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ROCKFORD — The Rockford IceHogs have announced details for their fifth annual Bowl-A-Thon taking place from 2 to 4 p.m. March 16 at Cherry Bowl, 7171 Cherryvale North Blvd.
The event will raise money for the Sydney Ives Foundation. The first 100 bowlers, or 25 teams, to register for the charity bowling event are guaranteed to bowl with an IceHogs player, coach or team personnel.
The deadline to register is March 7. Cost: $40 per bowler, $150 for teams of four, includes two games, shoe and ball rental. For information or register: 815-847-6381, firstname.lastname@example.com, tinyurl.com/kfscsbq.
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When it comes to his principles, Alex Mooney is not one to compromise. And as a candidate for the U.S....
Support Mooney. We need his type in office to stop these radical progressive dems.
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Now THIS is a guy I could vote for!! Hope he gets in. He is the type of Congressman that is Sorely needed right now. The Democrats are Ruining this country, running up a National Debt that even our Great grandchildren may not be able to get out from under, Trampling on the Constitution, Ignoring We The People, and now have foisted upon us the Abomination called Obamacare which is costing Millions of Americans their jobs, their health insurance coverage, and Adamantly Refused to negotiate ANYTHING. Arrogance at it's highest!! I hope you make it Alex Mooney!! We Desperately need more like you!
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"Alex Mooney is not one to compromise" ... he should fit right in!
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The 7 wonders of the World. Seven of the most beautiful places on earth.
A Woman has three glorious holes... Use your mind.
A Woman has three glorious holes... Use your mind.
"Thanks for last night... You're a 3 hole Wonder"
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A woman that is great at giving head, loves it up the ass and enjoys to have their pussy pounded over and over and over again.
Jodi is such a slut-skank, her nick name is '3 Hole Wonder'.
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This is what Travis Alexander called Jodi Arias. The woman that later stabbed him 29 times and shot him in the forehead.
Your a 3 hole wonder Jodi!
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"The wedding was absolutely beautiful," says a guest.
With thousands of fans, photographers and TV cameras watching from afar, Cruise and Holmes were joined by family – Katie's dad Martin walked her down the aisle – and a slew of celeb pals, including Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, and Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, among others.
More on Their Wedding
Though initially there were questions about whether Cruise and Holmes's marriage on Saturday was official – the Mayor of Bracciano, Italy, said the couple needed to have a civil ceremony in town in order to make it legal – Cruise's reps say Tom and Katie took care of everything beforehand.
"As is customary for couples marrying outside of the United States, Cruise and Holmes officialized their marriage in Los Angeles prior to their departure for Italy," according to the statement.
Other details released Saturday by the newlyweds:
The bride: Holmes wore an off-the-shoulder Armani gown with an ivory silk train adorned in Valenciennes lace and Swarovski beaded crystal embroidery. She accessorized her gown with an ivory tulle floor-length veil and ivory silk shoes. Armani, which outfitted the entire wedding, also supplied Katie's bouquet of calla lilies, as well as a champagne evening gown, which she wore at the reception. (For more details on who wore what, see PEOPLE's related story.)
The groom: Armani outfitted Cruise with a navy blue tuxedo from the Giorgio Armani Hand Made to Measure collection. The jacket label read, "Giorgio Armani for Tom Cruise."
The couple's rings: Their rings were white gold Cartier with diamonds.
The meal: After cocktails, guests were served Italian hors d'oeuvres, followed by a multi-course meal.
The cake: Five-tiered white chocolate, decorated with marzipan roses, and studded with white chocolate chips.
The entertainment: Italian singer Andrea Bocelli.
Saturday's wedding started on a damp note, with scattered rain throughout the morning. Holmes and 7-month-old daughter Suri were escorted into the castle under a cluster of green umbrellas. A little over an hour later, the groom was escorted from the Hassler hotel in Rome to Lake Bracciano 18 miles away. With the sun going down, candles lit up the perimeter of the 15th-century castle as limousines carrying the guests drove through the gates.
Fans and media were kept at a safe distance from the castle: Police checkpoints prevented anyone unauthorized from getting too close, and journalists were stationed in the nearby town square.
Saturday's ceremony brought the couple's 19-month romance full circle: Cruise and Holmes first stepped out as a couple in Rome in April 2005, with Cruise already referring to Holmes as "amore mio" just a few weeks after their first date (sushi, a private plane ride and a motorcycle trip to the beach).
Holmes wasn't shy about her feelings either. "(I'm) totally in love. He's amazing, he's kind, he's generous. He made me laugh like I've never laughed," she gushed two months later. "I feel like he's made my life."
Life changed even more in mid-June 2005. During a late-night candlelit dinner at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Cruise proposed with a five-carat diamond ring. "I want to marry her as soon as possible," Cruise announced. "You have to do what you feel is right," he told PEOPLE at the time. "It's (about) your own integrity and how you want to live your life."
The pair had another reason to celebrate in October, when they announced they were expecting a baby. Holmes "almost seems born for motherhood," her pal and former Dawson's Creek costar Oliver Hudson told PEOPLE. "She's a nurturer."
The pair welcomed 7-lb., 7-oz. Suri on April 18. "The moment I looked in her eyes I felt like ... Mom," Holmes told the magazine of her new bundle of joy. "She's the miracle of our life."


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ROCKFORD — Lifescape Community Services, 705 Kilburn Ave. recently promoted Cheryl Davis to director of Brightside Adult Day Service and Alberto Carrion to Lifescape's director of program services.
Davis will maintain the safety and security of the clients and increase client population at Brightside. Carrion will oversee a department that offers service programs to help seniors enrolling in a number of state and federal programs.
For information: 815-963-1609.
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Frisco Police launch tip411 program for anonymous tips
The Frisco Police Department is now signed up to use tip411, an Internet-based tool that lets the public text tips or other messages to police anonymously. The service allows the police department to respond to tips, creating an anonymous two-way chat.
People should still use 911 for emergency calls or crimes in progress. The tip service is intended to keep police informed and keep neighborhoods safer.
"When someone feels afraid to come forward, or simply feels like they don't want to get involved – this can be a great way to pass information on without fear of retribution," Frisco Police Chief John Bruce said in a news release.
Anyone with a cell phone can send an anonymous tip to the Frisco Police Department by texting the word FriscoPD and the information to 847411 (tip411). Anonymous tips can also be submitted through the department's website.
The program works through Minnesota-based Citizen Observer. The company's service is used in more than 1,000 communities.


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Is Kate officially in nesting mode?
If her recent trip to the Design Centre in Chelsea Harbour is any indication, the answer is yes.
The seven-months-pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, 31, was spotted shopping at the ultra-posh interior design center on Tuesday, where she checked out at least one fabric swatch, and took time to refuel at the public café, right alongside other shoppers.
"She just sat in the atrium like everyone else," an onlooker tells PEOPLE. "She was very polite and really nice – just totally normal. I didn't know it was her at first. I just thought, 'You look a lot like Kate Middleton.' Then it kind of dawned on me."
