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Trident United Ways Day of Caring is moving from September to Friday, Nov. 14.
Thats the date when Lowcountry residents will once again volunteer their sweat and skills to make a difference in the lives of people in their community.
Day of Caring has grown beyond a single day of service into a launching pad for year-round engagement.
Many of the companies volunteering their labor, expertise and supplies to area non-profits and schools have expressed the desire to increase their impact. So this year, in a continuing effort to make Day of Caring more impactful, Trident United Way is moving the date back two months.
Our partners spoke and we listened, said Kat Morgan, Community Volunteer Manager and lead organizer of Trident United Ways Day of Caring. The schools told us they needed more time in the school year to prepare for the event. Once we found that many of our corporate and non-profit partners also preferred the later date, we made the switch.
Trident United Way cited several other reasons why November is a better fit:
The organization said September was difficult for schools because it required much of the planning to occur when teachers were on summer break.
And, the organization said, the November date has other advantages because moves the projects out of the late summer heat and farther from the belly of hurricane season.
Planning for this years event is well underway.
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Not to anyone's surprise, FDA decided that MannKind's inhaled insulin product, Afrezza, cannot be approved yet. The agency's complete response letter raised concern with the usage of in vitro performance data and clinical pharmacology data to justify commercialization of MannKind's new inhaler, called Dreamboat, when the NDA was based on Phase III trials conducted using an earlier version of the device called MedTone.
FDA has requested that MannKind conduct two clinical trials with Dreamboat—one in patients with type 1 diabetes and one in patients with type 2 diabetes. At least one has to include a treatment group using the MedTone inhaler to obtain a head-to-head comparison of the two devices. FDA specified that after an adequate titration of study medication, there should be at least 12 weeks of relatively stable insulin dosing at the end of the treatment period.
The FDA has also requested additional information concerning the performance characteristics, usage, handling, shipment, and storage of the new device, an update of safety information related to Afrezza, as well as information on proposed user training and changes to the proposed labeling of the device, blister pack, foil wrap, and cartons.
"FDA's request for two new, longer than we expected clinical trials pushes timelines out by an additional 18 months, making MannKind's shares dead money during that time," points out Simos Simeonidis, Ph.D., managing director and senior biotechnology analyst at Rodman & Renshaw.
MannKind initiated studies with Dreamboat last fall. Affinity 1 is being conducted in type 1 patients and Affinity 2 in type 2 diabetics. "We plan to meet with the agency as quickly as possible in order to be confident that these trials, with appropriate modifications to incorporate a comparison to the MedTone device, will suffice in addressing the agency's questions about patient use and robustness of the next-generation device," says Alfred Mann, chairman and CEO of MannKind.
Dr. Simeonidis doesn't believe that MannKind has enough cash to carry it through to the next PDUFA date but says that the firm will make it to the finish line. "The company had stated that they have cash until the third quarter of 2011. They will now need to find capital for at least another year past that point, since we don't expect a decision by the FDA before sometime in the second half of 2012.
"So, we expect them to utilize one and probably more of the financing options available to CFO Matt Pfeffer and find ways to get to the finish line. Furthermore, given that CEO Al Mann has invested close to $1 billion of his own money into this venture, we don't expect him to throw in the towel anytime soon."
Joshua Schimmer, M.D., and Steve Y. Yoo, biotechnology analysts at Leerink Swann, say, "By our model MannKind still needs to raise $300 million in cash to reach profitability." Dr. Schimmer and Yoo maintain their underperform rating and low-single digit valuation range.
Administered at the start of a meal, Afrezza dissolves immediately upon inhalation and delivers insulin quickly to the bloodstream, according to MannKind. Peak insulin levels are achieved within 12 to 14 minutes of administration, mimicking the release of mealtime insulin observed in healthy individuals, the firm adds.
"While we believe Afrezza does have an attractive PK profile, we are concerned that it should be given at doses about five to six times higher than current insulin analogues (and higher than doses used to date) in order to show comparable HbA1c reduction as analogues," Dr. Schimmer and Yoo remark.
"Higher insulin dosing requirements could make margins unappealing for a commercial partner.
"Using the new Dreamboat inhaler which has 20 U of insulin/cartridge, we estimate the optimal dose would entail an average of three inhalations per meal. Furthermore, a higher dose introduces the question of whether MannKind's safety data across its clinical trials at lower doses are sufficient to address the pulmonary risk (specifically lung cancer).
