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2012 calendars benefiting Rockford MELD and featuring photographs of Anderson Japenese Gardens by photographer Jeff Anderson are now available for purchase at area retailers.
The calendar is standard 11 inches by 14 inches in size, with 12 full-page scenes of the gardens ideal for matting and framing.
Calendars, $15 each, are available at the following locations:
Stone's Hallmark Stores — 2508 S. Alpine Road and 5901 E. Riverside Blvd.
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Poska — 2213 E. State St.
Crimson Ridge — 735 N. Perryville Road
Porch — 3065 N. Perryville Road
Village Green — 6101 E. Riverside Blvd. and 2640 N. Main St.
Jenny's Gift Shop — SwedishAmerican Hospital, 1401 E. State St.
Benson Stone Company — 1100 11th St.
Shear Renewal — 2209 E. State St.
Katie's Cup — 502 Seventh St.
MELD office — 3703 N. Main St.
Online — www.rockfordmeld.org
Proceeds from calendar sales will benefit MELD programs for young families. For more about MELD or their 2012 calendar, call the MELD office at (815) 633-6353, ext. 10, or go to www.rockfordmeld.org.
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The present invention relates to novel acridinium esters which are useful as luminescent labels in specific binding assays such as immunoassays or nucleic acid hybridization assays. More particularly, polysubstituted aryl acridinium esters are highly stable labels for use in a chemiluminescent immunoassay.
1. A luminescent conjugate for use in luminescent assays comprising a polysubstituted aryl acridinum ester of the formula: ##STR4## where R1 is an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or aryl group; R2, R3, R5, or R7 are a hydrogen, amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl, alkoxyl, nitro, or halide group; R4 or R8 are an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkoxyl, amino, amido, sulfonamido, or sulfide group; R6 represents the following substituent:
where R9 is not required but optionally can be an alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl group, and R10 is selected from the following: ##STR5## X is CH3 SO4-, OSO2 F-, a halide, OSO2 CF3 -, OSO2 C4 F9 -, ##STR6## R is alkyl, aryl, aralkyl; and finally R5, R6, and R7 substituent positions on the phenoxy ring are interchangeable, wherein the R6 substituent of the polysubstituted aryl acridinium ester is covalently coupled to a molecule with biological activity which molecule is capable of being covalently coupled to the R6 substituent.
2. A luminescent conjugate as recited in claim 1 wherein R1 is a methyl group; R2, R3, R5 and R7 are hydrogen; R4 and R8 are a methyl group; R10 is an N-succinimidyl oxycarbonyl group attached directly to the para-position of the phenoxy ring; and X is CH3 SO4 -.
3. A luminescent conjugate as recited in claim 1 wherein the molecule with biological activity is a molecule with immunological activity.
4. A luminescent conjugate as recited in claim 3 wherein the molecule with immunological activity is an antibody.
5. A luminescent conjugate as recited in claim 3 wherein the molecule with immunological activity is an antigen.
6. A luminescent conjugate as recited in claim 1 wherein the molecule with biological activity is a nucleic acid.
7. A luminescent conjugate as recited in claim 1 wherein the molecule with biological activity comprises nucleic acids.
The present invention relates to novel acridinium esters which are useful as luminescent labels in specific binding assays such as immunoassays or nucleic acid hybridization assays. More particularly, polysubstituted aryl acridinium esters have been found to be unexpectedly stable labels for use in a chemiluminescent immune assay.
The use of unsubstituted aryl acridinium esters as chemiluminescent labels is disclosed by J. S. Woodhead et al first in GB No. 2, 008, 247 B, and again in European Patent Application No. EP 82,636. However, these compounds did not have any substituents on the ortho positions of the phenoxy ring which constitutes part of the aryl ester component. Unfortunately the Woodhead compounds were not stable in pH 7.4 buffer media, and thus, not useful for commercial assays.
The present invention comprises novel polysubstituted aryl acridinium esters and luminescent labelled conjugates using these esters. As a result of these substitutions, the present compounds and conjugates have an unexpectedly better stability in pH 7.4 buffer media, a threefold increase in light emitting efficiency when configured as a conjugate, and a twofold improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio when used in a solid phase specific binding assay.
More particularly, the following compounds are representative of the present invention. A luminescent compound comprising a polysubstituted aryl acridinium ester selected from the group having the following structure: ##STR1## where R1 is an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or aryl group; R2, R3, R5, or R7 are a hydrogen, amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl, alkoxyl, nitro, or halide group; R4 or R8 are an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkoxyl, amino, amido, sulfonamido, or sulfide group; R6 represents the following substituents:
where R9 is not required but optionally can be an alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl group, and R10 is selected from the following: ##STR2## X is CH3 SO4-, OSO2 F-, a halide, OSO2 CF3 -, OSO2 C4 F9 -, ##STR3## and R is alkyl, aryl, aralkyl group; and finally R5, R6, and R7 substituent positions on the phenoxy ring are interchangeable.
Applicants believe that the remarkable improvements in the performance of the present polysubstituted aryl acridinium esters over the prior unsubstituted ones as labels for specific binding assays arises from the shielding of the aryl ester linkage in the present compounds. Steric effects, electronic effects, or a combination thereof enable these compounds to be commercially useful in luminescent assays using specific binding phenomena known to the art such as antibody/antigen immunological reactions or complementary nucleic acid hybridization reactions.
As known in the art, labelling compounds for these assays can be used in many different conventional architectures including being coupled either to the ligand or analyte (such as an antigen), or to the specific binding partner of the ligand or analyte (such as the corresponding antibody).
