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This week on 'Top Chef D.C.'
We begin this week where we left off last week: L'affaire purée. "I had no idea Ed had pea purée," Alex Reznik, the thief and one of two Jewish cheftestants, says. This is a lie. He really is daring those karma police. "I don't care what anyone else thinks. Now I feel good—I won the last challenge. I want to get out there, I want to cook."
And Ed, whose purée was (probably) stolen? "I'm not angry about the pea purée, I'm just confused. Did somebody take it or throw it away? I'm perplexed." Dude: Alex took it. And won. But he won primarily on the strength of his impeccably cooked salmon.
"When you watch Alex cook," Kenny observes early on, "it's like he's throwing darts at a wall, and it doesn't work. I think he's probably the weakest one right now." This we shall see.
As the chefs walk into the kitchen, even I recognize the guest judge: It's Marcus Samuelsson, who is famous. Host Padma Lakshmi introduces the Quickfire Challenge with a bit of a lecture on Washington, D.C. "It's a mecca for global cuisine." This is false! "But there's one country that dominates the food scene: Ethiopia." This is actually true!
Create an Ethiopian-inspired dish, that's the challenge. Use berbere. Lots of berbere. And honey wine! Actually, there is no honey wine, which is a shame, because that's my favorite part of Ethiopian food.
I'm guessing honey wine is Amanda's favorite part of Ethiopian food, too, but instead she goes right for the leg of goat. Alex goes right for the beef tongue and the lamb tongue. "I grew up lower-middle-class," he says, immediately making himself authentic and therefore likeable. "So my grandmother would go shopping, and she'd buy lean cuts of meat, like tongue, and she'd make stews to develop their flavor." Astute point: You can make such meats taste good only by putting lots of time into their preparation. Which must be why you selected them for the Quickfire Challenge.
Alex grabs the last remaining pan of some kind from Kelly. "Gotcha!"
For his dish, Alex presents beef and lamb tongue stew, with cabbage and potatoes. "I don't eat a lot of spicy food," he admits. "I didn't know how spicy to make it." "It's not spicy at all," Padma admits right back. Basically, Alex made unspicy tongue with cabbage and potato. Which should sound familiar—he made Jew-food. But hey, they said Ethiopian; they have Jews! Tell me I'm wrong!
Amanda makes stewed goat on grilled injera, which is something Ethiopian. Marcus likes it! In fact, it turns out to be one of his three favorites, and its Samuelssonian epithet is "Absolutely fantastic exclamation mark" (he doesn't actually say "exclamation mark," but you can hear it in his voice.) And one of Samuelsson's least favorites is Alex's "too dry" stew. Shocking. The winner is Tiffany, whose Ethiopian food was so clearly Ethiopian that it was called goulash, which is a type of Hungarian stew.
The Elimination Challenge involves a geography lesson: Padma and Samuelsson bring out a map of the world. "You never know what's going on, they tell you nothing here," says Alex. They have puzzled Alex and me both with this latest maneuver. I wonder if there is any latent connection between the number of countries on the map that are highlighted (nine) and the number of contestants remaining (also nine)? Alex and I will have to ponder this for awhile.
"I've spent my entire career studying French food," Amanda tells the camera. "I want French." (Oh I forgot to mention, but, for your and Alex's benefit: The challenge is to cook 100 portions of a dish representing the cuisine of one of the listed countries for emissaries from that country. They draw knives to determine choosing order.)
Amanda scores her beloved France; Alex gets Spain. "I've been to Spain," he says. I've traveled through Spain extensively." Don't tell him about Spain; he knows all about Spain. (He loves the hostels.)
Amanda is making boeuf bourguignon with pommes fourchette and horseradish mousse. She takes care to enunciate every single one of those Frenchy-French syllables the way they do it in the Third Arrondissement. "It's something that's so simple"—and yet so hard to pronounce!—"and so often done poorly, but when done properly can really shine," she says.
Here is a picture of Alex tripping!
"Alex is just a spazz," says Ed. "He has no technique."
He also has no more space in his food-transporting container. "Does anyone have room in their hot box?" he asks.
"There's actually not room in my hot box," Amanda replies. [Marc, keep it clean. –Ed.]
It's game-day, and Amanda is panicking. "My beef's really dry and I'm not happy about it. I'm going to fix it by cutting it smaller, making sure my sauce is delicious." Alex starts eating all his food, because I guess he's hungry? Save some for the Spanish, dude, they will want to eat your Catalan borscht and potato pancakes too.
Guest judge is José Andrés, of Oyamel and Zaytina and Jaleo (two Jaleos actually; yup, there's one in Bethesda). The one chef who actually does make D.C. an authentic foodie mecca! Oh it is going to be epic when he gets to Alex's Spanish dishes.
Alex did tapas: Braised veal cheeks, jamón torta (there's the standard Alex trayf) with olive, and tomato salad.
"He is trying to do the torta española. It doesn't work," says Andrés.
"He just needs more focus in the dish," agrees Marcus.
"I was just hoping for a little bit of a punch, and everything was just a little bit muted," notes the lovely Gail Simmons.
"You guys, just admit he can't cook worth shit and get him off my television screen forever," add I.
Next is Amanda. "Bonjour!" she says. Why is she speaking Finnish to them? And: "Why did she choose to cut her meat so, so small?" (Oops.)
"I like the flavors overall, but the beef was a little bit dry," says some stuck-up Frenchie.
"I used the wrong cut," complains Amanda. "Awful. I'm going home, unless someone else is terrible."
Have you not been watching this season, Amanda? There is always someone more terrible than you. And indeed, she escapes the bottom three—safe. Alex? Not so lucky. He is called in, along with Stephen and Ed (Ed is embarassed—not that he is in the bottom three, but that he is in the bottom three with Alex. This is vaguely like that Seinfeld when Jerry finds out that not only did the girl he was currently dating once date Newman, but he broke up with her.)
Stephen is taken to task for making chimichurri and calling it Brazilian, when clearly chimichurri is Argentinian. Racist! Also he didn't cook rice properly, which is equal parts hilarious and pathetic.
"So, Alex," says Padma, "you won the last challenge, and now you find yourself at the bottom." Incisive point.
"When I saw the flag of my country," adds Andrés, "I was like, no matter what, I'm gonna enjoy this dish." He concludes: "And I wasn't wrong!" No, no he doesn't. Actually, he says: "Wow. It was like a little nightmare." Hey, at least it wasn't a big nightmare.
"Wow," Alex responds. "I screwed up. I'm really upset with myself. I got really excited when I heard I was gonna do Spain." He also notes that he had heard Chief Judge Tom Colicchio say during the cooking process that it didn't have to be a Spanish dish, just Spain-inspired.
"So you're saying it's my fault?" Tom wants to know. Tom is entering his kill-zone mood.
"The sauce was so thin and watery," Tom explains. "There was nothing that reminded me of Spain. Nothing at all." Oh, snap.
