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Context: Of the 200 million adults worldwide who undergo noncardiac surgery each year, more than 1 million will die within 30 days.
Objective: To determine the relationship between the peak fourth-generation troponin T (TnT) measurement in the first 3 days after noncardiac surgery and 30-day mortality.
Design, Setting, and Participants: A prospective, international cohort study that enrolled patients from August 6, 2007, to January 11, 2011. Eligible patients were aged 45 years and older and required at least an overnight hospital admission after having noncardiac surgery.
Main Outcome Measures: Patients' TnT levels were measured 6 to 12 hours after surgery and on days 1, 2, and 3 after surgery. We undertook Cox regression analysis in which the dependent variable was mortality until 30 days after surgery, and the independent variables included 24 preoperative variables. We repeated this analysis, adding the peak TnT measurement during the first 3 postoperative days as an independent variable and used a minimum P value approach to determine if there were TnT thresholds that independently altered patients' risk of death.
Results: A total of 15 133 patients were included in this study. The 30-day mortality rate was 1.9% (95% CI, 1.7%-2.1%). Multivariable analysis demonstrated that peak TnT values of at least 0.02 ng/mL, occurring in 11.6% of patients, were associated with higher 30-day mortality compared with the reference group (peak TnT≤0.01 ng/mL): peak TnT of 0.02 ng/mL (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 2.41; 95% CI, 1.33-3.77); 0.03 to 0.29 ng/mL (aHR, 5.00; 95% CI, 3.72-6.76); and 0.30 ng/mL or greater (aHR, 10.48; 95% CI, 6.25-16.62). Patients with a peak TnT value of 0.01 ng/mL or less, 0.02, 0.03-0.29, and 0.30 or greater had 30-day mortality rates of 1.0%, 4.0%, 9.3%, and 16.9%, respectively. Peak TnT measurement added incremental prognostic value to discriminate those likely to die within 30 days for the model with peak TnT measurement vs without (C index = 0.85 vs 0.81; difference, 0.4; 95% CI, 0.2-0.5; P < .001 for difference between C index values). The net reclassification improvement with TnT was 25.0% (P < .001).
Conclusions: Among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, the peak postoperative TnT measurement during the first 3 days after surgery was significantly associated with 30-day mortality.
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The mobile exhibit of history known as the "Gateway to Knowledge" opens its doors this morning at the Mercer County Library's West Windsor branch for a two-day stop that's part of its yearlong national tour.
The 18-wheeler, packed with 1,000 square feet worth of facsimiles of national riches that are part of the Library of Congress' vast collection, features a historical outline of the library, the oldest federal institution in the country. The exhibit also touches on Thomas Jefferson's role in re-establishing the library after a fire at the U.S. Capitol in 1814.
It's an array of appetizers for the actual treasures that wait at the facility in Washington. Featured among the facsimiles is Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, with edits by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams.
Just imagine if that document had been written, or edited, by others. How might a less lofty birth certificate have changed the course of the country?
Such musings — like good teachers and writers — free history from its dull certainty anchored with dates to the pages of a textbook. Animating it, adding another dimension, can make historical events relevant hundreds of years after the fact.
But history is not all about the momentous — and neither are the contents of the mobile museum. In addition to facsimiles of a 1507 map, the first to use the word "America," and the 1455 Gutenberg Bible, the exhibit features copies of the 1962 drawings for the comic book that introduced Spider-Man; a handwritten manuscript of jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton's "Frog-i-More Rag;" and Walt Whitman's poem "Leaves of Grass."
The exhibit will include programming especially for teachers and students and provide multimedia learning experiences for lifelong learners, organizers say.
"It's an opportunity for people to come learn about the library's history and what's available there, what services are available, and learn a little bit more about history and how the library's huge collection intertwines with world and American history," says museum guide and driver Abigail Van Gelder.
Moreover, it's an antidote of sorts to the mangled, self-serving "history" of the political season, such as Sarah Palin's much more publicized tour "to take Americans back to their roots."
Paul Revere's ride, according to the former Alaska governor, was to alert the British that "they weren't going to be taking away our arms."
The history you'll find at the "Gateway to Knowledge" will be the real deal.

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Vehicle Overview
Changes are few for the 2003 version of the midsize front-wheel-drive ES 300 sedan from Toyotas luxury division. Power-adjustable accelerator and brake pedals can now be installed, but those are the only notable revisions for the four-door thats been the companys most popular passenger car.
Redesigned, enlarged and dubbed all new for the 2002 model year, the ES 300 is geared toward providing a passenger experience closer to that of the companys more costly LS 430. Leather upholstery and walnut wood decorate the interior, which can be equipped with a DVD-based navigation system and an audiophile-quality Mark Levinson stereo setup.
The ES 300 once served as the hottest product in the Lexus lineup, but its been eclipsed in popularity by the RX 300 sport utility vehicle and to a lesser extent the sporty rear-wheel-drive IS 300 sedan. The ES 300 sedans main rival is the Mercedes-Benz C-Class.
Sharp contour lines are evident up front, and chiseled character lines run down the bodysides. The ES 300 features sculpted hood lines and combination headlight clusters. Automatic-leveling high-intensity-discharge (HID) headlights that include rain-sensing wipers and extend along the curve of the fender tops are available.
Lexus claims that body gaps in the ES 300 are even narrower than in the prior generation, which add to the sedans precision appearance. The sedans wheelbase is 107.1 inches, and it measures 191.1 inches long overall. Alloy wheels hold 16-inch tires, and a power moonroof is standard. An Adaptive Variable Suspension is optional.
Five occupants should have ample space inside the ES 300. California walnut trim is used on the center console and all four doors. Both front seats are power-adjustable.
Standard equipment includes auto-dimming heated power mirrors, automatic dual-zone climate control, one-touch up/down power windows, a premium stereo with CD and cassette players, and a HomeLink programmable garage door opener. A powered rear sunshade, wood steering wheel and DVD-based navigation system with a three-position tilt screen are optional. Heated front seats and adjustable brake and accelerator pedals are also available.
Under the Hood
The 210-horsepower, 3.0-liter V-6 is the same engine used in the previous ES 300 generation. It teams with a five-speed-automatic transmission that Lexus says operates with intelligence. A drive-by-wire throttle system was borrowed from the LS 430. The ES 300 meets Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle (ULEV) standards.
Antilock brakes, electronic brake-force distribution, side-impact airbags for the front seats, and front and rear curtain-type airbags are standard. All seating positions have three-point seat belts. Vehicle Skid Control, which controls wheel slippage to aid in stabilizing the vehicle, is optional. The system includes a Brake Assist feature that applies full braking force in a manner thats faster than the driver could in emergency stops.
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Nevada Engineering Co.LTD
based in khartoum , SUDAN
Company main activities are Construction works as general, Oil field construction works ( civil works, Prefabricated units, Supply of materials, Supply of all building materials and equipment, Pavement and Road construction, Import and Export.
IBI Solar
based in SUDAN
Specialist company in solar power systems , home systems solar street lights solar pumping systems with long experience.Our products are solar panels Solar Inverters,solar pannels,solar regulators,complete solar pumping systems .We provide the Customers by all after sales sevices installations , observing, maintenance.
Acommase Co. Ltd.
based in Khartoum, SUDAN
ACOMMASE is a registered company in Sudan dealing with all aspects of fire detection, fire fighting & security control starting with design, supply, install, safe practices training to major fire control including BLEVEs and BOILOVERs. We also, through our cooperation with Angus and Kidde from the UK, carry out Petroleum Facilities Safety design checks.
