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This In Brief examines the extent to which states have balanced the delivery of Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports to people in their homes (or in more homelike settings in their communities) and in institutions. It offers a unique focus on older people and adults with physical disabilities separate from other long-term care populations, such as people with developmental disabilities. The paper explores what states have been able to accomplish under current Medicaid law and addresses the impact of federal policies on state efforts.
The overwhelming majority of people with disabilities age 50 and older (87 percent) want to receive long-term care (LTC) services in their own homes. People want choice and control over everyday decisions.
Yet the Medicaid program—our nation's single largest source of funding for long-term services and supports (LTSS)—does not provide the range of choices people want. Instead, it continues to allocate a disproportionate share of its resources for institutional services.
Seventy-five percent of Medicaid LTC spending for older people and adults with physical disabilities paid for institutional services in 2006.
On average, Medicaid dollars can support nearly three older people and adults with physical disabilities in home and community-based services (HCBS) for every person in a nursing home.
To the extent that states redirect resources to provide HCBS instead of nursing home services, their programs and services can be increasingly cost-effective and responsive to the preferences of people with disabilities.
- In 2006, only seven states spent 40 percent or more of their Medicaid LTC dollars for older people and adults with physical disabilities on HCBS: Alaska, California, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
- There is great variation among states, ranging from 5 percent or less to more than 50 percent of Medicaid LTSS funds for older people and adults with disabilities going toward HCBS.
- As a whole, the nation made progress in balancing its growth of Medicaid LTC expenditures for older people and adults with disabilities from 2001 to 2006 by increasing HCBS spending by $6.1 billion, compared to a $6.6 billion increase for nursing home services.
- However, progress in balancing Medicaid spending varied greatly among states. In 22 states, the dollar increase in Medicaid spending on HCBS from FY 2001 to FY 2006 was greater than the dollar increase in spending on nursing home care. Another 27 states added more Medicaid funds to nursing home services than to HCBS during these five years.
- The nation made considerable progress by increasing the number of older people and adults with physical disabilities receiving HCBS, compared to the number served in nursing homes from 1999 to 2004.
- The number of HCBS participants increased from 1999 to 2004 in 43 states and declined in seven. In 27 states, the number of nursing home participants increased over the same period, while the number declined in 24 states.
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Another futile gesture at RBS?
In a sketch for Beyond the Fringe, the late great comedian Peter Cook plays a Squadron Leader who asks one of his men to lay down his life on an impossible mission during the Second World War. "We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war," he says.
There was a similar note of farce to the resignation of John Hourican, head of the markets and international banking business at RBS, who was last week forced to carry the can for the bank's role in manipulating Libor. Hourican bowed out with some grace but it is hard to see his departure as anything more than a futile, arbitrary and politically-motivated gesture.
In attempting to demonstrate that (some of) the most senior management have been held accountable for misbehaviour on their watch, RBS joins a long list of banks to have sacrificed the wrong person.
In an article published this week http://bit.ly/YnUjI4, I argue that, in cases of abuse and misbehaviour regulators should go after individuals with a wider range of potential sanctions, such as removing their authorisation to work in the financial markets.
But if you are going to go after individuals, you do need to go after the right ones. That means starting at the bottom and working up, not necessarily starting at the top and working down.
Chairmen and chief executives are good at avoiding the chop. Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of RBS, said the buck stopped with him but didn't translate that sentiment into action. Chief executive Stephen Hester declined to comment on whether he had considered resigning over the Libor scandal. But the fact that he is still in place suggests that, if he did think about, it didn't trouble him for long.
As the head of the investment bank, Hourican might seem like the obvious candidate to go. But there is an inconvenient detail: he only took on the role in October 2008 after its bailout by the UK government, and several years after the Libor manipulation started. From a political perspective he is senior enough to satisfy the mob without being so senior as to put at risk the already delicate and uncertain task of rebuilding RBS. If that is the rationale for the choice of who should go, it is the wrong one.
