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Efforts to provide local natural gas service to unserved and underserved areas of Pennsylvania were passed by the state Senate last week. Senate Bills 738 and 739, sponsored by Sen. E....
The reason I commented on this link in the first place was because MisMac's comments made it sound the industry and "fracking" are the cause of all water issues, which is just not the case. The state has never implicated the underground gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in a contamination incident (The Times Tribune) BornHere what you read in the Times article will be totally different than what I read. I guess I just look at the industry as a clean, glass half full of good tasting water kind of guy!
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To BornHere, I had a chance to look over the article in the Times Tribune you requested I read. The article mentions that 77% of all complaints have concluded that gas drilling cannot be linked to the issues with the water supply. It also mentions that 17% of all water complaints in the past five years have been linked to gas drilling. 17% is still too high; however, this number appears to reflect the entire industry (i.e. pipelines, construction, drilling). As I mentioned before, there have been cases of methane migration (which is something that could also happen to your neighbor by you drilling a private water well), but I wish it would go further as to say how many of these issues are directly related to shallow wells. The state is way behind in establishing standards for private water well construction. Because of this many residents have springs, shallow wells, and cisterns for a source of drinking water. The reason I commented on this link in the first place was because
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BilltownB, The Times Tribune did an article published on May 19, 2013 called "Sunday Times review of DEP drilling records reveals water damage, murky testing methods".
In the article there is a section called "Gas Drilling Complaints Map", it will show that oil and gas activity disrupts water supplies and that these disruptions have been recorded.
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Logic and common sense? Oh please explain.
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Science, logic and common sense.
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Just what is your side Mr. Paycheck? These bills are clearly corporate welfare to help the industry and possible Senator Yaw in some indirect way. What most don't see or refuse to see is what happens as the demand of NG goes up. The industry makes more money and the consumer gets screwed with higher NG bills and to add insult to injury they helped pay for it with their taxes.
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please don't dissuade her billtownb. I find judgeandjury's comments to be some of the best reading in the SG. her craziness reaffirms that I'm on the right side of this issue..
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Judge and Jury, I agree with you that the information should not remain hidden; however, I think you will find that once the information regarding drinking water is present that your argument will be completely debunked. There has been much fear mongering amongst people when it comes to stories about drinking water and the gas industry.
Also, you keep saying "they" and "us" like its a war going on or something. The industry is hear wether you like it or not. Instead of always taking a negative approach maybe you could be a little more proactive, learn a little more about what the industry is doing, and help to ensure that it is being done safely and responsibly.
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Billtown, all you have to do is pay attention and you can see the number of folks breaking their non-disclosure agreements and stepping forward, or courts forcing the release of this information. The only way this information has remained hidden for this long is the ridiculous efforts of the industry. Wise up and realize they are not in it for us, they are in it for very personalized profits. Profits at the expense of anyone and everyone else.
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Erik, there was no doubt you would bring to the table your completely paid for opinion. I have said this before, your does not count. You get paid by this parasitic industry to say these things, they are not based on fact or even reality. How about this, we stop all types of subsidies to business'? I am all for that. That would mean the almost immediate extinction of the fossil fuel industry. When comparing fossil fuels to sustainable fuels in a fair head to head, there is no comparison. The only way fossil fuels can compete is through government subsidies, like the ones in question. But you don't want that, do you? Nope, that would take away your money train and you might actually have to be truly productive in a meaningful way. You and you opinions are dismissed.
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MisMac, could you be more specific as to which families drinking water was actually contaminated? It's easy for you to say that water has been contaminated after likely watching an inaccurate documentary; however, where are your facts to back this statement up? There have been isolated cases of minor methane migration, but no proven cases where water has been "contaminated".
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Just the pure fact that our elected officials care not one ioda about this industry contaminating families drinking water should give us a clear picture of their priorities. And the damage is just getting started, unless a moritorium is enacted.
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Amazing. Tax dollars helping big business. In the long run the price of natural gas will go up and we will still be behind in renewable energies. I agree Yaw needs to go.
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Liberals will say nothing about the "Obama Phones" that results in profits for politically connected companies, nor will liberals complain about the unsecured loans given to solar companies owned by large Obama donors.
But for increasing the use of a locally produced, cheap energy, they will whine and complain.
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738 directly intervenes in PA business by demanding they increase the use of natural gas. 739 guts an existing program that helps make buildings more efficient, and sends the money to programs to help us burn more natural gas. How is this logical? Oh yeah, Gene Yaw owns significant holdings in the natural gas, and if we burn more he stands to make more money. Just another example of this crook and this parisitic industry working together to steal our children's future or their own short sighted benefit. We need to remove Yaw and Corbett from office and replace them with people that will do what is best for ALL Pennsylvanians!
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TOKYO (AP) Acting as a special envoy for President Bush, the Navy's No. 2 officer apologized Wednesday to the families of the nine people missing and presumed dead after a surfacing U.S. submarine hit and sank a Japanese high school's training ship.
The meeting was intended to calm anger in Japan over the Feb. 9 accident off the Hawaiian island of Oahu and silence critics who have said the United States failed to make appropriate apologies for the accident and was slow to disclose details on why it occurred.
``I'm here to request in the most humble and sincere manner that you accept the apology of the people of the United States and the U.S. Navy as a personal representative of President Bush,'' Adm. William J. Fallon told the family members at a gathering in the U.S. Ambassador's residence.
``I felt the envoy was sincere, and it was the most satisfying meeting we have had yet (with American officials),'' said Ryosuke Terata, a man whose 17-year-old son is among the missing. ``We thank you for meeting with us.''
Adm. William J. Fallon, center, special envoy for U.S. President George W. Bush, arrives at the official residence of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori escorted by a security officer.
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Immediately after his arrival Tuesday, Fallon delivered a letter of apology from Bush to Japan's prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, and conveyed the president's belief in the crucial role the U.S.-Japan security relationship plays in maintaining world peace.
Washington is particularly keen to ease tensions over the Feb. 9 submarine disaster as security ties were strained even before the accident by a series of sex crimes by U.S. servicemen on Okinawa.
Anger exploded just days before the USS Greeneville rammed into the Ehime Maru off Hawaii over an e-mail in which the top Marine on Okinawa reportedly called local leaders ``nuts'' and a ``bunch of wimps.''
He later apologized, but the uproar has yet to die down and several local assemblies have passed resolutions demanding the U.S. military presence on Okinawa be reduced or withdrawn altogether.
Adm. William J. Fallon, special envoy for President George W. Bush, left, bows as he shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori at Mori's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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Roughly one-half of the 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan are in Okinawa.
In Tuesday's meeting, Mori asked that the United States do the utmost to salvage the sunken Japanese fishing vessel and give a full accounting of the collision. He also reportedly said Japan may try to retrieve the boat on its own if U.S. efforts fail.
Fallon gave few details of the contents of Bush's letter of apology, but Foreign Ministry official Toyohisa Kozuki told reporters the president said American authorities would do what they could to raise the ship.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the letter was ``a sign of the importance the United States places on its relations with Japan and the sorrow that we feel for the people in Japan who have lost their lives and for people who have lost their loved ones.''
Adm. William J. Fallon, vice chief of Naval Operations and U.S. Navy special envoy to Japan, left, met with U.S. ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley, right, upon his arrival in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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After Fallon's meeting with the relatives, the U.S. Embassy released responses to more than two dozen questions the families had submitted to the embassy and the Navy.
The responses reiterated the Navy's claims that the submarine's crew did everything it could after the accident to help in rescue efforts, and that two civilians at the controls were ``under the direct supervision'' of crew members.
But they also left open the possibility that the civilian presence may have been a factor, saying: ``Although their actions would normally not be expected to affect the surfacing evolution, these actions will be a subject of the investigation.''
