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Susan Maier IOM Open Meeting 1/27/2014
(Transcript by Patricia Carter)
Thank you. Thank you. Um
I have not been doing ME/CFS for very long. When I started at NIH with this, I knew absolutely nothing. And it took me a while to learn, and now I am very happy to be here today and to be involved previously and to continue my involvement with looking at ME/CFS…um… So, thank you for letting me come and talk to you today. I appreciate the invitation and I hope you will get out of this what you need to know and of course you can ask me questions after. So. Let me get the right direction here.
Let me first start by telling you that the Pathways to Prevention Program is a collaboration. This is a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health, Office of Disease Prevention, and the Trans-NIH ME/CFS Research Working Group. They are the ones who submitted the proposal to the ODP (Office of Disease Prevention) for the Pathways to Prevention Program. As you can see from the slide, the goals of the program are fairly straightforward: Identify research gaps and methodology problems, identify weaknesses in a scientific area, suggest research needs, and move the field forward through unbiased and evidence-based assessments of a complex issue. Complex health issue. Complex public health issue.
The Office of Disease Prevention does all of this with a very, very high level of coordination. They provie infrastructure, they provide funding, and they provide leadership to the staff at NIH who submit these proposals and review them and …uh… then approve them to move on.
So the…uh… the Pathways to Prevention Program really is a program for any disease, any illness, any syndrome—anything that needs…uh…work, that needs an understanding, that needs a more in-depth… uh… understanding of where the field is at. Remember NIH is a research organization. We do research. Our whole goal is research. All right. It's research that will eventually move…into, hopefully, translation and clinical care. It has a projection to do that. That's why we do it. But really, we serve… uh… the community of researchers in order to make sure that the research is done well.
So the Pathways to Prevention Program applies to any illness. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was chosen. It's a competitive process, and we were chosen to move forward.
The Timeline that you see here applies—again—to all diseases, all conditions, all syndromes—that are being considered under the Pathways to Prevention Program. So the Timeline's similar, all right, and it's very straightforward. I'm going to go through each one of these spaces of the timeline, so don't worry if you don't see it all here. Just to give you an idea of what our dates are like…okay, where are we…on this pathway? Here we go.
Okay, so if you look on the very far left, we started this process in June of 2012. And we've been going at this for a long time. But we started this process in June of 2012 when we first met with the Office of Disease Prevention, and we decided, hey, you know, there's a real problem here. We need to do something. Um. The ODP received our proposal in November, they made a decision to accept it in December of 2012. We had an organization meeting in February of 2013, a year ago now, then the dark day in October of 2013 when we were supposed to have our first Working Group meeting to plan the Workshop, and what happened but we were all staying at home. All federal employees stayed at home. In my opinion, it was a dark day, but we got over it. Now, what that did, though, was it set us back in time. Okay. So we couldn't have our Working Group meeting that plans the Workshop until January of 2014. So we just had it earlier this month. All right. And you'll see the "tentative" okay? Let me repeat, "tentative" date for the Workshop is December of 2014. That's what we're gearing up for and that's where we hope to be eventually.
So, again, here are these dates just to give you and idea… um… we meet to discuss what was called the Evvidence-based Methodology Workshop, now referred to as "Pathways to Prevention" Work…"Pathways to Prevention" Program, essentially the same program, it has the same goals, it has the same timelines, it's just now called "Pathways to Prevention," and I will continue now, from now on, to refer to it as "Pathways to Prevention."
The Working Group submits a proposal, the proposal gets approved, the organizational meeting is the place where federal partners get together, and they review the proposal for merit. Should it move forward?
So, February 2013, picture this: We're all sitting in a room. These are federal partners. Okay. The Working Group, the Trans-NIH ME/CFS Working Group, there's the NIH representative, the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality was there. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health was there… uh… the US Food and Drug Administration had a representative there, and other federal partners. These are federal partners who have an interest in investment in ME/CFS research. Many of them also sit on the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee, and many of them are involved in the background with ME/CFS, especially the Working Group members at NIH who don't come out to stand in front of you to talk about what they do. They don't tell you how much and how hard they work to make sure that the research in this area gets completed, gets funded, is overseen and the results get published.
So the federal partners are asked at this organizational meeting—make the case why ME/CFS? Why now? And what effect will this workshop process have on the research moving forward.
It wasn't hard to make the case. Okay. Necessity. Affected individuals have something wrong with them. It doesn't matter what you call it, but they have something wro… there's a common theme there. There's a lack of diagnostic indicators. There's a lack of understanding about the scope and the range, a lack of physician recognition of the problem. Okay. There's an urgency. There is no FDA-approved treatment. There's no cure. There are very, very few drugs in the pipeline in development, and there are very few drugs that are in trial phase. The current interventions that are used do not treat the illness. They address the symptoms. They're not heading towards a cure. This is a public health issue. Okay. People are sick. There's an unmet medical need. There was not any problem at all making the case to move this forward.
So the next phase of this is the Working Group Meeting. What the Working Group does in this process, the Working Group is composed of experts, content experts in ME/CFS, some federal partners, patient/patient advocates, caregivers, researchers, clinicians—people who have an understanding of the illness. They've been involved in the illness for a long time. Whether they have it, whether they do research on it or whether they are a clinician who provides care. There were three major tasks associated with this meeting, and believe me, the Office of Disease Prevention ran the meeting, and they kept us on task, on time. We had a very, very productive meeting.
So we had three tasks:
- Refine the questions for the evidence review. The evidence review is performed by an Evidence-based Practice Center. Evidence-based Practice Center is a contract, and that contract is done through AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research Quality). It's done through AHRQ, okay.
- We had to develop the Workshop agenda: topics, speakers, format. All agendas—topics, speakers, format.
- And we had to nominate panel members. I'll get to this in a minute.
All right. So. We had to refine the questions. Here I've listed in bullet points just the five major, major categories of questions. I do have some breakout of those, and when I'm finished with this, I can go over that breakout so you get a better idea of what we mean, but essentially,
- How do ME and CFS differ? Do they differ?
- What tools and measurements help define subsets in what could be a spectrum of ME/CFS?
- What are the characteristics of individuals who respond to certain treatments in the spectrum of the disorder?
- What does research on ME/CFS tell us about the clinical diagnosis of ME/CFS? How is it related?
- And have previous research findings really shaped clinical practice, or are research and clinical practice completely separate with respect to this illness?
So, again, these are just the basic questions that we started with. We had to take those questions and refine them. We did refine them down. The reason we have to refine them because the questions form the basis of the agenda for the Workshop. So, topics, speakers and format for a Workshop Agenda. The topics for the Agenda are defined by the questions that I just articulated to you. And how they are refined by that Working Group membership.
The speakers who will come to the meeting to talk about those questions are content experts. Okay?
Clinicians. Research… researchers. Those who have expertise in the diagnosis and treatment or conducting clinical and experimental research on ME/CFS. Those are the speakers. The speakers who will come there, address the questions, and who will provide an overview to the panel members. These are people who have an in-depth understanding of the illness. They represent a specific position…um… they could represent a pro or con position, so I think this definition is best. I don't think this definition is very good at all. But we have balance… okay? We have a balance at that workshop so we have input from all sides. And they are recognized leaders in their field. They're recognized as opinion leaders. They're recognized as content experts in ME/CFS.