Such a token gesture has little impact as a deterrent or in terms of changing culture. It would be far more effective to drill down into the firm, punish the individual traders and work your way up from there. Who are the team heads, desk managers and divisional executives who were no doubt happy to claim responsibility for their teams' performance when things were going well, but who appear to have avoided responsibility for when things went wrong?
Members of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards seemed to share this view this week when they asked Peter Nielsen, the global head of markets at RBS who ran its rates business for much of the time some of his team were busy rigging Libor, why he and other executives had not resigned as well.
While Nielsen thought about stepping down, it was considered in everyone's interests for just one executive to be thrown under a bus. Just imagine: if Nielsen had gone instead of or as well as Hourican, where would you stop? You might have to fire all of the managers all the way down to the traders' direct bosses, and that would be messy.
The example set by our immediate boss is exponentially more important to how we behave at work than ethereal declarations about a new culture from the chief executive. It is the managers who turn a blind eye and who don't ask awkward questions that really define a company's culture. Many of these managers are still in place not just at RBS but in similar roles across the industry having been promoted or moved firms.
If a scandal is big enough then, by all means, fire the chief executive. Shoot the executive in charge of the relevant division pour encourager les autres - absolutely. But if you are going to do that, then make sure that you also clean out the layers of managers below.
Hourican asked his team to make sure that his "death" was not wasted and that they use it as a catalyst to change the bank's behaviour. Given that he is the only senior executive to pay the price, this seems like wishful thinking.

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I've been struggling a lot...this week, and longer. I've been so internally devastated with everything going on with my mom and being so scared for her. But I looked back and I've been consistently exercising everyday. So I guess I am finding a good way to deal with my stress. I even got in a horrible 2 mile run yesterday when I wasnt feeling up to it. But I got it done, and I am sure it helped a little bit with the emotions.
It's been 2.5 weeks of food restrictions so far, and I am starting to feel sorry for myself because I really wanted to eat a chocolate chip cookie, or a cake, or a bowl of ice cream, or really anything last night. I know the food restrictions are to help me feel better - and I do feel so much better (it took a few days after the french fries incident last week, but back to feeling great again) - so I know it's worth it, but since I havent figured out work arounds so that I can still enjoy treats, its been extremely frustrating.
I love my friends all over the country (and world, thanks to the military!), but lately when I see someone else get engaged, married, or announce they are pregnant, or give birth, I feel so yucky inside because I dont have any of that right now, and sometimes I feel like it's never going to happen to me. And then I feel like a horrible friend because I want to be happy for my friends (and I truly am), but I feel such jealousy at the same time. And J doesnt seem to understand the jealousy feelings.
When I saw that it was snowing this morning I was hoping for a day off work so that I can sit in my pjs all day and just sew. Sadly, its not snowing enough for work to be closed, but I am still hoping we get to go home early since the snow is going to pick up again around 1pm and we are expecting up to 3 inches later.
I am not sure how I survived working without utilizing the Pandora app on my phone. Suddenly my office feels like a happer place, than just sitting in silence, thinking about sex assaults.
I have to go dress shopping for this holiday party in a few weeks, and though I love shopping, I am just not looking forward to dress shopping. I think I've just been in such a bad place mentally lately, that I feel guilty for being excited or happy about something, when my family is going through such a tough time. I am trying so hard to not feel guilty, but its hard.
I put together my half marathon training plan last night for the Princess Half Marathon and I am pretty excited about it, though. I even made it pretty colors, and I plan to hang it up in my craft room. I also looked at different races and I want to put together a potential race calendar and set some ridiculous goal for myself but I am afraid if I set a ridiculous goal and then fail, I'll feel bad.
I'm particularly annoyed that two of my clients seem to be placed in situations where someone much higher ranking than me is using them as pawns in this political chess game. I feel like with all of the pressure Congress has been putting on the military for "not taking sex assault cases seriously" they are losing focus on what's really important - victim care and healing. Arguably forcing someone to participate in a trial that is only going to prevent them from healing, and possibly leave them even worse off, is not the answer here. This is the problem I see with politics - we go from one extreme to the other, to make a point, and the people "we are concerned about helping" end up damaged even further. :/
That's all I got today. I wish my office had a window so that I could at least watch the pretty snow fall.
