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I ride western, but I think it's too unsafe to ride without a helmet and I have never owned one before so I am doing a lot of research before I purchase. I really like this one, anyone else have a favorite?
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Princess Anne, MD - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) Hawks (3-41-1, 0-17 MEAC) dropped the first two games of a three game series to the Hornets of Delaware State University (DSU) today by scores of 10-2 & 6-2. Solid pitching performances from DSU's Sean Phillips and Nick Bitter, got the wins as both took no hitters through four and one third innings in their starts.
In game one the Hawks collected only six hits and scored their two runs in the bottom of the ninth, allowing six DSU runs on nine hits. Four UMES errors contributed to the loss as starter Dereck Casper went a complete game throwing over 150 pitches, allowing four earned run, four walks and five strike outs.
In that game Davis struck out 13, walked only four and allowed two earned runs on six hits. One hit came in the fifth, breaking up a potential no hitter as Peter Mayta singled up the middle. Two more came in the seventh on a Butch Mills double and an Anthony Jackson single. The final three hits came in the ninth inning. Bobby Shaw led-off with a walk but was cut down stealing. Rob Benak followed him with a walk and a James Walls single to right pushed him to third and the throw put Walls on second. After Anthony Jackson popped out to first Joel Maher stepped in. He hit a shot through the right side that was a tough play by first baseman Bret Underwood and drove in Benak and Walls.
In game one Kevin Hill went 2-4 with a run and an RBI while Gravely went 2-3 with one of each as well.
Game two saw the Hornet bats take advantage of a rocky start by starter Sean Davis and he left after just two and one third innings allowing seven hits and three earned runs. Bitter allowed one run, none earned in six innings with one walk and three Ks in the win.
In inning three the Hornets opened the game with four runs on five hits and never looked back. They added five more in the next inning getting four hits and taking advantage of three UMES errors. Del State would plate one more in the fifth inning, taking a 10-0 lead.
The Fighting Hawks are just that, fighting, and never gave up. Still swinging, the bats the added one run in each of the final innings to make it a 10-2 game. In the sixth inning Greg Cathell singled to left, scoring Mayta who had reached on an error earlier in the inning.
In the bottom of the seventh Mayta came through again, hitting a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded, scoring Walls.
The Hawks try to avoid the sweep with a 1:00 game tomorrow against the same Hornet squad. That will be the final game of the regular season for UMES as they look to make a statement in the MEAC Championships next week in Lake Buena Vista, FL at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex.

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Our farrier says that we are wasting our money buying hoof supplements for our horses for two reasons
1) they have extraordinary hooves
2) hoof supplements don't work
He says good hooves are genetic.... supplements are worthless.
What do you think? Do you use a hoof supplement? Does it make a difference?
Also; Epona's front hooves are round:
But her back hooves are more pointed/flared:
Is this a draft thing? A hoof conformation thing? A weight issue?
Because Beau's hooves are not AS noticeably pointed in the back: so, not being up to par on hoof knowledge, is that a fat horse thing or do ALL horses' back hooves flare out and have a pointed shape? I never noticed before.
We are hesitant to stop the hoof supplement as our farrier suggested.... Epona's hooves are HUGE so I figured she could use a little extra help. Beau is a TB and we ALL know how bad their hooves can be, so he could use all the help he can get.... and I figured that since they are both barefoot, a hoof supplement would strengthen the hooves. Farrier says hoof supplements are worthless... They both have good hooves, and we don't want to mess it up by stopping the supplement if it really is working. Farrier says these horses just got lucky and the supplement did nothing.
If you use a hoof supplement, does it make a difference?
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Rubber ducks float down the Truckee River at the Nevada Humane Society's Duck Race on Sunday, August 28, 2011.
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The Nevada Humane Society says that, despite the smoke and poor air quality, the annual Duck Race & Festival is still on as scheduled, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday in downtown Reno's Wingfield Park.
Duck adoptions are $5. The fastest rubber ducks will win prizes, including a vacation package and a $400,000 cash prize.


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"NLC's City Showcase Program Prizes Innovation in Green Cities"
The Solar Beaverton program is a community program designed to produce renewable energy in the community, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, simplify the process of installing solar, create jobs, support local contractors and manufacturers, educate the comm
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The City Showcase exhibition, held
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Winning programs represent a wide range of geographical locations, city sizes and topic areas, and are selected for their innovative practices. In 2011, the 24 City Showcase participants highlighted the Congress of Cities' concurrent conference topics: infrastructure, green cities, economic development and your city's families. Below are the six green cities programs featured in the 2011 City Showcase. [See the February 6 and January 30 issues of Nation's Cities Weekly for descriptions of the six infrastructure and six economic development programs featured at the showcase.]
Solar Beaverton - Beaverton, Ore.
The Solar Beaverton program is a community program designed to produce renewable energy in the community, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, simplify the process of installing solar, create jobs, support local contractors and manufacturers, educate the community about solar and help residents take advantage of state and federal financial incentives.
The program began with a pilot project aimed at gauging the interest of Beaverton residents in installing solar panels on their homes, wherein Beaverton partnered with a company called Solar City to create a set standard, a set price and a set process for installing solar. In that initial stage, Beaverton also sought out state and federal tax credits, which reduced the price of solar panel installations by about 80 percent.
In exceeding its goal of installing solar panels on 50 Beaverton homes by an additional 12, the pilot program demonstrated community interest in solar energy. The program was then expanded to the whole city.
When designing the citywide program, Beaverton hosted a competitive bidding process before choosing Livelight Energy solar installation. The company, itself local, also uses locally manufactured solar panels from Solarworld, one of the largest employers in Washington County, where Beaverton is located. The program exceeded its projected 220 solar panels installed for a total of 238.
Beaverton was able to spend very little money — only about $19,000 on staff and $10,000 on marketing — on the program simply by setting criteria and price, in exchange for endorsement of a particular vendor. Nonetheless, the payoff is significant. In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the community carbon footprint, the project generated 13 local jobs and more than $54,000 in revenues for the city's permitting department.


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The AC button on the dash of my 2003 Sequoia has starting blinking. When I press it on it will start to blow cold air but after about 5 seconds it will start to blink on and off and the cold air will stop blowing (air continues to blow). I've searched the web and found two likely causes the ac compressor clutch and the Magnetic Clutch relay. Several post I found said to take out the relay and tap it on a hard surface to get it "unstuck". This didn't help in my case. I also swapped out the mag. clutch relay with others found in the various fuse boxes. None seemed to fix the situation.
I then swapped out the clutch hoping this would fix my problem. No luck there either. The problem still persists as usual. I can hear the clutch kick in but after a few seconds it disengages and doesn't come back on.
