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The eDoc4u service not only educates people about their potential health risks, but it also allows individuals to easily take action after they have received their customized recommendations. For example, if a patient is told he should have a specific preventive care procedure, he can select the "schedule me" button on his computer screen. This functionality allows the member to be moved into the preventive care system of Saint Thomas Health Services.
"At Saint Thomas Health Services, we have long applauded resources that result in more informed, educated health care consumers. Providing our members and employees with eDoc4u's comprehensive service is something we're really excited about, as we all look to optimize health while lowering overall costs," said Jason Dinger, vice president, STHS Ventures. "We're especially pleased with the culturally competent recommendations the service delivers, along with the fact that the system encourages patients to seek out preventive care instead of waiting until conditions develop or become serious."
STHS is a part of Ascension Health, the largest not-for-profit health care system in the United States. STHS's family of hospitals includes Saint Thomas and Baptist Hospitals in Nashville, Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro and Hickman Community Hospital in Centerville.
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eDoc4u is a division of Conduit Corporation based in Nashville, Tenn. eDoc4u provides integrated preventive care web services to millions of members through benefit plans, health plans, providers and pharmacy benefit managers. eDoc4u empowers members and optimizes health by improving the quality and delivery of preventive care through "high tech, high touch" medical web strategies. The eDoc4u team comprises Board-certified internal medicine physicians who believe that to improve the health care of
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In a ground breaking study, Scripps Research has proved that peptides are extremely effective in slowing down and actually fighting the Hepatitis C virus. Lloyd Wright, author of Hepatitis C Free, has a number of Natcell products that contain peptides. "We went for the simplest solution, taking a peptide from core to see if we could block the interaction, and it did," said Professor Strosberg.
(PRWEB) November 18, 2009 -- Lloyd Wright, author of Triumph Over Hepatitis C and President of Alternative Medicine, Inc., was recently proven correct regarding the effectiveness of one his Hepaptitis C viral inhibitors. Peptides, which are part of Alternative Medicine's complete line of Natcell product line, have been found in a study conducted the Scripps Research Institute to inhibit "the joining of core proteins and the production of the actual virus itself." Professor Donny Strosberg, who led this study for Scripps Florida, related how researches described "peptides, molecules of two or more amino acids, derived from the core protein of hepatitis C. We went for the simplest solution, taking a peptide from core to see if we could block the interaction, and it did."
This study reaffirms what Lloyd Wright already knew from his own battle with Hepatitis C, which is chronicled in his fascinating book Triumph Over Hepatitis C. His battle, which involved a variety of natural therapies, led him to pioneer a number of products that are sold around the world and helping scores of people afflicted with this debilitating virus. For example, "Lloyd's TLM Econo product package, which is shipped frozen, contains "a winning combination of Natcell Thymus, Natcell Liver and Natcell Mesenchyme specially designed to fight Hep C and heal the liver." This is only one in an extensive Natcell product line, all of which contain Peptides. For more
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Even as Obamacare faces a rocky rollout, the legal battle against the program grinds on.
A lawsuit aimed at overturning Obamacare on the basis of the Origination Clause has moved to the appeals court after losing its first round in federal trial court.
Attorneys for the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento filed an appeal last week with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals after a federal judge ruled June 28 in favor of the Obama administration's motion to dismiss the case.
SEE ALSO: Under pressure, 10 Senate Democrats push for Obamacare extension
"Whoever loses at this stage of the proceeding will undoubtedly file at United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, said PLF lead attorney Paul J. Beard III. "We are hopeful the U.S. Supreme Court will take this issue up again — you know it decided Obamacare on a different issue in 2012, and we believe we have a better than average chance because this issue as to whether the tax violates the [Constitution's] origination clause was not raised in the original proceeding before the Supreme Court."
If so, the case would give the high court a second crack at the landmark 2009 health care law. In June 2012, the court ruled that the law's individual mandate complied with the Constitution because it was technically a tax, not a requirement to purchase insurance.
