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A Budget Lacking Entitlement Reform Shows No Leadership
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U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
February 20, 2012
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Last week, President Obama announced his Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget proposal. Rather than a blueprint for putting our financial house in order, his budget plan would add more than $11 trillion to the national debt in coming years -- in spite of the nearly $2 trillion in higher taxes that would only serve to undermine our economic recovery.
The President's new budget would increase spending for dozens of programs that have been proven ineffective. And it would slash defense spending to unprecedented levels that could put our troops and our citizens at risk. But worst of all, President Obama once again ignored our biggest fiscal challenge.
The Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds are on a path to bankruptcy. Social Security's Chief Actuary estimates that its reserves will run out in 2036, which would mean automatic benefit cuts by about one-fourth in order to keep sending out monthly checks to tens of millions of senior citizens. Medicare is in worse shape, with bankruptcy looming as early as 2022.
To ignore all of this is the present day equivalent of Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Nevertheless, in his 7,000 word State of the Union address, the President devoted 40 words to the Social Security and Medicare programs.
We need -- and the American people ought to demand -- a serious, bipartisan effort to shore up these two vital programs before it is too late. By making incremental reforms now, we can protect retirement and health care benefits for several decades. But endless fiddling by Congress and the White House guarantees huge pain for taxpayers and financial insecurity for tens of millions of senior citizens.
The place to start is Social Security. Americans are living longer, healthier lives than when Social Security was first enacted in 1935. If no adjustments are made, these huge demographic shifts will exhaust the Trust Fund's financial reserves in less than 25 years, and big, automatic cuts in monthly benefits ($270/month, in today's dollars) will be triggered.
Fortunately, such a catastrophe can be avoided without taking drastic steps -- provided action is taken soon. Legislation I introduced last year (The Defend and Save Social Security Act) illustrates that only modest steps are needed today.
My bill would assure that Social Security remains solvent until 2085 without raising taxes or cutting core benefits. It would do so by gradually increasing the Social Security eligibility age for those who are 57 or younger by increasing the eligibility age three months each year with a cap at 69 in 2027. Additionally, under my bill, the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) would be modified, so that any year in which the COLA exceeds 1 percent it would be decreased by 1 percent. However, if in any year, the COLA is calculated to be less than 1 percent, the final COLA would be reduced to zero. For example, this year's COLA was 3.6 percent, so under my bill the increase of 3.6 percent would be reduced to 2.6 percent.
Exactly how to adjust eligibility age and cost-of-living adjustments can be worked out, if there is leadership from the White House and a bipartisan Congressional commitment to take responsibility for protecting Social Security now. The same type of timely, bipartisan action would assure that Medicare is shored up, too.
Social Security, Medicare, and other mandatory spending programs already account for more than one-half of annual federal government spending. Without reforms, all of these mandatory spending programs will grow to more than 75 percent of the federal budget within ten years. Not only would this threaten millions of senior citizens, it would leave too little for national defense, education, research, and other vital national priorities.
It is profoundly disappointing that President Obama's last budget proposal before he stands for reelection has all of the weaknesses of his previous ones. The Senate unanimously rejected his budget last year, and will probably do so again this year. But rejecting a bad budget plan isn't enough.
Just as Social Security and Medicare were enacted with broad bipartisan support, securing and saving these programs requires both political parties in Congress to work together. That is the only way to avoid the politicizing of the issue. Constructive dialogue and debating choices openly will bring us to solutions that are in the national interest.
Hutchison is the senior U.S. senator from Texas and Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
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The Marcelina Muse
Dry Tank, TX
February 27, 2012 11:18am
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Winston I have it on good authority that Michelle has dispatched not only the Lunch but also the Thought police down to see you. You have become a danger to the state. Your ...
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Winston I have it on good authority that Michelle has dispatched not only the Lunch but also the Thought police down to see you. You have become a danger to the state. Your logical thought is a violation of the Federal BS Protection Act of 1987.
Winston Shaffer
Floresville, TX
February 22, 2012 12:53pm
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Does anyone study history or just spout off? In 1995, the House of Representatives passed the balance budget amendment and came within one vote of passing the Senate. The ...
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Does anyone study history or just spout off? In 1995, the House of Representatives passed the balance budget amendment and came within one vote of passing the Senate. The Speaker of the House was Newt Gingrich. In 1996, the Republican Senators passed the line-item veto. They were again trying to control spending. Who fought the line item budget in court - Senate Democrats. The line item veto was found unconstitutional. Are you starting to see a pattern? Democrats don't like to have their spending cut or controlled. It is too hard to pay off your "friends" - See GM (tax payers lost $10B). See wasted stimulus bill that never worked. Never, ever vote for a Senate Democrat.