Preferentially, the present polysubstituted aryl acridinium ester compounds should be as described above with the following substituents; R1 is a methyl group; R2, R3, R5, and R7 are hydrogen; R4 and R8 are a methyl group, R10 is an N-succinimidyl oxycarbonyl group attached directly to the para-position of the phenoxy ring, and X is CH3 SO4 -. The following Examples disclose how to synthesize a preferred compound, the ortho-dimethyl aryl acridinium ester.
To a solution of 3,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxybenzoic acid (7.8 g, 47 mmole) in 50 ml of methanol was added dropwise 2.5N NaOH until the pH of the mixture was about 7.0. The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for one hour and evaporated to dryness under a vacuum. The residue was triturated with acetone and filtered. The desired potassium salt was collected as a white salt then washed with acetone, and air dried (7.6 g, 80%).
The potassium salt of 3,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxybenzoic acid in Example 1 (5.6 g, 27 mmole), dibenzo-18-crown-6 (1.0 g, 3 mmole) and 100 ml of DMF/acetonitrile (1:2, v/v) were added to a 250 ml round bottom flask equipped with a reflux condenser, a drying tube, and a stirring bar. The mixture was heated in an oil bath at 80� C. for 30 min, before adding benzyl chloride (3.5 ml, 30 mmole). This reaction mixture was heated at 80� C. for another 3 hours, cooled and filtered. The filtrate was evaporated to dryness. The residue was taken up with a minimal amount of chloroform and purified on a packed silica gel column (60 A, 230-400 mesh) which was eluted with chloroform/hexane (3:1, v/v). The elution was later changed to 100% chloroform. The fractions having an Rf of 0.6 on E. Merck silica gel TLC plate when developed with toluene/ethyl acetate (4:1, v/v) were pooled, then evaporated to give a white solid, the desired benzyl ester (4.8 g, 70%; m.p. 108� C.).
A mixture of 9-acridinecarboxylic acid hydrate (7.3 g, 30 mmole), and thionyl chloride (50 ml, 0.685 mole) was heated at reflux in a round bottom flask equipped with a reflux condenser, a drying tube, and a stirring bar. The reaction mixture was heated further for one hour after the dissolution occurred, then cooled and evaporated to remove any excess thionyl chloride. The residue was directly utilized in the subsequent reaction without further purification.
A solution of the benzyl ester of 3,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxybenzoic acid from Example 2 (6.4 g, 25 mmole) and 4-dimethylaminopyridine (345 mg, 3 mmole) in 50 ml of pyridine (over 3 A molecular sieves) was heated at 90� C. in a round bottom flask equipped with a drying tube. The solution was cooled and pipetted into a flask containing the dried acridine-9-carbonyl chloride from Example 3 (7.05 g, 29.2 mmole). The reaction mixture was stirred at 100� C. for 3 hours, then at room temperature overnight. After the removal of solvent, the crude product was purified on a packed silica gel column which was eluted with chloroform, followed by elution with ethylacetate. The desired product having an Rf of 0.6 in toluene/ethylacetate (4:1, v/v) was further purified by crystallization from ethylacetate/hexane (6.37 g, 50%; m.p. 146�-148� C.).
A mixture of 2',6'-dimethyl-4'-benzyloxycarbonylphenyl acridine-9-carboxylate from Example 4 (5.4 g, 11.7 mmole), 100 ml of glacial acetic acid, and 25 ml of 48% hydrogen bromide was heated at 100� C. for 3 hours and cooled. The reaction mixture was added to 600 ml of water and extracted with 20% methanol in chloroform (3 times with 100 ml). The organic extracts were combined, evaporated, and the residue was washed with hexane on a funnel having a fritted disc. The yellow solid (obtained as a HBr salt) was suspended in chloroform and neutralized with a slight excess of triethylamine before being washed with water, dried over sodium sulfate, and evaporated (3.83 g, 88%). The desired product thus obtained had an Rf of 0.4 in 10% methanol/chloroform.
A solution of 2',6'-dimethyl-4'-carboxylphenyl acridine-9-carboxylate from Example 5 (3.58 g, 9.64 mmole) in 450 ml of DMF was placed in a one liter round bottom flask equipped with a drying tube and a stirring bar. The solution was cooled in an ice bath for 10 minutes, then mixed with a solution of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (3.0 g, 14.6 mmole) in 50 ml of DMF. The reaction mixture was stirred in an ice bath for 30 minutes, mixed with a solution of N-hydroxysuccinimide (1.7 g, 14.5 mmole) in 50 ml of DMF, stirred at room temperature overnight, and evaporated to dryness. The residue was extracted with 150 ml of methylene chloride, then filtered. The filtrate was concentrated to a wet solid, triturated with 20 ml of ethylacetate, filtered, and dried in a vacuum desiccator to obtain the crude product (3.5 g). Further purification of the product was carried out using conventional flash chromatography technique The silica gel (J. T. Baker, #7024 -1) column was packed and eluted with chloroform/ethylacetate (4:1, v/v). The fractions having an Rf of 0.28 on silica gel TLC plate when developed with ethyl ether/ethylacetate (4:1, v/v) were pooled and evaporated to give a white solid (95% pure by HPLC). Repeated flash chromatography purification using a packed silica gel column packed and eluted with hexane/acetone (2:1) yielded the pure desired product (34% yield, m.p. 276�-277� C.).
To a solution of 2',6'-dimethyl-4'-(N-succinimidyloxycarbonyl)phenyl acridine-9-carboxylate from Example 6 (91.5 mg, 0.195 mmole) in 3.8 ml of methylene chloride is added 2.0 ml of redistilled dimethyl sulfate. The resulting solution is refluxed for four days under anhydrous condition. To the yellow homogeneous solution at room temperature is added 15 ml of diethyl ether which precipitates the desired product. Purification is by means of recrystallization from methylene chloride and diethyl ether mixture to give a yellow solid, (92.7 mg, 80%) m.p. 228�-230� C.
