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Post-Professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy
Education Model
Blended (Online and on-site) see curriculum for on-site dates
Program Dates
Priority application deadline: February 6, 2015
Final application deadline: March 23, 2015
Semester begins: May 4, 2015
Please note: Non-Utah Residents Currently, we are not accepting OTD students from Arkansas. The restrictions are related to offering courses to Arkansas residents regardless of the institution's physical presence.
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Graduate Program Directors:
Loriann Helgeson, OTD, OTR/L & Melissa M. Sweetman, OTD, OTR/L
Concentration - General Program
The program also offers elective tracks which provide additional depth and expert guidance in the areas of Administration and Practice Management, Aging, Education, Hand Therapy, Pediatrics and Work and Health. The goal of the Occupational Therapy program at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (RMUoHP) is to address the national need for high quality occupational therapy services by providing a new direction in professional education that promotes the scholarship of practice. The program is open to all individuals having an entry-level degree in occupational therapy. The RMUoHP Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) program provides meaningful, obtainable, and affordable post-professional education to occupational therapists and facilitates the development of the occupational therapy practice-scholar who embeds research in his or her everyday practice. The program provides practicing clinicians with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to contribute to occupational therapy becoming a powerful, widely recognized, science-driven, and evidence-based profession with a globally connected and diverse workforce meeting society's occupational needs. The University developed the curriculum based on established educational standards. Upon successful completion of the curriculum, RMUoHP confers the degree of Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) to graduates.
The mission of RMUoHP's Post-professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) program is to teach and inspire evidence-based practice, leadership and professional development for occupational therapists to be practice-scholars and leaders in health and human service. Occupational Therapy specialty courses in the program promote synthesis of reflective practice, professional trends, occupational science, and ethical implications of organizational issues in healthcare. Core courses provide students with the ability to use systematic reviews as a method to synthesize knowledge, guide practice and justify reimbursement for services. These courses teach students to make judgments about the validity, results, and application of research and to implement evidence-based decision-making in their careers. Specialty courses highlight advances in science associated with specialty areas of practice and include an individually designed capstone project that allows students to pursue a clinical subspecialty area or to develop a teaching, clinical, or administrative project related to their professional interests.
UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION: Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (8060 165th Avenue NE Ste 100, Redmond, WA 98052-3981), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Secretary of the US Department of Education.
NOTE: The Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) accredits OTA and entry-level degree programs in occupational therapy. There is currently no specialized accrediting body for post-professional occupational therapy programs.
Click cover to read about our OTD students and alumni in the Winter 2014 issue of the university magazine. >
The OTD program is committed to the development of the occupational therapist who can:
1. Utilize Evidence-based Practice
- Apply the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to make independent judgments about the validity and trustworthiness of research.
- Integrate clinical expertise, best evidence available from systematic research and values and preferences of patients to make healthcare decisions (Sackett, Rosenberg, Gray, Haynes & Richardson, 1996).
- Synthesize, disseminate, exchange and soundly apply knowledge to improve health, provide more effective health services and products and strengthen the healthcare system (Straus, Tetroe, & Graham, 2009).
2. Demonstrate Practice/Clinical Scholarship
- Exercise high-level curiosity, critical thinking, continuous learning and reflection to substantiate best practice, outcomes and clinical decisions with reference to: systematic observation, current research, theoretical guidelines, contextual influences, quality improvement data and other forms of evidence.
- Document and disseminate outcomes and improvements for best practice through mechanisms including publication, presentations, consultation, advocacy and leadership.
- Use expertise to anticipate trends, predict needs, create effective clinical products and services, and measure and manage outcomes promoting the profession of occupational therapy (AOTA, 2009; Corcoran, 2008; Crist, 2010).
3. Demonstrate Leadership
- Influence local, regional, national, and international policy, practice and education through advocacy, consultation, teaching and practice of occupational therapy with individuals, populations and organizations.
- Model ways of thinking and doing to promote the art and science of occupational therapy, enable others to act, challenge the process to promote change, inspire a shared vision of the value of occupational therapy and encourage the hearts of employees, colleagues and students (Kouzes & Posner, 2007).
- Function within an ethical decision-making framework by applying ethical theories and legal standards to decision-making regarding healthcare issues.
4. Promote Participation in Occupation as the Practice and Outcome of Occupational Therapy
- Educate about and advocate for the therapeutic use of occupation as a core foundation of the use of occupational therapy in rehabilitation, health promotion, and prevention.
- Demonstrate the ability to seek, appraise and use reliable and valid evaluation and outcome measures documenting participation in occupation and roles.
- Incorporate philosophical, theoretical and scientific traditions of occupational therapy into consultation, education, entrepreneurship, advocacy, direct care, program development and quality improvement.
American Occupational Therapy Association. (2009). Scholarship in occupational therapy. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63, 790-796.
Corcoran, M.A. (2008). Five years in review: Clinical scholarship revisited. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 62, 263-264.
Crist, P. (2010). Adapting research instruction to support the scholarship of practice: Practice-scholar partnerships. Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 24(1), 39-55.
Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2007). The Leadership Challenge, 4th edition. San Fransisco, CA: Josse-Bass.
Sackett,D. L., Rosenberg,W. M., Gray,J. A., Haynes,R. B., Richardson,W. S. (1996). Evidence based medicine: What it is and what it isn't. British Medical Journal, 312, 71 72. Straus, S. E., Tetroe, J., & Graham, I. D. (2009). Knowledge translation in health care: Moving from evidence to practice. West Sussex, UK: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.


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Mikael Silvestre Had A Nightmare Debut For The Portland Timbers
Mikael Silvestre made his debut for the Portland Timbers yesterday and to say he underperformed was an understatement.
The mistakes for the first two goals wasn't the best way to introduce himself to his new fans. Maybe Silvestre should stick to making rum.
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Here's what to do to protect yourself if you are charged by a ram.
