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The state medical board, meeting in South San Francisco Thursday, decided to abolish its controversial "diversion" program a physician monitoring system that critics say has protected irresponsible doctors at the cost of patients. Stating that the primary mission of the board is consumer protection, the members decided that operating such a program was "inconsistent" with its policies.
By this time next year, physicians will likely face immediate suspension of their medical licenses if they are determined to have a substance abuse problem. The onus will likely be on them to complete a treatment program and prove they won't jeopardize patient care if they want to get their licenses back.
"The board did something which very few agencies ever do: It gave up part of its turf, because they recognized this isn't properly protecting the public," said Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, leader of a 2004 audit of the program. "They took a courageous step forward."
There are typically 250 to 300 doctors in the program at any given time, but their participation is confidential and patients have had no way of knowing whether their doctor or prospective doctor may be battling an addiction.
But several high-profile cases of doctors who relapsed while participating in the program spurred calls for its elimination.
Redwood City physician Dr. Timothy Trompeter had his license revoked in 2005 after he was arrested in possession of crystal methamphetamine. He had previously participated in the diversion program for five years.
The program was created in 1980 to give physicians with substance abuse problems a second chance.
"A lot of doctors who came before us in discipline had hurt no one but themselves," Dr. Gene Feldman, the medical board president at that time, said in a 1994 presentation. "They were being disciplined at an average cost of $30,000 per case, and most had already gone into rehabilitation programs and were clean and sober. But we were required to discipline them and ruin their lives."
Supporters of the program say it has protected the public by providing impaired doctors with immediate access to treatment services and then monitoring them for several years to ensure they have recovered and are capable of treating patients safely.
"Now that there will be penalty automatically associated with the knowledge they have a problem, no physician is going to willingly say that they do," said Dr. Jim Hay, officer of the California Medical Association, a lobbying group which represents 35,000 physicians in the state. "So the only physicians that will be known to have a problem are the ones who get drunk driving arrests or come to work intoxicated, where they already created a problem."
Despite such support, five separate audits of the program have found that early intervention hasn't always kept physicians from harming their patients. The public has been left vulnerable because there has been no way to find out whether a doctor has a chemical dependency issue.
"The diversion program allows doctors to kill silently," said Janet Lynn Mitchell, a former patient of a Southern California physician who was found guilty of fraud. The doctor, she said, helped an anesthesiologist in the diversion program cover up the death of a patient that occurred after the anesthesiologist left the operating room to get high.
"The doctors haven't suffered," said Mitchell, "it's the citizens of California who have suffered."
In her 2004 audit Fellmeth found that some physicians in the program had collapsed on duty because of substance abuse. The horror stories are rampant, she said, with some doctors admitting to "gaming" the system so that they could continue practicing while continuing their drug use. One nearly graduated from the five-year program even though he had continued to use drugs all along.
Auditors have determined that random drug tests weren't so random; that tests often failed to catch illicit substances; and that "work site monitors" people who shadowed doctors in the program at work at times lied to cover up the extent of the doctor's addiction problems. One monitor was a doctor's own office manager, who feared that if she didn't do as he said, she could lose her job.
In more than a handful of cases, doctors had relapsed at least four times before even being considered for termination from the program.
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EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers skated at the Leduc Rec Centre on Friday prior to departing for Calgary where they will take on the Flames Saturday night on CBC.
All the talk after practice was still about the excitement of the finish in Thursday night's game which saw Nail Yakupov tie the game up with four seconds left on the heels of a disallowed Ryan Nugent-Hopkins goal seconds earlier. The goal set up the overtime winner by Sam Gagner and was marked by a jubilant celebration that was the talk of the entire NHL today.
"I found that it was very spontaneous. That it was real. There was nothing staged about it," said Oilers head coach Ralph Krueger. "If you were in the building, you would understand that celebration. It came as a byproduct of what had transpired with the goal being disallowed, the way the building was cooking and bubbling. For us to get that goal, I thought the celebration was in line with the situation."
As for any comments about potential future celebrations, Krueger brushed them off.
"If he does that 25 times this year, we'll be fine with that," The coach chuckled.
Yakupov said the reaction he got afterwards was overwhelming.
"My parents texted me, my friends, people from my hometown, my teammates from the national team, everybody," said Yakupov, adding that former Sarnia Sting teammate and current Montreal Canadien Alex Galchenyuk also reached out.
"I was scoring with four seconds left and I was excited. Why not? I'm not doing anything bad for LA or something, I was just excited for me and my team. We tied the game and we got a point so that's why I was happy. I think good for us and good for the fans. I don't think it's really bad."
The Oilers practice was very light and ended with a shootout competition. In the competition, Darcy Hordichuk outlasted Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to win and he marked his victory with a mock Yakupov celebration (Watch the video on the Oilers app!).
"It's good, why not? He can do it a little in the practice. Just have fun, it's a good thing", said Yakupov about the Hordichuk celebration.
Hordichuk said that he and his Oilers teammates had no problem with the celebration.
"Every time he scores it's like his first goal. You can't take that away from him. When you're at this level and you work so hard -- and we were on such a high where we had a goal taken away from us and then with (four) seconds left he ends up scoring, there's so many different emotions," Hordichuk began.
"The fans sure loved it but I'm not sure he could get away with it in some other team's barn," he said, laughing.
