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About 100 servers, line cooks and dishwashers working at the Charleston Crab House don't have health insurance and face an uncertain year ahead.
Consumers' Choice Health Plan won't enroll its first members until next fall.Brokers, health providers and employers who want more information about the new health cooperative should visit its website: www.cchpsc.org
As more of the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as "Obamacare") kicks in, they will either receive coverage or face financial penalties.
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MARCH 2010:President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act into law.JULY 2012: Consumers' Choice, South Carolina's new health care co-op, receives its federal loan and opens its headquarters in North Charleston.OCTOBER 2013: New health care insurance co-ops, including Consumers' Choice, are expected to begin to enroll their first members.JAN. 1, 2014: Coverage starts for new co-op members; certain employers and citizens face financial penalties if they fail to enroll in new health insurance plans.MORE INFOConsumers' Choice Health Plan won't enroll its first members until next fall.Brokers, health providers and employers who want more information about the new health cooperative should visit its website, www.cchpsc.org.
Their boss, John Keener, said he recently met with three insurance experts about what to do next, "and we've gotten three different opinions on how the 'Obamacare' package is going to affect restaurants."
Who are S.C. uninsured?
South Carolina has an estimated 901,000 residents who do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare and do not have health insurance. In total, about 23 percent of the state's population is uninsured - higher than the 18 percent national average. Here's a breakdown of who they are:Adults 737,200Children 163,800 Work full-time 514,400Work part-time 143,800Unemployed/don't work 242,800White 503,100Black 282,400Hispanic 95,200Kaiser Family Foundation; www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?cat=3&sub=40&rgn=42
"We're at a standstill now until we find out what the rules are," he said.
Several miles up Interstate 26 from Keener's downtown Charleston and James Island restaurants, a new nonprofit is building its headquarters and laying groundwork to help people like those employed at the Crab House.
There are many questions that must be answered and milestones that must be passed before the Consumers' Choice Health Plan begins enrolling its first members, the people who eventually will run this new South Carolina nonprofit insurer, but perhaps the biggest and simplest question is this: Will it work?
Headquartered here
The South Carolina headquarters for Consumers' Choice takes up 6,500 square feet of an anonymous, single-story office building on Lacross Road, across from the former North Charleston City Hall.
When President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law two years ago, he established the blueprint for such insurance co-ops, which are getting their start-up money via a loan from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The new cubicles, computers and Consumers' Choice signs are among the most tangible signs of the $87.8 million federal loan.
Most of the money has not arrived, and much of it will be held in reserve to meet the requirements under state law.
Jerry Burgess, a former senior executive in the health care industry, helped found two previous nonprofits in South Carolina and Tennessee that tried to tackle how to improve the value of health care for employers and their communities.
Burgess said he remembers the rainy day in Philadelphia a few years ago when he read a newspaper account about Congress considering the co-ops, a rare part of the legislation that had bipartisan roots.
Burgess was among those who were part of the $1.5 million effort to apply for the loan to get South Carolina's co-op off the ground.
"It's going to be like a new Blue Cross, but where we're different, the people on our board of directors are average policy holders," he said. "They'll be elected by the policy holders, and that's what makes us a cooperative."
The decision to put its headquarters in the Charleston area was not a difficult one.
"It's the largest market. It just makes sense to be there," Burgess said. "Plus there was more talent to recruit there and more members eventually to sell to."
'Mission driven'
Talking to the first few dozen employees at Consumers' Choice, it's clear they view their work as more than a job.
"We are mission driven, we are not profit driven. That means very explicitly we're not going to make excess profit and send it to Wall Street," Burgess said. "We're going to make enough money to stay in business, and we're going to use any gains to lower premiums for common people."
Adrian Grimes, the director of communications, had vowed that she would not return to work in health care, but she changed her mind. Likewise, Alice Kral, the office manager, went to The Citadel and got her master's degree in business administration partly because she was wanted to leave the nonprofit sector for a new challenge.
"If you had talked to me about Obamacare before I interviewed for this job, I would have said nuh-uh (no)," Kral said. "I'm not political at all."
She then went on the job interview as a favor to a friend, "and I just fell in love with the mission. You can't find a better mission in this state than trying to provide affordable health insurance for everybody."
Ken Johnson, a former regulator with the S.C. Department of Insurance, was among the volunteers who put the co-op application together last year. He became involved because he felt the model would work, and he is now the senior vice president and insurance compliance officer.
"Fortunately, under Jerry Burgess' leadership, we all have the same DNA in understanding and believing in what we're trying to do," Johnson said. "What everybody needs to understand is there's no perfect fix for a problem that's run amok for 75 years. We have to start somewhere."
Facing the competition
What remains to be seen is how the co-op fares in the competitive health care insurance industry.
While Consumers' Choice is focusing on those without insurance, it also is developing a business plan to appeal to businesses and others who already have health insurance.
And other established companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield will be able to sell through the new federal exchange and try to reach the same uninsured consumers. The exchange will be a website where consumers can compare companies, plans and prices.
Consumers' Choice officials were not critical of Gov. Nikki Haley's recent decision not to set up a separate state health insurance exchange. "We're fairly certain now there will be an exchange in January 2014," Burgess said. "Whether it was a state exchange or a federal exchange, we are neutral on that issue."
"We're like a speck on the back of an elephant, and the elephant is Blue Cross," Burgess said. "We're like David going up against Goliath, and that's OK. David had a chance, and so do we."
Patti Embry-Tautenhan, director of corporate relations for Blue Cross in South Carolina, said Blue Cross welcomes the competition.
"The marketplace has told us that our longevity and stability matters to customers," she said. "Now, more than ever, our focus is on collaborating with providers to improve the quality of the delivery of health care, which in turn reduces rising cost trends."
The immediate challenge facing Consumers' Choice is to create its own provider network, beginning by contracting with hospitals and then reaching out to doctors and other health care providers.
The co-op also must receive its license from the state, figure out its commercial side and create a care coordination plan that will work with fitness centers, smoking cessation programs and social workers.
Around 2015, the governing body of Consumers' Choice will transfer to a 12-member board of South Carolina residents, including eight who are policy holders, and one representative each from the hospital sector, specialized medicine, general care practitioners and insurance brokers.
A lot of unknowns
Many people, including South Carolina's approximately 900,000 uninsured, don't have a clue about the changes to come, Grimes said.
About 60 percent of those who responded to a CVS Caremark survey said they would need help with understanding health insurance terms and descriptions and with navigating the new health care landscape.
In a sense, the Crab House's Keener is ahead of the game. He already has mulled scenarios about how his company will deal with the changes to come.
He has read reports of one restaurant chain switching more of its employees to part-time status to try to avoid the health care law's penalties. He said he has thought about separating his two restaurants legally to get under the 50-employee maximum that triggers the penalty.
And he worries how the numbers will work out for him and his workers.
"It's a tough dilemma for everybody to work through," he said. "A couple of employees asked us what does it mean to us. We have no idea."
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Buffalo Bills head coach Doug Marrone and defensive coordinator Mike Pettine both said Thursday they aim to have a hybrid defense that can use a three-man and a four-man front.
The Bills officially announced the hiring of both Pettine and new offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett. Pettine, 46, served as defensive coordinator of the New York Jets the past four years. Hackett, 33, was Marrone's offensive coordinator at Syracuse the past two years.
In a release from the team, Pettine addressed the question of a 3-4 vs. 4-3 defense.
"The answer is really yes to both," Pettine said. "We'll be a multiple front, multiple coverage defense. The trademark of our defense is we're going to be smart, tough and relentless. How we configure it is more player-driven. I've always believed that you don't fit your players to your scheme, but you fit your scheme to your players."
"What I see here is a group of explosive athletes and playmakers and we're going to put them in a position to do just that," Pettine said. "We're going to be in the configuration that gives us the best opportunity to win football games."
Pettine has coached 11 seasons in the NFL, and the 3-4 was the base defense for his teams each of those seasons.