Step o the side, just before he hits you, grab his wool and one of his back legs and flip him on his side. A really aggressive ram might have to be flipped twice, or even three times, but usually once will do it and he will get up, shake his head, and trot away. A ram can really hurt you if he connects. I've seen a ram toss a large teenage boy over the top of a wheelbarrow. Hitting them doesn't stop them, they are built to take blows; that's how they fight, by bashing each other. |
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A second point is not to aggravate them by petting them on the face and horns. Don't use hornes as handles! Being handled with horns, often twisteing the animal, makes them angry. Seems that those are all "fighting signals" to sheep and goat rams. If you MUST pet their heads, scratch their cheeks and under the jaw, they don't get angry being rubbed there. And in both species, pushing, shoving, head bashing, means you rank higher in the herd. Get to eat the best stuff or go first. Natural behavour, though hard on humans. |
I didn't grab horns or pet. I went into a pasture to help some kids with a horse and the little buggers were sitting on the fence knowing this ram was not Mr Congeniality. I found this out later. Good thing he gave up after a few really hard wacks . I had a huge briuse on the front of my thigh down to the bone I'm sure. And those same little horrid kids laughed. Should have hit them while I was at it.If I had stopped to figure out how to grab and flip I'm sure I would have been toast. I hit square on the nose each time. |
- Posted by oregonwoodsmoke 5 OR Sunset 1A (My Page) on Fri, Oct 8, 10 at 19:24
beegood, next time, wait until the last second and step aside. The ram doesn't change directions after he starts charging and he won't turn his head to get you. He'll brush right past you like a bull past a matador. You can grab the wool to hold him and take your time figuring out how to get him flipped. Don't ever turn your back on an adult ram. They don't have a very diverse computer program and "charge" is one of the few things that can go through their little pea brains so that's what they do in reaction to almost any situation. |
- Posted by doninalaska 3 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 21, 10 at 15:15
When we had a ram, the adult males in our family had no problem with him. When he charged, we did grab his horn and hit him as hard as we could with an uppercut to the jaw. Never hit them on the top of the head--they are protected there--but they are very vulnerable to a hard whack under the jaw. My wife and daughters weren't able to pull it off, however, and were charged any time they went into the pen/pasture especially during lambing, so he ended up as Italian sausage in the freezer. |
- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Oct 21, 10 at 17:13
I once had a large female llama that decided to start charging me. I defended myself with anything I could grab. I won but the consequence was that by striking her I told her it was war and who it was with. I eventually had to get rid of her. All my aggressive behavior just reinforced her aggression, she never learned that I was the boss. We fought for over a year, she never backed down. She never got the message. |
- Posted by oregonwoodsmoke 5 OR Sunset 1A (My Page) on Fri, Oct 22, 10 at 15:45
Llamas. Never again. I got one because they are supposed to protect sheep. Well the darn thing was terrified of the dogs and tried to kill the lambs. Some flock guardian, huh? It wasn't pleasant around people, either, very pushy. To top it off, llama meat is absolutely nasty and nobody would eat it except the dogs. It was so miserable to butcher that my butcher told me "never again." (He said that about hair sheep, too.) |
I've been charged by a ram from the back...he hit me in the lower back. It was my uncles so I did not retaliate against it. But My uncle said you need to beat it up a bit to keep him to respect you... I know it sounds cruel but rams can really hurt or even kill a person. |
So far I don't have to worry, I just have two female kids. Things may change when its time to breed them, artificial insemination? Dan |
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With Apache server side includes, attempting to extract a URL from a query string using an appropriate regular expression. Probably child's play for some. Not so much, for me.
With Apache server side includes, attempting to extract a URL from a query string using an appropriate regular expression. Probably child's play for some. Not so much, for me.
Delicious Tools Chrome Extension: Version 1.7 (5/2/2014):
Finally fixes a serious issue where bookmarks were not being saved to your Delicious account unless you saved them twice, or were logged in to Delcious.com in a seperate tab. Such requirements are pretty counter-productive. Rather than taking the time to investigate, I chose to stop using the extension for quite some time and let the angry reviews pile up. Angry reviews be damned, the time for a fix has come! BTW, Pinboard.in is a great alternative, and I use ifttt.com to keep Pinboard and Delicious in sync. The bookmarklet works well, as does the Delicious bookmarklet, which I resorted to using. They're not nearly as convenient as an extension though, am I right? With this fix, I can now return to the convenience of this delicious bookmarklet disguised as an extension provides.
On a technical note, the biggest change in this realease is I've updated the save URL, as per delicious.com that is used to save links. Using this new save URL, you're now redirected to a page that confirms you've successfully saved a bookmark, and presumably, if link saving fails. This functions just like a Delicious.com bookmarklet would. Also updated was the security policy, which fixes any issues you may have seen with altering the keyboard shortcut.
After upgrading to Mavericks (os X 10.9) my install of MySql never wanted to work properly. While it may not have been necessary, I chose to uninstall MySql and then reinstall, with the latest version. It turns out it was much simpler than the several hours lost on troubleshooting the existing installation.
Note: This DID remove all of my local MySql databases, which was OK with me, but if that's a problem for you, back those up first.
Completely uninstall MySql. Note: Make a copy of /etc/my.cnf if there are some settings that you'd like to add back in.
Follow the uninstall steps here:
And then follow the MySql installation steps here:
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Cinnabon President Kat Cole: Hustling the Gut Bomb
Public Enemies: Social Media Is Fueling Gang Wars in Chicago
Sexting, Shame and Suicide
My kids will not have phones and social networks are for stupid people. I'll let Louis CK explain.
In a Breathtaking First, NASA's Voyager 1 Exits the Solar System
As the solar system's edge grew tantalizingly close, NASA asked the Voyager scientists to increase the amount of data collection. The problem: the 8-track data recorders from 1977 were not exactly bursting with extra space. Could Ms. Dodd even find anyone who specialized in that piece of technology and could coax it to record more?
And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone'
A must read for Apple fans.
Jobs wanted the demo phones he would use onstage to have their screens mirrored on the big screen behind him. To show a gadget on a big screen, most companies just point a video camera at it, but that was unacceptable to Jobs. The audience would see his finger on the iPhone screen, which would mar the look of his presentation. So he had Apple engineers spend weeks fitting extra circuit boards and video cables onto the backs of the iPhones he would have onstage.
How the feds took down the Dread Pirate Roberts
SilkRoad.com's long road to shutdown.
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@import pie-clearfix;
I've only recently discovered Compass' @import pie-clearfix; For those times you need a clearfix, but do not want your overflow: hidden.
Google's Web Designer
It turns out, it's true intentions are to litter the web with animated banner ads.
Pocket Casts 4, for iOS
Hand's down, THE best podcast app on iOS. Also, this is one of the few crowning jewels on Android.
HTML5 Boilerplate Snippet for Sublime
Handy, if you remember that you have it installed.
Good idea for an iPhone app. Kind of sort of in-line with my very very rough mobile based savings site, movetosavin.gs
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Tom Papa Live in New York City (Netflix Watch Instantly)
Tom Papa is hilarious. You'll agree. Side note: I just now noticed that Rob Zombie directed this. Odd.
My house has eight smoke detectors. The backup 9volt batteries that they use all die around the same time, letting out a loud chirp every single minute. My solution, add an eight pack to Amazon Subscribe and Save, and change them all when they show up at your door. No more chirping. They're a bit cheaper than in-store to boot.