Hordichuk said that the topic of celebrations with Yakupov have come up, even before last night, but the Russian rookie is usually mum on the subject.
"Every time I drive to the rink I ask him about his celebrations and he won't tell me because he says it's bad luck but I think he thought this one through."
Hordichuk commented also on the team's pure entertainment value as last night's game truly thrilled the fans at Rexall Place.
"It's such a fun team to watch, the Oilers, because they're so young and have so much talent. One thing Ralph's trying to come across to all of us is it's nice to make that fancy move but at the end of the day it's getting pucks deep and not turning them over and creating chances. I think we've done a better job this year of not trying to be too fancy but at the same time we're not holding (back) the kids and telling them not to make mistakes out there."
Krueger talked about the team being ready to play in situations like that which occurred in last night's game.
"We spoke about adversity last week as a team when we were together trying to look at our season. We went through the processes, how we would react in a tough situation. You could feel the group and the leadership in the team at that moment parking it. We had a minute to go and going for the win -- continuing to go for it like we were for that whole third period. These are processes that you try to get in the players' heads ahead of time and hopefully they function like they did and I thought the team did a good job in that situation."
While he was happy with the result last night, he still wants to see a more consistent effort from the team and much less of what was seen Tuesday against the Sharks.
"Finding consistency will be key here for a successful season. We definitely are able to prepare ourselves better for Calgary in retrospect, looking at how we dealt with the Vancouver win. We're a stronger team today already. We can feel it in the practice. There's much more of an edge than there was following the Vancouver game. These are learning times. We all spoke about that after San Jose, what an opportunity that is for us really early to get smacked real hard. It's much better sometimes than losing 3-2 with a minute to go if you use the smack.
"We've had an attentive group for the last few days and I'm sure we're going to come much stronger in the Calgary game."
The Oilers claimed goaltender Niko Hovinen from the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday. Coach Krueger talked about the acquisition.
"He was excellent in Europe the last few years. He's got a lot of size, 6'7" and 24 years old. He seemed to have a bit of an adjustment problem with Philadelphia's minor league team. We believe -- our scouts believe -- there's an upside on him and it's a depth move for sure for our American League team but anything is possible," said Krueger, pointing out the potential that's there. "This kid has shown a good side. He's been part of the national team lineup in Finland and had a really good Karjala Cup last year -- that's where the Czechs, Russians, Finns and Swedes play together. He was outstanding, MVP in that tournament. Let's see how he develops but there is big potential in this kid."
Because Hovinen was claimed on unconditional waivers, the Oilers are able to send him directly to Oklahoma City and they will do just that. The depth will help the team as Tyler Bunz will move back to the ECHL's Stockton Thunder.
In a twist of irony, Goaltender Yann Danis had a bit of a scare as he took a puck off his mask and was cut above his left eye.
"He seems to be fine. He didn't show any concussion signs," said Krueger. "It was one of those explosions where when the mask came off it just split open on him. He's got five stitches there."
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Geometry Introduction
A lot of tools and concepts in geometry aren't that popular in other areas of math. Sure, graphs are handy and you might see a triangle thrown into a math lesson every once in a while, but when was the last time you saw a cone in an algebra class? No, that leaning tower of ice cream you snuck in on the last day of school doesn't count.
Geometry is really the awkward third wheel of math courses. If they were siblings, then algebra, trigonometry, and calculus would be a pop rock band sensation and geometry would be the Bonus Jonas. Underrated, yet full of hidden talent and possibility.
And honestly, geometry has something that none of the other math fields can claim: a solid application to the real world.
Seriously! How often are you going to find the degree of a polynomial in real life? When have you ever solved a real-world problem by taking the indefinite integral?
Geometry, on the other hand, has real-life applications all over the place. All around us are lines, shapes, angles, distances, symmetries, congruencies, circles, squares, triangles, volumes, and areas. Textiles and clothing, video game design, and architecture are just a few of the fields that use geometry and apply it to the world (or virtual world) around us.
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ZTE to ship 40 million handsets in 2012
ZTE and Huawei could ship as many as 100 million devices this year, according to reports
ZTE could ship as many as 40 million smartphones this year up from 10 million in 2011, according to component suppliers.
DigiTimes reports that sources from Taiwan based component manufacturers have talked about how ZTE has set an 'internal' target of 40 million handsets to ship for 2012.
Meanwhile Huawei is expected to aim for 60 million. Between the two China-based manufacturers the sources note they will account for around 15 per cent of the global smartphone market share for the year at between 95 and 100 million handsets shipped.
DigiTimes also reported that Chinese analyst site hqew.com has predicted Huawei will ship 57 million handsets while ZTE will achieve 37 million in the year ahead.
While DigiTimes can be a bit hit-and-miss, the possibility of these Chinese manufacturers achieving such figures isn't too far fetched considering the hardware each of them brought to Mobile World Congress in February.
Huawei's Diamond range of smartphones is particularly impressive and benchmark tests from the Ascend D Quad XL, which features the company's own K3V2 quad core processor architecture, show that it can outperform much of the competition.
ZTE, meanwhile, has the Era, which is a viable alternative to HTC's One handsets, being similarly specced to a high standard.
Notably in the case of both manufacturers the new devices are bringing Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich build which is sure to make them competitive with more established brands.