That's where the PLF lawsuit comes in. The Constitution requires all revenue bills to originate in the House — known as the Origination Clause — but foundation attorneys argue that the health care law actually began in the Senate.
District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell rejected that argument, ruling that the Supreme Court had already decided on the law's constitutionality and that the revenue-raising portion of Obamacare was "incidental" to its main mission.
In its Oct. 23 appeal, however, the foundation argues that the Obamacare tax "is an exercise solely of Congress's tax power, and raises revenue generally to fund the government, much like the income tax."
"The tax produces 'considerable revenue' for the government … 'about $4 billion a year by 2017,'" said the 52-page appeal. "And this money is not earmarked to finance or defray the cost of any particular government program. Instead, it goes into the general fund for expenditure on whatever the government chooses—as with any other tax."
The legislation that became the PPACA began as H.B. 3590, an unrelated bill regarding tax credits for veterans buying homes, but was stripped and replaced in the Senate as part of a process known as "gut and amend."
The District Court ruling held that the Senate has the flexibility to replace the language of one bill with another, but in their appeal, PLF attorneys argue that, "If the Origination Clause has any meaning, it must be to bar the Senate from creating from scratch any bills for raising revenue."
The Justice Department has 30 days to file an opposing brief, after which PLF would file a reply brief. After that, the case would be set for oral argument.


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Bill Nelson is a Democratic U.S. senator elected in 2000. He is serving his third term.
Nelson has spent most of his life in politics, serving three terms in the Florida House, six terms in the U.S. House and six years as insurance commissioner. He served in the U.S. Army and as an astronaut on a space shuttle flight.
Nelson was born in Miami on Sept. 29, 1942. He graduated from Melbourne High School and attended the University of Florida. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. He and his wife, Grace Cavert, have two children.
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As President Obama picked up support for the Iran deal from one Florida Democrat, Bill Nelson, he loses another in Rep. Ted Deutch.
Sen. Bill Nelson learned today he is free of cancer following prostate surgery a week earlier, his office said.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson will undergo prostate cancer surgery on Monday, his office said. A statement said it would not affect the Democrat's plans to run for re-election in 2018.
Sen. Bill Nelson will undergo prostate cancer surgery on Monday, his office said. A statement said it would not affect the Democrat's plans to run for re-election in 2018.
Florida Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio helped a key trade bill clear a hurdle today, setting it up for final passage.
Both faced opposition.
Sen. Bill Nelson, born Sept. 29, 1942, this afternoon dropped and did 46 pushups to make good on a bet over the Stanley Cup with Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois.
Sens. Bill Nelson of Florida and Dick Durbin of Illinois are getting in the spirit of the NHL showdown between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Chicago Blackhawks, laying down a bet of food and …
Efforts to open up oil drilling off both Florida coasts could inject the issue into the race for president, and home state contenders Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are generally supportive of more production.
Sen. Bill Nelson says he will file a bill Friday that would blockan Obama administration move to allow oil and gas explorers to conduct seismic tests off Florida's Atlantic coast.


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Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos has scored 96 goals over the past two seasons, and is already one of the most dangerous offensive players in the NHL at the age of 21. Earlier this offseason his production over the first three seasons of his career resulted in a brand new five-year, $37.5 million contract with the Lightning.
The fame that comes with being one of the top players in the league, as well as the brand new pay check, hasn't stopped him from spending his summer playing in a "beer league" baseball league in his hometown of Markhem, Ontario, where Stamkos buys uniforms, bats and picks up the post-game bar tabs.
Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star checked out a game this past week, and the reviews of Stamkos' baseball skills are almost as glowing as the ones usually reserved for his ability on the ice.
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For the 21-year-old Stamkos, who played on three provincial championship baseball teams for the Markham Mariners from about age 11 to 13, the grand old game has long been a passion.
"He could have been better at baseball than hockey," said Adam Velocci.
"His dad wanted him to play baseball, but he loves hockey," said Velocci, the Green Beys' third baseman who also played on those championship squads.
