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- Feb 25:
- Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane -- worst Oscar host ever?
- Oscars 2013: TV ratings up from last year
- Oscars 2013: Five biggest surprises at the Academy Awards
- The Onion apologizes for offensive actress tweet
- Feb 24:
- Oscars 2013: 'Argo' sweeps to victory on Oscar night
- Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane's taped bits and crude humor fall flat
- Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane's raciest lines
- Oscars 2013: Full list of winners
- 'Argo' Oscar Vote: Did 'Argo' deserve to win Best Picture at the 2013 Academy Awards?
- 2013 Academy Awards: 'Argo' takes best picture at the Oscars
- List of 85th annual Academy Award winners
- Oscars 2013: The red carpet's best looks -- Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum and more
- Oscars 2013: Red-carpet fashion failures include Anne Hathaway, Jane Fonda and more
Who gave the best speech on Oscar night? Early on, it looked like it was going to be hard to come up with five. But then Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Day-Lewis and Ben Affleck arrived to save the night.
Here are our five favorite speeches:
1. Ben Affleck, best picture for "Argo": Sure, Daniel Day-Lewis was more polished, but Affleck's somewhat rambling, but candid and honest acceptance speech receives our vote for best because it was just that: emotional, passionate and tender. He not only moved us, but ended the night on a positive note -- going beyond the corridors of Hollywood to encourage those who are feeling downtrodden. Lovely.
2. Day-Lewis, best actor for "Lincoln": As expected, the multiple Oscar winner was the best speaker, giving the most eloquent, polished and surprisingly funny speech. Saying you were up to play Margaret Thatcher and Meryl Streep Lincoln was the funniest moment in the show. (Sorry, Seth MacFarlane.). "I really don't know how this all happened," Day-Lewis commented at the start of his speech. Well we do. You were that amazing. And you gave one of the most perfect speeches. A class act.
3. Jennifer Lawrence, best actress for "Silver Linings Playbook." Can you possibly get any more adorable? "This is nuts!," the versatile actress said, just after tripping on the way up to collect her award. She kept it short and sassy. Just the way we like it.
4. Quentin Tarantino, best original screenplay for "Django Unchained": Did anyone really expect bad-boy Tarantino to be so jaw-droppingly gracious, not only thanking his incredible cast for the reason he won, but praising all the other writers in both screenwriting categories. What an unexpectedly kind speech, Tarantino. Even loved your off-the-cuff opening remark when you came up onstage to get your trophy from Charlize Theron: "That's cool, Charlize is my neighbor"
5. Chris Terrio, best adapted screenplay: The first-timer hit a grand slam, bringing up Affleck's co-screenwriting win for "Good Will Hunting" and how the "Argo" actor/director has launched his career. But his final words about using nonviolence to solve world problems reverberates powerfully and aptly sums up the topical theme of the best picture winner.


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Spartanburg man stabbed walking home
Published: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 8:36 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 8:36 p.m.
A Spartanburg man told police he was stabbed while walking home from a friend's house early Tuesday.
According to an incident report, police were called to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center to talk to the 26-year-old victim about 4 a.m.
The victim told officers that about 2 a.m., he was walking to his home on Amhearst Drive from his friend's house on Tyler Court. He said he was on a street behind Deal's Market when he passed by three men, the report states.
After passing them, he felt a sharp pain on the left side of his neck and he began to run. After fleeing the area, he realized he had been cut on the neck and asked a friend to take him to the hospital.
The wound had already been sutured when police got to the hospital. A doctor told an officer that the cut was 1-2 inches deep, the report states.
The victim was unable to provide a description of the suspects. No arrests have been made.
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turn the "garbage" into "compost" for the garden of your life
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Contributed by: Louëlla
For me, gardening is a form of prayer. Most people have an awareness of life and death, but few have an an awareness of life, death, and life again. Gardeners do though. Bulbs come up every spring. Then in winter, it looks like there's nothing there, no hope for life ever again. Then, Hallelujah! Next spring they're back even fuller. Perennials - same thing.Annuals have a slightly different lesson. Annuals really do die, but they broadcast seeds before they go. Where there was only one calendula the year before, there will be ten this year, and one day, they will fill every empty space in your garden. Annuals are a lesson in the difference one living thing, plant or person, can make, and how their presence resonates long after they're gone. There again, the effects are not immediate. There is always the winter. And when you consider the garden as a whole, well, winter is a time to reflect, a time to dream. It gives you time to ask the big questions...Gardening is an affirmation of divine timing. Some years, in early spring, my enthusiasm takes an ugly turn, and I seemingly believe I can make spring happen earlier than it normally would, if I just work hard enough, if I till enough, compost enough, harden off seedlings earlier than I normally would. In the end, I wind up with twelve flats of dead seedlings. Then I direct seed a couple months later, and with much less effort, everything grows into the full glory it was destined to encompass. To everything there is a season. Amen.
Kaya McLaren
Source: Church of the Dog, Pages: 136-137
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STOCKTON - Two men and a teenager were arrested after San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies found guns and drugs in their car Wednesday, authorities said.
Deputies conducted a traffic stop shortly before 4 p.m. near West Swain Road and North Williamsburg Place. The driver, 21-year-old Donovan Rhodes, had three passengers, including his 2-year-old son, deputies said. Inside the car, deputies found a .38 Special revolver, a .357 revolver, a semiautomatic pistol, nearly a pound of marijuana, 29 Ecstasy tablets, six grams of methamphetamine and a digital scale, authorities said.
Deputies arrested Rhodes, 22-year-old Jonathan Collins and a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of gun possession, drug possession, drug sales and child endangerment, authorities said. Rhodes was also issued a citation for driving without a license, deputies said.
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All things Mother Earth Living
by Jessica Kellner, Editor
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With the holiday season officially upon us, I thought I'd share some of my favorite gifts for the garden enthusiasts on your list. In the gift guide in our current issue, we included a few lovely, sustainable gifts gardeners are sure to love. I rounded up a few other favorites. Here you go!
1. Sky Planter: These upside-down Boskke Sky Planters will indulge your gardening friends' green thumbs throughout winter, and they're made of 100 percent recycled plastic. The Sky Planter's reservoir feeds water to plants slowly, making them easy to maintain. Boskke offers a list of top plants that thrive in the planters if you'd like to accompany your gift with a baby plant. Boskke, $25.
2. Organic Sprouts Growing Kit: A gift for gardeners and foodies alike, this indoor organic salad-growing kit from Bambeco will grow a variety of greens for cooking and salads all winter. It comes with organic seeds, a glass growing jar with netting and a reusable recyclable lunch bag. Bambeco, $24.
3. "Nature Preserve" Photograph Print: Bring your gardening friends' love of nature into their home with this lovely print by eco-artist Peter L. Johnson. Johnson's photographs aim to provide an intimate view of nature's beauty that showcases our fragile relationship with the Earth. Limited edition, printed on archival fine art rag paper and signed by the artist. Moss Envy, $34.
4. The Seed Pot Maker: This unique gift combines a love of gardening and environmentalism by allowing gardeners to create pots for seeds and seedlings out of old newspaper. The newspaper planters are biodegradable, so they can be planted directly into the ground when spring arrives. Uncommon Goods, $17.
5. Tomorrow's Garden by Stephen Orr: When it comes to gardening, you can never have enough help. This beautiful book will inspire friends as they create a sustainable garden that works with nature. With detailed case studies, stunning photographs and an appendix or resources and information, this inspirational book helps gardeners achieve their best. Natural Home & Garden, $25.
