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States find dialysis for illegal immigrants a costly dilemma
Roughly 2,000 times over the past 17 years, Marguerita Toribio, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has climbed into a cushioned recliner for the three-hour dialysis treatment that keeps her alive.
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Roughly 2,000 times over the past 17 years, Marguerita Toribio, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has climbed into a cushioned recliner for the three-hour dialysis treatment that keeps her alive.
She has never seen a bill.
U.S. taxpayers have covered the entire cost of her treatment in California: more than $500,000 and rising, not including a kidney transplant in 1993.
The kidney failed when Toribio briefly moved to North Carolina, which refused to pay for her anti-rejection drugs. She needed to go back on dialysis three days a week to clear toxins from her blood, but North Carolina didn't cover that, either.
The best a social worker could offer was a prepaid plane ticket back to California.
"When I came back here, I said, 'There is no way I'm leaving for another state again,' " said Toribio, now 29, before a technician poked two needles into her arm at the St. Joseph Hospital dialysis center in Orange, Calif.
Health services and other benefits available to illegal immigrants can vary by the state. Welfare, prenatal care or in-state college tuition might be available in one place and inaccessible across a state line.
The disparities reflect the nation's conflicting attitudes toward its estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. With limited federal guidance, states often are left to make their own decisions, frequently shaped by political winds.
Dialysis offers a striking example of the dilemmas — and the occasional absurdities — that result.
The number of patients is not large. In California, illegal immigrants account for about 1,350 of the 61,000 people on dialysis. Their treatment cost taxpayers $51 million last year.
But dialysis stands out because it is often a lifetime commitment. The investment in a can easily top $1 million over time.
Many states draw the line at illegal immigrants. But officials in California, New York and a few other states figure that not treating patients costs even more.
That is because patients without regular dialysis frequently end up in emergency rooms. At that point, federal law requires they receive dialysis until they are stable enough to be released — usually only to deteriorate within weeks and return to the ER.
It's like "rescuing a person from drowning, giving someone a good meal and then pushing them over the side," said Dr. Laurence Lewin, a kidney specialist in Orange County, Calif.
Repeated rescuing not only threatens patients' long-term health, it generally costs more than routine care, some experts argue.
In Texas, where illegal immigrants generally can't get routine care, some have cycled through the emergency room at El Paso's Thomason Hospital more than 100 times for lifesaving dialysis, said kidney specialist Dr. Azikiwe Nwosu.
Such patients are at increased risk of heart attacks and infections.
"It's heartbreaking," said Dr. Claudia Zacharek, a kidney specialist who until recently worked in Galveston, Texas. "Your hands are tied."
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In grappling with what services to provide for illegal immigrants, some states tip toward the need to care for the sick. Others see free health care as a de-facto endorsement of their presence.
Congress tried to establish a balance. In 1986, it barred illegal immigrants from the federal health benefits generally available to the poor, with one notable exception: emergencies. The federal government agreed to share the cost of caring for poor illegal immigrants through state-run Emergency Medicaid programs.
The problem is the federal definition of an emergency is open to interpretation: an acute condition that, without immediate care, would seriously jeopardize a patient's health or impair bodily functions, parts or organs.
Debates have flared over chemotherapy, life-support and dialysis. In 2002, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., co-sponsored a bill to provide dialysis and other chronic care needed to prevent expensive ER visits.
It failed. What's left is an ambiguous policy the federal government has struggled to clarify.
"We do not pay for chronic care for illegal immigrants," Mary Kahn, a Medicaid spokeswoman, said when asked about the issue in 2007.
If California and other states were using federal funds to help provide routine dialysis, she said, they were mischaracterizing it as an emergency treatment.
More recently, she acknowledged the federal government has been sharing the cost in California for years. It has long been left to the states to decide whether to provide routine dialysis, she said.
Not an emergency
Many states, including Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, take the position that kidney failure does not automatically qualify as an emergency because patients can survive for weeks without dialysis before toxins accumulate to fatal levels.
Other states have wavered. North Carolina, for example, now provides routine dialysis for illegal immigrants. Conversely, the Georgia Medicaid program stopped paying for dialysis in 2006 amid rising sentiments in the Legislature that illegal immigrants were a financial drain.
The courts haven't cleared up the issue.
A group of illegal immigrants sued Arizona in 2002 after the state attempted to cut off their dialysis. Heeding arguments that sporadic emergency treatments would jeopardize lives, a judge told the state to keep treating them while the case was decided.
In a settlement last year, the state agreed to restore its policy of providing routine dialysis, but the settlement applies only to Arizona.
California's dialysis policy is largely an economic calculation, said Stan Rosenstein, the administrator of Medi-Cal, the state health-care program for the poor.
The cost of one routine treatment is about $250. The cost of providing it in the emergency room can climb into the thousands of dollars.
Missing the point
To advocates of stricter immigration controls, such comparisons miss the point.
"Taxpayers are on the hook for people who aren't supposed to be here," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
The fear in many states is that offering routine dialysis will lure more sick people from other countries.