"The personnel we acquire through free agency and the draft will not be locked into a defense that plays one particular front or one particular coverage," Marrone said in the release. "We want defensive players who are tough and get after it, and, at the same time, play smart football."
The Jets' defense ranked among the top eight in the NFL in yards allowed each of his four seasons. New York had 115 takeaways in Pettine's four years, the second most in the AFC and seventh most in the league.
"His defenses are known for their relentless attacking style," Marrone said. "They can be very difficult for offenses and create all kinds of mismatches. When I accepted the job, that's exactly how I envisioned our defense, and so Mike was the coach I felt was best suited to lead our defense."
Neither Marrone nor Hackett offered specifics on what they want to do on offense.
"I have worked closely with Nathaniel the past three years and the first thing that jumps out at you is his boundless enthusiasm," Marrone said. "He has a genuine love and excitement for the game of football, offenses in particular, and that transcends into everything he does."
Hackett currently would be the third youngest offensive coordinator in the league. Numerous teams still have to fill out their staffs. Hackett's father, Paul, formerly was a college head coach at Pitt and USC.
"He has a great knowledge of offenses for someone his age," Marrone said. "Having grown up as the son of a coach, particularly the son of a good coach, has certainly served him well. He's been surrounded by offensive-thinking football all his life and he's absorbed it. It's in his DNA. Finally, you hear coaches speak of "everyone being on the same page?" Well Nathaniel is on the same page with me when it comes to the offense, and it's multiple variations, that we are looking to run here in Buffalo."
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Dr. Sol Messinger finally got admitted to Cuba – 73½ years later.
On Jan. 3, Messinger walked through Cuban customs at the Havana airport without incident, a far cry from his first attempt to enter the island nation.
That happened May 27, 1939, when Messinger – not quite 7 years old – was one of 937 passengers aboard the SS St. Louis.
The ship attempted to dock in Havana and unload its passengers, almost all of them Jews who had fled Germany and the coming horrors of the Holocaust.
The St. Louis was turned back, then denied entry to the United States, before it headed back to Europe. Messinger and his parents got off in Belgium, then cheated death two or three times before settling in Buffalo about three years later.
Messinger survived the bombing of a train platform on the France-Belgium border, was sent to a detention camp, fled there with his mother and left southern France a few weeks before Jews there were rounded up and sent to the Auschwitz death camp.
All that happened before he was 10 years old.
The Buffalo resident is part of an ever-dwindling number of Jews who survived the Holocaust. Now at age 80, he tells his story of survival, if only from a child's perspective.
He's become a symbol of Holocaust survival. The life he has led in Buffalo suggests how much the world lost when more than 1 million Jewish children perished in that mass killing.
Messinger has carved out a full life in America, working as a pathologist at Millard Fillmore Hospital for 46 years before retiring at age 76. He has also been a major donor and activist with local Jewish groups, including the Holocaust Resource Center.
Messinger recently signed up for a five-day mission with the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, one of two dozen local residents who visited the Jewish community in Havana, armed with much-needed supplies.
Two moments on that recent visit were emotional for Messinger, the first being his uneventful entrance to the island nation.
"I was thinking that I'm finally on Cuban soil," he said. "Constantly, I was thinking how lucky I was to be alive and to have lived to the point where I could actually go to Cuba."
The second came on the group's first bus ride on the Malecon, a four-mile road and seawall along the Havana harbor.
"We were driving along the harbor, and I could look out and see where the [St. Louis] had been," he said. "I remembered where it had been because there was a fortress on one side of the harbor, and I could remember that."
In a recent interview, Messinger, in unemotional tones, told the chilling story of how he survived the Holocaust.
Born six months before Hitler came to power, Messinger remembers, at age 3 or 4, being called a dirty Jew and being beaten up in the courtyard of his family's apartment house in Berlin, where they had moved from Poland.
His parents applied for a visa to enter the United States and were given a number, based on a Polish quota.
On Oct. 28, 1938, at age 6, he heard pounding on the door and saw two Nazis enter the apartment.
"They said to my father, 'You're coming with us.' He got dressed. My mother had no idea where they were taking him."
The Germans, she later learned, had arrested all Jewish men of Polish origin and shipped them back to Poland.
Meanwhile, his mother obtained a visa for Cuba, a waiting spot until the family's number came up to be admitted to the United States. As the departure day neared, Messinger's mother wrote to her husband, vowing not to leave without him.
"You'll have your son's blood on your hands if you don't get on the ship," he wrote back.
The day before they left, there was another knock on the door.
"My mother screamed, because she recognized my father's knock," Messinger recalled. "He had come back."
Messinger distinctly recalls the ship pulling away from the Hamburg pier on May 13, 1939, and his father starting to cry.
"Why are you crying?" his mother asked. "We're leaving Germany. You should be so happy."
"I'm crying because I'm leaving all of my relatives, and who knows when we'll see them again?" he replied.
As Messinger said, "Nobody could imagine exactly what was going to happen, but you knew things were bad."
The captain, Gustav Schroeder, treated the Jews very well. The Messingers finally were a family again, they had left Germany, and they were aboard an ocean liner, where the German sailors treated them like normal human beings, a far cry from the Jews' experiences in Germany.
Messinger has one vivid memory of the two-week trip.
"It was the first time I swam in a swimming pool," he recalled. "I can still picture the pool. It was such a wonderful thing."
On May 27, the ship pulled into the Havana harbor, its passengers unaware that the Cuban government recently had rescinded their landing permits.
During the six days there, a time of frustration and anger, there was one bright moment. Messinger and his parents went downstairs, opened their lower-deck porthole and talked with relatives who had been admitted to Cuba earlier and were circling the St. Louis in small boats. Among them was Messinger's first cousin, Edith, whose daughter, Rhonda Wise, also was on the recent Cuban mission.
Denied admission to Cuba, the St. Louis headed to Florida, with people on board sending cables to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, hoping that, at worst, the passengers could go to a U.S. camp until their visa numbers came up.
"They sent out a PT boat to make sure we didn't swim ashore," Messinger said, still bitter. "That was the response from the United States."
The passengers were absolutely terrified about returning to Germany. More than 900 of them, though, were granted refuge in Great Britain, the Netherlands, France and Belgium, although about 250 would not survive the Holocaust, historians say.
Messinger turned 7 in June 1939, the day before he and his parents got off the ship in Belgium.
The following May, the Germans invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Desperate to flee Brussels, Messinger's father put all the family's papers and valuables in a sheet, slung it over his shoulder and announced that they'd all start walking toward France.
They later boarded a train, and at the French-Belgian border were ordered to get out and stand on the train platform. An air-raid signal then sent them to a shelter stuffed with people and lacking oxygen.
"We're not going down there again," Messinger's father said later. "We're not going to suffocate. If we die, we'll die on the platform."
The family survived the night, took a train to Paris and a cattle train to southern France, where they settled in a village before being sent to a detention camp, Agde, near Marseille, in October 1940. With no heat or furniture, they slept on hay. The women and children were in one part of the camp, the men in the other. Once a week, they could talk, across a barbed-wire fence.
Messinger's father instructed his wife and son how to escape, which they did on Christmas Eve, when the French soldiers were drunk. The father followed on New Year's Eve.
They returned to the little village in the Pyrenees, and a year later their U.S. visa number came up. They made their way to Lisbon and onto a Portuguese ship, the Serpa Pinto, riding in the hold before later sleeping on deck.
Messinger and his parents landed in Staten Island on June 24, 1942.
"I celebrate that as my second birthday, because I started my second life when we landed in the U.S."
Six weeks after the Messingers left France, the Nazis rounded up many Jews in southern France and sent them to Auschwitz.
With some relatives in Buffalo, the Messingers migrated here, settling on East Ferry Street. Their son attended School 53, Fosdick-Masten High School, the University of Buffalo and UB Medical School.