6. Greg Brown Seed Savers Exchange Benefit CD: Every year, down-home musician Greg Brown and Friends performs at the legendary summer benefit concert for Seed Savers Exchange, the largest non-governmental seed bank in the U.S. Purchase this disk recorded from one of the concerts, and 100 percent of the proceeds goes to benefit this vital seed-saving group. Seed Savers Exchange, $15.
7. Organic Cotton/Hemp Garden Apron: This handmade organic cotton and hemp gardening half-apron includes five pockets for garden tools and seed packets. Available in three prints. SoulRole at Etsy, $45.
8. Fossil Air Plant Set: Several million years ago, crustaceans got trapped in tide pools, leaving behind petrified spiral forms. Viva Terra pairs each authentic fossil (no two are alike) with a tiny easy-care tillandsia plant, grown in the U.S. Viva Terra, $35 for two. 9. Adopt a School Garden: Help your gardening friends inspire a new generation by donating to the school garden program through the National Gardening Association. You can make a general donation, or purchase a specific growing kit for the school of your choice. National Gardening Association, any amount.
10. Herb Jars with Caddy: These stoneware jars are so adorable! Each is labeled with an herb name and illustration--includes thyme, rosemary, sage, dill, oregano and parsley--and is capped with a natural cork stopper. Bambeco, $31.11. One bonus idea? A gift subscription to Natural Home & Garden! OK, OK, it's shameless self-promotion, but we're planning tons of fabulous garden content in the coming year, and we'd love to share it with your gardening friends! Natural Home & Garden, $15.
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Angels Fastpitch is looking to fill roster spots for the 2011-2012 season. The team is looking for Sophomores and Juniors to develop and will consider a Senior with Showcase experience that had played on an A or Gold Showcase team. Tryouts are during team practices. Currently there are 3 Fall Showcases on the schedule with the possibility of adding 2 more- depending on SAT attendance - Please call for a tryout as we are currently in Myrtle Beach for the Nationals. This team has graduated players to the DI and DII college level with signed LIT. Currently our 2 seniors are verbally and visiting campuses to make decisions before November. A good number to reach us at is 302-562-2244 you can also a text for an email address.
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strokersix wrote:Played here yesterday. I don't know if it's the city or volunteers or some of each but THANKS! Course is much improved with significant clearing of undergrowth. Thorns and ivy only in play if you kick way off the fairway. Good job.
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Two of West Virginia's Biggest Liars join forces for a night of larger than life tales at the Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University. Jacob Hall of Ripley (Biggest Liar 2016) and James Froemel of Morgantown (Biggest Liar 2015) will take the floor at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, to share stories of renegade possums, disastrous bowling trips and more. The program is family friendly and admission is $5.
Froemel is the winner of the 2015 West Virginia "Biggest Liar" contest and 2015 Ripley WV "Fibbin' on the 4th" competition.
The West Virginia Storytelling Guild, in conjunction with the Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center, is presenting the concert, "What Tales to Tell!" with national storyteller Lynette Ford at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Folklife Center on the campus of Fairmont State University.
Storyteller and spoken word artist, Ellouise Schoettler will perform two programs in April as part of a Celebration of Women's History at Fairmont State University.


text: So the game has begun.. I personally loved the first episode. I see great things coming, I am disappointed with some of the casting choices though. Thought may be can make a list of good and bad casting choices, and see what others think also. Here goes - Great Choices - The Stark children, Lord Eddard, King Viserys, Khal Drogo, Tyrion Lannister, Ser Jorah, Ser Rodrik, Little Finger (still to be seen in action though I liked the previews) Reasonable Choices - Jon Snow (fits the requirements for sure, but does not look as sharp as I had pictured him), Cersei (could have done much better, looks very artificial, but good actress), Jaime (could be better feature wise but he does talk and act like the king-slayer from the book), King Robert (disappointing but still digestible) Poor Choices - The Hound (terrible, makes me fear that the writers have shortened his role in the series), Daenerys (not nearly as regal and Targaryenish, she would spoil my mental image of her), Magister Illyrio, Catelyn Stark (disappointing, but it would easier to hate her later on , Joffrey (where are your pouty lips kid?) These are my opinions only though, and mostly based on the first episode only.


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Scientists Mark Losleben and Connie Woodhouse of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder were examining tree rings in the Eagle area to learn more about historic drought conditions in the region.
The stretch of Church Street located between Third and Second streets, arguably the worst street in Eagle, was getting a major makeover. Retaining walls, sidewalks and a wider roadway were all part of the work.
The Eagle Police Department added two, four-door Jeep Wranglers to its vehicle fleet. "We were looking for a functional, presentable vehicle ... It's important that we need to be able to get where we need to go," said Police Chief Rodger McLaughlin.
SHeDAISY, Darryl Worley and Jaime O'Neal were the headliners for the upcoming Gypsum Daze concert.
Kathleen Denson, a 44-year-old downvalley ranch owner, was facing second-degree murder charges for fatally shooting her ex-boyfriend, Gerald Cody Boyd. Eagle County Judge Terri Diem set a $5 million bond in the case.
Brush Creek resident Arlene Quenon, a fan of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, had the opportunity to sing "Puff the Magic Dragon" with one of the group members at the National Service Corps convention in Salt Lake City. One evening the convention entertainment featured Peter Yarrow, who invited everyone who knew the words to the song to join him. Quenon, together with about 150 audience members, rushed the stage.
The MIPs team took first place in the Flight Days blooperball contest. Team members included Mark Lovell, Katie Lovell, Brett Heicher, Erin Dailey, Mike McDonough, J.T. Taylor, Brett Baughfman, Mindy Shreeve, Chris Gamble, Cody Doig, Tony Powell, Cassie Johnson and Audrey Powell.
Anita Ortiz placed first in the Flight Days Run for the Future 10K with a time of 40:12. Patrick Meehan took first place in the men's 10K with a time of 43:17.
The family of George "Bud" Gates and Margie Gates hosted a 50th wedding anniversary party for the couple at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs.
Fred Kummer, developer of the proposed Adam's Rib Recreation area, presented a project update to the Eagle County Commissioners. Kummer noted Adam's Rib was entering its 22nd year of planning and said his company - HBE Corp. - had invested $23 million in the plan. "I present myself to you today to make sure you didn't think we had dried up and blown away," said Kummer.
Eagle County was contemplating purchase of the Vail-Beaver Creek Jet Center terminal at the county airport.
Construction began on a Stop 'N Save convenience store and gas station in Gypsum.
An annexation petition and zoning plan for the Eagle Ranch development was submitted to the town of Eagle. The plan called for 550 homes, a municipal golf course and an equestrian center.
After a heated meeting with the Citizen's Criminal Justice Center Advisory Committee members, the Eagle County Commissioners voted to increase the number of beds in the proposed new county jail from 34 to 50, with expansion options that would increase build-out jail capacity to 80 beds.
Eagle volunteer firefighters bested their Gypsum counterparts during a friendly competition held at town park.
The Eagle County Title team - including members David Lorig, Tom Foral, Don Foral, Buck Martinez, Bill Cowden and Dewain Burton - took first-place honors in Eagle's Not So Great Race. The race featured running, horseback riding, rafting and biking legs, and the winning team took home a case of champagne as a prize.
The Beasley's Super Foods women's softball team had a 7-0 record. They were followed by Spooky's with a 6-1 record and Kuttin' Korner and Triple H, who both had 4-3 records.
The Eagle Town Board enacted a dog leash law and approved new downtown parking regulations that featured a two-hour time limit for vehicles parked on Broadway.