A solution of 2',6'-dimethyl-4'-benzyloxycarbonylphenyl acridine-9-carboxylate from Example 4 (46 ml, 0.1 mmole) in 1 ml of chloroform and 0.3 ml of dimethyl sulfate (3.17 mmole) were placed in a 25 ml round bottom flask equipped with a Vigreaux distillation column and a stirring bar. The solution was heated at 105� C. for 10 minutes, and cooled. The reaction mixture was diluted with 2 ml of methylene chloride, then anhydrous ethyl ether was added to obtain maximal precipitation of the desired product. The mixture was filtered, washed with ethyl ether, and air dried to give a yellow solid (46 mg, 78%).
It should be noted that during synthesis the R10 moiety can be either as defined above, or, more often, it can be a precursor which later requires transformation into the defined moiety. For example, the precursor may comprise protective groups linked to the defined moiety which are removed to yield the defined moiety. Such synthesis techniques are known to the art.
Depending on which R10 coupling moiety is selected, the ester label can be reacted directly with the specific binding partner or the ligand, either in an aqueous or an organic media. Again such coupling techniques are well known to the art.
Interestingly, whereas alone the preferred ortho-dimethyl substituted aryl acridinium compound has one third the light emitting efficiency of the prior unsubstituted compound, when it is coupled to an antibody to form a conjugate, the light emitting efficiency of the present conjugate is tripled, and thus, unexpectedly becomes as efficient as the prior art conjugate.
It is believed that the present conjugate has a higher specific activity than past ones because the substituted acridinium ester has a much greater stability in the alkaline buffer solutions necessary for coupling than the unsubstituted compound.
More particularly, the following assay was performed on both the present ortho-dimethyl ester and the prior unsubstituted compound.
A conjugate was prepared by coupling an anti-TSH antibody to the polysubstituted acridinium ester of Example 7 according to a conventional protein-coupling procedure, however any number of such known methods would be suitable.
The final antibody concentration was 0.8 ng/ml. Ten microliters of a 1 in 1200 aqueous dilution of the conjugate were flashed by injecting 0.3 ml of a first solution containing 0.1N HNO3, 0.1% H2 O2, and 0.2% of Arquad™ surfactant, followed by a second solution of 0.3 ml of 0.1N NaOH. Light emission was integrated for two seconds on a Berthold luminometer.
The above process was duplicated except for the substitution of the prior unsubstituted acridinium ester compound.
The light emitting efficiencies of a conjugation made with the present ortho-dimethyl ester were comparable or better than similar conjugates made with the prior unsubstituted ester:
TABLE I______________________________________Conjugate Total Counts______________________________________Unsubstituted Ester 3,408,030Unsubstituted Ester 3,110,990Ortho-dimethyl Ester 3,913,690Ortho-dimethyl Ester 3,467,030______________________________________
The above prior unsubstituted ester conjugate and the ortho-dimethyl ester conjugate were tested also for stability. The retention of luminescent activity was tested under various pHs (using citrate-phosphate buffers) and temperatures. Five milliliter aliquots of each of the above conjugates were placed into two sets of three different buffers (pH 5.0, 7.4, and 8.0), each containing 0.1% BSA. One set was kept at 4�-8� C. as a control, while the other was subjected to 37� C. for seven days. At three days and seven days, 25 microliters of each buffered sample were flashed as described above. The results were as follows:
TABLE 2______________________________________Relative Stability of Heat-StressedVersus Non-Heat-Stressed ConjugatespH 3 days at 37� C. 7 days at 37� C.______________________________________5.0 77%/91%* 62%/77%7.4 66%/101% 46%/92%8.0 45%/102% 13%/106%______________________________________ *The relative activity of the prior unsubstituted ester is expressed first, followed by that of the present orthodimethyl ester second. Thus, in the noted case the present orthodimethyl ester has 91% relative activity, while the prior unsubstituted ester has 77% relative activity. All activities are related back to their 2-8� C. stability.
The above prior unsubstituted ester conjugate and the present ortho-dimethyl ester also were tested for signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios in an immunoassay. The assay worked as follows:
100 microliters of either of the above conjugates is incubated for two hours at room temperature with 200 ul of a TSH standard (Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corp., Medfield, MA). Incubations were done separately with four standards containing either 0, 0.4, 1.0, or 100 uIU/ml of TSH. A second incubation was then performed by adding 500 u microliters of sheep anti-TSH, MAGIC� magnetic particle conjugate (also available from Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corp.) to the above mixture, then waiting for 30 minutes at room temperature. A wash was done first by magnetically separating the particles from the solution, decanting the solution, then adding 500 microliters of water, followed by another magnetic separation. The washed particles were resuspended in 100 microliters of a solution containing 0.1N HNO3 and 0.1% of H2 O2. Flashing and counting were done according to the above-described procedures. The results were tabulated using ratios of the counts with a TSH standard containing TSH versus the zero TSH standard.
TABLE 3______________________________________ StandardConjugate 0.4 uIU/ml 1.0 uIU/ml 100 uIU/ml______________________________________Unsubstituted Ester 1.4 1.9 20.7Ortho-dimethyl Ester 1.9 2.3 44.5______________________________________
The comparison of results indicated the present conjugate had a mean increase in its signal-to-noise ratio of 57% over prior conjugates.
It should be apparent to one having ordinary skill in the art that many variations are possible without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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If you spotted any architect-types wandering around downtown this week with conference lanyards dangling around their necks, chances are good they were attending the Living Future 2012 conference hosted by the International Living Future Institute at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.
