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10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
There's no better time than a party to step outside of your comfort zone and experiment with a bright lipstick or a new eyeshadow technique. Whatever your cause célèbre may be, why not draw some inspiration from these 10 perfectly party-ready celebrity makeup looks?
Keira Knightley
For a classy affair, look no further than Keira's crimson lips and dramatic, doe-eyed liner. Using brown rather than black around the eyes keeps a dark look from appearing too heavy-handed, especially when paired with an equally bold lip color—just add a little black dress and go.
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
Shailene Woodley
The earthy star's flattering, no-fuss makeup may be understated, but if you, like Shailene, err on the side of low-maintenance, a bit of mascara, brow gel, and a complementary eyeshadow (purple looks great with the actress's hazel eyes) make all the impact you need. Brush brows upward for fullness, and don't forget to wiggle your mascara brush deep into the roots of lashes to create lasting definition without clumps.
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
Kerry Washington
The "K" in "Kerry" stands for "killing it." The "Scandal" star rarely misses the mark, but this fresh-faced look in particular really pops, thanks to the bright, slightly sheer fuchsia lip color, which looks incredible on medium-dark skin tones. A wash of shimmery champagne shadow is all you need to impart that cheesily (but accurately!)-named candlelit glow.
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
Kristen Bell
Orange makeup gets a bad rap, which is why we're here to tell you to abandon your fears of the citrusy shade. Case in point: With just a light, dewy foundation and defined lashes, Kristen's glossy tangerine lips are flattering, not freakish, and ideal for summer beach days.
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
Rose Byrne
Party makeup doesn't have to mean over-the-top smoky eyes and lip colors not otherwise found in nature—Rose's softer, more subdued look is a perfect example of just how striking neutrals can be. If you're fair-skinned, a sweep of chestnut shadow and a meticulously-applied (go ahead, dust off that lip brush) rosy lipstick is all you need for a super sophisticated, '20s-inspired look.
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
Jennifer Lawrence
When done incorrectly, deep-set eyes can get lost in rings of dark liner, but Jennifer doesn't let that small fact deter her—and neither should you. Complement almond-shaped eyes by using a light, shimmery shadow on the browbone and lid before smudging black kohl into the entire perimeter of the eye, then finish off with a satiny nude lipstick for a super sultry look. You don't have to be a screen siren to look like one.
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
Kristen Stewart
For all of her tomboyish proclivities, Kristen Stewart sure does clean up nice when it comes to the red carpet. She's also a testament to the fact that you don't have to load up on lipstick to look pretty and pulled together—this shimmery lavender eye look, complete with curled lashes, groomed brows, and (gasp!) bare lips, is all a green-eyed girl needs to blow 'em away for every occasion.
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
Jessica Biel
If your look leans more garden party than black-tie gala, try Jessica's watermelon lipstick and flushed cheeks on for size. A red-leaning pink shade works double duty as a face brightener and optical teeth-whitener, while a rosy neutral blush applied with a fluffy angled brush defines cheekbones and warms all complexions. Feeling festive? A touch of silvery shadow at the inner corners widens eyes and makes a sweet, simple look more "finished."
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
Taylor Swift
Taylor's tinsel-y look is not for the faint of heart–or of makeup palette. For fair, blue-eyed girls with pink undertones, a dusky purple shadow accented with metallic silver and petal pink lips hits all the right notes. Use a larger, fluffy eye brush to apply dove grey shadow up to the browbone, and a smaller, stiffer brush to target inner corners for a precise, almost futuristic effect. Bring this ambitious look back down to earth with a creamy medium pink lipstick and a dusting of translucent powder.
10 Party-Perfect Celebrity Makeup Looks
If anyone knows a party, it's Rihanna, but this look is considerably more low-key than the songstress's favorite fire engine red lipsticks and ever-changing hairstyles. Add a flesh-toned matte lipstick, rosy blush, fully lined eyes, and a serious pair of falsies to put it all together, and you've got a face that screams both Cleopatra and, well, uniquely Rihanna.


