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Court Fines Pradaxa Maker Nearly $1 Million for Document Mishandling in Bleeding Lawsuits
For over a year, German drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim has faced litigation from patients alleging it failed to warn of potential internal bleeding dangers in its popular blood thinner Pradaxa.
Now, as new studies suggest use of the drug may be set to increase with wider prescription applications, a federal judge has fined the drug maker nearly $1 million for withholding or failing to preserve key information sought in the litigation.
Pradaxa is an anticoagulant medication approved by the FDA in 2010 to prevent blood clots and strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation. With its release, Boehringer targeted the multi-billion dollar blood thinner market, and the traditional drug warfarin that required regular blood testing of patients.
Within 2 years, Pradaxa had achieved blockbuster status, meaning sales of more than $1 billion per year. It is also now prescribed in over 70 countries.
Experts disagree, however, about whether Pradaxa carries higher risks for internal bleeding than warfarin. At issue is the fact that, unlike other blood thinners, Pradaxa has no antidote to stop bleeding in cases of emergency. Boehringer is currently working to develop such measures.
The FDA has advised Pradaxa is no more dangerous than warfarin. However, for the past two years, The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has ranked it among the highest on the market for injury and death reports to the FDA.
The ISMP also released a study this year warning that those taking Pradaxa may be almost 5 times as likely to die from internal bleeding than those taking warfarin*.
A separate study published from The Netherlands this year also suggested patients taking newer blood thinners like Pradaxa may be 55% more likely to suffer internal bleeding**.
A growing number of patients have filed lawsuits alleging internal bleeding injury or death from Pradaxa in a special federal multidistrict litigation court in Illinois. The latest court records show 1,936 had filed suit as of December 16, a rise of nearly 11% in a month. (MDL No. 2385, IN RE: Pradaxa Product Liability Litigation, Southern District of Illinois.)
Now, as the start of trials approaches next August, U.S. District Judge David Herndon, who presides over the Pradaxa lawsuits, has fined Boehringer Ingelheim $931,000 for failing to preserve documents and information which may have been critical to the litigation.
In his 51 page ruling, Herndon called Boehringer's actions "egregious," and "grossly inadequate." He said executives had acted "in bad faith" by not ensuring that data on the drug's development and marketing were preserved and had "made misrepresentations" about their efforts to do so.
Lawyers for patients alleged in court filings that Boehringer couldn't gather data from a senior Pradaxa researcher, or files from consultants who worked on the marketing plan. The drug maker also did not require employees to save phone messages about their work on the drug.
Boehringer responded in court filings that it had produced 32 million pages of material so far, and has been bombarded with "overly burdensome" document requests by patients' lawyers. They also claimed much of the information sought was not relevant.
This week, Boehringer announced a new study showed Pradaxa was effective at the treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism. The company has previously asked regulators with the European Medicines Agency to allow expanded use of the drug for the prevention of blood clots in all patients, not just those with atrial fibrillation.
More information on the research, side effects and litigation news related to Pradaxa is available at drug safety sites like DrugNews.net.
*Institute for Safe Medication Practices, 1/9/13; ismp.org/quarterwatch/pdfs/2012Q2.pdf
**Gastroenterology, July 2013; gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(13)00290-4/fulltext


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More Breast Cancer Patients Choosing Reconstructive Surgery, Study Finds
By Mary Brophy Marcus
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Feb. 18, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- More breast cancer patients are choosing reconstructive breast surgery, although where women live might influence whether they opt for it, new research shows.
"These data suggest that while a hearteningly increasing proportion of women are receiving breast reconstruction, it's not uniformly the case all across the country," said study author Dr. Reshma Jagsi, associate chairwoman of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan.
According to the study, which was published online Feb. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, there was an almost 20 percent jump in reconstructive breast surgeries between 1998 and 2007 among women who'd had a breast removed due to breast cancer (a procedure called mastectomy).
Meanwhile, the number of double mastectomies, which high-risk women sometimes choose as a preventive measure against breast cancer, increased from 3 percent to 18 percent in the same period. Three-quarters of women who got double mastectomies also got breast reconstruction, the study found.
One expert had some theories on the trends.
"I think the rising number of women choosing to have [preventive] double mastectomy has gone up in part because advances in reconstructive techniques allow them to feel more confident that they will look good after mastectomy," said Dr. Oren Lerman, director of breast reconstruction at the Institute for Comprehensive Breast Care at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
"The increase in percentage of women having reconstruction [after breast cancer] is probably more related to better access to information and plastic surgeons," Lerman said. "But there's still a ways to go."
Jagsi said she and her colleagues first wanted to investigate the issue because there was little information available on it since the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998 was passed. The law says health insurers who offer mastectomy coverage must also provide for all stages of breast reconstruction.
Jagsi and her team looked at data from more than 20,000 women who underwent a mastectomy during a 10-year period. The average age of the patients was 51. Jagsi said they found that reconstructive breast surgery increased from 46 percent in 1998 to 63 percent in 2007.

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Creating an amazing fast IaaS and PaaS platform, the Cloud OS
Universities are starting to explore the future of the cloud. This future starts by getting rid of the many layers that separate software from physical hardware or bare metal. Currently you need a hypervisor (e.g. Xen, KVM, VMWare), an operating system (e.g. Linux, Windows, Mac OS), a language virtual machine (e.g. JVM), an application server (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss, etc.) and then the application.