A new X-ray unit was installed at the Eagle Medical Clinic. The machine was funded by contributions to the Marilla McCain Memorial Fund. McCain was the longtime editor and publisher of the Eagle Valley Enterprise.
A $2.4 million bond issue vote proposed by Eagle County School District was set to go to the voters on July 11. The election called for continuation of a construction program, that included finishing the new Eagle Valley Elementary and Dowd Junction Primary schools. The bond also provided money for construction of a new high school at Dowd Junction and improvements to Eagle Valley Junior-Senior High School in Gypsum.
Anna Marie Hoza of Eagle won third place in the national "It's a Zig-Zag World" sewing contest. She won $100 for her bright green polyester knit jumpsuit that featured a side zipper and zig-zag stitching decorating the front of the garment.
The Eagle Flight Days Queen contest was planned at the Eagle County Fairgrounds, a warm-up to the community celebration. The entertainment for the two-day event included a Square Dance at town park with a picnic supper catered by High's Steak House, a baseball contest, the Little Britches Rodeo and a parade down Broadway. The Flight Days dance was planned at the Eagle School gym.
"Fourteen Boy Scouts from Colorado Springs, members of that council's Sea Scouts and their three adult advisors, learned the hard way that the Eagle River is not to be fooled with when it is running high," the Enterprise reported. Various Scout watercrafts were capsized or smashed into the river banks and four Scouts were reported missing. The four were eventually found marooned on a river island.
Eagle Valley Telephone Company received a $182,000 loan from the Rural Electrification Administration. The money was earmarked for new lines to service the Burns and Wolcott areas.
"Lover Come Back" starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day was the featured movie at the Eagle Theater.
"Continued hot weather and no rainfall in the high and the lower reaches of Eagle County is resulting in an increasing fire hazard and a menace to valuable grazing land and timber," the Enterprise reported. Two fires, ignited by lightning, had been reported near Red Cliff.
Castle Peak Dairy in Eagle expanded its service routes to the McCoy, Sweetwater and Copper Spur areas. The company had a new Chevrolet delivery truck, purchased through Koonce Chevrolet in Eagle.
"The fish are running and not all the tales of big ones are fairy tales," reported the Enterprise. "One of the Carter brothers of Edwards snagged a 73⁄4-pound trout from the Eagle River."
In the first of three fishing contests sponsored by the Izaak Walton League, Castle Peak chapter of Gypsum and Eagle, Alan Orlosky of Gypsum won first place - a casting rod - for hauling in a 3-pound, 10-ounce rainbow. Vince Eicher of Bush Creek won second for a 3-pound, 3-ounce rainbow.
"Notice is hereby given that those desiring sugar for canning purposes shall make application for certificates to the registrars on July 6 and 7," the Enterprise reported. There were 12 official registration offices in the county including the Eagle Community Hall, the Gypsum Ladies Aid Building and the Brett residence in Edwards.
Eagle County's largest group of draftees was set to leave the areas on July 8. There were 35 men in the group. "This quota very nearly exhausted the county's list of Class A1 men," the Enterprise reported.
One of the most disastrous fires in Lake County history destroyed the county courthouse and several commercial buildings located along the 500 block of Harrison Avenue. The cause of the fire was under investigation, but a Leadville resident reported seeing some young boys burning trash in the area.


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Ford to Show Solar-Powered Hybrid at CES
Ford Motor plans to roll out a solar-powered version of its C-Max hybrid compact car during next week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The car uses technology that might remind some people of childhood experiments with a magnifying glass on sunny days.
The C-Max concept car uses solar cells on its roof to charge a range-extending battery instead of plugging into the electrical grid. It also uses specially designed lenses that concentrate the sun's energy on the solar cells like a magnifying glass. As a result, the roof panel gathers much more power than solar panels mounted on some previous cars.
Ford said the concept has the potential to deliver the performance of a plug-in hybrid even when no traditional electrical outlets are available.
Because the show car is based on the C-Max that is already on the market, it seems more likely Ford will eventually offer similar solar systems to consumers.
To focus and concentrate the sun's energy, the show car uses lenses originally developed for lighthouses. The system tracks the sun's position and draws about as much power as it would get from an electrical outlet in four hours.
In the past, solar panels on cars have provided little extra energy relative to their size. Typically they have generated enough power to operate ventilation fans and other accessories, but not enough to drive a vehicle.
With a full charge, the solar version of the C-MAX is expected to have a total range of up to 620 miles including 21 miles on battery power alone-only miles. It can also be plugged into a traditional charging station or wall outlet when needed.


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A Good Plan
Manchin student loan effort is fair
July 5, 2013
The average U.S. college student walks off campus with about $26,500 in student loan debt, much of it in government-subsidized low-interest loans....
I have to agree with you on that one, little buddy! Well said!
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"And you can graduate with a D average which makes me sick."
That is simply not true. You must have a 2.0 not only to graduate but you must maintain a 2.0 for all financial aid, including WVWorks, the program you e spent 2 days post false information about.
I'm not sure what your beef is with welfare but posting inaccurate information does nothing but give the idiots ammo, particularly when it is so completely innacurate as your comments are here.
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We have a Vulcan mindmeld happening lately. Many has morphed into Hamilton Berger. May he have the same record in trying to persuade the jury ( us the reader). BTW the parentheses keys are up and to the left from the bracket keys. Now, no yelling on random occasion would really be civil.
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As anyone who has visited an area emergency room knows, our local hospitals are filled with WVU-P nursing students. I for one have yet to be impressed. Ask any parent if they go to the ER with a sick child do they want a dedicated, skilled nurse who graduated at the top of her class to help them or would they rather have some welfare mama who just managed to slide by with a D average. And you can graduate with a D average which makes me sick.
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I too, like AaronS, attended WVU-P for 3 1/2 years, on a displaced worker, government program. It paid my basic tuition and books. I had to provide all the other additional expences, like housing, transportation, clothing, food, school supplies, medical needs, and an occasional beer, when I was able to afford it. I had to supplement my unemployment benefits with STUDENT LOANS, which required many painful years to payoff. The Giant Corporation that laid me off in the first place, closed our plant here in P-burg and began purchasing inferior cheaper products from China. That Same Giant Corporation today, receives an unknown amount ?? in the BILLIONS in tax subsidies, {WELFARE} from the government. In addition, they MAY {I HAVE NO PROOF} have billions stashed away in foreign accounts to avoid US taxes. You will never hear anyone from the RIGHT WING or JOE MANCHIN denouncing this kind CORRUPTION. They will only attack the "WORKING CLASS" PERSON....
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Janeyre and Baker, If you are going to make such outrageous LIES and CLAIMS regarding the "WELFARE BUMS" at WVU-P. Then at least provide some VERIFIABLE, TRUTHFUL {if you know what that word means} statistical information regarding the percentage of students attending WVU-P on welfare. AND regarding that number, how many are FAILING. Your warped, twisted, mentality like that of RUSH LIMBAUGH, FOX NEWS is pathetic and sickening. Your blind and stupid attacks {LIES} regarding the poor who are attempting to improve their lives is despicable and immoral. YOU, like many of your Right Wing counterparts have absolutely NO SHAME.
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And if I had to guess why the Obama administration is using any student loan profit to cover health care cost, "which by the way is $9 billion over 10 years" Could it be that student need health care too?
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You still did answer the question little buddy "How is the interest rates, on student loans, the "KEY INGREDIENT in the formula of the lie that Obamacare actually reduces the budget deficit." Don't you wants to know the truth
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Anyone who wants to know the truth merely has to look, do a little research and take a look at the sites they Re quoting judiciously. Personally, I first try to look at non-partisan sources such as the CBO. I'll reference sites that link to such sites as well.