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Time–space intensification: Karl Polanyi, the double movement, and global informational capitalism
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This article advances the concept of "time–space intensification" as an alternative to existing notions of time–space distanciation, compression and embedding that attempt to capture the restructuring of time and space in contemporary advanced capitalism. This concept suggests time and space are intensified in the contemporary period – the social experience of time and space becomes more explicit and more crucial to socio-economic actors' lives, time and space are mobilized more explicitly in individual and corporate action, and the institutionalization of time and space becomes more politicized. Drawing on Polanyi's concepts of fictitious commodities and the double movement, and developing them through an analysis of work organization and economic development in the Irish software industry, the article argues that the concept of time–space intensification can add significantly to our understanding of key features of the restructuring of the temporal and spatial basis of economic development and work organization.
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- Title
- Time–space intensification: Karl Polanyi, the double movement, and global informational capitalism
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Theory and Society
Volume 35, Issue 5-6 , pp 507-528
- Cover Date
- 2006-12-01
- 10.1007/s11186-006-9016-7
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- 0304-2421
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- 1573-7853
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- 1. Sociology Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

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Real Madrid reportedly turned down the chance to sign Isco Alarcon and Santi Cazorla last summer at the directive of Coach Jose Mourinho.
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Abuse & Violence Within the Heterosexist Narrative: An Open Letter from Stephanie Krehbiel
by Stephanie Krehbiel on Feb 18, 2014 • 6:52 am 11 CommentsEditor's Note: Stephanie Krehbiel wrote the following to Ervin Stutzman (firstname.lastname@example.com) and the rest of the board in response to the statement released by MC USA's executive board meeting this past weekend. She draws correlation between sexualized violence and the violence of excluding from fellowship an entire population of God's people for their God-given sexual preference. We invite you to share your own responses in public forums like this one or directly with Mennonite Church leaders. Krehbiel is a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Kansas. Her dissertation research is on conflicts over sexual diversity among Mennonites in the U.S.
Dear Ervin & MCUSA Executive Board,
My heart hurts today. Every time I think I've put it out of my mind, I get another message from someone who has been devastated by what came out of the Executive Board this week. I've tried so hard not to care about this church that you lead, even as I study it and write about it. In spite of how it may appear, I've tried to stay emotionally detached, because I fear the pain of caring. I fear being drawn into the spiritual abuse that you leaders perpetuate through your language and your actions, because I've already seen more than enough spiritual abuse from the Mennonite church.
I see the effects of such abuse today. I do not use words like "abuse" or "violence" lightly. This is what is happening. I've seen too much to doubt that. If you allowed yourself, you would see it too. I still don't believe that you have allowed yourself to see. I think you all commit an act of violence every time that you claim that the pro-inclusion movement and the heterosexist conservatives are two extreme ends of a divisive political "issue."
You commit the same violence done by my grandmother's Mennonite church when they demanded that her sister apologize before her congregation for divorcing her philandering, abusive husband. You commit the same violence that my husband's grandmother's Mennonite church committed when they excommunicated her family after her father committed suicide. You commit the same violence that so many Mennonites have committed in allowing their love of John Howard Yoder's work and prestigious reputation to marginalize and dismiss the women he harassed and assaulted. In all of those situations, there was some sort of prayerful process in place for determining the best course of action. Well-meaning people followed that process, and then believed they had done right.
I know you aren't solely responsible for this. I know the conservative congregations and conferences are threatening to leave, and take their money with them. I know that the inclusive congregations don't threaten to leave, for an infinite number of reasons but perhaps most importantly because they fear leaving behind all of the LGBTQ kids in those more conservative communities who could otherwise be doomed to judgment, misery, abuse, suicide, and God only knows what else. You won't lose the inclusive congregations. You'll lose their tired children; the ones who can't take your awful, paternalistic, passive aggressive, hypocritical, institutional nonsense language any longer. You've already lost so many of them. You've already lost me, my spouse, and so many members of my family. I don't think you are even curious as to why we leave. Prove me wrong, I beg you.