"We are concerned that the new Phase III studies will fall into the same trap as the previous studies: Instead of titrating Afrezza doses all the way up to cover post-prandial glucose levels at 2–3 hours, suboptimal dosing levels may be administered by an erroneous focus on the 0.5–1.5 hour post-prandial glucose levels," Dr. Schimmer and Yoo state. "If Afrezza is appropriately dosed, we would expect the Phase III study results to be positive catalysts."
Commenting on the design of Affinity 1 and 2, Mann asserts, "Consistent with the direction we received in the complete response letter, these trials are designed to focus on careful titration of insulin dose and include at least 12 weeks of stable dosing."
In October the agency issued a second complete response letter that raised issues that had not been discussed in the first letter from the agency, points out Dr. Simeonidis. "We note that according to MannKind's 3/15/2010 press release following receipt of the first CRL, the FDA had not requested new clinical trials.
"With the obvious caveat that we have not seen either CRL, and assuming that the company's interpretation of the first CRL is accurate, we view the agency's decision to bring up a new issue in this second CRL that had not been brought up in the first CRL (despite the fact that the agency had actually extended the NDA review time from the usual 10 to 12 months), as further evidence of the FDA's (more specifically, the FDA's Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products) current conservative and, in many cases, unpredictable stance."
A recent NDA from Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly for their diabetes drug Bydureon followed a similar fate with the FDA. Dr. Simeonidis believes that "it is plausible, especially given the agency's current conservative stance around diabetes drugs, that the FDA moved the goalposts on MannKind, as they did with Amylin and Lilly in their Bydureon application."
Bydureon is an extended-release version of exenatide for injectable suspension; Byetta, which is already on the market, is a twice-daily form of exenatide. On October 20, Amylin and Lilly reported that the FDA asked them to conduct a thorough QT (tQT) study with exposures of exenatide higher than typical therapeutic levels of Bydureon. The agency also has asked for results of the Duration-5 study to evaluate the efficacy and thus safety and effectiveness labeling details for the commercial formulation of Bydureon.
The previous complete response letter was received in March 2010. It raised issues related to the finalization of the product labeling with accompanying Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) and clarification of existing manufacturing processes.
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PITTSBURGH - We make a big deal out of New Year's, but what changes besides the calendar?
Hello, 2013.
The Steelers are still out of the playoffs, there's no hockey season and I swear there's a basketball game somewhere on TV every hour of every day.
There's still snow on the ground, it's still uncomfortably cold and the Steelers are still looking for someone else to pick up the tab on the extra seats they want to install at Heinz Field.
So as the obscure bowl games play out, let's make some fearless predictions for the coming 12 months:
n Hockey will be back.
They'll start just past the middle of this month. Tear up the schedule, because there will be a new one with teams playing only within their conference. It's going to be intense, with a lot of games crammed into a limited number of days. Player safety doesn't matter as much any more.
n The Steelers will make big changes.
Get ready for the further exodus of familiar names. Case in point? Casey Hampton. He had a good year, and can still play. But he represents too big a salary cap hit with Steve McLendon ready to step in. Mike Wallace will be gone, too. They could make him the franchise player, but it's not worth the $10.2 million it would cost.
Troy Polamalu and James Harrison stay, although with adjustments to their contracts. Max Starks leaves in search of a starting job with another team.
n The Pirates are not done reshaping their roster.
Garrett Jones still remains the most likely player to move. He's getting too expensive for a platoon role, especially when the Pirates have other candidates for first base and right field. Jerry Sands, acquired in the Joel Hanrahan trade from Boston, will share right field with Travis Snider. The Pirates would still like to add another starting pitcher.
n Clint Hurdle is on the hot seat.
After two seasons where the team fell apart at the end, Hurdle needs to have a more consistent year with the Pirates. The late-season collapses may not be Hurdle's fault, but it's tough to bring back a manager whose teams have failed after succeeding for a good portion of the season.
n Pitt's football team will go to a bowl game but - get ready - it won't be the Compass Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama.
n The first week of Pirates' home games won't pass without Steve Blass saying: "That's why they call it the big leagues" or "That's a pretty good program there" or quoting lyrics from a 1960s song.
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quote: What if someone wrecks your car? Oh let me guess, the car will automatically text you that it was in a wreck right?
quote: If your car runs over someone and kills them while it was driving itself, who do we blame? Who gets sued?
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Google's self-driving car — now featuring 'Don't Mess With Texas' sticker — hits the streets in Austin
Google's self-driving car – now emblazoned with a "Don't Mess With Texas" bumper sticker – is hitting the streets Tuesday in Austin.
