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websearchinc.net is a nasty browser hijacker kind of malware. This malware is dangerous because it downloaded and install in to the computer without the knowledge of computer user. It comes into computer when user visits any malicious site or downloading any free software from malicious site. This malware install automatically along with the installation of the free software.
After downloading this malware hijack the computer browser. It changes the home page and search engine of the browser to nay malicious home page and search engine. This malware redirects the user to any malicious and unrelated sites that is very harmful for the computer and the user of the computer. It can also display bunch of unwanted commercial ads on the browser window, so that browser will takes more time to load a single page. Your computer can also get more infected, because of redirection to the malicious sites and your computer will not work properly due to the more infection. This browser can track the personal information of the user that stored in to the computer system. So to prevent your computer from more infection it is compulsory to uninstall Websearchinc.net malware from computer system as soon as possible.
How to detect if PC is infected with Websearchinc.net?
Usually, malware's get into the PC using several tricky ways without your knowledge or permission. They try their best to hide themselves and remain undetected by the security programs. Noticing its malicious effects on the PC you can easily find the super group to which they belong to. But in order to know the exact threat and its location in the PC it is very important that you scan your PC for the same. Now the question is which scanner to use in these conditions which can effectively detect each and every traces of any threat that can attack the PC.
Advice: Well, we have tried several scanners in this regard who claim to effectively detect the potential threats in the computer system but most of them have failed to keep what they claim. So, after lot of research and experimentation our computer experts have picked up the most powerful and effective malware scanner that really works. So, just download it from the link provided below and scan your PC for free.
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Complete Removal Instructions for Websearchinc.net – Virus Removal Guide!
Option 1: Automated Websearchinc.net Removal
Option 2: Manual Websearchinc.net Removal
Perform all the steps in the order it is mentioned. If you have any question or doubt at any point while performing these steps then 'STOP' and ask for assistance.
Option 1: Automated Websearchinc.net Removal
Automated removal of this malware is really very simple and effective. Just follow some easy steps and your PC is free from any potential threat reside in your PC along with the targeted threat.
- Step 1: Reboot your PC in 'Safe Mode with Networking'.
Read here for complete information on different options of 'Safe Mode'.
- Step 2: Download and install Websearchinc.net Malware Scanner.
To read the complete installation guide and removal steps, see User Guide.
- Step 3: Fix web browser options starting from its settings to other stuffs by downloading CCleaner.
For complete installation guide and working of CCleaner by Piriform, see how to use CCleaner.
- Step 4: As a final step 'Restart' the PC in normal mode and see if it is working normally.
Option 2: Manual Websearchinc.net Removal
To know more about hijacked web browsers and how to free PC from them, read – 'How to Get Rid of Hijacked Web Browsers?'
Step 1: Remove from Mozilla Firefox
- Open Firefox and type 'about:config'? in URL bar and hit 'Enter?'.
- Enter ?'keyword.URL'? in the search box, right click and select '?Modify'?.
- Reset this parameter by leaving the box empty or setting something different from what it set.
- Next enter ?'browser.search.defaultenginename'? in the search box and reset it to your favorite search engine.
- Now type ?'browser.search.selectedEngine' in the search box and reset it to something different from what is set
- Last but not the least, search for 'browser.newtab.url?' and modify it to 'about:newtab'.
- Restart Firefox to complete the removal process.
Step 2: Remove from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome, click on '?Wrench' or 'Bar'? icon in the top right corner.
- Choose 'Settings' > '?Search' > 'Manage Search Engines?'.
- Next select your preferred search engine and click on 'Make Default'.
- Restart browser after completion.
Step 3: Remove from Internet Explorer
- Start the IE and select '?Tools'?(from Top Menu) > '?Internet Option'?.
- Click 'General' tab > '?Change Search Defaults'? > '?Settings'.
- Now select your preferred provider and click ?'Set as default'.
- Restart browser.
Protect PC from Future Malware Attacks!
You should always take good care of your Windows system because it is something that you use quite often and you want it to be safe and secure so that you can work on it properly. So, to avoid any future intrusions from any malware you must follow or take some precautions and keep PC safe and healthy. Some of the basic things that you can do are ?
- Turn on Safe Browsing feature of the browser you use.
- Update security program in a regular basis.
- Use a powerful Firewall to block any incoming connections from malicious hosts.
- And various similar.
To know more on how to avoid future malware attacks & boost PC protection, read – Tips & Techniques to Boost PC Protection Against Malware?s.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. - The University of the Cumberlands (UC) football team was on the road for their final regular season game of the season to take on the Kentucky Christian (KCU) Knights on Saturday. The Patriots were coming into the game off 2 impressive victories over UVA-Wise and Campbellsville. In both games, the Patriots dominated on the ground rushing for over 300 yards. As for the Knights, they were coming into the game on a four game winning streak and trying to take sole possession of 2nd place in the Mid-South Conference East division.
The Patriots knew this game would be a battle, and they got all they could handle escaping Grayson, KY with a 26-15 victory over KCU. It was clear from the opening kickoff this Knight team was far different than the team the Patriots played 3 years ago where they dominated KCU by a score of 74-7.
The Patriots came out showing off their much improved passing game as Jay Bright (Fayetteville, GA) connected with Willie Gibson (Abbeville, GA) on a 29 yard touchdown pass to take the early lead 6-0. KCU was not to be outdone, however, as they connected on a 20 yard touchdown pass of their own to take the early 7-6 lead. The Patriots knew going into this game the Knights defense was one of the best in the country as KCU most certainly lived up to this as they gave the Patriots fits most of the day.
In the 2nd quarter, Iquan Deed (Montezuma, GA) showed not only could he run but throw as well as he connected with Dekeldric Felton (Oglethorpe, GA) for a 24 yard touchdown pass to make it 13-7. The Patriots made sure KCU knew they had a pretty good defense themselves as they made the Knights earn every yard in the game. The Knights felt like they were in good position until the last play of the half. Senior Justin Dyer (Woodburn, KY) connected on a 36 yard field goal as time expired to put the Patriots up 16-7 going into halftime. It seemed the momentum was swinging the Patriots way.
Coming out of the half, the Patriots finally settled in and seemed to take control of the game. Jay Bright found the end zone on a QB sneak capping off a 6 play 31 yard drive giving UC a 23-7 lead. The Knights were not going to back down on their senior day. After a nice kickoff return, the Knights scored on a 6 yard pass to chip away at the lead, 23-15. The Patriots it seemed just couldn't get that key touchdown to end the game as the Knights kept fighting. The defense made that one big play they have been so accustomed to doing this season to seal it for the Patriots. After a terrible mistake by KCU making a fair catch on their own 1 yard line, the Patriots had to make a play. It was none other than Adrian Hightower (Macon, GA) to come up with an interception and take it into the red zone for the explosive Patriot offense. After another field goal by Justin Dyer, this time a 22 yard field goal, the Patriots were now up 26-15. The UC defense continued to play strong and stopped the Knights on their final drive to end the game.
"This was a good football team we played and they have done a great job building it up. We now have to get ready for the playoffs and rest up and get ready for that title run," said an enthusiastic John Bland after a hard fought victory.
