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The Truth Slips Out
I had an interesting conversation with an executive at work the other day. And the words that came out of her mouth were quite telling.
It happened a couple of weeks ago. The flu shot administration frenzy was just starting to hit us full steam.
The store I was working at that day received a surprise visit. A vice president within one of my company's many divisions stopped by during one of her visits to our area.
I was working with another pharmacist at the time and the two of us chatted with this VIP about the flu hitting our area early this year and how we were busy with flu shots.
After I made a comment about local emergency departments already seeing cases of the flu, She said what I feared upper management thought all along. She told the three of us working that day "I hate to say it, but the flu is good for business!"
I stopped what I was working on at the time and glanced back at the other pharmacist on duty. The glance he gave me back must have been the same glare I reciprocated to him.
We didn't say a word, and soon after this executive was off to do whatever else those people do with their day. But when she was gone, the other pharmacist complained to me about her sentiment.
It does seem cold and callous to view the seasonal flu outbreaks as a business opportunity. In her defense, I'm sure she didn't mean what she said the way it came across to those of us that heard the comment. At least I hope not.
But the reality is that community pharmacy is now dominated by a handful of large players. They tend to look more at spread sheets and numbers and forget the fact that people are sick and we are not merely numbers on a report but actual people.
I'm not going to celebrate an illness that claims thousands of lives every year even if it brings big business to my employer and my profession. I recognize that getting the flu is a miserable experience. And it could even kill you.
Most of the time the official words that come from large community pharmacy chain executives regarding the flu reference serving the community or supplying a needed vaccination service. Their messages are as prepared as your average politician's public statements.
But on that day, one executive let slip how I suspect many retail pharmacy executives really feel about the flu. The reality is that the flu spells big business for community pharmacies. And that business translates into big profits.
What bothers me the most about what this executive said was the company I was with at the time. I was working with a pharmacist who was relatively new to my employer. I can't imagine what his thoughts were regarding his new employer after hearing comments like that from one of our divisional vice presidents.
This really demonstrates the battle community pharmacists have with their employers about perspective. Pharmacists are trained to think clinically, and our focus is more patient care oriented.
Large corporations are more business oriented. They are more concerned with the Xs and Os of profits, inventories, and balance sheets.
And while it's true pharmacists can't simply ignore the business side of retail pharmacy, isn't it also true that the chains can't disregard the human aspect of our business? This battle to balance opposing reference points plays out day after day in pharmacies eveywhere.
I hope that particular vice president can look past the dollars and realize that the flu is a serious public health threat. And I hope pharmacists can balance their patient focused backgrounds with the need to keep a business running efficiently enough to keep its doors opened and everyone's job secure.
Sometimes the truth hurts though. Even if it slips out unintentionally in the form of a passing comment.
The Redheaded Pharmacist
4 Comments to "The Truth Slips Out"
By Miraj Patel, October 23, 2013 @ 5:21 pm
Unfortunate, but something that may well end up being "solved" by (ironically) focusing more on the money. As healthcare reform/ers and insurers continue to push the cost issue, more focus is shifting to outcomes-based payments. This includes more coverage for prevention (as opposed to treatment), withheld payments for some readmissions, etc.- I think this is a trend that will continue including in pharmacy and will hopefully help negate any perverse incentives like this. In the case of the flu, we already see it with the growing coverage for flu shots.
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By Pharmaciststeve, October 23, 2013 @ 11:05 pm
Giving flu shots can be a double edge profit sword.. the more people that you vaccinate with the flu vaccine the more likely they won't get the flu or if they do.. will be less severe.. which means that the healthcare system will spend less money on a particular pt and employers and the employee's productivity may not fall off.
I recently was at a presentation by a Prof at the U of TN and a expert on vaccines and while it was anticipated that giving RPH's the right to vaccinate.. would increase the number of the population that is vaccinated against several medical issues… but.. the numbers would suggest that RPH's have just shifted vaccinations from the physician's office to the pharmacy. Is it better to promote flu vaccines and cause less Rx business later.. or not promote flu vaccines and hope that there is more Rx business later ?
By bcmigal, October 24, 2013 @ 2:29 pm
Your VIP person has a distorted view of the "value" of flu shots. Of course, pharmacists (who like to think of themselves a healthcare providers), see immunizing as increasing herd immunity and contributing to the health and welfare of the public as a whole. (See the latest reports on benefits of flu shots). Your company sees immunizing a a big money maker. You can check the CDC website and see the actual cost per dose. Compare that to what you charge a cash pt: 20,25,30 bucks? . Many 3rd parties now pay for flu shots, They will also add on a payment for the administration fee. Medicare B is the most generous with this. You make a much higher profit than with any other prescription. In addition, the pt usually has to walk through the entire store to get to the pharmacy, may shop while waiting his/her turn, then gets a "shopping pass" to use in the future. To say that more folks getting the flu is good for business is just plain nuts.
What corporate pharmacy has forgotten is that its employees are there to provide health care and that is is impossible to do that in a responsible way while worrying about how rxs are in the red. Can someone explain to me how that is good for the patient?
By Nora, October 27, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
Even though the big chain pharmacies benefit from a busy flu season, I think it is good that the stores educate patients and increase awareness of the dangers of influenza. It is cheaper to prevent the flu than it is to treat it (and also much more comfortable for the patient unless they really hate needles).
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The Rise of the Skilled City
Edward L. Glaeser
Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Department of Economics; Brookings Institution; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality. We also find that skilled cities are growing because they are becoming more economically productive (relative to less skilled cities), not because these cities are becoming more attractive places to live. Most surprisingly, we find evidence suggesting that the skills-city growth connection occurs mainly in declining areas and occurs in large part because skilled cities are better at adapting to economic shocks. As in Schultz (1964), skills appear to permit adaptation.
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Many years ago, I had a conversation with someone who was appalled at the proliferation of the word "prioritize." At that point it was still a business-speak word, the way, say, "monetize" is now.
Now these years later, I think it would be hard to find anybody not covered in several layers of ivy who would mount an objection to "prioritize." It's not the prettiest word, but it does seem to serve a purpose.
Here is a piece on the word "impactful", which seems to be making the slow journey from horrible to acceptable (though not loved).
