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In medicine, nursing and the allied health professions, end-of-life care refers to health care, not only of patients in the final hours or days of their lives, but more broadly care of all those with a terminal illness or terminal condition that has become advanced, progressive and incurable.
Regarding cancer care the United States National Cancer Institute writes:
When a patient's health care team determines that the cancer can no longer be controlled, medical testing and cancer treatment often stop. But the patient's care continues. The care focuses on making the patient comfortable. The patient receives medications and treatments to control pain and other symptoms, such as constipation, nausea, and shortness of breath. Some patients remain at home during this time, while others enter a hospital or other facility. Either way, services are available to help patients and their families with the medical, psychological, and spiritual issues surrounding dying. A hospice often provides such services.The time at the end of life is different for each person. Each individual has unique needs for information and support. The patient's and family's questions and concerns about the end of life should be discussed with the health care team as they arise...
Unfortunately, physicians were not placed under the provisions of the 1991 Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA), passed by a bipartisan United States Congress at the request of the financial arm of Medicare in 1991. While the 1991 PSDA together with the 1986 Hospice Entitlement created another legal standard of care reimbursed out of the Medicare Purse, the physicians had no legal duty to seek informed consent for one or the other two legal standards of care, i.e., either Curative Care or Palliative Care/transition to Hospice Care in the last six months of life. Only, since 2010, have some few states passed new laws that somewhat compel treating physicians to seek informed consent for one standard of care as opposed to the other. Most of the United States, however, have not passed laws that compel physicians to seek informed consent for one or the other two legal standards of care reimbursed out of the people's Medicare Purse. Patients and their family members often want to know how long a person is expected to live. This is a hard question to answer. Factors such as where the cancer is located and whether the patient has other illnesses can affect what will happen. Although doctors may be able to make an estimate based on what they know about the patient, they might be hesitant to do so. Doctors may be concerned about over- or underestimating the patient's life span. They also might be fearful of instilling false hope or destroying a person's hope.[1]
End-of-life care requires a range of decisions, including questions of palliative care, patients' right to self-determination (of treatment, life), medical experimentation, the ethics and efficacy of extraordinary or hazardous medical interventions, and the ethics and efficacy even of continued routine medical interventions. In addition, end-of-life often touches upon rationing and the allocation of resources in hospitals and national medical systems. Such decisions are informed both by technical, medical considerations, economic factors as well as bioethics. In addition, end-of-life treatments are subject to considerations of patient autonomy. "Ultimately, it is still up to patients and their families to determine when to pursue aggressive treatment or withdraw Life support ."[2]
"I think people think DNR means give up. They think DNR and hospice means you're quitting. It's more about accepting and embracing the next phase of life, even if it's death. DNR does not mean do not treat and it does not mean do not care. It just means do not resuscitate by giving CPR, electric shocks or medications to restart the heart. If things go badly, there is a role in certain situations for letting the natural breakdown of the body occur," says Dr. Lauren Jodi Van Scoy, a board-certified internist who has spent hundreds of hours in the intensive care unit, where she has witnessed the manner in which many critically ill patients choose to die, and how sometimes such a decision is mired in upheaval when family members are forced to confront the inevitable.[2]
In the 2014 Hospice appropriation, Medicare plans to run a trial in which Medicare/Medicaid patients will have a right to be on both Curative Care under Medicare and Palliative Care/Transition to Hospice at the SAME time. Under current 2013 administrative law, this is not possible and is actually illegal. This legal situation, NO right to both standards of care at the same time. has been law since 1986 and has resulted in patients being referred to palliative care/transition to Hospice by treating physicians much too late in the course of their terminal illnesses to save money and resources for Medicare and the private insurers.
It was anticipated in 1991 when the PSDA was passed into law that the states would implement the goals of the PSDA and Medicare/Medicaid patients would elect/choose to use the less expensive Hospice entitlement after receiving a terminal diagnosis from their treating physician who would then explain the Hospice option, also reimbursed under their Medicare insurance. Elderly and terminal Medicare/Medicaid patients would choose/elect to refuse expensive end of life treatments in ICU and CCU and shorten their suffering unto a certain death. Additionally, it was the vision of the 1991 PSDA over treatment for the profit motive would be greatly reduced. In 2013, however, US newspapers have carried stories of the prosecutions started by the United States Department of Justice and Health and Human Services of Cancer Clinics for fraud, claiming non beneficial over treatment for profit that is fraud under the federal false claims laws.
The Hospice/palliative care entitlement is elective and optional under existing Medicare administrative law of 2013 but if the trial is successful and Congress changes the law after the trials in 2014, the Hospice entitlement will be merely the end stage of Curative Care and an offer that can't be refused when the treating physician informs the terminal patient that curative care is no longer feasible.
National perspectives[edit]
Estimates show that about 27% of Medicare's annual $327 billion budget ($88 billion) in 2006 goes to care for patients in their final year of life.[3][4][5] It represent 22% of all medical spending in the United States, 18% of all non-Medicare spending, and 25 percent of all Medicaid spending for the poor.[3]
The Congress of the USA had hoped that the 1991 Patient Self Determination Act together with the 1986 Hospice Care Entitlement that is reimbursed by Medicare would greatly reduce expensive end-of-life care in Intensive Care and Critical Units of US Acute Care Hospitals when elderly/disabled terminal patients on Medicare would freely choose to shorten their lives to shorten their suffering from terminal illnesses and die in their own personal residences or in nursing-home residences. However, since the physicians and for-profit clinics were not placed under the provisions of the 1991 PSDA and the states didn't implement the goals of the 1991 PSDA in state laws, the Hospice Entitlement paid for out of the Medicare Purse has failed to achieve the savings anticipated in the 1991 PSDA.
End of life care has been identified by the UK Department of Health as an area where quality of care has previously been "very variable", and which has not had a high profile in the NHS and social care. To address this, a national end of life care programme was established in 2004 to identify and propagate best practice,[6] and a national strategy document published in 2008.[7][8] The Scottish Government has also published a national strategy.[9][10][11]
In 2006 just over half a million people died in England, about 99% of them adults over the age of 18, and almost two-thirds adults over the age of 75. About three-quarters of deaths could be considered "predictable" and followed a period of chronic illness[12] – for example heart disease, cancer, stroke or dementia. In all, 58% of deaths occurred in an NHS hospital, 18% at home, 17% in residential care homes (most commonly people over the age of 85), and about 4% in hospices.[12] However a majority of people would prefer to die at home or in a hospice, and according to one survey less than 5% would rather die in hospital.[12] A key aim of the strategy therefore is to reduce the needs for dying patients to have to go to hospital and/or to have to stay there; and to improve provision for support and palliative care in the community to make this possible. One study estimated that 40% of the patients who had died in hospital had not had medical needs which required them to be there.[12][13]
In 2010 a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit commissioned by the Lien Foundation ranked the UK top out of forty countries globally for end of life care.[14][15][16][17]
Care in the final days and hours of life[edit]
Signs that death may be near[edit]
The U.S. Government National Cancer Institute advises that the presence of some of the following signs may indicate that death is approaching:[18]
- Drowsiness, increased sleep, and/or unresponsiveness (caused by changes in the patient's metabolism).
