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Home Team BBQ Owner and Pitmaster Aaron Siegel was presented with area non-profit Operation Home's annual "Kris Basala Person of the Year "award at a special ceremony during the annual fundraiser Drum It Up event on Oct. 20. The Basala Award is in honor of long-time Operation Home board member Kris Basala whose outsized life skills were matched by his extraordinarily big heart. Basala brought his leadership, his creativity and his gifts for communication and organization to his board role. When cancer claimed the life of Basala in 2011, it robbed the Lowcountry of a man who made a difference; however, left behind are many individuals who live life with the Basala vision of a better place for all to live.
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"Operation Home is honored to have the support of such a generous and creative man as Aaron, and we gratefully acknowledge his community involvement by giving him this year's Basala's Award," stated Sandy Milliken, director of Operation Home.
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Run Everybody! Avik Roy is Coming!
. unagidon October 29, 2012 - 10:12pm
Avik Roy is a conservative blogger on healthcare who is also an adviser to the Romney campaign and who by sheerest coincidence also wants to scare the bejeesus out of everyone about Obamacare, especially if they live in a swing state. In two articles (so far) covering Ohio and Wisconsin, Roy leads off with a dire prediction: that Obamacare is going to cause premiums to go up 55 percent to 85 percent (Ohio) and 35 percent (Wisconsin) for individual insurance policies. Is this true? Are premiums going to go up like this?The individual market, where individuals (rather than businesses) purchase insurance policies is not like the group market and the way that the individual market operates now underlines a great deal of what is wrong with American healthcare today. Individual insurance is what is called in the business "heavily underwritten", which means that each policy sold is heavily scrutinized by underwriters. This means, of course, that no pre-existing conditions need apply, which in turn means that one has to be in almost perfect health to get such a policy. People who buy these policies also do not get the same level of benefits (as a rule) that people get with company policies. (For example, maternity care is usually not covered). So individual policies are relatively uncommon (only about ten million Americans have them -- out of about 200 million people with insurance) and relatively cheap.Under Obamacare, the individual insurance market will have to offer the same benefits that everyone else gets and will have to offer individual policies to everyone, even those with pre-existing conditions. People who have individual policies and want to keep their current rate levels and benefit levels can be grandfathered. People who before could not purchase insurance at any price will now be able to buy individual policies regardless of their pre-existing condition status and with the same benefit levels that people with group policies have. These new policies will cost about 55 percent to 85 percent (in Ohio) more than the cut-rate policies that can only now be purchased by the very healthy.
In the case of Ohio, Roy has appended a chart from an actuarial consulting company called Milliman that outlines the sources of the new rates. By way of comparison for small commercial groups (employers with 100 or fewer employees), the same things that will be increasing individual rates will be increasing small group rates by 1 percent to 3 percent. In the case of groups larger than 100 employees, rates won't go up at all.Roy uses a similar sleight of hand when he talks about Medicare. Obamacare will "cut" $716 billion from Medicare over the course of a decade. Ohio's share of this is $21.2 billion. Roy says:
This year, Ohio has 1,971,260 Medicare enrollees, which means that these cuts amount to $10,763 for every senior in Ohio.
He does not say that he is not talking about benefit cuts and that he is not talking about one year, but it sure looks like seniors are going to be hit for almost $11 grand a piece. In fact, these cuts are costs that will be cut over ten years whether or not Obamacare is repealed. The fact is, medical care becomes more efficient each year and these efficiencies (not benefit reductions) are going to fuel the savings. Fraud elimination will also contribute to these savings; Roy himself points out in another shrill article that Medicare fraud now amounts to four times the total profits of all commercial insurance companies.Roy also (in the Ohio article) has a headline that says Survey: 24 percent of Ohio doctors will stop accepting Medicare patients. Read further and one finds that the 24 percent said they would stop taking Medicare patients if fees decrease ten percent. While Obamacare mandates that fees will be reduced this much over a decade, Medicare mandates the same thing. Again these are not some kind of lump-sum reduction but cost cuts over a decade. If you think that they are utterly unreasonable, think about how many things that were once done with lengthy hospital stays that are now done on a outpatient basis.Avik Roy has made himself a bit of a career trying to scare people about Obamacare with articles like How Obamacare's $716 Billion in Cuts will Drive Doctors Out of Medicare and Obama's MLR 'Bomb' Will Create Private Insurance Monopolies and Drive Premiums Skyward Hallelujah! where he predicts declining insurance profits (didn't happen), soaring individual and small group premiums (also didn't happen), and further monopolization of private insurance markets (been happening for decades). I think he knows better. But his main job isn't to inform; it's to alarm. What he wants to do is to scare enough people to tip the balance towards Romney and the other GOP candidates. Don't be scared, even if it is Halloween.