"I'm grateful," Messinger said. "I'm grateful that I survived with my parents, and I'm grateful that I'm living in the United States. It's a terrific country. Only people who lived in other countries where things weren't so great can really appreciate the United States. I think Americans take it for granted."
Messinger has no trouble finding the perspective to explain his tough childhood:
"While it was bad what I went through, it was nothing compared to the people in the concentration camps."
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I absolutely love the warm and welcoming atmosphere around campus. A constant stream of smiles from the staff, students, and faculty, as well as the beauty of the old campus buildings and natural landscape creates an inviting environment. Academically, the courses offered at Saint Vincent are unique and challenging, so that every student can find a number of classes that appeal to their interests and career goals.
Dr. Karen Kehoe, my History department advisor, has been my most influential professor here. Dr. Kehoe has continuously encouraged and supported me in my studies and in my extracurricular endeavors.
I don't think I could choose a favorite class because I have had the opportunity to enroll in so many fascinating classes and meet with a number of engaging professors. Fr. Wulfstan's English courses are always a lot of fun and of course, each of the professors in the History department bring their passion for history to the forefront. I must admit that from Western Civilization, English History and East Asian History to the American and Public History courses, I have had great experiences in the Saint Vincent College History Department.
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Jenny McCarthy is single and looking but applicants must meet certain criteria – especially after one recent horrific date.
"Because of that date I do a criteria check before every date," the host of The Jenny McCarthy Show told PEOPLE over the weekend in Las Vegas. "Number one is, 'Do you like kids?' And number two is, 'Do you have kids?' "
The first question may sound like a bit of a no-brainer considering she's a mother of an 10-year-old, but one recent potential suitor didn't quite share McCarthy's same feelings about family life.
"I was set up by a friend. I flew to the city this guy was in. That's how much I believe in love," she said. "I checked into a hotel, got ready. I went to the restaurant and sat down. Five minutes – maybe two minutes into the conversion – he talked about how much he despised kids."
The man even knew ahead of time that McCarthy was a mother.
"He wanted to set the tone that he wasn't planning on being a substitute father but he was there for a good time," she says. "I didn't even get to the check. I said, 'Excuse me.' I got up and grabbed my purse and walked out the door and flew home."
On Saturday, McCarthy celebrated the renewal of her VH1 show by relaxing at Las Vegas's Encore Beach Club. Meanwhile, she had one eye on the dressed-down men.
"I'm looking," she jokes. "I'm not looking that hard because I'm so busy, but I'm looking. My ears and my chest is open. I mean, my heart ... is open."
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If you are a writer who storyboard's with index cards, you must consider these bleachers. Most writers I know use 3×5 cards as a staple for productive storyboarding. They are easy to write on, small enough to port around and make us look like we are actually accomplishing something. I had two big challenges with the cards (Other than writing to much on them). I would pin or (gasp) tape them to the wall beside my computer. My second challenge was, once attached to the wall, it was difficult to move plot points around and even worse try to detach them for a trip…(scotch tape…not pretty on painted walls) I stumbled across the answer to all my problems, Levenger's Bleachers and 3×5 cards. The bleacher is made from high quality wood in two colors (dark and light cherry), is stylish and has storage in the back for extra cards and pens. I can easily tote it around. If I could suggest anything to Levenger it would be a carrying case to protect the wood, because mine shows the battle scars of travel. I am thinking of buying another so I have one that moves and another that looks pretty on my desk.Storyboarding on it is a breeze. I can organize the cards on different levels or dedicate one of the six levels for each thread. I can keep everything about the character I am working on up, and follow their logline. I like the tactile feeling of moving the cards, more concrete than cyberspace. How you use it is up to you! I purchased their blank window 3×5 cards. I like the heavier quality and ultra bright white color of their cards. I found it easy to customize my character, plot and setting card templates onto them. They also printed through my ink jet without a problem. Levenger has also created organizers, file folders and storage boxes that provide no-brainer organization to the vast amounts of cards that I produce. My biggest challenge is trying to talk my kids out of using up my stock, they love the cards too. Levenger has great customer service and easy on line ordering from their well designed website. They also have a great catalog that I enjoy thumbing through and drooling over. If you are a writer and share an appreciation for fabulous supplies…this is the place for you…
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I purchased one of these for my office/studio. I live by Levenger's 3 by 5 card system, so it was a must buy! After about a year, the veneer on the sides...Read complete review
I purchased one of these for my office/studio. I live by Levenger's 3 by 5 card system, so it was a must buy! After about a year, the veneer on the sides started to buckle. The stand does not sit in the sun, and we have lived in the same house/climate. My guess is that the wood was not cured properly, and thus pushed out for shipment prematurely. It's a beautiful piece, but is not up to the Levenger quality that I have come to love...
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Notecard Bleacher Review
By Simply Organzied
from North Houston
Comments about Levenger Note Card Bleachers:
This is the best invention for keeping up with multiple tasks. I am the CEO of an organization and the card bleachers allow me to keep track of the many channels of activity and teams at a quick glance. I also purchased the purse wallet that allows me grab a few notecards and take with me to meetings so I can have the notes on hand. I ordered the dark cherry and it looks very professional on the desk.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Beautiful and Empowering
By VYinLA
from Los Angeles
I'm so happy I finally bought this! After years of looking at it, and years of scattered sticky notes, index cards, and note pads strewn about my desk, I'm finally feeling the groove of actually articulating and clearly seeing what my priorities and tasks are. It's pretty exciting.... The piece is beautifully crafted. I like the wells in the back and also that the bleachers create a little private space for me and my brain to interact. The cards are a nice touch to include the card samples too. Classic Levenger class.
A great task organizer
By A gift giver
from Longmont, CO
I got this as a gift for my husband, who likes to be able to see his "to do" lists. He was keeping a journal, but had to page through it each day. This lets him have cards for each project and he can re-organize them in the stands depending on what's more urgent. But he also can have his eye on what's next. In addition to being functional, it's also an elegant desktop addition.
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Excellent workmanship but really large
By El Jefe'
from Orange County, CA
I like this product, It is functional and made very well. I would really like it if there were a half size model. If the made the same size unit and either made it half as wide or better yet half as tall it would be less bulky for my desk. I have a very large desk but when this bleacher is almost full it is pretty ominous.
Versatile and elegant desk accessory
By Handwriter
from New York State
I have had my eye on this lovely piece for years and with holidays sales finally acquired one. I use it for my notes and index cards, but I also use it to display photographs, greeting cards and appointment cards. Pretty much anything I would like to look at and keep at hand in a visual montage, as well as useful items, in a small space. One can make use of the slot as well as the space behind it. My work desk is small. The bleachers add functionality and creative opportunity in a small space.
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No More Desk Full of Sticky Notes
By WR510
from Oakland, CA
These note card bleachers are terrific. I have this annoying habit of writing notes and follow-up items on sticky-notes and by the end of the day, I have sticky-notes all over my desk and nothing is organized. It's been driving me nuts. I've been eyeing the note card bleachers for a while and finally took the plunge. I love them. I write notes on 3x5 cards and now my desk is clear. I can look at the bleachers and see every note I've written. I can organize and re-organize the notes according to priority and because I can see everything visually, the high number of follow-up items feels much more manageable. The quality of the bleachers is excellent and the design is timeless and aesthetically pleasing. I an thrilled with this product and find my productivity and efficiency has increased because I am so much more organized. I'd highly recommend this product.
By GinaR
from Los Angeles, CA
I'm an author and I love this to keep me organized. It really helps me keep my research, character sketches and other notes handy and in sight while I'm writing. When it went on sale I got a couple more for other desks around the house. A writer's best friend!
Such a nifty thing!