What political party wants to stop abortion? I have never seen that in any Republican platform. Having Federal dollars to pay for abortion is something that Americans can disagree with. Abortion is the law of land. Roe vs Wade will never be overturned. However, states can regulate how and when it is down. Partial birth abortion is horrible and unconscionable. So,how many years has been now since the Democratically controlled Senate has voted on a budget.
I have some ideas. Throw them all out. If we need a stimulus, then give every man, woman and child $2000. It would have been cheaper. People could have made mortgage payments. bought cars, invested in businesses. Nope, but nincompoop parties are more interested in the politically elite than the working man/woman. Stop allowing companies to big to fail. Make everyone have some skin in the game. If everyone paid taxes, they would be more concerned on how it is spent.
Rock'n chair Rambler
Over Taxed, TX
February 22, 2012 8:24am
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"2001-2007 when the Republicans controlled the Supreme Court, The Presidency, Senate, and the House?"
The Repubs only had control of the Congress for 2003-2005. ...
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"2001-2007 when the Republicans controlled the Supreme Court, The Presidency, Senate, and the House?"
The Repubs only had control of the Congress for 2003-2005. The Supreme Court was unreliable at best until O'Connor was replaced in 2005 with Roberts. Kennedy is considered to be a swing vote. A 5-4 majority with a swing voter is hardly a slam dunk control of the Court. They ruled against Bush on Gitmo and affirmative action.
Every attempt to introduce a balanced budget amendment or anything else is killed by Democrats, one way or the other.
It's not a matter of balls. It's a matter of votes.
One Voice
February 22, 2012 4:17am
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Our debacled government is a reflection of what the American people have become.
This mess did not just happen over the last twenty years.
It happened when the American ...
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Our debacled government is a reflection of what the American people have become.
This mess did not just happen over the last twenty years.
It happened when the American people got their priorities up side down and then went to sleep.
This arguing over political parties is adding to the separtion of our nation.
People of this mentality bring a spirit of hostility and the need to be right. This is not helpful.
Focusing on co-operation with one another - on an individual basis is where we will see healing and recovery.
The government is not the solution - in fact they have become the problem. They are design to separate us - and have done a smashing job. We hate and resent each other on a general basis. The insanity is mind boggling. ... And while this freak show in Washington - all the way down to the locals keep us fighting among one another - they are disassembling our God given Freedoms.
Wake up.
Tracy Bogert
Von Ormy, TX
February 21, 2012 9:48pm
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Did you ever notice how many of today's problems can be traced back to 2001-2007 when the Republicans controlled the Supreme Court, The Presidency, Senate, and the House? ...
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Did you ever notice how many of today's problems can be traced back to 2001-2007 when the Republicans controlled the Supreme Court, The Presidency, Senate, and the House? Did they offer a balanced budget? Did they stop abortion? The answer is no because they didn't have the balls to do it and still don't.
Rock'n chair Rambler
Over Taxed, TX
February 21, 2012 10:08am
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Ever notice how many of today's problems can be traced back to Dear Ol' Uncle FDR, and his nanny statist ideas?
FDR's brilliant idea called Social Security was intended ...
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Ever notice how many of today's problems can be traced back to Dear Ol' Uncle FDR, and his nanny statist ideas?
FDR's brilliant idea called Social Security was intended to solve the problem of old age poverty, which many people faced back in the 1930s. It was not intended to be a supplemental pension plan, as so many people have come to believe and depend. At best, it was an ill-conceived and poorly managed forced savings plan.
As it turns out, however, it was none of the above. It was just another tax disguised as insurance, that has been totally spent and wasted along with all the other tax revenues. It was a scam, but not really a scheme.
The whole Ponzi scheme scam was never a scheme at all, other than to fool the people into accepting another tax with the belief that some day, when they retire, they might see some of it again.
Elaine K.
February 20, 2012 1:11pm
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When Mickey Rourke recently told Vulture that his upcoming drama Passion Play is "terrible," he very contritely offered an apology two days later, admitting, "I don't know why I said that stupid shit ... my bad." It appears he hasn't learned his lesson: When a reporter for the New York Observer told Rourke this week that he was looking forward to the movie, Rourke again reiterated, "You shouldn't be. It's terrible ... I don't know if you'd even want to watch a slideshow of that." Of course, who needs a slideshow when Rourke's own sideshow is so compelling? [NYO]


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How have you been managing with the storms? There's been a lot of snow in some parts of the country, tornados in other parts.