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unagidon, why has healthcare been reframed as an insurance debate? and why is healthcare treated as a commodity? I don't buy education insurance to send my kid to public school. I expect the schools to be there.I don't buy fire and rescue service insurance. I expect the Fire department to be there.(maybe I do buy that insurance, but I call it property taxes)
Andy Kowalczyk: Education, fire service and rescue service are all government-provided; but none of them are federal government-provided. Governor Romney might like your observation!
Healthcare is treated as a commodity because for most people it is part of their pay. To give it to some people who can't afford it is like paying them for not working. This seems, at least, to be the way that many people talk about it.There is a good business reason for having universal insurance. It will create a healthier and therefore more productive population. Also, the spreading of risk for the purely catastrophic events makes the same sense as any other kind of insurance. And making it universal is as logical as requiring everyone who drives to have car insurance.
Andy Kowalczyk: Education, fire service and rescue service are all government-provided; but none of them are federal government-provided.
They probably would be federally provided if it happened that they were not provided at all in certain parts of the country or to certain kinds of people.
About disaster services -- the big lesson Katrina taught us is that there has to be coordination of local, state, and federal services in major disasters affecting more than one state. You simply can't wait till the last minute, or later, to ask a neighboring state to lend some ambulances or send some food packages. The planning has to be regional and flexible. (Romney, of course, would get rid of FEMA entirely, the idiot.)
"Insurance" is a cover-all word for some very different things. "Health insurance" is more a complicated, Rube-Goldberg device for paying most of most people's everyday medical bills than a Lloyds of London device for preventing bankruptcy in the event of rare catastrophies.And health insurance is rapidly becoming a government-controlled pass-through system like Social Security, paid for by taxes, debt, and, where politically possible, reduction of service. Private insurance companies seem to be stll in the mix because Washington's not yet found a way to get rid of them.
I wrote: "Education, fire service and rescue service are all government-provided; but none of them are federal government-provided."unagidon replied: "They probably would be federally provided if it happened that they were not provided at all in certain parts of the country or to certain kinds of people."It might. The federal government might try to supplement what local governments do in order to fill the gaps, or it might nationalize the entire service. Or it might regulate, e.g. set minimal standards of service, as has been done in education for everything from academic achievement to how Americans with disabilities are to be educated. Isn't this really what the insurance exchanges are going to be: set up state by state?Certainly, in the case of education and fire service, there are huge disparities in how they are provided by local bodies, and arguably they are inadequately provided in certain parts of the country or to certain kinds of people. The same is true of police service.On the other hand, the federal government spends tens of billions of dollars, year after year after year, to subsidize education, and outcomes don't seem to be appreciably better - apparently, they are worse - than they were before the Education Department was created.
@Jim Pauwels (10/31, 4:10 pm) On what basis do you make the claim that education "outocmes don't seem to be appreciably better---apparently, they are worse---than they were before the Education Department was created".The evidence I'm aware of demonstrates, if anything, the opposite. First, that there was never a "Golden Age" of American public education. Second, based on NAEP scores, education outcomes are improving. As education reformer Diane Ravitch states, "NAEP scores show steady and very impressive improvement over the past twenty years. Our problems are tough, but they are not intractable. The next time someone tells you that U.S. education is failing, or declining, tell them they are wrong." http://dianeravitch.net/2012/05/14/what-do-naep-scores-mean/
I really don't understand why conservatives don't love Obamacare. As far as I can see, it's a great big wet soul kiss to the insurance industry: You make sure you provide policies for the middle-aged and those with pre-existings, and we'll promise to subsidize whatever premiums you want to pay.It's federal money going where conservatives think it should go--back into private coffers.And, while I hope Unagidon's read on this situation is correct, I feel pretty pessimistic about America's willingness to help those who are priced out of health care insurance. The most frustrating part about health care is that there is no free market at work. If I'm short of cash, I can go shop at a cheaper supermarket and buy store brand oatmeal instead of name-brand cereal. But if I need gall bladder surgery or a CT scan, I have to go to the hospital where my doctor has privileges, and the costs at any of the five hospitals in a 30-mile radius of my house charge pretty much the same.
