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Solving the Problem of Metal Contamination at the K Plastics Show — September 27, 2016
Metal Separation Equipment will be displayed by Bunting Magnetics Europe in Hall 10 on stand G16 at the International Plastics and Rubber trade fair, K 2016 (19th – 26th October 2016 Dusseldorf, Germany.
Precision buckets from CAT — September 19, 2016
Cat tilt buckets handle angled-surface and precision-grading tasks
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Register for free tickets to next month's Bulkex exhibition and conference.
Seeing Is Believing For Bunting at RWM 2016 — September 09, 2016
Demonstration is the focus on the Bunting Magnetics Europe stand 5R81 at RWM16 (13th – 15th September 2016 NEC Birmingham UK). On the stand will be a fully operational HISC separating both stainless steel and printed circuit boards from non-magnetic materials and Twin Pole Overband Magnet.
Ranger Plant adds five new Terex site dumpers to equipment portfolio — September 08, 2016
Promac Solutions has delivered five site dumpers to equipment firm Ranger Plant.
Cement factory benefits from Greenbank feeder technology — August 23, 2016
Greenbank has strengthened its long-standing relationship with Hanson Cement by supplying state-of-the-art feeder systems to the company's Padeswood facility in Flintshire.
FPE appoints industry experts to lead new vision — August 22, 2016
FPE Global has appointed five sector heads to help drive its ambitious growth strategy.
Lots to see at RWM 2016 — August 19, 2016
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CHARLES TOWN - On Thursday evening, the Jefferson County Commission will hold a community forum on its proposed Fiscal Year 2015 budget, which could negatively impact the county's libraries and fire and ambulance services.
According to a notice sent out by the commission, the county needed to reduce its expenditures from the previous year by $3.3 million, or $2.7 million if the contingency reserve is excluded.
The notice states, "The county is no longer in the position where they can balance the budget with the prior year's reserves. Going forward the county must balance the budget of reoccurring expenditures with reoccurring annual revenue."
Jefferson County has also seen a $1.5 million decrease in gambling revenue over the past two years as a result of growing competition from neighboring states. Gambling revenue is no longer a reliable source of revenue for the county, according to Tim Stanton, the county's financial director.
The county will make expenditure reductions in each of its departments, most noticeably to its funding of libraries and emergency services.
All libraries in Jefferson County will receive a 15 percent reduction in county contribution.
According to Gretchen Fry, the director of the Bolivar-Harpers Ferry Public Library, the library received $65,000 in funding from the county last year. Fry said the reduction in county funding could negatively impact the library.
"At this point, it looks like we're going to have to make cuts," Fry said. "I'm going to have to talk with the board of directors to see what we're going to do. It may be that we have to cut book purchases, programming or maybe staff or hours of operation."
Fry said the state government is also considering cuts to library funding, on top of what county government has proposed.
"The cuts would be at a rate of $8,456 per library. As far as I know, it hasn't been voted on yet," she said.
Fry said if both the state and county cuts go through, the likelihood that the Bolivar-Harpers Ferry Public Library would have to reduce its hours would be increased.
"I'm hoping to get a lot of library patrons out at the meeting, so we can show the county we care," Fry said.
The county plans to reduce the amount it allocates to ambulance services by 20 percent and reduce its fire allocation by 12.5 percent, with $150,000 of the fire allocation paid by the Coal Severance Fund.
Specific reductions of ambulance and fire will be determined by the JCESA Board, since the JCESA is a component unit rather than a county department.
During its regular meeting last Thursday, the county commission discussed the possibility of creating a fire board so the county could implement a fire fee.
Representatives from Jefferson County fire departments were unavailable for comment.
The FY 2015 budget reductions were created with the assumption that the landline 911 fees will be increased to $5.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the county commission meeting room, located in the basement of the Old Charles Town Library at 200 E. Washington St. in Charles Town.
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- Staff writer Mary Stortstrom can be reached at 304-725-6581 or www.twitter.com/mstortstromJN.

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Personnel committee meets
A meeting of the personnel committee of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board was held on Tuesday, September 16 at the Central Office in Amite. Members Rose Dominguez, Leonard "Tank" Genco, Danny Ridgel and Chairperson Ann Smith were all present.
Link stated that all positions have been filled, however there are several medical leaves pending and those positions must be temporarily filled. Member Ann Smith inquired as to whether or not hiring ratios were met this year. Personnel Director Ron Genco stated that he has not begun to research those figures as of yet, but should have a report ready regarding ratios at the next personnel meeting.
The following positions were approved by the Personnel Committee and will be brought before the full board for final approval at the next meeting.
Ronald Bias, Marine Instructor/ROTC, Amite High
Corey Martin, Teacher, Loranger High
Anna Alford, Librarian, Kentwood High
Amy White, Teacher, Loranger High
Kathy Hurley, Teacher, Loranger High
Joshua Day, Teacher, Loranger High
Amy Willie, Teacher, Loranger High
Bridget Giaratano, ISSP Monitor, Loranger High
Hydee Culbertson, Title I Para, Independence Elem.
Anna Billiot, Sp. Ed. Para, Loranger High
Darenda Jones, School Secretary, Sumner Jr. High
Debbie Brown, Child Specific LPN, Loranger Elementary
Elizabeth Primes, Child Specific LPN, Chesbrough Elem.
Jessie Williams, SFS Worker, West Side Middle
Sylvia Watson, Teacher, Amite Elementary
Elizabeth Sanders, Teacher, Spring Creek
Lizzie Leonard, SFS Worker, Independence Elem.
Christine Rapp, Teacher, Loranger Elementary
Jermaine Brumfield, Para, Independence Elem.
Susan McLin, Para, Loranger High School


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New mothers are often advised to never wake a sleeping baby, and Angela Kinsey learned the hard way why.
The Office star told PEOPLE's Celebrity Baby Blog she tempted fate one day with her 15-month-old daughter Isabel Ruby – with disastrous results.
"I was like, 'You know what? She's taking a late afternoon nap, she's not going to fall asleep 'til late, I'm going to pick her up and rock her to see if she'll wake up,' " the actress recalls. "Mistake! My mom was right."
Isabel's tears that day were hopefully short-lived, but Kinsey, 38, admits she often cries "tears of happiness" when gazing at her first child.
"[Costar] Steve [Carrell] told me when I was pregnant 'Every cliché you hear, you will say or experience.' He was absolutely right. ... I can't believe she's mine. I can't believe I've been so privileged to have this experience."
Kinsey counts the Boppy and Cheerios among her mommy must-haves; With regard to the latter she notes, "If I don't have them in a Ziploc in my purse then I'm screwed!"
From the sound of things, Isabel is more impressed by a certain fuzzy red friend familiar to many moms, however. "She said 'Elmo' this morning for the very first time," Kinsey proudly reports.
"She pointed to the TV and said 'Elmo' and I was like 'You are a genius! You will cure cancer!'"
Isabel is Kinsey's daughter with estranged husband Warren Lieberstein.
The new season of The Office premieres Sept. 17 at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Reporting by SCOTT HUVER
Angela Kinsey on Her Mothering Mistake
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Police release new details in church donation box theft cases
Erie and Millcreek Township police said they believe the same man committed thefts of cash from votive candle donation boxes at two area Catholic churches in late October.
Police are continuing their search today for the man, who was captured on video surveillance as he took money from the donation boxes at St. Luke Church, 421 E. 38th St.; and Our Lady of Peace Church, 2401 W. 38th St., on Oct. 28.
Investigators released photos and an updated description of the suspect today.
The suspect is a white male who was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt under a black and white plaid coat, bluejeans and white sneakers. He also had a black and gold ball cap with a white circle logo on the front, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Erie police Detective Tom Gray at 870-1169 or Millcreek police Lt. Mike Dougan at 833-7777.


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Today Unify, formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications, announced details of Project Ansible, a secure and engaging communications and collaboration platform first officially debuted to wide acclaim from customers and analysts in June 2013. Based on strong interest from customers, partners and carriers, Unify announced an acceleration of the timeline for Project Ansible, including initial customer trials in January and expected general availability scheduled for July, 2014.