- Confusion about time, place, and/or identity of loved ones; restlessness; visions of people and places that are not present; pulling at bed linens or clothing (caused in part by changes in the patient's metabolism).
- Decreased socialization and withdrawal (caused by decreased oxygen to the brain, decreased blood flow, and mental preparation for dying).
- Decreased need for food and fluids, and loss of appetite (caused by the body's need to conserve energy and its decreasing ability to use food and fluids properly).
- Loss of bladder or bowel control (caused by the relaxing of muscles in the pelvic area).
- Darkened urine or decreased amount of urine (caused by slowing of kidney function and/or decreased fluid intake).
- Skin becoming cool to the touch, particularly the hands and feet; skin may become bluish in color, especially on the underside of the body (caused by decreased circulation to the extremities).
- Rattling or gurgling sounds while breathing, which may be loud (death rattle); breathing that is irregular and shallow; decreased number of breaths per minute; breathing that alternates between rapid and slow (caused by congestion from decreased fluid consumption, a buildup of waste products in the body, and/or a decrease in circulation to the organs).
- Turning of the head toward a light source (caused by decreasing vision).
- Increased difficulty controlling pain (caused by progression of the disease).
- Involuntary movements (called myoclonus), changes in heart rate, and loss of reflexes in the legs and arms are additional signs that the end of life is near.
Symptom management[edit]
The following are some of the most common potential problems which can arise in the last days and hours of a patient's life:[19]
- Pain -Suffering from uncontrolled pain is a significant fear of those at end of life.[20]
- Typically controlled using morphine or diamorphine;[21] or other opioids.
- Agitation
- Delirium, terminal anguish, restlessness (e.g. thrashing, plucking, or twitching). Typically controlled using midazolam,[21] or other benzodiazepines. Symptoms may also sometimes be alleviated by rehydration, which may reduce the effects of some toxic drug metabolites.[22]
- Respiratory Tract Secretions
- Saliva and other fluids can accumulate in the oropharynx and upper airways when patients become too weak to clear their throats, leading to a characteristic gurgling or rattle-like sound ("death rattle"). While apparently not painful for the patient, the association of the symptom with impending death can create fear and uncertainty for those at the bedside.[22] The secretions may be controlled using drugs such as scopolamine (hyoscine),[21] glycopyrronium,[21] or atropine.[22] Rattle may not be controllable if caused by deeper fluid accumulation in the bronchi or the lungs, such as occurs with pneumonia or some tumours.[22]
- Nausea and vomiting
- Typically controlled using cyclizine;[21] or other anti-emetics.
- Dyspnea (breathlessness)
- Typically controlled using morphine or diamorphine[21]
Typical care plans, such as those based on the Liverpool Care Pathway for dying patients, will pre-authorise staff to give subcutaneous injections to address such symptoms as soon as they are needed, without needing to take time to seek further authorisation. Such injections are usually the preferred means of delivery, as it may become difficult for patients to swallow or to take pills orally. If repeated medication is needed, a syringe driver (called an infusion pump in the US) is likely to be used, to deliver a steady low dose of medication.
Other symptoms which may occur, and may be mitigable to some extent, include cough, fatigue, fever, and in some cases bleeding.[22]
See also[edit]
- Advance health care directive
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Palliative care
- Physician assisted suicide
- Robert Martensen
- ^ End-of-Life Care: Questions and Answers, National Cancer Institute, US Institutes of Health. Reviewed 30 October 2002. Accessed 25 January 2010.
- ^ a b Naila Francis - Dr. Lauren Jodi Van Scoy Poses Critical Questions About Death in First Book - PhillyBlurbs.com - The Intelligencer, July 10/11, 2011.
- ^ a b Donald R Hoover, Stephen Crystal, Rizie Kumar, Usha Sambamoorthi, and Joel C Cantor (December 1, 2002). "Medical Expenditures during the Last Year of Life: Findings from the 1992–1996 Medica0000re Current Beneficiary Survey". Health Service Research 37 (6): 1625–1642. PMC 1464043. PMID 12546289. "Last-year-of-life expenses constituted 22 percent of all medical, 26 percent of Medicare, 18 percent of all non-Medicare expenditures, and 25 percent of Medicaid expenditures."
- ^ Julie Appleby. Debate surrounds end-of-life health care costs. USA Today, July 10/11, 2011.
- ^ Hoover, D. R.; Crystal, S.; Kumar, R.; Sambamoorthi, U.; Cantor, J. C. (2002). "Medical Expenditures during the Last Year of Life: Findings from the 1992–1996 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey". Health Services Research 37 (6): 1625–1642. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.01113. PMC 1464043. PMID 12546289.
- ^ NHS National End of Life Care Programme, official website
- ^ End of Life Care Strategy: Promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life, UK Department of Health, July 2008.
- ^ Q&A: End of life care, BBC News, 26 November 2008
- ^ 'Better' end of life care pledge, BBC News, 21 August 2008
- ^ Living and Dying Well: A national action plan for palliative and end of life care in Scotland, Scottish Government, 2 October 2008
- ^ Scots end-of-life plan launched as part of innovative palliative care strategy, Nursing Times, 14 October 2008.
- ^ a b c d End of life care: 1. The current place and quality of end of life care, House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, 30 March 2009, paragraphs 1-3.
See also End of life care strategy, UK Department of Health, July 2008, paragraphs 1.1 and 1.7-1.14 (pages 26-27); and End of Life care, UK National Audit Office Comptroller and Auditor General's report, 26 November 2008, paragraphs 2.2-2.5 (page 15)
- ^ End of Life care, UK National Audit Office Comptroller and Auditor General's report, 26 November 2008, paragraph 21 (page 7) and supporting study
- ^ The Quality of Death: Ranking end-of-life care across the world, Economist Intelligence Unit, July 2010
- ^ Quality of death, Lien Foundation, July 2010
- ^ United States Tied for 9th Place in Economist Intelligence Unit's First Ever Global 'Quality of Death' Index, Lien Foundation press release
- ^ UK comes top on end of life care - report, BBC News, 15 July 2010
- ^ NCI Factsheet: End-of-Life Care: Questions and Answers, 30 October 2002. Some material here has been adapted verbatim from the factsheet, which is identified as being in the public domain as a creation of federal government employees (NCI Web policies: Copyright and registered trademarks).
