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Medicare Drug Benefit Update: LIS and Dual Eligible Reassignment for 2008
November 14, 2007
In 2003, Congress directed that low-income beneficiaries who are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid or that qualify for the Part D low income subsidy, or LIS (under 150% of the federal poverty level), would be able to enroll in Part D plans (at little or no monthly premium) that are at or below a regional average cost (defined as the "benchmark" level). As a result, if a dual eligible individual or LIS beneficiary is enrolled in a prescription drug plan for 2007 that is moving above the "benchmark" level in their region for 2008, they will be reassigned to a different plan to ensure that they do not face any premium increase.
The number of dual eligibles and LIS switching plans in 2008 rose dramatically as a result of changes in the way the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made the calculation for regional benchmark levels. For 2007, there was a $2 de minimus adjustment, i.e. if a plan moved above the benchmark level by $2 or less, all dual eligible and LIS beneficiaries could stay in the plan. However, for 2008, CMS adjusted this de minimus amount down to $1. As a result, only 250,000 dual eligibles and LIS recipients were automatically reassigned in 2007. By contrast, 2.1 million dual eligibles and LIS recipients will be automatically reassigned for 2008.
It is important to note that 965,000 of these low-income beneficiaries will be shifted to a different plan within the same corporate sponsor organization, e.g. from United-AARP Preferred to United-AARP Standard. However, 1.2 million are being switched to a new plan in a new organization.
Obligations of Plans Receiving Dual Eligibles and LIS By Automatic Assignment
Part D plans that are taking dual eligibles and LIS upon reassignment will be required to meet a number of requirements with respect to drug coverage for these individuals. They must:
- provide an automatic 30-day refill of any existing prescription WITHOUT imposing utilization management such as prior authorization, step therapy or quantity limits, and
- provide a 90-day transition period for any current or new prescription before attempting to enforce any existing utilization management technique such as prior authorization or step therapy.
In addition, it is important to note that any dual eligible beneficiary that wishes to switch to a different Part D plan can do so, at no cost, at any time during 2008, so long as the plan is at or below the regional "benchmark" level.
How are Enrollees Subject to Reassignment Being Notified?
During the week of October 29, CMS sent letters to all dual eligibles and LIS recipients that are being reassigned as January 1, 2008. This letter was printed on blue paper and included the name of the new plan, a reminder that their coverage was continued with no monthly premium (for dual eligibles), what their co-payments will be for 2008, local pharmacies in the new plan's network, and (most importantly) any new coverage rules such as prior authorization and step therapy. The blue letter also detailed information about refills during the initial coverage period through the end of March 2008.
Tips for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries Subject to Plan Reassignment
Any dual eligible or LIS recipient that received the blue reassignment letter from CMS needs to first read it carefully and contact their new prescription drug plan as soon as possible – every Part D plan is required to maintain an 800 customer assistance number. It is critical to:
- Check to make sure that all prescribed medications are on the new plan's formulary – all Medicare drug plans are required to have "all or substantially all" antipsychotics, antidepressants and anticonvulsants on their formularies (lists of covered drugs),
- Inquire as to whether the new plan has any utilization management policies in place for any medications currently prescribed (prior authorization, step therapy, quantity limits),
- Remind the new plan that they are required to refill any currently prescribed medication within the first 30 days of coverage after January 1, 2008, and
- Remind them that they cannot impose utilization management within the first 90 days of coverage.
It is also critical that all physicians prescribing to the dual eligible or LIS individual be notified before January 1 of the plan switch. Likewise, the pharmacy that fills prescriptions for the dual eligible should be notified to see if they are part of the new plan's network.
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"Choosers" Will Stay With Current Plans
There is also a category of dual eligibles and LIS recipients known as "choosers" that will remain in the drug plan they had for 2007. These are individuals who made an affirmative decision to switch to a different plan in 2007 – because of medications on the plan's formulary, convenience of a network pharmacy, etc. CMS is honoring this decision and keeping these "choosers" in the same plan for 2008 – REGARDLESS of whether or not the plan moved above the regional "benchmark" level.
These "choosers" (440,000 dual eligibles and LIS) are likely to face increased monthly premiums in 2008 since the beneficiary is legally liable for the cost of any premium above the "benchmark" level. However, as with all other dual eligibles and LIS recipients, they can avoid this added cost by switching to a plan below the regional benchmark, even after January 1, 2008.
During the week of October 29, these "choosers" were sent a tan letter from CMS informing them that they are being kept in their current plan, but at a higher monthly premium and can avoid the higher cost by switching to a different plan.
Cost Sharing for Dual Eligibles and LIS for 2008
For most dual eligibles and LIS recipients, the only cost that is required of them for drug coverage is a mandatory co-payment for each prescription. A little noticed provision in the law specifies that these co-payment levels are to be adjusted for inflation each year. For 2008, the $1 generic/$3 brand name cost sharing for dual eligibles in the law will be adjusted to $1.05 generic and $3.10 brand name. For most LIS recipients, the $2 generic/$5 brand name co-payments will be $2.25 generic and $5.60 brand name.


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Alert the (social) media: Hashtag is now a baby name.
Transitioning from their feed to midnight feedings, the Jameson family reportedly decided to name their newborn daughter after the popular Twitter term.
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"Hashtag Jameson was born at 10 oclock last nite. She weys [sic] 8pounds and I luv her so much!!!!!" the message reads, along with a photo of the sleeping newborn.
Although PEOPLE is unable to verify if "Hashtag" is the baby girl's legal name, a typo or a joke, she's in good company nonetheless – last year, an Egyptian man named his son Facebook after the social media platform's role in his country's revolution.
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The victim, who works at an East Side pizza shop, said the bandit pointed the gun at him and forced him to lie on the ground. The bandit stole the victim's cellphone, $59 in cash and a food order worth $83. The thief fled through nearby backyards.


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of Apple's Mac computers often point to the machines' relatively high
price of entry and small market share when looking at the overall PC
market (Microsoft still dominates thanks to a plethora of
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manufacturers, Apple
is doing quite well (at least in the United States).
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quote: move to cloud still happening so fewer Windows/Office licences
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quote: The company is on the road to nowhere.