As part of today's news, Unify announced that the platform's first version will support four communication channels simultaneously – voice, video, text and remote screen sharing. The platform's first version will also enable users to move multichannel conversations intact from device to device using a simple gesture or "call swipe." Also, Unify confirmed that the first version of Project Ansible would be delivered as a cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. Furthermore, Project Ansible will be designed to complement a broad array of existing solutions, including Unify's own award-winning OpenScape portfolio as well as corporate telephony solutions from other vendors like Cisco and Avaya.
Unify made this announcement in conjunction with the launch of its new brand and updated business vision focused on the future of work. The launch took place in a global web cast and at events in New York and Munich.
"We are challenging the status quo of what businesses should expect of enterprise communications technology so that we can answer the call of the new way to work, and help enhance our customers' business performance," said Hamid Akhavan, CEO of Unify. "The expectations of the next generation of enterprise workers go beyond today's systems. Customers, partners and carriers are excited about the possibilities they see in Project Ansible and we are moving rapidly ahead. With Project Ansible, we can help existing customers enhance their return on technology investments through an evolutionary approach. We will significantly expand our market opportunity in a move likely disruptive to our competitors by offering the benefits of Project Ansible to their customers," Akhavan said.
Developed with frog after extensive industry and customer research, Project Ansible will reshape the way businesses and their employees interact, communicate and collaborate. The platform pulls together and manages the daily flow of communications into rich and meaningful conversations by aggregating communications across virtually any channel into a single view. Project Ansible features a unique, consumer technology-like user experience that encourages adoption and brings joy of work to users. The new platform also seamlessly integrates into enterprise business processes, providing opportunity for enhanced business operations.
Project Ansible leverages an agile development methodology, where constant customer validation and feedback are critical. To this end, the company announced the establishment of the Project Ansible Customer Advisory Council. The company also said that registration for Unify's initial beta testing of Project Ansible is already oversubscribed, a further indication of customer, partner and carrier interest in the offering.
"Interestingly, we are seeing an entirely new company – redesigned and ready to go head to head with the industry's biggest competitors," said Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst at ZK Research. "Unify is putting forth the vision, brand and -- with Project Ansible -- the right platform, to make it happen. The Project Ansible user experience is a great example of how enterprise communication should work and how we as users want to work. It will redefine how we all interact, communicate and collaborate as part of daily work."


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FLINT, MI -- A woman was taken to Hurley Medical Center Wednesday morning after she said an argument lead to a suspect allegedly hitting her with their car, according to a Flint police report.
Flint police were dispatched to Martin Luther King Avenue around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 20, in reference to a felonious assault report. When officers arrived they spoke to the 56-year-old victim who said the suspect intentionally hit her with their vehicle after an argument.
The victim was transported to Hurley Medical Center for minor injuries. According to the report, the suspect was gone when police arrived to the scene and no arrests were made.
No further information was released.
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Recent Developments in Public Use and Pretext in Eminent Domain
Robert H. Thomas
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March, 16 2009
The Supreme Court's controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo v. City of New London renewed both public and judicial interest in the contours of the Public Use requirement of the Fifth Amendment and its counterparts in state constitutions. Courts began to take a harder look at how the government's claim that property is being condemned for a public use or purpose can be challenged by a landowner, and what degree of deference is owed by the courts to the government's assertion. This article summarizes recent developments in public use and pretext litigation.
Keywords: eminent, domain, condemnation, public use, pretext, kelo, coupe, takings
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The 1933 Nazi takeover in Germany, the unrests in Austria ending in a rightwing victory in 1934, the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, and the increasing threat of a Nazi invasion and war form the backdrop of the third part of Elias Canetti's autobiography, Das Augenspiel [The Play of the Eyes, 1985]. Assuming that his readers are familiar with the historical background, Canetti does not dwell on political issues, but reveals in his rigorously personal account the traces traumatic events leave on him and his circle of friends. The projects he starts remain unfinished; there is no audience for his works; and his novel Die Blendung [Auto-da-Fé, …
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ONA - Twin sisters just know.
Becca Colbert just wasn't going to let Abby Colbert give in to a rib pain the freshman cross country runner was experiencing.
Becca, a soccer player, spied something amiss and told Abby about it as she ran the 3.1-mile course at Cabell Midland High School for the state cross country meet.
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Journal photo by Rick Kozlowski
Jefferson's Abby Colbert, left, runs away from a trio of Morgantown runners during the Class AAA girls state cross country meet Saturday in Ona.
"My sister saw me holding my side and told me to get my hand off there," Abby said.
She did, then pondered what she really had to do.
"I wanted to make my family proud," Abby said.
She did.
Colbert finished fifth in the state meet, holding off and ultimately distancing herself from a trio of runners from state champion Morgantown, which put all five of its scoring runners in the top 10, over the final mile for her finish.
"I'm very happy," Colbert said. "I absolutely didn't think when we came here yesterday, looking at the scoreboard, I didn't know if I'd get top 10.
"The top 10, that's the only goal I wanted to achieve this year."
Colbert finished the race in 19 minutes, 1.66 seconds.
Ahead of her was state champion Amelia Paladino of University in 17:47.32, Brynn Harshbarger of Morgantown in 18:23.44 and Kaitlyn Workman of Preston in 18:50.22.
Everyone in the top 10 but Harshbarger are underclassmen.
"Next year, I want to try to beat the person who got first this year," Colbert said. "If I make it to states."
Jefferson coach Suzy Munnis couldn't have been more pleased by Colbert's finish. She came into the meet ranked ninth by RunWV.com.
"Boy, did she ever (do well)," Munnis said. "She exceeded my expectations.
"I was thinking ninth. I would've been pushing for seventh. When she rolled through fifth ..."
Despite Colbert's finish finish, Jefferson finished in the team standings behind the other two Eastern Panhandle qualifiers.
Hampshire was sixth, Musselman eighth and Jefferson ninth. Twelve teams competed.
Morgantown scored 30 points, 60 points ahead of runner-up University.
Ashleigh Martin's 21st-place finish led Hampshire, while Heather Jenkins of Musselman finished 23rd to lead the Applemen.
Also for Hampshire, Morgan Roach ran 24th in 20:05.80, Rachel Lipps finished 32nd in 20:45.21, Mary Feaster was 40th in 20:56.81, Nakia Dornbush was 58th in 21:38.02, Kasey Combs was 67th in 22:40.19 and Brooke Spencer was 84th in 25:43.93.
Antonia Dunnigan came in the second position for Musselman, finishing 31st with a time of 20:43.42. She was followed by Kayla Hoffmaster (35th in 20:47.96), Maddy Trucks (61st in 54.75), Kirsten Campbell (72nd in 23:17.82), Denielle Cloud (79th in 24:06.09) and Samantha Dorsey (24:28.11).
Anya Wallace was 30th for Jefferson in 20:42.62. Emma Lindberg ran 54th in 21:29.28. After Malika Briggs finished 62nd in 21:57.67, the Cougars had a virtual pack of three who ran 80th, 81st and 82nd. They were Emma Alquist (24:06.84), Allison Munnis (24:08.82) and Pandora Affemann (24:22.86).
Maggie Drazba of St. Marys took apart the course as much as she vanquished the field in winning her third Class AA/A state title in four years.
The senior defeated Katie Jan of Frankfort by more than two minutes and diced the previous course record by nearly 15 seconds.
Drazba, one of the nation's top runners, completed the course in 17:17.89, and Jan ran 19:23.52. Third-place Brianna Waybright of team champion Philip Barbour finished in 19:34.43.
The previous course record was 17:32.7.
"I really wanted to get that (record)," Drazba said. "This is great."
She said that despite the intermittent sprinkles that fell during the race that she found the course dry.
Then she pulled on a hoodie that read "Real athletes run miles, not yards."
Philip Barbour scored 75 points, runner-up Frankfort 80 and third-place Scott 114.
Kinsey Reed, Berkeley Springs' lone competitor, crossed the line in 20:50.35 for 16th place.
