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"We have heard an extraordinary amount of unacceptable rhetoric from the North Korean government in the last few days," Kerry told reporters at a joint news conference with visiting South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.
"The bottom line very simply is that what Kim Jong-Un has been choosing to do is provocative, it is dangerous, reckless, and the
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A North Korean official said the country would quickly begin "readjusting and restarting" the facilities at its main Nyongbyon nuclear complex, including the plutonium reactor and a uranium enrichment plant, which was shuttered as part of international nuclear disarmament talks in 2007 that have since stalled.
Kerry said such a step would be "a direct violation" of
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that development would be "extremely alarming" while the White House said President Barack Obama's entire national security team was focused on
However, U.S. officials did cast doubt on whether North Korea would follow through, portraying the latest threat as part of a pattern of antagonistic taunts that, so far, have not been backed up by action.
"There's a long way to go between a stated intention and actually being able to pull it off," Nuland said.
Still, the Pentagon suggested the administration is concerned about the prospect for further escalation of tensions and it has made a conspicuous display of firepower in recent weeks, sending B-52 and B-2 bombers on practice runs over
These moves and others are meant to deter North Korea from launching even a limited military strike against the South, while also offering reassurance to Seoul that the U.S. will stick to its treaty obligation to defend the South against attack.
"We are looking for the temperature to be taken down," Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters on Tuesday. "We are in the business of assuring our South Korean allies that we will help defend them in the face of threats."
At the White House, press secretary Jay Carney called on
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Please review the Home and Community Based Services and Nursing Home and Residential Settings sections of the Guide for a detailed description of long term care services and settings.
You may be able to pay for long term care services through VA, Federal and State programs (Medicare and Medicaid), and through insurance or your private funds. Click on the tabs in this section of the Guide for more information about these sources of funding.
Your eligibility for long term care services, provided in any long term care setting, will be determined based on your need for ongoing treatment, personal care, and assistance, as well as the availability of the service in your location. Other factors, such as financial eligibility, your service-connected (VA disability) status, insurance coverage, and/or ability to pay may also apply.
If you still have questions after reading this section of the Guide to Long Term Care, call toll-free, 1-877-222-VETS (8387), Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (CST). Or, contact your VA social worker.
Veterans must be enrolled in VA health care before applying for VA long term care services. Enrolled in VA health care means you have applied for VA health care benefits, and receive care through a VA facility on a regular basis. Receiving financial compensation for a VA disability does NOT automatically enroll you in VA health care.
You may be eligible for VA health care services (known as the Standard Medical Benefits Package) if you served in the military and were discharged for any reason other than dishonorable.
Detailed eligibility information can be found on the main VA Health Benefits website.
When you enroll in VA health care, your (1) VA service-connected disability status and (2) income will be reviewed to determine whether or not you are charged a copay for VA health care services and VA long term care services. Long term care copays are different from standard VA health care copays because they are not charged until the 22nd day of care. Copays are NOT charged for Hospice Care provided in any setting.
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VA Disability Compensation is a monthly tax-free payment to Veterans who have a service-connected disability. The higher your rating, the higher monthly payments will be.
However, having a disability caused by your active military service does NOT automatically start disability compensation payments. You need to APPLY for those benefits. It is important to do this because your service-connected disability status has an effect on how much you pay for VA health care services, what programs you are eligible for, and your priority in receiving certain services.
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Your payments will raise your income to the Maximum Annual Pension Rate, and not exceed it. For example, if you are a single Veteran who earns $10,000 per year, then your monthly payment would be about $205 ($12,465 maximum annual pension rate - $10,000 current annual income, divided by 12 months). Pension benefits are paid monthly.
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Send a written statement to your Veterans Benefits Administration regional office that includes a report from your doctor that describes your need for these benefits. The report should include:
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Medicare is the federal health insurance system for people:
You can enroll in "Original Medicare" or a "Medicare Advantage Plan."
Once you enroll, you receive services from any organization or provider that accepts Medicare as long as the services are ordered by your doctor, approved by Medicare as being medically necessary, and covered by your plan.
Once you select a plan and enroll, you receive services from any organization or provider that accepts your plan's coverage as payment as long as the services are approved by your plan as being medically necessary and covered by your plan.
The Medicare website provides information to Veterans and caregivers, including:
There are 3 components, or "parts," of Original Medicare services:
If you enroll in Part A, you can also enroll in Parts B and D. Here is a summary of the long term care services provided in each of these parts:
These plans provide coverage for the same services as hospital insurance (Part A) and medical coverage (Part B) of the Original Medicare plan. Most of these plans also include prescription drug coverage (Part D). Here are the most common types of Medicare Advantage Plans. Review the different plans to find one that best fits your needs.
Many people are automatically enrolled in Medicare benefits (Part A and B) because they are already receiving Social Security benefits or Railroad Retirement Board benefits. In this case, Part A and Part B enrollment starts the first day of the month you turn 65.
If you are under 65 and disabled, Part A and Part B enrollment starts after you receive disability benefits from Social Security or certain RRB disability benefits for 24 months.
If you are enrolled automatically you will receive a red, white, and blue Medicare card in the mail 3 months before your 65th birthday or your 25th month of disability benefits if under 65 years old. Instructions will be included with your card to decline Part B coverage if you do not want it.
Some people who are eligible are not automatically enrolled and need to sign up for Part A and Part B benefits. Most often these are people who are 65 or older but not receiving Social Security or Railroad Retirement Board benefits.
To sign up for benefits:
Original Medicare will pay for services in a Skilled Nursing Facility and some home health services. Medicare Advantage Plans are required to provide the same benefits, however, they may charge different copays and/or change the eligibility standards.
You can receive care in a skilled nursing facility for a limited number of days (Original Medicare helps pay costs for up to 100 days in a benefit period) if your doctor decides that you require skilled care after a hospital stay. The facility must be certified by Medicare. Skilled care means services are provided by skilled nursing or rehabilitation staff, such as a nurse or physical therapist.
