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Research Update: Uralsvyazinform (OJSC) 'BB-' Long-Term Rating On CreditWatch Negative On Concerns About Aggressive Liquidity Management Mar 09
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On March 2, 2009, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services placed its 'BB-' long-term corporate credit rating on Russian telecoms operator Uralsvyazinform (OJSC) on CreditWatch with negative implications. The rating action reflects our concerns over Uralsvyazinform's liquidity management, which we consider overly aggressive. We believe the company will repay a Russian ruble (RUR) 3 billion bond when it falls due at the end of March from cash balances and short-term committed credit lines. However, we expected the company to refinance with debt of a longer duration. The ratings are constrained by the company's weak liquidity profile, with significant short-term refinancing requirements; the need to control rising costs and preserve operating profitability; intense competition in the regional mobile telecoms market; and regulatory...
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- 5 cups fresh or frozen pitted cherries, divided
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1. Bring 4 cups cherries, cherry juice, port, sugar, cinnamon stick and 1 1/2 cups water to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 15 minutes. Remove cinnamon stick, and purée until smooth in blender or food processor, or with immersion blender.
2. Whisk cornstarch with 1/2 cup soup in small bowl. Return mixture to soup, and whisk to combine. Chill 3 hours, or overnight.
3. Coarsely chop remaining pitted cherries. Ladle soup into bowls. Sprinkle with chopped cherries, garnish each bowl with 1 whole cherry, and serve.July 2007
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Eliminating size restriction would generate millions in revenue
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to allow smaller businesses to start selling Quick-Draw.
Cuomo in his executive budget Tuesday is proposing allowing businesses smaller than 2,500 square feet that sell lottery tickets to be able to offer the electronic Quick-Draw game. The proposal would not include bars and other places that serve alcohol on-site.
The elimination of the seller size restriction is expected to generate $24 million a year in new revenue.
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The Donator wrote:Like_Water wrote:The Donator wrote: They made more of a jab at Vibram and those awful/hideous finger socks/shoes whatever they are, so for good reason
you sound like the girl on the show. Haven't tried them, but people who have seem to like them.
Good for them. Youll never see me wearing something like that
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I don''t think your screenshot sux. I mean there are two styles of art mixed and THEY don''t look good to gether, kinda like wearing pink jeans under a leather jacket. So if you made the world around the "persons" in the same type of art it will look a whole lot better.
And where the F**K do you get your cash from?? I am happy when I have 600 gilders(dutch currency, average $1 equals 2 gld) on my bank account... Ok I admit I am making a game with a budget of $0 but then again I am an assembly programmer(not trying to start a lang war here...).
Also I am 15 and I don''t understand any of that martix crap, so you are doing pretty good (ok but then again after 5 min of reading about matrixes(?) I trurned to IBR).
Shit happens, carpe diem et noctem.
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Maybe you shouldn''t have spent that much money
You could have purchased MSVC++ and get on Gamedev.net and learn how to make a game with it.
(that always works)
You could have purchased MSVC++ and get on Gamedev.net and learn how to make a game with it.
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Deals of the Day: New York Times Looks to Sell Red Sox Stake
Deals of the Day, compiled by Stephen Grocer and Heidi N. Moore, gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. You can bookmark Deal Journal for easy visiting throughout the day at http://blogs.wsj.com/deals.
Mergers & Acquisitions
New York Times: The publisher is looking to sell its stake in the Boston Red Sox. It may go for $166 million. [Wall Street Journal]
American International Group: It is halting the merger of two Japanese units because the whole company is pretty much on the block. [Reuters]
Jitters: Chrysler is cutting costs. "Chrysler and its majority owner, Cerberus Capital Management LP, are going to try to keep the company going as a stand-alone business at least in the short term. Cerberus had talks this fall about merging the company with General Motors Corp., and recently sought to revive those discussions." [WSJ]
Related: We wrote last week about the options Cerberus and Chrysler were considering in a link-up. [WSJ]
IAC: Liberty Media is selling IAC shares after a negative court ruling. Selling them slowly, slowly, slowly. [WSJ]
IndyMac: Federal regulators are close to a solution for disposing of the troubled lender, probably in a sale. [WSJ]
The friend of a solid return is my friend: Hedge funds are outperforming stocks. That is why public pension funds are sticking with them. [WSJ]
California: Its budget deficit has held up infrastructure spending and may mean that some judges will have to write opinions in their living rooms because there is no money for new courthouses. [Bloomberg]
L'Affaire Madoff: The Elie Weisel Foundation lost more than $15 million, or substantially all of its assets, because of Madoff. [Yahoo News]
Related: It was the SEC's controversial decision to avoid a stance on "payment for order flow" that contributed to the regulator's inability to stop the Madoff fraud. [Financial Times]
Related: The Jewish charity that avoided Madoff. [Deal Journal]
Financial Institutions
Hey, McFly: Banks complain that federal officials are telling them to loan money and save money. They can't do both. "It's so incongruous when the four regulators publish a joint press release imploring banks to lend and saying they should do their duty under their charter, when at the same time the regulatory field forces are bludgeoning community banks to death," said Camden Fine, chief executive of the Independent Community Bankers of America. [WSJ]
Red-headed stepchild, financial edition: The Fed gave General Motors' lending arm, GMAC, permission to be a bank holding company. Now all it has to do is restructure $38 billion in debt. "It also creates an odd dynamic for GM and Cerberus: At the same time they are giving up influence over GMAC, they are being compelled to inject more capital into it. The two said they are committed to adding $750 million. That contribution could grow to $2 billion….GM will transfer part of its stake in GMAC to a trust whose trustee also will be approved by the Treasury. The trust will in turn sell off its piece of the GMAC stake over three years. Cerberus, which also owns Chrysler, must reduce its majority interest to a maximum of 14.9% in voting shares and 33% in total equity. It will do this by distributing its positions in GMAC directly to Cerberus investors." [WSJ]
Dexia: The Franco-Belgian bank could be split up, according to Les Echos. [Reuters]


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Judge blocks child care finger scanning plan
State's economic impact statement for program incomplete, judge says
A judge has frozen Mississippi's plan to require some parents to use a finger scanner to sign children in and out of federally subsidized child care.
Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Denise Owens ruled Thursday that the state's economic impact statement for the program is so incomplete that it didn't meet the requirements of state law.
It's the second time that Owens has intervened in the plan. Last year, she ordered the agency to restart its rule-making process because it had failed to issue an economic impact statement at all.
DHS officials did not immediately respond Thursday evening to a request for comment.
The ruling comes on the same day that child care centers had to decide whether to accept the scanners or quit the subsidy program.
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#Seawolves top Albany, 24-3, in #EmpireClash
Nov. 23, 2013
Stony Brook, N.Y. -
For a second straight week, the Stony Brook football team recorded more than 400 yards of total offense as the Seawolves (5-6, 3-5 CAA) defeated Albany (1-11, 0-8), 24-3, in the #EmpireClash Saturday at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium.
Senior Lyle Negron (Bakersfield, Calif.) completed 15 of 26 passes for 262 yards, finishing the season with 2,637 yards, the second most in Stony Brook's Division I history.