Berkeley Springs' two boys runners, Corey Shetler and Zac Simmon, ran 21st and 26th, respectively.
Shetler ran the race in 17:20.50 and Simmons 17:40.30.
Individual boys AA/A champion Nick Trefz led Fairmont to a team championship. He finished in 15:52.20 and the Polar Bears, dropping in class for this school year, scored 92 points.
Individual runner-up Caleb Moore of Doddridge County clocked in at 16:04.40, and team runner-up Frankfort scored 111 points.
Third was Ritchie County's Johnny Hogue in 16:11.30. Doddridge was third as a team with 119 points.


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"This is a wonderful read-aloud. It is smooth, lovely, and nearly lyrical. With the right tone of voice I think it could lure a child right to sleep. But it does more than that. Full of interesting facts, it introduces children to the beautiful marine world. Wonderful look at the oceans." - Armchair Interviews
"As a homeschooling mother, I am always looking for children's books that contain great education value, not just fluffy stories. Ocean Seasons is the type of book I love. This is a homeschool parent's dream." - The Old Homeschool Magazine
"While this beautifully written and illustrated book focuses on the Pacific Ocean, it can easily be adapted to life in other oceans. Whether used for research or to satisfy children's curiosity, this new take on the cycle of life will bring wonderment." - ForeWord Magazine
Ron Hirschi (Ocean Seasons) lives on a small island in western Washington and walks the beach most days of the year. As a biologist, he also spends much time on the water, learning about and helping salmon and other aquatic fish and wildlife. As an author, he brings the excitement of what he learns onto the pages of books for young readers. Ron has written over 50 children's books. His books have been listed as Best Science Trade Books of the year, and won the John Burroughs Nature Book among other awards. Several of his books have been featured on Reading Rainbow. In addition to writing, Ron enjoys working directly with kids and takes them outside during his many school visits. They net fish to study water quality or search for frogs and salamanders in small ponds. They also study ocean life and it was on a trip to the beach with a group of elementary students that he got the idea for this book. Ron helped to raise the funds to purchase a tidal wetland that is now an environmental learning center and critical habitat for endangered salmon. His book, Salmon, remains a fund raiser for this (Nick's Lagoon) project. Visit Ron's Website.
Kirsten Carlson is fascinated by animals and nature. Her background in biology, scientific illustration and design has given her the tools to share stories about the natural world through illustration. She believes illustrating children's books are a wonderful way to connect others to nature. Prior to illustrating Ocean Seasons, Kirsten illustrated The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights, also published by Arbordale. Kirsten lives in Gig Harbor, Washington near the shores of Puget Sound. Visit Kirsten's website.


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Both of the Maui Interscholastic League boys soccer champions received No. 4 seeds in the Outrigger Hotels & Resorts State Championships brackets announced Saturday night.
Kamehameha Maui is seeded fourth in Division I and will play on Thursday in the quarterfinals at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Complex on Oahu against the winner of Wednesday's first-round game between Iolani and Campbell.
Seabury Hall, the No. 4 seed in the eight-team Division II bracket, will face Mid-Pacific in a quarterfinal Thursday.
King Kekaulike will play a D-I first-round game against Pearl City on Wednesday - the winner of that match will meet second-seeded Punahou in the quarterfinals.
Mililani will try to defend its D-I title as the top seed. Kealakehe is No. 3.
Konawaena is the top-seeded D-II team. Kapaa is No. 2 and Kalaheo is No. 3. Honokaa, which won the previous two state titles, is not in the field.
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At Waipio Peninsula Soccer Complex
Wednesday's Games
First Round
Hilo vs. Kalani, 3 p.m.
Iolani vs. Campbell, 3 p.m.
King Kekaulike vs. Pearl City, 3 p.m.
Kapolei vs. Kaiser, 3 p.m.
Thursday's Games
Hilo-Kalani loser vs. Iolani-Campbell loser, 1 p.m.
King Kekaulike-Pearl City loser vs. Kapolei-Kaiser loser, 1 p.m.
No. 4 Kamehameha Maui vs. Iolani-Campbell winner, 1 p.m.
No. 3 Kealakehe vs. Kapolei-Kaiser winner, 3 p.m.
No. 2 Punahou vs. King Kekaulike-Pearl City winner, 5 p.m
No. 1 Mililani vs. Hilo-Kalani winner, 7 p.m.
Friday's Games
Fifth-place semifinals, 3 p.m.
Semifinals, 5 and 7 p.m.
Saturday's Games
Seventh-place game, 3 p.m.
Fifth-place game, 3 p.m.
Third-place game, 3 p.m.
Championship, 7 p.m.
Thursday's Games
No. 1 Konawaena vs. Farrington, 3 p.m.
No. 2 Kapaa vs. Hawaii Prep, 3 p.m.
No. 3 Kalaheo vs. Christian Liberty, 3 p.m.
No. 4 Seabury Hall vs. Mid-Pacific, 3 p.m.
Friday's Games
Konawaena-Farrington loser vs. Seabury Hall-Mid-Pacific loser, 3 p.m.
Kapaa-Hawaii Prep loser vs. Kalaheo-Christian Liberty loser, 3 p.m.
Kapaa-Hawaii Prep winner vs. Kalaheo-Christian Liberty winner, 1 p.m.
Konawaena-Farrington winner vs. Seabury Hall-Mid-Pacific winner, 3 p.m.
Saturday's Games
Third-place game, 1 p.m.
Fifth-place game, 3 p.m.
Championship, 5 p.m.


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So, I got caught up in it. I was as excited to see Xenoblade Chronicles coming to that states as if I had been in on the ground floor of Project Rainfall. A new Wii game!! In 2012!! And it's actually worth owning!!
I hopped over to GameStop last Friday, plopped down my monies, and carried my new game out with a smile on my face and a skip in my step. I didn't get home until later and didn't get a chance to try it out. so that had to wait until Saturday morning.
I woke up, fresh-faced and excited, ready to dive into some JRPG bliss. Swapped the cover art around to the beautiful alternate art hidden away inside (wonderful). Slid the disk into my Wii. Waited.
Oh, no. Not this. Not the one new Wii game I'll actually buy this year. Please tell me it's not going to do this to me.
You see, I've got a really, really old Wii. One of the originals. And apparently, these Wiis sometimes have a problem reading dual-layered disks. I'd only had one Wii game give me these kinds of fits before, and that was Metroid: Other M. And now...this. I was very sad.
But I COULD at least FINALLY get Other M to actually work. It didn't seem like that would be the case with Xenoblade Chronicles. I must've put the game in and out about twenty times, hoping it would spin. It never did. I was distraught.
I started to think over my options. I could buy a new Wii. But they turned out to be a bit more expensive than I thought they were (I guess I was still thinking about Black Friday pricing or something). So that idea was shot. I could return Xenoblade Chronicles. But even if I never got to play the game, I would want to keep it as a collector's piece.
Okay, fine. I'm keeping my old Wii. I'm not returning the game. My one glimmer of hope is that the Wii U will be backwards compatible, so I guess what I'm stuck with is my first Wii U game :p
Of course, that's only going to make the wait for Wii U that much more excruciating.
In the meantime, I decided if I couldn't play Xenoblade Chronicles, I could at least go back to Skyward Sword, which I still haven't even come close to finishing. I popped that beautiful piece of game into my Wii and played happily for a good hour or so. I guess I have enough to tide me over until the Wii U gets here. It's certainly a nice break from screaming at my TV after every MW3 match, to be sure.
So I guess the moral of this story is...well...play good games, and be happy with them, and eventually...you'll play more good games.
So I'm not the best with morals! What can I say?


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Eggs Over Eavesy hasn't added any friends yet.
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Also my boy Eaves had a terrific game. Hope that carries over into game 5.