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DIEHLSTADT -- Malcolm J. Green, 72, died at 9:29 p.m. Dec. 10, 2003, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
Born August 25, 1931, in Hayti, son of the late Malcolm J. and Mary Elizabeth Green Sr., he had lived in Diehlstadt since 1963 after moving from St. Louis where he had been employed with the Painters Union 2341 as a drywall hanger. A U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, he was a member of the General Baptist Church in Diehlstadt.
On Jan. 31, 1953, he married Katie Ione Allen who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: three sons and daughters-in-law, Glenn and Karen Green of Cedar Hill, Ricky and Lana Green of Benton and Wayne and Denise Green of Fort Eustis, Va.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Mary Elizabeth and Charles Sanders and Nancy and Earl Huff of Ocala, Fla.; one brother, Jerry Green of Ferriday, La.; three sisters, Opal Brummet and Dorothy Brown of Hayti and Rose Clark of Bentonca, Miss.; and 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Visitation is after 10 a.m. Saturday at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston until service time at 1 p.m. The Rev. Raymond Hannah of Farmington and the Rev. Mark Odle, pastor of the General Baptist Church of Diehlstadt, will officiate.
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Still tough times for borrowers: MAB
Speaking as the Building Societies Association published its latest lending data, Mr Murphy said: "Mortgage lending by mutuals has been the driving force behind much of the growth in 2012.
"Overall, it remains a challenging environment and funding remains constrained. Therefore, it is to be hoped the two new lending schemes announced by the Chancellor and the Bank of England are fully supported by lenders and money is passed directly on to businesses and consumers."
According to the BSA figures, mortgage lending by building societies and other mutuals grew by 38 per cent in the first half of 2012.
At £14.1bn, gross lending grew by £3.9bn compared to the same period in 2011, while gross lending for June 2012 rose by 28 per cent to £2.7bn compared to last June, an increase of £0.6bn.
Mortgage approvals by mutuals grew by 45 per cent in the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2011. In June, approvals were up by 35 per cent compared to the same month last year and were 20 per cent higher than the average over the previous six months.
Retail savings balances at mutuals increased by £639m during June, compared to a net withdrawal of £94 million in the same month last year.
Paul Broadhead, head of mortgage policy at the BSA said: "Lending by mutuals has grown in each month of 2012, year on year, and the June figures for mortgage approvals are above the previous six months' average.
"They continue to look strong over the coming months, while growth in lending by banks over the past six months has been relatively weak."


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early signs of preganancy are VERY similar to PMT and early period indicators. If she hasn't come on within about 3 days of feling pre-menstrual (or longer if she normally suffers from bad PMT) then do a pregnancy test. I'd suggest hanging on until at least a day past her normal cycle length though so you don't waste your money. If it comes back negative, wait a couple of days and if no period, test again. If she goes 10 days over her cycle with no bleed and still negative tests, see your doctor for a blood test
Hope it works out!!
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:03 am
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well she said to me that never before has she had tender breasts but this time round they are sore,im just finding it extremly weird because her moods are going from really happy and cuddling up on the sofa to being really off and hates being touched. its also hard as she doesnt really want to do a pregnancy test as she doesnt like the risk of it coming back as negative.
if we have'nt managed to concieve this month have you got any good and helpful ideas on how to concieve PLEASE
we've used the ovulution srips and found the ovulation dates but it seem's to vary from month to month. if you could give us some tips n ideas that'll be great.
many thank nigel
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:31 am
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when is her period due?
its normal for her ovulation dates to vary month on month, which is why the tests are pretty handy. I know the fear of negative tests after 14 months of trying before success!! so i can understand where she is coming from - BUT from what you say it does sound like it is worth doing a test as soon as she is a day past her normal bleed day.
As for tips on conceiving - there's millions out there and it depends on your personal preferences, but using gravity to help is a fave - so after sex, stick a pillow under her bum and make sure she keeps her knees up - its supposed to really work as it raises the chances of a sperm finding the egg quite a lot.
Remember with pregnancy tests that even just the tiniest hint of a line indicates probably pregnant - they aren't like the ovulation tests where the line has to be darker than the indicator line.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:00 pm
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hi there,
my due date is around the 4th of october, and my monthly cycle can be from anything between 27 and 32 days. but the only thing is ive been experencing pains in my ovaries and back cramps since the day i ovulated, but not bad like when im on my period, when im due on i get a slight bach ach and thats all, but as soon as im on its so heavy and painfull.
my nippels are sore, i have been eating a lot more than i usually would. i have been getting mood swings, also i have been going to the bathroom more often than usual. then i think i have not concieved this month because it seems like im gettin the simtoms of a period, but as soon as the back cramps go all the other simptoms point to pregnancy so im confused..
any advise
many thanx rach x
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:17 pm
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HI Rach & Nigel,
Wanting a baby so much can do allsorts of things with your mind,like thinking you pregnant.As my partner & i have found...The more you want to become pregnant the more symptoms you find that make you think you are...try not to think about becoming pregnant......
I fell pregnant at a time i never imagined could be possible....The story goes;
My mum died on Feb 27th 07 from suffering & fighting Lung cancer for 5 long years,i was caring for her at her home from Dec.....
Then 12 hours later her partner died from an enlarged heart....