Your church wastes life. You waste people. You waste the energy of youth. You waste time. So much inexcusable waste. Jesus would condemn such waste. And you know that he would.
You've made a false idol of this fragile denomination. And I believe history will judge you and your fellow leaders for it. I'd love to celebrate its demise, but I can't do anything but mourn, because I know how many people who deserve better are going to be hurt.
I pray for a better church than this. But I don't hold my breath.
All my best,


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In November 2013 I delivered the 29th Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law in Wilmington, Delaware. My lecture, entitled "Delaware's Choice," presented four uncontested facts from my prior research: (1) in the 1980s, federal courts established the principle that Section 203 must give bidders a "meaningful opportunity for success" in order to withstand scrutiny under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution; (2) federal courts upheld Section 203 at the time, based on empirical evidence from 1985-1988 purporting to show that Section 203 did in fact give bidders a meaningful opportunity for success; (3) between 1990 and 2010, not a single bidder was able to achieve the 85% threshold required by Section 203, thereby calling into question whether Section 203 has in fact given bidders a meaningful opportunity for success; and (4) perhaps most damning, the original evidence that the courts relied upon to conclude that Section 203 gave bidders a meaningful opportunity for success was seriously flawed—so flawed, in fact, that even this original evidence supports the opposite conclusion: that Section 203 did not give bidders a meaningful opportunity for success.
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Delaware's Choice
Recent Amendments to the DGCL and DLLCA
The State of Delaware recently enacted several significant changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law ("DGCL") and the Delaware LLC Act ("LLC Act").
Section 251(h); Back-end Mergers. The most significant amendment to the DGCL is new Section 251(h) that, subject to certain exceptions, permits parties entering into a merger agreement to "opt in" to eliminate a target stockholder vote on a back-end merger following a tender or exchange offer in which the acquiror accumulates sufficient shares to approve the merger agreement (a majority unless the target has adopted a higher vote requirement) but less than the 90% necessary to effect a short-form merger. DGCL Section 251(h) will eliminate in many cases the time and cost associated with a stockholder vote on a back-end merger; however, where regulatory or other constraints impose significant delays, DGCL Section 251(h) is unlikely to be helpful. DGCL Section 251(h) also facilitates the financing of two-step private equity-sponsored acquisitions because the tender offer and the merger can be closed substantially concurrently (generally, on the same day). It also will eliminate the need in most cases for targets to issue "top-up" options to friendly bidders who, before DGCL Section 251(h), needed to "top-up" the number of shares they were able to purchase in the tender offer to reach the 90% target share ownership needed to effect a short-form merger. DGCL Section 251(h) does not apply to transactions in which a party to the merger agreement is an "interested stockholder" of the target under DGCL Section203(c) at the time the merger agreement is approved by the target board. In addition, there are a number of other possible limitations, outlined below, to the utilization of new DGCL Section 251(h).
DGCL Amended to Authorize Public Benefit Corporations
Beginning on August 1, 2013, the Delaware General Corporation Law will authorize the formation of public benefit corporations. The new provisions will allow entrepreneurs and investors to create for-profit Delaware corporations that are charged with promoting public benefits. These provisions modify the fiduciary duties of directors of PBCs by requiring them to balance such benefits with the economic interests of stockholders. In addition, the new provisions will require public benefit corporations to report to their stockholders with respect to the advancement of such non-stockholder interests.
Below are a few of the more salient elements of Delaware's public benefit corporation legislation:
…continue reading: DGCL Amended to Authorize Public Benefit Corporations
2013 Amendments to the DGCL and DLLCA
The Delaware General Assembly has adopted, and Delaware's governor has signed into law, several important amendments to the State's General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") and Limited Liability Company Act (the "DLLCA"). Of particular interest to corporate and M&A practitioners are the following provisions:
- New DGCL Section 251(h), which eliminates the need for stockholder approval of second-step mergers following tender offers if certain conditions are met, thus eliminating the need for workarounds such as top-up options and dual-track structures;
- New DGCL Sections 204 and 205, which delineate a procedure to ratify defective corporate actions and to vest the Court of Chancery with jurisdiction over disputes regarding such actions;
- New DGCL Sections 361 through 368 (Subchapter XV), which permit the creation of public benefit corporations (i.e., for-profit corporations formed for the benefit of constituencies other than stockholders, such as categories of persons, entities, communities or interests); and
- Amended DLLCA Section 18-1104, which amendments confirm the default rule that fiduciary duties exist in the case of Delaware limited liability companies unless otherwise provided in the LLC agreement.