"She had a cappuccino and a banana muffin," adds the source. "It's not every day you see the future Queen of England sitting down in a café eating a muffin!"
Kate – who recently hired one of the Queen's longstanding housekeepers for her and Prince William's new home inside Kensington Palace, which they plan to inhabit early this fall – also stopped into Mulberry Home and looked at a swatch of Twelve Bar Stripe fabric in sand and rose before calling it a day.
"She was nice, but I think she was a bit tired," says another source. "[She] had done a lot of shopping for someone who is so heavily pregnant. She didn't really say anything. She just pottered around looking at the fabrics. But she seemed really nice."
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Kate Shops – and Snacks – in London
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PRINCETON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - They take an oath to uphold the law, but the role of law-enforcement continues to evolve with the times. That includes responding to calls involving people with developmental disabilities, like autism.
Autism is a developmental disorder that affects 1 out of 88 children, including 1 in 54 boys. These staggering numbers mean that most first responders will more than likely encounter someone with autism, at some point.
Matt Brown will go anywhere in Maine to teach people about the country's fastest growing developmental disability. This training session is taking place in Washington County.
'I am here as a father with a child with autism, so this is intensely personal,' says Matt Brown a federal probation officer.
Before a crowd of police officers, border patrol agents, game wardens, firefighters, teachers and parents -- this federal probation officer is making his audience aware that people with autism have difficulty making eye contact and may not respond to questions. .
'People with autism have a lot of characteristics, especially to those in law enforcement, we can misinterpret very easily.
Is this guy on drugs? This guy is not looking at me in the eye, this guy is lying to me and not answering my questions, a simple question because he has a processing delay,' said Brown.
The training includes teaching officers how to approach a person with autism. Most are very sensitive to lights and sounds, especially sirens. The excessive input on their senses can lead to meltdown.
'When you are interacting with someone and you know they have autism, always be thinking about the scene, do we have too much noise, too many people?'
Others can't tolerate physical touch and have body space issues. Many are non-verbal or have limited communication skills, while some may repeat what is said to them.
'You have to be real real careful about what you say, they will take you literally if you say you going to get back to them in an minute and you take 62 seconds, you are going to have a problem.' said Brown.
People with autism, especially children can wander.
' So when you get that kind of call, these are life or death situations for sure I would want to know the water sources where you are, because that is where they tend to go,' said Brown.
The rate of autism has skyrocketed more than one-thousand percent since Brown toured the state a decade ago.
The training is now hitting close to home for some officers. Lt. Travis Willey of the Washington Co. Sheriff's Dept has a 13 year old son with autism. He says the training is key to helping his officers handle calls involving someone who has autism or is possibly high on bath salts because the behaviors can be similar.
'Here in Eastern and Central Maine, bath salts have been a big issue in the last year or so some of the symptoms and things, if we respond to a scene we need to be able to distinguish the difference,' said Lt. Willey.
Brown also encourages police departments and other agencies to create a data base listing children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. Parents fill out information about their children on a registration form which also has an updated photo.
parents are also asked to list on the registration form their child's favorite topic. A key piece of information that can be used by officers and first responders to help a person with autism calm down.
Registration forms are available on the Maine Autism Society's website: http://www.asmonline.org/programs_law.asp


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quote: That's just it. If you never use Youtube, netflix, whatever on your cellular-service device because the bandwidth wouldn't let the stuff play well, you easily stayed under your cap. All of a sudden *bam* - you can stream anything you want. ...
quote: Ah the Internet, where every moronic 13 yr old thinks he's smart.
quote: Increased speed = increased data usage.


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It is no longer "love all" for tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki and golf star Rory McIlroy.
The high-profile sports couple have ended their engagement, which they announced on New Year's Day via Twitter, after sending out their wedding invitations over the weekend.
"There is no right way to end a relationship that has been so important to two people," McIlroy, 25, said in a statement reported by CNN. "The problem is mine. The wedding invitations issued at the weekend made me realize that I wasn't ready for all that marriage entails."
Continued McIlroy, currently ranked 10th in the world: "I wish Caroline all the happiness she deserves and thank her for the great times we've had. I will not be saying anything more about our relationship in any setting."
The three-year relationship between the Irishman and the 23-year-old Danish beauty, who was formerly the world's top player, was often dogged by rumors of trouble. But the couple seemed happy as recently as Sunday, when McIlroy Tweeted a photo of the two enjoying a beautiful waterfront dinner.
"Nice view for dinner with @CaroWozniacki at Nobu Monte Carlo," he wrote, even adding a smiley face to the message.
Rory McIlroy and Caroline Wozniacki End Engagement
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With the unceremonious shuttering of Microsoft Money a few months ago, a lot of former Microsoft Money customers are looking for alternatives. If you were using Microsoft Money Essentials, Plus Deluxe, Plus Premium, or Plus Home & Business, your software will still work but support will be gone.
Fortunately, there are a lot of alternatives in the online budgeting tool chest. After a recent Personal Finance Hour show all about budgeting, I took a look at several software tools. This post will cover all of them briefly to help you decide which might be right for you (and they are not ranked in any predefined order).
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Since last summer, the Department has been working with the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Stupski Foundation, and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation on advancing innovative approaches to K-12 learning known as "Next Generation Learning," or NxGL. The critical attributes of Next Generation Learning are characterized as:
NH is one of seven states brought together to advance this set of design principles. The other six state education agencies (SEAs) that stepped forward to be part of this bold effort, and demonstrated both readiness and capacity to establish an Innovation Lab-comprised of the SEA, district(s), school(s), and partners-within their state include Kentucky, Maine, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. These states will work together with intensive support from CCSSO, the Stupski Foundation, and others who will be engaged in the partnership.
Over the last several years there have been a number of developments that have placed in sharp focus the need to more closely examine how we all are planning for the future of public education. The economic downturn has created many challenges for all of us in terms of budgets and capacity to deliver quality educational services. The "disruptive innovation" brought on by rapid advancements in the use of educational technology has forced us to think in new modalities and to envision and strategize for the future in ways that may have not been anticipated just a few short years ago. The larger community expectations of student performance have grown exponentially during this same time, as has the need for intensive and dramatic student engagement. Meanwhile, we are assailed almost every day by test scores and anecdotal evidence of tremendous transformation happening all across the globe in the field of education. It is time we come together to think and plan together regarding our future.
On Monday, May 23, 2011, a group of district/school administrators, educational technology leaders and nationally recognized speakers in the field of education met to discuss advancing innovative approaches to K-12 learning known as "Next Generation Learning," or NxGL. We invite all interested districts to join with us in this exciting partnership for next generation learning.
On July 14, 2011, representatives from seven school districts met with Dr. Tom Carroll and Jeff Dilks of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) to explore the possibility of creating a Learning Studios network here in NH. Learning Studios enable Learning Teams of educators, tech-savvy youth, and skill-based volunteers to develop innovative approaches to complex learning challenges.