Posted by Eggs Over Eavesy
on 10 March 2011 - 11:30 AM
I don't mind the losing but could they at least put a solid effort in? They played so well in those 2 games against Boston. I thought we've been giving them the benefit of the doubt since early December? The team is not hungry. I think even Babs is not hungry anymore. Has he snapped on this team yet? Do they just ignore him? I can't figure this team out.They have 3 days off and play a team which has to fly across the country to play them and they score 1 goal at home? We're the easiest team in the league to play right now. We don't compete. It's all perimiter shoot from the boards hockey. No one pays the price and they miss the net ten times more than they used to. There is no puck support and Z and Dats are trying to be the Harlem Globetrotters and stickhandle through 4 guys all the time. Teams have us figured out. Clog the neutral zone and pick off the stupid east west passes. Teams have been employing these tactics for years on us. It can be combated if we hustle and support each other. Babs says you should always see 5 Wings on the tv at all times. I usually see 2 maybe 3. The Wings always lose the numbers games. Instead of dumping the puck in they keep it and turn it over. They create no offense. The power play is predictable. No team speed and too many battles lost. This team is outworked EVERY game. The Joe is an easy place to play right now. It has been for all of 2011. I keep hearing they will be good when the playoffs roll around. Last I checked we have not clinched a birth yet. The standings are so close right now. We can't win 1 game a week and expect to get in. Right now I'm just looking for a win. This team reminds me of the 2006 team which played lazy perimiter hockey. It's all individual and no team play. The talent is not being used properly. It coaching or player execution? I don't know. All I know is that this kind of hockey is a recipe for failure. They all seem pretty content losing though. It seems no one is mad enough to do anything about it. I thought Babs would have lost it by now but obviously he hasn't. The players don't seem to care. We heard Franzen and Zetterberg say how good they thought the team was playing during this losing streak.He also said the Caps would win the Cup last year.
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After nine full months of operation, the city of Santa Clarita's Enterprise Zone has proven to be an amazing new tool in the economic development toolbox, benefiting the local business community. All types of city-based businesses have taken advantage of the hiring tax credit including car dealers, restaurants, retail, and industrial and manufacturing companies.
Since last July's final designation date, 569 people have gone through the pre-screening process resulting in 95 vouchers being issued. The city will issue a hiring tax credit voucher to a business for each qualified employee hired by a business located in the Enterprise Zone.
The voucher certifies that the employee meets the eligibility requirements for a qualified individual and is one of the supporting documents to substantiate a business' claim for a tax credit for hiring a qualified individual.
Santa Clarita businesses that have vouchered employees include:
* Turbine Industries
* Aerospace Dynamics
* Aero Engineering & Manufacturing
* Meschkat Precision Machinery
* Wal-mart
* Universal Framing Products
* U.S. HealthWorks
* Macy's
* Welster Filter Group
* 99 Cents Only Store
* Frontier Toyota
* Valencia Auto Care
* Valencia Acura
* Salt Creek Grille
* True Positions Technologies
* Paragon Precision
* AV Equipment Rental
With 97 percent of all commercially zoned land in the city of Santa Clarita included in the Enterprise Zone boundaries, the Enterprise Zone provides nearly all of the city's businesses with a variety of benefits, incentives and tax credits. Some of these advantages include sales or use tax credits, business expense deduction, net interest deductions, and the hiring tax credit.
Enterprise Zone staff has been busy holding informational workshops on a regular basis to educate existing and potential employers and employees about the benefits of being in the zone. Nearly 100 businesses have already attended workshops to become better informed of tax benefits and employee vouchering regulations. In addition, the city has been busy with numerous on-site visits to businesses to talk to the owners and the employees regarding the zone on a one-to-one basis.
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To aid city-based businesses in the application process, a vouchering agent is on staff to pre-screen job seekers and employees for eligibility in the program. The vouchering agent reviews the various categories in which a job seeker or employee might qualify for the program. The pre-screen process seeks to identify applicants who are qualified in one or more categories approved by the state of California. Businesses located in the Enterprise Zone that hire qualified applicants may be eligible for hiring tax credits up to $36,000 and more over a five-year period.
Additionally, employees within the zone may be eligible for Enterprise Zone-related benefits if they reside in a Targeted Employment Area (TEA). A TEA is described as a census tract that houses residents that would potentially benefit the most from opportunities provided by an enterprise zone. There are four recognized TEAS in Santa Clarita, and they are identified on the city's Web site at scenterprisezone.com.
Potential employees residing within a TEA automatically qualify for the program.
The Santa Clarita Enterprise Zone office has several informational tools to provide assistance to businesses including a brochure, a newly redesigned Web site and an Employer Voucher Application Packet.
The brochures are available at City Hall, the Santa Clarita Worksource Center, the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Small Business Development Center, the Valley Industrial Association and the local office of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation. The brochure includes a map of the Enterprise Zone boundaries and information on the benefits and incentives available to businesses located in the zone.
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More information is available at www.SCenterprisezone.com, which is an easy-to-use Web site that includes boundary maps, zone street ranges and TEA locations. Additionally, users can find information on all of the Enterprise Zone benefits and tax credits and a section on frequently asked questions. An employer can download the complete Employer Voucher Application Packet that has step-by-step instructions to qualify and pre-screen employees.
With the Santa Clarita Enterprise Zone in effect for 15 years, the tax savings for the nearly 6,000 businesses in the city should be substantial. The Enterprise Zone program's incentives promote business investment and job creation while encouraging entrepreneurship and employer growth.
Don Fleming of Valencia Acura has been one of the first business owners to take advantage of the program.
"The Enterprise Zone has saved me $10,000 that I wouldn't have otherwise saved. It works, and it's easy," stated Fleming. Fleming's wife, Cheri, agrees, saying, "If Don can do this, anyone can!"
City Enterprise Zone staff are happy to answer any and all questions regarding the zone, set up individual appointments either at City Hall or at your place of business, and will pre-screen potential employees at the Santa Clarita Worksource Center or at individual businesses by appointment. For more information, call the city at (661) 255-4347.
Ken Striplin is Santa Clarita assistant city manager. His column reflects his own views, not necessarily those of The Signal. "Live from City Hall" is a column provided to The Signal by the city of Santa Clarita.


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In a bittersweet melodrama, Richard Dean Anderson (Legend) plays a college administrator haunted by the recent death of his 11-year-old son. Talked into coaching a coed Little League team, he becomes attached to one of his players, a mute and mysterious boy named Lucky (Grayson Fricke). At the same time, Anderson strikes up a friendship with a feisty old man (Barnard Hughes) in a nursing home. He presses Hughes into service as his assistant coach.
The role is meatier than Anderson's usual TV action fare, yet he handles it with surprising delicacy. The film's biggest problem is that it can't decide whether it's aimed at kids or adults. Even so, it presents a poignant parable about providence and the bonding rituals provided by sports. Glynnis O'Connor and Ken Jenkins costar.
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In a drifty dramatization, Oliver Platt plays Yaron Svoray, a U.S.-based Israeli who travels to Germany in 1992 to write a magazine article about the rise of skinhead violence. The early part of the film, as Platt (Funny Bones) mingles uneasily with jackbooted, beer-gulping thugs, is grim and electrifying. But the project curiously loses steam when Platt goes to work for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, posing as the representative of a reactionary American millionaire in order to smoke out the clandestine leaders of Germany's neo-Nazi movement. Somehow the more interested Platt becomes in his crusade, the less we do. Primarily that's because Platt's villainous adversaries become less vivid and, at the same time, the movie's sense of impending danger begins to evaporate. Jonathan Phillips, Peter Riegert and Arliss Howard costar.
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darn you!!
you8 beat me to this
well nice post
man...i was hoping for a 8.5 atleast, but its not a bad score
The score is alright, but just to say it's repetitive and tedious sucks.
I don't care WHAT Jim says, that is NOT the real Ben Franklin, I am 99% sure.
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darn you!!
you8 beat me to this
well nice post
man...i was hoping for a 8.5 atleast, but its not a bad score
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PS3 games: Ratchet and Clank F.T.O.D., Resistance 2, Wipeout HD, and MGS4.
Originally Posted by zapasant93
No problem. Sorry, though lol. I am disappointed. Gametrailers said the same.
I don't care WHAT Jim says, that is NOT the real Ben Franklin, I am 99% sure.
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so getting money to fight bosses gets repetitive
but getting stars to moving to different observatories doesn't?