As we mentioned Monday, the Google vehicle has generated a ton of buzz at the two-day Texas Transportation Forum in Austin. That excitement reached a crescendo Tuesday, as Google product manager Anthony Levandowski overviewed the self-driving program during a panel discussion.
And a few lucky VIPs – including some Texas Department of Transportation officials – even got to experience the self-driving machine first-hand during a series of 10-minute test drives.
"The remarkable thing was that it was a little unremarkable," said Coby Chase, TxDOT's director of government and public affairs. "It was smooth. It was completely safe. … It was kind of cool watching other cars turn and look at us and their jaws dropping."
Google's self-driving car program, in existence for for about eight years, features about a dozen such vehicles.
The cars are capable of driving completely by themselves, thanks to cameras, a detailed mapping system and a rotating laser that sits atop the car. All the gizmos allow the car to "see" the road — and other drivers — although someone typically still sits in the driver's seat as a precaution.
Accelerating, braking and turning — it's all done by the car.
"It was just magic," Chase said. "We've waited our whole lives to see something like this."
So what's Google doing in the car business? Levandowski said it's pretty simple: the company wanted to know what a car would be like today if the computer had been invented before the car.
"We're a technology company that loves to solve hard problems," he said.
A huge component of the Google effort is safety. Levandowski pointed to research that 95 percent of automobile collisions are caused by user error and that a sizable chunk are the result of distracted driving.
A self-driving car would potentially help address reduce accidents, and Levandowski said Google research shows that their driver-less machine has actually outperformed professional drivers in reacting to some potential collision scenarios.
"Our mission to help improve people's lives by transforming mobility," Levandowski said.
The self-driving portion of the Austin demo was limited to Interstate 35. But the Google cars have driven hundreds of thousands of miles on all kinds of roads in California, and even the brief Texas test displayed the car's ability to navigate some tricky stretches.
In fact, Levandowski said he expects self-driving cars to become more of a reality in the next five years.
Three states — California, Nevada and Florida — have already passed laws to allow some self-driving cars. And while no states specifically prohibit self-driving cars, Google officials said, there's an effort to further clarify the transportation code on the matter.
Levandowski said the biggest challenge going forward would be testing the self-driving car further and proving to drivers and regulators that machine truly is ready for the stressful demands of the roadway.
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While we can't predict which students will be successful in college, we know that those who enter as freshmen with certain risk factors often struggle with college material. These students are more likely to fail courses, stop showing up for classes, and eventually drop out with college debt and no degree. When this happens, we all fail.
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5 Parental Dick Moves You Hate (Until You're a Parent)
#2. Pushing Menial Household Tasks On You
From a Kid Point of View...
Christ, I hated dishes. And so did my mom, which meant that she pushed that job off onto my brother and I. No matter whose turn it was, we'd argue that it was the other's. Depending on if my mom was dating at the time, there could be up to five of us in the house at once, and that meant that they piled up pretty quick.
God, I hated my hair back then.
When mom hit her breaking point, she burst into the kitchen and said something that made my entire world light up... "When you start paying the rent, then you can stop doing the dishes. Until then, you do what I say."
We lived in an income-based apartment project, which meant that our rent was about $60 a month. It was summer, and I had just taken on my first summer job. So that Friday, I cashed my check, went into the government office where our rent was paid, and took care of the next three months.
Strangely, mom never backed out on her word.
Come to think of it, she may not have actually noticed.
Now that I'm a Parent...
Damn, I'm starting to think my own parents aren't great examples for these. My point here was that Mom was making us do a lot of these tasks to free up her six hour midday nap so she'd have plenty of energy to pound down a quarter bag with her drug buddies later that night. So she didn't have a lot of credibility when it came time to explain why we were having to do the jobs she clearly thought were beneath her.
But right now, in some household where both parents are salaried professionals who routinely put time in on weekends, there is a teenager mowing a lawn and saying to his Dad, "And what exactly do YOU do around here?"
There is no way for a adult to explain to a kid what's really going on. If a kid, from birth on, has always had a roof and electricity and internet access, he or she is automatically going to start treating them like constants, like the air they breathe. They can't know the fear; the constant anxiety a grown-up feels knowing that, in fact, we are all one back injury away from being homeless.
The kids don't know the knots their parents tie themselves into making sure those lights stay on, and that there is money for school clothes, and Christmas, and for a car when they turn sixteen, and college after that. All of that is invisible to them, and they won't understand until they're trying to provide all of that for themselves years down the road, losing sleep and eating acid holes in their stomach in the process.
A kid doesn't understand that they -- meaning the kids -- are our chores. That is, one of our chores is teaching them how to do chores (knowing they'll need to know how to do all of this stuff before long)
"No, I got this -- you go change the oil in my truck."