The stars for the Patriots today were their defense as they had one of their best performances of the season. Once again they forced a plethora of turnovers as they had 5 on the day. They were led by none other than Weston Hazelhurst (Clinton, TN) who had 8 total tackles. He was a menace for the KCU offense as he also had 3.5 sacks and 5 tackles for a loss. The Patriots had a great performance from Jared Stippert (Clearwater, FL) earning 4 total tackles with a sack. Adrian Hightower continued his amazing season grabbing his 9th interception, which is a new single season record surpassing Brandon Goss who had 8.
The Patriots offense actually relied on its air attack today as they threw for 210 yards. Willie Gibson continued his great season as he had 3 catches for 139 yards. Senior Jay Bright went 6 for 19 for 132 yards and a touchdown. Cobb had a down game for his standards as he ran for 159 yards on 37 attempts, an impressive effort for a guy that has been the workhorse for the offense this season. This now makes 5 straight games with over 150 yards for Cobb. Overall, the Patriots ran for 221 yards and a touchdown.
Head Coach John Bland also joined the record book on what seems to be record breaking season. Coach Bland won his 56th game which surpasses former Cumberlands legend Tom Dowling. Bland hopes he can get to 60 this year as that will make him and his team NAIA National Champions.
Next week, the Patriots will have a much needed bye week. This has been a tough 10 straight weeks for the Patriots as they hope to rest up and get ready for a playoff run. There is huge uncertainty as to who the Patriots will play. One thing is clear though with a national ranking of 8 in the country and a victory today, a home playoff game seems very likely for the Patriots.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is stepping up its efforts to arrest, convict and imprison those who use laser pointers against airplanes in the sky.Video Transcript
IT'S A PRANK THAT COULD COST LIVES. NOW THE F-B-I IS STEPPING UP ITS EFFORTS TO ARREST ANYONE WHO POINTS A LASER AT AN AIRPLANE. THE AGENCY WANTS TO TRADE REWARD MONEY - FOR ARRESTS. WLKY'S ANN BOWDAN IS LIVE AT THE LOUISVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT -- WITH DETAILS OF THIS NEW NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN, ANN. VICKI, THE FBI HERE IN LOUISVILLE AND BRANCHES ACROSS THE NATION ARE WORKING TO PROTECT PILOTS AND THEIR PASSENGERS IN THE SKIES FROM THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HITTING THEM WITH LASERS POINTERS. PUBLIC INFORMANTS COULD GET PAID THOUSANDS. "Today the fbi is announcing an awards program that has a reward for anyone who has information leading to the arrest of anyone pointing a laser at an aircraft." ACCORDING TO THE FBI, BETWEEN 2005 TO 2013, THE INCIDENTS OF PASSENGER PLANES OR HELICOPTERS BEING HIT BY A LASER POINTER FROM THE GROUND.. HAS INCREASED 11-HUNDRED PERCENT. THE INCIDENTS USUALLY HAPPEN AT NIGHT..OR IN THE EARLY MORNING..SPECIFICALLY BETWEEN 3 AND 4AM. "The 2 things that we worry about are how the pilot will react to the laser, which could be as simple as being distracted or all the way being incapacitated." PILOT BILL CASON IS WITH THE INDEPENDENT PILOTS ASSOCIATION. HE SAYS THEY GET SEVERAL REPORTS EVERY MONTH. FROM UPS PLANES..HELICOPTERS..AN D PASSENGER PLANES. IT HAPPENED TO WLKY'S NEWS CHOPPER PILOT..BILL DEREAMER IN 2009. THE FBI SAYS IT'S NOT ONLY A DANGER IN THE AIR, BUT ON THE GROUND IF THERE'S A CRASH. "Flash blindness. So it's like if you've ever looked at a light and you looked away, you still see that light in your eyes. Well, lasers have that same effect, especially at night." THERE HAVE BEEN DOZENS OF REPORTS IN LOUISVILLE. BUT THE FBI WANTS ARRESTS.. SO THEY'RE LAUNCHING THIS AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN..AND FOR 90- DAYS ARE OFFERING REWARDS UP TO 10- THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR AN ARREST. NO CONVICTION IS NEEDED FOR THE REWARD. "Anything that the FBI can do to raise awareness of how dangerous these lasers can be in flight is a good thing..and the fact they're offering a reward to go along with it just multiplies the effect." NOW HERE ARE SOME NUMBERS FOR KENTUCKY. IN 2012, THERE WERE 43 INCIDENTS REPORTED. IN 2013, THERE WERE 99. AND SO FAR THIS YEAR, THERE HAVE BEEN 18 INCIDENTS REPORTED. REPORTING LIVE AT THE AIRPORT, ANN BOWDAN, WLKY NEWS. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON ANYONE WHO MAY BE POINTING LASERS AT AIRCRAFT, YOU'RE ASKED TO CALL 9- 1-1 IF THE ACT IS IN PROGRESS. OTHERWISE, YOU'RE ASKED TO CALL THE FBI AT
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Salman"s "Dhinka Chika" number in Ready has been a rage ever since it hit the small screens. The song "Bhaag DK Bose" in Aamir"s home production Delhi Belly has also become a big hit among the film lovers. Shahrukh too is not lagging behind. While the music video of his film Always Kabhi Kabhi has got good response from the audience, the song "Chamak Challo" from Ra.One, which has been leaked to the net, has every chance of becoming a big hit.
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In something of a joke, President Barack Obama says Americans should actually read the Transpacific Partnership Agreement. The agreement itself consists of 30 chapters, with 144 annexes (43 of which are imbedded into specific chapters). Assuming the average American reads 200 pages a day, it would take a month. The length and complexity of the TPP Agreement signals that it is not fundamentally a free trade agreement, but is rather a managed trade agreement. As Obama has said, "I know that if you take a look at what's actually in the TPP, you will see that this is, in fact, a new type of trade deal."


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It's one thing to list out your triggers. It's another to actually keep them in check. How did it go?
I realize that you may, in fact, already be the fun one, but in my humble experience, it's often times the moms that are the keepers of order and the dads/partners who are often considered "the fun ones."
Completely unfair, I tell you.
Unfortunately, it's not feasible to always be the fun one, and I do believe that someone needs to take on that role in a co-parenting relationship. The irony is that in being the keeper of order and enforcer of rules, you actually create a space and environment that can then be fun since kids do thrive on that sort of thing.
However, I always try to do something completely spontaneous and "fun" every once in awhile to change things up and to reward my kids for being awesome.
Keep in mind that I wouldn't just drop a fantastic trip to the museum if your kids have been terrorizing you for the last few days. That's not the greatest type of reinforcement. But if you can find a reason to do something fun, then I say do it!
You don't need to spend a lot of money, or even any money - whether it's an ice cream treat after dinner, a trip to the zoo, a fun picnic lunch, you name it, just do something that's FUN. And enjoy it yourself too.
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May 14, 2008
Nissan to Sell an Electric Vehicle in the United States in 2010
Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., announced on May 13 that it plans to introduce an all-electric vehicle in the United States and Japan in 2010. The vehicle will then be mass-marketed to consumers throughout the world in 2012. The company's terse announcement was buried in the press release for its first-quarter financial results, but it marks the first announced plans by a major automaker to mass-market an all-electric vehicle. Currently, the electric vehicle market is being led by relatively small startup companies, such as Zap, Tesla Motors, and Aptera. See the Nissan press release.