By MichelleS
from San Francisco, CA
When these went on sale I ordered two in the natural finish. I'd been looking at this item for awhile, but when I started getting overwhelmed at work with multi-colored sticky notes covering my desktop, I knew I needed a better system. I use one at work for ongoing and growing tasks. Sometimes I start a seemingly small project (create such-and-such document) and it gets postponed or the tasks associated with it grow and even spawn new projects. With the Behance action cards, the to-do list index cards and the graph paper index cards for sketching, I'm finally able to visualize many and inter-related tasks and projects. I love that these bits of information can be re-arranged and their draw order or priority edited. It's like a 3D task list with the ability to color code and edit, and even hit "undo."Each bleacher comes with two sampler packs of 75 3x5 cards - 25 full page lined, 25 to-do, and 25 graph paper. This is the icing on the cake! Very generous and much appreciated!!I am so impressed with how beautiful and well made this guy is. If you can't tell from the photos, the profile is slightly curved. This makes the unit a little more difficult to tip over. I also appreciate the design intent that went into the back of the unit. You have storage for cards and pens. Brilliant! I really don't think it could get any better. So like another reviewer said, order two!I use my second unit for studying flash cards and their content's associated sketches/diagrams. This would be an incredible treat for anyone who loves organization and task visualization and it would make a lovely gift for graduate students, professionals pursuing licensure or in exam prep, designers, creative writers, project managers, and any executive or upper management that manages multiple ongoing projects and likes to see the big picture. Come to think of it, administrative professionals who have to keep busy and brilliant people on task would also benefit from utilizing a desktop task management system.Capacity: I'm able to safely fit 13-15 vivacious 250-gm cards per row without feeling that I'm stressing the wood or crimping my cards. If you're using the 110-lb colored cards or the 250-gm cards you may be able to stagger a few more per row. I can safely fit 3 vivacious cards on top of each other at any row on the bleacher, and 5 sets of these per row. That comes out to a capacity of 90 (possibly 100 lighter weight) cards.I give it 4 stars on style because I'd like another color option, like white or black or gray.
Great Product
By JimB
from Huntsville, AL
Until I bought this I had cards just stacked up on my desk, now I can see everything and keep track and update as needed no more hunting through a pile to find the card I need.
My job requires going in a million directions at once and...
By Catz
from Little Rock ark
My job requires going in a million directions at once and I can't let anything slip through the cracks. I was fairly organized but this tool has helped me tremendously. High quality product. Everything is easy to see, prioritize and change. I would recommend. Wish I had discovered years ago
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Going outside or away from the group in order to fart with less consequence.
Person A: "Where did you just go?"
Person B: "I had to go on a beef walk, PF Changs for lunch gave me the Dali Chicken farts"
Person B: "I had to go on a beef walk, PF Changs for lunch gave me the Dali Chicken farts"
af moistchunks4life 4. maj 2011
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Similar to crop dusting, farting while walking, and letting whom or whatever is in its wake to experience the odor.
Man, it smells like someone has been beefwalking in here !
af rpln 30. august 2013
the few steps you take to relocate yourself before or after farting in order to not be suspect of the poopy stench.
after farting at the busy bus stop, i quickly took a beef walk a couple steps down the road where i pretended to talk on my cell phone until the bus showed up.
af tje910710 29. december 2011
A beefwalk occurs when one or more hot single women do walking laps of a bar, restaurant, or night club looking for the male specimen upon whom the will lay siege that evening. The unsuspecting males are graded on body fat ratio, muscle density, face symmetry, and overall hygiene.
Hey girl, I need to beefwalk this place before we commit to a table. I want to be ideally situated next to my future baby daddy.
af Long Tail Sally 31. august 2013
When getting out of the shower at a gym and forgetting your towel you must do the beef walk.
Jock left his towel on the bench before his shower. He had to beefwalk all the way back when he was done
af Trevtronik 30. august 2013
The act of walking around to find a lady to take home. No Males are of interest to you when you are on a beefwalk as you are only interested in a rare bit of meat. Once the lady is accompanied home from the beefwalk, it may be that the gentleman becomes a beefeater to satisfy and pleasure her.
"Had no luck in the club so went on a beefwalk"
"He picked himself up an easy one on his beefwalk yesterday"
"He picked himself up an easy one on his beefwalk yesterday"
af Loui-92 30. august 2013
It's the time before a fight to get it started and amped.
yo, Bro let me beefwalk real quick before i bet that nigguh face.
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Ephemeral lives, and souls lost in the tattered fabric of war, displacement, and ruined love find hope, redemption, and a common voice in Eugene Gloria's artful concoction of American and Filipino vernaculars. While some of these thirty poems deal with the landscape and folkways of contemporary Filipinos, others locate themselves on the streets and byways of present-day America. Like many poets of dual heritage, Gloria's work is concerned with self-definition, with the attempt to reconcile a feeling of exile and homelessness. Frequently taking the form of character studies and first-person narratives, Gloria's poems poignantly illuminate the common man's search for connection to the self and to the world."Eugene Gloria's Drivers at the Short-Time Motel is propelled by an imagistic sincerity and paced lyricism. Each poem seems to embody the plain-spoken as well as the embellishments that we associate with classical and modern Asian poetry. Though many of the poems address the lingering hurt of cultural and economic imperialism, worlds coexist in the same skin through magical imagery. Gauged by a keen eye, history is scrutinized, but through a playful exactness. These wonderful poems are trustworthy." –Yusef Komunyaaka
Asian American Literary Award – winner
Table of Contents
In Language
Mauricio's Song
White Blouses
Winter Fires
Saint Joe
Subic Bay
"Where the Feeble Senses Fail"
Song of the Pillar Woman
The Maid
The Driver Conrado's Penitent Life
Drivers at the Short-Time Motel
The House in San Miguel
For the Dead and What's Inside Us
On Mission Road
Iron Man
The Whisper
Nocturne: Two Versions
Sisters of the Poor Clares
Pan de Sal
Elegy for No One
Rizal's Ghost
News of Pol Pot's Capture
Sweet Talk
Palm Sunday
Carlos Bulosan
White Flower
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A big boom that startled many people in the Lakewood-Busti area Sunday evening turned out to be the explosion of a target shooting accessory, Lakewood-Busti police said Monday.
The boom was reported at about 6:15 p.m., prompting wild speculation among those who heard it. One person called police concerned that it was a meteor creating a sonic boom.
Police interviewed a 20-year-old man who admitted he had mixed three six-pound boxes of Tannerite, a legal explosive, and then shot the product with a 30.06 rifle in a ravine on Lawson Road in the Town of Busti.
Tannerite is sold in sporting good stores as a target shooting accessory and creates a large, noisy and smoky explosion.
According to its manufacturer, it does not cause fires and goes off only when hit by a rifle bullet.
The substance is sold in half-pound packages.
"It was never intended to be used at 18 pounds at a time," said Sgt. Paul Gustofson.
No one was hurt, and no damage was reported. Charges have not been filed, Gustofson said.
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The mission of the Division of Student Affairs at Philander Smith College is to prepare generations of life-long learners through academic support, spiritual development, and cultural enrichment to engage in professional leadership and service.
To increase retention and graduation rates through promoting and helping students actively participate in tangible co-curricular endeavors.
Through the various departments, Philander Smith College offers the following services:
Academic advising if you are undecided about your major
Career planning and placement services
Personal counseling
School nurse for preventative and immediate health care (school physician is off-site)
Residential programming
Leadership training
Weekly Chapel services
How can I get involved on campus?
While you come to college for your academic studies, research shows that students who are actively involved in co-curricular activities have better grades and higher graduation rates. Thus, we strongly encourage our students to get involved in various organizations, events/activities, and services offered. A few of these opportunities are listed below:
S tudent Leadership Development Program (strengthens your leadership skills)
Student Government Association (offers you a visible campus leadership role)
Panther Programming Council (student activities programming board)
Pre-Alumni Council (learn to be a great alumnus early)
Residential Assistant (leadership opportunity that gets you a free dorm room---available
after your first year)
Miss Philander Smith College (reign as campus queen and official college
Ms. PSC 2012-2013 is Sarah Connor of Chicago.
