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Location: Warrensburg, Missouri
Website: http://www.ucmo.edu
Type: Public
Federal Circuit: 8th Circuit
University of Central Missouri has been given the speech code rating Red. A red light university has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. Read more here.
Red Light Policies
UCM's Guide to Good Decision-Making: Digital Citizenship
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
Responsible digital citizens do not give out too much personal information online, misrepresent or negatively represent themselves through social media, or use digital resources for hateful rhetoric that is insensitive to the beliefs, cultures or differences of others. …
UCM is committed to supporting students when they are faced with assaults or attacks that might limit their ability to participate in the digital community or reach their academic potential. Digital citizens should understand that attacking someone psychologically, through misuse of social media or other forms of cyber-bullying, is just as inappropriate and unacceptable as a physical attack. Students who believe they are being cyber-bullied should seek assistance from hall staff or the Office of Student Experience and Engagement.
UCM's Guide to Good Decision-Making: Assault, Intimidation & Bullying
Speech Code Category: Bullying Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
[A]ny form of intimidation, harassment or bullying (including online harassment through socia media) cannot go unchallenged. Using any form of technology to intentionally create stress or impede the academic or social experiences of another student is not acceptable.
Bullying has been the subject of considerable public discussion and is often misunderstood. There is a difference between experiencing mean behavior and experiencing bullying. While both are inappropriate in a civil campus community, bullying occurs when a person is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty defending himself or herself.
Bullying is unwantedaggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:
- An Imbalance of Power: Students who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people.
- Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once
Aggressive behavior may be intentional or unintentional, direct or indirect. It can take many forms, including verbal, social and physical
- Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean or derogatory things or threatening to cause harm. Verbal bullying may include name calling, mocking, insults, threats, and sexist, racist, homophobic, or transphobic comments.
- Social bullying, sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone's reputation or relationships. Social bullying may be subtle and may involve such behaviors as gossiping, spreading rumors, excluding others from a group, humiliating others with public gestures or graffiti, and shunning or ignoring. Social aggression may also occur through the use of technology (e.g., spreading rumors, images, or hurtful comments through the use of e‐mail, cell phones, text messaging, Internet websites, social networking, or other technology).
- Physical bullying involves hurting a person's body or possessions and may include hitting, pushing, slapping, and tripping.
The university takes bullying very seriously and does not condone any behavior that compromises the educational opportunities of others.
UCM's Guide to Good Decision-Making: The Right to Non-Discrimination, Equal Access, and Fair Treatment
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: September 21, 2015
The Central Community is a JUST community and students are expected to participate in ways that are ethical,honest, equitable, trustworthy, civil, and respectful.
As members of this diverse learning community, students have the responsibility to treat others equitably, to refrain from hateful discourse, to be civil, and to resolve disputes constructively.
Students who engage in rhetoric or actions that demean individuals or groups are not well suited to the academic environment. Such behavior is antithetical to learning and may actually compromise the educational opportunities of others. Consequently, for the greater good of the learning community, individuals who engage in hateful rhetoric or discriminatory behaviors may be held accountable in a manner consistent with their rights as citizens under state and federal law.
Campus Posting Procedure
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
The intent of this policy is to provide the University of Central Missouri students, faculty and staff with maximum opportunity and space to advertise approved events, products, services, etc. at designated locations throughout the campus on bulletin boards or similar devices.
Offensive, obscene, inflammatory advertising, etc. will not be permitted or tolerated.
Discrimination and Harassment: Procedures for Reporting and Investigation Complaints
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
Harassment: Unwelcome verbal, nonverbal or physical conduct based on age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, handicap/disability or genetic information that has the purpose or effect of creating a hostile campus environment. Harassment may include, but is not limited to:
• offensive jokes;
• slurs;
• epithets;
• name calling;
• physical assaults or threats;
• offensive touching;
• intimidation;
• ridicule;
• mockery;
• insults or put-downs;
• offensive objects or pictures;
• graffiti; or
• subjecting a person or persons of a protected class to repeated criticism or verbal abuse but not doing so to similarly situated non-class members.
Public Speech Activities Policy
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
For the purposes of this policy "public speech activities" may include demonstrations (individual or collective), picketing, distribution of leaflets/publications, sit-ins, marches, mass gatherings and all other similar gatherings.
Members of the university community, visitors and/or guests planning to hold or sponsor a public speech activity should provide the Office of Public Safety with notification of the desired time, location, expected attendance of the activity, the type of activity planned and at least 24 hours advance notice of the activity.
UCM's Guide to Good Decision-Making: Housing Policies
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
Student room doors facing the hallway and windows facing the exterior of the building are considered public space and must be clear of any offensive materials at all times. The staff has the right to remove offensive material from this public space; it will then be returned to the resident.
Acceptable Use Guidelines
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
It is a violation of University policy to access the university's electronic information system when the purpose of such access is to convey misinformation, defamatory material, or intimidating, threatening, pornographic, discriminatory, or disruptive messages.
Demonstrations and Mass Gathreings
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
In some instances it may be the desire of some students or other individuals to express their views and make their opinions known through the process of orderly demonstration. The primary responsibility of the University is to maintain conditions conducive to the effective conduct of academic affairs and to the preservation of dignity of public events and ceremonies. Campus demonstrations:
- Must be scheduled a minimum of 48 hours in advance with the Public Safety Office.
- Must be conducted in an orderly manner with areas used to be left in a state identical to that which it was in previous to usage.
- Must not interfere in any way with vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
- Must not interfere with classes, scheduled meetings, ceremonies, activities, or other educational or operational processes of the University.
- May not be held within University buildings or any outdoor facility when University functions are in process therein.
- Individuals or groups with a past history of interrupting the academic processes the University will be denied a reservation to hold a demonstration on campus. Demonstrations include but are not limited to such activities as picketing, distribution of leaflets, and the presence of persons for the general purpose of registering sentiment and opinion.