In Honolulu, five Japanese salvage experts and a representative from the Japanese Consulate visited the accident site Monday and got a firsthand look at the wreckage via cameras attached to an ocean surveyor. The Navy is taking videotape of the Ehime Maru to determine whether it can be salvaged.
Hiroshi Sato, chief of the oceanography office of Japan's Foreign Ministry, said the ship appeared to be mostly intact and had settled on the ocean floor in a stable position. However, he said he would have to talk with Japanese officials before determining how they might attempt to raise the vessel.
Nine people, including four students, are missing and presumed dead.
Though the sub's commander issued a statement Sunday expressing his ``most sincere regret'' for the accident, relatives of the missing said they won't accept an apology unless it is made in person.
The nine missing were among 35 people on board the Ehime Maru training vessel when it sank shortly after it was struck by the U.S. nuclear submarine.
The Ehime Maru was operated by a high school for aspiring sailors in Uwajima, a fishing village about 430 miles southwest of Tokyo.
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Crowds jammed the Hot Dog Shoppe in Warren throughout the day as the store conducted a customer appreciation by selling hot dogs at half price. The business has been a mainstay of the community since 1946. Several times throughout the day, the line snaked outside the doors of the Warren landmark, where customers waited in rain and drizzle.
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4 arrested in counterfeit check sting
Detectives raid motel room in Osceola County
Four members of an anti-government group were accused Thursday of passing fake checks.
The arrests happened after a raid Wednesday at a Red Roof Inn in Osceola County.
Investigators said they found multiple computers, printers and scanners that were being used to manufacture counterfeit checks.
An arrest report stated the four suspects printed bad checks in the hotel rooms and tried over and over again to cash them at an Amscot in Kissimmee.
The employees refused to cash the checks and contacted police.
The four people who were arrested told deputies they were sovereign citizens and didn't believe they were subject to arrest.
Deputies said they're still investigating whether the group tried to cash the checks at other businesses.
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If you want to increase racial and economic segregation in New Jersey, Governor Christie has a good plan. He wants to gut the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH), the agency that encourages New Jersey's 566 towns to abide by the constitution. Our constitution requires all towns and cities to provide homes to middle and lower income workers, such as fireman, teachers, waitresses and nursing home aids. Not surprisingly the NAACP, New Jersey's leading voice for promoting integration, opposes Christie's efforts. Now the civil rights group has a more formidable enemy on its hands, Senator Raymond Lesniak, and his hands are not clean.
Housing experts estimate that New
Jersey will need to build at least 115, 000 housing units over the next decade
and that every town needs to up its affordable housing commitments. History has proven we can't rely on private
developers to build an adequate variety and supply of homes to meet the needs
of the state's residents without incentives. This is partly because of zoning
laws that drive up the cost of housing.
One of the best incentives requires developers who build profitable
upscale housing to set aside 20 percent of their residential units for lower
income families. The state created
COAH to provide those incentives, Senator Lesniak's
wants to abolish COAH, and that's fine. COAH has been ineffective. But Lesniak's proposal, called S-1, would make things worse by allowing towns
to determine whether they had met their affordable-housing obligations-- without any standards.
Under Lesniak's proposal municipalities could simply self-certify whether it helped meet the needs of New Jersey's citizens. In other words, they could just say it even if it was untrue. It would like a criminal trial where the judge asked the defendant if he or she committed a crime. And the defendant said no, the judge would dismiss the case. Officials in a town like Secaucus, which has an abysmal history of building affordable housing, could say "we've have done enough," even if they hadn't. Lesniak's plan would also reinstate "regional contribution agreements," known as RCAs. RCAs allow wealthier suburbs to dump their affordable housing obligations on urban centers, furthering segregation.
The NJ NAACP believes that the legislation proposed by Lesniak would not only increase racial and economic segregation, but in deciding what's best for New Jersey, he may not be a fair broker. Instead of acting in the public interest he may be just acting as paid lobbyist for the towns his law firm represents.
His law firm represents municipalities on affordable housing, planning, and zoning issues, and so far Lesniak has not disclosed lists of his municipal clients. One of his firm's clients is Secaucus.
The NJ NAACP identified numerous municipalities that Senators Lesniak's firm has represented through partial lists on the firms' own web sites.
Colandus "Kelly" Francis, a member of the NJ NAACP's Executive Committee and President of the Camden County Branch of the NAACP, said, "Last Monday, Senator Lesniak heard testimony for more than an hour from municipal officials and the League of Municipalities, and then ended the hearing as soon as people from the civil rights community tried to speak. It is obvious that a select few municipalities are controlling this legislation sponsored by the lawyers on their payroll." He added RCAs have always resulted in racial and economic segregation, and we need more housing close to jobs and in communities with strong schools.
NAACP called on Senator Lesniak as well as Republican Senator Christopher "Kip" Bateman to fully disclose all of their past and present municipal clients and how much their law firms receive from those municipalities. The NJ NAACP also demanded that Sens. Lesniak and Bateman recuse themselves from the issue. NJ NAACP Housing Committee Chairman Mike McNeil said: "This state is facing a housing crisis. The public deserves to have an unbiased debate that is led by legislators who don't have conflicts of interest."
"These Senators are representing the interests of towns that have retained them as lawyers. They are pushing legislation demanded by shortsighted local governments that are paying the Senators' private law firms to represent them. This is a clear violation of the trust placed in them by the public," McNeil added.
In 1971, branches of the NAACP, including the Camden County Branch, filed litigation against Mount Laurel Township that led to the Mount Laurel doctrine, which requires all municipalities to provide their fair share of the region's need for affordable housing. The NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest and most respected civil rights organization.
Ask Senator Lesniak and Christie what is their plan to provide housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income families and reduce segregation.


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First JI Project Verifier Accredited
18 February 2009: The Kyoto Protocol's joint implementation (JI) mechanism has accredited its first third party verifier, TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH, which will determine the acceptability of emission reduction projects and verify emission reductions achieved.
JI allows Annex I parties to the Kyoto Protocol to implement projects that reduce emissions, or increase removals using sinks, in other Annex I countries. Emission reduction units (ERUs) generated by such projects can then be used by investor Annex I parties to help meet their emissions targets. To date, 170 projects in 12 countries have been submitted for public comment, which is the first step in the selection process before projects are examined by an accredited entity under JI Track 2. These 170 projects are expected to achieve around 300 million tons of emission reductions by the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012. [UNFCCC Press Release]


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From the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers at Dallas, Tex (Drs Kashner and Surís and Ms Wicker), West Haven, Conn (Dr Rosenheck), Bedford, Mass (Mr Campinell and Ms Pyrcz), St Cloud, Minn (Mr Soyka), Topeka, Kan (Mr Crandall and Dr Garfield), and Northampton, Mass (Dr Lapuc); the Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas(Drs Kashner and Surís and Ms Wicker); and the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University (Dr Rosenheck).
Little is known about the health outcomes of clinician-supervised, performance-based, abstinence-contingent therapeutic work programs on homeless persons with addiction disorders. This study examined the effect of the Department of Veterans Affairs compensated work therapy program (CWT) on nonvocational outcomes. With mandatory urine screenings and adherence to addiction treatment schedules, CWT provided work opportunities (wages, hours, and responsibilities) with jobs created from Veterans Affairs contracts competitively obtained from private industry.
Homeless, substance-dependent veterans (N = 142) from 4 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers were randomized, assessed at baseline, and reassessed at 3-month intervals for 1 year. Both CWT and control groups had access to comprehensive rehabilitation, addictions, psychiatric, and medical services. Data were analyzed to determine an immediate CWT effect after treatment and rates of change during 1 year.
Compared with control subjects, patients in the CWT program were more likely to (1) initiate outpatient addictions treatment, (2) experience fewer drug and alcohol problems, (3) report fewer physical symptoms related to substance use, (4) avoid further loss of physical functioning, and (5) have fewer episodes of homelessness and incarceration. No effect on psychiatric outcomes was found.
