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Families who have suffered the death of a baby are invited to the annual Wings of Love Parent's Day Breakfast, sponsored by the Western New York Perinatal Bereavement Network, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday in Acqua Restaurant, 2192 Niagara St. Tickets are $10, $5 for children 4 to 12.
The event will include a candlelight memorial service and a release of flowers into the Niagara River in honor of the lost children. The bereavement network offers support to families who have experienced the death of a baby because of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or early infant death.
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Top 100: Katie Beal, West Potomac, Soccer, 2001
Wolverine girls soccer star continued to shine as defensive stalwart for Florida State Seminoles.
Sitting on a bookcase in West Potomac High Athletic Director Jeff Dietze's office is a framed autograph picture of one of the greatest athletes the Alexandria-based public school has ever known. The picture is of Katie Beal — a 2001 West Potomac graduate and Wolverine soccer great — during game action when she was a member of the Florida State University women's team.
Top 100: Lori Grimm, Washington-Lee, Softball, 1976
In Arlington sports lore, Grimm has excelled as female athlete and coach.
When being a female sports standout was not the norm back in the mid 1970's, Arlington's Lori Grimm excelled on the softball diamond, the soccer field, and the basketball court.
Top 100: John Crone, Yorktown, Football, 2004
Team leader dominated on the gridiron and at the plate for the Patriots.
Few Arlington-area prep school athletic stars have been the overpowering Northern Region forces in two sports that recent Yorktown High graduate John Crone (Class of 2004) was.
Top 100: Clay Kirby, Washington-Lee Baseball, 1966
Former Generals ace pitched for `Big Red Machine' in the 70s.
Whether his teams were winning big or losing big, former major league pitcher Clay Kirby could always be counted on to take the mound and give his team some quality innings.
Top 100: Michelle Duhart, Wakefield Basketball, 1996
Warriors' all-time scoring leader went on to play on Purdue's national championship team.
Michelle Duhart recently recalled her ninth grade year as a member of the Wakefield High girls basketball team. That Warriors squad, coached by current Wakefield Athletic Director Noel Deskins, struggled to be competitive that season. So team members looked for little victories.
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At Clemson University, Billy Davis will forever be known as the player who's clutch, long punt return helped the Tigers defeat Nebraska, 22-15, in the 1981 Orange Bowl football game which decided the national collegiate championship.
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Former Warriors basketball guard tallied over 1,000 career points, was also Wakefield's football QB.
Current Wakefield High boys basketball coach Tony Bentley recalls his days growing up in the Green Valley neighborhood of south Arlington and idolizing one of the area's great prep school basketball stars, Joe Lowe.
Saxons Compete in Boys', Girls' State Lax Finals
Langley boys capture fourth straight crown; Langley girls fall in title game loss to Oakton.
The chant from the Langley High student body began with about four minutes remaining in last Saturday night's Virginia State Boys Lacrosse championship game at Westfield High School between the Saxons of Langley and Chantilly High. "It's a Fourth-Peat, it's a fourth-peat," is the way the chant went, reverberating from the near-side bleachers, where the large group of Saxon student supporters were perched, and throughout the stadium.
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Oakton girls lacrosse, in return trip to state finals, finishes deal.
A year after losing in the state title game, the Oakton High girls' lacrosse team took the next step and won this year's state crown when the Cougars defeated Langley High, 12-7, in the finals game played last Saturday evening, June 9 at Westfield High School. It marked the fourth state championship triumph in the history of the Oakton girls' lacrosse program and came one year after the Cougars had reached the state title game before losing to Vienna cross-town rival Madison.
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After tough start to season, Lake Braddock emerged as region power.
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how many people liked it i did.
wats it about? "You know what you have to admire? A Catholic hit man who blesses himself just before he strangles someone."-George Carlin
It's the story of Yomiko a paper maper who is a seceret agent of the Britsh Lybrary
It's really good. ^_^
I saw this on tv. I loved it! ^_^ Those who wander are not always lost.
it is good
Yes if you can find it. the person on the website I downloeaded it from cancled their account so becasue I only like to watch things in english dub not in english sub I'm haveing a hard time finding it again.
if i find ill tell you ok
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no prob dude! ^_^ ill call you tomorrow ok when i get back from that action
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It makes reading and paper look cool...I like it Likes headphones... A lot.
I love Read or Die now i just have to find it again so I can redown load it.
so instaed I found a website, and order/ bought a copy of the series.
the ova was okay but the villains could've used a little more introduction and their evil plan was a little weak; they didn't need the book immortal beloved for anything. they also made the american government act like idiots, the preident kept pissing himself. it was good but i probably won't watch it again.
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SYCAMORE - Todd Worst chose his words carefully, which is another way of saying what goes on in the locker room stays in the locker room.
"We questioned how hard they were playing. Let's just say that," Worst said of the Carey coaches-to-players halftime discussion here Friday night.
At that moment, the Blue Devils were trailing 13-6 to Wyandot County rival Mohawk in the Midland Athletic League-opener.
Seventeen first downs, 246 yards and, most importantly, four touchdowns later, it was evident the point had been made as the Blue Devils rallied for a 36-19 win.
"Basically, we had to point out the fact that we have enough good athletes up front and we have enough good athletes in the backfield," Worst said. "And it's going to take somebody to step up, take charge and be leaders.
"That was probably the theme I guess you'd say at halftime."
There were multiple themes after that and most of them worked in Carey's favor.
Bryan Powers ran 17 times for 202 yards and scored three second-half touchdowns. Brandon Zechman added 132 yards on 11 tries and added two scores as the Blue Devils evened their record at 2-2 while dropping Mohawk to 0-4.
Before that, the Warriors seemingly had their rivals on the run, although each landed a few haymakers at the outset.
Mohawk's Gunnar Johnson returned the opening kick 40 yards and then broke off a 39-yard run to set up Eric Maskey's 2-yard run. He added the extra point kick for a 7-0 edge just 57 seconds into the game.
Carey needed less time to counter as Zechman took a pitch to the left and raced 70 yards for a score with 10:46 still to go in the quarter. But the Blue Devils trailed 7-6 after a high snap forced an unsuccessful pass for the extras.
Maskey averaged 47 yards on three first-half punts and the Warriors benefited from three early Carey fumbles.
They stretched the lead to seven with a 78-yard drive that featured quarterback Grant Gucker running 20 yards for one first down and tossing a 35-yard pass to Mitch Parker for another. Johnson got the touchdown on a 4-yard run.
Like the first half, the two teams traded relatively quick scores to start the third period.
Powers' 40-yard touchdown run and successful run for the extras put the Blue Devils up briefly at 14-13.
But Johnson had a 45-yard kick return and Maskey picked up his second TD on a 25-yard burst to make it 19-14 with 6:55 left in the third period.
The problem was in trying to stop the Blue Devils, who scored on four of their five second-half possessions.
"Perimeter plays have hurt us," Mohawk coach Erik Baker said. "We're young on the perimeter in some spots and people have been able to exploit that."
Zechman's 30-yard return and a penalty put Carey in business at the Warrior 20 and Powers eventually scored the go-ahead touchdown on an 8-yard run.
He later carried five straight times for 89 yards, including a 63-yard touchdown sprint.
"It all starts with the offensive line," Powers said. "The line made a big hole for me and I just happened to put a move or two on one of them and was just able to break out from there.
"Coach really harped on holding onto the ball all week," he said. "He told me to look for the cutback. They're not going to be ready for it."
"I kept telling him to take short choppy steps," Worst said. "To make a cut, you've got to have those short steps. He's got pretty quick feet and that's a benefit to himself and obviously to our offense."
The Blue Devils had one more drive of 94 yards, with Zechman getting the score on a 6-yard run.
"Everything we practiced went well," Baker said. "We lost on fundamentals. It wasn't trick plays or big pass plays. It was blocking and tackling.
"I truly think we're getting better, but you can't give up 30 points in the second half in any game, and especially a Carey-Mohawk game, and recover from that."
Clearly, and probably not all that subtly, Worst and staff made their point.