Said Chris Stamkos, Steven's father: "Steven was smaller when he was young. Although he was good in hockey, I did think he had more natural instincts in baseball ... But then he grew, and he got more serious with hockey."
Whatever talents he may have had -- or still has -- for baseball, hockey fans, and especially Tampa Bay fans, have to be happy he started following the path he's currently on. Feschuk also points out that NHL players have to get written consent from their team to take part in certain offseason activities, including baseball, and that consent is usually given.Stamkos, who plays left field, is apparently hitting .608 on the season and clubbed a three-run homer the night Feschuk attended.
Some other notable hockey-baseball connections: You may have heard a thing or two (in every single game he played) about Chris Drury's appearance in the Little League World Series, while it's pretty common for hockey players that share a city with a big league baseball team to take their hacks in the batting cage. A couple of years ago Penguins captian Sidney Crosby knocked one out of PNC Park in Pittsburgh, while new Phoenix Coyotes goaltender Mike Smith managed to do the same back in June.
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A typical day in Senegal: the temperature is around 30 degrees, the sun shines from dawn until dusk, there is a cooling sea breeze... What better way to experience this than from the comfort of your beachbound sunlounger? Most of our hotels spill onto the beaches themselves, leaving you free to sunbathe and paddle from morning to each evening's beautiful sunset...
During the winter months you will find the hotels are generally full and the restaurants and bars in the resort areas of Saly and La Somone open. That said, compared to say The Canaries, Senegal does not feel overcrowded even in peak season.
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Institutionalization of Usability: A Step-By-Step Guideby Eric Schaffer
This book is a guide to making usability a routine practice within an enterprise, be it commercial or government. Every organization has special needs: There is no one simple approach that fits all organizations. What this book provides, however, is a solid methodology, not for usability engineering (that's been done before and exists in various forms), but for the part that is truly missing--the institutionalization of usability. This institutionalization methodology is not new. It is simply a synthesis of the best practices and insights from hundreds of companies in the forefront of this effort. This book will give you insights into the appropriate institutionalization activities, infrastructure, and staffing. It will give you tips on how to recognize quality, and how to time and sequence components. The combination of elements is unique for each organization, but this book can be a road map, a mine detector, and a shopping list for you.
There is a misconception that the institutionalization of usability will simply be a matter of doing more of what we have done in the past. A simple analogy will illustrate why this is a misconception. Imagine that we are back in pre-industrial times and that we have a small hut in the forest where we have made a primitive brick forge to produce swords. We create the swords by using a hand bellows and then hammering the metal against a rock. We find the swords to be very useful and realize we need one for everyone in our army. We need thousands of swords. Is our solution to build lots of little huts? Of course not. We need a factory.
Today, the usability engineering process is still being done in a hut. Usability engineers are typically thrown alone into a large organization and left unsupported. There is no established user-centric methodology or set of tools. Every questionnaire is reinvented from scratch. Every deliverable is conceived and crafted by hand. Then we wonder why user-centered design can seem inefficient! It should be no surprise if the results are not consistent, not repeatable, and not reliable.
Currently, good usability practitioners know how to make software usable. We have a billion dollars worth of research and 50 years of practice. But, the usability industry has not matured nearly as much as the software development industry. Usability professionals rarely complete a systematic and repeatable methodology. They rarely work with a complete toolset and set of standards. They are rarely formally trained to complete all the tasks in their area of responsibility. They rarely have comprehensive quality assurance. And perhaps of greatest concern, they are rarely integrated into the routine development process. We know how to make an application usable, but we don't generally know how to put these techniques into practice in a systematic way that is efficient and works well within an organization.
This is the next frontier in the usability field and it is also the focus of this book. This book provides insights into the deep changes necessary to put user-centered design to work routinely within your organization. This book also provides a guided series of activities and milestones that will chart your course to fully mature and institutionalized usability engineering.