Greek Life (minimum GPA and credit hour requirements)
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
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Literally means: Take it up the ass.
af Gtwy 26. oktober 2003
the phrase "vaffanculo" means "to go fuck yourself". the word "va" means 'go" and fanculo means "fuck you" or "fuck off" so when you put them together it means "go fuck yourself" Many times the Italian hand gesture to complement this word is a straight hand swiftly raised past their ear or it can also resemble a bitch slap.
"hey, so what do you think about the Italian National soccer team after finishing last in their group in the 2010 World Cup in Africa?"
"ma vaffanculo"
"ma vaffanculo"
af Uleek Midiiq 16. august 2010
To cure someone of using the word "Fuck." Most use the word as in insult, although Va Fa Napoli is much more effective.
Whenever I drop F-bomb on unsuspecting strangers, I cure myself by saying the word Vaffanculo.
af Play_Crack_The_Sky 16. marts 2013
Vaffanculo. = I love you.
"I love you."
"I love you."
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af Big B 27. maj 2003


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Current pressures on the federal budget will make it more difficult for cancer patients to reap the promised opportunities of research, new drugs, and better therapies and diagnostic procedures. It is not impossible to change the debate and the outcomes of political decisions. But first we must understand the challenges.
First, the good newsCongress and the Clinton and Bush administrations worked together to double funding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) between 1998 and 2003. And while a portion of that doubling was diverted in 2003 toward bioterrorism research, funding for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) increased by approximately 85% over the 1998 level. The fact is, in terms of real dollars, we are spending far more on cancer research than we ever have.
One consequence of that funding is a deeper understanding of how genes and proteins behave in the life cycle of cancer cells. For the myeloma community, some of this knowledge has led to the discovery of proteasome inhibitors such as the drug Velcade®. Both the NIH and NCI directors had testified before Congress that in order to maintain the momentum of research activity spawned by the doubling, average funding increases of 8% were needed.
Unfortunately, the past two years have seen that funding momentum slow dramatically. Instead of the average 15% increases in NIH funding over the period of the doubling, the past two years have seen average increases of about 2%. As I have written previously, when factoring in inflation and previous obligations, those small increases actually translate into a reduction in research activity or, as NCI Director Andrew von Eschenbach has stated, "This means that every decision to fund something new requires a decision to not fund something else."
The trend, sadly, is moving in the wrong direction. Consider the outcome of the fiscal year 2005 appropriation for NIH and NCI. Last year the House recommended increases of $727 million (2.6%) and $130 million (2.9%) for NIH and NCI, respectively. The Senate's recommended increases were $1.1 billion (3.96%) and $154 million (3.25%). Usually, the final numbers that the conference committees produce fall somewhere between the House and Senate recommendations.
However, in an unprecedented step, when Congress approved the final bill after the November election, the final numbers were lower than the lowest numbers the House approved. When factoring in an across-the-board cut of 0.8% imposed on all programs in the appropriations bill, NIH got $28.26 billion, which included an increase of $463 million (1.67%)$264 million less than the House number and $637 million less than the Senate. As for NCI, the final number was $4.82 billion, or an increase of $86 million (1.8%).
Exacerbating this negative trend, President Bush has recommended fiscal year 2006 budget increases of less than 0.8% for NIH and only 0.35% for NCI. It seems that in order to avoid the tag of becoming the first administration to ever propose negative numbers for medical research, some allies of the president strongly urged at least a symbolic increase in the budget rather than the 2% cut expected by most observers. Yet decreases cannot be avoided if the trends of the past two years hold and Congress imposes an across-the-board cut after passing the final appropriations bill. In other words, unless Congress takes a strong stand to oppose the administration, this year will likely produce a real cut in funding for the first time in the history of federal support for medical research.
Medicare Reform Targets Cancer for Cost Savings
Arguably, the big issue for cancer patients and advocates over the next two years will be the implementation of the Medicare Reform legislation enacted in late 2003. Cancer advocates, regardless of whether they receive Medicare benefits or not, should care about this issue because Medicare policies largely set the agenda for all insurers. Medicare issues ranging from the promised comprehensive prescription drug benefit scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2006, oncology drug reimbursement policies enacted in January 2004 and January 2005, the oral drug demonstration project that will be in effect until December 31, 2005, and coverage for outpatient services and diagnostic procedures are all in a state of uncertain flux.
The common denominator for all the issues is cost. Just how much will the comprehensive prescription drug benefit be, and is there political will and courage to pay for what has been promised to the American people? When the bill was signed into law, Congress and the President agreed to fund the benefit with $400 billion over ten years. Later, that estimate was raised to $580 billion. On February 9, 2005, The Washington Post reported that the revised figure would be $1.2 trillion over ten yearsthree times the estimate when the law was signed in late 2003. However, some nonpartisan, academic studies have estimated the true costs could be as high as $2 trillion. Regardless of whether that estimate is too high or not, there is general agreement from all knowledgeable observers that the current cost estimates agreed upon by Congress and the administration are too low to pay for what the American people expect.
Ever since the bill was signed into law by President Bush, Medicare administrators have been figuring out how to close the gap between what will be set aside for the comprehensive prescription drug benefit and what it will actually cost. Last September, Medicare announced a 17% increase in annual premiums for 2005, the highest annual increase ever. But don't expect it to be a one-time hike; it may be just the beginning of large annual increases.
More ominously for cancer patients and advocates, provisions of the legislation that went into effect in 2004 and 2005 are designed to take at least $500 million out of the oncology reimbursement system by January 1, 2006. This is being done by changes to the reimbursement payments made to oncologists for the drugs provided in outpatient settings such as, for example, bisphosphonate treatments for myeloma patients.
The issues adversely affecting oncology practices and patients include the closing of satellite oncology offices, patients being switched to cheaper drugs, reductions in oncology staff, and the refusal of oncology practices to take on new Medicare patients. However, there is little chance that these policies will change this year because most of the evidence of adverse effects on oncology practices is largely anecdotal.
The Patient Advocate Foundation has convened the Global Access Project to fund academic, nonpartisan studies to determine just how these new policies are impacting patient care and access to treatment. The IMF, other patient advocacy organizations, and other private and public groups are participating in this project. Some preliminary findings are expected to be made public in February 2005 with the hope that completed studies can be presented to Congress and the public within the next year. These studies will provide empirical evidence that will allow Congress to address any needed reforms when the prescription drug benefit is scheduled to go into effect.
Another attempt at cost savings at the expense of patient care was fought last year by the IMF and other organizations. As a part of the Medicare reform bill, Congress set aside $500 million or 50,000 patients, whichever goal was met first, to provide coverage for several oral and self-administered drugs until January 1, 2006.
The initial rules for the program prohibited the coverage of off-label prescription drugs. Off-label refers to the prescribing of a drug for a condition or disease for which it was not initially approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Today, approximately 70% of all drugs cancer patients receive are prescribed off-label. For myeloma patients, only Velcade® has been approved with a specific indication for myeloma by the FDA. In other words, unless a myeloma patient receives Velcade®, all of his or her drugs are prescribed off-label.
The IMF and other groups testified before Medicare officials for the inclusion of thalidomide in the oral drug demonstration program, arguing that it would be unjust to deny myeloma patients coverage for an oral drug that was used by as many as 85% of patients at some point in their treatment. Eventually thalidomide was covered. But the victory was more important than coverage for one drug. It set a precedent for Medicare to provide coverage for an off-label drug, a decision that will hopefully extend to all off-label cancer drugs when the prescription drug benefit goes into effect.
Another positive method of finding cost savings is through the improvement of technologies and therapies to eliminate or lessen the need for other drugs and treatments. Last year, Dr. Brian Durie spearheaded an effort to petition Medicare to cover PET scans for myeloma patients. Although a new cost, PET scans proactively determine the areas of active myeloma and can eliminate or lessen the need for invasive therapies and rehabilitation. This will ultimately reduce costs for Medicare and other insurers.