Valentine's day is coming up - is it a day you like, a day you don't like , or is it just another day?
Speaking of Valentine's Day, did you know about One Billion Rising?
To show the world that we want to end violence against one billion women and girls! By being a part of One Billion Rising we will all discover our solidarity and the scope of this issue. We will come to know that ending violence against women is as important as ending poverty, or Aids or global warming. We will come to see that it is not a local issue or particular to any culture or religion or village or age. We will come to see what is possible. When One Billion bodies rise and dance on 14 February 2013, we will join in solidarity, purpose and energy and shake the world into a new consciousness.
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I live in an area right between the storms. We've had some wind, rain, sleet, and snow but nothing severe. I used to love Valentine's Day when my kids were really young because we really had fun with it but now it's just usually a nice day where I get my husband a gift and he gets me one and we have a nice dinner.
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Every once and a while I end up with a backlog of reviews of products I've tried. It just so happens I spent last week exploring the Vinho Verde and Porto regions of Portugal. Being tied up travelling gives me a chance to offload -- er, share -- some of the more interesting wines I've tried, listed from lightest to heaviest, over the past couple of months.
If you like crisp, racy sparkling wine, the Castellblanch NV Cava (Cava, Spain -- around $14, private wine stores) is a good option for the price -- the nose is dominated by mineral, flint, chalky and herbal notes, although there's still enough pleasant lemon-lime notes in there. The chalky notes come through in a big way on the light-bodied palate, with lemon rind and green apple notes ramped up by some juicy acidity. Try as an aperitif or with oysters. 85/100
From Australia comes the cheekily named Woodvale Vintners 2011 "The Dirty Hoe" Riesling (Clare Valley, Australia -- around $20, The Winehouse).
Very pale straw in colour, it offers up-front chalkiness as well as red apple skin, tart peach and lemon on the nose. It's crisp, just a shade off-dry and brimming with ripe red apple and lemon flavours, a hint of peach and some light acidity. Definitely worth buying, in honour of (or despite) its name -- drink with schnitzel, grilled shrimp or sushi. 87/100
Want to go off the beaten track? The Bodego Gordonzello 2011 Peregrino Verdejo (Tierra de Leon, Spain -- $13.99, Liquor Marts and beyond)
Is an excellent example of the Verdelo grape for the price: Pear, mineral, peach skin and floral notes are most prominent on the nose here. Light-bodied and quite crisp, there's more of a red apple skin note that comes through on the palate with the pear and chalky flavours. A touch of acidity makes this wine incredibly food-friendly -- ham or grilled octopus anyone? 88/100
A little closer to home, the Henry of Pelham 2010 Chardonnay (Niagara Peninsula, Ontario -- $14.95, Liquor Marts and beyond) delivers lovely red apple, honey, light minerality and lemon notes on the nose. This medium-bodied Ontario Chardonnay combines ripe fruit and viscosity with some nice creaminess thanks to sur lie aging -- a process that lets the wine age on yeast lees sediment. There's still a handful of the 2009 vintage in our market -- interestingly, it's labelled "non-oaked" while the 2010 has dropped that moniker. This should work with roast chicken or white fish dishes, but is totally drinkable solo. 87/100
Head west and the Sandhill 2011 King Family Vineyard Pinot Gris (Okanagan Valley, British Columbia -- $16.99, Liquor Marts and beyond) is part of a consistently great line that delivers remarkable value in single-vineyard Canadian wine. Lemon-lime, mango, tangerine, red apple and peach notes are bright and bold on the nose. Medium-bodied and juicy, this Pinot Gris retains the tropical fruit flavours at the forefront, with rich peach and tangerine flavours doing working well with green apple, lemon, and light herbal notes. This line continues to outpace its peers in delivering excellent value. A worthy match for creamier cheeses, milder Thai fare and paella. 90/100
South of the equator, the Torlesse 2010 Pinot Noir (Wairapa, New Zealand -- $21.98 Liquor Marts and beyond) is pale ruby in colour, with loads of cherry and raspberry aromas and some mocha, toffee, cola and spice notes that are textbook New Zealand Pinot Noir. It's light-bodied and juicy, delivering red berry and cherry flavours on the light-bodied palate with intensity and a splash of acidity. A modest herbal note keeps things interesting. Try with mushroom risotto or poached salmon. 88/100
While the packaging looks fairly modern, the aromas on the Logowines 2010 Aya Charming Red (Alentejano, Portugal -- $14.99, Liquor Marts and beyond) are a dead giveaway for "Old World" winemaking style: earth, black cherry, toffee, leather and plum notes bring fruit and more rustic notes together. Medium-plus bodied and juicy, the Aya shows more stewed-ish fruit -- raisin, prune, cooked cherry -- than the nose might suggest, but it's still a delicious red that retains some licorice notes as well as spice and light tannin. It's well-balanced -- try with hearty stews and beef dishes. 87/100