Carrozzeria Chinetti S.R.L.
Distributor in Khartoum, SUDAN
CHINETTI S.r.l., and this since 1953, designs, builds and assembles all kind of fire-fighting, rescue or special vehicles. Our vehicles are exported all around the world and thanks to our flexibility we are able to comply with any customer requirement; the datasheets or photos you will find within this website are only showing a part of our production; therefore please do ...
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IRG is a professional services company providing experts, project management and implementation, training and other forms of assistance, mainly through foreign donor assistance programs, especially those of USAID. The company has three divisions: Environment and Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Management and Relief and Reconstruction. In addition, IRG has ...
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based in KRT/Shamaliya, SUDAN
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Gast provides a complete spectrum of services from design and supply to installation in both the civil and construction industries. The Group's philosophy is based on the principle of single point responsibility. Having successfully completed more than 9150 projects during the last millennium, Gast boast accreditation from United Nations and World Bank, giving credit to ...
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based in Khartoum, SUDAN
EWASCO established in 2003, is the first specialized company to address environmental hazards and provide applied solutions to the private and public sectors in Sudan in terms of consultancy and contracting.Activities and Services:I. Environmental Consultancy and Contracting• Environmental impact assessment• Domestic/industrial waste-water treatment projects• Design and ...


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by Zappo from East ,TN | July 1, 2008
Like the first reviewer said this car is hard to beat. The 4-afe base engine is in the Celica ST model and does not accelerate well at all but the 5-sfe engine used in the GT and GT-S models is more than adequate with a standard transmission and not bad at all with the automatic. Comfort in the front seats is great, even on long trips but the back seat is uncomfortable with little leg room for anyone over 7 years old. As to the engine reliability we have a '92 model with 160K miles and a '93 model with 224K miles both with the original motor. The '93 has an oil leak at the rear main seal but neither motor burns any oil to speak of. With a little basic care and maintenance the 5-sfe engine seems to be very reliable. Both are convertibles and tons of fun! With a little maintenance we are looking forward to many more years and miles. The interior is good, but watch what you put in the cup holder, esp. if you have a stick shift. Going into 3rd gear will put a fingernail in to a styrofoam cup. The value on a 5th gen Celica is hard to beat if you can find one in good shape, buy it! Our daughter's friend liked my wife's car so much she went out and found one for herself.
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by Chenz from Mundelein (Chicago Suburbs), Illinois | February 26, 2008
For a first car, it's hard to beat. As it is with many other toyotas, it accelerates VERY poorly. Getting on a freeway is a hazard because you can not jump into traffic. Also it is very uncomfortable to ride in for every day driving. However, the car has amazing handling! It doesn't swirve or bounce around. Also it is good with drifting. Reliability is good. I'll give toyota the fact they made some pretty hard to kill transmissions. After so many neutral drops, jerky manual upshifts, it still barely slips. The motors arent as great as they are cracked up to be. I would say I'm much harder on the transmission than the engine and there have been 3 engines in the car all of which burned oil and gave really bad performance with the 1.6liter 4-afe base model engine also found in the carolla. The engines ok, I've had to do very little maintainance on it, but I've heard better stories. Overall, the car is pretty reliable and is pretty cheap to maintain. But like all cars, even Toyota has its problems.
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The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has discovered a "chop shop" at a Marrero self storage complex.
The Sheriff's Office announced the discovery this afternoon and invited media members to attend a press conference about the operation at the facility in the 6800 block of Lapalco Boulevard.
Col. John Fortunato, a sheriff's spokesman, said investigators were looking into information about stolen parts being stored at the facility, but when they opened up some units they found that cars were actually being dismantled there. Several cars and parts were found in the units.
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SALEM - Leroy D. "Lee" Adams, 69, of Salem, Ohio, died at 5:38 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Montefiore.
He was born Nov. 29, 1942 in Salem, the son of Theodore and Molly (Burk) Adams.
He was a 1960 graduate of Salem High School and attended the Greenford Christian Church. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force for 26 years where he served two tours of duty in Thailand and Italy.
Lee enjoyed gardening and woodworking.
His wife, Carol (Merriman) Adams, whom he married Aug. 12, 1970, survives him along with a son, Michael (Jody) Adams of Salem; a daughter, Julie Adams of Kensington; a sister, Doris (Glen) May of Austintown; a brother, Danny (Erma) Adams of Austintown; and three grandchildren, Makena, Nichole and Rachel.
Preceding him in death were five brothers, Arnold, Albert, Norman, Kenneth and Donald and a sister, Dorothy Hill.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 27, 2012 at the Stark Memorial Funeral Home with Rev. Sean Kelly officiating. Calling hours will be held noon to 2 p.m. on Friday at the funeral home prior to the services.
Burial will be at Grove Hill Cemetery with full military honors provided by the Salem Honor Guard.
This obituary may be viewed online at www.starkmemorial.com.
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Sir.—The potential for errors in the administration of emergency medications to infants and children is widely recognized. One solution to this problem has been the production of compact guides to appropriate dosages of emergency drugs. One widely marketed product that addresses this need is a slide rule–like device marketed as the EMERGI-DOSE (Emergi-Dose Inc, Holden, Mass). Dosages of pediatric emergency drugs can be found on one side of the device; adult dosages are printed on the reverse side. When one moves the central slide to indicate the appropriate age or weight on the pediatric side (or weight on the adult side), appropriate dosages of emergency drugs appear in transparent windows beside the names of approximately 20 drugs.
The authors wish to warn users of this device that inadvertent reversal of its sliding central portion will cause dangerously inappropriate dosages to appear in the windows on the pediatric side of
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I hope that all of you who see this column had an outstanding Thanksgiving holiday! I spent mine on the sidelines of Ford Field, working on the national radio broadcast of the Lions-Texans game, which was one of the stranger, more controversial and entertaining games I've seen in a while. To say that the Lions have become a lightning rod for NFL controversy is more than an understatement, and it's hard not to wonder if their latest brain cramps might not force change that could have long-lasting effects on both the franchise and the league.
Let's start with the ridiculous call that arguably cost the Lions the game and certainly will cause the NFL to change the rule. With a little less than seven minutes remaining in the third quarter and Houston trailing 24-14, all the momentum seemed to be on the Lions' side, as the Texans faced 2nd-and-10 from their own 19-yard line. Backup RB Justin Forsett broke free on a nice run and was taken down around his own 45 (replays clearly showed both his knee and elbow down). But because he rolled over the top of a tackler, Forsett popped right back up and continued to the endzone, where officials signaled a touchdown.
Before I go on, let's be clear about two things: The first is that, as the game continued, the Lions eventually regained momentum and had multiple opportunities to win, so to say the blown call cost them the game is inaccurate. Detroit would have won anyway had it played well enough. Secondly, the fact that Walt Coleman and his crew correctly interpreted the ridiculous rule that gave the Texans a touchdown should in no way overshadow the fact that they blew the call in the first place — it was horrible officiating.
The blown call was so egregious that Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, in a fit of pique and emotion, threw his red flag for a replay before Forsett even reached the endzone. That might have been clever and entertaining were it not for the rule that you can't throw a red flag on a play you can't challenge, and since the NFL determined two years ago that all scoring plays would be replayed, coaches can't challenge them. While the ensuing 15-yard penalty may be justifiable, whoever came up with the idea that the play should also no longer be reviewable should be fired. I understand the concern about coaches throwing their flags, knowing they will be penalized but doing it anyway to buy time for the booth officials to look at the play. However, making a rule that rewards a blown call by officials is asinine, period. The 15 yards has to be enough.