Junior James Kenner (Willingboro, N.J.) totaled 35 carries for 151 yards.
Negron threw a 91-yard touchdown pass to senior Malcolm Eugene (Huntington, N.Y.), which is tied for the longest pass play for a score in school history. Eugene, who caught seven passes for 150 yards, caught a quick strike from Negron, then went down the right sideline for the score.
Eugene, in his only season, led the Seawolves receiving corps with 894 yards and five touchdowns.
Negron accounted for a one-yard score, which put the Seawolves on the board.
Freshman Tyler Fredericks (Lawrence, N.Y.) added a two-yard touchdown run to make it 14-0.
Stony Brook's defense, led by junior Christian Ricard (Spencer, Mass.), held Albany to 239 yards. Ricard finished the afternoon with 11 tackles and led the team this season with 91.
The Great Danes only score came on a 31-yard field goal from Tom O'Riordan.
Junior Will Tye (Middletown, Conn.) caught seven passes for 86 yards.
Scoring Drives
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Chuck Priore - "I'm really proud of this team. We dealt with and fought through a lot of adversity this season. Today was bittersweet for me. (Albany) Coach Ford had a huge influence on me in a number of ways. It was an honor to coach against him in his final game. As an alum of Albany, I'm proud of the effort they showed."
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Letters are being mailed to about 250 property owners in Troy Township advising them the Northwestern Water and Sewer District is terminating its contract with Deer Creek Excavating, the general contractor for a $6 million sanitary sewer project in the Stony Ridge and Lemoyne areas of the township.
A draft of the letter obtained by The Press says Deer Creek's "failure to finish the project" left the district's board of trustees no choice but to remove them from this project now to require their bonding company to step forward and complete this properly."
Some members of Oregon City Council showed their frustration that the city still has not been able to install sidewalks along Navarre Avenue from Coy to Lallendorf roads.
"I would like to see it go forward because it's an important project to do," Councilman Sandy Bihn said at a meeting last month. She has raised the issue before for safety reasons.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's time to move forward," said Councilman Mike Sheehy. "Let's get moving. It's something we need to do."
A Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and money in a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) will be used by Oregon to pay for sewer rehabilitation and drainage improvements.
Council approved the ordinance at a meeting on Monday.
The city has received $60,000 in CDBG funds for 2012.
The Oregon school board will consider expanding the number of bus or shuttle stops for Clay High School students for the 2012-2013 school year.
The shuttle, which currently makes 12 stops, will make another five if the board approves, according to Dean Sandwisch, director of business affairs for the district.
An on-going dispute over parking and access to a garage in a Lake Township neighborhood has resulted in the arrest of an 84-year-old township man.
Police on June 12 charged James A. Caswell, of Cramer Street, after he allegedly slapped the arm of a township police officer who'd been called to a Kearsley Street property where Caswell was involved in a dispute over vehicles parked in the driveway to a garage he uses.
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One thing I love about living in a part of the world with 4 distinct seasons is that every one of them brings along a new set of accessories. And what I have come to realize about this nonchalant head piece – the beanie, or "toque" for us Canadians – is that it can quickly pull together just about anything (even me when I was feeling particularly dishevelled). Beanies are unisex, though their punch can lie in the details. Mine here is a vintage angora (don't worry, they take the bunny's moulted fur, not their life!), and I've also fallen deeply in love with the Stephen Jones veiled beanie for Jill Sander. And though I'm also supremely into the wide brim fedoras that have been floating around the blogosphere, choosing this more relaxed looking hat didn't leave me with flat hat hair as the day wore on. Yes and yes.


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Texas Pledge and God
Earlier this month, the state of Texas has added God to the Texas Pledge. Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle recently told the Houston Chronicle, "Personally, I felt like the Texas pledge had a big old hole in it."
And so the Texas House voted 124 -5 to put the words "Under God" in the Texas state pledge of allegiance recited by thousands of school children every day. The pledge with the change reads: "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."
"I am simply mirroring our national pledge," Riddle said.
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ELMHURST, Ill. – The wrestling team took part in the Pete Wilson Invite, coming away with a win by junior wrestler Jesse Gjeffle (Ontario, Wis.) Gjeffle posted a 15-7 major decision win over Joe DeGenova of Case Western in the 184-weight class and had two losses, one by pin and another by a 10-3 decision. [Continue Reading…]
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Knoxville TN Golf Community
The Knoxville TN Golf Community will enjoy Rarity Bay's Championship golf course:
- par-72 18-hole masterpiece
- designed by D.J. DeVictor and Peter Langham
- 150 acre course
- view of the breathtaking Great Smoky Mountains and Tellico Lake
Whether you play recreationally or competitively, you will find Rarity Bay's golf course to be a fun and challenging course to experience. Take pleasure in every turn and curve of the course as you also enjoy the spectacular natural beauty that surrounds Rarity Bay. The Rarity Bay Clubhouse features an excellent putting green course and driving range for your practice. To begin your incredible golf experience at Rarity Bay, contact the Rarity Bay Pro Shop at 423.884.3030 or book online at www.knoxvilletngolf.com.
This Knoxville TN golf community is just a short drive from Knoxville and is the most beautiful golf course. The beauty of the rolling green hills with the gorgeous view of Tellico Lake and the Great Smoky Mountains is just breath taking. Along the custom built estate homes, condominiums and villas, one will find the beautiful championship golf course of Rarity Bay with its green fairways rolling through the countryside.
The driving range and putting green with pitch areas is located, in this Knoxville TN golf community, near the Rarity Bay Golf & Country Club. After a round of golf, be sure to take a break at the Clubhouse to have lunch and a drink. Or take a breather along the cart path to look out over the lake and enjoy the scenery. Our golf pro, Nick Boruff, can give you some tips on improving your game and has been a great reference for our members and guests.
Directions to Rarity Bay's Knoxville TN Golf Community:
From Knoxville – take I-75 south toward Chattanooga to exit 72 Loudon. Off the exit, turn left onto Hwy. 72 and travel approximately 13 miles to Rarity Bay on your left. Enter Rarity Bay and drive to the gatehouse to enter the golf course.
From Chattanooga/Atlanta – take I-75 north toward Knoxville to exit 72 Loudon. Turn right off the exit and travel approx. 13 miles on Hwy. 72. Rarity Bay is on your left.
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Napier Sportz SUV 81000 Tent
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The Napier SUV Tent was the best camping experience that I have ever had. It fits perfectly onto the hatchback of my mini-van and adds an extra room to the tent and the ability to throw a mattress in the van to get off the cold hard ground. It was so easy to put up (I could have managed it on my own) and it kept us dry through two days of rain and wind. The construction was very sturdy and great quality. You can detach it from your car and drive away which really made it versatile. I really love this product.