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We can and should have smart, critical conversations about usage—about, for instance, clarity and rhetorical effectiveness. If impactful still strikes you as ineffective jargon, then avoid it …
I'm not going to use "impactful," but I won't roll my eyes at it either. If, however, you ever hear me using "deliverable" as a noun, and I have a straight face, shooting would be an OK response.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Two new research findings, published this week, are providing more information about a woman's risk for developing breast cancer.
A study published online Thursday in the journal Science explains the "why" behind the established relationship between high cholesterol and breast cancer, especially in women who are obese and who have reached menopause.
And findings from a study published Wednesday in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention shows that women who are members of families with BRCA2 mutations, but who test negative for the gene, are still at higher risk for developing breast cancer compared with women in the general population.
Researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute in North Carolina have found that a byproduct of cholesterol -- a molecule called 27-hydroxycholesterol, or 27HC -- functions like estrogen, fueling the growth and spread of breast cancer.
While the findings are drawn from studies in mice and tumor cells, the Duke researchers say they are significant enough to set the stage for what the researchers call "near-term" clinical trials in humans that can begin exploring how statins and other anti-cholesterol drugs might be used to help lower, or even prevent, a woman's chances of developing breast cancer.
The study was paid for by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense.
"As far as we know, the thing that most regulates the abundance [of 27HC] is the presence of cholesterol itself," lead author Erik Nelson, a post-doctoral associate at Duke, told The Plain Dealer. "The best studies out there show that however much cholesterol you have attracts how much of the molecule you have."
And the amount of cholesterol you have is determined through your diet or, in some people, genetics, he said.
Gene expression studies revealed a potential association between 27HC exposure and the development of resistance to the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen, which renders the drug less effective.
Several years ago, in a key earlier finding from the lab of senior author Donald McDonnell, a graduate student determined that 27HC behaved similarly to estrogen in animals.
"We were very surprised at the time," said McDonnell, chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke. "After we published the first paper, we got a call from a professor at the University of California at San Diego who informed us that he had been chasing for years the [hypothesis] that the molecule was estrogenic in other species."
Building upon the earlier discovery, Nelson, McDonnell and their colleagues wanted to see if the estrogen activity from the molecule was enough to promote breast cancer growth and metastasis on its own, and whether controlling the molecule's activity would have the opposite effect.
In mice models that are highly predictive of what occurs in humans, they found that the presence of the 27HC molecule was directly involved in breast tumor growth, as well in how quickly the cancer spread to other parts of the body. The researchers also found that when the mice were treated with anti-estrogens, or when they were no longer given extra amounts of the molecule (through daily injections), the cancer activity stopped.
The same thing happened when the 27HC molecule was observed in human breast cancer tissue cells. Additionally, they found a direct correlation between a tumor's aggressiveness and high amounts of the enzyme that makes 27HC, which can be made in other parts of the body and transported to the tumor.
"We were encouraged last week by the revised guidelines for statins," McDonnell said, referring to guidelines issued two weeks ago by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association suggesting that more people would benefit from taking the drugs.
McDonnell said he is hopeful that these findings will lead to the development of human clinical trials, which he hopes will verify their findings and have a significant impact on using statins as a preventive and treatment method.
"One of the first things that happens in menopausal women is that their cholesterol goes up," he said. "When a woman goes on an aromatase inhibitor [a type of cancer drug used only in postmenopausal women], her cholesterol goes up even further."
The findings suggest there may be a simple way to reduce the risk of breast cancer by keeping cholesterol in check, either with statins or a healthy diet, McDonnell said. Additionally, for women who have breast cancer and high cholesterol, taking statins may delay or prevent resistance to endocrine therapies such as tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors.
Using data from the M6-Inherited Cancer in England study, which since 1996 has screened families of individuals with breast and/or ovarian cancer for mutated BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, researchers looked at data from more than 800 BRCA families.
BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes suppress tumors in humans. The presence of mutated BRCA genes in women signals an increased risk — up to 80 percent over a lifetime — of developing breast and ovarian cancers. The genes also are associated with an increased risk for prostate, pancreatic and stomach cancers, and melanoma.
The researchers found that women from those families who tested negative for BRCA2 mutations have more than four times the risk for developing breast cancer than a woman of average risk. The increased risk is largely limited to BRCA2 families, and did not extend to BRCA1 families.
"It is likely that these women inherit genetic factors other than BRCA-related genes that increase their breast cancer risk," Gareth Evans, honorary professor of medical genetics and cancer epidemiology at the Manchester Academic Health Science Center at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, said in a statement.
Given the findings, oncologists should use caution when stating that a woman's breast cancer risk is the same as that of the general population following a negative test, the study authors said.
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The No. 15 USC Aiken baseball team scored four runs in the first and never looked back en route to a 17-4 victory over visiting Chowan Wednesday evening.
The Pacers are now 16-5 on the season.
With one down in the first, Tyler Moore swiped second and scored on T.J. Costens single. Ty Barkell followed him up with a triple to right for a 2-0 score. Matt Bosses grounder pushed the score to 3-0. After a double by Ryan Metzler, a walk to Ben Donath and Sean Miller reaching due to being hit by a pitch, Dylan Durham took one for the team as he was hit by a pitch, which scored Metzler.
Leading 4-1 in the bottom of the second, head coach Kenny Thomas team put together four straight singles for a 7-1 lead. The big hit was Metzlers single, plating Barkell and Bosse.
With the score at 9-2 heading to the bottom of the fourth, the Pacers put the game away with five more runs. Donath walked and scampered to third on Millers double. Durham was hit by a pitch, loading the bases. Kody Belchers fly ball pushed Donath across home. Two batters later, Costen singled to left, plating Miller and Durham.
The teams traded runs in the fifth as both squads plated two. USC Aiken made it 17-4 heading into the seventh when Corey Bryant laced a single to center field, scoring Grayson Smith.
Adrian Rivero worked three innings, striking out three en route to earning the win. Sam Daniel, Brandon Sharpe, Randy Sipp, Roberto Hernandez Jr., Cole Lee and Jake Padgett all saw time on the mound in the victory.