In this article, researchers and academics are arguing that there is too much abstractions going on that could be removed in benefit of unseen performance. Projects like Open Mirage, Exokernel and Apache Mesos are examples.
If telecom operators want to offer IaaS and PaaS then they should focus on having a competitive edge that is not currently offered by established providers like Amazon and Rackspace. This competitive edge could be to build a new Cloud OS that has storage and processing nodes that run as close as possible to the bare metal. Building data storage solutions like Hadoop or Cassandra close to bare metal hardware and using the latest solid state drives would offer unseen performance. The cost per user would be substantially lower then less optimized set-ups. Ideally PaaS platforms can be delivered that allow "cloud application servers" to run on base metal. The model would be Heroku on bare metal instead of on Xen+Linux+JVM+App Server+Java App.
Telco PaaS is not Telco Assets and PaaS
Telecom operators have always focused on two aspects: ARPU and time-to-market. In the latest technology craze – Cloud Computing – a lot of telecom operators are seeing a new golden grail. Those that can see further than SaaS marketplaces and moving their hosting to IaaS are only the happy few. Since Cloud Computing = SaaS + PaaS + IaaS, it is normal that operators start talking about Telco PaaS. However Telco PaaS is a lot more than combining telco assets with an IT PaaS.
IT PaaS are aimed at quickly launching applications. The IT grail is to launch thousands of applications to find the one that everybody likes and become an overnight millionair. Telecom operators might be easily fooled that opening their telecom assets to IT PaaS developers will bring that one application that will turn the telecom sector around: "The Killer App".
Unfortunately a telecom application is more than an SDK+app server in the Cloud that can do VoIP. The reason why companies pay a plus to telecom operators is "trust". "Trust" that you can pick up the phone and call somebody. "Trust" that if something is not working that you can call their call center. "Trust" that tomorrow they will offer you the service.
All this "Trust" has to do with the way operators have their backoffice systems and processes set-up. Having thousands of developers creating applications that mix telecom with SaaS might give some nice innovation. However telecom operators are not prepared to handle thousands of end-users that find bugs in a long list of applications and start calling call-centers massively. End-user expectations are different for telecom applications then for IT applications. This definitely has to do with the price they pay for them.
What should a Telco PaaS offer?
More than a fixed feature set, the most important changes for an operator that wants to offer a Telco PaaS might be internal. Operators will need a large shift in thinking to be able to accept some of the new realities:
- Telco PaaS services need to be launched in weeks not years.
- Telco PaaS services will be buggy, unstable and fail.
- Telco PaaS services can not be supported via a call center.
- There are no Telco PaaS standards and there are likely not to be any until it is too late.
- Telecom can not be greedy
Launching in weeks instead of years
If IT PaaS is bringing something then it is speed of development. Telco PaaS needs the same type of speed. In practice this means that REST and JSON should be the operator's vocabulary, not SIP and CDRs. Telco Assets need to be exposed to non-telco programmers. Developer communities need to be created. Marketplaces that allow developers to sell their creations by the click of a button and not to worry about complex charging and billing.
Unstability, bugs and failure
Not every IT programmer is a genius. There are probably quite a few geniuses. Instead you need to expect that people will do things incorrectly, by error but also on purpose. Application virtualization and sandboxing are key to make sure "mistakes" don't bring down the whole platform. On the other hand customers need to be segmented. There are customers that can see further than the bugs and see the potential. These are called visionaries or early adopters. It is critical that operators allow these early adopters to play around with buggy services. However it is equally important that the majority of users know that the sandbox might contain buggy apps and that the call center is not the place they can find help.
No support via the call center
All sandbox applications can not be supported via a call center. Agents will not know anything about these thousands of apps but neither should they. The only one that knows is the one that developed the service. He or she should get the right tools to quickly understand which bugs or feature requests are important, e.g. via a social CRM. The operator should monitor those promising apps that are ready to graduate the sandbox. They should be place in an incubation program. Incubation will see if the applications can go mainstream and will professionalize support, availability and reliability.
No Telco PaaS standards
In the dotcom world the first one that creates a solution, creates the standard. In Telco PaaS this will be the same. If we do not know how users will use a Telco PaaS, how can we expect that standardization bodies will define the correct standards. However in disruptive innovation, unlike technology evolution, first movers have an ever lasting advantage.
Telecom Greediness
If you have a monopoly, you can be greedy. No competitor will offer anybody a better deal. However in Cloud Computing, greediness will kill your best innovation. It is better to get a small percentage, signup or usage fee per application when you have thousands of applications then to get nothing at all. Many cents can make billions. Think Adwords…
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Surprisingly, the use of the salt shaker is not the main cause of too much sodium in your diet. According to the Food and Drug Administration, over 75% of dietary sodium comes from eating packaged and restaurant foods. The Nutrition Facts Label is a useful tool for monitoring how much sodium is in a food. High levels of sodium may seem "hidden" in packaged food, especially when a food doesn't "taste" salty. Check the label and know your front of package claims to identify foods that may contain less sodium and fit into a heart healthy diet.