This hasn't change my mind on purchasing the game, i still look forward to it just as much
the mario that's roomed with mush
my wii is not connected to the internet, so i can't play brawl online for a bit....please do not spam inbox with friend code requests
I was really hyped up about this game, but all these reviews that have been coming out mostly deal on the negative issues rather than the good ones. The only hiccup that i really dont like is that they so the framerate doesnt hold, and this is a biggy since i cant stand games with a low FPS.
Pure Aussie
Rented a copy from my local blockbuster, and I have to actually agree somewhat with the review. In my book, the score would be around there, a 8.0. The game was fun, don't get me wrong, but it didn't do it for me >.<. Gametrailers also gave it a 8.2, which was no surprise.
Agree 100%.Originally Posted by mushroomedmario
Many games have "repetitive" moments, but for the most part don't get mentioned for being "repetitive". Sorry the game can't be totally different in all aspects
Anyways, its still one of, if not the best Third Party game the Wii has so far besides maybe Zack & Wiki. People should still buy this game, at the very least rent it.
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Originally Posted by Sumn0ob
Anything above a 7 is overrated. The framerate is just awful in this game and gave me motion sickness playing it. I was able to snag a copy today and am about 2.5 hours in, but the framerate issues are killing me. The game seems unfinished and rushed. Guess that's why the release date was pushed up.
And since when is a 7.8 a bad score? Geez people, you guys expect everything to get 8's and 9's. If that was the case then everything would be on par with the production quality of Zelda, SMG, or SSBB and that's just not the case. This game was obviously rushed, has framerate issues and seems pretty barren in the city in what I've played so far. It's a decent game but nothing groundbreaking or of high production value. It deserves nothing more then a 7 IMO, which is good but not great. That's exactly what this game is....good but not great.
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Originally Posted by technodj
Another low review.
Or do you guys only adhere to the rule of player reviewers being most valuable when the reviews are positive?


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Kim Kardashian Gets Fashion's Seal of Approval!Suzanne Jannese
It was only a matter of time before Kim Kardashian began to charm the fashion world after she began dating Kanye West.
Kanye, a known fashion fan, introduced Kim to the ultimate fashionista and ex-editor of French Vogue, Carine Roitfeld.
In September Kim and Kanye were in Paris attending fashion week, and Kim was pictured with Carine at the Givenchy 2014 Spring/Summer show. It emerged that Carine had asked Kim to model for the front cover of Carine's magazine when Kim was 8 months pregnant — cementing their friendship. But the ultimate cherry on the fashion cake came when Kim uploaded this picture yesterday:
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Proudly sharing this black and white shot with her 18.8 million followers, Kim declared: " I love my fashion icon carineroitfeld for wearing this tshirt!!!' If you look closely, you'll see the T-shirt features none other than Kim's portrait from the October issue of Carine's art magazine, CR Fashion Book.
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star was eight months pregnant when she was styled by Riccardo Tisci and photographed by Karl Lagerfeld — rocking a gold grill, nonetheless.
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But according to Carine, Kim K. was no diva during the shoot. She told People, "She was one of the easiest models I have ever worked with. […] She's not a model, but she was pregnant, you know, and I love pregnant women. Honestly, she was very, very nice. She made no demands at all."
The fashionista also likened Kim to the iconic actress Marilyn Monroe. She told Time Out London: "First of all she's beautiful and in fashion, that is a talent you know. She was also a very sweet person, a hard worker. You don't see her in parties drinking loads of alcohol. She's controversial, but so was Marilyn Monroe and I always like controversial people. I hope the issue will be a good souvenir for her and her baby.'
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How to add configdrives in rescue mode to Nova using KVM?
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When we start rescue mode for a server, its rootpassword isn't set and it doesn't have any networking. I suspect this is due to missing configdrive; in regular boot kvm gets called with these options:
-drive file=/var/lib/nova/instances/2b05c4fe-919e-4385-82a5-2ab35b50ac08/disk.config,if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-1,readonly=on,format=raw,cache=none
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It's a buyers' market, but only if you do it right…
The car market in Ireland, as we know so well by now, is pretty much on its knees. Consistently low sales of new cars since the financial crisis first bit hard in 2009 have put many dealers out of business, have seen layoffs at the corporate level in the importers and have seen a dearth of new metal on our roads. So, you'll doubtless be thinking, this is the time to strike. It won't have escaped your notice that there are apartments in Monaghan selling for the same price as a new car, in some instances, so what goes for houses must go double for cars, right?
No. At least, not quite. The tricky thing about buying a new car is the margin that the car dealer is making on the sale. Generally in Ireland, a dealer's margin on a new car is around 8%, not including any extra money that they can make in terms of sales bonuses from the car maker, accessories and our old friend, delivery and related charges. 8% isn't really a lot, and doesn't give the car seller a lot of wiggle room if you come marching into the showroom, assuming that it's like the January sales and you're going to get half off. You won't. Indeed, that 8% margin is only a notional one. According to CNN, in 2007 the average margin the the motor industry was just 1.1%, although that was in fairness a time of heavy discounting for the car trade in America.
Mind you, it's a time of heavy discounting right here, right now, and that's what makes it confusing for value hungry motorists. Many of the deals that you will see advertised are pretty much as good as they can be made, indeed value-based brand Dacia advertises that it's prices are no-quibble; or in other words, you're not going to get a better deal for cash, buddy. We've become used over the years to being told to bargain hard, but with margins in the industry slashed to try and encourage customers over the threshold, that's just not necessarily the best way any more.
"What's happened in the past couple of years is that people have seen dealers falling, and dealers having problems so the advice from some of the consumer journalists or consumer focused agencies has been haggle, haggle" says Johnathan Meade of Nissan and Hyundai main dealers Hutton & Meade. "This, in some cases, has been taken up as 'offer half what you've been asked.' There isn't that kind of margins in our industry. We do offer good deals, we do offer good value but there's only so far we can go, we've got to stay in business.
"In most cases people have already done a lot of shopping. You can see the website traffic and website traffic is a huge indicator of what shoppers are looking for, both new and used , so we know people are arming themselves with information, with finance information but the honest answer is when you sit down in front of a salesman, you get a feel for a deal, you get a feel for whether it's right or it's wrong. And ultimately that's why people will do a deal, because they feel it's the right one for them."
Of course, that narrow margin issue doesn't hold true for all, and least of all for the big premium brands, so the irony is that those who are buying expensive German cars probably have the best opportunity for a bit of haggling.
Down at the more mainstream level, there are better ways of getting a good deal. One of the best is to keep an eye on the car magazines and motoring supplements and see what new metal is coming up soon. If there's a new, for argument's sake, Ford Focus due to arrive soon, then there will doubtless be temping deals available on the outgoing one, as both dealers and car maker will want to run down their stocks. Buying a dealer demo car has always been a canny option too, as most will have had minimal mileage and yet will be effectively a 'newsd' car, with a chunk of early depreciation off the price. Keep your eyes open too for car companies having 'open weekends' or promotions. You might not get an awful lot more off the price, but you many car makers are now offering enticements like a free fuel card with up to €500 worth of juice on it. That's enough for as much as 6 month's motoring in a reasonably efficient car.
And then there's your trade in. If you've bought a car since 2009 and fancy trading it in this year, you're on a bit of a winner. The lack of new cars sold in that period has meant a dearth of good used cars in the system, so prices have hardened, partially cancelling out new car price rises from the Vehicle Registration Tax changes in the Budget. "One of the big things in the industry at the moment is the shortage of used stock" says Johnathan Meade. "So they can get very good deals, because there was a change in the VRT structure in the budget, so when new car prices rise, used car prices rise too and the scarcity of used cars increased the values on top of that. So the cost of change has been factored in, we focused on that, and that cost hasn't altered all that much, so there are good deals. But as with everything, it's all about shopping around."
It's always good to make sure your trade-in is in good nick too. If it's due a service, get it done and a valet is a major bonus. By coincidence, I recently traded my ancient 2003 clunker in and the €180 I spent on getting it thoroughly valeted made a huge difference. Suddenly, my old beater was looking nearly new.