While Nissan is going all-electric, General Motors Corporation (GM) is developing a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt, but the company is also pursuing other fuel-saving measures. In early May, GM allowed journalists to drive its "HCCI-enabled" Saturn Aura, which can run its engine using a traditional spark ignition or using "homogenous charge compression ignition" (HCCI) for fuel savings. HCCI involves igniting a gasoline-air mixture using compression, as in a diesel engine, rather than a spark. The technology burns the fuel evenly throughout the combustion chamber, allowing the engine to run at a lower temperature and resulting in a 15% increase in fuel economy. But the technology is difficult to control, so the Aura only uses HCCI at low speeds. GM introduced the HCCI-enabled Aura last year, but the company is now emphasizing its ability to employ HCCI at idle, which is particularly difficult. GM also announced plans to deploy its V-8 Duramax turbo-diesel engine in its 2010 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. The advanced diesel engine will meet emissions standards in all 50 states while cutting fuel consumption by 25%. Precise combustion controls also allow it to run quieter than today's diesel engines. See the GM press releases on the HCCI and diesel engines and the article from the EERE Network News on last year's HCCI announcement.
Meanwhile, Ford Motor Company is achieving greater fuel economy through the use of more efficient six-speed automatic transmissions. The company announced on May 7 that it will double the number of six-speed transmissions in its cars and trucks sold in North America by the end of next year. Compared to four- and five-speed transmissions, the advanced six-speed transmissions cut fuel consumption by as much as 6%. A new version of the six-speed transmission will debut in the 2009 Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner, and Mazda Tribute sport utility vehicles, which go on sale this fall, and two other vehicles will follow next year. The transmissions will be built at Ford's Van Dyke Transmission Plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, doubling the production at that plant. By the end of 2012, 98% of the automatic transmissions that Ford sells in North America will be six-speed transmissions. See the Ford press release.


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100 Billion Reasons To Love General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) Right Now
Rudy Martin: The first time I ran into General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) was during an aircraft-leasing deal that went bad. GE was the main creditor on that deal.
I admit, I haven't been much of a fan since. But there's no getting too far away from this company, with its massive global reach. And even after a subsequent series of run-ins, this name–especially its stock–has never been far from my mind.
In fact, back then I had nightmare visions of my company's portfolio actually owning the plane, the crew and even the fuel, if new terms could not be worked out.
Have you ever wondered how billionaires continue to get RICHER, while the rest of the world is struggling?
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Eventually, that restructuring deal got done and my client was better off in the end. But the realization of GE's power in lease finance remained with me.
But this story doesn't end there. That's because GE is simply everywhere. And if you're a global-focused investor, this is a name you can't afford to ignore, either.
At one point, I was asked to tour the U.S. and inspect power plants before investing in a Texas-based utility company. I landed on a mud airstrip fenced in to keep the cows off it. And there, in the middle of this desolate area, was a power plant with huge GE engines.
The purring sound of well-tuned, high-powered GE engines left me wondering if they had somehow stolen the plans from some celestial beings. I felt a strange glow after that trip, although my daughter Anna claimed it was from a nuclear plant I spent so much time at!
But in all seriousness, when you think GE, you should think money.
For me, my most nerve-racking encounter with this ever-present global conglomerate was on the financial-services playing field.
As an analyst, I had just downgraded a company's rating and was telling others to avoid it when GE stepped in as an off-balance-sheet partner to make an acquisition.
In fairness, the GE team surely knew how to make a buck by buying and selling portfolios of insurance companies. But given the liquidity and investing risk in these, I'm glad they ultimately spun off that operation.
My most interesting run-in with the company, however, occurred this week. That's when I had the pleasure of meeting current GE management on their annual swing through Florida.
And given how poorly that stock has performed, I was skeptical until I saw one slide that illustrated the key attraction:
In my nearly 30 years of managing money and picking stocks, I have never, ever seen a corporate team so confident about its future as GE is now. And looking at this graphic, you can see why.
While management was talking about getting the finance operation down to a third of the company's business, I could not take my eyes off this $100 billion in future available cash chart.
This basically says, "You should think of GE as a very high-yield stock."
With a current dividend yield of 3.5% and the potential for very significant share buybacks, this is at least a 5% yield with organic growth to offer, too.
I can go on with a half-dozen other reasons why GE should be on every global investor's watch list. This includes growth prospects in emerging markets like Brazil and Russia … new technology and services initiatives that will add billions in revenues … and a long list of projects to keep cutting the company's costs and overhead.
Anyway, this one is now on my short list as a future addition to my Emerging Market Winners service, and should be on yours, too. But don't add this stock just yet.
In fact, you can secure priority access to my specific trading signals on the right time to buy and, more importantly, when to cash out. But first, you have to be a subscriber.
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Are you tired of hearing the phrase "cold front" yet? Hope not, because our latest in a string of them this week pushed into the Brazos Valley Thursday evening. Another dip in temperatures, as we wrap up the week, is expected.
They Keep on Rolling Through
Up...down. Mild....cool. Unseasonably "warm"....Just a bit below seasonably "cold"..........
It has been a trip of ups and downs this past week, in the Brazos Valley, as a "Northwest Flow" upper-air pattern has controlled the weather.
After finding a cool day in the upper 50s to low 60s on Wednesday, Thursday brought spring-like afternoon highs in the mid-to-upper 60s.
Thursday evening saw the arrival of our latest cold front and an added scattered deck of high-to-mid-level cloud cover.
We'll see the effects of that front on Friday...but they won't last long.
Friday Outlook
No change from mornings of the week -- you'll need to reach for that warm coat again Friday morning. Overnight lows start in the low-to-mid 30s, as we hop out of bed on the last day of the work and school week.
Weekend "Mild-Up"
No surprises -- (if you've been keeping up with how the week played out) -- just as quick as the north winds kicked in, they'll kick right back out.
South winds return to the area by Saturday -- and this time they'll stick around for a few days.
Moisture will eventually start to build back into the air, along with "warmer" conditions. While rain won't be a factor, there could be enough humidity to bring on few morning rounds of fog -- especially as we start the day Sunday.
We'll look for a weekend of temperatures in the mid-60s Saturday, upper-60s Sunday...then, believe it or not, low-70s by Monday!
Enjoy the mild air while it is here -- our next cold front is currently scheduled for Tuesday, dropping highs back to seasonable for this time of the year.
Elevated Fire Danger
A bone dry air mass sits overhead, thanks to the string of cold fronts to reach the Brazos Valley this week.
With breezy winds up to 15mph on Friday, and then occasionally on Saturday, the fire danger will be elevated a bit.
What does that mean? Basically, if you don't need to do any outdoor burning Friday or Saturday...don't. Wait until Sunday when our atmosphere moistens up a bit.
The Return of Winter?
Not an official forecast by any stretch of the means -- but there are inklings that Ol' Man Winter may not be done.
Some of our extended computer models tries to dump down another round of bitter cold, Arctic air, as far south as Texas, by the end of January / beginning of February.
Details are very wishy washy for the time being. Just something to keep an eye on.
In the meantime...
GET OUTSIDE! Enjoy this beautiful stretch of January weather we are being handed.


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Before using government computers, many federal employees and contractors need to swipe a Personal Identification Verification card. PIV cards employ biometric data and encryption to identify the cardholder and establish a secure connection.
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The Lawrenceburg City Council, after holding a work session to discuss its controversial cemetery ordinance, is expected to continue discussion—including the placement of Confederate flags—at its June 13 meeting
Lawrenceburg residents voiced their concerns at a special hearing May 19, in which dozens of grieving family members protested the May 15 deadline in removing unattached items placed at gravestones.
