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14 October 2005
Political Pinter
There are no irrefutable, objective ways to judge a writer's worth, and there will always be dissenters, because tastes vary. But the tests of time and influence are useful ones -- a writer who influences the work of other writers, and whose own work survives for multiple generations, has made a valuable contribution to literature, regardless of what any one person thinks of that writer's work. (I have an almost physical aversion to the plays of Arthur Miller, for instance. I think they're idiotic, manipulative, awkward, sentimental, tedious ... well, I could go on. But it would be absurd to deny that Miller was one of the major American playwrights of the twentieth century, one whose work had a profound influence on writers, actors, directors.)
Pinter's great contribution has been to show that the linguistic minimalism that Beckett took to its farthest extremes could be applied to the traditional domestic drama, and this melding of two seemingly contradictory modes of writing created a wealth of new visions for theatrical art. For know-nothings like Roger Kimball and Stephen Schwartz, it is inconceivable that a flagrantly left-wing writer could actually be any good. According to Schwartz "Pinter has produced no significant work for the stage in 40 years", which is simply wrong. Pinter's early plays were lightning bolts, but his later work includes such masterpieces as Betrayal, Moonlight, and Ashes to Ashes -- three of the most significant plays to be written in English in the past few decades. Betrayal alone would be enough to solidify any writer's reputation.
Pinter's political views fuel his work, but he has, for the most part, restricted his polemical impulses to his hideous poetry. It would be wrong to ignore Pinter's politics, but it is equally wrong to suggest that the only people who can appreciate his plays are those who agree with his politics, while those who disagree must pretend he is not a significant writer.
For more on this subject, see Alicublog. (via About Last Night)
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- marly10/14/2005 10:49 AM
Yes, I do wish he would stick to plays and leave the poetry alone...ReplyDelete
I look forward to hearing more, Matt. Even I (radical Soft Skull-ite that I am, allegedly) have found Pinter's recent diatribes a little over the top, but, while not quite as crucial to 20th century literature as Beckett, Pinter's an eminently worthy honoree. It was really Dario Fo who was the strange choice. Of course, were Brecht alive today, I'd be very upset about Pinter, but, amongst the avilable options, Pinter was a great call.ReplyDelete
One thing I've not really noticed talk of here in the U.S. at least, is that Pinter has probably written more screenplays than any Nobel laureate.
The other thing that must needs be said: if there were ever any doubt as to who is the greatest American publisher in the second half of the 20th century (Barney Rosset), the Pinter selection will now rightly dispel it.
Funny you should say that, Richard, as I'm going to write some about Pinter's films next week (need to watch my old VHS of The Servant this weekend). I entirely agree about Rosset, too.ReplyDelete
Dario Fo was a bizarre choice. I mean, I like the little bits of his work I'm familiar with, but... Jelinek, too, was a strange choice, because if you want to highlight an Austrian, well, Peter Handke may not be the most politically appealing choice, but he's made a far greater contribution to world literature.
- Anonymous10/15/2005 1:41 AM
It's the dialog that people remember but it's the structure that makes a play work and Pinter at his best is rock-solid. I think that may be more noticable in the screenplays where words are less important than action.ReplyDelete
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Twice a year, the Redwood Falls streets department sweeps hundreds of tons of leaves and other yard debris off the streets and sends it off to the city compost site.
In addition to keeping several thousand cubic yards of waste from going into the city's sewer system, the twice-annual cleanup keeps the Minnesota and Redwood Rivers cleaner.
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Prentice Young did all he could to give the Oak Ridge Wildcats varsity a boost. But it wasn't enough to get past Webb, as the Wildcats lost 1-0 in seven innings at Webb School last Tuesday.
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The new Channel Islands Boating Center in the Channel Islands Harbor is giving children a place to try water sports for the first time. It's also giving Cal State students summer jobs as camp counselors.
The center, owned by Ventura County, is being run by Cal State University Channel Islands University Glen Corporation. The university is already known for its award winning sailing team.
Student counselors are teaching one week sailing, kayaking and windsurfing programs. On Fridays, parents can join in during family day at the decks.
Programs for the public and college courses will begin later this summer.
Lengthy legal battles over birds nesting and harbor views led to its compromise location next to the Ventura County Maritime Museum on Bluefin Circle.
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Gun Policy, Not Gun Control Is the Issue; Move Forward
Published: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 11:59 p.m.
The issue should not be gun control. The issue on the table for discussion should be gun policy.
If you're on the extreme left, stop your anti-constitutional, selfish banter because no one is willing to risk loss of any constitutionally provided right to personal or corporate freedom. And no one in the United States of America should have to.
If you're on the extreme right, stop your self-serving, self-indulging, high horse, I-am-better-than-you banter because you're not living in a utopian world.
It is gun policy. As a matter of principle, that is all it is, plain and simple. Policy that will ensure safe, prudent, unhampered, fully accessible, responsible use and ownership of fire arms by all American citizens.
Finally, for those using the argument that you need protection from the government, get a life. The government you're referring to happens to be our government — a government of the people, for the people and by the people. If you feel threatened by government policies, just make use of your right to vote to combat those issues. The first deterrent is not and should not be a gun.
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This post is by Sharon Boyd, the Advocacy Relations Coordinator for Autism Speaks.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has" – Margaret Mead
I read Margaret Mead's words for the first time shortly after my son, Austin, was diagnosed with autism. At the time I didn't realize just how much her words would become a part of my future.
Like many children with autism, Austin was denied insurance coverage for his autism treatments. No matter how hard I tried, without private insurance coverage, I could not get my son the treatments his physicians prescribed. I finally quit my job as an RN to lower my income, so that we could qualify for Medicaid and provide him with access to speech therapy. It was obvious to anyone that big policy changes were needed if our kids with autism were going to get the care they needed.
The more I networked with other families throughout my state, the more I realized there must be strength in numbers. We needed to unite our voices. We needed to become that "small group of thoughtful, committed citizens" that Margaret Mead spoke about in order to get our legislators to listen and "change the world" for our children with autism.
When the autism community uses one voice, our legislators listen. They hear us loud and clear, with one booming voice and they too become committed to the policy changes our families so desperately need. This is what happened in my state of Florida when we finally passed our autism insurance reform bill in 2008. It is what has happened in 22 other states across the country that has passed meaningful autism insurance reform laws. And it is what happened when the autism community came together to pass the Combating Autism Act in 2006. Strength in numbers.
Autism Speaks holds walks across the country that raise funds for autism research. But these walks serve another purpose as well. Every walk has an advocacy booth that is part of the Autism Votes initiative. This fall the volunteers at the Autism Votes booth at every walk will be there to provide you with information on the important pieces of pending autism-related federal legislation, such as the ABLE Act, which seeks to allow families of a child with a disability to save money, tax-free, for future needs as an adult. Most importantly, at the Autism Votes booths this Fall, you will have the chance to sign a petition in support of the ABLE Act, and/or other autism-related federal and state legislation. Your signature on this petition will join with the hundreds of others collected at your walk and, acting as a united message from a united voice, will go directly to the legislators who can bring about the changes our families need.