Participation in mass gatherings that are considered to be disorderly and/or unlawful will subject a student to possible disciplinary action as severe as suspension from the University. Only a few students intentionally get involved in mob misconduct, but many so-called "spectators" get drawn into a disturbance and by their very presence contribute to the dimensions of the problems. It must be understood that the University considers anyone, whether actively involved or spectator, to be a participant subject to full enforcement of the law and University regulations when he/she is in violation of the laws or policies as an individual or as a member of a crowd.
UCM's Guide to Good Decision-Making: Student Rights and Responsibilities
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: September 21, 2015
UCM provides all students with a strong liberal arts and sciences foundation and strives to instill in each of them the importance of freedom of expression and inquiry.
Title IX: Sexual Violence/Sexual Misconduct
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 21, 2015
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, including sexual violence. Sexual harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Stalking, bullying and/or cyber-bullying may also be forms of sexual harassment.
Possible examples of harassment: …
- A student repeatedly sends sexually oriented jokes around on an email list they created, even when asked to stop, causing one recipient to avoid the sender on campus and in the residence hall in which they both live.
Missouri Colleges Could Be Punished For Stifling Student Speech Under Legislation
January 15, 2015
By Matt Lamb at The College Fix Missouri could become the second state in the nation to give college students broad rights to express themselves on campus without the maze of restrictions and permits typically required for demonstrations. The Campus Free Expression Act, introduced by Republican lawmakers in the state house and senate, deems outdoor areas of public universities "traditional public forums" that are protected by the First Amendment – in effect, eliminating "free speech zones." Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, signed into law the same protections for Virginia students last spring. That bill passed both houses of the […]» Read More
FIRE Report Finds Very Restrictive Speech Codes at American Universities
January 21, 2014
by Alec Torres The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released its annual report on college-campus speech codes last week finding that while the percentage of colleges that seriously infringe upon students' free-speech rights has diminished in recent years, many universities still burden students with overbearing and sometimes ridiculous speech regulations. Here's a look at some of the most egregious speech codes that FIRE found: The University of Connecticut requires that "every member of the University shall refrain from actions that intimidate, humiliate, or demean persons or groups, or that undermine their security or self-esteem." At Athens State University in Alabama, […]» Read More
Speech Code of the Month: University of Central Missouri
November 12, 2014
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for November 2014: the University of Central Missouri. While restrictive speech codes are on the decline nationwide, the University of Central Missouri (UCM) adopted several new, unconstitutional speech codes last year—a move that earned UCM FIRE's worst, "red light," rating for severely restricting students' free speech rights. One of those new policies is found in the "Student Rights and Responsibilities" section of UCM's Guide to Good Decision-Making (PDF). Pursuant to the "Right to Non-Discrimination, Equal Access, and Fair Treatment" (PDF), students can face unspecified consequences for constitutionally protected speech if someone else […]» Read More


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Regulator Laments Role of Largest Mortgage Lenders
The U.S. mortgage industry has become too concentrated in the hands of a few large players, a leading housing regulator said Tuesday, expressing a concern many small lenders are voicing as regulators consider how to overhaul the nation's mortgage system.
Speaking at a conference held in Washington by the National Association of Realtors, Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said policy makers should be mindful of this trend as they enact mortgage rules required by the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, and other changes.
"I'd like to see the mortgage market of the future become more competitive than it is today," said Mr. DeMarco, whose agency regulates mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "We have seen a great deal of concentration in mortgage origination and in mortgage servicing in recent years."
The growing concentration in the hands of large lenders has come at the "expense of small and local banks and thrift institutions that have both local market knowledge and direct and multiple relationships with borrowers," Mr. DeMarco said.
The largest four lenders — Wells Fargo & Co, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, U.S. Bancorp and Bank of America Corp. — had a 54% share of new mortgage loans in the first quarter of this year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, a trade publication.
By comparison, the top four lenders making loans in 2006 had a 42% market share. The increase was driven by the growth of Wells Fargo & Co., the largest U.S. lender with a 34% market share early this year.
Regulators are writing several rules needed to implement the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, and many small lenders are concerned that these rules could be especially burdensome for smaller players. In his speech to the National Association of Realtors, Mr. DeMarco said policymakers need to consider this issue, and examine ways to reverse the trend.

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Screams on Screen
Horror films generally share common elements (some measure of blood and fear of death and/or dismemberment), but through the decades, explains Associate Professor of English Beth Younger, these creepy flicks reveal changing attitudes about gender roles in our society. They remain popular, however, for a more visceral reason: "It's fun to be scared."
Screen a Halloween celebration of cinema with Younger's suggested lineup (and her analysis):
Halloween A movie ostensibly about a crazed killer who preys on sexually active young women, it's more a narrative about how absent parents and hapless adults are ineffective tools against a man with a mission. The major lesson of John Carpenter's 1978 low-budget film: Girls don't need anyone to save them; they can save themselves.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Sure, Leatherface is terrifying (he has a chainsaw!), but the scariest aspect of Tobe Hooper's 1974 slasher film is the prospect of living in a house without women. TCSM is truly a nightmare for its heroine: Sally literally leaps through windows to avoid the family dinner. Twice.
28 Days Later Danny Boyle's 2002 introduction of fast zombies to the genre was controversial, especially because the zombies are not real zombies. A contagion narrative that turns into a romance.
Teeth Best film ever about the utter failure of abstinence-only sex education. Best line: "It's true, it's true—Vagina Dentata!"
Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero's 1968 classic about zombies who want to eat you. But really, are the zombies that scary in contrast to the two men fighting over control of the farmhouse? It's a power struggle over differing versions of masculinity.


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If you subscribe to or frequently check out Raleigh's News & Observer, you probably saw the featured Sunday story that looked at casino gambling in Cherokee as well as the coming expansions and the efforts to introduce more of the same in South Carolina under the banner of the Catawba tribe. It was a good and well-written story — as far as it went.
Unfortunately, here's the one hugely important item that you didn't see anywhere in the lengthy and quite-thoroughly illustrated story: Any mention whatsoever of the the way that large and predatory gambling corporations exploit Native American tribes along with a huge proportion of the customers who visit the casinos.
One would think it might have occurred. After all, one of the Cherokee customers interviewed for the story admitted that he frequents Cherokee "42-44 weekends a year." Good lord, what's next? An upbeat profile of a regular slot machine player who shares a cheap hotel room with seven other people and frequents the local blood bank?