"We cannot provide dialysis to the world," said Ramiro Valdez, a Dallas social worker and medical consultant.
Teresita Aquino, an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines, hadn't intended to stay in the United States, but being rushed to the emergency room with kidney failure eight years ago changed her mind. Now, a free transportation service picks her up three days a week for her dialysis in Torrance, Calif.
"If I go home, I won't be able to afford this," said Aquino, 56. "No way am I going home."
The only alternative to dialysis is a kidney transplant, a procedure California and a few other states provide to illegal immigrants. Last year, 52 of the 1,912 kidney transplants in California were for illegal immigrants.
Several studies show that a transplant pays for itself in three dialysis-free years. Critics, however, say that dipping into the organ pool is a greater outrage because so many citizens are waiting.
"It's not like you go to Costco and pick up a kidney," Krikorian said.
Toribio is now seeking a second transplant.
She said she is grateful for the care she has received in California. But Toribio, who works in a textile factory for $8 an hour attaching tags to blankets, towels and bath mats, believes the United States should accept it as the price of a cheap labor pool.
As much as she would like to visit her parents and grandparents in Mexico, she has never returned.
It is not worth the risk of leaving California: She might not be able to get back.
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The namesake of the scholarship, the late Phyllis G. Meekins, became a member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professionals in 1981, was inducted into the National African American Golfers Hall of Fame in 1984 and was nominated for the 1993 LPGA Teacher of the Year award. She was recognized by the National Golf Foundation (NGF) with the NGF Outstanding Service Award.
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Washington (CNN) – For many conservative Christian leaders, it was a nightmare scenario: Barack Obama decisively re-elected. Same-sex marriage adopted by voters in some states. Rigorously anti-abortion candidates defeated in conservative red states.
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Before I start my RuPaul's Drag Race recap or review or whatever you want to call it, I'm going to mention to everyone who writes in the comments insulting my punctuation, or tells me I'm too bitchy or calls me an asshole, or whatever: my feelings are best described by this GIF. At the end of the day, I do this for fun. I can write whatever I want and if I'm being too mean to Lasagna, then in the famous words of Bianca Del Rio, BEAT IT QUEEN! I know insulting the readers is going to get me in so much shit with the bosses but whatever.
Hey Racers,
We are back with another episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, and this week it's the most anticipated episode…SNATCH GAME! No mini challenge, no workroom visits just right into the thick of it.
On the panel this year we had
I cannot stand Gia Gunn.
I think in 6 years, Gia Gunn is one of the absolute worst people they have ever had on this show…period. Tonight's episode solidified how much of an IGNORANT, DIM, and NOT SMART (I don't want to say stupid but…) human being she is. I think that if I saw her in person after tonight I would slap her from here until Season 7. Thank god that the rest of tonight's episode was really good because if I had to watch Gia for one more minute I would've thrown my TV out the window.
But I digress.
While in New York I was lucky enough to be invited by the original Drag Race winner, BeBe Zahara Benet, to her pre-release party for her new single "Face." I was gagging the moment BeBe walked in wearing a black lace floor length dress and serving the room nothing but glamour and face. It was quite the little intimate show for friends and people who worked on the music video of Face which was nice because we actually all got to talk to BeBe throughout the night.
BeBe started the crowed off with a little back story to the upcoming album and how it's been in the works for over a year. After a little story time with BeBe we moved into previewing a few of the songs off the album and I can safely say I was LIVING for them! There is definitely some great club thumpers on there with "I Feel It Coming" and "Eye Candy" which I can see both being big hits in the scene. My personal picks for eargasms were "Something Exciting" and "It Feels Right." They lead away from the typical club/house and move more towards the pop/feel good sounds. "Something Exciting" just makes you wanna bop around your room in your underwear as you're getting ready for your day and "It Feels Right" is more of a throwback to motown, folk, sunshine and butterflies sound which I really love. BeBe said it was very important for her to add in all the tribal and African influence because she is very proud of where she comes from and wanted to blend her two homes together with her music. I think BeBe's hard work is going to pay off with this one as the album seemed to be pretty well rounded with great sounds.
After all the previews it was finally time for the premiere of the "Face" music video! The lights darkened, the room went silent and the rest was all Face from there. I can't wait for the full album to come out, until then enjoy the official "Face" music video and the remix radio edit by Ranny.
You can get your copy of the Face EP on iTunes along with all the remixes
Oh and BeBe, your ring is getting sized ;)
Here we go…the two groups meet for the first time: can you feel the tension? What was really funny is the first group was trying SO HARD to be SO COOL while the confident queens in group two were just excited and happy to meet the original 6. In the end it was Trinity who was the one to break the ice (we need to keep our eye on Trinity, she's got something I think). After the initial meeting they had to compete in their first mini challenge together. They had to pair with a girl NOT in their original group and do this hilarious two person/one body thing. One girl would be the legs, and the other the top half. My personal favourite was Ben and Darienne (SO FUNNY), but it was Milk and Adore who won, thus becoming the captains of the next team challenge.