So, be sure to stop by the Autism Votes booth when you attend an Autism Speaks walk this fall. You can't miss it…it's the only booth with red, white and blue streamers, balloons and other patriotic decorations! Or find one of the Autism Votes volunteers with a clipboard that will likely be walking through the crowd asking for signatures.
Signing a petition at the Autism Votes booth will take you just one minute. Just one minute of your time to become part of a united voice in the autism community. A simple minute to become that committed citizen and change the world for your child or a child you know with autism.
September 21, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Please don't sweep our children/grandchildren under the rug! They are a functioning society as are we. If you deny them benefits or partial benefits you would be denying them the right to have a quality lifestyle. Look at the gay community, they even have full benefits for their "life partners" and if anyone should be denied they should. Our children/grandchildren should have a chance and you should give it to them and not deny any part of their healthcare.
September 22, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Be a voice if you can. These kids will be adults and need to be followed through life and have structure and support for the rest of their lives…they deserve all services they need to have the best lives they would have if able to function on their own. If some can't they have to have a person in place to shadow them so they don't get hurt or left alone trying to deal with caring for themselves when some will never be able to do that….THESE PEOPLE NEED SERVICES FOR LIFE…..
September 25, 2010 at 5:31 pm
there is so much money wasted .by our gov. on less imporant issues.
They need to take a very long look at the future of our children with Autism.
I have two nephews that are affected and maybe a grandson. These children are going to be adults one day and where will they fit in and when family is not there what will happen to them. We need action now.
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Share the Spirit is in need of volunteers to assist with answering the phone and accepting donations at the Redwood Falls Armory. Dates and times when volunteers are needed are listed below.
• Dec. 6 from 12:30-3 p.m.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Whoopie Pies (Treats For Co-Irkers)
14 comments:
- Jen @ MyKitchenAddiction.com said...
Oh my - these look divine! I love whoopie pies!
- July 16, 2009 at 7:42 PM
- Mags said...
Jen, it's a little bit like looking at pictures of naked men, isn't it.....lol
- July 16, 2009 at 7:45 PM
- Laura said...
Oh my...I love whoopie pies! I remember going to the Amish Country with my mom when I was younger to buy draft horses for our farm. They gave us a bunch of these to go home with. I couldn't have been but 5 or 6 years old, funny how I remember them that clearly! Guess they were THAT good.
Thanks for visiting my site, and the sweet comments. I really appreciate it!
- July 16, 2009 at 8:55 PM
- Mags said...
And thank you for visiting my blog Laura. I love comments!
- July 16, 2009 at 9:09 PM
- Co Irker said...
First off, we missed you last week and I'm not just saying that to get more goodies. I checked your blog several times - to drewl over the good eats we were missing out on. Glad to have you and the hubs back.
Second - you are an angel. I love the fact that I got a special one - which I childishly rubbed in the other co-irkers faces. What can I say? I'm that immature.
Third - great heavenly days! These are good and rich. I wisely (and showing surprising restraint) halved the pie. And now I can have the other half for lunch.
I'm going to go and run a couple laps around the plant to burn off this sugar high.
Thank you so much, you wonderful whoopie making (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) woman! TGIF
- July 17, 2009 at 6:40 AM
- Lone Acorn said...
Chocolate and cream form a great combination and taste so well together.
- July 17, 2009 at 6:46 AM
- tastestopping said...
I make whoopie pies on occasion and find it hard to eat just one. Yours look like the real deal, too, with the whipped vanilla cream, not buttercream, in the middle.
Now I'm supposed to have breakfast, but all I want is a whoopie pie! What's a girl to do?
- July 17, 2009 at 7:06 AM
- The Missing Piece said...
Wow Mags, those look awesome!
- July 17, 2009 at 7:39 AM
- Moogie said...
In addition to baking, you have a talent with photography. You're pictures look delicious and beautifully presented.
- July 17, 2009 at 7:51 AM
- stephchows said...
hahaha I love that you were looking for whole grain recipes and found these instead :) priceless! Your husband co-irkers are totally spoiled :)
- July 17, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Mags said...
Co Irker: It's so nice to be appreciated. Thanks for your kind comments.
Lone Acorn: Agreed. They're a great combination.
Tastestopping: Yup, they're the real deal. A WHOLE CUP of shortening in that cream.
Missing Piece: Thanks!
Moogie: Thanks, I needed to hear that today because this photo was actually declined at one of the food photography sites.
Steph: LOL....I try so hard to be good!
- July 17, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Katiecakes said...
They look AMAZING!!
Katie xox
- July 18, 2009 at 3:29 AM
- HoneyB said...
yum, chocolate and marshmallowy filling...I'm dreaming of something this yummy right now.
- July 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- pinkstripes said...
Your whoopie pies look wonderful.
- July 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM


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Dark Forecast for Twitter's U.S. Growth, Says eMarketer
Twitter's era of rapid growth at home is behind it, according to new projections from research firm eMarketer.
At present, one-fifth of U.S. Internet users access Twitter at least once a month, a user base that was accumulated during years of explosive growth. But in a study released Thursday, eMarketer said it expects the growth rate to slow considerably, from 19.4% in 2013 to below 10% in 2015, and slowing further to 6.4% by 2018.
Four years from now it estimates 64.9 million Americans, or about a quarter of the U.S. online population, will be logging into the short messaging service. Facebook's audience is already twice that size today.
The numbers underscore what Twitter has already realized: If it wants more users–enough to become the "global town square" as CEO Dick Costolo often says–it's going to have to work for it.
Twitter's first quarterly results as a public company earlier this month showed that it added just 3.8% more monthly active users in the three month period, bringing its worldwide tally to 241 million for the last three months of 2013. It represented a considerable slowdown from the 6.4% growth in the previous period.
On the earnings call with analysts, Costolo said the company will devote more attention to the slowing growth rates with plans to make the service easier to use for beginners. EMarketer said its forecasts didn't take Costolo's statements into account.
EMarketer's numbers are also less flattering than those provided by Twitter. The research firm estimates there were about 43.2 million monthly active users in the U.S. last year. Twitter said it had 54 million as of the end of 2013. While eMarketer said its figure takes Twitter's official tally into consideration it also relies heavily on data drawn from a mix of external surveys, which strips out business accounts, multiple accounts held by the same user and spam accounts.
Twitter estimates false or spam accounts represent less than 5% of monthly active users and excludes them from its final count. EMarketer said that survey data indicates that the percentage of such accounts is higher than 5%. In addition, it only counts users who consistently sign in each month over the course of an entire calendar year. Twitter's calculations are based on a quarterly average of users that log in at least once a month.
A Twitter spokesman declined to comment, saying the company doesn't comment on outside research.
"A maturing user base means that steep growth is in the rear-view for Twitter in the U.S.," eMarketer wrote in its report.
Twitter has gained the most traction among 18-24 year olds, with about 37.4% of the age group logging in, according to eMarketer. Going forward, it predicts older users will drive more of the growth simply because "there's more room to grow," said Dan Marcec, a spokesman for eMarketer. User penetration among 35-44 year olds will increase 7.6 percentage points to 29.1%, by 2018, the biggest jump of among all age groups.
