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- Don't buy a game that isn't a daily deal! Unless it's 75% off (and even then) there's a chance it will be cheaper. Wait until the last day of the sale.
- Capcom and Activision are notorious for not having good discounts. If one of their games is 66% off or more, grab it because it may not be that cheap again.
- AAA or major publisher games generally don't drop below $20 non-sale price and $5 (75% off) sale price. If you see one at this price you want, grab it.
- Valve, Sega, THQ, SquareEnix/Eidos, and 2K are known for having very good discounts. Expect every Valve first-party game to be at least 75% off at least once during the Winter sale. Expect high profile 2012 games from the others to drop in price considerably (ex: Borderlands 2).
- Corollary: Sometimes the best deals on the above publishers' games aren't on Steam -- and that's fine! These publishers are all known for using Steamworks almost exclusively now, so odds are you'll be buying a key that activates on Steam. If you have any doubt though, ask in this thread.
- Indie games are usually a "bad" purchase. Many of them end up in indie bundles that provide a handful of Steam keys for anywhere from $1-8.
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A genetic variant of E. coli may represent the causal bridge that connects intestinal inflammation with the development of bowel cancer, researchers claim. It's already known that chronic gut inflammation disturbs the balance of microbes that naturally inhabit the digestive tract, and that patients with inflammatory gut disorders are more likely to develop bowel cancer. Studies in mice and humans now indicate that colorectal cancer is more likely to develop when this inflammation-related imbalance in microbiota is associated with the emergence of populations of an E. coli strain carrying a gene set known as the pks island.
The findings are reported in Science, by an international team led by investigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Christian Jobin, Ph.D., and colleagues looked at the changes in gut microbe populations in a colitis-prone mouse model that lacks the gene for IL10, an interleukin that suppresses the inflammatory response. They found that intestinal inflammation in these animals led to a disturbance of the intestinal ecosystem and far lower diversity of bacterial inhabitants, but relatively much larger populations of E. coli. When they then infected the IL10-knockout mice that had been raised under sterile conditions with either an E. coli variant known as NC101, or with another common gut bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, both groups developed severe gut inflammation, but 80% of the E. coli-infected animals also went on to develop tumors.
In contrast, tumor development didn't occur in the Enterococcus faecalis-infected mice. "This would argue pretty strongly that there's something in the E. coli that's causing the mice to develop cancer," comments co-author Anthony Fodor, Ph.D., an associate professor of bioinformatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
To try and find out what it was in the E. coli that was triggering cancer development, the authors looked more closely at the genetic makeup of the bacteria, and in particular the pks island gene set carried by some strains of E. coli that has been implicated in causing DNA damage. Critically, when they infected the experimental mice with an NC101 E. coli strain that lacked the pks island, the animals still developed inflammation, but exhibited a markedly lower rate of tumor formation. And when they compared bacteria colonizing healthy people, those with irritable bowel syndrome, and patients with colorectal cancer, they found pks-carrying E. coli in two thirds of colorectal cancer patients, but a much lower proportion of those with IBS (40%), and in even fewer healthy controls (20%).
"These are exciting results because they suggest there may be a direct link between changes in the gut microbiome and the progression from inflammation to cancer," Dr. Fodor concludes. "If we can understand the pathways by which pathogens damage host cells within the context of host inflammation, we may be able to formulate a personalized approach to cancer prevention in which particular pathogenic taxa or genes are targeted in vulnerable human subpopulations."
Drs. Fodor, Jobin, et al report their findings in a paper titled "Intestinal Inflammation Targets Cancer-Inducing Activity of the Microbiota."
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The Beach Boys release "Good Vibrations," a rebuilt London Bridge opens in the Arizona desert, a vice president resigns, and the entertainment world loses Yul Brynner, Orson Welles and Christopher Reeve, all on this day.
1988: The U2 album "Rattle and Hum" is released. The album, which features the singles "Desire," "Angel of Harlem," "When Love Comes to Town" and "All I Want Is You," would hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, remaining at the top spot for six weeks, and reach No. 1 on the U.K. and Australian charts.


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Mark and Cynthia Schneider have been married for 32 years and call La Pine home, but for the past 27 years, they've spent their summers at sea.
"A lot of guys say, 'How do you even let your wife on the boat?' But Cynthia's been the captain an the skipper ever wince we got started," Mark said Tuesday.
The casting couple catches thousands of pounds of albacore tuna and sells it to New Seasons Market in Portland under their brand "Catch of the Sea."
"When we're fishing, it's long hours. When we're working on the boat, it's long hours," Mark said.
Seven days into their season, on Aug. 5th -- 80 miles off the Oregon coast, disaster struck.
"The engine backfired once, so Cynthia went and looked and it's billowing black smoke," he recalled Tuesday, back home in La Pine. "Then it backfired again, and this was all happening pretty rapidly."
"It backfired again, and it actually rocked the boat and it was pretty loud. It wasn't very long, and then we had the explosion -- and it literally blew the entire side of the boat off," Mark said.
The "Sea Princess" started taking on water.
"The side planks, the whole section of the wall was gone. It was blown off the boat -- gone," pointing to a "before" photo of his beloved fishing boat on his computer.
Cynthia said, "The flames went up through the floor and blew the walls out and the fire ball hit me on the side, burnt all my face through here and down here."
In a rush, the Schneiders threw on their survival suits, grabbed whatever they could and abandoned ship.
"She was shouting, 'Get off the boat! We've got to get off this boat!' Finally it was enough -- she was yelling at me," Mark said. "And then we just sat there and watched 27 years go away."
In the water, watching their boat sink -- and all they could think about were two things.
"I just thought, 'We can't leave my kitties! Can't leave my kitties! We cannot leave my kitties!" he said.
Their companions at sea, Jasper and Topaz were lost in the chaos.
"Topaz come out past swimming those totes, and we saw her and screamed at her and she started swimming towards us," Mark said.
Topaz was rescued first. Jasper nearly went down with the ship, riding on the bow as it slowly sank.
"Slowly it started sinking and it went right out from underneath him, and it just disappeared and then he started swimming," he said.
Reunited, the family was rescued by a nearby ship minutes later. The Coast Guard wasn't needed in this instance, since their fishing-boat friends rescued them.