Percent Daily Value (%DV): The Nutrition Facts Label lists the %DV of sodium in one serving of food and is based on 100% of the recommended amount of sodium, which is less than 2400 milligrams (mg) per day.
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As Sheriff of St. Lucie County, I want the citizens of Highlands County to know how fortunate they are to have Susan Benton as sheriff. In the early morning hours of Nov. 20, I received the call that no sheriff wants to receive - one of my deputies was shot.
On that day, one of my deputies, Detective Paul Pearson, was shot in Sebring while serving warrants as part of a U.S. Marshals Task Force. A Deputy U.S. Marshal also was shot. Highlands County Sheriff Susan Benton immediately took action. She called me from the hospital after checking on my deputy and gave me a complete description of what happened, my deputy's condition and what medical treatment was prescribed. She reached out to a surgeon, whom she personally knew. He performed surgery on both injured officers. She stayed with them until their medical treatment took place and stayed most of the day with us.
She conducted a news conference to inform the public of what had happened in their community and invited me and other law enforcement leaders to accompany her so we could answer questions about our roles in the operation and the condition of our deputies. She called both injured officers throughout the next weekend to check on their condition and make sure they had everything they needed.
In a day that could have been characterized as hectic and chaotic, Sheriff Benton truly rose to the occasion and provided compassionate, decisive and skilled leadership throughout the day and for several days afterward. I was able to benefit from her wisdom and leadership firsthand. In a crisis such as this, a special kind of leadership was called for. I am happy to say that Sheriff Benton answered the call. We all were fortunate that we can benefit from Sheriff Benton's leadership.
On behalf of myself and the 620 professionals of the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, I want to extend my gratitude to Sheriff Benton and her entire staff for a job superbly done.
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I truly resent Bud Morgan's guest column Nov. 16. He became the same ugly name-caller he accused others of being.
Right on, John Booth. You said it all in your rebuttal Nov. 18. However, let me add a footnote: Sorry, Bud. It's tough feeling like the underdog. Let me paraphrase what my daughter says to her children: Get over it!
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Concerns with the more barbaric (and ancient) part of their culture soon morphed U.S. policy into concerns for supporting Karzai's regime, rebuilding the infrastructure of the country, schools, hospitals, voting policy and etcetera, the whole panoply of regime changes and modification that has led us into difficulties worldwide.
Meanwhile DOD proposes to convert internees at Gitmo into double agents. Apparently, we have forgotten the absurd Chieu Hoi program in Vietnam, now rewritten as a big tactical success. Those who served with these "reconstituted" allies learned to sleep with one eye open. Surely a few years in Gitmo is guaranteed to win the prisoners over to our point of view and convert them to double agents on their return to the Middle East.
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This birth control has a high dosage of Etonogestrel which made me feel like a crazy person the week before my cycle. Emotional, psychotic, and could have been the end of my marriage. I am now on the Nuvaring and doing SO much better. While I did not get pregnant using this medication, it just did not work for me.
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I was not at all pleased with this birth control at all, it's done a great job with not getting me pregnant, but I have had a horrible increase in appetite causing me to gain weight, and I have been extremely emotional, depressed, and anxious. Which I have never been that type of person. I was always 120lbs, happy, & never anxious! This pill has been the worst experience for me! If any of ... Show Full Comment
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MOUNT VERNON—Brewton-Parker College's chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Dr. Lee Cheek, will publish his sixth book this summer.
The Limits of Pure Democracy, a scholarly edition of a classic study of politics and economics written by William Hurrell Mallock, will be available for purchase in August. It will be published by Transaction Publishers, an academic press with Rutgers University (N.J.).
The Limits of Pure Democracy was first published in 1918 at the end of World War I, "an exciting period of political thinking and activity," said Dr. Cheek, who adds that Mallock's criticism of the excesses of democracy and socialism provides insight relevant to today's politics.
"The 1910s was a decade in which theories of socialism, pacifism and collectivism flowered," said Dr. Cheek. "Publicists and playwrights from Sidney Webb to George Bernard Shaw expressed not just belief in 'utopianism' but a vigorous assault on the existing political and economic order. Less well known is how a group of Tory thinkers laid the foundations of a conservative counter-attack expressed with equal literary and intellectual brilliance. Foremost among them was W.H. Mallock. In The Limits of Pure Democracy, he argued that the pseudo-populist leaders of the political party system promise everything but deliver only the end of parties as such. As you can guess, this is a recurring problem in politics!"
The author, W. H. Mallock, was born into a privileged family at Cheriton Bishop in Devonshire, England. In 1869, following in his father's footsteps, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself as a writer. In 1871, he won the Newdigate Prize for a poem he composed on the Isthmus of Suez. Mallock's most famous work, The New Republic (1877), a satirical novel, was "Mallock's first attempt to expunge the 'disease' of liberalism and religious skepticism from civil discourse," said Dr. Cheek.
According to Dr.Cheek, "The publication of The New Republic provided Mallock with a literary reputation as a critic, and this work would remain his most popular novel, although many more novels would follow. The emphases of The New Republic, especially the problem of faith and the nature of truth, would form the first part of Mallock's literary corpus. He would spend the second part of his career as a man of letters addressing the prevailing social and political issues of his age, and The Limits of Pure Democracy serves as his last major—and most important—political critique."