Since I am in full mowing mode and have finally begun to work in the garden, I get to appreciate all the sites, sounds and smells of the farm.
Everything is green, wildflowers dot the landscape and it's all totally beautiful.
I was in Freedom Hall the night Anderson County played for the state basketball championship. It was the place where I heard Muhammad Ali say he wanted to fight George Foreman and Joe Frazier on the same night.
I saw Julius Erving, then of the Virginia Squires, do things with a basketball that I had never seen and still can't describe. I have been to several concerts there and I watched Richie Farmer make string music the state finals 23 years ago.
I knew Kentucky was famous for its horses.
I didn't expect to see a Swamp Donkey.
Last Saturday's mud bog involved horsepower of a different kind, something unusual to the eyes of this reporter.
After living in central South Dakota for a couple of years, I've seen my share of bucking bulls, rodeo cowboys and mutton bustin'.
I didn't possess the bravery of my preacher father, however, who once bonded with a parishioner while castrating bulls.
I think I chose to take in the sights of a cow pie bingo instead.
As opposed to chronicling this week what I perceive to be the misdeeds of others, allow me instead to discuss a couple of my own.
Twice in the past month I've attracted the attention of law enforcement, and not for good reasons. A few weeks back, I got stuck around 4 a.m. at the traffic light at the intersection of US 127 Bypass and Glensboro Road while heading to work. It was Tuesday, my early day, and I was most definitely in a hurry.
Goodbye, cornfields. Hello, bluegrass.
Meaghan Downs, a 2011 graduate of Concordia University—Nebraska, joined The Anderson News staff as a full-time reporter on June 1.
Downs, who received a bachelor of arts in English and Communications, worked as an intern and then as a part-time reporter for a county weekly in Seward, Neb., before packing up and heading south to Lawrenceburg.
The 21-year-old said she started working in journalism by accident.
What do you get when you mix huge four-wheel drive pickups, a giant mud pit and unbridled enthusiasm?
If you guessed a merrier Christmas for less fortunate children in Lawrenceburg, you're correct.
Saturday's mud bog in the county park did exactly what organizer Deputy Tony Likins hoped: it raised money for the Anderson County Sheriff's Office's Shop With a Cop program, as well as funds to send local children to the Kentucky Sheriff's Association's Boys and Girls Camp this summer.
The family of Frances Renee Mobley has waited since last September to tell her murderer exactly what they think of him, and this week they'll almost certainly get their chance.
Gary Bancroft will be sentenced to 70 years in prison Thursday afternoon in Anderson Circuit Court, but first he will be forced to listen to what will be highly emotional statements family members of the woman whose throat he slashed, stuffed into a trash bag and hid in the bathroom of his Bardstown Road trailer last September.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Ozymandias"
I thought this might be of interest to readers. One of the main characters in WATCHMEN Is Adrian Viedt, who initially fights crime under the pseudonym Ozymandias. Here's Shelley's poem:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away
And HERE'S more info on the poem, with this commentary:
"The central theme of Ozymandias is mankind's hubris. In fourteen short lines, Shelley condenses the history of not only Ozymandias' rise, peak, and fall, but also that of an entire civilization. Shelley suggests all works of humankind - and humans themselves - are transitory. Whether a Pharaoh or peasant, we are mortal."
(Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses the Great, Pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt.)
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Celebrities Who Watch Adult Films
We all enjoy watching adult flicks on the Internet, right? It's what the Internet was invented for. Oh, you don't? Well we have a name for you: a liar. Don't be ashamed. We know you're into the freaky stuff. These celebrities are, too. They've admitted to their love of freaky flicks and are damn proud of it.
Take a look at some celebrities who have an extra tub of lotion on deck just in case.
Aubrey O'Day – She's said she loves freaky flicks so much she makes them with her boo but deletes them.
Nick and Mariah – They watch the hardcore stuff in the bedroom. The less we think about it the better.
Justin Timberlake – He said he thinks it's better to watch the flicks than portray them in movies. We agree.


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Born Kim Dahsu of unknown parents in Seoul South Korea in August of 1962, Kim grew up in several orphanages. She was adopted at the age of 8 by Glenda and Bill King of Nevada, Mo. She graduated from Nevada High School in 1982 and subsequently from Missouri Southern State College with a degree in business. She held many jobs, bookkeeper, inventory clerk, shipping manager, truck gardener and finally housecleaner.
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Are you ready to learn how
to open a coconut? Then let's get crackin'! You don't need much to start. A towel,
hammer, large nail, and of coarse the coconut we are going to
If you examine your coconut
you will see 2-3 dark indentations on one end. These are
the weakest points. We will be utilizing these guys to drain
the coconut's juice before pulverizing this puppy.
Take the hammer and drive the nail
through each of the holes. I usually do all of them. Depending
on the type of coconut you have this could take a few swings.
Place the coconut over a container
and give it some time for the juice to drain. If nothing is
coming out you can drive the nail through the other side of
the coconut to allow air to enter the top
while the liquid drains from the bottom. If your nail bends
try using a slimmer one (or even a drill), the hole doesn't
need to be big.
Take the drained coconut and
place it in the center of a towel that is large enough to be
wrapped completely around it.
Wrap the coconut up in such
a way that all of the loose ends are secured underneath
of the coconut so that when it breaks open no pieces will go
Time for some fun! Grab your
hammer and bash away! I wouldn't recommend doing this on your
counter, you will need to hit it rather hard. Do it on the
floor, or better yet on brick or concrete. Some coconuts have
grooves partially cut along the sides to make opening easier.
If you have one of these, instead of wrapping up the coconut
you can use the opposite end of the hammer and whack it around
the groove until it splits in two.
Once it's cracked open you
can hit it a few more times to try and break up the larger
some more. This will make separating the meat from the shell easier.
Here's your prize, yummy coconut
meat. Mmmmmm... Using a small knife, pry the meat away from
the shell, be very careful not to cut yourself! Better put
on some music, this could take a while.
The thin layer of shell that
will cling to most of the coconut meat shards can be cut or
scraped away with a sharp knife. Again, be careful. This will
take a while to do so don't try and rush.
Whew, all done! Go ahead and rinse
off your pure-white coconut meat and marvel at its delicious
glow. Mmmmmmm. Your storage options include:
(2-7 days)
Freezer (1-3 months)
Shredded/Grated and dehydrated
(6-12 months)
I hope you found some value in
this instructional guide. If you know of some other methods /
tools / tricks on how to open a coconut, please send them my
way and I'll add them to the site. I can be reached here:
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It's almost as if with each issue, Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino and Marcelo Maiolo are cranking up the action and insanity. It's almost as if this isn't just a regular Green Arrow comic anymore. With the Outsiders War underway, there are many players on the field. Sorrentino has his hands full, or at least his one drawing hand, putting all the action on each page. And he doesn't skip a beat.
Lemire has raised Green Arrow to a new level. His backstory continues to get amped up. We're seeing new developments as his origin and mythos gets expanded. The story keeps building up and you have to wonder what can happen after this arc.
Each month I'm simply in awe of the art and colors. It practically takes you to another place. It has such a surreal feel and, honestly, I wasn't sure how Sorrentino's style would fit with Green Arrow after I, VAMPIRE. I don't even want to think about reading a Green Arrow story without Sorrentino.