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In 2009 my family adopted a child from Russia. All of our friends wanted to know how a single income family was able to save for a debt-free adoption. We are now adopting twin girls from Uganda. This blog is how God has grown our family.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Thanksgiving In Africa: Part 1
Thanksgiving is a big holiday for my family more emphasis is often placed on this family gathering than the one at Christmas. It serves as an annual family reunion for my family on my mother's side. People come from several states and we all only see each other about once a year. It is quite the occasion. If you have ever been to a big southern family Thanksgiving you would know what I mean. If we made it this year there would have been a total of thirty two people. Everyone brings at least one dish making up of at least forty savory and sweet dishes to dig into. After making little pigs of ourselves at my families celebration Chad and I would then cart our crew over to his parent's house. Their house is just a few miles away and there we would indulge once again in another too large meal with wonderful family. This one is a bit smaller but equally delicious.
A few weeks before the holiday Nancy and I were daydreaming about our favorite Thanksgiving treats. We had both agreed that a pecan pie would be amazing and had put in our order for there to be one present at the family gathering. Daydreaming about your favorite food is something that is difficult to avoid after three months in Africa. We are by no means starving. In fact we are eating quite well but there is something amazing about the food that you grew up with. Comfort food, sometimes you just need a taste of home.
While I still had hopes of making it home before Thanksgiving I committed myself to a day of prayer and fasting during the weekend. I knew that the following Monday could either be a great day or a hard day. The next day we were going to be going to the U.S. embassy to receive an update on our case. We expected to hear that we would either be going home or we would be hanging around a bit longer. I knew that this was an event that I had no control over. God was in control. I need to give my concerns about the upcoming day over to him and trust in his plan.
I joked to Nancy about needing to walk around the embassy seven times. Joshua walked around Jericho once a day for six days. On the seventh day he and his army walked around the city seven times. On the seventh time they blew their horns and the walls came tumbling down. After lightly joking about the idea we decided to prayer walk the embassy. Due to the design of the embassy and very tight security we were not able to walk around the entire compound. We were able to walk in front of the embassy and its gates. We prayer walked in front of the embassy several times over the weekend. We both spent the time praying out loud except for when we passed on of the guards. The guards at the embassy patrol with very large guns thrown over their shoulders. The last thing I wanted was for them to become suspicious of the crazy ladies walking by while talking to themselves.
Sunday night during my bubble bath quiet time I decided not to ask for anything. I had been doing a lot of that lately and thought I would try a different approach. Instead I choose to fill all my bubbles with thanks. I have heard my daughters say "Thank you Mommy." I could not remember the last time I said "Thank you father." Leave it to a three year old to put me in my place and teach me what I ought to do. Thank you Father for my precious daughters. Thank you for the food we have in our bellies and the roof we have over our heads. After a bit of time in Africa you realize just how grateful we should be for food and shelter. Thank you God for despite all of my shortcoming you choose me to do this. I know I am messing it up big time, but thank you.
My thank you's continued from the bathtub to the bed. Sleep for once came quit easy, a rarity for me in Africa. I did not realize at the time but the Lord was changing my heart, drastically for the better. I found joy and peace unlike I had experienced before. I had hoped that the joy and comfort I felt was because I was going to go home. I wanted that so much. But yet once again God had different plans. Better plans that would teach me so much more than my own.
Monday Nancy and I pushed the girls in our two worn out umbrella strollers to the embassy. The walk was as memorable as walking down Gaba road always was. Walking down Gaba Road with two strollers is something that always requires a large amount of prayer. It is walking down a very busy road full of cars and bodas (motorcycle taxis). You walk within five feet of traffic. The cars come by you so close that you feel the wind blow pass you and you pray. This trip we prayed as usual but we also continued our prayer walk in front of the embassy.
When we had our meeting with the Consular at the embassy we did not get the good news I had hoped for. We were told that we should expect to remain in Africa a few more months. A few more months, Really God is that needed. Nancy and both cried before the consular and poured our hearts out to her. The Consular as always remained unshaken and indifferent. Disappointment was visible across our faces. I was grateful to be able to hide my tears behind my sunglasses for the long hot walk back to the house.
I was grateful for the walk back. It gave me some time with my Father. It is amazing how you can find yourself in the hustle and bustle of a big city and yet all be quiet while you have a conversation with the creator of the universe. Okay God, why am I here. What are you doing with me? Please help guide me through this emotional and difficult time. Why me? Why my family? Months, does it really have to take months?
What I realized was that the joy, peace, and comfort I had found did not diminish. It miraculously increased, unexpectedly, and warming my whole being. I was okay with staying in Africa a few more months. I know this sounds crazy and it still does to me. I don't know how I could be okay, comfortable with the thought of being away from Chad, Sadie, and Nolen for a few more months. The only explanation I had was that it was a gift from above, a much needed gift. I had said yes, God I will do what you have asked me to and he had rewarded me with joy and peace.
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So sweet Holly praying for y'all.ReplyDelete
- Jerry and JeanetteDecember 2, 2011 at 11:52 PM
Holly, we're praying for the consular to change her mind and let all of you leave for the states as soon as possible. don't know what God has in store with this extended time in Africa, but we aren't expected to understand His ways. You, Chad and family have such faith and it is bound to show to everyone there which might be the reason for your extended stay. Keep the faith. May God always all of you. Jerry and Jeanette LyonsReplyDelete
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Adam Davis is a historian whose research causes him to straddle centuries on a daily basis. Now, the associate professor has received a yearlong fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to dig deeper into the 12th and 13th centuries in Champagne, France. Davis will study hospitals, wills, charitable practices of the day, and even medieval guilt.
On the face of it, examining the source documents of medieval French hospitals doesn't sound like uncovering King Solomon's mines, but Davis begs to differ. He says he's actually studying a previously unknown charitable revolution.
In earlier times, monasteries provided care for the poor and sick. But during the 12th and 13th centuries, wealthy laypeople founded hundreds of hospitals to provide for Europe's needy. In the Middle Ages, hospitals were multifunctional religious institutions—almost a hybrid between a shelter, nursing home, and inn—housing the sick, poor, and powerless, as well as travelers.
"By the 13th century, hospitals had become one of the most popular recipients of charitable bequests," says Davis. "In a number of regions, well over half of testaments, left by people from all cross-sections of life included bequests for hospices, hospitals, and leprosaries (quarantined houses for patients suffering from leprosy)."
The upsurge in charitable giving to these institutions was powered by many factors, including a yearning to be pious and obtain salvation, as well as a desire to be seen as charitable. And, in light of the rising economy of the time, another element strongly influenced giving. Today we think of that element as guilt.