The chefs leave, and the judges dissect away. "For me, Alex's dish," says Andrés, "not because he didn't represent the country: It was his techniques, the ingredients he chose, quite frankly the way he presented the dish."
"He wasn't good enough to make those flavors work together," Tom concurs.
But Alex is safe! It is Stephen (who genuinely does come across, over the course of the episodes, as the weaker chef) who is going home. Alex is extremely skilled at surviving. Now if only he could cook worth a damn.
Earlier: Episode 7: The Purloined Purée
Episode 6: Of Tragedy and Testicles
Episode 5: You're Tearing Me Apart, Maryland!
Episode 4: Babies Making Baby Food
Episode 3: Booze Jokes, Not Funny Anymore
Episode 2: Giving Booze to Kids
Episode 1: Cheftestant Cooks His Mother's Borscht
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Welcome to your Orwellian future
Anyone who doesn't think that this is the future of government run healthcare just hasn't been paying attention. The UK is our future. Once Obamacare fails and the liberals and Democrats convince the American people that government run single-payer is the way to go, here's what you can expect:
Up to 60,000 patients die on the Liverpool Care Pathway each year without giving their consent, shocking figures revealed yesterday.
A third of families are also kept in the dark when doctors withdraw lifesaving treatment from loved ones.
Despite the revelations, Jeremy Hunt last night claimed the pathway was a 'fantastic step forward'.
A "fantastic step forward". If that isn't Orwellian we need to redefine the term. If you're not familiar with the Liverpool care pathway, it is " extreme rationing".
By that I mean "caregivers" make unilateral decisions about when your life ends, because you cost too much. You may not be particularly ill, but you are a burden. If you are ill, that's all the more reason to withdraw lifesaving treatment in their estimation. "First do no harm?" Forget about it …
Records from 178 hospitals also show that thousands of people on the pathway are left to die in pain because nurses do not do enough to keep them comfortable while drugs are administered.
An estimated 130,000 patients are put on the pathway each year.
Concerns have been raised that clinical judgments are being skewed by incentives for hospitals to use the pathway.
We say here often that incentives drive performance. That holds true for bureaucracies as well. As you can see here, this isn't some isolated instance of a few hospitals or region or two doing this on their own. This is government policy. And as you can imagine you really have no recourse.
You are looking at our future.
Score one for religious liberty and minus one for ObamaCare
What's going to be interesting is to see is if they actually do what they say they're planning to do. The administration has tried to ignore the court before. Just as interesting will be the substance of the "rewrite". What will the court accept as an "accommodation" to "religious liberty?":
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius cannot enforce the Obamacare contraception mandate as it is written, but must follow through on a promise to rewrite the rule to accommodate religious liberty, a federal appeals court ordered.
The Obama administration "represented to the court that it would never enforce [the mandate] in its current form against the appellants or those similarly situated as regards contraceptive services," the three judges hearing the case wrote in their order. The Obama team made that promise during oral arguments against Wheaton College and The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which sued over the contraception mandate but lost at the lower court level.
"There will, the government said, be a different rule for entities like the appellants . . . We take the government at its word and will hold it to it," the judges wrote. They ruled that the Obama administration must rewrite the regulation by August 2013 and provide updates to the court every 60 days. If the government fails to do so, the lawsuits may proceed.
The court also noted that the Obama administration had not made such an expansive pledge outside the courtroom.
Yeah, I'm sure they haven't. Of course they could have cooled all the angst fairly quickly if they had. You have to wonder why they didn't.
Well, not really.
ObamaCare tax a "job killer" say 16 Democrats who voted for it
Finally figuring it out? Or finally admitting it?
Sixteen Democratic senators who voted for the Affordable Care Act are asking that one of its fundraising mechanisms, a 2.3 percent tax on medical devices scheduled to take effect January 1, be delayed. Echoing arguments made by Republicans against Obamacare, the Democratic senators say the levy will cost jobs — in a statement Monday, Sen. Al Franken called it a "job-killing tax" — and also impair American competitiveness in the medical device field.
The senators, who made the request in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, are Franken, Richard Durbin, Charles Schumer, Patty Murray, John Kerry, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, Joseph Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Robert Casey, Debbie Stabenow, Barbara Mikulski, Kay Hagan, Herb Kohl, Jeanne Shaheen, and Richard Blumenthal. All voted for Obamacare.
In the letter they say:
"The medical technology industry directly employs over 400,000 people in the United States and is responsible for a total of two million skilled manufacturing jobs," the senators wrote in a December 4 letter to Reid. "We must do all we can to ensure that our country maintains its global leadership position in the medical technology industry and keeps good jobs here at home."
For whatever reason, however, these 16 can't seem to understand how what they're claiming here applies across the board to all taxes. That is, they're job killers. ObamaCare's taxes and mandates are particularly pernicious because they have many companies trying to figure out how to avoid them and that will mean fewer jobs, not more and certainly more costs in general.
But then no one ever said our political leadership was particularly sharp. After all, somehow Maxine Waters is about to become the ranking member (senior Democrat) on the House Financial Services committee and Harry Reid remains the Majority Leader in the Senate.
Of course ObamaCare is full of job killing taxes as we've all become aware, and many of them will hit this year. Add those to the "fiscal cliff" tax increases as well as sequestration and you can bet the Dems will see their "pro-choice" agenda fulfilled this next year – any developing economic recovery will be quickly aborted as exactly all the wrong things government can do to kill such a recover are done.
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This week, Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss Israel and Obamacare.
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Election summary – time to move on
OK, look, I'm done with the election. It's over. Romney lost. Time to move on.
Most of us who follow politics understand the reasons and have a pretty good idea of why he's going home and the Obama's are staying in the White House. Short version: They let the left define the election issues. It was a masterful job of distraction aided and abetted by a complicit media (hey, "60 Minutes", you have NO credibility anymore). Period.
Guess what those issues weren't? The winning issues: Jobs. Economy. Debt. Deficit. ObamaCare. Benghazi. Fast and Furious.
Result? Lost.
Lesson: Don't let your opposition define the issues. A lesson as old as politics. Romney's campaign blew it. It allowed the left to make it about "lady parts", abortion, contraception, Bain Capital, class warfare and racism. They made being successful something of which to be ashamed. And, of course, a couple of idiot GOP candidates at state level who came off like jackasses talking about "legitimate rape", etc. who made it even worse (because the complicit media made their stupidity national stories — unlike jobs, the economy, debt, ObamaCare, Benghazi and Fast and Furious.).
And that scared the usual suspects enough to turn out and vote (ye olde and reliable low information voters in swing states who scare easily) and dampened GOP turnout (didn't even get the number out that McCain got for heaven sake).
That's the election in a nutshell.
So, now we put that behind us and deal with the inevitable aftermath.
ObamaCare begins to have its predicted effect
A law the country didn't want and upheld by a ridiculous Supreme Court ruling is now beginning to have it's predicted effect:
Some low-wage employers are moving toward hiring part-time workers instead of full-time ones to mitigate the health-care overhaul's requirement that large companies provide health insurance for full-time workers or pay a fee.