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Table of Contents - 1996 - Volume 19, Special Issue 03 (An International Journal of Current Research and Theory with Open Peer Commentary)
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The cellular basis of motor learning in the cerebellum has been attributed mostly to long-term depression (LTD) at excitatory parallel fiber (PF)-Purkinje cell (PC) synapses. LTD is induced when PFs are activated in conjunction with a climbing fiber (CF), the other excitatory input to PCs. Recently, by using whole-cell patch-clamp recording from PCs in cerebellar slices, a new form of synaptic plasticity was discovered. Stimulation of excitatory CFs induced a long-lasting (usually longer than 30 min) "rebound potentiation (RP)" of γ-amino-butyric acid A (GABAa)-receptor mediated inhibitory postsynaptic, currents (IPSCs). As in LTD, induction of RP requires transient elevation of intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]1) due to activation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. Activity of inhibitory synapses seems also to be necessary for RP to occur. RP is mainly due to up-regulation of postsynaptic GABAa receptor function, since PC response to bath-applied exogenous GABA is also potentiated with a time course similar to RP. The difference in the time scale between the Ca2+ transients (10–30 sec) and the durations of RP (>30 min) strongly suggests that some intracellular biochemical machinery is involved. Pharmacological evidence suggests that protein kinases are involved in RP of inhibitory synapses and LTD of excitatory PF synapses. Besides the well-described LTD, RP could be a cellular mechanism that plays an important role in motor learning.


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New York lawmakers are frantically drafting legislation to cut heroin abuse in the state before the end of the session. Lawmakers say heroin abuse has become a growing epidemic in the state.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, says there were more than 89,000 heroin and prescription opiate treatment cases in New York last year. That's up from roughly 63,000 in 2004.
Cuomo said Wednesday that lawmakers agree on eight bills requiring insurance companies to better cover substance-abuse treatment. The bills would also create harsher penalties for those who sell the drugs. Part of the plan would include age-appropriate education about heroin for juniors and seniors in high school.
The flurry of bills would also require every anti-overdose kit to include an information card on how to administer the drug it uses -- naloxone -- and how to recognize the symptoms of a heroin and opioid overdose.
Lawmakers have until Friday, when the 2014 session ends, to pass these bills.
Experts say today's heroin is cheaper and more potent than it was in the 1980s.


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Alan Rister co-chair of the Texas Discovery Gardens weeds the garden before its opening in Fair Park in Dallas September 19, 2012.
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When I used to sell hosting, my new customer rates doubled when I upgraded to a much better design, which was radically different than what I had. The old one was not so bad, but the new one was very good, and it had a very noticeable impact. I didn't change my advertising media, just the design.
That experience taught me that an attractive and bold website is an extremely important factor in giving a first idea about your company to a potential customer.
02-09-2012, 03:39 AM #27WHT Addict
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Turn On:
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- cPanel/WHM.
- WHMCS (unless you can build a BETTER control panel).
- Live chat actually responds.
- Past customer quotes.
- Lifetime coupons (because your costs only go down after the first month).
- Easy to read terms of service.
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- Website is overly cluttered.
- Huge affiliate payout (unless I get a discount for not being referred).
- Copyright is out of date.
- Design seems outdated.
- Difficult to navigate.
- Fake live chat (I see it all the time).
- Trying to sell all kinds of things when I know what I want.Tired Of Being A Number? Join The Revolution.
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No, spelling, spelling is what makes the sail, for sure.Tired Of Being A Number? Join The Revolution.
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Bad spelling and poor grammar. I can't stand it when I come across a site with bad grammar.
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I don't think it is the website that makes the sale.
BUT I think the website can certainly KILL the sale.
I can say that when I am looking at an online purchase I will go to google. Make a search and open up about 10 different providers. I will then run through and close out any that don't have professional looking sites. I am not saying the site has to be crazy graphical and top notch, but it certainly needs to look professionally done.
I have probably missed out on a few good companies but generally I figure that if they don't have a professional website then...
If they don't care about their own business why would they care about mine
If they don't take time to work on their site how will customer service be?
THings like that.
So in short I don't choose the company because of the website but I rule out the ones that suck.
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i've goten around 20 clients purely off websites, which is the majority of my clients.
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Wall Post: A Correction on That Disclosure
In my last posting I made an "error" and am now making what we used to call in Mr. Boyle's Journalism class a "correction."
I am informed that the St. Louis Cardinals are no longer in St. Louis. They are in Arizona. The Arizona Cardinals.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
I have a hard time with the Arizona Cardinals. Much as I have a hard time with the St. Louis Rams, the Indianapolis Colts and the Utah Jazz. (Once known as the LA Rams, the Baltimore Colts and the New Orleans Jazz.)
I am old-fashioned in that I believe that a sports team should be inexorably linked to its town forever. An element of civic pride even in times of shame.
Like, when the Chicago Cubs were losing 120 games in a season and drawing 550 people to a game, old team-owner PK Wrigley kept the team in Chicago. Everybody hated PK because the Cubs stunk and he famously attended only one game in all the time he owned them — but he kept the team in town when he could have moved it somewhere else. For that, the citizens of the City of Chicago and baseball fans everywhere owe him eternal debt.
Can you imagine the Dallas Cubs or the Phoenix Cubs? It would be like having the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Harrisburg.
And in a place like Dallas or Phoenix, a guy like Steve Bartman would be just another guy, instead of "the person to whom all bad things are attributable forever."
My other problem is that a real Cardinal in Arizona is about as common as a real Miles Davis in Provo.
Anyway, the state bird of Arizona is not the Cardinal but the Cactus Wren. Now, the Cactus Wren, as birds go, is not exactly a symbol of virility or power, even if it is the largest the North American wren family.
And it would be hard to imagine a bunch of self-respecting behemoths who can bench-press their own body weight and run the 100 in 4.5 running around a field with a wispy caricature of Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus on their chests.
The Cardinal, at least, is strongly sexually dichromatic bird -– which suggests that if a real male Cardinal were to walk into a bird bar, it would do so packing heat, and might actually shoot itself in the leg, like a real football player. Something I doubt a Cactus Wren is capable of.
The Cardinal is also an omnivorous passerine, and recent research suggests that brighter males have higher reproductive success and territories with greater vegetation density. Thus, the real stud Cardinals of this great nation of ours are probably not hanging out in the Yucca plants around Phoenix. But enough of that.
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Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant resumed recovery work Thursday after a white cloud over one of the reactors forced suspension of efforts on Wednesday afternoon. The first goal is to activate the control room for reactor No. 3, which would enable them to better monitor the status of the unit and begin the laborious process of restarting the cooling and control systems.
White steam was again seen Thursday morning, after intervals of black and white smoke from various spots in the complex area housing the No. 1-4 units overnight. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said at a briefing that it expected to restart the cooling operations for the No. 5 reactor, although that unit, along with unit 6, aren't considered to pose a major risk.
Chief government spokesman Yukio Edano said that steam coming out was a natural outcome of the cooling taking place. He said that the No. 1 unit was the one that required the most attention due to a rise in temperature above normal limits.
Following the discovery of low-level iodine radiation in a Tokyo water sample, the government has asked for an increase in bottled water production. But Edano continued to stress that the levels found in the water posed no threat to the general public and that the advisory for infants to avoid consumption of tap water was merely a precautionary measure.
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Local economic professors say a steep hike is just a short-term fix to a larger overlying problem.