"Charitable giving was thought to provide moral justification for profit-making," says Davis, who has taught in Denison's history department since 2003. "The foundation of so many hospitals in the 12th and 13th centuries was a manifestation of the tension between traditional Christian morality and the new profit-oriented, proto-capitalistic economy. Increases in philanthropy can be interpreted as an expression of guilt and new sense of social responsibility associated with a society increasingly preoccupied with acquisition."
But we have to think beyond our cynical 21st century point of view when analyzing this phenomenon. Davis says this era also may have seen the birth of cultural compassion.
Medieval spirituality was evolving. People were hearing sermons and seeing religious art about the suffering of Jesus and the compassion of Mary.
"Consider the relationship between empathy and developments in religious devotion," Davis says. "The faithful had personal relationships with the suffering Jesus and compassionate Mary. These developments made it easier for medieval Christians to empathize with a suffering stranger; or to see themselves, a family member, or even Jesus in the afflicted."


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This morning upon awakening, I ever-so-gingerly lowered my rompers, sat on the throne, and experienced some vein-popping nisus -- thought my fuckin' eyes were gonna pop out of my sockets!
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I cannot believe how people are acting, purposefully emulating what happened in 94 after a loss.
I am glad they didn't win, they are so classless.
Let us always make sure that no matter what, we stay above this as Red Wings fans.
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Park sees way to link bike trail to Ohio River
June 8, 2013
LISBON — The Columbiana County Park District has come up with a way to extend the bicycle trail to the Ohio River, but it will require some riding on roadways and permission to cross state lands....
Extend it? Good Lord it costs the taxpayers a fortune NOW to maintain it and nobody uses it but a few people.
I with you rpmwwe...if your going to do something, why don't you do something that is POPULAR. Great idea rpmwwe!
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"The railroad bed is a favorite among ATV riders trespassing on state lands"
I'm not condoning trespassing on anyone's property by ATV riders in any way but a real good way to alleviate the problem is to use some public lands as designated ATV / motorcycle riding areas rather than catering exclusively to the bicycle riders.
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VIDEO: Justin Bieber's fragrance ad is here, the bottle looks like Marc Jacobs' Lola
Last week, pop star and tween icon Justin Bieber announced plans to release a women's fragrance called Someday, a fruity floral scent that Bieber believes will bring his fans closer to him and his world. Now the video ad for the fragrance is here.
It may have all with bells and whistles, having been shot in a zero gravity facility at NASA, but the ad spot is as distracting and disconnected as a psycho flick sequence showing a girl on the verge of flipping out and becoming a teenage boy serial killer.
One minute she's stroking her hair in front of a mirror, and then the next she's having mental flashes of flying through the clouds with the Biebs (who by the way appears to be vertically insufficient for her "leading lady").
That's a lot of schizophrenic behaviour for an ad that's meant to be seen by giggly Beliebers. And the packaging looks more than inspired by Marc Jacobs' Lola fragrance.
The good thing about Justin Bieber's Someday though is that the proceeds of the celebrity fragrance will go to charity. Not a popular route for A-listers as perfumes are usually released as goldmines for celebs running low on cash, but the scent's licensee, Give Back Brands, is trying to change all that.
Set to hit the beauty shelves in the Fall, a bottle of the Biebs will retail for an affordable $35 to $55.
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has it come in dubai??? is it dubai mall or sumthin?
We haven't heard, but as soon as we do we'll let you know!
where else in dubai is it available?
It's not yet available in the UAE (or elsewhere, at least not for another three months), but we'll definitely let you know as soon as it hits the local beauty counters.
OK ! do let me know soon! can't wait to smell it! Thank you!
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Remember when the phone book was the only way to find a local business? Searching for a product or service has greatly changed with the internet and the various search engines.
While the internet has given us access to the entire world... literally... many people still prefer to do business locally and are searching online or on their mobile devices. In fact, with over 71 billion searches, 25-30% of the searches are local – and that number increases daily. That's why it's important to maintain a local presence.
Small business owners should take advantage of the FREE listing services offered by Google Places, Yahoo! Local, Bing Business Portal, and Yelp for Business. Think of these as free websites... even if you don't have a business website of your own.
To get started, do a search for your business on each of the provider's sites. If your business appears, make sure you claim your business and update the information accordingly. If it doesn't, then simply add your information. Don't forget to include your hours of operation. If done correctly, your business could land on Page 1 searches on Google, Yahoo!, Bing or Yelp, helping you to:
- Attract more local customers
- Increase your online visibility
- Promote your product or service
- Get listed on maps
You can even offer coupons on these sites to promote even more business! Create printable coupons for specials and deals to entice people to come visit your store or restaurant. Offer Promo Codes for online purchases. The ideas and uses are endless. Just remember to keep your promotion fresh and update it on a regular basis.
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- List all information possible about your business on each site. Missing information tends to demote your business listing, causing it to fall further from the top of the list.
- When listing your business on other sites or directories, be sure to use the exact same name every time. For example, if you listed your business as "ABC Pizza" on one site, make sure not to list it as "ABC Pizza Inc" on another.
These sites have so much to offer the local business community, yet many businesses have not claimed their Google Place, updated Yahoo! Local, completed their Yelp for Business or Bing Business Portal. In many instances, the information presented is outdated. If your business has moved, the map location could be incorrect. So go get your free local advertising and stir up more business right now!


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Swimming and Diving Defeats Eastern Illinois
MUNCIE, Ind. – The Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving teams earned wins Saturday afternoon at Lewellen Aquatics Center against Eastern Illinois. The men defeated Eastern Illinois 148-75, while the women downed the Panthers 164-62.
Ball State earned 23 event victories on the day. Jordan VanWinkle, Quinn Bixler, Jake Brehmer and Michael Oaks all earned two individual event wins. There were 13 season bests for the Cardinals as well.
The meet started off with both 400 medley relays earning wins for Ball State. Mallory Miles, Bridgette Ruehl, Haley Richter and Carlena Magley combined for a 3:52.07 while Drew Sullenbarger, Conner Snare, Drew Tharp and Cole Smith turned in a season-best 3:36.31.
Jordan VanWinkle earned a win in the 1000 free with a 10:42.72; it was her first time swimming the event this season. She was followed by Leighann Mattson with a season-best 10:54.76 and Genevieve Hayes with a 10:59.05 to complete the Cardinals sweep of the event.