- ^ This list is based on the principal heading prompts in the Liverpool Care Pathway standard documentation template. A more detailed discussion of common symptoms and potential mitigation options can be found in the U.S. National Cancer Institute's PDQ Last Days of Life: Symptom management.
- ^ Canadian Nurses Association. "Position Statement: Providing Care at The End of Life", 2008, p.3
- ^ a b c d e f LCP Sample hospital template, Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute, Liverpool. Version 11 - November 2005
- ^ a b c d e NCI PDQ: Last Days of Life: Symptom management, United States National Cancer Institute, Revised 9 March 2009
External links[edit]
- End of Life Issues. MedlinePlus.
- EndLink - Resource for End of Life Care Education, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University
- End of life care, NHS Choices
- End of Life Care Strategy - promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life, UK Department of Health, Publications policy and guidance
- John Ellershaw, Chris Ward (2003), Care of the dying patient: the last hours or days of life, British Medical Journal, 326, 30-34 doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7379.30
- Polly Mazanec, Julia Bartel (2002), Symptoms and Symptom Management, in Robert Kastenbaum (ed), Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 0-02-865689-X
- End Of Life: The Facts, Marie Curie Cancer Care
- End of life care in adults, Map of Medicine, updated 29 October 2010
- End-of-Life Decisions from the Institute for Good Medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical Society
- Survivorship A to Z: End-Of-Life
- Before I Die: Medical Care and Personal Choices. Produced by Thirteen/WNET, premiered on Public Broadcasting Service April 22, 1997. The program explores the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today.
- Palliative Care Policy Center (PCPC), formerly Center for Palliative Care Studies. Includes RAND Health white paper on Living Well at the End of Life: Adapting Health Care to Serious Chronic Illness in Old Age. plus other resources.
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Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light into the security features of its IaaS cloud offering.
The CSA launched its STAR program last August as a forum for users to investigate the security practices of various cloud providers, but since then it's been slow to catch on. About six months after it launched there were only three submissions to the registry. Microsoft Azure was the first major cloud provider to join the registry in April, while in the past few weeks infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers Amazon Web Services, Terremark, and Box.com have all now joined, bringing the total entrants to a dozen.
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AWS released an updated whitepaper outlining its security practices to become listed in the STAR program. The 42-page document runs through the various certifications and compliances AWS has for its cloud and provides answers to more than 190 questions from the CSA as part of the STAR program's questionnaire. In the document, AWS says that its service has received SAS70 (Statement on Auditing Standards) Type II audits, as well as International Standards Organization (ISO) 27001 certification. AWS has a SOC1 (Service Organization Controls) report under SSAE16 (Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements), which is a financial certification by the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). AWS has Payment Card Industry Level 1 Service provider authority, and it is listed as at a "moderate" level for its Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) controls.


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DUI charges were dropped Wednesday against Steelers WR Hines Ward after he agreed to a plea agreement that involves probation, community service and a fine.
In a hearing in a Georgia courthouse, Ward pleaded "no contest" to a July 2011 charge that he was behind the wheel while intoxicated. In exchange for dropping the DUI charge, Ward was charged with failing to stay in his lane. He was sentenced to 12 months' probation, 80 hours of community service and a $2,000 fine, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The newspaper reports that Ward is also required to undergo an alcohol evaluation and participate in a risk-reduction program.
Ward was arrested on July 9, 2011, around 2:30 a.m. after police noticed he was having difficulty staying in his lane. Reports say he failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a Breathalyzer prior to his arrest.


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▶ St. Regis Mohawk Indians filed suit against Franklin County claiming that the county has no legal right to levy taxes on property they own in Hogansburg. The Mohawks argue that the land being taxed is properly part of the St. Regis Indian Reservation and therefore not subject to any taxation by the County or any other local taxing authority.
▶ The Rouses Point-Champlain Chamber of Commerce will open its own visitor welcome center this month at the intersection of Routes 87 and 11. As one chamber official pointed out, the 3.5 million people who cross the border and 1 million who cross the bridge "don't cross the Beekmantown exit."
▶ Clinton County legislators say construction of a new road down the center of Cumberland Head must be a joint venture between the county and town of Plattsburgh. A study prepared by County highway chief Frank Madden estimates the cost of a two-lane, 2.6-mile link between the ferry landing on Lake Champlain and the western end of the peninsula to be $2.5 million to $3 million.
▶ Although details are sketchy, indications are that Frontier Town, the popular Western theme park, will open up this summer after being closed for almost 3 years. According to Chestertown attorney Dan Smith, a "small publicly held" corporation is interested in purchasing the 300 or so acres of land that the town sits on.
▶ Rouses Point industrialist and developer Victor Podd, who once offered to donate Fort Montgomery to the state in an attempt to save it from total ruin, is now offering to sell the 171-year-old landmark for $2.5 million. The Fort will be featured in a one-page ad in the exclusive national publication "Unique Homes," the national magazine of luxury real estate.
▶ A student-formed peace committee won't get to stage its protest march on Armed Forces Day, but the door is open for a demonstration at a better, later date. Common Council rejected with a 5 to 4 vote the Citizens for Peace Committee's request for permission to parade from downtown Plattsburgh to the gates of the Plattsburgh Air Force Base.


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CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Department of Public Health is urging women and girls to become educated about and get tested for HIV.
In a press release Thursday, the department says more than 7,000 women and adolescent girls in Illinois are living with HIV.
Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck is director of the state public health department. He says women represent a larger share of HIV infections today than they did earlier in the epidemic. Women of color, particularly black women and girls, are disproportionately affected.
Sunday is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
Illinois residents may receive information on where to find free HIV testing locations by texting "IL" and a ZIP Code to 36363.


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I agreed to give my next door neighbor lady's Cub Cadet its spring tuneup. He husband died on Christmas Eve and I was more than willing to help her out when she asked me to do it. Plug, filters, oil change, sharpen the blades --- no problem. I found a couple of things that needed addressing so off to NAPA to get the parts. Got everything but one item and I didn't want to wait till the next day to have it shipped. He suggested that I go to a newly opened Cub Cadet dealer three miles down the road. At no charge he threw in two special bolts that needed to be replaced. Free stuff, I like.
Off to the newly open dealer (never been there before) to get the one item NAPA didn't have in stock. Showed him the part I needed and he took my old part and came back with a slightly used one (it will work fine) --- no charge. Did I say that I like free stuff.