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It's good to read your blog as it is helping me to get to know my new Spark Friend. (but who is J?)
It sounds like you're having a rough time though.
From all that you say, you seem to be doing all the right things - well done!
Except, perhaps, to find a way to incorporate some tasty food treats into your plan every now and again - I think that's important for long-term success.
As for setting 'ridiculous' goals - go ahead and dream big! But also set some smaller, more achievable goals so that even if the 'ridiculous' one takes ages to achieve or proves to be Really ridiculous, you'll still be able to celebrate other victories on the way.
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I feel like I have felt most of this before. My mother was on hospice when I was picking out wedding dresses. I longed to be a stay at home mom and that never happened. But Life happens for a reason and now I am happy for the way it did. I could have had a much harder life, and I am thankful for it and allowing myself to go with it.
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it seems it always is this way, the victim is not considered. it's like she's there for the crime and then she just disappears and it's just the criminal and the system.
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After the global release on January 30th, Blackberry (formerly RIM) announced the launch of Blackberry 10 in India today. The event which was held at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai today signalled the onset of the new global Blackberry range in India, which is one of their key markets. Today's event only focussed on the launch of the flagship Z10 smartphone. We have written about the device back when it launched globally. It comes with a 4.2 inch touchscreen which is capable of a 1280*768 display. There is an 8 MP camera in the back which is capable of recording in 1080p in addition to the front facing 2MP camera which has a resolution of 720p. Other highlights of the Z10 and the new Blackberry 10 OS include Flow, Timeshift and the new apps. In fact the release in India is largely geared towards making consumers aware of the fact that the Blackberry 10 has apps which would normally be available Android and iOS. Out of the 70,000 apps that are present currently on the BB10 platform, 9000 have been developed locally in India. The company also announced 30 new apps from services which are pretty popular in India on Android and iOS. Here is a list: PVR Tap 'n' Go MayMyIndia Hungama NDTV HDFC Ranbir Kapoor's Fan app Jet Airways Saregama World Space Juno Tally Myplex Business Today Tap Cricket Vogue Rooms Tonight Delight Circle Times of India ABP News Bagit Today Sony Music UTV Bollywood videos Start Health Kotak Securities Moneycontrol MTV Zomato Surface DJ PayTM Traffline Gaana Another feature of the BB 10 OS is the fact it can run Android apps via some sort of an emulator. However, the emulator is based on previous versions of Android which are now dated and the latest Android apps may not work really well with it. The new BBM is a big deal when it comes to the BB 10. You can now share screenshots and make video/voice calls. Vivek Bhardwaj, Head of Software Portfolio at Blackberry demoed the video call functionality by calling Ranbir Kapoor, who happens to be the brand ambassador. The new Blackberry Hub is impressive and designed with the power user in mind. Centralization of social and communication apps into the hub in addition to ease of access to the hub is fantastic when it comes to user experience. The new OS has a lot of potential but I think the pricing will kill it. The Z10 is currently priced at Rs. 43,490 and that is quite a lot to pay for a new user experience and BBM. Decent Android phones are selling for Rs. 10,000 these days and give the user a better selection in terms of apps and features compared to the Z10. Even the iPhone is a better bet for the Indian consumer despite the heavy price point of the device. Blackberry is known for its enterprise friendliness but Samsung is catching up with it in that segment with Samsung Knox . The price point thus does not make a whole lot of sense. Would you pay that much for a new Blackberry device? Share your thoughts with us. Looking For A Social Media Agency?? – Contact WATConsult – India's Leading Social Media Agency
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The two basic building ingredients, sand and water, are available in abundance on a sandy beach, so most sand play takes place there, or in a sandpit. Tidal beaches generally have sand that limits height and structure because of the shape of the sand grains. Good sand sculpture sand is somewhat dirty, having silt and clay that helps lock the irregular shaped sand grains together.Shovels and buckets are the main construction tool used in creating sand sculptures, although some people use only their hands. Water from the sea to mix with the sand can be brought to the building site with a bucket or other container. Sometimes other materials, such as pieces of wood, are added to reinforce structures.