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Pediatric therapists from Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., come here to our primary care office to provide specialized services which include:
- feeding and swallowing services
- physical medicine and rehabilitation
- physical therapy
- occupational therapy
- speech and language therapy
Nemours also offers specialty care for nearly every condition at our specialty care outpatient locations throughout the Delaware Valley and at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. It's our way of extending our renowned pediatric specialty care to your family — where and when you need it. Common medical services we refer children for include:
- cardiology (heart care)
- orthopedics
- pulmonology (respiratory care)
- urology (urinary health)
Making Your Appointment
Nemours duPont Pediatrics provides primary pediatric care for newborns, children and teens throughout Delaware Valley, southeast Pennsylvania and South New Jersey. Our physicians and nurse practitioners see patients for primary care medical needs like well-child check-ups, sick child care and immunizations in a family-centered environment.
Children should be seen for "well-child" check-ups to make sure they're growing up healthy at:
- 1 to 3 days after hospital discharge
- 2 weeks
- 1 month
- 2 months
- 4 months
- 6 months
- 9 months
- 12 months (1 year)
- 15 months
- 18 months
- 2 years
- annually after that
At each visit, we'll check your child's growth, development, overall health and give any recommended routine immunizations. It's all part of the excellent primary care pediatrics you can count on us to deliver.
Check out the Your Child's Checkup Sheets from Nemours' KidsHealth to find out what to expect at the visit and as your child grows, from birth through age 21.
We offer free, informational appointments for expectant parents trying to make a choice about their baby's primary care pediatrician. This is a great time to meet our doctor and staff, see our facility, and learn more about our practice. Call us to schedule your appointment.
Therapists from Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children also see patients who are referred to us by primary care family physicians, pediatricians and referring specialists for physical medicine and rehabilitation services (physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, and feeding and swallowing).
When you call to make your appointment, we'll first pre-register your child, collecting information such as:
- your child's name and address
- date of birth
- parent phone numbers (home and cell)
- primary care physician/referring physician contact information (if needed)
- pharmacy preference
- insurance information (including Medicaid or other assistance program)
Please arrive 15 minutes before your appointment so we have plenty of time to register your child in our system.
- photo ID
- medical and pharmacy insurance cards
- preferred pharmacy name and phone number
- names and dosage of all medications, including over-the-counter medication, your child is currently taking
- guardianship and custody papers, if a legal guardian rather than a parent accompanies your child
New Patients
- Patient Registration (PDF)
Returning Patients
Returning Patients
- Patient Presents Without Legal Guardian (PDF)
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Note: A parent or legal guardian must be with a child for a first visit.
Resources for Patients & Families
- Insurance We Accept: See accepted insurance, listed by location.
- Pay Your Bill: Use online bill pay or send by mail.
- Financial Assistance: Get help with your child's health care expenses.
- MyNemours: Access your child's medical record online.
Pediatric Specialty Care Services at Nemours duPont Pediatrics, Beck Woods
Therapy Services Recognized for Commitment to Care
Nemours has the only pediatric outpatient therapy services program in the greater Philadelphia region accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), demonstrating our commitment to provide the highest quality patient care.


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It isn't often that a humble member of the Fourth Estate gets the chance to alter the course of industrial history. So I won't take all [or even some – Ed.] of the credit, but I am certainly gratified to learn that General Motors followed my advice and killed the sale of Opel. (I had nothing to do with Fritz Henderson.) GM's future is instantly brighter, one of the worst strategic misadventures in the great American carmaker's 101-year history has been averted, and one has to wonder – was GM ever serious about selling Opel in the first place?
To recap, there were numerous reasons it made no sense to unload Opel, even as part of a strategy for a leaner, meaner future. So the reasons cited by GM for canceling the sale now are as good today as they were eight months ago when I cataloged them in this space by way of castigating GM for dragging one of its crown jewels in the dirt.
Opel provides major engineering support for high-mileage, electric, and fuel-cell vehicles, the stuff GM will need in coming years. The best affordable passenger car that GM sells in the United States – the Chevy Malibu – is based on an Opel design. Many other Opel models can be more or less directly transferred to U.S. showrooms, as Buick plans to do with the 2011 Regal, a near-exact duplicate of the well-regarded Opel Insignia, just on sale in Europe. Ford is following a similar strategy with compact, Euro-designed cars and trucks already coming our way.
Opel has been gaining market share in recent years, which is more than you can say for the brands GM is off-loading, and even some of the ones it is keeping. Opel also provides a beachhead for GM in the European market – one of the world's largest, along with the U.S. and China – as well as a vital presence in the burgeoning Russian automobile bazaar.
The case for keeping Opel was, in fact, so strong that some may conclude that GM was only ever pretending to sell it, knowing that the concept of U.S. taxpayer funds going to prop up a German company wouldn't have played well when GM approached Congress seeking its
$50 billion bailout, or when it hit the American bankruptcy courts, or, crucially, our idiot-led, cable-fed courts of public opinion.
Was it a case of doling out the facts parsimoniously while rolling out its real plans with lethargy rooted in expedience? It's a trend worth looking out for these days.