The Schneiders are, of course, happy to be alive, but they say not only did they lose their boat and all their possessions, they lost their livelihood.
"We had about a little over 8 1/2 tons of fish on the boat that we'd caught in the last seven days. That's a value of about $40,000, and just to have that snatched away is rough," Mark said.
While the boat hull was insured, that won't cover the loss of their fishing gear, catch and personal belongings.
Still, Mark and Cynthia are counting their blessings -- and already thinking of their next fishing trip.
"We've got to get another boat," Mark said. "That's all there is to it -- gotta get another boat and go fishing."
Here's more on their dramatic sea story, as written by Mark's sister, Debra:
Their work is a bit unconventional. Married for 32 years, the couple has fished together commercially for 25 years. They sold the boat they had owned for 17 years "Princess" just a couple of summers ago in order to buy a bigger boat with greater holding capacity and more stability in rough seas. They put in uncountable hours, overcoming numerous challenges with the 60 ft. "Sea Princess," remodeling, sanding, painting, troubleshooting, sweating, repairing, reconditioning, testing, and installing new systems where needed.
Their fishing season in 2012 was a trying one, with many mechanical problems to work through. They limped in from sea more than once. More repairs needed, more money invested. After a long frugal winter, spring came and it was back to work on the boat.
After three very full months working 12-14 hours every day, they finally felt everything was ready to go. They went out to sea July 30th and, according to an e-mail from Mark that day, "The boat is all painted up pretty and everything is in working order."
Theirs is grueling work …. up to 16 hour days, catching each and every tuna individually on a line, carefully handling each fish so as not to bruise it and immediately chilling it down to preserve maximum freshness.
They catch and handle upwards of 200 fish on a good day. They sell their catch under their own brand, "Catch of the Sea" as pouched tuna to New Seasons Market, a grocery store chain in the greater Portland area dedicated to supporting local sustainable agriculture and small businesses, as well as selling retail on the web site catchofthesea.com.
All their hard work was paying off, things were running efficiently and the tuna were biting. Mark made a routine check in the engine room Monday evening, August 5th.
Nothing was out of order.
He went back up to the cabin area, and about half an hour later, he heard the main backfire a couple times and then, " BOOM!"
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion.
Cynthia was thrown backwards 5 or 6 feet. Both Mark and Cynthia suffered flash burns on their faces.
Luckily, they had their ear plugs in and rain gear on which protected them.
Mark related, "My first thought when I looked at the damage to the port side of the boat was, 'How am I going to fix this?'"
He jumped down the ladder into the engine room to assess the damage there, thinking that the explosion must have blown out the caulking between the planks and he would get pumps running.
He saw ocean and sky where there should have been boat hull. Water was starting to rush in that no pump would keep up with.
Cynthia got into her survival suit and gathered her purse and a few personal items strewn in the chaos left in the living area in the wake of the blast.
Mark, meanwhile, frantically searched for their two kitties they had rescued from animal shelters. Topaz and Jasper were hiding, terrified.
Cynthia pleaded with Mark to get into his survival suit and trust the kitties to follow their instincts and swim. Mark finally gave in, got into his survival suit and went overboard after radioing the Coast Guard they were abandoning ship. Cynthia had already called their fishing partners, who were a couple miles away.
They waited, floating in the cold, dark Pacific Ocean, watching with despair as all their hard work and their livelihood slowly sank, grateful that they had both survived without major injury and they had each other, not knowing what the future would hold, but knowing they would face it together.
Their friends' boat, Peso II, arrived and they were pulled out of the water, dried off, put in clothing many sizes too big, but dry and warm.
They began pulling odd pieces of floating debris out of the water and continued to watch "Sea Princess" sink.
Wait, there was Topaz swimming! They were able to rescue her, and it was a happy reunion.
Did Jasper survive?
Then they saw Jasper on the bow of the sinking boat. Jasper waited until the bow completely disappeared under water and was forced to swim. When he got a safe distance from the sinking bulk, they were able to rescue him as well.
The family was complete. Aboard the Peso II, it was a 16-hour run back into port at Coos Bay.
"It took about 45 minutes for the boat to completely go under," recalled Mark, still in shock after the ordeal. "I don't even know what happened, exactly, but whatever it was, it happened fast.
"I don't know if something cracked or a pinhole leak opened up. Fuel vaporized and ignited. It was like a bomb going off. The outcome would have been very different if I had been in the engine room when it happened. I wouldn't be here telling you the story. I keep feeling like it has all been a bad dream."
Now they are home in La Pine, trying to pick up the pieces and make a plan for the future as best they can.
This is a huge emotional loss for them. Fishing and boats are their life, not just their livelihood. The financial loss for them is huge as well, 25 years of working up to a boat in this class, all gone in moments.
Many personal items are gone, as they lived on the boat and it was their home in the summer. All the accumulated fishing gear and related items are gone, some of which are not manufactured anymore and can't be replaced.
They invested everything they had getting this boat up to Marks' standards of safety and maintenance, which according to his buddies is much higher than most.


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on March 6, 2013 - 4:23 PM
LOCKPORT – A bouncer at a now-defunct Lockport bar, who pleaded guilty Jan. 2 to beating up a patron last year, was sentenced to a year in Niagara County Jail on Wednesday after denying he took part in the beating.
Charles J. Bootes, 56, of East Avenue, had pleaded guilty to third-degree assault. The victim of the Jan. 8, 2012, beating at Finnan's on Lincoln Avenue, Philip Dearborn, "has, apparently, some brain damage," Assistant District Attorney Claudette S. Caldwell said. He also suffered a broken jaw, nose and eye socket.
"I'm sorry about whatever happened to him," Bootes said.
"But you take no responsibility?" County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas asked.
"No," Bootes answered. Farkas then sent him to jail.
Caldwell said, "It's always been our position that more than one person was involved. However, in grand jury, we were only able to obtain an indictment against [Bootes]." She cited testimony against Bootes from three witnesses.


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New Yorkers know devastation. When the Twin Towers collapsed nine years ago they saw that the blood supplies that might have been desperately needed could dry up in such a calamity. And then there are the disasters outside the five boroughs. When an earthquake rocked Haiti earlier this year, killing hundreds of thousands of people, the Haitian community was struck, too, and New Yorkers lined up to give blood so they could do their share.