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The San Diego Chargers lost to the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday 20-13. 98 degrees member Nick Lachey was in attendance for the game, at least for some of it. According to his twitter account he got kicked out of the game, because of one guy was ruining it for everyone? Ummm Nick, did you ever sit back and say damn, I might be that guy. You were wearing a damn Bengals hat and shirt to a Chargers game. Yea we know you rep Cincinnati sports, but if you've ever been to an NFL game you know you don't do that kinda thing without consequence. Everyone at an NFL game is wasted, and they hate everything that has to do with the team they are playing. Just saying, you might wanna look in the mirror before you blame it on someone else buddy. P.S. You should've gotten Bradly Cooper to vouch for you, he's an actual celebrity. Check out our Home Page for more stories and follow us on Twitter and Facebook
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CISOs are looking for ways to complement the FISMA regime with a program that emphasizes continuous monitoring
What is it about our human psyche that makes procedure a substitute for a solution? You see it in legal circles, where justice and public safety often take a back seat to following the book, as if it's the book that deters a criminal act. Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, we've seen it applied to information security, to the extent that merely documenting your agency's prior safety record is tantamount to declaring victory over the bad guys who never sleep.
The Federal Information Security Management Act was a federal response to a real problem — the fact that agencies and their computer systems are under constant threat from cyber terrorists. But for many a chief information security officer — the person appointed to oversee an agency's threat response — FISMA guidelines often seem like a never-ending stream of paperwork designed to document what didn't happen last year. More hours are spent compiling certification and accreditation reports than are devoted to finding and deterring malicious acts.
Now some CISOs are looking for ways to complement the FISMA regime with a program that emphasizes continuous monitoring. As contributing writer John Moore reports in our cover story, some agencies are adopting a strategy that depends, in part, on a package of 20 security practices, named the Consensus Audit Guidelines or the 20 critical security controls.
CAG states that enterprises should focus on a few key controls that block the most common types of known attacks, and those controls should be monitored around the clock.
It's a notion that has critics, to be sure. But CAG has found favor with the Office of Management and Budget, and it is being practiced in key venues such as the State Department, which must guard locations that span the globe. What's more, it has the ring of real problem-solving and the smell of true vigilance.
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Just wanted to see how long carseats last or an estimate. I know that typically there is a manufacturer expiration date and I'm not worried about DD's Nautilus, she'll most likely outgrow it before it expires, but we bought a snugride in anticipation of baby number 2 (it was on sale with the entire set) and I'm a little worried it may expire before we get to use it.
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I'm new to the car seat world, but have already learned a few things. Mine says it on the back, up in side of it all, there's an exp date. or take off the cover and the padding. the foam in mine comes out. it may be printed inside. when in doubt, call the manuf.
we bought a used car seat from a neighbor and was pleasantly surprised that it still had 3 years until it would expire. what ever that means! and we took everything off of it to inspect for stress marks. nothing-yeah! good deal for $20.
Graco seats expire 6yrs after the date of manufacture. There should be a sticker on the seat & the base.
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It will expire 6 years after manufacture. So hopefully it won't expire before you get to use it!
Candice is right, but Graco seats expire in December six years after the DOM. Other brands have slightly different rules. For instance Britax (except for the Frontier) expires at the end of the month, six years after the DOM. In general most car seats are six years, but a few brands are 5, 7, or 8.
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Posted: 09/05/2007 - WILSON, Okla. -- Two Wilson teenagers have been arrested after a fight at a convenience store. Dustan Bacon, 18, is accused of running over Josh Milliken, 19,with his car.
Posted: 09/05/2007 - WILSON, Okla. -- Two Wilson teenagers have been arrested after a fight at a convenience store. Dustan Bacon, 18, is accused of running over Josh Milliken, 19,with his car.
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Updated: 09/05/2007 - Mattel Inc.'s reputation took another hit after the world's largest toy maker announced a third major recall of Chinese-made toys in little more than a month because of excessive amounts of lead paint.
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Updated: 12/04/2007 - GAINESVILLE, Tex. -- The city of Gainesville will be getting a helping hand cleaning up. The Henkel brand, a German company that makes Dial soaps, held a contest to bring $25,000 clean-up effort to a deserving community. Gainesville beat out towns in New York and Virginia to win the contest.
Posted: 09/04/2007 - DICKSON, Okla. -- A Dickson man accused of drunk driving led to a large drug arrest. Anthony Earl Ray, 49, of Dickson was arrested late Monday night after a Dickson police officer saw him swerving and driving erratically.
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The General Assembly passed a stop-gap spending measure Tuesday. The bill keeps the government funded until mid-August while the chambers grapple over the final budget. But the measure does nothing to ease the concerns of 8,500 teacher assistants whose jobs are now in limbo.
North Carolina teacher assistant Melinda Zarate has spent the last several summers on edge.
"It's just very nerve-wracking," Zarate told reporters. "Imagine not knowing whether you were going to have a job in a couple months. And yeah, that happens in business too. But for teacher assistants, this happens every single year."
The Legislature has made frequent cuts to teacher assistant positions since the 2008 recession. This year, despite a budget surplus, the Senate's budget proposes axing another 8,500 teacher assistants. That would leave schools with less than a third of the teacher assistants they had before the recession. Those cuts don't sit well with Lisa Caley, a parent of a child with special learning needs.
"Our public schools today are focused on educating every student, and TAs are working to provide the individualized instruction to make that happen," Caley said. "That means they're assisting with kids who need remediation, with students who are on grade level and students who are above grade level, to make sure that lessons are differentiated to meet all students' needs."
Teacher assistants and their advocates argue their instruction is needed in today's classrooms.