For GM wouldn't be the only car giant holding its intentions close to its vest lately in the mad scramble for federal funds. Toyota recently announced, after agonizing months of public dithering, that it would shut the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., plant in Fremont, California – its former joint venture with GM and its only plant staffed by UAW members. The announcement was quiet, but the timing was intriguing: Mere days had passed since the Cash for Clunkers program ended – a noteworthy detail, as the taxpayer-supported program had subsidized the sales of more Corollas (built at Fremont) than any other car. With the program expired, Toyota disclosed – to a Japanese news agency, for extra fact-defusing effect – that, like GM, it was bailing out of the NUMMI plant. All future Corollas destined for the American market will be imported from Canada or Japan. As Toyota's ads once trilled: Oh, what a feeling.
Meanwhile comes word that Chrysler, which made a bold move into electric vehicles a central plank of its case for $12.5 billion of federal aid, suddenly plans to unplug its EV effort. Huh? Last January, Chrysler pledged that it would build half a million electric cars by 2013. But apparently this promise is no longer operative, with new owner Fiat's recent decision to shutter Chrysler's Envi division and merge electric efforts with general vehicle development, where Fiat chairman Sergio Marchionne says they're still struggling with batteries. (Chrysler claims it'll still build a test fleet of 220 hybrid trucks and minivans, for which it received $70 million in Department of Energy loans.)
Of course Marchionne was on – or near – the case when all the promises were being made. He, too, chose to keep quiet about his real intentions. This proves that in addition to being a shrewd negotiator – Chrysler cost Fiat virtually nothing in auto-business terms – Fiat's boss is molto in tune-o with what appears to be the industry's new modus operandi: don't fight the government like you used to – just tell it what it wants to hear and then do whatever you want anyway.
Like I said – oh, what a feeling.
– Jamie Kitman
Illustration by Tim Marrs


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SANTA CRUZ -- If any of Surf City's fun-loving spirit got lost in the wake of this year's violence, a video crew set out to bring it back and showcase the town's zany side on the big screen.
The Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium became the backdrop Friday for a silent black and white movie called "We Are Santa Cruz."
The film is the creative work of Impact Media Group, a longtime local business whose employees want to help the community heal from the deaths of two Santa Cruz police officers gunned down in the line of duty.
In addition to the shootings of police Sgt. Loran "Butch" Baker and detective Elizabeth Butler, there also has been a deadly shooting outside a popular downtown bar, an armed robbery at a small grocery store and the robbery and shooting of a college student on the Westside.
"Violent Santa Cruz, that's not right," said Dave Sieburg of Impact Media. "This is a peaceful, playful place. Look at all these people doing something goofy for their hometown."
A line formed outside the Civic before filming started at 2 p.m.
A steady stream of people throughout the day -- organizers believe at least 400 -- showed up to step in front of the camera and for a second or two demonstrate what Santa Cruz means to them.
A few skateboarded while some rolled through on a unicycle or mountain bike. Others brought props such as hula hoops, cameras, cookies, paintings, an ice cream cart and boat paddles.
One woman brought bottles of salad dressing that she makes and sells at local grocers.
A group of six women held small signs that read "Dignity, equity and respect for all. Together we are Santa Cruz."
City Councilwoman Lynn Robinson, a landscape designer, wore a large straw sun hat and carried a colorful bouquet of flowers as she walked by the camera. Police Chief Kevin Vogel and Deputy Chief Steve Clark brought guitars. Several Santa Cruz police officers and firefighters participated as well.
"It's awesome," said Wes Morey, a motorcycle police officer of 12 years. "I think it's bringing the community together as a whole. It's neat. I've never seen anything like it."
Everyone who participated agreed that it was nice to show off many positive things about Santa Cruz.
"It's great to see people getting out and representing what they're passionate about," said Pete Whitford, 29. "It's nice to put a face on Santa Cruz and see all the different personalities."
Cherlyn Jones, a Pacific Cookie Co. manager who carried a large metal tray of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies in front of the camera, is a friend of the Baker family.
"Our boys grew up together," Jones said. "The police deaths had a hard impact on our family.
"I just want this film to be so positive. I'm just so tired of the negativity."
Impact Media will edit the film and play it in a loop on a life-size screen beginning May 3 in a window of the Rittenhouse Building at Pacific Avenue and Church Street.
Follow Sentinel reporter Shanna McCord on Twitter at Twitter.com/scnewsmom


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The head of VTrans' rail unit is asking drivers to stop, look and listen.
Beginning mid-March, trains on the New England Central Railroad will be operating at higher speeds.
The faster trains mean less time for drivers to react at crossings.
The speed change will also result in schedule changes. Amtrak will announce those changes in the coming weeks.


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Matrices: Doin' the Math Quiz
Think you've got your head wrapped around Matrices? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
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I have three blue dresses, five red dresses ,and no yellow dresses.
I keep track of what time I eat lunch and dinner each weekday; I have the data for this week.
Mike and Carol each have three children of three different ages (youngest, middle child, and eldest).
This year I went on a five-day vacation to three states; last year I visited one state for a full week.
All of these can be expressed as matrices.


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Ponty-Hardeep murders: Is black money the reason?
Police are trying to find out if Namdhari's greed was one of the reasons behind the shootout on November 17.