Proposed Amendments to Delaware Law Would Facilitate Tender Offer Structures
The Delaware bar has recently proposed an amendment to the Delaware General Corporation Law that is likely to facilitate the use of tender offer structures, especially in private equity deals. The new proposed Section 251(h), which is expected to be approved by the legislature and governor with an effective date of August 1, would permit inclusion of a provision in a merger agreement eliminating the need for a stockholder meeting to approve a second-step merger following a tender offer, so long as the buyer acquires sufficient shares in the tender offer to approve the merger (i.e., 50% of the outstanding shares, unless the company's charter provides a higher threshold).
…continue reading: Proposed Amendments to Delaware Law Would Facilitate Tender Offer Structures
Fiduciary Duties as Default Standard Under Limited Liability Company Act
In the recent decision Gatz Properties LLC v. Auriga Capital Corporation, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Delaware Court of Chancery's January 2012 decision in Auriga Capital Corporation v. Gatz Properties. In January of this year, the Court of Chancery held that a controlling member and manager of a limited liability company breached his fiduciary duties to the company's minority members because the process by which he purchased the limited liability company from the minority members did not result in the payment of a fair price under the entire fairness standard of review. In affirming the decision, the Supreme Court stated that the question of whether the default standard under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act is that a manager owes fiduciary duties to the members of a limited liability company remains unanswered and should not have been addressed by the lower court. Until this question is answered definitively, members of limited liability companies should clearly state in the limited liability company agreement whether and to what extent the company's managers or controlling persons should have any fiduciary duties to the members.
…continue reading: Fiduciary Duties as Default Standard Under Limited Liability Company Act
A Spatial Representation of Delaware-Washington Interaction in Corporate Lawmaking
Last month, the Columbia Business Law Review published "A Spatial Representation of Delaware-Washington Interaction in Corporate Lawmaking." In this brief paper, I examine interaction between Delaware and Washington in corporate lawmaking, focusing on the shareholder access initiatives in each jurisdiction. The paper uses a straight-forward spatial model of the state-federal interaction, paralleling spatial models that political scientists have used to illustrate other instances of jurisdictional interaction.
In prior work I showed how Delaware corporate law can be, and often is, confined by, or influenced by, federal action. Sometimes Washington acts and preempts the field, constitutionally or functionally, leaving no space for state corporate law action. Sometimes Delaware tilts toward or follows Washington opinion, even if Washington opinion does not square perfectly with the state lawmakers' own consensus view of the best way to proceed. I examined these channels in Delaware's Competition, 117 Harvard Law Review 588 (2003), and Delaware's Politics, 118 Harvard Law Review 2491 (2005).
Legislative Developments in Delaware's "Alternative Entities"
In its latest session, the Delaware legislature enacted several amendments to Delaware's four "alternative entity" statutes – the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act ("DLLCA"), the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act ("DRULPA"), the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act ("DRUPA") and the Delaware Statutory Trust Act ("DSTA"). [1] Among other things, the amendments (i) provide a statutory default rule for the amendment of LLC agreements which requires the consent of all members; (ii)that a standard "supermajority amendment provision" applies only to supermajority provisions in an LLC agreement or partnership agreement and not to supermajority provisions under the applicable alternative entity statute; and (iii) modify the language relating to action by written consent by members, managers and partners to eliminate the requirement that the written consent set forth the action so taken thereby facilitating action by consent, particularly by electronic means.