Senior Cheyanne Jackson earned the top spot in the 200 free with a season-best time of 1:57.14. She was followed by Carlena Magley and Kayla Hussey who finished second and third with times of 1:58.50 and 2:01.04. Senior Michael Oaks turned in a 1:46.92 to touch first followed by Neal Fennig and Logan Kisinger with times of 1:49.21 and 1:53.25 for second and fifth place.
Ball State swept the 50 free with Haley Richter clocking a 23.76 and Cole Smith touching at 21.70. Audrey Rodawig and Austin Green both came in second with times of 24.75 and 22.25. Elaine Pitsas clocked a 25.46 while Nick Rodriguez finished with a 22.83.
In the 200 IM, Bridgette Ruehl and Tanner Barton both finished with season-best times. Ruehl turned in a 2:13.10 while Barton came in a 2:00.77. Kimberly Scott finished with a 2:13.81 for second place followed by Larah Beaver with a 2:20.78 in fourth. Conner Snare touched at 2:05.83 for fourth while Jacob Eckert finished with a 2:06.16 for sixth.
In the diving competition, Quinn Bixler finished in first in the 1-meter with a season-best 217.45 followed by Brittany Penn with a 179.85. The win was Bixler's first collegiate win. Jake Brehmer earned a score of 263.85 for first place.
Freshman Katie Horn captured a win in the 200 fly with a 2:09.95 while Drew Tharp took home a win for the men with a 1:55.30. Kayla Hussey and Allie Kolz finished second and third with times of 2:14.19 and 2:16.46, respectively. Tanner Barton and Bradley Ridge followed suit going second and third with times of 1:57.59 and 2:01.04, respectively.
Ball State continued its winning ways in the 100 free with Jordan VanWinkle and Michael Oaks earning wins in the 100 free with times of 54.58 and 47.80. On the women's side Jessica Extine finished second with a 55.91 while Courtney Mudd rounded out the event with a 56.51. For the men, Austin Green touched second with a 48.68 while Logan Kisinger finished at 49.24 for fourth place.
Senior co-captain Mallory Miles earned a win in the 200 back with a season-best time of 2:07.82 while Drew Sullenbarger also won with a 1:56.57. The women finished second and third with Larah Beaver touching at 2:14.40 and Jackie Iglesias finishing at 2:15.82. For the men, Tucker Hale finished third with a 2:03.64 while Cameron Watters was right behind in fourth with a 2:05.98.
Emily Wisolek captured a victory in the 500 free after posting a time of 5:09.24 Genevieve Hayes finished second with a season-best 5:20.99 and Cheyanne Jackson came in third with a 5:24.42. Andy Lamb was the top finisher on the men's side coming in second with a 4:56.92. JD Middleton and Neal Fennig were right behind in third and fourth with times of 4:59.14 and 5:02.14.
In the 3-meter diving, Bixler and Brehmer picked up wins with scores of 234.53 and 281.25. Bixler's mark was a season-best in the event. Brittany Penn ended in second place with a 225.83.
Stacey Wierman came in first in the 200 breast with a season-best time of 2:23.29 followed by Sumaiyah Ahmad with a 2:28.68. Kimberly Scott finished in third place posting a season-best time of 2:33.50. On the men's side of things, Conner Snare finished second clocking a 2:19.50. Jacob Eckert and Mitch Prather turned in times of 2:24.01 and 2:25.33.
Both 200 free relays finished the meet on the winning side for Ball State. The relay of Richter, Magley, Rodawig and Pitsas finished in 1:37.54 while the relay of Oaks, Kisinger, Green and Smith clocked a season-best time of 1:25.99.
The teams are back in action on Saturday, Jan. 25 as they head to Ypsilanti, Mich., to take on Eastern Michigan and Ohio State. Check ballstatesports.com for more news and information on Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving.


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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Songs for a Shutdown, Dirges for a Default? Dave Lippman will perform some of his greatest hits, including "I Hate Walmart" and "All We Are Saying is End Corporate Crime" on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in a free concert at the ILA Hall, 1142 Morrison Dr. in Charleston.
Lippman has performed his songs of hope, humor and defiance in the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capital during the protests there and in the camps of Occupy across the continent. He has been called Americas troubadour of the 99 percent. Florida Flambeau described him as "A latter-day Tom Lehrer…a voice that sounds like Woody Guthrie one minute, Lenny Bruce the next."
This concert is co-sponsored by the Charleston Chapter of the Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFÉ) and the S.C. Progressive Network Charleston Chapter. This is a free show.
Members of Network Organizations will be available to comment on issues related to the government shutdown and possible default and the prospects for another round of this political struggle in January 2014 shortly before the concert.
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Endurance tested in Daytona
January 29, 2013
"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance." —Virgil That was the lesson at the Rolex 24 Endurance Race at Daytona....
Daryn Pittman is now back on the WoO tour driving for Kasey Kahne. A standout PA driver, Danny Dietrich is racing in Australia.
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In Buffalo, those of us who trudge around at ground level are inured to the grit and grime of the city. And sometimes it takes an ascent to the observation deck of City Hall or some other lofty vantage point to be reminded of the natural beauty that surrounds us.
But all painter Michael Herbold has to do is look out his studio window. The artist's workspace in Buffalo's Prospect Hill neighborhood affords him a view of the Niagara River and of Canada along with the built environments on either side of the border. And that space, at the edge of the urban landscape that gives way to the natural beauty of the water and the sky, is what many of his paintings capture.
Herbold's style and approach, according to a release from the gallery, is similar to the painters of the Hudson River School, "who valued the beautiful and awesome aspects of nature in a landscape that was no longer pristine."
A solo exhibition of his work opens at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North St.), where it will remain on view through Oct. 9. For more information, call 882-5777 or visit www.ninafreudenheimgallery.com.
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Deputy's squad car side-swiped on I-94
UPDATED 1:01 PM CST Jan 16, 2013
A Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office squad car was side-swiped Wednesday morning on Interstate 94 at Ryan Road.
The Sheriff's Office said it happened at about 10:22 a.m.
There was no serious damage to the squad car.
The deputy was taken to the hospital as a precaution, the Sheriff's Office said. The other driver was not injured.
There are no details at this time on the cause of the crash or if any citations have been issued.
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What are you doing after work? I am about to twist this weed up and be big chillin until the party starts.
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Squeezing Energy from Photovoltaic Panels
Jon Gabay writes:
Renewable energy can be an expensive endeavor and photovoltaic systems are no exception. Ground and roof-mount frames have to be tough enough to handle weather extremes and conditions, and can be very costly even without tracking.