It's probably most important of all to shop around for your finance though. Most of us still get our new cars with either a loan, lease or HP agreement, and while the banks are hardly flashing the cash around, you can still get yourself a better deal than you might have thought.
"Are they shopping around enough?" asked personal finance expert Jill Kerby when I spoke to her. "I should think they probably are, and that's because this isn't the old days any more when you could just go into your bank or your credit union and just set down exactly what you wanted to borrow, what kind of car you wanted to buy and you walked out with your loan. Times have certainly changed since then and the banks, on all fronts, are being much more particular who they lend to, how much they lend and especially your capacity to repay that loan."
But beware of being tempted in the showroom. Many car makers are now offering in-house finance from their own banking arms, and it can just be too tempting, sitting there surrounded by the shiny metal you want to buy, to sign on the line there and then. There could be a better deal out there, so resist the temptation and get your finance sorted first. Jill Kerby agrees: "There's nothing better than to go into the car showroom, see the car that you actually want and to have the salesman say "Have you go finance yet? No? Oh, well come on in here and we'll sort you out." And it just sounds like a reasonable deal because you have an idea in your own mind of how much you can afford and if the salesman's approach is in those parameters you're very tempted to sign on the dotted line, and you really shouldn't because it's worth comparing a couple of things. One of which is just basic personal term rates for financing. Now this is different from a car leasing or financing arrangement that you'll get from a dealer or in some cases the banks. Now, I'm not going to say that it's always cheaper to go to your bank for a personal loan, but what does happen if you do that is that you might have a bit more flexibility in terms of how you pay it off and how long for. Some people I have come across don't even understand the difference between, say, a hire purchase agreement and a car leasing arrangement."
So, getting a good deal on your new (or used for that matter) car is not about huffing your way up to the salesman's desk and naming your terms, I'm afraid. The reality is far less dramatic. It's about taking the time to shop around, getting to know the rhythms of the car industry and its product cycles, building a careful understanding of your finance package and what it really entails and, finally, deciding on a strict budget and finding the car you want at the price you can afford. Do all that and the deal will be right.


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Britney Spears is about to have two men watching over her affairs. People magazine reported Friday that Spears' father, Jamie, has asked a Los Angeles court to add Jason Trawick as a co-conservator over his superstar daughter from Kentwood.
Trawick, the magazine said, will only have shared legal control over Britney's general well-being, not her mega-million-dollar fortune.
Jamie Spears has had legal control over the pop singer since February 2008, when his daughter suffered a psychological breakdown.
The conservatorship can only be lifted by a judge when convinced, on the advice of Spears' doctors, that she is healthy enough to manage her life again.
According to a Digital Spy.com report March 23, Spears' conservatorship has OK'd a new gig for the singer: judging with Simon Cowell on "The X Factor."
Britney Spears and Trawick became engaged at Christmas. She has reportedly sold her Beverly Hills mansion for $4,253,000, which was listed for $2,995,000 and the couple — along with her two boys — will move into a rental until they find something suitable for the new family.


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Colletti, Richard B*; Baldassano, Robert N†; Milov, David E‡; Margolis, Peter A§; Bousvaros, Athos||; Crandall, Wallace V¶; Crissinger, Karen D#; D'Amico, Michael A*; Day, Andrew S**; Denson, Lee A§; Dubinsky, Marla††; Ebach, Dawn R‡‡; Hoffenberg, Edward J§§; Kader, Howard A||||; Keljo, David J¶¶; Leibowitz, Ian H##; Mamula, Petar†; Pfefferkorn, Marian D***; Qureshi, M Azim†††; for PIBDNet, the Pediatric IBD Network for Research and Improvement
*University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
†Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
‡Nemours Children's Clinics, Orlando, FL, USA
§Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
||Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
¶Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
#University of South Alabama, Mobile
**Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
††Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
‡‡University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
§§University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
||||Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
¶¶Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
##INOVA, Fairfax, VA, USA
***Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN, USA
†††Penn State Children's Hospital, Hershey, PA, USA
Received 7 July, 2008
Accepted 15 October, 2008
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This study was supported by a grant from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition with funds from the American Board of Pediatrics, and by GCRC grant M01 RR00109.
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Objectives: Variation in medical care can be a barrier to improving clinical outcomes. We aim to describe the variation in care of Crohn disease as provided by a broad sample of pediatric gastroenterologists.
Methods: Two hundred forty-six Crohn disease patients of 93 pediatric gastroenterologists from 48 practice sites starting treatment with either thiopurine or infliximab were studied. We assessed variation in diagnostic testing that had been performed to establish the diagnosis of Crohn disease and to assess the phenotype, extent, and severity of disease. We also assessed variation in initial thiopurine and infliximab dosage and in nutritional therapy.
Results: Diagnostic studies in which care was uniform included complete blood count, performed in 100% of patients, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and colonoscopy in 96%, and upper endoscopy in 89%. However, imaging of the small bowel had not been performed in 19%, and a stool test for pathogens had not been performed in 29%. Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) had been measured in 61% of patients before treatment with a thiopurine; in 85%, TPMT was normal. Nonetheless, even when TPMT was normal, 40% of patients received an initial dose of thiopurine that was lower than recommended. Testing for tuberculosis before initiating treatment with infliximab was not performed in 30%. In addition, 36% of severely underweight patients were not receiving a multivitamin supplement, supplemental formula, or tube feeding.
Conclusions: There is variation in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the management of pediatric Crohn disease, and gaps exist between recommended and actual care.
In recent decades, research has generated an enormous growth of medical science, technology, and therapeutics. Knowledge from basic research, translational research, randomized clinical trials, and outcomes research has enabled experts in many fields to develop and disseminate evidence-based clinical practice guidelines with recommendations for medical practitioners. Yet health services research suggests that health care could perform a great deal better than it does today (1). For example, an audit of medical records of 4000 adults in 12 cities in the United States showed that only 55% of recommended preventive, acute, and chronic care was being received (2). A study of 3000 hospitals found that recommended care was provided to a large majority of adult patients for only 5 of 10 measures (3). Deficits in the quality of ambulatory care provided to children appear to be similar in magnitude to those reported for adults (4). The National Scorecard on US Health System Performance, an assessment of health care outcomes, quality, access, equity, and efficiency, found that the United States achieves an average score of only 66%. If the United States improved performance in key areas, it could save an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 lives and $50 to $100 billion annually (5).
Despite advances in technology and medications, there is evidence that Crohn disease outcomes have not improved. A systematic review evaluating mortality, cancer, disease recurrence, extraintestinal manifestations, and medication use failed to show hard evidence of improvement in disease outcome in Crohn disease during the past 4 decades (6). Furthermore, despite advances in therapy, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) hospitalization and surgery rates in the United States between 1990 and 2003 did not decrease, and there was a significant increase in hospitalizations for Crohn disease (7).
One of the barriers to improved outcomes is unnecessary variation in care. Wide variation in the use of a diagnostic test or therapy may indicate the test or therapy is being underused, overused, or misused (8). In Crohn disease, failing to perform a colonoscopy with biopsy to establish the diagnosis or neglecting to identify and treat weight loss are potential examples of underuse. An example of overuse is prolonged treatment with prednisone. An example of misuse is prescribing infliximab to a patient with tuberculosis. Knowledge about the types of variation in disease management is the basis for initial efforts to improve care and outcomes (9–11).
The primary aims of this study were to characterize and measure the variation in care as currently provided by a broad sample of pediatric gastroenterologists and to use variation-in-care data to identify diagnostic tests and therapies that may be underused or overused. The primary hypothesis was that there is wide variation in the use of diagnostic tests and therapies owing to underuse or overuse.
We conducted cross-sectional analyses at the time patients were being enrolled in a study of children and adolescents with Crohn disease who were initiating treatment for the first time with either thiopurine or infliximab. The patients were divided into 2 groups. One group of patients was initiating therapy with a thiopurine (6-mercaptopurine or azathioprine), and the other group was initiating therapy with infliximab.