Work therapy can enhance nonvocational outcomes of addiction treatment for homeless persons, although long-term gains remain unknown.
MENTAL HEALTH professionals often refer clients to clinical programs where the primary goal is competitive employment. These programs of vocational rehabilitation, sheltered workshops, job clubs, and transitional and supported employment have shown varying degrees of success in helping the mentally ill attain employment.1- 5 However, the relationship between structured work and nonvocational health outcomes remains inconclusive.
In contrast, economists consider productive work as an outcome of a healthy labor force.6 Epidemiologists emphasize work-related illnesses,7 hazards,8,9 stresses,10,11 and adverse health behaviors.12 Public health research finds retirement often leading to poorer physical functioning,13- 15 somatic complaints,16 and fatal heart attacks,17 although it is unclear whether retirement resulted in or from poor health. What is not known is whether structured work can change health behaviors and, thus, health status.
The current study focuses on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) compensated work therapy (CWT) program, a clinician-supervised, abstinence-contingent, performance-based work program for homeless persons. The CWT program offers pay rewards but requires random drug testing and adherence to a schedule of outpatient addiction services determined to be clinically appropriate for each client. The program's clinical setting ensures that the link between work performance (productivity and presentation) and health behaviors (sobriety and use of addiction services) to job rewards (wages, hours, and responsibilities) are not undermined by the vicissitudes of labor markets. The study focused on homeless persons who lack regular employment and structured environments. Study outcomes included substance dependence behaviors (substance consumption and use of addictions treatment services), health outcomes (addiction-related physical symptoms, psychiatric symptoms, and health functioning), and other aspects of quality of life (rates of incarceration and homelessness). The study was set at VA medical centers where all clients had access to comprehensive health services, including addictions treatment and vocational rehabilitation. Access to care did not depend on employment status.
Subjects were recruited from homeless centers and addiction units at 4 VA medical centers located in Bedford, Mass; Northampton, Mass; Topeka, Kan; and St Cloud, Minn. Qualifying subjects (1) were eligible for VA care,(2) were homeless at intake, (3) satisfied DSM-III-R criteria for substance dependence or abuse,18 and (4) were willing to enter a therapeutic work program. For this study, homeless persons have "a primary nighttime residence that is a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations, an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings"(McKinney Act, 42 USC 11302). Excluded patients were those (1) institutionalized at intake, (2) mentally or physically unable to work in the opinion of the CWT admitting clinician, (3) diagnosed with a terminal illness, (4) planning to leave the study service area within 1 year, or (5) unresponsive at the intake interview.
First introduced in 1957 (38 USC 1718), the VA CWT programs19 teach work discipline with abstinent-contingent, performance-based work for pay in staff-supervised, structured settings. As administered at the 4 study sites between July 1, 1994, and March 31, 1997, CWT offered work opportunities (continued employment, higher wages, hours, promotion, and responsibility) based on client work performance (productivity, reliability, presentation, and punctuality) and health behavior (sobriety and use of recommended addiction services) as judged by CWT clinicians through client observation, random drug screenings, and chart reviews. The CWT combined elements of supported employment(nontrivial wages paid from revenues earned from private sector contracts) and stepwise programs (clinician supervision and VA workshops). Consequences for inappropriate behaviors (positive drug screenings) varied from a reprimand to program dismissal and loss of CWT employment. Unfettered by informal organizations, appellate bureaucracies, and labor regulations, clinician managers were free to protect the integrity of work incentives and make judgments in the client's best interest. Control patients were not enrolled in CWT for at least the 1-year follow-up, although both subjects who received CWT and control subjects had full access to VA comprehensive medical, mental, addictions, and vocational rehabilitation services, including job-seeking skills and support, job documentation and interviewing techniques, and career counseling and assessment.
We hypothesized that the mandatory addiction treatment and drug screening protocols in CWT, among other factors, would have an immediate impact on addiction status as assessed by patient use of drugs and alcohol, and secondarily on patient use of addiction services and prevalence of substance use–related symptoms. We also hypothesized that subjects in the CWT group would gradually experience better psychiatric and medical status during the 1-year follow-up after CWT began.
Research assistants at each of the 4 study sites admitted patients, checked eligibility, administered baseline questionnaires, and then called a national coordinator (A.W.) in Dallas, Tex, to receive a patient identification number. Once the subject was assigned to a number, the coordinator revealed treatment assignment by opening, in sequence, sealed envelopes that had been addressed to both site and patient identification number. The enclosed assignments were based on random numbers generated by an SPSS program (SPSS Inc, Chicago, Ill). To attract subjects, a sampling ratio of 1 (control) to 4 (subject in CWT) was adopted. Subjects randomized to CWT were offered employment as soon as a CWT-sponsored job became available, usually within 6 days. After the baseline interview, neither patient nor assessors were blinded to study assignments.
Data came from face-to-face interviews conducted at baseline and at 3-month intervals for 1 year by trained interviewers under supervision of master's- or doctorate-level prepared social workers and psychologists. Information was verified by VA computerized file extracts and patient chart reviews. To ensure reliability of data collection, interviewers received group training, participated in routine conference calls, and were tested by rating prerecorded taped interviews.
As the primary measure, addiction status was determined by the Addiction Severity Index (ASI),20- 22 summarizing drug and alcohol use problems into composite scores ranging from 0 to 1, with higher scores indicating more problems. Administered under confidential circumstances, these measures have been shown to be valid.23 As confirmatory measures of outcome, addiction care–seeking behavior was represented by a dichotomous variable that assumed a value of 1 if the patient had obtained at least 1 outpatient addiction visit during a 3-month period before each follow-up interview, and 0 otherwise. Substance use–related physi cal problems were measured as a simple count of 11 symptoms that included the presence or absence of seizures, delirium tremens, or memory trouble; seeing or hearing things not there after cutting down on substance use; liver disease; hepatitis or yellow jaundice; vomited blood or other stomach troubles; tingling or numbness in feet; inflammation of pancreas or pancreatitis; drug overdose; subacute bacterial endocarditis; cellulitis or other infections due to intravenous drug use; and continued use when aware that consumption may exacerbate serious physical illness.
Exploratory outcomes included psychiatric status assessed by a normalized global Brief Symptom Inventory,24,25 the ASI Psychiatric Status, and the Mental and Social Functioning components of the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey from the Medical Outcomes Study (SF-36).26,27 Medical status was assessed with the Physical Functioning component of the SF-36 and the Medical Status component of the ASI. Other measures included presence or absence of episodes of criminal justice incarceration and homeless nights during the 3 months before each interview.
The cost of inpatient (outpatient) care was calculated in 3-month intervals by multiplying the number of days (visits) by a cost per day (per visit) and summed over all respective bed sections (clinic stops). Costs were calculated for medicine, psychiatry, and addiction and rehabilitation services. Unit costs were based on median cost (1997 US dollars) for VA medical centers. Data came from VA's cost files that include costs for professional time, supplies, indirect administrative support and building maintenance, and depreciation for equipment and buildings.28 Separate estimates were calculated for medical, psychiatric, and addiction and rehabilitation services.
Two-tailed χ2 (discrete) and t(continuous) tests compared group differences at baseline. Longitudinal outcome data were analyzed by hierarchical regressions with the use of HLM/3L software29 to compute outcome differences between CWT and control groups as a percentage of baseline scores (continuous measures) and an odds ratio (dichotomous measures).
Tracking homeless patients necessitated the use of parametric statistics to account for missing observations and variable intervals between follow-up interviews, discussed in clinical trials generally30 and mental health specifically.31,32 With these approaches, time of observation enters as an explanatory variable to determine whether measured outcomes change with time.33,34 Clinical programs are evaluated by detecting whether differences between treated and control subjects "grow" over time,35- 37 although estimates are unbiased only to the extent that the occurrence of missing values and length of intervals between follow-ups are uncorrelated with treatment assignment. The approach permits one to adjust for patient use of other services as time-dependent covariates.