…continue reading: Legislative Developments in Delaware's "Alternative Entities"
Delaware Court of Chancery Gets Airgas Right
Chancellor Chandler's decision in Air Products and Chemicals Inc. v. Airgas, Inc. (Del. Ch., CA No. 5249-CC, 2/15/11) upholding the board's maintenance of the company's shareholder rights plan in the face of an unfriendly cash tender offer the board determined was inadequate has justifiably received a great deal of attention and analysis. Despite his reluctance, I believe the Chancellor got it right. By permitting the Airgas board to keep the rights plan in place under the facts of that case, he upheld the foundational director-centric model for governance of Delaware corporations and recognized the importance of long-term value creation as a critical focus for Delaware corporate enterprises.
…continue reading: Delaware Court of Chancery Gets Airgas Right
Delaware Supreme Court Allows Books and Records Action After Derivative Lawsuit
On January 28, 2011, the Delaware Supreme Court clarified in King v. VeriFone Holdings, Inc., Del. Supr., No. 330, 2010, that plaintiffs may in some circumstances inspect a corporation's books and records to bolster a derivative action complaint even after they have filed a lawsuit.
Section 220 of Delaware's General Corporation Law provides shareholders with a limited right to inspect the books and records of Delaware companies in which they own stock. That right is subject to several conditions, including the condition that shareholders have a "proper purpose" for seeking inspection. [1] Investigating corporate mismanagement, for example, is a proper purpose. [2] Indeed, Delaware courts have repeatedly urged shareholders to use Section 220 to conduct such investigations before filing a derivative action. By using the "tools at hand," those courts have explained, shareholders can become better equipped to plead allegations that are sufficient to meet the stringent pleading requirements that apply to derivative complaints, particularly in cases in which the plaintiffs did not serve a pre-suit demand and thus must plead "demand futility" (i.e., that serving a demand would be useless because the board of directors is biased against the claims or dominated by others who are). [3] Litigants have frequently clashed over whether the purpose of obtaining information to fortify a derivative complaint is "proper" when the complaint has already been filed.
…continue reading: Delaware Supreme Court Allows Books and Records Action After Derivative Lawsuit


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ASHLAND, Ore. – Fire crews trained in the hills above Ashland Friday, practicing how to protect homes in the event of a wildfire.
Firefighters from Ashland Fire and Rescue, Fire District 5, and the U.S. Forest Service teamed up for a simulated wildfire in the area near Strawberry Lane. Fire crews were told to respond to houses and practice protecting the structures from flames. Then as the simulation changed, crews were told to drop everything and move to other homes that were being threatened. Officials said it was good triage practice, and helps firefighters learn how to make quick decisions in the field.
"Provide some structural protection, but you're ready to go at a moment's notice," said Margueritte Hickman of Ashland Fire. "You don't connect to a hydrant, so you're not committed to stay there and stay put."
Crews said it was also important to do this training now, before drought conditions continue to dry out the region later this summer.
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In half-baked phone theft, thief slips, posts pot shot of self on victim's Facebook page
Police say a Bronx man stole a woman's cell phone then inadvertently posted to her Facebook page a picture of himself smoking pot. She had set her phone to automatically post all photos to the social network.
Evidence can be a menace.
You think you've gotten away with something, and then that moment comes along when you suddenly remember that perhaps you've left a clue.
This thought may (or may not) have crossed the mind of an alleged cell phone thief.
As the New York Post reports, police in the Bronx feel sure that what happened is that a certain man -- whose picture they now have -- robbed a 27-year-old woman of her gadget.
He then allegedly used it to take a quite fetching picture of himself smoking pot.
This would not be the first time that someone has used a phone to photograph themselves indulging in plenty of 420.
It might, however, be the first time that the photographer wasn't aware that the phone was automatically set to post any picture taken on it to the owner's Facebook page.
You might be asking: "Who does that?" And I will answer that the owner of this stolen cell phone reportedly does.
The police are therefore confident that they now have a picture of the man who allegedly stole the lady's phone.
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Western Union And EZCORP Sign Agreement
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in global payments, and EZCORP, Inc. (NASDAQ: EZPW), a leading provider of instant cash solutions for consumers, today announced an agreement.