Now the Evidence-based Practice Center which is the contract who does the evidence review—they will also speak to how the evidence review was done. So there are specific ways and this is a confirmed methodology, for taking the evidence that is provided in the literature and honing that down to present or to articulate in summary findings from the clinical research. So each agenda session, which is a question or a topic area, will be followed by a Town Hall-like question and answer. All right? So people will have the option and the ability to, at the meeting, after each session is finished, to discuss, talk and have conversations about the presentations.
Of course, the format we're kind of limited to no more than two days. This means if talks are no more than 20 minutes, do the math, we have enough content for a five-day meeting. We have to cram it into two days. And we're trying to do that by refining the questions.
And of course, time for breaks and lunch, and of course, federal meeting, no food for feds, no food for feds who come to a meeting. It's a fed meeting, so everything's always on your own. The third task at that meeting was to nominate panel members. Well, who's a panel member? What do you mean by a panel member? A panel member is a US citizen. Okay? They are highly recognized experts in their specific professional or public area. Okay? Highly recognized experts. They are not subject matter experts in ME/CFS. All right. They may be methodologists. They may be ethicists. Attorneys. Immunologists. Clinicians. Researchers. Um… health disparities folks. Public representatives. There's a whole bunch of people who can be part of the panel, as long as they are not conflicted with the topic of ME/CFS. And of course we can't have panel members who are agency or employees of the federal government. But just to give you an idea, a comparison, the workshop has content experts. The content experts serve to define the content area for the evidence review. They may be a speaker of the Workshop. They may be a member of that Working Group Committee. They may be a peer review or technical expert panel reviewer. Those are people that would all have a content expert perspective on ME/CFS. They can be conflicted. They should disclose that, but they may have an opinion, a bias, or they may hae some pro or con position on ME/CFS.
A Workshop Panel is just independent of ME/CFS, the topic in this case. They don't have research, they don't have publications on that specific topic, they're not a federal employee, and they cannot be conflicted financially or research or clinic. All right.
So what happens next?
Well, there are three boxes on the slide. The one on my left is one process. The one on the right is another process. They occur at the same time. Okay? The one on the left, the ODP, the Office of Disease Prevention, who is coordinating this entire thing, they have all the content from the Working Group meeting we just held, they will set the date, they will engage the speakers for interest and availability and they'll submit the conference approval form, and they will do a number of things related to the actual Workshop.
On the other side, we have the Evidence-based Practice Center who will start the evidence review. They will take the key questions that we send them, they will cull them down, and they will pull out, using the standard methodology, what types of research they will look for and what types of things they will pull from the literature to form part of that evidence review. All right? And they will create the evidence report. All right.
Now, one thing I have avoided telling you about because it's kind of awful, is that due to efficient spending policies in the federal government, we have to have every single meeting approved. All right? Over a certain dollar amount. Even under a certain dollar amount. We want to get together and have a coffee… okay, not quite that bad but it's pretty bad, all right? So this Workshop counts as a conference. It counts as a meeting. So we have to get it approved. Technically, according to the federal government, this Workshop does not exist yet. So, that's why there's a big blue arrow that says "approval." We must obtain approval for the conference before we can move forward. Once we obtain that approval, we release the Workshop agenda, the speakers who will be coming to the meeting to speak on the topic, the logistics for the meeting, anything that anyone ever wanted to know about this meeting will be public. We'll release the evidence report to the panel members and to the public, and we'll widely promote the meeting. All right.
So. In summary, if you didn't get that all with all the slides, all right. The Pathways to Prevention Program is a multi-step process involving a very high level of coordination. Topics are submitted to the Office of Disease Prevention selected by an independent panel at the Office of Disease Prevention based on research need. Different individuals with interest and investment are involved in developing the topic, the key questions, engaging experts, and creating the foundation content for the Workshop.
Foundation content consists of an evidence report and it's based on key questions that are relevant to the field and the presentations from the content experts.
An independent panel of individuals who are recognized experts in their own field will assess the weight of the evidence from the report and from the speakers, what they present at the meeting.
The deliverable from this Workshop is a set of recommendations from the panel based on the totality of the evidence that they have read and heard. And a follow-up is conducted within one to nine months that then works on how to process the recommendations and move them forward into practice.
I want to encourage you to reach out to these people. Paris Watson is the person who is in charge of the Pathways to Prevention Program. She was glad to answer your questions. When she can't answer them, she will forward them to someone else. You may reach out to me. I'm Susan Maier. And you may reach out to Dr. Mariela Shirley. Dr. Shirley is the new Chair of the Trans-NIH Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Working Group. She is also the new ex-officio member representing NIH at the Chronic Fatigue syndrome Advisory Committee.
ELLEN WRIGHT CLAYTON, Committee Chair:
Thank you so much for your presentation. I do. I notice people taking pictures of slides. We actually will be posting these presentations on the website, so… I mean, feel free to do that, but they will also be available to you later. Um. Ted and then Lily.
Thank you, Susan.
I have one or two… depends on your first response
I'd better do it right…
The … At the end, there are some recommendations.
The NIH, you emphasized, was a research unit that hopefully would have products that would translate into practice, but are those recommendations, then, or research agenda for the NIH or is it recommendations for practice?
It has the potential to be both, but understanding that we are a research organization, and our focus is to improve the … um… integrity of the science that is used for translation into clinical care means that we have to focus on besting the science that is used for the evidence, so that is really our primary focus. But I have no idea what the… the panel will recommend.
As I was talking, I realized that it didn't matter what you were to say, there was going to be two. Um… uh… You had your panelists and part of the sub-group was the clinicians, and in the group of clinicians there was nobody from primary care. And given that most patients with this disease, whatever we call it, are going to be seen in primary care, I think that adding primary care to the panel would be important.
Absolutely. Absolutely. This is just a… a smattering of the examples, and I… your suggestion is well… is well taken.
Lily and then Nancy.
I have three questions. So, the first question is, on the first task on the list of refining the questions, it says "What does research on ME/CFS tell us about clinical diagnosis of ME/CFS? That seems very similar to what the charge, at least what my understanding is, of what the IOM is being charged with. So, I wanted to understand a little bit about how that would work between the NIH and IOM. And then my other questions was, I've been reviewing the Pathways to Prevention Website to try to understand how the process works, and let me see if I have this correct.
So the panel, you cannot be a clinician that has ME/CFS experience and you cannot… or you cannot be a researcher that has published on it? So, that was concerning to me because this is a complex illness. We've talked about it—about that—before in a lot of different venues, and it seems like the P2P … I can understand its… the… goal lists out which topics it chooses, but one of the requirements for the topics was that it be non-controversial. And this is a field that's undergoing a lot of changes. So I'm concerned that there isn't going to be anyone that has significant clinical or research experience on that panel.
And then my third question is, according to my understanding, the panel writes the document in 24 hours after the workshop. So, that's what I wanted to get an answer about.