Then to top it all off my dad was taken into hospital on 13th April with a bad back.Only to find he had to much Calcium in his blood,they tested dad for Bowel Cancer only to find he had BONE CANCER which was secondary Cancer...Further tests showed the primary Cancer had come from the Lungs,Liver,kidney & possibley spread to his Brain...
We were told dad had weeks possibley days to live,within 10 days of dad being in Hospital he was transfered to a Hospice...
dad sadly died on 10th May 07...
The day after dad died,10 minutes before we went to the Funeral Parlour,I found out i was pregnant.....
I was late for my period but put it down to stress & upset,but i was 5 weeks gone.
So it just goes to show that pregnancy can happen when you least expect it to...
I would say just carry on having your time in bed & forget about pregnancy as you can see it happens when you don't expect it to....
All the best to you both & let us no how things go....
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:13 am
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Hi Rach
Karen is definitely right on that one! your mind definitely plays tricks when you really want it.
I think at this point the best thing you can do is relax and forget about it until at least 5th October, then if you've not come on try a home pregnancy test. I wouldn't get your hopes up though, as it could just as easily be normal PMT plus trying to conceive stress giving you these symptoms.
Let us know how it goes


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Managing a Three-Generations-Old Family Business
Editor's note: On Mondays, we'll be interviewing 2008 Top Small Workplaces winners about their companies and the unique workplace practices that help make them successful businesses. You can read the full 2008 Top Small Workplaces package here. You can also nominate a business for Top Small Workplaces 2009 here.
Running a family business is hard enough in the first generation. But imagine three generations down the road, when the pool of heirs and potential company leaders has expanded exponentially. It's no longer just "Mom and Pop" calling the shots.
How exactly do you keep family disagreements in the board room from ruining Thanksgiving dinner?
Lundberg Family Farms, a Richvale, Calif., 71-year-old maker of rice and rice cakes sold in stores like Whole Foods, has made it work so far – and is trying to ensure the business stays family-owned for generations to come. Today, the 190-employee company is owned by about 19 of the original owners' heirs. We spoke with chief executive Grant Lundberg about the trials of running a family business and how they prepare to pass it along. Edited excerpts follow.
WSJ: What's the biggest challenge of running a 71-year-old family business?
When the business was just a few family members, they could literally run the business from a pickup truck. I think as the business grows we've had to start thinking more about how we communicate with each other and delegate work, sometimes to non-family members. The business has gotten to the point where we have managers and we have to start entrusting them with the business. They have to understand how the company runs and our values so they can go out and represent us in the way the family would like. Also we have a lot more people joining the family business so just figuring out what everyone's role is going to be is a big challenge.
WSJ: I imagine keeping conflicts between family members at work from seeping into personal relationships is tough. How do you deal with that?
I think it's a lot of gracefulness of understanding, and just knowing when we walk out of here we have to deal with each other no matter what. In a non-family business you might not get along with someone and just hope the other person eventually leaves so you never have to see them again. We learned a lot from the generation before ours. The four brothers, my dad and his brothers, were role models for us in terms of family communications. One thing they used to do is meet down at a local café on a regular basis to discuss the business and air any issues. We've continued that tradition. We also get the family together for ski trips and other outings where we get away and can discuss the business.
WSJ: How do you get younger generations interested in joining the business and understanding what the opportunities are?
One of the things we've done for the fourth generation is set up an internship program for my kids and my cousins' kids to give them a sense of whether they want to work for the business. But it's sort of an organic thing. My dad would come home and talk about the business when I was a kid and I would work on it. It's not like one day they asked me if I wanted to join the business. It was a continual conversation.
Have you worked for a family business? How easy was it getting family members to work together?


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Southwest Airlines Co. today reported a lower first-quarter profit on record revenue, but warned softness in passenger demand seen since last month.
Southwest chief executive Gary Kelly said passenger unit revenue trends were "relatively stable" in January and February, but March was "worse than expected in March and that softness has continued so far this month. He expects a decline in April passenger unit revenue from last year.
"We are cautious about April trends and the potential effects from government sequestration, recent bookings for May and June have been solid, and lower fuel prices have roughly offset the revenue weakness thus far in April," Kelly said.
The Dallas-based airline's first-quarter net profit was $59 million, or 8 cents per share, down from a net profit of $98 million, or 13 cents per share, a year earlier. The earnings beat the Wall Street consensus of 2 cents per share for analysts polled by Thomson First Call.
Both quarters included favorable special items that boosted earnings — $6 million in the latest quarter and $116 million in the year-ago quarter. Excluding special items, the airline would have earned $53 million, or 7 cents per share, compared with a loss of $18 million, or 2 cents per share, in the first quarter of 2012.
Revenue rose 2.3 percent to a record $4.1 billion in the quarter on relatively flat capacity.
Continued progress in integrating AirTran Airways, modernizing its fleet of aircraft and changes to its frequent flyer program "significantly" boosted passenger revenue, Kelly said. Southwest also launched some new revenue streams, including the sale of premium boarding positions at the airport gate, increasing the EarlyBird Check-In charge and raising other fees, he said.
Lower costs helped Southwest report first-quarter operating income of $70 million, up from $22 million a year earlier. Excluding special items, operating income was $112 million, compared with $10 million a year earlier.
The airline spent $3.29 per gallon of fuel in the first quarter, compared with $3.44 per gallon a year earlier.