Your Skilled Nursing Facility Costs under Original Medicare
If you selected a Medicare Advantage Plan, your costs will vary based on that specific plan.
If your doctor decides that you are home-bound (your condition keeps you from leaving home without significant effort), then you may be eligible for home health services under hospital insurance (Part A) and medical coverage (Part B). Covered services may include (but are not limited to):
Services must be ordered by a physician and provided by a Medicare-certified home health agency for Original Medicare enrollees. Medicare Advantage Plan members must use a home health agency that accepts their plan's payment.
Custodial care is help with personal care needs such as dressing or bathing. If the ONLY type of care you need is custodial, then Medicare will not pay for your care in a nursing home or in your own home. Medicare may cover medical and rehabilitation services provided in an Assisted Living Facility, but typically will not cover the costs of the facility – such as rent and meals.
Medicaid is the joint federal/state insurance program that helps people with low incomes pay for their medical costs. This may include help with Medicare premiums, copays, and deductibles. Medicaid can also pay for some services not covered by Medicare.
Specific eligibility criteria will vary by state. The information provided is a general guide to eligibility. Speak with your VA social worker or state Medicaid office to determine your eligibility.
To apply for Medicaid benefits in any state you need to:
The application can be found at your local state Medicaid office. Many states also provide Medicaid applications at aging/disability assistance agencies throughout the community.
The Medicaid website provides information about:
You must meet the requirements of all three eligibility categories listed below to qualify for Medicaid coverage of long term care services: General, Functional, and Financial.
Medicaid covers Nursing Home services for all eligible people age 21 and older. Medicaid will also cover Home and Community Based Services for eligible people IF they would need to be in a Nursing Home without those services. Covered Home and Community Based Services vary by state. For example, some states cover Assisted Living Facility costs, while other states do not. Many states cover services to help you remain in your home, such as help with personal care needs or some chores (laundry, cleaning). Specific services should be discussed with your state Medicaid office or your social worker.
Based on your income, you may be eligible for Medicaid coverage of some portion of your Medicare premiums/copays. Your state may also require you to pay for some of your Medicaid covered services, if you have enough income to do so. This varies by state. Talk with staff in your state Medicaid office to find out how this works in your state.
The National Clearinghouse for Long Term Care website provides details about:
Private Pay: Even though VA, Medicare, Medicaid and other funding sources cover the costs of some long term care services and settings, many people need to use their own income or savings to pay part of the costs for long term care services or settings they need or prefer.
For example, people often use their own resources to pay for:
Long Term Care Insurance can also be used to pay for long term care services and settings. Since long term care policies vary, do your homework and choose wisely.
If you already live in a Nursing Home or Assisted Living Facility, or you already need help with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, or using the toilet, then you probably will not qualify for a long term care policy.
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Henrik Lundqvist stopped 38 of 39 shots during Friday's 5-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 4 in the Eastern Conference Final.
Rick Nash scored two goals and an assist in New York's 5-1 win in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final over Tampa Bay.
Frederik Andersen denied 27 of the 28 shots he faced in a tense Game 3 in Chicago on Thursday night, which the Ducks won 2-1.
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CHUCKY?: July 18, 9:10 p.m.: A man said he found a doll holding a knife on a bathroom sink. He thinks it happened while he was out of town.
BURGLARY: July 20, 4:17 p.m.: A man said he had some wheels and tires stolen from a truck parked on W. Bridge St.
INCOMING EGG: July 21, 12:10 a.m.: A man said someone has thrown an egg at the back of his vehicle.
PROWLER: July 21, 12:09 a.m.: A man said there is a prowler outside his house.
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—The Idaho State Police is on scene of a one-vehicle crash southbound I15 at milepost 83. Two unknown females have are involved. FT. Hall EMS has responded. Injuries are reported of a concussion and possible difficulty breathing from the victims. Life-flight is en-route to the scene.  Both southbound lanes are currently blocked from milepost 84. Motorists are advised to use an alternate route, if possible. Â
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James was born Feb. 24, 1944, in Oceanside, Calif., to David Ross and Marjorie Simon Spalding. He attended elementary and high school in Circleville, Ohio. He attended Ohio University and earned his master's degree from the University of Utah. He made his home in Blackfoot in 2001.
James served in the United States Army, serving in Vietnam from 1968 to 1970.
Marian DeLene Mortensen, 61, a former Blackfoot resident, passed away Friday, July 20, 2012, at her home in Edmond, Okla.
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DeLene graduated from Blackfoot High School in 1969. She continued her education at Ricks College, later becoming a licensed practical nurse. Her specialty was special needs children and adults.
Lola Herres, 81, of Blackfoot passed away Friday, July 27, 2012, at her home, surrounded by her family.
Lola was born Feb. 5, 1931, to Justin Ira and Susan Bailey Wixom in Groveland. She attended school at Groveland and Blackfoot, she was vice president of her junior high school class.
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Jason Fallon, information specialist for Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District, said the Steven Peak fire, which scorched 850 acres is 100 percent contained. The larger Ridge Top fire (combined with the East Fire) has blackened 16,630 acres and is at 55 percent containment.