Okay. Let's start with the third one. Yes. So. The panel, after… they will receive the evidence report and they will receive any other documentation that's submitted six weeks before the workshop. So they will have that content before the workshop and they are charged with reviewing it. At the Workshop, now remember, the evidence report covers a certain amount of research. It'll be clinical trials, it'll be clinical research. It won't be any specific… it will be the evidence report. It's a listing and a review of the evidence. At the Workshop, the panel will listen to the speakers, the speakers may address the content of the evidence report, they may add different information in there. They will provide perspective from the questions assigned as…their, you know, you're expert in this, but they will also provide additional information that may not be in there. Give you an example. The CDC study may not be published yet. It might not be included in there; however, it would be very important for the panelists to hear about that study and what it hopes to accomplish. So, there will be that opportunity to split it up, and have the panelists listen to that. Yes, they write it within 24 hours. Within 24 hours of the Workshop, the recommendations are complete. They are working during the Workshop, so every evening, they go back to their little sequestered place. It's a small "S," not a big "S." Um. They go back to their sequester place and they start writing. Okay. So they do have a day and a half. Total. Um. That report—the draft recommendations—will be posted on the ODP website for public comment, and for anyone to comment on. From there, it will come down after 14 days. All the comments will be reviewed, and the report will incorporate that content, and then it will be sent back out to the panelists for their review. Okay, that's the one.
Um. The… I'm thinking here… yeah. There is a link between what the IOM is doing and what we are doing. There's no doubt that there's a link there. And so we hope to be able to work with the IOM Committee and our committee, or our Working Group, or whatever process we're in at the time, to be able to share that synergy. There… there's no doubt that there's overlap in that sense.
I'm sorry. I can't remember your third one. Was there a third question in there?
Yes, the question was, uh, if the panel requirements seem to imply that you can't have clinical or significant research experience…
So the requirement of a panelist is that they may not be a clinician who sees patients with ME/CFS. They may not be a researcher who performs research on ME/CFS. They could be a clinician who treats pain disorders. They could be an oncologist who treats cancer-related fatigue. They could be an expert in a research area that has recently undergone a case definition or case definition review, such as a polycystic ovary syndrome. So they can… they are highly regarded experts in their field. They just are not ME/CFS experts. That content comes from the speakers at the workshop. That's where those people will make their case. Think about this. It's a jury model. Okay? You have the defense. You have a prosecution. They both know the case really well. They know the details, they know what's going on, they know all the nuance, they know what's going on in the media. Your jury is sequestered. They don't know. They don't know anything.
"I've heard of that, but I'm not sure. I don't know about that trial." The jury hears the evidence and they make their decisions based on the evidence. That's essentially what the panel is—the difference between the workshop speakers, the evidence report and the panelists—get it.
Nancy and then Cynthia.
I'm just so challenged because, you know, I'm on… both groups. My understanding, if I can paraphrase, is that IOM is not able to put anything out until its final report, so it would be very difficult to synergize, per se. But it can certainly hear. So it's a one-way direction from P2P
Yes, it is.
I think we talked about that…
It sounds very important because… and… there's so much that would be, you know, duplicated—literature reviews and so on. You have this extraordinary group doing a comprehensive review of the entire literature. Obviously, that's something this committee could really value and not have to reproduce, that would be fabulous.
The case definition charge itself is… is difficult. If… if this group is really focused on a clinical case definition, um, and the P2P is really focused primarily on—in its case definition focus—that piece of it—research case definition, um, I think. At least that's what I understand.
The goal of the P2P is not to develop a research case definition. But to review it. Review the evidence in supporting all case definitions that have been used.
It's going to be very… this is very interesting.
So, anyway, how do you see the one-way direction of this information flow working? And I'm worried about the timelines because… when will the… when will the… working group have the…uh…the evidence …
The evidence review will be completed roughly six weeks before the workshop. We're planning for December 2014. Planning. "Tentative," please. Planning.
So, six weeks minus will be when the evidence review should be completed and should be sent, then, to the panelists.
Might it be possible, then, in order to facilitate this group's work, which synergizes, to ask that the case definition part of that be up front and available to this committee sooner than that because our timeline, I think that's too late… to be useful.
Yeah. I think the IOM timeline is shorter. Yes. Um. I… I… I… don't have a thorough answer to your question, but let me tell you th…Let me tell you what I know.
Um. The two processes are different. And our—not a charge—but our purpose is different, and so the questions that we develop will be heavily focused on the research part of it. That doesn't mean that the research part of it…it will not be informative to a clinical case definition, but it means that our questions and, therefore, our evidence review, might not exactly dovetail with what you're looking for. That doesn't mean it isn't … uh… usable content. It just means that it… because what we're reviewing is different than what you're going to review, as the IOM.
So, can I just ask in a simpler way of asking then. Do those of us who are on both committees —I think there are two of us here that are—uh, permission to share what we have to date. Because we were given interesting content just two weeks ago.
That was very good. But I don't know what my limits are in sharing that—with this committee.
I think we discussed at that meeting that it would be because, well, a…
Everyone as you may…as…as the people who were at the meeting may well know, um, the ODP coordinator went off on vacation for two weeks. (laughs) She just got back today. Um. She does a fabulous job, but she's got to get back to what she was working on. So the content of the meeting is not finalized. All the things that we discussed are on…in …you know… sheets of paper and maybe a couple of computer disks, okay, I won't say diskette, but a couple of things here and there. She has to pull that all together. When she pulls it together, there may be some semblance of order that she can say, hey, this was what I'm going to distribute to the Working Group members. At that point, then you can share it. Because it would be, okay, well here's some content that I have that I have knowledge of that I might find informative for other committees on which I sit.
I'm totally confused.
Are you?
I'm just thinking that I have a folder, you know, a lovely two pages of paper with a beautiful case definition chart with all the case definitions.
Revolution seems like a perfect document to start some conversation here, but I don't know my limits in sharing that little piece of paper.
I think that Paris Watson at ODP is the one to give you that specific guidance, just to be sure.
My understanding is that protocols for evidence reports are supposed to be publicly available.
So, uh, we should be able to have access to the protocol for that evidence report. I am wondering if there are ways that we can work such that we get access to the search strategies? That are used in that evidence report, tied to specific questions that are addressed that presumably are already specified in the protocol so that we can use those before the final report comes out? And also, my understanding is that these evidence centers develop evidence tables before they have finalized the report and I'm wondering if a way could be worked out so that's an interim product, really? If there could be a way worked out such that our committee could have access to some of these interim products?
I think those are very valid questions, and I apologize. I don't know the answer to that at this point in time, but I will certainly go back and ask. I'll find out what the Statement of Work says about the work products deliverables, when they're due, who they get released to, etc. But that's a very valid question.
Well, thank you very much. I really appreciate this.
Uh. I think what we ought to do now. I know that we're not scheduled for a break until three o'clock, but I would actually rather take it now. Uh. Uh, in part because … well, mostly because that will give us some more time when we come back to hear… to hear from the patient perspectives. For those of you who haven't noticed, there have been little signs going up here when people get near the end of their time. There's like a yellow sign and then a red sign. So, … and we will be doing that afterwards for the many talks that we're getting ready to have but with your permission what I would like to do is take the break now, reconvene at ten till three, for real. And then start at the … start with the voice of the patient presentation and then start hearing from our various …um… from our various representatives. So, with your permission I would like to adjourn now for 15 minutes. So we'll reconvene when that clock says ten till three. It's late. So don't … yeah, I know.