At the plate, Costen tallied four hits, driving in four and scoring four. Barkell had three hits, three RBI and scored twice while Bosse added three RBI. Metzler and Bryant chipped in two apiece. The Pacers return to action Friday in a doubleheader at Young Harris. First pitch is slated for 2 p.m.


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The Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra began bringing Asian culture to Nevada County 20 years ago. Its productions have included "Immortal Heart," "Snow Falling on Cedars," and "The King and I," with each year's performance topping the last. This year, the group aims to top them all with a production "Miss Saigon."
The Tony-award winning musical, opening Thursday (April 10) is a passionate story about love and war. Imbued with music from beginning to end, "Miss Saigon" is closer to an opera than a traditional musical. Jeannie Wood, executive director of CATS, says they wanted to make a bold statement for their 20th year.
"People often ask how are we going to top this one. It's not our intention to top the previous performance. It just looks like it. It's part of our evolution," Wood said.
"Miss Saigon" takes places during the turmoil of the Vietnam War, when an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggles to find each other over the ensuing years end in tragedy for her and a fighting chance for the child he never knew he had.
Wood, the directors, and the entire cast are thrilled with this year's selection. The production is based on Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and written by the creators of Les Misérables (music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, and lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.). It originally opened at London's Theatre Royal in 1989 and ran for 10 years.
"It's a wonderful show," Jeffrey Mason, co-musical director and conductor of the CATS production, said. "It's very dynamic – starting with high-pitched excitement and gets only higher. I think that's part of the appeal. It's been tremendously successful all over the world. I think it's because it's so gripping."
While CATS' annual productions are always the jewel of their mission, the group's outreach and education extends past the stage. They work toward educating and enlightening the community with workshops, cooking classes, and excursions. Accompanying this year's production is an opportunity to attend a performance of "Madam Butterfly" at the San Francisco War Memorial. The group outing includes a no-host brunch at the San Francisco Civic Center and a pre-opera talk at the theatre.
CATS is also organizing a trip to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Past outings have included trips to China (coinciding with "Golden Child"), Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp during World War II ("Snow Falling on Cedars"), and Wakamatsu Silk and Tea Colony. Through the years there's also been tea ceremonies, sushi making and sake tastings, luaus, Chinese New Year Festivals, Japanese flower arranging, and numerous film presentations.
"We like to explain the Asian culture, not just through performances, but other means as well," Wood said. "Our show is our main event, but by no means our only event. Cultural enrichment programs are our companion programs – they add to the experience of the show."
To improve one's understanding and appreciation of "Miss Saigon," which is sung in its entirety, Mason created a comprehensive and detailed timeline of the Vietnam War, along with a glossary for the performance. It will be posted on the company's website or available to view in the online version of this story at TheUnion.com/entertainment.
Whether or not theatregoers do their homework or take part in the extracurricular activities, they're sure to enjoy the performance, which was at one time daunting to Woods and Lisa Moon, president of CATS. The two talked about it for some time and there were many naysayers. It was, in fact, the group's first real operatic production. They'd done musicals before, but never a full opera. It was a compelling story and they wanted to tell it.
The three leads they found were equally excited to tell it. Jared Lee (The Engineer) from Elk Grove, David Holmes (Chris) from Meadow Vista, and April Lam (Kim) from San Jose, had never played the parts that for them were lifelong dreams.
Lee has taken part in three productions of "Miss Saigon," but this will be his first as The Engineer. He will also share the stage with his daughter, who is playing Tam. For Holmes, it was the first professional production he saw back when he was 18. He's been performing in the Sacramento area for 20 years.
Lam had played Mimi in another production and was an understudy for Kim. When a friend told her about the opening for Kim, she jumped at the chance and headed to Nevada City.
"She's been my dream role for years. I'm very excited," Lam said.
All three, as well as Mason, agree that CATS is wonderful company to work with, extremely hardworking and committed to quality.
"CATS has been a labor love for the past 20 years," Wood said. "Through our annual productions and cultural enrichment programs, it's been a privilege to contribute to the community."
Miss Saigon runs through May 10 at Nevada Theatre, with performances Thursday through Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees. For more information, or tickets, go to www.catsweb.org. Tickets are also available at BriarPatch Co-op and the Book Seller.
The April 18 performance is a benefit for the Friends of the Nevada County Libraries. Tickets to the benefit may be purchased by calling 530-265-1407 or by going to any western Nevada County branch.
Freelance writer Katrina Paz lives in Grass Valley.


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Step 1: What school will my student attend?
Kindergarten - 8th Grade
Enter your address and student's grade level into the VersaTrans elink (Username: school1 or you can use school2, or school3, Password: search) on our district Transportation page to determine your student's neighborhood school OR call the district's Transportation office at 360-653-0835.
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You may register in person at the Marysville School District Office, 4220 80th Street NE. The District Office is open Monday-Friday, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm. If you have questions, please call the High School Registrar at 360-653-0871.
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Washington State Graduation Requirements: All public high school students are required to meet statewide graduation requirements in order to earn a diploma. The goals is that more students will be better prepared to meet 21st-century demands in their working and personal lives. Parents and students may visit the OSPI website for additional information on earning a diploma and to learn more about the state requirements.
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It's no secret that the modern presidential race is an expensive affair, and that the dash for campaign cash between candidates can be positively cut-throat.
How nice, then, that a candidate can almost always count on one familiar place for financial support: home. Yes, even the most unsuccessful presidential candidate can find some sweet financial solace in his or her home state, where name recognition is usually a given and financial connections often run deep.
Still, some candidates fair better than others with donors in their home state. And in today's PolitiQuizz, we're asking you to identify that candidate in the nascent 2012 presidential cycle. Tell us:
Which candidate for president has disclosed financial records detailing the most home-state campaign contributions, between April and June of this year?
To win, be the first to give us the name of the candidate, the state and the full amount of home-state campaign cash. The answer, as always, can be found in the (not so deep) reaches of OpenSecrets.org.
Keep in mind that a few presidential candidates — namely Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman — have not yet filed any campaign finance reports, which, if you read in between the lines here, means they're not eligible for this question. Moreover, the Center for Responsive Politics only geographically tracks itemized campaign contributions of more than $200, so any figures you find here will reflect only such receipts. Federal law does not require candidates to breakdown the geographic information associated with donors who give $200 or less.