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Giulio Cesare has been Handel's most popular opera since the composer's own time, and it played a major part in the Baroque revival of the past decades. What attracts you to it? I think it's one of the most multifaceted, kaleidoscopic, entertaining, wonderful pieces of operatic writing anyone has ever put on stage. Its sheer variety of tone is one of the reasons why I love it so much. It is a semi-serious, semi-comic, semi-romantic adventure story. It's packed with action, fantastic characterization, and fantastic music, and it really takes the audience on a historical romp through a fictional account of the lives of these great historical characters. And yet somehow it remains incredibly true to the kernel of reality inside the story of the young Cleopatra seducing the middle-aged Caesar, and about the alliance between their two empires. It works on so many different levels. It's a piece I've been obsessed and fascinated with for a good 20 years. Your production features a wide range of visual elements, including some early-20th-century costumes, but it's not a strict update. Tell us about the setting. The nature of Handelian opera, to me, precludes any kind of attempt at historical accuracy, because it's not within the character of the pieces themselves. The original productions were played in 18th-century costume. So I didn't feel in any way bound to keep with an ancient Alexandria. It allowed us to play fast and loose with period, and to be quite playful, as the opera itself is quite playful. In our production, the conquering Romans become synonymous with the conquering Britons of the 19th century, when they held the Suez Canal. And we play with Cleopatra's many disguises, taking her through a range of cultures and periods. At one point, she's in an exquisite little Clara Bow flapper dress as she seduces Caesar, simply because it seems like the most appropriate costume. If I'm going to go to a cocktail party and seduce the emperor of Rome, I'm going to wear a fantastic little cocktail number—so she does, and she pulls it off with aplomb. The Alexandrian culture was essentially a mixture of the Greek and Egyptian cultures. It was a thriving harbor city, a meeting point of many different cultures, races, people. Everyone was flocking to Alexandria. So we wanted to get that sense of melting pot across by drawing on as many influences as we could find. Including Bollywood-inspired dance routines… One of the big ideas for delineating the world of Cleo and Ptolemy was the British Raj. We borrowed a great deal from Indian culture in order to talk about that clash of imperialism with an indigenous culture, and the incomprehension of the imperialists as they come into contact with these people. They fail to understand the subtleties of this culture. That also led to the Bollywood influence for some of the dance numbers. Indian cinema is fantastically entertaining. You can tell deeply serious stories, and then suddenly you have a wonderful, big dance routine. And then the story carries on. There's something so beautifully apposite with opera about that for me. That's why we play with the idea. If you had to describe what to expect from Giulio Cesare to an audience who has never seen it, what would you say? You'll be laughing one minute and crying the next. The emotional scope, the dramatic scope, the humorous scope is just so far-reaching… You get romance, you get drama, you get moments of political wheeling-and-dealing, complex family relationships—as well as real emotion and tragedy. It's a miracle, and it has enabled me to express everything I feel is important about opera. —Edited by Philipp Brieler This interview was first published online in March 2013 and in the Met's Playbill in April 2013.
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German drinking game joins Monroe Oktoberfest
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Janis and Toni Praudins of Shoreline dance a polka Friday afternoon at the Monroe Oktoberfest.
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Bev Pocinwong of Seattle tries her hand at Hammerschlagen during the Monroe Oktoberfest on Friday. The object of the game is to pound a nail into a slab of wood in fewer strikes than your opponent.
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Florin and Laurel Gon play cornhole Friday afternoon at the Monroe Oktoberfest.
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The Enzian Schuhplattler Bavarian folk dancers from Kirkland perform Friday afternoon during Oktoberfest in Monroe. The festival runs through Sunday.
That doesn't appear to be the case, however, if you're playing Hammerschlagen.
The German-inspired drinking game consists of driving a 3-inch nail into a slice of a stump. It sounds easy, but participants have to use the wedge-shaped end of a cross-peen blacksmith hammer, not the broad end, to do it.
While some of those who tried Hammerschlagen on Friday at Oktoberfest in Monroe lamented their lack of skill, they had fun with it nonetheless.
"I was surprised how hard it is," said Darren Hendrickson, 50, of Monroe.
Plus, "put a few of these in you," said his friend, Ken Makarin of Everett, 34, hoisting his beer.
Festivals Inc., which runs the Bite of Seattle, the Taste of Tacoma and Oktoberfest Northwest in Puyallup, brought Oktoberfest to the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe for the first time this year, said Cindy Stohr, media director for the company.
In the Hammerschlagen area, stump slices are placed waist high on large wooden spools set on their sides like tables.
The supervisor for the activity, Marcel Drew, gently hammers one nail per player into the stump just far enough so it stands on its own. Each player then takes a turn at driving their own nail downward, getting only one stroke each turn before passing the hammer to the next player.
The hammer goes around the table until one player wins by hammering his or her nail all the way down so the head is flat with the wood.
According to several sources, Hammerschlagen -- "hammer strike" in German -- is descended from a Bavarian drinking game called Nagelspielen, or "nail games."
Stohr and Brett Gorrell of Festivals Inc. said they came across Hammerschlagen at an Oktoberfest event in LaCrosse, Wis.
It was a wild event, they said, with people putting down a lot of money on the outcomes.
"This is a gambling game," Gorrell said.
At Oktoberfest in Monroe, as in Puyallup, a tournament is part of the weekend. The first two rounds were planned for Friday night with the next two scheduled for 6 and 7 tonight. The winners will square off at 8 tonight for the championship.
The winner gets $200, his or her choice of an Oktoberfest stein, free admission and free beer at next year's event and their photo on a wall of fame, Gorrell said. Second place brings $50 and choice of stein; third place, choice of stein.
The tournament is first come first serve and participants must sign up two hours ahead of time.
Before the tournament begins, anyone can go up and try their hand at Hammerschlagen.
Brothers Derich and Dustin Loudenslager and their dad, Frank, played a couple of rounds on Friday, beer in one hand and hammer in the other.
Often, players hit the nail with glancing blows that only serve to bend it over, meaning they have use subsequent turns to straighten it out.
Derich Loudenslager, 41, of Shoreline, had trouble hitting the nail on the head.
"How many rounds are there before we just accept our shame and walk away?" he said.
Frank, 66, visiting from Fresno, Calif., also was just grazing the nail.
"Do you know how to say 'suck' in Deutsch?" he said.
In the second round, Drew offered a Hammerschlagen T-shirt to the winner. Dustin, the youngest of the brothers, walked away with the prize.
