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- Rugby Knowledge – It is expected that the Head coach will have the required level of knowledge to enable the players to achieve their maximum potential and develop as a whole player.
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The rate of spinal fusion surgery has risen sixfold in the United States over the past 20 years, according to federal figures, and the expensive procedure has become even more common than hip replacement.
It can be difficult, in individual cases, to get doctors to agree about when the procedure — , which involves the joining of two or more vertebrae — is warranted.
But at a broader level, the rapid rise of spinal fusions in the United States, especially for diagnoses that generally don't require the procedure, has raised questions from experts about whether, amid medical uncertainty, the financial rewards are spurring the boom.
Advancements in diagnostic and surgical technology may explain some of the increase in surgery. And patients may have become more demanding.
As U.S. medical costs have risen, questions about unnecessary treatment have become frequent. By some estimates, Americans are spending billions every year in unnecessary surgery and other medical care.
Medicare, the nation's health-care system for people older than 65, is at the center of the debate.
As the nation's largest insurer, it is critical to determining what kinds of surgeries in the United States are covered — and therefore, performed. Many private insurers look to Medicare when making their own decisions.
Today, by its own admission, Medicare may be spending billions annually on unnecessary medical treatment.
The Medicare agency every year audits a sample of the claims it has paid and determines how many of those have "medical necessity" errors. The agency estimated the amount of money spent improperly on spinal fusions was more than $200 million in 2011, for example, and most of that was because the treatment was deemed unnecessary, often because a more conservative course hadn't been tried, officials said.
How could this happen?
The answer, in part, is that the Medicare system is not designed to discourage doctors from performing it, according to past and present Medicare officials.
At a very practical level, the bureaucracy offers little incentive to weed out unnecessary treatment: Medicare hires contractors to issue payments to doctors, and those contractors are paid based not on how many claims they reject but on how many they approve.
"The contractors are incentivized to efficiently process claims and not to accurately evaluate clinical effectiveness" of treatment, according to a paper by three former senior officials at the Medicare agency and one current one.
Moreover, when bureaucrats try to restrict what surgeries Medicare will pay for, they sometimes face punishing political backlash.
In 1978, for example, Congress created the National Center for Health Care Technology, which among other things recommended to Medicare what procedures it should cover.
It ran on a $4 million budget, and within just a few years of its inception, it was estimated that its advice had saved the government between $100 million and $200 million a year.
But two influential groups opposed the agency's mission: the American Medical Association and the Health Industry Manufacturers Association.
Medical judgements are "better made — and are being responsibly made — within the medical profession," an AMA spokesman told Congress at the time. "The advantage the individual physician has over any national center or advisory council is that he or she is dealing with individuals in need of medical care, not hypothetical cases."
In 1981, Congress zeroed out the agency's budget.
Again in 1989, Congress decided that there should be a government effort to review the effectiveness of medical treatments.
It was called the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, and in its first years, it issued guidelines on how to treat hysterectomies, strokes and ulcers.
Then, in 1994, the agency published a set of guidelines on back pain, discouraging spinal fusion for some cases.
"For several low back disorders, no advantage has been demonstrated for fusion over surgery without fusion, and complications of fusions are common," its researchers concluded.
The reaction from some surgeons was furious. The North American Spine Society suggested that the effort was a waste of taxpayer money. A letter-writing campaign was launched. A Virginia spine surgeon founded a group called the Center for Patient Advocacy, which sought to kill the agency.
Some physicians rallied to its defense. But when the dust settled in Congress, the agency's budget was cut by 21 percent, and the agency curtailed its efforts at developing guidelines.
"The larger damage was the message sent by Congress: 'If you get too close to actually changing how clinical or reimbursement decisions are made, Congress is going to slap you down,' " said Sean Tunis, formerly chief medical officer at the Medicare agency. "I think everyone took a lesson from that."
Even by American health-care standards, the rise of spinal fusions has been remarkable. According to federal figures, the number of spinal fusions in the United States rose from 56,000 in 1994 to 465,000 in 2011.
Advancements in technology — more refined imaging, new spinal devices to hold vertebrae in place — likely account for some of the rise.
Moreover, Americans may be demanding more mobility as they age, surgeons say.
"Patients want to be able to play tennis and golf and go surfing at much higher ages than they did in the past," said Gunnar Andersson, chairman emeritus of the department of orthopedic surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and president-elect of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery, a professional group. "They are more likely to seek out treatment and more likely to accept surgery as an option."
He added that some of the critics of the procedure, who believe spinal fusions are being performed too frequently, are "not wrong."
"The problem is we don't know what the rate of spinal fusions ought to be," he said.
The growth in spinal fusion in the United States has been much faster than other surgeries of wear and tear, such as knee and hip replacements. And Americans are far more likely to undergo the procedure than people from other countries.
The rate of spinal fusions in the United States is about 150 per 100,000 people, according to federal data. In Australia, it is about one-third of that; in Sweden, it is about 40 per 100,000; and in Britain it is lower still.
Or just consider the sales of spinal fusion equipment. Sales of such equipment in the United States amount to $5.1 billion a year, nearly twice what the total sales are in the rest of the world, according to Millennium Research Group.
"My hunch is that as many as half of the spine fusions in the U.S. are unnecessary," said Richard Deyo, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University and a longtime critic of the procedure.
The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery has sounded a note of caution in its policy statement on lumbar fusion, too.
"Increasing success and optimism may be leading some surgeons to overuse procedures beyond what the current state of medical evidence really supports," it says. The varying rates of spine surgery suggest "a lack of collective adherence to the current state of medical evidence."
To get a better understanding of the reasons for the boom, The Post reviewed 125,000 records of patients who underwent spinal fusions in Florida. The data included primary and secondary diagnoses.
The analysis shows that the procedure has been used more and more to treat ailments of the lower back that experts say are generally better addressed with safer and less-costly treatments.
Professional societies and other experts rule out or discourage the routine use of spinal fusion for several common problems of the lower back — stenosis, herniated discs and disc degeneration — when there are no accompanying problems of spinal instability or deformity.
Yet about half of the rise in lumbar spinal fusions has come from its use for just such ailments.
Between 2000 and 2012, the number of lumbar spinal fusions for those ailments in the state rose fivefold, from 2,014 to 9,887, according to the analysis of Florida records.
Lumbar spinal fusions to treat stenosis, an ailment caused by a narrowing of the spinal canal, rose the fastest, from 292 in 2000 to 2,565 in 2012.
Medicare and insurance companies could stop paying for such procedures, of course. When they object, however, their motivations are often viewed as profit-driven as much as scientific.
But decisions about surgery also have financial ramifications for doctors, as Eugene Carragee, a surgeon and professor at Stanford University, has noted.
He said that a simpler procedure known as a decompression often offers patients, without complications, as much benefit as a fusion and poses fewer risks. But the decompression might yield a surgeon roughly $1,000, while a complex fusion would garner as much as $6,000.
While insurers see a "conspiracy of escalation," Carragee said, "surgeons are saying, 'You can't tell me what the appropriate thing is to do.' "
In 2006, Medicare decided to take a closer look at spinal fusion surgery.
At the time, the number of spinal fusions had been soaring upward, rising by nearly five times over the previous decade.