Answers will be accepted until Friday at 5 p.m. The first person to leave the correct answer in the comments section of this blog entry will be awarded a free copy of The Blue Pages: Second Edition, the money-in-politics book for which the Center for Responsive Politics provided data and analysis.
Now on to last week's winner.
We asked you to explore the clout of the conservative group Club for Growth, and to tell us which lawmaker the Club most supported with campaign cash during the 2010 election cycle. That, as well as this sub-question: To the nearest whole number, what percentage of his total campaign war chest did these contributions constitute?
Congratulations to our winner, "Rtsay," who guessed Sen. Pat Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican — and former Club for Growth president. The Club contributed more than $800,000 to Toomey's campaign during the 2010 election cycle, representing about 5 percent of his campaign haul, according to the Center's research.
"Rtsay" was right on all accounts — nice work! Send us an email at [email protected] with your name and a mailing address, and we'll send over the spoils.
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DAVID SISCO has served on the voice faculties at Northeastern and Suffolk University, and currently teaches private voice at Marymount Manhattan College. He also maintains a private studio in New York and leads masterclasses around the country on preparing contemporary art song and musical theatre. David is the author of Here I Am: A Musical Personal Ad, Variations on a Theme of You, and BAIT n' SWISH. He is currently collaborating with book writer/lyricist Tom Gualtieri on two musicals: Falling to Earth, and I'm Afraid, You're Afraid: 448 Things to Fear And Why. A winner of the 2010 NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Composition Award, David is a prolific art song composer. His songs have been heard at concerts produced by Friends & Enemies of New Music, New Music New York, Joy in Singing, Lyricfest, Songfest and Songfusion. With business partner Laura Josepher, David runs contemporarymusicaltheatre.com, a resource that helps teachers, students and professionals find well-written, largely self-published contemporary musical theatre songs. David earned a BA in Vocal Performance with Composition Honors from Syracuse University and a MM in Vocal Performance from Boston University. siscosong.com
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Rusty has worked for Wagner College since 1997 and is currently the Head of Dance. Rusty is a trained dancer, director/choreographer and movement specialist working for the past 30 years in NYC area. He has performed internationally throughout Japan, Europe and North America and is a Certified Movement Analyst and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator. He has also worked as Artistic Director for Bergen Festival Theatre Company, Bergen County, NJ and Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf,NY as well as Dance Director and Company Manager for Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven,NJ. Performance highlights: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Surflight, Mac-Haydn Theatre, Peridance Dance Ensemble, Acanthus Ballet Company.
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Summarily buffeted in this space for his rudderless approach in pied-pipering league players straight into a lockout, maybe it's time to loosen up and provide De(Certification ) Smith, the NFLPTA ex-ecutive director, some credit for a change.
When it comes to "suggesting" that likely first-round prospects bypass the annual league photo-op and shaking hands with commissioner Roger Goodell -- and instead participate in a trade association-sponsored gala where they would be "welcomed" by future teammates -- De(Certification) and his legion of NFLPTA lieutenants folded a losing hand.
In the ongoing battle for minds and hearts that is an undeniable component of the league's current labor strife, the public relations pendulum has swayed back and forth, alternating between the owners and the players and sometimes depending on the rhetorical skills or press-release adroitness of the designated messengers. But in matters related to the draft, the lone rite of spring left pretty much undisturbed by the lockout, and maybe a last remaining shard of driftwood to which desperate NFL fans might cling for some semblance of normalcy, there was no split decision.
From the moment NFLPTA minister of propaganda George Atallah (note, George: your name is spelled correctly) leaked word to his band of media friendlies that the players association was plotting to scuttle the league's three-day draft party April 28-30, the plan was greeted with all the ardor of, say, Obamacare.
It has been a constant of the current NFLPTA administration that, when it comes to words, to rattling off Don King-style rants by its officials and even some mindless Twitters by its misguided but still opinionated rank-and-file, it can be relatively mesmerizing. Planning? Uh, not exactly a strong suit. The draft fiasco is a graphic example of the NFLPTA's shortcomings: A well-crafted blueprint was never drawn up to match the bluster.
Unlike its failed, words-are-more-impressive-than-deeds approach to negotiations for a new collective bargaining accord, the NFLPTA had no courtroom fallback when its draft plans were castigated by fans and players. As powerful as he has been in nearly two decades of presiding over labor squabbles, as dependable an ally as the players could muster since extracting new freedoms in the Reggie White lawsuit in 1993, Judge David Doty couldn't help this time.
There are no tortes, apparently, to save the NFLPTA from its own poor judgment.
Reacting to the firestorm of criticism that has emanated from just about every corner the past few weeks, the NFLPTA has announced that whatever it plans now for draft weekend won't interfere with the league activities. In the streets, if not necessarily at high-level who-blinks-first negotiations, that's known as face-saving. C'mon, do you really think the trade association's original plans weren't to screw with the league's welcome-wagon festivities as much as possible? Like a lot of purported brainstorms, though, the idea proved a faulty one.
In recent days, at least three likely first-round prospects -- LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson, wide receiver Julio Jones of Alabama, and Florida guard Mike Pouncey -- all acknowledged that they wanted to attend the draft, if invited. Notable is that Pouncey is represented by Joel Segal, one of the "Big Four" agents trotted out by the NFLPTA at the combine last month in a sham display of unity. Notable as well is that, at least publicly, most agents haven't defected and have actually championed the trade association's draft-snub strategy. But as the agents are finding out -- just as the NFLPTA discovered with players who are Twitter-addicted -- sometimes you can't successfully subvert everyone's true feelings.
Sometimes you overestimate your own control or misread your own importance in an event. In the case of the draft, the NFLPTA did both.
Len Pasquarelli is a Senior NFL Writer for The Sports Xchange. He has covered the NFL for 33 years and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee. His NFL coverage earned recognition as the winner of the McCann Award for distinguished reporting in 2008.