Luckily, I'm able to provide a house in which, if my kids tried to take my Mom's deal and trade chores for paying rent, I'd know they were selling human organs on the black market. It's not a deal I would take anyway. I'm trying to train them, I'm not sitting here saying, "Christ, I hate doing this... BOYS! Come in here for a second." And I believe that most parents are the same way. We pick out a couple of easy things: clean your room, do the dishes, take out the trash. Stuff that only takes a few minutes each, and that anyone can do. It's not making that much difference in my workload.
Yes, I admit that somewhere right now a parent is in fact saying, "Ok, when you're finished with that, you need to go up and pay the electric bill and then stop by the store, and grandpa's shit-bag needs changed before you cook dinner."
"And don't be taking hits off of his IV."
And those parents are wrong. Unless they're paralyzed or something. Kids need a break. Being a kid is hard. For a kid, going to school is as demanding as a full time job -- those were some of the hardest years of my life. Yes, I work twice as many hours as them now, but I'm a 37 year old man and I worked my way up to that. Besides, these people depend on me... not the other way around.
#1. Saying, "You'll Understand when You're Older"
From a Kid Point of View...
I decided early on that I never wanted kids of my own. Any time the subject was brought up in our house, I was pretty vocal about it. But each time, my mother would tell me that one day I'd change my mind. It pissed me off every time she said this because I had clearly just told her that I wanted the opposite. Then she'd respond with the most insulting thing you can say to a teenager, "You'll understand when you're older."
I asked her to explain, and she gave me the basic, "There will be a point in your life where you just change your mind. It happens." But to me, the decision was final. I knew what I wanted in life, and children were not it. The fact that she wasn't taking me seriously just made my blood boil, but she insisted that she couldn't explain it -- I just had to experience that change for myself to understand.
The need to suppress murder urges was a daily battle.
Bullshit! I was an intelligent kid. I had the mental capacity to understand -- she just wasn't willing or smart enough to put it into words. Whatever. This was my life, and she'd see when I turned sixty and still didn't have kids of my own.
Now that I'm a Parent...
I have three kids of my own.
And they are the joy of my life.
There are some things that you quite simply can't explain. Things that kids have to experience in order to understand. It's like trying to tell a blind person what green is. Or explain sex in graphic detail to a seven year old and then tell him that one day he will do damn near anything to get it. Until the first time that he experiences those hormones, he'll think you're the most insane person on the planet. But it'll still be a few years before he gets it. He'll just understand when he's older.
Even things that can be put into words like the "kids or no kids" conversation -- I may have a better way to explain that to my own kids, but even if they understood the biological aspect of reproduction, they will still default to, "75% of what he's saying makes sense. The other 25% is just him being full of shit. I am my own person, and I know how I feel."
This is how I picture all teenagers.
It's like telling somebody waiting for their food at Denny's that they don't actually want pancakes. "Bullshit! I'm so hungry, I'm dying over here! I'm ready to eat the goddamned picture of pancakes off my placemat! You don't know me!" Then, an hour later, when they're feeling like they swallowed a mixer full of concrete, they're like, "Goddamn, why did I eat all those pancakes? What a horrible form of food! Why didn't you talk me out of it?"
Because I know that in the same position, I also couldn't have been talked out of it. A person has to live it, from that early excitement of seeing the pancakes in front of you, to the part where you genuinely enjoy eating the first third of them, to the part where you find yourself forcing the rest of them down because damn it you paid for them, to the final stage where you write a letter to your Congressman demanding pancakes be banned.
The unfortunate part is that it appears to the teenager like we're just blowing you off, even though the adult actually isn't. It's me, as a parent, recognizing that as a teenager I wouldn't have understood it either. Because I remember adults trying to explain these things, and they remembered their parents doing the same.
And the ironic part is that you won't truly understand the honesty of what I'm saying here. Until you're older.


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Biosimilars were briefly (albeit unofficially) known as biogenerics, then follow-on biologics, before the current nomenclature was adopted. The U.S. FDA website defines biosimilars as "biological prescription drugs that are demonstrated to be 'highly similar' (biosimilar) to or 'interchangeable' with an FDA-approved biological product." Yet some experts believe the designation can apply solely based on chemical similarity, approval mechanism, or a combination of chemistry and medical indication.
The 2009 biosimilars market for the U.S. and Europe is estimated at $150 million, according to Datamonitor's recent report Pharmaceutical Key Trends 2011—Biosimilar Market Overview. But with 30 biologics—with annual sales of $51 billion—losing patent protection before 2015, biosimilars should experience explosive growth with sales reaching $3.7 billion by 2015. Worldwide revenues for all biologics in 2008 were $123 billion.