"Things have become so individualized in our schools, that we don't do a lot of whole-class instruction—teachers standing in front of a group of kids just delivering trying to fill their heads," Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Superintendent Tom Forcella said. "It's more about breaking kids up into small collaborative groups."
Senators who support the cuts say reducing the number of teacher assistants will allow the state to hire more teachers and raise teachers' starting salaries. The House's budget also proposes raising teacher salaries, but it does not cut assistants. Todd LoFrese, Assistant Superintendent for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, says his district is eagerly awaiting a final budget.
"We're going to have to take a good look as we develop our budgets if teacher assistants are reduced at the state level again: What are our options? Do we have any options, because those are really big numbers that they're talking about making in the Senate budget," LoFrese said.
The two chambers have until August 14 before stop-gap funding expires. In the meantime, thousands of teacher assistants can only guess whether they'll return to the classroom in the fall.http://chapelboro.com/news/pre-k-12-education/thousands-of-nc-teacher-assistants-in-limbo/
The Supreme Court has issued a ruling in favor of independent redistricting commissions in Arizona.
In a 5-4, ruling the United States Supreme Court ruled citizens in Arizona did not remove power from state lawmakers by voting to establish an independent redistricting commission, according to Jane Pinsky – Director of the North Carolina Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform.
"The people of Arizona have the right to set up an independent redistricting commission," she says. "The commission in Arizona was created by citizen initiative, and it was a clear sign that the people of Arizona wanted a fair and impartial process.
"And they didn't think they were getting that through their legislature."
Pinsky adds citizens organized a grassroots effort to gain signatures in favor of the referendum's placement on the ballot. For any North Carolinians with that idea, Pinsky has some bad news.
"We don't have the right to do a ballot initiative," Pinksy says of the organizational structure in North Carolina.
Pinsky says since residents of the Tar Heel state do not have the option of placing a citizen-driven referendum on the ballot, the next step for North Carolinians is to lobby elected representatives.
READ MORE: Lawmakers Set to Introduce Bipartisan Redistricting Reform
Pinsky adds gerrymandering is an overt way of disenfranchising voters.
"One of the things that we see that has happened as all of this redistricting and all the gerrymandering is that citizens feel like their votes don't count," she says. "And, unfortunately, in [about] 40-some percent of the legislative races in this state, that's absolutely true.
"There was only one person on the ballot."
For decades Democrats controlled North Carolina politics and could draw the state and congressional districts as they pleased. Now Republicans are in charge and don't seem apt to giving up the power that comes with their partisan pen.
Local Democratic House Representative Verla Insko says changing demographics may play a large role in the upcoming elections.
"The Republicans that gerrymandered your districts are not all as safe as they used to be," she says. "House districts are more vulnerable to moving back and forth between Republicans and Democrats.
"The challengers in the House may have an easier path, but that's also true for the Senate that the population shifts are going to put some pressure on the current Republicans to look seriously at a commission."
READ MORE: Redistricting Continues to Stir Legal Battle in NC
A bill passed the state House in 2011 to create an independent redistricting commission before dying in the Senate. Earlier this year, a large number of bipartisan lawmakers again called for an independent commission. Democratic House Representative Graig Meyer says support in the House is overwhelming from both sides of the aisle.
"There's broad bipartisan support for this in House," he says. "There are more than 61 cosponsors of the House bill, so that indicates that it would pass the House easily. The Senate has blocked this type of effort for several years. And it's pretty clear to me that the Senate is blocking it because the Republicans who lead the Senate are doing everything that they can to hold on to the power that they have.
"That would include blocking [an independent commission] as well as all of the voting restrictions that they have put into place."
Pinsky says a particular note in the Supreme Court ruling drew her attention.
"There's a line that says that 'the Constitution has an animating principle that people themselves are the originating source of all powers of government,'" she says. "In other words, the power doesn't come from the legislators. The power comes from us.
"Anything that, I think, impedes our ability to freely exercise that power is wrong and undermines our democracy."
While the Supreme Court ruling does not have a direct impact on North Carolina, it does support the momentum behind independent redistricting commissions that have been established in states including Arizona, Iowa, and Ohio.
It seems the biggest impediment to an independent commission in North Carolina is Republican Senate President Phil Berger.
Senator Berger's office has not responded to repeated request for comment.http://chapelboro.com/news/state-government/gerrymandering-north-carolina/
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the tax breaks for those who purchased health insurance through the federally-run exchange. The ruling allows more than 400,000 North Carolina residents to keep subsidies that help pay for their health insurance premiums.
The question at hand in King v. Burwell was whether a small line of text in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibited the federal government from providing subsidies for health insurance to people in states without their own exchanges. North Carolina is among 34 such states. Duke University professor Don Taylor says more than half-a-million North Carolina residents purchased insurance through the ACA, and most of them are receiving the federal subsidies that were in question.
"Ninety-one percent of the North Carolinians have gotten a subsidy, and the average amount of that subsidy is about $315 a month," Taylor said.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the federal subsidies to flow to all states, whether their exchange is state-run or not. Chief Justice Roberts, who ruled with the majority, said the line in question had to be read within the greater context of the ACA, which was to "improve health insurance markets."
North Carolina Congressman David Price says he is relieved by the Court's ruling on what he calls a "drafting error" in the ACA.
"It's a very fortunate decision; it's a common sense decision," Price said. "And from what I've seen, Chief Justice Roberts' reasoning in ruling this way reflects that. This is a matter of discerning Congress' intent, despite this drafting error, and making sure that the nation doesn't suffer the consequences of an overly literal focus on this one omission in the law."
The ruling means more than 400,000 North Carolinians will keep their subsidies. It also puts an end to a serious threat to the future of Obamacare. Taylor says ending the federal subsidies would have forced many people to drop coverage and destabilized the entire health insurance exchange.