Does anyone have an idea for a new area to look at. The ac does blow cold air. If I keep pushing the button back on after it starts to blink it will blow cold air, but as soon as the clutch disengages it will start to blink again. This gets old pretty fast. Sometimes after doing this a few times it will fix itself and stay on until we shut-off the car. I guess there is a possibility that the relays I swapped in are going bad too, but there doesn't seem to be a problem in those components they (i.e., the horn, fog lights, etc.)
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Thank goodness that a major medical institution is weaning itself off the drug money payouts of Big Pharma. Many doctors today are little more than the marketing arm of pharmaceuticals. I said that once to one of my doctor friends and he blushed bright red and admitted that very weekend he was off on a fully-paid "teaching" junket on a pharma's tab. Hopefully Sloan Kettering will pave the way for more ethical education of health care professionals.
All other professions pay for their own Continuing Education...Attorneys, Accountants etc. They don't rely on their vendors that have a financial interest in what they learn. The medical industry needs to wean intself off of the dependency of education from the pharma industry and medical profession itself has to take the lead to provide it.
We should not turn away from the huge sums being spent by pharma and device companies, but perhaps we should channel it differently. I am reminded of the process by which the Jackson Foundation is used as a conduit for pharma money to do research in military or other Government health establishments. Couldn't a similar approach be used for CME. Get the sponsorship money but then channel it into independently produced and professionally adjudicated CME. Just a thought.
So now that Sloan Kettering is using "in house" researchers to conduct CME what will happen with all of the other data available outside of this institution. Are they not putting their heads in the sand just to say to the World that they are objective? Heck we all know that no one is %100 objective. We all have our biases but that does not mean what we have to say is wrong. We all should work together and figure this out together instead of isolating each other. From Pharma.
Too bad no rural docs get access to the Sloan Kettering CME, via industry supported enduring materials, either. Guess the patients will have to move to within shouting distance of a major academic hospital now that the only acceptable CME is delivered in person for free.
Well at least they can be objective regardless of where the patient lives. Isn't that what is important these days?
Re: "...Couldn't a similar approach be used for CME. Get the sponsorship money but then channel it into independently produced and professionally adjudicated CME." That's already the way it works. CME companies apply to pharma companies for grants, and then use them to put on the ed program - hence the tag line about "unrestricted educational grants". The rules imposed by all CME providers I'm aware of state that the donating pharma has no control over content (other, obviously, than choosing which requests to fund and which not to). What MSKCC and the AMA are doing is essentially setting up a straw-man and patting themselves on the back for knocking it down. Short of imposing a "Med Ed Tax" on pharma that would then be evenly distributed to all CME providers, the system is about as clean as it can be. Yes, big institutions like MSKCC can become self-sufficient, but that is not the case for smaller institutions and private practice groups. Their access to CME essentially dries up under a policy like this. We then end up with medical professionals who may be idealogically pure, but whose information is hopelessly outdated.
It is borderline incestious (sic). I agree that the more they isolate themselves from other information, i.e. outside CME sponsored events, the more they become outdated. I see it at a major medical center in Rochester.
Regarding "To Outside the Box's" comments about pharma money already being used for independent CME and "that's the way it works"--well, not entirely. It only works if you hire someone else to produce content or you pay someone outside to come speak. I have applied for "unrestricted" educational grants and most companies will not support internal CME programs. Here is a quote from the BMS grant page:
"Bristol-Myers Squibb will not provide a grant...if the principal speaker or speakers at the meeting are employed by, or a member of the staff of, the requesting institution.
Grants...are only available for support of HONORARIUM AND LODGING for the non-affiliated speaker and MODEST MEAL COSTS" (emphasis added).
I coordinate Pharmacist Continuing Education programs at my facility and we have to pay for each certificate of participation that we issue. We can use a Pharma grant to pay an outside speaker, airfare, hotel, and they will even buy us a nice lunch...but because we educate internally and remain unbiased, we can't get an "unrestricted" education grant from most Pharma companies to pay our processing fee for CE certificates. So much for the "unrestricted" part.
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You are correct about most (and in fact likely all) pharmas not making grants directily to an institution to use its own speakers. That is an unfortunate side effect of the medicare/medicaid best price statute. If a pharma company gives money directly to an institution in the fashion you state you would like to see, that money becomes part of the companies "rebates, discounts and other payments" that are incorporated into CMMS best price calculation. Thus, such a grant would then lower the price by which said pharma is required to sell its drugs to medicare/medicaid providers.
Which, as an aside, points out the silliness of the "Gov't can negotiate prices" schtick. They don't have to. They simply say "we will only pay either the lowest discounted price you sell to anybody else, or 12% less than the average sale price, whichever is lower. Endo of discussion, no need to negotiate."
I love all the comments by the CME vendors about how great the system is and how the rules require independence. I have never read such a load of crap in my life. Yes, the rules require independence. Who enforces it? If you word in CME you know the answer very well NO ONE. As the recent investigation by the Senate Finance Committee found the ACCME has no teeth whatsover. But more importantly, the rules are loosely structured and basically an entire approach has developed that works around the rules. And it's not very sophisticated but certainly very devious. Marketing teams will generate a list of medical topics they think are important, things that they supposedly get questions about. Inevitably, certain off-label uses of their product will be on the list because as I said of course they get lots of questions about that. That list of questions or topics will be used by the companies grants department to award grants. Now the CME vendors are very smart folks, it's an incredibly profitable business. They will submit grants and they will note in the request who the chairperson of the event will be and inevitably it will be the lead investigator from a hot off-label study. It's a shocker but that grant request will be awarded while hundreds of others will be rejected. So the CME vendors learn over time what exactly they need to do to get the money. Phmra companies don't need to exercise any control. All the control they need happens right up from when the grant decision is made. It's a giant game incredibly profitable for phrma and the CME vendors alike. And there is no one minding the store. I have worked in this area for 20 years and what I have seen happen in that time frame makes me sick. CME has become just another marketing tool. Many of the CME vendors are the same companies who do the marketing programs, they just have a CME arm! I applaud Sloan-Kettering. And I applaid this blog for picking it up. I frequently look at about 4 or 5 different pharma related blogs and did not see this anywhere. It's a great development and I hope it sets a trend. Phrma and CME have had too many years to clean up their act. It's time for more dramatic change. Please keep focused on this story, it's huge.
GOOD FOR YOU, MSKCC. But be prepared to enter the world of struggling hospitals. Hope you've made all the major renovations and built all the buildings you need already b/c otherwise, for the first time (in a LOOOOONG time or maybe ever) you will see how difficult getting an FHA-backed mortgage will be to modernize any part of your hospital. You are sitting on the most expensive real estate in Manhattan and have the Make your $2B endowment stretch and pray your patients don't pay the price for your experiment.