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Let's see…What did I learn this weekend? Tom Brady is awesome and the Patriots are playing better football than anyone (to be fair, I knew that first half already). Peyton Manning is going to be just fine, but his team is still playing with fire on a weekly basis. The Chargers are still the best team in the AFC West, and either Brody Croyle is not ready to run the offense in Kansas City or Todd Haley trusts him less than Ed Rooney trusts Ferris Bueller. The Jets are knee-deep in an identity crisis of unknown origin. The Eagles can score. The Jags refuse to go away. The Bears…are who I thought they were. So is the entire NFC West. The Eagles are dangerous, but so are all those hits their superstar QB is taking. That's a quick spin around the league. As we await an unexpected Monday Night Football doubleheader thanks to Mother Nature (who apparently has a crush on Brett Favre and his consecutive games streak), let's dive in a bit deeper, shall we?
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 36, CHICAGO BEARS 7: Tom Brady threw for 369 yards and two scores in a freaking blizzard, and the Pats utterly demolished the Bears on every level. This surprises me, like, not at all. Anybody listening or reading along this season knows I think the Bears are total frauds, and I'd like to thank the Patriots for driving home the point. The Pats are on a mission. Look out, NFL. That is 81-10 combined the past two weeks over the Jets and Bears, both playoff teams (allegedly). The new offensive gameplan has been largely unstoppable, and the defense is getting better every week with a ton of young, fast, smart, explosive talent. And oh, by the way: the Patriots have more early round picks than anyone in the next couple of drafts. The Hoodie has created a scenario usually reserved for my Madden Franchises. Are we witnessing the dawn of a second Belichickian Dynasty?
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 30, DALLAS COWBOYS 27: Hey, here's an idea for teams that play the Eagles going forward: keep an eye on DeSean Jackson on the game's opening play. That's twice he's toasted inexplicably unsuspecting defensive backfields. How do you not see that coming? At any rate, Jackson put up a ridiculous 210 yards on four catches, for a staggering 52.5 yards per catch. The guy is essentially uncoverable, and he and Michael Vick are a perfect fit. The Eagles also showed some much needed brute force as they ran the clock down to finish it off. LeSean McCoy put up 149 yards rushing and the Eagles held off the 'Boys to improve to 9-4. Their awful start destroyed their season, but the Cowboys are playing much better football under Jason Garrett, and I would be stunned if Jerry Jones did not remove the interim tag. It's what he wanted to do in the first place anyway.
SAN DIEGO CHARGERS 31, KANSAS CITY CHIEFS 0: I went back and forth on Twitter yesterday with the very knowledgeable Herbie Teope over this one. I tweeted that the Chargers were just the better team. Herbie correctly pointed out that the Chiefs offense is a totally different unit with Matt Cassel at the helm, a point I readily concede. Indeed, Cassel has been playing some of the best quarterback in the league. But I don't for a second believe he's worth 31 points all by himself, and last I checked, he doesn't play defense. The Chiefs got beaten up in the trenches on both sides of the ball in this one, and the Chargers scored 31 points without their favorite offensive weapon. Herbie agreed on the trenches, specifically noting that the Chiefs lack the NT they need to successfully run the 3-4. As a result, the Chargers ran it down the Chiefs' throats all day with Mike Tolbert and Ryan Mathews, and Philip Rivers conducted the attack with his usual symphonic brilliance. And, once again, Todd Haley was a little too cute or stubborn, depending on how you see it, with the playcalling. The Charger defense ignored the pass all day, and Haley never really tested it. Perhaps he simply didn't trust Croyle, but they got down big and should have been trying to get Bowe, Moeaki and McCluster involved much earlier. They're not quite championship ready, and Cassel's absence, if it extends into next week, could cost them a trip to the playoffs.
MIAMI DOLPHINS 10, NEW YORK JETS 6: Anyone want to tell me why the New York Jets would throw the ball 46 times out of 75 plays in a game that ended 10-6 and was played in a driving rain storm? Anyone? No? Against a top 5 defense with quality pass rushers like Miami's, that's a good way to end up getting your young, still relatively inexperienced quarterback in trouble (remember, Sanchez started only 16 games at USC). Like it or not, Rex, this one's on you. It's your job to tell Mini-Schottenheimer what to do when he's doing it wrong. And I bet his daddy would even do it for you in this instance, because nobody loves to pound the rock like Martyball. The Dolphins D showed up to play, but Chad Henne (55 yards passing) and the offense were atrocious. Brandon Marshall's second TD of the year was the difference.
DETROIT LIONS 7, GREEN BAY PACKERS 3: The gasp of dread from Green Bay was audible all the way out here at Sickness HQ in Southern California when Aaron Rodgers got drilled into the turf headfirst and left with his second concussion on the season, which puts the rest of his campaign (and thus, the Pack's) in jeopardy. Matt Flynn came on and could get nothing done, but the fact of the matter is the Lions seemed to have the Packers befuddled on offense even before the injury. Props to The Schwartz on a solid defensive game plan. The Lions couldn't do anything on offense either, but they got the game's only touchdown and that was enough.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS 17, WASHINGTON REDSKINS 16: Graham Gano misses two chip shot field goals and the tying PAT with 9 seconds left. Any other questions? In all seriousness, of course there were other impact plays, but that's the ballgame right there. Sidenote of congratulations to Redskins TE and fellow Bruin Logan Paulsen on his first career NFL touchdown catch.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS 38, OAKLAND RAIDERS 31: I knew I shouldn't have picked Oakland in this one. The Raiders' defense couldn't stop a thing, and despite a monster day from Darren McFadden and a fairly strong performance by Jason Campbell the offense couldn't keep up with all the not stopping the defense was doing. Jacksonville, despite being outscored by its opponents on the year, are now 8-5 and a game ahead of the Colts with three to play, having beaten Indy earlier in the season. That makes this weekend's trip to Indianapolis fairly important, I should think.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS 30, TENNESSEE TITANS 28: As #18 said, people kept asking him about his 'slump' when the fact of the matter is he has been on an eight and a half-year hitting streak. But they still only beat a suddenly mediocre (at best) Titans team by 2 lousy points. Peyton is still Peyton, but the D and running game simply are not getting it done. The Titans are 0-5 since trading for Randy Moss. Probably not the key factor, but might be worth cutting him now just in case, since you're not going to use him. At this point, one has to wonder whether the Titans were just grabbing him to deny others his 9 route. And also whether he's going to play anywhere in 2011, lockout or no.
BUFFALO BILLS 13, CLEVELAND BROWNS 6: Browns fans saw an all too familiar pattern reinforced yesterday, as two solid opening drives resulted in 3 points because Jake Delhomme sucks and Peyton Hillis thinks he's Edwin Moses. Good win for the Bills, who are more talented than most realize, are well coached, and have come close way too often this year not to come away with a couple toward the end here. Chan Gailey has done a pretty darn good job in 2010. Bills fans are bummed they're losing draft standing, but it hasn't gotten them very far in 2 decades to have high picks, so…yeah.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS 23, CINCINNATI BENGALS 7: Carson Palmer is absolutely terrible. It's time. Cincinnati needs to go into full blow-up mode, because they are far and away the worst team in their division and it's not getting better. Quite the contrary. Two more pick sixes, one to Troy Polamalu and another to Lamarr Woodley. I know what you're thinking- "shouldn't it be 'by' Polamalu and Woodley? In theory, sure. But when the QB actually throws it to the DB, I choose accuracy over custom. Meanwhile…wait for it…the Pittsburgh Steelers…just…know how…to win. See what I mean by that? It's uncanny, isn't it? But that's what makes them the Steelers.