The drawback to such sites is the data they interpret. If they are liking at historical information, it's accurate. When looking at future information, they can only consider the parameters given to them.
That is the case with this topic. The $61 billion savings is an estimate. What is not are the percentages. The reconciillation bill uses that percentage in Obamacare.
All of this begs the question as to why the Obama administration is using ANY student loan profit to cover health care cost? Is Obamacare so bad that it cannot stand on its own?
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"manydemocrats" To answer you question, "Why do Right Wingers always LIE and totally distort the truth?" I just don't know! Maybe, because that's all they got
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Now Google: "Obamacare is not being financed by student loan borrowers"
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Google; "Democrats Double Student Loan Rates, Use the Money to Fund Obamacare"
And then you have to ask the question, who said the Democrats Doubled the Student Loan Rates?
I wonder if Rush Limbaugh is a non-partisan hack willing to accept the truth
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This addresses the point I'm trying to make. Instead of funding Pell Grants, the deficit and the largest tax imposed on the American public, the entire $61 billion savings from the federal government seizing control of student loans should be put back into the student loan program.
For the non-partisan hack willing to accept the truth, there is a link to the CBO estimate created during reconciillation when Obamacare, against the desire of the populace, was shoved through Congress.
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Dear manydemocrats, stop attacking Bakercat for speaking the truth. WVU-Pis full of people on welfare. We're not talking about Harvard here. We're talking about WVU-P. No program there is hard to get into! Her comments about the students who are there only to keep their welfare coming in are right on target. If they upset you so much then it must be because it's the truth.
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I've just gotta hear this! How is the interest rates, on student loans, the "key ingredient in the formula of the lie that Obamacare actually reduces the budget deficit." ??
Let me guess, you heard this from Rush Limbaugh?
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As for the interest rate problem, the first issue we have to look at is why the government took over student loans. The reason our lawmakers are concerned with profiting from student loans is because it is a key ingredient in the formula of the lie that Obamacare actually reduces the budget deficit.
If Manchin wants to right the student loan fiasco and prevent the next 'bubble' the first thing he should do is propose a bill to separate student loans from the ACA. From there, figure out the administrative cost of student loans ade vand the interest needed to cover those and set the rates at that level.
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As a displaced worker who returned to school and earned 2 degrees, sat on the Board of Governors and held student government leadership positions, I can tell you the descriptions below are not the norm. While there very well may be some who are returning to school simply to receive welfare benefits, with financial aid and academic progress requirements, if they are in school, they are displaying adequate progress or they are being denied benefits.
As for paying back, in addition to WV Works benefits, most subsidize their tuition with loans that require repayment. Additionally, repayment comes in the form of employment that results in a new taxpayer contributing to society and ends the welfare cycle.
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Baker: Why do you Right Wingers always LIE and totally distort the truth? The Nursing Program at WVU-P {if that's where you're referencing} and all other schools { that I know of} are extremely difficult to get into. I can guarantee you that WVU-P doesn't tolerate the type of FICTIONAL SLACKERS that you describe. I challenge you to PROVE your outrageous LIES with evidence and facts from a reliable source and NOT JUST YOUR IMAGINARY FICTIONAL FRIEND! WHO ALSO IS PROBABLY A LIAR!
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I don't always agree with you Jane - but today I do. Have a friend who just got her nursing degree - she said her classes are full of people being paid by welfare. She said that most are only there for the money -they don't study, pay attention, and generally disrupt the classes. If they had to pay it back or even a portion - maybe they would take it more seriously instead of I just have to be here to get more money from the government.
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Robbing our nation of future brain power because it might cost a few dollars now is penny wise and pound foolish. If America is to compete on a global scale we must have a well educated work force that includes doctors, engineers, teachers, business leaders and bankers. If we follow the advise of this editorial we will not only be buying most of our goods that bare the label "Made in China" but we will need to learn Chinese when we take advantage of Obamacare, or find our selves in need of legal services, or when we will start rebuilding all of the bridges that have fallen in because they are sixty or seventy years old. The mind set of this newspaper and its editorials is at times appalling.
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AGAIN JANEYRE, wants to state her case for forcing "WELFARE BUMS" to re-pay for education benefits as though, these cases of WELFARE EDUCATION is COMMONLY RAMPANT and ABUSED BY THE ""ALL"" of THE "BUMS" on welfare. Which IS NOT THE CASE... There are very strict income eligibility requirements to qualify and maintain like {PASSING GRADES} for the help, that these state programs provide. I don't believe that the "worthy poor" or others, should be singled out and required to continue to live in poverty while re-paying for minimal help from the state. "UNLESS" that education has provided them an employment level {INCOME WISE}is at an affordable wage.
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People who get a college education because they're a welfare mom, recovering drug addict or alcoholic should have to repay they money the taxpayers gave them for their education. Why are we rewarding people who choose to have kids they cannot support or because they have addiction problems by giving them college educations? If we give them free educations then everyone should get them too.
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ARTICLE QUOTE: ""Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has an idea on student loans. He wants to tie interest rates to the financial markets. When the economy is sluggish, interest rates are low. When it picks up, they rise. It is a simple, reasonable idea - yet liberals are lambasting Manchin over it. He and other fiscal conservatives should ignore the political flak and proceed with the plan."" ---- I can assure you that Joe Manchin who inherited millions made by his parents and grand-parents from "WORKING CLASS" coal miners, NEVER had the burden of student loans. This NOW "coal industry MULTI-Millionaire, HERO" calls himself a DEMOCRAT and yet has adopted the policies of the RIGHT WING. SIMPLY PUT, He is trying to play both sides against the middle. AND SOME BLINDLY FALL FOR IT!!!
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The government can't afford to educate our young, but we can afford to send them to two foreign wars? We can afford to bail out the banks? We can afford all the offshore tax havens? I'd think spending money on education should be the least of our worries.
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JANEYRE, YOUR use of the term """WELFARE BUMS""" is very telling and goes to PROVE MY CLAIM of the hate, bias, bigotry, dis-compassionate stinginess, racism and discrimination of YOU PEOPLE, the RIGHT WING/TEA BAGGERS. I didn't state any opposing view that RE-PAYMENT was not a valid suggestion. I did suggest that the program in itself obviously has MERITS and BENEFITS that you people always ignore or attempt to dismiss as waste. In fact, in reality, I and many others, believe that a BASIC COLLEGE EDUCATION should be FREE or GREATLY SUBSIDIZED for all classes of people that have the drive and ambition to ""go get it""...
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There have been nine homicides in Stockton through the first four months of 2013, a 55 percent decrease from the 20 that occurred during the same period a year ago. Incomplete information was included in the print and initial online versions of this story. The error has been corrected online.
STOCKTON - Law enforcement efforts to suppress violent crime in Stockton appear to be working after two of the bloodiest years in the city's history, according to new figures from the Stockton Police Department.
Statistics released Thursday show a dramatic decline in crime over the first four months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, particularly violent crimes such as homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Homicides have fallen by 55 percent from 2012, forcible rapes are down 25 percent, robberies have dropped 20.8 percent and aggravated assaults have dipped 15.8 percent, police said. There have been nine homicides in Stockton through the first four months of 2013, down from the 20 that occurred during the same period a year ago.
"We're very pleased that this year to date, compared to last year to date, crime in all categories is down," Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones said. "The one area that stands out the most to me, of course, is the area where we've been putting the most emphasis, which is violent crime. We're seeing significant reductions in violent crime and homicides.