Traditional parametric approaches determine treatment effects by detecting whether differences in outcomes between treated and control patients grow with time. These growth strategies may not describe programs that focus on behavior (eg, addictions). Here, program benefits may mature immediately after treatment begins, only to diminish with time because (1) efficacy "wears off,"(2) efficacious alternatives help control clients "catch up," (3) the intervention only enhances the speed of recovery, or (4) the intervention postpones inevitable outcomes of an intractable disorder. Thus, we estimated immediate and growth-rate effects by means of a declining-effects model (T.M.K., Thomas J. Carmody, PhD, Trish Suppes, MD, PhD, A. John Rush, MD, M. Lynn Crismon, PharmD, Alexander L. Miller, MD, Marchia Toprac, PhD, and Madhukar Trivedi, MD, unpublished data, August 2001):
ysit = β0+ β1Isi+ β20Zt + β21ZtIsi + β30t + β31tIsi + β4csit + αs + usi + vsit,
where ysit is the outcome assessed for patient i at site s (s = 1, 2, . . . 4) at t quarters (3 months) past baseline (t = 0). To evaluate CWT, the "intent-to-treat" variable Isi assigns a value of 1 for patients randomized to CWT and 0 if assigned to the control group. Zt is a dummy variable that assumes a value of 1 for t>0, and 0 otherwise. The variable csit is use of care during 3 months before t, including psychiatric care (psychiatric status outcomes), medical care (medical outcomes), and addiction and rehabilitation services (addiction status). The use of care covariate was excluded when use of addiction services was the dependent variable. The usi and vsit are random variates representing each patient and each assessment, assumed to be independent and normally distributed with 0 mean and constant variance during the 1-year follow-up.
As with traditional models, the growth-rate effect (β31)describes how outcome differences between CWT and controls grow, or decline, with time. The immediate effect (β21) describes how a lump-sum difference in outcomes between CWT and control subjects may occur initially after active CWT. Thus, outcome difference between CWT and control subjects for t>0 equals β21 + β31t. Other parameters are the average starting value for control subjects (β0); difference between CWT and control groups at baseline (t = 0) (β1); initial "lump-sum" change in outcomes for control subjects (β20); growth rate in outcomes for control subjects (β30);use of care main effect (β4); and fixed effects reflecting site-specific differences in average outcomes (αs), with αs = 0 for s = 1, the reference site.
The equation simplifies to a growth model when β20 =0 and β21 = 0 and can be modified to a logistic regression for dichotomous outcome variables.
Data collection began July 19, 1994, with recruitment ending March 22, 1996, and follow-up assessments ending April 1, 1997. Figure 1 describes the progress through the trial of the original 1090 subjects who had been discharged from VA addiction programs and whose names were referred for study. The large number of no-shows and patients unable to be located reflects difficulties inherent in studying homeless populations. The final sample (N = 142) was evenly distributed among the 4 sites (37%, 22%, 21%, and 20%) and included 22 (15%) who completed 2 follow-ups; 21 (15%), 3 follow-ups; and 99 (70%), 4 follow-ups.
Patient progress through the trial. VA indicates Veterans Affairs; CWT, compensated work therapy.
The final sample did not differ from the 201 excluded eligible subjects(181 nonconsenting and 20 lost to follow-up) with respect to demographic characteristics(mean age, 43.1 vs 41.9 years, t = 1.44, P<.15; African American, 26% vs 25%, t= 0.22, P<.83; years of education, 12.7 vs 12.6, t = 0.21, P<.84), cost of VA care during the year before baseline ($26 199 vs $25 133, t = 0.41, P<.68), and health status (ASI for alcohol problems, 0.36 vs 0.36, t= 0.03, P<.98; ASI for drug problems, 0.11 vs 0.12, t = 1.22, P<.23; physical symptoms relating to substance use, 3.52 vs 3.53, t = 0.04, P<.97; ASI psychiatric status, 0.39 vs 0.38, t = 0.25, P<.81; Brief Symptom Inventory global status, 0.002 vs 0.001, t = 0.16, P<.87; SF-36 Mental Functioning, 50.2 vs 50.6, t = 0.16, P<.87; SF-36 Social Functioning, 58.9 vs 57.8, t = 0.30, P<.77; ASI edical Status, 0.35 vs 0.29, t = 1.39, P<.17; and SF-36 Physical Functioning, 85.9 vs 84.2, t = 0.77, P<.44).
Despite a 12% loss to follow-up, Table 1 shows no statistically significant difference between the CWT(n = 111) and control (n = 31) groups for demographic characteristics and outcome measures assessed at baseline. During the year after baseline, both CWT and control groups had extensive use of health services, including psychiatric and rehabilitation care, although differences reached statistical significance only in inpatient medicine days and outpatient addiction visits.
Subjects assigned to CWT received a job within a median 6 days after baseline and worked a mean of 393 hours (SD, 474 hours) at an average wage of $4.04/h (SD, $1.80/h; range, $0.50/h to $10.75/h). Of hours worked, 58% were unskilled, 22% semiskilled, 16% skilled labor, and 4% clerical, sales, or technical related. Working subjects were screened for substance use an average 8.6 times (SD, 10.7), or approximately once every 20 work days. Among those tested, 44% had at least 1 positive screening, with 15% of screenings testing positive.
Utilization covariates (measured in dollars) were significant predictors of patient outcomes for ASI drug (β4 = 0.003, t393 = 2.25, P<.02) and alcohol(β4 = 0.008, t393 = 2.31, P<.02) use problems, psychiatric status (β4 = 0.011, t393 = 2.18, P<.03), number of substance use– related physical symptoms(β4 = 0.18, t393 = 3.85, P<.001), and SF-36 Mental Functioning (β4 = −1.07, t393 = 1.97, P<.049) and Social Functioning (β4 = −1.88, t393 = 2.53, P<.01).
The CWT immediate and growth-rate effects are presented in Table 2 for each of the 12 outcome measures as a percentage of average baseline scores (continuous) or as odds ratios(dichotomous). Consistent with expectations, CWT clients were initially 2.7 times more likely to use addiction treatment than their control counterparts. After adjustment for greater use of addiction treatment with ±SE, patients who received CWT experienced immediate reductions in drug (−44.7% ± 12.8%) and alcohol (−45.4% ± 9.4%) use problems, and the number of substance use–related physical symptoms (−64.4% ± 8.0%). These immediate differences tended to decline with time, although such a "catch-up" pattern was statistically significant for only the number of substance use–related physical symptoms. Here, group differences declined by 17.0% ± 5.1% per quarter as control subjects, unlike their CWT counterparts, experienced a reduction in symptoms during follow-up by an average of −19.2% ± 4.4% per quarter.
There were no significant difference in psychiatric status between the CWT and control groups on any of the 4 outcome measures. On the other hand, differences between CWT and control groups tended to grow during follow-up by −24.4% ± 8.7% per quarter on the basis of ASI Medical Status and 6.9% ± 2.0% per quarter on the basis of SF-36 Physical Functioning. However, these gains were due primarily to declining function among control subjects (ASI Medical Status, 23.9% ± 7.6% per quarter; SF-36 Physical Functioning, −6.2% ± 1.8% per quarter) rather than from improved functioning among subjects in the CWT group (ASI Medical Status, −0.4% ± 11.5% per quarter; SF-36 Physical Functioning, 0.6% ± 2.7% per quarter). Finally, patients in the CWT group were initially 30% and 10% as likely to report an episode of incarceration and homelessness, respectively, as their control counterparts.