When the @viewport rule is used at the top of your CSS, Chrome's CSS Inspector stops working and all line numbers are printed out as line 1.
Comment out the @viewport {} rule or move it to the end of your CSS to fix the DevTools.
This error did not occur in Chrome versions previous to 29.0.1547.57
Here's a JS Fiddle demonstrating the problem.
If you're not abstracting your CSS into shared objects, you're doing it wrong. Double shame on you if you're using a pre-processor and still not object orienting your CSS.
I created a Delicious Stack with some great links to get you started with OOCSS
Good idea, but is inventing an element the right approach?
My reason to bring this up is that I'm very interested by how TypeButter accomplishes its kerning: it inserts
elements with inlinestyle
attributes that bearletter-spacing
values. Notspan
elements. No, you didn't miss an HTML5 news bite; there is nokern
element, nor am I aware of a plan for one. TypeButter basically invents a specific-purpose element.
The Delicious Chrome Extension currently has 33,414 users and is rated 4/5 stars. However, until yesterday's release, you had to manually close the popup window after you saved a new bookmark. It wasn't unusable, but it was terribly annoying at best.
Well, suffer no more! v1.5 of the Delicious Chrome Extension automatically closes the popup after you've saved your bookmark; and it's available right now!
Another well-received feature is it's customizable keyboard shortcut. Some people like commnd-D, others like control-D or maybe you like something entirely random to save your bookmarks; It's totally up to you.
Screenshots of v1.5 of the Delicious Chrome Extension:
The 'Save to Delicious' popup adds selected text to the notes field.
Customizable keyboard shortcut key.
Quick links to invoke the Save to Delicious popup, your Delicious bookmarks and your Delicious Inbox.
The extension source now lives on GitHub. Please, fork it, make it better, and send me a pull request. I'm certain there are several ways this extension can be made better. Or contribute by reporting any issues or feature requests.
BBEdit 10 offers pre-release, fixing Dropbox sync errors with the Color Schemes directory.
A couple of years ago, I created three color themes for use with John Gruber's BBEdit plugin, BBColors. With the release of BBEdit 10 last week, they rolled his theming functionality into BBEdit itself. If you were previously using BBColors, your themes are automatically recognized by BBEdit.
BBEdit 10 now provides a native interface to create, switch, and save your own color schemes. That sure doesn't suck. I packaged all the older themes, U23D, Gentle Honey and Zen and Tea, along with four brand new schemes, inspired by the colors used in Version 3 to the latest, Version 6 of the 2A site (2Advanced.com).
Download the color schemes (.zip)
To install, unpack the .zip and place the contents in BBEdit's color scheme directory; 'users > username > Library > Application Support > BBEdit > Color Schemes'. (your 'Library' directory is most likely hidden by default)
Update: I've also been collecting several BBEdit Color Schemes and keeping them in this BBEdit-Color-Schemes-Pack github repository. Feel free to fork, add your own, and send a pull request.


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Menopause drugs: Study stokes new debate over cancer
PARIS (AFP) - Women who start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) soon after menopause do not show higher cancer incidence within 16 years, according to a Danish study published on Tuesday that fuels scientific discord over the treatment's safety.
Indeed, women who took HRT in the investigation had a significantly lower risk of dying or developing heart problems, the researchers wrote in a paper published on the medical website bmj.com.
The new study was hailed by a menopause awareness group but a researcher who led a wider probe into HRT said it was worryingly underpowered.
HRT has been shrouded in controversy since a Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study in 2002 reported a higher risk of breast cancer for women who take it, a finding echoed by the Million Women Study (MWS) a year later.


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mid-15c., "to set up, fix," from up + set (v.). Cf. Middle Dutch opsetten, German aufsetzen. Modern sense of "overturn, capsize" (1803) is that of obsolete overset. Meaning "to throw into mental discomposure" is from 1805. The noun sense of "overturning of a vehicle or boat" is recorded from 1804.


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Leaping Lizards Family Entertainment Center?s inflatables range from rainbow-striped complexes of slides and obstacles to a wave-riding shark feasting on a boat. Youngsters?and parents, if they want?can bound across the bouncy surfaces during regular hours, or add some bounce to a birthday party, complete with pizza, drinks, and a private room. Alternatively, staffers who have undergone rigorous safety training supervise tots on Parents Night Out, a Friday-night event that replaces babysitters with bounce-house fun and gives parents an opportunity to check out the local fight club.
Despite their massive appeal with kids, it took a college professor with a love of tennis to create the first bounce house. Read on to learn more about the springy castle about to bloom in your backyard.
They?re known by many names?inflatables, bouncy castles, space walks?but bounce houses all have one thing in common: the mere sight of one sends kids flocking to jump inside. Typically composed of durable vinyl, PVC, or nylon, bounce houses can be made in an infinite array of designs. Manufacturers often sketch new models using computer-assisted design software, which translates the polygons into fabric patterns that can then be cut and sewn into a deflated mass. An electric or gas-powered blower then fills the hollow veins with air, and the completed castle springs to life.
In 1962, seven years before Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, NASA employee John Scurlock made a giant leap of his own. While trying to invent an inflatable dome to cover his tennis court, the engineer and professor realized his students had no real interest in working on the prototype?they were having much more fun jumping on top of it. He called his accidental discovery the Space Walk, and since then, it?s evolved beyond just a bouncy cushion into a party staple for kids, adults, and homesick martians.
To ensure a great experience while renting a bounce house, it?s a good idea to first measure the space where you plan to place it, keeping in mind the number of party guests that might want to use it. As with any party rental, it?s a good idea to book in advance to get the design that best fits your party so you aren't stuck with whatever is left?inevitably the one in the shape of Richard Nixon's head.
A miniature horse, a turkey, and a llama meander near a small, wooden barn. Meanwhile, across a patch of emerald grass, children with feed buckets take turns lifting their hands to the mouths of goats and rabbits and petting the resident potbellied pig, Wilbur. All residents of Mini Meadows come in sizes large and small from horses to chickens, each of them friendly and available for petting, feeding, and giving palm readings. More than just a petting zoo, Mini Meadows also offers kids'-party facilities and a gem and fossil mining experience. With help from Mini Meadows' knowledgeable humans, kids and adults can hammer away at Moroccan geodes and take home gems that resemble rubies, emeralds, and other semiprecious stones. Alternatively, miners can use fuse their found gems into handmade necklaces that are crafted while the animals look on.


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Cat Doesn't Want To Wake Up
To be fair, I wouldn't want to wake up either if someone was shouting at me in Russian.