Not that it would be hard to find out the truth about the predations of the casino industry or the tribes and individuals it exploits. Les Bernal, the longtime executive director of the national nonprofit Stop Predatory Gambling (a group that does great work bringing together liberal and conservative gambling opponents) has been in North Carolina multiple times — including this summer — to speak out against the effort to create a Catawba Nation casino. Moreover, SPG's website is chock full of stories and analyses detailing the disasters that predatory casino gambling typically begets. This is from a section devoted to Native American casinos: Read more


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If You're Thinking of Living In/Fieldston; A Leafy Enclave in the Hills of the Bronx
By NANCY BETH JACKSON
Published: February 17, 2002
ENTERING Fieldston, a woodsy enclave in the northwest Bronx, is like following Alice down her rabbit hole. In this world, streets defy the city grid, following the natural contours of rock outcroppings and hillside. Tudor mansions, Dutch colonials and Mediterranean bungalows cozy into the landscape, sometimes squarely facing the street and occasionally tucked in sideways. Trees here are treated like treasures, kept alive at almost any cost and, in one case, even allowed to grow through a slate-roofed cottage.
Once a private hunting preserve, Fieldston bills itself as a ''residential park'' with 257 houses on a 140-acre tract, skirted on the west and north by the Henry Hudson Parkway. No guards at gates bar entry, but its property owners' association has been able to block commercial traffic, driver's training, on-street parking and the Riverdale Ramble road race.
''What I like is the sense of coherence, that this is a planned community,'' said Bernard L. Stein, the editor of The Riverdale Press. Mr. Stein, now a Fieldston resident, grew up in an apartment house a few blocks away but stalked squirrels with a bow and arrow in the community's woods as a boy in the 1950's.
Until the IRT subway reached 242nd Street and Broadway in 1908, the land was a forest of oaks, elms and chestnuts broken only by a few paths down the hill to Broadway. Even today, foliage is so dense that vegetable gardening is all but impossible. For most of the 19th century, the property belonged to the family of Maj. Joseph Delafield, a veteran of the War of 1812 who established a lime quarry and kiln near the Hudson River.
Abundant game in the eastern part of his 310-acre parcel, including the highest point in the Bronx, spurred him to build a hunting lodge near what is now 246th Street and Independence Avenue. After the Civil War, his son built an elegant summer home near the lodge, naming the mansion Fieldston Hill, supposedly after the family's ancestral estate in England.
With modern transportation bringing the city so near, the major's three grandsons decided to develop their forest primeval.
They began their development cautiously, raising money by selling a few acres in 1909 to Columbia University's Teachers College for a laboratory school that would become Horace Mann School, one of three private schools in or near Fieldston. Hiring an engineer to lay out the winding streets and broad boulevards and refusing to sell any residential plot adjoining one already sold, they were able to open up meandering streets while encouraging a pastoral mood.
Just as important in establishing Fieldston's special character was the arrival of Dwight James Baum, who had chanced to hear about the development in 1914 in a water-cooler conversation at the Manhattan architectural firm where he was a young associate. Intrigued, he trekked up to meet with Edward Delafield and soon he was designing homes for Fieldston -- and living there. The Delafield home that he remodeled into a Georgian mansion was destroyed by fire in 1994, but his own home, Sunnybank, still stands at 5001 Goodridge Avenue.
''For over a quarter of a century, Dwight James Baum designed dozens of Fieldston's homes, imparting a coherence and quality that the neighborhood would otherwise have lacked,'' Mr. Stein wrote in 1998, on the 75th anniversary of the Fieldston Property Owners Association. The association was set up to oversee the development after the Delafield family liquidated its holdings in 1923.
What all the Baum houses had in common was intent. Baum designed the exterior first, striving to create the most beautiful house regardless of architectural style. Only later did he worry about the floor plan.
Fiorello H. La Guardia, a three-time mayor of New York, lived and died at 5020 Goodridge Avenue. When he read the comics over the radio so no children would be disappointed during the citywide newspaper strike of 1945, the microphone was in his Fieldston library.
Henry Heide Jr., who made Jujyfruit, Jujubes and Gummi Bears, headed the Fieldston owners association during the Depression. Sidney Gamble of Procter & Gamble lived in an enormous stone house on Fieldston Road, sold by his widow in the 1990's. After World War II, Richard Simon, founder of Simon & Schuster, bought a Georgian red-brick Baum house where he brought up his three musical daughters: Joanna, Lucy and Carly.
TODAY, residents include United Nations ambassadors from Benin and Guinea; Jennifer J. Raab, president of Hunter College and former head of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission; and G. Oliver Koppell, the former New York attorney general newly elected to the City Council. Theodore Kheel, the labor lawyer, has a house around the corner from Ruth Friendly, editorial adviser for the Fred Friendly seminars in media, law and public policy, established by her late husband, a former CBS president and Columbia journalism professor.
Mrs. Friendly, an F.P.O.A. board member who moved to the neighborhood from Scarsdale in 1968, likes living ''in a great island of green,'' a 13-minute drive from her office at Columbia. Residents also commute to Manhattan by subway, express bus and Metro-North.


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The name Rav Breuer connotes integrity, adherence to tradition, leadership of a German Orthodox Kehila and perpetuation of the Hirschian philosophy. Rav Dr. Joseph Breuer, in the span of his long life (1882-1980), embodied not only these ideals but rebuilt a destroyed Old World Kehilla on the shores of the New World. Grandson of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch and son of Rav Dr. Salomon Breuer, both of whom had developed their K'hal Adath Jeshurun into one of the Torah Centers of pre-World War II Europe, Rav Breuer was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Frankfurt Yeshiva. His scholarship was evident in his manifold literary works, and he was a preeminent teacher and promulgator of the Hirschian Torah im Derech Eretz ideology. In New York, Rav Breuer built his K'hal Adath Jeshurun as the successor of the famed Frankfurt tradition and into a paradigm for Orthodox communal life. All areas of Jewish life-education, kashrus, mikveh, charitable institutions-are encompassed by the Kehilla, and KAJ, as it is popularly known, has had a decided impact on world-wide Jewry. Rav Breuer's towering Torah knowledge made him into one of the recognized leaders of our time. Rav Breuer: His Life and His Legacy provides an inspiring insight into the life of a Godol b'Yisroel who contributed to the resurgence of Torah today.