A silver lining: eMarketer says older users are more likely to engage with ads, significant because it is the primary way Twitter earns revenue.
"A well-established user base can also be a less volatile user base, and Twitter's maturing users not only in numbers but also in age could influence its advertising revenue potential," said the report.


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A New London man suffered minor injuries Friday morning when the fire vehicle he was driving crashed.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol the accident happened at 6:30 a.m. on Route V three miles east of New London.
A 1992 International fire tanker truck of the New London Fire Department was being driven by 67-year-old Michael Woodside of New London to a fire when it crested a hill and met a vehicle with its high beams on. The fire truck ran off the right side of the road. When Woodside over-corrected the truck traveled back across the roadway where it struck an embankment.
Woodside, who was wearing a safety device, was taken by Marion County Ambulance to Hannibal Regional Hospital.
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Analyst on Apple: Sell Now
A Wall Street analyst is telling investors to sell shares of Apple one week ahead of the company's expected unveiling of its latest iPhone, saying a downgrade is likely unless the company massively exceeds expectations at the event.
"We recommend taking profits in Apple," said Andy Hargreaves, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities with an outperform rating and $100 price target on Apple. "Unless next week's event details massive incremental profit opportunities, we are likely to downgrade Apple's rating."
UPDATE: Shares closed down 4.2% at $98.94, the second-worst day of the year. The stock fell below $100 for the first time since Aug. 20. The decline shed about $26 billion in market capitalization for Apple, just short of Netflix Inc.'s total market value. The drop comes after Apple shares surged 38% since the company's quarterly report in late April, when results surpassed expectations and the company unveiled a 7-for-1 stock split.
Wednesday's drop comes after Apple denied that its online systems had been breached by a hacker, deepening the mystery of how private photos of celebrities leaked onto the Internet. Apple said certain celebrity accounts were compromised by "a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions."
Apple's event on Sept. 9 is expected to be the launchpad for the company's annual iPhone upgrade. The company is expected to show two new smartphones with larger screen sizes — there are no names on these phones yet, even though they are routinely referred to as the iPhone 6.
Brian White, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, described it as "the most widely anticipated new product unveiling in the tech world this year."
A combination of those lofty expectations and the stock's huge rally in recent months is what makes Mr. Hargreaves of Pacific Crest nervous. He says new iPhones will boost results in the short term, but overall iPhone volumes are likely to fall in late 2015 and 2016. "This leaves limited room for upside to the stock, in our view, unless Apple launches new products that can generate billions of dollars of incremental operating profit," he said.
Still, Mr. Hargreaves caveats himself by saying investors should still hold some Apple shares through next week's event. In conjunction with new iPhones, Apple is expected to show a wearable device that many have been calling an iWatch. It could also launch a new payment partnership, according to Mr. Hargreaves.
"Based on the work we have done, we do not expect either new segment to drive incremental profits that are meaningful at Apple's scale in the near to medium term," he said. "However, we are open to being wrong on this and believe investor confidence in the iPhone 6 cycle will support the stock through the coming event. Consequently, we recommend holding some position in Apple through the Sept. 9 event in the hope of getting clarifying detail on the profit potential of new products and services."
Even so, Mr. Hargreaves stressed that the stock may not have much more room to run from current levels. "The majority of potential upside from iPhone 6 is priced into the shares," he said.
–Kevin Kingsbury contributed to this report.
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Even though freezing temperatures bring an end to seasonal pollen allergies, millions of people suffer from indoor allergies because of the time spent indoors during cool weather. A home can actually contribute to sickness. Some common symptoms of indoor, winter allergies are sneezing, runny or stuffy nose, coughing, postnasal drip, and itchy eyes, nose and throat.
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Clean regularly. There is no widely recognized guideline for how often you should dust and vacuum your home, a solid cleaning once a week should help keep dust and allergen levels down. Use a damp mop for cleaning hard floors to avoid stirring up dust.
Avoid exposure. If you are the one that is suffering during the winter months, have someone else in your house do the dusting and vacuuming. When you vacuum and dust you kick of the allergens up in the air and can be you can be affected if you're around. If you can, leave the house while the cleaning is being done.
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Dr. Carol Rountree, director of Student Services for Richmond County schools, spoke out about a fight that sent a seventh grader to the ER. (WRDW-TV / May 9, 2012)
News 12 First at Five / Wednesday, May 9, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- We first showed you the disturbing video of a local teen being attacked at school. After weeks of silence, the Richmond County Board of Education is officially responding, and they say they have some homework to do.
Who can forget the disturbing fight at Morgan Road Middle School? It sent a seventh grader to the hospital and left two girls facing assault charges.
"It was very violent. I saw that video," said Dr. Carol Rountree, executive director of Student Services. "However, if you think back three years ago, that video would not have circulated as quickly as it did."
Rountree worries cellphone videos are highlighting students in a negative light after not just the fight at Morgan Road, but after another brawl at Richmond Academy was caught on video.
"We are concerned and we are going to address them," she said. "But we do need to look at the statistics to see if those have changed over time."
That is quite different from the initial response we got from board member Barbara Pulliam who told News 12 she couldn't comment because she had a fish fry.
"It was a benefit fish fry for students," Pulliam said.
Pulliam is now facing new heat as she learns the latest redistricting lines wipe her off the map completely.
"How do I feel about that?" questioned Pulliam. "I'm not pleased."
The school system has bigger fish to fry as they try and get a hold on bullying. They plan to conduct a bullying review.
"Absolutely," Rountree said. "We want to see if it is greater than it has been at any particular time, but we continue to address it."
The redistricting battle will now be decided by a federal court. The Court will hold a hearing on redistricting on May 16 at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 2 of the United States Courthouse at 600 James Brown Boulevard. Click here to read more about the redistricting.
Meanwhile, Rountree says the bullying review will take time. She wants to look at the numbers for the entire year.


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IWV Swimmers Grace Williams and Thomas Bui competed in the Southern California June Age Group (JAG) Championships, held June 21-24 in La Mirada. They competed against swimmers from across Southern California, including Mission Viejo Nadadores, FAST (Fullerton Aquatics Sports Team), Team Santa Monica and Rancho San Dieguito (Solana Beach), in the highly competitive summer meet.
Williams competed as a younger participant in the 11-12 year-old age group, and there were approximately 50 swimmers in each of her events. She placed 11th in the 100 backstroke by swimming a 1:17.30 (AA) and dropping 1.67 seconds of her previous best. She placed 11th in the 50 backstroke and 13th in the 50 butterfly, posting a time of 33.96 (AA).
Williams placed 17th in the 100 freestyle by swimming a 1:06.89 (AA) and dropping 1.77 seconds. She posted best times in the 100 butterfly with a 1:15.62 (AA) and in the 50 freestyle with a 31.15 (AA), finishing 19th in both events.
Bui competed as a younger participant in the 9-10 year-old age group at the JAG meet, placing eighth in the 50 breaststroke with a personal best time of 44.58 (AA). He took ninth in the 100 butterfly with a 1:23.65 (AAA) and ninth in the 100 breaststroke by swimming a 1:36.83 (AA).