Luke, there is evidence that progress among American adults is flat at best over the years on basic literacy and numeracy; that the gains you cite for 8th and 3rd graders pretty much evaporate sometime during high school; that the US is in the second ten worldwide, and possibly slipping farther down the list, when it comes to education attainment among its young adults.If you're interested, look at p 12 of this link. It graphs long-term NAEP trends for elementary, middle school and high school students. A fair-to-optimistic reading of these charts is that we've been flat. http://www.nagb.org/content/nagb/assets/documents/who-we-are/20-annivers... I admit I base my view as much, or more, on anecdotes I've heard from veteran college and high school teachers who tell me that, on the whole, students aren't as good as they were thirty or forty years ago. Perhaps they are remembering a golden age that never was.Regarding the federal government's role: how many hundreds of billions of government dollars have been funneled through the Department of Education over the years covered by the graphs on p. 12, to achieve those flat results? Are those results acceptable? Those seem to be reasonable questions.
@Jim Pauwels (10/31, 10:59 pm) Thanks for your reply. Here's a link to a .pdf file from the Dept. of Education that summarizes the history of its funding since 1980. http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/history/index.htmlYou'll notice that DOE includes all education funding---colleges and universities as well as elementary and secondary, although the chart helpfully provides subtotals for each category.The figures aren't adjusted for inflation, or compared to GDP growth. They also cover a time in which the number of children coming from homes in which English is not the primary language has grown dramatically. Also during this past generation, more children are poor---which is strongly linked to standardized test scores.I agree we're not currently in a "Golden Age" of public education. But by all sorts of measures (e.g., dropout rates, NAEP scores) we live in an age that's doing as well as or better than previous generations.
Excellence in federal services: This might be a controversial thing to say, because it's losing money right now, but I think the US Postal Service is an example of excellence. I think it's a miracle that for forty five cents I can drop a letter in the mail and fully expect it to arrive at its intended destination in a reasonable amount of time. Monday, as the NY City was shutting down for the hurricane, I saw mail carriers on the street. And yesterday, though the City is a shambles, my mail was delivered and my neighborhood post office was open.The US Post Office is one of my favorite institutions.
Irene --The super-conservative view that big government can't do anything well is pure myth.
Give me that good old time socialized medicine that I had while I was in the military and now have with the VA. I have been amazed at the very good quality of service and coverage that I have under the VA. I also have Kaiser coverage (us Californians are still reaping one of the true benefits of WWII!) and if Obamacare can be as encompassing and efficient as is Kaiser, this country will realize how much it has been bamboozled under the current rash of for-profit insurance plans that have been ripping off them and their employers for decades.
The US Postal Service is losing money because the House has forced it to prepay 75 years of anticipated retiree healthcare costs at the rate of $5 billion per year. No other federal agency has to do that, even the military or the VA which will and have incurred ginormous future costs. http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/10/07/8191425-twisted-government-a... the fact that a significant portion of the USPS employee group is non-white have anything to do with that? Only asking dontcha know.
Jim McC. --I read just this week that the cost of administration per person on Medicaid is 1/3 less than the cost of administration per persons with private insurance. The notion that private businesspersons are automatically smarter, more efficient, more honest than government employees is a big conservative myth.
Ann and Irene, yes, I agree wholeheartedly! I am able to get some health screenings through the local health department, and the staff there are incredibly efficient. There is a "window" every year when you can apply for these screenings. You give your name and household income, and if you qualify you get an appointment within a week (compare to my family doc with whom I have to sked routine check-ups two months out). All I needed was photo I.D. and W2 form to verify income need. I waited just 15 minutes for my exam with the nurse practioner. She was as attentive and thorough as my own family doctor. The health department even scheduled the follow-up tests for me with the local hospital and gave me a "coupon" for them. My own family physician leaves it up to patients to schedule their own appointments with the hospital.So I would say that the service was actually superior to my private doctor's office. The problem is that it's a crapshoot each year whether I can get the screenings. If Raber's business has been good, we make too much money (but can't afford the $7K it costs for the screenings). Depending on funding levels, the state may also raise and lower the income eligibility bar. But being able to get the screenings every three or four years is better than nothing!