This book is about how to create a usability "factory." It is about how to create a reliable and repeatable process. It is about how to ensure efficiency. Following this process means that usability efforts will have to be done differently than before. Just as a computer programmer would never suggest going back to the early days "in the garage," no usability expert should accept the lack of a systematic methodology and professional infrastructure. Usability practitioners of the future will look back with amusement at our current piecemeal approach. This book is a guide to this more mature usability engineering process.
It is time for us to get serious about the institutionalization of usability because usability has become extremely important. Usability is now the key differentiator in the information age. Imagine the CEO of a large insurance company standing before her stockholders and telling them there is bad news this year. The company has been vanquished by the competition . . . because the competition has better laptop computers. Seems like an unlikely excuse? That's because hardware is now a commodity. It takes serious work to create good hardware, but everyone has it, and it does not represent a differentiator between companies. You just buy adequate hardware.
Hardware was the first wave of the information age. In the 1980s, it was a challenge to get adequate hardware, and it was an important differentiator that could determine corporate success. But at the end of the 1980s, the software industry realized that "software sells the hardware," and good software became the differentiator. Companies who could create stable software with the right functionality won big. This was the second wave.
Now in the new millennium, software has become a commodity. Everyone can create a database. Everyone can get connectivity. Children can code in HTML. Software is no longer a differentiator. Software coding is being done with better and better power tools and being outsourced to countries with lower labor costs. We are now entering the third wave of the information age.
What is the remaining differentiator in this information age? It is the ability to build practical, useful, usable, and satisfying applications and web sites. Very few companies do this well, because this requires creating a full and integrated usability engineering capability. As you will see throughout this book, the journey to routine usability requires a serious effort and the path has many pitfalls.
The Organization of This Book
This book contains four major sections, or phases. The first phase, "Startup," covers the process of alerting the organization to the need to make usability a routine internal capability. It then outlines the steps toward finding an executive champion and consultant to support the initial process.
The "Setup" phase explores the essential core infrastructure of methods, templates, standards, and internal training, " Organization," the third phase, describes the need to properly staff the factory you have built. You will need a small, centralized, internal organization to support usability engineering. If you are a large organization, you will need usability practitioners reporting within your project teams. The Organization phase then ends by outlining the importance of applying your usability methods to a set of projects and discussing challenges that occur as resources are stretched (as often happens at this point).
The last phase, "Long-Term Operations," characterizes the established operation of the central usability group.
The Audience for This Book
This book enables leaders to bring modern usability principles into everyday practice. It is not an introduction to usability or a guide to good design. This book is for everyone who is working to integrate usability-engineering practices into their organizations.
If you are an executive or manager within an organization, then you will want to focus on the steps you can take to get institutionalization started. You will want to concentrate on a high-level strategy, and deciding on the staff and resources to fully implement the institutionalization process. Pay particular attention to the chapters on being an executive champion and creating a strategy. You are the one who must move your organization from piecemeal usability to a managed process.
If you are currently part of a usability team that is struggling to make usability routine, you may need to look at the process of institutionalization in a new light. Perhaps you are struggling because you can't do it alone. You may need to focus on finding an executive champion to give power to the effort.
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It definitely could have been! When my LO gives me a swift kick or punch, it kind of feels like a hard muscle twitch. She gives quite a jolt. When he starts kicking more often, you will know for sure then if that is what you felt when you were getting out of the shower. Oh, and when my LO first started moving around, I realized that if I lay on my stomach in bed I could feel her better if she started to move. It will probably feel like gas bubbles at first if you haven't felt it before.
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Q1 2009 Earnings Call
April 28, 2009 11:00 am ET
Brent Anderson - VP, IR
Steve Hilton - Chairman and CEO
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At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Meritage Homes first quarter 2009 analyst conference call. (Operator Instructions).
I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Brent Anderson, Vice President, Investor Relations. Mr. Anderson, you may begin your conference.
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If you need a copy of the release or the slides that accompany our webcast today, you can find them on our website at www.investors.meritagehomes.com, or by selecting the Investor's link at the top of our homepage.