Giving blood is one of those selfless acts without which our medical response capabilities would be greatly crippled. In short, it is a public service by citizens. It also is something denied specifically to any man who has had sex with another man.
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the federal Food and Drug Administration instituted a ban on gay men with multiple sexual partners donating blood. The agency later expanded that to any male who had slept with a man since 1977.
This federal policy has held fast in the face of changes in our understanding of HIV/AIDS and ability to screen blood. Now, however, movement is building to change the policy.
Leftover From the 1980s
Put simply, the Food and Drug Administration instituted the ban when knowledge of how HIV/AIDS was communicated was not well known, and AIDS was considered predominantly a "gay" disease.
"It's a broad over-classification and an exclusion of an entire group of people," said Nathan Schaefer, the director of public policy for the Gay Men's Health Crisis, a New York City-based organization providing prevention and care services for people affected by HIV/AIDS. "This is really problematic because the nation's blood supply experiences shortages."
While he did not know of any current blood shortage in the city, Schaefer believes New York is vulnerable. The city faced a blood supply drought in 2007 and could encounter a particularly critical situation in the event of another terrorist attack. Given the many gay people in New York, the national policy of not accepting their blood has a disproportionate effect on the country's biggest city.
Earlier this month, the Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability voted against changing the policy after hearing lengthy testimony on the issue. The panel reportedly said that current research did not yet justify the lifting of the ban. The Red Cross, which runs blood banks, and other group administering donor programs have suggested men wait a year after having sex with another man to donate blood.
Federal policy on giving blood has evolved over the years. In 1990, for example, the Food and Drug Administration banned all Haitians from giving blood on the grounds that because many Haitian transmitted AIDS through heterosexual intercourse, it was more difficult to determine which Haitian were at high risk for AIDS. A few months later, in the wake of protests by Haitian-Americans, the government reversed the policy.
While he doesn't see a change this year, Schaefer believes the push to alter the policy is greater than it has ever been and is bolstered by the fact that, from a cold medical perspective, screening blood donors through a questioning process has become unnecessary.
"The advancement that we've seen in HIV screening and testing technology has been profound," Schaefer said. "They are able to detect HIV in donations of blood within several days."
The Red Cross uses a dozen tests to determine the donor's blood type and to screen for infectious diseases, including AIDS. "Today's technology makes it almost impossible for HIV to slip through, and the total ban puts a huge burden on blood agencies and the blood supply," said Mark Wainberg, author of a study of the policy, in a prepared statement.
A report by Gay Men's Health Crisis issued this year noted that several countries including France, Argentina, Italy and Japan have reversed similar policies and outlines the shortcomings of the current rules.
"Although the current policy purports to be based upon 'behavior-based' deferrals, the questionnaire [given to prospective donors] does not ask particular questions about an individual's sexual or medical history that would be directly relevant in assessing one's risk of being HIV positive. For example, the policy currently fails to take into account the varying level of risk of HIV infection posed by different sexual practices and does not inquire about the nature of a potential donor's prior practices," the report said.
"Similarly, the current questionnaire does not address a potential donor's consistent and proper condom use, universally agreed to be highly effective in preventing HIV transmission through all types of sexual activity, number of sexual partners or frequency of sexual contact with anonymous partners. This means that gay men who always practice safer sex, or who are in monogamous relationships with partners who are HIV negative, are permanently excluded from eligibility to donate bloodm" the report continues.
The Ban's Effects
Barring gay men from giving blood has a measurable effet on the nation's blood supply,according to a recent report by the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law. The study restimated that the policy bans almost 7 million American men from gving blood and that removing it could add 219,000 pints of blood a year, an increase of about 1.4 percent. Restricing donations only from men who have sex with men within the past year would add 90,000 pints.
But the current ban also has broader social consequencesm according to Schaefer.
For one, it stigmatizes gay sex. Think of this way, Schaefer said: A heterosexual man arrives at a blood donation station. Before being hooked up, a screener asks a few questions, including whether he has ever had intercourse with another man. Because a medical professional has inquired about homosexual activity, this man could walk away with the impression that homosexuality should be considered a public health threat.
Schaefer believes New York's gay community should get actively involved in this issue. "There would be an opportunity for New York to be very helpful here, investment by the gay and lesbian community to really partner with policymakers in the federal government," he said.
The movement for change has the support of Christine Quinn, the openly gay City Council speaker, as well as U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Anthony Weiner.
Aside from the message the ban sends and and the fact that excluding gay men -- or even a man who has simply had one sexual encounter with another man since 1977 -- significantly reduces number of potential donors, the issue often comes down to fairness, as gay men believe it robs them of the right to contribute to society like everyone else.
Schaefer said that anger about the current policy has led to straight people on college campuses boycotting blood drives in solidarity with the gay and lesbian community. "This is really problematic, because what this then means is that not only are the gay and bisexual people not donating blood but a number of eligible young people are not donating blood," he said.


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on February 8, 2013 - 10:32 PM
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An Amherst trial attorney is emerging as a top candidate for one of Erie County's most coveted patronage posts – one of three commissioners for the Erie County Water Authority.
Christopher J. O'Brien, a contributor to Democratic Party and judicial races, has applied for the post and is expected to appear at County Legislature hearings next week. He joins 10 other applicants vying for the spot now held by Jack O'Donnell, a lobbyist with long ties to Sen. Charles E. Schumer, former Erie County Democratic Chairman G. Steven Pigeon and other top Democrats.
O'Donnell has reapplied for the part-time post, which pays $22,500 annually and is influential in awarding authority contracts and hiring employees. His connections to Pigeon, Mayor Byron W. Brown and the Erie County Conservative Party make him a serious contender for reappointment, according to several political observers.
"I look at Jack as capable, intelligent and someone who does his homework at the Water Authority," said Conservative Chairman Ralph C. Lorigo. "And at this point, he's not politically connected to the Democratic establishment."
Lorigo said he eventually may support another candidate who also has expressed interest, but only if O'Donnell is unable to garner the six votes necessary for reappointment.
Several sources familiar with the situation say no candidate is yet assured of the post.
O'Brien, a member of the University at Buffalo Council, said he was approached to apply because of his legal and business background.