Sticking with the Iberian Peninsula, the Mustiguillo 2008 Mestis (Vino de la tierra El Terrerazo, Spain -- $19.99, Liquor Marts and beyond) is a blend of Bobal, Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. Plum, spice, wet earth and black licorice aromas are fairly complex here. This full-bodied red shows some oak on the palate as well -- this, plus medium tannin, give the wine some structure to go along with the rich dark fruit. It's a steak wine, to be sure, but also drinks well on its own with some decanting. 89/100
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The Case of Theresa Schiavo
Theresa Marie Schindler was born on December 3, 1963, to prosperous and devoutly Catholic parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, in a Philadelphia suburb, Huntingdon Valley. Robert Schindler was a dealer in industrial supplies. Mary Schindler was a full-time wife and mother. They named their first child for Saint Teresa of Avila, the Spanish mystic who believed the Carmelites insufficiently reclusive and so founded a more restrictive order. We have only snapshots of Theresa Marie Schindler's life before the series of events that interrupted and eventually ended it. According to newspaper accounts published in the wake of those events, there had been the four-bedroom colonial on the leafy street called Red Wing Lane. There had been the day the yellow Labrador retriever, Bucky, collapsed of old age in the driveway and Theresa Marie tried in vain to resuscitate him. There had been the many occasions on which her two gerbils, named after the television characters Starsky and Hutch, got loose and into the air-conditioning unit in the basement.
She gained more weight than she wanted to. The summer she graduated from high school she went on a NutriSystem diet and began to lose the weight. Until then she hung out at the mall. She did not date. She bought her little brother Bobby his first Bruce Springsteen album. She pasted birthday cards into a scrapbook. She read Danielle Steel novels. She saw An Officer and a Gentleman with Richard Gere and Debra Winger four times in one day. She went to a Catholic grade school and a Catholic high school, where the single activity listed in her yearbook entry was "Library Aide," an extracurricular effort on which she and a friend had settled for the express purpose of having something besides their names in the yearbook. The college application process, in the sense of the crucial competition that it was for many in her generation, an exercise in the marshaling and burnishing of deployable accomplishments, seems not to have entered the picture.
She enrolled in the two-year program at Bucks County Community College, where, in a psychology class during her second semester, she met Michael Schiavo. He was from Levittown. He is said to have been the first person she had ever kissed. At the time they married two years later, in 1984, she was just under twenty-one; he was eight months older. After a honeymoon at Disney World, they moved in with her parents in Huntingdon Valley, then, when the Schindlers decided two years later to move to Florida, preceded them there. They lived first in a condominium the Schindlers had in St. Petersburg. Theresa Schindler Schiavo clerked at the Prudential Insurance Company. She dyed her hair blonde. She lay out by the pool and drank several quarts of iced tea a day. Michael Schiavo, who after his wife's cardiac arrest would begin and eventually complete studies in nursing and respiratory therapy at St. Petersburg Junior College, took restaurant jobs.
For all the media coverage of Theresa and Michael Schiavo that occurred fifteen years later, during the last days of her life, there appeared very little hard information about what happened on the evening of February 24 or the early morning of February 25, 1990, the hours that marked the onset of the ordeal. Michael Schiavo has said that his wife was already in bed when he came home that evening from the restaurant where he was then working. He went to bed. He woke at five AM, earlier than usual, to hear his wife falling on the floor in the hallway. "For some strange reason that day, I was just taking the covers off, and then she hit the floor," he told the St. Petersburg Times-Floridian nine months after the fact. He called 911. It has been established that Theresa Schiavo was, at the time the emergency crew arrived, in full cardiac arrest. After seven attempts to defibrillate, or electrically shock the heart into beating normally, a rhythm was restored.
Theresa Schiavo was taken to Humana Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, where she stayed three months, at first in a coma. We do not know from either the Humana Northside discharge summary or the later coverage how this coma was scored on the Glasgow Coma Scale, which ranks eye, verbal, and motor response on a combined range from three to fifteen, "GCS three" signifying that the patient has no response and "GCS fifteen" that he or she can speak in an oriented way, open the eyes spontaneously, and obey motor commands.