Bui competed against nearly 40 swimmers in each of his events. He placed 16th in the 50 butterfly and 50 backstroke, and 15th in the individual medley.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The 49ers opened their penultimate season at Candlestick Park with more than just another win for their growing credibility.
This one came on the "Sunday Night Football" stage, and it came against a NFC contender that likes to play rough, just like them.
"We knew it'd be a tough, close, aggressive, bell-ringing game, and it was," Coach Jim Harbaugh said after the 49ers' 27-19 win over the Detroit Lions.
Harbaugh left the physicality to the 49ers' defense and stamina-minded offense. Rather than replay last season's post-game commotion, Harbaugh kept his celebration in check and gave a more innocent handshake to Lions counterpart Jim Schwartz en route to the joyous locker room.
The 49ers' 2-0 start has them packing understated confidence for an upcoming two-game road trip, featuring visits to the Minnesota Vikings and New York Jets, as well as a second-annual layover in Youngstown, Ohio. between those games.
"We've got a lot of weapons and a lot of great things going for us," said tight end Vernon Davis, whose second touchdown catch Sunday night provided valuable insurance.
The Lions settled for four field goals from Jason Hanson before eclipsing the goal line on Matthew Stafford's 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brandon Pettigrew. But that came with 1 minute, 29 seconds remaining. It was too little, too late.
Helping thwart that eventual Lions rally was the 49ers' final scoring drive: a 13-play, 79-yard march that chewed up 6:12 before Alex Smith found Davis for a 23-yard touchdown completion.
That drive was kept alive by a trio of Michael Crabtree receptions for third-down conversions. Smith also came away with an unwanted souvenir: a cut on the bridge of his nose delivered by a questionable hit from safety John Wendling at the end of a scramble.
Smith finished 20 of 31 for 226 yards with two touchdowns, and he extended his franchise record to 216 consecutive passes without an interception. Not helping his cause were six dropped passes.
Crabtree was responsible for one of those drops, but he caught the six other passes targeted for him and finished with 67 receiving yards.
"Whatever Alex threw, I was trying to catch it," Crabtree said. "I dropped one pass and felt I needed to redeem myself."
Crabtree was called upon to speak to his teammates while celebrating his birthday Friday. He implored his offensive teammates to play up to the standard of the 49ers' more-touted defense.
That 49ers defense put forth another stellar effort, containing the Lions' dynamic passing combination of Stafford and wideout Calvin Johnson. Stafford, who threw for over 350 yards in his past four regular-season games, was limited to 230, completing 19 of 32 passes. Johnson had eight catches for 94 yards, but none longer than a 26-yard effort on the Lions' next-to-last drive.
"We knew if we played good defense and took care of our business, we'd have a good chance to win," said linebacker Aldon Smith, who sacked Stafford twice. (Ray McDonald was initially credited with Smith's first sack, and the 49ers plan to ask the league to adjust that.)
The 49ers needed only four plays on their first series to claim a 7-0 lead, with Davis scoring on a 21-yard pass from Smith against Wendling's coverage.
The 49ers could have taken a 10-6 lead on Akers' 35-yard field goal, but a running-into-the-kicker penalty renewed that drive. Wide receiver Randy Moss then drew a Lions pass-interference penalty in the end zone, setting up Frank Gore's 1-yard touchdown run to open the second quarter.
It was Gore's second touchdown in two games, and he followed the lead blocks of Will Tukuafu, Daniel Kilgore, Alex Boone and Delanie Walker.
The Lions had pulled within 7-6 behind two Hanson field goals, and those scores were bracketed around Kendall Hunter's fumble on a 49ers kickoff return. It was Hunter's first NFL turnover, and the first fumble lost by the 49ers since Nov. 6 at Washington.
Limiting the Lions to another field goal after that turnover set a definite tone by the 49ers defense.
"Keeping them out of the end zone for 58 minutes of the game was very impressive," Harbaugh said.
Such defensive dominance -- and timely scoring by the offense -- helped the 49ers remain unbeaten in regulation at home dating to November 2010.
"We're glad to go out there and give them something to root for," linebacker Patrick Willis said.
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Credit where its due
Everybody knows I don't like Hudd but I have to admit, he made the difference against Citeh. Ok so when he came on he almost immediately got booked for a foul which was not necessary (but due to him being too slow) and within minutes he could have been sent off for a second silly foul.
But, he made forward passes, picking out Defoe and Bale and THAT made the difference. When Dembele and Parker play it is too slow and negative. Did anyone else hear the crowd boo Parker for passing back to Dawson for the umpteenth time when we were attacking? Dembele goes past players and that looks good but he gives the ball away too often for me and he does not create enough chances for others.
Parker is good at breaking up attacks against us and gets back to cover well, but who on earth told him he could dribble and shoot?? So when you have those two in the centre of midfield there is nothing going forward that the wingers and strikers can feed off.
And Sigursson had a nightmare game with the ball bouncing off him in all directions. I like him normally but this is one game he will want to forget. Ade - well yet another "where was he" game. So disappointing....again.
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Do you think though that T'Hudd looked good because of how we played?
I didn't see much difference between the style of his play at the weekend and the style of how he's played in numerous other games.
What went through my mind, is that I 'perceive' that we play slower now - mainly because of the congestion in playing through the middle rather than wide I think - so that gives T'Hudd more time on the ball. I would guess that under 'arry the game could quite easily pass a player like T'Hudd by - as the emphasis seemed to be more on wing play and again what I perceived as a faster switch from defence to attack using short, quick passing.
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I didn't say he played well - I said he made the difference. As usual, he showed he is too slow to be top PL player and he gives too many free kicks away as a result of that. What that game highlighted to me is when we play with Parker and Dembele together in the middle of the park we are not actually passing the ball forward that much. Parker passes sideways and backwards more often than not and when he does occasionally pass forward it is rarely a good pass. He also suddenly tries these long, desperate dribbles and actually ends up either being tackled or running off the pitch.
Dembele slides past opponents midfield players very smoothly but then runs into a back 4. I have not actually seen him pass the ball forward that much.
When Hudd came on he very quickly picked out Defoe and Bale with passes from midfield and we looked a different side. I haven't changed my mind about Hudd but it made me realise why we have been creating so few chances lately.
As for the slow play, again, if you have players like Parker (who passes sideways and backwards) and Dembele who likes to dribble, you are not going to play quick football are you! Earlier this season we were giving the ball to Lennon and Bale's feet and they were taking on defenders and going around them. When they have not played we have struggled to even make any chances. Adebyor is never going to be quick enough or try hard enough. But what happened against Citeh was that suddenly there was someone who was prepared to knock the ball forward or even over the top for the strikers to get on the end of it - and it worked.
Hudd nearly gets player of the month.......