In this randomized, controlled trial, we evaluated a clinician-supervised, performance-based work program that tied paid work opportunities (hours, wages, and responsibilities) to performance (productivity, punctuality, and reliability) and health behaviors (sobriety and use of addiction services). Among homeless, substance-dependent persons with expressed desires to work, CWT was associated with greater use of addiction services. Even after adjustment for use of health and rehabilitative services, these data suggest that CWT clients experienced fewer problems associated with substance use and fewer episodes of homelessness and incarceration. The CWT clients also did not report the same decline in medical status and physical functioning exhibited by control subjects. However, no work effect on psychiatric status was detected. These differences are remarkable given that both groups had extensive use of medical, psychiatric, addictions, and rehabilitation services from local VA medical centers. However, patients in the CWT group reported generally more inpatient days and outpatient visits, suggesting that these outcomes may come at the price of higher health care costs.
These findings are consistent with those of the Milby et al study40 of substance-abusing homeless persons, in which abstinent contingent work therapy was found to be associated with 36% fewer positive cocaine toxicologic tests within 2 months of beginning treatment. These results are also consistent with the findings of Bell et al41,42 that paid vs unpaid work at VA medical facilities was associated with symptom reductions for patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders, and with Rosenheck and Seibyl's43 observational study that showed that receiving care at a residential support facility offering therapeutic work, but requiring responsible behavior, was associated with substance abuse, but not psychiatric symptoms. These results contrast with findings from assertive community treatment programs for homeless substance abusers that failed to find high rates of abstinence,44 and from supported employment in competitive work environments that failed to find symptom reductions.33,45 However, these latter studies focused on severe mental illness.
It is unknown which CWT elements may have contributed to program outcomes: structured work, pay incentives for mandatory substance screenings and adherence to addiction treatment schedules, clinician supervision, and improved access to care. Comparing other studies, Ames and Janes46 found that boring, stressful, and isolating work can in fact contribute to substance use behaviors, while alcoholic subjects who returned to work were likely to remain sober, but only when the job discouraged drinking behaviors and offered structured supervision.47,48 A recent econometric analysis (2-stage least-squares adjusting for self-selection) of national survey data (1991 and 1993 National Health Interview Surveys) suggested that workplace bans were associated with a 5–percentage point reduction in smoking prevalence and a 10% reduction in daily consumption among smokers, and accounted for all of the explained variance in smoking reduction among workers relative to nonworkers.49 Additional study is needed to untangle how program elements contribute to outcomes. With the success of supported employment programs, however, future studies should consider how outcomes vary between clinical and competitive employment settings.
There are study limitations. Findings were limited to a VA setting, 142 subjects, 1 year of follow-up, a low consent rate (47%), and a 1:4 sampling ratio that further limited statistical power. Outcomes measures were based on patient self-reports, although between-group biases may be small. First, CWT drug screenings averaged once every 20 days, so that hiding information from independent research teams may have had little perceived consequence on work opportunities. Second, control subjects wanting to enter CWT after completing the study had incentives to also underreport symptoms. Third, reduced substance consumption was consistent with patterns observed for other outcomes, including use of addiction services, substance use–related symptoms, medical status, and other measures.
Biases associated with nonrandomly occurring missing data and variable intervals between repeated measures may also be small. Compared with control subjects, CWT clients had a comparable number of observations (3.6 vs 3.8; t = 1.44, P<.15) and time between observations (1.5 vs 1.4 quarters; t = 1.26, P<.21). Regression to the mean bias either works against study findings (symptom counts) or is small compared with estimated effect size (drug and alcohol use problems).
In summary, the VA's CWT program was associated with better addiction status and with fewer episodes of homelessness and incarceration, and appears to prevent further deterioration in medical status and physical functioning. More research is needed to assess long-term impacts and to determine the active program ingredients contributing to outcomes.
Submitted for publication December 3, 1999; final revision received December 14, 2001; accepted December 20, 2001.
This study was supported in part by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service grant IIR 92-043 and Research Career Scientist Award 92-403, Washington, DC, and by grant 5-R24-MH53799 from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md.
We thank Mary Kashner, Pauline Salyer, Perry Lambird, MD, Mona Sue Lambird, JD, George Moore, Robert D. Fowler, MD, Stephen Berman, MSW, and A. John Rush, MD, for their special contributions in advancing this study.
The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of supporting agencies and sponsors.
Corresponding author and reprints: T. Michael Kashner, PhD, JD, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9086.
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TALLADEGA, Alabama -- After a year in Afghanistan, Koly Bryant's family has had a while to plan for his return home.
They made the most of it today. More than 25 members of his extended family came to welcome him back Monday, as Bryant and his fellow guard members finished a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan with the 167th of the Alabama Army National Guard. After a short ceremony, reunions started in the Sports Channel Dome at Talladega Superspeedway.
Similar homecoming ceremonies were held today in Cullman, Anniston, Valley, Pelham and Sylacauga. For a few minutes, there were whoops of delight as couples tumbled back into each other arms, fathers and mothers were reunited with children, children hugged returning parents and everyone posed for celebratory pictures.
In Bryant's case, most of his family came in blue T-shirts, reading "I Survived a Deployment" and "Welcome Home Soldier-Job Well Done." When Bryant came home to Ohatchee, the family house was waiting, decorated with more than 100 yellow ribbons and American flags.
Bryant, 22, said he plans on taking a break, then getting back to work at UPS and attending classes at Jacksonville State University. While he admitted he was a "little stressed" about his next move, he said he was glad to be home.
His mother Kathy said having her son back was "unexplainable." Other family members said it was like being able to breathe again. This weekend, they plan on holding a celebration to make up for holidays they missed together, like Christmas.
Don McCurry, 44, of Auburn, was reunited with his daughter Victoria, 13. The two of them plan on going for runs together - that is, after Don has a good steak dinner, he said. The runs will come because Victoria is part of her school track team. Then Don plans to return to work with the City of Auburn.
Like other families, the McCurrys stayed in touch over the miles using social media, such as Facebook, and calls via Skype. Facebook was also how Matthew Browder of Lincoln stayed in touch with his family, especially the growth of his 13-month-old daughter Sarah Penelope. After the homecoming ceremony was over, he stood holding her as she took a bottle.
"It's pretty awesome," he said, of being back. His wife Ashley said the same. "We've known each other since we were little kids," she said. "So it's good to be together again."
Gen. Charles Gable, who was there for the ceremony, said Alabama has seen more than 21,000 soldiers deployed overseas since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Just this week, state units are arriving in Afghanistan and Kuwait.
"It's really good to get them home safely," he said. "That's quite an accomplishment, because these guys have been in some rough places, big time. To not have any casualties is absolutely phenomenal."


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It's crackin in Taiwan, but I'm gettin a massage and this lady put this Hot ass oil on my back sooo I'm about to fart..#GetBack
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) July 16, 2013
It's crackin in Taiwan, but I'm gettin a massage and this lady put this Hot ass oil on my back sooo I'm about to fart..#GetBack
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) July 16, 2013
Lamb will likely be expected to pick up a lot of Martin's old second unit scoring, but if the coaches want him to succeed they shouldn't play him exactly the same way as Martin. Martin did a lot of catching from beyond the 3pt line and then initiated from there with either a shot or a drive (usually resulting in some crazy leaning fall away shot.)
Lamb can initiate from the 3pt line too, but it's not necessarily playing to his strengths and it pushes his decision making while allowing the defense to key in on him. Where Lamb is better than Martin is catching closer to the rim, taking a bounce or two, and using that high flip shot he has with uncanny accuracy. (Or pass to a nearby basket cutter or outlet to a 3pt shooter the defense cheated off of.) Basically, they should run a lot more off the ball plays for Lamb than they did for Martin.