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Construction of an indoor firing range for the Perrysburg police department is on target to get underway in the coming weeks.
"We hope to start on the project this month," Chief Dan Paez said.
The $400,000 firing range will be created in the basement of the police department building. There's nothing in the basement now but space, Chief Paez said. The building was constructed in 2004.
The firing-range project is a joint effort of Perrysburg and Owens Community College.
As a requirement of $200,000 in state money for the project, police academy students at Owens will have access to the firing range for 15 years, the chief said. The city of Perrysburg, which owns the police department building and will own the firing range, is putting in a $200,000 match, he said.
The facility will replace an outdoor range at a local park that drew complaints from residents about the noise and raised safety concerns. Last year the police department suspended training at the outdoor range, the chief said.
"We look forward to the enclosed place," he said.
Expected to be completed in three to four months, it will feature five firing lanes.
Typically Perrysburg police officers — the department has 33 sworn officers — train four times a year. The state only requires once a year, Chief Paez said.
The city exceeds the training requirement in order to give officers as much experience as possible, he said, adding the police department takes firearms training seriously.
"It is an important part of what we do," he said.
The new firing range will include "a lot of steel baffles" in the ceiling to protect the building's water and electrical lines, the chief said.
The facility is designed as a tactical configuration, meaning officers won't be restricted to firing from one set spot. Instead, "they can shoot from anywhere in the space," he said.
State firearms requalification requires more dynamic training than in the past, and that means officers must know how to shoot and move to different spots, Chief Paez said.
With this design, targets can turn and prompt officers into making split-second decisions related to a variety of scenarios, such as does the subject have a gun and should the officer respond with deadly force.
It's important, the chief said, to expose officers to as much training as possible under different settings, such as in low-level light.
The different scenarios are designed to make the training exercises more realistic, he said.
Bullets fired by officers during training will be trapped and recycled.
Plans call for a control booth; a storage area for barricades, targets, and ammunition; an armory to store spare weapons, and a small area where officers can clean and service their weapons.
The firing range will be situated in a highly secured area of the police department building, said Chief Paez. There will be additional security at the entrance of the range as well as to the armory with alarms, cameras, and locks.
Many neighboring police departments have indoor firing ranges, such as Maumee, Rossford, and Toledo, he said.
"We are very excited about having this completed to allow officers to be exposed to such training," he said.
Doug Dariano, city engineer, said contracts for the project are being signed, and a pre-construction meeting would be held soon. No start date for the project has been set, he said.
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Monday was apparently celebrity night in the wrestling world, as both programs brought in stars from elsewhere in the entertainment world to boost ratings.
On Nitro, Dennis Rodman made his ring return, picking a fight with Macho Man Randy Savage. This angle could work, if Rodman decides to put in some hard work, like his first WCW appearance and unlike his last time out when he just looked sloppy.
Also appearing on the WCW show was HBO's "Arliss," actor Robert Wuhl. Oddly, the announcers didn't seem to know whether to refer to the actor by his real name or as his TV character. Rehearsal is a good thing, fellas.
Insane Clown Posse, perhaps the worst rap group in existence, showed up on Nitro as well, just months after being dumped by the WWF. It looks like they'll be involved in an angle with Raven and El Vampiro (a pretty cool team, actually) and could get involved in the "music wars" with the No Limit Soldiers and the West Texas Rednecks. This actually could make for a pretty fun feud.
But I wouldn't mind if the first time somebody got one of these clown-faced songsters in a compromising position, they aimed a few punishing blows at their vocal chords.
On Raw, the WWF featured a segment in which Ben Stiller, Jeanene Garafalo and - your favorite film star and mine - Pee Wee Herman chatted about the show in front of a "hidden" camera. Stiller, of "There's Something About Mary" fame, made some very There's Something About Mary-like comments about Debra McMichael's anatomy. Pee Wee just smiled. Of course the segment was all a big promo for the trio's upcoming movie "Mystery Men." Which makes one wonder - could it be long before Pee Wee's character, the mysterious Mr. Spleen, takes to the squared circle?