I was no more than 20 feet from Schwartz and Coleman when the official picked up the red flag and gave it back to the coach and told him he would be penalized. To his credit, Schwartz didn't complain at all, instead nodding in understanding of his mistake and taking full responsibility after the game. But here's the problem: Wasn't Schwartz's mistake a perfect and terribly expensive example of all emotions boiling over and immaturity that has constantly plagued his team the last year and a half? And if it's coming from the head coach … will it ever get better?
In fact, that part of the story continued to develop. With 6:49 remaining in the first quarter, Lions DT Ndamukong Suh, to many the poster boy for all of the Lions' lack of discipline, maturity and class, was taken off his feet rushing the passer. As he went down, his left foot hit Texans QB Matt Schaub in the midsection. I was perhaps 50 feet away, noticed it immediately in real time and thought it was accidental. While a lot of you have since watched the replay and suggested it was intentional, I still believe it was an accident. From every angle I've seen, Suh's eyes are staring straight into the turf, and I don't think he could see where Schaub's family jewels were. I know many of you will disagree — and that's not an argument I care to have — as no one but Suh will ever know for sure.
But we do know that, because it was Suh and the Lions, the league already has stated the play will be critically reviewed. What's more, there are already indications Suh is being viewed as guilty until proven innocent — which, of course, will be impossible — and that just doesn't feel right. Something has to change in Detroit, or the Lions' fans will continue to pay the price.


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Nation roundup for July 22
Marine freed in war crime case
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps released a sergeant Friday whose murder conviction was overturned in a major blow to the military's prosecution of Iraq war crimes.
Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III, of Plymouth, Mass., walked out of the brig at the Marine Corps Miramar Air Station in San Diego after having served more than half of his 11-year sentence.
"The emotions I am feeling right now are hard to describe," Hutchins said in a statement issued through his attorney. "I am overcome. This is all I ever wanted."
Once his release paperwork was processed, Hutchins was to be transported by Marine Corps officials to Camp Pendleton, where he would check in to his new unit at the base's headquarters, said Marine Corps spokesman Lt. Col. Joseph Kloppel.
Hutchins led an eight-man squad accused of kidnapping an Iraqi man from his home in April 2006, marching him to a ditch and shooting him to death in the village of Hamdania.
Hutchins has said he thought the man — who turned out to be a retired policeman — was an insurgent leader.
None of the other seven squad members served more than 18 months.
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overturned Hutchins' conviction on June 26, supporting his claims that his rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer for seven days during his 2006 interrogation in Iraq.
The move was the latest in a series of twists for Hutchins, whose case was overturned once by a lower court three years ago only to be reinstated in 2011 by the same court that agreed with his latest petition.
Under the military justice system, Hutchins could not be freed until the court ruled on a Navy motion in response to the June 26 decision.
Prosecutors asked the court to reconsider its decision to toss out the conviction, saying Hutchins waived his right to counsel at the time and willfully told his side of the story without coercion.
The court Thursday denied that request and issued a mandate that he be released.
The case, however, is not closed. The Navy can order the case be retried or prosecutors can appeal to the Supreme Court.
SEC files charges over hedge funds
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission leveled its most direct shot against billionaire hedge-fund manager Steven A. Cohen on Friday by filing civil charges that accuse him of failing to prevent insider trading.
The SEC alleged that Cohen, who founded and runs SAC Capital Advisors, failed to prevent two of his portfolio managers from illegally reaping profits and avoiding losses of more than $275 million. Both managers provided information to Cohen in 2008 that suggested they had access to inside information, the SEC said. But rather than raise any red flags, Cohen praised one of the managers and rewarded the other with a $9 million bonus, the SEC said.
Cohen, 57, faces possible fines and could be barred from managing investor funds.
Cohen's firm, which once managed more than $15 billion in assets, is at the center of one of the biggest insider-trading fraud cases in history. Four employees have already been criminally charged with insider trading — two of whom have pleaded guilty. And an SAC affiliate has agreed to pay $615 million to settle SEC charges of insider trading.
But legal experts said the SEC's action against Cohen on Friday suggests that the government may not have enough evidence to charge him with insider trading.
And rather than seek higher penalties in a federal lawsuit, the SEC chose to bring the case against Cohen before an administrative law judge at the regulatory agency, where the legal burden of proof is lower.
"They've opted for the home court advantage," said John Coffee, a securities law professor at Columbia University.
GE shares rise to post-crisis high
NEW YORK (AP) — An improving outlook for the U.S. economy and signs of stabilization in Europe sent General Electric shares to their highest level since 2008 despite modest quarterly results.
"Orders in the U.S. were the strongest in some time," CEO Jeff Immelt said on a conference call with investors following the release of the company's second-quarter results Friday.
Immelt said the U.S. economic environment remained "mixed," but his outlook marked an improvement from recent quarters, when he expressed more caution about the U.S. market.
GE, based in Fairfield, Conn., has a broad view of the global economy because it sells a wide variety of industrial equipment and appliances around the world, including jet engines, medical diagnostic equipment, oil and gas drilling equipment and washing machines.
GE's net income rose 6 percent in the first half of the year, and the improved outlook raised hopes of even better growth in the second half.
GE shares rose $1.09, or 4.6 percent, to close at $24.72 Friday.
They went as high as $24.95, the highest intraday level since September of 2008, when the shares were in the midst of a plunge brought on by the financial crisis.
The recovery in GE shares is not quite complete — shares would have to rise another 15 percent to reach the roughly $30 per share they were trading at before the financial crisis hit.
But the improvement in the company's share price represents confidence in the company's transformation to a more focused industrial conglomerate. GE is dramatically shrinking its banking division — the giant financial services arm that threatened to pull the company apart during the financial crisis — and shed media and other non-industrial businesses.
"A GE back to its core roots is a very compelling investment story," wrote Scott Davis, an analyst at Barclays. "This is the GE we grew up with."
At the same time, the company has beefed up divisions that industrial equipment such as gas-fired turbines and oil and gas drilling equipment.
GE earned $3.13 billion in the second quarter, up from $3.11 billion a year earlier. On a per share basis, the company earned 30 cents, up from 29 cents. Revenue fell 4 percent, to $35.12 billion from $36.5 billion.
Adjusted to reflect earnings from continuing operations, GE earned 36 cents per share. That's 2 cents less than adjusted earnings last year, but one cent better than analysts polled by FactSet had expected.
GE said orders for new equipment and services grew 20 percent in the U.S. during the quarter. In Europe, orders grew 2 percent after falling 17 percent in the first quarter, helped by oil and gas orders in the North Sea and aviation equipment and services.
"In the GE world at least (Europe) seems to have stabilized," Immelt said.
Emerging markets remained strong, he said.
The company's total orders for new business rose $7 billion, or 4 percent, last quarter to a record $223 billion. Orders for oil and gas drilling equipment and energy management equipment showed especially strong growth; orders for transportation and power and water equipment fell.
Profit margins for industrial segments rose 0.5 percent in the quarter and remain on track to post growth of 0.7 percent for the full year, GE said. GE Capital earnings fell 9 percent for the year.
Christian Mayes, an analyst at Edward Jones, called the quarter "ho-hum" but noticed some encouraging signs for GE. Revenue slipped at the company's power and water division, which sells and services gas-fired turbines, wind turbines, and water treatment equipment, but the division's profits returned to more normal levels after a first quarter he called "a mess."