When Theresa Schiavo emerged from coma it was to the generally unresponsive state in which she would remain for the next fifteen years. Different people have called this state by different names. Some commentators have referred to it as "locked-in syndrome," which it seems not to have been. Complete "locked-in syndrome," which is sometimes characterized as "living eyes in a dead body" and was the condition described by Jean-Dominique Bauby in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,1 is identified by tetraplegia (the paralysis of all four limbs), paralytic mutism (an inability to speak), the oculomotor deviation known as lateral gaze palsy, and the inability to breathe unaided. The patient, however, retains the ability to think and reason. "In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication," Bauby, who before the stroke that injured his brainstem had been the editor in chief of French Elle, wrote by blinking to select letters as the alphabet was repeatedly recited to him.
On the major diagnostic points alone, Theresa Schiavo was not tetraplegic and could breathe unaided, but seemed not to have retained the ability to think. Most neurologists have called her condition a "persistent vegetative state," in which the patient has normal sleep-wake cycles but does not respond. Since the diagnosis of a persistent vegetative state is based on the absence of response, any response from a patient who has received the diagnosis is presumed to be reflexive.
A few neurologists, in what would be the last months of Theresa Schiavo's life, began to say that her condition could be a "minimally conscious state," a diagnosis in use only since 2002 to differentiate those patients previously diagnosed as vegetative who can track objects or people with their eyes and seem intermittently able to respond to commands. Early in March, at the request of the Florida Department of Children and Families, which was seeking custody of Theresa Schiavo, she was seen by a neurologist from the Mayo Clinic's Florida hospital, William P. Cheshire, the director of Mayo's Autonomic Reflex Laboratory. Some doctors and bioethicists with interests in the matter suggested that, as a conservative Christian, Dr. Cheshire brought a bias to the case, but his affidavit seemed to raise questions not before widely addressed. He noted that the patient had not had a complete neurological examination in nearly three years, had never had such advanced testing as positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and that in the absence of such examination and imaging there remained "huge uncertainties" about her neurological status.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging in particular has enabled neuroscientists to detect brain activity in patients previously diagnosed as being in persistent vegetative states. According to Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the medical ethics division at New York Presbyterian Hospital–Weill Cornell Medical Center, one study suggested that as many as 30 percent of vegetative patients studied were in fact minimally conscious. On the basis of the ninety minutes Dr. Cheshire spent with Theresa Schiavo, he suggested that she could well be found to fit the more recent "minimally conscious" diagnosis. He observed that she held his gaze for about thirty seconds, smiled when she heard familiar voices or piano music, and seemed in the changing pitch of her vocalization to be communicating "emotional thought within her brain." Neurologists who had previously examined her described such responses as reflexive.
Late this past winter, Robert and Mary Schindler petitioned the court for time to allow that an fMRI be done on their daughter, but the request was denied. "One of the Respondents' affiants," the order denying the request read, the "Respondents" in this action being the Schindlers,
cautions that fMRI testing is an experimental procedure that has shown promise but is not yet routinely used for clinical purposes and that any fMRI testing should be conducted in an academic setting with ongoing research protocols investigating coma/VS [vegetative state]/MCS [minimally conscious state].
Michael Schiavo, the order continued,
contends that no MRI can be conducted on Terri Schiavo without brain surgery to remove a device that was previously inserted in her brain [a "thalamic stimulator" implanted during an experimental procedure at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco in 1990] and that such an invasive procedure has not been previously favored.
The denial was based on grounds that the Schindlers had not met the burden, established by an appellate court in 2002, of presenting evidence that new diagnostic techniques or treatment "would significantly improve the quality of her life."
Much is unknown here. A change in diagnosis might or might not lead to a change in treatment, and a change in treatment might or might not lead to improved response. Any response in such states will be at best intermittent, fitful, like the occasional sparking produced by a lighter with a bad flint. No one who has had even a passing exposure to brain injury can think of neurology as a field in which all questions are answerable. The "prognosis" is arrived at only clinically, after the fact, by observation of what happens. Vegetative patients whose brain injury was traumatic (a fall, an accident, an external mechanical event) are more likely to recover response than those, like Theresa Schiavo, whose injury resulted from a lack of oxygen to the brain. No one knows why. Patients who emerge from coma and show some response can later drop into a less responsive state.