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Civilians wearing ski masks or bandanas and carrying small arms, man a checkpoint in Teconoapa, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. Several hundred civilians have taken up arms in two towns in the southwestern Mexico state and are arresting people suspected of crimes and imposing a curfew. Leaders said they were acting against crime and insecurity. Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre Rivero responded Friday by announcing that security in the region would be bolstered by sending in Mexican soldiers and marines and federal and state police officers. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez))


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One of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels—works colossal in vision and mind-boggling in complexity. Exploring and blending a diversity of topics, including technology, economics, history, science, pop culture, and philosophy, his books are the products of a keen and adventurous intellect. Not surprisingly, Stephenson is regularly asked to contribute articles, lectures, and essays to numerous outlets, from major newspapers and cutting-edge magazines to college symposia. This remarkable collection brings together previously published short writings, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a new essay (and an extremely short story) created specifically for this volume.
Stephenson ponders a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern American College Town; video games to classics-based sci-fi; how geekdom has become cool and how science fiction has become mainstream (whether people admit it or not); the future of publishing and the origins of his novels. Playful and provocative, Some Remarks displays Stephenson's opinions and ideas on:
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Ray A. Reitz, 86
Published: Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 6:28 p.m.
HENDERSONVILLE — Ray A. Reitz, 86, of Hendersonville, died on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at the Elizabeth House. A native of Chicago, Ill., he was born on Feb. 13, 1926, to the late Anthony J. Reitz and Rose Vogt Reitz. He was also preceded in death by the mother of his children, Dolores Furlong, who died in 1998; and his four brothers.
Ray moved to Renscelaer, Ind., where he attended school until the fourth grade and then returned to Chicago. He served his country in the United States Army as a Sergeant during World War II. Upon his arrival home he bought a new car in Detroit and started his own cab business. He then got married to Dolores and learned how to be a brick layer, and built their first home.
He belonged to St. Christina's Church where his children attended school. They were in all involved sports, especially Baseball Little League. In Timmy's last year, he threw a no hitter. He went on to work as a City of Chicago Fire Fighter for 28 years until his retirement with a duty disability in 1981. Upon his retirement, he moved to Henderson County, where he was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, the Hendrick-Rhodes VFW Post #5206, Hubert M. Smith American Legion Post #77, and Crooked Creek Golf Club.
He is survived by his wife, Frances "Fran" Reitz, of Hendersonville; his four children, Ray. A. Reitz Jr. and his wife, Janice, their children, Jackie and Collette; Bradley Reitz and his wife, Kathy, Timothy Reitz and his wife, Karen, and their children, Bonnie, Jake, Kim, and Claire; Joseph Reitz and his daughter, Jade, and his three great-grandchildren.
A memorial mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m., on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in Our Lady of the Angels Chapel at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. The family will receive friends following mass in the St. Francis Hall. A second memorial mass will be held on Jan. 12, 2013, at St. Christina's Catholic Church in Chicago.
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NORTHWOOD — A 33-year-old New Hampshire man is facing negligent homicide charges for allegedly operating a boat while intoxicated during an accident that led to another man's death.
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10.7-1 Criminal Impersonation -- § 53a-130 (a) (1) and (3)
Revised to December 1, 2007 (modified November 6, 2014)
The defendant is charged [in count __] with criminal impersonation. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of criminal impersonation when (he/she) <insert appropriate subsection:>
§ 53a-130 (a) (1): impersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with the intent to (obtain a benefit / injure another / defraud another).
§ 53a-130 (a) (3): pretends to be a representative of some person or organization and does an act in such pretended capacity with intent to (obtain a benefit / injure another / defraud another).
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Impersonated
The first element is that the defendant, by (his/her) words or conduct, impersonated <insert as appropriate:>
another person.
a representative of <insert name of person or organization>.
To "impersonate" means to act the part of or to mimic the appearance or manner or adopt the personal identifying characteristics or information. The person or organization impersonated must actually exist.
Element 2 - Intent
The second element is that in performing some acts while pretending to be someone else, (he/she) intended to (obtain a benefit / injure another / defraud another).
<See Intent: Specific, Instruction 2.3-1, and Intent to Defraud, Instruction 2.3-6.>
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant 1) pretended to be <insert name of person>, and 2) while pretending to be <insert name of person>, (he/she) intended to (obtain a benefit / injure another / defraud another).
If you unanimously find that the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of criminal impersonation, then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the defendant not guilty.
Subsection (2) was changed to (3), effective October 1, 2014.
For a conviction to be valid the
defendant must be found to have impersonated a real person. "The statute as
written does not prohibit giving a false name; it prohibits impersonating
another." State v. Smith, 194 Conn. 213, 222 (1984); see also State
v. Bradley, 60 Conn. App. 534, 539, cert. denied, 255 Conn. 921 (2000). In
State v. Moore, 97 Conn. 243, 249, appeal withdrawn (2006), the Court upheld the defendant's conviction for impersonating
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If Nashville didn't have enough motivation to put a team on the ropes that has been their measuring stick since entering the NHL 14 years ago, they were clearly sent over the edge by having their ping pong play time taken away.
This recap was going to go one of two ways: A long and extravagant celebration of life, or a hurried mess of anger because I just want to be asleep. On with the bullets.
- A game away from elimination and my playoff beard isn't even in the "Hair" stage yet.
- Congratulations to Ian White on his first body check in five years. And I don't want to alarm anybody but I think he's slowly turning into Josh Brolin.
- The Wings have been playing David Legwand for all these years, and the name is still funny. But now it goes in cycles. Like every 15th mention of "Legwand" is hilarious again. It's like when a full moon happens, if that was childish and at all a logical comparison.
- Guys, quit booing Weber when he touches the puck. He was here for a year, we almost won a Cup, it didn't work out. Let's move on.
- I think the "TODD-BER-TOO-ZEE" chants are 9% because people really like him and 91% just because it's really fun to chant.
- We'll win this series is Babcock makes every necessary adjustment. Every one of those adjustments starts with taking a cattle prod to Johan Franzen's chest.
- Intent to Blow. This completely horseshit and seemingly made-up call happens to a Red Wings opponent. It was a miracle! Oh, what a joyous time to be alive! The sun momentarily rose to splash sunshine on my face. A family of deer walked into my living room to eat bread crumbs from my hand. I called loved ones that I hadn't spoken to in years. And in the middle of a conversation with my great uncle Bob, Nashville bodies become occupied by hockey gods and score the goal anyway. I called Uncle Bob a disgrace to the family and told him I hope Barbaro tramples him for an eternity in hell before hanging up on him.
- Rinne on his knees is as tall as Hudler standing up. Ha.
- And the back-breaker: the 2nd Nashville goal. Can a goal in a tie game be called a back-breaker? I'm trying to. When three guys and a goaltender chase a puck carrier out to Flint and leave the net abandoned, that's pretty unreal. That's going in the "Won't forget that one for a few years" category.
I'm not going to proofread this, eat me.
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With classes now in session, it is just about time for the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi baseball team to get practice underway as fall ball kicks into gear. The Islanders, including 24 newcomers and 18 returnees, will come together as a group for the first time at 2:30 p.m. on Friday for the first day of practice.
Head Coach Scott Malone is just as ready for this time of year as his players are, coming off of the most successful season in school history and bringing in several talented newcomers to go along with the returners.