He was also encouraged by the improved outlook for the U.S., echoing recent comments by other industrial companies, and by GE's push to further improve profit margins later this year.
"The back half of the year should be better for GE," he said.
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Albuquerque residents will get another two chances to make their voices heard by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DOJ is investigating the Albuquerque Police Department's use of force following an uproar of over a number of officer-involved shootings.
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TOWSON, Md. Heidi Pearce of Johns Hopkins is this week's Inside Lacrosse Division I Player of the Week for a big performance in wins over George Mason and Boston University.
Pearce's Blue Jay squad takes a big step up to the #12 spot in this week's Inside Lacrosse Power Poll.
Inside Lacrosse Division I Power Poll
1. Princeton
Liza Hillenbrand has come on in the last couple of weeks with a nifty left-hand shot that simply adds to the depth of the Tigers. This team is crusing right along and could face their biggest opponent in themselves.
2. Georgetown
Hoyas continue to get it done behind a number of players, this time getting a solid game from Anouk Peters. GU continues to win with a potent attack that can come from any one from a number of people.
3. Notre Dame
Irish rest after tough climb in the polls. That could give them a fresh outlook as they attack the rest of the season.
4. James Madison
When Gail Decker is on, so are the rest of the Dukes. While the rest of the team is perfectly capable of scoring, they need to find ways to win when Decker is shut down. Otherwise it's an easy game plan.
5. Virginia
Cavaliers show huge presence in defense while demonstrating the depth in the offense. Amy Appelt is taking it to another level, but she needs to remember that she has some very talented teammates as well.
6. Duke
It doesn't matter who is scoring as long as someone is, and no one is right now. The Blue Devils need to organize the offense and get some production in order to stay in the upper echelon.
7. Maryland
Kelly Coppedge has started to reassert herself as of late, but for the Terps to be successful she has to do it on a consistent basis. Delia Cox and Annie Collins give UM a nice 1-2-3 punch that is tough to control.
8. Loyola
Hounds right the ship in the second half against BU and against Towson thanks to a deep attack unit. This offense is talented and loaded; now it needs to let itself go and just score. Multiple players can score, now they need to score more than once.
9. Vanderbilt
Commodores do it again as the Big Three lead the way. Michelle Allen shows how much she can contribute even if she doesn't score. Production off the ball goes a long way to be successful.
10. Syracuse
Orange bend wickedly but don't break against Minutewomen, who let one get away. There was no doubt, however, who the go-to player would be for the Cuse. (Leigh-Ann Zimmer, just in case)
11. Dartmouth
Once again the Big Green win, but they are winning with defense while their offense seems to sputter. While it's great to get off 31 shots, scoring on only seven isn't the best news.
12. Johns Hopkins
Blue Jays taking care of business by doing the simple things--winning ground balls and draws. Getting great games from Lauren Riddick in the cage is a huge help.
13. Yale
The Bulldogs have three tough matchups in the attack with Sophie Melniker, Katie Sargeant, and Miles Whitman frustrating defenses. With these three all over the field, Yale will continue to be successful.
14. Northwestern
Wildcats survive first home test and should have shaken off the jitters. This team is young, but talented. This success this year will translate to continued good times in Evanston throughout the remainder of the year and years to come.
15. North Carolina
Carolina has people who can get this team back on track, but they aren't all on the field at the same time. A heartache of a game against Duke might have been part of the reason they looked like a completely different team against Virginia.
16. Boston Univ.
Boston University falters in first two big tests as bite is taken out of the Terriers in trip to Baltimore. Sophomores are playing big roles, but they can't add three years veteran experience until they are seniors.
17. Penn State
Nittany Lions experience heartache again with a close game that slips away. They have the talent and the leadership--now they need to translate that into wins.
18. William & Mary
Tribe get to use a bunch of scorers in the win over UMBC, which continues to build the confidence of this team. The College is ready to take on the CAA and restore the order in the conference.
19. Ohio State
When Regina Oliver has some help, this Buckeye team has depth and makes a statement. When she has to carry the load by herself, things are bleak in Columbus. Things are better at OSU when everyone is on.
20. Richmond
Spiders have a number of people who can get the job done in the offensive zone. Now they all need to contribute during the course of a game. Nuzzi, Berlacher and Habicht proved a nice compliment to Purcell.
Inside Lacrosse Division I Player of the Week
Heidi Pearce, JHU
Pearce had two four-goal outings on the week as The Hop defeated George Mason and upset Boston University to remain undefeated on the week. She also added three assists in the win over BU and had five ground balls in each game.
Honorable mention
Michelle Allen, Vanderbilt
Marcela Calidonio, Columbia
Ginger Flocco, Duquesne
Nikki Lieb, Virginia
Moriah Linnell, American
Sophie Melniker, Yale


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So after a lot of thinking I took the advice of many fellow PBers. I started my overweight Dachschund on a "paleo" diet. Started with "Taste of the Wild" and have slowly been incorporating raw chicken necks. Well she loves it and has already lost almost a pound, which for a 16 lb dog is AMAZING in only 3 weeks. Thanks to all who helped me with this!!!!! Regular dog food is garbage!!! Ingredients=corn, more corn, and even more corn (what a joke)!
BTW i wanted to specifically thank "kennelmom" for all of your help!!!
That sweet pup must be in her glory! lol!! A real meat diet.. yum!
Our two dogs, Belgian Malinois, have been fed a "primal diet" for over 10 years now. That means they get no grains. They get raw meaty bones, mostly chicken from a good source.
They also like above ground veggies, in season, and will snitch ripe tomatoes right off the vine in the garden, and my female has taught herself to dig up carrots when they are fingerling size.
We give them good leftovers when available, and please know that our total vets bills for the past decade have been nada! We only get the required rabies shot every three years.
Most of the "modern health problems" are caused by feeding dogs a totally inappropriate diet for these carnivores. Dog food is full of grains and additives. It is a good way to destroy a dog's health and have humongous vet bills. Don't do it if you love your pet.
Read up on the Raw Meaty Bone diet!
Our vet bill 3 times per year for both Dachshunds is $300 per visit. I was sick of it. One question though, by switching to a raw diet, do I still need to supplement them with Heartworm? Also, I have one that is 16lbs (now 15lbs thanks to the raw food) and also a 11lb (full grown)the 11lb thinks it is a great idea to swallow the chicken necks whole, i have been hesitant to give him anything larger because he has no patience and swallows anything he can whole. Is this ok? often he runs around the house shrieking because his throat is clogged and it scares the death out of my wife. Should I attempt to give him something larger? e.g.- a chicken back or drumstick? Thanks in advance
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if I could figure out how I would, lol
In regards to meaty bone size, I have had a couple dogs who did not do well with chicken necks for this very reason. Gulpers and necks seem to be the perfect size to hang up. Yes, coughing it up is not pleasant, good news is that dogs were meant to have this ability. Go for some larger pieces like backs would be good. You can sometimes hold half the meaty bone and let them gnaw on the other end and learn to chew....but a lot of times as soon as you remove your hand they go back to gulping, lol.
He actually amazes me with the size of him and how much he can swallow whole, lol. He normally regurgitates it and goes right back to eating it which definitely is not pleasant, however dogs do digest in there stomach so i know he is doing it "on purpose". As for the heartworm, thank you for the info. I live in New York and Mosquitoes they are pretty much gone for the year so i will definitely do some research to see if it is necessary.
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The West Seneca police homed in on Edwards, too, though he held no weapon and may not have known that his friend was armed. Appearing to want no part of a gunfight, Edwards was crawling clear of the car, trying to keep his hands in view.