Again, no one knows why. Neurologists can pinpoint the precise location of injured areas, know exactly what the functions of those areas are supposed to be, and still have no idea what actual deficits the patient will or will not experience: every brain, I was told by a neuroscientist at UCLA, is wired differently. The injured brain, moreover, can rewire itself. Neuroplasticity, to a greater or lesser but in each case unpredictable extent, can allow the construction of new circuits, new synapses. Undamaged areas of the brain can assume some of the functions of injured neurons. Whether or not this will occur can be known, again, only by observation of whether or not it does occur. Jean-Dominique Bauby, in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, wrote that
the evolution of the disease is not well understood. All that is known is that if the nervous system makes up its mind to start working again, it does so at the speed of a hair growing from the base of the brain.
Knopf, 1997, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt.↩
Knopf, 1997, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt.↩


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5 Midwest Spring Flower Festivals
Tulip Time [1]
Raindrops cling to blossoms after a morning shower in Pella, Iowa, but gray skies don't dampen the annual Tulip Time spirit. During this weekend, more than 150,000 visitors will come to toast Pella's Dutch heritage—and to be dazzled by 300,000 tulips blooming in red, pink, purple, yellow, coral and white.
Of course, many Midwest towns herald spring with a community festival (click ahead for four more of our favorites). But with more than half the town's 10,000 residents claiming Dutch ancestry, Pella (45 miles southeast of Des Moines) certainly hosts one of the most authentic fests. Locals of all ages clatter around in clogs, lace and britches, often breaking into song or dance. Vendors sell peppery bologna sandwiches and buttery pancakes called poffertjes. Cobblers and blacksmiths work in the pretty Pella Historical Village.
The Tulip Time parade, a twice-daily spectacle, melds Dutch tradition with Main Street Americana. Costumed kids haul buckets of water and brooms to scrub the street clean for the folks to follow: racing cheese mongers, 4-H Club floats, an army of schoolchildren in wooden clogs, high school marching bands and the newly crowned tulip queen, whose megawatt smile shines bright— even through a brief afternoon shower. May 1-3, 2014. (641) 628-4311; pellatuliptime.com [2]
Blossomtime Festival [5]
In southwest Michigan, the Blessing of the Blossoms kicks off the state's oldest and largest multicommunity festival. Other highlights include a Shoe Box Float Parade, vintage baseball game and Grand Floral Parade. April 27-May 3, 2014. (269) 982-8016; blossomtimefestival.org [6]
Dogwood-Azalea Festival [9]
In Charleston, Missouri, a 6-mile, luminaria-lined route showcases historic architecture and spring blooms. The 44th annual fest honors the town's 175th birthday with a parade, home and garden tours, an ice cream social and more. April 10-13, 2014. (573) 683-6509; charlestonmo.org [10]
Tulip Time Festival [13]
Topeka, Kansas, welcomes spring with more than 200,000 tulips and daffodils blooming at historic sites, parks and gardens throughout the city. April 4-20, 2014. (800) 235-1030; visittopeka.us [14]
Orleans Dogwood Festival [17]
Bike rides joined the lineup last year at this family-friendly Indiana fest. Bring cash for town-wide yard sales, plus carnival rides and crafts vendors. April 30-May 3, 2014. (812) 865-9930; orleansdogwoodfestival.com [18]


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Keys to Choosing a Catback Exhaust for 1999-2004 Mustangs
Mufflers are the most important influence on your Mustangs exhaust sound
Deciding how much money you are willing to spend is a key step in choosing your new catback system
There are two styles of mufflers: chambered and straight-through
Most aftermarket catback systems are 2.5 inches in diameter all the way through, ideal for most reasonable street and track builds
Which Mustang Catback Exhaust System Sounds The Best?
There are a lot of components that can influence the sound of your exhaust, but the piece that matters most is the mufflers you choose. Your headers and mid pipe also directly affect the sound of your exhaust note. If you are running an off-road mid pipe then keep in mind how much louder and possibly raspier the exhaust note may be with the cat-back you choose. Exhaust sound clips for 1999-2004 Mustangs are a great way to hear and select the perfect sound for your Mustang.
Catbacks & Your Budget
The most important step is figuring out how much money you are looking to spend on your new cat-back system. The type of muffler, quality of steel used, style of exhaust tip used, and the reputation of the brand are all things that affect the price of a unit. Decide which features mean the most to you.