Later, three beer distributors for the event, sampling their own wares, played a couple of rounds. Long rounds.
Todd Owsley of Arlington missed the nail several times.
"I'm just trying to scare the wood so it comes up around the nail," he said.
Travis Schallot of Seattle struck several off-target blows.
"These nails aren't regulation," he said.
John Tufano of Seattle also struggled in the first round.
"This game would be more entertaining if there was fire involved," he said. "Fire makes everything better."
The three started their second round with a rule that each player who missed the nail had to take a drink of their beer.
Often, the game is played so the loser has to buy the next round, according to organizers.
Drinking beer isn't a requirement for trying Hammerschlagen. The Monroe Oktoberfest also offers family-friendly features such as a root beer booth and a pumpkin-decorating contest for kids.
Abbie Rowland, who was staffing the Alaska Airlines booth at the event, took a few swings with the hammer.
Her advice for beginners?
"Keep your nail straight," she said.
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A longtime tech executive, Linda Stone worked on emerging technologies at Apple and then Microsoft Research in the 1980s and '90s. Fifteen years ago, she coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the modern predicament of being constantly attuned to everything without fully concentrating on anything. Since then, she has frequently written and lectured about the challenges of living in an always-on, hyperconnected world.
James Fallows: You're well known for the idea of continuous partial attention. Why is this a bad thing?
Linda Stone: Continuous partial attention is neither good nor bad. We need different attention strategies in different contexts. The way you use your attention when you're writing a story may vary from the way you use your attention when you're driving a car, serving a meal to dinner guests, making love, or riding a bicycle. The important thing for us as humans is to have the capacity to tap the attention strategy that will best serve us in any given moment.
Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
PROBLEM: "Marijuana use is associated with an acute increase in caloric intake," goes the clinical jargon for popular lore. Still despite eating more while high (by some measures, over 600 extra calories per day), marijuana users' extra intake doesn't seem to be reflected in increased BMI. Indeed, studies have identified a reduced prevalence of obesity in the pot smoking community.
METHODOLOGY: Researchers at the University of Nebraska, the Harvard School of Public Health, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of over 4,600 adults. About 12 percent of the participants self-identified as current marijuana users, and another 42 percent reported having used the drug in the past. The participants were tested for various measures of blood sugar control: their fasting insulin and glucose levels; insulin resistance; cholesterol levels; and waist circumference.
"I have every intention of playing football again, and I really believe that it's gonna happen."
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
Martin O'Malley jumped into the race for the Democratic nomination on Saturday, giving Hillary Clinton another challenger.
For months, it looked like Martin O'Malley might be the only person brave enough to challenge Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic nomination. Between her dominance and the Clintons' legendarily long memory for slights, she seemed to have convinced most potential rivals not to bother.
But the Democratic field that the former Maryland governor joined on Saturday doesn't look quite like what was expected. Yes, Clinton still has a comfortable lead over all rivals. But the rest of the ballot is more crowded. Jim Webb seems set to run. Lincoln Chafee is slated to announce a run on June 3. Most of all, Senator Bernie Sanders has become an unexpected force in the race.
The Sanders ascendancy is a challenge for O'Malley, who seemed to be aiming for the territory to Clinton's left; O'Malley has criticized the former secretary of state over the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Another challenge is the recent unrest in Baltimore. Critics charge that data-based policing tactics that O'Malley ushered in as mayor helped create the tension between police and citizens that boiled over after the death of Freddie Gray. By announcing his campaign in Baltimore, O'Malley signaled that he intends to take that criticism on head-on. In statements since rioting and protests, he has suggested that such tensions are in fact exactly why he feels compelled to run.
We're all going to die and we all know it. This can be both a burden and a blessing.
In the heart of every parent lives the tightly coiled nightmare that his child will die. It might spring at logical times—when a toddler runs into the street, say—or it might sneak up in quieter moments. The fear is a helpful evolutionary motivation for parents to protect their children, but it's haunting nonetheless.
The ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus advised parents to indulge that fear. "What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die?" he wrote in his Discourses.
Some might say Epictetus was an asshole. William Irvine thinks he was on to something.
"The Stoics had the insight that the prospect of death can actually make our lives much happier than they would otherwise be," he says. "You're supposed to allow yourself to have a flickering thought that someday you're going to die, and someday the people you love are going to die. I've tried it, and it's incredibly powerful. Well, I am a 21st-century practicing Stoic."
People look to Amy Schumer and her fellow jokers not just to make fun of the world, but to make sense of it. And maybe even to help fix it.
This week, in a much-anticipated sketch on her Comedy Central show, Amy Schumer staged a trial of Bill Cosby in "the court of public opinion." Schumer—her character, at any rate—played the role of the defense. "Let's remind ourselves what's at stake here," she argued to the jury. "If convicted, the next time you put on a rerun of The Cosby Show you may wince a little. Might feel a little pang. And none of us deserve that. We don't deserve to feel that pang."
Her conclusion? "We deserve to dance like no one's watching, and watch like no one's raping."
Ooof. This is the kind of thing that gets Inside Amy Schumer referred to as "the most feminist show on television," and her act in general called, in a phrase that reveals as much about her craft as about Schumer herself, "comedy with a message." But while Schumer's work is operating at the vanguard of popular comedy, it's also in line with the work being done by her fellow performers: jokes that tend to treat humor not just as an end in itself, but as a vehicle for making a point. Watch like no one's raping.
Caves and tunnels have always been part of human life.
A new report estimates that 8,000 students from China were expelled in the 2013-4 school year. That's bad news for U.S. schools.
A startling number of Chinese students are getting kicked out of American colleges. According to a white paper published by WholeRen, a Pittsburgh-based consultancy, an estimated 8,000 students from China were expelled from universities and colleges across the United States in 2013-4. The vast majority of these students—around 80 percent—were removed due to cheating or failing their classes.