"When I get a bill from the Water Authority, nothing frustrates me more than thinking they need someone there to shake things up," he said. "I think I could be that guy."
He said he sees the top goal for an authority commissioner as keeping water rates as low as possible. He recently started his own law firm specializing in injury cases after an "amicable" parting with longtime legal partner Steve Boyd.
According to state campaign finance records, O'Brien has contributed $5,000 in the past year to either the Erie County Democratic Committee or its chairman, Jeremy J. Zellner.
The new Democratic leader said he is not officially supporting O'Brien yet but added that his reputation in the legal community and business background make him ideal for the post.
"I think Chris is great," Zellner said. "He's highly qualified, and he's an outside-the-box guy."
Other applicants for the post include:
• Joseph Weiss, a former Clarence councilman and businessman who says he is not beholden to "anyone but citizens and the fish."
• Jeffrey D. Brzyski, of the City of Tonawanda, chief payroll supervisor for the Erie County Personnel Department who said he offers a "blend of education, work experience and life skills learned."
• Harold Rice Jr., of Holland, a member of the Bank of Holland board of directors who cited his business experience.
• Peter C. Grollitsch, of Williamsville, an engineering and construction professional who cited his experience working with the authority.
• J. Mark Robinson, of Lake View, executive director of the Care Management Association of Western New York who also cited his business experience.
• Daniel G. Gurnett Jr., of Hamburg, project controls consultant for Praxair Inc., who said he has managed many major foreign and domestic construction projects.
• Gregory S. Jackson, of Cheektowaga, a retired corrections officer.
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Common Council leaders are seeking an inquiry into practices at the Erie County Board of Elections, but an elections commissioner said their complaints are political in nature, not governmental.
The Council will consider a resolution today that takes issue with changes in the Democratic Committee's zone boundaries, which are set by the party, but raises other complaints about how the board functions and seeks an investigation by the Erie County Legislature.
The resolution is sponsored by four members of the Council majority: President Richard A. Fontana, President Pro Tempore Bonnie E. Russell, Majority Leader Demone A. Smith and Ellicott Council Member Darius G. Pridgen.
Smith acknowledged that part of what he is trying to do is to make a statement and that the Council does not have authority over party functions. But constituents have complained about changes in polling locations, he said, and the board should have to answer for that.
Democratic Elections Commissioner Dennis E. Ward, who said voters were duly notified of changes in their polling places, lambasted the authors of the resolution.
"It's really an embarrassment to them that they don't understand how government works," he said. "This is essentially an intraparty complaint that should be directed at Democratic Party headquarters."
Peter A. Reese, a member of the party who is upset with the zone changes, said he was glad the Council was taking up the issue, even though its jurisdiction is murky.
"The way the board operates, it might as well be the party," said Reese, a lawyer who has sued the board.
Council members, who aren't zone leaders, weren't notified about the zone changes, but the party did solicit input from zone leaders in November, County Democratic Chairman Jeremy J. Zellner said. The committee's officers approved the new zone map in late December, and it was common knowledge in the party that a reorganization was taking place, he said.
"It's kind of absurd to me," Zellner said of the resolution. "If any Council member wanted input on these things, they never contacted this office about it."
Zellner said that the resolution's sponsors did not support his candidacy for chairman and that this kind of opposition "goes with the territory."
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The singer says she turned down a chance to smooch the Gossip Girl hunk when he appeared in her latest video because she thought it would make her beau, Lou Al-Chamaa, jealous.
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That doesn't mean Lewis, whose new album Happy is out Nov. 17, is not an admirer of Crawford – he's just not her type. "He needs roughing up a bit! He'd be a really pretty girl … He's so beautiful, I mean, look at him," she says. "But I just don't think of him like that. And it wouldn't be fair to Lou to kiss other guys."
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She still does. The singer, who recently defended her relationship with the electrician, says she loves his eyes, and teases: "Sometimes I'll look at him and be like, 'You have really nice eyelashes, can I put mascara on them?' "
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I saw the commercial for True Blood and thought it was very interesting. I won't be able to watch it tonight when it comes on for the first time but I hope to catch it later on in the week. I'm really looking forward to seeing it. I like watching shows and movies about vampires.
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A caravan of more than two dozen riders wound through Moncks Corner on Friday as part of "The Warrior Ride."
The caravan kicked off the day bright and early with a ride to Santee Cooper headquarters on Rembert Dennis Boulevard before making the rounds to Berkeley Elementary, Berkeley Intermediate, Berkeley Middle School and Berkeley High School. It paused for a Noon ceremony in front of the War Memorial at the Berkeley County Health Department and in Lacey Park.
At Santee Cooper the ride passed beneath a giant American flag strung between Santee Cooper and Berkeley Electric Cooperative bucket trucks at the power company's main entrance.
"The flag created a nice patriotic overhand for the veterans as they rode into the complex," said Santee Cooper spokesperson Mollie Gore.
More than 100 Santee Cooper and Berkeley Electric Cooperative employees were on hand to cheer on the riders as they circled the parking lot before heading on to their next destination.
The Warrior Ride is a nonprofit organization that uses adaptive bicycling and other morale building events as a tool for recreation and rehabilitation for wounded heroes.
At the Berkeley County Health Department a similar flag display welcomed the riders with the stars and stripes draped between a pair of hook and ladder fire trucks as the warriors paused for a ceremony.
On Thursday the Warrior Ride began in Mount Pleasant before a ceremony at The Citadel's Daniel Library. Afternoon stops included the Veteran's Administration, the Battery and Civil War sites in downtown Charleston, a stopover at Patriots Point and dinner on the Isle of Palms.
On Saturday the ride concluded with a trip to Mepkin Abbey.
The two-day ride on adapted bicycles throughout Berkeley County serves as a tool for recreation and rehabilitation for wounded service members, but it is also an opportunity for communities show their support for veterans' sacrifices.
Riders' expenses were donated by several local businesses including Tri-County Links and Holiday Inn Express in Moncks Corner.
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Remembering 2012 — No. 5: Elections represented big changes
December 31, 2012
With locals growing tired of 2012 election drama, Nov. 6 was a sigh of relief as campaigning ended for many politicians....