"If the healthy people flow out because the premiums go up, and you only have sick people left, then that's called 'death-spiral,' and that insurance market is unsustainable," Taylor said.
Now that the ACA is no longer threatened, Price says it's important to shift focus to expanding Medicaid in the state. The U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 ruling on the ACA allowed states to opt out of Medicaid expansion.
"It's unfortunate that the Supreme Court left that loophole," Price said. "It's even more unfortunate, I think, that North Carolina and other states are taking advantage of the loophole to detriment of – in the case of our state – almost half-a-million people."
Governor Pat McCrory has given no indication that he will call for Medicaid expansion. In a statement his office released Thursday, the Governor said quote "we must build a North Carolina-based reform plan that focuses on healthier patients at a cost taxpayers can afford."http://chapelboro.com/news/national/more-than-400000-in-nc-keep-obamacare-subsidies/
***UPDATE: The Supreme Court has issued a 6-3 ruling allowing subsidies to continue to be offered in states that did not establish their own marketplace. You can read the full opinion here.***
The U.S. Supreme Court will release a decision within the next few days that may affect more than half a million North Carolinians who purchased health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
The question before the Court in King v. Burwell is whether the federal government overreached when it allowed subsidies to flow to states, like North Carolina, that did not set up their own health insurance exchanges.
North Carolina is among 34 states that do not have state-run health insurance marketplaces. That means North Carolina residents who want to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act have to do so through the federally-run exchange. About 550,000 North Carolinians did just that, and most of them, says Duke University public policy professor Don Taylor, received tax breaks to help pay for their premiums.
"Ninety-one percent of the North Carolinians have gotten a subsidy," Taylor said, "and the average amount of that subsidy is about $315 a month."
The plaintiffs in the case argue the Affordable Care Act does not allow the federal government to give those subsidies to people in states that don't have a state-run exchange.
"So if the Supreme Court had a simple finding for the plaintiffs," Taylor said, "then the tax credits that are coming to North Carolinians today, they would lose those tax credits, their insurance bills would then go up, and then presumably many of them would them drop their coverage."
Taylor says not only would such a ruling affect those who dropped their coverage because they couldn't afford the premium, it could topple the entire federally-run exchange:
"The problem is the people who wouldn't drop coverage, the people who are desperate to keep their insurance, are probably people who are sick. And any type of insurance market—whether it's car insurance, homeowner's or health insurance—if the healthy people flow out because the premiums go up, and you only have sick people left, then that's called 'death-spiral,' and that insurance market is unsustainable."
If the Court does rule for the plaintiff, Taylor says depending on the details of the ruling, there could be some legislative fixes at the national and the state levels to keep the tax breaks coming.
"Maybe North Carolina could pass a simple law that says we desire for the subsidies to still flow in North Carolina. But then it's back to a political question again."
The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision by Monday, June 29.http://chapelboro.com/news/national/half-million-in-nc-await-scotus-obamacare-decision/
South Carolina lawmakers are debating removing the confederate battle flag from the state capitol; Governor Nikki Haley endorsed the change after the mass shooting last week at a historically black church in Charleston. Meanwhile, the town of Hillsborough voted to let stand a memorial to the Confederacy on the Orange County Historical Museum—at least for now.
Weeks before the shooting at Emanuel AME in Charleston ignited national debate about the Confederate flag, the town of Hillsborough began a conversation about three lines of black letters above the entrance of the County Museum: "Confederate Memorial, 1934."
"Since I've seen that lettering up there, it—you know, it makes me uncomfortable," Hillsborough Town Commissioner Jenn Weaver said.
Weaver has been a vocal advocate for taking the memorial down since the Orange County Historical Society, which runs the museum, asked the town to remove the letters at the end of May. The Historical Society says the memorial deters residents from taking advantage of the museum's resources.
"If you don't want to go in the building because of the fact that it has a Confederate memorial across the front that makes you feel unwelcome, then you're not able to enjoy a museum that we have here for our community," Weaver said.
The Confederate memorial debate is a complicated and emotional issue for many southerners. Some Hillsborough residents say the memorial should stay as a remembrance of the Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. But University of North Carolina History Professor W. Fitzhugh Brundage says many Confederate memorials, especially those built after 1900, weren't constructed just to honor fallen soldiers.
"More and more of the monuments were erected in public spaces, in front of courthouses, conspicuous thoroughfares, etc. And those monuments had a much broader goal, which was to impose a Confederate version of the past on the public as a whole. So they were intended to be didactic not just about loss and grief, but about the redemption of the Confederate cause."
The building at the center of the Hillsborough debate wasn't always a museum. The United Daughters of the Confederacy funded its construction as a whites-only library and a memorial to the Confederacy. Brundage says he can't be certain how directly the Hillsborough memorial can be tied to a white supremacist agenda. But as a whites-only library and a Confederate memorial, he says it certainly was a product of a white supremacist mentality.
"Those women and the generation that they were part of were erecting a monument with little thought to being members of a diverse society in which all citizens, all residents for that matter, should be comfortable in public spaces," Brundage said.
On Monday, the Board voted 3 to 2 against Weaver's motion to take down the Confederate memorial lettering. Mayor Tom Stevens and other town commissioners said the Board needed more time to hear public comment on the issue. The Historical Society also says it needs more time to decide how it will incorporate the building's history into its exhibits.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/hillsborough-confederate-memorial-stays-up-for-now/
Orange County children may be the healthiest in North Carolina, according to child-advocacy nonprofit NC Child. But a closer look at Orange County shows that the block you grow up on may matter more than your county.
Orange County is the wealthiest and most educated county in the state, and overall its children are the healthiest. Orange County Health Director Colleen Bridger says that's not a coincidence.