As long as universities have existed, students have found a way to get expelled from them. But the prevalence of expulsions of Chinese students should be a source of alarm for American university administrators. According to the Institute of International Education, 274,439 students from China attended school in the United States in 2013-4, a 16 percent jump from the year before. Chinese students represent 31 percent of all international students in the country and contributed an estimated $22 billion to the U.S. economy in 2014.
The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they're hired to instruct?
Imagine meeting your English professor by the trunk of her car for office hours, where she doles out information like a taco vendor in a food truck. Or getting an e-mail error message when you write your former biology professor asking for a recommendation because she is no longer employed at the same college. Or attending an afternoon lecture in which your anthropology professor seems a little distracted because he doesn't have enough money for bus fare. This is an increasingly widespread reality of college education.
Many students—and parents who foot the bills—may assume that all college professors are adequately compensated professionals with a distinct arrangement in which they have a job for life. In actuality those are just tenured professors, who represent less than a quarter of all college faculty. Odds are that students will be taught by professors with less job security and lower pay than those tenured employees, which research shows results in diminished services for students.
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First Known Use: before 12th century
noun \ˈwā\
: how someone or something does something : how someone or something behaves, appears, feels, etc.
: a method or system that can be used to do something
: a person's usual habits, actions, qualities, etc.
Full Definition of WAY
a : a thoroughfare for travel or transportation from place to placeb : an opening for passage <this door is the only way out of the room>
: the course traveled from one place to another : route <asked the way to the museum>
a : a course (as a series of actions or sequence of events) leading in a direction or toward an objective <led the way to eventual open heart operations — Current Biography>b (1) : a course of action <took the easy way out> (2) : opportunity, capability, or fact of doing as one pleases <always manages to get her own way>c : a possible decision, action, or outcome : possibility <they were rude—no two ways about it>
a : manner or method of doing or happening <admired her way of thinking>; also : method of accomplishing : means <that's the way to do it>b : feature, respect <in no way resembles her mother>c : a usually specified degree of participation in an activity or enterprise <active in real estate in a small way>
a : characteristic, regular, or habitual manner or mode of being, behaving, or happening <knows nothing of the ways of women>b : ability to get along well or perform well <she has a way with kids> <a way with words>
: the length of a course : distance <has come a long way in her studies> <still have a way to go>
: movement or progress along a course <worked her way up the corporate ladder>
a : direction <is coming this way>b : participant —usually used in combination <three-way discussion>
a plural but sometimes sing in constr : an inclined structure upon which a ship is built or supported in launchingb plural : the guiding surfaces on the bed of a machine along which a table or carriage moves
: motion or speed of a ship or boat through the water
— all the way
: to the full or entire extent : as far as possible <ran all the way home> <seated all the way in the back>
— by the way
— by way of
: for the purpose of
: by the route through : via
— in a way
: within limits : with reservations
: from one point of view
— in one's way also in the way
: in a position to be encountered by one : in or along one's course <an opportunity had been put in my way — Ellen Glasgow>
: in a position to hinder or obstruct
— on the way or on one's way
: moving along in one's course : in progress
— out of the way
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Examples of WAY
- We'll try doing it your way first.
- Let me explain it this way.
- You can pay for your purchase in one of two ways: by cash or by credit card.
- Which door is the way in?
- The back way was blocked.
- This door is the only way out of the room.
Origin of WAY
Middle English, from Old English weg; akin to Old High German weg way, Old English wegan to move, Latin vehere to carry, via way
Related to WAY
Rhymes with WAY
a, ae, bay, bey, blae, brae, bray, chez, clay, Cray, day, dey, dray, eh, fay, fey, flay, fley, frae, fray, Frey, gay, Gay, gey, gley, gray, hay, he, hey, Hue, j, jay, Jay, k, kay, Kay, lay, lei, may, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, pay, pe, play, pray, prey, qua, quai, quay, Rae, ray, re, say, shay, slay, sleigh, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, stray, sway, Tay, they, tray, trey, weigh, whey, yea
Definition of WAY
: of, connected with, or constituting an intermediate point on a route
First Known Use of WAY
: to a great distance or extent : very far
: by a great amount
Full Definition of WAY
: all the way <pull the switch way back>
— from way back
: of long standing <friends from way back>
Examples of WAY
- He is way ahead of the other runners.
- They live way out in the country.
- We sat way back in the last row.
- I missed a week of class and fell way behind.
- Your parents are way cool.
First Known Use of WAY
Related to WAY
- Synonyms
- achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, vitally, very, whacking, wicked, wildly
- Antonyms
- little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
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The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), the SAT Subject Tests, the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), and Advanced Placement Program (AP) exams are given by the College Board and are part of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) exams. To get accommodations for any College Board exam, a student must contact the College Board well in advance of the exam and complete their procedure for requesting disability accommodations. For more details on the procedure for requesting accommodations and for information on deadlines, visit the College Board Services for Students with Disabilities website, or contact the College Board at
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A jury on Friday ordered a Santa Ana hospital chain to pay a doctor $5.2 million for its role in a planted-gun case.
Dr. Michael Fitzgibbons had claimed the former head of Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc., the owner of four central county hospitals, had set him up for arrest on a gun charge in June 2006.
The jury returned the verdict after less than five hours of deliberation. It will return next week to determine punitive damages.
The infectious disease specialist was arrested and handcuffed in the employee parking lot at Western Medical Center – Santa Ana after police found a handgun and a pair of black gloves in his car. Police questioned him and searched his car after receiving two anonymous 911 calls claiming that a man driving Fitzgibbons' car had waved a gun in traffic.
Fitzgibbons denied owning the gun. DNA testing of the gloves and the gun excluded him. He was never prosecuted.