As with many RuPaul's Drag Race seasons before, Episode 2 was the acting challenge. This year they were doing the same movie (Drag Race me to Hell) with one version being from the 60s, and the other from the 80s. Milk and Adore had to pick their teams and surprise surprise they each chose their original groups. I'm not mad at that at all, in fact I'm quite pleased because I only had to watch/care about half of the episode!
DID YOU WATCH IT?!? I can't even tell you what a difference a week makes. After the absolute debacle that was last week on RuPaul's Drag Race, tonight I felt like I was watching the Final 7 compete for the crown. Even the worst queen from this week was 100x better than some of the queens from last time. Let's recap shall we?
Coming back from the runway, the first six (in their shrill and absolutely horrific pitchy voices) returned to the work room to balloons, champagne and a message from dearly departed Kelly. But, the celebration didn't last long, they needed to clear the room and make way for the REAL competitors!
First up was one of my favorites: Bianca Del Rio. And, honey she let them all HAVE IT this episode. Bianca's talent lies in her sewing skills and her brilliantly sharp and quick wit. There is no one funnier (and meaner) than Bianca Del Rio and you are not ready for her. Following Bianca we had Trinity K Bonet and her flipper (anyone who watches Toddler's and Tiaras will know what a flipper is), Joslyn Fox and Milk- another one of my favourites. After Milk we got this season's heavy hitter: Courtney Act. Courtney IS the RuPaul of Australia. She actually announces she is a house hold name. Joslyn was even star struck when she the queen from down under- it was cute. Last, but definitely not least, was Darienne Lake who is just beyond. She is SO funny and SO over the top how can you NOT love her. Honestly, after seeing the 7 walk in, I felt like I was watching a completely different season. A much better season.
Welcome back racers!
Honestly, it's so good to be back doing these RuPaul's Drag Race recaps. I feel like my life isn't complete without them! Are you ready for Season 6, because I know I am!
After what was definitely one of the most aggressive marketing campaigns, Season 6 has finally reached our TV screens. I was wondering why they launched so late this year and realized it was because of the Olympics- just in case anyone was wondering. So, it was the first episode tonight and I have to say I was so extremely disappointed with it. Sure my favourite show on television is back on and even the worst episode is still so much better than most shows, but I just felt like the anticipation for tonight was so huge that it left me feeling deflated (insert fat joke here). The biggest twist for tonight was that we were only being introduced to half of the queens, and in my opinion, it was not the stronger half. Now, before you all come for me I'm going to say that not all of the queens introduced tonight drove me crazy, but the majority of them definitely did.
A week before the premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6, the network greenlit a seventh season of the hit reality series. Definitely not a surprise given that it's most likely Logo's highest-rated program. With that being said, I've seen the Season 6 premiere and it's fan-friggin-tastic. RuPaul throws in a major twist within the first few minutes. If the rest of the season is half as good as the first episode, it's going to be a great one. If you're interested in participating for the show's seventh season, head over to rdrcasting.com for info about the audition process.
"RuPaul's Drag Race continues to be a perennial fan favorite that has slowly become a pop culture phenomenon attracting a wide-range of viewers," says Logo's vice president of programming, Pamela Post
In other Drag Race-related news, the show's sexy pit crew filmed a music video covering a RuPaul track. Check them out below and see if they sound remotely as good as they look. Don't forget, RPDR Season 6 premieres Monday, February 24 at 9/8c. If you have the Logo app, you can check out the premiere episode sans elimination on your iPhone or iPad.


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Plays around open fields and through some areas with stands of trees and tall grass. OB parking lots, roads and the Lake add difficulty. Dual tees (Red and White) are marked with brown posts. Beautiful park (especially in the fall) whose many amenities include; swimming area, Bath house with showers and snack bar.
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Elevation: Some Low Hills
Foliage: Stands
Course Length: 2,523ft
Alternate Length: 2,959ft
Course Designer: Eric Jon Keim
Hole Length: Under 300ft: 6 | 300 - 400ft: 3 | Over 400ft: 0
From Hollidaysburg; East on US 22 for 7 miles to a left Turkey Valley Road, 0.5 mile to a right into Canoe Creek State Park. Follow road to a right at intersection. 1st tee is to left of parking lots. Info board is along sidewalk.
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(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. and Israel like to think that attempts by Syria and Iran to join the United Nations Human Rights Council would be laughable if Damascus and Tehran weren't so serious about it. Syria in particular is in the hot seat after accusations by the White House President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons during the 28-month-long conflict against opposition forces.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Rosemary DiCarlo called any inclusion of Syria and Iran in the U.N. group "highly inappropriate" given their track records on human rights abuses. In 2009, Iran launched a massive crackdown on demonstrations protesting the presidential election that resulted in numerous deaths and arrests.
Israel's ambassador to the U.N., Ron Prosor, said that allowing Syria and Iran into the 47-member Geneva-based Human Rights Council was akin to "placing a mob boss in charge of the witness protection program."
Hillel Neuer, the head of the advocacy group UN Watch, said "countries that murder and torture their own people must not be allowed to become the world's judges on human rights." Neuer predicted the bids by Syria and Iran would fail.