Controversial campaign material by Republicans? If Ms. Molenda had bothered to inquire, she might have heard of a despicable mailing by the Jefferson Democrats lying about Republican Jill Upson's values and positions. Positive campaign by Mr. Skinner? Again, had Ms. Molenda bothered to ask Mr. Simon, she might have heard about lawyer Skinner's threats of legal action and of his bullying of Jill Upson at the NAACP debate. But it is more important to point out his sexual orientation, which only has any importance if Ms. Molenda believes in interest group politics, which she does. She also fails to mention the election of Republicans Mike Folk and Larry Faircloth to the Legislature. Might there be a bit of a bias here?
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Bedbugs, fake timeshare resellers and solicitations for home repairs disguised as "free" energy audits were among the newest types of complaints that consumer protection agencies fielded last year, according to a just-released annual report from the Consumer Federation of America.
The report, which includes a top 10 list of complaints, offers a snapshot of common ways people say they are being ripped off nationwide.
Bedbugs appear to be a growing problem in apartments, according to the report, which was produced from a survey of 38 state and local agencies in 22 states. Agencies began getting more complaints last year from tenants whose landlords were refusing to deal with infestations. Some apartment owners have started to include clauses in leases requiring tenants to pay a portion of the extermination costs.
Complaints about high-pressure sales of timeshares aren't new. But complaints are on the rise about timeshare "resellers," which fail to unload unwanted timeshares after collecting upfront fees, and timeshare "recovery" services, which promise to recoup money lost from resellers.
"Resale and recovery services are just total ripoffs," said Susan Grant, the Consumer Federation's director of consumer protection.
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10. When in doubt, check it out. Ask state or local consumer agencies for advice. For agency listings, visit www.consumeraction.gov/state.
The report from the Washington, D.C.-based association of nonprofit consumer organizations recommends consumers avoid resellers that take upfront fees and says not to "throw good money after bad" by paying another company to recover money lost to a reseller. It says the best options are to ask the company that manages the timeshare property about resale alternatives or to consult with a licensed real estate agent.
The report also flagged a new trend of scammers exploiting the growing popularity of prepaid debit cards to get cash in a hurry. The report warns that paying with a prepaid card offers no more protection than paying in cash.
"Just as with money transfer services, crooks can abuse prepaid products to get money quickly from consumers before they realize they've been scammed," Grant said.
Nearly all of the top 10 complaints in 2011 were the same categories cited in previous reports, such as problems with automobile sales and service, mortgages, credit repair and debt relief services and home improvement scams.
Grant said that was understandable because problems with big-ticket purchases are more apt to trigger complaints.
The No. 1 type of complaint last year, as in past years, involved vehicles, including sales, leasing, faulty repairs, lemons, towing disputes and misleading advertising.
The rest of the top 10 included:
2. Credit/debt. (Billing and fee disputes, mortgage modifications and mortgage-related fraud, credit repair, debt relief, predatory lending and illegal or abusive debt collection tactics.)
3. Home improvement/construction. (Shoddy work, failure to start or complete the job.)
4. Retail sales. (False advertising and other deceptive practices, defective merchandise, failure to deliver and problems with rebates, coupons or gift cards.)
5. Utilities. (Service and billing disputes.)
6. Services. (Shoddy work, failure to have required licenses, failure to perform.)
7. (Tie) Internet sales. (Deceptive practices and failure to deliver purchases.) Landlord/tenant. (Unhealthy or unsafe conditions, failure to make repairs or provide promised amenities, deposit and rent disputes, and illegal eviction tactics.)
8. Fraud. (Bogus sweepstakes and lotteries, work-at-home schemes, grant offers, fake check scams and others.)
9. Real estate, which is new to the top 10 list. (Timeshare sales and resales, retirement communities and assisted living facilities, and real estate fraud, other than mortgages.)
10. (Tie) Household goods. (Failure to deliver, faulty repairs, misrepresentations.) Home solicitations (Misrepresentations, etc. in door-to-door, telemarketing or mail solicitations and do-not-call violations.)
The five fastest-growing complaints were about fraud, debt collection, do-not-call violations, mortgage abuses and home improvement.
Budget cuts and limited resources were most frequently cited by state and local agencies as their biggest challenges. Another major challenge concerned the increasing incidence of scammers being located in other countries, complicating enforcement efforts.
The agencies surveyed had numerous suggestions for better protecting consumers, including outlawing mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, beefing up legal protections against unwanted online tracking and other invasions of privacy, and stiffening penalties for doing business without required licenses.
For the full 58-page report on consumer complaints:
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It didn't take long for Julianne Hough to become smitten with boyfriend Ryan Seacrest, but the starlet admits she almost passed up the opportunity to date him.
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5 People on Etsy Who Are Clearly Serial Killers
#2. This Man Really Wants to Be Your Old Teeth and Used Prosthetics Guy
The natural question when you find out someone is selling another person's dentures and crowns online is "Hey, where did you get all those dentures and crowns?" But if the answer could potentially be "From an old mental asylum, of course," are you sure you'd still want to know? Because that's exactly where this seller claims to have gotten all of his teeth, teeth he now wants you to have.
I don't want to put too fine a point on it, but these belonged in another human being's mouth, a crazy person, and now they can be yours to own. If that's not particularly unsettling to you, then maybe you'd also be interested in buying one of the prosthetic legs or old medical braces of which he fell into possession.
He's is more cagey about how he acquired these gems, or where the legless man from the picture may be buried, but it doesn't seem wise to pry. A quick scan of his Etsy page reveals that all proceeds go to helping him take care of feral cats, and also he intentionally took these pictures of himself:
That's him modeling a leather collar he found and that you could own for only $14.90. I don't know what it is about serial killers and plastic animal masks, but they really know how to milk as much terror as possible from harmless objects. Is that covered in some introductory course for mass murder? That kind of thing must exist, right? There's no way he took a picture like this one if he didn't come from the same murder school as that Canadian photographer.
#1. This Nice Woman Is Offering Mystery Boxes of Animal Sheddings and Doll Eyes
Working in the same vein as the man who sells the faces of coyotes, this woman offers hunks of different species: beetle wings, sea urchin spines, spent cocoons, and all types of bird feathers. But in addition, she has whole piles of doll eyes for sale. These eyes were pried out of the heads of dolls, or out of the mud from collapsed doll factories, so you can be certain they've seen at least one tragedy in their lives.