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A 28-year-old established patient comes to your office for her well-woman examination. You take the patient's interval medical, family and social history and perform a complete review of systems. You also perform a physical examination that includes a blood-pressure check and thyroid, breast, abdominal and pelvic examinations, and you obtain a Pap smear. The patient is on oral contraceptives and has concerns about intermittent break-through bleeding. You counsel the patient regarding alternatives and give her a prescription for a new medication. You also counsel the patient about diet, exercise, substance abuse and sexual activity. Then you send the Pap smear to an outside laboratory that will bill the test directly to the payer. Although the patient has concerns about her current method of birth control, the associated counseling and change in medication is considered part of the preventive medicine service for her age group, so you should submit 99395, "Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine ..., established patient; 18-39 years," and ICD-9 code V72.3, "Gynecological examination."
Bill Diagnosis code(s) Procedure code(s) Patient V72.3 Gynecological examination 99395 Preventive service
A 52-year-old established patient presents for an annual exam. When you ask about his current complaints, he mentions that he has had mild chest pain and a productive cough over the past week and that the pain is worse on deep inspiration. You take additional history related to his symptoms, perform a detailed respiratory and CV exam, and order an electrocardiogram and chest X-ray. You make a diagnosis of acute bronchitis with chest pain and prescribe medication and bed rest along with instructions to stop smoking. You document both the problem-oriented and the preventive components of the encounter in detail. You should submit 99396, "Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine ..., established patient; 40-64 years" and ICD-9 code V70.0, "Routine general medical examination at a health care facility"; and the problem-oriented code that describes the additional work associated with the evaluation of the respiratory complaints with modifier -25 attached, ICD-9 codes 466.0, "Acute bronchitis" and 786.50, "Chest pain" and the appropriate codes for the electrocardiogram and chest X-ray.
Bill Diagnosis code(s) Procedure code(s) Patient V70.0 Routine exam 99396 Preventive service 466.0 Acute bronchitis 99213-25* Office outpatient E/M service for established patient 786.50 Chest pain 93000 Electrocardiogram 71020 Chest X-ray, PA and lateral
*The level of service represents only an example. The level reported should be determined by the documented history, exam and/or medical decision making.
A 65-year-old established Medicare patient presents for her annual well-woman exam. Medicare covers the collection of a screening Pap smear and her pelvic exam and clinical breast check for that year. You should submit the following codes (and related charges) to Medicare: G0101 for the pelvic exam and clinical breast check, Q0091 for the collection of the Pap smear specimen and V76.2, "Special screening for malignant neoplasms; cervix"; and the following codes (and related charges) to the patient: 99397, "Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine ... established patient, 65 years and over," and V72.3, "Special investigations and examinations; gynecological examination." The total amount billed and received for this visit should equal your usual charge for an annual exam of $100.
Bill Diagnosis code(s) Procedure code(s) Charge Medicare V76.2 Special screening formalignant neoplasms; cervix G0101 Pelvic exam and clinical breast check $36.60 Q0091 Collection of Pap smear specimen $37.70 Patient V72.3 Gynecological examination 99397 Preventive service $25.70 Total amount billed and received $100.00
An established Medicare patient presents for management of hypertension and preventive services. Medicare covers the full allowable amount for all reported services. You should submit the following codes and related charges to Medicare: G0101 for the pelvic exam and clinical breast check, Q0091 for the collection of the Pap smear specimen and V76.2; and 99213 for the established-patient office visit (with modifier -25 attached) and 401.1, "Essential hypertension, benign." The total amount billed for this visit should be $127.30.
Bill Diagnosis code(s) Procedure code(s) Charge Medicare V76.2 Special screening for malignant neoplasms; cervix G0101 Pelvic exam and clinical breast check $36.60 Q0091 Collection of Pap smear specimen $37.70 401.1 Hypertension, benign 99213-25* Office visit $53.00 Total amount billed and received $127.30
*The level of service represents only an example. The level reported should be determined by the documented history, exam and/or medical decision making.
A 46-year-old established patient, who was seen six months ago for a health maintenance visit, is in overall good health and is within 10 percent of his ideal body weight, comes to your office to discuss a diet and exercise program. The patient is now interested in a regular exercise program and diet to reduce his risk of cardiovascular disease since his 52-year-old brother recently had a heart attack. You spend 15 minutes discussing these issues with him. You should submit the appropriate preventive medicine counseling code for this visit and ICD-9 codes V65.3 and V65.41.
Bill Diagnosis code(s) Procedure code(s) Patient V65.3 Dietary surveillance and counseling 99401 Preventive medicine counseling V65.41 Exercise counseling
This table lists some of the preventive screening services that are covered by Medicare. It shows the covered frequency and the associated HCPCS and ICD-9 codes that should be submitted for each service. (For information about other Medicare-covered screening services, go to http://www.medicare.gov/health/overview.asp.)
Screening service Frequency HCPCS code ICD-9 code Screening pelvic and clinical breast exam Once every 2 years; once every year for high-risk patients* G0101 V76.2, V76.47, V76.49 or V15.89 Screening Pap smear Once every 2 years; once every year for high-risk patients* Q0091 V76.2, V76.47, V76.49 or V15.89 Digital rectal exam Once every 12 months for patients 50 years or older G0102 V76.44 PSA Once every 12 months G0103 V76.44 Fecal occult blood test Once every 12 months G0107 G0328 V76.41 V76.51
*Medicare's definition of "high risk" includes patients of childbearing age in which cervical or vaginal cancer is or was present or other abnormalities have been found in the preceding three years and patients with one or more of the following high-risk factors for either cervical or vaginal cancer: onset of sexual activity under 16 years of age, five or more sexual partners in a lifetime, history of sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), fewer than three negative Pap smears within the previous seven years, no Pap smears at all within the previous seven years or prenatal exposure to DES.