"The more highly educated you are, the more likely you are to have a professional job that provides you with health insurance, time off to go to the doctor, time off to take your kids to the doctor and a living wage," Bridger said.
But Orange County's wealth and college degrees aren't divided equally among all its residents. Census estimates show wide socioeconomic gaps between adjacent blocks.
"Even though Orange County in the aggregate is doing well, there are pockets of poverty and places where people are struggling that rivals any other place in the state," Bridger warned.
Bridger says the greatest health disparities within Orange County often come down to disparities in education. There are areas in the county where two-thirds of third-graders are reading below grade level. The county says it's working to improve health outcomes by closing the education gap through a project called the Family Success Alliance. The program replicates an initiative out of Harlem in New York City.
"They've basically said 'anything a child needs from before she or he is born to the time he or she has a job after they've graduated from college, we want to provide it.' And so we want to replicate that here so that we are able to ensure that every child in Orange County can succeed, regardless of where they live," Bridger said.http://chapelboro.com/news/health/large-disparities-exist-even-in-states-healthiest-county/
The Chapel Hill Town Council chose not to vote on the approval last night of the 120-acre Obey Creek development near Southern Village. Instead, the council used the meeting to hear further public comment and pushed the vote until next Monday.
The council's decision not to vote seemed to come as a shock to Obey Creek's developer Roger Perry.
"Damn! I got all dressed up," Perry said.
Town staff had recommended the council approve the rezoning and development agreement, which would clear the way for construction to begin. But at the meeting, the council said it needed more time to review recent information from the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The town spent last week in negotiations with the DOT over Obey Creek's impact on traffic.
"There's been a lot of questions from all of you, back and forth with the staff, getting and seeking clarity," Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt said. "And so I think that having worked with these folks for a while, I think that they need to stew. And I think it's reasonable because, much of what some of us have heard and learned, and the clarity we've sought on some issues, was hours ago."
Despite successful negotiations with the DOT, some residents who spoke at the meeting expressed concern that the development agreement doesn't ensure adequate traffic calming measures for south Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill resident Susan Lindsay said she wanted a stronger commitment to such measures for her area.
"You can't get much more direct than the impact that Dogwood Acres Drive will feel from this development," she said.
A few residents at the meeting also reiterated concerns about design, the amount of retail space, and a desire for an overall smaller footprint. Monte Brown was one proponent of a scaled-down development.
"To me it's clear: You either value the life of the southern Chapel hill residents and your various boards, or you value the bunch of investors from Maryland," Brown told the council.
Several council members signaled their support of the project at its largest scale: 1.5 million square feet. Councilwoman Maria Palmer said she supports a larger footprint because it means more housing for more people.
"We actually need housing in Chapel Hill. We need places for people to live. We have thousands of people commuting to Chapel Hill because there is no adequate housing for them. We have a lack of certain types of apartments, of housing for older residents, of affordable housing, of everything that is going into this development," Palmer said.
The council plans to resume discussion and come to a vote on Obey Creek at its meeting next Monday night.http://chapelboro.com/news/development/chapel-hill-town-council-delays-obey-creek-vote/
Both chambers of the North Carolina legislature have passed a bill with a number of measures related to the sale of alcohol. If the bill becomes law, one of those measures will allow North Carolina distilleries to sell their alcoholic products for consumption off premises.
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Visitors to Top of the Hill distillery in Chapel Hill can watch the company's production process from fermentation to finish. Giant stainless steel containers full of spirits in various stages of production tower over the clean concrete floor. Above, a maze of pipes wind across the ceiling.
At the end of the tour, visitors can get a taste of Top of the Hill's vodka, whiskey or gin. But if they want to actually buy a bottle, owner Scott Maitland has to give them directions to the ABC store.
State law restricts the sale of alcoholic spirits for consumption off-site to ABC stores, which are run by the state or local Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. Maitland says that law is holding back his businesses' growth.
"It's not like people leave the distillery so fired up that they're going to drive right on over to the ABC system," Maitland said. "Ninety-five percent of the people, when they are in the distillery, say they're going to buy a bottle. But when we follow up, less than 30 percent actually buy."
Maitland has been a vocal advocate of House Bill 909. The legislation would allow North Carolina distilleries to sell their spirits on-site for customers to drink elsewhere–albeit, not very much.
"We're talking one bottle per person, per year," Maitland said.
Even with these limitations on sales at the distillery, Maitland said he believes the bill creates an important marketing opportunity that will allow him to grow his consumer base and add employees.
"Although the sales are important for sure, we think the biggest impact of this is the repeat sales and the increased brand awareness," he said.
Some legislators who opposed House Bill 909 worry the bill is the beginning of a slippery slope towards the privatization of alcohol retail in the state. Several house members also say they are frustrated with the addition of multiple provisions by the Senate. The bill would also completely restrict the production, consumption and sale of powdered alcohol in the state, as well as loosen restrictions on the sale of large containers of hard cider and wine known as growlers.
House Bill 909 is on its way to the governor's desk.http://chapelboro.com/news/state-government/bill-will-clear-way-for-bottle-sales-at-local-distillery/
A plan for redistricting in North Carolina is once again being put forward by state lawmakers.
A bipartisan group of legislators, from the House and Senate, held a press conference at noon on Tuesday. The purpose was to put forward a proposal to change how voting maps are drawn in the Tar Heel state.
The debate over redistricting in North Carolina has raged on for more than a century. For years Democrats controlled the state legislature, and they drew maps that were favorable to the election of more Democrats. And that was deemed legal by the court system.
During that time, Republicans, and some Democrats, repeatedly called for lawmakers to conceive of a more fair system for how the maps are drawn. Now that Republicans are in control of the state House and Senate, the roles have reversed.