Patients and advocates must pay close attention to the implementation of Medicare reform in the coming year to ensure that access to the best and most appropriate drugs and procedures remains available to all patients that need them. And they must be vigilant that the upfront costs to implement Medicare reform are not unfairly shifted to cancer patients just because those costs are deemed too high by government bureaucrats.
Pay Attention, Advocacy Matters
In the Summer 2004 edition of Myeloma Today I posed the question as to whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic about the future of cancer research advocacy. The one thing we should not be is resigned.
There have been times in our recent history when foregone conclusions have been turned around by citizen action. Remember when congressional leaders decided they could eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts? Public outrage and advocacy turned that tide. Issues such as this should give us courage. After all, we aren't talking about television. We're talking about cancer, the cause of one quarter of all the annual deaths in our nation. But we have to pay attention to the news and advocate for our positions.
Consider the issue of cancer research funding. To put it simply, each advance in cancer research points to dozens of symbolic doors of new activity, each an opportunity for discovery that may lead to better drugs and therapies. While the doubling of NIH was underway, researchers were able to examine more and more of those doors which, in turn, led to the creation of new doors of discovery. Now that the funding stream is contracting rapidly, many of those doors may remain unopened much longer than they should. This must be changed.
Consider the isuue of Medicare reform. The issue should be quality of care. The debate on cost savings should not obscure the need to access the best drugs and treatments available. There is nothing crueler than knowing an effective therapy exists and then not having the means to get it. And if increased upfront costs lead to longer- term savings and quality of life, bureaucrats and policy makers must be educated to make the right decisions.
Politics and governing are caught between the pulls of looking forward to a better future while addressing the pressing issues of today. That tensionwhere we choose to expend our efforts to maintain equilibrium between the needs of today and a positive vision of the futureis constantly tested in different ways. It has never tested advocates of cancer, medical research, Medicare, and drug development and access more than today.
The fact is that the policies I discuss above will be implemented unless we, the advocates, remain vigilant, vocal, and full of purpose. The stakes are too high.
Your commitment is needed to help shape public policies to benefit the myeloma and cancer communities. For more information about how to become an effective advocate, please check regular updates in the IMF email newsletter, The Myeloma Minute (register at www.myeloma.org) and see the Advocacy section for updates and tips including:
• Timely updates on congressional action impacting cancer issues
• Sample letters to contact your members of Congress and the administration
• Assistance to set up meetings with your members of Congress at home and Washington, DC
• Suggestions to contact your local media to highlight cancer issues
Feel free to contact IMF Director of Public Advocacy Greg Brozeit for more information at 330-865-0046 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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text: URMC / Encyclopedia / Content Endocrinology Statistics Statistics related to the endocrine system Consider the following statistics, as they relate to the endocrine system: About 210,000 people with acute pancreatitis are admitted to hospitals in the United States each year. The American Diabetes Association estimates that about 30 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. It's one of the most expensive diseases in the U.S, with an annual cost of $245 billion. Osteoporosis affects 40 million people in the U.S.. It causes 2 million broken bones every year, with related treatment costs of $19 billion, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid) affects nearly 5% of the U.S. population over age 12. It occurs much more frequently in women than in men. It's also more likely to happen in people over 60 years of age. Hyperthyroidism (an overactive thyroid) affects about 1% of the U.S. population. It occurs more frequently in women, and prevalence increases with age. About 210,000 people with acute pancreatitis are admitted to hospitals in the U.S. each year. Hyperparathyroidism, in which the parathyroid is overactive, affects about 100,000 adults in the U.S. Addison's disease and Cushing's syndrome are rare diseases that involve the adrenal glands. Medical Reviewers: MMI board-certified, academically affiliated clinician Turley, Ray, BSN, MSN


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someone who knows nothing about nothing
keith's the most pathetic midiot i've ever seen.
автор: midiotmcgee 6 сентября 2010
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Musician unable to understand or use a MIDI interface. MIDI (Musicial Instrument Digital Interface) is a 20+ year old protocol that lets electronic musical instruments talk to each other.
I can't figure out how to use my new controller. I must be a complete midiot.
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MARTINSBURG - Assuming the real-life roles of Santa's little helpers, a little more than a dozen core volunteers make up the Eastern Panhandle Toys for Tots campaign's warehouse staff.
Much like the humble elves that inhabit Jolly Old St. Nick's workshop, they toil and work tirelessly throughout the Christmas season without financial reward or, often, the recognition usually reserved for the more public faces of the campaign.
Without them, Paul Turner, the campaign's coordinator and commander of Martinsburg's American Legion Post No. 14, said the entire operation would not be possible.
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Assuming the real-life roles of Santa's little helpers, a little more than a dozen core volunteers make up the Eastern Panhandle Toys for Tots campaign's warehouse staff.
"I want to say, in general, the people here are the unsung heroes of Toys for Tots. They don't get a lot of recognition. They don't get to put uniforms on and go stand. They don't get to see people very much, but without them this whole thing would fall apart. I just really, really appreciate all they do," Turner said.
Toys for Tots began staffing the 54,000 square feet of warehouse space donated by Shockey Companies in October, and it will remain open nearly around the clock until Christmas comes.
Many volunteers work up to six days a week at the warehouse, sometimes working upward of a dozen hours per day to make sure the operation runs smoothly. The group consists of a variety of fresh faces and veteran volunteers.
U.S. Navy veteran Ron Smith, a self-proclaimed "newbie," said he just began working at the warehouse last week after answering a call for volunteers put out on Facebook by Turner.
"I'm retired, I live alone and I've got five grandkids, so I know what it's like to have kids that need help. It's very fulfilling. I don't use a lot of cliches, but it makes you feel good at the end of the day that you've done something to help out kids. It really does," Smith said.
By contrast, Greg Malnikoff, a New Jersey native, has been helping the Toys for Tots campaign for more than 50 years. When Malnikoff first joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1954, he began delivering toys to kids in Jersey City, N.J., for Toys for Tots.
"They gave me a uniform right away and said 'here's a whole bunch of toys,'" Malnikoff said.
Malnikoff, who now lives in Berkeley County, does a little bit of everything at the warehouse, such as checking off toys as they come in and handling paperwork at the facility. He's been a part of the Toys for Tots campaign in the Eastern Panhandle since its inception several years ago.
"We're helping the kids for one thing and actually something I said to Paul last night was I want to feel useful," Malnikoff said was the reason he continues to volunteer for the campaign.
Sharon Kauffman, a volunteer from Martinsburg, has perhaps one of the most demanding jobs at the warehouse. As the warehouse supervisor, she oversees most of its day-to-day operations.
"I'm tired when I go home, but I get up bright and early the next day and come right back," Kauffman said.
She works six days a week at the warehouse, arriving at 7:30 a.m. in the morning and sometimes working as late as 7 or 8 p.m. at night. Most days, she is helped by her 17-year-old niece, Savanna, of Martinsburg.
"We volunteer for everything, me and my niece. We volunteer here and we volunteer at the American Legion too. We like doing it for the kids. It feels wonderful that you can really give kids what they want. It really does," Kauffman said.
Kim Stanley, who lives near Gerrardstown, also works six days a week as one of the phone operators at the warehouse. She has been a part of the campaign for the last three years.
"It's satisfying. I have no children, and I know that a child is going to get a good Christmas," Stanley said was the reason she volunteers.
Sponsored by the Marine Corps League and the American Legion Womens Auxiliary, the Eastern Panhandle Toys for Tots campaign provides Christmas presents to needy children throughout the eight counties that make up the greater Eastern Panhandle. It's part of the national Toys for Tots campaign, which has distributed more than 452 million toys to more than 209 million children nationwide since the program began in 1947.
Last year alone, the Eastern Panhandle campaign directly helped 790 families, providing gifts to nearly 6,000 children in the region. This year, more than 700 families have already submitted applications for assistance and that number continues to grow, Turner said.