Refer to slide two in the presentation. Our statements during this call and the accompanying materials contain projections and forward-looking statements which are the current opinions of management and subject to change. We undertake no obligation to update these projections or opinions. Additionally, our actual results may be materially different than our expectations due to various risk factors.
For information regarding our risk factors, please see our press release and most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically our 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K and our first quarter 2009 report of Form 10-Q after it's filed.
Today's presentation also includes certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined by the SEC. To comply with their rules, we have published or provided a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures in our earnings press release.
With me today to discuss the quarter are Steve Hilton, Chairman and CEO of Meritage Homes, and Larry Seay, our Executive Vice President and CFO. We expect our call to run about an hour this morning so that we end before noon Eastern Time.
I'll now turn the call over to Mr. Hilton to review our first quarter results. Steve?
Steve Hilton
Thank you, Brent. I would like to welcome everyone to our call today. I will begin with slide four, if you are following one on the webcast. The continued weakening of the housing market over last year was reflected in our revenue decline and net loss in the first quarter 2009.
However, despite harsh conditions, many of our results were positive this quarter. We ended the quarter with $344 million in cash, an increase of $138 million from our year-end 2008.We reduced our net debt to capital ratio to 35% at quarter end.
We lowered our general and administrative expenses by 35% year-over-year, and we generated $10 million of first quarter adjusted EBITDA. We nearly doubled our net orders over the fourth quarter of 2008, and we are positioned to take advantage of opportunities to acquire lots at lower prices will help us return to profitability more quickly.
Slide five. We generated positive cash flow of $139 million from operations during the first quarter. This is our sixth consecutive quarter of positive cash flow. We ended the quarter with $344 million of cash, the largest cash balance we have ever carried with no bank debt outstanding since we paid it off early last year.
Our cash balance includes the collection of $108 million of tax refunds in March, which we obtained by carrying back tax losses from 2008 to reclaim taxes paid in 2006. The increase in cash generated on our balance sheet proved our liquidity and reduced our leverage.
Our net debt to capital ratio decreased to 35% at March 31, 2009 from 45% at the end of 2008, and 47% at March 31, 2008. Considering that we are in compliance with all of our covenants and have no bond maturities until 2014, that includes liquidity represents additional capital available for selective future acquisitions of new lots at lower prices.
Slide seven. Our first quarter home closing revenue declined 38% year-over-year to the 30% fewer homes closed and 11% reduction in average closing price. We also had 21% fewer actively selling communities at the end of the first quarter than we had a year ago which contribute to our decreases in both closings and sales.
Our closing per communities were down just 12% year-over-year. We closed 932 homes at an average price of about $248,000 in the first quarter compared with 1,328 homes closed at an average price of about $280,000 in the first quarter of last year.
Slide eight. Our impairments this quarter were lower than they have been since the downturn began. Our charges for real estate related valuation adjustments were $10 million in the first quarter of 2009, 83% lower than the $60 million charges we incurred in the first quarter of 2008.
The lower impairments were the result of our greatly reduced lots in our option contracts and our minimal remain investment and joint ventures. Together, these accounted for approximately $30 million of impairments incurred in the first quarter 2008 and then our much lower inventories of lots and homes compared to last year. Nearly, all of our impairments in the first quarter this year related to specific homes or lots rather than impairing entire communities as we did in 2008.
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I give him treats when he comes to me in the pasture, when I put the halter on, after I take off the saddle and bridle, and one after I put him in the pasture.....usually
Now at the moment I'm teaching him that being with me is a really good thing so he's getting more treats than I'd normally give him in a week....now not for just looking pretty of course. I'll have him do stuff....I'll play some games. I'll run around in the pasture and have him chase me and so on then give him a treat if he stops when I tell him to stop (meaning stops when I stop...and he's catching on to that fast)
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I rode him today because the BO wanted to show the young girls that were there for a field trip "how a good rider rides" (direct quote from her though I wouldn't even consider myself a good rider at all) and I did some different patterns with him...I did a star pattern (which looked fairly nice if you looked at marks his hooves left hehe), and some zigzag patterns and walked through the puddles in the arena to get him used to water, and then just walked him around the arena to cool him off.