The General Assembly's annual elections for the Council will be held later this year in New York.
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May 20th, 2005, 11:25 AM
:sad: Get well Serena. within 5 min of the announcement many here seemed joyful, Karma is a hell of a drug. Gooooooooooo Venus, good luck at RG :bounce:
May 20th, 2005, 11:27 AM
Go venus, bring home the title! Get well serena, slam no.8 awaits you when you recover.
May 20th, 2005, 11:28 AM
i was just thinking did any of them won a slam when the other was not playing it?
May 20th, 2005, 11:49 AM
Good luck Venus, I know you can do it :)
May 20th, 2005, 11:59 AM
i was just thinking did any of them won a slam when the other was not playing it?Good question, will check this
May 20th, 2005, 12:30 PM
Well, Venus is healthy this year going into the FO, or at least she seems to be, so I rate her chances as good as any top player. She can run all day long if she has to and she likes to rally and set up for the winner , and that's a good thing as clay is a very demanding surface where patience is very important,so I suspect she will have a good shot at getting deep into the tournament and maybe even winning it. I hope she can overcome her mental issues because when she does she will have a definite chance of winning the whole thing.
Justine looks like the strong favourite more and more though, with Serena out :sad: Kim injured and Sharpie, Davenport and Mauresmo won't pose a big threat to Henin on clay due to obvious reasons IMO. But this scenario might also prove very beneficial to Venus because she can also take advantage of this situation. I hope Venus will have a good tournament and that she no matter her results will stay healthy. Good luck Venus :bounce: :bounce:
May 20th, 2005, 01:11 PM
well the draw is certainly in her favour right now :)
May 20th, 2005, 01:21 PM
OMG, Venus got about the best draw she could hope for. What a blessing! Take advanatage of it Vee! :eek:
May 20th, 2005, 01:23 PM
Maindraw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROLAND-GARROS, dames, 1er tour
1-Lindsay Davenport (E-U)-Katarina Srebotnik (Slo)
Mailyne Andrieux (Fra)-Shuai Peng (Chi)
Tatiana Panova (Rus)-Qualifiée
Virginie Razzano (Fra)-25-Dinara Safina (Rus)
20-Daniela Hantuchova (Slovaquie)-Qualifiée
Denisa Chladkova (Tch)-Catalina Castano (Col)
Ludmila Cervanova (Slovaquie)-Aiko Nakamura (Jap)
Qualifiée-14-Kim Clijsters (Bel)
9-Vera Zvonareva (Rus)-Qualifiée
Qualifiée-Maria Kirilenko (Rus)
Jelena Kostanic (Cro)-Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha)
Vera Douchevina (Rus)-21-Mary Pierce (Fra)
32-Flavia Pennetta (Ita)-Jill Craybas (E-U)
Marta Domachowska (Pol)-Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro (Fra)
Yoon Jeong Cho (Cor-S)-8-Patty Schnyder (Sui)
4-Elena Dementieva (Rus)-Barbora Strycova (Tch)
Sanda Mamic (Cro)-Lisa Raymond (E-U)
Akiko Morigami (Jap)-Angela Haynes (E-U)
Maria Elena Camerin (Ita)-31-Karolina Sprem (Cro)
18-Silvia Farina Elia (Ita)-Anne Kremer (Lux)
Shenay Perry (E-U)-Arantxa Parra Santonja (Esp)
Sophie Ferguson (Aus)-Mariana Diaz-Oliva (Arg)
Yuliana Fedak (Ukr)-16-Elena Likhovtseva (Rus)
11-Venus Williams (E-U)-Marta Marrero (Esp) :bounce:
Fabiola Zuluaga (Col)-Qualifiée
Alyona Bondarenko (Ukr)-Sesil Karatantcheva (Bul)
Julia Schruff (All)-19-Shinobu Asagoe (Jap)
27-Amy Frazier (E-U)-Meghann Shaughnessy (E-U)
Emilie Loit (Fra)-Claudine Schaul (Lux)
Tatiana Perebiynis (Ukr)-Emmanuelle Gagliardi (Sui)
Maria Sanchez Lorenzo (Esp)-5-Anastasia Myskina (Rus) :bounce:
7-Nadia Petrova (Rus)-Mashona Washington (E-U)
Abigail Spears (E-U)-Séverine Beltrame (Fra)
Kveta Peschke (Tch)-Dally Randriantefy (Mad)
Shahar Peer (Isr)-28-Marion Bartoli (Fra)
17-Tatiana Golovin (Fra)-Lilia Osterloh (E-U)
Antonella Serra Zanetti (Ita)-Marlene Weingartner (All)
Martina Sucha (Slq)-Tathiana Garbin (Ita)
Maria Vento-kabchi (Ven)-12-Elena Bovina (Rus)
15-Jelena Jankovic (Scg)-Anna Smashnova (Isr)
Roberta Vinci (Ita)-Anna-Lena Groenefeld (All)
Qualifiée-Nicole Vaidisova (Tch)
Jie Zheng (Chi)-22-Francesca Schiavone (Ita)
29-Ana Ivanovic (Scg)-Stéphanie Foretz (Fra)
Iveta Benesova (Tch)-Pauline Parmentier (Fra)
Alina Jidkova (Rus)-Alizé Cornet (Fra)
Evie Dominikovic (Aus)-3-Amélie Mauresmo (Fra)
6-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus)-Mathilde Johansson (Fra)
Qualifiée-Eleni Daniilidou (Gre)