Thank you, Get Real CME Companies, for your thoughtful and informed exposure of how the commercial CME system bypasses the supposed firewall between drug company sponsors and MECCs. You're absolutely right. MECCs don't need any direct communication with their sponsors in order to figure out what type of scientific exchange will make them happy. It's all about making sure that the stream of money will continue, year after year. I've reproduced your comments in their entirely in my blog (The Carlat Psychiatry Blog). Thanks so much for speaking up.
That's all good and well, now. But my question is - "Will MSKCC give back the money from BMS and others that went to build the tower that they operate from?" There seems to be a bit of a conundrum amongst the rules people and physicians like Larry Norton and Andy Seidman.
The problom is not what has been on with Bi Pharma but why all of a sudden have we decided to look at it...then first step is understanding that they are a business first and then an arm to the healthcare side of things...their main goal is to make profits for their share holders...just like any business...I have worked both sides of this issue...anf though I do not agree with their so-called unethical marketing practices...Bug-Pharma does a lot of good to such as research...development of new drugs....free drug for people who can't afford their meds ( I realize that it's done for a reason)...but maybe it's time to get all of these great minds together from the industry side and the practicing side of healthcare and to try to develop a code of conduct and ethical guidelines, with hard penelties if broken, rather than taking drastic moves for issues we all knew was happening for years and even enjoyed the benefits from it.
The problom is not what has been going on with Big Pharma but why all of a sudden have we decided to look at it...the first step is understanding that they are a business first and then an arm to the healthcare side of things...their main goal is to make profits for their share holders...just like any business...I have worked both sides of this issue...and though I do not agree with their so-called unethical marketing practices...Big-Pharma does a lot of good too such as research...development of new drugs....free drug for people who can't afford their meds ( I realize that it's done for a reason)...but maybe it's time to get all of these great minds together from the industry side and the practicing side of healthcare and to try to develop a code of conduct and ethical guidelines, with hard penelties if broken, rather than taking drastic moves for issues we all knew was happening for years and even enjoyed the benefits from it.
Big Pharma is a double-edged sword. On one side they produce life-saving and health-improving products and it costs billions of dollars to do all that research. On the other hand, once they produce a drug, like any other company, they get crazy trying to promote their products so their shareholders will see good returns on their investment (and comtinue to invest in these companies). HOWEVER, the clinical trials performed is the key component to testing these drugs for efficacy and safety and it costs hundreds of millions of dollars pay all the clinical investigators, nurses, hospitals and medical offices where these trials are conducted in this country and around the world. Most hospitals and medical offices could NOT afford to participate in these trials if they did not receive grant money to do so. Rebuffing Bid Pharma money may be noble in concept but foolhardy in reality. What will the effects be? MORE money returned to Big Pharma coffers for re-distribution to shareholders and in time, less innovative drugs produced because there isn't an adequate study pool to test the drug before FDA approval. Longer wait times for drugs for people suffering from illnesses that are not curable with current available treatments. MSKCC may be able to afford this but not for long. Other hospitals without these multi-billion-dollar endowments can definitely not afford to do this. MSKCC is mainly concerned with cancer. What about the millions of people suffering from other ailments like Lou Gehrig's disease or MS who are depending on the availability of clinical trials in hope for a cure?
P.S.- to Pharma Educator: All attorneys and accountants DO NOT pay for their CE. Thousands of lawyers go to "free" CLE courses being sponsored by industries, consulting companies, etc. Moreover: Big Tip- Referral fees are alive and well for every industry except the medical industry. People love to trash the medical industry for the very practices that go on with every other profession. It's just easier to take down physicians.
I am sure that they are still getting large amounts of funding from Big Pharma to do drug studies.
Sloan Kettering giving up commercial support for their CME courses is the equivalent of Warren Buffet giving up his social security check.
It sounds so altruistic, it will give him press in the Wall Street Journal, but in reality the monies matter little if nothing to him.
In the same way Sloan Kettering can claim some moral victory with no real sacrifice. This gives the administration something to talk about at tony Manhattan cocktail parties, with all their elite friends.
This is the same hospital that requires that you sign your life savings away if for some reason your insurance runs out, and for some of their poor patients that has meant, absolutely everything.
Of course there is nothing wrong with millions of hard working American seniors receiving their social security. In the same way there is nothing wrong with hospitals and medical institutions getting the help they need (commercial support), to develop quality courses for physicians that they otherwise would not have been able to afford. And by the way a vast majority of these institutions don't take away the houses of their patients when the insurance runs out.
Perhaps the 'target' is not the pysicians, nor the CME companies, nor Big Pharma. After all, it is the US Federal Laws that guide these interactions that should be targeted for allowing tax incentives to Big Pharma this way in the first place.
Ultimately, oiling the squeaky wheels of our dying uninsured patients is served by allowing the present Status Quo.
This discussion dovetails very directly with the building political pressure to make some major changes in the very foundation of the Broken US healthcare delivery system. And that answer lies in Universal Healthcare for all.
How does this appy to this discussion? Because, it is the political answer to the underlying problem. Capitalism and Medicine do not mix well. It either needs to be open market OR single payer system. Not our dysfuntional mess we have.
There is no reason Big Pharma cannot continue to exist making their wonderful progress and money for shareholders, while we physicians move into a fair, academic guided system that most all other countries have found success with (Like the VA here I might add).
The political tide will change this in the next year or two so we may as well get ready. I, for one cant wait. But then again, I must disclose I do not supplement my income whoring myself at speaking engagments, now or ever.
Good Job Dr Carlat! Now, lets put spotlight on these laws that allow and promote pyhysicians / Big Pharma conflict of interest in the first place.
Healthy discussion is indeed necessary and should include sharing of constructive ideas to facilitate driving the best viable solution for clinicians. In the last five years, physician utilization of CME has increased 58% and demand for Internet case-based CME has escalated by 25% annually. Two years ago, physicians' usage of iPods & PDAs for CME was virtually non-existent. This year, 30% of physicians are expected to access CME through their iPods or other mobile devices.
The need to access clinically accurate and well balanced medical content through a multitude of informational technologies continues to grow while medical information evolves on a daily basis at breakneck speeds. Medical institutions historically have provided us with solid foundations to fuel our thirst and quest for knowledge to continually improve patient care. In a fast paced and every-changing clinical environment, persistently challenged by enormous financial constraints to provide state-of-the art care, can we actually expect academic medical centers alone to meet our demand and drive for post-graduate medical education which will improve the quality of care for patients.