The Bad
The downside of so many characters and twists is it's almost feeling a little overwhelming. This has gone beyond being just a Green Arrow comic. The recent revelation of a certain character's return and the events with this issue left me a little uneasy. It makes sense that this would have to be the direction for this character but almost feels like a tease. The solution to last issue's cliffhanger felt like a tease as well.
The Verdict
If you haven't been reading GREEN ARROW lately, you have no idea what you're missing. Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino are taking the character and series to new levels. There is a lot going on in this arc along with a lot of characters. While this particular installment in the arc doesn't push the story forward too much, we still have a lot of insanity to enjoy. GREEN ARROW isn't just a good comic. It's a GREAT comic.


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DACO: A High-Performance Disk Architecture Designed Specially for Large-Scale Erasure-Coded Storage Systems
Issue No.10 - October (2010 vol.59)
pp: 1350-1362
Mingqiang Li , Tsinghua University, Beijing
Jiwu Shu , Tsinghua University, Beijing
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TC.2010.22
Large-scale erasure-coded storage systems have a serious performance problem due to I/O congestion and disk media access congestion caused by read-modify-write operations involved in small-write operations. All the existing technologies based on the conventional disk can provide very limited performance improvement. This paper presents a new Disk Architecture with Composite Operation (DACO), whose disk media access interface consists of three kinds of operations: READ, WRITE, and Composite Operation (CO). The CO adopts a sector-based pipeline technology to implement block-level data modify operations, and thus, can replace the read-modify-write operations involved in small-write operations. When the DACO is adopted in a large-scale erasure-coded storage system with t fault tolerance, t I/Os and t disk media access operations can be reduced in each small-write operation, respectively. This alleviates both I/O congestion and disk media access congestion in nature, and thus, can remarkably improve the performance of large-scale erasure-coded storage systems. A simulation study shows that the DACO can provide significant performance improvement: reducing the average I/O response time by up to 31.16 percent even in the worst case where t=1. This paper also discusses the important implementation issues of the DACO and investigates the additional cost involved in the DACO.
Disk architecture, erasure code, small-write problem, storage system.
Mingqiang Li, Jiwu Shu, "DACO: A High-Performance Disk Architecture Designed Specially for Large-Scale Erasure-Coded Storage Systems", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.59, no. 10, pp. 1350-1362, October 2010, doi:10.1109/TC.2010.22


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The surname Statham was first found in Cheshire where they held a family seat from very early times.
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A great wave of immigration to the New World was the result of the enormous political and religious disarray that struck England at that time. Families left for the New World in extremely large numbers. The long journey was the end of many immigrants and many more arrived sick and starving. Still, those who made it were rewarded with an opportunity far greater than they had known at home in England. These emigrant families went on to make significant contributions to these emerging colonies in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers carried this name or one of its variants:
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9. Nov. 3, 2007 – Joe Calzaghe (43-0) W 12 Mikkel Kessler (39-0), Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales
For all of the complaints about boxing's weight class expansion that began in the mid-1970s, several of those divisions have proven to be worthy additions. The super middleweight class has been one of them, for it has boasted more than its share of compelling fights and magnetic personalities.
Created in 1984 by the IBF to bridge the 15-pound gap between middleweight and light heavyweight, the 168-pound class was populated by stars moving up in weight (Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Roy Jones Jr., James Toney and Roberto Duran among them) and some longtime light heavys sought refuge by moving down (Murray Sutherland and Glen Johnson). While there had been homegrown stars in its history (Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Steve Collins) none of them had been able to create a genuine 168-pound superfight that boasted historic stakes and worldwide reach.
Then came Joe Calzaghe and Mikkel Kessler, who owned three of the four major belts, boasted undefeated records and proved themselves to be the premier 168-pounders on earth in terms of resume, skill set and longevity.
At age 35, Calzaghe came into this fight as one of a handful of champions in boxing history to ever register a title reign longer than 10 years. That milestone was reached 23 days earlier, for on Oct. 11, 1997 Calzaghe decked, then out-pointed Eubank to win the latter's WBO belt. Since then his quickness and quirky volume punching fueled a reign encompassing 20 title defenses, one behind Sven Ottke's division record of 21, but the Welsh southpaw didn't earn worldwide acclaim until March 2006 when he met IBF titlist Jeff Lacy in a unification showdown.
The man nicknamed "Left Hook" was favored to beat Calzaghe despite the bout being staged in the U.K., but "Super Joe" was at his super best as his dazzling combinations built a monstrous points lead and a 12th-round knockdown capped a glorious performance. After years of toiling in obscurity against largely unknown challengers, Calzaghe had finally earned his respect and subsequent victories over Sakio Bika and Peter Manfredo Jr. only enhanced his star power. Boxing's longest reigning champion was ready to meet his greatest challenge yet.
At age 28, Kessler was at the peak of his powers and as the owner of the WBA and WBC belts he had the hardware necessary to dispute Calzaghe's claim as the best 168-pounder alive. Although he carried the nickname "Viking Warrior," Kessler was actually a supreme ring mechanic armed with a strong, accurate jab, a knifing right cross and rock-solid fundamentals. Kessler's attention to detail shouldn't have been a surprise, for he spent two-and-a-half years working as a mechanic at Mercedes Benz.
Like Calzaghe with Lacy, Kessler earned international respect by blowing out Markus Beyer to unite the Dane's WBA belt with Beyer's WBC strap, then dismantling the rock-chinned Librado Andrade on HBO's airwaves five months later. His successes made Kessler a national hero and in 2006 he was named Denmark's sportsman of the year.
It was thought that the older and more established Calzaghe would avoid Kessler in order to chase a big-money fight against Bernard Hopkins, but the "Pride of Wales" told promoter Frank Warren that he wanted to fight Kessler regardless of the risk it posed. That said, Calzaghe did not want to fight the Dane in his native land and because he was able to draw 35,000 to his fight against Manfredo, Calzaghe had all the clout he needed to persuade Kessler's management that their superfight had to take place in Cardiff.
Who could ask for anything more? Two of the best in a given division vying for three of the four major belts as well as THE RING's recognition as the world's premier campaigner in an outdoor stadium packed with 50,150 screaming fans. Boxing couldn't have snapped a prettier picture.
Calzaghe began the bout aggressively by backing up Kessler with foot feints and spearing left crosses down the middle while Kessler fired jabs and searched for openings, especially for straight rights. The action was tight and technical but also waged at a hot pace. Kessler landed a big right with a minute remaining in round two but Calzaghe's volume and slightly superior accuracy limited the impact of Kessler's momentary successes.
The already energetic pace picked up in the third as Calzaghe bulled Kessler to the ropes and winged both hands in all directions while Kessler drove strong rights to the body and head. Calzaghe's straight lefts began finding the mark with regularity and authority but in the fourth Kessler's counter crosses and uppercuts blunted, then aborted, several inspired Calzaghe charges. By the midway point the high-octane boxing took a limited but noticeable toll on both men's faces as blood leaked from Kessler's nostril and Calzaghe sported various scrapes and small lumps.
From that point forward, however, Calzaghe's experience and higher tempo asserted themselves. The Welshman fought in a more relaxed, confident fashion while the rhythm and timing Kessler enjoyed in the early rounds was no longer there. It was as if Calzaghe had found a new, higher gear that only the truly great ones could access and at this point of his career Kessler didn't have the key to sufficiently elevate his own performance. Not that Kessler didn't try; he occasionally landed potent straight rights and in the eighth he produced an excellent, if short-lived, surge.