Marissa Irvin (E-U)-Nicole Pratt (Aus)
Sania Mirza (Ind)-30-Gisela Dulko (Arg)
24-Magdalena Maleeva (Bul)-Rika Fujiwara (Jap)
Qualifiée-Anabel Medina Garrigues (Esp)
Virginia Ruano Pascual (Esp)-Qualifiée
Conchita Martinez (Esp)-10-Justine Henin-Hardenne (Bel)
13-Nathalie Dechy (Fra)-Michaela Pastikova (Tch)
Silvija Talaja (Cro)-Samantha Stosur (Aus)
Youlia Fedossova (Fra)-Kristina Brandi (P-R)
Nuria Llagostera Vives (Esp)-23-Ai Sugiyama (Jap)
26-Paola Suarez (Arg)-Anna Chakvetadze (Rus)
Qualifiée-Klara Koukalova (Tch)
Camille Pin (Fra)-Aravane Rezai (Fra)
Evguénia Linetskaya (Rus)-2-Maria Charapova (Rus)
May 20th, 2005, 01:23 PM
Come on Venus!! :p
May 20th, 2005, 01:37 PM
Come on Venus!! :p
Game Set Match Venus
6-1/6-3 into Ist. finals, keep it up Vee, you have a great draw at RG :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship:
May 20th, 2005, 02:55 PM
Yeah Venus has a great draw.Go venus
May 20th, 2005, 03:26 PM
venus will win istanbul... whoever thought she wouldn't!
May 20th, 2005, 03:29 PM
got venus at 16/1 to win RG.
like venus to at least to get to the semis
very well could see davenport/venus semi
May 20th, 2005, 03:59 PM
Venus would be my pick to come through her half of the draw; it's a piece of cake in the scheme of things. I'm still not sure I'd pick her to win the title, but I'll probably be surprised if she loses before the final, especially if she wins the title in Istanbul tomorrow. Nothing like winning to boost your confidence.
May 20th, 2005, 04:00 PM
Although a little muted because of Serena, go Venus and good luck. I hope she does exceptionally well.
May 20th, 2005, 07:53 PM
Although a little muted because of Serena, go Venus and good luck. I hope she does exceptionally well.
:hug: The more you think about it, the more sence it will make,sliding on a bum ankle is not recommended :wavey:
May 20th, 2005, 09:25 PM
I like her back-to-basics decision to do Istanbul. It should give her just a bit more confidence in her play and get her through to the quarters. After that, she has to find a way to remember the player she was (and can still be) on those big points in those big matches.
May 20th, 2005, 09:35 PM
:sad: Get well Serena. within 5 min of the announcement many here seemed joyful, Karma is a hell of a drug. Gooooooooooo Venus, good luck at RG :bounce:
With all due respect, Venus doesn't need luck. If she plays the type of tennis she's capable of playing, SHE WILL WIN!
May 20th, 2005, 09:37 PM
If people only knew how bad I want Venus to take this title. I would be literally beside myself if that happened. With Serena out, Venus can relax and just play her tennis and not worry about her foe. Venus this is your moment, you must take it and achieve.:worship:
May 20th, 2005, 09:57 PM
Wow... do you guys really believe that with Serena out, Venus should win?
May 20th, 2005, 10:12 PM
I want Venus to win but she usually doesn't do well if Serena isn't there.
May 20th, 2005, 10:50 PM
With Serena withdrawing...ALL EYES WILL BE ON YOU NOW VENUS!
May 20th, 2005, 11:12 PM
Wow... do you guys really believe that with Serena out, Venus should win?
No, I'm saying that Venus :worship: WILL win, Serena or no Serena.
May 20th, 2005, 11:24 PM
I'm loving Vee's draw. Her only threat is Myskina, but Ana has had a rougher year than Vee. Maybe this is Vee's turnaround. It's not like she hasn't won a grand slam before and it's not like she hasn't been to the finals of RG. She just needs confidence. So, here's a big...
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Hospital Laboratory Workers and Radiographer on Strike in Auckland
As a result of the strike of radiographers and hospital laboratory workers, the Auckland District Health Board announces that 500 of the non-urgent surgeries, which are actually all the elective surgeries, would be canceled, in addition to thousands of other operations that will not be carried out as scheduled, whereas, other will be suspended.
The District Health Boards accused the radiographers and the laboratory workers of intentionally standing in the way of the patient service. However, Stewart Smith, the President of New Zealand Medical Laboratory Workers Union replied saying that the workers would not accept to be 'bullied' into settling for any kind of pay deal. Mr. Smith also said that such industrial actions are amenable and would require the Government's attention.