An instant later, a tragedy that still resonates in West Seneca arrived with an agonizing crack. Jeffrey Edwards, known to friends as a simple and good-natured Everyman, was its worst victim.
Many hands, however, can make a tragedy. Even the hands of a victim who, months earlier, chose to give a deer rifle to a volatile friend.
So did Edwards reap the consequences of his bad judgment, or was he drawn into a situation more dangerous than he knew?
Police were threatened. But did they go too far?
Faced with gunfire, police reacted in seconds. They saw the figure splayed on the asphalt – Edwards – as a threat. The discarded rifle had landed within his reach. When the first bullet hit, Edwards cried out in pain and clutched his abdomen. He rolled onto his back, away from the rifle, and his legs kicked upward. With his face to the sky, it was more clear that he had no gun. He was not even looking at the rifle.
The next shot, the one that paralyzed him, entered behind his left ear. Then his left leg fell slowly, as if lowered by a string. His arms fell away from his stomach, and his lean frame went still under the gray April rain.
"I can't breathe," Edwards gasped to an officer, who kept him at gunpoint.
In time, medics sliced off his clothes in a search for other wounds. Then they bundled him off to Erie County Medical Center, where Edwards' vital signs flat-lined, according to his close friend, Karen Stayer. Over the next months, he fought off a sepsis fever and lost around 80 pounds, she said. While Edwards has since stabilized, he has remained in ECMC, his care covered by government-run health insurance.
Edwards is now suing the Town of West Seneca. His lawsuit accuses the police of being negligent, careless and reckless and says Police Chief Edward F. Gehen failed to supervise and train his officers.
Edwards is 44. Should he prevail, the payout could exceed the town's $6 million in liability insurance, given the decades of care he is likely to need. Further, he and his lawyers will want an amount far greater than what Medicaid and Medicare can claim for the sums spent on Edwards' years in the hospital.
For comparison, Erie County government paid $7 million to settle a claim from a 39-year-old woman who suffered brain damage after she nearly drowned in a county-guarded swimming pool in August 2009. The county attorney at the time said he feared the woman, whose lawyers alleged the lifeguards were poorly trained, would have been awarded even more had the case gone to trial.
In personal-injury cases such as the one filed by Edwards, the payouts for irreparable harm go beyond lost wages, said Nan L. Haynes, a lawyer and University at Buffalo Law School professor not connected to the Edwards lawsuit.
"He would be subject to an award of damages to pay him not only for his pain and suffering and lost quality of life for his remaining years but also for the cost of whatever kind of support he needs, medical or rehabilitation," she said. "Those are the types of damages under the that law he's entitled to. If he can prove them."
The Marlin rifle
Edwards bought the rifle for himself in 2004 and, according to Brylski's ex-wife and statements to police, traded it in February 2010 for Jerome Brylski's used Ford Bronco and its plow. Edwards never did collect the Bronco before being shot. "I don't think he was trying to have a problem with the police," Abbey Brylski, one of the gunman's three daughters, said of Edwards.
Abbey was 21 at the time of the shooting and considered Edwards a friend. Interviewed recently, she expressed sadness about what happened to him. But she added: "My dad was sick, and he knew my dad wasn't supposed to have those types of things."
No one paid a bigger price that day than Edwards.
Jerome Brylski, 56 at the time, was hit by gunfire that sliced through the car, but he recovered. Today, he's serving a 20-year prison sentence for attempted murder.
Brylski owned the plowing business that provided winter employment to Edwards, a cement finisher. Brylski, a sort of father figure to Edwards, put him up in his house when Edwards' marriage broke up. They were good friends.
Edwards' girlfriend at the time, Dianna D'Angelo of West Seneca, emerged from the car with no bullet wounds and, as commanded, backed her way into police handcuffs. She faced no charges. She, too, has filed a lawsuit against West Seneca for the "physical, emotional and psychological distress" she endured.
The four police officers who fired their weapons received the department's new honor for bravery, the Medal of Valor.
As for Edwards, he cannot move his body from the neck down and might never do so. While he's finally off a ventilator, he needs therapy and near-constant care. He's plagued by raw bed sores, urinary tract infections and long days. In a few weeks, he will spend his third Christmas in ECMC.
With a tracheostomy, his voice comes out in a low gurgle, one word rolling into the next. His feet are puffed up like white pillows, his arms and legs are pale and limp. He needs regular doses of painkillers.
He has a view of a television set and East Side rooftops spreading out under the ECMC tower. He grows frustrated at having to rely on others for simple, basic needs. Just this summer, he was hoisted into a wheelchair and taken outside for his first breaths of fresh air since April 2010. It brought tears to his eyes, said his close friend Stayer.
Glimmer of hope
"Jeff should be living on his own," he said. "He could be independent."
D'Andrea collected an eight-figure settlement after the construction accident and formed a charitable trust to help disabled people and to promote scientific research. He said he has come to know quadriplegics who live on their own and run their own care because they are properly equipped, rehabilitated and trained. He doesn't see Edwards receiving the care that could liberate him from ECMC.
So D'Andrea has offered to fly Edwards to Colorado's Craig Hospital, which specializes in rehabilitating people with spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries. But Edwards must first be admitted and find a way to finance his care. The lawsuit is the key to his future.
"They say no good deed goes unpunished," said Stayer, one of the few people who visits Edwards in the hospital. "And boy oh boy was he punished ...
"Jeff obviously was not showing any weapons. He was trying to get away from being shot," she said. "And they ruined his life."
News reports at the time focused primarily on Brylski, whom West Seneca police knew as turbulent. Reports treated Edwards, who was 42, as an afterthought, caught up in a police shooting that a grand jury found justified. He blended in with Brylski all the more when authorities charged him with second-degree criminal facilitation – aiding someone intending to commit a class A felony, which in Brylski's case would have been murder. Prosecutors later dropped the charge against Edwards.
The Buffalo News, through New York's Freedom of Information Law, obtained police records on the shooting, witness statements and most importantly, footage from dashboard cameras mounted inside the West Seneca squad cars. The newspaper interviewed acquaintances of the two men and obtained a crime-lab analysis of the ammunition fired that day, though it was never determined which officer, or officers, shot Edwards.
Trying to do right
Brylski in late April 2010 was going through another days-long meltdown. No longer taking his medication, he was ranting about police corruption, confident that the government would soon seize his computer, which contained his information about supposed police misdeeds. He was certain that some retribution would soon rain down on him.
"They will not be able to take me alive," he told a friend, a Buffalo woman, over the telephone.
Another Brylski daughter, then-24-year-old Jamie, emailed Erie County Crisis Services on April 24, 2010, to tell them her father was slipping. He'd been sending emails laying out assorted conspiracy theories. Edwards and his then-girlfriend D'Angelo didn't get them; they didn't have a computer.
Crisis Services workers had a file on Jerome Brylski. They got back to Jamie Brylski the next day and headed toward the home, a boxy 1980s duplex at 102 Leydecker Road. But they backed off and called police around 2:30 p.m. after being told Brylski had a gun and was willing to shoot anyone who approached.
Just a year earlier, Brylski's family had him involuntarily committed to ECMC for psychiatric care, a grueling and disappointing effort for them because it left their father confined only for days in June 2009. In the swirl of events, police searched his house and charged him with criminal possession of a weapon because he possessed a 12-gauge shotgun – illegal, police said, because of a felony conviction decades earlier.
But on April 25, 2010, Brylski was boasting that he again had a gun, one that could "shoot through five cops." His daughter Abbey told the officers he aimed it at her that week when she returned from the store. He backed off when he saw it was his daughter entering the home.