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OFC 2011: Defra's vision of the CAP is flawed – NFUS
DEFRA'S bid for a 'fundamental reform' of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is naïve and flawed according to NFU Scotland.
Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday (Wednesday, January 5), Caroline Spelman, the Defra Secretary, said rising global demand for food would push food prices up and make it possible to reduce direct support payments, with their eventual abolition.
But NFUS chief executive James Withers said the Defra Secretary was 'naïve' and had ignored imbalances in supply chain arrangements and their impact on producers.
He said: "I question whether there is a proper understanding of how the supply chain is operating, and the impact that is having on farms.
"I can sign up to the vision of a farming industry that earns a living solely from the market and not through support payments. But to suggest that rising food prices is paving the way for a quick move towards support removal is naive."
NFU president Peter Kendall added: "We all want to get to a place where farming in Europe can be less dependent on support but there has to be recognition that this requires a long-term strategy that includes addressing the problems that continue to exist in the market – volatility, global distortions and abusive power in the market place."
The Defra Secretary did win the backing of CLA president William Worsley who said she was on track to deliver an appropriate CAP to meet global food demand and deliver on biodiversity targets.
However, he urged Mrs Spelman to prove this was the 'greenest Government ever' by fighting for the UK's farmers.
"UK farmers must get a fair share of the CAP budget to remain competitive with our European neighbours and to support both farming and the natural environment," he said.
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Jonathon Deely, arable farmer from Oxfordshire:
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John Birnie, runs a meat business in Northern Ireland:
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At the end of December, another Cleveland emergency room is going out of business. Saint Luke's Medical Center, on the city's east side, has announced plans to close its emergency room and open a new Urgent Care Center. One of the ironies of the situation is that Saint Luke's as a hospital ceased to exist two years ago. Nearby residents, frustrated by years of changes, are feeling hostile about this transformation. Meanwhile hospital administrators are working to convince their neighbors, clients, and local politicians, that the intent behind this change is based on medical realities, not financial ambition. 90.3 WCPN's April Baer reports.
April Baer- The frustration level is running high among residents of the Buckeye, Shaker, and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods. A recent community meeting showed just how high.
Area Resident- I think it's a disgrace and a shame.
AB- This area resident, in his late 40s, asked that we not identify his name. He's angry at the news that Saint Luke's emergency room is about to be dismantled. At this meeting, medical administrators explained to about 80 members of the community that the ER is steadily losing millions of dollars per year, treating the kind of illness that should be handled by any primary care physician. Saint Luke's is run by a partnership between the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine and University Hospitals of Cleveland. The partnership is planning to shut down the ER at the end of the year, and replace it with a scaled-back, Urgent Care Center for walk-in, chronic and acute illness. This is not the resolution most of these residents were hoping to hear.
Area Resident- The people will not get any treatment after 10 o'clock, the doors will close at nine. This will not help the neighborhood. The neighborhood needs a hospital. This is all being done by design. So the people won't have anywhere else to go.
Jenny Hovanen- I don't think anyone is more disappointed with the closure of Saint Luke's than we are.
AB- Jenny Hovanen is Public Relations Director for the partnership that manages Saint Luke. She insists that while there are clearly unmet health care needs in the surrounding neighborhood, meeting those needs has proved to be no simple task.
JH- Over the last two years we've worked extensively with the community to make them aware of the services on the campus, but the statistics tell the story. The usage of the emergency department remains low.
AB- Business at the ER is pretty slow, judging from a visit one day this week, at which time the only occupants of the waiting room were pair of toddling girls waiting for their mother. Saint Luke's nurse manager Julie Terlizzi, who's been here for 13 years, says the problem's not just volume. She sees patients coming in for conditions like sore throats, simple wounds--things that a family physician should see and follow up on.
Julie Terlizzi- I feel frustrated for them because I think they're missing out on a very important relationship they could develop for themselves and their family members. There's nothing like a good relationship with a primary physician or pediatrician for ongoing medical care. They get to know you, they get to know things you might not even know about yourself. Coming into this type of setting for everyday care - they patient really doesn't benefit from that kind of relationship because the physicians change regularly, and it's just not the same.