Roy "who by sheerest coincidence also wants to scare the bejeesus out of everyone about Obamacare, especially if they live in a swing state." Make that swing states ... and a whole bunch of them. It's a pretty brilliant / devious approach to campaigning. http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2012/11/01/blogger-launches-11th-hou... not just run one article? Because a whole bunch of headlines repeating the same data can go to a whole bunch of targeted states. And why place just one article, when you can release essentially the same article multiple times over several days from an oft-quoted mainstream publication? Think these individual Forbes headlines might show up in TV or newspaper ads in each of the states? Wouldn't surprise me a bit. And do you think viewers/readers would see them as opinion? or as Forbes news reporting?Yes, Roy admits he's a Romney campaign advisor. But that's just a helpful heads-up to readers that he's going to put his full weight ... and apparently Forbes' ... into repeating GOP talking points (which surely, as an advisor, he helped craft).It's a brilliant, dare I say, Rove-ian strategy.
Unagidon. My computer crashed and lost your email. Please email me I'd like to continue our conversation. TS


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By the way, check this out. They got thier hospital bill for Ethan's stay today. They had already met thier out of pocket maximin for the year due to my sisters one month stay in the hospital so they owe nothing of Ethan's bill. but it was $187,000.00 !!!!
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Based on the popular pen and paper RPG system (D20), Pathfinder Online is being developed by Goblinworks which was launched by Ryan Dancey, formerly the chief marketing officer CCP's Eve Online.
Goblinworks currently consists of Dancey, Paizo Publishing CEO Lisa Stevens, and Mark Kalmes, previously a programmer for Microsoft, Cryptic Studios and CCP.
Pathfinder Online aims to bringing the world of the tabletop game, originally released in 2009, to the video game industry in the form of a sandbox-style MMORPG, with players exploring the River Kingdoms.
Players will be able to buy and sell user-created items and content, while building up their own settlements in the world and then taking on NPCs and other players in battle.
Stevens explained, "A lot of big picture work has already been done on Pathfinder Online, and it's going to be a bit different from your traditional fantasy MMO."
"It's going to focus around the characters you create, in a world that will grow out of your interactions, developing the way you choose to develop it."
The entirety of Pathfinder Online at launch will take place in a 133-square-mile region known as the Crusader Road area. To get an idea of how absurd this is, look at this image:
See that little red box? That's the Crusader Road area. And the remainder of the map that it's shown on is only a small fraction of the entire Pathfinder world, Golarion which can be seen here:
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I think this is a very awesome idea.
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Originally posted by DeaconX
Why did they show off the map of the world when the MMO game will only take place in the red box part?
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Good question. If I know the people at Paizo (and subsequently Goblinworks) it's to show what they plan to start with and how much more they will have to exapand into. Sure, I'd like them to start with all of the known world, but that would probably mean they would be working on the game until 2025 or so, lol!
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That little red box is actually very large, when the game launches they will only allow 4.5k players each month. As more people are allowed in and spread out they will introduce more of the world as needed.
Pathfinder onlines game launch will be unlike anything we have seen before! Starting out with only 4.5k players on day one and introducing 4.5k players every month there after.
I'm on my iPhone so it's hard for me to type out a full description of there plans for launch but I recommend going to the message boards on the Paizo website and read up on it, very interesting game design and launch philosophy.
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What country is this game company from? The company that is actually making this game, I mean.
Originally posted by MMOExposed
The way I understand it is that the entire map will be playable eventually. The red box is the area players will be restricted to in the mean time.
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Well I'm interested. Looks cool so far. Maybe let us know when it's playable in some form.
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Will be awhile before we see any ingame stuff I'm sure.
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The new blog post from Ryan is up on goblinworks.com, this is a really good read about PvE in Pathfinder Online.
For anyone interested in next-gen sandbox games this is a must read.
I'm on my iPhone so I can't link sorry.
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After reading these blog posts, I'm much more enthusiastic about this project, and especially so with the outline of how they plan to implement the heirearchy and mechanics of 'social units'. Also with that, they hint at numerous opportunities for the socio-politically inclined player(s), such as the following,
"...the political structures of these entities will be varied. Some will be actual kingdoms with power vested in a single monarch. Some will be oligarchies. Others will be more democratic—even a direct democracy is possible.