"We have twice as many families as we had last year. We're still getting families in. I would like to add we're very short on toys this year," Turner said.
The campaign accepts gifts and applications as late as Christmas Eve. A full list of gift drop-off locations and donation sites can be found online at wvtoysfortots.com. Information on how to apply for assistance, volunteer or donate is also available online.
"Without the core people and the volunteer groups, we wouldn't be able to do it," Turner said.
- Staff writer Edward Marshall can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 182.


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Chic apartment in 4th district
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Floor No.4
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|Rue Beautreillis, 75004 Paris, Francie
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This modern 4th floor apartment boasts a bright open-plan kitchen/living area. It consists of a double bedroom, and a sofa bed, and the bathroom features a walk-in rainforest shower. Laundry facilities are available. _x000D_
Notre Dame Cathedral and Pompidou Centre are within 20 minutes' walking distance from the apartment. Rambuteau Metro Station is less than 100-meters away, providing direct access to popular tourist destinations on Paris' excellent metro system._x000D_
Seine River is within walking distance from the apartment and the area is popular for its shops, cafés and small streets. _x000D_
There is no elevator access to the apartment._x000D_
No smoking. _x000D_
No pets.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|644 €
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|1716 €
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very nice small flat, very close to notre dame and modern armosphere. bakery, restaurants everything is just a walk awaya garage where you can leave the car for a week-end is 5 min away. You have to climb a lot of stairs to the flat, so not for handicaped people.albert is a gentle and polite host. thank you.
My wife and me stayed 8 days in this lovely apartment. This is an excellent choice for those visiting Paris for leisure or business. In the past when visiting Paris I've been mostly to hotels which are rather expensive and offer much less. Let me comment in detail the pros and cons of this apartment.
-Great neighborhood with all kind of shops and restaurants, close to everything, three metro stops nearby. You feel like a true Parisian for a few days.
-Reformed apartment, looks great, with good-quality furnishings, good kitchen with decent appliances including a washing machine, decent bed, separated toilet room and shower room. In particular the shower room is better than most hotels I've ever been to, great pressure, instant hot water, top-of-the-line fixtures.
-Real high-bandwidth internet. Coupled with the small but decent flat screen TV, I was able to connect my laptop to the TV through HDMI and stream movies, no problem.
-Very responsive host, the apartment was clean at arrival, the deposit was promptly returned.
Cons (nothing is perfect I guess):
-4th floor without elevator (very usual in Paris). Not really a problem for us but should be taken into account for people with physical problems.
-No toaster or frying pan. This was surprising considering the owner must have spent quite some money reforming the apartment. A little investment would make breakfast much more enjoyable for guests.
-Pillows are not so good. Not a big issue for me, but my wife had trouble sleeping. Again a little investment from the owner would easily fix this.
-A bit noisy, there is a bar right downstairs and sometimes you can hear them late in the night, particularly in the weekends. Nothing extreme and we we are able to bear it, but noticeable.
In my opinion the pros greatly outweight the cons so I give a 5-star rating and greatly recommend this place to people travelling to Paris for a few days.
High standard of the apartment with a comfortable bed. Apt. is on the fourth floor without elevator, so good excersie going up the stairs after having your croissant in one of the nice coffeshops in the area. Location is very good with close proximity to Marais shopping-and dining area and also close to metrostations. Only negative thing is that the apartmenthouse is adjacent to a bar on the ground floor. And despite living on the fourth floor, you here the music very clearly from the bar until closing time @2 am.
The Appartement is in the middle of Marais, nearby the Seine and the Notre Dame cathedral. We loved to do our excursions every day and to have our dinner in the nearby restaurants. In most cases no need to use the Metro, but walking everywhere and using the hop on/off bus.The appartement itself was very friendly and modern inside an ancient house. Sometimes a little bit loud in the stairway in the middle of the night. But we'd always take it a second time.
Very good location, most beautiful area of Paris!!
Apartment is clean, safe and well furnished. Supermarket close by.
All you need for a visit to Paris.
No complains at all. Everything clean, nice, comfortable and easy. Thank you Albert for a very nice week!
Hi everyone! Albert's house is perfect for a couple visiting Paris! the position is great, the metro is 5 minute walking and the Marais quarter is quiet and interesting to visit. The house is tiny (not too much indeed, you have space for everything) and tidy! Nice experience!
Excellent apartment. Spotlessly clean, modern facilities, comfortable bed, and warmly decorated. . We were very impressed with the thoughtfullness and extent of the kitchen facilities and cooking utensils which were just what we required during our 5 night stay. Apartment was very quiet at night - great for sleeping ! Location of apartment was excellent , close to major Metro interchange, hop on - hop off tour buses, and very convenient shopping for supermarkets, dining out and general shopping. Also the area is an authentic locale where Parisians live and work rather than just being a 'Tourist' precinct.
Being on the 4th floor requires a strong arm to carry luggage as there is no lift. However, Albert courteously carried my suitcase up and my (adult) daughter was able to manage hers . While the apartment has been recently renovated, the new induction hotplates tend to pop the fuse if more than 2 plates are on high heat.
Albert's apartment became "home" very quickly for us and we really enjoyed staying there. Highly reccommended.
Fantastic modern apartment with all the necessities of a short stay. Perfect for couples or small families. Located very close to the main street where you can find plenty of bakeries, supermarkets and other amenities. The apartment has utensils for cooking most meals and even some basic ingredients in the cupboards.
Albert is very nice and we managed to get by with little French.
Overall a great place to stay when visiting Paris!
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The Babies
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I'm impressed you wanted to be out at midnight and not trying to sleep! heeReplyDelete
They are adorable together.
How cute! :-)ReplyDelete
I'm also impressed you were awake and not sleeping while Ivy was.
I'm all for the arranged marriage.
I'm trying to hook up Brennan w/ my friend's daughter. They're both 1! lol
What a cute video. I remember them both chatting with each other at a bloggy meet up before they were born.ReplyDelete
Ohh, they look so cute together! Suzi was betrothed too, but now I think she wants to play the field. She flirts with boys at the park and at babywearing meetings :-)ReplyDelete
Very sweet. Two beautiful babies!ReplyDelete
So sweet! I love this!ReplyDelete
OMG! I am so bummed I wasn't there. They look so darned cute together. Asher was so awake and alert!! And Ivy was so comfy and sleepy.ReplyDelete
Glad you girls (and guy) had a good time!
So cute... Ivy is quite the sleeper with all the noise huh? That is awesome :)ReplyDelete
that is too funny you girls in the background!ReplyDelete
Too Cute! Love those little newborn noises, and Ivy with her hands up sound asleep :)ReplyDelete
you, beth, and arianne are enough to make me want to move to indiana... :DReplyDelete
Awwww. That's so sweet.ReplyDelete
That's awesome. How funny that Ivy fell asleep!ReplyDelete
Wait! I have an Asher for Ivy! All you have to do is move to Wyoming. He's even an older man...sigh, I've got to find a good girl for my boy.ReplyDelete
Oh how cute!!! A real looker you got there, Ivy ;)ReplyDelete
They love my house and my couch. Bring them back RIGHT NOW.ReplyDelete
Oh, look at the two sweeties together!ReplyDelete
Sounds like you girls were having fun together (as usual!) : )
its good that Ivy is already teaching him the rules. He shall stay awake and attend to/entertain the mothers/in-laws while she gets her beauty sleep.ReplyDelete
I think it is very good that he is teaching him self the rules, sounds like you have a very smart little one, thanks so much for sharing your story i really appreciate it! God BlessReplyDelete
OMG, you didn't tell me you were setting up the baby Match.com. Asher was all happy happy to be by Ivy and Ivy was "I'm so bored I'm going to sleep NOW".ReplyDelete
She's my hero. Playing hard to get.