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StorSimple provides a hybrid storage solution that combines on-premises storage with a scalable, on-demand cloud storage model. StorSimple integrates with several cloud storage providers, including Windows Azure. Dr. Ian Howells, CMO for StorSimple, talks with Developer Evangelist Wes Yanaga about how the team created a solution that enables companies to seamlessly integrate cloud storage services for Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Windows Server. Howells describes why the company offers storage on Azure and how that benefits its customers.
StorSimple uses an algorithm that tiers storage to an on-premises, high-performance disk or to Windows Azure Blob storage to optimize performance.
To address performance issues with on-premises data storage, a data compression process eliminates redundant data segments and minimizes the amount of storage space that an application consumes. At the same time that StorSimple optimizes storage space for data-intensive applications, it uses Cloud Clones—a patented StorSimple technology—to persistently store copies of application data in the cloud.
With StorSimple and Windows Azure, customers maintain control of their data and can take advantage of public cloud services with security-enhanced data connections. StorSimple uses Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control to provide rule-based authorization to validate requests and connect the on-premises applications to the cloud. Customers who deploy StorSimple use a private key to encrypt the data with AES-256 military-grade encryption before it is pushed to Windows Azure, helping to enhance security and ensure that data can only be retrieved by the customer.
StorSimple provides application-optimized cloud storage for Microsoft Server applications. StorSimple's mission is to bring the benefits of the cloud to on-premises applications without forcing the migration of applications into the cloud. StorSimple manages storage and backup for working set apps such as Microsoft SharePoint, shared file drives, Microsoft Exchange, and virtual machine libraries, offering SSD performance with cloud elasticity.
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Great blog post - StorSimple sounds like a great solution for on-premises storage. The demand for cloud storage is growing and having the ability to integrate cloud storage services for Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Windows Server will definitely be something useful for PC users in the future. As long as the security provided is strong, I think this would be great.
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The Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) is located in the heart of Seattle, rich with entertainment, shopping, nightlife and attractions, plus easy access to hotels, restaurants and transportation. Catch mountain and water views or spend free time at numerous parks and open space around Seattle.
With 415,000 square feet of space, WSCC is the largest full-service meeting and event facility in the state of Washington. Situated in the heart of downtown Seattle, WSCC is a state-of-the-art complex of functional and imaginatively designed buildings that blend comfortably into its surroundings.
In addition to its longstanding commitment to sustainability, outstanding food and beverage services, an exceptionally convenient location and beautiful architectural features, WSCC provides meaningful benefits for our community. Over 100 works of art are on free, public display throughout the facility and a regular schedule of rotating exhibitions are presented for the enjoyment of all. The WSCC art program is the largest of its kind in North America. Since 1988, WSCC has also been instrumental in the creation of over 1,300 units of affordable housing as well as the restoration and preservation of several historic buildings in Seattle.


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How a Mexican person might try to pronounce the German term for thank you.
Heeey...gracious amigo, I mean donkeyshits mein friend
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Any film created by Jason Freidberg and Adam Seltzer
Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie, Meet the Spartans, were all pieces of donkey shit, and Jason Freidberg and Adam Seltzer should be shit on by donkey's for having created them.
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Thank you. Derived from the German "Danke schön".
"Here, have a soda."
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Something that is more silly, fake, or stupid
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Washington, D.C. – With momentum now building in the Senate, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) says it's time to finally pass energy efficiency legislation in Congress. Today, SEIA President and CEO Rhone Resch released the following statement:
"Improved energy efficiency should be a national priority. Today, there's a never-ending list of low-cost, off-the-shelf technologies which can improve energy efficiency and pay for themselves over a short period time.


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They had the hustle but the University at Buffalo women's basketball team didn't have the offense as the Bulls fell to Miami (Ohio), 69-56, in front of 1,263 at Alumni Arena Wednesday night.
The Bulls had 11 steals, 10 assists and forced 16 turnovers, but shot just 36 percent (18 of 50) from the field.
Buffalo jumped to a 13-7 lead with 15:13 left in the first half on a three-pointer from Mackenzie Loesing.
But Miami went on a 12-0 run to take the lead. The RedHawks led, 28-23. at halftime.
Buffalo tied the game at 30 early in the second half, but couldn't sustain enough offense the rest of the way to pull out the win.
Miami (15-10, 7-5 Mid-American Conference) shot 44 percent for the game with three players in double figures, led by Courtney Osborn's 19 points.
Cherridy Thornton had 13 points off the bench for the Bulls, who fell to 8-17 overall and 6-6 in the MAC.
The Bulls are at Ohio Saturday.
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The St. Bonaventure women's basketball team hosts 14th-ranked Dayton at 7 tonight in the Reilly Center. The game is a rematch of last year's Atlantic 10 championship game, which the Flyers won, 56-53, in Philadelphia. But this is a much different setting.
Dayton is 22-1 overall and 10-0 in the A-10. Four players are averaging double figures for the Flyers. The Bonnies, meanwhile, have struggled after graduating their most successful class in their history. Bona enters the game on a six-game losing streak and is just 9-16 overall, 2-8 in Atlantic 10 games.


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I waa starting to give Torres a little credit last year.
He looked like he was cleaning up his game until the hit on Stoll, which honestly I honestly don't believe he intended to be so high.
Stoll was reaching for a bouncing puck, but either way, with his rap sheet how could you not suspend him, he's been a dirty player for so long theres no way to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Cookes infraction list is pretty ridiculous too, it'll be interesting to see what happens next time he's suspended, if memory serves me right he sat out 17 playoff games.
And Weber always struck me as dirtier than anyone ever accredited to him.
Last years playoff when he bounced hanks head off the glass hard enough to break his helmet, and no suspension?
If it were against any other team he would've gotten at least a game, not a conspiracy theory but shanahan can't show any favor to his former team and Imo that was him overcompensating to show that.
Don't get me wrong charas not gonna be a picnic to deal with, but I haven't seen him go out of his way just to try to hurt someone.
Whether you admit to it or not, promoting a conspiracy theory is EXACTLY what you're doing. It doesn't change the fact just because you say "not a conspiracy theory". If there is no evidence to back up your claims then they don't mean anything, they're conjectures.