[Coming from Eve, wherein the mechanics really don't support anything other than oligarchy and autocratic personality cults, I find this appealing. Hopefully, the mechanics will enforce the rule of law when a 'kingdom' is established as a democracy, and prevent a potential tyrant from amassing total power.]
The economic structures of kingdoms will be varied as well. The kingdom may tax its members on their earnings to fund its operations, and that tax rate could vary from nil to 100%. Ayn Rand to Karl Marx and everything in between.
The combination of politics and economics will create a matrix of variety in kingdoms, and that matrix is further complicated by alignment, creating a three-dimensional structure of options. If you can imagine it, you can likely custom-tailor a kingdom to deliver."
Also, they seem to be aware of the mistakes made by others in the past and are eager to innovate, both of which are refreshing changes,
"We want to mirror some of the amazing things that occurred in Ultima Online and EVE Online, but we also want to strike out on our own path.
We also want to avoid some of the missteps that have happened in other games. We want to ensure that there's always enough space so that new settlements and kingdoms can form. We want to avoid the problem of choke points that restrict access to key resources, making whomever got to those points first the de facto "winners" in the economy.
We're going to design Pathfinder Online so that each level of social organization arises when the game is ready for it. Slowly adding these increasing levels of sophistication will allow the society of the game to ramp up gradually and with good cohesion. As new players join, they'll always have ways to become a part of that process."
Lastly, I like their choice of time based progression, rather than grinding out experience. This allows me to use my time in game to pursue other things, and these statements are encouraging,
"The upsides outweigh these downsides. One huge upside is that unlike almost every other MMO, your character gets better in EVE even when you're playing another game! That makes it easy to make EVE your "second" MMO, the game you play in addition to something else (like World of Warcraft). It also levels the playing field between people who can only put in a few hours a day (or a few a week), and those who can play continuously. Finally, it encourages characters to specialize, but doesn't inflict overt penalties if the player doesn't do so. No skill training is ever wasted—the worst scenario is that you wasted some time training a skill you're not going to use right away. Your character's advancement doesn't create dead ends or "worthless builds."
In the end, if your a sandobx fan, I would definitely keep an eye on Pathfinder Online. I will be.
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Pathfinder online? Did i read this good? I must be dreaming....
If it will be anything like UO it will be fine :O
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Originally posted by Royalkin
Which is what I am extremely weary off. I do not want to see yet another EVE p2w system.
In fact, I don't want to see another game focused on economy in the first place, but it seems to me that CCP and all its developers, even those that quit, can't put that drug down.
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Originally posted by AdamTM
With all due respect, I think stating that the game will be based off the economy is a little short-sighted. A player-driven economy is a consequence of a virtual world sandbox, rather than being its focus. I really don't see how its possible to have a virtual world sandbox without a player driven economy, being that it is a definitive aspect diferentiating it from a themepark.
Personally, and I admit this is a relative point of view, I really hate grinding experience, quests or not. Time based progression creates a sitaution where adventuring becomes something that players do because they find it fun, not because its a necessary action in order to progress their character. Also, for those players not-inclined to combat, it affords them more time to pursue thier chosen activity.
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Originally posted by AdamTM
A drug that I would gladly accept. To each his own I guess. There are way too many MMOs that deny player interaction outside of combat, let's not see this be one of them. Having a player driven economy is one of the most important features in a sandbox game, I wouldn't change that.
Originally posted by Royalkin
A player-driven economy is fine. A player driven economy as the center of your game-design is a bad idea, or at least for me its a bad idea because I don't enjoy playing the market.
EvE is a perfect example of this, there is not an aspect in the game world that does not revolve around money and the economy. Its just another disguised progression system, it doesn't really solve anything of what you say in your second paragraph. Yes your character can progress by just paying for the subscription and queing skills, but if you don't GRIND for money, you will be effectively completely useless even with LVL5 skills.
You are just substituting one kind of grind for another kinf of grind. This might be a question of perspective, but for me its the same thing.
A sandbox can certainly have player based economy, its fine really, but we need to remember that these are games, they do not need to necessarily follow the free-market economy in real life. There is nothing saying that the economy must be the driving factor of a sandbox, in fact, a free-market economy simulation in a MMO brings the exact same problems with itself like it does in real life.
Its actually one of the things i think why sandboxes are not as popular, because the economical libertarian model is by its very -definition- concerned about individual wealth and not the collective, it is therefore, essentially, anti-social. Which is a bad thing for an MMO.