Several restaurants, hotels and retailers have started or are preparing to limit schedules of hourly workers to below 30 hours a week. That is the threshold at which large employers in 2014 would have to offer workers a minimum level of insurance or pay a penalty starting at $2,000 for each worker.
The shift is one of the first significant steps by employers to avoid requirements under the health-care law, and whether the trend continues hinges on Tuesday's election results. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has pledged to overturn the Affordable Care Act, although he would face obstacles doing so.
That's really going to help the job situation, isn't it?
When is government ever going to learn that its intrusion into the private affairs of men always has consequences, and, when they are outside the legitimate function of government in a free society, the effect is usually negative.
Congratulations Democrats, you've done it again.
Job burnout for doctors — will it intensify under ObamaCare?
Apparently job burnout effects about 40% of US doctors a recent survey revealed:
Job burnout strikes doctors more often than it does other employed people in the United States, according to a national survey that included more than 7,000 doctors.
More than four in 10 U.S. physicians said they were emotionally exhausted or felt a high degree of cynicism, or "depersonalization," toward their patients, said researchers whose findings appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
"The high rate of burnout has consequences not only for the individual physicians, but also for the patients they are caring for," said Tait Shanafelt of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who led the research.
Now imagine the demand that 10 million newly insured that have been given mandated "free stuff" by ObamaCare will add to the load doctors are carrying (don't forget, we're supposed to be 90,000 doctors short by 2020).
Yup, again this really isn't rocket science, but it also obviously hasn't at all be thought through by our lawmakers, has it?
And the law of unintended consequences will take it's due course because of that.
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The coming government made healthcare crisis
I've mentioned it before but a reminder (yes, it's that nasty combination of human nature and economic laws being ignored that is about to assert itself):
Once the new healthcare law fully takes effect, all Americans will be entitled to a long list of preventive services with no out-of-pocket costs, but the healthcare system won't have enough doctors to provide them. The shortage will create longer waiting periods that some patients will be able to cope with better than others. Lower income patients will be worse off, according to Independent Institute Research Fellow John C. Goodman.
And where will those who need more immediate care go? Why emergency rooms, of course. Wait, wasn't the overload on emergency rooms touted as one of the primary reasons we needed this law?
So, we are going to add millions to the insured list and give them "free" stuff and expect doctors to maintain the level of care they now have with their patients (which many think could be better) and carve out time to administer the free stuff too?
I'm sure the government solution will be something like redefining an hour to 40 minutes and make each day 36 hours, huh? Problem solved.
No additional doctors, millions of new patients and free stuff – what could possibly screw up there?
The other questions is how will doctors react? Well here's how some are already reacting:
Many patients who can afford to do so will sign up for concierge care—medical practices in which patients pay a retainer fee for more personalized and responsive service, such as same day or next-day appointments. Physicians who open a concierge practice typically take about 500 of their patients with them, leaving behind 2,000 former patients to find a new doctor. (Those figures come from MDVIP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, respectively.) "So in general, as concierge care grows, the strain on the rest of the system will become greater," Goodman continues. "We will quickly evolve into a two-tiered health-care system, with those who can afford it getting more care and better care. In the meantime, the most vulnerable populations will have less access to care than they had before ObamaCare became law."
Or said another way, the emergency rooms will be full to bursting and the fact someone has insurance will mean nothing unless a doctor is willing to take them on – something that will be less likely in the near future than it is now.
Finally, in case it slipped your mind, here are the 18 new taxes found in ObamaCare – something to remember when he and his flacks are out there claiming that he's never raised taxes by a dime (his promise in 2008) on the middle class.
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What part of "health care is a finite resource" does the left not understand?
Regardless of all the promises made by ObamaCare, there are still only 24 hours in a day and there are a finite number of doctors available to fulfill the starry-eyed promises the law makes.
That's reality, something the left routinely attempts to pretend doesn't exist.
Some examples of the point – ObamaCare will put 30 million more people on insurance rolls Yay, problem of health care solved, right?
No, of course not. There will still be the same number of doctors and hours in a day. As we've been saying repeatedly, getting insurance does not mean you'll be able to see a doctor.
And then there are the new requirements placed on doctors by ObamaCare that further exacerbate the problem.
Take preventive care. ObamaCare says that health insurance must cover the tests and procedures recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. What would that involve? In the American Journal of Public Health (2003), scholars at Duke University calculated that arranging for and counseling patients about all those screenings would require 1,773 hours of the average primary-care physician's time each year, or 7.4 hours per working day.
So, a doctor either commits to 10 or 12 hours of work a day or she sees patients for other reasons for 2/3rds an hour a day.
Or try this:
Meanwhile, the administration never seems to tire of reminding seniors that they are entitled to a free annual checkup. Its new campaign is focused on women. Thanks to health reform, they are being told, they will have access to free breast and pelvic exams and even free contraceptives. Once ObamaCare fully takes effect, all of us will be entitled to a long list of preventive services—with no deductible or copayment.
Of course, none of that is "free", but much of it will also tie up a doctor's time. Preventive care costs money – lots of money – and when you have someone else paying for it, even more people will try to take advantage of that.
The left thinks that's a feature, not a bug.
Here's the real-world problem, however:
If the screenings turn up a real problem, there will have to be more testing and more counseling. Bottom line: To meet the promise of free preventive care nationwide, every family doctor in America would have to work full-time delivering it, leaving no time for all the other things they need to do.
In effect, it is government mandating treatment that fills up the doctor's time when much of that treatment may not be necessary. But that call has been taken out of the doctor's hands with this law. If a patient demands all their "free" stuff, then what?
I often harp on the fact that the left seems sublimely ignorant on how the laws of economics work. Well, what ObamaCare has set up are exactly the same conditions that plague most government run healthcare systems:
When demand exceeds supply in a normal market, the price rises until it reaches a market-clearing level. But in this country, as in other developed nations, Americans do not primarily pay for care with their own money. They pay with time.
Prepare yourself for long waits for what you now consider to be routine problems. If it is routine you will likely have less of a chance of seeing a doctor than you do now. Best hope you can self- medicate or just wait out the problem. If it is a serious problem, you'll most likely still be in for a wait.
As physicians increasingly have to allocate their time, patients in plans that pay below-market prices will likely wait longest. Those patients will be the elderly and the disabled on Medicare, low-income families on Medicaid, and (if the Massachusetts model is followed) people with subsidized insurance acquired in ObamaCare's newly created health insurance exchanges.
Econ 101. So what is likely to happen?
When people cannot find a primary-care physician who will see them in a reasonable length of time, all too often they go to hospital emergency rooms.
Uh, wasn't that a big part of the impetus behind creating ObamaCare? To "solve" that problem? In fact, it is likely to exacerbate it.