If you use storage batteries, there are large initial expense and the replacement costs every so many years to be considered. On the positive side, 90 percent of the materials in a lead acid battery are completely recyclable. Chargers and inverters are not cheap either.
The panels are the biggest expense. Fortunately, with higher manufacturing capacities coming on line, photovoltaic panel pricing is starting to come down, but not yet to the level of mass deployment.
In 2008, the price of $1000/kg of silicon kept panels at process of three to four dollars per watt. Combining the increase in silicon production capacity with the global slowdown has dropped the price to the $40/kg level meaning we may soon really be at the coveted one dollar per watt price point that many say will make photovoltaic solar on a level playing field with non-renewable energy technologies. We are presently around $1.50 per watt.
To get to that level of high deployment, payback has to be quicker. The lower cost promise of solar panels is one factor for quicker return on investment. The other is the changed architecture of photovoltaic systems stemming from the use of micro inverters.
Either way, the market for the electronics that make use of the solar energy more efficiently is about to explode.
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James Stephens III probably could have gone the direction of a classically trained pianist (or pop musician, his choice), an actor or even a full-time impressionist. Why not all three?
James has been able to utilize all of those attributes in a very impressive comedy show. He was up for the role that went to Jaime Foxx (that earned him an Oscar for Best Actor) for the life and times of Ray Charles in the 2004 movie, "Ray." His rendition of Ray Charles singing "America the Beautiful" is really uncanny.
James, who has a very polished act, has performed on the "Dana Carvey" and "Stephanie Miller" shows, appeared on numerous late night talk shows and comedy specials. Can you believe there was a time he actually practiced law before becoming a comedian? I guess it shouldn't be a surprise since so many comics have come from well-established careers only to do an "about face" and follow their passion, which just happened to be an occupation as a standup.
James' versatility makes for a fast-moving, ever-changing lineup of funny characters. He has a quick wit, including improvisational skills, able to customize each performance so it's like each audience member is getting a different show all week. In other words, no two shows are ever the same, as James involves the entire audience in each performance.
His impressions include Bill Cosby, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Prince, Babyface and many more. James Stephens' television credits include Fox's "The Edge," MTV's "1/2 Hour Comedy Hour," Comedy Central, HBO, VH-1, Black Entertainment Television (BET), Apollo Comedy Hour, NBC's "Friday Night Videos," "Showtime at the Apollo" and "Ray Charles: 50 Years in Music."
I realize it's tough to get booked onto our room, because the crowds are great, you only have to do one show a night (except Saturday, when we do two) and the obvious: you get to be in Tahoe for a week. So after Tracey MacDonald - who makes her second appearance here this week - sent me photos of her native Nova Scotia saying, "I miss my home but Tahoe is the next best thing" and "I'd like to bring you a present from Nova Scotia," I called her up when I had an unexpected opening.
(We are booked solid through the rest of the year, so unless somebody cancels their week, which is pretty rare for up here, you can't get booked back until sometime next year.)
Now that she's returning to Tahoe, let's see why Tracey was such a big deal in Nova Scotia. Before relocating to Los Angeles she won on the "New Star Search with Host Arsenio Hall." OK, she did more than just win. Tracey was the first comedian to win four times on CBS's "Star Search" and was awarded a two-year development deal with CBS television. She's also been on the E! Network, "Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen," and entertained American troops overseas in Afghanistan, Kandahar and Kabul.
When Tracey was in Canada she made numerous television appearances before getting some very nice press here in this country and moving to southern California. Variety Magazine did a very nice piece on her after performing along with comedians Sarah Silverman, Bob Saget, Dane Cook and Jay Mohr.
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CHARLESTON (AP) - West Virginians on Sunday braced for a wintry blow from the coming megastorm, with the unusual mix of weather systems expected to bring a blizzard to mountainous areas and strong winds, heavy snow and possible flooding and outages to other parts.
The storm - a combination of Hurricane Sandy, a cold front from the west and high pressure from the north - presents a variety of concerns to West Virginians, depending on their location.
Late Sunday, the National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings from midday Monday through Wednesday afternoon in 10 counties. They are Fayette, McDowell, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Preston, Raleigh, Randolph, Tucker, Webster and Wyoming counties.
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This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday shows Hurricane Sandy off the Mid Atlantic coastline moving toward the north with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation.
The highest ridge tops, including near ski resorts, could receive up to 2 feet of heavy, wet snow, along with wind gusts of up to 50 mph that reduce visibility to zero and bring down tree limbs
Four other counties were under a winter storm warning: Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe and Summers. Those could see up to 8 inches of snow.
"This is one of the most interesting storms I've ever seen," said Barb Miller, emergency services director in Jefferson County. "Even this morning (Sunday), they still can't say exactly where it's going to hit."
Snow was forecast to start falling Sunday night and continue through Wednesday morning from McDowell County northeast to Preston County.
Other areas of the state will see a mix of rain and snow, especially Monday night and Tuesday.
Wind gusts up to 60 mph were likely Monday and Tuesday in Berkeley, Hampshire, Grant, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan and Pendleton counties. Combined with heavy rains, that could lead to significant tree damage, the weather service said.
Flooding also was possible in both panhandles and portions of northern West Virginia.
T.D. Lively of the state Division of Homeland Security said the American Red Cross has placed several of its shelters on standby, adding that "typically West Virginia doesn't have a large need for sheltering because people tend to stay with family."
Power company crews were being mobilized to deal with potential outages.
Appalachian Power spokesman Phil Moye said Sunday that in addition to putting its own workers on notice, more than 350 crews have been secured from others companies within the system of parent American Electric Power, which serves nearly 440,000 customers in 24 West Virginia counties.
"The weather pattern certainly looks like it could impact our service territory and cause power outages," Moye said. "If the weather continues to develop in a way that we could have major power outages, then we'll request more (help)."
West Virginia already has had a busy year dealing with weather-related emergencies. The June 29 windstorms known as a derecho left more than 680,000 state customers without electricity, many for up to two weeks, in the middle of a heat wave.
"With an event this size, the power company is going to be so tied up and they're not going to be able to get to everybody at the same time," Miller said. "So they need to be as ready as they can."
Airlines canceled 19 flights heading in and out of Charleston's Yeager Airport on Monday due to the pending storm. Most involved United Airlines flights and 11 of the canceled flights involved airports in Washington D.C. The other airports are in New York, Chicago and Houston.
Another United flight scheduled to leave Yeager Airport on Sunday night also was canceled.