But long-time Republican House Representative Skip Stam says he will introduce a bill that calls for an independent commission to draw the voting maps in the state.
"The idea is that, in constructing districts, the people with the most at stake," he says, "are probably ones who shouldn't be doing the details."
Stam's proposal would be enacted before the next maps are drawn in 2021.
Stam says an opportunity has presented itself that may be the best chance for the bill to actually pass into law, because there is no pending litigation regarding the current maps.
Republican Representative Charlie Jeter says he and Democratic Senator Jeff Jackson will also be introducing a bill concerning redistricting.
"Our bill won't go into effect until after the 2030 election cycle, in large part because it grandfathers everyone out," he says. "To some degree, I think this is about getting the bill passed."
Democratic Representative Grier Martin says his district, because it is heavily Democratic, is a prime example of what is causing some voters to stay home from the polls.
Martin adds passing a bipartisan redistricting bill would be a big step toward restoring North Carolinians faith in the state government.
Republican Representative John Hardister echoes the sentiment of many conservative leaders at the press conference, saying gerrymandering districts is bad policy – regardless of which party benefits.
"Many Republicans, including myself, advocated for redistricting reform when Democrats were in the majority," he says. "It was the right thing to do then, and it's still the right thing to do today."
John Hood, with the conservative Pope Foundation, says the policy should move forward because it benefits the residents of North Carolina.
"It's important for all of us in North Carolina to get the policy right," he says. "I'm sure that redistricting reformers would welcome additional alternatives; as long as they were consistent with the principal that neutral rules should be our tactic, and competitive elections should be our end."
Voters were the topic of conversation as well for Chris Fitzsimon of the progressive organization NC Policy Watch.
"This is not all the complicated," he says. "The idea is to create a system where voters choose their politicians, instead of the other way around."
Even with the bipartisan backing of this bill, it is not set in stone that it will move forward. Republican Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger has previously said he would not consider the legislation while litigation was ongoing.
Mitch Kokai is the Director of Communication for the conservative John Locke Foundation, and he says – even though the litigation has reached a conclusion – there is no guarantee Senator Berger will bring the legislation before the Senate, regardless of what the House does.
"[Berger] hasn't come out and said 'heck no, we're never going to do it,'" Kokai says. "But he also hasn't come out and said 'oh yes, we're going to go along with this now.'"
Ellie Kinnaird represented Orange and Chatham Counties in the North Carolina Senate, as a Democrat, from 1997 – 2013, and she recalls trying to pass a redistricting campaign when her fellow Democrats were in control of the House and Senate.
"I introduced a bill, under the Democrats, for an independent redistricting campaign," she says. "They thought they were going to be in power forever, why would they do it? I introduced it under the Republicans, and the same thing happened.
"So, I'm very encouraged that the House, last term, actually did pass an independent redistricting bill. But I'm afraid that Mr. Berger will never relent in the Senate. He will not let that go through."
Kinnaird adds, as long as large donors are allowed to bring about campaigns similar to what North Carolinians saw with the US Senate race between Thom Tillis and Kay Hagan, she is not expecting anything to change.
"The money is going to be crucial," she says. "As the money pours in, it just solidifies the system.
"I don't see any hope for the near future for North Carolina. I think that, frankly, it's going to take 49 states enacting it before we enact it."
The next North Carolina voting maps will be drawn in 2021, following the 2020 census. Whether they will be drawn with a partisan pen or through the eyes of an independent committee remains to be seen.
WCHL has requested a statement from Senator Phil Berger following the press conference but have not received a response at this time.http://chapelboro.com/news/state-government/lawmakers-set-introduce-bipartisan-redistricting-reform/
According to the NC Prevention report card, North Carolina residents are struggling to meet public health goals for tobacco use, nutrition, obesity and physical activity.
Rachel Zuker is the research and evaluation coordinator for the Chapel Hill-based nonprofit Prevention Partners. She says the state's grades are not looking good.
"Right now, we're not doing great," says Zuker. "We have a C in tobacco, a D in physical activity and Fs in both nutrition and obesity, so there's definitely work to be done."
The report measures state progress on national public health goals set for 2020.
Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the US, and here in North Carolina, residents are smoking at a higher rate than elsewhere.
Zuker says this year North Carolina earned a C for tobacco use, down from a B grade last year.
"In tobacco policies, other states have continued to make progress, whereas we've kind of stayed the same, so I think we're seeing ourselves slide a little bit in tobacco, which is too bad, because previously we'd been at a B and we were seeing that as a great area," says Zucker.
The report points to policy changes at the state and local levels that could lower tobacco use, including designating more smoke-free places and increasing funding for cessation support services.
When it comes to nutrition and obesity, the report suggests economic challenges are hitting families hard. Seventeen percent of North Carolina households face hunger. At the same time, two out of every three adults and slightly more than a quarter of high school students are overweight or obese, and the problem is more significant for those with lower levels of education and income.
Zuker says obesity and poor diet go hand in hand, as it costs more to eat well.
"You can be malnourished and obese. There's a difference between malnourishment and obesity."
Compounding the problem, the majority of North Carolina's adults are not getting the recommended weekly minimum amount of physical activity.
Zuker says when it comes to changing the state's health grade, workplace programs can have a big impact.
"People spend so much of their daily lives at work, and so if we see workplaces passing policies to promote cheaper, healthy foods, time for physical activities or access to those facilities, helping employees to quit [smoking], we really see that as key."
Prevention Partners is launching an initiative with some of North Carolina's largest employers to try to change the workplace culture to support healthy lifestyles. Zuker says the plan, called Healthy Together North Carolina, could reach up to 20 percent of the state's workforce.


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