An increasing number of the spinal fusions were being done to treat something called degenerative disc disease, an affliction that results in pain from a disc that has disintegrated after normal wear and tear.
Medicare officials decided to convene a panel to examine the use of lumbar spinal fusion in patients with degenerative disc disease.
The evidence that a spinal fusion was the best means of treating it was sparse.
The researchers that Medicare commissioned to summarize the evidence found only four randomized clinical trials of spinal fusion for degenerative disc disease. Three trials found no clear benefit of spinal fusion over other therapy.
The fourth found just the opposite — that there was a benefit. It was alone in another regard as well. While the others had been funded by governments or nonprofit groups, the positive study was funded by two companies that make spinal surgery equipment — Acromed and Ossano Scandinavia.
The authors of the evidence review, led by Duke University physician-researcher Douglas McCrory, reported that there was no conclusive evidence that spinal fusion offers "short-term or long-term benefits compared with non-surgical treatment."
The report was then presented to a Medicare advisory committee of nine voting doctors. Three of them had either worked for or owned stock in makers of spinal equipment.
Their votes were cast on a scale of one to five: A one reflected that fusion was "not likely" to benefit patients with lumbar degenerative disc disease, three was "reasonably likely" and five "very likely."
The long-term benefit of spinal fusion was judged a 1.5 — that is, the panel had voted that it was less than "reasonably likely" that spinal fusion provides a benefit.
Yet Medicare never changed its policy: It still pays for spinal fusions for degenerative disc disease.
A Medicare spokeswoman, Kathryn Ceja, offered this statement: "By law, Medicare must cover items and services that are reasonable and necessary. Within those rules, doctors and their patients are free to make medical treatment decisions that are best for the patient."
After the 2006 advisory meeting, the number of spinal fusions continued its rapid upward trend.
An analysis of health records published last year in the journal Spine showed that the number of spinal fusions for degenerative disc disease in the lumbar spine had more than tripled between 1998 and 2008, becoming the most common primary diagnosis for spinal fusions.
Like Medicare, insurers have proved tentative about restricting payment. Some insurers have put modest limits on lumbar fusion procedures, but the idea of an insurance company putting itself between a patient and a doctor's recommendation often spurs unwelcome publicity.
In late 2009, for example, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina decided to curb its use based on research and the guidelines of professional societies.
In the first year, the number of lumbar spinal fusions at the insurer dropped 32 percent.
But the insurer was also confronted with unflattering portrayals in the newspaper and on television.
A local TV station ran an investigative story about the insurer denying coverage.
"Guys, a major insurance company here in North Carolina is one of the first to deny a back surgery that some doctors love but some insurers don't," an investigative reporter on Raleigh's ABC affiliate announced one night. "Why? At least one doctor and two patients we talked with say it's all about profit margin."
Ever since the news of Baklid-Kunz's lawsuit against the hospital, some of Vinas's patients, especially those who say the surgery did nothing — or worse, harmed them — have begun to wonder whether their surgery was necessary after all.
Among the patients who have come to doubt the surgery they had is a dentist who says he had to sell his practice because after the surgery he could no longer stand for long periods; another is a pipe fitter who can no longer work and became unsteady on his feet; another is a retired aerospace engineer who developed cognitive problems after the surgery.
Three patients said Vinas urged them to get the surgery, too. He warned them that they were going to be "crippled" or "in a wheelchair" if they didn't, they say.
Eunice Murphy was a retiree playing tennis four times a week before the surgery; she says she has had trouble walking since then.
"I wasn't his patient; I was his victim," Murphy said.
Vinas fused her spine after she complained of numbness in her thumb and forefinger. Vinas's medical report says she had "intractable neck pain," too. Murphy insists the problem was only in her hand. Three months later, she got a second fusion from Vinas for back pain and leg trouble, according to his report.
The hand trouble was unaffected by the fusion surgery, she says. Earlier this year, she went to another doctor for what she says is the same hand trouble. He traced it in part to carpal tunnel syndrome, an ailment of the wrist, according to that doctor's report.
She bought an $18 brace for her forearm at the drugstore, and the numbness receded, she says.
More than a year after the second fusion surgery from Vinas, she got an appointment just to confront him, she said. She is not suing him for malpractice — indeed, the two-year window for filing such a suit has elapsed.
"I said, 'This is the cruelest thing one person could do to another. Why did you ruin the rest of my life?' "
William Scott, 62, the pipe fitter, had been having back pain for years. He was diagnosed with lumbar stenosis and degenerative problems. He was tired of taking medication for the problem and decided to see if the surgery would help him.
"Vinas told me I'd be back on my motorcycle in time for Bike Week" in a few months, he said.
But instead of curing him, the surgery has all but crippled him, he says. He can't stand for long, can't take walks because he is prone to falling and can no longer work. He had to sell his motorcycle.
"He took my life away," Scott said, his voice rising. "He took being a man and a husband away from me. And for what?"
Pritchard, Vinas's attorney, said his client was barred by law from commenting on individual patients.
But he noted that despite a surgeon's best efforts, "a small percentage may not recover as well as hoped and may be dissatisfied. That in no way means the surgery was unnecessary or should not have been performed."
Any suggestion that a fusion was performed on a patient with only carpal tunnel syndrome is "patently absurd," he said.
Another employee at Halifax Health who came to question Vinas's practice was a fellow neurosurgeon.
William Kuhn said he would no longer assist in surgeries with Vinas, at least in part because he questioned the type of surgery being done, though he said he did not reach any conclusion, according to his deposition.
"On a couple of cases I've walked into the room to assist, and looking at the films alone and hearing a brief description of the patient's symptoms . . . based only on that information, I had felt somewhat uncomfortable regarding the procedure that was being performed," Kuhn said in a deposition.
In 2007, auditors ran the numbers on Vinas — and he was exceptionally busy.
A physician's work is measured in terms of RVUs, or relative value units. Each procedure is assigned a certain number of them. By that measure, Vinas was nearly five times as busy as the average U.S. neurosurgeon, working at a rate of more than 25,000 RVUs per year, while the national average for a neurosurgeon was 5,600, according to the audit by an outside company.
The proportion of fusion procedures in his practice was about three times the national average for neurosurgery practices, the numbers showed. He explained to hospital officials that he was tailoring his practice to patients who required a fusion, but he declined to comment for this story.
After the big numbers in the 2007 audit, the hospital's compliance department proposed a clinical review to determine whether Vinas's surgeries were medically necessary, according to a memo at the time written by Baklid-Kunz.
In early 2010, after more than two years, the hospital hired AllMed and its independent board-certified neurosurgeons to conduct the review.
With guidance from AllMed, Baklid-Kunz, as a hospital compliance official, picked 10 of Vinas's cases between October 2008 and December 2009, as well as the five for Kuhn and five for a third neurosurgeon.
AllMed used several board-certified neurosurgeons to perform the reviews. The reviewers had the complete inpatient records and, except for "a few" cases, imaging done before the surgeries, according to a summary Baklid-Kunz prepared at the time.
Kuhn would fare only marginally better than Vinas when his cases were reviewed by AllMed. Their report found that three of five cases reviewed were not medically necessary. He did not return phone calls seeking comment, and his secretary directed calls to the hospital spokesperson.
As for Vinas, the report found that nine of Vinas's 10 fusions were not medically necessary, according to a summary. It called into question Vinas's technique in three cases.