PS: Because this might be misunderstood: economy and combat are not the only parts of a game, especially an MMO, focusing on either is a big mistake. What I am advocating is interdependant game design.
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I dunno about this, I doubt marketing officers really know much about game devolopment, they are mostly responsable for advetising it and such aren't they? Needless to say a combo fo sandbox+theme park? could be quite nice, Imma pay attention to this title and see where it goes.
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Originally posted by AdamTM
That is what EvE does. That is EXACTLY what eve does.
There is one basic truth of wealth building: It take efford. If it did not, everyone would have it. So yeah, if you want anything resembling a player driven economy you have to factor this in.
If you have a magic way to make Efford =/= Grind, please do share.
Originally posted by hfztt
No EVE does not.
Tell me something in EVE that has nothing to do with combat or economy?
I'll actually make it even easier, name something in EVE that is not directly tied to economy.
Also this has really no impact on what i said. Wealth in itself does not need to be important at all in a game/sandbox/themepark. These are not mutually exclusive concepts. There can be player driven economy without wealth playing an overt role.


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"This is part of an ongoing investigation, therefore we cannot comment," Kyle Edelen, spokesman for the Eastern District of Kentucky's U.S. Attorney's Office,said. He added that the office can neither confirm nor deny any details of an investigation while it is ongoing to ensure that any possible defendant receives a fair and impartial trial.
The Herald called the Clinique Monday afternoon and received an automated message telling callers that the Clinique is currently closed.
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The Yadkin County Sheriff's Office arrested Randall Darron Pruitt, 22 of Yadkinville, and Lelia Gene Settle, 37 of Yadkinville and charged them with using a stolen prescription pad from a medical center in Huntersville to obtain the drug Oxycodone.
Pruitt is charged with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and trafficking in opiates by possession. He is being held in the Yadkin County Jail under a $15,000 bond.
Settle is charged with two counts of possession with intent to manufacture sell and deliver a schedule II controlled substance, two counts of sell and deliver a controlled substance, obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and trafficking in opiates by possession.
The Yadkin County Sheriff's Office began their investigation in March of 2013 when deputies received information that the suspects were allegedly obtaining multiple prescriptions from several pharmacies in North Carolina, according to a sheriff's office release. The investigation included infiltrating the ring of suspects.
Deputies searched a mobile home located on Cleary Road in Yadkin County and found several used needles and syringes, along with many other forms of drug paraphernalia, according to the release. Detectives also recovered several fraudulent prescriptions, one at a pharmacy in Yadkinville. That prescription had been recognized as being fraudulent by one of the pharmacist and was not filled.
Deputies report the suspects would use several different names and would drop off the prescriptions and then return later with a fraudulent ID or use their real names in some cases in order to pick up the prescriptions, according to the release.
Other suspects have been arrested in Statesville and Elkin. Representatives in the sheriff's office say that more suspects and or more charges could be pending in other jurisdictions. Those cities include Huntersville, North Wilkesboro, Mocksville, Statesville and Elkin.
The investigation included the Yadkin County Sheriff's Office, Wilkes County Sheriff's Office, Yadkinville Police Department, Elkin Police Department, NC State Bureau of Investigation and NC State Highway Patrol.
Anyone with information about the investigation is asked to call your local Sheriff's Office and or City Police Department.


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Palestine Under Roman Rule
Judea becomes a Roman tributary.
By Lawrence H. Schiffman
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In 63 B.C.E, the Roman general Pompey conquered Palestine, ended the Hasmonean state and brought Palestine into the Roman Empire. The following article describes Palestine under Roman rule. It is reprinted with permission from From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Ktav).
Judea was ruled by a Roman procurator who managed its political, military, and fiscal affairs. Its governmental structure was reorganized by Gabinius, the Roman governor of Syria from 57 to 55 B.C.E., who divided the country into five synhedroi, or administrative districts. This arrangement was clearly intended to eliminate theage‑oldsystem of toparchies (administrative districts made up of central towns and the rural areas surrounding them), dating from the reign of Solomon, and taken over in turn by the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians, and then by the Ptolemies and Seleucids.
The intent of this reorganization was to destabilize the nation and thus make certain that popular resistance would be impossible. Julius Caesar restored certain territories to Judea and appointed Hyrcanus II ethnarch (Greek for "ruler of the nation"). [Hyrcanus II was the son of Alexander Yannai, the Hasmonean King who ruled from 103-76 B.C.E.]