Southwest expects its fuel costs for the current quarter, including taxes, to be about $3 to $3.05 per gallon, which would be below the $3.22 per gallon in the second quarter of 2012. The airline also said it has fuel hedging contracts in place for the rest of the year to support prices below its initial estimate for 2013.


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When Our Kids Are Involved, We Are Nuts
Wednesday, 09.8.2010 / 2:13 PM ET / Mike Ulmer's Blog
By Mike Ulmer - Mapleleafs.com commentator
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They asked Tomas Kaberle about his dad at the MasterCard centre on Wednesday.
Frantisek Kaberle, you may recall, said his son was struggling under Leafs coach Ron Wilson, thus adding more spin to a story that has generated everything but a final result.
"My father's opinion I can't control...can you control your dad?" Kaberle said to assembled reporters.
"I love my dad (but) I don't agree with everything my father says," Kaberle said. "That's normal."
Yes, yes it is.
'S**T my Dad Says, The Maple Leafs Edition ' has left the younger Kaberle, a gentle soul if one ever existed, scrambling to smooth over his relationship with his dad and Wilson, his hockey surrogate.
No hockey player has ever spoken a greater truth. You can't control fathers.
My father believed vanilla was the only ice cream that mattered.
He believed in the healing power of magnets and the efficacy of bee pollen and gasoline additives.
He believed that when a heart attack seemed imminent, it was perfectly reasonable to smoke a cigar and wait for a decision from God.
He had crazy theories, some complimentary, others not, on various races.
My Dad did not believe in training wheels.
He used to exercise our dog by throwing him out of the car during rides in the country.
He never went south for a vacation.
He forbade us to kill spiders for his hatred of flies was unending.
He thought Martin Luther King was the greatest man of his time.
He donated staggering amounts of time to his service club.
He let go when pushing his kids on their first bicycle ride, even though it would have been easier to hang on.
He called.
He loved to take me golfing.
He taught me to compete.
He admired my wife and her family.
He could hang a nickname on you that stuck.
He played with the language.
I don't know if Ron Wilson and Tomas Kaberle will make up to either man's satisfaction. I suspect Kaberle's game will improve dramatically since this is his option year. I couldn't tell you if that will result in a trade since, by necessity, Kaberle can only gain leverage by doing things that will make the Leafs want to keep him.
I do know my kids can't control me, especially when it comes to them. I pad through their sensitivities whenever I have something to say.
As far as they are concerned, I am an ungovernable force who will take any measure, right or wrong, if I perceive a real injustice directed at my kid. Shakespeare's conceit of the mad king in the confines of his castle works for me.
And so I understand Frantisek Kaberle completely and I blame him not at all.
When our kids are involved, dads are nuts. It's how we are.
Author: Mike Ulmer | Mapleleafs.commentator


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Quotables: Cheers to One of the Most Underrated Couples in Hollywood!
8/8/2014 6:00 AM PDT, by Sarah Taylor
"In L.A. you're the devil if you eat bread. ... Josh and I went to Paris over Christmas, and he gained, like, 15 pounds. ... The bread! White chocolate! Risotto! Pâté! My friend lives out in Normandy on a farm, and she makes her own foie gras. And then the wine. All we did was eat and drink — it was so fun."
--Diane Kruger on bread, food in general, and the awesomeness that is the relationship between her and her boyfriend of 8 years, Joshua Jackson.
Aren't these two so sweet? Wouldn't you just die of a melodramatic broken heart if they ever decided to split up? This is one solid couple, guys, and instead of paying so much attention to the fleeting, dynamic relationships like that which Lindsay Lohan seems to flit through, maybe we could settle for something deeper and more satisfying by concentrating on what Joshua and Diane are doing at basically all times of the day to get their romantic kinship just right.
Doesn't it just make you want to go and binge-watch "Dawson's Creek," or the "National Treasure" movies? It's Friday; live a little, y'all!
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- Creating alpha channels
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- Compositing photos
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So now that our plane is in place and old aged and dirty and mossy, we are going to go over and add another feature to our landscape. I am going to add a little water here, because it is very bright down here, it's kind of distracting, we want to add something to this which kind of relate more to the plane. So I have an image back here. Here it is of just that, a little water. So I am going to go in here, and I am going to select this. I am going to take this whole picture and drag it into here. And now it's much bigger than what I need, so let's close this off, and let's see what's going to happen here.
I am going to press F to bring me to full screen and pull back a little bit so that I can go in there and see the whole image. Now I am going to take this, and I want to take this scene and put it right down here below, and I actually want it below the plane itself. So let's put it way down here right behind the plane itself. So there is the scene. So I am going to go in here and do a little resizing of this, press Command+T so that I can get the transform tool.
So I can go in here and put it right into position where it want it. I want it right in this area here like this, right about like that. I'll put it right there. There is just about where I want it, maybe we'll make it just a little bigger. There we go. So there is our little pool of water, click OK. So now, I want this to look like it really is part of this scene here, and in this--so what I am going to do is I am going to give it a mask, and I am going to start to paint away all the parts that I don't want.
So I am going to go in here and just right off to the bat get rid of the whole top area, don't want any of that stuff in there. Let me undo that for a second, I can keep some of this little stuff in there right in there, that's not so bad, and let's bring this all the way down here. We'll just kind of blend this into this area here and kind of blend it into our area. We can keep that little nice, little stick there. And it's right in there.