Of course the solution to the government made problem will be what? Most likely more government. Those patients who are in those plans that pay below-market reimbursement will complain to whom? Politicians. And vote hungry politicians will try to do what? "Fix" the problem they created. And who will they make the bad guys? Well, certainly not them – greedy doctors or insurance companies most likely.
You can see this coming from a mile off – well if your eyes aren't full of moon dust and you have even a passing acquaintance with how the real world works.
As P.J. O'Rourke so aptly said, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."
Unless this monstrosity of a law is repealed, we're about to find out.
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Pizza? This is about slow suffocation by government (update)
Rob Port brings attention to the Papa John's story:
At Slate, Matthew Yglesias scoffs at Papa Johns' founder John Schnatter saying the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, will drive up costs for his company by roughly $0.20 per order, something his company will be passing along to customers.
"Stipulating for a moment that this is true, doesn't it seem like a rather small price to pay?" asks Yglesias.
No, it's not small at all.
Rob then covers just the Papa John's part of this formulation:
Papa John's operates 3,973 restaurants. I can't figure out how many orders the company processes daily, but let's assume a very conservative 100 orders per store. That's 397,300 orders every day. Adding $0.20 to ever order in additional labor costs translates into just over $29 million in additional costs for Papa Johns customers annually.
But, of course, as you've already figured out, if that's true for Papa John's, it is probably true for most other companies in the US as well.
So as Rob says, "no, it's not small at all". In fact, it is potentially a huge increase in the price people will pay for all goods and services.
Papa John's isn't alone in seeing a price increase in their futures. As the magazine relates, in its most recent earnings call, McDonald's said the health care plan will cost their stores an extra $10,000 to $30,000. While the vast expansion of government power involved in the bill will result in more federal expenditures, the pizza magnate's comment highlights the fact that it will create an across-the-board surtax on virtually all expenditures by families and individuals. This will mean an increase in the cost of living that will hit the poor a lot harder than the rich the president claims to want to tax.
In fact, as pointed out, it has the same effect as a tax on the poor.
Yet the left simply seems unable to wrap their heads around that. Here's a commenter to the article I took the paragraph above from:
It is shocking that the CEO of Papa John's and this magazine commentator would begrudge the near-poor workers of that company health insurance — and better healthcare for a few cents per pie!! Our country is based on the premise that we all pay a little more to help those less fortunate — the key here is "a little more." Does anyone really object to that??
Yes. Strenuously. And by the way, this country was not founded on the premise "that we all pay a little more to help those less fortunate" and claiming that to be so is an attempt to rewrite history. It was about providing everyone an equal opportunity under the law to succeed while protecting their basic rights to life, liberty and property.
So we have the probability that prices will increase in the future as companies charge more for their products to cover health care. And that brings us to a pretty basic point, here made by Bethany Mandel at Commentary Magazine:
What this person and other liberals have wrong is this: It's not about the price of pizza. If it were actually possible to improve healthcare for millions of Americans and insure millions more, conservatives would be on board. The basis of conservative opposition to ObamaCare is this: We do not think it will help the majority of Americans. The bill is titled the "Affordable Care Act," but does nothing to make healthcare more affordable, nor will it improve health care. In reality, it provides a worse standard of care at a higher cost.
Under ObamaCare, 17 million Americans will be added to Medicaid's rolls in order to move some Americans from the uninsured to the insured column. Are they actually better off?
I, of course, wouldn't be "on board" if it had to do with government intervention, however I understand the point she's trying to make. What has been passed won't a) reduce costs and make health care more affordable or b) improve health care.
It is the "big lie" writ large. The parameters defining health care delivery are finite, not infinite. You have 24 hours in a day and x number of providers. Is adding 17 million to the welfare portion of government health care (the one most providers refuse to take because of the supreme hassle and low reimbursement rate) really going to improve their lives?
As Avik Roy notes, even though we'll be paying more across the board to make it possible, probably not:
In July 2010, at National Review Online's Critical Condition blog, I wrote about a University of Virginia study, published in Annals of Surgery, finding that surgical patients on Medicaid endured a 97 percent higher likelihood of in-hospital death than patients with private insurance, and a 13 percent greater chance of death than those with no insurance at all. I noted several other clinical studies that showed similar results.
And that's before the 17 million are added. This is the mess we find ourselves in when agenda driven politicians pass laws they haven't even read over and above the objections of the majority of the people.
It's hard to call that a "representative democracy" isn't it?
And, no, this still isn't about pizza.
UPDATE: Morning Bell (Heritage Foundation) weighs in:
At least 60 percent of firms are estimating Obamacare will raise their health care costs, according to a new study released Wednesday by Mercer, a human resources consulting firm. One-third of those expect a cost increase of 5 percent or more.
The study states:
The employers that will be hit hardest are those with large part-time populations—employers in retail and hospitality services. Nearly half of these employers (46%) expect PPACA will push up cost by at least 3% in 2014—and another third don't yet know what the impact will be.
An example of the impact from the CEO of CKE Restaurants:
The money to comply with the [Affordable Care Act] must come from somewhere. We use our revenue to pay our bills and expenses, to pay down our debt, and we reinvest what's left in our business. That's how we create jobs. There's no corporate pot of gold we can go to, to cover increased health care costs. New unit construction will cease if we have to allocate moneys for that construction to the ACA. And building new restaurants is how we create jobs.
As we've said many times before, this isn't rocket science and they're called "economic laws" for a reason. Unfortunately the left continues to ignore them (or pretend they don't exist) with predictable results.
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Eastern Sweden and Western Finland can clearly be seen on this MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image, surrounding the Gulf of Bothnia. Along the southern coast of Sweden is the Stockholm Archipelago, from there across the Gulf north east over the Finnish Island of Aland, is the city Turku, which can just be seen beneath the clouds. Heading further north up the Finnish coast is the city of Vassa. Looking closely at some of the rivers in Sweden we can see that some of them have been dammed where they are being used for hydropower. Lake Storuman, in the top left hand corner of the image, is an example where a natural lake in the river Umelven has been dammed to feed the power station of Umslupen.
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There is some real aggravating stuff in this game, but I suppose that's just par for the course in a Shadowgate game.
Also, I really wish the graphics weren't so sloppy :( Thankfully, they got rid of that retro graphics mode they showed in the last QL - that just looked terrible.
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I'm looking for help with a career... Comic Artist.
Oi, I'm 17 in my senior year right now, likely looking to go to Memphis College of Art. For a while I thought I wanted to be a concept artist, and that's still a maybe, but I'm thinking I'd like to be a comic artist. All I know is that I love to paint. And I'm falling love with photography. I know that all of you likely get these threads a lot, but still, would any of you have any recomendations for school or career.
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Savannah College of Art & Design is currently the only US school that offers 4 yr undergrad and graduate degrees in Sequential Art (Comics and Storyboarding). We have quite a few pros in our lineup, including Paul Hudson who is our resident concept artist (worked for Disney, NASA, etc) and teaches most of the concept classes, which are considered part of our department.