The arrest followed a series of clashes between Fitzgibbons, the former chief of staff at WestMed, and the corporate leadership of IHHI, which had bought WestMed and three other hospitals in March 2005.
"This was an attempt to murder my client's career," Fitzgibbons' attorney, Ted Mathews, told the jury during closing arguments on Thursday.
Mathews focused on the actions of former IHHI chief executive Bruce Mogel. Mathews said Mogel set out to "humble" Fitzgibbons after the doctor won a legal victory over the hospital chain in mid-June 2006.
Former IHHI president Larry Anderson testified that immediately after Fitzgibbons' legal win, Mogel instructed him to make a $10,000 contract for unnecessary work on IHHI's website with a man named Mikey Delgado. Delgado had come up in prior conversations, Anderson testified, as a "scary guy" who Mogel told him had the Santa Ana police on his payroll.
"So what did IHHI get for that $10,000?" Mathews asked the jury. "They got Dr. Fitz set up."
Anderson testified that it was only after Fitzgibbons' arrest that he realized that the $10,000 contract must have paid for the planted gun.
IHHI's board learned of the $10,000 payment after Anderson described it in a 2008 deposition. But instead of firing Mogel, Mathews said, the board gave him an eight-month consultancy worth $43,750 per month.
The IHHI board "knew what Mogel did to Dr. Fitzgibbons," Mathews told the jury. "They ratified it, and they gave him a golden handshake goodbye."
The jury apparently agreed. On the verdict form, the jury marked yes to the final question, which asked whether "IHHI acted with malice, oppression or fraud against Dr. Fitzgibbons."
That "yes" set the stage for a mini-trial next week on punitive damages. It could substantially boost or even multiply the $5.2 million the jury has already awarded to Fitzgibbons for infliction of emotional distress.


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Ronald R Salem MD, MA, MB, ChB, FACS, FRCS(Ed), FRCS (C)
Lapman Professor of Surgery (Oncology) and Professor of Diagnostic Radiology; Section Chief, Surgical Oncology
Research Interests
Combined modality therapy for esophageal cancer; Management of benign and malignant liver tumors
Selected Publications
- Burtness B, Thomas L, Sipples R, McGurk M, Salikooti S, Cristoforou Mirto G, Salem RR, Sosa J, Kloss R, Rahman Z, Chung G, Lacy J, Murren JR: Phase II trial of weekly docetaxe/irinotecan combinatiuon in advanced pancreatic cancer. Cancer J. 13 (4): 257-262, 2007
- Wang TS, Tolgay Ocal I, Salem RR, Elefteriades J, Sosa JA: Leiomyosarcoma of the adrenal vein: a novel approach to surgical resection. World Journal of Surgical Oncology. 5 (1) 109, 2007
- Leder SB, Sasaki CT, Bayar S, Salem RR: Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) in the Evaluation of Aspiration Following Transhiatal Esophagectomy. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 205 (4): 581-585, 2007
- Saif MW, Elfiky A, Salem RR: Gastrointestinal Perforation Secondary to Bevacizumab in Colorectal Cancer. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 6: 1860-9, 2007
- Ariyan CE, Salem RR. Evolution in the treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma of the liver. Evolution in the treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma of the liver World Journal of Gastroentero1ogy. 2(20): 3253-3258, 2006


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Thursday - 9/27/2012, 5:33am EDT
The White House is trying to prove the theory behind its draft cyber executive order.
The Obama administration is using two pilot programs to show how cyber information sharing with the private sector could work.
The latest test case is with the owners and operators of the electricity critical infrastructure.
Michael Daniel, the White House's cyber coordinator, said the Energy and Homeland Security departments are working with companies in the electricity sector to come up with a baseline set of cybersecurity standards.
The Electricity Subsector Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (ES-C2M2) helps these companies manage their cyber risk.
"The model is really a structured set of questions," Daniel said at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance's Cybersecurity Symposium in Washington Wednesday. "It's a way for companies that have these assets do a critical examination of their cybersecurity posture, and when they get the answers back to the questions, it will help them inform investment planning, research and planning and other partnership efforts."
He said the administration is encouraging other sectors to use the publicly available maturity model to develop and adopt similar approaches to assessing their cybersecurity posture.
Instead of legislation
The administration has drafted an executive order detailing how, within its authority, it would improve the information assurance of the nation's critical infrastructure, such as the power grid and financial industries. The White House is considering the executive order after attempts to get Congress to agree to comprehensive cyber legislation have fallen short so far.
Michael Daniel, White House cyber coordinator
Where Congress and the administration couldn't come to terms, Daniel said the electricity pilot has produced definite results.
"Almost everybody who goes through the maturity model learns something, and many of them have learned a lot," he said. "A lot of the companies have learned things they thought they were doing well, but they actually need to make some of improvements in. And others discovered they already had programs going they weren't fully aware of. It's really been a very educational experience for everyone involved on both the government and the private sector side."
Daniel added the success of the pilot has led for the electricity sector pushing on its own at the local and state level.
"That's really cool from my perspective," he said.
Daniel didn't specifically mention the potential of a cyber executive order, but the pilot is trying to show how a collaborative and industry led approach to creating cyber standards could work.
Terry Roberts, who is the chairwoman of INSA's cyber council, said the electrical grid makes sense to show how collaboration over cyber standards could work.
"This is a very complicated area that not everyone has the same basis of understanding, the technical expertise and the operational team in place," Roberts said. "So by discussing your respective issues that you are experiencing, and then there could be assistance from another company to evaluate what has occurred, help you put the right processes and technologies in place and basically you are trying to raise the bar for everyone so that there's a foundation of security and assurance capability that exists across the board."
She said many of these standards are ensuring basic cyber hygiene is followed.
Following in steps of the DIB
Roberts said the pilot also builds on the information sharing analysis centers (ISACs). She said ISACs are industry driven, but cooperative by nature with DHS helping bring everyone together.