When presented with the results, Vinas was "pretty upset," he said in a deposition, and he prepared a written response. As part of a review, he sat with the hospital's chief medical officer, Don Stoner, who is a cardiovascular specialist, not a neurosurgeon. The hospital declined to offer any more information about this review.
"There were not any specific concerns about my practice. And we discussed that there was room to improve my documentation, that not all was perfectly complete," Vinas said in a deposition. "In some cases you have two physicians providing different opinions, and there is more than one way to treat a patient."
About three years later, the hospital decided to take another look at the AllMed report.
By then, the hospital had come under a new level of scrutiny when in late 2011 the Justice Department joined Baklid-Kunz's suit.
The hospital hired Timothy Schoettle of Kentucky, a neurosurgeon, to review the AllMed cases, hospital spokesman Guthrie said.
Schoettle found that all of those 10 surgeries were medically necessary, Guthrie said.
The hospital declined to make available a copy of Schoettle's report affirming Vinas, however, and Schoettle did not return phone calls to his office. The hospital did not answer questions about how it chose Schoettle to do the review.
"We don't want to start a trial in the newspaper, because that's not fair to a judge and jury," Guthrie said.


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Sorry, I'm late..I missed "memory thuseday". So here I am, still many memories on a wednesday.
Lately it has brought me some reflective memories, how different things can be.
I change my occupation from being a nurse for almost 20 years…back to the
Computer/IT technology world. Well, I had a brake from my nursejob for 2
years studying IT and 1 year for working as a computertech consultant. But
after that the big IT bubble explode and all jobs dissapeard…so I went back
to be a nurse. My first years I did at that big emergency hospital, worked at
the big IR, oncology etc etc, to end up for some years in what became my
speciality – stroke and heartdiseases. Did almost 10 years there..
I have so many memories, so many human fates..I feel rich from that.
I've seen life come and go, I've been holding life in my hand. Some lifes
even ended in my arms
Peoples life has been our responsibility…to make the best out of it.
So, after that I took a decision to change place..I started to work at a nursering home
For old, sick people…a place for them to find peace and joy, being taking care of around
the clock, since they were to sick to stay at "home"… To have a meaningful day and life with
The help they needed to fulfill that for the last days, weeks and years of their lifes.
It was another 7 years..and now we are talking hard work, even more hard work..lol..
Since I easy becomes a workaholic too..
It was good years, I loved my work it gave me joy and It was always a inspiration too.
But I was tired, so tired..to always work during bad circumstances that only affected the
old and sick, to always have to struggle and never have time to do those small extra things.
And to being paid less and less with more and more to do..and not for mention all those
cutting here and there..less staff, less money, less recourses to the old…in the end we had
to do everything even clean all the floors, do all the laundry, making all the food, order all
equipments, clean all rooms etc etc AND..be a nurse too because they were still old and sick
but somehow the politicians had forget about that..at this point It didn't even felt good
to wake up and go to work anymore, I lost my so ever patience..and I felt that it only
affected my patients.. And I had to make changes…I just couldn't do it anymore, that
within itself was a kind of sorrow and loss, because being a nurse was a part me.
So, luckily after a time I did find this job I have been at now for some time..Im so thankful
and happy for that and I have the best time ever. BUT I will never ever forget what all those
years as a nurse have give me and I will never understand how I now can be payed so much
more for pushing buttons, pulling cables, administrate stuff and say things in finnish very fast..
Then people everyday working with saving lifes and with all that responsibility…
No..I will never do that..
So this pic, is from my last nursejob, on our way to lunch me and Miss Maria 97 years.
A very chic old lady..though she cant hear a thing (almost) and having heartdiseas, stroke
and the regular senility, she could be sooo lively and pushing with a vocabolary you never
my god did I wrote all this huh???
Ok. Nurse memories No 1 of 4 – Miss Maria.
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Jun 27 2007 18:44 GMT
Really enjoyed reading this..and a great photo too.:)
Jun 27 2007 18:46 GMT
Im in shock, did I wrote all that? LOL...thanks.
Well, when it all came up..i had so many memories too...so many people and so many years
Jun 27 2007 18:50 GMT
so much personal history and very well spoken - and its all so true!!
Jun 27 2007 18:53 GMT
This is exactly why the nursering-staff in Denmark are on strike these day, they had enough.... They ask for more money, more staff, more respect... I hope the politicians will finally listen, these people are doing a great job and deserve to be heard!
Jun 27 2007 18:59 GMT
This can not be the story of Suzannes live. Never ever. I saw some Pics of her and for sure she can not have done so much hard work for sooooo many years ;-)
Hugs to you :-)
Jun 27 2007 18:59 GMT
Exactly Sandra, and I couldnt stand to see it...less money to buy stuff for them, medications, bandage, dressing etc etc...and less time over to take care of them since we had to take care of everything. Often working from 7-22...since they fired people and didnt hire any new ones.
It all started when big companies on the stock market took over the production in order to make it more effective...
Jun 27 2007 19:00 GMT
Jen, it comes fast with age and hard work...hahaha..
thanks, i love work though..and working..and I kind of miss being a nurse
Jun 27 2007 19:05 GMT
it was the truth you are a very very pretty lady and a very strong one too. ;-)
Go on doing things you really like. Live is too short for all those other things :-)
Jun 27 2007 19:25 GMT
Kling....I agree.....I fully agree.....the beautiful SuzannaSmash...
all I can do ...I take my HAT OF FOR YOU SUZANNA..... you are one of the angels in this world......the hard work......I know....old people is hard work...and
they do not appreciate all the effort....not always.....!!!
I hope and pray the politicians will stop looking at "other countries Political " problems and concentrate on their own .....
My daddy is 88 years......and I know....the older they get the more they need help....and the less are available to them......if you can pay....you have it all....but I feel in my heart with those that grow old without family...or someone to care....my Daddy...he is OK....always family and church and friends to visit him.....:-)) I smile because I recall him in my thoughts....
we bought him "Crocks"... to walk with.....big mouth about it...now he just love those shoes :-)) old folk...they bring a laugh and a tear....!!!
Jun 27 2007 20:00 GMT
such a wonderful stroll and reflection on your admirable, caring past Suzanne!!
Jun 27 2007 20:15 GMT
I hope that too Lizsa, i kind of miss being a nurse with all around it..
But I also have to think of my own health..and that i have to carry on with my life and even work for many more years...so..i really hope that they do, for all the old and sick..and for all to come in the future too...I dont know if i really want to get old..haha..
Ahh its those small things and memories that make it so much worth it.
Thanks Lizsa and hugs to you too!!
Jun 27 2007 20:38 GMT
I spoke to a lady.......over her fifties...Suzanna...all her working years...
worked with old people...today when she is retired... she has a problem with her back......
I agree....we must also look after ourselves....me .... too....I would not like to grow too old..specialy as a widow.....thank BE TO GOD....me and my husband
can enjoy our retired life together......and we are so very happy....!!!
take care of yourself Suzanna....!!
Jun 27 2007 21:06 GMT
nice shot
thank you for your memories suzanne:)
It is the past that shapes our todays!!!!
Jun 27 2007 21:08 GMT
Thankyou very much for sharing,It was very interesting and quite sad too.