He added, "The management team at CDHB knows these people are in financial difficulty and has suspended them. We've got a solo mum, a solo dad, single income earners ... and they have chosen to suspend them for the longest time, which is a week".
The strike would last for 3 days, starting Friday, while next Tuesday would be a national strike for the hospital workers all around the country. Before going on the strike, the workers sent 348 notices to the District Health Boards and hospital boards that they have to find an alternative, for the hospital workers and the radiographers would not be available to cover their tasks.


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No love for the OC
Hester, Cutler throw Turner under the bus with thinly veiled indictment
It took the seemingly guileless Devin Hester to point out Wednesday what all of his Bears teammates know but have been hesitant to say.
"I think there will be [changes next year]," Hester said. "It's been what, three seasons like this? It's tough. There will be a lot of changes, I know that for a fact. I hope it's for the better."
And how does he know that "for a fact."
"[We're] not blind," he said. "Everybody sees it. There's going to be a lot of new players in and probably some other things [will] change around here."
The "other things" did not have to be elaborated. The words "Ron Turner" and "job security" appear in the same sentence more often these days than "offensive line" and "penalties."
Hester, who has been a sort of litmus test for the team since his rookie year, the Bears' Super Bowl season, was on track this year for 1,000 yards receiving but has been derailed by injuries and inconsistent play. That Hester may never develop into a special receiver, regardless of the system, escapes him as it does most players. But he made it clear Wednesday that the Bears' offense under Turner is not taking full advantage of his talents.
"Some plays that we had called during the week [we weren't] able to call it during the game because of certain situations. At the end of the day, they have good plays designed for myself and the other receivers [but] ... you've got to call them in certain situations. Good field position is the key to allowing some of the plays we want to call.
"Certain situations, we just weren't able to make the call."
With three games still left in the season and the Bears one of only eight teams already out of the running for the playoffs, Halas Hall is beginning to resemble that scene in "Seinfeld" when George knocked the women, children and clown out of the way to escape a grease fire.
It would have been easy, for example, for Jay Cutler to ease the pressure on an offensive coordinator who has defended him all season.
Cutler could have said simply, "It's not Ron Turner's fault " and left out the rest of the sentence, which would have gone something like, "that I consistently make poor decisions and poorer throws."
But he didn't.
And that spoke volumes.
With three games left, the Bears' spoiler role will include potentially spoiling any hope that Turner, head coach Lovie Smith and the rest of the coaching staff have of keeping their jobs. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as a seventh season of a Smith regime is not likely to suddenly produce a balanced offense or revitalize a sloppy defense.
But just in case we were wondering, Cutler and Hester made it clear that the rest of the season is a crapshoot in more ways than one against 7-6 Baltimore, 11-2 Minnesota and even 2-11 Detroit. Assuming that final decisions on coaches' fates have yet to be made and that the Bears can either rally to save at least Smith, if not Turner, or more likely that they can make the decisions easy with a complete self-destruction, their players do not appear especially interested in anything other than saving themselves.
Cutler said he would tell management how he felt about Turner if asked. "But by no means am I going to march up there and tell them what should happen or what's going to happen," Cutler said. "That's up to them. They're going to do the best thing they can for the team and I'm going to try to do my job."
And if he were asked, what would he say about the Bears' offensive coordinator?
"At this point, we're not even going to get into that," Cutler said. "I'm not going to even start going down that road. That's not my job."
Turner said he understood.
"That's not his position to [defend me]," Turner said. "That puts him in a tough spot. Like everybody else, we're just trying to focus on what we can do to get better. Jay and I have a good relationship, we talk all the time, we communicate about what we're doing, what we want to do. I've got a lot of confidence in him and hopefully he feels the same way."
If he does, he has a funny way of showing it.
Not surprisingly, Turner reacted the same way when asked about Hester anticipating changes.
"It's obvious," Turner said. "They're going to hear that everywhere, and then when you have a disappointing year, that's going to be the talk. So they're going to hear it, we're going to hear it and just go about your business."
Said Smith: "We're grown men. We realize where we are right now."
Melissa Isaacson is a columnist for ESPNChicago.com.
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On 12/31/2013 03:59 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Even though I'm not a Renoise user - not even a heretical one - I would
Ok, as promised a few (?) words about "how I use renoise" and "my work
First a little bit about how the tracks started:
After playing with paulstretch I was struck by the beauty of the sounds
produced by it. Actually it's kind of surprising how just about
everything sounds beautiful at 1/10 or 1/20 speed. So I started working
on an album (entitled båndsløjfe (tape loop)) where the textures would
be comprised of stretched material, and with faster stuff like glitches,
percussion and drums on top. I stretched all kinds of audio material,
chopped it up (using the very handy "slice" feature in renoise) to have
smaller building blocks (typically of one or two bars length), and
arrange them into a different structure. Most of the time material from
different stretched audio were layered to allow me to control the
texture individually. Sometimes they were filtered, sometimes with a lfo
controlled filter, sometimes ran through a mda vocoder/talkbox as
carrier and some rhythmic thing like a percussion loop as modulator.