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Park users want their basketball hoops and pool back
June 30, 2013
Whether it was young man playing basketball on a court without hoops, a woman with a small child decrying the closure of a pool or families fed up with trash talk and drug activities, Memorial Park......
wasnt the pool closed because it costed too much money to fix before summer? money no one had? money that probably went to that stupid ball field that is a waste of money right next to it. that pool was a great place in the summer for the local kids to go and be entertained all afternoon. makes no sense to have to find a way five miles away or somewhere else to a local pool to swim for the locals. no matter what you threaten, you will hear foul language. get over it. teach the young not to use it or where its appropriate, which should never be appropriate. bad language is everywhere but shouldnt be a reason to close the pool.
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Until the parents stop using foul language you can't expect much more from the kids.You can't go into a grocery store anymore without hearing that kind of language out of adults.C'mon parents, you can't teach kids to have common courtesy and respect for others if you don't set those examples.That kind of behavior isn't funny, cute or admirable coming from an adult or child.
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The bad language and in general bad manners comes from a uneducated culture that thought "talking street" was cool when in fact "street talk" is uneducated dummy slang that only shows their ignorance. Instead of being embarrassed of their lack of education, these people would walk around purposly spouting this garbage language. The "N" and "F" word being a fundimental crutch word in every sentence. Parents are just as guilty of this as their kids and now both want to sound like a bunch of hood rats. It ain't dope......know what I saying???
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i take my 4 year old grandaughter to memorial park i'm SO HAPPY they took the rims down i've seen the drug paraphanelia laying around on the ground, since the rims have been taken down the park has been so QUIET which is a plus no little hoodrats running around swearing trashing the park I HOPE CAMPANA NEVER PUTS THE HOOPS BACK UP IT'S A MUCH NICER PLACE AND PARK NOW TO TAKE YOUR KIDS AND NOT TO SAY PROBABLY SAFER !!!!!!!
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I'll make the liberal argument here since the "ideology" rises above the tortured decent people who want to take their kids to Memorial Park..."The central claim of the broken windows theory—that disorder causes crime by signaling community breakdown—is flawed. The categories of "disorder" and "the disorderly" lie at the heart of the problem. Those categories do not have well-defined boundaries or settled meanings. When we talk about "disorder," we are really referring to certain minor acts that some of us come to view as disorderly mostly because of the punitive strategies that we inflict as a society. We have come to identify certain acts—graffiti spraying, litter, profanity, and drug use—and not others—police brutality, accounting scams, and tax evasion—as disorderly and connected to broader patterns of serious crime." I mean seriously, the police should be kicking in the doors of tax evaders to cut down crime, not pretend that playground violence and drug deali
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First off city council didn't take the rims down that was solely the mayors decision..get ur facts right first.
Crushing downtown is and was a safety issue....teens racing their cars light to light! Not to mention fights and drinking.
Arcades....well that's just an out of date thing!
Pools/-- they are too expensive to fix and mantain! Unless taxes are raised and I'm sure you'd complain about that.
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I and others are meeting with the Mayor at 4pm on Saturday at Memorial Park, we are going to propose and introduce a Project idea, currently being called Project Community Clean. I challenge you all to show up and get involved. Want to see change? Be part of the change.
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( Times Have Changed Today In Our Society Along With The Newer Generation And Their Attitudes Towards Respecting Our / Their City And The Residents That Reside Here All Their Lives. Littering , Drugs , A Vicious Cycle Every Day / Every Where. People Today Rather Their Young / Old Have No Common Sense , Respect For Parks , Walkways , And Other Public Spaces. They Believe Someone Else Will Pick Up After Them. Parents Don't Care For Such Filth When They Bring Their Children There For The Day. Others Just Need To Respect One Another And The Surroundings Around Them For A Healthier , Better Environment.
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Did any of the folks who've commented here attend the meeting yesterday? My husband and I did. The Mayor made a speech, he indicated people could speak to him one on one, but there was no public exchange between the Mayor and the people in attendance. Exception was taken to the comparison of the basketball courts and the tennis courts, by one of the folks with Rise Above, and to be honest, we were sitting there in disbelief at how the Mayor approached the whole meeting. It came off, to my husband and I as a publicity stunt rather than a real opportunity to discuss the situation with the people of the community.
I take exception to the commentary in this article about city staff cleaning up the park before mowing. I have been in the park many mornings when mowing is being done and I've watched the lawn mowers being driven right over debris, chopping it up and dispersing it over a larger area. One day it was a foam cushion from a piece of furniture that got chopped up.
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(cont.) It's unfair to suggest that the problem lies strictly with the basketball court area. While walking my dog, many times, I've seen all the trash cans in the park overturned, the debris from parties at the pavilion strewn all over the area. The whole park is often a mess, not just the area around the courts.
My husband and I have found hypodermic needles more than once at the corner of Memorial Ave. and Race St.
There is something disingenuous about this whole situation.
wwhickok, you really should speak to the folks from Rise Above, as my husband and I did. They have been trying to develop what I suggested, what you're proposing, for a number of years now.
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RWH, unfortunately I wasn't able to attend the meeting this weekend. The Mayors office had emailed me and told me there was a meeting, I misunderstood them and thought they meant 7-5-13 not 6-29-13, so I was out of town, a bit disappointed about that.
I'm definitely going to look into contacting Rise Above
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wwhickok, They provided us with the link to their website, in case you don't have that... ***********riseabove2013****/. They had a sign up sheet at the meeting Saturday.
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yeah I can't see that link.
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w w w . riseabove2013 . c o m I don't understand why the Gazette won't allow links to be posted... makes no sense. I hope you can see this.
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Got it. So, what's next?
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"Got it. So, what's next?" - wwhickok
If you're asking me, I would think getting with Rise Above to learn what efforts they've been making to get residents organized makes the most sense. No sense in you and z3r0cool re-inventing the wheel.
A gentleman after the meeting suggested to me that this effort needs to start not within certain communities, not within certain neighborhoods, not within the park, but block by block. He said getting people on their block involved in taking care of the block is the first step. It probably has to start with the adults, as you and others have pointed out that parental responsibility is key to addressing what's causing these problems, rather than reacting after the fact.
What are you thinking?
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I think, I hear a lot about the talking, which is great. Now I'd like to see a lot about the action. I think that's what needs to happen next, is people going into communities and putting it into action.
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Well, I guess that's what the talking is about... organizing, figuring out a strategy, communicating goals so the chance of success is greater. My husband and I didn't have a clue what Rise Above was. We thought it was a program the mayor initiated, but it's not. Action is needed, but without a game plan, a way to market the idea and get people involved, there is no action.
One of the things the gentleman at the meeting suggested was talking to neighbors about the condition of their property, their children's behavior within the neighborhood, offering to help others, get to know one's neighbors, etc.
Maybe we have to start on our own block, take before pictures, do some work within the neighborhood to help one another, take after pictures and share the efforts with the Sun-Gazette, so people can see something is happening, with a little effort we can make change.
I'm just thinking aloud. What do you think should be the next step? I know you think "action" but what kind
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I made a suggestion to Z3ro about coordinating volunteer groups with schools. Back when I was a kid, we used to (school classes) go down to Bowman field and things like that and clean up the area. I think something like that could teach kids to respect and take pride in their community. It might be a place to start.
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Much Ado About Nothing: Director, Bill Alexander; Designer, Kit Surrey; photographer, Donald Cooper (ahds.ac.uk/performingarts); Royal Shakespeare Theatre, April 1990.
"Kit Surrey's permanent set, which one has time to contemplate before the play begins, is an attractive formal garden which suffices for all those scenes which take place in and around Leonato's house; in due course it suavely transforms itself occasionally into the street, church or prison by the briskly contrived addition of one or two pieces of appropriate furniture." Charles Osborne, Daily Telegraph 12.4.90 Opening Date: 10 April 1990 Theatre: Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
The seventeenth-century costuming fits nicely into the formal garden setting and creates a plausible historical environment for the script. HMR