Though the task wasn't easy, Calzaghe nevertheless pulled away down the stretch because he produced more big moments than Kessler. The full complement of skills and risk-taking were on display and by rising to the occasion, Calzaghe ended up defining it – and in the process defining himself.
Calzaghe's second half surge proved decisive, for he was judged a clear winner by the three judges (116-112 twice and 117-111). In what was destined to be his farewell appearance at 168, Calzaghe cemented his greatness by beating a younger fighting machine in his prime for the biggest stakes possible.
Few fighters ever choose the luxury of leaving a room while on top, but Calzaghe was one of the fortunate few. Not only did he leave the division as a four-belt titleholder, he also went on to further glories in his final two fights as he decisioned Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. at light heavyweight. With those wins, Calzaghe walked away with something he came in with 46 fights and 15 years ago – his "zero."


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Western New York STEM/STEAM Week - May 15-22
Western New York STEM is Launched with STEM/STEAM Week
The Western New York STEM Hub is a growing network of individuals and organizations across sectors in the five-county region with interest in facilitating collaboration in support of careers and real-world learning for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and the Arts. Representation includes PreK-12, higher education, business/industry, informal learning environments and professional organization representatives.
The Western New York STEM Hub is one of several hubs that comprise the Empire State STEM Learning Network with coordination under the SUNY Vice Chancellor's Education Pipeline initiatives. The UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences serves as the Hub's Steward Organization providing facilities, in-kind support and general guidance under the Associate Director, Dr. Gene Morse.
In order to promote awareness of STEM and STEAM (integration of the Arts with STEM disciplines), the Western New York STEM Hub established a Western New York STEM/STEAM Week from May 15-22.
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Buffalo State is excited to present a celebration of science and mathematics at Buffalo State College on Monday, May 19, 2014 from 4:30 -7:30PM. High School students and teachers will experience science and math in action, listen to great speakers, and make science demonstrations they can take home. Demonstrations include air rockets, penny-melting with a Fresnel lens, electronic musical instruments, riding on a large hovercraft, chemistry demonstrations and more! Tours of the New Science Building will include facilities such as DNA Sequencing, Confocal Microscope, Electron Microscope, NMR, and Single Crystal X ray Crystallography. Refreshments will be provided.
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July 26, 2014 Astronomy Night at Penn Dixie 4050 North Street, Blasdell Telescopes will focus on Saturn, Mars and constellations 7:30 pm Saturday 627-4560 www.penndixie.org
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followers a play-by-play account.
The Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman was clearly agitated
while posting a series of tweets during the incident Monday.
Dockett tweets that police told him he was pulled over because he
was speeding, and they wanted to search his car.
"I don't know why the police always messing w/me," he tweeted.
He says he refused to allow police to start a search without a
warrant. Dockett eventually tweeted he was about to be let go.
It was unclear where the incident occurred, and agent Drew
Rosenhaus did not immediately respond to an email requesting
Dockett, who has played seven NFL seasons, frequently uses
Twitter and has more than 70,500 followers.
He started at defensive tackle for FSU from 2000 to 2003.


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Former Everton star Tim Cahill is hoping to make a loan move back to the club in January when his season with the New York Red Bulls comes to an end.
Cahill joined the Red Bulls in the summer after eight successful years at Goodison Park and is hoping after the conclusion of the MLS season to return to Merseyside.
The Australian knows he will be unable to achieve success this season as his side are now out of the running for the MLS cup and the 32-year-old hopes a move back to familiar shores will also keep his fitness levels up.
The attacking midfielder still has a year left on his contract and remains fully committed to the MLS club, but still believes he has more to offer in the Premier League.
"I have been watching a lot of the games and I believe I have got a lot more to offer," Cahill told Sky Sports News.
"There is no shadow of a doubt that I am definitely eager to come back on loan.
"If Everton is an option then hopefully something can be done. If not, then I am definitely eager to play football anyway.
"It would be nice, but it is not down to me. I have to respect the fact that sometimes the ship has sailed.
"It is not in my hands. It would be great. If it is, it is. If it isn't, I just want to play football."
Everton have been known to take advantage of the MLS close season in the past with the Toffees previously having secured a loan move for LA Galaxy star Landon Donovan.


text: Ganesh Chaturvedi is a 35-year-old father of two and is self-employed. He also supports his parents who live with him. Ganesh has been considering buying a health insurance policy to cover the medical expenses of his family. He thinks that at this stage only his parents need health insurance since both of them are diabetic, while the rest of the family is in good health. He is also considering buying a family floater health plan, which he believes covers the entire family for a low premium. Is Ganesh set to take the right decision?


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District Six Museum
The area known simply as District Six was a vibrant, multiracial, working-class neighborhood on the city's eastern fringe until 1966, when the apartheid government declared it a whites-only area. Over the next few years, 60,000 people were forcibly evicted from their homes and relocated, the houses and streets they left behind bulldozed. Though most of the area today is still just weeds and rubble, this onetime Methodist church—where anti-apartheid protestors once took shelter—has been turned into a fascinating museum documenting the area's history. A highlight is the large floor map of District Six, where ex-residents have inscribed their family names on their old streets.
Insider Tip: Book a free guided tour in advance with Noor Ibrahim, a former District Six resident, founder of the museum, and notable raconteur (011-27-21-466-7208).


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In January last year, I posted an article "What's wrong with the health care system?" in which I discussed how a friend has a procedure which the hospital charged $1200, but the insurance deemed it worth $200, so they paid $180 and the friend paid $20 as a co-pay.
I recently received a reply from reader Ken I'd like to share:
One does not realize that 1) Employers pay health care costs directly but indirectly; and have insurance companies fight and account for those health care expenses for those companies. My employer uses a Blue Cross plan to minimize its health care costs then pays Blue Cross a fee for that service and a fee for reducing that very same cost. 2) An employer or pool of employers, pays a hospital or health care group or doctors, a predetermined annual amount to preform a guaranteed amount of services for an agreed amount of patients. e.g. The example above. The test may very well have cost $1200, but it may have been part of the agreed upon service that was to be provided by that provider for $1000 as part of the annual fee. The remaining $200 was treated as normal expense and required a co pay. The interesting part to all of this is when a couple both have same but separate health insurance plans to different employers, and because of the birthday rule, the same service is paid different amounts because who covers it first.
Ultimately it all boils down to this: There are always going haves and have-nots; and the haves are always going to be overcharged so they can pay for the have-nots. Doesn't matter if it's the present system or Obamacare or Hillarycare. What does matter is the ultimate cost in 1) dollars, 2) cuts in services,3) choice of doctors, 4) choice of care or treatment and 5) use of personal or public money.
In response, regular reader and deep financial thinker, Elle, offered a detailed, well thought response which seemed a shame to leave buried as a comment;
1. Employers use health insurers so that employees may benefit from the cost discount attributable to having an enormous number of clients, thus spreading risk. Your use of epithets like Hillarycare and Obamacare are reckless disregard for the clear mathematics of the single payer system. Single payer would do the same as Blue Cross, but given the much larger number of clients and the fact that hospitals and doctors have to work with only one administrator, for less money.