"However, we know we have a lot of work to do yet. The summer months are coming, and we have to continue to charge forward with our plan targeting illegal guns and gangs. I think this reiterates why it's so important to stay focused in those areas, because firearms violence has been such a driver for our violent crime rate."
Stockton established highs with 58 homicides in 2011 and 71 homicides in 2012. There were 24 homicides in Stockton at this time a year ago. So far this year, there have been 10.
Motor vehicle thefts are up 8.6 percent in a countywide trend, Jones said, but violent crime has dropped 18.1 percent this year and property crime is down 9.2 percent, an overall decline of 11.2 percent, authorities said.
Jones said the Police Department will continue its outreach efforts and interagency partnerships with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, the California Highway Patrol and federal agencies such as the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
"We're not resting on our laurels," he said. "But it's very promising, because it shows that lot of our efforts with Project Ceasefire, the large enforcement actions we've undertaken, and community participation and engagement are all helping."
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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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1. It is clear that Irving has played a pivotal role in keeping the myths of the Dresden attack persistent in the public mind. From the above examination of Irving's account it is clear that this has involved the deliberate falsifying of statistics, mistaking circumstances, misrepresenting testimony, attributing false conclusions to reliable sources, using evidence which he should know to be unreliable or forged, and bending reliable sources to fit his argument in order to arrive at conclusions that are historically untenable. His estimation of the purposes and biases of those compiling historical sources varies not according to the sources themselves, but according to how useful Irving finds them in his attempt to maximise the numbers killed.
2. Irving's overriding purpose has been to drive up the figure of those killed in the raids by any means until it becomes many times greater than the actual number, and begins to achieve implicit comparability with the mass murders carried out by the Nazis at Auschwitz and elsewhere. In the light of his consistent and deliberate falsification of the historical evidence to this end, it was hypocritical of him to ask the Süddeutsche Zeitung, a reputable Munich newspaper, in 1985: 'Is the question of the number of deaths really of consequence?'237, and say to The Times that, 'It is odious to debate whether we killed 200,000 or "only" 35,000 that night.'238
3. Few would now wish to defend the Allied bombing raids on Dresden on 13/14 February 1945. No-one would want to underestimate the terrible cost they wrought in terms of human life and suffering, or ignore the wanton destruction of some of Europe's most beautiful and significant buildings, whose reconstruction is still not complete more than half a century later. But the way to reach a reasoned judgement on these events is not to falsify the evidence, which is already horrifying enough: all that does is to obscure the issues. Irving's manipulations and exaggerations have merely got in the way of a proper discussion of these events, rather than assisting it.
4. Although his inaccuracies and distortions of the truth have long since been exposed, he persists in presenting them to his readers as an accurate depiction of the historical record. Perhaps the best way of dealing with his version of the destruction of Dresden was found in 1985 by his German publishers, who appended to the title page of his book the description, 'a novel'.
236. Videocassette 200: Irving, 'The Search for Truth in History -Banned!' 1993.
237. Doc. 1063, Irving to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 15 February 1985.
238. Doc. 1064, Irving to The Times, 21.2.85 (unpublished).
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19.04.2012 - British researchers have shown for the first time that transplanting photoreceptors into the eyes of blind mice can restore their vision.
London – The findings reported in Nature suggests that transplanting light-sensitive nerve cells that line the back of the eye could form the basis of a new treatment to restore sight in people with degenerative eye diseases including age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and diabetes-related blindness.
The team, led by Professor Robin Ali with researchers at University College London, injected immature cells from young healthy mice directly into the retinas of adult mice that lacked functional rod-photoreceptors. After four to six weeks, the transplanted cells appeared to be functioning almost as well as normal rod-photoreceptor cells and had formed the connections needed to transmit visual information to the brain.
The researchers also tested the vision of the treated mice in a dimly lit maze. Those mice with newly transplanted rod cells were able to use a visual cue to quickly find a hidden platform in the maze whereas untreated mice were able to find the hidden platform only by chance after extensive exploration of the maze.
"We've shown for the first time that transplanted photoreceptor cells can integrate successfully with the existing retinal circuitry and truly improve vision. We're hopeful that we will soon be able to replicate this success with photoreceptors derived from embryonic stem cells and eventually to develop human trials.


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Motorists on Highway 4 near Godahl should expect brief delays beginning Wednesday, Sept. 26, as crews resurface about four miles of highway to the west of Godahl. Traffic will be controlled with flaggers and a pilot car for the duration of the project, which is expected to be complete in a week. Motorists are advised to slow down and drive with caution through the work zone. The contractor on the $662,000 project is Knife River Corporation. The completion of the Highway 4 bridge replacement project north of St. James has been significantly delayed and will likely remain under construction into October.
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Hockey moms and dads whose children play in an East Bay program affiliated with the San Jose Sharks thought no one who ever committed a sex crime and applied to coach would get near their kids because they'd be screened by a criminal background check.
But the California Amateur Hockey Association and Sharks Ice, which runs the Oakland Ice Center rink, let a man coach 9-, 10- and 11-year-old kids even after a background check showed he had been convicted of a sex crime against an underage girl when he was a young man.
It turns out that applicants who have been convicted of sex crimes and are red-flagged can appeal to the hockey association for permission to coach anyway, as the incident at the Oakland Ice Center this past summer illustrated. The Sharks asked Charlie Jones, 29, not to return as coach, but only after a suspicious parent dug further into his background and presented the association's appeal committee with more information.
Both the Sharks and the hockey association say they have since toughened their policies.
"We have a zero-tolerance policy for any type of misconduct that places the safety of children at risk," said Jon Gustafson, vice president of Sharks Ice, insisting his organization will never again allow someone convicted of a sex crime to coach even if the association clears it on appeal.
"Don't think for a minute we haven't learned from this," added Lance Burrow, a San Jose lawyer who serves in a volunteer capacity as the hockey association's general counsel and its "SafeSport" director.
But parents say the incident highlights a troubling gap in laws and procedures meant to ensure their kids' safety, and wonder how many coaches with checkered pasts might be working with kids in other sports programs.
The East Bay incident began in the summer of 2012 when Jones, one of the best hockey players in the men's league, was named head coach of the Squirts. The team plays at the Oakland Ice Center, operated by Sharks Ice managers who name the coaches.
Jones was convicted in 2003 of felony attempted criminal sexual conduct in Michigan. According to a police report, he confessed to picking up two 15-year-old girls, supplying them with alcohol and raping one of them while she was unconscious. After pleading to a lesser "attempted" charge in a plea deal that spared the victim from testifying, Jones was sentenced to probation and ordered to register in Michigan as a sex offender for 25 years.
Burrow said the hockey association was told a "sanitized" version of the story, and admitted the group granted Jones' appeal without doing its own investigation. Meanwhile, most of the Squirts' parents had no idea Jones had even been red-flagged.
One of the team's assistant coaches, parent Jason Dewitt, was initially told by the Sharks Ice hockey director -- who was dating Jones -- that Jones had been convicted only of a minor "misdemeanor" when he was 18, for having consensual sex with a girlfriend who was just a year or two younger. Dewitt said he had no reason to doubt the story at the time.
But this past summer, a rink employee told him Jones had actually been convicted of a more serious offense. Alarmed, Dewitt, who makes his living as a private investigator, called the detective who handled the case in Brownstone, Mich., spoke to the victim's father and obtained copies of the police report and the entire court record.
About seven days after Dewitt informed the Sharks, they asked Jones not to return and fired the hockey director who was romantically involved with him about a month later. Jones and his lawyer declined to comment.