ATLANTA FALCONS 31, CAROLINA PANTHERS 10: The Falcons made like BTO and took care of business.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS 40, SEATTLE SEAHAWKS 21: The Niners team many of us thought we were going to see in 2010 showed up and pasted a division foe at the 'Stick. Why are they so incapable of playing like this from week to week? I've said it many times- consistency is the difference between garbage and greatness in the NFL. Speaking of which, Seahawks…you go to the garbage pile this week. Not the first time, not the last in 2010. Somehow, the 'Hawks are still tied with the Rams for first place in the sorry NFC West at 6-7. Gross.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS 31, ST. LOUIS RAMS 13: About what I thought. Sam Bradford moved the Rams decently, but made a couple of big mistakes, including a 96-yard pick six by Malcom Jenkins, who baited the rookie into making a throw outside the left seam just a second too late, snatched it, and took it to The House. Meanwhile, don't look now, but the Saints are 10-3, and you're only not noticing because the Falcons are 11-2. New Orleans never trailed and won their sixth straight. They're getting healthy at the right time, are starting to make more plays on defense, and are a threat to win it all once again.
ARIZONA CARDINALS 43, DENVER BRONCOS 13: I have literally no idea why Kyle Orton was still in this game in the second half, because the Broncos certainly weren't. Cardinals rookie QB John Skelton didn't put up any numbers, but then he didn't have to, did he? He did, however, look relatively poised and kept the offense moving. He even got the ball to Larry Fitzgerald 6 times for 72 yards, something Derek Anderson and Max Hall had struggled at times to do. Tim Hightower had a big game statistically, but much of it was in garbage time as the Cardinals defense just confounded the Donkeys (hey, you're 3-10. Wear it.) all afternoon. Wouldn't it be funny if the new Broncos coach, whomever he turns out to be, wanted to draft Cam Newton?
Enjoy the Monday Night doubleheader. Oh, and Minnesota: it was a lovely 80 degrees and crystal clear here in SoCal today. Think Zygi noticed as he was mentally noting how much it would cost to put a new baggy on that dinosaur? I bet he did.


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While Apple releasing their new 27-inch LED Cinema Display, there are now a few contenders for best monitors for the buck. You can easily spend a few thousand dollars on a few computer monitors, but ultimately, most people just need one or two to get the job done. Here are a few of our faves.
1. 27-inch LED Apple Cinema Display
Apple just released this monitor and if you have the cash, you can get it in 5-7 business days with free shipping. It's one of the biggest LED LCD monitors that's currently available. There are plans by other manufacturers to make something to compete, but for now, Apple remains king of the hill. It comes with a universal MagSafe connector that charges your notebook while it's connected, three USB ports, a built-in iSight camera, microphone, and 49-watt speaker system. All this for $999.
4. Viewsonic VX2739 27-Inch Monitor
Although this isn't an LED monitor, it's still the biggest that you can get from Viewsonic. Contrary to the Dell,Viewsonic's monitor boasts a 1ms super fast response time. It's got less ports as well, but it's still good for a computer monitor. You'll get an HDMI, DVI, VGA inputs and 4-port USB hub. It's comparable to the monitors available from HP and Acer. You can find this 27-inch monitor for $349.
5. Viewsonic VX2450wm-LED 24-Inch Monitor
This new Viewsonic monitor is an LED display, but it's got less ports available. However, it's ideally suited for a multi-monitor setup. It's definitely the cheapest of the bunch, at $229, but this means that you can get LED goodness for cheap. Naturally, this implies that if you want to build yourself a multi-monitor setup, you won't break the bank. You can get 4 of these monitors for the price of one 27-inch LED Apple Cinema Display.
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NEW MADRID - Like many communities across the nation, New Madrid is looking for ways to cut costs yet continue to serve its residents. The City Council has decided on one step.
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Officers encountered a slippery situation Saturday after responding to a call about buttered toast smeared on a car at Buena Vista II Apartments.
Christopher Antonio Brannon, 34, of 726 Rice Ave. Extension, Apt. 9-A, Union, was charged with malicious damage to property, an arrest warrant states.
The victim told police she saw Brannon wiping something on the back window of her Dodge Durango, an incident report states. She later noticed a greasy film on the window, and what appeared to be bits of buttered toast lying behind her SUV.
Damage was estimated in the report at $1. No motive was mentioned in the report.
Brannon was released from the Union County Jail on a $1,089 personal recognizance bond.
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NFL Draft: Top 5 safeties
Kenny Vaccaro, Texas
Vaccaro's so-so times in the 40-yard dash (4.59 and 4.63) at the NFL combine shouldn't define him. For the Longhorns he made plays in run support, in center field and while covering slot receivers, though shifty receivers troubled him. Well-sized (6-foot-1, 218), he is a consistent performer who, with reasonable health, should have a fine career.
Matt Elam, Florida
Elam is only 5-10 but led the Gators in tackles for loss (11), pass breakups (seven) and forced fumbles (two) and was second in total tackles (78). Elam played well against SEC heavyweights and in-state rival Florida State. His lack of size shows up on some 50-50 passes, but the quick 202-pounder is the most physical safety in this class.
Jonathan Cyprien, Florida International
Cyprien (6-0, 209) started 45 games. He moved up on some draft boards with his strong performance during Senior Bowl week. The huge jump in competition is of concern, but his status may be helped by the success of ex-Golden Panthers T.Y. Hilton (Colts receiver) and Antwan Barnes (Chargers sack leader, 2011).
Eric Reid, LSU
He has excellent size (6-2, 213), speed (4.53) and explosiveness (40.5 vertical) to go with an SEC pedigree. He was more consistent in 2011, when he tied with Tyrann Mathieu for the team lead in tackles (76). Penalties and blown reads lowered his grade last year.
Phillip Thomas, Fresno State
He missed the 2011 season after suffering a broken leg and dislocated ankle late in training camp. He came back to lead the country with eight interceptions and returned three for touchdowns. In 25 career games, he had 13 interceptions. His ball skills make Thomas (6-foot, 208) an intriguing option for today's pass-happy NFL.


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Pagani Expansion
Plans for a new factory and new car on the way
Plans have been approved for an all-new Pagani factory that's three times bigger than the existing facility and which will be ready in time for the launch of the C9 in 2010.
The new car will be built in far greater numbers than the Zonda, so this represents a big investment for the company. Pagani, which has over 20 years' experience in advanced composites, is rare in building almost the entire car except the powertrain in-house.
Development of the C9 is progressing well with four prototypes currently undergoing 800,000km of durability testing. With AMG supplying the engine exclusively to Pagani, the C9 has to go through the normal Mercedes development cycle, including testing the car in all weather conditions, from +48 to –30degrees Celcius.