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"I don't like to go out to clubs and party. I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' – that's just not me," Hewitt, 31, tells PEOPLE. "I'm a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don't."
Hewitt and her Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy, 39, quietly split recently after a year together.
It was "a mutual decision, and we've parted as friends," says Hewitt. "There's no anger, there's no upset, there's no enemies." Hewitt adds that the pair's pre-existing friendship has made it easy to transition to working together as exes: "It's been totally fine. It's really a testament to who he is and to who I am. We're both grown-ups."
New BookIronically, the split comes just as The Day I Shot Cupid, Hewitt's new book offering advice and wisdom on dating and relationship hits bookstores. Subtitled Hello, My Name is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I'm a Love-aholic, the book, out March 23, includes Hewitt's own dating horror stories, admissions about her fantasy engagement rings (she's been visiting the same store since age 12 to try them on) and advice on everything from getting over breakups to dieting and cellulite.
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Hewitt says she has "no idea" when she'll be ready to date again, though she plans to re-read her own book for advice (and is already at work penning a follow-up).
Independent Working Woman"Back in the shark tank!" she jokes. "I never said in the book that I knew how to be in the perfect relationship. I say in my book I want to be the readers' kind spirit out in the dating world. And now, more than ever, I am."
So for now is Hewitt content to be an independent working woman, or does the self-described "hopeless romantic" still yearn to find true love?
"Both," she says. "I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kids and kind of does it all. I'd like to have it all."
For exclusive excerpts from her book and more on Hewitt – including her dating dos and don'ts, what she loves – and doesn't – about her body, and her breakup with Jamie Kennedy – pick up a copy of PEOPLE on newsstands Friday


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Source: CBS New York
quote: but you crossed the line with the not-so-subtle hint that they should be killed.
quote: I'd challenge you on a range any day though :)
quote: Not seeing a line there really. Hell if you want me to, I can actually make a somewhat plausible case for charges of treason.
quote: I guess the War for Independence crossed a bunch of lines too. But I think that worked out pretty good /shrug
quote: Again, you've really crossed the line this time.


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Double Room with Breakfast near the Beach
Maximální počet hostů2
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Velikost60 m²
Floor No.2
- Kuchyně
- Pračka / sušička
- Televize
- Kouření povoleno
- Snídaně
- Balkón/terasa
- Ručníky
- Internet/WiFi
|Calle de Alfons el Magnánim, 08019 Barcelona, Španělsko
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It includes the full enjoyment of a healthy and nutritious BREAKFAST, all to suit the tenant, which consists of:
Coffee, Tea and / or teas.
Milk, Cereal, Yogurt and fruit juices.
Homemade bread, muffins or croissants.
Butter, Jam.
Different Sausages and Cheese.
Fruit of the station.
The flat is located in the privileged area of the Forum, one of the best destinations of the new residential and tourist area of the city. Our place is located between two of the largest shopping and leisure centers. (Diagonal Mar and Glories) Therefore, you will enjoy a good time (on the beach, partying, shopping ...) and a relaxing time on the floor.
Five minutes from the Mar Bella beach (nudist).
Two minutes from Diagonal Mar Shopping Center
Ten minutes from Glories Shopping Centre.
Two minutes from the Convention Center and Business Forum
Twelve minutes from Downtown (Plaza Catalunya)
Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city and very attractive to tourists, there is plenty of events celebrating crankcase cultural, sports or business.
This is intended as a short guide to the essential activities you can not miss in 2014.
I. music
II. sports
III. Barcelona Fairs
IV. fashion
Next to the Metro stop L4 "Besos Mar".
Two minutes from tram line stops the T4 "Forum"
Two minutes Bus Stop n. 7, 36 and 43
Two minutes from Bus Nit n. 6 and 7.
Therefore, you will be able to reach the city center in minutes.
There is also ample street parking and / or Underground parking nearby.
Two minutes from the Hospital del Mar Forum.
Upon arrival, we will give you a map of Barcelona where is all the information needed to visit the city, will guide you through everything you need during your stay in Barcelona.
On the floor will receive the keys, both the house and the room, on our part, and a small welcome snack.
We provide you with a set of towels.
You can use the kitchen, you'll have your own fridge and you can use the washing machine.
You can also use the rest of the floor, lounge and dining room.
The Wi-Fi reception, will be provided immediately to the addition to the house.
Check in is flexible. The Check out is before 11 AM, but the bags and belongings may be left in another room qualified to do so. Once the reservation is made, we will talk about the schedule is good for you.
|Weekly rate for 1 guest
|128 €
|Monthly rate for 1 guest
|510 €
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|11 € Cena za osobu/noc navíc
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This room is a bit small but overall really nice. Apartment is located in a quiet residential area, about 2 minutes walk to the metro station. Public transport in Barcelona is great. Pedro is very thoughtful and breakfast is excellent. We had great stay here. Thanks a lot!
Was a really good and relaxed place to stay. The flat is near the metro, so no problem to reach the city etc.
We had a great stay here. Pedro is a very kind person and we felt really welcome. Nice area to stay and close to the beach.
Thank you very much for your kind hospitality! The hosts are friendly and the care is excellent. Recommend it to others.
Pedro Antonio is an excellent host. He provided us with everything we needed - maps, information about the city, a delicious breakfast and even umbrellas when it was raining. His apartment was very clean and with a great location (near to a metro station and a supermarket). Overall, we enjoyed our stay very much and recommend it to everyone planning to visit the beautiful Barcelona.
it was a good stay in Pedros flat, i felt welcome and like at home. breakfasts are great added value of this place, i really appreciate this option. overall great value for the money spent. the beach is 10mins walk from apartment!! thanks luiz and pedro
Pedro and his friend are very nice and warm people. I felt myself comfortable.
I had a good time there:-). Thanks for your hospitality.
We very much enjoyed our stay at Pedro's apartment. Right from the start we felt very welcome! We could use the living room, kitchen, balcony, washing machine and we even had our own little refrigerator. The bedroom is small, but the bed was comfortable and everything was clean. Pedro and his friend were very friendly and were open to all our questions. The appartment is near the beach (5 mins walk) and a big mall and you can take the metro right in front of the apartment to the centre of Barcelona.
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Stephen Moore: Why Lower Tax Rates Are Good for Everyone
If we want millionaires to pay more taxes, then we need an economy where there are more millionaires.
President Obama on Wednesday announced that any budget deal must include $1.6 trillion from higher taxes. "When it comes to the top 2%," he said, "what I'm not going to do is to extend further a tax cut for folks who don't need it." He argued that we are never going to get anywhere near balancing the budget without more revenue from people earning above $250,000 a year.
He's probably right about that, though not in the way he intends. The country needs an economy that will create more of the "millionaires and billionaires" that Mr. Obama loves to excoriate, not more taxes from those who already exist. Total taxes paid by millionaires fell by almost $100 billion between 2007 and 2010, the last year with statistics available from the Internal Revenue Service. The drop resulted not from too-low tax rates, but from the severe recession and an anemic recovery since 2009 that thinned the ranks of the wealthy.
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If Mr. Obama wants the Warren Buffetts and Justin Biebers to shoulder more of the nation's tax burden, he would do well to pay attention to the history of tax rates. Over the past century, lower rates have shifted the tax burden onto high-income earners and away from the middle class while maintaining the tax code's progressivity.
Let's start with the 1920s. All tax rates were cut during the Calvin Coolidge administration, including the top rate, which fell to 25% from the World War I high of 73%. Between 1923 and 1928, benefited by lower tax rates, the economy surged, raising incomes and living standards for the middle class. Tax collections in real terms nearly doubled—and the share of taxes paid by those who made more than $100,000 a year (more than $1 million today) increased to 51% from 28%.
The top tax rate rose to 63% in 1932, to 79% in 1936, and to 90% during World War II. The higher rates persisted after the war, and while the economy grew as the government's economic role ebbed, high rates generally helped to hold back the pace of growth.
Tax rates weren't reduced much until the Kennedy administration. JFK cut rates by about 30% for every income group. He argued that the lower tax rates would "boost the economy, produce revenues, and achieve a future budget surplus." He even called lower rates "an investment in the future."
The Kennedy tax cut was enacted in 1964 (after JFK's assassination), lowering the highest tax rate to 70% from 91%. His prediction that the economy would surge was validated by rapid growth every year from 1965 through 1968. Tax collections grew by 8.6% per year and unemployment fell to 3.4%. "The unusual budget spectacle of sharply rising revenues following the biggest tax cut in history," announced a 1966 U.S. News and World Report article, "is beginning to astonish even those who pushed hardest for tax cuts in the first place."
Americans earning over $50,000 per year (the equivalent of about $250,000 today) increased their tax payments by nearly 40% after the rate cut, according to a report from the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Their share of overall taxes paid rose to almost 15% in 1966 from 12% in 1963. Americans with an income of more than $1 million nearly doubled their tax payments to $603 million in 1965 from $311 million in 1962.
President Reagan cut all tax rates across the board in his first term, with the highest rate reduced to 50% from 70%. That was followed a few years later with the 1986 Tax Reform Act, which closed loopholes and lowered the top tax rate to 28%.
The economy soared in the 1980s and the unemployment rate plunged after the mini-depression of 1978-82. Tax rates fell but federal revenues rose to $1.032 trillion in 1990 from $517 billion in 1980.
Taxes paid by the wealthiest Americans facing the highest marginal tax rates increased every year during the 1980s expansion. Meanwhile, the share of total income taxes paid by the top 1% rose to 25% in 1990 from 18% in 1981. The wealthiest 5% of Americans saw their tax share rise to 44% from 35%. The surge in revenues was the result of prosperity that was largely spurred by tax-rate cuts. The increase in government deficits during that period, on the other hand, was due to higher federal spending.
In 2003, President George W. Bush signed legislation that cut the top income tax rate to 35% from 39.6% and cut taxes on capital gains, too. Federal tax revenues surged by a record $780 billion from 2003-07, when the housing bubble collapsed. And once again, the rich paid more tax, not less. The share of taxes paid by the top 1% rose to 41% in 2007 from 35% in 2003. Tax payments by millionaires doubled from 2003 to 2007 because there were more millionaires and their before-tax incomes rose rapidly.
It is also true that when Bill Clinton raised tax rates in the 1990s, the economy boomed and the share of taxes paid by the rich increased. But the otherwise depressive effect of higher tax rates was counteracted by the lighter burden of government on the private sector—federal spending declined to 18% of GDP in 2000 from 22% in 1993.
A cut in spending is the economic equivalent of a cut in taxes now, or later. This point is effectively conceded by Mr. Obama demanding that his spending and borrowing binge of the past four years must be paid for by a giant increase in taxes over the next decade.
Some liberals acknowledge these fiscal facts of life but argue that tax revenues from the wealthy increased simply because the rich got richer. And so they did. But the economic growth that was touched off by lower tax rates, particularly in the 1960s and 1980s, also benefited middle-class incomes and living standards. If Mr. Obama has his way and raises tax rates on upper-income groups, it will slow the economy, and everyone will lose.
Mr. Moore is a member of the Journal's editorial board and the author of "Who's the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America" (Encounter, 2012).