Thats the only thing bad about being single,getting old on your own and not having anyone to share lifes ups and downs with..................I have my daughter who i love more than words can say,but it would be nice to....................................
Jun 28 2007 05:29 GMT
great experient su. It will make us better at understanding human behaviours.
I like the angle shot here.
Jun 28 2007 17:39 GMT
What an amazing tale Suzanne! I empathize completely with you! The job thins the spirit in the end through lack of support and, yes, empathy!
Jun 28 2007 17:53 GMT
everybody said it all already ...
even won't to start the talk about money .....
this is something quite unique, suz ... and very nice gesture to these old ladies .....
Jun 29 2007 11:42 GMT
You are a star, mate.
Jun 30 2007 01:21 GMT
...an image can do that...well written Suzanne...
Jul 01 2007 09:26 GMT
Vince, THEY are the stars...my heroes.
Jul 01 2007 09:26 GMT
Thank you all for your nice comments and thanks again Michael...
Jul 01 2007 13:06 GMT
Suzanne, I also enjoyed reading this!!! I dated a Nurse years ago and know the tiring long hours and hard work you endure on the job. That's why there's
a Nursing shortage here in the USA! Due to the shortage, the salaries
have climbed sky high and Nurses are finally being rewarded!!!
Thanks for the Memories!!!
Aug 13 2007 17:42 GMT
Wonderful shot to accompany such a story of a beautiful heart. Well done.
Aug 13 2007 17:45 GMT
Wonderful shot to accompany such a story of a beautiful heart. Well done.
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He proudly served his country in the United States Army during World War II.
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He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Anna Huk Perih, by his wife, Marie J. Perih and by seven brothers and sisters.
Mr. Perih is survived by a grandson, Jeffrey B. Eaton of Oliver Springs.
Graveside services and burial will be held Monday, July 25, 2011, at 11:30 a.m. at the Tennessee Veterans Cemetery in Knoxville with full military honors. Sharp Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. An online guest book is available at www.sharpfh.com
May his memory be eternal.
Jul 25, 2011
Rosemary Holdsworth
(Oak Ridge, TN USA)
May his memory be eternal. I was so glad to know him and talk with him about all of his adventures. What an incredible life he has had. He will be missed and will always be in our hearts and prayers.
Jul 25, 2011
Tracy Tilson
(Oak Ridge, TN USA)
May his memory be eternal. He was a faithful worshipper.
Jul 25, 2011
Lynne Attaway
(Knoxville, TN USA)
I was shocked and saddened to hear of Walter's death. I knew him from St. Anne Orthodox Church. He always had a friendly smile for me and my two boys. I enjoyed his sense of humor, and will miss his smile. Please accept my sincerest condolences and know that my family will be praying for the repose of his soul. May his memory be eternal!
Jul 24, 2011
Rianne Roberts
(Clinton, TN USA)
I was saddened to hear of Walter's death. My daughter loved him and when he'd show up at St. Anne's, she'd run to him and hug him. She called him her "old friend". She would often go hold hands with him in line for Communion. She burst into tears when I told her he fell asleep in the Lord. He will be missed and remembered in our prayers.
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|Peritoneal endometriosis in women requesting reversal of sterilization.
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|PMID: 3709826 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Seventy-six women requesting reversal of sterilization underwent at least 1 operative procedure during a 27-month period, and 14 (18.4%) were found to have pelvic endometriosis. The endometriosis patients were noted to have had significantly fewer pregnancies (1.8 versus 2.9, P less than 0.01) before sterilization than those without endometriosis, but the two groups did not differ significantly in mean age (30.8 versus 30.3 years), type of sterilization or in mean number of years since sterilization (5.0 versus 5.5 years). In only two individuals were proximal tubal segment fistulas found at the time of reversal, and neither had endometriosis. We conclude that pelvic endometriosis is more common in patients with bilateral tubal occlusion than previously suspected and that its presence indicates that endometriosis implants can persist for prolonged periods of time, can give rise to new implants, or do not require the tubal reflux of menstrual debris to form.
|S T Dodge; R S Pumphrey; K Miyazawa
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The auction will be held at Schaad Detective Agency, 1114 Roosevelt Ave., York, and will begin at 10 a.m. There will be 60 vehicles -- seized during drug investigations -- along with numerous small items also seized and forfeited during investigations. Those small items include televisions, small electronics and tools, according to the release.
All vehicles which are won at auction require an immediate $300 cash deposit. The remaining balance must be paid off within one week, according to the release.
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If Sakic returns on schedule in mid-March, the Colorado Avalanche captain could salvage the final month of his injury-riddled 20th NHL season.
Sakic had hoped rehab would be sufficient for his bad back, which he hurt Nov. 28, but team doctor Andrew Parker said surgery became the best option and the operation was successful.
Sakic will spend a week to 10 days resting at home before beginning his rehab.
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46 Comments | Add Yours
Im 11 and I weigh 95...and Im the one who feels fat
by sprinklecookie on 3/20/2013 8:41:53 PM
by Sarah_12 on 11/23/2012 1:44:20 AM
by smileywarrior21 on 9/14/2012 6:26:44 PM
by puddinface7 on 8/26/2012 11:12:24 AM
I kind of have blumia and anorexic. I either eat alot and try to throw it up or not eat.
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by cupcakerbakeson on 6/13/2012 7:28:30 PM
please help! Lately I've been trying low calorie diets and starving myself. When I cave and eat normally I feel as thought I've just binged and I get mad at myself. I don't know what to do...I don't know what to say to anyone!!
by allamericansassylassy on 3/22/2012 2:24:41 PM
by quirrelmort on 11/3/2011 3:36:55 PM
by Proverbs31girl on 8/17/2011 9:16:23 PM
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need help cause i feel sick all the time i play volleyball too but i am a cheerleader i feel comfortable in my volleyball uniform but when i put my cheerleading uniform i feel so fat i feel so stupid cause me and some of my friends where trying to lose weight together by running track she lost weight i didnt so if you have any time please wright back!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
by kirdy19 on 7/5/2011 9:02:16 AM
NONE of you girls should feel fat at all (height and weight edited out) You are all beautiful, don't let yourself feel inferior! Lauren C.
by TheScientist on 6/13/2011 8:47:50 PM
by butterflylia on 5/30/2011 7:56:11 PM
by ~.~_DD_is_the_best_~.~ on 5/26/2011 5:16:15 PM
You are not fat at all! I'm 12, and I weigh about 95 pounds, and sometimes I feel fat too, but just remember if you stick with moderation, you'll be in good shape. So if you're playing volleyball and gettting excersie and everything then that's good, and as long as you eat junk food in moderation, and stick to healthy food then you are probably very healthy and not even close to fat! 97 is actually really skinny for a 15 year old! So don't sweat it!
by chipoltlelover on 5/22/2011 8:13:31 PM
if you've read any of my comments want to give me advice?
by thetruth on 5/20/2011 8:46:59 PM
I'm like the girl here except I don't weigh 97 pounds, I'm overweight. I don't look it though so lucky me.
by thetruth on 5/20/2011 8:27:54 PM
I weigh 139 pounds! I feel ok in my body. But I could loose a little weight. But most people say I look great, and skinny. It's weird but whatever. I'm just gonna do what I have to do. As long as I'm health and fit.