Although this article is about biosimilars, it is useful to discuss them within the context of the gamut of follow-on biologics (here meant descriptively and intuitively, not in any official sense) that include biobetters (a.k.a., biosuperiors) and innovator biologics that in some way resemble an approved molecule.
For our purposes, biosimilars are drugs that strive to be identical in every measurable way to an approved biological. Next-generation improvements in drug properties (e.g., pharmacokinetic advantages through PEGylation or drug-device combinations) are biobetters, while changes resulting in altered drug function result in new biological entities, or innovative drugs.
The relative significance of the three follow-on classes becomes apparent when global pharmaceutical markets are divided into emerging ("pharmerging"), European-style single-payer, and the more complex U.S. system.
In emerging markets (e.g., Russia, South America, Eastern Europe), where consumers generally pay for their own medicines, biosimilars will dominate based on price. In these nations, loyalty to domestic manufacturers and brands combined with high commercial entry barriers suggest that breaking in will likely follow a branded-generic model that relies heavily on manufacturing and distribution partnerships.
Western Europe has already shown its accommodation to biosimilars by approving 14 of them, compared with just four in the U.S. Here the operative term is value. Biobetters and innovative biologicals must demonstrate some combination of testable patient benefit and pricing advantages.
Not surprisingly, and despite the paucity of stateside approvals, the U.S. has become the testing ground for discovery, manufacturing, regulatory approval, and reimbursement for the three follow-on classes, particularly biosimilars. Not everyone agrees that success will be automatic.
Developers of biosimilars face significant hurdles, as the 2010 U.S. healthcare legislation legalized them but ignored the thorny issues of science and regulation.
If regulators insist that key studies compare the candidate, head to head, against a reference product licensed specifically in their jurisdiction, streamlining and coordinating development programs to work across jurisdictions will be difficult. "We spend considerable time trying to justify the use of only one reference product past a early certain stage of the clinical program," says Bruce Babbit, principal consultant with Parexel International.
The second issue involves the degree to which biosimilar developers can import clinical results from the innovator's development program for secondary indications. For example, rituximab was originally indicated for cancer and later for rheumatology. If a developer's data for the first indication is convincing, how much clinical development for the second (or third) indication will be required?
Ideally, if sponsors can demonstrate a high level of physicochemical similarity, repeating the innovator's entire clinical program should be unnecessary. Reaching this level of trust, however, could take many years and many approvals.
Complicating matters is the comparability, or lack thereof, between reference studies conducted a decade before and modern practice, which may be built on evidence from postapproval studies or pharmacovigilance.
"The clinical trial challenges will be significant," Babbit adds. "It would not surprise me if FDA holds more frequent meetings with biosimilar developers than with other biologics developers, particularly around chemical manufacturing and controls. It will be a slow-moving process, and the agency will not commit to Phase III from the outset."
As companies and regulators gain experience the system will relax by virtue of experience and familiarity. The question is: Will anyone be left standing at that point?
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Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College will host a Living Naturally Day as part of the Reserve's Saturdays at the Barn Program from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, November 5. Admission is free and open to all ages. Environmental Education Director Angela Belli said, "The event will promote local businesses and families that live in an ecologically-minded way and will provide opportunities for the community to learn about local resources for good health choices in their own backyards." The event will explore environmentally-friendly approaches to living with presentations, products and information on how to purchase, eat, clean and live in a more ecological way. Participants will have an opportunity to learn from others who have adopted the simple way of living. The presentation schedule includes: 10 a.m. – Off on Our Own, Living Off-Grid in a Comfortable Independence by Ted and Kathy Carns of Ligonier; 11 a.m. – A Taste of Tai Chi with Linda Vucelich of Energy Dynamics; and 12 Noon – Natural Cold Remedies by Granny Earth, N.D. Exhibits and demonstrations will include food samples, natural cold remedies, massages, children's yoga, common sense natural medicine and others by local vendors. No advance registration is necessary. For more information call the Reserve at 724 537-5284.


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Private debt in America far exceeds national debt
March 29, 2013
Well, Ms. Ruckle could be wrong about a large amount of Americans. 66 percent of citizens own homes with an average mortgage debt of $200,000....
"You are so right, the repiglicants controlling the purse have really screwed this one up. How many more years do you want them to deficit spend?"
Umm you may want to do a little fact checking before you spew these lies.