There is also Joe Kubert School which hands out 2 yr technical/correspondance degrees in Comic Art
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There is also the center for Cartoon Studies http://cartoonstudies.org/ in Vermont. It's something along the lines of the Kubert School. I talked to them a little bit at their booth at the Small Press Expo. It looks very good. Right now Diamond is offering a one year scholarship to go there, there's a link on the school's front page.
I've been wanting to go to SCAD for a while, I've visited the school and I really liked what I saw, student work, the professors, and the facilities. I think aside from the Sequential Art department, having access to all of the painting, illustration, and graphic design classes is a big boost from the two year programs. Savannah is an interesting city too.
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one of the best comic schools are in Itally. but I don't think that you are interested in studying in Europe


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SAN FRANCISCO–A crisis has hit California's great outdoors. Seventy of our 279 California state parks are set to close on July 1, 2012, because of budget cuts.
This means that 70 iconic places will no longer be available to the public, such as the breathtaking coastlines of Garrapata or Morro Strand; historic landmarks, like Jack London and Petaluma Adobe; or the recreational locations, such as Annadel or China Camp.
These closures are a direct result of Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed $22 million permanent general fund cut to the California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR). But this $22 million is really just the final straw. DPR's budget has suffered ongoing cuts for well over a decade.
These are tough times for state parks. The implications of these budget cuts hurt local communities across the state. Closing state parks is bad for local businesses, bad for tourism, bad for jobs, bad for health and wellbeing, and bad for California.
70 Million Visitors Spend $6 Billion a Year
Almost 70 million people visit the state's parks annually, and they generate an annual economic benefit of more than $6 billion statewide. With all this at stake, a budget cut that gives the state a mere fraction of a percent in savings is not worth it.
Many Californians seem to understand this. For several months now, the parks community has been stepping up in significant ways to help parks slated for closure.
Three kinds of partnerships are taking shape. First, government agencies are providing assistance to help keep parks open.
Second, many state-parks organizations and associations are fundraising to keep their particular parks open.
Finally, some nonprofit organizations are evaluating their ability to manage parks directly. They can do so under the new operating authority that DPR received from the passage of Assembly Bill 42 in January.
The bill authorizes DPR to enter into operating agreements with qualified nonprofits to provide visitor services in state parks, facilitate public access to park resources, improve park facilities, and provide interpretive and educational services.
To date, approximately 13 parks on the closure list have found stopgap measures to stay open through one of the above partnerships, and many more are in the works. Even though these partnerships are commendable, they are, unfortunately, temporary solutions. That is, they won't restore the needed funding from the state government.
Key Legislation
Two key pieces of legislation are moving through the legislature in Sacramento that could help state parks. Assembly Bill 1589, introduced by Jared Huffman, D-Marin, is an omnibus bill for state parks funding and sustainability.
Senate Bill 580 by Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, is a parks-protection bill requiring that state park lands not be used for non-park purposes unless replacement lands of equivalent value are provided. Both of these bills would be a big step in the right direction for state parks.
In order to prevent these closures and protect our state parks, citizens must intervene and tell Gov. Brown they are opposed to these cuts and the closures.
Those who wish to express their support for the parks can send a message to their legislators through the California State Parks Foundation (CSPF) website, www.calparks.org. Additionally, it is crucial for everyone to help spread the word, particularly through social media (#defendwhatsyours).
The cuts may well go deeper. Not only have Brown's budget cuts led to the closure of 70 parks, but all seasonal lifeguards on state beaches and 20 percent of park rangers will be laid off if his revenue package does not pass in November.
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Parks and recreation are important for tourism and the health and well being of the citizens. California's parks should ot be closed.
If anything, we need more parks, not fewer. The rich elite have their exclusive playgrounds and they normally don't include state parks. As the article implies, people need to organize and work with government agencies to do whatever it takes to at least keep the existing parks open. It's a shame that it's come down to this considering the screwed up priorities of our country. If the rich were forced to pay their fair share of taxes, there would be enough funds to keep parks open, not to mention enough to keep people healthier and our infrastructure from crumbling among other things.
I agree with Troy G. and Lynne S.
Protect the national parks!!!
Let the Bush tax cuts expire, cut the MIC budget, stop giving tax breaks to Big Oil, stop giveaways to companies that export jobs, end the trillion dollar War on (some) Drugs, forgive student loans, take money out of politics, let the people decide big issues by continual online referendums instead of letting big money bribes to politicians make the law and above all, never vote for conservatives:
It is amazing to me that our species has accepted a governmental authority that sections OUR LAND into so-called "parks" and then determines it will "close" the parks -- in an effort to prevent people from accessing the land. There is absolutely no legitimacy to any of this and if we would stop giving this insane government legitimacy, it would disappear. They cannot prevent people from accessing public land. This whole damn thing is a charade.
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Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Why do people hate this game so much? I have it and it's good.
I think the bottom line is that its not what Paper Mario fans are used to / were expecting.
I hated it at first but stuck with it and have now grown to like it.
I think it deserves a 7/10 at best which is not a terrible score.
Not having to level up seems weird at first but building up an arsenal of stickers in a way is the alternative to needing to grind. In some ways its refreshing as it means you can choose how much you want to fight.
I do feel however that it feels like the game has been 'streamlined' from what we're used to from the series and feels a lot less 'epic' than say TTYD.
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From 14:59 to 24:20 these guys do a good job of explaining why it's a bad game. I've already posted why I think this game is terrible several times and I'm a little too lazy.
I've not played the first two Paper Mario games and enjoyed SPM. This game fell short. Battles served no purpose because the only way to actually get stronger was to find HP ups in the stages.
Battles also weren't very fun because they were turn-based and you couldn't choose which enemy to attack. I'm not saying turn based battles are bad, but when you don't need to do them in the first place, they just waste time.
Most Thing puzzles were easy enough to figure out, but some were so oddly specific and nonsensical that they were just frustrating. Similar reason for boss battles. I also didn't appreciate Kersti saying I did poorly when I didn't use the "right" Things for the first 2 bosses (I did world 1 and then world 3 first).
That and I'm a little upset with what the music gallery turned out to be. So there's no way for me to hear the Gooper Blooper boss battle music on that file ever again?
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That and I'm a little upset with what the music gallery turned out to be. So there's no way for me to hear the Gooper Blooper boss battle music on that file ever again?
To be fair, that's what Youtube is for. Here you go:
I've made it quite clear before what I think about this game's changes to the series and don't really feel like typing out all that again right now.
"it's that game that is so great it makes you want to destroy your Toilet." -Throwback2780
I've known about the music being on Youtube, but I'd have enjoyed having it in game as well. I have quite a few video game soundtracks available to me without having to use the internet.
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I can't believe some people are comparing this with TTYD and PM. Those two games are in a completely different tier to SPM and this game. Paper Mario has always been an RPG. Those two games were amazing and why they choose to get rid of all aspects of a formula that worked was beyond me. Instead they went along with the horrible Super Mario theme - horrible. And then to make things even worse in this game they've eliminated party members and the RPG elements. Can't believe anyone can defend this load of tosh.