by Beachsidegirl on 5/20/2011 5:13:14 PM
your 15 and weigh 97 pounds??? im underweight for my age (not because i have an eating disorder...its because i have a fast metabolism) and im 13 and weigh 97 pounds. thats underweight for 13 years old. your 15....you WAYYYYY to underweight
by metrostation3xx on 5/17/2011 6:22:45 PM
All of ya'll r soo lucky Im 13 and weigh 138 pounds now thats fat!!
by babolovescookies on 5/6/2011 7:23:38 PM
by awesomeful on 5/4/2011 4:15:37 PM
MOD!!! I have a friend at school who is recovering from anorexia. She's in my lunch period, so the people who sit at my lunch table and I are kind of responsible for making sure she eats something during lunch. Once she started going out with her boyfriend, she was feeling really lovey dovey and actually eating bits of a sandwich, which was a real improvement. But lately, it kind of wore off (she's still very happy with her boyfriend, though) but she's having some family probs that are trying to get worked out in therapy. Now she can't even eat two spoonfuls of yogurt. I've tried every trick in the book, but she just refuses to eat even a little bit. she says that she wants to but she just can't. Do you have any ideas of what I should say to her to get her to eat? Please help! Thanks a bunch
by GLreedr36 on 4/30/2011 8:46:49 PM
by daughtry60763 on 4/23/2011 2:36:56 PM
by 500935 on 4/22/2011 9:03:55 PM
Iam thin too. I don't think I hav an eating disorder though. I am 5'0 weigh 82 pounds and am 12 yrs old.
by shooting star 17 on 4/21/2011 9:39:55 PM
by nglamour97 on 4/20/2011 11:31:52 AM
Hey...dont be mean to the person who submited the question. that might be why she has an eating disorder! Get better soon!!!
by hawaiiancherry on 4/19/2011 2:57:14 PM
I'm the opposite of fat. Everybody tells me that I'm very thin and it's true I don't eat much because Icant it's not that I don't want to I like myself the way I am ..ok I would like to gain some weight but Ican't and it's not a big problem. I don't know what to tell to other people that kep saying you're very thin why don't you eat it makes me feel uncomfortable..
by ornela on 4/19/2011 1:41:11 PM
Ladies, I am anorexic and it is a sick and terrible disease. If you think you are developing bad habbits get help!!!!!!!!
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by frenchblondie on 4/18/2011 10:47:45 PM
by dancediva555 on 4/18/2011 10:04:43 PM
a healthy weight for your age also depends on your height! it seems that some of you girls on here think that you are fat! if you are shorter than your healthy weight will be lower than someone who is tall!
by athena1006 on 4/18/2011 9:52:45 PM
by 14lowem on 4/18/2011 9:37:56 PM
by sweetliksugr23 on 4/18/2011 9:33:18 PM
by rachie.t.rox23 on 4/18/2011 9:20:00 PM
i wish i weighed more! im 13, five foot 3, and weigh 84 pounds...
by oceanlover69 on 4/18/2011 8:48:34 PM
You call that FAT?? No, no, no. That is way skinny for 15. I'm 15 and weigh like 112!
by grace2985 on 4/18/2011 8:19:01 PM
I'm 14 and I weigh 80-85 lbs...
by blueeyes67 on 4/18/2011 7:56:04 PM
Woah thats really skinny! skichick95 was right. The average weight of a 1t yr old is like 145 lbs ur like underweight!
by girlsliferocksss98 on 4/18/2011 7:48:26 PM
I wish i weighed that! i'm 12 and 113 but i barely have a tummy and i have a lot of muscle
by nobody25 on 4/18/2011 7:47:30 PM
That's about what I weighed when I was 15. But it doesn't matter how old you are, it's about how tall you are.
by Alle93 on 4/18/2011 7:19:45 PM
That is SO skinny!! I'm 15 and I way 140, and I'm not overweight! I think this is a great article!
by skichick95 on 4/18/2011 7:18:51 PM
by dakotadog on 4/18/2011 7:16:20 PM
I am 11 and exactly 88 pounds.
by toadie101 on 4/18/2011 7:08:47 PM
Great post GL!If any of you girls need help with healthy foods or getting away from an eating disorder,Try my club foodloversunite! I will give you any help you need from getting away from an eating disorder! <3
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by EgirlH.97 on 4/18/2011 6:20:23 PM
15 any 97 pounds?!?!? I weigh that and I'm 12.....
by animallover234 on 4/18/2011 6:13:41 PM
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Help us spread the word about Amy's album "Somewhere Down The Road" and you can win a custom Amy Grant "FLIP" Video Camera. Read this article and find out how you can win. facebook – profile image contest select the image to the right ———————-> save to your computer upload as your profile image during … Continue reading
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New pre-sale for members of Friends of Amy starts TOMORROW Feb. 2 at 10am central for the April 17th show in Grand Rapids, MI. Please log into your account at www.amygrant.com to access the presale.
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If you are a member of "Friends Of Amy," you can now hear the new single, "Better Than A Hallelujah" on Radio Amy. If you are not a member of Friends of Amy, you can sign up at www.amygrant.com . Enjoy.
Orlando Show – Jan 21, 2010
Thought you might want to see a few photos from the show last night. Amy had so much fun being with the band again and the crowd's warm response touched her heart. It was a great mix of old songs, new songs, pop songs and faith songs. The crowd really seemed to respond warmly to … Continue reading
Sneak Peek – Album Artwork Revealed
Here is the cover for "Somewhere Down The Road," which releases March 30, 2010. The painting featured on the cd cover is something Amy painted several years ago and gave to me as a gift. It has been hanging on my office wall for years. During an art direction discussion, Amy remembered the painting and … Continue reading
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Amy Grant – Somewhere Down the Road With six Grammys, numerous Dove Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and numerous other accolades to her credit, Amy Grant is an American music icon who has erased lines between genres and earned the respect of fans and peers with her honesty, vulnerability and ceaseless creativity. … Continue reading
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Amy did an interview with www.matroparet.com. In it she talks about family, touring, and the blending of the two. Click here to read the interview.
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Amy will be a part of the 17th annual Alive at The Bluebird concert series this January. The program helps provide end-of-life care for people in the Nashville area. The first concert is is Saturday, Jan. 2, at 9:30 p.m. Amy and friends will be performing Jan. 6th. A full schedule is available at www.bluebirdcafe.com.
12.07.09 – Friends of Amy Photos available for viewing.
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12.02.09: – Amy to preform in tribute to Ruth McGinnis
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Blessing the pass out students of SHRIDHAR University, Ela Gandhi, the chief guest offered her heartfelt advice to them on this important milestone of their life. "You should take responsibility for your parents and for the society, into which you are stepping, and at the same time towards the University from which you are stepping out," said Ela Gandhi.
Earlier, this first convocation of Shridhar University, Pilani held on 9 September 2013 started with an impressive procession dressed in convocation robes, of the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and other faculty of the University arriving at the venue of the convocation. A Saraswati Vandana followed by lighting of the auspicious lamp set the tone for this solemn occasion that marks a milestone in the life of these young students graduating from the University.
Hon'ble Chancellor, Mr. Vijay Pal Yadav declared the convocation open.