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T2: Sun's new UltraSparc
Sun Microsystems has just launched the UltraSPARC T2 CPU, which easily outstrips its T1 predecessor performance-wise.
Early in the new millennium many major server manufacturers shifted to Intel or AMD. Sun itself actually used these CPUs in many of its models, leading augurs to prophesy the imminent demise of the established SPARC CPU. But in fact the opposite has happened: Sun's UltraSPARC T1 CPU which was launched in 2005 provided excellent performance and energy efficiency thanks to chip multi-threading with up to parallel 32 threads on eight cores.
Now the successor has arrived: the UltraSPARC T2 CPU is said to have twice the performance of its predecessor at the same clock speed. The T2 supports 64 parallel threads, each of which consumes less than two watts. Applications that lend themselves to parallelization, network applications, workload computing and virtualization will all benefit from this boost.
At the same time, the chip not only integrates a fast memory interface, a floating point unit and I/O interfaces, but also network interfaces and crypto units. The vendor now sees more scope for deploying the CPU in routers, switches or telecommunications technology, besides servers.
The new CPU, which will be GPLd just like its predecessor looks likely to be available to server manufacturers for less than US$ 1000 per unit by the end of this year.
Issue 172/2015
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Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
Poll: Vote for the Best Open Source Software for Photographers
The Linux New Media Awards have honored the most significant products, projects, people, and organizations for open source/Linux every year since 2000.
Debian Gets Forked
Legendary Uber-distro splits over the systemd controversy.
Linux Mint Project Releases Mint 17.1
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
CeBIT Open Source Forum Call for Papers
One of CeBIT's most successful forums returns in 2015.


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10 They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the comb. | 10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. |
Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. (New Living Translation - The Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Paper Outlook--Prices Are Going Soft
January 1999C. Stephenson Gillispie Jr., chairman, president and CEO of Cadmus Communications, concurs that prices will remain flat—or even decline—given the influx of paper from Europe and Asia. His company is following key indicators to evaluate the long-term market impact.
"We'll watch for a decline in imports from Europe, since Europe is sending supplies to Asia that, in turn, are being sent to the United States," Gillispie points out. "And, we'll closely follow the strategies of domestic mills to see if they shut down machines to reduce inventory."
What's bad news for the Asian economy, says William K. Traub, vice president of marketing for Brown Printing, is a sigh of relief for paper purchasers.
"Part of it is that the Asian economy is in terrible shape. Ad pages are up overall, but off slightly from the original forecast, and some catalog mailings are down," Traub remarks. "You know the paper market is soft when there are price reductions in the fall.
"On the bright side," he adds, "lower paper costs are going to help offset the postal increases."
Brian Kullman, vice president of paper services for R.R. Donnelley & Sons, became aware that the market was softening last summer, which is unusual, given it's a time when demand is generally headed toward a seasonal peak.
"It's not due to a lack of demand or unusual publisher inventory levels. The issue is imports," Kullman says. "The Asian recession and resulting decrease in demand for paper has been exported to America, particularly groundwood paper. Figures from late last summer show the European industry is running close to capacity—its rate of manufacturing is a comfortable operating rate. As further statistical evidence, paper has been redeployed in North America."
Kullman notes that price levels in the United States last summer made America an attractive choice for European mills. As for Asia, he feels paper consumption should return to normal levels there once the recession concludes.
There could be a paper thawing once spring arrives, but until then, "it'll be a tough winter for paper makers and a good winter for buyers," Kullman says. He sees more coated freesheet capacity washing up on U.S. shores.
In terms of growth for the paper market, he predicts slow growth in America with little to no growth in Asia. Both the former Soviet Union and Latin America are also floundering.
"I don't believe anyone's forecasting a collapse in the market like we saw in 1996," Kullman remarks.
Not everyone sees the excess of foreign supply in glowing terms. According to Janis, it's a matter of quality.
"Who wants to buy Russian paper through a North Korean bank?" he asks. "Just because paper is available doesn't mean it's good paper. The question is: Do you want it once you have it? If there's foreign availability from European mills, it's a lot different than paper from Malaysian mills."
Additionally, not everyone shares the view that prices will remain soft for much of the year. Kelly Gilroy, chief marketing and sales officer for Solar Communications—which annually purchases more than 25 million pounds of mostly uncoated return card stock for its customers' direct marketing needs—sees a price increase on the horizon.
"Paper prices have been stable or slightly lower, depending on the grade, for most of 1998," Gilroy remarks. "Solar sees first quarter 1999 prices staying at the same level as last quarter 1998. However, after the first quarter, there is potential for mill prices to increase due to supply reductions caused by consolidations and/or shutdowns.
"We have not seen paper price stability for this length of time since 1994," Gilroy concludes. "Based on historical trends, paper price increases may stick after the first quarter, when paper demand begins to increase for 1999 spring campaigns."
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Read the latest United Airlines First Class and Business Class Lounge Reviews
Date : 5 October 2012
Review by : M Palmieri (USA)
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Upon walking into the United Club Lounge at Chicago's O'Hare Terminal B (nearest B18 gate), this past Sunday, it was the most reminiscent of a cold steely operating room at a major hospital rather than an airport lounge. Upon reaching the bottom of the escalator to the reception desk you could find a rather cold grey holding room with straight back chairs (none in leather) and utilitarian lighting. It looked like cheap IKEA furniture and fixtures filled the room. The most depressing lounge I have ever entered in the world, and it just goes to show United never cared about it's elite customers and destroyed Continental's customer perks and more comfortable lounges. It was obvious to me every last penny was pinched at the frequent flier's expense. I left after a while to try the other lounge at B8 area, and it was the same depressing room I experienced at the other end. Both expresso/cappuccino machines were broken and the bartenders had to be called from behind the wall to get a drink. Very depressing cheap bland lounges that felt like nothing more than gate-side seating in a large room behind a door. Shame on United.
Review by : J Andrist (New Zealand)
I was in for a shock when I entered the United Lounge in LAX expecting to take a nice shower after a long flight from New Zealand. No showers! No food, just a few snacks - carrots/ranch, snack mix, choc raisins, bad cheese/crackers, and a choice of two wines. I asked for a Sauvignon Blanc and was told that would cost "extra". The lounge was spacious and wifi worked ok. Magazines were promotional material, but complimentary newspapers.
Date : 18 September 2012
Review by : B Temkin (USA)
Can't believe that this is a business class lounge! Peanuts, carrots and some plastic covered cheese are all they serve. Some beer and wine are free, but others cost. Pathetic!