I've been working on/off on this album for about two years, but never
finished all the tracks (there were 19). On "2013" the following 5
tracks comes from that concept album: "engang", "maria bebudelse",
"forfra", "boston undervej" and "13" (the later contains no stretched
material, but was meant as a contrast from the rest of the songs).
A few years ago I was on vacation on Gran Canaria. While on the plane,
hanging around the pool and in general relaxing, the other members of
the family were reading books or solving cross word puzzles, but I
started 19 small sketches, mostly one or two bar loops. The idea was not
to finish anything, just play around, some took only 15 minutes or less.
I had plans for later finishing the best sketches for an album entitled
"Las Palmas" (named after the airport on Gran Canaria). In general I
went for instrumental tracks with a dance floor feel without the actual
beat. Each sketch were named after something the happened just before or
after the sketch was made. "de venter", "du kender titanium", "20", igen
igen", "på vej hjem" og "meyer" were selection from that concept album.
The three meditations were done on commission as meditation tracks.
About the workflow:
I almost always start out by going for a mood that I like. Every sound
contributes to the mood, but to me the bass drum is especially
important. So I spend some time finding a bass drum that fits with the
mood. I also like to truncate sounds like hihats or claps to make them
more percussive. In general I think every sound or part of a song should
be strong, so instead of just throwing random stuff in, I try to find
thing that are not "just a sound", something with character. Sometimes
(heavy) processing can make a dull sound interesting, but sometimes I
just throw it away again if it's too blah. When I have a loop that I
like with basis drums and some harmony I often start to think about the
structure of the whole track, since I found it very difficult to break
out of a loop later, if I work too much on it. In renoise this means
that I would copy my pattern so the song takes about 4 minutes, and then
start working on an alternate, contrasting part. I also found it
important always to remember to leave space when adding parts. It's so
easy to overdo each part, which leaves no room for later parts, so I try
to imagine how a certain sound would fit with both what is there already
and things that could be added later, sometimes I have a pretty clear
idea of what those later things could be sometimes I don't. It's also
nice to have things, be it sounds, effects, musical ideas that only show
up once or maybe twice in the track, this is easier to work with when
the structure is more or less in place.
In renoise you can really "program" the music, by typing in the music on
the computer keyboard. This is usually the fastest and most precise way
to work, but the music tends to sound very sterile (to my ears) if done
this way. I have a small LPK25 that's always hooked up and sits on my
desktop, and I try to use it as much as possible (I also have a 88keys
weighted yamaha that I hook up if I have the time). I mostly quantize
things to have a tight groove, but some parts are non-quantized to add
some organic sound the the music.
Regarding the production: I mix things as I go, since to me that's part
of the compositional process. Some things needs effects to work in the
mood or in the sound. I rarely use reverb, mostly because the tend to
give a washed out and often cheap sound to the track, but admittedly
because I don't have that many great sounding reverbs. The ones I use
the most are the TAL reverbs, I think their tails sounds the least
metallic. Instead I use a lot of delay (especially renoise buildin
Multitap Delay with filter on the delays) that in renoise are easy to
sync to the tempo. I also use alot of lopass and hipass filters to shape
the sound of things. For instance I like to do extreme hipass on hihats
of things that should work like hihats, to really lift them above the
rest of the track, leaving room in the midrange and lo hiend for other
sounds. Prominent melodic sounds (electric pianos, piano, synth sounds,
pads, lead sounds) often needs alot of EQ to bring out the body of the
sound and make them blend with the mood.
I like to spread out the work of a track over a long time. Work a little
on it, then leave it alone for a while and come back to it. For this
purpose I made a renoise hackish tool that renders a track to wav from
the commandline. I then have a script "generate_mp3" that renders
modified (make style) tracks to an mp3 folder directly on my server,
this folder is synced to my android phone with the app "folder sync" so
that I always have the latest versions of the tracks with me. So I spend
alot of time listening to things away from the computer, for instance
while running of driving the car. That works really well for me, if I
listen to a track in renoise I tend to jump right in and change
something I don't like, but just listening without the ability to change
anything gives a much better overview, especially when working on a
collection of tracks at the same time.
Some final words regarding renoise: Brendan Jones commented "you made
this with a tracker?"... Well to me renoise is just a tool. I worked
with a lot of different programs, my first album was made with floss
tools (ardour, muse, specemin, zynaddsubfx, phasex, ams, pd and more). I
really believe that for the most part you could make your music in any
tool. So why renoise? The most important thing for me is it's extreme
stability, it just never crashes. There's nothing that sucks the
motivation more out of me than being in flow with a song and having the
program crash on me. I might loose work, but even if I do it really
breaks the flow, and I really, really hate that. It's also really nice
to just load a project and everything is exactly where you left it. I
tried the session managers, but I never got into it. Also when using
alot of tools, a bug in one program might break the whole chain. So you
have to upgrade that piece of software, and now your project might not
load. And renoise is very "rounded" compared to the floss tools IMHO.