AB- The trend Saint Luke's is reporting - misuse of the emergency room - is a common complaint at every emergency room in town. Many times, physicians say their patients meet them in the ER because they cannot afford to make regular office visits. The Federation for Community Planning estimates that at least one hundred thousand people in Cleveland are without health insurance. It's not that hospitals don't want to, or aren't, caring for the uninsured - it's that they're spending tens of millions of dollars doing it, expenses that are often never reimbursed.
Just as the facts of medical economics have driven the city's poor to rely heavily on emergency care, they've also driven local leaders to take a special interest in what's happening at Saint Luke.
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and Cleveland's Mayor-elect Jane Campbell both attended this month's public meeting on the ER phase-out. The hospital's gone through many incarnations over its tumultuous one hundred four year history. Mrs. Campbell said at this month's public meeting she doesn't hold Saint Luke's management responsible for the numerous turnovers and cutbacks in the hospital's long history.
Jane Campbell- While we're here having this discussion about what to do now, the decisions affecting Saint Luke's were made, I think, several years ago.
AB- But she indicated she does expect the administration to uphold its commitment to the community. Back when Saint Luke's - the hospital - was closing, Mrs. Campbell, as a Cuyahoga County Commissioner, voted in favor of issuing county bonds to help pay for improvements made to the medical campus. This was done with the understanding that the Partnership would preserve some services - and inform the public if those services would be cut back. Now that the cutback has arrived, Campbell says she wants a guarantee that people who comes to the new urgent care center will pay no more than they did at the ER.
Hospital administrator Alan Channing said he would make a recommendation to that effect to the Partnership's Board. It's not known yet if his recommendation has been adopted.
It's also not clear that the long-suffering neighborhoods around Saint Luke are at peace with the change that's coming. Many neighbors know that the Partnership has big plans to redevelop Saint Luke's medical campus. Those plans will include health facilities, and also residential and retail space. As they move forward with the project, administrators will have to fight a widespread belief that the ER is being closed to accommodate a lucrative development deal, at the expense of public health, although many observers also admit Saint Luke has been working under difficult conditions. Community advocates like Vel Scott are hoping a balance can be struck.
Vel Scott- My concern is that infant mortality will go up. People don't have transportation - it's hard for them to reach other hospitals. Saint Luke's is a very large facility. If they're going to offer some kind of primary care, that's a good thing. But we still need an emergency room.
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It is seven weeks since I broke my right leg but, as the start of pre-season testing looms, the recovery is going well, Webber told UK Formula One broadcasters, the BBC. The leg is starting to get a bit more strength back in it. Hopefully I will be walking quite soon and once that happens the whole curve accelerates quite quickly. The intensity of my rehab will start to increase as I get more confident with my leg.
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Florida teen buys her second rental property.
The new landlord on the block in Port Charlotte, Florida is 15-year-old Willow Tufano.
"I'm so glad that we finally have it," Tufano said.
She just bought a house on Gerard Court for $19,000 as an investment.
On Monday they began remodeling.
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"She's pretty good with that, I wanted to buy a shed for the backyard and she's like, 'No way, that's like $1,500. We're not going do that; scratch that off your list,'" Moore said.
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She's also set a goal of buying 10 houses by the time she's 18, which sets her up for a career in real estate.
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Learn how to build dynamic jQuery Mobile web applications that read data from services like Flickr, YouTube, WordPress, and Twitter.
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Learn how to perform advanced data analysis using Octave, the free, open-source alternative to MATLAB.
Learn about the new features, the minor pitfalls, and the best migration path for jQuery Mobile 1.4.
Learn the different ways of declaring and invoking JavaScript functions, the "subprograms" that power your code.
Identifies seven object-oriented design patterns (including the singleton, observer, decorator, and factory patterns) that make your development process faster and easier.
Learn how to add JavaScript to your HTML and CSS to make your webpages more responsive to different screen sizes. Dynamically load content, add animation, collapse navigation, and more.
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