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No injuries, major damage after B.C. earthquake
QUEEN CHARLOTTE, B.C. — After a sleepless night of tsunami warnings and aftershocks, triggered by a massive earthquake off British Columbia's northwestern coast, Faye Beaulieu felt a small rumble inside her home around noon on Sunday in the Haida Gwaii community of Queen Charlotte.
It was yet another aftershock — this time a magnitude-6.4, the most significant since the magnitude-7.7 quake the night before that itself was one of the biggest in Canadian history.
"I thought it was my washer going into spin cycle, but apparently it wasn't," said Beaulieu, 61, recalling the latest aftershock.
"It was only three or four seconds, just long enough to rattle everything — including me."
The main quake struck Saturday evening a few minutes after 8 p.m., with an epicentre about 30 kilometres off the coast of Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands.
It triggered tsunami warnings along the B.C. coast and as far away as Hawaii. There were reports of people feeling the quake throughout B.C., though there appeared to be no injuries or significant damage in the immediate area beyond broken picture frames and dishes.
The largest wave associated with the quake hit Langara Island, a northern Haida Gwaii island, and measured just 69 centimetres.
Beaulieu, who is the unit chief for the community's ambulance service, was at home with her husband watching a movie and initially thought the rattling was from coming from her home entertainment system. But when she shut the movie off, the rattling didn't stop.
"I really thought my house was coming down," said Beaulieu, who said the shaking lasted about a minute.
"For how much the house was shaking, I'm surprised at how little happened."
Tsunami warnings prompted evacuations on Haida Gwaii and in other coastal communities such as Tofino, on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island.
Early Sunday morning, the warnings were downgraded to advisories, meaning evacuations were no longer necessary, and they were cancelled altogether a few hours later.
The area is a hot spot for quake activity, with a major fault line just off the coast of the islands that make up Haida Gwaii.
It's the same area that saw Canada's largest earthquake ever recorded, a magnitude-8.1 quake in 1949.
Saturday's earthquake was Canada's largest since that 1949 quake, said John Cassidy, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada.
"This was a huge earthquake — a magnitude 7.7 is the type of earthquake that only happens maybe one or twice around the world each year," Cassidy said in an interview Sunday.
"It's Canada's equivalent to the San Andreas Fault."
The quake happened as two tectonic plates — the Pacific plate and the North American Plate — slid past each other.
Cassidy said such horizontal movement typically doesn't pose the same tsunami risks as vertical movement, which is the sort of quake that triggered the devastating 2010 tsunami in Japan.
It was followed by "hundreds and hundreds" of aftershocks, most of them too small for anyone to feel. Cassidy said those aftershocks were expected to continue for days.
The quake invariably prompted speculation about the "big one" — the type of earthquake that is believed to strike off the West Coast every 500 years or so and would create a massive tsunami and cause significant damage in British Columbia and the northwestern United States. The last one was in 1700.
Brent Ward, an earth scientist at Simon Fraser University, said the big one would happen along a different fault than the one involved in Saturday's quake, on the edge of the Juan de Fuca Plate west of Vancouver Island.
That plate is moving underneath the North American Plate, said Ward, in a process known as subduction. When it finally gives way, the results would be catastrophic.
"We would get the entire West Coast of Vancouver Island being affected by a large tsunami, similar in size to the one that hit Japan," he said.
"We would get intense ground shaking throughout southwestern B.C. down into Washington and possibly into Oregon, so we would see a very huge area affected by damaged buildings, damaged roads and bridges. There would be fatalities."
But Ward cautioned against focusing too much on the big one.
He said smaller — but still destructive — quakes are likely to be more frequent, pointing to a magnitude-7.3 quake that struck underneath Vancouver Island, near the community of Courtenay, in 1946 as an example.
The damage in 1946 was considerable, and Ward said it would be worse today with the island more populated than before.
"Everyone's concerned about the big one, but the ones that are similar to what happened under Courtenay, these happen every 40 or 50 years," said Ward.
"If you compare similar sized earthquakes and the damage they do, it would be a very significant event."
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Just for fun, I got into my trusty time machine and swooped back to the mid-1970s, when I first became involved in the new field called medical ethics ( later, bioethics).
There was a big debate in those days about telling the truth to patients facing death. Since cancer then was more likely than now to lead fairly quickly to death, even speaking the dreaded word "cancer" to a patient was considered a courageous act of truthfulness.
The old guard back then steadfastly clung to the traditional medical dogma that it was cruel to tell a patient she was near death -- telling took away all hope, and patients would become depressed and even suicidal.
We "ethics" newcomers argued in favor of the novel principle of respect for patient self-determination. We said patients deserved to know the truth (if they wished it) simply as a matter of human dignity. Also, in practical terms, they often had plans to make and needed to know their time was limited to plan effectively.
Just to put the old shibboleth about depression and suicide to rest, studies determined telling the truth, by itself, was unlikely to make patients any more depressed.
So, after I had had my fill of reflecting on the old days, I came back to the present. The first thing I read upon returning was a report at the American Society of Clinical Oncology of a study by a group headed by Dr. Alexi Wright of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Wright's group looked at 603 cancer patients, thought to have less than a year to live, in several New England states and Texas. Only a third of these patients reported their doctors had talked frankly about end-of-life care with them.
This lack of disclosure was despite the fact those who went on and died were more likely to have what appeared to be better quality deaths if they had been fully informed. They were many times less likely to die in intensive care units or on respirators.
The Wright group looked into the depression issue. It turned out about 7 percent of the end-stage cancer patients felt depressed, and it had nothing to do with whether they had been told about death being close at hand.
What is going on here? Did I just imagine we had this same conversation 30 years ago? Did we learn our lesson, then proceed to forget it? Did we never learn that lesson despite all the talk and all the studies?
The California Legislature is considering a bill to require physicians to answer dying patients' questions truthfully -- which somehow assumes patients will get a news flash that they are dying, so they can ask the doctor about it. Are we doctors so bad off we need laws passed to tell us to do what is ethical?
Let me climb back into my time machine and go someplace else.