Review by : A Lewis (UK)
There are various signs posted all over the lounge about excusing their appearance while they upgrade the lounge, however this is simply not good enough, taking away from the tired interior, the badly stained carpets and unpleasant damp smell, this lounge is probably the worst I have ever visited, every empty surface was littered with dirty dishes, rubbish and discarded newspapers. A welcome change was the sight of some food, sadly the sandwiches were stale. The internet, while free was painfully slow, the desk agent spoke only with eye contact. If you have the option, take the short (5mins) to terminal 2 and use either the Smiles or AA clubs.
Date : 11 September 2012
Review by : D Lublin (USA)
United Lounges are just sad. The Red Carpet Club is used for International Business. There is almost no food. The check-in staff was positively rude and unhelpful with long lines to get into the lounge. In the First Class Lounge, the two staffers were typing, typing, typing. They were nice but not knowledgeable or helpful. First Class Lounge is like the business lounge but more empty and with slightly more food and drink available but certainly nothing impressive.
Date : 4 September 2012
Visited with my Priority Pass membership (not available to PP Select members), staff friendly enough, visited the lounge in Terminal Very large, up the escalator to the main level, plenty of seating options, including the bar, work space areas, TV theatre. Continued up to the next level, much quieter, however there is no bar on the upper level, just self serve water and coffee. Soft drinks are only available, (complimentary) via the bar service, despite feeling slightly pressured to tip for my 5 cents worth of soda I did not. The food, sorry, snacks, as is typical of United Clubs is poor - a selection of crackers with cheeses, carrots, fruit, nuts etc. The best thing about this lounge for me was the availability of showers, since I had a 5 hour layover here, it was very welcome indeed. Wifi is free and no registration or codes were required.
Date : 26 July 2012
Review by : D Mauro (USA)
I went into the lounge hoping to see post-merger improvements (from the Continental days) and was disappointed to see no changes. They have the same rude, unprofessional receptionists who immediately banned my friend from joining me as a guest in the lounge (with my first-class ticket) and asked for 50$. I understand this is their rule, but it was not handled very well. The breakfast food was cheap and basic, lounge was extremely crowded and noisy, and it was difficult finding seats. I spent five minutes there and was happy to leave. I won't be returning to this lounge and I couldn't imagine paying for it. This facility isn't even in the same league as the lounges from other Star Alliance carriers.
Date : 6 June 2012
Review by : Steve Ludington (USA)
I paid $400/year for this? Crackers, cheese, and cookies? Complimentary wine is, let's say, mediocre quality - everything else terrible.
Date : 22 May 2012
Review by : S Paice (UK)
Red carpet club at C concourse. What a waste of time, the only food was some nuts, yoghurt raisins and some carrots. Hardly filling! They've now introduced a range of complimentary alcoholic beverages, but the service is pretty mediocre. Compared to other Star Alliance lounges, this is awful.
Date : 9 May 2012
Review by : S Wilson (UK)
This was the President's Club of Continental. I obtained access because I have Star Alliance Gold status and was on an international flight. However, it took 10 minutes to get access because the reception staff member said my card's magnetic strip didn't state it was gold (although the card expressly states Star Gold and has never been refused before). Good selection of magazines, poor selection of food (it was around 0800) with a few cereals and bagels, and a couple of juices. Nothing hot besides coffee and tea. Free wifi, but it seemed like a bit of a zoo definitely not worth waiting 10 minutes for. People taking long flights would be best using this lounge for the free wifi and then buy some food elsewhere in the terminal. Bathroom seemed well worn, with loose lock on bathroom cubicle and significant signs of wear and tear.
Date : 3 May 2012
Review by : T Harding (USA)
The new B concourse lounge quite nice though food and beverage far behind international lounges I have visited. Caters to Lufthansa pax who are a bit more savvy. (B18) Main B lounge crowded with poor snacks. C Concourse lounge better- more open with runway views but Untied employees still with (unearned) attitude- appear to be doing you a favor for joining and granting them jobs! International lounges in other nations are superior. Forget the F concourse lounge. Crowded, stinky, with minimal to no customer service. And I'm a 1 K member!
Date : 2 May 2012
Review by : C Barrett (USA)
Rarely have I encountered anywhere so uninspiring as the United lounge at SFO Intl. Decor and furniture are tired, the layout is strange, poorly sign posted and the food and beverage options are awful. No free wi-fi. I prefer to wait in one of the (admittedly average) bars in the terminal. As a separate note, the first class lounge, whilst comparing favourably to the business class lounge isn't much to write home about either.
Review by : C Norman (UK)
I dread every time I have to fly to Chicago because I know I will end up in this lounge on my return leg to the UK. This is simply the worst lounge I have been in - the staff are very rude and unhelpful unless you are buying premium drinks and likely to give them a tip. The girls on the front desk are rude and clearly badly trained, the food offering is very poor. One would expect at least one or two hot meal offerings not packets of cheese slices and crackers. There are some complimentary drinks on offer but through the miserable bar staff who are visibly annoyed that you are not buying a premium drink. They are also served in small glasses and the quality of the wine is appalling. The physical environment in the lounge is not too bad so these seems simple problems to rectify.
Date : 29 March 2012
Review by : J Kingston (USA)
This lounge is an embarrassment. Seating areas are filthy. Food on offer is minimal and poor. And only one wifi card per person. So a traveler can only have one connected device at a time.
Review by : M Beattie (UK)
What a shocker! This is the first business lounge I've ever been in where it is more luxurious to stay out in the rest of the airport. Tatty, stained furniture, threadbare carpets, crumbs and rubbish on the floor and half drunk half eaten food left on the tables. Food that would be embarrassing to see served in a cheap motorway services.
Date : 7 February 2012
Review by : H Balaraman (Canada)
The lounge is clean, and the wifi access worked well but the food offering is pathetic and consists entirely of unhealthy snacks. They should take a note of standards in other airline lounges and have at least two hot food items. Even Air Canada lounges have a hot soup.
Date : 25 January 2012
Review by : D Rosen (USA)
Visited this lounge twice during this trip while connecting on the outbound and inbound trips. Both times the lounge was dirty, the bathrooms filthy, food not worth eating and the general atmosphere so unpleasant that it was better to wait by the gate.
Review by : D Hund (USA)
ALL the lounges at Ohare leave a lot to be desired. Free drinks - but who can drink them? The entire bar smells so badly of disinfectant - and the glasses too - that I can barely drink there. I finally have gotten wise and ask for my drinks in the plastic cups. At least these don't smell like chemicals. So crowded and the food is terrible.
Date : 28 November 2011
Review by : G Heiser (Brazil)
In comparison to other RCC lounges, this is quite reasonable. They have sandwiches, salad and some cheese. Seating is a bit old. Lounge staff kind to me and my family. There is free, but slow wifi. The selection of spirits is quite nice. It gets really crowded due to many Int'l departures from 8-10pm.