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"Service needs to be a quiet thing rather than something we deserve a reward for," says Connor Rosenecker, a junior at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute.
Schools are small communities; they hold events such as concerts and huge rival football games that bring students, parents and faculty together. St. Joe's connects through its annual Food Basket drive.
"It's great to have so many kids volunteering and donating," says Robert Lepertine, a senior and president of Food Basket. The Food Basket drive is entirely student-run. From planning to collecting to sending the food, the entire St. Joe's community works as one to give to the needs of others.
"I've learned that so many people can help for one cause," says Bradley Krepper, a junior at St. Joe's. "People are so generous at St. Joe's and willing to bring in items." The school's community brings in nonperishable food items and strives every year to reach the record of 57,000 items.
Bets are made between homerooms and teachers and students. This year, that isn't being emphasized as much, but it's to make the school understand the importance of the event. "I've learned how much we could help people that are unfortunate," says Bradley.
"I've seen how much it can bring people together," says freshman Ben Wojick. "Everyone is in a good mood when helping out."
For the volunteers like Ben, Bradley, Connor and Robert, the meaning of service is more clear since they get to be involved in the event. St. Joe's Food Basket is run by students, but moderated by faculty within the school. The moderators don't have to do too much; just make sure everything is going smoothly.
"I see joy in the students helping each other," says Anthony Shilen, an adult moderator of Food Basket. "The reality is real that people need and [others] should give."
The event is just as meaningful for an adult than it is for the students. "You learn a lot about our kids, the kindness and generosity they have in their hearts," Shilen added.
It takes a lot for students to get to school an hour early and volunteer, but over the years they have found that Food Basket is very enriching.
"I started doing [Food Basket as a freshman] because it was interesting, but now I do it because I love doing it," says Robert.
Connor sees this as more than a warm inner feeling. He says, "Service is more important than personal gain."
The food from St. Joe's Food Basket goes to Warming House in Olean.
"The Warming House has worked primarily as an outreach/service ministry of St. Bonaventure University since the beginning, serving as a 'classroom' outside the classroom for students, a place of learning and reflection about the politics and the faces of hunger, human relationships, our food/agricultural system, health, and our own inner spirits/journeys," according to the St. Bonaventure University website (www.sbu.edu/campus-life.aspx?id=5430).
Evan Hayes is a senior at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute.
"Everyone is in a good mood when helping out."
– Ben Wojick, freshman, St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute


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Liberal groups blast American Legislative Exchange Council, Laffer for pushing fiscal "snake oil" on states
Several liberal groups on Wednesday assailed the American Legislative Exchange Council and supply-side economics guru Arthur Laffer for urging states to ratchet back on spending and cut taxes.
The council, known as ALEC, was little-known for decades until the Trayvon Martin shooting death last year propelled it into TV news headlines, as scrutiny of its recommended laws on gun rights and voter ID created a backlash. Still, the group has made deep inroads in the Texas Legislature over the past 10 or 15 years. On the fiscal front, it pushes ideas such as state constitutional amendments to limit spending growth to the sum of inflation and population. See Section 3 of this ALEC model bill.
Gov. Rick Perry has made that very notion a centerpiece of his Texas Budget Compact. His proposal for a tighter spending cap in the Texas Constitution is described here on his website.
ALEC-sponsored materials, some of which Laffer has helped write, argue for lower rates of growth in state spending and bigger impediments to higher taxes, such as requirements they be passed by legislative super-majorities.
In a conference call with reporters, Erica Williams of the progressive Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington criticized ALEC's recent reports.