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You call the Super Mario theme horrible, but many, MANY fans of SMB3, World, Galaxy etc. and even the NSMB games would like a word with you.
Also, you're a hypocrite. You say you don't know how anyone can compare it, then you compare it yourself. Take your own advice.
This is why I've not been getting involved in these pointless arguments.
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From: megaflashmario | #001So many reviews say stuff like '' terrible game '' '' toilet paper '' I just don't get it! I think the game has a few flaws. But besides that I love it!
I have played the previous games!
avengah posted...
You call the Super Mario theme horrible, but many, MANY fans of SMB3, World, Galaxy etc. and even the NSMB games would like a word with you.
... DUDE!!!!!! I LOVE THE SUPER MARIO THEME!!!!!!! I love all those games!!!!! And I wrote a review!!!! It's probably isn't posted yet though :(
megaflashmario posted...
avengah posted...You call the Super Mario theme horrible, but many, MANY fans of SMB3, World, Galaxy etc. and even the NSMB games would like a word with you.
I just want to know others opinions that haven't wrote a review :( Next time think avengah!


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Caroline Corbasson / Katy Cole / Aaron Guy / Mishka Henner / Thomas Ireland / Hefin Jones / Kate Liston / Cristina de Middel / Aleksandra Mir / Michael Mulvihill / Liam Murray / Mehreen Murtaza / Katie Paterson / Joseph Popper / Elizabeth Price / Sophy Rickett / Antonio Riello / Aura Satz / Shimabuku / Marko Tadić
A group show exploring the enduring presence of the moon and the rich iconography of space on the popular imagination of artists. With reworked stories and imagined realities, ideas and tropes from science fiction, mixed with conspiracy theories and an interest in fictional restaging, the exhibition illustrates differing global perspectives of the moon and reworks its prevailing image on our collective imagination.
They Used to Call it the Moon brings together artists from Pakistan, Croatia and the UK working in film, photography, sculpture and collage. BALTIC 39 will also provide a platform for ideas and discussion where scientists, environmentalists, astronomers, artists and writers will share their knowledge and experiences in relation to the future possibilities of the moon.
BALTIC has programmed a series of associated events to accompany this exhibition including film screenings, discussion, performance and a stargazing trip to Kielder Observatory.
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Image credits
Sophy Rickett, Observation 114 1991/2013, Black & White Bromide Print. Courtesy the artist and Camilla Grimaldi Gallery, London.
Katy Cole, Galaxias (detail) 2013. Courtesy the artist.
Joseph Popper, The One-Way Ticket space capsule. Installation view, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, April 2013.
Aura Satz, Harvard Pinafore Human Computer Play 1929. Courtesy of Harvard College Observatory
Michael Mulvihill, Pursuit of happiness (Cosmonaut 8) 2013. Courtesy Vane Gallery.
Aaron Guy, One silver Gas station 2014. Courtesy the artist.
Marko Tadic, We Used to Call it the Moon, 2011. Courtesy the artist.
Kate Liston, Moon Rabbit 2012. Courtesy the artist.
Aleksandra Mir, First Woman on the Moon, Casco Projects, Utrecht on location in the Netherlands, 28 August 1999. Courtesy the artist.
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The daily lunch buffet here gets high marks, but dinners are more ambitious and dazzling. Try the Butter Tharka, a tantalizing shrimp dish, or the lamb shanks, which simmer for eight hours.
7. Taka
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Jumbo fried fillets star in Joe Melluso's fish and chips, but offerings here run from burgers to grilled salmon. Cramped dining room, but in warm months try the sunny, spacious patio.
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1 Park Blvd. (at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel); (619) 231-9000, foxsportsgrill.com
Limited kids' menu (chicken tenders, mini burgers, etc.) but adult offerings — barbecue bacon cheddar cheeseburgers! — will tempt even jaded juniors. If, that is, they can tear their eyes from the jumbo TVs.
10. Ghirardelli
643 Fifth Ave.; (619) 234-2449, ghirardelli.com
We're here for the kids. Chocolate bars? We outgrew those. Sundaes and splits, drenched in syrup, whipped cream and nuts? Ditto. But since we're here, how about a milkshake? Make it a tall one.
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324 Horton Plaza
Room for antsy kids, ample choices and low prices: Horton Plaza's upper level is just the ticket for parents and their famished offspring. Panda Express, Hot Dog on a Stick, La Salsa and more.
12. Lolita's Mexican Restaurant
202 Park Blvd.; (619) 269-6055, lolitasmexicanfood.com
Joaquin and Dolores Farfan's South Bay institution planted this outpost across from Petco. Tortas, burritos, chimichangas, combination plates — in San Diego, that's a kids and adults menu.
13. Maryjane's Coffee Shop
207 Fifth Ave. (at the Hard Rock Hotel); (619) 764-6497, hardrockhotelsd.com/dining-&-nightlife/maryjanes
No formal kids menu, but the burgers, all-day-breakfast and Hot Elvis Sandwich (peanut butter and bananas "on griddled whiteboy bread") will bring out every diner's inner child.
14. O'Brothers
188 Horton Plaza; (619) 615-0909, obrothersburgers.com
C.W. and Derek Cowling make spectacular organic burgers from grass-fed beef. We've had our issues with their fries, but everything here is organic, including sodas and beer.
15. Old Spaghetti Factory
275 Fifth Ave.; (619) 233-4323, osf.com
While little ones devour plates of spaghetti in the classic red sauce, try the pasta with mizithra cheese and browned butter. All entrees include bread, soup or salad, a drink and a spumoni scoop.
16. Sammy's Woodfired Pizza
770 Fourth Ave.; (619) 230-8888, sammyspizza.com
The kids meal (ages 10 and under): choice of pizza, pastas, chopped salad, chicken breast teriyaki or quesadilla, plus drink, for $5.95. Kid-sized sundaes ($2.25) may distract the tots from your glutton-scaled Messy Sundae ($8.50).
17. Bice
425 Island Ave.; (619) 239-2423, bicesandiego.com
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By P.H. Burbridge - It never ceases to amaze me what fighters, their promoters, trainers and advisors expect us to believe. If you paid attention to everything these people said in the press or the many off handed comments you would go absolutely crazy trying to figure out what was actually going on. Trust me dont spend too much time breathing significance into the various statements floating in cyber space because agendas and individual motivations are difficult to read unless youre actually on the inside. Negotiating through the press has always been a staple of professional boxing but in recent years it has become nauseatingly key in the failure of many a deal. Truthfully, we never really know the actual facts or the extenuating circumstances of a proposed deal but trust me in some cases even if we did its safe to say that it still wouldnt make too much sense to us. I correspond with a number of very well known scribes whose names you would immediately recognize who actively enjoy the inside scoop when it comes to the finer details of some pretty high profile deals. So, Im privy to a lot of interesting bits and pieces which I can tell you always leaves me scratching my head wondering how and why people operate the way they do. The pettiness, the grudges, the ulterior motives, the full on manipulation and the out right deceit simply dominates the process. Sure you can probably say that about all professional sports but not to the degree that exists in professional boxing. In some cases, you simply cant apply logic to these things. Also, in most cases, theres a back story that impacts discussions..