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Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Tom Kitten. Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. A source of inspiration was the Lake District where she lived for the last thirty years of her life as a farmer and conservationist.
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By Yonina 05 Aug 2013
I love this story and that is why I ordered the book for my children.
Unfortunately I didn't realize it was pocket edition :(
It is very small, and I don't think I can use it for my toddlers...
What a waste :(
By Diana Nogueira 25 Apr 2011
This book is one of the Beatrix Potter's Peter rabbit collection and it is the only one that I have bought due to a study calling.
It is a well written book, with good and close to reality illustrations that transmit the care and the taste of the author who demonstrates passion for animals and nature.
Its shape gives the opportunity to children and toddlers to hand them and put them in their pockets.
In a first look we can realize that all the written text is well thought and aimed to children so they can learn language and also morals. The illustrations are completely adorable and they are draw following the real shape of things.
I also had the opportunity to read Tom kitten and I find both a piece of art regarding the text and the illustrations .
I hardly recommend this collection, so much for your little baby's and your children :)
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Lena graduated from Oberlin College in 2008, where she studied Creative Writing. Her first short film, Dealing, premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival. Her first feature, Creative Nonfiction, premiered at SXSW 2009. She has made two webseries, Tight Shots and Delusional Downtown Divas. In 2009, she was commissioned to make ten more episodes of DDD to project at the Guggenheim's first annual Art Awards, an event which the Divas hosted in character (and Lena co-wrote the teleplay.) In 2009, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film". She writes about film and interesting characters for various publications, including Interview Magazine, Onion A/V Club, HammertoNail.com. She loves to tweet.


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September 23
Deliverance from Dust and Chaff
"For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth" (Amos 9:9).
The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are still being winnowed and sifted. In all countries God's people are being tried "like as corn is sifted in a sieve." Sometimes the devil holds the sieve and tosses us up and down at a great rate, with the earnest desire to get rid of us forever.
Unbelief is not slow to agitate our heart and mind with its restless fears. The world lends a willing hand at the same process and shakes us to the right and to the left with great vigor. Worst of all, the church, so largely apostate as it is, comes in to give a more furious force to the sifting process. Well, well! Let it go on. Thus is the chaff severed from the wheat. Thus is the wheat delivered from dust and chaff.
And how great is the mercy which comes to us in the text, "Yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth"! All shall be preserved that is good, true, gracious. Not one of the least of believers lose anything worth calling a loss. We shall be so kept in the sifting that it shall be a real gain to us through Christ Jesus.
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The College of Charleston and The Citadel will take their cross-town rivalry to the ice Saturday night.
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When: Saturday, 7 p.m.
Where: Carolina Ice Palace
The Cougars (1-1) and Bulldogs (1-1) will face each other at the Carolina Ice Palace beginning at 7 p.m.
A year ago, the Bulldogs defeated the Cougars, 5-3.
"This has turned into a pretty good rivalry," said College of Charleston coach Joe Snecinski. "We've played some pretty good games over the past couple of years. They've been very competitive games, and I don't see why this game won't be close as well."
The Cougars opened their season last weekend beating Duke, 6-1, and losing to North Carolina, 6-2. The Bulldogs faced the same two games, beating the Blue Devils, 4-3, in overtime and losing to the Tar Heels, 5-2.
"I was really impressed with our work ethic. The kids skated hard every shift," said Citadel coach Ed Courtenay, a former South Carolina Stingrays winger.
"Obviously, I'm new to the rivalry, but I know our kids are fired up about the game. I'm eager to see this thing first hand."
The Cougars are led by senior forward Gabe French, who scored 19 goals and had 16 assists, a year ago. French has a goal and an assist in two games this season.
"I wish I had about 10 more Gabe French's on our roster," Snecinski said. "Gabe is a very skilled player and he's got a very heavy shot."
Steve Perdigao had two goals and two assists last weekend for the Cougars.
The Bulldogs are led by senior Kyle Donnelly, who had three goals in two games last weekend.
"Kyle is our best player," Courtenay said. "It's obvious that he played a high level as a kid. He's the full package. He can skate, he's good with the puck and he's physical. He's a solid player.
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Eli received his ELA test scores yesterday. He got level 3 in English, scoring better than 80% of all other kids his age in the State of NY. He scored 98% better, 11 points below a perfect score in Math.
We are talking about a child who has test anxiety here. What does that say about Common Core? What does it say about all the parents and teachers who are so against this test claiming it is too hard?
I personally think teachers should not be teaching material solely based on trying to get their kids to pass the test, but I am 100% for a well rounded education that allows kids to score to their potential on the tests. It is a tough situation. People want teachers to teach, but not to a test. They also want teachers to be graded and not have tenure. You can't have it both ways. If teachers are going to be graded based on scores they are going to teach to pass the tests. There has to be a better way.
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Jamie Starr begins his sixthseason as an assistant coach for the Xavier University men's soccer team, and will serve as the primary goalkeeper coach. He also assists with the women's soccer goalkeeper unit.
Part of the 2014 BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year, Starr has helped lead XU to four NCAA Tournament appearances in the last five years -- including a trip to the program's first-ever Sweet 16 in 2014. He also played a big role in the development of 2014 BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Year Eric Osswald, who set program records for shutouts (11) and GAA (0.74) in 2014.
"Jamie is one of the better people I know who is still able to coach here while juggling the responsibilities of being a parent and working a full-time job," head coach Andy Fleming said. "Jamie has a really great calmness to him where he pushes the players but doesn't drive them, which I think is a great teaching style. His ability to develop Justin Marshall in such a short time has been tremendous. Now that the fall season is approaching, I'm excited to see how he will do from start to finish. I know he is going to help us do great things."
A 1998 graduate of and four-year letter-winner at the University of South Carolina, Starr served as a graduate assistant at USC during the 1998 season. He helped train the USC goalkeepers, including Chicago Fire MLS Cup MVP keeper Henry Ring.
Following a stint as a high school coach, Starr was named as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Tulsa and was with the Golden Hurricane during the 2000 season. Tulsa finished the season 10-7-2 that year.
Starr began working for Pencom Systems Inc. in 2000 and moved onto Braintree Laboratories Inc. as a territory manager from 2001-02. He has worked in his current place of employment, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals, since 2003.
He has remained involved in player development, working at the Keeper 2 Keeper Soccer Goalkeeper Training Camp in 2009 and 2010. Starr was also on staff at the Machnik No. 1 Goalkeeper Camp from 1993-98 and worked at the University of South Carolina's soccer camps from 1994-98.
Starr was named team captain during his senior year at South Carolina and helped lead USC to a spot in the NCAA Tournament three times. South Carolina earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament during his sophomore year.
Following graduation, Starr served as the head coach at Heathwood Hall Episcopal High School in Columbia, S.C. His team finished the season with a 10-3 mark and qualified for the state tournament.


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NHL General Managers don't get the weekends off, which means that neither do NHL bloggers. With a late trade on Saturday, Mike Gillis ensured that I would have to stay up late writing instead of staying up late drinking and dancing on tables. So thanks, Gillis, for saving me from a bunch of embarrassment. Really, it was for the best. I'm a terrible dancer.