Frankly, we all should be striving to find viable mechanisms to affect change and improve patient care through acquisition of clinically accurate medical knowledge which one can utilize in their practice to improve care. This berating of one side or the other is of no benefit for developing a solution and only serves to the detriment of progress and finding ways to improve patient care. The state of medicine and the care of patients are passionate issues for us all and one might suggest that if you are truly interested in contributing to the solution, a more collaborative approach be taken.
As Sloan-Kettering learned, promotion of CME events to doctors via traditional media is very expensive. We've found that eMarketing of CME events via an email message with links to the CME web site can attract physicians from a much wider geographic distribution at a fraction of the usual cost. Our surveys also show that most physicians prefer finding out about live CME events and webcasts vis email. Robert Cykiert, M.D. - President, DoctorNet.com and WhatDoctorsThink.com
hey doc cykiert nice way to self promote your business here!!lol
Sloan Kettering's policies relative to the following Conflict of Interest [COI]/ethics issues are disingenuous at best: On occasion [e.g. when an article appears in the lay press] an intuitive (and persistent cancer) patient (or their proxy) accesses the Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory via phone, seeking information about (and participation in) epothilone clinical trials conducted at MSKCC. In the past the non-clinician Ph.D. Administrative Manager [AM] (Dr. Sarah Danishefsky, the spouse of the Principal Investigator [PI, also a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University]) of the high profile Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory has instructed me (a junior, but not direct report) to keep secret (withhold/embargo) known information relative to the availability of clinical trials conducted at MSKCC on a (Bristol Myers Squibb [and/or possibly Novartis'] developed epothilone derivative) drug candidate(s) that compete(s) directly with an epothilone analogue candidate that emanates from the Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, in variance with the above-mentioned queries and the fact that the AM had actually apprised me that a clinical trial on the competitor's drug candidate(s) was or were commencing (or had commenced) at Sloan and then instructed me to embargo this information. The AM subsequently attempted to cloak her motives by stating "ours are better than theirs," invoking early, at that point unverified comparative in-vitro and/or in-vivo data points (supplied by a colleague whose scientific methodology had been questioned on more than one occasion by disparate, mutually exclusive researchers, (grant and other) administrators and/or industrial courtship candidates who did not know of each other's concerns about the Sloan colleague researcher). At that point in time the Bioorganic's candidate was ~ an estimated 1 year from the start of a proposed and hoped for clinical trial (which has apparently since begun [off site, and possibly at Sloan]). The lab had smarted, being bested (and dropping out of a front-runner position) in a high profile natural product synthesis race when a staff process chemist charged with supplying an already solved piece of the puzzle reportedly used the wrong racemer of a reagent that was not checked appropriately by the A team prior to utilization, dooming an otherwise successful virtually complete synthesis to failure. Germane is a financially significant, development / rights purchase of a Bioorganic Laboratory epothilone drug candidate by Roche via Kosan (its licensee) [since abandoned by Roche]. Although one can understand the premise of not promoting a competitor's product, that business tenet would clearly not be applicable in this situation at Sloan. Though I have been warned on more than one occasion to not report these problems by Sloan employees I've felt uncomfortable misleading seemingly desperate cancer patients or their proxies and I have always referred these queries to either the MSKCC Physician Referral help line or to administrators or nurse clinicians affiliated with the clinician under whose aegis the BMS [and/or possibly the Novartis] trial (and possibly, now, the Bioorganic candidate's study) is apparently conducted at Sloan) for proper vetting. That the Administrative Manager would place her own potential financial successes and results above the content of the character of the Sloan-Kettering Institute does not surprise me. That she instructed (and expected me) to abet this initiative was out of line and evidence of a lack of respect for the Institute and for myself. I did not think that the AM would go so low as to expect me to do her dirty work or to drop her guard to the point that she'd expose herself, the lab and Sloan to this type of ethics liability, considering that the Bioorganic compound(s) might very well prove to be the best of the epothilone class, after proper clinical trial vetting. Such a tack, if followed would be in variance with that espoused [by Varmus, Nurse, Mendelsohn and/or Abeloff] on the "Titans of Cancer" television special. My parent's first child died of complications from childhood leukemia at Memorial Hospital two years before I was born. A child with this affliction today stands a good chance of survival due in no small part to the therapeutic advances fomented at Sloan and other like-minded Institutions, yet if the above-mentioned bio-ethically challenged tack were allowed to continue unchecked, it would tarnish the otherwise important science and medicine that emanates from MSKCC and instead of properly steeling hope, Sloan Kettering would merely be stealing hope, one clinical trial enrollee at a time. There is a difference between proudly standing behind one's brilliant work product and bending the rules when convenient for oneself, especially when lives may be in the balance and when the professionals bending rules are people and/or Institutions who clearly know better and who claim to be standard bearers of higher ethical practice. A US Army General (possibly a War-College dean/affiliate) has stated (I paraphrase) that Harvard MBA candidates learn to overcome ethics while pursuing a profit. Such an MO may be in variance with the COI and ethics policies of MSKCC. The above mentioned instance of craven self-servitude is coupled with other episodes of intermittently palpable disingenuousness at Sloan (e.g. that the AM is considered a "full time" employee, yet is often on campus at most perhaps 50% time and has had the temerity to complain during work hours via phone from off-campus that she could not check her stocks, peculiar acts of self promotion (e.g.: arranging for one's own nomination for scientific accolades and acting surprised and naive when awarded them, including a prize from the very company [BMS] on the short end of the AM's conflicted interest), a protégé professor who fellowshipped in the Bioorganic Lab involved in his own hubris inspired imbroglio (retraction of multiple tenure facilitating papers and allegations of having an affair with a student and of her "irreproducible" data); the Bioorganic PI had reportedly been barred from consulting at a branch of a NJ based major pharmaceutical company, concerns about the efficacy of laboratory notebook record keeping and the egregious physical plant shortcomings at the Institute (a confluence of bizarre design, building/construction and facilities management flaws in the RRL laboratory building that intermittently, inappropriately render the RRL a toxic firetrap [whose cover-up (and the ruse invoked while duping a rightfully concerned local community, the community board and the city relative to systemic infrastructure problems in the RRL and safety issues at MSKCC that affect employee and community safety) allowing for the hurdling of impediments to the construction of the new/replacement Sloan research tower and the granting of a zoning variance has included the conjuring and synchronizing of cover stories (as well as threats against employees who appropriately report environmental health and safety (EH&S) problems at Sloan) by MSKCC (facilities management and other Sloan administrators). Sloan had to previously abandon a building due to facilities/infrastructure problems that allowed for its employees to be exposed to unsafe levels of poisonous carbon monoxide]; these and other infrastructure problems affect