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Hibler, a Portland, Oreg., food writer, has good cause to celebrate the region's vast bounty. Indigenous to this majestic corner of the U.S. are not just Dungeness crabs but Olympia oysters, Chinook salmon and an array of waterfowl, wild mushrooms and juicy berries. Hibler's soups are savory, her breads robust, her meal and game dishes he-man enough to fell a forest, and her desserts are like a passkey to childhood. (Knopf, $23)
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Terps Head to Philadelphia for Cissie Leary Invite
Maryland continues its fall slate in Philadelphia this upcoming weekend.
Terps Continue Fall Schedule at UVA Invite
The Maryland women's tennis team continued its fall slate with a weekend tournament at the University of Virginia
Terps Successful in Opening Weekend
The Terps had multiple winners in split-squad action to open up the 2016-17 season.
Terps Open 2016-17 Season on Friday
The Maryland women's tennis team will open its season this weekend at the 24th Annual Tribe Invitational and in the Bedford Cup at TCCP (Tennis Club College Park).
Katie Dougherty Named Assistant Tennis Coach
After serving as the head women's tennis coach at Iowa for the last seven years, Maryland native Katie Dougherty is coming home to become the Terps assistant tennis coach.


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A stereotypical Subaru – sacrifices interior appeal and ride comfort in favour of reliability and all-round ruggedness. …
The Trajet is bigger than many of its rivals, so it can seat seven adults in comfort. Both leg- and headroom are generous, and there's a good-sized boot, even with all the seats in place. The five rearmost seats can be removed when you need maximum load space, but they're heavy to lift.
The driving position could also be better. The seat can be adjusted for height, but the steering wheel has no reach adjustment. Still, there are lots of cubby-holes, and most of the buttons are chunky and easy to use.
Unfortunately, the Trajet's drive falls short of the best European and Japanese MPVs. Its ride is overly firm around town and becomes bouncy at speed. The steering is light, but doesn't offer enough feedback, and there's a lot of body lean around corners.
Refinement is also disappointing. The engines are noisy under acceleration and, although they're quieter at speed, they're still not what you'd call quiet.
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It's another school project for Makenzie. This time, she was to make a cooking show about tasty ways to prepare bird dishes for her science class. So we all get the benefit of enjoying a little zany time with Kenzie as she cooks her way through this one:
Kenzie's Crazy Cooking Show from Cole Phillips on Vimeo.
With recipes for chicken, turkey, and quail, this episode is for the birds! Join Kenzie in the kitchen as she shows you how to prepare some delicious dishes. Of course, it's Kenzie, so you know there's gonna be a lot of fun along the way.
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I don't have a boyfriend. (I'm a man, and I'm straight.) Does that mean I might be in trouble?
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2014 at 2:02 PM
I think she means, she isn't actively out dating people. Often, when people first start dating, one or both will do background checks on the other. I think that she is already in the relationship, makes her believe her boyfriend would be past the"background check" phase...Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2014 at 7:28 AM
I think you're a little different than 'most' people. I don't think background checks on a date are normal. Most people aren't that nuts/paranoid.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 29, 2013 at 9:31 PM
I am currently receiving these background check emails. And, they have caused me a lot of concearn. Due to the fact, that I am currently in email correspondents, with a number of organisation's. And I have,questioned, they're involvement, in requesting said, 'unwarranted' background checks.I am thankfull for your site, and for highlighting this email scam. Thanks to chaps like you, people like us, can not only find information which educates us. But, you have saved me, from accusing business associates of doing such background checks. Sincerly, THANKS GUYS.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 20, 2014 at 2:39 PM
hope the organizations and business associates don't care about your horrible grammar....Delete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2014 at 4:04 AM
Grammar so what!Delete
Life must be SUCK for you if you care so much about grammar.
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2014 at 10:16 AM
Yeah, I mean, the grammar is bad. But really, if us scam haters are hating on each other it doesn't really help anything or each other. Let's all save our hate for the actual douches responsible. May they all get ebola and die. See, like that, directed hate at Nigerian scam rings.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 29, 2013 at 9:42 PM
please remember that those that do these dispicable scams, will change they're styles and approaches. So please, be on your guards, against these scammers. And wherever possible - if you have the skills, research who these scammers are, and shut them down. Becouse they cause, not only distress, and false accusation. But they do create, mistrust and financial difficulties.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM
Thanks for stopping me from opening. I did recently order cheap meds from Cananda of course they never arrived. I think they just scammed my info.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Thank you so much for your site....I received an email from IBC Updates re: someone just ran a background check on you-view resultsReplyDelete
Of course, I started to worry since I don't work. But thanks to your site I decided NOT to open this and mark it as spam.
GREAT JOB GUYS......Thank you LORD for people like these that actually WANT to help us other non-computer savy folks.
- AnonymousMarch 5, 2013 at 6:32 PM
I have got those also and opened them. What is the danger of opening?ReplyDeleteReplies
These scams have codes embedded in them that lets the sender know if you've opened them. Many also have malware that automatically downloads into your OS the instant you open it. Best to delete UNOPENED.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2013 at 1:14 PM
I received two emails ten minutes apart from ICM stating someone ram a background check on me. Aggravating. These jerks need to get a life.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 14, 2013 at 9:14 AM
I just received an email, stating it was from ICM saying that my back-ground files may be available in their system, and it provides a link to click if this is an error or I would like to run my own background.ReplyDelete
That is the beginning of the link. I am NOT clicking but this is the first suspicious email that has made it through my junk filter in 5 years. I'm a little concerned as to what caused it.
I got it too, and also got an email from a long-lost ex-boyfriend who is a thief and lifestyle-convict. Aside from the alarm that he has not lost my email and that he still thinks of me (at least as a target),I also noticed a grammatical error in the subject line. It said, "Someone run a background check on you, View Results." It should be "ran," "has run," or "may have run." This glaring unprofessionality alerted me to smell a rat.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2013 at 4:09 PM
I've recieved them time from time just recently I received one saying shame on you that I should check what being said about me and that my family and friends might see this and I should act now ..... wish I could sue their ssses for harrasment but there's no way to find out who they are .... but thank you for posting this kinda figured its bsReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2013 at 9:18 PM
LOL @ Anonymous I received all of the above and one exactly as you received. I asked a private investigator what I should do and awaiting his response. Ha ha I guess I already found out. Thanks everyone!!Delete
- AnonymousOctober 22, 2013 at 8:13 PM
also just got the scam - in fact getting a whole bunch on phone and this on emailReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM
December 4 2013 I also received the emails and phone calls. This is an elaborate Phishing scam. This number is part of the scam 7607339829ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 2:19 PM
I just got this scam email too! Cut & pasted below so everyone can see what it looks like:ReplyDelete
Dear email@example.com,
Bad Things From Your Past Have Been Posted Online
Brace yourself for the worst
At 12:30pm (eastern time) damaging information was posted publicly that could hurt you.