Alameda County prosecutors last summer charged Jones with four felony counts of failing to properly keep up with California sex-registry requirements. But prosecutors dropped those charges after Jones' attorney successfully argued he does not have to register here because California doesn't require registration for the crime he was convicted of in Michigan. His name also no longer appears on the Michigan registry because he moved out of that state. Under Michigan law, sex offenders who move must register in their new state -- unless they benefit from a loophole, like Jones.
Some of the hockey parents accused the hockey association and Sharks of initially dismissing their concerns and even retaliating against Dewitt and another former volunteer coach before asking Jones not to return and toughening their policies.
The Sharks deny the accusations and say they have learned their lesson from the Jones incident.
Despite the evidence Dewitt produced, the hockey association initially refused to ban Jones from coaching in California after the Sharks dropped him. Dewitt had to appeal to USA Hockey, which oversees the state association, to get Jones banned.
Still, a spokesman for USA Hockey rejected the Sharks' new zero-tolerance approach, saying the appeals process is necessary, for instance, in cases where the applicant has a common name and the criminal background check produces someone else's record.
Burrow also said applicants deserve "due process," though the association now realizes it "may" have to do its own investigation next time someone appeals.
"Are we going to do business the same way as before this came along? No," he said. "It's going to change the way we do things going forward."
But other association leaders say they will push for a ban on anyone with a record, except in cases where there's a mix-up and the applicant is not the actual offender.
"If the background check flags something sexual or abuse of children," said Tom Hancock, a board member from northern California, "then as far as I'm concerned, it's, 'Sorry, you're not going to coach for us.'"
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Spring Trend: Pretty in Prints
A swipe of tangerine or fuchsia is awesome. But if you really want to turn heads, wear both... at the same time! Paint lips pink, then tap orange lipstick onto their center to get this two-tone look from the Holly Fulton show.
Kool-Aid-colored streaks are the new highlights. And they require no commitment, thanks to the latest temporary hues--hair spray (spritz areas you want colored), hair chalk (just smudge it onto a section), and hair paint (swipe its glosslike applicator along strands). Stick to one shade (Oscar de la Renta, at left), or get creative and wear several together (Peter Som, above).
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Well, I hate to say "I told you so", but it looks like Adobe has finally revealed that its "open" standard for PDFs was, in fact, a double standard. I've been warning colleagues for years about PDFs and urging them to avoid them in favor of a more truly "open" format, but my arguments tended to fall on deaf ears. Perhaps now that Adobe has refused to allow Microsoft to incorporate "save as PDF" into its new Office suite, I'll have an easier time of it.
I'm a bit curious what the experts here think: What's the closest free alternative to PDF? I work with a lot of librarians who are heavily invested in digital archiving and would like to be able to point them in the right direction.
Maybe DjVu could do the job?
There may be more to this than meets the eye...
See http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/015754.html
Thought generating link
Difficult to know what the real truth is I suppose I must wait until the dust settles a bit.
I think PDF really is an open standard
Recently, the Linux Printing conference favored going to PDF as a standard for the Linux printing system (instead of Postscript).
There is a myth that PDF is proprietary and Postscript is open, but the truth (apparently) is that they have exactly the same legal status. Both were created by Adobe, and both are fully-specified by free design documents. Adobe has patents, but has disclaimed any ability to sue based on them.
Now there is some wiggle room. "PDF" means more than one standard. In particular, the Linux Printing report refered to two international standards based on PDF (I'd have to look up the names, "PDF/X" I think). Anyway, the point was that the full "Adobe Acrobat PDF v5.x" version of PDF included extension that were not regarded as useful for an international data standard, so the standard PDF has those pulled out.
Based on this, it does not, on the surface, sound like Adobe has any legal standing to control who bundles PDF support. But, there may be further details I'm not considering. For example, Adobe may be invoking non-competition clauses in contracts that would only come into play with Microsoft. This may be a reaction to an "embrace and extend" threat.
My instinct is that something's not right or complete about this story.
Free File formats
Which file formats are free, or usable under what terms, or which ones are at least open documented? PDF, Postscript, rtf, MPEG-4, h.264?
It'd be nice to have a trustworthy source, a kind of directory for such things. Unfortunately the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation http://directory.fsf.org/) does only include programs...
Open Standards Definition
First of all, you have to define what an open standard is, and that can be tricky, because there's a lot of fuzzy areas.
Secondly, the biggest threat against standards are patents (software patents). These are doubly tricky, because of so-called "submarine patent" strategies: Unisys waited until GIF was established as an international standard for graphics interchange, before deciding to enforce their patent, and the same tactic is being attempted for JPEG (though I think they are losing that battle). I think this is unethical and ought to be illegal, but it's not.
But yes, some kind of listing would be a good community service.
I really admire Adobe's
I really admire Adobe's perseverance to give the best program/software they can give to the users same as Apple want. But I was surprised to know that the OS 4.0 iPhone won't run Adobe flash. Though it's tempting to mock Apple zealots who got payday cash advances to get in line to buy their new trinket and won't stop slobbering, it doesn't do everything Droid Does! Here I thought the purpose behind smart phones was flexibility and functioning as a PC and cell phone at once. The sooner Adobe and Apple get over their respective beefs, the better it could be for everybody.


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FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution says it's been awarded $5.2 million this year to support research on a critical component of ocean health — marine microbes.
The money from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is helping fund three projects that aim to promote better understanding of an abundant organism with a complex but largely unknown role in the ocean ecosystem.
The institution notes there are more microbes in a bucket of seawater than there are people on Earth. The creatures are responsible for chemical reactions that drive the planet's marine biogeochemical cycles. But it's unclear why or how groups of microbes interact and the consequences of those actions.
The research at Woods Hole on Cape Cod aims to develop a basic understanding of how the microbes contribute to ocean health and productivity.
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SFR announcement wrote: Yet, ANOTHER up-and-coming rapper out of the Twin Cities.
Seriously, what the hell do those people have in their tap water?
His latest album is called "This Will Work for Now"
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prolific memorie wrote: I was talking about the lack of music of a certain genre fucker.
Sorry!!!! about abrasiveness, i'm just not in the mood, so to speak.
I know i miss-read shit all the time.
prolific memorie wrote: Yea ,and something people don't seemto understand about the south, is when its 20here, its seeps in your bone marrow and freezes it because of the humidity.
But sorry i popped off like that.
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Adopters Learn about Their Feline Preferences and ThemselvesThe Cat Adopter Survey identifies adopter preferences, expectations, and lifestyle that correspond to characteristics measured in the Feline-ality Assessment. Adopters can complete the one-page survey in a few minutes. Its tone is lighthearted and upbeat (think magazine quiz, not college application).Adopters enjoy completing the survey and finding out what "color" they are:
A color-coded guest pass in hand, adopters can introduce themselves to cats whose cage cards identify them as green, orange, or purple. Adopters aren't required to choose a cat with a certain Feline-ality—love at first sight often happens. But the Feline-ality Assessment enables adopters to be prepared for their new love's response to their new home. The cat is then able to adjust to his/her new home without alarming or disappointing the adopter.


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Part D: Where the savings really come from
Part D: Where the savings really come from
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Reading Matthew Yglesias' post in Slate on Thursday about why Medicare Part D costs less than predicted, I found his argument a bit odd. Without citing any sources, he asserted that the cost savings in this program have occurred due to a slowdown in the manufacturing of new drugs. I'd respectively disagree on two fronts. First, innovation is alive and well in medicine. In FY2012, 39 new medicines were approved by the FDA. More than 300 innovative medicines have been approved in just the past decade - many of which are first in class drugs for which there were previously few, in any, treatment options. Check out our medicines in development reports to learn more about the cutting-edge medicines that are in development.