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Bridget Thomas is a founder of Kirksville - Protect Our Pets (KV-POP), a non-profit organization dedicated to community outreach for the benefit of the area's pet dogs and cats. KV-POP helps low-income (or no-income) people spay/neuter, train, and tag their pets. Their ultimate goal is to help people care for their pets and thereby reduce the number of animals surrendered to overcrowded shelters. KV-POP also promotes adooption from a local shelter or rescue. She was a board member of the Adair County Humane Society from 2008-2013.
Lots of kids (and even teachers) dread it. Some parents count the days until its arrival. But have you ever wondered how your dog feels about back to school time?
The novel A Dog's Purpose imagines the confusion that our canine friends experience when summer ends: the narrator (a dog named Bailey) notes that "a loud truck of some kind" carried away the neighborhood children, and then "the world, which had been so full of life and fun and noise, became intolerably quiet."
Bailey does not deal well with this abrupt and radical change. Not only is his boy now gone for eight hours a day but he also suddenly finds himself locked in the garage. He is nervous and bored. He barks for a while, then starts chewing shoes and getting into the trash. On subsequent days Bailey manages to figure out the doggy door; then he digs holes in the lawn, chews the hose, and barks at neighbor dogs. When he figures out how to press the door handle to enter the house, Bailey proceeds to destroy more shoes, harass the cat, and devour food from kitchen cabinets and countertops.
My paraphrase does not do the book justice. These scenes are actually pretty funny. But they also have a serious message. People often get upset with our dogs about things that dogs can't possibly understand. We haven't communicated our expectations to them and set them up for success. And even more than that: dogs are creatures of habit, and so any change in their routines can lead to confusion, anxiety, and destruction. A change such as Bailey experiences when his boy suddenly leaves for half of the day (and in the absence of thoughtful preparations) can result in some really bad behaviors.
So humans have to be smart: we need to provide regular exercise and enrichment for our dogs, puppy-proof their surroundings, and make sure that they are still getting enough quality time with their favorite humans (including children) once school starts
One way to be sure that the quality time happens is to schedule it into the day. Make back to school time mean something fun and new. Invite your kids to design a curriculum for your dog. Does he already know "sit" and "stay"? Terrific! Review those commands. And then gradually add in "lie down," "off," or "roll over." My personal fantasy is to train my dogs to use the vacuum cleaner. (Have you seen the video of the little Jack Russell Terrier who vacuums? That dog is dreamy!) But we would also be satisfied with a more consistent "sit" and "stay" from all three dogs, especially when company comes.
Home schooling our dogs doesn't have to take a lot of time. Ten minutes per session is enough for most dogs; after that they get a little silly. But if we all worked with our dogs for ten minutes a day after school or work, we would have not only happier and smarter dogs, but also a whole lot less destructive behavior.


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First Generations
Leah Lococo Ltd., New York, New York, 1996
First Generations tells the story of the women who helped create America, the foremothers of our modern-day society. Since these are the women from whom many of us descend, the concept of representing this collective genealogy led to the visual representation of a genealogy chart. The yellowed background and type are repsesentative of broadsides and other printed ephemera of colonial times. It was important to represent these women in a general sense on the cover, even though the stories of specific women are related in the book, because it is their collective experience that helped to shape us all.
Collections: 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book cover
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- Leah Lococo Ltd.
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- Jacket designers
- Michael Ian Kaye, Leah Lococo
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- Carol Berkin
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- Cloister, Pabst
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Afact that all prospective homebuyers would have noticed is that the topmost floor flats in an apartment building are the last to be sold. Moreover, buyers have to shell out the highest rate per sft for the topmost floor flat.
Regarding the heat factor, city-based interior designer Shantanu Chaudhari says, "The topmost floor flats are usually 4 to 5 degrees hotter than the rest of the floors. Leakage is also a potential problem if the builder hasn't done a good waterproofing job. Getting a false ceiling done throughout the house can reduce the heat considerably . Cooling agents such as thermocol, mineral wool etc. can be used in between the false ceiling to reduce the heat even further."


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14 Triathlon Wetsuits Reviewed
- By Shaun Guest and Jené Shaw
- Published Jun 13, 2013
- Updated Jul 15, 2015 at 4:04 PM UTC
Nineteen Pipeline
$280, Nineteenwetsuits.com
The draw: Starter full-sleeve
For athletes looking to get their first full-sleeve experience, the Pipeline is warm and moves with little restriction. Although the smartly crafted neck lies comfortably against the body, water occasionally enters through the rear of the neck. Shoulder construction is a bit limiting when extending for a full reach at the start of a stroke. Buoyancy is focused toward the chest, helping adept swimmers torque themselves high in the water by pressing these thick panels of neoprene deep into the water. Those highly dependent on lift from the hips might need a little more lower body buoyancy.
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As Humans Squabble, Nature Starts to Vent!
Ross Gelbspan | September 23, 2008
By Ross Gelbspan • Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 06:37
The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists.
Underground stores of methane are important because scientists believe their sudden release has in the past been responsible for rapid increases in global temperatures, dramatic changes to the climate, and even the mass extinction of species. In the past few days, researchers have seen areas of sea foaming with gas bubbling up through "methane chimneys" rising from the sea floor.


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We study medicine for two to three years after obtaining a
bachelor's degree. We practice medicine without post-graduate training or
residency. We can switch specialties without recertification and our scope of
practice can change from one day to the next.
Naturally, people wonder how, in a complex and high-stakes
field like medicine, this amount of career flexibility is even possible.
Sure, we have great training programs. Plus, many PAs come
into their careers with years of related experience. And our skills are honed
as we gain experience on our jobs. But here's the real reason our profession
works: the supervising physician.
A faction of PAs reading this just cringed, though I'm not
sure why. There seems to be a perception that our required agreement to
collaborate with a physician somehow holds us back as providers. Calls for
increased PA autonomy inevitably lead to suggestions that we abolish the
supervisory agreement. While there are some instances where the MD-PA
partnership is a liability (and a largely logistical one at that), these views
are misguided.
The truth is, the PA-MD partnership is the single strongest
aspect of our profession. It is the reason I could apply for a job in any
specialty right out of school (and land one in a field like critical care).
It's the reason I didn't toil through a residency program with outrageous hours
and minimal pay. It's the reason I can place central lines and perform lumbar
punctures. It's the reason I can spend my evenings in the Emergency Room or the
Operating Room or any other room that chooses to hire me.
Our chameleon-like ability to adapt the scope of practice of
our supervising physicians is what attracted me to the physician assistant
profession. My supervising physicians aren't shackles around my ankles, they
are mentors and partners and friends.
However, navigating the PA-MD relationship is not always
easy. Last time I counted, I was contracted to 49 individual supervising
physicians. That group includes dozens of personalities, preferences and quirks
that factor into my clinical practice. Try
these tips to get the most out of your PA-physician collaboration:
Respect the Scope: Good
employers will allow PAs to practice at the top of their license at all times.
However, this must still fall within the scope of the supervising physician.
While PA independence is at an all-time high, make sure you don't find yourself
outside the limits of your physician's
scope of practice. That can be a very lonely place.