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- A's outfielder Jermaine Mitchell went 3-for-4 with a triple, says The Sacramento Bee.
- Two hits by Josh Vitters pushed the Cubs third base prospect's batting average above .300 on the season, according to Mike Wellman of The Cub Reporter.
- Mariners infielder Carlos Triunfel hit a three-run homer as part of a five RBI day, reports The Seattle Times.
- L.J. Hoes extended his hitting streak to 19 games, notes The Virginian-Pilot.
- Marc Krauss blasted two home runs on Sunday, giving the Diamondbacks outfielder 13 on the season, says Andrew Pentis of MiLB.com.
- Also chiming in with a pair of home runs was Brewers prospect Hunter Morris, who now has 14 on the season, notes Jonathan Raymond of MiLB.com.
- Astros outfield prospect George Springer put together a career day, going 4-for-4 with three doubles, reports Sam Dykstra of MiLB.com.
- Jason Adam struck out a career-high nine batters in 7 1/3 shutout innings, but the Royals right-hander earned a no-decision thanks to a lack of run support, writes Pentis.
- Nationals third base prospect Matt Skole blasted his 21st home run of the season.
- Austin Wood returned to his early-season form on Sunday, as the Angels prospect struck out nine batters over 5 1/3 innings of shutout work.
- Taylor Guerrieri threw three more scoreless innings, lowering his season ERA to 0.69 and pushing the Rays closer to a promotion to full-season ball.
- The struggles continued for Rockies 2010 first-rounder Peter Tago, who allowed four runs (three earned) in 5 2/3 innings, leaving him with a 7.23 ERA on the season, despite pitching a level below where he was last year.
- Mets 2012 first-rounder Gavin Cecchini went 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles in the best game of his young career.


text: Wertimer House is located near the Bristol Center, Skenandoa House and Wallace Johnson House. Wertimer has space for 42 incoming first-year students in 21 doubles. Since Wertimer houses only first-year students who enter Hamilton together, its residents often form a close-knit community. The large, first-floor lounge has a pool table and flat screen TV and usually buzzes with activity. Two upperclass resident advisors also live in the building. Wertimer is wheelchair accessible.


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South Carolina's small farms could be a key to curing the economic ills of the state's rural communities by focusing on food for local consumption, according to a long-awaited state Agricultural Department study released Thursday.
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To read the entire report, visit www.agriculture.sc.gov and look under Hot Topics.For more from the Forgotten South Carolina series, go to postandcourier.com/forgotten-sc.
The study calls for a nearly $10 million, three-year program to organize food nodes across the state where farmers would cooperate in growing produce for local consumption.
That food would be funneled to local markets and to three or four food hubs around the state to collect, market and distribute the produce to restaurants, groceries and other food outlets.
The food hub proposal is based on the success of the state's only current hub, GrowFood Carolina, which gathers produce from dozens of Lowcountry farms for distribution to Charleston's restaurants. Many of those restaurants specialize in using seasonal, locally grown produce.
Establishing a statewide food hub system to help small farmers efficiently and economically market and distribute their produce was one of the recommendations made early this year in The Post and Courier's series "Forgotten South Carolina," about the state's deep disparities in education, health and economic opportunity. Most of the counties in Forgotten South Carolina are rural ones along the I-95 corridor and the Mill Crescent between metropolitan Columbia and the bustling I-85 corridor.
The Agriculture Department study, called "Making Small Farms Into Big Business," found that the state's small farms "have more potential to grow the economy, create jobs and build healthier communities."
The study notes that South Carolinians buy $11 billion in food each year, but more than 90 percent of that comes from out-of-state. The study says the state's farmers could tap some of that by taking advantage of the growing demand to buy seasonal local produce.
The study estimates farmers could snag $1.2 billion a year.
A three-year effort
Hugh Weathers, state Commissioner of Agriculture, said in a statement that his department would develop a strategic plan based on the study to begin doing that and "expand market opportunities for farmers across the state."
He said he expects the plan to be developed in the coming weeks, and a three-year, $9.85 million effort to execute it would begin this spring.
Weathers did not say if he would be asking the state Legislature to provide any of the money, only that it probably would come from both private and public sources. And a final decision on the amount of money necessary would have to await completion of the strategic plan.
The study calls for:
Establishing 15-20 food nodes, clusters of farms around the state that collaborate in what and how to grow produce. For example, some clusters could be organic and specialize in certain produce and livestock.
Establishing three food hubs to collect, market and distribute farm products. In addition to the GrowFood hub already operating in Charleston, the study envisions possible hubs in Spartanburg, Greenville, Horry County, Florence and Columbia.
Using the state Agriculture Department's Certified SC Grown campaign to encourage consumers to increase spending on local food by $5 a week.
Educating low-income and rural South Carolinians about the importance of eating more fruits and vegetables.
Beef-up rural income
Dana Beach, head of the Charleston-based Coastal Conservation League, started GrowFood in 2010 with about $1 million in grants and loans to prove that such a hub could successfully operate and help improve the businesses of local small farms.
Beach called the study "one of the best documents that has been produced in the state to promote rural prosperity in decades."
He said he was pleased the League's GrowFood experiment worked and helped lead to this expansion effort by the Agriculture Department. "It is tremendously exciting."
Lisa Jones Turansky, who helps run GrowFood as the Conservation League's director of Sustainable Agriculture, said the study is "the first step in moving South Carolina to the forefront of the local food movement. Our farmers are growing some of the best food in the world, and our state's key decision makers have taken note."
"With this study, we have the blueprint for improving the local food system," she said. "It is now a matter of continuing the work into implementation. We need consumers demanding local food. We need citizens electing officials who value a commitment to agriculture."
Jack Shuler, president of the Palmetto Agribusiness Council, which is cooperating in the effort, said in a statement: "This is the most massive project ever undertaken to develop a local food supply in South Carolina. Implementation of the results of the study can increase significantly the income of rural counties in our state."
Hugh C. Lane, Jr., chairman of the board for the Bank of South Carolina, is also collaborating. He said in a statement: "I have been very concerned about the plight of rural South Carolina and this study gives us an opportunity to allow South Carolina farms to capitalize on the 'Grow Fresh – Eat Fresh phenomenon,' which the public is demanding. This should lead to more jobs and more revenue going into rural South Carolina."
Reach Doug Pardue at 937-5558


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The School of Nursing and Health Sciences is housed in Westminster's new and impressive Dolores Dore Eccles Health, Wellness, and Athletic Center. Our state-of-the-art educational facilites include teaching/learning laboratories that reflect real world work environments:
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Come beat the summer heat in New Smyrna Beach, recently named one of National Geographic's top 20 surf towns in the world. Art Walk and Wine Walk will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 25 on Flagler Avenue.
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Barbara Arteta, age 63, of New Smyrna Beach, died Thursday, September 9, in Jesup, Georgia. Born in New York City, Mrs. Arteta came to this area in 1994 from Plattekill, New York.. During her working career, she was an executive administrator for a real estate company in Manhattan, the first female assembly line supervisor at the Ford Motor Plant at Mahwah, New Jersey, and a production scheduling manager at Star Expansion, Mountainville, New York, where she met her husband, Eugene.