During his ravings that afternoon, Jerome Brylski called Edwards and D'Angelo for help. D'Angelo then called Abbey Brylski and left a message on her cellphone to say she was concerned and that they were heading over.
But Brylski's two daughters, Abbey and Jamie, were already stationed nearby at the West Seneca police "command post," telling officers what they could to assess their volatile father.
In time, nearly every West Seneca officer at work that day was devoted to the pressure of 102 Leydecker. They talked on a secure channel and through chat messages about the potential threat.
From Officer John Urbanski: "I think this guy has a scanner."
Lt. John McNamara: "OK – let's use chat or cell."
Officer Donald Driscoll: "Who did he make the threat to?"
Officer Chris Vogel, working as a dispatcher: "He says he has guns that will blow through five cops."
Driscoll: "Who is he saying this stuff to?"
Vogel: "Crisis Services."
Who are those two?
"That's what this was all about," Brylski remarked later to the police. "It's got all the data on it."
Police did not try to intercept Edwards or D'Angelo as their car slipped into the driveway. The couple were not told police were watching 102 Leydecker, nor that police had urged tenants in the other side of the duplex to leave that afternoon for their safety. In fact, police at first didn't know what to make of the two people who drove past their command post and stepped out of the maroon Grand Prix.
"I immediately met with both the Brylski girls in an attempt to determine who would have arrived in the red car," wrote Daniel Denz, an assistant chief who was at the command post set up outside Luke's Enterprises, a collision shop at Southwestern Boulevard and Leydecker Road. "Both stated that it was most likely Jerome's best friend, Jeff, and Jeff's girlfriend ...
"I asked if Jeff was someone who could help us talk to their father, and if their father would be calmer with Jeff and his girlfriend being in the residence with him. Both girls said yes."
He asked Jamie Brylski if she had Edwards' cellphone number. She didn't, but said she would try to get it. She was unable to do so.
Denz also asked Carolyn J. Damon of Crisis Services team to call Jerome Brylski.
She got him on the phone, introduced herself and told him people were concerned he was not taking his medication and that he seemed more agitated lately.
"No. I think everything is fine," said Brylski, who family members said had turned to marijuana for his medication.
"I love you. Bye-bye," Brylski told Damon, then hung up.
A few minutes after arriving, Edwards eased D'Angelo's Grand Prix to the back of the driveway and closed the high wooden gate behind him. A West Seneca police officer watching the residence from his own home across the street lost sight of the car. Brylski's computer was being loaded into the trunk.
D'Angelo told police in a statement that she did not know Brylski had spirited the Marlin, which is a little longer than a yardstick, into the Pontiac's back seat. But she later said Brylski had the gun out when she and Edwards arrived.
"What are you doing with that thing? Are you crazy?" Edwards said to Brylski, according to D'Angelo's statement.
Edwards could barely speak after the shooting and never gave police a statement. But his lawyers will contend that he, too, was unaware Brylski hid the gun in the back.
Officers wanted to stop the Grand Prix so they could ask Edwards about Brylski's condition. But would Brylski be in the car?
The officer watching from across the street, Sean Donohue, warned that if the car left the house "there was a good chance that Mr. Brylski was in the vehicle," according to his statement. But when the car finally drove out, Donohue relayed that he saw no one in the rear.
The car turned left on East and West Road, with Edwards at the wheel, D'Angelo in the passenger seat and Brylski in back, with his gun. In quick pursuit, Officer Urbanski flipped on his flashing lights to pull the car over. Behind him was an unmarked car driven by Lt. Kevin Baranowski and with Lt. William Leitzel riding beside him.
Edwards braked the car onto the shoulder.
From the command post, Jamie Brylski heard faint crackling off in the distance.
She knew immediately what had happened.
Shots ring out
Brylski threw open the rear door on the driver's side.
He planted a foot on the pavement and took two shots. Pop. Pop.
At that range, the Marlin's bullets had the velocity to pierce an officer's bullet-proof vest.
Brylski sat back down and fumbled with the rifle as Edwards opened his door and displayed his hands.
Did Urbanski see the hands? Or Leitzel?
Probably not. A dashboard camera shows that, as police are trained, Urbanski and Leitzel were diving for cover behind the protective steel of their autos. Meanwhile, Baranowski was preparing to back up the unmarked car. Brylski hit it with one of the rounds.
"I immediately drew my weapon, sought cover behind the rear passenger side of my patrol car and returned fire directed towards the left side of the vehicle where the gunman was shooting from," Urbanski said in his statement. "I remember feeling my gun jam, and as I cleared my weapon to resume firing, I could remember feeling rounds flying over my head."
Those rounds had to have come from his fellow officers. Brylski fired no shots after the first two.
Edwards, rather than stand and show his hands amid the bullets, inched out of the car feet first, just as .40-caliber rounds crashed through the rear window and through the driver's area where he had been sitting.
On muddy elbows and knees, he moved backward. In the view from Urbanski's dashboard camera, Edwards again shows his hands as best he can. But that's the view of the camera. What the officers were able to see is something else entirely.
Officer Driscoll drove the third car to reach the scene. By the time Driscoll dashed into position to shoot back, Brylski had squeezed off his two shots, dumped the gun and slid into the back seat. Driscoll's view was of a man on the ground – Edwards – and a rifle nearby.
"He was the only person I could see at the time, and he was angled with his upper body in Officer Urbanski's direction," Driscoll said in his statement. [Edwards was actually angled toward the car, not an officer.]
"To protect the lives of Officer Urbanski and myself, I fired at this individual."
Soon, Edwards lay still, as if frozen. But Brylski remained in the car. Could he have another weapon?
While he didn't, the officers had no way to know for sure. Their barrage rattled on – for 43 seconds after Brylski took his only shots, and for 38 seconds after he tossed the rifle.
The camera placed on the lieutenants' unmarked car also recorded sound, and people who view this footage for the first time are struck by how long the police keep shooting.
'Contagious fire'
"This looks like a pretty residential neighborhood," he said. "You could have kids on the playground or somebody walking out of their house to get the garbage can, or whatever. There's any number of things that could have occurred there where civilians could have been hurt."
Studies into the phenomenon called "contagious fire" reveal that officers fire more bullets when in a group of cops rather than alone. Researchers examining officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles County from 1998 through September 2002 found an average of 6.48 shots fired per officer when more than two officers were involved. That was almost three rounds more than a lone officer would fire.
While Krieger remarked on the number of rounds fired, he said the officers were justified in shooting at Edwards: "I wouldn't know if he was getting out to surrender, or if he was getting out to try to grab the gun that he was laying alongside of. I can see where they would feel they were in danger. And you still had another person in the back seat."
Police in New York can use deadly force to, among other things, defend themselves or someone else from what they reasonably believe to be the use, or imminent use, of deadly force. Certainly, Brylski had used deadly force.
Still, could the police have held their fire at Edwards? Could they have viewed him differently from the man who actually shot at them?
The lawyer who represented the officers when the Brylski-Edwards shootings went before a grand jury said their decisions should be judged by what they faced at the moment, not with detached reflection afterward.
"These cops showed up, responded to somebody that had a lengthy history of hating cops, popped out of the car with a center-fire rifle in a pouring rainstorm and cranked off a couple of rounds at the police officers," said Thomas H. Burton, a former police officer and prosecutor often called on to represent police in use-of-force cases.