From 1980-2010: Deficit spending by congressional makeup Republican congress: $1.5 trillion Split congress: $3.5 trillion Democratic congress: $8 trillion
So as you can see almost 2/3 of the debt has been accumulated during democratic control congresses.
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Wow. Talk about a short memory and a misreading of recent history:
"We can't say no when government allows the banks huge risks and then pays them off with tax money. That's what Obama is doing right now. Get a clue, we're all gonna be forced to pay for this."
No, no, no. That is what Bush and the GOP did. Obama and the Dems are trying to get stricter banking regulation, but are bring fought by the GOP. The bank bailout was done under the Bush Administration because of the economic crash brought on by the Bush Administration.
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This is an interesting letter but I think that with private debt most people don't keep increasing their debt like the government. To do this a person would purchase a house then in a few years increase their debt load by purchasing another house and so on every few years. Most people that I know work at lowering their debt before taking on another huge amount.
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Trying again.
It sort of works like this, highly simplified: Investors and bondholders are responsible for the bank's debt, not depositors. You have a right to your deposited money, unless the government takes it to bail out the bank, as happened in Cyprus. Losses from loans are absorbed by the banks. That's why they check applicants' credit and charge interest. What's happening is that our government with the help of all these Wall Street types that go in and out of the WH and occupy cabinet posts, have guaranteed the banks losses with taxpayer money. That's where the real fraud is. The guy scamming credit cards is not the real problem. Perhaps next loan you want, they might ask for higher interest, but you can say no. We can't say no when government allows the banks huge risks and then pays them off with tax money. That's what Obama is doing right now. Get a clue, we're all gonna be forced to pay for this.
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"we are not responsible for the other guy's private debt;"
I disagree. Who do you think pays for that debt when the debtor defaults? If you happen to run a balance due every month, the interest you pay helps defray the cost of default. Do you think the bank just absorbs this? Also consider the rampant fraud. Fraud nowadays is not like in the past. When someone hacks credits card number, they hack thousands. Now imagine simply charging $5 to say 100,000 cards. That equals $500,000 with the simple click of a button. Some may catch these miniscule charges and have them removed, while I am sure many do not check for these miniscule charges and simply pay the bill. For those who catch and are given credit, the thief still got the money and again we all pay. It's funny when a credit card company gets ripped off and they notify law enforcement. We fund law enforcement and pay for trying to nab these thieves. Why doesn't the "private sector" fund their own police and catc
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It's hard to fix the results of indoctrination.
Don't liberals always demand that tax loopholes be closed? Aren't loopholes just for the rich? Why do they call Reagan closing loopholes tax increases? Reagan increased the cigarette tax. Isn't that an increase liberals are standing behind? Fact is, after the Carter 15% inflation era, when Reagan left, incomes had increased for everybody and the economy was booming. The people got something for the debt increase. With Obama, 6 trillion later, only the well-connected fat cat cronies get something. The regular guy is doomed to pay the tab.
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There is a crucial difference between private and public debt: We all have to pay for the public debt, we are not responsible for the other guy's private debt; until his interest group succeeds in socializing their debt as have the investors and bondholders of those "too big to fail" banks. With the cooperation of government, of course.
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Religious freak and hollywood elitist who supports the GOP has been found guilty of tax evasion to the tune of $300,000 for failing to file for 3 years. How's that new repub hollywood outreach plan working forya?
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"Yeh, Tip Oneil--Massachusetts Democrat liberal--was the Speaker. All tax bills must originate in the House of Representatives. And the Democrats ruled in them days. Keep trying my friend"
So why is it blame Obama all the time everytime if Congress has the power of the purse? Who controlled the power when we had surpluses that turned to deficts? Doofus.
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Dumb repukenut traitors caused the deficit and are killing the middle class. Remember it was Ronnie and his supply side nuts who began this mess. Reagan was forced to raise taxes eleven times. The Gipper presided over a tripling of the American national debt to nearly $3 trillion. Incredibly by the time he left office in 1989, he more than equaled the entire debt burden produced by the previous 200 years of American history. All for the sake of tax cuts for the rich and union busting. Do we continue to embrass the supply siders? Do we ontinue to deny Americans a living wage? Why do repukenuts hate America. It is because we are free and are not going stand any longer for the lies of people like Majoritarian
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A full time minimum wage worker in WV earns $15,080 a year. WV median household income, 2007-2011 was $39,550. West Virinians deserve better.
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"Spin-o-rama in shootouts very likely an illegal play in NHL next season. Change would have to be approved, but strong sense it will be," Dreger Tweeted. "Determining the direction of the puck and goalie contact among reasons for the NHL's consideration of banning the shootout spin-o-rama.