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One week after the pop star's big Super Bowl fumble – she flubbed the words during her National Anthem performance – Aguilera opened an all-female tribute to the Queen of Soul at L.A.'s Staples Center alongside Jennifer Hudson, Florence Welch (of Florence + the Machine), Yolanda Adams and Martina McBride.
Standing in a row, the ladies swapped harmonies, alternating lead vocals during the 10-minute run-through of many of Franklin's hits.
After leading off with "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)" as a collective, Aguilera belted out "Ain't No Way," accenting the tune with plenty of melisma and her trademark vocal trilling. She stood confidently as she sang and ended the performance on a (sustained) high note – literally.
As she finished her song, however, Aguilera almost fell, crouching down so low she needed to be helped to her feet by Welch. "That was a real sexy ending," Aguilera later said, after returning to the stage to present the award for best performance by a pop duo or group.
Welch, a best new artist nominee, gave a fierce reading of "Think," while McBride performed a country-fied "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)." Ever the vocal powerhouse, a slimmed-down Hudson tackled Franklin's iconic "Respect." Adams delivered a simmering version of "Spirit in the Dark."
While she wasn't able to attend the ceremony in person, Franklin, who was home in Detroit recovering from her recent undisclosed health problems, appeared in a taped message after the performance to thank fans for their support and prayers. Sporting a white gown, Franklin, 68, looked noticeably thinner in her face as she addressed the camera.
"I especially want to thank all of you who took the time to send me get-well cards and flowers," she said. "I wish that I could have been with you all tonight [but] since I couldn't, next year, okay?"
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When the publishing world exploded with news of my three-book deal, most assumed the news pertained to my forthcoming Notes from the Internet Apocalypse trilogy (also available for pre-order for your Nooks and Kindles). But it turns out I also have another series of books. Yes, my ever popular Celebrity Sex Positions publications! So without further ado, here are some entries from the third (and probably final) installment.
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#10. Ryan-Gosling the Ladies
Not only do the ladies love Ryan Gosling the man, they love Ryan-Gosling the verb! Hell, I've been Ryan-Gosling the ladies for like weeks now. But it's hard! First you have to make yourself super cute. Like puppy-dog cute. Accordingly, Step 1 is ripping the eyes out of a puppy's head and using them to replace your own.
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This one will do.
Sure, you'll no longer be able to see color, but it's worth it for the ladies! Then you need to be like super sweet and caring and compassionate -- the way girls like their boys in romance novels. Here's the trick, though: As the sex act progresses, make your sexuality increasingly dark and ambiguous. If you're Ryan-Gosling your lady correctly, sex will start in a field of daisies on a summer's day and end under a streetlight in the ghetto where the only sound is the echo of loneliness off the infinite.
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Dark, tortured ambiguity can be hawt.
#9. The John May 'er
This one has very little to do with fading pop star/emerging blues man John Mayer. You don't have sex while telling your partner her body is a wonderland or anything like that. No, this sex act needs to be taken a lot more literally. It involves teasing your girl with sex in a public toilet, or "john." The John "May 'er," if you will.
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"I don't get it."
Pick a stall, get the juices flowing, maybe even take out a condom, but then wait. Wait until she pants "Are we gonna have sex?" Then raise one haughty eyebrow and reply, "We may ..." What's the fun in that, you ask? I'm not sure, but then again I don't know why anyone listens to "Your Body Is a Wonderland" either.
#8. The Christina Aguilera
The proper name for any sex act that requires a full body condom and a time machine.
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#7. The Adam Levine
Although this is not a masturbatory act, only one person in the world enjoys "Adam Levine" sex: Adam Levine.
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"Isn't that enough?"
#6. John Boehner
Oh, come on. That's just too easy. I bet you thought I'd do something like "poppin' a John Boehner" to describe the House majority leader who became one of the faces for the GOP's horribly orchestrated government shutdown. Well, I'm not going to turn Boehner's name into some cheap sex joke, mostly because the mere mention of him instantly desiccates all sexual orifices within a 40-mile radius.
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Other fats I can think of for you are some of my faves: Avocado and dark chocolate... lots and lots of salad... Sweet potatoes or other safe veggies (fried in coconut oil or grass fed butter) and as much meat as you can handle.
Take a purified Fish Oil supplement if you can, too. And I would advise against eating a lot of fruit -- maybe a max of 3 servings a day.


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All but one of the 16 Republicans vying in their party's 1st Congressional District primary fielded more than a dozen questions Thursday and parted ways on several major issues.
Earlier forums have taken the same amount of time, about two hours, but got around to posing as few as two questions for the field, or allowed only two candidates to answer, skipping over the rest.
Moderator Robert New of the Charleston's Propeller Club forced the hopefuls to do something most politicians often can't or won't — give a very brief answer.
About 150 people, many from the Lowcountry's port community showed up, as did Gov. Nikki Haley, who has remained neutral in the primary so far. Her reaction when it was over? "A good time," she said.
Candidates did their best to single out their own personal tie to Charleston's port.
Tim Larkin was the only GOP hopeful absent, and the rest agreed on some issues, such as their universal desire not to see the nation's budget debate postponed yet again.
They also agreed they would not support another increase in the federal debt ceiling, that the Hurricane Sandy relief bill was passed with too much pork and that the nation ideally would have no minimum wage.
When all candidates also agreed that the Federal Reserve should be audited, Keith Blandford, a Libertarian-Republican who has sought the seat two times before stressing the fed audit issue, said, "That makes four years of this worth it."
But they differed on many others. Only engineer Jeff King and former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Bostic indicated clear support for instant background checks for gun purchases.
And the candidates split pretty evenly on whether they would support raising Social Security's retirement age.
Only state Rep. Peter McCoy, state Sen. Larry Grooms and engineer Ric Bryant indicated they would support more federal money for renourishing Folly Beach. Most also said they would not support any more federal dollars for Clemson University's wind turbine operation in North Charleston.
And many candidates still managed to dodge some questions. Asked if across-the-board cuts were better than no cuts at all, many said only that they preferred to see spending cuts prioritized, especially to protect the military.
The candidates also split over whether they would have voted for John Boehner as majority leader, with former Gov. Mark Sanford, Shawn Pinkston, Jonathan Hoffman, Bryant and state Reps. Andy Patrick and Chip Limehouse saying they would have.
"Who was the alternative?" Limehouse asked, adding that those who voted against Boehner "just took your effectiveness as a congressman off the table, and you have hurt your district."
McCoy said Boehner "represents one of the massive issues we have in Washington, D.C., and that's the career politician."
They split somewhat on foreign aid but generally agreed that Israel deserved it much more than Pakistan. Charleston School Board member Elizabeth Moffly said, "I really think we need to quit nation building."
Asked about whether cruise ships calling on Charleston should plug into shoreside power, many doubted that the environmental benefit was worth the cost. Charleston lawyer John Kuhn recounted a tale from Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell, who once learned half his friends were for an issue and the other half against it and concluded, "I am for my friends."
The question of whether President Barack Obama should use drones to kill U.S. citizens fighting against U.S. forces overseas also created divisions. Grooms was among those voicing concern, saying, "The collateral damage is just too great."
Former Dorchester County Sheriff Ray Nash said he also didn't support such strikes without "due process."
New's staccato approach did get a little pushback.
Asked to say yes or no as to whether they would support money for deepening ships' approach to Savannah's harbor, Sanford called it "an absurd question," adding, "I think some of the realities of the governing process is they can't be boiled down to simple yes or no questions."
When Charleston teacher and businessman Teddy Turner was asked if he would encourage Haley to accept more Medicaid money, as Republican governors in other states have done, Turner replied, "It's hard to answer these in sound bites. You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. I'd have to take a pass."
Asked who they thought is the Republicans' best choice for president in 2016, many wavered, but those getting the most mentions were Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former S.C. Rep. Tim Scott, whose recent appointment to the U.S. Senate created this race.
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"Full House" stars John Stamos, Bob Saget and Dave Coulier are reuniting for a Super Bowl commercial for Dannon Oikos yogurt.
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