Hon'ble Vice Chancellor,VC, Dr.S.P.Mishra gave a report about the University. "The University aims to set a new trend in education to help a person grow with values," said the Hon. VC . He highlighted that today the University has 11 schools of discipline. The university is growing in international stature and the latest development in this connection is the prospective tie up with New Jersey City University, USA for student exchange, collaboration in research etc.
The convocation was rendered scintillating when Hon.D.Litt was conferred on Ms.Ela Gandhi for promoting peace at the international level.
Others awarded the Hon.D.Litt. were Dr. Ravindra Kumar and Dr.Jaideep Gupta.
Meritorious students who stood first in their streams were awarded gold medals.
Then began the significant process of awarding Ph.D., M.Tech., B.Tech. , MBA degrees and diplomas to students from different fields of study viz. Mechanical, Civil, Electrical and Electronics etc.
The Hon.Chancellor delivering his convocation address congratulated all the students who had been awarded their degrees and diplomas today . He wished them well for an exciting future and cautioned them to inculcate a spirit of creativity and be true leaders in the society.
Blessings were also given by Dr. Ravindra Kumar and Dr.C.P. Yadav, former VC, Agricultural University, Jaipur.
Shreedhar Sandesh , a new publication was released by Ms. Ela Gandhi.
A notable thing was the award of SHRIDHAR SAMMAN to illustrious people from different walks of life.
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There is veganism and there is animal exploitation. There is no third choice. If you are not vegan, you are participating directly in animal exploitation.
If you are not vegan, think about whether your comfort, pleasure, amusement, or convenience is worth anyone's life. If you conclude that it is not, go vegan. It's easy, better for your health and the environment, and, most important, it's the morally right thing to do.
The World is Vegan! If you want it.
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Treasuries Snap Gain on Economic Data Before Fed Announcement
Treasuries snapped a two-day gain as private reports showed July jobs growth exceeded forecasts and U.S. manufacturing rose, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to announce more bond purchases.
U.S. government securities fell along with their German counterparts after Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti said his country doesn't need to be bailed out, reducing demand for the safest assets. The Fed will decide against another round of quantitative easing when it ends a two-day meeting today, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
"All eyes are on the Federal Reserve," said Paul Horrmann, a broker in New York at Tradition Asiel Securities Inc., an interdealer broker. "They jury is still out until we get confirmation from the Fed one way or the other and what language we are going to get if any. The market doesn't expect much, but we are still held hostage to policy makers."
The benchmark 10-year yield rose three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 1.50 percent at 1:43 p.m. New York time, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The 1.75 percent note maturing in May 2022 fell 9/32, or $2.81 per $1,000 face amount, to 102 1/4. The 30-year yield also increased five basis points to 2.59 percent.
Bond Returns
Treasuries handed investors a 1.1 percent last month, compared with a 2 percent gain from German bonds, according to indexes compiled by the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies.
The difference in yields between 10-year notes and TIPS, which represents traders' expectations for the rate of inflation during the life of the securities and is known as the break-even rate, was 2.13 percentage points, the highest since June 21. It is down from the 2012 high of 2.45 percentage points on March 20. It touched a 2012 low of 1.9 percentage points on Jan. 3.
Treasury announced plans to sell $72 billion of notes and bonds next week. It will auction $32 billion of three-year notes on Aug. 7, $24 billion of 10-year notes the next day and $16 billion of 30-year bonds on Aug. 9.
The Treasury Department also said it is developing a floating-rate note program that could be operational in a year or more, while it is preparing for possible negative-rate bidding.
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"Treasury plans to develop a floating-rate note program to complement the existing suite of securities issued and to support our broader debt-management objectives," the department said in a statement today in Washington. "The first FRN auction is estimated to be at least one year away."
Companies in the U.S. added 163,000 workers in July, according to figures from Roseland, New Jersey-based ADP Employer Services. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey called for an advance of 120,000.
The Institute for Supply Management's factory index rose to 49.8 in July from 49.7 a month earlier, the Tempe, Arizona-based group's report showed today. Fifty marks the dividing line between expansion and contraction. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected a reading of 50.2, according to the median forecast.
The Federal Open Market Committee will refrain from starting new bond purchases, 88 percent of economists said before today's decision in Washington. Forty-eight percent said the FOMC will announce the buying at its Sept. 12-13 meeting, according to the July 25-27 survey of 58 economists.
Bernanke View
Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said on July 17 that policy makers are "looking for ways to address the weakness in the economy should more action be needed." The central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said in January that its benchmark interest rate will stay at "exceptionally low levels" at least through late 2014, extending its pledge from the middle of 2013.
The Fed bought $2.3 trillion of mortgage and Treasury debt from 2008 to 2011 in two rounds of quantitative easing, or QE, seeking to cap borrowing costs.
The central bank will buy as much as $2 billion of Treasuries due from February 2036 to May 2042 tomorrow. The purchases are part of the so-called Operation Twist that swaps short-term debt in the Fed's holdings for longer maturities.
"As for QE3, the bar for balance sheet usage is clearly higher and the Fed would probably love to use language to buy time," William O'Donnell, head U.S. government-bond strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's RBS Securities unit in Stamford, Connecticut, one of 21 primary dealers that trade with the Fed, wrote in a note to clients. "The Fed Chairman's recent Congressional testimony left strong hints that the Fed is still not sure of recent weakness is transitory or trend. So why not wait until next month to have more dots to connect for that view?"
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Spanish bonds rose before a European Central Bank meeting tomorrow that may end with new measures to contain the region's debt crisis.
Italy's economy doesn't need a bailout, Monti said in an interview with Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The country may need some support as "markets are slow to understand the measures it has taken and all it has achieved," the newspaper reported him as saying.
Potential ECB action "is informing the better tone in Spanish and Italian markets, which feeds back into the bearish tone for safe-haven paper such as Treasuries," said Richard McGuire, a fixed-income strategist at Rabobank International in London. "The outlook for Treasuries remains constructive" amid the global economic slowdown, he said.


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Around 9:32 p.m., on February 15, Kassie Schaefer of Winter Haven was driving northbound on Alturas Road just south of Citrus Avenue in a car. Mark Piburn was walking along Alturas Road at the same time.
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WILLMAR, Minn. –Motorists traveling on Highway 7 and Highway 59 near Montevideo will encounter a detour beginning Monday, Feb. 3, to allow crews to replace the bridge over the Chippewa River.
Traffic will be detoured onto Chippewa County Road 15. The detour will be in place until the project is completed. (See attached detour map for more details). MnDOT urges motorists to always drive with caution in a work zone and reminds them never to enter a roadway that has been blocked with barricades or cones.
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I love reading JoAnn Claps leftist, Marxist propaganda pieces. She uses the Democrat Marxist talking points to continue to blame George Bush and that if we vote Romney and Ryan we will have more of the same. She even says that the Libyan attackers knew about the video and that's what caused the attack on the Libyan embassy and murder of
Claps tries to blame Republicans for Medicare's problems. No, LBJ and the Democrats caused Medicare's problems by making it a tax and putting it in the general treasury where they could pick it clean. Obamacare comes along, and to fund it, the Democrat-Marxists steal another $716 billion from Medicare, essentially gutting it. This is our money we had taken out of our paychecks to act as a "safety net" for retirement and disability, and it was never to be touched by government. So, do we charge Obama with grand theft and fraud?