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when a dog walks and sits simultaniously in order to get the cling-ons off his ass. see wordscooter poopword
dammit, the dog is moon walking again. and all over the bed too! damn dog.
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This is a situational definition. When a dog drags its ass across the carpet in order to stop it from itching it is known as moonwalking.
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Take two.
One wedding just wasn't enough for Kelsey Grammer, so on Saturday night, he and wife Kayte Grammer tied the knot for a second time, the actor's rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
Fifteen months after marrying in New York City's Longacre Theater on February 25, 2011, the love birds exchanged vows during an intimate ceremony at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas.
"Kayte's the most wonderful person in the world," Grammer, 57, tells PEOPLE of his bride, who wore a custom-made Peter Langner baby-doll dress for the nuptials, which was private for the couple. "I'm just so happy! We're really excited."
Of course the celebration doesn't stop here: next month, 31-year-old Kayte is expecting twins. "I've always wanted shot-gun wedding pictures so we can show the kids later on!" says Grammer, with a laugh.
"We wanted to celebrate and re-dedicate [ourselves] to how much we love each other and to our growing family around the bend," says the Boss star, who donned a Tom Ford suit at the Sin City wedding, inspired in part by the 1964 Elvis Presley-Ann Margaret classic, Viva Las Vegas.
As for Grammer, he's just grateful Kayte's took the plunge again, admitting, "I love that she had the courage to marry me twice!"
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Nature's Logic has distinguished itself from all other natural pet foods by excluding all chemically synthesized vitamins, minerals or trace nutrients from all of its product categories. With its special ingredient selection and formulas, Nature's Logic not only meets, but exceeds almost every minimum requirement for amino acids, vitamins, and minerals listed in The Association of American Feed Control Official's (AAFCO) Nutrient Profile for Dogs and Cats.
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Ingredients - Spray Dried Chicken Liver, Porcine Plasma, Whey, Flaxseed, Montmorillonite, , Brewer's Yeast, Dried Egg Product, Egg Shell Meal, Cottage Cheese, Kelp, Suncured Alfalfa Meal, Almonds, White Fish Meal, Avacado, Tomato Powder, Chicory Root, Apples, Blueberry, Apricots, Carrots, Pumpkin, Cranberry, Spinach, Broccoli, Parsley, Artichoke, Rosemary, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Casei Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Bifidium Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product, Dried Pineapple Extract, Dried Aspergillus Niger Fermentation Extract, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Extract, Dried Trichoderma Longibrachtum Fermentation Extract, Mixed Tocopherols
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Direct Fed Microbials*100,000,000 CFU per poundIn descending amountsL. acidophilusL. caseiB. bifidiumE. faeciumB. coagulans
EnzymesProtease* (Aspergillus Niger, var) 1559 Tyrosine units liberated/min/kgAlpha-amylase* (Aspergillus oryzae) 3.98 dextrinized starch units liberated/min/kgLipase* (Aspergillus Niger, var) 19.2 µmol fatty acid liberated/min/kgCellulase* (Trichoderma Longibrachtium) 82.5 µg Tyrosine liberated/min/kg
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog or Cat Food Nutrient Profiles
Nutrient Actual Analysis Units Dry Matter BasisCrude Protein 40.00%Arginine 2.62%Histidine 0.94%Isoleucine 1.2%Leucine 2.76%Lysine 2.03%Methionine-cystine 1.43%Phenylalanine-tyrosine 2.31%Threonine 1.49%Trytophan 0.31%Valine 1.36%Crude Fat 15.00%Linoleic acid - Omega 6 4.63%
MineralsCalcium 2.0%Phosphorus 1.0%Potassium 0.26%Sodium 0.33%Chloride 0.36%Magnesium 0.16%Iron 450 mg/kgCopper 16 mg/kgManganese 30 mg/kgZinc 75 mg/kgIodine 5.3 mg/kgSelenium 0.42 mg/kg
Vitamins & OtherVitamin A 23,000 IU/kgVitamin D 175 IU/kgVitamin E 25 IU/kgThiamine 47 mg/kgRiboflavin 9 mg/kgPantothenic Acid 19 mg/kgNiacin 93 mg/kgPyridoxine 3.498 mg/kgFolic acid 1.804 mg/kgVitamin B12 0.06 mg/kgCholine 1280 mg/kgTaurine 0.10%Omega 6 Fatty Acids* (min) 4.05%Omega 3 Fatty Acids* (min) 0.99%
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Wonderful Nutritional Supplement
By Cookie's Mommy
from Smithtown, NY
About Me Long-time Pet Owner
Comments about Nature's Logic All Food Fortifier Dog & Cat Supplement:
I have been giving this to all three of my cats for about a year now. The first thing I noticed was how shiny and soft their coats became. They also shed less and have had fewer digestive issues. I sprinkle about 1/2-1 tsp over each of their dried food every morning. I store it in the fridge to keep it fresh. It would be nice if it came in a jar or something similiar, it's just a little messy trying to scoop out of the bag - especially when it gets low.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Really fortifies a pets overall health.