Many times the fighters themselves dont have a particular gripe one way or the other but their managers do, their trainers do, their promoters do, their advisors do and for that reason they concoct and twist details to support THEIR agenda and advise their guy under the guise of looking out for HIS best interests. Youve got people getting THEIR pay back for unfavorable past dealings and it has nothing to do with the fighters and many times it hinders the deal in play. The reason theres a perception that some of the individuals who comprise a fighters supporting cast are leeches is because well, theyre leeches
Some fighters are treated like children and others act like children but almost all are being manipulated in one way or the other.
The business of boxing is like no other on the planet. Theres no moral authority that governs the sport and theres nothing on the horizon that would lead us to believe anything is going to change any time soon. So, here we are once again all worked up and no fight. Where do we start? Bob Arum!! It actually ends with Bob as well
.He is very, VERY clever! Did you think a master planner like Arum actually believed or would even try to facilitate a deal of this magnitude without making direct contact with the other party? Through a series of conversations with Ross Greenburg at HBO? Not likely
Arum has been accused of many things but no one can accuse him of being dumb. When youre still around after 40 years in the business and really still at the forefront it speaks to your ability to shape perceptions. It speaks to your ability to navigate the shark tank.
So, what was the real purpose of that press conference? What did Arum really hope to accomplish by putting on such a spectacle? And, why was he so understanding of Floyd not to stepping forward at the magic hour? He was awfully subdued even offering possible explanations and lecturing the press not to be too hard on Floyd. It almost felt like it did when he represented Mayweather. The prevalent theory amongst many scribes which I also subscribe to is that Arum actually wants to push this fight back because of the 50/50 win/lose nature of the match up. Hes been around a long time and has seen many a great fighter lose so he knows anything is possible. The reality is that there is no other fighter in the Top Rank stable who comes any where near Manny Pacquiao in terms of popularity i.e. PPV buy rates and should he come out of that fight with an L it would dramatically impact Top Ranks annual revenue. Im not saying that Bob thinks Manny will lose Im saying hes playing the percentages here which dictates that they capitalize NOW. Oh, I believe Arum truly does want the Mayweather fight but not before he can slip in another TOP RANK controlled event. An event that is reasonably acceptable to fans and doesnt jeopardize the BIG pay off against Mayweather. In the final analysis, it probably makes more sense for Pacquiao too whether he agrees or disagrees with the premise. So, in order to avoid making it look too obvious Arum first had to express to the fight public that THEY tried everything in their power to get Mayweather signed, sealed and delivered. He needed to set the stage for his next statement which was we TRIED everything and had to move on to the next guy! You notice Arum never closed the door on a Mayweather fight. He knows thats still the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so hes playing a very shrewd game here to achieve that end. I know it may not seem that way to us in our disappointment but this without question is the best possible outcome for Top Rank and Manny.
The sham of a deadline at the stroke of midnight is almost too cheesy to fathom even for Arum but it was completely necessary for the purposes of moving the fan mindset in the direction he needed us to move in. There had to be the overall impression and public acknowledgement that a concerted effort was made to make the fight everybody wants to see or risk of a possible backlash. If Arum attempted to make a fight with Top Ranks Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito BEFORE trying to make the Mayweather fight fans would have crucified him and Manny. AND, the fans might not throw their support behind one of those match ups under those circumstances. BUT, if Top Rank went through (at least in the publics mind) the process of trying to make the fight happen and Floyd either said No which based on the way it was presented was practically guaranteed or in this case simply didnt acknowledge it then the fans could more easily accept the possibility of those other fights.
Touché, Bob
Those of you who are stuck in an alternate universe and believe this whole failed negotiation is an indication of how Floyd feels or how Manny feels youre missing the larger picture. There is a method to Arums madness here and in this case its perfectly logical. Manny has a schedule he likes to adhere to which means he wants to fight X amount of times a year so from his perspective he was perfectly fine fighting Mayweather in November or anybody else for that matter. He wants to fight this year. Floyd does not and in his case he has a number of outside issues that dictate he take a bit of a break. (e.g. Rogers legal situation) Plus as hes gotten older and his purses have reached ridiculous highs so Mayweather doesnt feel rushed to do anything. He feels hes earned the right to bask in the glow of big Mosley win so thats what hes doing.
Mayweather never said he was going to fight again this year and we all know he wouldnt allow anyone to dictate anything to him at this point. The man thinks of himself as bigger than the sport. No title belts required, etc
All this is well understood by Arum. He knew Floyd wouldnt agree so it created exactly the dynamic he needed to make one of those other fights.
I have to say, I may not like the end result but I have to take my hat off to Arum for doing it. Its damn clever.
And another reminder that this is chess not checkers!
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The agency cleared the drug, made by Genentech and already approved for treating lung and colon cancer, based on findings that it slowed tumor growth, the Associated Press reported.
In a prepared statement issued Friday afternoon, Genentech said the drug won accelerated approval "in combination with paclitaxel chemotherapy, for the treatment of patients who have not received chemotherapy for their metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer. The approval is based on a Phase III study, called E2100, that showed that Avastin in combination with paclitaxel chemotherapy resulted in a 52 percent reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared to those treated with paclitaxel alone and a doubling in progression-free survival."
"There is no cure for metastatic breast cancer, so it is important to control the disease as early and for as long as possible," Dr. Kathy Miller, lead investigator on the E2100 trial, said in the Genentech statement. "Now with Avastin plus paclitaxel, we can increase the time a womans cancer is kept under control, and offer a biologic option to women who previously were limited to chemotherapies alone," added Miller, an associate professor of medical oncology at Indiana University School of Medicine.
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As inaugural Pro Bono Scholars, three St. John's Law 3Ls spent the spring semester working full-time to help fill the wide "justice gap" that leaves many New Yorkers without the legal help they need when facing foreclosure, cuts in public assistance, eviction, and other serious legal challenges.
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A Manhattan federal judge's use of a rare writ to void a former Merrill Lynch assistant's guilty plea for lying in the "squawk box" securities fraud case may have been a valid exercise in sympathy, but according to Professor Larry Cunningham, prosecutors would have opened the floodgates to more culpable defendants had they let the judge's decision stand.
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APPEL – Helen, funeral 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Howell-Lussi Funeral Home, 509 Wyoming Avenue, West Pittston. Friends may call 5 to 7 p.m. today.
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Travel writer Tony Perrotet has spent his career traveling all over the globe, but he skipped the Mediterranean tour, choosing Tierra del Fuego or the Amazon over Rome. But the discovery of an ancient guide book launched him on his most exotic journey yet, in the footsteps of the Ancients.