Secondly, independent sources back up the fact that it's a market-based structure coupled with generic utilization that has allowed Part D to be so successful. Even the GAO has reported that Part D plans lower costs for beneficiaries - lower premiums, deductibles, and copays - "through their ability to negotiate prices with drug manufacturers and pharmacies." Four of our five Part D prescriptions are generic and this is reflective of the lifecycle of a medicine - not lack of innovation. Cost savings are possible because innovative biopharmaceutical research companies provide investment and research into new medicines and, over time, these lead to generic copies. Without the innovative new medicines, there would not be the generic versions that patients use at lower cost for many years. If you're curious to learn more, check out this video on a medicine's lifecycle.
By increasing access to medicines, Part D helps reduce Medicare spending on other more expensive medical services. According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the implementation of Part D was followed by a $1,200 decrease in nondrug medical spending in the second year of the program among beneficiaries who had limited to no prior drug coverage. These savings, coupled with the fact that 11 million seniors gained comprehensive prescription drug coverage, implies an overall savings of $13.4 billion on other Medicare services in 2007, the first full year of the program.
How can you deny that the market-based structure isn't a key element of Part D's success?


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On April 15th, 2012 Arbor Snowboard's FACE/OFF event was held at Boreal Mountain Resort. With the DJ blasting music on the sideline, contestants registered for a chance to compete for the $1,000 prize purse. It was a clash of amateur shred individuals who wanted a shot at the cash winnings. Some of the riders included the defending champ from last year's FACE/OFF event, Erik Leon, along with Ben Ross, Kai Wiggens, Colton Morgan, Alex Hereford, Jeremy (Lemi) Landy, Jordan Welter and other standouts. All riders were on a mission to show their snowboarding skills to impress the judges in order to advance to the next rounds. The first round was an open jam format with sixteen semi-finalists who were advanced to play games of S.N.O.W. The contestants were knocked out one by one in semi-finals as the tricktical maneuver difficulties increased, and it narrowed down to four finalists. The battle for first place was between the last two competitors, Kai Wiggens and Colton Morgan. After multiple rebates trying a backside 270 to fakie, the trick was finally landed by Colton Morgan, earning him $600 and making him the winner of Arbor Snowboard's FACE/OFF event. Thanks to everyone coming out and making the event fun, and thanks to the event sponsors that made it possible: Arbor, Red Bull, Boreal Mountain Resort, Electric Visual, Flux Bindings, Sessions, Aerial7, Sand Box Helmets, Arnette and Elm Company. Men: 1st: Colton Morgan 2nd: Kai Wiggens 3rd: Jeremy (Lemi) Landy 4th: Erik Leon Women: 1st: Kate Barrett Judges included: Sean Black, Nick Visconti, Scotty Vine, Sammy Spiteri, Brandon Hammid and Eli Weiner. (Here is the order of tricks that went down in the final game of S.N.O.W.: Frontside lipslide, nollie back lip, switch frontside boardslide, switch backside boardslide, frontside 270, hardway backside 270, switch backside 270, switch frontside nosepress, and the winning trick, backside 270 to fakie.) The event is dedicated to the memory of legendary terrain park builder, Miah Peably who worked with Snow Summit, Bear Mountain, Mountain High, Northstar and Snow Park Technologies building parks for world class events including the Dew Tour, Winter X Games and countless high profile film and photos shoots. Words:Scotty Vine Photos: Kyle BeckmannRead More


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Small oyster grounds to close
Published: Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 8:23 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 8:23 p.m.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has announced oyster season for specific public grounds will close after sunset Saturday.
Lake Chien and Lake Felicity Public Oyster Seed Grounds in Terrebonne Parish are set to close as well as the harvest of seed oysters for bedding purposes in the Hackberry Bay Public Oyster Seed Reservation in Jefferson and Lafourche parishes. Hackberry Bay will still remain open for sacking purposes.
"They are normally only open three days to allow seed, sack and market harvest," said Mike Voisin, owner of Motivatit Seafood in Houma. "The grounds are fairly new. As time goes on, they will expand harvesting time."
The small oyster public grounds are just starting out, so they are closed early compared to the fully developed public grounds around the state.
Patrick Banks, who does patrol protection for Wildlife and Fisheries, said the grounds in Lake Chien, Lake Felicity and Hackberry Bay were open for six days, double the amount they usually leave them open for.
"We have a very small amount of resource here. It's typical for Hackberry to be open for six days. The fact that we were able to get six days (out of Lake Chien and Lake Felicity) is a good thing," Banks said.
Voisin said the grounds provided what was a healthy yield for their size, and now oystermen can use the larger grounds to continue their harvesting.
"The secretary decided it was time to close based upon the biologists' reports, and the oyster community supports it. They felt that was the manageable amount of resources at the time," Voisin said.
The seasons are set by the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission at either its August or September meeting each year. Officials base the season on the results of an annual assessment done in July. The boat reports entail how much the biologists think each grounds will yield. Those results usually help officials determine a good time to end the season.
The oyster industry looks as though it will not take a hit with these grounds being closed, officials said. There will be many other larger oyster grounds that will remain open for oystermen to use.
"In Terrebonne, Bay Junop is open. Down in Barataria Basin, Little Lake is open. Most all of the southern area of Plaquemines is open. The Mississippi stateline all the way to the Mississippi River Gulf outlet is open as well," Banks said.
For oyster lovers, Voisin said not to fret. There will still be a good amount of oysters on the market for the holidays.
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Polymeric microspheres
One controlled-release technique suitable for biopharmaceuticals is based on polymeric microspheres. In this method, manufacturers use polymers to construct a biodegradable matrix within which a drug can be encapsulated. By choosing polymers with the proper characteristics, and by modifying the matrix properties, manufacturers can establish the desired release profile for the drug. Biodegradable microsphere systems can deliver peptides, proteins, nucleic-acid-based drugs, and even small molecules, says Ramin Darvari, senior principal scientist for novel delivery technologies at Pfizer.Drugmakers can form the microspheres by creating oil–water emulsions. The process uses an immiscible aqueous–organic solvent system that formulators can design to accommodate various presentations of the drug compound, including aqueous solutions and dry particles. "Although traditional emulsion-based processes rely on exerting high shear on the system to generate the desired particle-size distribution, recent advances in emulsion-based particle-engineering processes have made it possible to achieve more precise control of the particle-size distribution" without the high shear that could denature a therapeutic protein, says Darvari.
Manufacturers must extract solvents such as methylene chloride and ethyl acetate from the emulsion to form the particles and remove the residual solvent through freeze-drying or spray-drying. An alternative approach to avoid solvents is to use hot-melt encapsulation to create microspheres for heat-tolerant molecules.
Manufacturers can choose among various synthetic and natural biodegradable polymers to create injectable microspheres. Most often, formulators opt for synthetic polymers, such as polyesters, poly(orthoesters), polyanhydrides, and polyphosphazenes, says Darvari.
In particular, the poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) family of polyester copolymers is used extensively in drug delivery. PLGA might have some undesirable attributes, however. The compound exhibits bulk degradation, rather than surface degradation, which fosters the formation of the polymer's acidic degradation byproducts, lactic acid and glycolic acid. These byproducts, in turn, reduce the pH of the microenvironment within the matrix. This effect might cause drug degradation within the matrix, as well as irritation and discomfort at the site of injection, says Darvari. This problem can be mitigated by adding buffering or neutralizing agents to the formulation, thus allowing PLGA to be used safely and successfully in controlled-release injectables.