The Canucks sent the 22-year-old Kellan Tochkin to the Carolina Hurricanes along with a 2014 fourth round pick for the 23-year-old Zac Dalpe and 25-year-old Jeremy Welsh and, in the process, increased their good 'ol Ontario boys quotient. A surface-level reading of the trade marks this a win for the Canucks, who bring in two players with a combined 47 NHL games for two assets that are unlikely to ever play a single NHL game.
Let's look at the pieces of this trade in more detail and see just who the Canucks are adding to their organization in Dalpe and Welsh.
Back in 2009, the Canucks took a chance on the undrafted Kellan Tochkin, signing the 18-year-old to a three-year, entry-level contract. He finished fifth in scoring among 18-year-olds in the WHL in his draft year, right behind Evander Kane, Jordan Eberle, and Brayden Schenn. Tochkin was passed over in the draft because of his size; at 5'9″, he had low odds of making the NHL.
Tochkin grew up in Abbotsford, so when teams came calling with invites to their training camps, it was an easy decision to attend the Canucks camp and it paid off with a contract. Unfortunately, nothing else went as planned. His rookie year was the only season that Tochkin would top a point-per-game in the WHL, falling just short in each subsequent season.
Instead of playing with the Canucks' AHL or ECHL affiliates upon graduating from junior hockey last year, the Canucks loaned Tochkin to the CHL's Missouri Mavericks, which wasn't a particularly good sign for his future with the Canucks organization. Further writing was added to what was already on the wall when he did not attend Canucks training camp this year, skating instead with his old junior team, the Everett Silvertips.
At this point, it looks like Tochkin's ceiling is the AHL and, as he entered into the final year of his contract, this was the last chance to get any value out of his signing.
As for the fourth round pick, Jason Gregor actually found that you have a higher chance of selecting a decent NHL player in the seventh round. Not that that's saying much: about 3-7 players from the fourth round each year play more than 100 NHL games in their career. You essentially have an 8.6% chance of getting a decent NHL player in the fourth round, meaning it has limited value.
So, who did the Canucks get for these two assets with such limited upside? And why was Carolina willing to trade these two players to the Canucks?
The quick answer is that Jeremy Welsh is a salary dump. The Hurricanes signed Welsh to a one-year contract to play one game after three impressive years in the NCAA — in his 2011-12 season, he was one of the top goal scorers in college hockey with 27 goals in 40 games — then re-signed him to a two-year contract worth an average of $850,000.
That contract went from a two-way deal last year to a one-way deal worth $1 million this year, which the Hurricanes evidently weren't too keen on paying, as it looked like he wouldn't be making the Hurricanes to start the season.
Welsh disappointed in his first professional season, scoring 14 goals and 26 points in 69 games in the AHL. Since he's already 25, he's on the verge of no longer being a prospect. Still, there may be some potential to be a bottom-six forward in the NHL, considering he has decent size at 6'3″ and clearly has some skill. The Canucks can afford, and I mean "afford" quite literally, to be patient with Welsh this season where the Hurricanes cannot.
The best player in the trade is Zac Dalpe, who seems to have been included as payment to the Canucks for taking on the Welsh contract. Dalpe was a second round pick in 2008 and was, at one point, a highly-touted prospect expected to play a large role in the future of the Hurricanes. He was even a popular sleeper pick for the Calder trophy back in 2011, if "popular sleeper" isn't too much of an oxymoron. That came after scoring 57 points in 61 games as a rookie in the AHL. Things didn't pan out for Dalpe that year, however, as he got sent back down to the Charlotte Checkers in the AHL, scoring just 32 points in 56 games.
Last year wasn't much better for Dalpe, as he appeared in just 10 NHL games, scoring 3 points. His AHL numbers recovered slightly, with 21 goals and 42 points in 54 games. The Hurricanes appear to have lost patience with Dalpe, as he looked to have been beaten out by Nathan Gerbe for a roster spot out of training camp.
There's reason to believe that Dalpe might be a better fit with the Canucks, however, and there are still people high on his potential. Corey Pronman had him ranked fourth on his list of the Hurricanes' top-10 prospects and broke down his positives and negatives:
The Good: Dalpe is an above-average to plus skater who can play with a high level of pace and energy. Despite taking few penalty minutes, scouts say he has physical value, as he can protect the puck well, and pressure defenders effectively. The former Ohio State Buckeye has slightly above-average puck skills, but his offensive value comes from his great speed and shot. He can play center and wing.
The Bad: Dalpe's hockey sense is average, and his defensive game still needs improvement. He is not an overly creative player with the puck, and he projects as more of a complementary piece at the top level.
Hurricanes blog The Shutdown Line had Dalpe at number 8 on their top-25 players under the age of 25 and thought that he deserved more than the 10 games he played last season:
The biggest issue with Dalpe in previous years is that he struggled to drive the play north and keep the puck in the other team's end of the rink. That dramatically changed this past season, as he posted one of the highest shot attempt differentials on the team. Some of this might relate to him playing on a line with Jordan Staal, but Dalpe still did a lot of good things during his brief stint in Carolina and should have played more than 10 games.
One thing to consider is that Dalpe was originally a centre in college, but has been transitioned to the wing with the Hurricanes organization. It's possible that the Canucks may see him as a possible fit as a third-line centre with Jordan Schroeder injured. Considering Dalpe's noted defensive struggles thus far in his career, that may not be the best idea.
Dalpe is making the league minimum this season at $550,000, which is nice for a team that spends to the cap like the Canucks. If he does stick in the NHL this season, he won't cause any cap issues. Will he be able to stick with the Canucks? Corey Sznajder at The Shutdown Line thinks that Dalpe just needs a longer audition in the NHL to prove himself, but Dalpe has just 10 points in 41 NHL games, which is disappointing for a player expected to be a top-six forward.
If he can't stick with the Canucks, then things get dicey, as Dalpe is waiver eligible, so could get picked up by another team if he gets sent down to the AHL. This pretty much guarantees that Dalpe will get an opportunity on the Canucks roster, as Gillis is unlikely to expose a newly acquired player to the waiver wire.
In any case, to acquire two players with legitimate NHL potential at such a minimal cost is an impressive move for Mike Gillis. There's no risk involved and could really pay off for the Canucks if Dalpe can turn into anything even close to the player he was projected to be when he was drafted.Tags: beating trade analysis to death, Jeremy Welsh, Kellan Tochkin, trade, Zac Dalpe


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NEW YORK — The Bulls took the Madison Square Garden floor Friday morning with Christmas music playing in the background.
It seemed appropriate for a jolly team that's grateful to be playing in the World's Most Famous Arena on the world's most famous winter holiday.
"I'm going to miss my family, and I hate being away from home," Derrick Rose said, "but this is my job and it's an honor to be playing on Christmas. People will see us all around the world. And we're playing in like the best arena in the league."