"That is an unusual, scary event made even more so by the fact that he's pointing a gun at somebody who is already armed," Burton said of Brylski. "Most people who do that are either over the edge or willing to follow through with what they are trying to do."
Burton teaches police academy recruits about laws regulating the use of force. The town hired him for special advice on the Edwards lawsuit.
"None of those officers wanted to see this other fellow hurt the way he was," said Burton, who has no use of his legs and limited use of his arms, ever since a motorcycle accident in 1993. But he blamed Edwards for what happened on April 25, 2010, because he gave Brylski the rifle.
What if?
What if the police reached Edwards on his cellphone? Would they, together, have been able to defuse the situation and avoid bloodshed?
And what if Edwards surrendered in some other way?
Tim Dees is a retired officer from the Reno, Nev., police department who writes about police and public safety issues and authored a book titled "The Truth About Cops." The News asked Dees to watch the videos to help answer the question: How could Edwards have saved himself from the gunfire on East and West Road that afternoon?
Maybe, Dees offered, the driver could have emerged from the car's passenger side. Or maybe he could have sat tight and awaited orders.
Both suggestions posed risks. The girlfriend, D'Angelo, was already huddled in the passenger seat. Edwards would have had to make his way over the center console and then around her to get out. Or the two would have had to take their chances together.
As for sitting tight, bullets were pounding the driver's side of the car. One shot through the back window pierced the windshield at the driver's eye level. Edwards would have been hit in the back had he sat there.
In sum, Dees said, "I don't see anything the driver could have done to avoid this situation."
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Defensive coordinator Mike Pettine recognizes the talent, depth and athleticism of his defensive line. In doing so, he's also looking to maximize the effectiveness of this unit. That's exactly why the Jets are making a quasi shift from a 3-4 base defense to a 4-3 defensive front.
Considering the spread offenses employed by Buffalo and New England within the division, Gang Green is looking to generate an edge pass rush from its down lineman; mostly notably rookie defensive end Quinton Coples and sophomore Muhammad Wilkerson.
The Jets are taking a page out of the New York Giants playbook, utilizing a defensive formula that has developed the reputation as Tom Brady's kryptonite over the past few seasons. This defensive shift will allow the Green-and-White to play a rotation of Coples, Wilkerson and Calvin Pace on the outside of the line and Sione Pouha, Mike Devito and Kendrick Ellis on the interior. New York's swift secondary will have more opportunities to create turnovers and to gamble more frequently on passing downs.
The past few seasons, the Jets haphazardly blitzed their linebackers and safeties to apply pressure to the quarterback, but now they have defensive lineman capable of dismantling the pocket.
While Gang Green's defensive transition will create favorable match-ups for its star-studded secondary; the new alignment will also allow the Jets to play the "46" defense in goal line and short yardage situations. Rex Ryan's father, Buddy, engineered the "46" defense nearly 30 years ago in order to aggressively pursue the quarterback and bottle-up opposing ball carriers.
If one thing is for certain, Ryan and Pettine will look to wreak havoc with their revamped defensive scheme.
Rick Laughland covers the New York Jets for Greenandwhitereport.com
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Citing InfoWars, Fox News Complains Google Is Covering Up "Clinton Body Count" Stories
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Fox News renewed its attacks against federal overtime protections ahead of a rumored announcement that the Department of Labor will extend guaranteed overtime to qualifying employees earning up to $52,000 annually.
Throughout the day on June 10, Fox News and Fox Business personalities derided an expected proposal from the Labor Department that would expand guaranteed overtime pay to millions of American workers who currently work uncompensated hours. During a news update on Fox Business' Mornings with Maria Bartiromo, contributor Cheryl Casone said the rule was being called "frankly, a job killer." On Varney & Co., host Stuart Varney complained that President Obama was attempting to lift wages "by fiat," and claimed that the overtime rule would harm "the assistant managers of this world, who will no longer become assistant managers." On Cavuto: Coast to Coast, host Neil Cavuto quoted Rep. Tim Walberg's (R-MI) opposition to overtime protections, adding that "you can't fathom" why the Labor Department would act to expand overtime.
On Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott was joined by reporter Kevin Cirilli of The Hill and Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper to discuss political and economic repercussions of such a regulatory change. Halper blasted the administration for engaging in supposed "left-wing economic engineering" before concluding that the rule change might "end up hurting the average worker":
HALPER: You have to give it to President Obama, he promised to govern with a pen and the phone, and he is. He's coming through. He's going around Congress ... the problem with this left-wing economic engineering is that it might not work, right? It might help some people, but it's probably going to hurt a lot of other people. Why should an employer, for instance, increase the hours of its current employees, give a lot of overtime, if it will cost them a lot more?
The employer, their bottom line, is to worry about their bottom line -- to worry about making money. And if this costs them too much money, well they're just going to find a way around it. And it's going to end up hurting the average worker and laborer. And, it's not going to achieve its stated goal, no matter how noble it may be.
In fact, economists believe expanding overtime protections to include more salaried employees is vital to long-term economic recovery. Under current federal guidelines, salaried employees are only guaranteed overtime pay if they earn up to $23,660 per year. Raising the threshold to $52,000 would expand overtime protections to at least 6.1 million additional American workers, and bring the policy roughly in line with federal standards last witnessed in 1975, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Economist Jared Bernstein of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities predicted that the rule might actually boost job creation by encouraging employers to hire more part-time help.
Fox has a long history of opposing overtime protections while ignoring any economic benefits. The network attacked the administration in March 2014 when President Obama initially requested that the Labor Department review its standards. Despite admitting that they did not know what the administration would propose, Fox personalities called the regulatory change a job killer and complained that it amounted to "forced income redistribution." Fox figures worried that paying people for the hours that they actually work "undercuts work ethic" and created a "disincentive to stand out." Fox host Bill O'Reilly surmised that the president "may be actually hurting" workers by extending overtime protections, while Fox's Jon Scott wondered if the proposal was just an election-year distraction.
Fox Business Network's Cheryl Casone misrepresented a tax credit in the Affordable Care Act by omitting vital information about the program and warning it could lead to "a huge tax bill."
On Fox News' America's Newsroom, Casone mischaracterized the consequences of the ACA's insurance exchange tax credit application, claiming "if you do not accurately project your 2014 income by October 1, 2013 -- that is this year -- you're going to be hit with a huge tax bill." Casone went on to explain: "you're going to get a tax subsidy from the government to help pay for getting into the exchanges" and noted that "you may have to pay the government back in the spring of 2015":
But Casone mischaracterized the program by claiming it will lead to a "huge tax bill." Recipients may have to repay the tax credit -- in part or in full -- received for the insurance exchange if the recipient projected his or her income lower than it turned out to be. But Casone failed to acknowledge that should an individual's projected income be higher than his or her actual income, he or she, if eligible for the credit, will receive a refund from the government.
As Tim Jost at Health Affairs explained last year, this method is a widely accepted way of providing private health insurance to low- and middle-income families:
At the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care reforms are the premium tax credits, which will extend health insurance coverage to 18 million lower and middle-income Americans. The idea of using tax credits to purchase private health insurance for the uninsured is one of a number of the historically conservative policy positions adopted by the ACA. Both the Paul Ryan Roadmap and a recent proposal by James Capretta and Robert Moffit on How to Replace Obamacare also support premium tax credits to make health insurance accessible to Americans.
To create tax credits that are sufficiently substantial to in fact make health insurance affordable to lower-income Americans, without creating a program so costly that it is unaffordable to the country, tax credits must be means-tested and must be structured so as not to crowd out employment-based insurance. This turns out, not surprisingly, to be very complicated.