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Oracle Says H-P and Intel Secretly Propped Up Dead Chip
Scott Black: Oracle Is a Powerhouse
Oracle added what it characterized as a damning new allegation against Hewlett-Packard in a vitriolic legal battle. But the bigger issue may be just how long this fight will go on.
At the heart of the case is Itanium, a chip that H-P and Intel jointly developed in the 1990s and that powers H-P's high-end servers. Few other customers, however, have adopted the technology–in large part because it requires different software than Intel's widely used x86 chips–which have grown so powerful that Itanium offers few clear benefits.
Oracle, in a big blow to H-P, announced last March that it would stop supporting Itanium. H-P sued Oracle over the move, alleging that the big software company is contractually obligated to keep updating products that work with the chip. H-P contends that Oracle, which entered the hardware business by buying Sun Microsystems, took the action to hobble a competitor.
On Friday, Oracle alleged in a court filing that H-P had in prior days disclosed the existence of "secret" contract that required Intel to keep churning out Itaniums for two more technology generations, where Intel would ordinarily have killed off the chip based on its sales volume.
"As innocuous as H-P tries to make that sound, the market has never been told that Itanium lives on only because H-P is paying Intel to keep it going," Oracle stated.
Oracle compared the effort to create a perception that "a dead microprocessor is still alive" to a 1989 movie. "The whole thing is a remake of Weekend at Bernie' s," the company wrote.
H-P's own recognition about Itanium's questionable prospects, and its determination to keep the Intel arrangement secret, Oracle says, are laid out in internal documents. But key parts of those documents are largely redacted from the public version of the filing.
One passage, for example, states that "H-P's own words are once again succinct and damning: it (blank).
"This began as early as (blank), when the documents reveal that (blank)."
H-P roundly rejects the notion that there was anything secret going on at all.
"As Oracle well knows, HP and Intel have a contractual commitment to continue to sell mission-critical Itanium processers to our customers through the next two generations of microprocessors, thus ensuring the availability of Itanium through at least the end of the decade," an H-P spokesman said Friday.
"The fact remains that Oracle's decision to cut off support for Itanium was an illicit business strategy it conjured to try to force Itanium customers into buying Sun servers, and destroy choice in the marketplace," the H-P spokesman said.
H-P says Oracle's filing "is nothing more than a desperate delay tactic designed to extend the paralyzing uncertainty in the marketplace" created by its move to stop supporting Itanium.
Oracle certainly tries to make a case that the parties aren't likely to be able to make a scheduled Feb. 27 trial date, particularly in view of its determination to expand its allegations to reflect issues concerning the contract with Intel. It notes that no depositions have been taken by either party, despite the fact that a deadline to submit motions for summary judgment has already passed.
Meanwhile, each side has produced many documents for the other side to analyze in search of evidence. "The parties are barely halfway through their initial document productions (having produced hundreds of thousands of documents, with hundreds of thousands more to come), and the scope of discovery remains contested and unsettled," Oracle writes. "The full scope of discovery will not even be finalized for weeks or months to come."
The attempt to get documents from Intel "in particular is proving to be contentious," Oracle writes.
An Intel spokesman declined to comment Friday, noting that it is not a party to the case and it never discusses contracts with partners.


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ELDA Spotlight Series Focuses on Challenges to Making Great Schools
The School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES) at the University of San Diego welcomes State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell for the Educational Leadership Development Academy (ELDA) Spotlight on Education Series. O'Connell will speak at 5 p.m., Oct. 23, at Mother Rosalie Hill Hall.
The topic of the speech is "Changing Good Schools into Great Schools," and will provide educators with an opportunity to engage in discussion with the superintendent about current educational issues in California.
O'Connell was elected to a second four-year term as State Superintendent of Public Instruction on June 6, 2006. As chief of California's public school system and leader of the California Department of Education, O'Connell has focused on closing the achievement gap and preparing students for a rapidly changing global economy by holding high standards for all students. He is a strong supporter and facilitator of partnerships between schools, businesses, communities, and philanthropies in order to engage students with challenging, real-world education experiences.
He has worked to smooth the transitions between all segments of education, from preschool to college or the workplace. As a former high school teacher and author of the legislation creating the California High School Exit Exam, he has led a comprehensive effort to increase rigor and improve student achievement in California high schools. He has worked to fortify California's world-class academic standards, strengthen California's school accountability and assessment systems and bolster state funding for public school classrooms. He also has been a leader among state school chiefs nationwide in an effort to increase flexibility and fairness in the federal No Child Left Behind school accountability system. He is a long-time advocate for smaller class sizes, improved teacher recruitment and retention, comprehensive testing, and up-to-date school facilities.
Additional ELDA speakers and dates in the 2008/09 series include:
For more information, go to www.sandiego.edu/soles/spotlight.
About The University of San Diego
The University of San Diego, a Catholic Institution of higher learning chartered in 1949. The university enrolls approximately 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students and is known for its commitment to teaching, the liberal arts, the formation of values and community service. The inauguration this fall of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace brings the university's total number of schools and colleges to six. Other academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Business Administration, Education, Law and Nursing and Health Science.


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Rick McIntyre was appointed in July 2012
Published 8:34 PM EDT Jul 23, 2013
High Point Fire Chief Rick McIntyre turned in a resignation letter via email Monday to the city manager.
In it, McIntyre stated he is resigning to pursue other interests.
McIntyre was appointed fire chief in July 2012. His last day on the job will be July 31.
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"The message today is we're trying to promote a healthy Long Beach, so we've launched this Let's Move Long Beach campaign here in the city," said 1st District Councilman Robert Garcia. "The idea is to get people information about how they can make themselves healthier, include wellness in their life, eat better, and promote physical fitness."
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People who observe the world principally through a windshield see nothing but highways, shopping centers, housing subdivisions, office complexes and fast-food restaurants.