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Ginger Poole is a proud member of Actor's Equity. She has studied, taught, choreographed, and performed throughout the U.S. She has worked in GA, FL, MS and VA with, Theatre in the Square, The Alliance Theatre, Theatre Gael, Synchronicity Performance Group-GA, Mill Mountain Theatre-VA and SC Children's Theatre. Originally from Atlanta, she has worked with The Atlanta Falcons as their director and choreographer and The Atlanta Opera. Prior to coming to Mill Mountain Theatre, she was based out of North Carolina where she has worked with Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theatre of North Carolina, in over 25 productions. She was a part of the Education program at Flat Rock Playhouse for 5 years where she taught for their Apprentice Companies and their Conservatory Program in Acting, Dance, and Musical Theatre. Ginger has taught at The University of Southern Mississippi, Western Carolina University, William Carey College, Mississippi University for Women, and currently teaches at Hollins University. Ginger holds her M.F.A. in Acting Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi and continues to teach acting and dance. She has worked with students that range in age from kindergarten through professionals. Ginger has worked in commercials, voice-overs, film, stage, and the classroom, and was profiled in the book FIRESTARTERS as "the actor". Ginger serves on the following Boards; Virginia Theatre Association, Junior League of Roanoke Valley, Burton Center of Performing Arts and is also on the Virginia Commission of the Arts Review Panel. She is very proud to be a member of the Mill Mountain Theatre team and looks forward to its continued growth, success, and artistic influence in the region.
John Levin is responsible for building and nurturing relationships for Mill Mountain Theatre that encourage financial support for our community's professional plays and drama education programs. He manages annual giving, corporate underwriting and major gifts for special needs and opportunities. His 15 years of experience in management of area non-profits includes working previously for MMT and for the YMCA of Roanoke Valley and Jefferson Center Foundation. Before then his newspaper reporting and editing career brought him to Roanoke to serve as business editor of The Roanoke Times.
John's personal and professional passion for the arts is based on recognition of the cultural value that arts organizations provide for their communities. John's involvement also includes work as art critic for newspapers, organizer of an annual exhibition for secondary school student art and grants panel review for the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mr. Gwartney has worked across the country in many areas of the performing arts industry. He has proudly served as a producer, arts administrator, consultant, and educator for over 15 years. His vast experience spans both nonprofit and commercial arts organizations in all areas of arts management with expertise in technology, marketing, event planning, audience services, budget/finance, box office operations/management, and data management/analysis. In addition, he is an accomplished actor and award winning graphic designer.
Before joining the team at Mill Mountain Theatre, Mr. Gwartney produced over 30 events/productions and worked with several leading arts organizations and institutions including: Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Louisiana Tech University, Tulsa Ballet, Oklahoma State University, Theatre Tulsa, and the City of Tulsa.
Mr. Gwartney received a Master of Arts from Oklahoma State University and a Bachelor of Arts from Northeastern State University.
Karen Gierchak hails from Western Pennsylvania where she attended both Kent State University and Youngstown State University. Prior to making Roanoke and Mill Mountain Theatre her home, Karen worked for many different theatre's throughout the country including Youngstown Playhouse, West Virginia Public Theatre, and First Tech productions to name just a few. Karen has a long career associated with Mill Mountain Theatre. Her body of work includes over 65 productions on the Mill Mountain Theatre stages. Her favorites include, but are not limited to Big River, Into The Woods, and 42nd Street just to name a few. Karen is excited to once again be part of the Mill Mountain Theatre family.
An actor, educator, and artist, Anna is happy to be a part of the exciting arts community in Roanoke. A graduate of Elon University in NC with a BFA in Music Theatre, Anna has performed and taught all over the country. Favorite credits include The Wizard of Oz National Tour, Peter Pan (Wendy) at RI's Theatre By the Sea, How to Succeed… (Rosemary) at FL's Show Palace, Nuptials (Kitty) at NC's Flat Rock Playhouse, Little Shop… (Audrey) at CO's Lake Dillon Theatre, White Christmas (Judy) at the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, Annie at GA's Theatre of the Stars, and last seen on the Mill Mountain Theater stage as Liesl in the Sound of Music and a Featured Dancer & Singer in Swing! Anna also works in television, film, and commercials, most recently guest starring on the Lifetime show Devious Maids. A Jill of all trades, Anna keeps busy as a photography assistant, production assistant, seamstress and has her own custom rubber stamp carving business, Stamps by Anna. Find out more at annakimmell.com.
Amanda Phillips has recently moved from NYC where she spent years as a Draper's Assistant making costumes for Broadway shows such as Wicked, Shrek the Musical, Follies the Broadway Revival, Sister Act, among others. She is a freelance pattern maker for a fashion design company called Viva Aviva. Amanda served as Assistant Head of Wardrobe on Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana NYC tour and worked on the wardrobe crew for Lion King and Madonna's 2012 Tour concert at NY's Yankee Stadium. Amanda is honored to be a part of MMT and is committed to helping the theatre come back stronger than ever.
Seth Davis is a Georgia native who is very excited to now be a part of the Mill Mountain family after first serving as Associate Music Director for Mill Mountain's production of Sound of Music! Seth is a music director and musician in both the musical theater and classical music realms in addition to being a teacher, clinician, and coach for performers and musicians of all ages. Regional credits include Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Spring Awakening, and See What I Wanna See (Actor's Express), Illyria: A Twelfth Night Musical (Georgia Shakespeare), Time Between Us, A Diva's Christmas, and Hair (Serenbe Playhouse), and The Andrews Brothers (Stage Door Players) among many other productions. Seth has also served as musical director for Georgia Tech and Oglethorpe University in addition to teaching at The Alliance Theatre, Aurora Theatre, and judging many regional music and theater festival competitions.
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How she was 'discovered': On July 3rd we drove into our alley and this little dog was looking lost—and scared of the fireworks—but adorable. We posted pictures, walked door-to-door, but no one claimed her. Our other two dogs adapted to her immediately—well almost—and my husband swears I pulled the signs down! But she's part of our family now and there couldn't be a happier goofier dog.
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…approximately 4 million pet dogs and cats are euthanized each year due to overpopulation.
…25% of pet dogs euthanized in animal shelters are purebred.
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Phuket is one of the southern provinces of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are Phang Nga and Krabi, but as Phuket is an island it has no land boundaries.
Made up of 33 islands, Phuket covers an area of 570 square kilometers (354 square miles) and has a population of about 322,000 residents. Phuket Island, the largest, is linked to the mainland by a bridge. The country's main source of income is tourism, though agriculture also plays a key role. The island is divided into three districts: Talang in the north, Kathu in the west, and Muang in the south.
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News about the Carolina Panthers, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Bullied Player Jonathan Martin Is Considering Retirement
The Carolina Panthers offense tackle, who was harassed while with the Miami Dolphins, is considering retirement because of a back injury.
July 28, 2015, Tuesday
Cowboys' Greg Hardy Suspended for 10 Games
The penalty, for Greg Hardy's role in a domestic violence case in North Carolina, is the stiffest handed out under the N.F.L.'s new and stronger personal-conduct policy.
April 23, 2015, Thursday
N.F.L. to See Photos From Greg Hardy's Trial
Prosecutors in North Carolina agreed to let the N.F.L. see photographs from Hardy's domestic-violence trial as the league considers whether to suspend Hardy.
April 2, 2015, Thursday
At N.F.L. Owners' Meeting, Roger Goodell Confronts the Aftermath of Abuse Cases
Goodell, the league's commissioner, is still grappling with the fallout from domestic abuse scandals and botched attempts to penalize players last season.