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SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco restaurant says it is receiving angry calls and emails from members of the public who have confused it with a Monterey restaurant that recently drew news coverage for its ban on noisy children.
The owners of San Francisco's Fishermen's Grotto say they are in no way affiliated with Monterey's Old Fisherman's Grotto, which drew widespread news coverage this week for its controversial policy banning crying or noisy children from its dining hall.
"We love kids and the families that bring them," said Anthony Geraldi, a partner in the San Francisco restaurant and great-grandson of the restaurant's founder, Mike Geraldi.
The Monterey restaurant's policy, posted on its web site, does not explicitly ban children altogether, but states "No strollers, no high chairs, no booster chairs. Children crying or making loud noises are a distraction to other diners, and as such are not allowed in the dining room."
The policy appears to have been in place for several years, according to multiple news reports.
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(B) Suppression of relevant evidence: the Eberstein testimony and the Goebbels speech in the Old Town Hall
1. Irving' tries to suggest that Goebbels did not know about the pogroms in Kassel and Dessau until after he had spoken to Hitler at the dinner in the Old Town Hall. This would reinforce his claim that Hitler was not involved. In his pleading in the case, Irving suggests that the diary entry for the previous day, 8 November, in which Goebbels first mentions the demonstrations in Hesse, was written up not the following morning (which would have proved Goebbels knew about them on 9 November) but at a later date.
2. But this is completely irrelevant. The diary entry for 9 November, quoted above, demonstrates that Goebbels knew about the pogroms in Kassel and Dessau before he had dinner with Hitler and that they were the subject of the two men's discussion before Hitler left the Old Town Hall. Indeed, the attacks were reported in the morning issue of the Nazi Party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, of 9 November, which Goebbels would certainly have read and authorized.
3. Irving completely fails to mention the report of the Munich police chief Eberstein, whose testimony he uses in other instances, of Hitler's intense discussions with Goebbels at the dinner, after supposedly receiving the news of vom Rath's death.14 These discussions between Hitler and Goebbels are also reported by several other witnesses used by Irving in his account.15 By suppressing this well-known piece of testimony, Irving reinforces the impression given in his book that Hitler was not involved in Goebbels's encouragement to the local party leaders present in the Old Town Hall to repeat the excesses in Kassel and Dessau in the rest of Germany. Irving continues to suggest that Hitler left the dinner in total ignorance by claiming that only after Hitler had left the Old Town Hall in Munich did Goebbels decide, on an ad-hoc basis, to incite the Nazi leaders present to give orders to start the pogrom. After Hitler left, Irving claims, Gauleiter Rudolf Jordan
now told Goebbels of widespread anti-Jewish violence in Magdeburg. According to Bormann's adjutant Heim, Goebbels seemed taken aback by this: things were getting out of hand and the carefully propagated image of German law and order was taking a battering. Deciding to make a virtue out of necessity...[Goebbels] announced the death of the German diplomat and the anti-Jewish incidents...The local British consulate learned that he also said that Jews were now fair game and that 'the SA could do anything to them short of looting and plundering'.16
4. This account is highly suspicious on three counts. First, there is no indication in the Goebbels diary that Goebbels was at all concerned about the sporadic anti-Jewish violence which had taken place over the preceding days, and of which he was well aware. For instance, in his diary entry on 9 November 1938 (describing the events of the previous day), Goebbels noted: 'Big antisemitic demonstrations in Hesse. The synagogues are burned down. If only one could now unleash the people's fury!'17 Thus, not only did he have no worries about the local violence undermining the propaganda image of Germany, he was even hoping that the 'people's fury' could be unleashed on a wider scale. Goebbels certainly made no sudden decision to start a pogrom after Hitler had left the dinner.
5. Secondly, the reason why it was on the evening of 9 November 1938 that Goebbels held the speech aimed at unleashing the 'people's fury' was not because he had just received news about what happened in Magdeburg, but because he had evidently received Hitler's general permission to do so. As will be remembered, Goebbels noted in his diary that before Hitler had left the dinner in the Old Town Hall, he told Goebbels: 'Let the demonstrations go on. Withdraw the police. The Jews must for once feel the people's fury'.18 Hitler's involvement in the decision-making process is confirmed by another contemporary source, the investigation of the Supreme Nazi Party Court into the pogrom already mentioned above. According to the court's report, Goebbels told the Nazi officials in the Old Town Hall about the anti-Jewish demonstrations in Hesse and Magdeburg-Anhalt, adding: 'On his briefing, the Führer had decided' that such demonstrations should not be stopped. Goebbels is extremely unlikely to have lied to an audience of Nazi officials about an order from Hitler if that order had not actually been issued. Irving is familiar with this source.19 Yet, this key part of Goebbels speech on 9 November 1938 is entirely omitted by Irving in Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich'. This amounts to a serious suppression of relevant historical evidence. Only by suppressing this information can Irving later claim that the Supreme Court inquiry left little doubt about Goebbels's 'sole personal guilt'.20
6. Third, the account given by Gauleiter Jordan in his memoirs of his conversation with Goebbels is totally at odds with Irving's description of this conversation. According to Jordan, after Hitler had left the dinner on 9 November 1938,
I went after a while to Goebbels and reported to him on the two Magdeburg occurrences. He looked at me mockingly and said: "Don't trouble your thoughts with these little miniature outrages. From other areas I have similar and more exciting reports...That is just the very first beginning. The German people still have enough sense of honour to hand out a very different answer to Jewry after the cowardly terror-murder. Just you wait five more minutes. Then I will take a position on the subject.."21
7. Thus, according to Jordan's own recollections, Goebbels was by no means taken aback. On the contrary, it had already been decided that Goebbels would give a speech and incite the Nazi officials present to unleash the 'people's fury' on a wider-scale.
8. In the light of all this evidence, therefore, it is clear that Irving's claim that Goebbels only decided to unleash the pogrom after Hitler had left the dinner at the Old Town Hall, a claim which Irving puts forward in order to absolve Hitler from responsibility for the pogrom, and can only be maintained on the basis of manipulation and suppression of the historical record.
14. Der Prozess gegen the Hauptkriegsverbrecher, Vol. XX, p. 320.
15. R. Jordan, Erlebt und Erlitten (Leoni, 1971), pp. 180-181; lfZ, Zs 251/I, Niederschrift der Unterredung des früheren SA-Obergruppenführers Max Jüttner mit Dr. Freiherr von Siegler am 2.4.1952.
16. Irving, Goebbels, p. 274.
17. E. Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebucher von Joseph Goebbels, Vol. I/6 (Munich, 1998), p. 178: "In Hessen große antisemitische Kundgebungen. Die Synagogen werden niedergebrannt. Wenn man jetzt den Volkszorn einmal loslassen könnte!'
18. E. Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Vol. I/6 (Munich, 1998), p. 180.
19. Irving, Goebbels, p. 613, note 37.
20. Irving, Goebbels, p. 196.
21. R. Jordan, Erlebt und Erlitten (Leoni, 1971), p. 181: 'ging ich nach einer Weile zu Goebbels und berichtete ihm von den beiden Magdeburger Vorfällen. Er sah mich spöttisch an und meinte: "Machen Sie sich über diese kleinen Miniaturausschreitungen keinerlei Gedanken. Aus anderen Gauen liegen ähnliche und auch aufregendere Berichte vor... Das ist erst der allererste Anfang. Das deutsche Volk hat noch so viel Ehrbewulßtsein, um nach dem feigen Terrormord dem Judentum eine ganz andere Antwort zu erteilen. Warten Sie noch fünf Minuten. Dann werde ich zu dem Thema Stellung nehmen".'
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