Hyrcanus was a weak figure who on his own could neither administer the affairs of Judea nor collect its taxes. For this reason, it became possible for the Idumaean Antipater, whose father had been forcibly converted to Judaism in the time of John Hyrcanus, to insinuate himself into the halls of power. [John Hyrcanus ruled the Hasmonean state from 134 B.C.E. through his death in 104 B.C.E. During his reign, the state vastly expanded, through conquest, to include Samaria, Transjordan and Idumea (northern Negev). When John Hyrcanus conquered Idumea, he converted the Idumeans to Judaism.]
He soon took control of virtually all matters of state, thus exercising the authority that technically belonged to Hyrcanus as high priest, and combined with this the powers delegated to him by the Romans, who clearly saw him as their agent. Antipater's decision to install his sons as governors, Herod over Galilee and Phasael over Jerusalem, sowed the seeds of the Herodian dynasty.
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June 17, 2015
Duke City Repertory Theatre's 6th Season Announcement Party! Click HERE to RSVP!
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February 25, 2015
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February 2, 2015
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Imagine Action Conservatory (IAC) is a two week summer program that teaches Life Skills Through Stage Skills to students grades 3rd-12th. Students will have an opportunity to learn from professional actors and theatre practitioners with 40+ years of experience in theatre and film. The program focuses on cultivating confidence, bravery, teamwork, and creativity–all through the powerful medium of theatre. Regardless of where life takes them, students of all backgrounds will benefit from Imagine Action Conservatory's two weeks of adventure.
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November 30, 2014
Duke City Rep is partnering with Enlace Comunitario and S.A.F.E. House New Mexico to provide assistance to survivors of domestic violence by hosting a diaper, toy, and clothing drive. DCRT encourages its patrons to participate in the drive by bringing diapers, baby wipes, toys, and new or gently used women's clothing to The Cell Theatre on the night of any performance of All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth. Patrons who participate in the drive will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win free tickets to DCRT's production of The 39 Steps, a Tony award-winning and action-packed comedy playing in May of 2015.
The donated diapers and baby wipes will benefit the children of women to whom Enlace Comunitario provides support and transitional assistance, and the donated women's clothing will directly aid the women staying at the S.A.F.E. House shelter.The children's toys will be distributed evenly between both support agencies.
For more information on both organizations, please visit http://enlacenm.org and http://safehousenm.org.
Watch the latest trailer for All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth by Rick Galli!
And don't forget to get your tickets HERE!
October 27, 2014
September 4, 2014
Company Member Katie Becker Colón wrote our latest blog post on how we Dukes choose each season. Check out her enlightening commentary HERE and get a sneak peek in the DCRT Brain!
August 5, 2014
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Duke City Rep has a thrilling fifth season in store and we want to share it with YOU!
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June 19, 2014
Duke City Rep is proud to announce our INAUGURAL SUMMER ACADEMY!!
**Teaching Life Skills Through Stage Skills**
The Summer Academy is almost upon us—Enroll now! Click here for more info!
The DCRT Summer Academy is a two-week morning program
May 12, 2014
These Shining Lives opens this THURSDAY! We're not only eager to share this production with ABQ audiences, but our new trailer for the show as well! Take a looksie, and buy your tickets HERE!
May 4, 2014
DCRT is looking for some responsible, super-friendly volunteers who are interested in working box office and as house volunteers for our upcoming production of These Shining Lives (5/15-5/25 Thurs-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm) at The Cell Theatre (700 1st St. NW 87102)
In addition to earning our unending loyalty and several high-fives, volunteers also get the chance to see the performance for FREE!
If interested, please email Alicia Webb at firstname.lastname@example.com and in your email specify:
If you're not available for this particular production but would love to help out in the future, just let Alicia know that you'd like to be put on the list and we will contact you for upcoming productions or events.
April 24, 2014
Tickets now available for These Shining Lives!
"It was the job of the century. The job of our dreams."
For Catherine Donahue and her friends, a job at the Radium Dial Factory in 1920s Chicago was the most liberating, revolutionary experience of their lives. But when these women began to fall ill from the poisonous radium in the watches they painted, they found themselves swept up in a much larger revolution–one that changed American history forever.