Reconciliation. Although the tax credit is paid in advance directly to an insurer on a monthly basis, it is in fact a tax credit that must be claimed on the taxpayer's annual income tax return. Final eligibility for the credit, therefore, cannot be known until the taxpayer files his or her annual return, at which point household income for the year will be finally determined. A "reconciliation" must then occur between the tax credit already received and that to which the individual is actually entitled. If over the course of the year household income turns out to be greater or less than projected, or if household composition or compliance with other eligibility requirements has changed, the final tax credit may turn out to be greater or less than the amount already paid.
If the taxpayer turns out to have been eligible for more than had been paid, the taxpayer gets a refund. If, however, the government has paid more than the taxpayer in fact turns out to be entitled to, the taxpayer must pay the money back.
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Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone set an unreasonable standard for weekly jobless claims, stating that the figure needed to dip to 200,000 or lower to show a healthy labor market - a level that hasn't been reached in over 40 years.
In the wake of the Labor Department's release of weekly jobless claims figures for September 23-29 that showed a slight increase from the previous week's report, Casone weighed in on what this meant for overall job growth. From the October 4 edition of Fox & Friends:
CASONE: Here's the problem. We need to see job growth. We need to see these claims numbers come down to 200,000 and below to see meaningful job recovery and we're just not getting that unfortunately.
However, the real problem lies in Casone's figures. The 200,000 benchmark is unrealistic today, as historical data show that the last time initial claims numbers were that low was in 1970, when the U.S. population was about 203 million (around 65 percent of current population estimates). Furthermore, the current figures are by no means outlandish, approximating those experienced in the early 2000s. From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:
(Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 9/22/2012)
The above graph also shows that while there have been slight upticks in initial jobless claims, the overall trend has been downward since 2009. While Casone claims that these numbers inhibit job recovery, the private sector has nonetheless created 4.5 million jobs in the last 29 months.
Following GOP strategy, Fox News is again blaming the Obama administration for rising gasoline prices -- a claim that has been repeatedly debunked by energy analysts. But back in the summer of 2008, when the average U.S. gasoline price hit a record high of $4.11, Fox said that "no President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices."
In 2008, Fox's coverage occasionally even mirrored the facts: expanding domestic oil drilling will not significantly lower prices, and the only way to reduce our vulnerability to gas price spikes is to use less oil. Perhaps there was more room for reality-based coverage at Fox when there wasn't an incumbent president to defeat?
In case you missed it, here's how Fox is covering gas prices now:
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A seven-minute segment on Fox News' America Live featured a deluge of falsehoods and distortions about President Obama's health care reform record, including the false suggestion that PricewaterhouseCoopers found that health care reform is responsible for rising costs. In fact, Pricewaterhouse found that reform is "expected to have minimal impact on [the] medical cost trend in 2012."
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In the days leading up to the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, a disaster that killed 11 men and resulted in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, conservative media figures have complained about federal oversight of drilling and have called for a swift increase in domestic oil production. This comes as news reports note that Congress has yet to enact reforms recommended by the National Oil Spill Commission, that the agency tasked with minimizing risks from offshore drilling lacks the resources to do so effectively, and that a design flaw in the blowout preventers has not been fixed.
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On today's episode of Fox News' Cashin' In, Fox Business employees Cheryl Casone and Tracy Byrnes and regular FBN guest Jonathan Hoenig came up with a radical idea to solve America's national debt problem: Raise taxes on the poor!
Casone got things started with a "Fox News Alert" about a new Congressional Budget Office report about average federal tax rates in 2007. She was so put off by the fact that millions of Americans earn so little income that they earn more in tax credits than they owe in federal taxes -- meaning they pay no federal income tax -- that she put forth the following question to Hoenig:
CASONE: A new government report showing 40 percent of income tax filers are paying no income taxes at all, and are getting money back. And this has someone here saying enough is enough. You want America's debt mess cleaned up? It's time for all Americans to pay up.
So Jonathan, did we just find a way to solve America's debt crisis, do you think?
She was asking if "a way to solve America's debt crisis" is to increase the tax burden of the poorest Americans. Note that according to the CBO report she cited, the average pretax income of the lowest 20 percent of households in 2007 -- that's half of the 40 percent of income tax filers she wants to "pay up" -- was $18,400.
According to the 2007 poverty guidelines used by the Department of Health & Human Services, a family of four with an income of $20,650 is below the poverty line.
Yes, Casone is proposing to balance our national debt on the backs of those Americans living in poverty.


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Martin Schray walks through creating an installer for the Delayed Startup Application using Visual Studio 2005.
This is remarkable easy compared to using InstallShield!
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Cleco installing 'smart' meters for Acadia Parish customers
CROWLEY – In 2010, Cleco Power, LLC, began trying to install, own and operate Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to all of its 277,000 customers.
The electric company, based out of Pineville, was awarded a $20 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) in May 2010 to help offset the costs. The price tag for Cleco itself was steep, $52.9 million of its own money to finish paying for the project.
But, after getting the grant and then, in 2011, receiving approval from the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC), Cleco has moved forward with the project.
"The new meters improve Cleco's service and reliability by creating efficiencies relating to the new communication network," said Robbyn Cooper, senior communications representative, in a statement.
The system upgrade, as Cleco has labeled it, will do five things for Cleco and its consumers:
1. It will allow Cleco Power the opportunity to utilize the $20 million DOE Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG).
2. It will provide data necessary to respond to electric demand changes, perform remote connections and disconnection and reduce energy theft.
3. It will provide power quality monitoring data to improve distribution system performance.
4. It will provide accurate outage monitoring to improve reliability.
5. Finally, it will optimize asset utilization, productivity and operational efficiency.
"The new meters will help Cleco provide better service," said Cooper. "This will be achieved through the technology used by the meters and communication infrastructure."
For example, Cooper pointed out how customers moving into a new residence powered by Cleco will now not have to wait for an appointment to get the electricity turned on at their residence.
Furthermore, in its application to the LPSC, Cleco asserted that its AMI Project is the company's first step toward modernization of distributing its resources as well as preparing the way for smart grid technologies.
After receiving approval from the LPSC, Cleco began replacing its existing meters with the new "smart" meters. It has been a process that has been going on, according to Cooper for about a year now and is projected to be completed in 2013.
"The system upgrade began in mid-2012," she said.
The "smart" meters recently made their way into Acadia Parish for installation, which may have some customers worried that things will need to be changed or will change. Cooper assures customers, however, that things will remain at status quo, and that the cost of the installation will not fall on the customers.
"Customers will not pay any additional costs for this system upgrade," she said. "Program cost savings through efficiencies created through the new system make the system upgrade possible.
"Cleco, like any other business, must periodically upgrade equipment to continue offering reliable power and good services to our customers.
"Customers do not need to do anything different when the meters are installed. There will simply be a different meter on your home. It will still measure electricity use and does not require you to do anything. You will easily be able to read your meter now because it will have a digital display. You may want to try reading it at the same time each day to track your own usage. This can be helpful if you are trying to see which activities use the most electricity."
Cooper also explained that because it is a simple system upgrade, the company will knock on doors as they are changing meter.
And customers do not need to worry about whether the new meters work, as Cleco has tested them and continues to test them.
"More than 80,000 electronic meters, including 15,000 communicating meters, have been active on Cleco's system for years," said Cooper. "These meters have proven to be very accurate. To verify and ensure this accuracy, and to give customers an extra measure of confidence, each new meter will be factory tested, and Cleco will also test a sample of the new meters."