reaction conditions and therefore stand to impeach the credibility of research conducted at Sloan (e.g.: cross contamination between supposedly mutually exclusive fume hoods and ductwork whose controls were unfathomably, yet knowingly, not installed properly by MSK). It has also been reported that the PI of the Bioorganic Laboratory has attempted to leverage (to the point of irritating) the clinician overseeing clinical trials at Sloan to continue and/or increase enrollment in a trial of the above-mentioned bioorganic drug candidate in variance with the clinician's concerns about the bioorganic drug candidate's efficacy and patient safety. This is significant because very large milestone dependent royalty payments are contingent upon continued enrollment of patients and/or completion of a clinical trial's "Phase." A high profile researcher/clinician (a deputy physician in chief) at Sloan has been arrested following an SEC investigation for insider (Imclone) stock trading; The former physician in chief committed suicide; Off-scale windfall profits have been available to biotech company insiders at Sloan, perhaps their fortunate tipees (e.g.: Ariad [stock ticker: Aria] whose stock price jumped one hundred (100) times or ten thousand (10,000) percent during a relatively short ~ five (5) month period (10/99-3/00) following assuaging of a "buy" impediment [the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, pardoned by President Clinton, has sat on the Board of Ariad]) and perhaps fortunate future tipees, were this type of lightning to strike again. Although the honest application of the forces of commerce (monetary reward for brilliant and properly vetted hard work) are appropriate, inappropriate leverage by a powerful non-clinician possibly resulting in someone being a pawn so that the non-clinician or the Institute could receive a royalty payment that lay in the balance, or the embargoing of known information about the availability of competitors' clinical trial drug candidates are likely not. Congress has investigated the National Institutes of Health (NIH) relative to ethics/conflict of interest concerns (e.g.: the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) erstwhile Director). So who's minding the store and who can a desperate cancer sufferer trust if the guardians are equally or more concerned with their own stock portfolios than patient safety and drug efficacy? Some of these issues have been broached in the New York Times, The New York Observer, other press publications and even Michael Moore's movie "Sicko." For the protection of the Institute, in these times of heightened corporate, medical and pharmaceutical industry scrutiny and accountability, given that the research conducted in the Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory is funded in part by government (e.g.: NIH RO1 [discovery] and RAID [scale-up for industrial development (the NIH researcher/administrator who vetted the Sloan epothilone candidate prior to award of an NIH RAID grant has since sat on the Board of Kosan)]) grants and philanthropic (e.g.: MSKCC Major Donor) sources and that MSKCC is reviewed (and accredited) by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations (JCAHO), please clarify Sloan's policy relative to the ethics/conflict of interest awkwardness discussed in this note. One ought to be wary whether a greeting offered by Sloan to a cancer sufferer (especially one who is recruited to join a [lab to clinic] "translational" experimental study) is a compassionate smile or a smirk and whether Sloan is a leader in the fight against cancer or merely a cog in the "cancer racket." There is a connection between the EH&S and ethics problems as potential and/or realized profit has affected the non-addressment of systemic environmental health and safety issues at Sloan. Has Sloan conjured and synchronized their cover stories relative to these issues as MSKCC has done in the past relative to other white-washes for which Sloan "conducted its own investigation" (eg: EH&S, "drug dealing" in its basement [the General Stores (GS) takes up a large portion of the MSKCC basement and one must be concerned as to if and how extensively the GS were compromised [and if government subsidized products or patient safety were compromised])? 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Delgado's wife, Mary Lindsey, told the Florida Times-Union (http://bit.ly/TeMd8K) that her husband started digging the well Friday in their front yard. By Saturday, Delgado got down 12 to 15 feet before the ground collapsed in on him around 11 a.m.
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I just thought it was worth mentioning a product I found avail. in Australia from the ANZ bank. Its a pre-paid travel card (after some research appears to be one of the cheaper options)that is available in 7 denominations including US dollars (Perfect for my trip to Cambodia next week).
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Thanks for the site. I have always wondered about this issue. I was going to get a travelers VISA, which was offered by my bank.
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also available from most travel agents is "travelex" which is the same pre load type card, cost zip to load and the last time I used one(2 yrs ago) it was $3 aus per withdrawal. Could be used at any visa site. Cant recall set up cost but low.
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So I used the ANZ travel card, worked quite well used it like a VISA when I could at some resturaunts and accomodation. The first time I went to withdraw money from an ATM i decided to use the ANZ Royal bank thinking that there would be no fees, same bank, right? not so! I was charged and extra $4 US for the privelidge. Next I tried Canadia bank where there were no extra fees. Needless to say I searched out a Canadia ATM for future withdrawals!
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KUSA - The Denver Broncos returned to their record-setting ways Sunday and held on for a 28-20 win at San Diego.
Peyton Manning is back on his touchdown-pass record to start the season. Receiver Demaryius Thomas tied a team record for TD receptions in a game. Tight end Julius Thomas was close to a record on his 74-yard TD catch.
Denver's 371 points are the most in NFL history, breaking the record of 358 by the 1950 L.A. Rams.
As well, it was win No. 300 for Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, who becomes the first NFL owner to win 300 games in 30 years. Denver is 300-200-1 with Bowlen at the helm.
"We got this one for Foxy," interim head coach and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio said of coach John Fox, who is recovering from open-heart surgery on Monday.
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Denver didn't have the ball much against the Chargers, but they made quick work off San Diego's defense when they did. Denver's longest scoring drive was 3:26 when they took a 28-6 lead on Manning's third TD pass to Demaryius Thomas to open the second half.
"The main thing with me is not just one person is going to bring me down," Thomas said. "We did a couple of different things ... the main thing was just trying to get in the end zone."
But Denver struggled after that and went scoreless in four consecutive possessions as the Chargers challenged into the fourth quarter.
Manning, who was appeared to injure his right ankle or knee on the last drive but stayed in the game, got back on his record run of touchdown passes to start a season. He has 33 touchdown passes this season to tie the nine-game TD passing record, which was set by New England's Tom Brady in 2007.
After the game, Manning wound not discuss specifically what he injured on the second-down play, which secured the win when he completed a 9-yard pass to Thomas with 1:44 left in the game. Manning would only say it was "somewhere in that lower body area."
"I'm pretty sore, pretty sore. They kind of got me twice in that lower area. I felt better coming into the game after the bye week, but I'm pretty sore," Manning said. "I'll get an MRI tomorrow and I'll probably know a little more then."
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"I saw them call timeout, then was taking a moment to get it together then they stick us with the timeout," Manning said. "I don't like quarterbacks begging for hits. ... I was arguing over timeout from San Diego."
Manning finished the game 25-of-36 passing for 330 yards and four TD passes. It is his NFL-record 80th game with 300-plus yards passing.