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Emerging Novel Oral Therapies Will Garner 29 Percent of the Total Market in 2018, According to a New Report from Decision Resources
WALTHAM, Mass., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the approval and launch of highly anticipated oral agents as well as the increasing use of current and emerging injectable drugs will drive the overall multiple sclerosis drug market to nearly $10 billion in 2018 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan.
The new Pharmacor report entitled Multiple Sclerosis finds that emerging novel oral therapies, most notably Merck Serono/EMD Serono's oral cladribine and Novartis/Mitsubishi Tanabe's FTY-720 (fingolimod), will garner 29 percent of the total multiple sclerosis market in 2018. Oral cladribine and FTY-720 will together capture more than $2 billion in major market sales in 2018, despite safety concerns associated with both drugs. The report also finds that three additional emerging agents - Biogen Idec's pegylated interferon-beta-1a, Genzyme/Bayer Schering/Bayer HealthCare's alemtuzumab (currently marketed as Campath/MabCampath) and BioMS Medical/Eli Lilly's dirucotide - will also contribute substantially to market growth by providing new therapeutic options to patients.
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Bellyflop LLC, brings Belly Card with a number of new features along with the usual bug fixes. Belly Card app has been update to version 1.3.2 with several major changes and improvements. App release that improves performance, provides several new options.
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Belly is a universal loyalty program that offers exceptional rewards at the businesses you love, giving boring loyalty campaigns a good kick in the pants! Returning to your favorite places is now fun, exciting and worthwhile because you`re actually getting something you want.
With Belly, we offer one customer loyalty card to replace the rest. Plus, when you download our App, you can link it to your card to find places to earn rewards at when you're out on the town. Earn a free cup of coffee at the joint down the street or the opportunity to name a sandwich at your local deli. For the first time, you can have your cake and eat it too, or at least have the option of shoving your baker's face into it. Isn`t it about time you got Belly?
If you are iPhone and iPad owner,you now can download Belly Card for free from Apple Store. The application is supporting English language. It weighs in at only 1.8 MB to download. The new Belly Card app version 1.3.2 has been updated on 2014-11-03. For ensuring consistency with the device you should take into account the following app compatibility information: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
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Former New York Governor George Pataki may back Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino, a Tea Party supporter who according to a New York Daily News story called Pataki a "degenerate idiot."
"I would certainly be inclined to support him despite what he might have called me," Pataki said during a Wall Street Journal-sponsored conference today on the state's future. He said Paladino, a developer from Buffalo, must express his agenda "in a way that turns anger into policies."
Paladino, 64, overcame a 27 percentage-point lead by former congressman Rick Lazio using more than $3 million of his own money and an anti-tax "I'm Mad As Hell" message in the Sept. 14 primary. He will face Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, in November's general election.
According to a New York Daily News article today, Paladino told a gathering of building contractors in Long Island during the summer that Pataki, who was governor of New York from 1995 to 2006 and supported Lazio in the primary, is a "degenerate idiot."
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The comment was taken "out of context," Michael Caputo, Paladino's campaign manager, said in an interview. It was made in reference to Pataki's behavior in dealing with a union while in office, and not meant to describe the former governor's personal qualities, he said. He said Paladino meant to ask, "What kind of a person would think to cut this kind of deal?"
Paladino, who has described New York's government as incompetent, spendthrift and corrupt, has said he would shut down government if lawmakers balk at his plans to cut spending by 20 percent and taxes by 10 percent in his first year.
"Carl Paladino has tapped into that very real anger," Pataki said. "The voters are so angry they just don't want to replace the Democrats, who they are primarily angry at, with Republicans. They want to replace them with Republicans who are truly going to enact change."
Paladino said in a telephone interview that he does not construe Pataki's comments as an endorsement. "We consider this a door-opening for further talks and we appreciate the governor's interest in supporting us," he said.