New Delhi: Sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari's son Surinder and his maternal uncle Hardayal are still untraceable even as police sources claim that the duo holds several clues to the unravelling of the sensational double murder case of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep Singh.
Sources have told IBN7 that Namdhari is the mastermind of the murders of Ponty and Hardeep. They say that Namdhari created the circumstances which led to the fight between Ponty and Hardeep. Police sources say that Namdhari had called up his brother, son and his three dozen men to Delhi under a conspiracy.
Police sources add that the case seems to be connected to a huge sum of black money and the conspiracy was hatched in February 2012. Ponty had allegedly kept all his black money in Namdhari's house when he heard about the income tax raids in February. The total amount ran into several crores, sources said.
Ponty had reportedly purchased land in India and even outside the country in Namdhari's name, which included 50 acres in Rudrapur's Sabji Mandi in Uttarakhand. Investigators are trying to find out if Namdhari's greed was one of the reasons behind the shootout at the Chhatarpur farmhouse on November 17 which resulted in the death of Ponty and Hardeep. According to sources Ponty had demanded his money back several times but Namdhari was reluctant to return the amount.
Police say that the Chhatarpur farmhouse and another farmhouse at Delhi's Bijwasan was under the control of Ponty's brother Hardeep. Police suspect that Namdhari provoked Ponty to forcefully capture the Chhatarpur farmhouse. He took Ponty to the Chhatarpur farmhouse on November 17 where the fight turned deadly.


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PITTSBURG -- City officials presented a rosy picture at last week's "State of the City" luncheon, highlighting the continued decline in unemployment numbers, completion of development projects and falling crime rates.
"Today, the city moves into a bright future with a rebounding economy, a fiscal sustainability plan, continued low crime and a dramatic decrease in our unemployment rate," Mayor Sal Evola said as he opened the talk.
All of these accomplishments, he added, were done without the redevelopment agency that the city had relied on in years past for revitalization projects.
While many other cities in Contra Costa had to cut staff positions and projects during the recent economic downturn, Pittsburg has maintained its staffing levels and invested nearly $10 million per year in infrastructure and facility maintenance, according to City Manager Joe Sbranti, who also spoke at the luncheon.
Sbranti said that beyond the staff and council, Pittsburg residents are responsible for the city's continued growth thanks to their support of initiatives such as a $450 million bond for the Contra Costa Community College District passed earlier this month, which will benefit Los Medanos College. In addition, commercial property owners in the vicinity of Railroad Avenue and Highway 4 recently voted to tax themselves to fund an eBART station.
Projects completed
Assistant city manager Garret Evans provided a highlight reel of projects completed over the past year. Among these, he said, was the addition of new stores and restaurants to shuttered downtown spots, providing public wireless Internet access in downtown and around city buildings, and the speedy revitalization of a field to bring a minor league baseball team -- the Pittsburg Mettle -- to the city.
Evans credited revenues from the city's public power company for the baseball field and other projects around town. "It has allowed us to build, with private partners, over $2 billion worth of infrastructure since 2000," he said.
Next, Evans said, he'd like to have an Olympic kite-boarding team train on Pittsburg's shores, and to that end, a kite-boarding shop and ramp are going in soon.
"This is the version of golf for Silicon Valley techies," he said to chuckles from the crowd.
Finances in order
Thanks to a half-cent sales tax increase passed by Pittsburg voters in 2012, and put into effect last year, $3.1 million was added to the city's annual revenue.
Those additional funds, combined with money from the city's public utility partnership and rising home prices, have allowed Pittsburg to maintain a high level of service, said Human Resources Manager Neville Vania.
Aside from bringing in money, Vania said the city has also taken steps to pay down debt and reduce potential liabilities.
A major reform, begun in January 2014, changed how retirement and health insurance were paid out by the city.
"Retirement and health insurance for city employees has historically been handled on a 'pay as you go' basis," Vania said, leaving the city with an unfunded liability of $12.4 million for future retiree benefits.
The city has made an initial deposit toward erasing the liability and is committed to putting away at least $666,755 annually so that the "unfunded liability" is funded within 10 years.
Crime slightly down
Overall, reported crime dropped 2.3 percent in 2013, police Chief Brian Addington said. The decrease was mostly in property crimes, but there was a large leap -- 20 percent -- in violent crime.
Violent crimes include murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault.
Addington said that after looking deeper into the categories, he found that the jump in violent crimes resulted from the forceful theft of smartphones -- something being combatted nationally and at the state level through legislation that would require a "kill switch" to render a phone useless after it's stolen.
"Overall, we are still maintaining record low crime levels," Addington said.
"In the past 53 years, 2013 was our second best year that we've had, and we're very proud of that."
After the presentations, Evola headed back to the podium for parting words and a rallying cry to the hundred or so community members and business partners gathered at the Pittsburg Elks Lodge for the event sponsored by members of the Chamber of Commerce.
"We still have a lot of work to do," he said.
"Pittsburg has had a long-standing stigma of high crimes, but as you see, that is not the case."
To break the stigma and change the city's reputation, he said the people of Pittsburg have to "spread the word" that the city is a great place to live, work and even visit.