"As a staff we're excited to get out there, the players are excited to get out there," said Malone. "The first week is arguably the best, the most productive, because everybody is chomping at the bit to get out there. You don't have to beg guys to stretch or play catch; there is so much attention to detail that first week."
In addition to wanting to get out there and get going, it will give Malone, his assistant coaches Chris Ramirez and Marty Smith, volunteer assistant Adam Skonieczki a chance to get back into the game day coaching mindset.
"It's huge for us as a staff to get out there and set the tone a little bit about what is important in our program and what are going to be the keys for us to be successful," said Malone. "You want to have a great fall, you want to teach a lot as a coach, but you also want to step back a little and let these guys play. The level of talent in our program, from the top seniors like Jeramie Marek all the way down to a freshman who is walking on and fighting for a spot should make it a really fun week."
The main concern for the coaching staff early on will be two of the most important parts of the game, conditioning and fundamentals.
"It is going to be a spring training-type setting, wanting to get these guys in peak baseball shape," said Malone. "There is a lot of coaching that goes into that: Coach Ramirez will go over everything with our catchers and how we want it done, I'll have the outfielders, Coach Skonieczki will have the outfielders, and obviously Coach Smith, along with our student guys helping him out, will have the pitchers.
"Being able to break each position down piece-by-piece; this is how we want to field a ground ball, this is how we want to make our throws in the infield, it's really going to be, not only a fun first week, but a fun spring to take these talented players and try to show them this is the attention we want to detail."
Helping out along the way will be someone many Islanders fans know well from his time with the program. Former pitcher Brett Gips will join the team as a student manager.
After being away from the program for a couple of years, Gips wanted to get back to being an Islander while also working on a graduate degree.
"It's huge having a guy from our program that knows how this coaching staff works, he is an unbelievable worker," said Malone. "One of the great things about Brett is he knows some of the hardships that this program faced as it was growing and trying to become the program it is today, now have a locker room, now that we have the adidas contract, now that Chapman Field will undergo renovations.
"He knows what it was like before and it will be great having him as kind of a reminder to some of our players that it hasn't always been this nice. He is going to be huge helping Coach Smith with our pitching staff."
The team will practice through the weekend and the fall season will last until the culmination at the Islanders Fall World Series on Oct. 7-9 at Chapman Field.


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Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Drafthouse Films hasmade the first deal at SXSW2013; picking up the theatrical distribution and videorights to the film �Cheap Thrills�. Apparently this came out of a bidding warwith several other studios after the movie�s Friday night premiere. I did not coverthe film (tragically, I am unable to grow a sufficiently large handle bar mustacheto qualify for a SXSW press badge), but the article describes the film as acomedy-thriller about a man accepting escalating bets from a wealthy couple. No trailer yetavailable but I will update this post when Drafthouse Films releases one. <>>


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Kahlil McKenzie announced Monday night that he's planning to transfer from De La Salle and enroll at Clayton Valley Charter for his senior year.
McKenzie couldn't be reached for comment but posted to his Twitter account: "Transferring from De La Salle going to Clayton Valley Charter family decision not answering any questions about it but I'm a Ugly Eagle."
De La Salle football coach Justin Alumbaugh confirmed that McKenzie, a 6-foot-4, 330 pound defensive tackle, is leaving the school.
"Kahlil has withdrawn from De La Salle," Alumbaugh said. "And I do mean this -- Kahlil is a really good kid and will have a great future. We wish him the best."
The five-star recruit is the son of Oakland Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie and has offers from colleges from across the country. He recently said he has narrowed down his college decision to Tennessee or Arizona and will announce his pick at The Opening, a prestigious Nike football camp, on July 10.
McKenzie played only one season for De La Salle, registering 74 tackles and a team-high 12 sacks after moving to the Bay Area from Wisconsin before his junior year.
Clayton Valley Charter coach Tim Murphy couldn't be reached for comment.
The Eagles have been one of the top Division II schools in the North Coast Section since Murphy took over before the 2012 season.


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If you could propose one idea to help improve health care delivery in the United States, what would it be?
Contributors Respond
Larry Hausner, MBA
CEO, American Diabetes Association
Despite the rapid development of innovative technologies in the health care field, we have yet to discover a panacea that will easily transform our health care system into one that provides high-quality and cost-effective care. What we have discovered and come to agree on over the last decade is that our sick care system must be reconfigured to a health care system that emphasizes wellness and prevention. For that reason, I offer that it benefits us to consider targeted interventions and programs that address some of our most pressing health care crises.
Consider the diabetes epidemic. Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes and another 79 million have prediabetes placing them at high risk of developing the disease. Last year, we spent $245 billion on diabetes; a 41 percent increase in spending in just five years. Every day, 238 Americans with diabetes undergo an amputation; 120 enter end-stage kidney disease programs; and 48 become blind – all due to the devastating effects of the disease. By 2050, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates one in three adults in our country – one in two among minority populations – will have diabetes if present trends continue.
Diabetes is devastating our country, both in terms of its human and economic toll. We cannot allow it to further overwhelm our health care system and our fellow Americans especially when we know how to help prevent it. One specific evidence-based intervention that will move us away from our history as a sick care system to one that promotes disease prevention is the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP). The National DPP is a community-based lifestyle intervention based on a successful clinical trial at the National Institutes of Health which found individuals with prediabetes can reduce their risk for type 2 diabetes by 58 percent with lifestyle changes including improved nutrition, increased physical activity and weight loss of 5-7 percent. The results were even stronger for seniors; participants over the age of 60 reduced their risk for type 2 diabetes by 71 percent. Further research translating the clinical trial to a community setting showed these results can be replicated in a group for a cost of about $400 per participant. The National DPP is based on this effective low-cost community model.
However, access to this evidence-based intervention is lacking and must be improved. For example, in Medicare, where we currently spend one out of every three dollars on diabetes and half of all Americans age 65 or older have prediabetes, we pay for care to treat the complications of diabetes, things like kidney dialysis and amputations, but not for evidence-based diabetes prevention services. It is unconscionable that Medicare currently does not cover the National DPP for high risk seniors even though we know it is effective at preventing or significantly delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes. Doctors, including my good friend and the Association's President of Medicine and Science, Dr. John Anderson, feel like they are doing a disservice to their patients because they have no tools available to assist their Medicare patients newly diagnosed with prediabetes because Medicare does not cover this proven intervention to prevent and delay type 2 diabetes. Members of Congress have heard the pleas by doctors like John and introduced the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Act (HR 962/S. 452) which would add the National DPP as a covered benefit under Medicare for high risk seniors. We cannot stop simply because a bill has been introduced; now is the time for policymakers to take action and work to transition our health care system from a sick care system to one that promotes health.
Transforming our health care delivery system will take a deliberate shift in our way of thinking about health care and it begins with prioritizing disease prevention and promoting tools like the National DPP. We cannot begin to rein in our healthcare spending if we do not begin to tackle chronic disease prevention rather than focusing on the acute care of patients who present with complications.
Myrl Weinberg, FASAE, CAE
CEO, National Health Council
The ultimate end user of our country's health care system is the patient. Therefore it makes sense that patients and their family caregivers should be active partners from the very beginning of the creative and decision-making processes to advance the delivery of quality care, enhance research, and encourage the development of new treatments. "Patient engagement" has become the buzzword of the year, and for good reasons.