So now we got this little area that's just kind of add a little bit of our--a little roughness to it, so it starts to have the same kind of lighting effect like the rest of our scene. So there is our little pool, all right. That's looking good. So now, what I am going to do is I am going to turn off all these guys so I see only my plane. There is my plane. So what I am going to do is I am going to come up here to the top of what I see right here--in fact, we don't even need to see the brush tip or the broken glass.
But right here what I am going to do is I am going to hold down my option key and say Merge Visible, and the reason I am holding my option key is so that it's going to merge all those elements into a separate layer leaving everything else still there. So now I could turn everything back on. All right, bring everybody back on. Now I am going to take that layer I just created and bring it down and put it right here on top of my little water scene. I am going to drag it down, so it's right down in here, straight down. Now I am going to do a little flip vertical on it, little flip vertical right there.
Okay, and now what I am going to do is I am going to bring down its opacity, bring down the opacity considerably, about like that and give it a mask, and in that mask I am going to pretty much obliterate most of it. I want to see most of it, I just want to go in there and make sure that we see it only inside of our little pool right there like that. So there we see that we have it inside our little pool, we are seeing a reflection of the plane above in our pool of water right down there.
Now we've got this in place, I am going to go in there, I'm going to take that pool, I am going to darken it up a bit, because it's underneath the plane, so I am going to go in there and start to darken what's visible. I am going to get a nice big burn brush here, and just going to kind of darken this area down here. Now I am going to do the same thing to the jungle itself, I am going to start to really darken this area down here, because its underneath the plane. This stuff is all underneath the plane so it should be shaded by the plane right there. And now I am going to go back to my plane itself, and I am going to start darken that a lot more.
I'll start going in there and just messing with this, and I am going to go into my shadows here, so I can really darken some of those tones. We want to really go in there and darken that, and the same thing with my jungle. I am going to go in there and really darken that area directly underneath the plane and in the lake. Directly underneath the plane I want that stuff to be really dark. Now the final touch. In the next movie what we are going to do is we are going to take this fern and put it in front of the plane so that it makes it look like the plane is in fact dug down deep inside of the jungle.


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In October 1997, Seattle-based Casey Family Programs and the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation awarded American Humane Association and three other agencies -- the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, Casey Family Services, and the Institute for Human Services Management -- $300,000 to launch the Casey Outcomes and Decision Making Project. The goal of the project was to help child welfare agencies implement performance-based contracting and managed care initiatives.
National statistics reveal that child welfare has become a big and troubled business with an estimated 903,000 children confirmed as abused or neglected and 542,000 children residing in foster care settings in 2001.
Child welfare professionals must make critical decisions about children and families every day:
Because caseworkers and their supervisors often make these decisions without the benefit of standardized guidelines, outcomes for children and families vary widely. In the past decade, more than 20 states have been sued as a result of their inability to ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of the children and families in their care.
Taxpayers and policymakers are demanding that social service programs be cost-conscious and results- or outcomes-based. They are calling for system reform. Because some experts suggest that using a managed care model in child welfare would help reach that goal -- by promoting structured decision making, the delivery of appropriate services, and cost-containment -- many states and counties are considering it. Others, however, wonder if managed care principles can be applied in the child welfare arena without compromising children's safety.
There are many significant differences between the child welfare and the medical or behavioral health systems in which managed care principles are widely applied. In healthcare, there are research-based links among symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes, and practitioners can develop clinical protocols that connect types and lengths of treatments to diagnoses. In child welfare, however, this is not so easily accomplished. The needs of children and families served by the child welfare system are complex, and they differ from those of individuals with well-defined medical illnesses. The chronic and multi-layered nature of child maltreatment may cause severe emotional, social, and behavioral problems that cannot be resolved with short-term treatments.
Child welfare practitioners and policy makers must continue to pursue system reform. They must determine which outcomes are most critical for children and families, learn how to measure them, and decide whether a managed care model will help achieve those outcomes. To that end, Casey Family Programs and the Annie E. Casey Foundation have invested funds in this important effort -- the Casey Outcomes and Decision Making Project -- to develop management and practice tools to guide child welfare staff in providing needs-based, outcomes-focused services.


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text: India's manufacturing sector is at a crossroads. And it's been stuck there for a while. Manufacturing's share of GDP has stagnated around the 15% mark for almost three decades now. Compare that with China, where the manufacturing sector contributes 34% of the country's GDP. More importantly, China's share of world manufacturing was 22.4% in 2012 while India's share is currently less than 2%. The past two years have been particularly hard on manufacturing, as UPA-2's now infamous 'policy paralysis', sluggish decision-making in an election year, and the drying up of domestic demand in key sectors like automotives put the brakes on growth. The sector contracted by 0.7% in 2013-14 after expanding by a mere 1% in 2012-13. It is against this challenging backdrop that the Narendra Modi government's budget promises much.