Claps tries to blame the past presidents and presidential candidates, not Obama, for the country's economic woes. It's the Congress that makes or breaks the economy. And, we had a Democrat, Marxist controlled Congress from 2006 under Bush until 2010. Hence, the massive unemployment, debt and deficit caused by failed Marxist central-planning economic policies known as stimulus.
Claps says that Obama and his administration reduced the unemployment from 10 percent to 7.8 percent. Real unemployment figures, including the underemployed and those who've stopped working, is hovering around 18 percent. It took 24 percent unemployment (of a significantly smaller national population) to create "The Great Depression" of the 1930s.
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Aimed at researchers from all backgrounds and career stages with an interest in learning how to use modelling tools to predict the safety of nanomaterials, the second school will provide participants with training on the use of models in three core areas:
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ii) Extrapolation of Exposure-Dose-Response relationship from in vitro/in vivo/humans; and
iii) Quantitative-Structure-Activity-Relationship (QSAR) models.
The school will consist of lectures from experts in these fields - namely Prof. Lang Tran & Dr. Laura MacCalman, Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), and Prof. Xue Wang, University of Leeds - accompanied by interactive sessions in which participants will be provided with a demonstration of some of the modelling tools and given the opportunity to work on 'hands-on' case examples.
A provisional agenda for the school, as well as information on the venue and special-rate accommodation, is available in the training school brochure [pdf]. The school is free to attend, and open to a maximum of 40 participants. Please complete the online application form to register. Your place on the training school will then be confirmed via email. When all of the available places have been filled, names will be placed on a reserve list and those persons will be notified should a place become available. If you have any questions regarding the training school, please contact Sheona Read, IOM (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Workers in GlobalFoundries' semiconductor factory, Fab 8, in Saratoga County. / Courtesy photo
Hudson Valley Research Park (IBM)
Where: Route 52, Wiccopee, near Hopewell Junction, Town of East Fishkill
Role: This remains IBMs principal site for semiconductor manufacture as well as some chip packaging and some research and development of chip-making processes. The site remains a large employer.
History: Opened in 1963 on a 464-acre former farm. Bought land for West Campus in 1983 and built most of it by 1986, nearly 1 million square feet. Later discontinued, sold, now empty but owned by Linuo Solar. IBM built more than 5.5 million square feet of space on the two campuses. The Hudson Valley Research Park, still occupied by IBM and a few tenants, has 1.1 million square feet on the market for lease.
Jobs: Believed to be in the low thousands. IBM also owns a major plant in the Town of Poughkeepsie, whose main function is the manufacture and development of large computers.
Where: Luther Forest Technology Campus, Malta, Saratoga County
Role: GlobalFoundries newest and most advanced plant for microchip manufacturing. Company is owned by Advanced Technology Investment Co., an investment arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It has plants in Germany and Singapore.
History: This project began as an initiative of Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, which brought in ATIC for financing. ATIC acquired greater interest in ownership from AMD. GlobalFoundries began construction in 2009 of its Fab 8 plant, Module 1, in Malta. First production began in January, teamed with IBM. A $2.3 billion expansion was announced July 24.
Jobs: GlobalFoundries has 1,800 employees across New York.
Jobs at IBM
Mid-Hudson sites
1984: 31,300
1990: 26,400
1991: 24,400
1992: 21,400
1993: 13,100
1994: 10,500
1995: 10,100
(Kingston site closes, 1995)
1996: 9,800
1997-2007: ranges 10,000 to 11,900
2008: 10,700
2009-12: IBM in 2010 stopped reporting numbers publicly. The Poughkeepsie Journal has learned from other IBM reports that its payroll has further declined, to about 7,900 earlier this year. That does not include employees of partner companies locally.
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WICCOPEE — Could IBM East Fishkill one day not be IBM?
A British analysts strong speculation that IBM Corp.s microelectronics business would be sold someday to GlobalFoundries, one of IBMs chip partners, has put on the table what many in the industry have wondered or whispered.
IBM doesnt comment on such speculation.
Ronald Hicks, Dutchess Countys deputy commissioner for economic development, said of analysts: They are speculators, and the best of them are right, and very few are.
Cathy Maloney, president of the Dutchess County Economic Development Corp., said she had not heard speculation about a purchase.
Were it to happen, it would cast a big question mark over the future of the plant in the Town of East Fishkill near Hopewell Junction, which for decades has been IBMs major microelectronics center.
That site remains one of the largest employers in the mid-Hudson Valley and has a large portion of IBMs approximately 7,900 employees in Dutchess, plus people who work for other companies.
Loss of the plant could take hundreds of millions of dollars of income out of the local economy, cost potentially thousands of jobs and leave several million square feet of ex-IBM space empty. Marketing such old space has proved difficult, as in the case of the former site near Kingston, now called TechCity, which remains only partially occupied after IBM shut it in the mid-1990s.
Future Horizons Ltd., a respected industry analyst firm in England, recently did a report for the European Commission to help advance the evolution of the industry in Europe and catch up with the American competition. News reports say its authors offered comments that they assumed GlobalFoundries will purchase IBMs semiconductor division.
IBM doesnt talk about deals until theyre done. Contacted Wednesday, neither IBM nor GlobalFoundries offered any comments or interviews. There are no imminent signs of any deal in the works, and not all analysts are going as far as Future Horizons Malcolm Penn in saying such a deal would happen.
For the longer-term future, the question remains valid in an ever-evolving industry and for an ever-changing IBM, and one that could have a profound impact on the mid-Hudson economy, for better or worse.
With the rapid growth of GlobalFoundries new chip plant a few counties to the north in Saratoga Countys Town of Malta, the speculation has gained some plausibility.
Three years ago, GlobalFoundries began to build a massive chip plant in Malta, aided by the state and with IBM in line to be a customer. The first chips came off the lines in January, while an identical process was being brought into being at IBMs 300-millimeter chip plant here.
IBM and GlobalFoundries, along with Samsung, are partners in the Common Platform Alliance, sharing ideas, experts, funds and facilities to push chips to the next generations that are powering many information technology devices.
On Tuesday, GlobalFoundries announced it was expanding its production space at the Malta plant, called Fab 8, by 90,000 square feet, bringing this plant to 300,000 square feet. The company cited increasingly strong demand from our customers.
The upstate county, north of Albany, has gotten plenty of attention from the chip world and from the state government. Future Horizons said the state has funneled $350 million into semiconductor ventures, notably the Albany NanoTech facility that is part of the State University of New Yorks Albany University. IBM has plowed millions into projects based here, and it has people at NanoTech and GlobalFoundries.
Meanwhile, GlobalFoundries has placed staff at IBM in East Fishkill.
What this shows is a growing partnership between the two chipmakers.
IBM began to partner with others about two decades ago, and analysts have credited that with keeping it a significant player in chips, though that is not IBMs main business. IBM makes chips for basically two reasons: to power the computers it makes and sells and to sell specialty chips that fetch high prices and profit margins, supplying customers who have demanding applications, including game consoles such as Sonys PlayStation, Internet routers and military uses.
As for Future Horizons speculations, several other analysts werent ready to jump to a conclusion of an eventual sale.
The rumor that IBM is going to sell off their microelectronics division has been around for years, said Joanne Itow, managing director for manufacturing at Phoenix-based Semico Research. Of course, I never say never.