On August 3rd and 4th, representatives of the Partnership for Next Generation Learning, the Stupski Foundation, and the Council of Chief State School Officers visited with students, teachers, and leaders of the Manchester School of Technology and the Manchester School District to look at examples of student voice and agency at the school, including the CTE Center, the PASS Program, and the Adult Education Program. The PNxGL is looking to create learning labs, where youth will be active co-creators and partners, along with teachers, principals, superintendents, and State Chiefs. Over the next 3 years, the Learning Labs will design, test, and transform learning. To build a shared evidence base, labs will take common assessments, exchange data with each other, and engage in continuous improvement cycles as they learn what works. Through these repeated cycles, the labs will discover and document concrete practices that improve student agency, embed technology and ultimately result in dramatically increased student learning.
On September 20th and 21st, a team of five NH educators joined the Deputy Commissioner at a national meeting of the seven Innovation Lab States in the Partnership with representatives of the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Stupski Foundation to address common Next Generation Learning elements across the states.
On Thursday, October 27, 2011 districts, Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), and others who have indicated interest in the NH Partnership for Next Generation Learning came together to learn more about Learning Studios and the emerging NH Network. Workshops engaged teams in what a Learning Studio might look like in a given school and community. Learning Studios create a scenario where a series of learning challenges are offered, for students, teachers, and community members. Within a Learning Studio, teams of students and adults work together to address the learning challenges. Learning Studios are seen as an excellent entry point to begin the transition to a more personalized, student-centered learning environment, discussed further within the Partnership for Next Generation Learning.
The NH Department of Education has received a small grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation to help coordinate this effort and to engage National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, (NCTAF), in this work. Recently, the Stupski Foundation has designated Manchester School of Technology as one of a select group of initial high schools nationwide to join a newly launched Learning Lab Network. Through this new initiative Manchester School District students, educators, and administrators will be connected to their peers nationwide, sharing lessons and building a body of evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the student centered approach.
Parthenon's Education Center of Excellence (ECE) is pleased to share the publication of Next Generation Learning – Defining and Scaling the Opportunity, co-authored by Parthenon's Seth Reynolds and Tammy Battaglino, in partnership with Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Opportunity Equation and Stupski Foundation.
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Photos: Who needs young female dancers when you've got awesome older men repping the Dallas Mavericks as ManiACCs?
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Hopeful Dallas Mavericks fans gathered at the Hilton Anatole for 2012-2013 ManiAAC auditions. The requirements? They must be male, a high school graduate and 21 years or older. There were maximum/minimum height or weight requirements. Not your typical sports team dance tryouts.
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As South Korean and U.S. officials believe North Korea is prepared to test fire a long-range missile, North Korean officials have announced the nation is looking forward to developing a space program in the near future.
"The DPRK's policy of advancing to space for peaceful purposes is a justifiable aim that fits the global trend of the times," government officials said in a state-run newspaper. "There is no power in the world that can stop it. As long as developing and using space are aimed at peaceful purposes and such efforts contribute to enhancing human beings' happiness, no one in the world can find fault with them."
Despite international concern, North Korea has been involved in space research and development, but hasn't launched its own satellites or rockets into space. Several nations -- and possibly NASA in the near future -- fuel their space programs through military funding, and there is a concern North Korea would use its satellite launch technology to develop more sophisticated rocket technology for missiles and weapons of war.
During a launch in 1998, North Korea launched a missile that sailed over Japan and splashed into the Pacific Ocean, with government officials saying the missile helped put a satellite into orbit.
Along with a possible entrance into space, North Korea is almost ready to test launch the Taepodong-2 missile, which has an estimated range of 4,100 miles. Pyongyang would like to test launch the missile to garner international attention, especially from new U.S. President Barack Obama.
North Korea first tried to launch Taepodong-2 in 2006, but the missile failed 40 seconds after launch, U.S. security officials said.
The United States and numerous other western nations have become increasingly concerned by a growing number of nations looking to develop space programs.
Iran recently launched a satellite into orbit despite international concern its space program could be used for military purposes.
quote: (Perhaps a bit thick in rhetoric, but make no mistake, a return nuclear exchange would piss off too many Nuclear armed states, and the United States would not be able to handle a massive rescue / rebuilding event such as the torching of one of her cities, and taking NK. As clearly evidenced by her inability to rebuild New Orleans, while fighting two small conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The question being, could China actually diplomatically stop the US from launching, and would the sacking of Pyongyang be enough for those wanting direct retribution in the US?)
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Lightly oil a platter or cookie sheet with a few drops of Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil. In a small skillet, roast the pecan halves, stirring constantly to avoid burning. Add the barley malt and shoyu to the skillet. On medium heat, simmer the pecans and malt for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. The mixture will bubble as it reaches the "candy" stage. A candy thermometer can be used or test by dropping a small strand of heated malt into a glass of cold water. When the drop immediately hardens, the candy is ready. Quickly drop candy, about 5 pecans per piece, onto the platter or cookie sheet. Allow to cool 30 minutes before serving.
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By Betty Russell, Pure Matters
Chronic pain, whether it comes and goes or is constant, makes it impossible to do your normal activities without discomfort. Chronic pain can be the result of an injury, illness or medical condition, or its cause may be unknown. Yet, most people with chronic pain can lessen it to tolerable levels, regardless of the cause, according to the American Chronic Pain Association.
These are common types of chronic pain:
Pain and inflammation may actually change the nervous system. Because of this, pain may linger long after the physical injury that caused it has healed.
Living with chronic pain can lure you into feeling helpless about your condition. It can cause emotional problems or physical limitations that threaten your relationships, hamper your job performance and limit your activities. Anxiety, depression, anger, hopelessness or desperation about the pain can make it seem worse. This can, in turn, alter your personality and disrupt family and work relationships. Chronic pain can interfere with sleep, leaving you tired and less able to cope with the pain.
No single pain treatment works for everyone, and it's easy to feel like giving up if you've tried several treatments that haven't worked. You may have to wade through a lot of hype and controversy that leave you scratching your head and wondering: What's effective? What's safe? What's my best strategy?
Here are steps you can take to manage your pain and feel more in control:
- Learn all you can about your condition.
- Keep a pain diary that includes where the pain is, how bad it is, how often it occurs and what makes the pain better or worse.
- Find a health care provider who understands chronic pain, has experience treating pain similar to yours, is willing to talk and listen to you, and is willing to talk to your family. Not all doctors have been trained to treat pain. Sometimes, a team of health care professionals may need to be involved.
- With your health care provider, identify the pain and figure out a pain management plan. This plan may include medications, as well as non-medical treatments such as exercise and meditation.
- Take care of your mental health. If you think you may be depressed or are having difficulty with another mental or emotional problem, tell your health care provider. It's important to work closely with your provider to adjust your pain management plan as needed.
Many options for treatment
Most treatments will not get rid of all the pain, but they can reduce the amount of pain you have and how frequently you have it. Treatment can increase your ability to move and remain independent. Most treatment plans involve a combination of medication, therapy and lifestyle changes.
Many types of medication are used to treat chronic pain. Some drugs are long-acting to treat pain that is continuous; others are short-acting to treat pain that comes and goes. Some medications come in pill form, some as injections.