2. When you talk about cuts in services, you seem oblivious to the fact that many health facilities overprescribe services, with no improvement in health outcomes. Why do they overprescribe? Because the doctors at such facilities are not on a straight salary but instead have a financial stake in everything they prescribe. In other words, they work on commission. The models to use are the Mayo Clinics and others, where such a conflict of interest is prohibited, and the docs are paid a straight salary. Before commenting further, you should read Atul Gawande's June 1 article in the New Yorker on this.
3. Joe, the New York Times for a few years now has been running articles on how not only are doctors' and hospitals bills' to the uninsured and under-insured negotiable, but the billing departments actually expect people to call and haggle over the bills. The nominal fee on a bill is monopoly dollars. Plus consumers need to understand that the rate of errors on medical bills is on the order of 50% and typically sizable. It has become such a problem that there is now a profession called "Patient Advocate," where someone (often a retired nurse or other health care professional) who knows how to decipher what is on the bill. See the article After a Diagnosis, Someone to Help Point the Way, also in the Times. .
People talk about letting the consumer "choose" and so let free market forces work, but the health care system has so much in it that is arcane that the typical patient could not possibly make an informed choice. So it is not a free market when buyers do not have access to needed information.
4. But more of those on the left need to acknowledge that there most certainly are preventive health measures that the "have nots" can implement, at enormous savings to us all. People just need a simple financial incentive structure to practice this preventive medicine. Such preventive medicine translates to national health savings on the order of 30%, from my reading. Google on what the President of Safeway (Steven Burd) did when he gave Safeway employees a health insurance rate structure that resulted in higher premiums for those showing poor habits in the areas of tobacco usage, weight, cholesterol and blood pressure. Safeway health costs went down as its employees started practicing more preventive medicine, more than justifying the financial incentives. See for example Safeway CEO on free-market health care solutions.
5. Never forget that a healthy blue collar and middle class are essential to the success of companies and so your stocks.
Thank you both for your comments, and Elle, you ever feel the urge to send me a guest post, my blog welcomes you.
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The BoBo Says:
September 17th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Well – I'm not going to take each of those points from Elle and break it all down for everyone because that would be an entire post in and of itself. First, I have been in the healthcare industry on all sides for the last 18 years. I was a claims processor for an insurance company, a billing manager for a national clinical laboratory, a litigation consultant on qui tam lawsuits for one of the Big 5 firms when there were five, and now I am a compliance officer for the largest primary care group practice in Florida. Other than the fact that everything Elle stated is completely inaccurate, I would just like to point out that regarding her assertion under #2 – what she suggests regarding physicians overprescribing because they are on commission – in case no one is aware of it – that is illegal. Not only are the pharmaceutical industries under strict regulations regarding kickbacks – so are the physicians. There are numerous laws – The Stark Law, The Anti-Kickback law, The PhrMa code, and many many more that I can name. Physicians are not on commission from the pharmaceutical industry. They are indeed paid a base salary – and many earn an annual or quarterly bonuses based on various financial incentives – none of which have anything to do with pharmaceuticals. The pharmacy industry isn't even allowed to offer rebates or discounts any longer because they have the appearance of being a kickback.
Anyway – just wanted to put in my two-cents from someone who has been around for a while and actually knows what the Federal and State laws say. I won't even get in to her comparison of a single payor plan to the private industry. She is so far off it's not even funny.
Elle Says:
September 18th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Bobo, did you read the New Yorker article? It is not about prescribing medications. It is about doctors ordering unnecessary procedures because they have a financial interest in the profits of the facilities doing the procedures. This practice is legal.
As for single payer vs. the multi-layered, multi-horizontal current system, I think only a biased party would assert that the current system is cheaper than single payer. The math is undeniable.


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Top Rank CEO Bob Arum has expressed outrage at what he calls a "disparity" between separate decisions rendered by The Nevada State Athletic Commission regarding the positive, post-fight drug tests of lightweight prospect Mickey Bey, of Cleveland, and Mexican former WBC middleweight titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
On Wednesday, the NSAC voted 3-2 to suspend and fine Bey for having tested positive for high levels of testosterone in the wake of his third-round knockout of Robert Rodriguez on Feb. 2 at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
Bey was suspended for three months, fined $1,000 of his $8,000 purse, and his victory over Rodriguez will be declared a no-contest, according to NSAC executive director Keith Kizer. While Nevada's rules allow for a maximum testosterone to epitestosterone ratio of six-to-one, Bey's was greater than 30-to-one, according to Kizer.
Last month, the NSAC voted 3-2 to fine Chavez $900,000 and suspend him for nine months as a result of his testing positive for marijuana metabolites after his unanimous-decision loss to RING champion Sergio Martinez last September in Las Vegas.
The fine represented 30 percent of Chavez's $3 million purse and the suspension began from the date of his fight with Martinez. Chavez must also produce a clean urine sample to the NSAC prior to his next fight in Las Vegas, in accordance with the ruling.
Chavez's fine was the second-biggest ever in NSAC history, the other being Mike Tyson's $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear. The old record for No. 2 was $200,000 against Bernard Hopkins when he pushed Winky Wright at the weigh-in according to Kizer.
"If the Nevada Commission has one standard of punishment for Americans and one standard of punishment for Mexicans, then they should say that," said Arum.
"Because that is the only explanation. Because this sends a message, loud and clear, to the Mexicans in Mexico, to Mexican fighters and to Mexican managers. Loud and clear."
A report by Yahoo!Sports examines whether changes should be made in Nevada's method of penalization.
Chavez had tested positive for a banned diuretic following his unanimous decision victory over Troy Rowland in November, of 2009, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. In the wake of the fight with Rowland, Chavez was fined $10,000 and suspended for seven months by the NSAC.
Chavez was arrested in January of last year for driving drunk, just a week before his fight with Marco Antonio Rubio in Texas. Chavez later struck a plea deal in mid-June of last year, which granted him three years of probation and ordered him to to attend 30 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, the latter of which he already had completed.
In spite of Chavez's previous transgressions, Arum still believes the NSAC was to harsh on the 27-year-old Mexican son of the legendary champion.
"The disparity is absolutely unbelievable. One guy is juiced to the ceiling with testosterone, and he could seriously hurt his competitor, and he gets three months and a $1,000 fine," said Arum, "and the Mexican smoked a joint 10 days before the fight, and he gets a fine of $900,000 plus a nine-month suspension. Just tell me where is the sanity in that? Or, as one might expect, there is one standard that the Nevada Commission uses for Americans and another standard for Mexicans."
Asked if he was accusing the NSAC of a bias against Mexicans, Arum said, "I'm just saying that the standards are different," adding, "Mexican fighters should think twice before they perform in Nevada."
Although Kizer cited "mitigating factors" as well as the fact that it was Bey's "first offense," he also called Arum's comments, "dishonest."
"The reason that they gave him [Bey] a break on the suspension is that he went to the doctor about a month before the fight, and he told the doctor what he did for a living. He said that he couldn't take any performance enhancing substances," said Kizer.
"The doctor actually wrote that in her notes, but then, she went ahead and gave him the stuff. So it sounds like more of an issue with the doctor than the fighter. Two of the commissioners wanted him to do many more months of a suspension. They wanted to give him a break, but not that big of a break, but they were out-voted, 3-2."
In spite of his legal issue, Chavez successfully defended his belt against Rubio in February of last year in San Antonio despite being in relatively bad shape and having to lose a large amount of weight the day before the fight.
Chavez was in much better physical condition for his seventh-round stoppage victory over challenger Andy Lee last June.