Mustang Catback Muffler Styles
There are two different styles of mufflers available for your Mustang: There are chambered and straight-through mufflersalso known as resonators. Whats the difference? Chambered mufflers route the exhaust gas through a series of compartments or chambers. The more chambers there are inside the muffler, the quieter and mellower the exhaust note will be. Straight-through style mufflers route the exhaust gas straight through the center of the muffler which offers the loudest and most aggressive sound. Be prepared to announce your presence well before anyone sees you coming.
Exhaust Piping Size
The factory cat-back exhaust piping is 2.5 inches and is reduced to 2.25 inches on most setups. Many aftermarket cat-back systems are all 2.5 inches all the way through. The diameter of the piping affects how much back pressure will be generated. Most aftermarket systems are available with 3.5 inch exhaust tips and some kits feature a 4 inch exhaust tip which offers an even more aggressive look.
1999-2004 Mustang Catback Fitment
Most cat-back systems all fit about the same. They are designed to follow the factory exhaust route but are tucked up a little to assure proper clearance. When purchasing a new cat-back system be sure the unit you have selected pertains to your year and model of Mustang you own. Most exhaust setups are fit for each body style. For example, on SN-95 Mustangs there are different exhaust setups for 94-95 models while some fit 94-97, and others only fit 98s.
Be cautious between the differences of V6, GT, and Cobra cat-backs. Most aftermarket six cylinder cat-backs start as one pipe and split into two for dual exhaust out of the rear of the car. Mustang GT exhausts are designed to go over the rear axle of the car because they are equipped with solid rear axles. Cobras are equipped with IRS, or independent rear suspension, in the 99-04 model years and their cat-back systems are designed to go underneath the center of the rear and around the gas tank to exit out the rear of the vehicle.


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BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University alumnus Jeremy Davies of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) will speak on "Derelict fishing gear hotspot analysis: using habitat suitability models to aid net recovery efforts in the Salish Sea" as part of Western Washington University's Huxley College of the Environment speaker series at 3 p.m., Friday, April 23 at WWU's Communications Facility room 125.
The event is free and open to the public.
In his discussion, Davies will cover his work done on lost or abandoned commercial fishing nets, often referred to as ghost or derelict nets. These nets can remain in the marine environment for years and often become hazards for navigation, divers, and marine life. Derelict nets can degrade marine habitats by entangling and killing target and nontarget marine species. Death from derelict fishing gear is likely an issue for several species of concern and the probable impacts of derelict nets on populations and marine food webs has yet to be assessed.
Since 2002, the Northwest Straits' Derelict Gear Removal Project has recovered over 1,200 derelict fishing nets in the greater
Jeremy Davies is a biogeographer in the Conservation Biology Division
of the NWFSC, a research branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He has worked at NWFSC since 2001 and prior employment has included: NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory, the U.S. Forest Service, and various research projects at
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Set in the Oval Office just days before a presidential election, this hilarious new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning David Mamet ~ which just closed on Broadway ~ involves civil marriages, gambling casinos, lesbians, American Indians, presidential libraries, questionable pardons and campaign contributions.
"A laugh machine! The audience provides a wall-to-wall laugh track!"
- New York Times
Darkly comic and heartbreakingly beautiful, this Award-Winning musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's incendiary 1923 play tells the story of Mr. Zero who, after 25 years of service to his company, is replaced by a mechanical adding machine. A satiric view of capitalism that bears comparison with our own unsettled economy today.
"A brilliant musical that gets under your skin and stays there! Uncompromising and remarkable!"
- New York Times
On a US Marine Corps base in 1971, two officers ~ one black and one white ~ are on a collision course over race, women and the high cost of doing the right thing. This riveting new work by the author of the Tony Award-winning Doubt is about power love and responsibility ~ who has it, who wants it, who deserves it.
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Shines a light on the struggles - and miracles - of America's public schools. The actor transforms herself into an entire classroom of children, their teachers, their parents, the principal, the janitor and even the security guard with a metal detector at the front door. A master class on heartbreak and humor - which proves that one passionate person can still make a difference.
"Astounding! An object lesson in what should not be missing from any life curriculum: HOPE!"
- New Yorker
This riotous comedy, which was produced at Lincoln Center last season, revolves around a Jewish mother from Long Island, a flamboyant resident from Palm Beach and a Midwest craftswoman visiting New York for the first time. These delicious, distraught characters collide under surprising circumstances, as we discover just where our new century might by heading.
"If Leno and Letterman regularly scored this ratio of hits to quips, much of America would be hospitalized with late-night laughter burn!"