If they ever put KD in with Lamb in the second unit, they should run double action on both wings, having them both come off curls at the same time and such. Defenses will probably cheat on KD and leave Lamb with extra space. Even better, they start to respect Lamb and KD gets good looks.
Haha, seems as if someone totally fucked up TrueChamps IP Address huh? cool.
Who will be taking Rhode place for covering thunder for the oklahoman?
Lamb played badly in the NBA last year because: 1) no reason, just small sample size madness; 2) he didn't get to play with KD or Russ; or 3) he's not a good NBA basketball player yet.
All of these explanations are possible, I admit that.
If news broke we Amnestied Perk, whats the Over/under on blissful commentary? Rational commentary?
not sure how DXL is a fan of reggie considering his rookie season #s
Lamb has bust or boom potential.
If he puts it all together he could be a borderline all-star. He's got that much offensive ability.
But I also wouldn't be surprised if he were out of the league in a couple of years, labelled as an inefficient ball-dominant chucker with awful defense.
Denver Stiffs comment of the day:
"But I agree, I prefer our core more. Curry is slightly better than Ty (Lawson), but the difference is very small. "
Its damn near blasphemy on this board to downplay the great Jeremy Lamb.
I think , at best this year he'll be a Cook. Shoots in sprees and rebounds fairly well. Tries hard but his mind is still a little too slow for the game. I think I'd be happy with that ...... if he's consistent. 6.7pts 2.1 rbs 1.5 ast. in 10-12 mins.
That is something he can build upon.
@TrueChamp love LOVE your avi
@TrueChamp What?
I read somewhere that it's going to be @Lost Ones.
@DXL Or 4) He's a young player that will get better over time as he gets more experience
@DXL Youre obsession at deconstructing thsi small sample size doesnt do you any favors. You sound like a loon
@Lambchop Haka I'd be upset that they didn't decide this earlier and go after a higher priced FA. With Perk amnestied, they could have given Brand $4 million for one year or go after a shooter. The timing would bother me because the Thunder would have severely narrowed their options in terms of replacements.
edit: I'd be upset they didn't do this last season and keep Harden. Or hold on to Harden and do it this season. I could go on and on.
@Lambchop Haka I think the commenting would be low because a lot of people might have strokes, heart attacks, etc.
Lost Ones would just cry at his computer for 30 minutes before saying anything.
@Lost Ones Jackson as a rookie, as mediocre as he was, was MUCH better than Lamb as a rookie.
With RJ on the court OKC had an offensive rating of 104, with him off the court an offensive rating of 110.8
With RJ on the court OKC's opponent's had an offensive rating of 101.3, with him off the court OKC's opponents had an offensive rating of 103.4.
The defense was better with RJ in the game, while the offense was worse.
Compare with Lamb's numbers:
"With Lamb on the court OKC had a remarkably bad offensive rating of 98.5, with Lamb off the court the offensive rating rose to 112.7
With Lamb on the court OKC's opponents exploded with an offensive rating of 113.7, and with Lamb off the court OKC's opponents slowed to an offensive rating of just 102.1"
Not even close!
@DXL not going to happen, he is going to be good, maybe even become a star, he can play, remember he doesn't have to be THE guy in our team..he will be playing with Durant and Westbrook he will be fine..
I can't believe you defend Perkins to the end of the world and criticize Lamb when he hasn't even played yet..
@DXL Lamb is primarily off-ball player with freakish feel for the game, which most of these players lack(Young, Ellis, Waiters,..). Even if he doesn't reach his potencial he'll still be very good role player.
Liggins, of course, has nowhere near the potential of Lamb. We all acknowledge that. Liggins's ceiling is Bruce Bowen or Keith Bogans, very good defensive player who may develop a corner three. That's it. Absolutely no star potential.
@Jooseppi their core isnt better. i agree about the Lawson / Curry comment. I put them i nthe same tier of PGs
@Perk-Nightmares He won't average 6.7 ppg in 10 minutes. That's almost KD scoring pace. 18ppg per 36 minutes is realistic.
@Perk-Nightmares The skill difference is not even close - Cook couldn't score inside at all - Lamb has more moves than your average prospect - floaters stepbacks finger rolls.
He's not Cook.
No idea what he's talking about
@TempBoy Brandon @T-Fred @Lost Ones Lost Ogle?
Or 5.) he's a gay robot
@Lambchop Haka @DXL I tried to get him to have some granola and a banana but he just threw it back at me.
@Turfright @Lambchop Haka He'd change his SN to Amazing Grace.... " i once was lost but now i'm found!!"
LOL this has to be a joke right ? you can't be serious to compare garbage lineups to reggie who played majority of his minutes as a backup.
garbage lineups consist of the worst players 9/10s. Reggie on the other hand was awful with legit lineups and consistent minutes
@DXL @Lost Ones Jackson played with Harden 409 out of his 501 minutes. Lamb played with Durant or Westbrook less than 15 minutes.
@DXL @Lost Ones yes cause when he played the game was on the line right?
he played garbage minutes !
Is ridiculous to say he will be bad based on garbage minutes...come on..
@Perk-Nightmares @Jooseppi That's the part I found funny. I think Curry is so clearly above Lawson, and I actually like Lawson a bit more than most around here.
@Sigmund @Perk-Nightmares Shooting in bunches in limited time like cook did , it seems pretty likely. 5 -6 shots in bunches is plausible with the second unit.
@ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares I'd be very surprised if we saw him run more than one pnr a game. I'd be shocked to see him bring the ball up the court with KD and Reggie/Russ.
With this program he will catch n shoot
@ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares He will sit at the corner in this offense. I dont expect pin-downs, curls , cuts , or anything of that nature. He will play the Cook role this year weather people like it or not.
@Lost Ones While these all may be reasonable excuses, you brought up the comparison between Lamb and Jackson's rookie years.
One guy was mediocre, the other guy was incredibly bad. Absolutely no comparison.
While I accept the possibility that these various excuses may turn out to be a correct explanation for the numbers, you should also accept the possiblity that Jeremy Lamb may turn out to be a pure bust, which would also explain the numbers.
@KD4theWin @DXL @Lost Ones It may be a reasonable excuse.
But I was just responding to Lost Ones's comparison with RJ. Not even close. Lamb was 14 points worse on offense, and 11.6 points worse on defense. Remarkable.
@Perk-Nightmares @Sigmund @DXL 51.2 TS% isn't terribly inefficient, especially when you consider his 32.5 usage %. It's small sample size though. He averaged 20 ppg on 58.4 TS% last year in summer league. About same in D-League(21 ppg on 58.3 TS%).
No Lawson and curry are very very close. Lawson arguably is better
@Lambchop Haka @Jooseppi @ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares We judge them because they like the nuggets. derp. ;)
@ThunderWins @Jooseppi @Perk-Nightmares two different types of players. Lawson can drive a little better and has to pass more than Curry. Curry is better i just put them in the same tier.
@Lambchop Haka @Jooseppi @ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares they are all stooges.
@ThunderWins @Lambchop Haka @Jooseppi @Perk-Nightmares If they still run, they will win enough games to be a bottom four seed. Losing Koufos and Iggy hurts, Hickson certainly isn't solving defensive issues.
@Lambchop Haka @Jooseppi @ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares How good are the Nuggets going to be this year? A lot of off season change.
Not usually good year make.
@Jooseppi @ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares We must not judge and entire forum by the musings of merely one stooge
Especially when you're as great of a shooter as Curry is
@ThunderWins @Jooseppi @Perk-Nightmares That shooting part matters. A lot. And it's not that he can just shoot, he's a great shooter.
@Jooseppi @Perk-Nightmares Both are undersized and can't play defense - Lawson can't shoot - Curry can.
@ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares We're talking about a Scott Brooks Offense here.
@ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares doesnt matter. Maybe the in year three he shares ball handling duties with reggie.