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BY RICHARD FENNIn the 1960s I was serving a congregation that was deeply troubled and divided, as was the nation itself, over the war in Vietnam and the civil rights movement. Baffled by the intensity of the fear and anger in my congregation and in the community, I needed not only more experience, insight, and compassion, but also a firm grasp of just what makes a church and the larger society profoundly fearful and divided. At that time Princeton Seminary was offering a master's degree in theology on a schedule that accommodated the work of hard-pressed parish clergy. Over two critically important years I attended the Seminary on my days off, and discovered how a theological education could inform and guide ministry in the midst of crisis. The Seminary still wants to serve the ministry in these years of continuing crisis. As our strategic plan puts it, "Mission relates to how we deal with both plenitude and with shortages. Out of our plenty (instructional and material), we have corresponding blindnesses, so how may we become less blind in the midst of plenty?" I want to know how you are coping with the crises that you face from day-to-day, and how you want the Seminary to support you in your ministry. In one relatively affluent congregation I know, at least one member is facing foreclosure. How are you coping with foreclosures in your congregations and in your communities? In some congregations home healthcare for the elderly may soon be reduced. Members of your congregations may be losing their jobs, or dropping out of school or college to support their families, or losing their health insurance and their pensions. How are you finding ways to help them survive in the meantime and in the long run, and to sustain their hope for the future and their trust in the basic institutions of our country? 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What major institution will the people trust if not the church, the synagogue, or the mosque? The "people of the book" are required to be as good as their word. They live by the promises of their God, and they are expected, always, to stand by their word. That is why, among all of America's institutions, it is the communities of faith and their grassroots organizations that still receive relatively high levels of trust and respect. I ask you to contribute your experience, your ideas and suggestions, your plans, and your needs. I ask this in the spirit of our strategic plan, which states, "Our academic curriculum and our mission must be closely interlocked. This means that awareness of the changing world and our unique ability to reach out as a place of Christian learning should galvanize our every activity and choice." Share your experience of the various crises that are facing this country. 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The links below provide resources for churches and institutions. PDF of an issue of a May 2006 issue of Contemporary Sociology with essays on "Natural" Disasters by Kathlees Tierney, Eugene Rosa, Havidan Rodriguez and John Barnshaw, and Robert A. Stallings Disaster Recovery Journal, a resource for business continuity Pending legislation to support the human rights of disaster survivors, from Amnesty International Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness Online Seminars Resources for the Conservation and Recovery of Cultural Materials University of Buffalo's MCEER, a national database for research relating to earthquakes and extreme events
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The minimum high school diploma in Texas would be scrapped and all high school students would choose from four new graduation plans under legislation considered Tuesday by the Senate Education Committee. All students would be required to get at least 26 credits to graduate and many students would have more elective courses to choose from in the proposed system. Currently, students in the minimum plan need only 22 credits to graduate – with a credit equal to one year of study in a subject.
Texas schools would switch to a single diploma – called the foundation diploma – and students would be allowed to select one of four paths to graduation. One would be the basic plan with no specialization. The other three paths would be business and industry, distinguished achievement and academic achievement in either math and science or arts and humanities. Senate Education Committee Chairman Dan Patrick, R-Houston, author of the bill, said he wants to give high school students more options in choosing coursework and also wants to give all students a pathway to a college education – even if they are not inclined to go to college while still in high school.
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Hi, I am 27 and I wake up with puffy eyes almost every day. Some days are good but as I get older it seems like it's getting worse. I've tried gels, creams, cold compress, everything--you name it, but nothing worked. Would laser eyelid surgery help for puffiness caused by fluid retention? Also, I stay away from eating salty food. Please help.
Laser Eyelid Surgery for Puffy Eyes?
Doctor Answers 11
Consider a consultation with an eye plastic surgeon
Dear Puffy Eyes
It definitely sounds like you may have an issue. Dr. Gear is correct that what you are describing may be blepharochalasis, an intermittent inflammatory process that takes its toll on the eyelid skin. However, there are other potential issues. So the best option is to be assessed by an oculoplastic surgeon. This is a board certified ophthalmologist who has done an ASOPRS approve fellowship in oculofacial surgery. The American Society for Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS) maintains a website that can help you identify fellowship trained oculoplastic surgeons in your area. This way you can be certain you are seeing a well qualified individual.
Regarding, laser surgery, some surgeons use lasers for incisional eyelid surgery. There is no clear advantage to using a laser for this purpose. Laser skin resurfacing is done to tight eyelid skin. Only a personal consultation can determine if this option is right for you.
Web reference: http://www.lidlift.com/steinsapir/choosing-a-cosmetic-surgeon.html
Puffy eyes
I would like to see a photo of you in the morning, to better localize and differentiate among different culprits (fat, fluid). It sounds like you are describing festoons, which can be difficult to treat. Decreasing salt intake, sleeping on your back, and trial of water pill may help. There are also some procedures that may improve the situation or at least camouflage it (using fillers to fill around it). Laser doesn't usually address it, unless if perhaps done aggressively.
In office consultation is necessary
Web reference: http://www.CosmeticEyelids.com
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Surgical options for puffy eyes
There are three fat compartments in the lower lids, which make the eyelids look puffy and swollen. This is made worse from allergies and fluid retention. Make sure those are under good control prior to embarking on a lower blepharoplasty. Lower blepharoplasty addresses removal of the portion of the lower lid fat bags to give natural contour to the eyelids. A transconjunctival incision on the inside of the lower lids will remove the excess fat bags. This is done with traditional instruments. The surgery can be performed with a laser, and one needs to be very careful as blindness can occur if the laser gets into the retina.
Web reference: http://www.seattlefacial.com
Puffy eyes
If puffy eyes are due to fat herniation, then a blepharoplasty would be reasonable. If you have puffy eyes due to edema then very little if anything can be done to improve it.
Eyelid puffiness treatment
Lasers are good to treat the wrinkles underneath the eyes, not necessarily excess skin. You may want to consider getting blepharoplasties as this will help with the excess skin and any "herniated" fat underneath the eyes to improve their appearance. This can be done as an outpatient and is very well tolerated. Good luck!
Web reference: http://www.DrSchreiberPlasticSurgery.com
Puffy Eyes in the Morning
Hi Puffy,
Even Preparation H didn't help?
In addtion to the other answers here, have your internal medicine physician check on your thyroid hormone levels. Some times this is an easy non-surgical fix to the problem.