March 26, 2015, Thursday
Cowboys and Greg Hardy Reach Agreement
Dallas agreed to terms with the former Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy, the Cowboys said Wednesday, the same day the N.F.L. filed a lawsuit seeking the release of records from the bench trial that led to Hardy's conviction last summer on...
March 19, 2015, Thursday
League Appoints Medical Adviser
Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, the president of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, will oversee the league's medical-related policies.
February 10, 2015, Tuesday
Winning in a Runaway, Seattle Takes a Step Toward Another Title
The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle turned a tight game into a rout by forcing turnovers and bullying Carolina at the line of scrimmage.
January 11, 2015, Sunday
Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots: Saturday's A.F.C. Divisional-Round Matchup
Joe Flacco, who has won a record seven postseason games on the road, leads the Ravens to Gillette Stadium to face the Patriots.
January 10, 2015, Saturday
Carolina Panthers at Seattle Seahawks: Saturday's N.F.C. Divisional-Round Matchup
The Seahawks, who have won six consecutive games, host the Panthers, the N.F.L.'s second sub-.500 division winner.
January 10, 2015, Saturday
Sizing Up Seismic Activity of Football Fans
The noise of the famously raucous Seahawks fans, who caused a temblor in 2011, will be monitored by scientists during their game against the Carolina Panthers.
January 10, 2015, Saturday
Measuring Football Fans' Seismic Effects
Scientists from the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network set up earthquake trackers ahead of a playoff game in Seattle on Saturday to capture the ground-shaking effects of about 67,000 people.
Fantasy Football: Picks for Week 8
For Week 8, Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is a must-start against the Redskins. Receiver Doug Baldwin and running backs Ben Tate and Darren McFadden also have favorable matchups.
Times Minute | Heroin in New England
A town in Vermont fights back. Also on the Minute, Vladimir Putin's calculation in Ukraine and the power of prayer in the N.B.A.
Giants Replay: Dec. 27
The Panthers beat the Giants, 41-9, in the team's final game at Giants Stadium.
Week 12: Jets End Three-Game Losing Streak.
Mark Sanchez did just enough and the Jets defense did the rest in a victory over Carolina.
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When we hear the word "Pabst" the word "blasted" comes into mind, so it's no surprise that Woodbridge, Ill.-based Pabst Brewing Co. is having some trouble with its new, highly-alcoholic, colorful malt beverage, Blast. [More]
Illinois Attorney General Taking Aim At Pabst's Colorful Malt Beverage
Man Gets Comcast To Honor 16mbps For $52.95 Price
Comcast wanted to charge Daniel $69.99 for 16mbps internet access, or "Blast" level service, but he knew that he should only be paying $52.95, as he already had TV service with Comcast. No amount of wrangling could convince the customer service reps otherwise. The deal also couldn't be found when going through the main Comcast pages and price plans. But then, after searching on the Comcast site, Daniel found documentation of the price and forced Comcast to honor it. Now he shares the PDF with us so others can get this deal as well. He was also able to get a $79.99 credit on his account to buy a new cable modem since the 16mbps service needs Docsis 1.5 or higher technology in the modem, so that's something to shoot for as well. Note, Blast is only available if you're in one of Comcast's the "select" "competitive" markets, i.e. wherever Verizon FiOS is. Inside, the full contents of the PDF splayed out…


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NEW YORK, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy on Sunday said there were 166,499 customers without power in New York, New Jersey and West Virginia following Hurricane Sandy and the recent Nor'easter storm.
The number of outages was down by 122,740 from Saturday's tally of 289,239 in the three states.
The combined total of customer outages from Sandy and the Nor'easter peaked at more than 8.6 million in several East Coast states after the hurricane came ashore on the New Jersey coast on Oct. 29.
The majority of the remaining outages were in New York, with more than 132,000 customers out, most of those served by the state's Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), the DOE report said.
LIPA has come under growing criticism from residents and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as outages stretched into nearly a third week.
LIPA on Saturday said 55,000 customers on Long Island and in the Rockaways, in the New York City borough of Queens, could be powered, but damage to homes was too severe and repairs or an inspection needed to be completed before the houses could reconnect to the grid.
The bulk of outages on Long Island remained in Island Park, Oceanside and the East Rockaway area, with smaller pockets in other south shore communities.
In New York City, Consolidated Edison said it was on track to restore power by the end of the weekend to virtually all customers who can accept service.
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
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A North Charleston man is accused of breaking into a home while its owners were asleep and stealing more than $1,000 worth of items.
Daniel James Collins, 28, was charged with first-degree burglary.
Police believe Collins is the person who broke into a home on Old Central Way around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, according to police.
Several items from the homeowner's kitchen were stolen including an iPad, two iPhones, a wallet, a purse and female clothing, according to an incident report.
The items were valued at about $1,400, the report stated.
Two online purchases of about $900 were used with one of the stolen credit cards, according to police.
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Taking digital photos is easy. But how often do you dare to turn off the Auto function on your camera? Together we can unlock the full potential of your creativity
I have been photographing weddings for 10 years, and for the last 5 year, teaching people like you how to take control of their camera, and achieve results they didn't think they were capable of.
Lessons can be run as a 1 to 1 or a group session – you choose.
Chose from a 2.5 hour session in York, or a 4 hour masterclass, which includes an editing lesson.
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I run digital photography training workshops for complete beginners through to competent photographers.
Working in one of the UK's most photogenic locations, I help you develop your natural photographer's eye and discover your own unique style.
You will learn how to get the very best from your camera for shooting beautiful scenery, working with life models or simply capturing that special moment.
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York is a fantastic place to learn more about you and your camera. With an expert guide at your side, you'll discover all kinds of photo opportunities you've never even noticed before!
You don't have to restrict yourself to the city either. Within an hour of York lie all kinds of fantastic photo locations, from the Dales and the Moors to beautiful houses like Castle Howard.
I am now offering a landscape photography lesson as the stunning Sutton Bank. This is a great location, with breathtaking views (and decent cafe!).
This is a 1.5 hour lessons, for yourself, and up to 2 friends if required, and costs £75. You are advised to wear suitable shoes, and there's 2-3 miles of walking.
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If you don't own one, you can borrow one of mine for the workshop (and I can give you some buying advice too) – just let me know when you book. If, however, you want to work with your camera phone, join me for a 90 minute Digital Photography Primer.
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Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time. The world's key environmental and social challenges, such as population growth, energy security, loss of biodiversity and access to drinking water and food, are all closely intertwined with climate change. This makes the transition to a low-carbon economy vital.
We recognize that financial institutions are increasingly expected to play a key role in the transition to a low-carbon economy and, we are determined to support our clients in preparing for success in an increasingly carbon-constrained world. As one of the leading wealth management firms worldwide, and the leading universal bank in Switzerland backed by a top asset management business and a client-centered investment bank, our climate change strategy focuses on the following areas. It is in these areas where we believe we can make the greatest contribution to the transition towards a low-carbon economy:
- Risk management: seeking to protect our clients', and our own, assets from climate change risks, within our sphere of influence. Recognizing that the transition to a low-carbon economy will take time and that fossil fuels will continue to dominate energy production for decades to come, we are determined to understand the risks that our clients', and our own, assets are exposed to in the context of uncertain policy and technology developments addressing climate change. This includes developing a metrics-based approach to measure our exposure to climate change risks in high-risk sectors such as real estate and energy.