@Perk-Nightmares @ThunderWins He's way too talented be relegated to spot up duty.
@ChileToreado @Perk-Nightmares I think it would be a great element to add. However, i dont expect it. Seeing that would prove more evolution in Brook's coaching. I like Brooks even though it seems i dont from these posts.
@Perk-Nightmares Pin downs and curls are probably something Lamb will do a lot of this season. In his best summer league game where he scored 32 on incredible efficiency, those are exactly what he was doing a lot of. Usually it was with Adams screening and Buycks or someone distributing. In the poorer games, he was having to do a lot of primary ball handling.
If he is on the floor with KD & Russ, I would expect him to do a lot of spot-up to spread the floor. If he is on the floor with 2nd unit players and Reggie, he will probably be the focus of many offensive sets moving without the ball.
@ThunderWins @Perk-Nightmares maybe off a rebound he will reset quickly but i highly doubt he runs any pnr
@Perk-Nightmares @ThunderWins Unlike Cook if the play breaks down - he can beat people off the dribble. The offense is not dead if he gets the ball and someone is in his face.
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(This is crossposted with minor editing from my column at The Secret Lair. The original can be found here.)
And so, it has come to pass that we find ourselves in "awards season", wherein fond looks are taken back at the prior year in media, and trophies are doled out for various forms of perceived excellence in movies, television, and music. Much attention is showered upon the festivities and celebrities involved, and much ado is paid to the recipients of said awards. That noted, the Grammys last weekend made one thing glaringly clear - beyond his inability to competently carry a tune or strum a guitar, Justin Bieber cannot grow an award-winning beard.
Now, it is time to give awards to those who can.
HoNoToGroABeMo 2010 was the largest yet, both in terms of total donations and number of participants. Pete DiLillo and his lush man-thicket ended up dominating the donation race, earning him the title of current, reigning, and defending Champion of HoNoToGroABeMo. Witness his half-shorn shock:
Bob's recap sums up the experience, and as a participant, I will add my own effusive thanks to all who donated. Their generosity for our boob-buffoonery was amazing.
All that said, it is time to bestow The Cmar Beard Awards for HoNoToGroABeMo 2010. These have nothing to do with any donations received, and everything to do with the glorious pictography of crackling virility hedges:
- Best Beard Photo: There were many entries during the month that stood out for creativity, humor, or photographic skill, but the trophy for best beardy picture goes to Jim Van Verth for Day 14: Abra-abra-cadabra. The facial contorting, posing, and expression convey that he's not only gonna getcha, but he's gonna getcha in a way you may never recover from. This is Mr. Van Verth's second year in a row winning this category, so step it up, gents.
- Man Most Exemplifying How Not To Grow A Beard: One might think that this would be the closest category to judge, but that turns out not to be the case. Even though he allowed his neck beard to stay strong this time around, for the second year in a row, Jeff Greiner takes the prize. C'mon gents, step it down and give him some competition.
- Best Time Lapse Photo Series: All participants were varied in their choice of poses on a daily basis, but only one of us had enough consistency of follicular posture and backdrop to take this category. Jason Penney, that would be you! (Click through to view the slideshow.)
- Man Most Exemplifying How To Grow A Beard: As noted above, the ability of many of us to generate a thick face mane is somewhat surprising. While several of us were in the running, Adam Johnson gets the award by sprouting a 30 day untamed jaw jungle, even after some judicious trimming.
- Best Use Of Non-Facially Generated Props: Our overall champion, Pete, also is the obvious winner in this category, both for framing his beard on a daily basis with an endless supply of amazing headgear (click through for the slideshow), and for this epic hat-gasm on the final day:
- Daily Commitment To The Task: November is a busy month, and few find the time and the stamina to start on Day 1 and produce a post for all 30 days. Our founder, Bob, led the pack in this regard as he does each year, and finds himself co-accepting this award with Jeff, Pete, Jim, and Jeffery for 2010.
- Best-Spun Beardy Yarns: Everyone strove to lay down some manner of words each day with their posts, and a few of us were able to tell some good tales. However, as clearly as he showed us how not to grow a beard, Jeff Greiner blew us all away with his sincere and excellent beardy yarns each day. With topics ranging from gaming to education, they are well worth your time to read.
Congratulations to all of the winners! To all the participants, it was a pleasure joining you once again in this endeavor, and to give recognition where recognition is due. To everyone else, Ill merely note that only 257 days remain until HoNoToGroABeMo 2011, and this whole mad affair will start up again.
Well I just got back from my second test ride with the snomobile after rebuilding this and that on it. Needs some minor adjustments.
As for the beard, it seems to be coming along nicely. The only thing that I've done has been shaving the lower neck.
And so it grows, maybe until spring.
I was planning on shaving down the cheeks on the 31st but had 0 time. So I figured I'd do it on the 1st but had 0 time. After that, I had some time constraints.
But here it is, the final product of 2 (and change) months of growth, then trimmed down to something moderately respectable.
See you all next year! Or this year, I guess, but much later this year. So as to almost be next year.
After much delay I have posted the pictures of my prize. The one-of-a-kind Beards 4 Boobs 2010 winner T-shirt. I wasn't able to get all the angles (the HoNoToGroABeMo.org and Beards4Boobs URL are on the back), but you get the picture. Enjoy and thanks again for allowing me to participate, it was a blast.
Just to spread some final bits love for the fundraising this year and the fun I had, I took one final photo in honor of Bob and his horror inducing picture from the beginning of the competition. I'd warn you to avert your eyes and remove small children from the room, but by now you've probably already seen the picture and your eyeballs have melted form your skull. Sorry about that...
Fig. 4: I called it The Chubby Conquistador when I wore it; it appears to be formally recognized as the Napoleon III Imperial; but most people think of it as the Colonel Sanders
Okay, a few last minute eChecks cleared, one is still outstanding, and there was some finagling with Mr. Johnson, who agreed to cover some of the PayPal fees with me, and we've come to our grand total for 2010: $3,902.70. In the end, due to the timing of a very large (and very welcome!) donation, almost $3,500 of your donations went 100% into the pot. For the rest, PayPal got their customary 30 cents + 2.9%.
The record doesn't reflect it just yet, but Mr. Harrison just squeaked past me on account of two eChecks submitted well in advance of the deadline, but one, as I mentioned, still has to clear. When all the ducats find their way into my PayPal and checking accounts, I'll move it around and then send that figure off to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation where it will then be used to destroy cancer. Who knows? Possibly with the aid of arsenic-based bacteria.
On the entertainment side, I'm pleased that so many of you made it back nearly every day. I'm a little disappointed in my own lack of inspiration, but I did come up with one or two good posts.
I feel like the community aspect was a little bit lacking this year. Possibly because I feel my stewardship of the site was a bit lackluster as well. I welcome any and all feedback. Did the Leia sideboob make you uncomfortable commenting? Let me know. You don't have to comment to do so, you can email me (email@example.com). There was a pretty serious performance issue the first couple of weeks, but I found and sorted it out, albeit possibly too late. New feature requests? Send them my way as well. I'm definitely going to get you an RSS feed in the off season.
I'm also going to see about registering for tax deductible status in this off season, so that hopefully next year your donations can be fully deductible.
Thanks again to one and all. A couple of you have already posted that you'll be back for next year and that's exciting. I'll try to keep this a place worth coming back to. And I'll be here, as well, growing my beard and searching for inspiration.
Happy 2011!
This has been a wonderful experience.
Next year I'm going to help again, and I'll do my best to rally more folks for this noble cause.
And tomorrow morning, I'm going to trim my bear a bit, and then decide what to do with my chingrowth.
Thank you all who sponsored me, and thanks also to all the sponsors in general. Without your kind donations, we wouldn't have come this far.
Wannes out.