Close the Loop: After
you have worked with a new physician, reserve a few minutes to get feedback
about your performance. Almost every clinician will respect this proactive
approach. Often, this will also provide an opportunity to let the physician
know how they can help you grow in your practice. This form of "closed-loop"
communication will foster trust and a stronger clinical team.
Be Direct: If
there is an issue with a supervising physician, address it early and
professionally. You can brush aside small troubles, but a real problem will
eventually boil over into workplace conflict. Correct a misunderstanding as
soon as possible. If you set a high standard of respect in the workplace, the
PAs following behind you will benefit from your leadership.
Pick Your Battles: Unfortunately,
there are still people who do not want to work with PAs. Luckily, this minority
of physicians who oppose our profession shrinks by the day. Don't focus on
trying to convert the non-believers. If your professionalism, hard work and
clinical skills don't speak for themselves, that battle cannot be won. However,
you should still expect to be treated with courtesy and respect in the
I love this post and I agree for the most part. Many of us enter the field for its flexibility and many have to accept the fact that PAs have it pretty good. After discussions with a PA I shadow I understand there is a large discussion on the autonomy of the PA. Many PAs want to branch out, like Paula discussed, from their partnership with the physician. I understand it is hard in rural areas but you chose the PA profession for flexibility-- if you are worried about losing a job in a rural area then why didn't you become a doctor. By asking for more autonomy as a PA, like NPs have, we would essentially be asking to become a doctor. PAs would be treated like doctors... We would likely need residencies to practice and sub specialties would need specific licensing. This goes against one of the largest benefits of the PA profession-- flexibility and freedom. I should just go to medical school if that happens... Probably get my MBA a well so I can run a business and have no time for my family or a well balanced life either. I hope the PA profession does not go this way. It would be a shame if I attend PA school and that happens.
Dave, I appreciate your comment, but I disagree. The vast majority of PAs now work in either general surgery or a medical or surgical specialty. Our generalist training does not automatically grant us competency in these areas. Our profession trains competent clinicians, but in most cases we are not trained to be more competent than a specialty-trained physician.
But there's a reason a first year PA can work the same job and command (roughly) the same salary as my colleague with 8 years of critical care experience. We may not have the same level of competency, but we both work in a system designed for well-trained generalists to function safely and effectively in specialty practice.
Many problems I can solve on my own. Some I can use my fellow (an inherently more experienced clinician) as support and for even fewer I go to my staff physician (a specialist with years of training and experience). The PA profession expands care to millions because of a system that pairs us (in varying degrees of cohesion) with other well-trained professionals. It's a genius system and it works to our advantage and our patients'. Why should we pretend it doesn't exist?
Ian, I agree. Interprofessional collaboration is a good idea and fortunately a concept growing in popularity.
Paula, I can understand your frustration. It is a limitation of the current system and unfortunately one of the logistical exceptions I alluded to in my blog. I hope there are more options to bring care to underserved populations in the future. It is an area worthy of discussion and exploration.
The PA/MD partnership does not work well in rural and isolated areas. PAs are dependent on a physician and thus dependent on them for their livelihood when the PA works in rural America. I will lose my job immediately if my MD collaborator leaves his position. This is one of the ugly truths to the PA profession that is not widely taught in PA school. The 3,000 patients in my clinic would lose access to care if this happened.
Yet the PA programs promote us as an answer to rural care and to serve the underserved, the indigent, the migrant workers and those in the inner cities. How will this be addressed by our professional organizations? We do not have the ability to independently keep our careers if our physician collaborator decides it will be that way.
I am not aware of another medical profession that is at the mercy of another except the NP profession. That is why the NPs seek "independent" practice. It is time for the PA profession to grow up and to seek cutting the apron strings from the physician professional organizations who controls all of what we do. Do I like working with my physician collaborator? Absolutely! And our relationship is just that...a collaborative one.
All medical professionals collaborate and it is an ethic we should all hold... None of us should work in a silo. But we have the ability to practice with an "independent" license and it is something that all PAs should consider and work for to advance our profession.
In My Humble Opinion.
Mr. Reed I agree - In many years of advocacy and leadership, countless meetings with Government, Physicians, Medical Groups, and Nursing Associations I have learnt that what makes our profession unique is our ability to say we need someone else, not all the time but sometimes. Our strength is more than knowledge when someone is always smarter. Our strength is not procedures which given time anyone can learn. Our strength is that we accept that our profession is able to change, adapt and achieve what is required because we work as a team.
Ian Jones a Canadian PA
The single most important secret is your competence. Sorry but it's not the mythical MD/PA partnership. The NPs have it also so it must be the same or better secret for them. More NPs are collaborated with than PAs are supervised. And we do not acknowledge that.
Our secret is our training is excellent. Don't hand your power to any other profession.


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John Leslie, Assistant Comptroller of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and two fellow railway accountants, E.B. Manning and F.A. Cousins, form the Canadian Accountants' Association. John Leslie is the association's first president. The association organizes lectures for members and funds a professional library.
On June 6, 1913, the association, now known as the General Accountants' Association, is federally incorporated. It becomes a self-regulating professional organization able to set standards and examinations for admission. The CGA designation, born in 1908, is now confirmed.
The association's first chapter is formed, in Toronto. Over the next two decades, chapters are established in Montreal, Quebec City, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Halifax and Regina.
The first book of past exams is published as a study guide.
Ivy Cox becomes the association's first female CGA. She would later marry and become Ivy Thomas.
Association membership stands at 1,253 and there are chapters from coast-to-coast. Provincial and territorial associations are later established under their own charters.
Examinations are offered in French and English in Quebec. The move to a bilingual organization is underway.
CGA-BC and the University of British Columbia's School of Commerce develop an innovative five-year extension program, available on campus or by correspondence. The program is later adopted in other jurisdictions and becomes a national curriculum standard.
The education program is extended to the Caribbean and Bermuda.
CGA-Canada approves what would become the Code of Ethical Principles and Rules of Conduct. The national office relocates to Vancouver from Montreal.
CGA-Canada becomes a founding member of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).
At the national level, the General Accountants' Association becomes the Certified General Accountants Association.
The CGA education program is extended to Macau, and later to Hong Kong and China.
CGA is registered under the federal Trademark Act, providing national, as well as provincial, recognition.
John Leslie Award is established in honour of the association's founding president and Chair. The award recognizes exceptional service.
A major revision of the education program, known as Program 90, is completed. Competency-based objectives, management emphasis and integration of ethics and information technology become hallmarks of the revised program.
An agreement between CGA-Canada and the provincial and territorial associations further defines their respective roles and responsibilities.
A national requirement is instituted for CGAs to obtain a bachelor's degree prior to certification. Partnerships are developed with universities to provide distance-learning options for degree completion.
CGA-Hong Kong is granted affiliate status. CGA education materials are offered at more than a dozen Chinese universities.
The CGA education program moves to a fully online distance learning model. CGA-Canada enhances its certification model. Laurentian University and CGA-Canada team up to offer online MBA program for CGAs.
CGA-Canada signs a mutual recognition agreement with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the world's largest and fastest-growing accounting association.
CGA-Caribbean is granted affiliate status.
CGA-Canada marks its centennial anniversary and the birth of the CGA designation.