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If you followed college ball you would have realized this much earlier.
You're so incredibly wrong.
I went to NC State, watched nearly every game Wilson played in. He pulled off some amazing stuff for sure, but I can remember plenty of times he lost games for us. What did NC State actually win during his time there?
I remember a pick in the endzone to end a game against ECU.
I remember losing to Maryland and missing out on the ACC title game because of a failed 4th down QB sneak.
Now, flip this and look at Newton's college career.
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Last week, I wrote about the recent New York Times story on Eastern Kentucky. The Times described the region as one of the worst places to live in America and featured a graphic of a Kentucky license plate that read "Help Me." Of course there's poverty in our region — like there's poverty in New York City. But for us, we feel our poverty is always being used to define us. It seems it's the only thing about us that the media ever covers.
Natives know there's a different story. They know that there's a sense of loyalty and passion to place that makes this one of the hardest places to leave in America! There's also ingenuity. It's true our economy suffers, but it's also true that locals aren't letting that stop them. They're being creative and entrepreneurial, and they're growing successful small businesses in the region. They're not waiting for help, they're helping themselves.
Rather than wait on the New York Times to tell this story, we're going to start telling it ourselves. Through words, photos, tweets, social media, and video, we are launching a web effort to tell the tales of entrepreneurs living in eastern Kentucky. We're starting with one each from the six Eastern Kentucky counties the Times reported as being in the bottom 10: Magoffin, Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Jackson and Lee County. Our website is located at www.ekyhelpingourselves.com and is alreadyup in beta version; our Facebook page is at facebook.com/ekyhelpingourselves.
Two who are staying in the region and helping themselves are Mike Bryan, of Breathitt County, and Joel Brashear, of Leslie County. These entrepreneurs are making a niche for themselves on paths not always considered in rural areas, and they aren't waiting for help.
Mike is a software developer in Jackson. He hasn't always lived in Breathitt County. He once lived in one of America's most successful urban meccas: Atlanta. Likely, some would make the argument that Atlanta is one of the greatest places to live in America — especially if you're in the tech arena. But when Mike and his wife decided to start a family, the first place they thought of was Jackson.
Moving from the tech economy of Atlanta to Appalachia meant risk. But entrepreneurship is all about managing risk. Mike hung out a virtual shingle and soon was getting business from across America. He soon found he could make a comfortable living in Eastern Kentucky and meet the needs of his family, too.
Joel Brashear recently launched a television program in his hometown of Hyden. The pilot episode ran on the CWKYT channel in Lexington to an audience of thousands. It's not a path Joel would have imagined growing up: "When I was younger, all I could think about was getting out of the mountains and off to 'the city.' So, when I was offered a scholarship [to Georgetown College] to play football, I signed as fast as possible before they could change their mind. Of course, I was homesick and ready to come home after a week! Thankfully, my parents made me stay through that rough first month. But I never got over being homesick. Not fully."
After a year in Lexington working as an actor, Joel decided to move home. His path to entrepreneurship wasn't direct. Initially, he worked for the local TV station, WYMT. There, he gained experience running his own show. Later, he was an English teacher in Hyden. Next, he took a job with his father's bank, working as the community outreach officer. Last year, Joel decided it was time to combine his business education, TV and acting experience, and writing skills to develop his own TV show. His partner: his mother, Rhonda Brashear. "Our Mountains" celebrates Eastern Kentucky culture. All aspects of Appalachian lifestyle are explored and shared — food, music, storytelling, tourism, etc.
Joel's and Mike's paths may be unique, but the approach is one we see more and more across this region. Entrepreneurship is allowing locals to stay in the places they love and create prosperous careers. Stay tuned for more.
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The pH is 6.5. If it worked for you with the things you were doing, then no harm was done, but I will point out that the instructions do not say it is alkaline. The semantics is there to quibble, and it was an error, but the fact remains that it works.
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Chaa Creek Welcomes CNN Maya Top Pick
CNN´s recent acknowledgement of the "World of the Maya" as one of the top nine travel destinations for 2012 is one more indication that Belize´s year of the Maya 2012 celebrations are set to be a big hit with international visitors, Belize´s premier eco resort Chaa Creek reports.
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CNN´s recent acknowledgment of the "World of the Maya" as one of the top nine travel destinations for 2012 is one more indication that Belize´s year of the Maya 2012 celebrations are set to be a big hit with international visitors, Belize´s premier eco resort Chaa Creek reports.
"While we always expected that there would be a certain amount of interest in Belize´s Heartland of the Maya 2012 celebrations, the worldwide attention we´re receiving is unprecedented," Chaa Creek proprietor and GM Lucy Fleming said. "And while we´ll still be able to provide a more intimate, relaxed Maya experience than some of the better known locations, the increased interest means that we can be a bit more ambitious in hosting some really exciting, authentic Maya experiences throughout 2012, and especially around the December 21 Winter Solstice," she added.
CNN´s post-Christmas announcement of the world top destinations, based on recommendations from the world´s top travel writers and editors, begins with the question:
"But where exactly should you go in 2012? As always, some places will stand out above the rest when it comes to unforgettable things to do and see."
The Maya World, which CNN listed as Belize, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras was highlighted with the advice that, "If you want to see incredible ruins, (Lonely Planet travel editor Robert) Reid recommended skipping the tourist hordes at Tulum and Chichen Itza in Mexico and instead head to places such as Tikal, Guatemala (which George Lucas used as a location in the original ℠Star Wars´)…"
Ms Fleming pointed that while Chaa Creek offers tours to nearby Tikal, Belize´s own sites and Maya temples such a Xunantunich, reached by a hand cranked ferry across the Mopan River, the royal palace of Cahal Pech and the ancient metropolis of Caracol offer visitors an even more intimate experience in a relaxed Caribbean-flavoured setting.
"This year Belize is also providing exclusive Maya Passports to our archaeological sites and Maya temples, which are stamped at each site and we´re sure will become highly sought-after collector´s items. For years Chaa Creek has sponsored archaeological research within our own 365 acre private nature reserve and its over 70 ancient sites and temples, and throughout 2012 we´ll be hosting a series of interesting workshops, seminars and hands-on Maya events and activities.
"We want families and individuals as well as researchers and scholars to explore our Maya heartland, and we´re also putting an emphasis on romance with unique Maya weddings, honeymoons and other experiences geared towards couples who want to experience this amazing civilisation together," she said.
The Maya World was number two in CNN´s list, and along with a similar inclusion in the Lonely Planet World´s Top Ten Destination list for 2012 cements the region´s standing as a premier destination for next year, Ms Fleming said.
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One win away from a second straight Mid-American Conference regular season title, No. 16 Kent State (15-3, 4-0 MAC) will battle No. 12 Central Michigan Sunday on Senior Day at the M.A.C. Center. The Golden Flashes have won 22 of its last 25 duals, including its last 10 against conference opponents. Sunday will mark the fifth straight season that the winner of the KSU-CMU dual determines the MAC regular season champion.
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