Terry Roberts, chairwoman, INSA cyber council
Before the electricity sector pilot, the Defense Department led a program, called the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), to give 20 companies the opportunity to use two-way sharing of cyber threat and vulnerability data with the federal government at the unclassified or classified levels. The pilot program started in 2007.
DoD issued a sole source justification on FedBizOpps.gov to extend its contract with Booz Allen Hamilton for two more years to support the program. Under the $9.8 million deal, the company will continue to support the unclassified and classified approaches to sharing cyber threat data with more than 2,600 cleared contractors for a total of more than 15,000 users.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said the DIB pilot and similar programs are hamstrung by liability issues from making real and sustained progress.
"Currently, there is no protection for sharing so it happens very minimally, which is why the DIB project is even feasible. Can we share in real time zeroes and ones, if you will, with companies to stop malicious code from entering into those systems?" he said. "Here's the great news, the DIB project said, 'yes you can.' However if you are going to take that sheet and spread it out over all the private sector, you have to have legal protections, and they can't get access to classified information. We have to legally create a way for that to happen. Without that, that's why it's not happening."
Rogers said the lack of regulation is not the reason why critical infrastructure companies are struggling to protect their systems.
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Rogers said the government needs to give owners and operators the threat information first and then see where regulation may be needed.
Some in the Senate and administration initially tried to take a regulatory approach to protecting critical infrastructure networks. But after receiving push back from industry and other lawmakers, moved closer to a voluntary structure.
Rogers said a regulatory approach will not work because of the process is too slow.
Instead, Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, introduced the Cybersecurity Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act (CISPA), which the House passed.
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The 13-page legislation requires the Director of National Intelligence to create a process to share classified cyber data with properly cleared private sector individuals. The only information that can be shared both ways is cyber or national threat information, which is a key point of the bill.
The White House doesn't support it and the bill hasn't gotten any legs in the Senate.
Rogers said the bill is far from dead. He and Ruppersberger are reaching out to the Senate to see what their options are after the election. Rogers said after the election there is an opportunity to drum up more support for CISPA.
"There is a way to do this. I hope at the end of the day we do a little small step that I think will make an immediate impact, and then go and see if we need big regulatory structures to tell business exactly how to set up and protect their networks," he said. "I don't want a whole bunch of compliance people hired to figure out how you comply with what the government just told you to do. I want you to hire cybersecurity analysts and experts to stop what's coming at you. And that's the different philosophies we are wrestling with."
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Brooklyn, Mich. (May 25, 2013) – The SCCA Northern Conference Majors Tour season commenced on Saturday by christening the newly reopened Michigan International Speedway road course, launching a venue that hadn't previously hosted a road course event since 1994.
Jacek Mucha, of Laval, Quebec, goes into the record books forever as the first person to take a checkered flag in the Northern Conference, running to an overall win in his No. 07 Phoenix-Innotech/Mazda JMS 016cp/Mazda in Formula Atlantic.
Mucha battled early with the Formula 1000 class-leading No. 00 Hoosier Tire Photon VD07 of Jeremy Hill. That battle helped the No. 72 Hoosier Tire/AIM Data Nova-Piper F1000 of Brian Novak hang around, which locked Novak and Hill in a battle for the Formula 1000 lead. Chasing Hill hard for several laps, Novak took the lead around the MIS banking and into Turn One for the lead on lap 19, but Hill reclaimed the top spot one lap later.
Working through traffic, Hill opened his lead back up again, and crossed the stripe with a class victory.
Within shouting distance of the Formula 1000 battle was the D Sports Racing fight, just behind. Jon Staudacher's No. 21 Staudacher S11 moved around Ralph Provitz for the class lead on lap 15, but the No. 08 V2 Motorsports S08 of Provitz jumped back to the front after a couple of laps.
Again, lapped traffic appeared to help the front runner, and Provitz held on for victory.
The high banks of Michigan International Speedway's oval was bound to factor into a few races on Saturday, and Spec Miata was the first to demonstrate just how much.
David Bednarz, from nearby Ann Arbor, Mich., chose the inside lane on the 21st and final lap around NASCAR turns three and four, motoring his yellow No. 68 Dynomax Exhaust Mazda Miata around second running Bruce Andersen II and leading Michael Novak for a 0.172-second win.
The top three battled all race long for the top podium positions, with each leading around the 1.9-mile circuit. Andersen's No. 77 Senson Racing Grp/Autotechnik Racing Miata started on the pole and brought Novak's No. 9 Roush Caldwell Race Prep Miata with him around Bednarz. The front three swapped the positions several times over the race distance.
With just two laps to go, Bednarz had lagged behind the others and looked to be too far back to complete the move. Bednarz had timed it perfectly, however, and pulled off the spectacular finish.
Spec Racer Ford, however, didn't play out the same way. Scott Rettich earned his second win of the day (along with Formula Enterprises) by more than five seconds in the No. 17 Alliance Autosport/Springboro Car Wash Spec Racer Ford. Rettich, starting on the outside of row one, fell back to fifth in the opening corners, then crawled back to second place behind polesitter Adam Gottlieb's No. 7 Spec Racer.
Gottlieb spun in turn six on the tenth lap, elevating Rettich to the lead and leaving him unchallenged to the checkered flag. Gottlieb recovered to finish second, with Rick Bartuska's No. 15 M/K Industries SRF completing the podium.
Joe Moser started on pole in his No. 63 Hoosier/King Motorsports/Moser Racing Honda Prelude and ran away from the field for the E Production victory. Former National Champion Kevin Ruck did the same in F Production, piloting his No. 73 Hoosier/Honda/Cobalt Acura Integra to the class win.