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By Joel firstname.lastname@example.com The Clayton County Water Authority (CCWA) is on a mission to replace 1,400 solid-concrete, catch-basin tops with new ones with manhole access. The multi-year project, which started last month, is expected to greatly increase the ability of the water authority to monitor and maintain the county's storm water system. The authority has sought to replace the tops since it took control of storm water maintenance from the county and its municipalities two years ago, according Mike Thomas, the authority's general manager. He said many of the older catch-basin tops - made out of four-foot-by-four-foot slabs of concrete - are dangerous and difficult to access. "It's been on the radar screen ever since we took responsibility of the storm water program," Thomas said. "You always had to have a crane or a heavy piece of equipment to get the top off. There's a two-fold purpose. It makes it more efficient and quick for us to maintain the structure. Also, a lot of the older ones were already cracked or collapsing." According to water authority officials, the new, easier-to-access tops are made of six-inch-thick, reinforced concrete, making them more structurally sound than the older tops, which do not have reinforcement. So far, the authority has replaced 32 tops in Forest Park, 42 tops in Morrow, and 55 in Jonesboro. Kevin Osbey, the authority's storm water manager, said the state mandates that the water authority regularly inspect and maintain the county's storm water system. He said the concrete slabs over many of the county's catch basins have turned a one-minute maintenance job into a 20-minute ordeal, requiring manpower and machinery. "When you have solid tops, you can't get down there and really inspect it," Osbey said. "You have a four-by-four piece of concrete that you have to move in order to look. That's two or three guys carrying a piece of equipment, unloading it, and moving a top that weighs 800 or 900 pounds, and then trying to reposition it. You are also talking about some restoration work." With manhole access, "within 30 seconds to a minute, he's [a crew member has] got the inspection done and can write up his notes," Osbey said. "It's a 30-second-to-a-minute inspection, instead of 15 or 20 minutes with three or four guys. It's a significant saving for the storm water utility and [allows us] to use those funds more wisely for repair work." Osbey said it costs the water authority about $500 to replace each top. He said the project would be a "multi-year project" and the rate of its completion "all depends on the funding." The next city the authority will focus on is Lake City, according to Osbey. He said most of the work would take place in subdivisions, rather than along major streets. "We're trying to hit spots here and there all over the entire county, instead of concentrating on just one area," he said. "There shouldn't be any road delays or traffic in heavily-traveled areas. Most of the work is on the side of the road."
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The Problem with Debating DADT and 'Gay Rights'
Years ago, the late great Irving Kristol told me and a group of young college students that his wife, the renowned historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, didn't let him write about "gay rights" and homosexuality.
After wading into the all-too-emotional debate over "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," I can understand why: Because this is a difficult and complex issue that is all too easily caricatured and distorted, and by the extremes on both sides of the debate. This debate, though, can no longer be sidestepped or avoided.
My position is really a reasonable and moderate position. It acknowledges and accepts that there are gay men and women who want to serve in the military. However, it also recognizes that homosexuality is a problematical behavioral characteristic that shapes and affects human behavior, and often in profound and unsettling ways.
Yet we can see in Aaron Goldstein's engagement on this issue -- for which I again thank him -- that, for many people, that simply isn't enough. They demand a positive societal affirmation of homosexuality. Anything less, they cry, smacks of bigotry and "intolerance."
The problem with this position, as I've tried to explain, is that homosexuality is not a simple, innocent or benign characteristic. In fact, truth be told, homosexuality is often a very unhealthy and destructive behavioral trait. And it is something that, for some people at least, can be altered or changed.
Are some people born lesbians and homosexuals? Undoubtedly, or so it would seem. But is everyone born genetically gay? Absolutely not. Psychology and societal pressures, it seems, have something to do with whether some people at least exhibit homosexual behavior.
Thus, the question is: how do we as a society show tolerance and acceptance for gay men and women without legitimizing a behavioral characteristic that we know is far from ideal? How do we include lesbians and homosexuals in our societal family without putting homosexuality on a par, legally and socially, with heterosexuality?