But easily the most troubling item she offers is called the "Magical Mystery Box" of "Curious Supplies." She promises that it will include all the supplies a normal person could want, like rodent bones and birds eggs, but also whatever she has laying around that she can pack into the box. If you're wondering what a serial killer might have laying around, here's the picture that accompanies the mystery box:
So I ordered it four days ago. I still haven't received the package, and I honestly have no idea if I will actually get a piece of a puppy or something even more startling. But regardless of what falls out of the mystery box, I fully intend to douse it all in hot glue and build something horrible in honor of the woman who sold me the parts. Oh, and if you never hear from me ever again, keep an eye out for my fingernails and teeth on Etsy. I'll be furious if you pay anything less than $30 for them.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Trident United Way has a new board chairman.
Todd Gallati, CEO at Trident Health System, has had a passion for impacting his community through United Way since the early days of his career, when he served as a loaned executive at the United Way of North Central Florida in 1989. He continued his involvement, eventually becoming a board member in 1997 and then served as board president at the United Way of Northwest Florida in 2005.
Gallati now takes the reins as 2014 Board Chair of Trident United Way, the organization announced earlier this week.
With his involvement in other United Ways around the southeast, Gallati brings broad experience to his new leadership position.
During his time as TUW Board Chair, Gallati will take the organization through its first year of implementing a new strategic plan that is aimed at strengthening TUWs role as the communitys catalyst for community change.
Im honored and committed to helping TUW lead the community effort to reach its Bold Community Goals of an 88 percent graduation rate, 30 percent more people who are financially stable and 25 percent more people living healthy by 2020, Gallati said.
TUW works to strengthen the community by focusing on education, financial stability and health, the building blocks for a good life. It mobilizes many partners to work together to solve complex problems in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties.
Gallati is in his sixth year at Trident Health System. He served as CEO at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Panama City, Fla for eight years prior to that. He has also been involved in other non-profit agencies including the American Cancer Society.
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This week, Americans will remember the 1963 March on Washington mostly for the watershed speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Original list of demands
Comprehensive and effective civil rights legislation from the present Congress — without compromise or filibuster — to guarantee all Americans access to all public accommodations, decent housing, adequate and integrated education (and) the right to vote.
Withholding federal funds from all programs in which discrimination exists.
Desegregation of all school districts in 1963.
Enforcement of the 14th Amendment — reducing congressional representation of states where citizens are disenfranchised.
A new executive order banning discrimination in all housing supported by federal funds.
Authority for the attorney general to institute injunctive suits when any constitutional right is violated.
A massive federal program to train and place all unemployed workers — Negro and white — on meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages.
A national minimum wage act that will give all Americans a decent standard of living. (Government surveys show that anything less than $2.00 an hour fails to do this.)
A broadened Fair Labor Standards Act to include all areas of employment which are presently excluded.
A federal Fair Employment Practices Act barring discrimination by federal, state and municipal governments, and by employers, contractors, employment agencies, and trade unions.
"Final Plans for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," Organizing Manual No. 2.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King declared that the moment was now for freedom and equality, and that physical force must be met only by soul force, not violence.
March organization
In a way, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a long time in the making, but mobilization didn't begin until a few months before the event. It was very quickly put together by the leadership of Deputy Director Bayard Rustin, who took charge of day-to-day logistics.
An umbrella organization, the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership, was created in June 1963, and soon included a defined leadership team called "the Big Six." They were: A. Philip Randolph, the figurehead of the march; James Farmer, president of the Congress of Racial Equality; John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Roy Wilkins, president of the NAACP; and Whitney Young, president of the National Urban League.
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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," he said.
John Lewis' reflection
"In the days that followed, too much of the national press, in my opinion, focused not on the substance of the day but on the setting. Their stories portrayed the event as a big picnic, a hootenanny combined with the spirit of a revival prayer meeting. Too many commentators and reporters softened and trivialized the hard edges of pain and suffering that brought about this day in the first place, virtually ignoring the hard issues that needed to be addressed, the issues that had stirred up so much trouble in my own speech. It was revealing that the quotes they gathered from most of the congressional leaders on Capitol Hill dealt not with the legislator's stand on the civil rights bill but instead focused on praising the 'behavior' and 'peacefulness' of the mass marchers."
That speech, among the most famous and most quoted in American history, came at the end of the program that warm day, Aug. 28, after many others already had articulated a list of demands. King's job was to rally the people, to inspire action, to foster unity.
Excerpts from 'I Have a Dream'
"It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges."
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
"(W)hen we allow freedom toring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
"It was such a magnetic speech; I felt real drawn into it," said 69-year-old Martha Bostick Gunter, a Sumter native who, with her activist husband Blake Fishburne, attended the gathering of about 250,000 on their way to Goddard College in Vermont. "That would have been the first time I had ever seen him. In the part of the country where I was brought up, he was a 'communist.' My husband was called a communist."
At the march, attended mostly by blacks but also many whites, Gunter did not feel like she was among communists. "There was a great sense of unity," she said.
And when King spoke of his dreams, his words stirred deep sentiments in her, especially the line about the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners sitting together at the table of brotherhood. "Coming from the Deep South, that really resonated with me," Gunter said.
As Americans commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, they will surely revisit King's powerful words and reflect on all that has changed and all that still can change.
But it is easy to forget that the march had a specific, pragmatic purpose, that it included many other important speakers, that it stirred significant controversy and that it had an important precedent. The true significance of the March on Washington, then, is not only its passionate plea for equality, but its strong emphasis on jobs and fair wages, on extending the American Dream to all.
It was an event that rode the civil rights wave of discontent and helped galvanize a generation, providing a powerful push for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
But, in a sense, it all started in 1941.
It's complicated
A. Philip Randolph was a socialist and organizer who formed and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly black labor union. He successfully pressured presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman into banning discrimination in the defense industries and outlawing segregation in the Armed Forces.
That effort, in 1941, was known as the March on Washington Movement. A massive protest rally in the nation's capital had been planned for July of '41 by Randolph and Bayard Rustin to advocate for fair treatment of blacks.
After Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 on June 25, prohibiting racial discrimination in the military, Randolph agreed to cancel the march. Flash forward to 1963.
Rustin was a proponent of nonviolence and an activist who had organized the first Freedom Ride in 1947 and helped start the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in an effort to empower Martin Luther King. Like Randolph, he spoke of the need for a coalition between black activists and organized labor, insisting that the path to social and economic enfranchisement was paved with jobs.
Rustin was in charge of mobilization and logistics for the march. He invited young members of the Nonviolent Action Group on the Howard University campus to help. One of those students was Cleveland Sellers, of Denmark, S.C. Sellers would soon become a powerful leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
In August 1963 Sellers was an 18-year-old budding activist, running errands and assisting organizers with administrative tasks. Now the president of Voorhees College, he displays on his office wall the program and buttons produced for the mass protest.
He said the march was a "respectable" protest action that garnered widespread support. What began as a deliberate challenge to federal authorities, a radical protest, became a popular expression of relatively mainstream liberal ideas as more and more people signed on and the Kennedy administration, initially opposed to the rally, endorsed it.
Roy Wilkins, the NAACP's executive secretary, worried that the march was too confrontational, and he was reluctant to be a sponsor; he thought it was possible to cajole the government to do the right thing.
As word of the march spread, members of labor unions and church institutions, white liberals and others wanted to be part of it. And as more people joined the effort, they were admonished to "keep the rhetoric within bounds," prompting some hard-line activists to charge that the march had been co-opted and compromised.
John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was one of many slated to give a speech. He intended to challenge the federal government, apply the concept of slavery to current conditions, threaten to "take matters into our own hands," and allude to a symbolic second civil war, this one led by freedom fighters marching "through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did."
"We will pursue our own 'scorched earth' policy," Lewis wrote in the original version of his remarks.
Union and religious leaders objected to the fiery rhetoric and demanded that Lewis tone it down. In a caucus hastily thrown together that included King, James Forman and march organizer Randolph, Lewis, a freedom rider who just two years before was beaten in Rock Hill as he exited a bus, relented, making extensive changes to his speech.
'Awe inspiring'
The Rev. Thomas M. Nesbitt Jr. of Morris Brown AME Church said he was most impressed with the discipline marchers showed.
"What stuck with me was the organization," he said. "We got there without any problems, we did what we were asked to do, which was march in an orderly fashion. As we were marching we sang. We were attentive, we were polite. We were simply a mass of people who were there for a focused purpose."
Nesbitt was a 17-year-old rising senior at Burke High School and a regular churchgoer. When local black leaders were looking for responsible young people to send to Washington, the Rev. Z.L. Grady, also of Morris Brown Church, recommended the young Nesbitt. An experience like this could nourish the mind of an aspiring minister, Grady thought.
Nesbitt was taken to Columbia where he caught one of several buses from South Carolina heading to the nation's capital. Once in Washington, Nesbitt walked toward the Lincoln Memorial and found a spot about 250 yards back.
"I was very humbled and pleased that they had decided to send me," Nesbitt said. King's speech was the highlight of the day, but what impressed Nesbitt most was the marching, for this was an act of solidarity. "It was my first experience with anything like that in my life," he said. "It was orderly, awesome, awe inspiring."
But some black leaders didn't think the march was very effective in advancing the cause.
"It was a sellout. It was a takeover," Malcolm X said. It was "the Farce on Washington." Sellers was among those who agreed, at least in part, with Malcolm X. While the march was successful, Sellers said, it was an exercise in moderation, and it disappointed some of the more radical players.
"Dr. King, who was introduced by A. Philip Randolph as 'the moral leader of the nation,' was the individual who profited most from the march," Sellers wrote in his memoir. "He was a dignified, moderate man who still believed in the goodness of the government and its operators."
This view, that the march had been a showcase of moderate or co-opted politics, has been challenged by William P. Jones in his new book, "The March on Washington." Jones, citing recent scholarly work, argues that media coverage blunted the march's broad political demands "and reduced its message to King's optimistic Dream." But those demands, Jones wrote, represented a significant departure from the status quo and prompted left-wing journalist Murray Kempton to remark, "No expression one-tenth so radical has ever been seen or heard by so many Americans."
Work left to do
Today, black leaders and others still are fighting for justice, jobs and full access to the democratic process, said Ed Bryant, president of the North Charleston chapter of the NAACP.
"There are so many issues on the table," Bryant said — protection of voting rights, repeal of so-called stand-your-ground laws, unemployment, the dismantling of labor unions, mass incarceration and, in South Carolina, the continued presence of the Confederate battle flag on Statehouse grounds.
To address such concerns, the National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, in cooperation with the NAACP, organized a new March on Washington, which drew tens of thousands to the Mall on Saturday. A second event, the commemorative Let Freedom Ring ceremony organized by the King Center in Atlanta, is planned for Wednesday, the actual anniversary of the 1963 event, and will feature an appearance by President Barack Obama.
"It's not just an anniversary march," Bryant said. "The issues have changed, but we're still marching."
Fifty years later, Martha Gunter thinks back to that hot summer day, when she forgot to pack a sandwich and relied on the largess of fellow protesters, when she watched the speakers from the shade of a tree on the left side of the Lincoln Memorial, not very far back.
"It made me more aware of the specific issues," Gunter said. "Growing up in the South I just didn't really know those things."
Fifty years later, much has changed. Gunter is a member of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Gospel Choir. It's one way she has found to reinforce the solidarity she experienced that day in Washington.
Still, she said, the old hatreds and misunderstandings continue to fester. "There is just such animosity. That bothers me."