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Conservative leaders in South Carolina may be loathe to publicly embrace "Obamacare," but there are at least two who are busy behind the scenes making sure the state is ready for it.
"Like it or not, there are things people have to comply with," said S.C. Medicaid Director Tony Keck, Gov. Nikki Haley's health care cabinet member. "We're trying to figure out how to keep things from collapsing."
To that end, Keck encouraged consultant Jim Ritchie, the executive director of the S.C. Alliance of Health Plans, to organize a series of meetings this summer with health insurance companies in South Carolina.
The resulting coalition is called the Federal Marketplace Stakeholder Leadership Group and its members are brainstorming ways that will make the upcoming health care reform roll-out go as smoothly as possible.
"I asked Jim to help get it organized because I thought his members and the hospitals were not talking to each other," said Keck, who called some hospitals "woefully unprepared" to comply with the legislation. "We're getting ready for a train wreck."
Fewer than 50 days remain before the federal government opens health insurance enrollment in the federal insurance marketplace on Oct. 1.
This marketplace, also called an insurance exchange, will be accessible to anyone in the state who wants to purchase a health insurance policy. It's one of the pillars of the health care reform act, which was passed by Congress in 2010.
Four insurance companies will be offering South Carolina residents options to purchase a plan through the federal marketplace.
"(The insurance marketplace) is a federal government operation and responsibility but … we recognize there are things we can do for consumers," said Kendall Buchanan, deputy director of market and consumer services at the S.C. Department of Insurance, who has attended the leadership group's meetings. "We want to make it as easy for consumers as possible."
So far, the group has discussed establishing a consistent dictionary. For example, using the word "marketplace" instead of "exchange" to avoid confusion.
The group is also developing a contact list to help connect consumers to real people, instead of 1-800 numbers, in case of questions or complaints.
"It's an enormous task for the federal government to try to basically create an entire new health care purchasing structure in such a tight timeline," said Ritchie, a former Republican state lawmaker from the Upstate.
"When (the federal government) had not produced significant guidance earlier this summer, it became apparent to Tony (Keck) and to me that we needed to be prepared independently with the South Carolina entities so that South Carolinians could be in the better position by Oct. 1."
The Federal Marketplace Stakeholder Leadership Group includes state officials from the S.C. Department of Insurance, the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services, and employees from the Consumer's Choice Health Plan, the United Way and other insurance and nonprofit groups.
A spokeswoman for Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, the largest insurer in the state, confirmed that someone from the company has attended the meetings, but deferred questions about the discussion to Keck's office.
Ritchie declined to specify which groups or how many people have attended these meetings, which have been held in Columbia.
Both Keck and Ritchie called the Federal Marketplace Stakeholder Leadership Group non-political.
Reach Lauren Sausser at 937-5598.
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Apple iPhone 5 Reviews Are In: "The Smartphone Nearly Perfected"
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Reviewers are ga-ga over the iPhone 5
Apple's iPhone 5
was announced a week ago
, and at the time many pundits proclaimed that this was
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. While the smartphone gained a 4" display (complete with a bumped vertical resolution of 1136 px), faster A6 processor, 1GB of RAM, LTE connectivity and the a new "
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iOS 6 software layer is starting to show its age after 5 years
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sell over 2 million iPhone 5s during the first 24 hours of pre-order availability
; and new orders placed just one hour after the pre-order sales began have been pushed back for weeks.
And now, the reviews for Apple's fresh iPhone hardware are now in, just days before the official Sept. 21 launch:
Perhaps it's better to compare it to some of the Android phones out there. Several of those are
also very light. The key difference here is that those often attain the low weight by going with a plastic shell. That makes them feel cheap.
-- MG Siegler of TechCrunch
An all-new aluminum construction extends around the back, which is either anodized black or left raw depending on whether you opt for the darker or lighter of the two offerings. The white phone is bright and clean-looking; the black, dark and menacing. We'll let you draw conclusions about personality based on color preference, but we will say that the black surface seems to suck up fingerprints that are difficult to clean.
-- Tim Stevens of Engadet
The thing with the larger screen is that you get this feeling of having space on the display that you didn't have before. Clearly, that's true because the screen is larger, but I mean even more space than the screen allows. Perhaps it's a perceptual thing. If you told me that I would be able to see another few rows of emails or more of a Web page, I don't know that I would see the importance, but when you look at the iPhone 5, it's more than that.
-- Jim Dalrymple of The Loop
However, I found the new iPhone screen much easier to hold and manipulate than its larger rivals and preferred it. In my view, Apple's approach makes the phone far more comfortable to use, especially one-handed. It's easier to carry in a pocket or purse and more natural-looking when held up to your face for a call…
There's a temporary downside: Many apps will fail to fill the whole of the larger screen until they are revised. But they still work as intended.
-- Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD
The Lightning connector is infinitely easier to connect. It slots in nicely and does so regardless of orientation, plugging in right-side-up or upside-down. We were able to drive it home without looking the first time, and every time thereafter. (If only the same could be said for the USB connector on the other side.) It's also small, seems infinitely more durable than its flimsy-feeling elder and even stronger than micro-USB alternatives…
But Lightning comes up short in a number of important areas. It is, of course, incompatible with the roughly 350 million billion iPhone and iPod accessories currently on the market -- a problem mostly rectified by a $30 adapter. But, that's not a perfect solution, as even that won't support iPod Out, the specification used in some cars (most notably BMW and Mini) to enable in-dash control of an iPod or iPhone.
-- Tim Stevens of Engadget
Using an iPhone 5 on the Verizon LTE network in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., I averaged almost 26 megabits per second for downloads and almost 13 megabits per second for uploads. Download speeds peaked at 42 megabits per second. These speeds are more than 10 times the typical speeds I got on an iPhone 4S running Verizon's slower 3G network and are faster than most Americans' home Internet services. While LTE affects only data, voice calls I made on the iPhone 5 were clear, better than in the past. I had no dropped calls.
-- Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD
Running a few tests with the iPhone 5 using LTE, I regularly achieved speeds around 20 Mb/s down and 3 Mb/s up. By comparison, my iPhone 4S running on Verizon 3G was closer to 2 Mb/s down and 0/75 Mb/s up. (My tests last March of the new iPad with Verizon LTE was closer to 40 Mb/s down, so the network is clearly getting saturated, but again, still holding up well.)
– MG Seigler of TechCrunch
Seigler says that the iPhone 5 is "The smartphone nearly perfected", Stevens calls it "Without a doubt the best iPhone yet", and Dalrymple chimes in with "Apple has another winner on its hands".
Overall, the reviewers seem to be -- unsurprisingly -- in love with the iPhone 5. Apple is just now catching up to Android smartphone in terms of functionality (LTE, larger screen, larger RAM size), but the build quality of the iPhone 5 remains the one to beat with its all-aluminum construction.
Apple lovers are sure to jump on the iPhone 5 as soon as possible, while Android and Windows Phone users will likely still snicker from sidelines at Apple's late arrival to smartphone specs war.