The inclusion criteria were patients 1 to 17 years old with Crohn disease, diagnosed by a pediatric gastroenterologist based on clinical, radiographic, endoscopic, and pathological findings, who were about to begin treatment with either thiopurine or infliximab. Exclusion criteria for the thiopurine group were previous treatment with a thiopurine or current treatment with infliximab. The exclusion criterion for the infliximab group was previous treatment with infliximab (patients could be treated concurrently with a thiopurine). Approval of the protocol by the local institutional review board, parental consent, and patient assent were obtained.
All pediatric gastroenterologists who were members of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) were invited to participate in the study. Each network physician was asked to recruit and enroll up to 4 consecutive patients with Crohn disease, 2 or 3 initiating treatment with thiopurine and 1 or 2 initiating treatment with infliximab, providing care as usual.
We examined variation in care in 4 areas: (1) diagnostic tests that had been performed at the time of diagnosis to establish the diagnosis of Crohn disease and to assess the phenotype, extent, and severity of disease: a complete blood count and an erythrocyte sedimentation rate, a stool test for pathogens, small bowel imaging by either an upper gastrointestinal and small bowel series radiograph or a computerized tomography scan with contrast, and endoscopy and colonoscopy with biopsy. (2) Thiopurine (6-mercaptopurine and azathiopurine) treatment: measurement of the thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) phenotype or genotype before initiating thiopurine treatment to determine the dose of thiopurine at the onset of treatment and the initial dose of thiopurine prescribed. (3) Infliximab treatment: a skin test and/or chest radiograph to screen for tuberculosis before initiating treatment with infliximab and the initial dose of infliximab administered. (4) Nutritional therapy: the administration of supplements of vitamins, minerals, and formula and of nasogastric tube feedings.
The data reported here were obtained at the time patients were enrolled and included demographic information about the patient, characterization of the nature of the disease, disease activity, prior diagnostic evaluation, current treatment, and the indication for initiating treatment with the drug. Data were collected using an Internet-enabled secure system. Before enrollment of patients, the Web-based data form was tested for completeness, correctness, functionality, and ease of use. At the time of enrollment, data were entered for each patient including age, sex, race, ethnicity, type of medical insurance, date of diagnosis, location of disease, tests that had been performed at any time before enrollment, symptoms, physical findings, body weight and height, current medications, tests performed at the time of enrollment, the Physician Global Assessment, indications for treatment, and the starting doses of thiopurine and infliximab. Disease activity was assessed by the Physician Global Assessment and the Harvey Bradshaw Index (12). The Physician Global Assessment is a subjective measure in which the physician classifies the disease status as 1 of 4 categories: inactive, mild, moderate, or severe. Body weight was defined as satisfactory, underweight (mild subpar), or severely underweight (weight loss >10%) compared with the previous highest weight, excluding intentional or prednisone-related weight loss.
To characterize variations in current care delivery approaches, we computed point estimates and standard deviation for patient characteristics (age, sex, ethnicity, race, and medical insurance), disease characteristics (extent and phenotype of disease, disease duration and severity, nutritional and growth status, and clinical course before initiating therapy), and care delivery approaches (diagnostic testing, current medications, and indications for treatment). The least variation is present when essentially all or none of the patients have an intervention; the most variation is present when 50% of patients have an intervention. Characteristics of the 2 groups were compared using the Mann-Whitney test for continuous variables, such as duration, and ordinal variables, such as the Harvey Bradshaw Index. Variables expressed in percentages were compared using the χ2 test.
There were 246 patients enrolled by 93 pediatric gastroenterologists at 48 practice sites (44 in the United States, 3 in Canada, and 1 in Australia). The sites were both large and small and included both university and private practices. Patients were enrolled between October 2004 and July 2006. There were 146 patients in the group initiating treatment with thiopurine and 100 patients in the group initiating treatment with infliximab. There were no significant differences between the patients in the 2 groups in demographic information or in the extent or the phenotype of disease: 58% were male, 85% were white, the age at enrollment was 13.3 ± 2.9 (mean ± SD, median 13.7, range 3.6–17.8 years), 93% had health insurance, including 12% with Medicaid.
The distribution of disease according to the Montreal classification (13) was as follows: 12% involved the ileum but not the colon (L1); 23% involved the colon but not the ileum (L2); 62% involved both the ileum and colon (L3); and 3% involved only the upper gastrointestinal tract (L4). By the Montreal classification, 81% were nonstricturing, nonpenetrating (B1); 17% were stricturing (B2); and 2% were penetrating (B3). There was perianal disease in 30% and extraintestinal disease in 5%.
The body weight was satisfactory in 44%, underweight (mild subpar) in 36%, and severely underweight (weight loss >10%) in 19% of patients. Assessment of growth status was not performed. The duration of Crohn disease at the time of enrollment was 6.8 ± 17.6 (median 1, range 0–154) months in the thiopurine group and 22.2 ± 23.0 (median 14, range 0–136) months in the infliximab group (P < 0.001). The indications for initiating treatment with a thiopurine or infliximab are shown in Table 1 and disease severity at the time of enrollment is shown in Table 2. Patients in the infliximab group had a longer duration of disease and more severe disease.
Variation in diagnostic interventions is shown in Table 3. Diagnostic interventions in which there was little or no variation were a complete blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, colonoscopy with biopsy, and esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy. In contrast, diagnostic interventions in which there was substantial variation in care were stool test for pathogens, upper gastrointestinal and small bowel series radiography, and TPMT. Small bowel imaging (with either radiography or CT scan) was not performed in 19% of patients.
When patients were treated with a thiopurine, there was variation in the selection of thiopurine: 70% were treated with 6-mercaptopurine and 30% were treated with azathioprine. Thiopurine methyltransferase was measured in 65% of patients before initiating thiopurine treatment in the thiopurine group and had been measured in 55% of patients in the infliximab group who were receiving thiopurine at the time infliximab treatment was initiated (Table 4). The TPMT was normal in 120 (85%) of those patients tested. Of the 120 patients in whom TPMT was normal, the dose of 6-mercaptopurine was between 0.55 and 2.78 mg/kg/day (31% of patients had a dose <1.0 mg/kg/day); the dose of azathioprine was between 0.85 and 3.45 mg/kg/day (66% had a dose <2.0 mg/kg/day). When the TPMT enzyme activity is normal, the recommended initial dose of 6-mercaptopurine is 1 to 1.5 mg/kg/day, and the recommended initial dose of azathioprine is 2 to 3 mg/kg/day (14,15). Thus, 40% of patients (48/120) were receiving doses of thiopurine that were lower than recommended. In the infliximab group, some of the patients on a maintenance dose may have had a decrease or increase in dose in response to blood concentrations of metabolites or to toxicity.
Screening for tuberculosis with either a skin test or a chest radiograph before starting treatment with infliximab was not performed in 30% of patients. There also appeared to be variation in the initial dose of infliximab. The recommended initial dose of infliximab is 5 mg/kg (14–17). The mean dose was 5.4 mg/kg, the median dose 5.1 mg/kg, and the range was 4.4 to 11.0 mg/kg. The dose was 4.4 to 5.0 mg/kg in 49% of patients, 5.1 to 6.0 mg/kg in 37% of patients, 6.1 to 7.0 mg/kg in 11%, and 10.1 to 11.0 mg/kg in 3%. Infliximab is dispensed in vials of 100 mg, and pediatric gastroenterologists commonly administer the entire contents of any vial used to reach a dose of 5 mg/kg, a practice that would result in a dose greater than 5 mg/kg. Such a practice could account for almost all of the doses above 5.0 mg/kg. Thus, only 3% of patients had an unexplained high dose of infliximab.
However, there was considerable variation in nutritional interventions: 37% of patients in both groups received a multivitamin supplement, 14% a calcium supplement, 4% a vitamin D supplement, 7% a formula supplement, and 4% tube feeding. Forty-seven patients (19%) were severely underweight (weight decreased >10%). Nutritional interventions performed in these patients are shown in Table 5; of note, 36% of patients had not received any of these interventions.