Fraxel repair laser may help selected patients with malar bags, and it will tighten lax eyelid skin.
Send photos for more complete answer.
Good luck and be well.
Dr. P
It depends...
First of all, I am not sure what "laser eyelid surgery" means.
The term may relate to laser resurfacing around the eyes. I doubt that this will provide you with meaningful improvements.
On the other hand, some doctors use a laser to make an incision for lower blepharoplasty. To me, it does not matter how an incision is made; rather performing a good eyelid lift is important.
Lastly and most important, an examination is in order to determine if the puffiness is due to fat or fluid. Fat can be removed, fluid is more challenging. See an experienced facial plastic surgeon for your private consultation.
Puffy eyes
Unless you have allergies, it sounds as if you have excess fat aorund the eyeball that can be removed. Whether or not your surgeon uses a laser to assist in excising or vaporizing the fat is up to your surgeon. It is an individual choice. Laser resurfacing on the skin itself is psrobably not the answer. Sometimes simply fat removal will not cure the puffy eyelids and your surgeon should analyze your anatomy carefully.
Laser eyelid surgery not for you
Without a picture, my answer is a bit of conjecture. However, lasers treat wrinkled skin, not puffiness. More than likely, a straightforward blepharoplasty will fix your problem. It is usually a simple outpatient procedure with predictably good results.
Web reference: http://www.atlantacenterforplasticsurgery.com
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Find out what the media's saying about Talk Like A Pirate Day here. And what the Pirate Guys themselves (and associated wenches) have been up to here. And don't miss the fan mail!
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1. This is what the BuzzFeed staff carries in their bags:
2. "Doing this taught me a lot about myself. Apparently I'm smell conscious (perfume AND guava-scented hand cream, really? Gum AND Altoids?) and that I apparently have an emergency Twizzler on my person at all times. Good to know."
3. "I was having a really weird shit in my bag day. Pants because I felt like clothing midday but fought the urge. The rest is kinda useful — gotta have that face cream."
4. "Batteries, because just in case."
5. "Why do I need a whole backpack for this stuff? What am I doing with my life?"
6. "My bag is always a total mess. However, it has the essentials such as a Metrocard, headphones and Chapstick, everything else is a luxury. Also, pretty proud of myself that I have 13 dollars in cash with me, even if the 10 dollar bill is ripped in half.."
7. "I don't even know why I carry a bag… Or that old envelope."
8. "Checks, why do I carry CHECKS in 2013? I don't even know."
9. "I travel light and barely even use the things in my bag. I mainly carry it around for looks."
10. "Got my adrenaline shot for when Lil Bub or Grumpy comes around; yes, I'm a BuzzFeed staffer who's allergic to cats."
11. "I carry my student ID (which has a misprint and says I'm a junior) so that I can still get those 10% discounts."
12. Now, it's your turn! Snap a pic of the contents of your purse/backpack/messenger bag and share them in the comments section!
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- Beloved actor Gene Wilder, who starred in classics like "Willy Wonka" and "Blazing Saddles," has died at 83.
- Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, is separating from Anthony Weiner after his latest sexting revelation.
- Apple will unveil the newest iPhones on September 7. Expect a new dual-camera system and NO headphone jack 📱


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David over there is a total bipster.
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A bipster is a combination of a biddy and a hipster and she combines the best of both worlds. A bipster is as promiscuous as she is pretentious. Her style mixes elements of both hipster and biddy, such as leggings with flannel. Some social theorists claim that the bipster is in fact hipper than a traditional hipster since the bipster is such a rare form of hipster.
Dude look at that bipster I hooked up with last night. Her floral mini dress and doc martens are awesome!
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The Girl Who Played With Fire
by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire: Ablaze with Questions Quiz
Think you've got your head wrapped around The Girl Who Played With Fire? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who is Dag Svensson?
A comic book character who likes hoagies
A wise-cracking detective who befriends Salander
A journalist who has written an expose on the sex trade
Blomkvist's new love interest
Q. What surprising fact does Salander learn about Holger Palmgren?
He is alive
He is her long-lost half brother
He is her father
He was kidnapped by aliens
Q. Who is Zala?
The creator of a great new dance called the Zalachenko
Miriam Wu's cat
Alexander Zalachenko, Salander's father
The new intern at Millennium
Q. Why do the police suspect Salander in the death of Svensson and Mia Johansson?
She is caught fleeing the scene of the crime
Blomkvist names her as a possible suspect
They are following a tip from a Ouija board
Her fingerprints are on the gun left at the scene
Q. What is the name of the character everyone refers to as "the blond giant"?
Ronald Niedermann
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Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Thursday
By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel
Health Law: Obama's Sales Pitch Has Failed, So Far
More than three years after it managed to get its Affordable Care Act through Congress, the White House seems to have realized that it has done a lousy job selling it.
It has hired well-wired health-care expert Chris Jennings, a veteran of the Clinton White House, as a strategist. And today, Mr. Obama is to speak from the White House to defend the law that Republicans in the House have voted 38 times to repeal or scale back, most recently on Wednesday.
The ambitious and complicated law — called Obamacare by both foes and friends — has never been popular. It had no Republican support when it passed. In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll this spring, 45% said it was "a bad idea" and 36% "a good idea." Implementation, always destined to be a challenge, was slowed by congressional refusal to appropriate funds and by an ultimately unsuccessful Supreme Court challenge that led states to delay their part of the project. And the administration recently shone a spotlight on its complexity by unilaterally delaying for a year a provision that requires employers with more than 50 employees to offer insurance.
No one, even the most fervent advocates, thought this would be easy. "This is like changing the economy of France," says Ezekiel Emanuel, who worked on the project in the Obama White House and is now at the University of Pennsylvania. "You can't do it overnight."
But the most baffling development is the White House's inability to get the word out to those who stand to benefit from the law. An April poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 4 in 10 Americans weren't sure the ACA was the law of the land.
A provision that allows parents to put children under age 26 on their policies got a lot of attention – and a lot of use. But another requiring insurers to give back some premiums if costs are below projections has led to $1.1 billion in rebates. And hardly anyone who got one understood what it was or credited Obamacare.