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I like how people take the iphone, andriod, WP8, or whatever phone so seriously. They are just phones people!!! Pick the one you like and use it. I like how people from any camp go around gloating about the product they support as if they designed the damn thing. Apple fanboy: "oh man iphone sells amazing and is built well; hahaha andriod lovers!" Me: "Who fucking cares! Kudos to Apple once again for making something decent. I still like andriod, but what are you an apple spokesperson or employee? Do you feel that you need to gloat about a product that you just bought and had no involvement in its programming or design but talk like you do?"
And since when does the s3 look like an iphone? I have gone to many people and held an iphone and an s3 and said, which one is apple, they pointed at the iphone. I doubt samsung is going to copy anything out of the iphone5 for they never really copied apples design in anything. An S3 resembles.. wait for it... an S3. The iphones construction doesn't even look anywhere near any of samsungs leading phones. The iphone has that just made cold rolled steel look with its flat front and back with the flat edges around it.
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Protein kinases are at the forefront of drug discovery, representing the largest druggable class of compounds for the pharmaceutical industry with 518 kinases associated with approximately 400 diseases.
There are many approaches to measure kinase activity in order to identify and characterize kinase inhibitors. The nature of kinases is complex, however, and companies are developing their own approaches and methods to meet this challenge. These companies will be presenting their latest efforts next month at CHI's "Protein Kinase Targets" conference to be held in Cambridge, MA.
MAP (mitogen-activated protein)-kinases play a key role in regulating various cellular activities like gene expression, mitosis, differentiation, and apoptosis. External stimuli lead to activation of MAP-kinase via a signaling cascade. "The problem is you really can't distinguish which kinase has been blocked because any inhibition of the three or four kinases will present the same results. What we do is a direct assay where there's only the active enzyme plus its downstream kinase inactivated target," explains Ralph Graeser, Ph.D, group leader, drug discovery, ProQinase.
ProQinase offers an integrated protein kinase technology platform for preclinical drug development of protein kinase inhibitors in oncology and other disease areas. "We are trying to produce protein kinases that are specifically activated and tagless. If you have kinases that are up to 100% activated, your results are more reliable. Recombinant kinases require the use of tags, which range in size from around six amino acids up to 24 Kd—almost the size of a kinase. "So, it's not the same protein anymore as it was in the cell. We were thinking it's best to have only the kinase and not other proteins hanging around. That was the idea we had developing this program."
Dr. Graeser says the company provides enzymes that are as close to an active kinase in a cell as possible. This saves time because the assay is more defined and doesn't require a lot of controls in order to discover which kinase is really involved. This approach is used for initial HT screening or for profiling kinases and/or inhibitors. In addition, every new kinase being generated as a tagless version is compared to a tagged version to see if there is a large difference in purity and other characteristics.
In order to address some of the challenges of kinase assays (combining relevant biology with HT, reducing costs and assay development times), researchers at Bayer Healthcare's lead discovery screening department have adapted a platform approach. "We standardize the assay format (in our case, TR-FRET) and work mainly with generic reagents. We separate the project-specific part (kinase substrate, product-specific antibody) from the costly TR-FRET part," states Ulf Boemer, Ph.D., HT coordinator.
Dr. Boemer explains that instead of directly labeling the substrate with cross-linked allophycocyanin (XL) and the antibody with an EU-Chelate, "we use biotinylated substrate and streptavidin-XL and an unlabeled antibody with ProtG-Eu-chelate." This allows his group to use the same TR-FRET reagents for all assays.
This has several advantages including lower costs (no beads or radioactivity), higher sensitivity with low nanomolar concentration of products, and miniaturization. However, TR-FRET does require a suitable antibody and lacks sufficient sensitivity for cell-based assays, but it is good for biochemical assays. Dr. Boemer says the field is evolving toward more cell-based kinase screening and a broader mode of action characterization.
"Normally a full-deck HTS against a kinase results in several thousand hits and only a selection of the compounds can be characterized in more detail due to the limited throughput of secondary assays. To avoid missing less potent hit clusters with interesting properties, we run broader characterization (ATP-competition) in HT-mode with all hits. This gives you a broader data basis for the selection of compounds for the lower throughput assays."
Another key point is that the company bundles all its efforts for different projects in one assay center. Every new compound that is tested for any of the different kinase projects is tested against all active kinase assays. "We try to combine fast primary assay support for cost-effective profiling to get cross-fertilization to see if certain motifs appear on another kinase project. This is important," Dr. Boemer explains.
There is also a growing trend to identify allosteric modulators to set up assays to bind inactive forms of kinase. This increases the chances of selectivity and generates IP. "The kinase IP field is crowded, and it's difficult to obtain. That's why we always screen the full library and don't focus on specific kinases."
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What I wish people knew about EMS, Firefighters, Dispatchers and Law Enforcement.
I wish you could know what it is like to search a burning bedroom for trapped children at 3am, flames roling above your head, your palms and knees burning as you crawl, the floor sagging under your weight as the kitchen below you burns.
I wish you could comprehend a husband's horror at 6 in the morning as I check his wife of 40 years for a pulse and find none. I start CPR anyway, hoping to bring her back, knowing intuitively it is too late. But wanting her husband and family to know everything possible was done to try to save her life.
I wish you knew the unique smell of burning insulation, the taste of soot-filled mucous, the feeling of intense heat through your turnout gear, the sound of flames crackling, the eeriness of being able to see absolutely nothing in the dense smoke.
I wish you could be in the emergency room as a doctor pronounces dead the beautiful five year old that I have been trying to save the past 25 minutes, who will never go on her first date or say the words "I love you mommy" again.
I wish you could read my mind as I respond to a call-"What is wrong with the patient? Is it minor or life-threatening? Is the caller really in distress or is he waiting for us with a 2x4 or a gun?"
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I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a girl of teenage years from the remains of her automobile. "What if this was my daughter, sister, or friend? What is her parent's reaction going to be when they open the door to find a police officer with hat in hand?"
I wish you could know how it feels to walk in the back door and greet my family, not having the heart to tell them that I nearly did not come back from the last call.
I wish you could know how it feels dispatching officers, firefighters and EMT's out and when we call for them and our heart drops because no one answers back or to here a bone chilling 911 call of a child or wife needing help.
I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally and sometimes physically abuse us or belittle what we do, or as they express their attitudes of "It will never happen to me."
I wish you could realize the physical, emotional and mental drain of missed meals, lost sleep and forgone social activities in addition to all the tragedy my eyes have seen.
I wish you could know the brotherhood and self-satisfaction of helping save a life or preserving someone's propert, or being able to be there in time of crisis, or creating order from total chaos.
I wish you could understand what is feels like to have a little boy tugging at your arm and asking, "Is Mommy okay?" Not even being able to look in his eyes without tears from your own and not knowing what to say.
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