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The Charity Commission is at the centre of a row after publishing advice that appears to give a green light to evangelical groups whose sole aim is to convert Jews to Christianity.
The Commission has been attacked by Rabbi Shmuel Arkush, Anglo-Jewry's main anti-missionary campaigner. But it has received backing from the Board of Deputies, which described the advice as a "useful tool in helping to expose those groups who prey on vulnerable individuals".
The advice was contained in a lengthy document published last week about the public benefits that charities are now required to demonstrate. The Commission wrote: "Proselytising is used by many charities advancing religion as an established and accepted means of attracting new followers or adherents. In some religions proselytising is seen as an essential part of the outworking of the religion...
"In the majority of cases, proselytising is carried out sensitively and without coercion, and does not present any public benefit difficulties."
But Birmingham-based Rabbi Shmuel Arkush, who runs Operation Judaism, a campaign against missionary groups, said: "I regret that the Charity Commission has not been able to offer us any more protection in this document. It fails to recognise that there are a number of so-called charities set up to convert Jews to Christianity that within the British system have been allowed to operate and are accepted. But the Jewish community finds it highly unacceptable. There has to be respect for other faiths and the targeting of other religious communities is
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Objective. To analyze the natural history of uninstrumented compensatory curves prospectively during a 5-year postoperative period in patients with selectively fused Lenke type 1C and 5C adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
Summary of Background Data. After a selective fusion for 1C and 5C adolescent idiopathic scoliosis curve types, there is concern that uninstrumented compensatory curves will continue to progress over time. However, to date, there have been no studies using prospectively collected data beyond 2 years to determine the natural history of these uninstrumented compensatory curves.
Methods. Lenke 1C and 5C adolescent idiopathic scoliosis cases, prospectively collected from a multicenter study were analyzed. All patients underwent a selective fusion (1C only thoracic curve fused; 5C only thoracolumbar/lumbar curve fused). Preoperative, first-erect, 1-year, 2-year, and 5-year postoperative coronal, sagittal, and axial (Perdriolle) radiographical outcomes were compared using repeated measures analysis of variance with Bonferroni post hoc comparisons (P < 0.05).
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text: Remove the Communication Quills That Slowly Kill Your Furniture Operation Furniture World Magazine Posted: 12/11/2007 By Roger Hall Even on the best days, in many companies internal communications are suffering. People work in silos and are isolated from other departments. Even under normal business conditions, miscommunication is the norm in most retail furniture companies. This creates suspicion between departments and resentment among co-workers. When times are tough, as have been seen in a number of high profile retail furniture reorganizations, communications between management and line workers can get downright toxic. It's a prickly situation that can quickly flat line profits and kill morale. To make matters worse, no matter how small or insignificant the miscommunication problem might be, it can eventually poison the entire company. Think of the problem as a porcupine quill—a small yet potentially lethal object. If a porcupine quill is not properly removed from the skin, it can move two inches deeper each day. Worse yet, a piece can break off, creating a fistula—the result of a broken quill traveling to unsuspecting parts of the body. This can cause major damage to vital organs, and even death. Festering wounds within organizations can result in similar "infections" if left untreated. In other words, just because things look good in the warehouse doesn't mean the marketing department isn't feeling a pinch. Communications challenges quickly spread and lead to other, sometimes more serious, internal issues. So why is communications within companies so appalling? Quite simply, most people are stellar at their particular discipline (i.e. accounting, IT, marketing, etc.), but they lack the necessary people skills and the ability to manage others. Additionally, many employees report that their managers don't pass on information they get from the executives. Either the information flow stops at the management level or the information is filtered down to the point that it's meaningless. And when employees feel uninformed, they'll fish out information on their own, even if it comes from unreliable sources. In the wild, porcupines eat bark from tree trunks, especially near the base, thereby killing the trees. In business, if internal communication isn't in place, a company's foundation is in peril. Eventually, with enough employees gnawing at the foundation, the company will topple. To keep this from happening within your own organization, consider the following steps. 1. Address the problem. The first step to removing the quills from your company is to address the problem you have. This means actually sitting down and talking face-to-face with the other employee or department head. E-mail communication, which certainly has its place in business, should not be used for this step. 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Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
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While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.