The most stunning failure is the administration's inability to rally support for the law from those people who clearly stand to benefit. One of the most significant and, thus far, undelayed provisions, means anyone without health care will be able (and in many cases, legally required) to buy it in 2014 on a new health-care marketplace called an exchange. There can be no bar or penalty for those with pre-existing conditions; premiums are based only on age and, in some states, on whether the person smokes.
Particularly for those eligible for new federal subsidies, premiums for many who buy their own insurance – depending on the state and the age of the insured person – are likely to be lower than premiums now available for comparable policies.
That has gotten lost in all the noise and name-calling over the law. Mr. Obama is trying to use his loud voice to change that today.
–David Wessel
What We're Writing
In his Capital column, David Wessel writes about a study of polluters in India's Gujarat state that shows how auditors' interests and incentives can be better aligned.
What We're Reading
Recommended reading from around the Web:
At least a dozen Republican senators are meeting regularly with top Obama aides to try, again, to find a way to do something this year to curb future budget deficits. [National Journal]
Sen. Rand Paul's pledge to do whatever he can to help Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi beat back a primary challenge from Liz Cheney is rooted in the efforts by her father, former vice president Dick Cheney, to prevent a win in Sen. Paul's 2010 campaign. [Slate]
The New Yorker's Ian Crouch (@iancrouch) defends Rolling Stone's publication of a controversial cover story on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, along with a flattering cover photo, saying the profile is a useful attempt to resolve the "mysterious backstory" of a figure who continues to baffle. [New Yorker]
Blake Clayton argues it's time to lift legal restrictions on the export of American crude oil, arguing that such freedom would allow the energy industry to better match the kinds of oil and products consumers and refiners need with those available on world markets. [Council on Foreign Relations]
Peter Suderman (@petersuderman) says the Obama administration lacks a clear strategy to convince young, uninsured adults to buy health insurance–a group needed to make the law work–and is not making a compelling case that it will get things right. It's not obvious that Obama's ability to convince young people to vote, the administration's defense, will translate into health law enrollment success when the penalty for remaining uninsured will be capped at just $95 next year, he writes. [Reason]
Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) and Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) take a look at the Obama administration's efforts to sell its health law to uninsured young adults — mostly male, nonwhite, and one out of every three lives in California, Florida or Texas — and the debate over whether Obamacare will be a success. [Washington Post]
While scandal-ridden incumbents are more likely to resign, around 75% of those who chose to run are elected in primary races and 81% of those who enter the general election keep their seats — figures that bode well for Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer as they mount their campaigns in New York City. [New York Times]
Sign of the Times
Minor milestones we've spotted:
Arkansas requires data acquired through license-plate reading technology to be deleted within 150 days. New Jersey requires law enforcement to keep the data for five years so that it can be data-mined. [WSJ]
A majority of Americans (54%) believes hard work and determination are no guarantee of success and 52% believe their generation is better off financially than the next generation will be. [Brookings]
The Affordable Care Act allows states to charge smokers more for insurance in the new exchanges. Six states (Calif., Mass., N.J., N.Y., R.I,. Vt.) and D.C. have decided not to do so. [Kaiser Health News]
Smartphone upgrades are dropping; 68 million Americans upgraded their phones last year, down 9%. [WSJ]
More than two-thirds of respondents to a United Technologies/National Journal poll, 67%, support building the Keystone XL pipeline to carry Canadian oil to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast, while 24% oppose the project. [National Journal]
In a survey of people in 39 countries, 63% express a favorable opinion of the U.S., compared with 50% for China. [Pew Research Center]
Beijing will nearly double its number of bicycles for rent to 25,000 this year, and says more than 20,000 residents of the capital have subscribed to the service. [China Daily]
For critical perspectives on politics and the economy from Jerry Seib & David Wessel, visit Seib & Wessel and follow them on Twitter @GeraldFSeib and @davidmwessel.


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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet Theme of Hate
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If you've ever had a bad breakup, you know how quickly love can turn into something a lot less warm and fuzzy. In Romeo and Juliet, love and hate are just two sides of the same coin—both are intense emotions that, as Benvolio says, get the "mad blood stirring" (3.1.4). When the hatred between the Montagues and Capulets finally drives the lovers to their tragic deaths, it seems like love might finally triumph over hate—but if they're just two sides of the same coin, then can this kind of passionate love even exist without hate?
Questions About Hate
- Why do the Montagues hate the Capulets? What do we know about the family feud?
- How do Romeo and Juliet each respond when they realize they have fallen in love with the "enemy"?
- Rosaline, like Juliet, is a member of the Capulet family, but when Romeo crushes on Rosaline, he never worries about the family feud getting in the way of his love. Why is that?
- Does the older generation (the parents of Romeo and Juliet) have the same attitude toward the family feud as the younger generation (Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio)?
Chew on This
Love as passionate as Romeo and Juliet's could only be born out of hatred; their love is made more intense because of their families' feud.
In the play, love and hate are both intense. The language Shakespeare uses to depict love and hate shows that the two passions are deeply similar.


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BLANK CITY tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970s through the mid '80s, when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these directors crafted daring works that would go on to profoundly influence the development of independent film as we know it today.


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April 15, 2011
Eustace and Reepicheep
"His name was Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it..."
His name was Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it...
Some of C.S. Lewis' best characters are found in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, like Eustace and my favorite, Reepicheep the mouse.
Eustace is a spoiled little elitist child who thinks he's smart but is clearly a fool. If you're familiar with another Lewis book The Abolition of Man, you'll recognize Eustace. He's the product of the education Lewis is critiquing, one that teaches facts, but not moral imagination. Eustace is the boy without a chest.
Then there's Reepicheep, this mouse Eustace hates. Reepicheep, never lacks courage but he's also developed wisdom and compassion. He's the picture of developed virtue: he knows what's right, practices it -- and he admits when he's wrong.
Once Eustace finds redemption, he loves Reepicheep. And the mouse helps Eustace develop a bigger chest.
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The Abolition of Man
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C. S. Lewis | Amazon.com
Doing the Right Thing
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