Everything is really well thought of and well tested. So many small
things that mean working is simply faster, consistent keyboard
shortcuts, fast switching of views, infinite undo on everything
including fader moves, support for mouse scroll almost everywhere. And
it doesn't hurt that renoise is really light on the CPU. There are
things that are more challenging in a tracker, mostly working over the
seemingly hard boundaries of patterns and accepting the messy look of
realtime midi recordings in the pattern editor.
I hope that gives an idea about the workflow. Although that was a lot of
words, please feel free to ask if there's something specific you'd like
to know about :-)
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This series consists of talks in the areas of Cosmology, Gravitation and Particle Physics.
Recent developments in the field of Numerical Relativity have not only provided key insights of binary black hole systems but also began influencing its future role. Undoubtedly one of the most important future drivers in the near future of the field will be its role as another element within the study of spectacular astrophysical phenomena involving strongly gravitation scenarios. Connecting (yet to be observed) gravitational waves with observations within the electromagnetic spectra will be one ultimate goal of this enterprise.
I will review relativistic quantum theory that is based on Wigner\'s unitary representations of the Poincare group, Dirac\'s forms of dynamics, and Newton-Wigner\'s definition of the position operator. Formulas will be derived that transform particle observables between different inertial reference frames. In the absence of interactions, these formulas coincide with Lorentz transformations from special relativity. However, when interaction is turned on, some deviations appear.
We study the effective field theory of inflation, i.e. the most general theory describing the fluctuations around a quasi de Sitter background, in the case of single field models. The scalar mode can be eaten by the metric by going to unitary gauge. In this gauge, the most general theory is built with the lowest dimension operators invariant under spatial diffeomorphisms, like g^{00} and K_{mu nu}, the extrinsic curvature of constant time surfaces.
I will review an old (Greenberg and Schweber, 1958) and undeservedly forgotten idea in quantum field theory. This idea allows one to reformulate QFT as a Hamiltonian theory of physical (rather than bare) particles and their direct interactions. The dressed particle approach is scattering-equivalent to the traditional one, however it doesn\'t require renormalization and may provide a valuable tool for calculations of wave functions of bound states and time evolution.
Many string theorists and cosmologists have recently turned their attention to building and testing string theory models of inflation. One of the main goals is to find novel features that could distinguish stringy models from their field theoretic counterparts. This is difficult because, in most examples, string theory is used to derived an effective theory operating at energies well below the string scale.
We introduce a formalism allowing us to localize a certain class of theories with an infinite number of derivatives (nonlocal), which include effective actions of string field theory. The number of degrees of freedom is finite and the Cauchy problem, Hamiltonian and quantization are all well-defined. As applications, the rolling tachyon of cubic string field theory and some cosmological toy models are considered.
Two spinning black holes emit gravitational waves as they orbit, and eventually merge to form a single black hole. How do the properties of the final black hole depend on those of the initial black holes? This is a classic problem in general relativity, with implications for astrophysics, cosmology, and gravitational wave detection. I will describe the rapid numerical and theoretical progress over the past two years, and discuss some open questions and future directions.


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Rooney and Nani Set For Return
Manchester United are back in action against West Ham at Old Trafford on Wednesday and it looks likely that Wayne Rooney and Nani will be returning to the side.
Rooney is back in the side for the FA Cup replay for the first time since injuring his knee during a Christmas training session.
Nani returns for his first game since November when he was put out of action due to a hamstring problem.
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Abandon And Decay
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An exploration into the nature of decay and the many ways we abandon, Liam Morgan's Abandon/Decay series are allegorical self-portraits involving non-attachment and our selective use of abandonment as an emotional tool. How something is abandoned dictates the way it decays. Abandon And Decay can be seen at Kathmandu Gallery until February 24. Call 02-234-6700 or visit www.kathmandu-bkk.com
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So why would Mitt Romney want an endorsement from a self-promoting billionaire who loves to tell people "you're fired!"
Donald Trump is also more likely to turn voters off than turn them on to Romney.
Why would Romney want Trump's nod when it could be more likely to turn voters off than turn them on to Romney? A Fox News poll last month found that Americans were nearly three times as likely to say they'd be less apt rather than more apt to vote for a candidate Trump endorsed, 27 percent to 10 percent. Two-thirds said it would make no difference.
The most likely explanation is a Romney calculation that it's better to have Donald Trump on your side than against you.
The Donald has a penchant for needling his foes, whether it's President Obama or Rosie O'Donnell, and has a well-oiled PR machine at his disposal to dispense with his attacks.
Trump has also actively discussed – as recently as Monday with George Stephanopoulos – his possible bid as a third party candidate.
Either option could prove to be a thorn in Romney's side.
However, this assumes that The Donald won't change his mind – or his plans – at some point along the way. A real or perceived slight – or a need to boost ratings for his show – could be enough of an excuse for Trump to reengage the third party talk – or criticize the man he will soon be embracing.
Here is Stephanopoulos' interview with Trump from earlier this week:


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