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This category designates courses in which assigned readings are in Sanskrit, as well as upper level (4400 and above) in which Sanskrit and allied literatures are taught in translation.
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The program seeks to provide students with a firm grounding in a wide range of disciplines and genres of Sanskrit poetic, religious, and philosophical literature.
Each term the program offers a course in Advanced Sanskrit (SNLIT 3301-3302). The course is designed to be repeated; ordinarily the readings will concentrate on literary/aesthetic and philosophical texts in alternating years, so that students who take the course for two or more years will get a strong grounding in both areas.
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He's a Harvard guy – a Harvard dropout, to be specific. He's also an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, you no doubt remember, from his first film with Gus Van Sant, "Good Will Hunting," co-starring his co-writer and childhood friend Ben Affleck.
So anyone expecting Matt Damon to be little more than a hapless sitcom dad a la "We Bought a Zoo" or an emotionless action cipher a la Jason Bourne, is barking up the wrong showcase. Those who want him to be little more than a cutie-pie performing minor career stretches are going to have major problems with "Promised Land."
I'm not one of them. Quite frankly, I admire his generation of politicized actors enormously – George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sean Penn, etc. They've done something with their politics no other Hollywood generation before them has done with equivalent success. They haven't just demonstrated for their politics or worn them on their sleeves or contributed time and money to their causes, they've actively put their moviemaking lives behind their politics.
"Promised Land" for those who don't know, is Damon's "fracking" movie – a fiction based on a story by Dave Eggers and co-written by Damon and his co-star John Krasinski. (Damon's old buddy Affleck was off making "Argo," certain to be an Oscar nomination finalist shortly.) Damon plays a deeply conflicted hireling for an energy conglomerate, buying up Marcellus Shale properties for the hugely controversial practice of fracking (wherein natural gas is liberated for an energy-gobbling world from far beneath the earth's surface but not without conspicuous and frequent environmental damage – and worse). He and Frances McDormand drive into town with bulging pockets and represent the company. They stop at the local store selling "guns, groceries, guitars and gas" to acquire the proper locally fashionable flannel shirts and boots.
It's assumed the two of them will land the town in the energy Goliath's win column. All seems to be a lock for Big Energy until they run afoul of the local contingent led by Hal Holbrook, as a high school science teacher with M.I.T. and a long stint with Boeing management bulging out of his dossier. No countrified rube is he. He considers himself lucky "to be old enough to have a shot at dying with my dignity."
His environmental claque is suddenly joined by an environmental organizer played by Krasinski, whose enormous natural charm and know-how compounds all problems considerably. It's no longer a foregone conclusion that this town will be chalked up to the frackers' win column.
This is an uncommonly well-written movie, from roadhouse habitues hitting on women by rhetorically asking them "what's the point of having good hair if you don't sing in public." (A pretty good pickup line on open-mic night, you must admit.) The joint is called Buddy's Place. It's where the locals go to drink beer, sing Springsteen songs to each other and find companions for the evening.
Before the film is over, it has fought fracking. And allowed the hero to find his soul. So that fracking can look bad. And Damon's generation of Hollywood actors can look good with another political score – without, in any way, making a boring movie.
Not bad that, not bad at all.
Promised Land
3 stars
Starring: Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt
Director: Gus Van Sant
Running time: 106 minutes
Rating: R for language
The Lowdown: A small farming community fights back against Big Energy and fracking.
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#5. Fretless Bass (VHS)
There might be cheaper ways to learn bass than Steve Bailey's $99,999.99 Fretless Bass, but are you willing to risk it? To put that price tag into perspective, Geddy Lee's personal appearance fee is $60,000, and the bass player from the Spin Doctors will come to your house and put his mouth around you as long as your dick is in a pizza.
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For less than half the price of Fretless Bass, you can get this Goin' Green NASCAR-branded earplug dispenser. Stick a couple in and play bass as fretfully as you want. Do you have small ear canals? What am I saying? You're a NASCAR fan -- tiny ear holes are the least of your birth defects. You're probably halfway through eating the dispenser already and wondering why this $46,710 tub of popcorn sucks so much.
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$6,901 for six boxes of Cheerios? Have they been passed through the Queen of England?
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If you're on a budget, avoid Cheerios and try swallowing less expensive things like ethnic children or fossilized dinosaur semen. This can be dangerous, so pick up a $2,846.23 VHS tape on adult swallowing disorders. It's a steal! You don't have to take my word for it -- just listen to these reviews!
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So if you've ever wondered what kind of people buy a $2,846.23 tape on throat disorders, you were right: retarded ones.
#3. Premium Durable Eva Case for Apple iPod Shuffle
This $99,999.84 case is probably more than you spent for your actual iPod Shuffle, but it comes with a Free eBigValue Hand Strap and a Key Ring. Assuming those are the Korean words for "weapons-grade uranium" and "treasure map," this is a bargain. Plus, it comes with keys!!!
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Let's face it: If you're walking around with a $100,000 iPod Shuffle case, you're doing that so poor people hate you. Get the same effect for a fraction of the cost by jamming this diamond-studded pacifier in your infant's mouth. It's the fastest way to tell nearby child psychologists that your baby will have a sex tape by the time it's 18 months old.
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For a quarter of a million dollars, you can have the book rights and the movie rights for Pez Outlaw Diary, a novel(?) about the intrigue surrounding Pez dispenser dealing. The author, Pez Outlaw, has written what he says is "the most unique book ever written about Pez." That sounds impossible, but judging by the manic sentence fragments he used to describe the book, I believe him. Take a look:
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"The 1/2 Million Dollar Fraud, PEZ Pez"!? Like Aliens vs. Predator, that walks the line between a great elevator pitch and the ramblings of a madman. Who would have thought that decades of eating sweetened chalk out of the neck of Batman could make a person crazy?
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PennDOT reminds drives that potholes and other maintenance concerns on state roads can be reported by calling 1-800-FIX-ROAD.
Potholes develop when water seeps below the road through small cracks in the pavement surface. As the water repeatedly freezes and thaws, a cavity below the road is formed and larger cracks develop, destroying the strength of the pavement.
Callers to the 1-800-FIX-ROAD hotline should be as specific as possible when providing pothole locations or other maintenance concerns.
For state routes, callers must report the county, municipality, street name and route number.
Callers should also provide a description of any landmarks that will help PennDOT crews locate the problem area.