These are common pain-relieving medications, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), a group of doctors who specialize in relieving pain:
- Acetaminophen. This is a non-aspirin pain reliever most commonly sold as Tylenol. It can relieve minor pain, but does not reduce swelling. Acetaminophen is often used in combination with other prescribed and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. Be sure to read the labels on all OTC drugs you take to make sure you are not getting too much acetaminophen.
- Aspirin. This drug, taken alone or as an ingredient with other drugs, can reduce swelling and inflammation and relieve pain.
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). These medications, such as ibuprofen and naproxen, relieve pain and reduce inflammation and fever.
- Steroidal drugs. Cortisol and prednisone are two examples of these medications. These are for more serious inflammatory conditions, such as chronic arthritis.
- Opioid pain medication. This is used to treat acute cancer pain; occasionally these are prescribed for chronic pain not caused by cancer.
- Antidepressants. These drugs can relieve some kinds of pain and can help with sleep problems.
- Anti-seizure medications. These are prescribed for pain caused by damaged nerves.
- Local anesthetics. These drugs, with or without cortisone, are injected around nerve roots -- a group of nerves -- or into muscles or joints to decrease swelling, irritation, muscle spasms and abnormal nerve activity.
You and your health care provider need to choose medications carefully, based on the cause of your pain and how severe it is, as well as your risk for gastrointestinal or cardiovascular problems and addiction.
If you are taking prescribed pain medication, do NOT take OTC pain relievers, herbal medicines or dietary supplements unless you check with your health care provider first. Many of these can interact with prescribed medications and cause serious problems.
More options
Life would be simpler if taking a pill meant the end of chronic pain, but that's not true for many pain sufferers. Medications may not be the best option for mild pain. Medications don't help some people, and other people don't want to take them every day. Even when medications help, many people still face a lot of pain.
Fortunately, other options, alone or with medication, can help. Here are some to consider:
- Lifestyle changes . You may be able to ease your pain by losing weight, quitting smoking or exercising more. Exercise can help you stay flexible and mobile. Dietitians and physical and occupational therapists can help you reach your fitness goals.
- Electrical stimulation . Low-voltage electrical currents from small, battery-operated devices can stimulate nerves through the skin and interrupt the brain's normal pain signals. According to the ASA, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation is the most common form. It is not a painful treatment.
- Psychological support . Antidepressants prescribed to help relieve pain may also help depression related to the pain. Support and counseling from a psychiatrist or psychologist may be needed, as well as self-help therapies such as relaxation or biofeedback training.
- Surgery. Various surgical procedures target conditions that cause pain. New techniques, for example, can combat certain painful back disorders. The ASA says that surgery is considered only after all other methods have failed.
Complementary therapies . Many people find that acupuncture, guided imagery, meditation and other alternative therapies can ease pain and improve a sense of well-being. Scientific evidence supporting these therapies varies.
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An 18-year-old who listed his tablet on Craigslist was met by the would-be buyers with a gun.
The Stockton Police Department said a man agreed to meet the prospective buyers at a shopping center.
Police said two armed men then robbed the man of his tablet and cellphone in the 3200 block of Hammer Lane in Stockton's Valley Oak District.
The two men then got away by foot, police said. They are still at-large.
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MARTINSBURG - Stephen Smith, the director of West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition, has held 48 "Our Children, Our Future: The Campaign to End Child Poverty" community meetings across the state. The most recent was in Martinsburg last week.
At those meetings, 94 issues concerning children in poverty that need to be addressed were identified, he said.
"We narrowed that down to 17 priorities and narrowed that down to 10 issues to focus on this year," Smith said. "We're going to try to win on these issues."
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Stephen Smith, director, W.Va. Healthy Kids and Families Coalition, leads a community meeting Monday in Martinsburg to lay the groundwork for a regional forum to address issues that would lift children out of poverty.
WVHKFC plans to lobby the state lawmakers to pass legislation and allocate funds to try to address the issues.
Expanding Medicaid is a priority, Smith said.
"This will be the biggest thing to happen to poor West Virginians in the next five years," he said. "It will extend coverage from those making $7,000 a year to those making $27,000 a year. Between 130,000 and 140,000 working parents would have health insurance. And it would bring 2,000 to 3,000 jobs to the state."
Smith explained that Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin would have to say the state wants expanded Medicaid, which is part of the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled states cannot be forced to expand Medicaid.
The federal government will pay 100 percent of the additional costs at first and then the federal contribution would be reduced to 90 percent, he said.
Over the weekend of Feb. 24, WVHKFC is asking churches around the state to focus their congregations' activities on children living in poverty, he said. The theme is Our Children, Our Faith, Our Future.
WVHKFC has planned an Our Children, Our Future Day at the state Capitol on Feb. 26 to lobby lawmakers, Smith said. Confirmed participants include state Senate President Jeff Kessler, House Speaker Rick Thompson and more than 200 kids and families from around the state, he said.
"We are not fooling ourselves - we can't change things overnight," Smith said of WVHKFC's chances of getting its list of priorities passed by the Legislature. "It's not going to happen this year. It's not going to happen with one day at the Legislature. It took 30 to 40 years to get to where we are. But how do we build momentum for next year, for five years, for 10 years?"
Originally named the Healthy Kids Coalition, the organization was formed in 1998 to develop statewide support of legislation to create the Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, according to its website. Its fiscal sponsor has been the West Virginia Council of Churches.
Last year, WVHKFC decided to become an independent 501(c)(3) organization, expand its focus from child health to child poverty and venture into political lobbying, according to its website.
Smith was in Martinsburg to lay the groundwork for a regional forum that would address issues to lift children out of poverty. The community meeting was co-chaired by state Delegate Tiffany Lawrence and the Rev. Ed Grove of the United Methodist Cluster of Churches in Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties.
For more information about WVHKFC, contact Smith at ssmith @wvhealthykids.org or 304-610-6512.
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A perfect day. Absolutely perfect.
Good for the Curve. And good for everyone who got to enjoy one of the great sports events in Altoona history when the Pirates visited Peoples Natural Gas Field for an exhibition game Saturday afternoon.
When you spend a year planning such a game, knowing full well that Altoona weather in March is wildly unpredictable, it leads to plenty of apprehension and anxiety. So the last thing Curve officials wanted to see in the days leading up to the game was a bunch of snow on the ground and more in the forecast.
Fortunately for everyone, Saturday turned out to be an absolutely gorgeous, sun-splashed afternoon that provided a wonderful atmosphere for a wonderful event.
"Outstanding. Perfect," Curve owner Bob Lozinak said of the memorable day. "What more could you ask for?"
Nothing really.
Seeing the Pirates up close and personal at the local minor league park, in front of a record crowd of 10,116, with a grand slam and a lot of offense, on a picturesque day - add it all up and, well, it was perfect.
It also meant so much more than when the Pirates last visited Altoona in May of 2000. That was an exciting day, but as Lozinak and Curve general manager Rob Egan pointed out, the affiliation had existed for only one year, and there was no history between the Double-A franchise and the big league club at that point.
