply specifically to pregnant women. Several provisions of the Affordable Care Act offer new benefits for expecting mothers. Search online for "Wise Health Insurance" if you need affordable insurance for yourself or your wife.
Of course you can spend too much on your health. When you end up spending most of your time working to pay for more insurance, the cost is no longer worth it. Think about this: we could easily eliminate 40,000 traffic deaths by mandating that cars are limited to 5mph. Why don't we do that? It's not worth it to us. When given the tradeoff between eating fries and lengthening life, we often choose the former. If we were really so concerned with giving up everything to extend life, we would never ski nor ride our bikes nor do any frivolous activity that might result in injury.
Gread point, David. We as a nation have apparently abdicated the "How much is too much?" argument in the same breath as "Access to healthcare is a right!" It's way to early to stop having this discussion, but politically we have new truths foisted upon us by Progressives who have decided what is enough, and what is too much for the rest of us.
Think about medical advancement now. Totally dependent on a combination of government investment through the NIH (40%) and Venture Capital (60%). Do you think any of this money would have appeared (especially the VC money) if there weren't willing buyers on the other end of the pipeline ready to spend vast sums of money for the latest and greatest treatment (Insurance Carriers and to a lesser extent, Medicare)? You might even say health insurance companies and their ability to pool resources are responsible for every medical advancement since 1960. But who would support THAT truth?
Have healthcare costs risen quickly? You bet. In 1960 healthcare and education were both 5.5% of GDP. Today healthcare is 17.5% of GDP, education is still about 5.5%. Is healthcare spending crowding out education spending? That's a debate worth having.
I was diagnosed with malignant bone cancer in 1983. My Dad's insurance company spent over $100,000 on one year of treatment, an unimaginable sum to me back then (I was 22). Now looking back 28 very productive years past my brush with death, that was chump change compared to my earnings and contributions to society since then. Will we look back 10 years from now on what we spend on healthcare and realize that life is worth more than money?
I hope we are smart enough to do so.
A thoughtful, well-reasoned post, David. I agree we want to leave the decision-making to the patient and doctor but I think there's a real problem, as articulated by Avik Roy, that in fact we are spending other people's money and that drives up spending. I'm not as sanguine as you that doctors will be the cost-saving hero. Yes, maybe doctors aren't out there doing wildly-expensive therapies willy nilly. But I think it's the accumulation of the smaller things. One personal example: I once had a cancer scare and the doctor wanted to do a full-body cancer scan. I said it seemed overkill, plus it was quite expensive. So what, you have insurance, the doc responded. I declined and other doctors I spoke to subsequently agreed the body scan was unnecessary. I'm glad I could make the decision. But it was Other Peoples' Money at work.
This story is bogus. We are spending more for healthcare then any other nation and are 16th as far as over all health is concerned. Please get you facts straight. Your on my twitter feed id appreciate if you could continue being accurate and relevant. Please don't post stuff like this again. Matter of fact take it down its an insult.
Health care spending is a political target. How we spend our money must remain personal. How we spend taxpayer's money is a public matter and there should be a public accounting for how it is spent. We ought not be responsible for people who are unwilling to properly care for themselves or don't care how much things cost (especially at the end of life). We can't afford to—even with the artificially low, Soviet-style price controls that Medicare and Medicaid use.
Take the epidemic of obesity. It accounts for a big chunk of the public money spent on: diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, sleep apnea, coronary artery disease, respiratory failure, and congestive heart failure (to name a few). How would people respond if, instead of just having high deductible plans, they were in a plan where individuals pay, say, the first hundred dollars of care they receive, up to a preset limit for every medical encounter?
This will foster compliance and accountability by having individuals participate in the ongoing costs of their care.


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Breaking the silence is the most important way to stop domestic violence and that message was heard loud and clear from the documentary "The Children Next Door" Thursday night at The Raleigh Playhouse and Theatre.
The Women's Resource Center hosted the screening as a part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month in effort to shine a light on the devastating effects domestic violence can have on children.
Although Chelsea Waldroup, 17, the eldest of the Wauldroup children featured in the film, could not attend the screening, she said she was there in spirit.
"It has been my biggest goal for the past year to share the secret and get the word out in every way I can about domestic violence and what it does to the children in those families," Chelsea said in a statement which was read to the audience Thursday night.
"I'm so happy to have that chance to 'speak out' even though I'm not there personally."
She said when most people think about domestic violence, they think about the man and the woman, the victim and the abuser.
They think of the fear, pain, screaming, fighting, bruises and crying, but rarely do they think about the children.
"Even worse than all the violence against my mother was the fact that my siblings and I had began to think it was normal."
She said in her eyes, her father was the most perfect person in the world, but to her mother, he was the reason she couldn't sleep at night.
"A simple conversation between the two would escalate into an argument, which in turn would lead to new bruises on my mother's body. At 6 years old, I believe this was how all families were."
Chelsea said even though her experience was a horrible and devastating one, she is now doing her part to break the cycle, to be come an advocate for domestic violence and break the silence.
"Every child and teen of domestic violence needs to know what I now know — that no matter what situation you have been in and what you've been going through, your future is your and only you determine how bright it is."
She said awareness is the only way to change the statistics. She encourages everyone to talk about the issues and make a difference.
Chelsea, her other two sisters and her brother had to witness the violent relationship between their parents, Penny and Brad Waldroup, who had also been children of domestic violence.
Although the two tried themselves to break the cycle, Brad's outbursts culminated one night when he attacked Penny with a gun and a machete and murdered her best friend, all in front of their children.
The documentary showed how severely Penny was injured, with gashes and blood all over her entire body. Their family still struggles with the events of that night, but they have made it their mission to take a stand and help break this violent cycle.