Date : 27 October 2011
Review by : J Michael (USA)
Simply put, United is shoving its international business class customers in its "bus terminal" Red Carpet Club. It used to be a membership Club, but is now available to persons buying day passes, signing up for credit cards, paying with points, US Airways, in fact, virtually anyone with a pulse and money can now enter, which means it's overcrowded. Showers didn't work, the attendant said United doesn't maintain them. The lounge attendants are rude and unhelpful. Cheap drinks are on the house, but not an open bar. Anything of quality must be paid for. A pretzel is United's definition of food. Absolutely abysmal.
Date : 23 October 2011
This lounge is the worst I have ever been in. Considering I paid nearly $5,000 for my ticket the complimentary food on offer was limited and poor quality. The worst part of the experience was the bar staff who were very rude. I was here a year ago and I put it down to individual staff unfortunately the same miserable lady and gentlemen were still working there! They have serious attitude and seem to take a view that complimentary drinks are for cheapskates. Even though I regularly travel business, next time I'm in O'Hare I will simply go to a paying bar where I can get service with a smile!
Date : 22 October 2011
Review by : L Hooper (Kuwait)
This has to be the worst lounge, I have ever had the misfortune to wait in. The charge was reasonable to enter, but the lounge was hidden by stairwell, so one can not see the disgrace one is paying for, until it is too late. The drinks consist of cold coffee, and a cappucino machine that has seen better decades. There is no hot food, but some stale Bagels, that, if brave, could be toasted in a machine that had not been cleaned out of crumbs since it was opened. Having said this, I should not have been surprised after a 14 hour flight into SFO with United where they did one drinks run, and two food runs. Most of the staff hid in the back until landing. The only break in boredom was the epsiode of asking for a G&T and being asked to pay for it, having upgraded to premium economy.
Review by : E Apps (Canada)
Much too small for the number of people there - reception desk staff abrupt and uninterested until they made an announcement "whoever left their drink at the reception desk please come and get it back" - really? Worn out furniture - too few electrical outlets and no place to take a private call. Wouldn't bother.
Review by : David Dale (Australia)
Purchase of One Time Pass from United Airlines website. The lounge in Hong Kong is quite spacious and did not feel cramped when flights arrived and premium passengers used the lounge. Food options were plentiful and there was no shortage of drinks. The lounge has a deck over looking the terminal and views out over the tarmac. The United staff at the lounge were courteous and helpful. For the price of the pass, it was well worth it.
Date : 18 September 2011
Review by : G Chapman (Canada)
Internet / Wifi
There are two huge lounges, both divided in two - like sitting in an aircraft hanger. Cluster of seats, but no sound barriers - conversations and cell phone conversations can be heard everywhere. Very limited selection of snacks as they sell meals, bookable at the service desk. Might as well have stayed in the departure lounge downstairs at the gate!
Review by : K Mccue (USA)
Like earlier reviewers, I found this lounge to be pretty disappointing. To the point that I was questioning if I was actually in the lounge or rather some 'general boarding but status' room. Limited drinks are free (points) but the food is really nonexistent. Packaged crackers and cheese, carrot sticks and that's really it. Lots of space, outlets available, and free wi-fi (ask for card at the desk), this lounge leaves me wishing for more elitism feel (I did pay considerable dollars for my int'l biz seat- can't you up things wi some cut fruit, more variety in snacks).
Date : 1 August 2011
Review by : Herst Berger (Germany)
Awful place. Not recommended. Dirty. Complimentary wifi requires red club membership. Very basic snacks. Not even close to the very basic business class standards. Try to avoid. Too pitiful Lufthansa partners with the guys to offer their "business" lounge to its passengers.
This lounge is physical adequate and has a nice view of the runway and ramp. Free wifi offered. That's it for the positives. Negatives - simply the worst selection of food that I have ever seen for a premium class lounge. Carrots packaged in plastic of the genre one throws into a childs lunch box, slices of monterey jack cheese also packaged in plastic. And a pitiful assortment of packaged cookies. This is so far below standard that it is insulting. Unfortunately this is the only lounge that Swiss business passengers can use at SFO.
Date : 10 May 2011
Review by : Chris Ford (Australia)
It is relatively small, but I was lucky enough to be one of only a handful of users. There is the same offering of food and drink there (bar service, even for soft drinks, horrendous cubes of cheese, pretzels and that trail mix stuff) as every other RCC. There were no flight announcements, which would have been nice. Unlike most airport lounges, this one is completely enclosed, as in no windows! It is located right next to the airport shuttle train underground.
Date : 4 May 2011
Review by : M Chan (Canada)
What a dump! Aside from the staff at the front, everything else was kind of terrible. The food was minimal, no bar service and most furniture needed to be updated.
Review by : Jeff Lee (Canada)
This lounge was brutal. I had a First Class ticket to YYC, which makes it an international flight and I expected decent service. I had to pay about $6 for a Sam Adams beer there. There was only cheese and crackers for food in spite of being there over supper hour. I expected soup or something of that variety. Lastly there was not wifi available there. The seating was old and worn out, the lounge had dirty dishes on many of the tables and lacked newspapers.
Date : 2 May 2011
Review by : B Weber (USA)
Denver Red Carpet - while large - has some areas that leave something to be desired. Limited plugs. They could do a much better job ensuring that each seating cluster has plug in or access to one. One of the benefits of airline clubs is the convenience of not having to fight for outlets and this particular airline club has the same issue - something that surprised me for United's hub. Other airline clubs are much better on this front. Clean up service of old plates/glasses. Service to clean up old plates and other glassware is sporadic at best. I had to clean up my area before sitting and the table I moved them to has not been cleaned up in the two hours I have been here.
Date : 14 February 2011
Review by : D Little (Germany)
What a dump! No food, agents all had an attitude. Bar service only with some free drinks, but If you do not leave a tip they look at you and you never get service. Bathrooms not clean at all. Plugs did not work. No seats. Old run down, very bad..
Date : 26 January 2011
Review by : J Schwartz (USA)
Very tired and disappointing lounge. Not a First Class environment, more akin to worn out frequent flier lounge circa 1990. Staff at desk demonstrates little interest or professionalism. The food offered is laughable. When compared to even the Air France Affaires or Virgin Upper Class Lounges at Dulles - both Business Class offerings - United's falls flat.
Date : 10 January 2011
Review by : B Anderson (New Zealand)
Had access due to codeshare with Air New Zealand. Actually a pleasant spot although limited selection of food and beverage but more than adequate. Nice quiet space and never seemed busy for early evening. Lacks comfortable seating but sounds much nicer than anything United seem to offer in their own country.