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By Ely TrappJuly 28, 2009
In a small yet intimate gathering at the Salt Lake City airport, family members and friends of the 151st Air Refueling Wing sent off a small group of Warfighters for a deployment to the Middle East. Among that small group was Maser Sgt. Dave Beaumont, the Noncommissioned Officer in Charge of the group and a member of the Tooele Army Depot workforce.
This is Beaumont's seventh deployment in his 27-year-long career with the Air Guard as well as his last. Including four years of active duty in the Navy and two years in the Navy Reserve, upon return from this deployment Beaumont will retire with more than 30 years of military service.
A motor vehicle operator at TEAD, Beaumont started out working at TEAD after his active duty tour in the Navy back in 1977. "I may be Air Guard but I will always claim Navy," he said while reminiscing about his years in the Navy.
As a sailor, Beaumont worked on board a ship for more than two years and deployed to Korea, Vietnam and Okinawa. While at sea, he was part of the crash crew responsible for refueling, launching and landing aircraft. Because he knew how to type he was pulled into an administrative position which he said helped save him from some of the more grueling work on a ship.
Upon completion of his time in the Navy, Beaumont returned home to Tooele, Utah, to start a family and began working at TEAD, but he also remained a member of the Navy Reserves. After two years of trying to balance his family life, work and reserve duty requirements, he realized he was going to have to give the uniform up.
"He would fly out on Fridays for Alameda and return Sundays," said Sandra, Beaumont's wife of 32 years. "The problem was we didn't know when he would return so we would sit and wait for hours at a time. It was hard on everyone including the kids."
While waiting for his wife to browse at a fair in SLC, Beaumont started chatting with a fellow 'waiting husband.'
"I don't even remember how the military came up, but he asked if I knew how to cook and told me to check out the Air Guard." Shortly after that Beaumont's service in the Air Guard began in the services career field.
Sandra admits the first few years of being married to a military man were hard; it was a different culture and a different experience. But 32 years later she still stands by her husband and supports what he does every step of the way.
"We feed them, clean them, entertain them, house them and bury them," said Beaumont, quoting an instructor who taught him the ropes of the services field. While deployed or at home, services specialist are responsible for lodging, food services, recreation, linen exchange and mortuary duties. It is multifaceted field that requires personnel that can adjust rapidly and effectively to an ever changing mission.
"In this field, we don't always know exactly where we are going and or what our specific mission is going to be until we have boots on the ground," Beaumont said.
During his time in the Air Guard Beaumont has deployed to various countries including, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, and Europe. While all his deployments have been different in many ways, he said he has enjoyed every single one of them and has never felt his life to be at risk.
Support for the Warfighters is unwavering - 45 percent of the workforce are veterans and there are 35 reserve component servicemembers members working at TEAD out of which five are currently deployed. Many of them fall under Harry Olson, Ammunition Support Supervisor, and Beaumont's supervisor.
"We are always encouraged by their dedication to duty," Olson said, adding that it is a double-edged sword. "You worry about them while their gone, and you also lose an integral part of your team. But we completely support what they do. We hope and pray for his safe return home and we will be thinking about him while he's over there."
Some government employees who also wear a uniform are lucky enough to see their work come to fruition. During one of his deployments Beaumont and his team had the opportunity to tour an area where ammunition was stored and distributed. While there he spotted ammunition that came from Tooele Army Depot. "I saw the box and thought 'hey, we sent that here, that came from us,'" Beaumont recalled. "When you get to actually see (the ammunition) on the ground and see how it makes it to its final destination and how it will be used, it at all makes sense."
"Every time he deployed I would get a great big knot in my chest," Sandra said. "I just felt horrible. This is his last deployment and as I see him go I just feel sad. I feel sad that this is the last one. It has been such a big part of our lives for so many years that it is hard to let some of those experiences go."
The Beaumont's would like to thank their families, church members, neighbors and friends for all their support throughout the years, "we could not have done it without them," they said.
"Some people have forgotten why we are out there and have forgotten the importance of what we do," Beaumont added. "It means a lot when just one person says thank you or when the people you work with support you."


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Survive! (1)
Category: Nature
Photo and caption by yoko kobayashi
Winter time is very harsh in Nagano, Japan: The ground is covered with snow and Japanese macaques have to survive on tree barks, grasses, insects or whatever eatable they can find. In January this young macaque was nibbling on a tree branch hunkering down: This baby bent over so much that in the end he tumbled over and fell down.
Location: Jigokudani, Nagano, Japan
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Ron Paul Hails Halt to Internet Legislation
COLUMBIA, S.C. – In his last appearance before the South Carolina primary, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul on Friday night celebrated a Washington victory for a part of his campaign platform.
Speaking to a packed bar of young supporters here, an ebullient Mr. Paul applauded congressional lawmakers' decision earlier Friday to abandon online antipiracy bills, calling the development "an important victory in Washington."
The Texas congressman seemed initially almost bewildered by the size of the crowd of several hundred young supporters, who jammed into the bar's back room. Later, he recognized the role their Internet-stoked support had played in fueling his campaign. After criticizing the mainstream media, Mr. Paul said, "The one weapon we have is the Internet, and you know how to use it!"