A pair of Honda teammates battled for the Touring 3 win on Saturday, when Luke Wilwert's No. 79 BFGoodrich Tires/HPD/Team Honda Honda S2000 and Kevin Boehm's very similar No. 95 BFGoodrich Tires/HPD/Team Honda Honda S2000 swapped the lead and chased each other around the circuit. Boehm pulled his machine home first, capturing the opening round for his class.
The Formula F battle that ended the day seemed to be the race no one wanted to win. Russell Ruedisueli's No. 20 Goodyear Tires Van Diemen RF-99 fell out early, leaving a three-car battle for the lead.
Ruedisueli's bad fortune put Mark Davison's No. 91 Swift DB-1 on the point, just ahead of Jason Byers and David Harmison. With the three running nose to tail, Davison spun late in the race to lose the lead, and remarkably, just a few corners later Byers' No. 31 LTD Motorsports Crossle 31F did the same. Now in front as the others tried to catch up, Harmison held the lead for the final handful of laps, taking the checkers in the No. 10 Royale RP-21.
Round Two of the Northern Conference Majors Tour takes place on Sunday on the road course at Michigan International Speedway, with second qualifying session beginning at 8:00 EDT followed by the seven group races.
More information is available at www.scca.com. Like SCCA on Facebook at Facebook.com/SCCAOfficial, or follow on Twitter @SCCAOfficial.
Live timing and notes are available on Sunday at www.scca.com/SCCALive.
Brooklyn, Mich. - Provisional race winners for Saturday's SCCA Northern Conference Majors Tour Round One at Michigan International Raceway. Drivers are listed by Class: name, hometown, and car.
American Sedan: Andy McDermid, Howell, Mich., Ford Mustang
D Sports Racing: Ralph Provitz, Macomb, Mich., S08/Suzuki
Formula 500: Steven Thompson, Royal Oak, Mich., TR1/Rotax
Formula 1000: Jeremy Hill, Toronto, Ont., Photon VD07/Suzuki
Formula Atlantic: Jacek Mucha, Laval, Quebec, JMS 016cp/Mazda
Formula Continental: Robert Allaer, Lithia, Fla., Van Diemen RF02/Ford
Formula Enterprises: Scott Rettich, Camden, Ohio, Formula Enterprises/Mazda
Formula F: David Harmison, Milan, Mich., Royale RP-21
Formula Mazda: Jason Vinkemulder, Spring Lake, Mich., Formula Mazda
Formula Vee: Charles McCormick, Clarkston, Mich., Vortec CM1/VW
E Production: Joe Moser, Chicago, Ill., Honda Prelude
F Production: Kevin Ruck, Delaware, Ohio, Acura Integra
H Production: Aaron Johnson, Martinsville, Ind., Triumph Spitfire
GT-1: Dick Greer, Columbus, Ohio, Chevrolet Corvette
GT-2: Butch Kummer, Woodstock, Ga., Chevrolet Monte Carlo
GT-3: Mike Cyphert, Twinsburg, Ohio, Toyota Celica
GT-Lite: Joel Hipp, Norwalk, Ohio, Austin Mini
Spec Miata: David Bednarz, Ann Arbor, Mich., Mazda Miata
Spec Racer Ford: Scott Rettich, Camden, Ohio, Spec Racer Ford
Super Touring Lite: Andrew Salzano, Marysville, Ohio, Honda Civic Si
Super Touring Under: Charles Tobel, New Hudson, Mich., Pontiac Solstice
Touring 1: John Buttermore, Wixom, Mich., Chevrolet Corvette
Touring 2: Todd Napieralski, Chelsea, Mich., Chevrolet Camaro SS
Touring 3: Kevin Boehm, Marysville, Ohio, Honda S2000
Touring 4: Greg Vandersluis, North Olmstead, Ohio, Ford Mustang
Related Event
Michigan International Speedway Double Majors
2013 U.S. Majors Tour


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|Women's Tennis Defeats Catawba 6-3
|Thursday, 15 February 2007
Salisbury, NC---Pfeiffer defeated Catawba 6-3 in women's tennis action Wednesday afternoon. Pfeiffer grabbed two of the three doubles to take a 2-1 lead. In singles the Falcons won 4 of 6 to take the victory.
Pfeiffer started strong in taking 2 of the 3 doubles matches and then continued their winning ways in 4 of the 6 singles matches. Senior Andrea Stroup came from behind 2-5 in the second set to force a tiebreaker in which she dominated 7-0 to win at #1. Patti Dominguez, Heather Smith, and Samantha Thomas also recorded singles wins for the Falcons. Coach Mary Ann Sunbury said "This was a real good win for us as Catawba is always strong and a tough team to beat. We feel that all of our players are playing well and we will only continue to get better."
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Pfeiffer 6, Catawba 3 Feb 14, 2007 at Catawba
Singles competition 1. Andrea Stroud (PFEIFFER) def. Lauren Fluegge (CATAWBA) 6-2, 7-6 2. Pattie Dominguez (PFEIFFER) def. Julia McKinzie (CATAWBA) 6-0, 6-4 3. Andi Binney (CATAWBA) def. Mia Bobrowski (PFEIFFER) 6-3, 7-5 4. KT Rebadow (CATAWBA) def. Juliana Reyes (PFEIFFER) 6-2, 7-5 5. Heather Smith (PFEIFFER) def. Meri Cartmill (CATAWBA) 6-4, 5-7, 10-6 6. Samantha Thomas (PFEIFFER) def. Nikiah Knox (CATAWBA) 6-4, 6-0
Doubles competition 1. Andrea Stroud/Pattie Dominguez (PFEIFFER) def. Lauren Fluegge/KT Rebadow (CATAWBA) 8-3 2. Andi Binney/Julia McKinzie (CATAWBA) def. Mia Bobrowski/Juliana Reyes (PFEIFFER) 8-2 3. Samantha Thomas/Heather Smith (PFEIFFER) def. Nikiah Knox/Meri Cartmill (CATAWBA) 8-4


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