Date : 3 January 2011
Review by : J Aberg (Sweden)
This lounge leaves a great deal to be desired. I visited on New Years Eve, when there was not much traffic in the lounge, which is probably the only nice thing worth mentioning. The catering was appalling and range of drinks very limited since several machines were out of order. There were no newspapers, and the very few magazines in the lounge were a few months old. I am sure this place was decent in the 1970's, but it has not seen much upgrade ever since. Since I find United to be the worst US airline by far, this lounge did nothing to change my point of view. On a final note, if you are considering paying 50 USD to enter the lounge (ie. if you do not hold credentials to give you free access), I would seriously recommend you to stay way from this stale and tame lounge.
Review by : Jim Dobernig
Date : 9 September 2010
United Airlines Red Carpet Club first class/business lounge is in short, 'lame'. Plenty of room, but you are treated only to a diet of the type of nuts and bar snacks you'd find at the corner tavern. You are issued two drink tickets which are good for one drink (go figure) and that's it. Free Wi-Fi : big deal. That is it. Dirty dishes litter the tables with no staff cleaning anything.
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Why do we assume that the male getting eaten causes the increase in offspring survivability deterministically? It seems just as plausible that females that eat their mates have some unobserved trait that helps their offspring survive (viciousness, strength, etc).
yea, that makes way more sense. the notion that a spider would voluntarily sacrifice his life for his young makes for good reading, but is actually pretty absurd. the likelihood is that the female spider eats the male because he's easy prey - and this type of instinct runs completely contrary to the foresight involved in voluntarily offering one's body as sustenance. as if the male has any agency in the first place - it is, after all, he who is being eaten!
Human females are so much more civilized: they only eviscerate the male's wallet, not his intestines.
Eviscerate his wallet, then enslave him with the assistance of a government-sanctioned and fully licensed slave broker, oxymoronically referred to as a lawyer. Some might take the view that the eviscerated spider experiences the less painful and less tortuous fate.
One wonders if there are any in the animal kingdom who have learned the strategy of keeping a former male mate alive, while bleeding him continuously for decades, making meals, clothing, housing and holidays from his blood, and holding him at the edge of death all that time, but not letting him escape the torment through death, as that would of course end his productive usefulness to the female so skillfully exploiting him, with the full professional assistance of lawyers and government paid judges, the latter ever-ready to jail the exploited male should his blood-production fall short of quota, or should he be unable to pay the legal fees of the female exploiting him.
Meanwhile, America wonders why its fertility rate has fallen below that or France? Because men in America have finally caught on to this racketeering enterprise.
If this is so, then why do all the studies of divorce show that most women are poorer afterwards and most men are better off?
So the options are a) have sex once and get eaten alive or b) have sex four times and not get eaten alive. Hmmm. Option a is tempting but I'd go with option b.
Probably you'd get eaten alive, anyway --if not by another spider, then by something else (or else you'd be squashed by a foot, tire, etc.; have your limbs torn off by children, ants, etc.). The point is, how many spiders die of old age?
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Teens from Muslim countries spend a year attending high school in the US and dispelling cultural misconceptions on both sides.
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When Junaid Bin Masood, a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student studying in southern California, was asked whether he had a gun in his backpack, he was speechless. He had never been out of Pakistan before, so this question from a schoolmate was jolting. But he kept his cool and explained that most Pakistanis are not jihadists.
"Everyone knows there are good and bad things all over the world," Junaid says. "There are some bad people in Pakistan, too. Just like in the US."
Such incidents underscore the divide between Americans and the people of Muslim countries. That is why the US State Department created the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program (www.yesprograms.org). This competitive program sends some of the best and brightest teens from Muslim countries worldwide on one-year stints to high schools across the United States.
"What both Americans and our students learn is that while there are difficulties and conflicts between our cultures, the overriding desire of both is very simple and the same: to live in peace," says David Beiser, director of grant programs at AYUSA Global Youth Exchange, who works with the State Department to carry out the program.
About 3,000 Muslim students from nearly two dozen countries have participated in the program since its inception in 2003. In the 2007-08 school year, it brought 750 students to the US.
The State Department is planning to expand the program. Next year, it will add 25 more students and one country, Suriname. Mr. Beiser says the program hopes to take this even further. And starting next year, American high schoolers will study in some of the Muslim countries in a reverse exchange.
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I have an excel file table where I froze the panes at cell B2 thus leaving Row1 and Column1 always in sight while scrolling the page either downwards or sidewise.
I saved it as an HTML file format to be able to publish it online. In HTML format, the panes are not frozen and Row1 and Column1 disappear from the screen when scrolling.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Seventy-five students from Upstate Medical University's four colleges will share information about their research studies, and Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., will offer a keynote address, as part of the Charles R. Ross Memorial Student Research events, to be held March 31 and April 2 in Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Ave., Syracuse. The events are free and open to the public. Sharp, the Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered gene splicing.
The event begins March 31 with platform research presentations by 10 students who will offer brief discussions on their research and field questions from the audience. The platform presentations will be held from 1 to 3:45 p.m. in the Medical Alumni Auditorium in Weiskotten Hall. A poster session featuring investigations by 65 students from Upstate's four colleges will immediately follow the platform presentations in the Ninth Floor Cafeteria at Weiskotten Hall.
The keynote presentation, "RNA's Role in Gene Regulation," by Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., will be held April 2, at noon in the Medical Alumni Auditorium in Weiskotten Hall.
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Why are you the best candidate for Senate?
Career politician Dick Durbin has been in Washington far too long. The reason he needs replacing is the utter failure of his policies. His heavy taxation, heavy regulation and heavy spending policies have led to the worst economic recovery in modern U.S. history and devastating results for poor and middle class families in Illinois. Since he last ran for re-election, the typical Illinois family is making $5,053 less per year while cost of living was rising.?We simply need to go in a different direction if we want different results.?As a successful entrepreneur and a non-politician, I know what it takes to encourage growth, jobs and prosperity. Unlike my opponent, I will encourage business and business growth instead of attacking it. I will work hard to reform our tax code to simplify returns for everyone, while lowering rates and encouraging growth.?I will also seek a better future for our youngsters by favoring school choice. We need to make sure all students and parents have access to good schools and a promising future. Dick Durbin opposes school choice.?We have tried Dick Durbins approach and it has failed Illinois families. It is time to go in a different direction.
The U.S. faces a $17 trillion (and rising) debt burden. Can this debt be paid down without raising taxes? Where can spending be cut?