- Investments: helping to mobilize private and institutional capital towards investments facilitating climate change mitigation and adaptation. Our clients will continue to look for investment opportunities and some will increasingly focus on investments facilitating climate change mitigation and adaptation.
- Finance: supporting this transition as corporate advisor, and/or with our lending capacity. We are helping corporate clients raise capital on domestic/international capital markets in order to meet the high investment levels required for the transition to a low-carbon economy. In Switzerland, we are also supporting private clients in renovating their private homes sustainably and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in providing solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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These efforts build on a history and strong track record of reducing our environmental footprint in a consistent and transparent manner. In the reporting year 2012, we reached our ambitious goal set in 2006 to reduce CO2 emissions by 40% compared with 2004 baseline levels. A target on which we delivered successfully by adopting energy efficiency measures to reduce the energy consumption of the buildings we occupy, and of critical facilities such as the data centers we use, while increasing the proportion of renewable energy used. Emissions that cannot be reduced by other means (e.g. business air travel) are offset. Our achievements have been recognized by external experts, in particular by the most significant climate-change-focused investors' initiative, the Carbon Disclosure Project, which in 2012 ranked UBS as one of the top 10 companies worldwide for excellence in transparency and achievement in combating climate change.
We will regularly report on the progress we make in executing our new climate change strategy which, in 2013, will focus on the following elements:
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John Oliver will be leaving The Daily Show to host an HBO show focused on mixing comedy and news as Oliver will get to mock the week on Sunday nights. (Does this mean he'll air after The Newsroom? That should be a fun combination.) For you Daily Show fans who hoped Oliver's guest-hosting run would lead to something bigger, how do you feel about it happening away from Comedy Central?
Last night, @Midnight wrapped a four-week trial run. That won't be the end of the late night panel/quiz show, as Comedy Central has renewed the series for an additional forty weeks, as reported by Deadline. The bad news: new episodes don't return until next year.
And yet, I'm not sure if I think we've achieved Chris Hardwick oversaturation on TV.
NBC has ordered 12 episodes of Working the Engels, a first-time co-production between U.S. and Canadian broadcasters. The series stars the faboo Andrea Martin as the matriarch of a family that find itself financially strapped after her husband dies.
PBS has renewed Tavis Smiley for two more years. I always try to mention when Smiley talks with someone who has a TBL following, his interviews reach a depth that's rarely seen on TV.
Jason Ritter will be returning to Parenthood, as reported by TVLine. I'm feeling mixed about the prospect. As much as I like Ritter, I spent his final Parenthood episode yelling, "Run! Get away from this unhealthy relationship!" at the TV.
TV Guide reports that OWN has ordered two more Wanda Sykes Presents: Herlarious. This round sounds like it will include more sketches, with one promising appearances by Kristin Chenoweth, Tichina Arnold and Wayne Brady.
AMC's Hell on Wheels has taken an unusual journey, getting exiled to Saturdays after AMC almost took back its third season, only to get solid ratings on the traditional graveyard. Now the period drama has been renewed for a fourth season.
Does Anson Mount still get shirtless often enough on Hell on Wheels?
FX is developing an event series about Rasputin, the Russian mystic associated with the last days of the Romanov dynasty. That could be… interesting.
Here's the trailer for Lifetime's Flowers in the Attic, there's not much to judge but how can it not look better than the theatrical adaptation:
NPR looks at Fox's focus on diversity and how the network claims diverse casting has made new shows like Sleepy Hollow and Brooklyn Nine-Nine more accessible to a wider audience. That's quite a contrast to the experience of shows like Homicide: Life on the Street when diversity was a barrier for white viewers.
HBO's comedy pilot The Brink has added to its cast Tim Robbins and Jack Black. The dark comedy focused on a geopolitical crisis with Robbins playing the Secretary of State and Black playing a foreign service officer caught on the ground in the middle of the crisis.
Friday's Listings
The Carrie Diaries (CW) 8:00 PM ET
Remember the incredibly hot guy who played the crazy failed model on Major Crimes (otherwise known as Chris Wood)? He's now making his Carrie Diaries debut as a "difficult yet fascinating" playwright who Carrie meets thanks to Larissa's assignment. This probably isn't the time to bring up that Wood is a lot more ab-tastic than most 80s hunk.
It looks like Walt's singing a verse of "Who's that Guy?"
Musical Chairs (HBO Latino) 8:00 PM ET
Desperately Seeking Susan director Susan Seidelman's latest film debuts on HBO Latino this weekend and it sounds like the kind of thing that should grab the attention of TBL readers on a number of levels. First, the cast includes Revenge and Guiding Light alum E.J. Bonilla (Nolan's hot bookkeeping ex was one of the few moments of hope that last season could get interesting) and Orange is the New Black's Laverne Cox. Plus, it's a ballroom dancing romance about a scrappy handyman from the Bronx (Bonlilla) and an Upper East Side princess (Leah Pipes) who is a star of the ballroom dance scene. When she is disabled in an accident, the scrappy handyman helps her find new life by helping her train for a wheelchair ballroom dancing competition. We like movies about ballroom dance, right?
Ah, Musical Chairs. I just got it.
America's Next Top Model (CW) 9:00 PM ET
Great. I sit through one more episode about how the gay guy is not being butch enough and I'm left waiting through a cliffhanger to find out if I care about this week's finale or not.
Grimm (NBC) 9:00 PM ET
In hindsight, its surprising that Grimm hasn't revealed sooner that mermaids are wesen but this week it finally get to that obvious-in-hindsight revelation as Nick investigates drowning deaths involving a "deadly postcoital cuddle". I can't decide if I think Grimm is smearing cuddling or making it seem edgy.
Raising Hope (Fox) 9:00 PM ET
The Chance family is back and this season starts with a mysterious man (Jeffrey Tambor) moving into Natesville and taking an interest in the Chances. We've seen Arrested Development, and this is clearly one of those Bluth schemes they're always talking about on that Fox station.
Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) 9:00 PM ET
The Five-0 team takes on a mission most of the internet can stand by — protecting Nick Jonas and his rockin' bod. Or, rather, they're protecting a hacker played by Nick Jonas. That protective sentiment may not last if this hacker behaves anything like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Skye.
Dracula (NBC) 10:00 PM ET
Grayson continues his plan against Lady Jayne, which hopefully involves more seduction and more excuses to get Jonathan Rhys Meyers in various stages of undress. The best plans involve getting the sexy leading man out of his clothes. I wish the characters of Once Upon a Time would realize that.
Haven (Syfy) 10:00 PM ET
It's time for the "Mirror, Mirror" version of Haven as Audrey finds herself in an alternate universe version of Haven where there are no troubles. Since it turns out Duke doesn't have any facial hair in this universe, clearly Audrey comes from the darkest timeline.
Okay, Duke does have facial hair. I guess they're all the darkest timeline. It is Haven.
Hello Ross (E!) 11:00 PM ET
Ross is joined by Leah Remini. I hope there's no talk of cupcakes.