We also measured variation in other diagnostic tests. Liver tests had been performed in 95% of patients in both groups, C-reactive protein in 64%, serological tests for IBD in 36%, bone densitometry in 18%, and ophthalmologic examination in 15%.
The efficacy of 5-aminosalicylic acid medications, although well established in the treatment of ulcerative colitis, is controversial in Crohn disease, and the optimal dosage in pediatric patients is not known. In our study, 60% of the patients in both groups were treated with 5-aminosalicylic acid. The doses of sulfasalazine varied between 26 and 79 mg/kg/day; the doses of a pH 7-dependent mesalamine varied between 21 and 104 mg/kg/day; and the doses of a controlled-release mesalamine varied between 13 and 145 mg/kg/day.
The results of this study indicate there is significant variation in diagnostic and therapeutic care of children and adolescents with Crohn disease. There appears to be variation of certain diagnostic tests, including a stool test for pathogens, imaging of the small intestine, measurement of TPMT before starting treatment with a thiopurine, and testing for tuberculosis before starting treatment with infliximab. Nearly half of the patients starting treatment with a thiopurine (in the thiopurine group) and more than one quarter of patients on maintenance thiopurine (in the infliximab group) were treated with a dose of thiopurine that was less than recommended for initial treatment (14,15). In addition, more than one third of severely underweight patients were not receiving nutritional interventions.
When a test is not performed for a stool pathogen, it increases the risk of an undetected infection or misdiagnosis at onset (18,19). When small bowel imaging is not performed, the extent of disease cannot be delineated and the chance of detecting a stricture or penetrating disease is reduced, potentially leading to incorrect classification of the disease phenotype and suboptimal treatment (18–21). When patients initiating treatment with infliximab are not tested for tuberculosis, it increases the risk of the development of active tuberculous infection (15).
There is widespread recognition of the value of measuring TPMT before initiating treatment with 6-mercaptopurine or azathioprine, including by the Food and Drug Administration (22), by analyses of cost-effectiveness (23,24), by many insurance companies (25), and as part of clinical practice guidelines (14,15). When the TPMT is normal, treatment with 6-mercaptopurine can be initiated with a dose of 1 to 1.5 mg/kg/day, or azathioprine with a dose of 2 to 3 mg/kg/day. Yet only 61% of patients in the 2 groups had measurement of TPMT before thiopurine treatment. Some patients do not have TPMT testing because their medical insurance company will not pay for this test despite its importance. Nonetheless, even when the TPMT was normal, 40% of the patients were treated with a dose of thiopurine that was less than is recommended (14,15). Without receiving adequate doses, patients are significantly less likely to attain or maintain remission (26,27).
In a previous report of variation in the initial management of children with Crohn disease, there was significant variation in the frequency of use of medications, including immunomodulators, antibiotics, 5-aminosalicylates, and infliximab at the 10 centers studied (28). Another study found that adults with IBD referred for a second opinion often were not receiving optimal medical therapy (29). There was suboptimal dosing of immunomodulatory medications, prolonged use of corticosteroids, failure to use steroid-sparing agents, inadequate measures to prevent metabolic bone disease and inadequate screening for colorectal cancer.
This is the first study to report variation of both diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in pediatric IBD care and potential gaps between recommended and actual care. Strengths of this study include the participation of a large number of practice sites, providing a broad representation, and Web-based data entry that facilitated the process of data collection. Limitations of the study include the lack of verification that consecutive patients were recruited; auditing of site records was not performed. Investigation is necessary to determine to what extent a reduction in the variation in care reported here would result in better outcomes. In addition, the paucity of recommendations for standard diagnostic testing and initial evaluation limits the interpretation of the variation in testing for stool pathogens, small bowel imaging, and less commonly performed tests.
The causes of variation in the care provided are likely multifactorial. The absence of an evidence-based pediatric clinical practice guideline from a North American authority could contribute to variation in care. It is likely that the lack of a single, promulgated, widely accepted guideline with recommendations for standard diagnostic testing and initial evaluation, as well as for indications for medications and their proper dosages, is an important factor. The habits and preferences of physicians could be an important factor. Patient preferences and adherence to medication regimens, particularly when influenced by financial concerns, are also important. The refusal of medical insurance companies to pay for necessary testing is a factor. Not all diagnostic tests are necessary in some clinical situations; for example, when Crohn disease is diagnosed by gross and histopathological examination of a surgical specimen, it may not be necessary to perform a colonoscopy or to test for stool pathogens. In addition, many physicians practice in a delivery system that does not provide the structure, including the information systems and decision-making support, necessary to deliver consistent, reliable care.
Randomized trials have demonstrated that quality improvement can lead to a reduction in unnecessary variation in care and significant improvements in care and outcomes of adults with chronic illness (30). A prospective controlled cohort study of 65 adults with IBD demonstrated that practice guidelines for IBD used by physicians can reduce practice variation (31). The findings of our study indicate that there is variation in the care of children and adolescents with IBD, and gaps exist between recommended and actual care. These results suggest there is an opportunity to apply quality improvement methods at multiple institutions to evaluate the effectiveness of a pediatric IBD guideline to reduce variation and improve clinical outcomes.
All of the authors have indicated they do not have any affiliations with or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or material discussed in the manuscript, with the following exceptions: Richard B. Colletti (investigator, Abbott Laboratories; investigator and consultant, Centocor; Consultant, Accordant Health Services); Athos Bousvaros (speakers' bureau, Abbott Laboratories); Wallace Crandall (investigator and consultant, Centocor; investigator, Abbott Laboratories; speakers' bureau, TAP Pharmaceuticals); Marla Dubinsky (consultant, Prometheus).
All people named in the Acknowledgment have provided written permission to be named.
Other PIBDNet Network Physicians who contributed patient data to this study include C. Allan Pratt (Anchorage, AK), Shehzad Saeed (Birmingham, AL), Sesi Ogunbi (Montgomery, AL), Timothy Bohane (Sydney, Australia), Saied Dallalzadeh (Encino, CA), Elizabeth Gleghorn (Oakland, CA), Philip McDonald (Sacramento, CA), Melvin Heyman (San Francisco, CA), Jeffrey Hyams (Hartford, CT), Jonathan Evans (Jacksonville, FL), Alan Sacks (Pensacola, FL), Jay Hochman (Atlanta, Georgia), Claire Wilson (Honolulu, HI), Richard Sandler (Chicago, IL), Jean Molleston, Joseph Fitzgerald, Steven Steiner, Mark Corkins (Indianapolis, IN), Adrienne Scheich, Alan Leichtner, Anne Wolf, Daniel Kamin, Menno Verhave, Laurie Fishman (Boston, MA), Maria Oliva-Hemker (Baltimore, MD), Mark Integlia (Portland, ME), Pamela Brown (Ann Arbor, MI), Harold Conrad (Grand Rapids, MI), Robert Rothbaum (St. Louis, MO), Jon Vanderhoof (Omaha, NE), Jeffrey Critch (St. John's, Newfoundland), Jonathan Teitelbaum (Long Branch, NJ), Iona Monteiro (Newark, NJ), Anthony Otley (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Howard Baron (Las Vegas, NV), Abraham Jellin (Brooklyn, NY), Keith Benkov (New York, NY), John Bucuvalas (Cincinnati, OH), Carlo DiLorenzo, Hayat Mousa, Jane Balint, John Barnard, John Russo (Columbus, OH), John Grunow (Oklahoma City, OK), Sulaiman Bharwani (London, Ontario), David Mack (Ottawa, ON), David Piccoli, Edisio Semeao, Janice Kelly, Jonathan Markowitz, Joshua Friedman, Kathleen Loomes, Mei Lun Wang, Randolph Matthews, Ritu Verma (Philadelphia, PA), Manisha Dave, Alka Goyal (Pittsburgh, PA), Corey Strobel (Knoxville, TN), Abiodun Johnson (Amadillo, TX), George Ferry (Houston, TX), John Pohl (Temple, TX), Lynn Duffy, Otto Louis-Jacques, Peter Lee, Catherine Chao (Fairfax, VA), Michael Stephens, Subra Kugathasan (Milwaukee, WI).
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