Now there is. Now there are a bunch of former Curve players on the Pirates' roster - 10 to be exact - those players were looking forward to coming back here and playing rather than dreading it, and all the great Bucco fans in the region couldn't help but feel a closer connection to the parent club after seeing its minor leaguers play locally for 14 seasons.
"It seemed like the Pirates players, especially the ones who played here before, genuinely enjoyed themselves," Egan said.
They absolutely did. Everyone said so and appeared to genuinely mean it, from star center fielder Andrew McCutchen and second baseman Neil Walker, to the five members of the Curve's 2010 Eastern League championship club on the current Pirates roster, to manager Clint Hurdle.
"Electric," Hurdle said of the atmosphere. "All-time record crowd, great turnout from the fan base, big game for the affiliation. ... It's a good day for everybody I would think."
The game itself dragged on for more than three hours, and it had to be very disappointing for the Bucs to see pitcher James McDonald get rocked by Double-A hitters for four runs in the first inning.
But those things don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Nor does it matter that the Curve won, 8-6, and are now 2-0 all-time against the Pirates, although it's a neat little nugget to point out (it was 7-5 Curve in 2000).
What really matters about Saturday is the amount of respect the Pirates showed the Curve simply by showing up. It cannot be overstated how significant it is to have a major league affiliate take the time and go through all the logistics issues necessary coming out of spring training to play such a game in a minor league ballpark.
The Pirates didn't do all that just so their players could spend a day in Altoona, of all places.
They did it because they have a ton of respect for the Curve franchise, the people who run it and the fan base here.
Make no mistake, the Curve franchise is an outstanding one by minor league standards. There might be little things we can complain about here or there about something at the ballpark, but by and large, what fans get to enjoy at Peoples Natural Gas Field is better than what's offered at 95 percent of the rest of minor league ballparks.
The Pirates realize that. They realize they've got an outstanding Double-A affiliate run by outstanding people, and they wanted to help an already great relationship get even better by agreeing to the exhibition game.
"I just want to say how grateful we are to the Pirates for doing this," Egan said. "Coming over, saying yes and doing the game means the world to the community, and it means a great deal to the franchise."
"What we have established over the last 12, 13 years with the Pirates relationship has been deep-rooted trust in each other," Lozinak said.
The Curve and Pirates are a perfect match from a minor league affiliation standpoint, and we saw why on a perfect day Saturday.


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Great show! Problem is you've included so many resources that it will take me a while to go through all the show links. Keep up the good work.
Sorry, we'll try to be less informative.
FYI, I have a blog post up at http://blog.smarx.com/posts/serving-your-website-from-a-windows-azure-drive that shows the code from this episode.
Thanks for the great show - I love it that you keep releasing shows at a quick pace and also throw in a bit of humour into the mix
But seriously, I'm a .NET expert - I actually programmed it even before it was released, and read like C# books before it came out. But alas I'm an Azure noob and I can't even get a simple web role to work - I have VS2010 RTM and Azure tools 1.1 and when I try to upload my package to staging it's stuck in "Initializing - Stopping - Stopped" and there's of course no diagnostics to find anywhere even though I'm pretty sure i set up the Diagnostics connection string correctly. I'm sure I have a web.config or other config error somewhere.
Please, make a walkthrough of making azure services - this is unfortunately not as easy as it should be.
Hi Hansol -
Sorry to hear about your issue. Take a look at episode 2 I think where the TotW is how to troubleshoot that problem. Here is the link that we refer to:
Steve and I also did a video called 'Hello Windows Azure' that might be the walkthru you are looking for.
If you have idea for other topics you would like to see, leave us a comment or use @cloudcovershow and share your idea. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Ryan. I already checked out the first url you mention. So I think my problem is related to the WCF-service that I try to consume from within my azure web role. There's a whole lot of auto web.config stuff going on that probably don't work for live production, but only in the test-environment or something. Maybe you could make a quick demo of setting up a simple hello world wcf-service inside a web role? And again, thanks! You and smarx are a great team and I can't wait for the next show
Not a bad idea... I have some other things I want to show there as well. Hmm...
For your immediate relief, have you seen the WCF on Azure samples and troubleshooting guidance?
Check the Known Issues link there and see about a few gotchas due to the load balancer and the QFE hotfix (already in cloud, btw).
Thanks again. I think my problem is the load-balancing thing described in the Known Issues, as you mention.
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Over his eight-year NFL career, Mario Williams has showed up on the injury report for problems with his foot, knee, thumb, elbow, groin, hip, shoulder and pectoral muscle. He was shut down one year with an inflamed hernia. Once, he was listed on the weekly report for general illness.
As Williams' critics in Houston told me after he signed here, it's always something with the guy. But I never could have imagined that the Bills' $100 million defensive end would have to refute reports of mental illness.
That was the case Monday afternoon, though. An hour after the team's voluntary workout at One Bills Drive, Williams spent 10 minutes assuring the media that he had never contemplated suicide or abused painkillers, as his ex-fiancee suggested in a series of texts made public by her lawyer last Friday.
"I mean, have you seen the notion of me needing any kind of help?" Williams said when asked about the texts. "Well, I am kind of off the wall sometimes. But other than that, no."
I reminded Williams that suicidal people often give no outward signs of their inner anguish. And the experts say that outside parties should always take it seriously when someone expresses suicidal thoughts.
"Yeah, but in my situation, I'm completely fine," Williams said. "I've never had any inclination of anything that even myself would notice."
Williams didn't deny anything that was revealed in the messages to his ex-fiancee, Erin Marzoucki, whose lawyers retrieved the texts forensically from her cell phone. In one of them, Williams told Marzouki he had taken three hydrocodone before the game in New England last Nov. 11.
Marzouki and her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, claim that Williams was despondent over the couple's breakup and wrote, "there's no telling what I'll do to myself."
Williams said the painkillers he has taken were prescribed solely by the Bills. He pointed out that he's a big man and can require unusual doses of medication to relieve the pain. If he talked about killing himself, it was in the heat of the moment, in a conversation he assumed would stay private.
That changed when Williams sued Marzouki in an attempt to retrieve a $785,000 engagement ring. Not surprisingly, things turned ugly at that point. Buzbee said Williams was foolish enough to "kick ant hill," and said you know what happens when you disrupt the ants.
"I've made it known, this is just going to get bad," Williams said. "Neither of us want that, but you get what you ask for."
That cuts both ways. Look, I can't imagine what it's like to buy a woman a $785,000 ring and have the relationship turn sour. I don't know who ended it. But Williams might have been wiser to let Marzouki keep the ring and write it off as a bad investment, sparing himself this embarrassment.
Really, was it worth it to have his ex-fiancee retrieve old text messages that made Williams come off as some pathetic, self-indulgent baby? Evidently, he thinks so.
"I'm not going to say I'm excited," Williams said, "but actually I feel a lot better that this is coming out. I'm not talking about the words or the things taken out of context, but I'm glad to see someone's true colors and their character come out now, rather than later."