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We sat at a four-top near the fireplace, Mommal's walker parked next to all the other walkers by the coat rack with the feathered fedora hat. The four of us a chain, generations. My grandmother, my mom, me, and my daughter lunching at the Cracker Barrel.
A round table nearby, in the corner- ladies celebrating their 86th birthdays, and the whole restaurant sang to them. It made me want to happy cry, and later Ivy ran to them to say happy birthday and give hugs to old people she didn't know, even one with an oxygen mask. She said her mother-in-law's name was Ivy.
In the car she chattered on about her imaginary friends and all the exciting things they get to do and see and I jolt at the sound of her voice, it's lower today. Not the high birdy sound but different, older, and her words, they are suddenly more mature and imaginative.
Mommal's voice is changing, too. It's shaky and higher. I've been afraid that lately I'd lost my own voice but I now realize it's not lost, it's just evolving, and it's actually wonderful whatever it is, this time I'm in, I get to discover. Ivy starts dance next week, and Carter has joined Little League. I find my marks on stage and move into place.
Tonight we made cupcakes and with Pandora on the classical station it was like we had our own soundtrack, like we were in a movie, she cracked and stirred and I lived every moment of it not like it was our last, but like it was only the beginning. Because it so is.


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PCGFS awards research grants on U.S. student projects in 12 countries
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University research center leading efforts to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers to help solve world hunger is awarding another round of grants totaling $300,000 to graduate students at 12 U.S. universities.Read Full Story
Scientists at MSU Warn of Global Food Crisis
April 10, 2015
It's hard for Americans, who have such plentiful food, to imagine that the world would face a tremendous food crisis in the next generation, but prize-winning scientist Gebisa Ejeta is worried. "We all are," Ejeta said at Montana State University, where the Board of International Food and Agricultural Development is meeting Thursday and Friday.Read Full Story
Center for Global Food Security Releases New Round of Grants
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U.S. students enrolled in an accredited U.S. graduate program can apply for international research grants of $15,000 to $40,000 through Purdue University's U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security program and funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).Read Full Story


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Plans include improve norther part of grounds
Summerfest just left town, and organizers are already looking ahead to next year.
Spokesman John Boler told WISN 12 News, they'll look at more ways to improve the daytime experience at the Big Gig.
This year, they incorporated new attractions such as paddle boats and a skydive show.
Summerfest also said it will look at improving another part of the grounds at Maier Festival Park.
"Over the last eight years, we've reinvested approximately $60 million in Maier Festival Park. Looking to the future, we're going to focus on the northern parts of the grounds now and see if there are ways we can improve infrastructure in those areas," Summerfest spokesman John Boler said.
Organizers said Summerfest attendance numbers will be released later this week.
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Merck & Co. entered into an up to $430 million collaboration with Abide Therapeutics to discover, develop, and commercialize small molecule therapies designed to treat type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases by targeting serine hydrolases.
Abide said today the $430 million will consist of an up-front payment, research funding, and potential milestone payments for three products. Merck will have worldwide commercialization rights to any products that may be developed through the collaboration, with Abide entitled to receive royalty payments on global sales of any such products.
Serine hydrolases comprise a family of enzymes that play a role in human physiological processes. They include regulating CNS signaling, digestion, metabolism, inflammation, blood clotting, and life cycle of viruses and pathogens.
"We are eager to validate unique targets that we hope will lead to the development of novel therapeutics that will benefit patients with diabetes and metabolic diseases," Alan Ezekowitz, D.Phil., co-founder, president and CEO of Abide Therapeutics, said in a statement. Dr. Ezekowitz had headed the head, bone, respiratory, immunology, endocrine, dermatology, and urology franchises as a senior vp for Merck Research Laboratories during a five-year stint there from 2006–2011.
Abide was co-founded by two professors at the Scripps Research Institute: Dale Boger, Ph.D., Richard and Alice Cramer professor of chemistry; and Benjamin Cravatt, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of chemical physiology. Abide was funded by Cardinal Partners, where Dr. Ezekowitz has been an entrepreneur-in-residence since April 2011.
The deal with Abide is the second research collaboration announced by Merck this week, and the second announced by Roger Perlmutter since he joined the company as head of its research and development effort. Merck is scrambling to reverse years of R&D setbacks—and thus improve its prospects for recouping sales it has started to lose to patent-cliff expirations of blockbusters.
Merck on Wednesday cut its earnings guidance to investors for 2013 after releasing disappointing first-quarter results that included a 75% year-to-year drop in first-quarter sales of asthma treatment Singulair (montelukast) due to generic competition (down to $337 million), and a 4% decline year-over-year in Q1 sales of diabetes drug Januvia® (sitagliptin) (to $884 million). Perlmutter is carrying out a three- to six-month review of Merck's R&D operations, with the expectation that they will be restructured.
Diabetes is much on Merck's mind of late. On Monday, the company announced a collaboration with Pfizer to commercialize its ertugliflozin (PF-04971729), an investigational oral sodium glucose cotransporter (SGLT2) inhibitor being evaluated for type 2 diabetes. Merck agreed to pay Pfizer up to $60 million in undisclosed upfront and milestone payments, plus possible additional payments tied to also undisclosed future clinical, regulatory, and commercial milestones. However, Merck and Pfizer would share potential revenues and certain costs on a 60%/40% basis.
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A fire lit by a candle destroyed an apartment overnight, according to officials.
A family is now being helped by the American Red Cross after flames caused $45,000 worth of damage at their Daytona Beach apartment.
The fire spread and damaged another unit as well.
A family dog was also lost in the blaze. Two other animals were saved by firefighters.
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Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise a child.
But she�s never been to Silverton, where, on Friday, educators, townspeople and students celebrated the remarkable renovation of the historic Silverton School building � an endeavor that took not only the unflagging support of �the village,� but about three years, almost $12 million dollars, and educators� endless improvisation.
Kim White, principal and superintendent of Silverton School, said, �We�re just thrilled. I feel like we�ve been able to restore and preserve the school building for the next hundred years.�
The story of Silverton School�s continued existence, like that of its renovation, is a unique testament to Silverton�s history and the tenacity of its sparse population in the face of privation.
First built in 1911, Silverton School has remained open, educating every generation of Silvertonians, despite declining enrollment numbers that repeatedly threatened its closure. Today, it serves 65 students in grades K-12 and, as the only school in San Juan County, performs a vital public function.
Paul Zimmerman, president of the Silverton School Board, said the building was also an architectural landmark.