Said Chargers end Corey Liuget, who hit Manning on that second-down play: "I was trying to get to him because I knew how critical it could be to us as a defense to get to him. I was just working it and trying to be the guy. I'm not sure how I caught him but I hope he is OK. It's not anything that is going to stop him from being Peyton Manning."
According to stats-monster Elias Sports Bureau, Manning now has an NFL-record 74 regular-season road wins, one more than Brett Favre.
But all was not perfect for Manning, who was sacked twice and lost a fumble when he was scrambling in the third quarter. The Chargers' recovered at Denver's 12-yard line and scored two plays later to pull within 28-13.
And as the Broncos' offense stalled in the second half, the Chargers pulled within 28-20 in the fourth quarter on Ryan Mathews' 1-yard run with 10:42 left in the game.
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Manning said he talked to Fox on Saturday before boarding the plane for San Diego, and told the coach "not to yell at me during the game. It's not good for his blood pressure."
Denver's first three possessions to open the game totaled just 3 minutes, 39 seconds and resulted in one score. But the offense found its gear and scored twice before halftime to take a 21-6 lead. Denver had the ball for just 7:31 in the first half to the Chargers' 22:29.
"You don't really pay attention to that stuff during the game, but now that the game is over, yeah, we were out there for a while," Broncos end Derek Wolfe said. "I thought we did a good job of getting [Philip Rivers] off his spot and making him uncomfortable and finishing the play."
For the game the Chargers had the ball for 38:03 to the Broncos 21:57. Denver finished with 397 total yards, and San Diego had 329.
The Chargers' offense was the best defense to Manning as San Diego had 21 plays and held the ball for 14 minutes, 3 seconds in the first quarter. The Chargers' second possession went 14 plays, lasted 9:20 and end with a 26-yard field goal on the first play of the second quarter.
But the Broncos didn't waste any time on their one possession of the first quarter, getting a touchdown on their third snap. Julius Thomas took a short pass 74 yards for a 7-0 lead with 9:31 left in the first half. It was Thomas' 10th TD catch of the season and stands as the second-longest TD pass by a Broncos tight end (Shannon Sharpe 82 yards in 2002 vs. Kansas City).
Denver had drives of five plays then a three-and-out before Manning gave Denver a 14-6 lead with 6:44 left the second quarter. Manning found Demaryius Thomas for an 11-yard pass play to cap the 80-yard, seven-play drive. Manning was 5-of-6 passing on the drive for 74 yards.
After San Diego kicker Nick Novak missed a 37-yard field-goal try with 1:43 left in the half, Manning drove the Broncos on another quick possession and again found Demaryius Thomas for a 7-yard TD with 13 seconds left before the break.
Denver plays host to the Chiefs next Sunday then again two weeks later (Dec. 1) at Kansas City.
"They have a lot of things going their way right now," Broncos receiver Wes Welker said of the Chiefs, who had a bye Sunday. "We've got to really hone in this week and have a great week of practice. We have to play physical, tough football."
The rest of Denver's division schedule includes at San Diego on a Thursday night (Dec. 12) and finishing the season Dec. 29 at Oakland.
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While we have been visiting/ living in Lake Martin, we have had been blessed with some tasty treats.
These brownies were made by Fuller and me soon after our visit began. Grandma Linda was given a Perfect Brownie Pan as a Christmas gift, so we thought it the perfect time to try it out! It really did make brownies well. (There is an entire flickr set of the process, in case you want to see how the pan really works.)
These funny looking things are "squid" in the making. We went into Montgomery to visit a friend and she was so clever to make this fun lunch for the kiddos. You cut up hot dogs, stick in pieces of spaghetti, then boil them until the spaghetti is cooked al dente. When you pull it out of the water, you have squid!
Last Friday I went to a gourmet grocery store with Linda and came home with a few delicacies such as microbrewed rootbeer. I thought it would be fun to introduce Fuller to rootbeer floats. (Sidenote: a freezer without ice cream at Grandpa Albert's must be a broken freezer.) Fuller liked it, and since a full bottle was too much for Fuller, I got to have some too.
It was during the root beer float fun that Grandpa Albert taught Fuller how to say, "Over the lips, past the gums, look out stomach, here it comes!" Fuller worked so hard to learn it and say it right. Now, if only he would finally remember the days of the week.


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Matais has come up with a simple solution to a minor annoyance that affects every iPod and iPhone user -- the unwanted sync. Tune Blocker allows users to charge their devices through USB, without having to sync through iTunes. The cable comes with a built-in switch, so users can choose whether or not to sync.
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Zipline Canopy Tour Chicago
Looking for that perfect daring escape for you, your friends or family? Zip Chicago Canopy Tours provides an experience you will not soon forget. It will create memories that last a life time. The tour is completely guided and contains no motorized machines for propulsion. All you have to do is enjoy your flight! Our guests can reach speeds of up to 45 mph. The platforms and suspension bridges are surrounded by an assortment of native trees. Check out our different tours to see which adventure is the right one for you!
Yaeger's Farm Market
Farm products available for purchase include plants, fresh fruits and vegetables, plus a wide variety of Amish jams and jellies. A pumpkin patch and corn maze are featured in the fall.
Windy City Soaring
Windy City Soaring Association is a non-profit organization (club) dedicated to the promotion and enjoyment of soaring (flying sailplanes aka gliders). Based at Hinckley Airport (0C2) in the friendly village of Hinckley IL, situated about fifty miles West of the hustle and bustle of downtown Chicago.
William G. Stratton State Park
Although only 613 acres in size along the Illinois River, this state park is widely used by boaters and anglers of northeastern Illinois. Launching ramps with docks serve boaters from the Illinois River Bridge in Morris.
Wilderness Falls
Two mini golf courses, batting cages and an arcade are located at this family fun spot near Clow Airport.
Whitetail Ridge Golf Club
This premier public golf course was designed by architect Greg Martin on the farmland locally known as "The Ridge" in 2007. The front nine plays as a links-style course, while the back nine features elevation changes and spectacular views of the surrounding countryside. 18 holes, par 71. Distance: 6,604. Whitetail Ridge offers the perfect venue to host your wedding or golf outing. The 24,000 square foot clubhouse features a beautiful restaurant and bar that seats 100 people, with a balcony that overlooks the front nine. The elegant Ballroom accommodates parties of up to 350 people, and is complimented by the Terrace Room, with a private balcony, that can host business meetings and smaller events such as wedding and baby showers, and business meetings. The lower level of the clubhouse features the 19th Hole with a private bar, and seating for up to 50. The patio and outdoor party area provide an ideal place for your outdoor wedding, party, or post-outing summer fun and socializing. Three-time winner Bride's Choice Award and 2014 Couple's Choice Award winner.