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Marvel Spotlight
|Marvel Spotlight
Marvel Spotlight #1 (November 1971) featuring Red Wolf. Cover art by Neal Adams.
|Publication information
|Marvel Comics
|Publication date
|Volume 1
November 1971-April 1977
Volume 2
July 1979-March 1981
|Number of issues
|Volume 1 33
Volume 2 11
|Creative team
|Gardner Fox, Gary Friedrich, Archie Goodwin, Marv Wolfman
|Sal Buscema, Steve Ditko, Mike Ploog, Syd Shores
Marvel Spotlight is the name of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics as a try-out book for new characters. The first series ran for 33 issues from November 1971 to April 1977[1] and the second series ran for eleven issues from July 1979 to March 1981.[2]
Publication history[edit]
The series began with a Red Wolf story.[3] Several Marvel characters that were later given their own individual titles first appeared in the Marvel Spotlight series, including Werewolf by Night,[4] Ghost Rider,[5] the Son of Satan,[6] and Spider-Woman.[7]
The second series began with several Captain Marvel stories before featuring other characters.[8] Tako Shamara first appeared in Marvel Spotlight vol. 2 #5 (March 1980), and was created by Marv Wolfman and Steve Ditko. In his first appearance the character battled a huge dragon from the past called a Wani, a monster that destroyed his ancestors' villages in 1582.[9] The creature that Tako battled was intended to be Godzilla but since Marvel no longer had the rights to the character, which lapsed the previous year, the creature was modified to a dragon called The Wani.[10]
In December 2005, the Marvel Spotlight title was used for a series of comic book-sized magazines, usually featuring profiles of and interviews with Marvel creators (one writer and one artist each issue), or spotlighting special Marvel projects such as Stephen King's The Dark Tower.
The issues[edit]
Volume 1 (November 1971 – April 1977)[edit]
|Red Wolf (moved to own title)
|Werewolf by Night (moved to own title)
|Ghost Rider (moved to own title)
|Son of Satan (moved to own title)
|Moon Knight
|Warriors Three
|Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
|Deathlok, Devil-Slayer
Volume 2 (July 1979 – March 1981)[edit]
|Captain Marvel
|Dragon Lord
|Star-Lord (origin)
|Captain Marvel
|Captain Universe
Collected editions[edit]
- Essential Werewolf by Night Vol 1 includes Marvel Spotlight #2-4, 576 pages, October 2005, ISBN 978-0785118398
- Essential Ghost Rider Vol. 1 includes Marvel Spotlight #5-12, 560 pages, December 2006, ISBN 978-0785118381
- Essential Marvel Horror
- Vol. 1 includes Marvel Spotlight #12-24, 648 pages, October 2006, ISBN 978-0785121961
- Vol. 2 includes Marvel Spotlight #26, 616 pages, November 2008, ISBN 978-0785130673
- Essential Moon Knight Vol. 1 includes Marvel Spotlight #28-29, 560 pages, February 2006, ISBN 978-0785120926
- Siege Prelude includes Marvel Spotlight #30, 264 pages, January 2010, ISBN 978-0785143109
- Essential Spider-Woman Vol. 1 includes Marvel Spotlight #32, 576 pages, December 2005, ISBN 978-0785117933
- Marvel Masterworks: Deathlok Vol. 1 includes Marvel Spotlight #33, 368 pages, November 2009, ISBN 978-0785130505
See also[edit]
- ^ Marvel Spotlight at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Marvel Spotlight vol. 2 at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Sanderson, Peter; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1970s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. p. 150. ISBN 978-0756641238.
Writer Gardner Fox and artist Syd Shores created the Red Wolf of the nineteenth-century American West in this new series.
- ^ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 154: "With the changes to the Comics Code in place, Roy Thomas came up with the idea for a series called 'I, Werewolf'...Stan Lee liked the concept but decided to rename it 'Werewolf by Night'."
- ^ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 156: "Co-created by editor Roy Thomas, writer Gary Friedrich, and artist Mike Ploog, the new Ghost Rider was Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stunt performer."
- ^ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 160: "Stan Lee suggested doing a series called Mark of Satan, and Roy Thomas amended the idea to 'The Son of Satan'."
- ^ Manning, Matthew K.; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2012). "1970s". Spider-Man Chronicle Celebrating 50 Years of Web-Slinging. Dorling Kindersley. p. 92. ISBN 978-0756692360.
Spider-Man's female counterpart debuted in this story written by Archie Goodwin and penciled by Sal Buscema.
- ^ Buttery, Jarrod (April 2014). "Ready For The Spotlight". Back Issue!. TwoMorrows Publishing (71): 11.
- ^ DeFalco, Tom "1980s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 197: "Tako Shamara became the Dragon Lord in Marvel Spotlight #5 by writer/editor Marv Wolfman and artist Steve Ditko."
- ^ Cronin, Brian (December 24, 2009). "Comic Book Legends Revealed #239". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on July 4, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
The Godzilla fill-in by Marv Wolfman and Steve Ditko, ended up appearing in the pages of the re-launched Marvel Spotlight in 1980 as Dragon Lord, about a fellow who can control dragons.


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"This was a quality win today," said Sikeston coach Brian James. "I think, overall, it was probably the best match we've played all year. It was windy, but we adjusted pretty well today."
Sikeston's win marked the second time this season the Bulldogs have defeated the Bearcats.
"Dexter is very competitive," James said. "They have several basketball players off their state team and those kids really know how to compete and they gave us good, hard matches all day long. The score today was not indicative of how close a lot of these matches were."
With the win, Sikeston now stands at 8-1 on the season.
"I think we made some strides today," James said.
"(Thursday's) a tough one at Cape, then we have the Poplar Bluff Tournament on Saturday, so we've got a lot of tennis to play in the next week or so."