In this combination of Associated Press file photos, at top, a large crowd marches for civil rights in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963; and at bottom, demonstrators march towards the Martin Luther King Junior Memorial during a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Aging veterans of the original March on Washington gathered with younger generations Saturday amassing a crowd that in contrast was more female, more Hispanic, and more diverse by sexual orientation than in 1963. (AP Photo/File)×
In this combination of Associated Press file photos, at top, a large crowd marches for civil rights in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963; and at bottom, demonstrators march towards the Martin Luther King Junior Memorial during a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Aging veterans of the original March on Washington gathered with younger generations Saturday amassing a crowd that in contrast was more female, more Hispanic, and more diverse by sexual orientation than in 1963.×
Martha Bostick Gunter×
Cleveland Sellers (far left) stands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael during a 1965 march in Mississippi. Sellers and Carmichael worked together as senior officers in the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee. Cleveland Sellers Jr. (far left) stands with Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael (right) in Mississippi during the June 1966 "March Against Fear." (Photo provided by Cleveland Sellers)×
A button that Cleveland Sellers has framed in his office.×
Mementos from the March on Washington. (Brad Nettles/Staff)×
A view from the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington.×
Today Cleveland Sellers is president of Voorhees College.×
The Rev. Thomas Nesbitt Jr.×
Passengers and well-wishers on the platform at the Charleston train station on August 28, 1963. Passengers boarded a special train that carried people from several Southern cities to Washington, D.C., for the rally.×


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There are other steps we can take to help families make ends meet, and few are more effective at reducing inequality and helping families pull themselves up through hard work than the Earned Income Tax Credit. Right now, it helps about half of all parents at some point. Think about that. It helps about half of all parents in America at some point in their lives.
But I agree with Republicans like Senator Rubio that it doesn't do enough for single workers who don't have kids. So let's work together to strengthen the credit, reward work, help more Americans get ahead.
Let's do more to help Americans save for retirement. Today most workers don't have a pension. A Social Security check often isn't enough on its own. And while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who don't have 401(k)s. That's why tomorrow I will direct the Treasury to create a new way for working Americans to start their own retirement savings: MyRA. It's a -- it's a new savings bond that encourages folks to build a nest egg.
MyRA guarantees a decent return with no risk of losing what you put in. And if this Congress wants to help, work with me to fix an upside-down tax code that gives big tax breaks to help the wealthy save, but does little or nothing for middle-class Americans, offer every American access to an automatic IRA on the job, so they can save at work just like everybody in this chamber can.
And since the most important investment many families make is their home, send me legislation that protects taxpayers from footing the bill for a housing crisis ever again, and keeps the dream of homeownership alive for future generations.
One last point on financial security. For decades, few things exposed hard-working families to economic hardship more than a broken health care system. And in case you haven't heard, we're in the process of fixing that.
Now -- a pre-existing condition used to mean that someone like Amanda Shelley, a physician's assistant and single mom from Arizona, couldn't get health insurance. But on January 1st, she got covered. (Applause.) On January 3rd, she felt a sharp pain. On January 6th, she had emergency surgery. Just one week earlier, Amanda said, that surgery would've meant bankruptcy. That's what health insurance reform is all about, the peace of mind that if misfortune strikes, you don't have to lose everything.
Already, because of the Affordable Care Act, more than 3 million Americans under age 26 have gained coverage under their parents' plans.
More than 9 million Americans have signed up for private health insurance or Medicaid coverage — 9 million.
And here's another number: zero. Because of this law, no American, none, zero, can ever again be dropped or denied coverage for a pre-existing condition like asthma or back pain or cancer. (Cheers, applause.) No woman can ever be charged more just because she's a woman. And we did all this while adding years to Medicare's finances, keeping Medicare premiums flat and lowering prescription costs for millions of seniors.
Now, I do not expect to convince my Republican friends on the merits of this law. But I know that the American people are not interested in refighting old battles. So again, if you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what you'd do differently. Let's see if the numbers add up. (Applause.) But let's not have another 40- something votes to repeal a law that's already helping millions of Americans like Amanda.
The first 40 were plenty. We all owe it to the American people to say what we're for, not just what we're against.
And if you want to know the real impact this law is having, just talk to Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky, who's here tonight. Now, Kentucky's not the most liberal part of the country. That's not where I got my highest vote totals. But he's like a man possessed when it comes to covering his commonwealth's families. They're our neighbors and our friends, he said. They're people we shop and go to church with -- farmers out on the tractor, grocery clerks. They're people who go to work every morning praying they don't get sick. No one deserves to live that way.
Steve's right. That's why tonight I ask every American who knows someone without health insurance to help them get covered by March 31st. Help them get covered. Moms, get on your kids to sign up. Kids, call your mom and walk her through the application. It'll give her some peace of mind, and plus, she'll appreciate hearing from you.
After all, that — that's the spirit that has always moved this nation forward.
It's the spirit of citizenship, the recognition that through hard work and responsibility, we can pursue our individual dreams, but still come together as one American family to make sure the next generation can pursue its dreams as well.
Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote. Last year, part of the Voting Rights Act was weakened, but conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats are working together to strengthen it. And the bipartisan commission I appointed, chaired by my campaign lawyer and Governor Romney's campaign lawyer, came together and have offered reforms so that no one has to wait more than a half-hour to vote. Let's support these efforts. It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank account, that drives our democracy.
Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say "we are not afraid," and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters and our shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.
Citizenship demands a sense of common purpose; participation in the hard work of self-government; an obligation to serve to our communities.
And I know this chamber agrees that few Americans give more to their country than our diplomats and the men and women of the United States armed forces. Thank you.
Tonight, because of the extraordinary troops and civilians who risk and lay down their lives to keep us free, the United States is more secure. When I took office, nearly 180,000 Americans were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, all our troops are out of Iraq. More than 60,000 of our troops have already come home from Afghanistan. With Afghan forces now in the lead for their own security, our troops have moved to a support role. Together with our allies, we will complete our mission there by the end of this year, and America's longest war will finally be over.
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
If the Afghan government signs a security agreement that we have negotiated, a small force of Americans could remain in Afghanistan with NATO allies to carry out two narrow missions: training and assisting Afghan forces and counterterrorism operations to pursue any remnants of Al Qaeda. For while our relationship with Afghanistan will change, one thing will not: our resolve that terrorists do not launch attacks against our country.
The fact is that danger remains. While we've put Al Qaeda's core leadership on a path to defeat, the threat has evolved as Al Qaeda affiliates and other extremists take root in different parts of the world. In Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Mali, we have to keep working with partners to disrupt and disable these networks. In Syria, we'll support the opposition that rejects the agenda of terrorist networks. Here at home, we'll keep strengthening our defenses and combat new threats like cyberattacks. And as we reform our defense budget, we have to keep faith with our men and women in uniform and invest in the capabilities they need to succeed in future missions.
We have to remain vigilant.