�Without a school, you never have a true community, and for the town of Silverton, the Silverton School building is just huge,� he said.
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For decades, its was common knowledge that Silverton School building needed maintenance. But the issue was forced in December 2008, when the coal boiler in the century-old school building broke down � no small inconvenience in a town that regularly sees temperatures of -20 degrees Fahrenheit during winter.
�They had an interesting winter,� said Zimmerman, who has two children at the school. �We were eventually able to maintain the school temperature at about 65 by shutting down the gym and basically putting in a whole bunch of electric heaters, donated by Durango Power. But our energy costs increased drastically.�
As administrators scrambled to locate space heaters, teachers and students sallied on, in bitterly cold classrooms, wearing coats, hats, gloves and coats. Contemporary news accounts ran photographs of Silverton students swathed in so many down layers they appeared like rather miserable-looking mummies.
No money, more problems
While the broken heating system amounted to an emergency, the building�s problems extended far beyond that.
According to the Colorado Department of Education, Silverton School ranked in the top 10 percent of neediest schools in the state by critical health and safety standards.
�There were a 110 code deficiencies, and we weren�t compliant on any health and safety issue � except for the building�s student capacity,� White said.
Revamping the school would require $11.8 million � a large sum in any context, an enormous one in a recession. White said the renovation would have been impossible were it not for the support of public institutions and the community, noting that the lion�s share of the renovation�s funding came from the state�s BEST program (Building Excellent Schools Today), which contributed $9.6 million.
The Colorado Department of Local Affairs ponied up $200,000 for the removal of all asbestos. The district chipped in $450,000 that had been earmarked for a new boiler. Through a mill levy increase, San Juan County�s taxpayers contributed $1.2 million. The Colorado Historical Society gave $342,000, which allowed for the restoration of the school building�s brick exterior.
As more than 100 contractors worked on the school building, the teachers and students moved into two modular buildings.
�I think, from the staff standpoint, being in the modular for two years was awful, since they were obviously dealing with a third of the space,� Zimmerman said.
Teacher Sallie Barney said without a gym, elementary students �just literally didn�t have any space to run around. We could really notice the effects of lack of physical exertion on learning.�
�It�s still blowing me away what we got done,� Zimmerman said.
Now, Silverton School � poised to become the first in Southwest Colorado to achieve LEED School-Gold certification � is a beacon. It has a new gym, performing arts center, state-of-the-art technologies in every classroom, bathrooms on every floor and a modern alarm system.
The heating system has been overhauled.
School board member and secretary Dan Salazar said, �Boy, it�s fun and energizing to just go in to the renovated building and walk around, to enjoy the space and see how fabulous it is.�
White echoed Salazar�s amazement: �Now we�re in a safe, healthy space that is technologically competitive with any school in the state. It�s just filled with light.� she said.
For Barney, Silverton School�s renovation lends meaning to Silverton itself: �It�s really an example of what education in America can be: a centerpiece of our community. The students are really proud of it, of their education. And as educators in the U.S., that�s what we should be striving for. We don�t need kids cooped up in cinder-block schools. We can invest � in beauty, in education, in our future. Hopefully other people will see that building and think, �Look, that�s the kind of place, the kind of civic commitment, I want to live.��
Hillary Clinton would approve.


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He's broken distance records and made the first known crossing of the Sierra Nevada with a paraglider, but Stephan Haase has never competed in a race like the Red Bulll X-Alps before.
"It's wild. I didn't think it would happen," the Kingsbury paraglider said. "It's really exciting and it's a big slice of humble pie. I'll have to get comfortable being uncomfortable."
Thirty paragliders from around the world will compete in the X-Alps event this July. It's a more than 500-mile race against the clock that will take athletes from Saltzburg, Austria, to the Monaco coast and over some of the toughest terrain in Europe, including the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc.
The application process is extremely competitive - only five American pilots have ever been selected to race - and 40 percent of the athletes quit before reaching the finish line.
"The Red Bull X-Alps can legitimately claim a league of its own. Competitors not only have to be incredibly fit endurance athletes - its not uncommon to hike over 60 miles a day - but they must also be world-class paragliders, flying in often marginal and challenging mountain conditions," race spokesman Tarquin Cooper wrote in an email to the Tribune last fall.
Mountaineering skills are a must since paragliders will have to schlep their gear over tricky terrain when grounded by poor conditions. Honza Rejmanek, a paraglider from Davis, Calif., who podiumed in one X-Alps race, walked 150 miles in three days during the 2011 competition when weather prevented him from flying.
Haase won't be alone when he competes in July. The X-Alps athletes can pick two teammates as support, so paragliders Dave Hanning and Brad Sander will hit the course with Haase this summer to help with supplies.
Hanning describes his job as the "rolling 7/11, a house on wheels for the athlete" who carries anything from fresh socks to water and food. Hanning, a veteran supporter who accompanied Rejmanek over the Alps for the past three years, calls the event "the most extreme adevnture race on earth," pitting athletes against physical and mental obstacles.
"Each day brings different challenges, but the most constant is the wearing down of the body ... To fly the sky requires more skills and knowledge than you know. This level of piloting is rare and takes years of experience to gain the insights and skills required to not crash and die. This is the Olympics of paragliding," Hanning wrote in an email.
Detailed knowledge of the course is critical, Hanning said, and Haase plans to spend the next four and a half months living in Austria to survey the route.
Haase has also practiced flying fast - the winner of the 2011 X-Alps race flew 821 miles at an average of 23 miles per hour - and honing his physical fitness. Haase told Red Bull in December that he had cut all animal proteins and alcohol out of his diet to prepare for the event.
Paragliding is still a niche sport in the U.S., and Haase said it can be difficult to find sponsors. Sierra Designs gave him camping gear and clothing to showcase the company's merchandise on the top paragliders, Sierra Designs representative Jeff Haynes said, and other groups have sent Haase other products.
Collecting the money to travel across the world is another story. Las Vegas real estate broker and paraglider Tony Lang wanted to change that. Many European countries fund their paragliding teams - think masseuses, chefs and trainers --and U.S. competitors would enter the races as the underdogs, Lang said.
Lang established the U.S. Paragliding Team in 2007, a nonprofit dedicated to raising money to send the country's top paragliders to international competitions. This year he'll need about $40,000 to send his 13 racers to Europe.
"[The X-Alps] is a very technical race and you have to plan your flight strategically. It's one of the most amazing races on the planet ... [Stephan] is young, aggressive. I think he's got what it takes," Lang said.
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