And how do we do this without infringing upon the religious liberty of millions of Americans? Because, as I've indicated here at the American Spectator, every major religious tradition in the world -- Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, et al. -- has moral proscriptions against homosexual behavior.
So that's really what the debate over "gay rights," "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and "gay marriage" is all about: trying to be tolerant and inclusive without legitimizing a behavioral characteristic that we all know is problematical and morally objectionable.
To thread this needle, moderates and conservatives have tried to come up with reasonable compromise measures such as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and "civil unions."
But alas, I am afraid that this is not enough for the "gay rights" activists, who demand nothing less than the full societal legitimization of homosexuality. Socially and legally, they insist, homosexuality must be no different from heterosexuality.
Conservatives such as myself cannot accept this because we know that this is not true; and that such a formulation will prove disastrous for millions of people, families and children.
I won't belabor my disagreement with Goldstein, except to briefly clarify the following points, which Goldstein has, in my view, seriously distorted:
First, I mentioned coed public high schools simply to reference the sexual and group dynamics between men and women which a coed military now has to deal with.
Students' attitudes toward homosexuality are neither here nor there. Goldstein keeps trying to bring the issue back to how people "feel" about homosexuality; but "feelings" are, as I've explained repeatedly, completely irrelevant.
The point is that just as sexual dynamics create problems for public coed high schools, so, too, do they create problems for the U.S. military. And the introduction of open homosexuality within the ranks will only exacerbate this problem.
Second, I obviously am interested in "hard empirical evidence." But again, because people's "feelings" about homosexuality are irrelevant in the debate over "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (and "gay rights" more generally), I am not interested in the sort of hard empirical evidence that Goldstein seems to think is decisive and conclusive.
The sort of evidence that I think is relevant involves how homosexuality affects human behavior and group dynamics, especially within small-scale military units. Goldstein ignores this evidence because it is inconvenient and unhelpful to his cause.
Third, I never said that because DADT has been repealed, "the sky is going to fall." I agree, in fact, that the change will occur rather swiftly and without many problems or incidents -- or at least without many problems or incidents that are ever known or seen by the public.
The cost, though, will be very real. It will manifest itself through the softening and undermining of the military's warrior culture, which has made the Marines and the combat arms attractive to young men.
It will mean the denial of religious liberty for our military chaplains and military personnel. It will result in homosexual hazing and harassment incidents. And it will mean offending the moral and aesthetic sensibilities of military families where they live and raise children.
Fourth, Goldstein tries, again, to equate religiously-informed objections to homosexuality with racist attitudes and behavior. This because some racists segregationists apparently tried to justify segregation on Biblical grounds.
But there is an obvious difference between trying to pervert the Bible to justify racism -- a position that no serious Biblical scholar supports -- and citing Biblical injunctions against homosexuality.
Biblical support for racism is specious, unreal and unserious. Biblical and natural law injunctions against homosexuality, by contrast, are long-standing, well established and well accepted by religious scholars and historians.
Fifth (and finally), Goldstein issues a tautology when he says that if I genuinely believe some gays and lesbians are fine soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, then I should have no objections to permitting them to serve openly in our armed forces.
Again, this seems self-evident to Goldstein, but it's not. And the reason is twofold:
First, he discounts and ignores completely how sexual dynamics can wreak havoc within small-scale military units. Indeed, Goldstein seems to think that soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are robotic, Vulcan-like creatures who are devoid of emotion and sexual passion.
Second, Goldstein discounts and ignores completely the importance of unit cohesion. Individual soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, after all, don't fight and win on the battlefield; teams and units do. And it is the performance of those teams and units that matter, not the performance of individuals.
An individual lesbian and homosexual might be a perfectly fine soldier, sailor, airman and Marine; and yet through his or her sexual dalliances within the unit, undermine the unit's morale and performance.
And, with that, I hope to end this particular debate. My hope is that we've managed to shed more light than heat on an issue, "gay rights" and homosexuality, that isn't going away anytime soon. I wish Aaron and all of our readers a very Merry Christmas. Hoo-rah!
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