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Dallas Arboretum is using horticulture as therapy
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Arden Courts resident Polly Wiley happily plants geraniums and marigolds while volunteers from the Dallas Arboretum help with a gardening-as-therapy program at the Richardson facility.
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Last Orthodox Shul in Fall River, Massachusetts Becomes Church
Congregation Adas Israel, the last of several orthodox synagogues that once served the Jews of Fall River, Massachusetts – will be handing the keys over to a new group of worshippers – congregants of The Word of Life Community Church.
For the first time since it opened its doors in 1959, Adas Israel did not hold Shabbat services at the house of prayer, having sold the building to evangelical Christians for $400,000 through a real estate agent who was also a congregant at the synagogue, according to a regional newspaper, the Herald News.
The pastor of the church, Donat Boucher, moved his followers to the new building after renting several locations since starting his own church out of his dining room in 2007.
Though the 248 seats used to be too few to hold the throngs attending Shabbat and holiday services, young Jews have moved away, until less than two dozen active members passed regularly through the mezuzah-studded doors.
Temple Beth-El, a conservative synagogue, will provide room for Adas Israel's Orthodox congregants to perform their own prayer services, and will now be the only Jewish house of worship in Fall River.
According to the Herald News, most of the Jewish symbols and plaques have been removed from the chapel, except for some "distinctive Hebrew words affixed to a wall, near a large wooden cross recently installed behind the podium," reading "Know before whom you stand."Malkah Fleisher
About the Author: Malkah Fleisher is a graduate of Cardozo Law School in New York City. She is an editor/staff writer at JewishPress.com and co-hosts a weekly Israeli FM radio show. Malkah lives with her husband and two children on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
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Ms. Fleisher instead of reporting the news second hand by way of Herald News–why don't you do some actual reporting yourself?
As usual, your article is incomplete. Why even bother if you're not willing to do it right? I would expect much more from a high school student. So much for being a Cardozo graduate.
Its all too common for authors to use the work of others rather than doing the work themselves.
It is a poorly written article.
If you are so well informed why don't you tell us where Ms. Fleisher's story was off, rather than just treating us to your usual whining and complaining?
This is very sad.
yes .. it was my shul growing up.
Mrs. Fleisher is (1) Jewish, (2) Orthodox, (3) living in Israel, (4) supports Israel, (5) is married to Yishi Fleisher who heads up the JPress Radio station and (6) seemingly tries to publish all of her articles in a straight matter of fact manner so that the reader can decide what it means to him/her. (7) We need more people like her in Israel.
Rc Fowler is not (1), not (2), not (3), not (4), not married (5) but rather shaking up with a Jewish girl, not (6) and not (7). We hope in the future, you would publish something good about yourself.
We have to look at these places with hakarat hatov. They took us in, and in general, Jews were not persecuted in North America. But now is the time to come home.


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- Rainfall brings hope to West Texas cotton producers
- Timely rains on the plains
- Recent rainfall provides planting moisture for High Plains cotton.
- Producers will need in-season rainfall to make the crop.
- Early rain may decrease pressure on irrigation systems.
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Cotton planting is underway in the Southwest.
Timely rains on the plains
The High Plains received timely rainfall in the last few days, according to reports from Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. Mary Jane Buerkle, director of communications and public affairs, says some areas averaged about 1.2 inches. "We also heard from a grower in Parmer County who reported about 2 inches. Southern portions of the PCG area (Dawson, Gaines, and Yoakum Counties) report up to 3 inches," she says.
"West Texas Mesonet reports 2.39 inches (early this week) in Hereford with Slaton and Dimmitt at 1.8 inches. Overall, the rain is very welcome and obviously much-needed, but there are still some areas that need moisture—places that just missed out on these recent rains, particularly the eastern portions of our service area."
Buerkle says farmers have not planted a lot of cotton in Lubbock County yet—about 10 percent—but "we are seeing activity, especially to the north. The Extension agent in Parmer County reported cotton at 65 percent planted. I know of several growers who are trying to get back into the field (following the rain), and others are having to wait to dry out a little. With a warm-up forecast this week, I think we'll see a significant uptick in planting activity over the next several days."
Across the state, "overall the cotton looks quite good," says Texas AgriLife Extension state cotton specialist Gaylon Morgan.
"I recently traveled from College Station through the Upper Gulf Coast, Coastal Bend, and to the Rio Grande Valley." He says quite a few acres between Corpus Christi and Bishop "were in a world of hurt; however, they received from 2 to 4 inches of rain since last week. The cotton was young enough that the rain will definitely help out and will go a long way to making a cotton crop.
"Of the cotton I have observed and from communications with folks, I would consider most of the cotton in South and Central Texas to be in good condition and with favorable outlook for the next few weeks," Morgan says. "In the Rolling Plains, the North Rolling Plains (North of Abilene) area remains quite dry, but the other portions of the Rolling Plains appear to be in decent condition for planting. In the Southern High Plains, recent rains consisted of scattered showers with some of the major cotton acres (Central High Plains) missing the large rainfall events. Rains in the Northern High Plains were also scattered, and much of the region missed the May rainfall."
The May 7-13 USDA-NASS Texas planting progress summary shows about 35 percent of the cotton crop planted, up from 33 percent this time in 2011 and 4 percent above the 5 year average for the same week.
"I think the NASS estimates are optimistic on the percent planted," he says. "All of South Texas is planted, but the Rolling Plains and High Plains were just getting started before the rain. Now, planting will be delayed a few days or more because of the rain and wet soils."
Farmers may work "twenty-four/seven after the soil dries enough to plant in the Rolling Plains and High Plains."
In Oklahoma, Jerry Goodson, Extension assistant at the Oklahoma State University S.W. Research & Extension Center in Altus, says cotton is about 25 percent planted statewide. "That's our best guess.
"Some areas have excellent moisture, while in other areas moisture is already marginal. Final planting dates for southwest Oklahoma counties are June 20, so hopefully we will get it done by then."
Goodson says doublecrop cotton will be a gamble. "The wildcard is going be moisture in double-crop cotton following a very early wheat harvest. Rainfall will be the key."


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Brandon Kuehn is a fiscal year 2015-2016 recipient of an artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Starting in 2015, Artist Brandon Kuehn will be traveling across the state of Minnesota in search of paranormal sightings and legends. He will document these accounts by creating a new body of fine artwork that will be on exhibit starting in 2016 and will travel around the state to various locations. If you have a story or experience you'd like to share, please contact us! Visit the new site to follow the blog and artwork on this new adventure:
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A visit by former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and a video speech by presidential candidate Mitt Romney's wife are intended to build excitement among 2,500 Michigan Republicans gathering in Detroit for this weekend's state convention.
Party activists will choose delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention. Not all of the delegates will have voting rights since Michigan Republicans have been stripped of half their votes because they held their presidential primary before March 6.
Romney won 16 delegates in the Feb. 28 contest, while former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum won 14 before dropping out.
Supporters of Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who's still in the race, will vie for 14 now-uncommitted delegate spots.
Republican National Committee members Saul Anuzis and Holly Hughes face challengers in their re-election bids.