Bottom line, I could have gotten all exercised because NAPA did not have one part in stock, left with my nose out of joint because I had to drive three miles to get the part. Then entered the new business with an upset attitude and looking like it. I'm sure that I wouldn't have gotten free stuff at either place.
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10:00am Tuesday 15th January 2013 in News By Kirsty James
A CHARITY which transports medical supplies to hospitals in Somerset has been selected by a Bridgwater business as their 'charity of the year'.
Autofit Motoring Centres, on Wylds Road, has selected Freewheelers Emergency Voluntary Service (Freewheelers EVS) as its Charity of the Year for 2013.
Paul Rogers, Managing Director of Autofit, said: "We have supported the charity for the past five years and look forward to raising funds throughout 2013 that can be used to help support the emergency services."
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Two privacy-focused email providers have launched the Dark Mail Alliance, a project to engineer an email system with robust defenses against spying.
Silent Circle and Lavabit abruptly halted their encrypted email services in August, saying they could no longer guarantee email would remain private after court actions against Lavabit, reportedly an email provider for NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
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Their idea, presented at the Inbox Love email conference in Mountain View on Wednesday, is for an open system that could be widely implemented and which offers much stronger security and privacy. As envisioned, Dark Mail would shield both the content of an email and its "metadata," including "to" and "from" data, IP addresses and headers. The email providers hope a version will be ready by next year.
"The issue we are trying to deal with is that email was created 40 years ago," Jon Callas, CTO and founder of Silent Circle, in a phone interview. "It wasn't created to handle any of the security problems we have today."
Silent Circle, Lavabit and at least one VPN provider, CryptoSeal, shut down their services fearing a court order forcing the turnover of a private SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) key, which could be used to decrypt communications.
Lavabit was held in contempt of court for resisting an order to turn over its SSL key, which in theory allowed the government to decrypt not only Snowden's communications but also those of its 400,000 users. Ladar Levison, Lavabit's founder, is appealing.
Callas said Dark Mail is a collaboration with Levison. Rather than create a closed email service, they decided to design Dark Mail with open-source software components that could be used by any email provider.
"We need 1,000 Lavabits all around the world," he said.
Microsoft's David Dennis, lead principal program manager for the company's Outlook.com webmail portal, said Dark Mail is an "interesting proposal."
"We pay attention to any new innovations, protocols, standards and proposals impacting online communications," Dennis wrote in an email. "And we're always open to discussions with potential partners."
Representatives of Google and Yahoo who attended Inbox Love did not have an immediate comment.
Dark Mail will be crafted around XMPP, a Web messaging protocol known by its nickname Jabber, along with another encryption protocol created by Silent Circle called SCIMP (Silent Circle Instant Message Protocol), Callas said.
An adapter will be built that will enable Dark Mail within different email clients. "There's no reason why you couldn't modify Outlook and Exchange to do this," he said.


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During the past 50 years, coastal Louisiana has suffered catastrophic land loss due to both natural and human causes. This loss has increased storm vulnerability and amplified risks to lives, property, and economies--a fact underscored by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Drawing Louisiana's New Map reviews a restoration plan proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Louisiana, finding that, although the individual projects in the study are scientifically sound, there should be more and larger scale projects that provide a comprehensive approach to addressing land loss over such a large area. More importantly, the study should be guided by a detailed map of the expected future landscape of coastal Louisiana that is developed from agreed upon goals for the region and the nation.
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Montrose Elementary receives grant for 'recess renovation'
Montrose Elementary School students jumped rope, played hopscotch and participated in games of foursquare recently on their newly painted blacktop during recess. But now, recess for Montrose students is a bit different. With the help of a grant from Capital One, Montrose was able to launch "Organized Recess," a time of day where students can participate in cooperative games that double as "teachable moments" in the areas of social skills and good citizenship.
"We have done some research and gathered that organized recess decreases discipline incidents," said Montrose Principal Dana Baldacci. "So we decided this year we'd do several days a week of organized recess, and through this grant, we are able to do it."
Capital One volunteers came out early in the week to repaint the blacktop and then again later in the week to show students how to safely use the equipment in a variety of games that aimed at fostering participation and fair play (pictured). Each classroom also received a bucket full of new recess materials that encourage students to interact and play with one another in a collaborative way.
"This is a great opportunity that Capital One gives us to give back to the community and the neighborhood," said Tim Gunn, a Capital One employee. "It's been a great experience, one of the kids even said it was better than field day, so that's just sort of the icing on the cake for us."
Rotary donates to 'Bright Beginnings'
The Sandston Rotary Club recently donated $1,000 to the Sandston YMCA for its Bright Beginnings program, which helps provide children in need with school supplies for the new school year. > Read more.
Author, child abuse survivor to speak at Henrico event
To help celebrate twenty years of service to advocating for abused and neglected children in Henrico County, Henrico Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (CASA) will host an evening with bestselling author K.L. Randis on Tuesday, Aug. 26, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Belmont Recreation Center in Lakeside.
Randis is best known for her bestselling novel, Spilled Milk, which tells her painful – but ultimately triumphant – personal story of abuse and of child abuse prevention. The book is her first novel.
Philippines ambassador to the US visits Filipino Festival in Henrico
The Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. attended the Ninth Annual Filipino Festival at Our Lady of Lourdes Church earlier this month. Cuisia (pictured above with festival performers) was welcomed by County Manager John Vithoulkas and Brookland District Supervisor Dick Glover (below) at the church, which is located in Lakeside.
While enjoying some of the cultural performances at the festival, the ambassador and his wife had a private lunch with Vithoulkas, Glover, Eldon Burton (an outreach representative from U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner's Office) and Father James Begley, the pastor of OLL. > Read more.
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Short Pump brewery offers more than just beer
I am still (happily) thinking about my entire experience at Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery last week. Knowing nothing about this new brewery out of Denver, I was leery of brew-pub in the heart of Short Pump Town Center – this is not what I'd usually think of as a perfect fit, and yet, it was.
The restaurant and craft brewery opened in early June and features 10 beers made by female brewmaster Becky Hammond (pictured). This is the restaurant's second location in Virginia; the first is in Arlington. Behind glass walls, customers watched the beer brewing in massive steel barrels. For our up-and-coming beer region, it makes sense that Short Pump would jump on board.
As I walked up to the back of the mall near the comedy club, I was taken aback by what I saw: at the top of the stairs was an overflowing restaurant with outdoor seating, large umbrellas and dangling outdoor lights. > Read more.
Cultural Arts Center announces 2014 fall class schedule
The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen is now registering participants for its fall 2014 schedule of classes.
The center will offer more than 100 classes for children and adults, covering topicssuch as culinary arts, fiber arts, visual and performance arts and more. Instruction is structured to appeal to a wide range of abilities, from beginners to experts of all ages. Class sizes are kept small to ensure maximum benefit for participants with generally no more than 15 students. > Read more.