It's hard to feel much sympathy for either party in this situation. If you're going to feel sorry for anyone, feel sorry for the Bills, who made Williams the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history last year and got a dubious return for their investment in his first season in Buffalo.
Almost from the start of his Bills career, Williams has struck me as a fragile character, both physically and emotionally. When he got outplayed by an obscure Jets tackle in his debut as a Bill, he began his postgame remarks by accusing Austin Howard of cheap tactics and whining about the officiating.
Williams used his wrist injury as an excuse for his poor play early last season, even though the team didn't think it was serious enough to put on the injury report. After Seattle shredded the defense in Toronto, he deflected blame to his teammates and coaches. Hey, he was only one of 11 players.
During times of crisis, he never pointed the finger at himself and said, "It's on me," as a gesture to his teammates. So it's not hard to imagine that, at a difficult moment in his personal life, Williams could have fired off messages that essentially said, "Feel sorry for me." He comes off as a spoiled athlete with a huge sense of entitlement.
The NFL is understandably sensitive about mental health issues. A number of former players have committed suicide, including Junior Seau. Last season the Chiefs' Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, and then killed himself.
So until Williams spoke publicly, the Bills and media were treating his situation as a potential mental health issue. Coach Doug Marrone spoke about the programs and support systems that the NFL has put in place to help players with emotional difficulties.
Williams assured us it was a tactic on the part of his ex-fiancee and her lawyer, Buzbee.
"If he wanted to fight and get in the ring, we could do that," Williams said. "But we're fighting words."
A war of words over a failed romance isn't what the Bills need right now. Surely, they don't want their highest-paid player distracted by a lawsuit over an engagement ring.
"I was told a couple of weeks ago, this is a season for revealing," he said. "The lawyer is a direct extension of her. So I'm glad it happened now."
Williams says it won't be a distraction.
He seemed combative and relieved by the opportunity to answer back at his ex-fiancee.
Healthy and unburdened by personal drama, he wants to be the player Bills fans expected next season. It would be great to see.
I'm just skeptical enough to wonder what the issue will be next.
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Saturday, 7:15 a.m., Political Scoop: My guest this week is Dan Eaton, who returns to the New Hampshire House this session. The former Democratic floor leader talks about his expectations in the upcoming session and where gambling stands among his colleagues.
Sunday, 10 a.m., CloseUP: First, CloseUP host Josh McElveen sits down with Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, and state Rep. Steve Shurtleff, D-Penacook, to talk about the state budget. Then, there is a one-on-one with outgoing state GOP Chair Wayne MacDonald. Check out what he says when asked if he feels unappreciated.
Wednesday, 7 p.m., New Hampshire Institute of Politics: I will moderate a post-election discussion among panelists, including University of New Hampshire Professor and Survey Center Director Andrew Smith, New Hampshire State Director for Romney for President Jim Merrill, and New Hampshire State Director for the Obama for President Campaign Pete Kavanaugh.
Picture Of The Week
I am happy to follow up on an earlier mention that Ovide Lamontagne, post-election, got himself a nice consolation prize: a 12 point buck. Here he is with his dad, showing it off. This ended a 6 year streak of no deer for Ovide.
For Those Keeping Track
How is this for irony: Ron Paul was selected this week to be the American Community Banker of the Year.
Is there any college or university that has so dominated control of a Congressional District like Dartmouth College has of New Hampshire's Second Congressional District? It has been held by Dartmouth alums since 1996, and with Annie Kuster's win this year the tradition will continue. Think about it: Dartmouth alum Charlie Bass held it from 1994-2006, he lost to Dartmouth alum Paul Hodes who held the seat from 2006-2010, Bass took it over for the last two years, and who knows how long Kuster will hold it. And it was Dartmouth versus Dartmouth for nominees in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2012. Maybe someone (Tom Rath?) should petition the NH legislature to officially change the name from the Second Congressional District to "The Dartmouth Seat."
In Case You Missed It
The Portsmouth Herald reports former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu will demolish his $1 million Rye home and build a five bedroom $1.8 million house instead.
By The Numbers
Going into Election Day the Mitt Romney campaign believed they would win New Hampshire by 3.5 percent.
Last week I asked: What position were both Judd Gregg and Warren Rudman supposedly offered, but they turned down?
So here is the thing. There were 20 people who submitted answers saying it was Commerce Secretary, which is what I was thinking when I wrote the question. As the answers came in it occurred to me that I was wrong. Rudman was offered Treasury and turned it down and Gregg was offered Commerce. No one called me on it, and I am not going to call out those who answered it either. Now, they were both rumored to be offered Senate Republican leadership positions and turned them down, but I wasn't going to weasel out of it that way.
Here is our question for this week: So, let's try another Rudman trivia question: What job did both Warren Rudman and Bill Clinton have and what political consultant did they both use?
Be the first to give the answer in an email (jpindell [at] hearst [dot] com), and I'll recognize you next week.
Questions For The WeekendWhat will Bill O'Brien think to himself if Republican Gene Chandler does concede the speakership to Democrat Terie Norelli right at the beginning in a sign that they can work together? So, the only reason Kelly Ayotte is backing Jennifer Horn is because she asked Ayotte first? Really? How often will Republican activists repeat Horn's performance as platform chair? Is there anyway that Horn (or anyone) can actually exceed expectations as state Republican Chair, or is it a job that's just set up for failure? Is everyone sure that Kelly Ayotte's staff only used personal time and didn't use official landlines to work on Republican Party politics? (Some aren't so sure after looking at their caller IDs). Without turning to Google can you name who the current NH GOP Executive Director is? Who will be the next NH GOP Executive Director? How much is David Campbell really going to back Norelli? Given the makeup of the House, couldn't he make things very interesting if he decided to create a faction? Is the most important relationship in Concord the one between Chuck Morse and Maggie Hassan? When the Bette Lamontagne for GOP chair stuff started was it just a sign that Team Ovide was just out of options and not thrilled with Kevin Smith's best friend Horn? So the NHGOP has no problem charging $25 for all committee members to be in good standing and vote for party officers, but they want Right to Work legislation because....?
Chuck Morse: He pushed two statements out on the state budget hearings, drawing a clear line in the sand on spending. This is his moment. He is an adult and the most influential Republican in Concord and will have an enormous impact over the next several months, not only on the budget, but the 2014 election cycle.
Kelly Ayotte: This week she was able to do what even John H. Sununu couldn't accomplish in 2010: get every major Republican behind her preferred choice for NHGOP chair and push out the competition (at least for now). At the same time she was leading the charge in Washington against a potential Susan Rice nomination and being floated as a potential 2016 presidential candidate. For somebody who has only been involved in elective politics for 3 years, she has been able to build a tremendous amount of clout and influence at both the state and national level. Former NHGOP Chair Jack Kimball was wrong in his blistering e-mail to his "fellow patriots" in suggesting there are still Five Families running the NHGOP. There is just one Republican family now in this state, and Kelly Ayotte is the matriarch.