Now, admittedly, we didn't reach the goal. I'm over the moon, however, that we topped last year's total. Particularly in light of where we were yesterday. For those who love numbers, we collected $1,564.51 in the last 24 hours.
We also crown a new winner in rookie Pete DiLillo despite a strong showing all month from Jeffrey. Crazy hats (and a generous employer) won out. We didn't make the $5,000, so I'm afraid I won't be shelling out for a new Kindle for you, Pete, but you will get a Fabulous T-Shirt. (Which will also be available for purchase in the coming weeks with proceeds, of course, benefiting the BCRF.)
I'll be back tomorrow with more wrap-up, but I'd like to give you all, readers, contributors, and especially our sponsors, the deepest and most sincere gratitude I can convey.
As for my own beard; well, simply behold its fuzzy, manly glory. More lush, more comfortable, and unfortunately a touch more grey than ever before, it fills me with pride. It does, of course, have to go as soon as possible because I look like a savage animal. A proud savage animal. A haircut is obviously in order soon thereafter.
Well, we did it. And by "we" I of course mean "I"
What did I do? Well, I grew a beard. I also pulled in a respectable portion of the donation money this year (6th place as of 10:45pm. Represent!)
Here she is in all her glory. I refer to my beard as a she so I'll remember to treat her like a lady.
Wait, that's boats, right?
Never mind then. Here's my beard. I don't think it looks all that bad. I'm taking the neck off tonight, or tomorrow if I get lazy. The rest I'll (as I said before) keep growing through December, with a little trimming as needed to not look like the crazy guy who sits at the bus stop talking to the Ke$ha poster.
A sincere thanks to everybody who donated anything, be it money, a prize, or even a couple friends who didn't understand why you were growing a beard, but were able to be talked into donating on your behalf.
I would like to start by saying thank you to all who have donated. It is a very worthy cause.
How Not To Grow A Beard Month may be over once again for the year but my beard will keep growing until the warmth of spring is upon us. I will post a picture on here every couple of days or so.
Winter is trying once again to get her cold grip on us again. :0) I for one can hardly wait for a few feet of the white stuff to gather on the ground.
Thanks again.
Well, it's over. What a month. I lasted a hell of a lot longer than I did last year, and I feel great about it. I couldn't manage the beginner luck of Jeffrey, and I certainly don't have as many hats as Pete. I didn't even have any cleavage shots, like Jeff G procured (hi, Tracy!).
But I did scrape together $95, and that's way more than my beard has ever done in the past. Which makes me proud!
But we're not done yet! If we manage to get just $150 more, we will host the Shave-Off. Greiner's already in. The most creative mustachio'd masterpieces will be posted on GeekDad, assuming we break last year's record.
Many men entered. One beard is, shortly, to leave.
Well, with the top honor, that is. The rest of the beards get to leave, too, with the satisfaction of a job well done.
In the waning hours of this exercise in oncology-enhancing generosity, I find myself exceedingly thankful to everyone who has donated. In the spirit of friendly competition, I will aim the thankfulness at those who have given for the sake of my jaw-thicket - due to three last minute contributions, I find myself suddenly in second place as I type this, just below the pack-leading Jeffery. In the more important spirit of what we are doing here, this thankfulness applies to all donors for all beards.
This is a most excellent cause. If you have not yet given, and want to shake up the standings in these final hours, now's your chance.
One last time for 2010:
Sensation: The face insulation has matured to a jaw-hugging natural ease.
Palpation: A true, soft, luxuriant hedge of crackling virility.
Personal satisfaction rating: 5 (out of 5 Norsemen)


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Defending the National Broadcast Policy 2104 again, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the Broadcast Commission will be formed in light with the policy so that the country's flourishing broadcast media could be run properly.
"I know there's some sort of commotion over the policy and many are opposing it. Every country of the world has had its own Broadcast Policy and it is implemented accordingly....even there was a longstanding demand from our journalist community for a policy," she said adding that the Broadcast Commission will be formed in light with the National Broadcast Policy.
Hasina was addressing a function marking the inauguration of the Bangladesh Film and Television Institute (BFTI) and its first course at the National Institute of Mass Communication (NIMC) in the city.
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu and Information Secretary Mortuza Ahmed spoke on the occasion. BFTI Chief Executive Dr Mohammad Jahangir Hossain delivered the address of welcome. Country's eminent film and TV media artistes were also present.
Since the announcement of the National Broadcast Policy, she alleged, a section has been vehemently opposing it even though the draft policy was on the website for over three weeks and opinions were taken from the stakeholders concerned.
"No institution could ever run properly without a policy as all have the due responsibility to society. You'll enjoy the rights, so you'll have to protect the rights of others, too ….this is the reality."
Terming film and television as strong media for any society, the Prime Minister said these two media make significant contributions towards the country's culture, heritage, history and tradition across the globe from one age to another.
Apart from providing information, Hasina said, television and film entertain the mass people and help reform society and come out from ignorance in addition to depicting the tales of happiness and sorrow, struggle and justice and unjust. "Film and television are strong media and their development is indispensable," she added.
The Prime Minister said effective steps will have to be taken to reopen and run properly the movie houses at the district level through digital system and to make that happen, the movie houses need to be modernised.
In this connection, Hasina said that tax exemption is already in place for setting up new Cineplex while there will be more tax exemption for setting up Cineplex outside the capital.
Recalling the contributions of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman towards the development of the country's mass media and film industry, Hasina said her government has announced April 3 as the 'National Film Day' in recognition to the invaluable contributions of Bangabandhu towards film development.
Mentioning her government's step towards allowing private satellite channels to run their operations, the Prime Minister said some 27 private satellite channels are now currently running operations and the number would go up to 41 creating employment opportunities for many including artistes. "We've done this so that competition is created because without competition no culture could flourish," she added.
Hasina said initiative has been taken to restore the healthy environment in the film industry through taking tough actions against making indecent or obscene films, their screening and video piracy so that all could watch movies along with their families.
She mentioned the formulation of the FM Radio Station and Operating Act-2014, Television Network Operating and Licensing Regulations-2010, formation of the Welfare Trust Fund for the artistes, formulation of the Journalist Assistance Allowance/Donation Policy-2012 under which journalists receive assistance every year.
The Premier said that Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust Act-2014 has been passed in parliament to establish a permanent system for the welfare of journalists.
Saying that she often witness Bangla cinema during her air travelling, Hasina said the quality of Bangla cinema is very good and if those get proper environment could compete with the other countries of the world and produce high quality films and TV programs.
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The Prime Minister also hoped that the BFTI would encourage making good quality films and further strengthen the country's television and film media at the global stage.
Earlier on November 1, 2013, the BFTI was established following the enactment of the law titled 'Bangladesh Film and Television Institute Act 2013'.
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Part VI - Putting It All Together.
Much has been said concerning the Joe Louis duels with Max Schmeling. It was proof that Louis was vulnerable to right hands. It was proof that Louis wasnt vulnerable to right hands. It was a victory for America over the Nazis. But Schmeling wasnt a Nazi. It was boxings biggest fight. But it wasnt about boxing. It was what made Louis a hero. But he was already a hero.
One of Abraham Lincolns most successful biographers, Roy Basler, wrote that to know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. Is there a more telling example of this truth in sports than Louis-Schmeling II? Sometimes the tale can obscure the truth. To put it another way: when was the last time you just wondered at it? Wondered at what Joe Louis did to Max Schmeling on a night when, admittedly, the world was on the brink of war and the African American was on the road to reclaiming himself from the white power structure in the USA? When, yes, the black and white citizens of that wounded country called out with one single voice for perhaps the first time and the man they were calling to was a fighter. When was the last time you ignored all those very important things and just marveled at that fight, the recording of which reporter Henry McLemore called the most faithful recording ever made of human savagery?
Im going to invite you here, please, to wonder at it again.
In one moment.
First, we have to take a look at Joes best performance.
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