Don't let people see this by confirming your person record ID# here:
Review this now: Time is running out!
I'm promptly deleting it. Thank goodness for sites like this! Not that I would have opened it anyway, but blogs like this really help! :)Replies
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2013 at 2:00 AM
i received the same email twice or so,it kinda freaked me out..did he really mean it? i mean am i really gunna face the consequences??Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 10, 2014 at 10:08 PM
I just got the same exact email, link is a little diff but not thinking about it, I cut n pasted, said no such link exists! Scare the crap out of people, bastards! But I'm sure that was the point!Delete
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM
Just received the "bad things will happen" email from ICM. Definitely creepy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2013 at 1:33 PM
Hello--just got one of those "bad things will happen" doohickeys myself. Jeez!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 10, 2014 at 7:18 AM
Received One also. Fear Is Not A word In the Kingdom Of God.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2014 at 2:18 PM
I opened one of these and checked the site so what danger am I in now? What will happen?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 20, 2014 at 2:43 PM
probably a lot of rectal bleeding....Delete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2014 at 10:01 AM
These seem to come in droves. Won't see one for a few months then all of a sudden the spam box will have a 1/2 doz of them for weeks. Probably because I clicked on one once but never went to the site. Still creeps me out and glad there are sites like these that explain them.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2014 at 5:25 PM
i got a email to saying someone posted someting bad about me!!! from Background Check Alert (ICM and it also said something about im.happytobeafish.com so stay away from them i did...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2014 at 10:47 AM
I got one today, and it was very dirty and offensive. Why would a legitimate company send that to you? Answer- because they aren't. They are scum. I was suspicious from the start. Thanks to others for sharing similar comments. Well done all for not falling it. John Ellis Francis (aged 29)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 23, 2014 at 7:27 PM
I also received a couple of these emails. one said some one did a back ground check . the other said my criminal back ground will be available to the public. I do not have a criminal back ground. not of any sort. it freaked me out , made me wonder if someone had forged one somehow.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2014 at 5:47 AM
I have gotten the "Bad Things Will Happen" email for four days now. Each time it is from someone different, and not always ICM. Microsoft suggested I send it to the FBI which I did. I got the same content email from Nicegreataliens.......THIS IS NUTTY!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM
i get this one and a lot more they keel sending i keep blocking i am starting to think its my emailReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM
After having received so many of these in my Spam folder, I decided to do a search to see if anyone else was getting these. I am sorry you all are getting them too, but happy that it is just a bunch of crap sent out to a lot of people like me! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2014 at 9:57 PM
I have also receive them and another that looks exactly the same stating I have a sexual predator living in my area also a scam.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2014 at 11:41 AM
I don't think it matters if you just open them and then delete them. Just don't click any links or download any attachments.ReplyDelete
-Attn: Someone ran a background-check-on you. View-Results here-
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2014 at 7:39 PM
I got one of these today for the first time. My thought was, "Who cares?" But it could be a virus or malware so I deleted it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM
just got one today. guess they dont stop and the scam is never old.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 6, 2014 at 3:36 PM
Whatever you do, DON'T click any link that is in such an email. Delete it and be on the lookout for more SPAMReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2014 at 3:57 PM
I just got the email tooReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2014 at 5:41 AM
To Anonymous (July 18 @ 11:41 AM):ReplyDelete
Do not under any circumstances even open the email. Simply delete it and empty your trash as well.
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2014 at 1:41 PM
I too am getting these spam emails claiming -ReplyDelete
"Alert: Somebody has ordered a background-check-on you" - . View the results #12523134: http://haltthis.onlinenewscaninfo.us
///////Or reach us at: PO Box 025250 Miami, F.L. ZIP#: 33102-5250
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2014 at 12:40 PM
AMAZING!!!!! tHE SCARY PART IS THERE IS SO MUCH OF THIS THESE DAYS THAT IF IT IS SOMETHING REAL, I DELETE IT AS WELL !ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2014 at 5:13 PM
same hing happen me 24 th y cant these ppl get a real jobReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2014 at 10:20 AM
I got one too! Thanks for the advise to delete it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2014 at 11:26 AM
I got one today, ICM, lists right down to the time they supposedly run the check. Scary stuff.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2014 at 12:21 PM
same scam:ReplyDelete
"Someone is viewing your background search records. See results #23497...
from: NOTIFICATION "
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2015 at 8:12 AM
I just received this two of these emails today, subject line: " RE:Someone has just checked your background-information. Find out more" And this is the email address it was from: NOTIFICATION And this is the body of the email: ............................................ DUW83 BACKGROUND ALERT SERVICE. ............................................ MESSAGE ID # 2237716496. ............................................ NOTICE FOR: (my email address was here). We are reaching out to you today to inform you that someone has recently ordered the results of your background-scan. You can view further details of this new-scan below here now: SCAN UPDATES: ================================. DATE: 01/12/2015. TIME: 03:24:55 A.M. (EST). ================================. Go here right away to find further information on this new scan: http://go2.yourlatestscan-updates.rocks Thank you. ............................................ DUW83 BACKGROUND ALERT SERVICE. ............................................ ............................................ CUSTOMER SERVICE INFO. ............................................ If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to reply to this email with all your pertinent information and a member of our customer service team will get back to you as soon as possible. /End further emailad-content now by going right here: http://end12.yourlatestscan-updates.rocks P.O. Box No.3109 Houston T.X. ZIP:77253-3109 5346-317060782.48727b17af58c5f014fb1bc357936f982e5a6_0920317060782.3827422377164\536 great crisp crust on the top and bottom from a good sear. We also had a la carte chille relleno and twice baked potatoe. Nothing too crazy but needed something on the side besides just the entree. The chile relleno was different with a hard corn meal like crust with bean/corn mash textured filling. Was different but good. The twice baked potatoe was better than a normal one. Dessert we didnt really want but we had to do it just to do it! We had the churros which we were glad we ordered. Hot and cripsy on the outside and warm and gooey on the inside. To top it off it came with a chocolate sauce to dip the churros in. Overall this was a top notch resturaunt with top notch service. One thing my g/f pointed out that was over the top was the fact she was wearing a black dress, she was initially given a white napkin and then the waitress came back and swapped her napkin with a black one. Now thats paying attention to detail.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2015 at 10:04 AM
I also just received this email today and thought it was fishy. Here is the email I received. I did not click on the link they provided:ReplyDelete
Attn:Someone has-run a background-scan on-you: Learn results-now
NOTIFICATION (Add as Preferred Sender)
Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2015 8:48 am
Message ID No.12622385523.