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It regularly fascinates me how structures, streetscapes and even building typologies that failed to make it into Frank McDonald's The Destruction of Dublin quite literally vanished from the public consciousness - testament, no doubt, to the comprehensiveness of that work. This intriguing stretch on Nassau Street, though alluded to by Frank in the form of its replacement - Nassau House and Norwich Union House - is one such example. I too have some images of the middle of the terrace displaying a variety of Victorian commercial confections that are worth digging out - the largest possibly being built for the Alliance Assurance Company.
On other news, there are two significant planning applications currently live for restaurant/café/bar/superpub uses on Dawson Street - one in the basement and rear church of the largest terraced town house on the thoroughfare at Number 8 (next to the former Waterstones), and another to all the floors and basement of the former Twohigs Travel premises at the other end of the street and across the road at Number 31. The latter has a delicate late Regency exterior that belies possible earlier origins, with a corner chimneybreast to the rear room.
Both have gone to substantial further information on architectural heritage and operating use grounds, suggesting the lack of pre-planning consultations. It never fails to amaze me how major projects get lobbed in cold to the planning system - frankly, there should be some form of requirement to engage in pre-planning for certain types of development to avoid wasting everyone's time.


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Musical Productions
In alternating years, Iowa Lakes' Music Department joins with area community members to produce a musical. Recent productions have included: The Music Man, The Fantasticks, The Melody Lingers On, Damn Yankees, Once Upon a Mattress, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.
The 2014 production is Les Misérables.
(Written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil with English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer)
Production Dates: April 3, 4 and 5, 2014
This legendary classic sweeps its audience through an epic tale of passion and destruction and love and forgiveness in 19th century France. Les Misérables is now the world's longest-running musical and seen by over 65 million people in 42 countries.
The cast for the Iowa Lakes Community College community production includes over 60 actors and actresses, including college students, adults, and children from northwest Iowa and Minnesota. Accompanying the musical is a complete pit orchestra comprised of Iowa Lakes Community College students and community members.
Mark your calendars now and join us for the productions on April 3, 4 and 5, 2014!
To reserve your tickets contact Linda Kautz at 712-362-8345 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Tickets are $13 for adults; $6 for students (K-12). The show may not be suitable for some children due to the PG-13 material. Advance tickets are recommended.
Les Misérables is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI - 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019, Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com
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Carl Froch is sounding more open to a fight with James DeGale, saying it could be a huge fight in the United Kingdom.
Eddie Hearn has "revealed" that talks are "ongoing" to match Carl Froch and James DeGale, who is the mandatory for Froch's IBF super middleweight belt.
James DeGale was in great form tonight at Wembley Stadium, shocking Brandon Gonzales with a fast start and a fourth round stoppage.
Today from Wembley Stadium, Carl Froch meets George Groves in a huge rematch to be aired on HBO and Sky Box Office.
Carl Froch faces George Groves in a huge rematch at Wembley Stadium today, with a loaded undercard set for the event, as well.
Carl Froch and George Groves, along with tomorrow's undercard fighters, made weight today in London.
Carl Froch squares off with George Groves in a highly-anticipated rematch in what will be one of the biggest fights of 2014 this Saturday in London.
Carl Froch faces George Groves in a rematch at Wembley Stadium, Felix Sturm and Sam Soliman meet in their own rematch in Germany, and Nonito Donaire debuts in Macau against Simpiwe Vetyeka as he...
Brandon Gonzales wants to win his first world title this year, but will have to get past James DeGale in an IBF 168-pound eliminator bout on May 31.
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Lyon says he has assembled a team of experienced DDoS mitigation specialists who have worked in that capacity for firms such as Apple, BitGravity, VeriSign, Juniper, Box.net and Prolexic. He says the technology that will soon be unveiled by Defense.net will seek to make DDoS defense a bit easier in certain ways.
Some mitigation methods create "side effects" that include "blocked users and fraud alerts to slow page loads, broken links, and stalled or timed out video streams," according to Lyon. "Some companies have had to ignore their fraud alerts when DDoS mitigation was turned on because so many of the alerts were artifacts of mitigation." In the services expected to be introduced next month, Defense.net will try to prove it can overcome any side effects of that nature.
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Watch just about any post-match press conference in the career of Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho or Pep Guardiola. While all have their own distinct style of dealing with the media, there are some common themes across the words they choose to use in public.
The most common one is that they're very hesitant to openly criticize their own players in a post-match press conference. They will often come out as very critical of the team's performance as a whole, or will say that a position group did not play well, while occasionally pointing out that an individual error was bad, but they're generally unwilling to deride their players in public.
Roberto Mancini has a different man-management style. He slammed Mario Balotelli after the Manchester Derby, essentially calling him a waste of talent.
"I love Mario like a guy, and as a player, but I think it's important for him to start to think about his job if he wants to play well. When you have a player with Mario's quality, you can't believe that he throws his quality out of the window."
He also threw Samir Nasri under the bus with the sort of passive-aggressive criticism usually reserved for high school students. Nasri turned away from Robin van Persie's game-winning shot, and was a big part of the reason why the ball sailed past Joe Hart to give United the victory.
"In the last free-kick, we put only three players there. Were there three? We had two and a half."
This isn't productive, it's not going to help Balotelli or Nasri play better, and it's certainly not going to get the rest of the locker room behind him. These read like quotes from a broken and frustrated manager who has lost control of his own emotions, and possibly one who knows that his days as Manchester City manager are numbered.
Mancini won a title last season, but with City out of Champions League and six points behind United in the league, no one would be surprised to see the Citizens ownership make a change before the new year. The richest team in world football, with the most expensive squad in world football, can probably do a lot better than this.
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Bolton Midfielder Fabrice Muamba Collapses on Pitch
Update: Apparently Muamba is now in stable condition. The hospital has released a statement saying he is in stable condition. Sad news out of White Hart Lane, Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapased near halftime of the Fa Cup Quarterfinal match between Bolton and Spurs. per the BBC and ESPN, Muamba received 10 minutes of CPR on the field before being transported to the hospital. Their are reports also stating he wasn't breathing as he was removed, and was still receiving CPR while being transported to the hospital. Howard Webb rightly decided to abandon the match, and make sure to keep Fabrice Muamba and his family in your thoughts and prayers


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Dolly, the fourth named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, is expected to make landfall in Mexico.
Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden was sworn into his third term in office Friday.An interfaith service at St. Joseph Cathedral preceded the swearing-in, which was held at the River Center.Holden's
goals for his last four years in office include curbing the number of
murders in the Capitol City, the high rate of AIDS in the community and
the city's aging infrastructure."We have to work together, we
have to move the city forward - we can't look at the person's color of
skin or religion because the city can only be great if we work together
for the same purpose and this challenge is issued today and for the rest
of our lives," said Mayor Holden.A reception celebration is scheduled for Friday evening at the Crowne Plaza.Holden was officially sworn in just after midnight on January 1st.
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Welcome to "Beauty vs. the Beast," a handicapping feature designed to track how the teams that are bet the most and the least at a given sportsbook in a given week fare. Each week, I'll put down a mythical 100 units on each of the games and see what happens.
If you have been fading our "Beauty" and "Beast" picks the last two weeks, well, a toast to you, for backing them surely has not worked.
We haven't had a Beauty pick win since Week Five, when the Lions defeated the Bears. Thereafter, it's been all downhill for the Beauties — and the Lions, too, in an unrelated story.
The Beasts have fared even worse. We haven't had a winner since Week Four, when Seattle covered against Atlanta.
The losing streak has shown up in our bankroll, which is at "time-to-visit-the-casino-ATM-walk-of-sheepishness" levels. Or so I am told how that walk goes.
Anyway ...
At Bodog.eu, 20 percent of the money wagered on NFL sides this week as of Friday morning was on the Patriots, reports Adam Young, the company's head oddsmaker. Young noted he was surprised that New England, our Beauty for Week Eight, had been so popular in this particular matchup, which pits two AFC powers. However, the Patriots, who are three-point favorites at Pittsburgh, have gotten the best of the Steelers when QB Tom Brady has been behind center, which could speak to the betting public's confidence in New England.
Our Beast is the 0-6 Rams, who are 14-point underdogs vs. New Orleans. St. Louis, which has been outscored 171-56 this season, had attracted just 0.5 percent of the Week Eight NFL pointspread handle as of Friday morning at Bodog.
"Really, there's no money on them," Young said.
But there are 100 extra "units" on the Rams coming from here, and that has to count for something, right?
Week Eight "Beauty vs. the Beast"
Beauty: Patriots (-3 / -105) at Steelers
Beast: Rams (+14) vs. Saints
Note: Lines as of Friday morning
Season results
Beauty: -209.09
Beast: -118.18
Profit / Loss: -327.27
"Wagers" to date
Beauty: Week Three (Lions -3) — PUSH; Week Four (Bills -3) — LOSS; Week Five (Lions -5½) — WIN, Week Six (Patriots -6½) — LOSS; Week Seven (Packers -9) — LOSS.
Beast: Week Three (Chiefs +14½) — WIN; Week Four (Seahawks +4½) — WIN; Week Five (Jaguars -1½) — LOSS; Week Six (Dolphins +7) — LOSS; Week Seven (Dolphins -2) — LOSS.


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Concerns about the Rams' offense caused many owners to pass on RB Steven Jackson this summer. But thanks to an improved passing game, Jackson is doing just fine.
Unlike in recent years, when defenses have been able to stack the box against St. Louis to contain Jackson and force the team's below-average quarterback to air it out, that hasn't been the case in 2010. The main reason for that is the impressive play of rookie QB Sam Bradford, who is outplaying most expectations this season.
As a result, opponents are being forced to respect the pass, opening up running lanes for Jackson. He certainly has responded, rushing for at least 100 yards in three consecutive games. He also is getting the ball a ton (21.3 carries per game), a great sign for his fantasy owners.
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VIDEO: First and foremost, Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — It's all about you, tonight, Deron Williams.
Someone has to be in the eye of the 2014 playoffs storm every night and since Roy Hibbert is off, it's most definitely your turn.
World's watching.
Brooklyn is definitely watching!
What's it gonna be?
Heat @ Nets … #nosleeptilbrooklyn
24 – A quick Schuhbie Stat you can dip in ranch or blue cheese to get us ready …
A quick stat to get you ready for Nets-Heat: http://t.co/YwnkNwWFta—
John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) May 11, 2014
And a little mood setter, too …
Lots of white and black in the crowd tonight here in Brooklyn, but a decent amount of Heat red in here, as well.—
Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 11, 2014
This is even better …
Busta Rhymes doing Nets player intros for Game 3 vs Heat http://t.co/HRr0rwHH3m—
Ohm Youngmisuk (@NotoriousOHM) May 11, 2014
23 – I wonder if it bothers opponents to see LeBron James run through them in the lane like Godzilla through the middle of the city? #freighttrainjames
Lebron looking like he's in a zone…. Could get real fun…—
Cassidy Hubbarth (@CassidyHubbarth) May 11, 2014
And he does it on both ends …
Joe Johnson looked like the kids in the Land Cruiser as the Tyrannosaur approached with LeBron lining up for the chasedown—
Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) May 11, 2014
22 – The #NBAStyle Police have an APB out for Dwyane Wade
Whoever thought of this fit, I need in!!!! Swaggggg http://t.co/BVV7weY88R—
BRANDON JENNINGS (@BrandonJennings) May 11, 2014
21 – Shaun Livingston from deep to end the first …(#freighttrainjames with 16 points in 12 minutes for the Heat)
LeBron before Game 2 on allowing buzzer-beaters: "I've gotten mad at a few of them. Then I watched them. There's nothing you can really do."—
Jeff Zillgitt (@JeffZillgitt) May 11, 2014
20 – It should be bonkers at the Moda Center in Portland tonight for Game 3 of this playoff double-header (#RipCity) …
Blazers GM Neil Olshey at Moda Center. Photo: http://t.co/0K6S57jJ6D—
John Canzano (@johncanzanobft) May 11, 2014
– #RedOut
19 – The D. Will-Hibbert connection strikes again …
Brooklyn might want to fly Bruce Weber in to support Deron Hibbert. I've never understood the DWill hype.—
Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) May 11, 2014
18 – "Hey, I'm trying to watch the game people!"
The look on Jay's face. http://t.co/2PSOwE2978—
Abe Schwadron (@abe_squad) May 11, 2014
17 – Another coaching vacancy coming?
Regardless of who is named GM of #Cavs, league source says status of coach Mike Brown "very much up in the air."—
Sam Amico (@SamAmicoFSO) May 11, 2014
VIDEO: Joe Johnson was hotter than fish grease in the first half
16 – The Barclays Bounce has the Nets playing with a wicked flow tonight. They've got it rocking. Ball is rotating like crazy on offense. The energy on both ends is high. They've got their largest lead of the series, 68-56 inside of five minutes to play in the third quarter.
Timeout on the court. Nets up 64-56. KG 8pts and 6reb. #BKNvsMIA http://t.co/8a1JiPsjW6—
Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) May 11, 2014
It also helps when the elders move like they did years ago …
KG isn't moving like Abe Vigoda tonight. This is fun.—
Zach Harper (@talkhoops) May 11, 2014
15 – There's a Teletovic Outbreak in Brooklyn right now!