Itow said that GlobalFoundries has no pressing need for buying chip plants from IBM and that IBM has no need to sell to raise cash and wouldnt make much on such a deal. She doubted that GlobalFoundries would want to buy IBMs specialty chips business or its captive chip business, the one that supplies IBMs own machines.
On the other hand, IBMs packaging operations would be a nice gain for GlobalFoundries, which doesnt have that in-house capability now. And, Itow said, other chip companies have gone the fabless route, not owning their own fabs, or chip plants, and thats possible for IBM.
Richard Doherty, research director for Envisioneering, a consultancy in Seaford, Nassau County, was skeptical that any such sale would happen.
I dont think theres anything here of any substance, Doherty said. I think theres certainly a talent exchange already between the new fab in Albany and the IBM fab, with loaners, or a few employees who changed locale. But we arent seeing any checkbooks opening up.
Doherty added, I think both facilities are going to be humming for quite some time.
There is one major point looming that could be a hurdle for IBM. Thats the industrys long-debated shift to the next generation of silicon wafer size, which would jump from the current state-of-the-art, 300-millimeter discs, about 12 inches wide, to discs that are 450 millimeters, or nearly 18 inches.
Wafers are the basic feedstock for making chips. IBM has long said it has no need to go to bigger ones. Some competitors, such as Intel Corp., have pressed for it. Now, Intel, IBM and GlobalFoundries are teamed with Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. in an Albany-based initiative to develop the 450-mm level. A 450-millimeter fab will likely cost $10 billion, Itow said, including a new generation of costly tooling to fit bigger wafers. Such price tags show why teamwork has become the industry path.
Where that 450-mm plant would be located is the big question.
Albany has the edge, said G. Dan Hutcheson, a senior analyst and CEO at VLSI Research in Santa Clara, Calif.
He thinks IBM will stay in chips.
The only issue is will they keep going in Fishkill. Clearly, the weight of the seesaw is tipping toward Albany in terms of where all the leading-edge technology is.
Hutcheson said he knows and respects Malcolm Penn at Future Horizons but noted that comments like the IBM sale idea are a good way to get a clickstorm going, meaning a way to get a lot of hits on the Internet.
He said what differentiates IBM from many others is its deep roots in the basic technology that microchips represent.
If youre a customer and youre trying to decide who am I going to partner with and who is going to take me on the cutting edge of technology so I can compete, you see IBM as a whole package, he said.
I continue to believe that IBM is going to stay in the semiconductor business for the foreseeable future, Hutcheson said.
Hutcheson expects the partnering of IBM to continue, such as in the Common Platform Alliance. He said his research shows it saves its members $4 billion to $5 billion a year in research and development costs.
The East Fishkill site is good for another five, maybe 10, years as a 300-mm plant, he said. The shift to the bigger wafers will probably happen around 2018, he said.
At that point, that fab may or may not continue to be there, he said.
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East Huntingdon keeps status quo
East Huntingdon Township Supervisors held their annual reorganizational meeting Jan. 7, passing several motions pertaining to township business for the upcoming year.
"We really didn't make too many changes from last year," supervisor Joel Suter said. "Everything is about the same."
At the top of meeting, Paul Hodgkiss was appointed as chairman of the board, with Howard Keefer as vice-chairman.
Motions included appointing Aaron Bialon as township solicitor, Victor P. Regola & Associates as the township engineering firm, Moran Midnight Kennels as animal control and Allied Waste as township garbage collector.
A motion was approved to appoint all three supervisors as road masters, operators and laborers for the upcoming year and Diane Fig, elected tax collector, will collect all real estate and Parfittown light taxes and is authorized to use every means available to collect any and all delinquent taxes due to the township.
Tax, permit fees and licenses were set at one-half of 1 percent of earned income tax, 2.25 mills real estate tax, one-half of 1 percent real estate transfer tax, $25 coal yard license, $250 on-lot sewage application, $25 junk yard license, $200 mobile home license and $10 per mobile home fee.
Supervisors also approved the $52 occupation tax, $47 of which goes to the township and $5 to the school district.
Motions were passed to re-enact all ordinances and resolutions of the calendar year, and all supervisors, solicitor, secretary/treasurer, sewage plant manager, host municipal inspector and engineer are authorized to attend all meetings pertaining to township business.
Cynthia Walthour, who serves as secretary/treasurer, was given a four-percent raise.
All motions were passed unanimously.
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Passage of federal highway funding bill includes provision banning US taxpayer subsidy for red light cameras.
Congress on Friday authorized spending $96 billion on various transportation and transit programs through the year 2017, but none of that money will go to red light cameras. House Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman John J. Duncan Jr (R-Tennessee) succeeded in inserting language into the final conference report that prohibits the use of Section 402 federal grant money for automated ticketing machines.
"A state may not expend funds apportioned to that state under this section to carry out a program to purchase, operate, or maintain an automated traffic enforcement system," HR 4348 states.
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Conservatives in the House likewise compromised their goal of trimming spending and, in the end, succeeded in only shaving $13 billion, or 12 percent, from the amount the Senate wanted to spend. The final product nonetheless received broad support in both chambers, passing the House 373 to 52 and the Senate 74 to 19. Republicans touted the reform measures adopted in the bill.
"'Shovel ready' became a national joke because projects get bogged down for years in the wasteful, bureaucratic project review process," Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Floria) said. "The dramatic reforms in this measure will get projects moving by cutting the red tape that delays projects across the country and drives up construction costs."
Democrats pointed to the preservation of motorist funding for non-motorist projects as a victory for their side.
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Man tied to Kotecki killing wants trial on drug, gun charges
A Lower Burrell man accused of once possessing the handgun used to kill a police officer in 2011 wants to withdraw a no-contest plea he made in June.
Instead, James "Lutzo" Ameris III, 55, wants to go to trial, according to a motion his attorney filed on Wednesday in Westmoreland County.
A judge has not ruled on the request.
On June 3, Ameris pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a .22-caliber rifle and drugs in his residence in 2010. He is a convicted felon who for years has been banned from owning or having firearms.
The same day, he pleaded no-contest to nine drug or gun charges in three additional cases — including once possessing the .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol that Charlie Post used to kill Patrolman Derek Kotecki, 40.
Ameris maintains that he never had the pistol and doesn't know how Post got it, according to his attorney.
Also among the no-contest pleas was a charge that Ameris pressured a man into giving false or misleading testimony to prosecutors who were investigating a gun possession case against Ameris.
A sentencing hearing for all four cases scheduled for July 14 has been canceled.
Kotecki was killed in the parking lot of the Dairy Queen on Greensburg Road in Lower Burrell by Charlie Post on Oct. 12, 2011.
Police were looking for Post for shooting at a man in the Clarion Hotel parking lot in New Kensington 10 days earlier.
Police responded to the Dairy Queen after receiving a tip from Ameris that Post would be there. Police and prosecutors said Ameris drove Post to the Dairy Queen in a white Jeep at about 7 p.m. and went into the restaurant. Post stayed behind in the Jeep.
As Kotecki, armed with a rifle, approached the Jeep, Post fired repeatedly through a closed window, detectives said.
Kotecki was hit twice and died. The county coroner ruled that Post was committing suicide as he was being shot by a New Kensington police officer.
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