By Stock Dog Man
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This stuff is really great for skin and coat health. Also, anyone who feeds a raw diet, it's great in providing balance to the raw diet. This stuff has enhanced the health of my animals so greatly in all life stages, I feel lost when I run out of it.
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My cat seems to enjoy this additive to his dry food. I also use this with his wet food. I use about a teaspoon a day, and this makes me more confident that my cat is obtaining his essential nutrients in a form that is digestible and bio-available.
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Great fortifier for homemade diets
By summer
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I started using this product to supplement my dog's homemade diet. My dog has a sensitive stomach and usually reacts to commercial products containing a lot of new ingredients. However, she transitioned to the fortifier nicely. It gives her bland food a really rich smell (and taste I'm sure!) I love all the natural ingredients (including organ meats!) and I just dump the powder from the bag without measuring it (previously a big no-no for my dog's super sensitive stomach). I feel confident that the fortifyer does a good job in balancing her diet. The only con is the packaging! I wish it came in a canister instead of a bag. I find that after several uses, the bag does not close properly and it gets powder all over my fridge. A little nasty for us vegetarians...but this product is still worth it and I plan on using it for a long time!
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My cat loves this so I sprinkle it on her food as a treat. This product provides nutrients needed for my dog's raw food diet.
Great for coats
By Rospout Westies
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I have owned and shown westies for quite a few years. I have tried various things to supplement their food. I love Natures Logic Fortifer. I have to say that the coats and pigment are the things I notice most. Nice hard coats which is mostly genitic but I do belive this has enhanced it a great bit. I belive in it totaly. AND they love the taste.
Great supplement
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I give this to all our pets - 2 adult cats, 1 senior dog and 1 puppy - and all of them love the supplement. As soon as dinner-time rolls around, they all start going crazy because they know they're getting an extra 'treat' in with their food. A great, natural way to add the necessary enzymes and minerals to their diet.
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tasty AND good for them
I and my two dogs think this stuff is great! My dogs like it to the extent that they'll eat minced veggies mixed with this supplement--no meat mixed in. They sometimes have trouble deciding whether to go for the veggie/supplement mix or the chicken or turkey necks first. I like it because all of the nutrients come from whole foods, so the likelihood of overdosing on any of them is just about nil. Also, it's a relief to know that even if my homemade raw diet for them isn't completely balanced, the supplement insures that they're getting the nutrients they need. Nature's Logic supplement, fish oil, and a few extra B vitamins, along with chicken/turkey necks, muscle meat and minced veggies, is what my dogs live on. (Well...and leftovers from our dinner.) And my dogs are beautiful and healthy, with gleaming teeth (that's the raw diet), soft and shiny fur (and I don't bathe them), clean ears and clear eyes. I couldn't ask for more.
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The wait is almost over for hockey fans all over North America as the NHL playoffs are set to begin tonight with some compelling matchups that are sure to keep fans everywhere on their toes.
One matchup that has people frenzied over is the No. 1 seed Vancouver Canucks taking on the No. 8 seed Chicago Blackhawks..
Only in hockey can the top seed be playing the bottom seed with the advantage really not largely favoring the higher-seeded team. But for the President Trophy-winning Canucks, this is going to be a crucial series on a variety of different levels.
Despite being one of the most talented teams in the league over the past three or four years, they have yet to make it to the finals. The past two seasons that has been the direct result of meeting the Chicago Blackhawks, who have been their worst enemy, eliminating them twice.
Chicago is looking to defend the title after getting into the playoffs by the most narrow of margins on the final day of the regular season. Inconsistency has plagued the Blackhawks this season, which has some believing that they in fact lost two much in the offseason with the gigantic salary cap purge that they had to deal with.
But the slate is clear. The teams both are four wins from moving on and are 16 wins away from raising the most storied trophy in professional sports. The star power is there, the hatred is brewing and the stakes are enormous.
We will be with you all day and night posting quick hits updates and live updates throughout the game, so stick with us. It should be an all-out war on the ice.