Female Republicans: Pam Tucker, Sharon Carson, Jeannie Forrester, Laura Gandia, Jayne Millerick, Nancy Stiles and others are all being mentioned regularly in private conversations about running for higher office.
Jennifer Horn: Two years ago, John H Sununu and other major Republican were trying to keep her (successfully) out of the chairmanship race. Now, after a considerable amount of political growth and maturing, she has earned the support of the Republican establishment and is the heir apparent to the chairmanship.
Andy Leach: Andy continues to establish himself as Kelly Ayotte's enforcer and the muscle behind her political machine. His behind the scenes moves this week dramatically shaped the chairmanship race more than most people realize. Andy's work doesn't always earn him friends (see the Grok post), but he's quickly becoming the most effective person at establishing order and discipline in an otherwise chaotic New Hampshire Republican Party. Ayotte is lucky to have him on her staff.
Frank Guinta: Guinta has moved to the forefront of the discussions as the leading Republican to take on Sen. Jeanne Shaheen when John E. Sununu makes the expected announcement that he will not seek another rematch. Guinta is playing it well, publicly showing lukewarm interest while privately making the necessary calls to get his run in the right direction, while quietly letting Washington know that he is interested.
Maggie Hassan: Every governor gets a chance to look like a fiscal conservative during the start of the agency budget hearings. Hassan is already starting to lay the groundwork for the disappointment that will be felt by many who hoped for a huge budget increase, but don't get it when she rolls out her budget in February.PUSH
All those who decided not to run for chair: They won't be chair, but who really wants it going into a tough two years.
Andy Martin: Remember the controversial Republican presidential candidate? Well, on the one hand he cannot be happy that Jennifer Horn looks to be the next state Republican Chair given that he called her out in statewide radio ads. (And isn't it quaint how he called her Jack Kimball's "gal pal" given all that has happened since?) Though, on the other hand it looks like J.P. Marzillo is unopposed to be NHGOP vice chair and Marzillo was the only one who invited Martin to speak at a Republican event.DOWN
Fergus Cullen: For the second consecutive cycle he tried and failed at getting elected to the New Hampshire Republican State Committee. In a field of 43 candidates, the former party chairman was unable to earn enough votes at last Saturday's Strafford County Caucus to secure one of the 38 availed slots. Ouch.
New Hampshire Tea Party: The feckless and disorganized local tea party continues to lose influence and can't find a viable candidate to run for chair. (Yes, I am aware that Andrew Hemingway is floating his name. We'll take that up if he actually runs). Even Bill O'Brien got on board with the Horn candidacy despite objections from their activists. Jack Kimball's e-mail ensures that whoever they put up will be viewed as his puppet candidate. And it's tough to get anybody through the state committee who has been tainted by Kimball, but he did win once.
NHGOP State Committee: The idea that individuals would have to pay money to serve as a volunteer is sending shockwaves of anger through the activist community. The inexplicable part of this whole exercise is that Wayne MacDonald was actually still thinking about running for chairman again when this happened. How did he not realize how politically dumb this decision was and how resentful it would make the electorate who will be asked to vote for a new chair?
NH Democrats: The resignations of two Democratic state Rep.-elects doesn't reflect well on the party as a whole, but they ripped off the bad news like a band-aid...unless there is another one ready to resign.
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"From the numbers we're being told, this will make the system solvent for the next 30 years and it gives the assurance to retirees, workers and taxpaye...
The local angle
"From the numbers we're being told, this will make the system solvent for the next 30 years and it gives the assurance to retirees, workers and taxpayers that the system is going to be affordable and sustainable. It's not a fun thing to do and I understand why retirees and near-to-retirees are not going to be happy with it.
"My main concern is that all the payment guarantees with this legislation can be changed with a simple majority vote.
"There ought to be a constitutional amendment attached to this that requires, at minimum, a super-majority from both houses to unfund any of the payment guarantees. The state should be required to make the payments every year. The state is still overspending by huge amounts of dollars, so what's preventing them from coming back next year and saying, 'You know what, we have other urgent funding needs our pension system will still be better off that it was in 2012 and 2013, so let's skip the payments.'
"The same people who created the problem are in charge today, why would their behavior change?"
— Sen. Dave Syverson, R-Rockford
"The bill is actually being drafted this weekend. The information we do have is very limited. ... The thing that I do see is that changing the (cost-of-living adjustment) is going to make this bill unconstitutional. The second the governor signs it, it's going to be unconstitutional. We'll still be paying those millions of dollars a day, plus we have to pay for a lawsuit. It's just kicking the can down the road. ... If it was constitutional, why didn't they add the judges (to the bill)."
— Rep. John Cabello, R-Machesney Park
"I'm looking over the plan, talking to legislative leaders and employees to get as much input as possible. The agreement reached by legislative leaders is different than the plan discussed by the conference committee over the past five months, so I'm going over those details right now. ... After years of inaction, lawmakers do need to come up with a resolution. The inaction and uncertainty is only making matters worse. ... Any plan I would support must achieve two goals: One, it must help the state stabilize its finances and it must ensure benefits are available for employees and teachers when they retire. Right now, that's in doubt."
— Sen. Steve Stadelman, D-Rockford
SPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers will return to Springfield on Tuesday to address the long elusive goal of passing a bill to deal with the state's $100 billion pension debt.
House members have been told that only a one-day session is anticipated. Senators could also wrap things up on Tuesday, although they've been told the session could extend an extra day.
That schedule, though, is drawing complaints from some lawmakers that the pension reform bill is being rushed through the Legislature before people will have a chance to fully grasp all of its details, particularly those people who will be affected by the changes.
"That's not enough time to digest it," said Rep. Raymond Poe, R-Springfield. "You don't give the people it affects enough time to do some research and crunch the numbers and see how it works. I think it puts everybody who's affected by it at a serious disadvantage. Their people need a little time to digest this thing."
The four legislative leaders reached an agreement on a pension reform plan Wednesday. Rank-and-file members were given outlines of the plan that day and more detailed information was to be provided to them late last week.
However, there seemed to be some confusion about some aspects of the plan, particularly on the issue of cost-of-living adjustments, the principal driver of increasing pension costs. Changing the current system of awarding 3 percent compounded COLAs to pension benefits has long be a key element of pension reform plans.
The agreement by the leaders keeps the 3 percent compounded COLAs in place for a portion of a person's pension benefit. That portion is determined by multiplying a person's years of service times $1,000. For example, a retiree with 30 years of service would get the COLA on a pension benefit of up to $30,000. Any pension benefit above that amount for that same retiree would not qualify for a COLA.
"If you don't have the opportunity to look at all of the details and the impact of all of them, then I don't think that's necessarily fair to the people it impacts," said Rep. Wayne Rosenthal, R-Morrisonville, even after members were told they would get a detailed briefing on Friday. "That's still a pretty short order for anybody to sit down and analyze it, especially how it will impact the individuals. If you look at our constituency, it impacts them a lot more than it does other areas of the state. I think it is only fair to them."
Not everyone shares the feeling that the process is being rushed. Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, who is running for governor, is a member of the conference committee that worked on pension reform throughout the summer.