Led by the defiant Catherine, these women stared an industrial Goliath in the face, and challenged the notion that human life is capitalism's greatest natural resource. These Shining Lives reminds us that true survival not only transcends the physical world, but lives on in the timeless legacy of a handful of brave, determined women who wouldn't go down without a fight.
Click HERE for more info and to purchase tickets!
March 7, 2014
Every member of DCRT is teeming with excitement!! We are so incredibly honored and ecstatic to open John Hardy's adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. We run through March 16th, see you at the theatre!!
"We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously. Take pains, be perfect, adieu."
Photo by Rick Galli
March 4, 2014
Artistic Director Amelia Ampuero and Director of Development Katie Becker Colón went on "KASA This Morning" to discuss A Midsummer Night's Dream, touring, and our upcoming education program. Check out the interview, and don't forget to buy your tickets for Midsummer HERE!
February 25, 2014
DCRT is looking for some responsible, super-friendly volunteers to navigate our patrons through their theatrical experience and provide some much needed assistance to our Box Office and Stage Manager. In addition to earning our unending loyalty and several high-fives, volunteers also get the chance to see the performance for free.
You can volunteer some time and energy and get to see the best darn theatre in the city for FREE.
We are currently looking for box office and house volunteers for our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (3/6-3/16, Thurs-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm). Interested? Please email Alicia Webb at email@example.com.
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February 20, 2014
Lord….what fools these mortals be! We are right smack dab in the middle of rehearsals for Dr. John Hardy's adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. 7 actors, 20 characters, and one night of fairy mischief! Tickets are available here, and the show runs Mach 6-16 at The Cell Theatre. "I am that merry wanderer of the night…."
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September 26, 2013
It's the Opening Night of our best season yet! Trust us folks, you won't want to miss a single show this season.
September 3, 2013
Today we venture into the world of fog bound London as we begin rehearsals for the first production of our 4th season. What will be revealed "When the lights go down"?
September 2, 2013
New company members and newly weds Katie Becker Colón and Ezra Colón join the DCRT ranks today. Our little company just keeps growing!
August 17, 2013
The Twilight Gypsy Bazaar is upon us! For one night only Duke City Repertory Theatre will transform the Casas de Sueños Historic Old Town Inn into a magical and mystical camp. Every dollar raised will benefit DCRT's 4th season!
May 26, 2013
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress has closed! Thank you to our audiences for making this show one of our most successful yet!
May 16, 2013
What happens when five bridesmaids loathe the bride and escape the reception? Join DCRT at The Cell tonight at 8pm to find out! Opening Night is tonight!
May 1, 2013
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Hello all and welcome to Poetry Friday. Mr. Linky is down below to add your link.
But first, I have a review of Hip Hop Speaks to Children edited by Nikki Giovanni
So, this is an anthology of poetry, hip hop, and sermons, showing the evolution of the spoken word with rhythm and using rhythm to best spread the word.
It's beautifully illustrated by multiple artists and contains a wide range of poets--Langston Hughes, Queen Latifah, Sugar Hill Gang, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kanye West, Walter Dean Meyers, and Maya Angelou and more.
The best part is the included CD. I have long loved Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Pool plays: Seven and the Golden Shovel" but never knew how to read the rhythm of her punctuation and line breaks
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We...
And I never thought I'd see "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang in a children's book. This is one of those tracks that helped define hip hop. (And you might know it as the song that the old lady rapped in The Wedding Singer
I said a hip hop the hippie to the hippie
the hip hip hop, a you dont stop
the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie
Some things are texts we think of as for adults--"The Creation," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Song of Smoke," and some are things we tend to associate with children--"Books" and "Principal's Office."
I'm not a fan of all the poems, but many are ones I love.
But the CD... hearing Langston Hughes introduce and then read his work is amazing. There are also some interpretations of songs. I wasn't a fan of the rap of "I Have a Dream"--I liked the concept, but not the execution. But, the hamboning version of "The Pool players" and Josephine Cameron's sung version of Sterling Brown's "Long Track Blues" are tracks I can listen to over and over again.
I highly recommend this one for all collections. If the title didn't include the word "children" it'd be an excellent book all the way to high school. My coworkers and I are already talking about doing a Hip Hop poetry story time for our elementary school kids. The only question is if we wait until April (Poetry Month) or go ahead and do it now. Well, do it in October, when the book comes out, but pre-order today.
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