Many of the audience members had tear-stained cheeks after the credits rolled on the heart-wrenching story.
A panel of experts, including Beckley Police Department Cpt. C.D. Mullens, Raleigh County Family Court Judge Louise G. Staton, and Youth Advocacy Center and survivor of domestic violence Roger Lockridge, answered audience questions following the screening.
Cpt. Mullens said that in Beckley, 90 calls of domestic violence are received per month, and Judge Staton said the court has 30 to 40 domestic violence petition hears each week.
"We consider children victims 100 percent of the time," Women's Resource Center Executive Director Patricia Bailey said.
"We served 3,200 victims in Raleigh, Fayette, Summers and Nicholas counties."
The panel said that drugs and poverty will increase the risk, but domestic violence affects all socio-economic situations.
"We must look at this issue globally, not just locally," WRC Shelter Case Manager and Domestic Violence Advocate Lynda Jensen said.
Bailey said that West Virginia used to rank No. 14 in the number of domestic violence related homicides in the nation, but now our state ranks No. 8.
Lockridge, who was a survivor of domestic violence himself, said his mother had obvious signs of domestic violence and she even worked at a hospital, but no one asked her about her struggles.
"I felt weak and defenseless because I couldn't help my mother. That was 22 years ago and I still struggle today."
Lockridge said that although children of domestic violence are three times as likely to repeat the cycle, it's not guaranteed.
"The cycle can be broken. I'm an example of that."
For more information about domestic violence and how you can help, visit www.cdv.org.
For more information about the Women's Resource Center, contact Dee Sizemore at 304-255-2559.


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On the first morning of this Test, Australia's bowlers were out in the middle of the Gabba with a measuring tape and a can of spray paint. It has become a ritual of the modern-day bowler, calculating to the centimetre the distance they require from the crease to the top of their run-up, and marking the spot with a graffito of their initials and a line. It is a precise operation. It is also becoming a futile one.
When James Pattinson steamed in on the final day and bowled Hashim Amla, the Australians were jubilant. Briefly. The umpire, Asad Rauf, told Amla not to walk off the ground just yet. He suspected Pattinson had over-stepped the crease and asked the third official to check the replays. Rauf's instinct was right. Pattinson had delivered a no-ball and Amla was reprieved. It was the third such incident in this match.
On the first day, Peter Siddle had Jacques Kallis caught at mid-off. Again it was Rauf who wanted the replay checked, and again the bowler had over-stepped. And on day three Morne Morkel, a serial no-baller, thought he had Ed Cowan caught behind and the South Africans asked for a review of Rauf's not-out decision. The first footage to be viewed by Richard Kettleborough was the side-on angle, and he deemed that Morkel had not bowled a legal delivery.
Three dismissals disallowed by no-balls, in addition to another that was called on the spot, which Michael Clarke appeared to edge behind off Morkel. When run-ups are measured so precisely, how can that be? Geoff Lawson, the former fast bowler and coach, argues that the run-up length can only ever be a rough guide because when a bowler is running in, the length of his steps will vary based on a number of factors. Is there a head-wind or a tail-wind? Is the outfield soft or hard? Is he running marginally uphill or downhill? And when he bowled Amla, Pattinson was in such a fired-up mood that he might have been running in faster than usual, lengthening his strides.
|Reprieving a batsman on a late no-ball call is vastly preferable to wrongly calling one and having a batsman dismissed. The bowling team would feel aggrieved, and rightly so. But nor would it be fair to give the batsman out retrospectively
Still, some bowlers find a way around no-balls. It is often claimed that Michael Holding sent down only two in his Test career. Ben Hilfenhaus bowled one in the first Test in the West Indies in April, but hasn't been called in the three Tests since then. Is their secret to measure a run-up and then start from yet another step back? Who knows. But it was notable that when the Australians asked for a review of a Hilfenhaus caught-behind appeal, his front foot was so far back in legal territory that his toes weren't even touching the crease.
Others, like Morkel, get it wrong on a frustratingly regular basis. When Morkel made his first-class debut at the age of 19, he sent down 17 no-balls in a five-over spell. The habit has stayed with him. On the last day of the Lord's Test in August, Morkel had Matt Prior caught in the deep off a no-ball. Siddle also has prior form. At the MCG last year, he bowled Rahul Dravid and the umpire, Marais Erasmus, asked for the no-ball to be checked. Siddle had overstepped.
It could be argued that the standing umpires should be more inclined to call bowlers on the spot, rather than waiting for a wicket to fall. Who knows how many no-balls are missed during regular play because the umpire hasn't felt sure? Certainly in Pattinson's case, Rauf could have made the call himself, for Pattinson was over the crease by a considerable distance. But the Siddle and Morkel margins were minimal.
The umpires still called 33 no-balls for the match and had assistance for less than a handful of those. If in doubt, umpires must err on the side of caution. Reprieving a batsman on a late no-ball call is vastly preferable to wrongly calling one and having a batsman dismissed. The bowling team would feel aggrieved, and rightly so. But nor would it be fair to give the batsman out retrospectively.
Who can say if a batsman would have played the same shot had he not heard the umpire call no-ball? Against a genuinely fast bowler, batsmen don't have time to adjust to hearing an umpire's call, but they do against spinners. And what of medium-pacers? Or a fast man's slower ball?
There must be one blanket rule and the current system is the best option. It is certainly preferable to a batsman being sent on his way, only for TV viewers to later see he was dismissed off a no-ball. Whether the review process adds to or detracts from the spectacle of the game is a matter of opinion. Whether bowlers are overstepping, generally, is not. Perhaps some should look to Holding and Hilfenhaus for inspiration.
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