Page 2 of 2 - "Our staffs are all up to speed on this. They've been meeting with us all summer," Brady said. "The ability to analyze it won't be difficult. They're (public employee unions) are in tune, too. They'll have ample time. As hard as it's been to come to this conclusion, it's not really all that complex."
Brady said many elements of the proposal are similar to Senate Bill 1, a reform plan pushed by House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, which passed the House last spring, but which was defeated in the Senate. Those elements have been thoroughly reviewed already, he said.
Rikeesha Phelon, spokeswoman for Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, also said Democratic senators have been kept up to date on various pension reform options that have been discussed.
Kent Redfield, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Springfield, said lawmakers have a point about the compressed process.
"If you've got more time, from the unions' part, to look at it, you can find those things that you think are good points to make in terms of putting pressure on specific members that have specific types of constituents," Redfield said. "This makes it so the opposition has to be more general. It's a legitimate criticism because this is a complicated thing with a lot of moving parts."
It's all of those moving parts that concerns Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill.
"Any bill would make major changes to the personal finances of tens of thousands of people in the district I represent," Manar said. "What I would like to do, ultimately, is summarize this complicated legislation and communicate that so I can get some feedback. That obviously takes some time. The devil's in the details with a bill of this magnitude."
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When actor Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, welcomed their twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, on Nov. 8, the proud new parents couldn't wait to bond with the children they had long waited for. "These babies were beautiful – perfect," says Kimberly's brother Blake Buffington. Delivered via a gestational carrier at a Santa Monica hospital close to their due date – Boone, as his parents call him, weighed in at a healthy 6 lbs., 12 oz., Zoe at 5 lb., 9 oz. – the twins went home with the Quaids soon after their delivery. But just 12 days later, a distraught Kimberly called her brother with devastating news:The twins, after being admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A., were accidentally given a dangerous overdose of a blood thinner. "She could barely get out three sentences," says Buffington. "She said they weren't sure if they were going to make it. She told me, 'The babies are fighting for their lives.' "
For Dennis, 53, and Kimberly, 36, it has been one medical nightmare after another. Within a week of being brought home to the Quaids' house in L.A., the twins were hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai due to staph infections – which can occur when common staph bacteria infect the skin, tissue or the bloodstream. At the hospital on Nov. 18, they were allegedly among three patients given 1,000 times the recommended dose of heparin, a drug used to prevent IV catheters from clotting. The dosage was high enough to cause severe bleeding and death if left untreated. (On Nov. 20 a Cedars-Sinai spokeswoman issued a statement apologizing for the "preventable error"; they have since declined further comment.) "The babies are still at the hospital in intensive care," Buffington said on Nov. 27. "We're hoping they get to come home from the hospital, but we don't know how long that will be. Kimberly has gotten to hold them a few times, but they are on monitors and IVs, so it's hard. You have these fragile little kids going through a medical crisis they absolutely did not need to go through."
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - If there was one girl Truckee shouldn't have fouled in the final 15 seconds of a one-point game, it was Hannah Neiger.
Expressions of relief and confidence spread across the Vikings' faces as Neiger, who is 11-for-11 in free throws in her last two games, stepped to the line.
"If anyone were to be in that position, I would want it to be Hannah because she always comes through," teammate Riley Chapman said.
Neiger didn't delay. She lined up and cleanly knocked down the two shots to carry the Vikings to a 41-40 win, ending Truckee's nine-game win streak at South Tahoe on Tuesday.
"It was kind of overwhelming, but I just trusted myself," Neiger said.
As soon as Neiger's last free throw fell, Truckee didn't hesitate. The Wolverines charged down court, with senior Jackie Bolton setting up for one last look.
Bolton launched Truckee's last chance, and for a second, the shot looked dead on. It was close indeed, but the ball bounced off the rim into the hands of Chapman.
The clock ticked in the Vikings' favor, and with it they earned home-court advantage over the Wolverines in the first round of the Northern Division I-A postseason on Wednesday.
"The girls have nothing to be ashamed of," Truckee coach Geoff Stephens said. "They played their hearts out and dug in. I couldn't be prouder."
And if Tuesday's game is any indicator, the playoff rematch should be good.
The girls played an evenly matched, clean game of ball.
South Tahoe grabbed an early lead. Four different Vikings scored in the opening five minutes to make it 8-3, but Truckee's perimeter sniper, Ashley Harris, put down two 3-pointers to keep the Wolverines alive. The score was tied 8-8 after the first quarter.
A 3-pointer from Truckee's Sydnie English set the tone for the second quarter, and the Wolverines took a 17-13 halftime lead. The Vikings scored just five points in that second quarter, with four coming from Neiger.
But South Tahoe's Mel Grady shifted the momentum back in Tahoe's favor in the second half.
Grady came off the bench and hit a huge 3-pointer, tying the game at 19-19. She added a 2-point parting shot with 10 seconds remaining to give the Vikings a 27-26 lead going into the fourth.
Both teams picked up the intensity in the fourth, swapping the lead four times in the final eight minutes.
Truckee regained the lead in the last minute when English grabbed Bolton's free-throw rebound and made it 40-39.
With 30 seconds left, though, Truckee sent the wrong player to the line for two.
"You've just got to play your game and do your job," South Tahoe coach Mike Neiger said. "There's going to be a lot of 3's they're going to miss and you've got to get in position to get the rebounds."
There were also a lot of free throws that Truckee hit. English, who led the Wolverines with 19 points, knocked in three and so did Harris, for a team total of six.
Bolton added six points and Olivia Duner stepped up in the absence of two key players to also post six points.
"Olivia is normally at two guard, but she had to play point and I thought she played flawlessly," Stephens said. "She might have played one of her best game this whole year."
The Vikings kept chipping away, however, spreading the shots among five different players. Neiger led the way with 12 points. Grady wasn't far behind. She shot 100 percent from the field for 10 points, including her game-tying 3-pointer.
Truckee is now 16-9 overall, 8-2 in Mount Rose League play and 6-4 against the Division IA. South Tahoe improved to 11-11 overall, 7-3 in the Mount Rose League and 5-4 against the IA.
The loss dropped the Wolverines from the No. 4 to the No. 5 playoff seed, meaning they must travel to South Tahoe on Wednesday for a 6 p.m. matchup, instead of hosting the first game of the postseason.
UP NEXT: The Wolverines will close out the regular season at home against North Tahoe on Friday at 6 p.m.


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Penn State tight end Kyle Carter has enjoyed a great season, but he's already been ruled out for this week's game against Indiana with a right hand injury.
With only one game remaining after this week, it's questionable if Carter will play again this year.
Carter missed the game at Purdue two weeks ago with an ankle injury but returned this past week at Nebraska. The redshirt freshman made one catch before suffering the hand injury and did not return to the game.
Carter has 36 catches, just five shy of the PSU season record for a tight end set by Andrew Quarless in 2009. He has benefited as much as any player on the team in coach Bill O'Brien's new offense, ranking second on the team to Allen Robinson in both catches and receiving yards (453).


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