Guarding LeBron, draining threes. Mirza Teletovic played one minute in last year's playoffs.—
John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) May 11, 2014
"Brooklyn" chants cranking up with the Nets blowing the game open in the third quarter. D. Will even hit a 3!
14 – Dust up time. Ray Allen vs Alan Anderson (I'm predicting double techs, nothing more … this game is over, btw! Nets raining 3s all night. It's a wrap.)
Q4, 9:34: Refs are reviewing a player altercation in #MIAvBKN. Here's what they are determining: on.nba.com/review4—
NBA Official (@NBAOfficial) May 11, 2014
Appears nobody left the benches or the #Heatmedia press row during the Allen-Anderson skirmish.—
Brian Mahoney (@briancmahoney) May 11, 2014
This series is interesting all of a sudden.—
David Steele (@David_C_Steele) May 11, 2014
Does swipe from Ray Allen count as a . . . punch? Rod Thorn might be working on Mother's Day.—
Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) May 11, 2014
One thing we can all agree on: these Alan Anderson faces are great.—
Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) May 11, 2014
13 – From the "What in the name of Naismith?" files …
Anybody missing a scapegoat? Rockets bringing back head coach Kevin McHale, have fired assistant Dean Cooper, citing problems with defense.—
Fran Blinebury (@franblinebury) May 11, 2014
VIDEO: Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts checks in before tip-off
12 – We get Jay, Bey and Jake in Brooklyn. But they've got stars in Portland, too!
Seahawks QB Russell Wilson will be at the Moda Center tonight for Game 3—
Jason Quick (@jwquick) May 11, 2014
Ndamukong Suh at Moda Center for Blazers-Spurs with his mother.—
John Canzano (@johncanzanobft) May 11, 2014
Jimmy Goldstein, too!
11 – A staggering 15-for-25 from deep for the Nets in a 14-point win to make things interesting …
No shock. Miami can't handle heat in Brooklyn. Nets win by 14. Series on.—
Marc Berman (@NYPost_Berman) May 11, 2014
Nets 99 problems but game 3 wasn't 1!!!! #GoodWin—
3D AKA D.SCOTT (@3Deezy) May 11, 2014
Here's the @BrooklynNets 3PT shot chart from tonight. Outscored MIA by 21 from deep http://t.co/MM1XFU9pyK—
NBA.com/Stats (@nbastats) May 11, 2014
But …
WELP! RT @jose3030: Not to be a Debby Downer but I don't see Nets shooting 53% and 60% from 3 for rest of series—
Shannon Cross (@mscrossy) May 11, 2014
10 – Hey Underdog, "put that on a T-shirt!"
Moda Center sign: "I've got the hots for Terry Stotts"—
Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) May 11, 2014
9 – Portland, we have a problem!
These red "We are Rip City" t-shirts aren't working properly. Spurs lead #Blazers 48-29 with 4:59 left in the half.—
Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) May 11, 2014
8 – This look sums it all up for the home crowd in Portland …
"@jose3030: Russell Wilson at Spurs / Blazers game http://t.co/3QSYZNMocR"—
Sophia (@Sophiabiabia) May 11, 2014
7 – Bow down to Timmy, passing Karl Malone for 5th place on the career playoff scoring list …
Tim Duncan joins elite playoff scoring company: http://t.co/5Di0Ieravb—
SB Nation NBA (@SBNationNBA) May 11, 2014
Duncan makes $10 million per year. How many lesser players make more?—
Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 11, 2014
Watch Tim Duncan pass Karl Malone for 5th all-time in postseason scoring! #NBARapidReplay on @ESPN on.nba.com/1nAtOP1—
(@NBA) May 11, 2014
6 – You don't need advanced stats, analytics or any other tools when you have just plain math …
This is mind-boggling. This is a very good team the Spurs are playing. @Monroe_SA SAS has outscored POR 109-70 in 2nd quarter this series.—
Dan McCarney (@danmccarneysaen) May 11, 2014
5 – I've been in the Moda Center (it was the Rose Garden then) when the home made runs like these. It can go from zero to nuclear in a matter of seconds …
Man, the roars in here sound very Game 4 Dallas-like. Way early, though.—
Mike Tokito (@mtokito) May 11, 2014
4 – That's the idea #edgeofyourseat …
i hate that the blazers are keeping this just close enough that we can't just go to sleep.—
Bomani Jones (@bomani_jones) May 11, 2014
3 – Gregg Popovich spares no one!
Since TO when he ripped his 2 best players, Popovich's #Spurs have gone on 9-0 run to re=establish order at Moda Center; SAS 102, POR 81—
Mike Monroe (@Monroe_SA) May 11, 2014
And the results can be, in a word, breathtaking …
The Spurs are beautiful.—
Rachel Lauren (@Rachel92Lauren) May 11, 2014
They've got this basketball thing down, too!
Spurs mean bidness as they say in Texas.—
Shaun Powell (@Powell2daPeople) May 11, 2014
2 – Hard to argue with this at the moment, but we know where to find you when the season is done if your crystal ball has a crack in it …
The #Spurs are going to win the NBA title this year. And their only series to go 7 rounds will be their first-round bout with the #Mavs.—
Dwain Price (@DwainPrice) May 11, 2014
1 – Spurs fans don't need to hang their heads. Your team just ran into a machine. Spurs have been at this, at this level, for nearly tw decades. #SpursWayDon'tPlay
Blazers Fans Are A Bit Down http://t.co/rsP0yTdhF0—
3030 (@jose3030) May 11, 2014
It's a wrap: Spurs beat #Blazers 118-103 to take 3-0 lead in the series. No team in NBA history has overcome 3-0 playoff deficit.—
Joe Freeman (@BlazerFreeman) May 11, 2014
Appreciate the Pop & Spurs Big 3 era. They play professional chess while dismantling opponents. #NBAPlayOffs—
Jalen Rose (@JalenRose) May 11, 2014
The Spurs have won their last 4 playoff games by a total of 79 points—
Dave McMenamin (@mcten) May 11, 2014


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The first Matchday of South America's marathon qualifying tournament for the 2014 World Cup got off to an entertaining, but generally surprise-free start in Matchday 1. On Friday, Colombia were the only team not in action as all four home sides recorded victories. Uruguay, Ecuador and Argentina recorded expected wins, but Peru's 2-0 victory over Paraguay was a slight surprise.
Tuesday's four fixtures make up the second matchday of an 18 round tournament that will run between this international break and October of 2013. Brazil are not participating in the tournament, due to their automatic entry into World Cup 2014 as hosts. Ecuador are the team who sit out Matchday 2, and they will be in action against the United States in an international friendly.