Sikeston will travel to Cape today for a 4 p.m. match.
Complete results
Peter Jones (S) def. Jake Smith, 8-2
Marc Leible (S) def. James Ford, 8-5
Chris Robey (S) def. Derek Roberts, 8-6
Kyle Weeks (S) def. Ben Smith, 8-5
Sam Zhao (S) def. Gabe Smith, 8-4
Chris Matthews (S) lost to Scott Admire, 7-9
Jones/Robey (S) def. J. Smith/Roberts, 8-4
Leible/Weeks (S) def. Ford/B. Smith, 8-6
Zhao/Matthews (S) lost to G.Smith/Admire, 5-8
JV Winners:
Singles: Craig Millington, Jacob Marsh, Karl Erlenbush, Ross Bucher; Doubles: Logan Wagoner/Matt Strom, Marsh/Erlenbush.


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LETTER: Car insurance provides protection
Published: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 6:33 p.m.
Dear Editor: I would like to thank Dorian Scott (Letters, Jan. 18)for showing me how selfish I am for expecting everyone to have car insurance.
I have never driven a day without it, nor would I ever. It is comforting to think that if I were to be involved in an accident with someone else that may not have insurance, that they would want neither me nor my insurance company to be responsible for the damage or injuries incurred from the accident. No, my car insurance does not make me happy, but it gives me protection from someone being able to take the things that I worked for in case I am involved in an accident.
All of the ones that do not want to pay for insurance can hang on. President Barack Obama has another four years for giving away freebies that the middle class citizens, such as myself, will have to pay for. Maybe car insurance will be one of those.
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Henry IV Part 1
by William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 1 Rules and Order Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Scene.Line). Line numbers correspond to the Norton edition.
Quote #7
But shall it be that you, that set the crown
Upon the head of this forgetful man
And for his sake wear the detested blot
Of murderous subornation—shall it be
That you a world of curses undergo,
Being the agents or base second means,
The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather? (1.3.164-170)
When Hotspur reminds his father and uncle of their participation in the deposition of King Richard (which goes down in the preceding play, Richard II), the audience is reminded that King Henry was once a rebel who led an uprising against a monarch. King Henry, then, has paved the path for future acts of anarchy. Hmm. Sometimes it's so hard to tell the difference between a rebel and a monarch in this play.
Quote #8
O, thou hast damnable iteration and art
indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done
much harm upon me, Hal, God forgive thee for it.
Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing, and now
am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than
one of the wicked. (1.2.96-101)
We know Falstaff is full of bologna when he compares himself to a saint whose been "corrupted" by Prince Hal, but this is partly why we love Falstaff. It's pretty clear that Falstaff's the one whose been doing the corrupting (even though Hal is most definitely a willing participant in Falstaff's antics).
Quote #9
[…] yet time serves wherein you may redeem
Your banished honors and restore yourselves
Into the good thoughts of the world again,
Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt
Of this proud king (1.3.184-188)
Here, Hotspur insists that overthrowing the king is a way for the Percy family to "redeem" their "banish'd honours." The play takes seriously the idea that rebellion can be honorable and even justifiable, don't you think? Hotspur's never portrayed as a mustache-twirling villain (even when he's being ridiculous) and, in fact, much of what he has to say about the king makes sense, especially in the play's early scenes. But, does the play sustain this indulgent attitude toward Hotspur and the rebellion throughout the play? What do you think?


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Plantar Fasciitis – Prevention and Treatment
Do you know where your plantar fascia is? Chances are you don't unless you have injured it and developed plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the plantar fascia). According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons approximately two million people seek treatment for plantar fasciitis each year.
Your plantar fascia is a thick band of tissue running along the arch of your foot, from your toes to your heel. With prolonged abuse, small tears can develop in the tissue, followed by inflammation and chronic heel pain.
According to the Mayo Clinic, plantar fasciitis occurs commonly in runners. High mileage and hard running surfaces can factor into the likelihood of developing the condition. Also at risk are athletes who spend a lot of time on the balls of their feet, flexing their calves. Without regularly stretching the Achilles and calf muscles, this puts excessive tension on the plantar fascia. Repetitive jumping, obesity, and footwear lacking in support can also be contributing factors to the condition.
Treating Plantar Fasciitis:
- Stay off your feet – take a break from running or jumping.
- Ice – reduce swelling and irritation by regularly icing the area.
- Fish oil – one of the great qualities of this supplement is the reduction of inflammation.
- Stretching – stretch out your Achilles and calves to relieve tension on your feet
- Massage – use a foam roller on your calves or a lacrosse ball to massage your feet.
- Splint – wear a special boot at night to keep your foot flexed and prevent overnight tightening.
Also consider purchasing a new pair of shoes with adequate heel support. While barefoot running is all the rage these days, without excellent running form, you could be asking for trouble.
Topic: Mobility & Recovery
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IM, text, and video-chat capabilities have shoved the old phone call aside. Thrutu looks to update voice-to-voice communication by letting users share contacts, photos, and more as they gab. The best utility is a location-sharing function that shows you and your buddy on a map.
Shows you which contacts have the app installed. Does in-call coin flips and shared browsing.
Works only if carrier supports simultaneous data and voice. Must initiate calls in-app on the iPhone.
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