Waterfall Glen Hike
Waterfall Glen Hike in DuPage County is a nice, moderate hike. This trail wraps around Argonne National Laboratory and is 11.4 miles long. The main path consists of crushed limestone, but it is ok to take the side trails that are mowed grass or part of an abandoned railroad track. Most of the path is under a tree canopy. Marshes and swamps abound in this area so be sure to bring some insect repellent.
Warrenville Park District
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - FitnessNOW - State of the art cardiovascular equipment; Cybex cardio equipment with built in TVs; three lane indoor track; strength training; personal trainers; affordable fees; fun, knowledgeable and motivated staff; and convenient location. Enjoy nine community parks and a variety of sports and activities.
Vaughn Athletic Center and Indoor Water Park
The Vaughan Athletic Center is dedicated to fitness excellence with quality equipment and programs designed to offer members the best value for their fitness dollar. The newest facility in the Fox Valley Park District is the Vaughan Athletic Center located on Indian Trail near Orchard Road on the far west side of Aurora. The Vaughan Athletic Center features 225,000 square feet of athletic, fitness, and aquatic fun. The Vaughan Athletic Center is home to an aquatic center with three indoor pools. The aquatic center offers lap swimming, diving boards, warm water therapy, swim lessons, and aquatic fitness classes. In addition, there is an indoor water park featuring two water slides, a lazy river, and spray and play areas. In the Vaughan Athletic Center's 10,000-square-foot, full-service fitness center, members can use a wide variety of equipment, attend the Fox Valley area's best group exercise classes, and receive personalized, one-on-one help from certified trainers. This year-round indoor water park has tube slides, zero-depth entry and interactive water play.
Theis Farm Market
Since 1981, Theis Farm Market has been providing high quality, exceptionally great tasting local produce. Family owned and operated, they take pride in their work and are constantly striving to meet new demands by delivering even better tasting produce and higher quality products. They started out with a wagon by the road full of vegetables. Greenhouses came as a necessity for the starting of our field plants. They decided to do a few flowers for fun and that quickly turned into the place to go for top quality beautiful bedding plants, including Barb's original mixed planters and baskets. Now they have bedding and vegetable plants starting in the spring following through to summer with ripe tasty vegetables and into the fall for pumpkins, squash, gourds and all your other fall decorations. They always carry fresh eggs, homegrown popcorn, honey from the bees on their farm, syrups and jams from slack's. May1st-October 31st Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm Sundays and Holidays 10am-5pm Closed: July 4th
CITY:Maple Park
The Homestead Sculpture Garden and Labyrinth
Art lovers will admire the beautiful brick labyrinth and distinctive contemporary sculpture garden here.
The Cliffs Insane Terrain Off Road Park
Come check out our park, it has many miles of trails, created for the beginner all the way to the advanced rider. We have wooded areas, fields, creeks, and yes, the Famous Mud Hole. (Ask park personnel where it is). Plans are in progress to create a rock climb and bog for those who want more challenges. Call ahead for hours and track conditions.
Sycamore Golf Club
This par 71, 18-hole golf club offers watered bent grass fairways, a putting green, swimming pool, tennis courts and horse shoes. Seats up to 120 people for meetings and events.
Sycamore Family Sports Center
Enjoy family fun at the Sports Center with a golf driving range, an 18-hole mini golf course, six batting cages from Little League to professional, go-karts and soccer kicking cages.
Sunken Garden
View the spectacular display of 15,000 flowers of 15 varieties, plus a three-tiered fountain and the Four Seasons statues that complement this exquisite English garden.
Sugar Grove Family Fun Center
Go-karts, mini golf, bumper boats, a driving range and a game room are the draw at this entertainment center.
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St. Charles Paddlewheel River Boats
Cruise the scenic Fox River from Pottawatomie Park in St. Charles on the Fox River Queen or the St. Charles Belle paddlewheel riverboats. Daily afternoon sightseeing trips or private charter cruises May 1-October 15.
CITY:St. Charles
Springbrook Marina
Full-service marina. New and used boat sales, transient slips, fuel, restaurant. Open year-round.
Springbrook Golf Course
Located in west central Naperville and adjacent to the DuPage County Forest Preserve's Dragon Lake, Springbrook Golf Course commands some the finest views of Naperville's open space and trails. Built in 1974, the facility features a challenging 18-hole championship golf course, a 28-stall natural turf driving range, two practice putting green with bunkers. Its beautiful, mature and lush foliage and trees complement the manicured greens, tees and fairways. Combined with its exceptional course design, golfers of all skill levels return time and again to play.
Sport Zone Family Fun Center
Home for soccer, go-karts, mini-golf, indoor golf and batting cages.
Splash Park at Campton Hills Park
The splash park has many interactive water play features for children of all ages to enjoy. Some features include spray columns, spray loops, dumping buckets, spray cannons, bubblers, geysers and water wheels. These water features are constructed on top of a safety surface. The facility has a sand play area with water and sand play toys. This facility also has deck chairs and shade structures.
CITY:St. Charles
Splash Country Water Park
This deluxe water park features tube slides, the second largest lazy river in Illinois, zero-depth pools, sand activity areas and concessions.
Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area
A pool of clear bubbling water which sparkles like silver on sunny days provides the basis for the name of Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area. Even on extremely cold days, this pool does not freeze, and visitors marvel at the bordering beds of watercress. Majestic oaks and prairie grasslands provide a panorama of natural beauty to park visitors. The Fox River runs through this picturesque area which is also home to several small manmade lakes. A natural prairie restoration project gives visitors a feeling of the original landscape with native wildflowers, songbirds, waterfowl and upland game. Picnicking, fishing and hiking are popular pastimes in summer, with ice fishing, sledding, ice skating and cross-country ski trails available for the winter sports lover. For relaxing, exercising or just enjoying nature, Silver Springs is the perfect get away location.
Siegel's Cottonwood Farm
Siegel's Cottonwood farm is a fourth generation working farm established in 1909. In the spring and early summer, the farm is open with a garden center featuring flowers, shrubs, and plants. From June 1st thru October, the farm is available for company picnics, group outings, corporate events and fundraisers. In the summer when the crop is ready its extra sweet corn. In the fall its Pumpkinfest time on the farm with playlands, cornfield mazes, new fun attractions, climbing wall, gem mining and much more. And then there is the award winning haunted prison, "Statesville."
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There is no way the men who championed Canton 50-plus years ago as the resting place for NFL immortality would have ever imagined this. Something this grand doesn't just rise from a shovel of dirt.
There is no way the men who championed Canton 50-plus years ago as the resting place for NFL immortality would have ever imagined this.
Something this grand doesn't just rise from a shovel of dirt.