MESSAGE TO: myemailaddress.
The reason that we're contacting you today is to let you know that somebody has just ordered the results of your background-scan. You can find further-details of this scan-below:
DATE: March 25, 2015.
Go here right-now to find out more about this new-scan: http://read5.getallnew-scanupdatesnow.us
Simply respond to this email-notification with all your pertinent information if you have any additional questions or concerns.
- AnonymousApril 14, 2015 at 8:12 AM
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousApril 18, 2015 at 2:57 PM
MMM, if that wasn't so illegal, changing grades?? seriously? then I would actually support it. But this is a fairly corrupt offer.Delete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2015 at 9:16 AM
email@example.com I get this notice about every other day!ReplyDelete
Know it's a scam so do not respond.
- AnonymousJune 30, 2015 at 8:24 PM
This is the version I got today...ReplyDelete
Alert: Your background report has been accessed on June 29th, 2015 - #14790010240.
############### Public-Records Automated-Notification ###############.
Record Retrieval Bureau.
RECORD ALERT: No.147900109923.
Retrieval Date: June 30th, 2015.
Important Information to: {myemailaddress}
Your background-records has just been-searched and located (2) times within the past 48-hours.
Learn who has been trying to obtain your background-info including:
* Divorce
* Arrest Records
+ More.
ACTION-NECESSARY: Go Here Today to Confirm/Dispute Your Background-Report: http://newinfo.scanthebackground.link
Note: You can also begin your own search anytime.
############### End of Automated-Notification ###############.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2015 at 10:48 AM
once you get into the system, you're f--ked. But! This is America where Ponzi and screwing each other is taught from kindergarten on. Glad I'm old and won't have to put up with this s--t system much longer!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2015 at 7:19 PM
I have recently received an email similar to the background check email. Only this one states that a negative item has been added to my public court records. The structure of the email looks very similar to that of the background check email. Has anyone else seen this?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2015 at 5:47 PM
I just received one too!Delete
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2015 at 7:10 AM
Yes, I recently received the exact email a few days ago. I was alarmed to say the least. It seemed legitimate, but after researching this further, I am pretty confident that it is a scam since it appears to be resurfacing. Any advice on how to eliminate a recurrence?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2015 at 1:57 PM
Today I also received one of the emails stating that a negative item has been added to my public court records.ReplyDelete
Assumed it must be a scam, but glad to see others have posted something about this to confirm my assumption for me.Replies
- AnonymousOctober 7, 2015 at 11:13 AM
Just received the same email..now I know its a scamDelete
- AnonymousOctober 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM
If you're getting the one from readyournewscanreports.net that says it's from "CourtRecords Service" with the subject "One (1) Negative-Item has just been added to your Public-Records" it is tracking back here:ReplyDelete
Registrant Name: James Spano
Registrant Street: 2923 Ventura
Registrant City: Ventura
Registrant State/Province: California
Registrant Postal Code: 90415
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.3106135696
Registrant Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Name Server: ns1.zenserversca.us
Name Server: ns2.zenserversca.us
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2015 at 10:27 AM
I got this email today, in my work email. I work for the government and access public records all the time. What a weenie.ReplyDelete
Same here ,it said I had 3 strikes on my record!ReplyDelete
free criminal background check?ReplyDelete
partner background check
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I ran the Contacts Transfer app from Nokia last night and it transferred over 400 contacts. I had no idea I saved so many contacts. My question what's the best/fastest way to remove the duplicates?
I logged into my Hotmail account and I am deleting them one by one. Will these deleted contacts eventually be removed my my Lumia? I checked my phone a few minutes later but I still see the contacts I deleted from my Hotmail account.
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1 - Login to your hotmail/live mail account.
2 - Select Contacts.
3 - Select the Manage drop-down menu.
4 - Select Clean up contacts.
If your contacts are set to sync on your phone then they should eventually sync. This does take some time to complete depending on what you have your "Download new content option set to. You should set it to as items arrive, at least until you are finished updating contacts.
Make sure you have your Live ID account on your phone set to Sync your contacts. Follow the steps below to adjust the settings are just described.
On your phone do the following to setup synchronization between hotmail and your phone.
1 - Select Live mail tab
2 - Select "..." options menu.
3 - Select Settings.
4 - Select the target email account.
5 - Select Sync Settings.
6 - Check the items you want to sync with the account.
7 - Change Download new content option to as items arrive
Hope this helps.


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Coming up on the 30th, we will be doing our annual paranormal investigation. As we team up with our friends at Tortured Souls Investigations to do a ghost hunt of the U of M campus. In years past TSI has caught evidence in multiple locations on campus, but Rankin Hall seems to be one of the most active.
TSI has captured an EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) of a someone answering a question. Rankin Hall has also been known to have a "Phantom Class." We have heard stories in the past from custodians that work on campus much like Tricia's story she presented to us recently.
I used to work at the University as a custodian, one evening I was cleaning Rankin Hall in the basement, I was trying to pass the time waiting for a class to finish up upstairs, I heard desks moving, people talking and walking around, eventually all the noise stopped, I never saw anyone come down the stairs at all, went up there and there was nobody to be found. There was only 2 ways out, the front door and the fire escape, I am sure I would have heard people leave for as many people I heard up there.
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