Chavez later dropped Martinez in the 12th round of their HBO PPV-televised fight, but was awarded only four of the 36 rounds scored by judges Dave Moretti, Adalaide Byrd and Stanley Christodoulu, who had Martinez winning, 118-109, 118-109 and 117-110.
Arum said Chavez will return to the ring in Texas on June 22 on HBO.
"He sure as hell isn't going to fight in Nevada," said Arum. "We'll announce the fight once the fighter he is fighting has his next fight."
In March 2012, IBF junior welterweight beltholder Lamont Peterson failed a drug test that was contractually administered at his choosing by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA), coming up dirty for synthetic testosterone.
Peterson's infraction led to his being stripped of the WBA's belt he won from Amir Khan. Meanwhile, the IBF declined to strip Peterson after a review of his medical records by IBF-appointed doctors ruled that the testosterone levels discovered in Peterson's failed drug test were not at a level that would enhance his performance.
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April 19, 2001
Session on
"The Promise of Research in Accelerating AIDS Care in Africa"
Remarks by
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Kampala, Uganda
Ladies and gentlemen, friends and colleagues:
It is a distinct pleasure and an honor for me to be here at this important event, a gathering that takes place at a critical time in the evolution of the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We are experiencing a most extraordinary work in progress; indeed, we are moving in uncharted territory.
Up until the past few months, there was a long-held assumption that a comprehensive approach to the prevention of HIV infection and the treatment and adequate care of HIV-infected individuals throughout Africa was beyond the realm of possibility. We are gathered here to state -- emphatically -- that this is not the case, and to work together toward a number of important goals, including:
Building the capacity in the African context to effectively treat HIV disease and prevent HIV infection;
For certain, what we wish to accomplish and sustain in the complementary realms of HIV treatment and prevention will not be easy tasks even under the best of circumstances. There are social, ethical, financial, political and other considerations that loom large in the face of any attempt to provide Africans with the care that they, as citizens of the world, deserve in the midst of this devastating pandemic. Furthermore, the infrastructure necessary to implement such programs is minimal, if not absent in many of the hardest-hit areas. We gather here in Kampala in an attempt to begin to address these issues.
It is important to emphasize that when we talk about addressing antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS, we must do so in the broader context of addressing fundamental health care in general. This includes prevention of HIV infection, which I will address further in a moment; treatment and prophylaxis of AIDS-related illnesses; and importantly, other disease killers of Africans such as malaria, TB, and respiratory and diarrheal diseases. The realization of the need to treat HIV has triggered a tidal wave of interest and activity. Let us use this momentum to begin to address a more comprehensive approach to basic health care in Africa as we proceed with the antiretroviral agenda.
I am here for three main reasons and I will keep my remarks brief and to the point. First, I am enthusiastic about being an active participant in the dynamic process that will occur here in Kampala over the next two days and hopefully well beyond this meeting throughout Africa. Second, I am here to exhort us all to insure, in the process of attempting to explore ways to best provide treatment and other forms of care for HIV-infected Africans, that we gather important information that will be critical to the success of this program for Africans, both in the short and especially in the long run. Sustainability is the critical issue here. Third, as I will discuss in a moment, I hope to share some of what the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has learned from our efforts in international health research, and suggest avenues for further collaborations with our African colleagues.
There are many important research questions that need to be asked and answered in the context of the delivery of care, including antiretroviral drugs, to Africans. This slide lists merely a few of these questions.
On another note, there have been understandable and often justifiable concerns regarding research on HIV therapeutics in developing nations where such therapy is not readily available to the population at large. In such situations, the research generally antedates the distribution of drugs. Obvious ethical issues arise with regard to the ultimate long-term benefit to the participants of such research protocols as well as to the availability of drugs to the people of the host nations after the research project has been completed. In the currently evolving setting, it appears that in certain situations the drugs will be made available to infected individuals before the conduct and completion of research that fully determines feasibility, risk-benefit, long-term efficacy, among other important questions. In other words, in certain African countries treatment may be administered regardless of whether research is performed to answer important questions that will inform sustainable strategies. In this regard, because of the emergent nature of the AIDS problem in Africa, just as it is important to make these drugs available to Africans as soon as possible without waiting for the completion of research studies that might take years, so too is it important to gather information in the context of research protocols that are executed in parallel with the distribution of therapies. We cannot be part of a program that merely parachutes drugs into a nation and then imagine that our responsibility is over. We must be part of a process that ensures sustainable, successful outcomes.
In addition, it is critical to link therapy with prevention efforts. Attempts at pursuing prevention efforts have often been hampered by the fact that little, if anything, could be offered to the HIV-infected individuals who were the subjects of such prevention efforts. Now that it appears that treatment may be available for progressively larger numbers of Africans, it would be a major mistake not to link closely treatment with prevention. We will have a unique opportunity to accomplish synergistically two goals within a single effort. There is an additional issue with regard to prevention.
There is an understandable concern among some that the prevention agenda, including the development and testing of vaccines aimed at people who are not infected, will be minimized in the setting of the tidal wave of interest in a treatment agenda for those who are infected.
We cannot let this happen. Both agendas are critical and indeed are complementary as indicated by this recent newspaper headline.
Finally, let me address the third reason why I am here. The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH), in particular the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which I direct, for many years has been involved in research, and the building of research infrastructure in developing nations, including sub-Saharan Africa. With regard to international HIV/AIDS, the total NIH effort has accelerated greatly in recent years.
We have for many years supported researchers who have developed active partnerships with African investigators and institutions; pictured here are the more than 100 NIH AIDS-related projects, including research, training, and other activities in 30 African countries.
Among these efforts are the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN).
I am pleased to note that Uganda hosts 2 HPTN sites, a state-of-the-art immunology laboratory as well as the internationally known Rakai Project, which is studying the interaction between HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, not shown on this slide, the NIAID Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU) managed by Case Western Reserve University has been very active in Uganda and will work very closely with the HPTN and other NIAID-funded projects in Uganda.
In areas other than HIV/AIDS, NIH supports projects in tropical and emerging infectious diseases -- such as TB and malaria -- throughout Africa. Of particular note are the International Centers for Tropical Disease Research (ICTDR) that are pictured on this slide .
In addition, our international programs emphasize the importance of developing "centers of excellence", which are partnerships with developing countries focused on critical health problems such as HIV/AIDS.
An example of such a Center that I often use as a model for future efforts is NIAID's Malaria Research and Training Center in Bamako, Mali.
The center in Bamako is recognized as one of the top malaria research organizations in Africa. It is a truly African facility: the research there is planned, directed and executed by African scientists, who advise the malaria control program in Mali and train personnel. The factors in the success of the program are delineated in this slide; I would highlight the importance of a long-term commitment to the success of this program.
We are willing and eager to continue and expand our commitment to international research. However, we obviously cannot do it all. Clearly, research is only a part, and likely a relatively small part, of the required broader and more comprehensive approach to the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Success of the latter will require a sustained team effort comprised of governments of host countries and developed nations, WHO, UNAIDS, the World Bank, industry, NGOs, philanthropic organizations and many others.
I promise you that the National Institutes of Health of the United States within the framework of its resources and within its areas of expertise will do its very best to be an active member of this team.
Finally, let us not expend our energies searching for a variety of reasons why we should not act and why this effort might fail; rather let us apply ourselves as a team to the task of developing sustainable efforts that will assure success. I look forward to participating actively in this meeting and learning more about how we can be strong partners in this historic process.
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