Who would have thought the Pro Football Hall of Fame's signature event, its annual enshrinement, would grow into a star-studded affair befitting of three-plus hour prime-time event, live on not just one, but two television networks?
No visionaries in the early 1960s could see a stage that stretched across an entire end zone at Fawcett Stadium, flanked on both sides by two JumboTrons and seven vertical LED screens as the backdrop for each enshrinee's speech. No would could anticipate the Hall of Fame growing by its latest $27 million expansion that has breathed life into Canton's shrine and made it the world's best sports museum.
In this golden anniversary year of the Hall of Fame, Saturday night's enshrinement was a fitting tribute to the seven newest members on pro football's greatest team.
The speeches were filled with a range of emotions, from Dave Robinson's charming humor ...
To Bill Parcells peeling back the doors of a locker room for a look inside a "laboratory for human behavior" ...
From Warren Sapp leaving the dirt roads of a small country town to "heights I never seen to a gold jacket" ...
To Jonathan Ogden's eloquent rise as the Ravens' first draft pick to first Hall of Famer ...
From Larry Allen earning respect ...
To Curly Culp's succinct acceptance ...
And finally to Cris Carter's well-delivered, emotionally charged speech that had many in the audience in tears and hairs standing on forearms.
"Momma," Carter said, telling his mom Joyce to stand up. "You should know that woman right there dropped out of high school at 17, had seven kids and finished her high school diploma at 40. When she was 50, she ended up with her master's.
"Momma, I've got to tell you: I didn't have to wait to get a call from the Hall telling me I'm a Hall of Famer. You've been telling me since I was little."
Carter's nearly 17-minute speech was a cleansing of his soul. He apologized to Ohio State fans because he was ineligible to play as a senior after signing with an agent. He called it his only football regret.
Carter, who was cut from the Eagles by Buddy Ryan because of cocaine and alcohol abuse, got his life together with his second chance in Minnesota. The employee assistance program put him with a counselor who asked Carter to start by being sober for a week. He has been sober ever since Sept. 19, 1990.
Page 2 of 2 - "If not for them, I would not be going into the Hall," Carter said.
His peers, the best who ever played the game, gave Carter a standing ovation. It was a look into the locker room of the greatest team ever assembled in a sense.
Parcells said, talent aside, the locker room is a place of acceptance for those willing to contribute to the greater good. The Hall of Fame is for people who became experts on the subject of the greater good.
It is the only place, after hoisting a championship trophy above one's head, where "some mystical blood kinship is formed, and although the moment is fleeting, that kinship lasts a lifetime," Parcells said.
That is the stuff upon which the Hall of Fame was founded, upon which it grew and upon which it now flourishes.
As Parcells closed a poignant speech, he looked at the 107 fellow Hall of Famers on the stage to either side. About 10 minutes after Wellington Mara hired Parcells, he took his new coach on a walk to the locker room and into a small alcove to the side. There was a plaque in old Giants Stadium with a quote attributed to Emlen Tunnell, the first black player enshrined into the Hall in 1967.
"Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and the players in other little groups. But winners assemble as a team.
"Tonight ladies and gentlemen, I get to do just that."
The Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement has become sports version of the Oscars. Bill Belichick flew in — and back out — from training camp to pay his respect, and debt of gratitude to Parcells. Ray Lewis was here, not on a scouting mission for his certain enshrinement in five years, but because of Ogden.
It was 50 years ago when the first class was enshrined. Like the many men who are enshrined, the Hall of Fame has traveled from little dirt road to heights of greatness no one could have imagined.
Like the 280 men now enshrined — we, too, have come so far.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
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COVINGTON -- The city of Covington is set to adopt new policies related to utilities.
The first policy involves deposits required by the city. The city's current ordinance requires charging a multiple of the average bill determined by the applicant's credit history. The new policy proposes set amounts for deposits. Customers with adequate credit will not be required to make a deposit; deposits can range from $200 to a maximum of $400 for residential customers. The maximum deposit is $600. The maximum deposit for commercial customers cannot exceed three times the average monthly bill.
The second policy would involve the agreements offered by the city to assist customers with past due balances. Customers will be allowed three agreements a year, excluding doctor's excuses, which can be used only once a year; half of the past due amount must be paid on the date of the agreement and the remaining within two weeks; agreements won't be made with any customer who has violated or broken an agreement during the one year period prior to the last broken agreement; if an agreement is broken the past due plus the reconnect fee must be paid to restore services; and no agreements can be made on the day of cut off.
Finally, landlords with rental property will have the option of having utilities automatically transferred to the landlord's name when a tenant moves out. This will eliminate the reconnection fee charged to landlords and help them quickly do repairs and cleanup to get the property rented quicker, said Leigh Anne Knight, the city's finance director.
The first reading of the ordinance change was approved at the council's Nov. 5 meeting and the final reading is set for Monday during the council's regular 6:30 p.m. meeting at City Hall.
In other news, the city will not impose an excise tax on energy. Although no vote was taken during the Nov. 5 meeting, following a description by City Manager Steve Horton of the tax, the council was mostly silent on the issue. Councilman Chris Smith said, "I'm fine with leaving it like it is."
The General Assembly enacted a tax reform package earlier this year that included a sales and use tax exemption for energy used in the manufacturing process. The exemption has a four-year phase-in at a 25 percent rate, with full phase-in by 2016.
It also gave local governments the authority to levy a new local excise tax to recoup revenues lost due to the exemption. The tax would be collected by the county from companies that sell energy to manufacturers within the county, according to Association County Commissioners of Georgia. Newton County has opted to wait three to six months to see the impact of the exemption before deciding whether to levy the tax, leaving the cities with the option. None of the county's five municipalities have agreed to impose the tax.
The loss to Covington is estimated to be more than $14,000 at most in SPLOST and LOST revenues during 2013, the first-year of the four-year phase in, and increase to more than $57,000 by 2016, the last year of the phase-in.
Finally, the City Council approved the donation of Christmas lights and decorations for the downtown by "The Vampire Diaries" television series, which films locally. The decorations were used by the series for the Christmas episode that filmed in October.
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Bookery, The
A treasure hunt for the book lover! Floor to ceiling books - literally - in just about any subject or era or binding or author you could want. It's a small shop, but the place is crammed with books! Old, new, antique; you'll find it all here, with specialist offerings of a far higher quality than the average chain bookshop and, for what we bought, prices that beat Amazon by a fair amount. If you prefer actual paper books to digital content that can be remotely deactivated at someone else's whim, come indulge your love at the Bookery!
Over 50,000 books - new, used, rare and signed. Buy, sell, and trade. The Bookery specializes in Civil War, military, Virginian, local authors, classics and collectibles.