Lawmakers' decision to call off a Senate vote and House committee action on the pair of Internet bills, which had raised widespread ire online, showed that "when the people rise up and say we want our liberties back, politicians will respond out of self interest," Mr. Paul said.
Among his supporters Friday night were Warren, Ohio, residents Todd Bonar, Frank Naypaver and his son. They arrived trailing a 40-foot plywood boat named the "U.S.S. Constitution," in honor of Mr. Paul and the tea party.
The trio had driven the seaworthy rig from Ohio to South Carolina to bring the vessel to the Paul rally Friday night, where its one propane cannon and two smoke cannons fired loudly.
"Ron Paul stands for liberty," Mr. Bonar said. The trio plan to take the U.S.S. Constitution to Tampa, Fla. next.
-Eric Morath and Geoffrey A. Fowler contributed to this post.


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Everything is better with cheese, and these restaurants will show you why.
Aida spreads the love of good food from jam to mustard to goat cheese.
The Grilled Cheese Truck serves slow-and-low-toasted ultimate comfort food.
The Queens Kickshaw serves gourmet grilled cheeses made in a unique way.
This Cleveland eatery serves amazing American classics-even mac and cheese!
If Too-EZ Mac 'n' Cheese were any easier, you could make it in your sleep.
Alton Brown answers viewers' questions about macaroni and cheese.
What do you get when you cross four wheels, the City of Angels and cheese?
A creamy mac and cheese opens Jeffrey's eyes to using uncommon ingredients.
Giada marinates goat cheese and serves it on radicchio leaves.
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Savor the flavors of everyday real food, fresh from the garden or stored on your pantry shelves.
By Wendy Gregory Kaho
gluten-free, gluten-free breakfast, gluten-free muffins, Wendy Gregory Kaho
Gluten-free quick breads and muffins make mornings feel special at our house. We're fans of savory muffins packed with chicken sausage or turkey bacon, flavored with onions, chives and chili and topped with a sprinkling of cheese. They are different every time depending on whether there is shredded cheddar or Parmesan or pepper jack on hand. The one thing they do have in common is the basic muffin made with Pamela's Baking Mix. I keep it on hand for quick breads, muffins or pancakes. There are times when I will blend gluten-free whole grain flours for my own combinations and times when I wake up and just want a quick muffin to serve to the family. One of the other tricks I use is my collection of baking pans. Just varying the shapes of gluten-free baked goods makes them fun. My favorite lately has been the muffin top pan that makes wide flat muffins. That's what I used for these, but a regular pan will work too.
Gluten-Free Sausage Cheddar Breakfast Muffin Tops
1 ½ cups Pamela's Baking Mix
1 cup milk
1 egg
3 chicken breakfast sausages, diced
1/2 cup sharp cheddar, shredded
½ tsp dried diced onion
2 Tbs chives, snipped
1/8 tsp garlic powder
1/8 tsp red chili flakes
pinch of chipotle chili powder
Preheat oven to 350. Mix ingredients together (reserve half
the cheese to top the muffins) and divide into greased muffin top pan. Bake
13-15 minutes or until nicely golden brown. Yields 6 muffin tops or large muffins. Baking time will be longer for regular muffins as the flat muffin tops bake quickly which is one of the reasons I like them for this recipe.
Kim at Cook It Allergy Free has some of my favorite gluten-free muffin ideas and she has an app for iPhones and iPads that can substitute ingredients in recipes according to your dietary requirements and food sensitivities. I've made Kim's Banana Cranberry Muffins several times and love the moist dense muffin with two kinds of cranberries. Ali at The Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen makes a gluten-free and dairy-free teff muffin and Carrot Raisin Buckwheat Muffins. I use the Pamela's Baking Mix for a pumpkin muffin top for breakfast or snacks and a pumpkin cheesecake muffin top for a more decadent coffee break.
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Top Definition
Do something. Usually with purpose.
You wanna fight? Let's do it up bitch!
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Meaning go for it.
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A somewhat half-hearted verbal command used when a person agrees with another person's inclination to perform a task. The phrase is usually said hastily, and can also be stylized by stretching the first or the last vowel, depending on preference.
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Internet search giant Google removed the German Web site of automaker BMW from its search index after it allegedly discovered attempts to artificially boost the site's popularity ranking on Google's search engine.
Google has taken action against BMW
Google said the site had multiple references to popular search terms such as "new cars" and "used cars" embedded in its code that would artificially keep the site near the top end of search results lists on Google but would not be visible to users in their web browsers.
"This week our Webspam team continued ramping up our anti-spam efforts by removing bmw.de from our index ...," said Google software engineer Matt Cutts on his Web site.
BMW denied it was doing anything unacceptable
"That's a violation of our Webmaster quality guidelines, specifically the principle of 'Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users'," Cutts said.
In Munich, BMW rejected Google's claims. "Google's claim is not correct. We are not misleading our users in terms of content," a company spokesman said.
He said was confident that www.bmw.de would be reinstated in a few days.
German citizens and companies alike have been careless in protecting their computer systems against hackers and potential terrorists. A failure to invest in IT security has cost the country billions of euros every year. (Aug. 20, 2005)
Google is heading for a legal battle with American publishers over its plan to digitize books from five major libraries. But German publishers seem warm to the idea. (Oct. 20, 2006)