- New York Times
Two greedy Hollywood executives are set to pitch a can't-lose deal to the studio boss when an unlikely obstacle, in the form of a seductive temp secretary, creates unexpected complications. Revived to great acclaim on Broadway in 2008, this hilarious, acid-etched satire depicts Hollywood as a culture as corrupt as the society it claims to reflect.
"A world-class roller coaster ride! Pursues its corkscrew course at such velocity that your instinct is to check yourself for whiplash!"
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I write what moves me or moved me at the moment. My body may be too old to be classified as hyperactive, but my mind sure isn't fettered in such ways.
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My contest-winning short story, "Freeing Blue" was published by Buddhapuss Ink in their anthology Mystery Times 9.
My first novel, a young adult historical currently titled The Blue Dress, is being queried for representation.
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Although About.com specialist Sue Watson is a special education guide, these twenty printable homonym and homophone worksheets will be great for all primary grade students (as well as ESL learners.) The worksheets are presented on twenty different pages, and you can view a readable thumbnail before deciding to download using the "PRINT PDF" link below. The worksheets are strung together in two batches of ten, so take care not to miss worksheets eleven through twenty.
Alan Cooper's Homonyms5 stars
Alan Cooper started his homonyms list in second grade. He eventually lost his "dog-eared pad of yellow paper with an ever-growing list of homonyms," but when his son was in second grade and needed a list of homonyms, Cooper rediscovered his old passion. "The best part about homonyms, though, is that they are the raw material for puns, a truly sublime form of humor. With a robust knowledge of and appreciation for homonyms, you will never be embarrassed when a pun-battle breaks out in public."
All About Homophones: The Homophone Machine5 stars
"All About Homophones" is a homophone activity workbook that can be purchased in soft-cover or PDF, but the resource I want to share is the free Homophone Machine. Type in any sentence or paragraph, and it will be converted into a misspelled, but often very funny version chock full of homophones. If you need a suggestion, try starting with "I would like to show you my new horse" or "Praise the Lord for the spelling checker that came with our PC. Make a mistake and it puts you right. It's so easy to use, you see." That last tidbit is based on Janet E. Byford's poem "An Ode to the Spelling Chequer" which you can find at Alan Cooper's site (see above).
PBS Kids: Between the Lions: Homophones Video4 stars
This fun video from PBS' Between the Lions features singer-songwriter Brian McKnight and Cleo Lion singing about "a very unusual H word homophones." This one is sure to delight audiences of all ages. "You're right, let's write the words all day and night. They're out of sight. You're still so sweet, that's why we always meet. Not that kind of meat. Homophones. Two words that sound the same, but they're not spelled the same. Homophones."
Scholastic: Super Homophone Match Game4 stars
"Do you have good memory? You'll need it when you try to match homophones. Don't know what a homophone is? You'll find out when you play Super Match." This concentration-style memory game requires you to match homophones, instead of the usual identical pictures. For example, "hair" is a match for "hare" and "scene" is a match for "seen." Because the game scrambles with each restart, it can be played multiple times.
Enchanted Learning: Homonyms
English Club: Homophones
My First School Years: Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs
Feldman, Barbara. "Homophones." Surfnetkids. Feldman Publishing. 26 Aug. 2014. Web. 3 Dec. 2014. <http://www.surfnetkids.com/resources/homophones/ >.
By Barbara J. Feldman. Originally published August 26, 2014. Last modified August 26, 2014.
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The Reno County Fair is FREE and open to the public, with events and activities for the whole family.
2014 Reno County 4-H Fair
will be July 23-28, 2014
at the Kansas State Fairgrounds.
4H/FFA entries and Style Revue descriptions due
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2014 Fair Book & Schedule
Click here for a 2014 Fair Book for general rules and deadlines. A complete fair schedule can be found in the Fair Book.
Fair Entry Card (Livestock Withdrawal/COOL form)*
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Going to the county fair is as 'American as apple pie'... kids, animals and fun... and our focus is to ensure a safe healthy environment for all; so wherever animals and people mix, we also have some important reminders to keep your family healthy:
---- Wash hands after visiting animals to reduce risk of disease transmission. ---- Do not allow food, drink, toys or pacifiers in animal areas. ---- Promote education about disease risk and prevention. ---- Properly care for and manage animals.
Click here for our Healthy Fair Slideshow , a powerpoint that illustrates the risks and guidelines for both animal exhibitors and visitors at the fair; we encourage everyone to view it and to share with your own group or family. Our goal is a safe and healthy Fair for everyone!
Please be sure to have the following three forms turned in by May 1 in order to participate at the County Fair:
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