The emerging field of patient-centered outcomes research, for example, is premised on the view that by integrating patients in every aspect of the research continuum, the resulting research will be more relevant to patients' decision making. Similarly, the FDA is adopting a new paradigm of patient-focused drug development, recognizing that patients have a direct stake in the outcome of the review process and are in a unique position to contribute to weighing benefit-risk considerations that can occur throughout the medical product development process.
However, from a researcher perspective, little guidance exists to determine who should be involved, how and what role the patient community should have, and at what points in the process the patient community should be engaged. From a patient community perspective, expectations are unclear about how their input will be used to inform the process. There is little understanding of how to build sustained capacity and comfort throughout the patient community for effective engagement. In addition, there is little consensus-based guidance on how to conduct or assess whether an approach to patient engagement will yield meaningful results for all parties involved.
The National Health Council believes that it is only through new platforms for collaboration that bring together people living with chronic diseases and disabilities, researchers, and experts from the provider, payer, corporate, and policymaker arenas will the ideal state of patient engagement and, ultimately, patient-centered care be achieved.
Nancy Brown
The most impactful improvements in healthcare delivery in the United States will be the result of a more innovative system that truly puts the patient at the center of their own care. At the American Heart Association, we believe patients must be given the opportunity to actively engage in their own care if we are to truly impact health and health outcomes.
There is convergence of factors that are enabling this engagement to happen: The implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the momentum around mobile health and new digital health technologies, and growing consumer awareness of – and interest in - health and well-being. Each of these factors plays a critical role in improving healthcare delivery.
Now that an estimated 30 million Americans who previously did not have access to healthcare will now be in the system because of the Affordable Care Act, we will see a drive toward consumer engagement and accountability, especially as many begin to seek insurance through the public and private insurance exchanges. And with 50% of those over age 50 having at least one chronic illness, there is an impetus for new delivery models and patient-centered care. Traditional models will no longer be sufficient for more widespread care delivery.
Digital health technologies are enabling exciting new healthcare delivery models, and many consumers are starting to take notice. A Harris Interactive/HealthDay survey released last week found that more than one-third of respondents who are online said they were "very" or "extremely" interested in using smartphones or tablets to ask their doctors questions, make appointments or get medical test results. An equal number of respondents were interested in using smartphones and tablets for healthcare services such as monitoring blood sugar, monitoring high blood pressure, or diagnosing ailments.
In past decades, the American Heart Association has seen incredible advances in treatments for cardiovascular diseases and stroke, yet we're also seeing more people than ever before requiring those treatments, because risk factors like obesity and diabetes are becoming much more prevalent. Digital health technologies, tools and sensing devices allow consumers to automatically have a record of what they eat, what they weigh, their blood pressure, how active they are, and many other health factors. Wearable trackers by Nike, FitBit and others are helping consumers automatically track daily fitness and even sleep quality. By giving consumers the health information they're looking for in real-time, these technologies encourage greater accountability in pursuing healthy habits and demonstrate, with real data, how our daily choices impact our health.
All of these changes are already beginning to catalyze new innovations in the healthcare delivery landscape. While we still have a long way to go to reverse the negative health impact of obesity and diabetes, these incredible technologies present an unprecedented opportunity to put patients at the center of their care and chart a new course toward health.
Christopher W. Hansen
President, ACS-CAN
The most important improvement we can make in health care delivery in this country is emphasizing patients' quality of life during and after treatment. Many people who face life-threatening diseases such as cancer now live long, full lives thanks to scientific advancements. But our nation's health care system too often focuses solely on curing the patient and not on also providing the patient comfort, resulting in preventable suffering during life-saving treatment. Patient comfort should not take a back seat during treatment, and it does not need to.
The good news is there is a fast-growing movement in our health care system to focus on patients' quality of life by providing palliative care services. Palliative care is specialized medical care that can provide patients with serious illnesses such as cancer and their caregivers better quality of life by focusing on relief from pain, stress and other symptoms of treatment. It is appropriate at any age and any stage of diagnosis, and can be provided alongside curative treatment for the disease. It is an extra layer of support delivered by trained specialists who work together with other doctors and nurses in a team-based approach that focuses on the patients' needs, coordinates their care and gives patients and their families a voice in determining the care they receive.
Studies have shown that patients who received palliative care consultations spent fewer days in the ICU and were readmitted to the hospital less frequently. Palliative care consultations have also proven to save hospitals money. Unfortunately, many patients and families are unfamiliar with it or do not have access to it. Yet, according to a 2011 poll by ACS CAN and the Center to Advance Palliative Care, once people learn about palliative care, 92 percent would consider it for a loved one.
Two bi-partisan bills recently introduced in Congress can play a role in reversing this trend. The Patient Centered Quality of Life Act (H.R. 1666) co-sponsored by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) would facilitate and expand federal research into palliative care, support training for health professionals to effectively practice palliative care and convene a national summit to develop tools and model best practices for providing palliative care. The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (S.641 and H.R. 1339) co-sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) addresses the deficit in palliative care training offered in the nation's medical schools by creating new incentives for the training and development of interdisciplinary health professionals in the field.
The costs of these bills are negligible, yet they would make meaningful changes to the way many patients receive care and participate in decisions about their treatment. No wonder numerous public health groups back the bills, which are quickly gaining support in Congress.
Robert J. Hugin
Chairman and CEO
Supporting the ecosystem of medical innovation is the most important thing we can do to improve health care for patients with unmet medical needs in the United States.
Medical innovation is a crown jewel of America and its economy. It has been the greatest source of longer life and economic prosperity in our country and around the world. In the course of just one decade, from 1999 to 2008, medical innovation brought about a 45 percent reduction in deaths from cardiovascular disease. Biopharmaceutical therapy for a devastating disease like Alzheimer's can reduce nursing home admissions by 50 percent. HIV has gone from an untreatable, fatal disease to a serious but manageable condition. And in cancer, nearly 50 million life-years have been saved for patients since 1990 because of innovative approaches to cancer prevention and treatment.
How did we accomplish this? By working together – large and small companies, academic researchers, government agencies, and patient organizations alike. By taking risks and investing in innovation. And those investments have paid off in scientific advancement and economic growth. For example, the US government spent $3.8 billion over thirteen years investing in the Human Genome Project, generating enormous private sector activity. Every $1 invested in the Human Genome Project created $140 in economic value, repaying the government for its investment via tax revenue many times over, and producing transformative scientific and medical advances for patients.
We cannot take this ecosystem for granted. In fact, it is very much at risk. Short-sighted policies that limit scientific and medical innovation today could negatively affect patients for decades in the future. Consider Alzheimer's Disease. The Alzheimer's Association reports that without new disease-modifying treatments, by 2050, at least 13.5 million Americans will have developed Alzheimer's disease, costing this country $1 trillion per year – a crushing expense. A new therapy that delays the onset of Alzheimer's by five years would reduce by nearly 45% the number of people with the disease by 2050, and save $447 billion per year. We cannot afford NOT to invest in the discovery and development of such a potential treatment today.