Bolivia vs. Colombia
Time: 4:00 pm ET
By a comparison of rosters and recent results, Colombia should be heavy favorites against Bolivia. However, matches at altitude in La Paz are always extremely difficult for opponents and Bolivia are rarely pushovers at home. Famously, they defeated Argentina 6-1 at home in World Cup 2010 qualifying.
Colombia's squad is a strong one with no key players missing due to injury. Radamel Falcao is in form and expected to start, along with FC Porto playmaker Fredy Guarin. Colombia's defense is a very talented and experienced one, and they'll be aided by the return of their first choice goalkeeper, Nice No. 1 David Ospina.
Bolivia will lean heavily on Shakhtar Donetsk man Marcelo Martins, who netted in a losing effort away to Uruguay on Friday. They should make it tough on Colombia at home, but the visitors should have the quality to seal three points.
Pick: Bolivia 1-2 Colombia
Chile vs. Peru
Time: 6:45 pm ET
After their impressive Copa America run and their victory against Paraguay on Friday, Peru are looking like a team capable of climbing out of South America's basement. Jefferson Farfan and Claudio Pizarro are healthy, but it was Paolo Guerrero who netted twice on Friday. Guerrero is still very much out of form for Hamburg SV in the Bundesliga, but his form for his country has been absolutely stellar.
Chile were extremely disappointing on Friday as Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Higuain tore them to pieces in a 4-1 Argentina victory, but they should be a different team at home against Peru. Matias Fernandez scored against Argentina and they have plenty of quality coming from the likes of Humberto Suazo, Mauricio Isla and Arturo Vidal, but Chile still appears to be struggling with the loss of Alexis Sanchez to injury. Mauricio Pinilla and Jean Beausejour both started against Argentina, and both were disappointing. Replacing Sanchez like for like isn't going to be possible, but one of those players or La U star Eduardo Vargas will have to raise their games.
While Chile have more talent than Peru and home field advantage, Peru could create a significant tactical matchup advantage if they play a 4-3-3 with Guerrero and Farfan on either side of Pizarro. While Claudio Borghi prefers to play with three at the back, he's shown a willingness to play with a back four, so this could be a very interesting chess match.
Pick: Chile 3-2 Peru
Paraguay vs. Uruguay
Time: 6:45 pm ET
Paraguay were unable to score against Peru on Matchday 1 and made it to the Copa America final without winning a single match. Uruguay scored four goals on Matchday 1 and boast a lethal front three of Edinson Cavani, Luis Suarez and Diego Forlan. Their wide players, whether they play as true fullbacks or very attacking wingbacks, are fantastic athletes who are great at getting forward and aiding those front three. Surely you know what's coming.
Expect a heavy dose of rigid, counter-attacking football from Paraguay. Their depth at striker is likely to lead to them fielding a 4-4-2 formation, but expect those strikers to be similar kinds of players - big guys who are solid in the air and with their back to goal. Nine behind the ball and long balls to the front two, all day long.
If Uruguay doesn't score early, this game is likely to be 0-0 for a very long time. Uruguay have the talent to break the deadlock, but Paraguay's rock solid center of midfield and talented defense won't make it easy, while their physical strikers will put the Uruguay back line under pressure.
Pick: Paraguay 0-1 Uruguay
Venezuela vs. Argentina
Time: 8:50 pm ET
Venezuela didn't look good against Ecuador on Friday, but they played a weakened side. Manager Cesar Farias called in a massive squad of players and will be dropping the vast majority of them for the match against Argentina. Among the big guns that sat who are expected to play against Argentina are Fernando Amorebieta of Athletic Bilbao, Roberto Rosales of FC Twente, Tomas Rincon of Hamburg SV, Juan Arango of Borussia Mönchengladbach, Nicolas Fedor of Getafe and Jose Solomon Rondon of Malaga.
Those last two, the strikers, should give Argentina's defense a lot to think about. Rondon is a spectacular young talent, while Fedor is in good goal-scoring form in La Liga. After seeing what Alejandro Sabella's new-look Albeceleste are capable of against Chile, it's understandable that Farias wanted to rest his stars and prepare them for what will be an extremely difficult test.
Lionel Messi finally put to bed the rumors that he's poor for Argentina on Friday playing off of the equally brilliant Gonzalo Higuain, while veteran holding midfielder Rodrigo Braña looked solid in a surprise start. Javier Mascherano was suspended, and will likely come into Braña's spot alongside Ever Banega in the center of midfield. Though Braña certainly had a good game against Chile, that upgrade will likely be a huge boost for Argentina, giving them an even bigger edge over their opponents.
Pick: Venezuela 1-3 Argentina


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3 Bedroom...2 queen, 2 twin
sleeps 6...two baths, jacuzzi in Master
Full Kitchen...dishes/cookware/utensils dishwasher,microwave,toaster,
coffeemaker washer/dryer, linens/towels/beach towels,air conditioning,
fireplace cable TV (3), VCR (2), DVD (3), stereo, cassette, phone, hi-
speed/wireless internet, patio, deck, BBQ, outside shower, garage, private
heated pool.
Please smoke outdoors.
activities and attractions in Anna Maria Island Gulf Coast Central
Activities (on site or nearby): Beach, including free great sunsets,
Fishing, Shopping, Flea Market, Movies, Restaurants, Museums,
Swimming, Snorkeling/Diving, Boating, Sailing, Surfing, Windsurfing,
Jet Skiing, Shelling
vacation rental rates
Rates & Info
The realtor who represents this property has implemented a complex pricing strategy. There is no way to list the pricing in this rate format, so please contact regarding your specific dates. The winter months are at the high end of the scale with fall months being the least expensive. There are four holiday weeks: Easter, July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas, that the realtor will assess a 25% surcharge
25% surcharge applies: Easter, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
Deposits: A $500 deposit is required at the time of reservation. Monthly rentals require a 25% Performance / Damage deposit.
This initial payment serves as your deposit and is required to secure
your reservation. This deposit is payable by either Visa or
MasterCard. The amount of deposit will be deducted from the final
payment, however the card number will still be held to compensate the
landlord for any excessive cleaning charges or damages. Small pets
(under 25 lbs) are accepted and a $150 pet fee assessed.
Performance/Damage Deposits Are Non-Refundable In The Event Of
Reservation Fee: Each reservation requires a $35.00 non-refundable
reservation fee and a $40 damage insurance policy assessed by the realtor
Tax: Rentals of less than six months are subject to Florida State
Sales Tax of 6.5% and Manatee County Resort Tax of 5%--11.5% total tax