There is no question that career politicians like Dick Durbin have an insatiable appetite to spend our money even though we clearly cant afford it. During Durbins last term, we have averaged deficits of more than $1 trillion/year and the national debt has nearly doubled to $17.7 trillion. Our spending is clearly out of control and it is helping dull our economic growth and jobs and prosperity for the poor and middle class. The single best thing we can do is reform our individual and corporate tax codes by eliminating loopholes and special tax breaks and lowering rates for most individuals and companies. Doing so would unleash an economic revival in the U.S. that would help most Illinois families.
Where do you stand on immigration reform?
First, I believe the public demands that any solution to our immigration problem be negotiated in a bi-partisan fashion. Dick Durbin and his partisan colleagues passed another sweeping measure Obamacare without a single vote from Republicans and this partisan maneuver is a big reason the legislation never has had the support of the American people. President Obama is threatening to change our immigration laws by executive fiat a move that Dick Durbin apparently supports. That would be another disaster for our country and would violate the spirit if not the letter of our Constitution. I am pro-immigrant and pro-legal immigration. We should allow children who were brought here illegally many years ago and who have grown up here to apply for citizenship. However, the parents who broke our laws should not be granted amnesty and should have to apply for citizenship in a way that doesnt place them ahead of others who already have sought legal status. Further, we must secure our borders. We also have to be careful to craft our reform in such a way that we dont further destroy the job prospects of poor and middle class Americans who already are suffering greatly under the policies of Dick Durbin and the Democrats in the weakest economic recovery in modern U.S. History. If I am elected I will work hard to find a consensus that is fair to everyone.
What can be changed or improved about the Affordable Care Act? If you favor its repeal, what yould you replace it with?
Obamacare is fatally flawed. We need to go back to the drawing board, preserving some of the positives of the program such as including young adults in parents plans until age 26, allowing the purchase of insurance across state lines, and some type of acceptance of pre-existing conditions, but also returning to the free market so that we can buy the insurance we need, not the insurance the government says we need. The current law already is failing under its own weight. New health care reform must be bi-partisan unlike the current law that was engineered by Dick Durbin and his allies without a single vote from the opposition party. We cannot make large changes to our economy in blatantly partisan fashion and expect public acceptance.
Approval ratings for Congress are far from ideal, and that's largely because of partisan rhetoric and the inability to compromise. If elected, will you be willing to reach across the aisle and work with members of the opposite party to resolve this country's many issues? Explain.
I believe that the public is fed up with career politicians. The problem with them is they tend to act not in the public interest but in the interest of their political futures. That is the problem with Washington too many career politicians. If I am elected, I will only serve a maximum of two terms. My actions will be guided by the best interests of the people without regard to my political future. That is the model the Founding Fathers believed best and I intend to embody it.
No Child Left Behind and the Common Core State Standards are education initiatives that have and will dramatically impact students in this area. What specifically do you think those impacts should be? If not with Common Core, how do you propose improving U.S. education performance vs. foreign countries that are doing much better? How do you view the state of education in the U.S. and Illinois? And what if anything would you look to change?
Common Core has turned into a top down Washington solution to curriculum reform and I oppose it. I support all efforts to increase school choice for parents and children. Competition between schools makes all schools better and stronger just as it does in the private sector. Those schools that cannot compete will be forced out of existence and new schools with new and better ideas will emerge. It is a crucial issue for all of America and particularly in minority communities where students are sometimes trapped in bad schools. Ive spent lots of time on the South and West Sides of Chicago during this campaign and that is one of the most frequently mentioned issues of concern. I differ sharply from my opponent in this race. Dick Durbin was among the Democrats in Congress who killed the DC Opportunity Grant program, a shameful display of putting the interests of union bosses over the interests of children.
What role should the U.S. play in regards to the ongoing conflicts throughout the Mideast, including conflicts instigated by terror groups?
Although it was inevitable that U.S. troops would be largely withdrawn from Iraq once Obama became president, the manner in which it was done was botched. First, the administration has a troubling habit of announcing its troop level intentions in advance, which is strategically unwise. In Iraq, it was a huge mistake not to forge a status of forces agreement that left a reasonable number of U.S. troops. Whatever one thinks of the Iraq War, when Obama took office he had a relatively stable Iraq. He said so himself. By pulling our troops out completely, we created the obvious void that led to ISIS overrunning large parts of the country. In general, in the Mideast, we are going to have to recalibrate our strategy to combat the growing ISIS threat. The administration has been slow to react to the threat and needs to step up its game. We need to put pressure on ISIS wherever they reside and prevent them from gaining the necessary strength to attack America. There appears no feasible strategy other than destroying ISIS.


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Greenhouses can protect from frost and frost damafe, but an unheated one will not protect from cold temperatures.
There are large differences in the need for winter protection and when. I did not have a frost until the 1st Dec last year, this year it was the 5th Nov - even then it was -1C at the bottom of the garden and frost free near the house and garden walls.
I totally agree with Dove re only using fleece bags when needed and not just leaving them all winter, as you will get moulds/rot that will kill your plants.
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They are expensive to buy new but you can pick them up off a certain online auction site for a fraction of the price.
That is because you do not need to use them for most of the year, people get bored of them taking up space and so sell them for a loss online!
Provado Vine Weevil Killer is the way to go. Kill all the grubs you find, pour boiling water of the rest and then use Provado. I would also clean the tubers with running water to make sure you get the egss (too small to see) as per above. They really are a pest. Not nice to find a loved plant munched to death at the roots.
I just use a rake and a bag. Those vacum's take more time to get out of the shed/garage and plug in. It is then taking up a lot of space for the other 365 days of the year. I honestly think they are a waste of money given how little you use them and that you already own enough garden equipment to do the job.
Rowan is easy from seed. In 4 years all of mine are over 8ft and thickening out now. Unless you buy an instant hedge then patience is the virtue. If trying for a thick screen hedge then pack the trees in a triangle shape as that gives a thicker appearance.
Box is easy to propagate but slow to grow. You will be dead before it reaches 6ft though!
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I did an experiment one year with half plants against the house and half in the cold GH. Those outside the house did better
I second that.
A cold GH can be colder than outside, and for longer, in winter. I find the biggest killer in GH's is moulds causing dieback/death, esp with seedlings.
Hazel, Willow and Forsythia are simple as - just put them in the ground and they root - would be suprised at less than 50% success rate.
I had to google Impatiens niamnianensis. Not the best time of year to have impatians seedlings but am sure it will get through the winter inside.
There is a false bird of paradise plant called Heliconia rostrata 'Parrot's Beak '/ lobster claw plant. Which fits in the the names.
However, Heliconia tend to have long thin leaves and the picture above is not clear, so am assuming the pic is of a juvenile Heliconia leaves and flower.