So how do we protect the ecosystem of medical innovation? Fortunately, while the challenges are greater than ever, so too are the opportunities. We are only at the early stages of being able to capitalize on the revolution in molecular biology and information technology. With more than 5,000 new treatments in development, the promise and potential of recent scientific and technological advances is enormous. We must be bold and courageous and stay focused on developing innovations that meet patients' most pressing unmet needs. And to do this, we must have a policy environment that supports innovation, values the entire ecosystem of medical progress – academic medical centers, voluntary health associations, government agencies like the FDA, CMS and NIH, and, crucially, the biopharmaceutical company scientists, entrepreneurs and investors responsible for discovering, developing and bringing to patients the vast majority of new treatments.
Part of a supportive environment for innovation is ensuring that patients have access to the most innovative treatments. New therapies that reduce hospitalizations, promote productivity and improve quality of life have the potential to make real reductions in the overall cost of health care, but access to these treatments is critical. Medicare Part D is an example of how the public and private sectors can work together to maximize benefit to patients and value to society. This government supported, privately delivered program based on competition and choice has expanded access for good prescription coverage to 30 million seniors, with 90 percent satisfaction among participants, at a cost more than 40 percent lower than projections, and substantial demonstrated savings in other parts of the medical system. We must work to protect this model and also ensure patient access to therapeutics in Medicare Part B, other government-funded health programs, and in plans offered through health exchanges.
We can improve health care in the United States by fostering a policy environment that strengthens the ecosystem of innovation, so that working together, we can pursue bold innovations that create longer life and better health for patients.
Moncef Slaoui
Chairman, R&D, GlaxoSmithKline
When extraordinary advances are made in science, why does it take so long to translate them into treatments for the country's most pressing medical needs?
It's tempting to blame the pharmaceutical industry for being unproductive, regulators for being slow and academia for being resistant to change. In some cases, that criticism has been well deserved. But as the FDA opens up new regulatory pathways and drug pipelines are getting stronger, in part because of great advances in science in certain areas and better collaboration between industry and academia, it's time to come up with some new solutions for advancing medical innovation.
We tackled this issue at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The Aspen Institute's Elliot Gerson moderated a group that included two physicians, Kenneth Davis, president and CEO of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Tony Coles, chairman and CEO of the biopharm company Onyx; FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and me to discuss how we can reduce the time it takes to discover new drugs and get them to patients .
Our panel agreed that science has never been more exciting but we're not seeing new discoveries and insights translate into real world products at the rate we'd like, particularly in certain therapeutic areas. Key to future improvements is a strong, aligned biomedical ecosystem. But how do we get there? I would propose three, practical proposals:
1. Incentivize pre-competitive research
Let's create a national priority around an area of medical need that is difficult for any one entity to tackle alone, such as Alzheimer's, and agree to share all of our early data and work together to find new treatments. The FDA, which already has visibility of what every company is doing, including making the same mistakes, could develop policy to move that information out of its current silos and provide incentives for those who are willing to share their studies. Complicated diseases such as Alzheimer's are going to require treatments that can be given before the disease advances and that could mean years of long-term studies. By pooling pre-competitive research we could do for Alzheimer's' what the Framingham study did for cardiovascular disease.
2. Incentivize antibiotics discovery and development
This is an area of science that has been deserted by most of the players in the pharma industry. New antibiotics, almost by definition, are going to have their use restricted in order to avoid resistance, and that means that even though there is a strong societal need for these drugs, the traditional funding model for them is dead. We need to encourage and develop more public-private partnerships to re-stimulate interest in antibiotics research and create realistic ways of paying for it.
3. Incentivize innovation by extending market exclusivity
Despite advances in some areas of science that allow us to develop medicines more quickly, it can still take 10, 15 or even 20 years, which means by the time new medicines are approved, only a very short period of exclusivity remains; sometimes it's as little as five years. We need to extend the market exclusivity for medicines to reward the time, energy and resources that have gone into those innovations and provide companies with the motivation to do more.
As panelist Ken Davis put it, in order to have a robust biomedical ecosystem we have to align public policy with the public good. If we are going to continue to be at the forefront of research and innovation, we must prioritize the science we want to do that is in the public's best interest and provide reasonable incentives to speed innovation and make these important treatments available for patients.
Thoughts originally posted on Huffington Post.


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I think that the reply speaks volumes to the dedication that they want to see out of the course.
I hate MARION county, but I am now curious, and may have someone else drive me to Pella, and actually sto pthere not go to a wedding, or Jaarsmas.
Hmm......a trip to Pella on purpose, I am either getting old, brave or stupid....
At any rate, the response that you gave abnout the work that is being decided upon is great, I love to be abel to read that type of information, and as a person that works with limited budgets, I can appreciate your time and energy.
Some people do not get it, plese dont be discouraged by one person's unawareness of an entire project, and keep up the good work, and notes for those of us that may want to know.....even if we live in another state, and work in a state not connected to IA.......


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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released its preliminary report today on breeding ducks and habitats, based on surveys conducted in May and early June. Total populations were estimated at 48.6 million breeding ducks in the surveyed area. This estimate represents a 7 percent increase over last year's estimate of 45.6 million birds, and is 43 percent above the 1955-2010 long-term average. This year's estimate is a record high and is only the sixth time in the survey's history that the total duck population exceeded 40 million.
"Early indications were that the mild and dry conditions experienced across North America this past fall and winter would negatively impact spring pond conditions and allow increases in grassland conversion rates, ultimately impacting nesting efforts this season," said Ducks Unlimited Chief Scientist Dale Humburg. "Strong returning duck populations and late spring precipitation have brightened prospects for 2012 duck production. If nesting and brood-rearing conditions are favorable over the next few months, we could see another strong fall flight."
Of the 10 species traditionally reported, nine were similar to or increased in number from 2011. Two species (northern pintail and American wigeon) remained below their long-term average. Mallards, northern shovelers, blue-winged teal and scaup were bright spots on this year's survey. For the first time since 1999, mallard populations have exceeded 10 million. Northern shovelers and bluewings again reached record highs (5.0 and 9.2 million, respectively). Scaup numbers showed improvement and are above 5 million for the first time since 1991. Scaup numbers showed improvement and are above 5 million for the first time since 1991, but still remain below the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) population goal. Only three species—northern pintail, American wigeon and scaup—remain below NAWMP goals.
This chart summarizes information about the status of duck populations and wetland habitats during spring 2012, focusing on areas encompassed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife (USFWS) and Canadian Wildlife Services' (CWS) Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey.
"This year I am reminded again of the dynamic nature of wetland cycles and what happens when several years of strong production line up with the possible beginnings of a drought cycle," Humburg said.
"As good as the population news is this week, waterfowl and wetland habitats continue to face significant long-term threats. The Farm Bill and North American Wetlands Conservation Act are up for renewal by Congress this year and both are crucial to our ability to conserve this critical habitat. We are also fighting to increase our investment in wetlands conservation by raising the price of the federal duck stamp," said DU CEO Dale Hall. "Conservation is indeed at a crossroads this year."
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