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A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
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A comedy that charts the ups and downs of an engaged couple's relationship.
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The Raven (April 27, 2012)
When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.
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A former elite agent takes on a two-tier mission: rescue a Chinese girl who's been abducted by the Triads, then use a safe combination to outwit the Russian Mafia, corrupt NYC officials, and the Triads themselves.
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at the Mathieu Senior Center. Get farm-fresh items in the building's first floor Garden Room. Vouchers accepted.
10:30 am
Cumberland Senior Center, located on the Monastery Grounds, 1464 Diamond Hill Road, Cumberland, RI [Map]
Accepting new students – First class free.
For information: Call 401-334-2555
5:00 pm
Lincoln Middle School, 152 Jenckes Hill Road, Lincoln [Map]
Lincoln Middle School welcomes its 6th-graders and their parents with an ice cream social 5-5:30 p.m., followed by a welcome and information session, student tours and parents' orientation. Call 401-721-3400.
5:30 pm
Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad Street, Cumberland, R.I. [Map]
Taught every Monday by April Hilliker. $4. Drop-in. Free class after 10 taken. Combines zumba, zumba toning and core workout. Visit www.riverfolk.org
For information: Call 401-725-9272
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
East Smithfield Public Library, 50 Esmond St.. Smithfield [Map]
Monday, Aug. 19 and Monday, Aug. 26, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Learn basic techniques such as reading a pattern, fabric preparation, pinning and cutting, and sewing and pressing. You will also be making a tote bag. Registration is required.
For information: Call 401-231-5150
6:30 pm
Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad Street, Cumberland, R.I. [Map]
Zumba classes taught every Monday by April Hilliker. $4. Drop-in. Free class after 10 taken. Features raised stage for instructor. www.riverfolk.org
For information: Call 401-725-9272
6:30 pm
East Smithfield Public Library, 50 Esmond St., [Map]
East Smithfield Public Library, 50 Esmond St., will host an Introduction to Sewing class for adults.
For information: For more information, call the library at 401-231-5150.
7:00 pm
With Michael Czarnecki as part of his Poems Across America - 48 State Tour. For more information, visit www.foothillspublishing.com/48states or email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 607-661-8777.


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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media
Morning, lunatics …
>> The Wednesday column hopes that Boston proves lesson-worthy for stadium/arena security everywhere. My thanks to officials with the Steelers, Penguins and Pirates for their prompt and professional help yesterday.
And this is where you come in.
I share a couple of my experiences up there, and I want to hear yours. Doesn't have to be at Heinz Field, Consol Energy Center or PNC Park. Can be anywhere, any city, any sporting event that draws a crowd.
I'll thank you in advance, as I very much consider this to be an actual part of the Wednesday column. (And yeah, your cut of the check's in the mail.)
>> And then there's the matter of our own upcoming marathon, as Karen Price reports.
>> The Penguins are playing another outdoor game? Their third?
This reminds me of how the comic book industry, every time it goes into a sales slump, begins adding a bunch of Batman titles. Because Batman always sells. Does wonders in the short term, nothing at all in the long.
Hey how about a game at Buckeye Stadium in Columbus, where they could use it?
>> One versus eight … the dream lives.
>> James McDonald insists he's healthy. That might be even more worrisome for the Pirates.
>> The Steelers' complete schedule will be announced tomorrow, but Ben Roethlisberger told teammates at voluntary workouts yesterday that the 2013 season starts right now.
>> Alan Robinson's NFL draft series opens with running backs.
>> I'll visit with TribLIVE Radio today at 1:30 p.m. And here's the podcast of yesterday's full show.
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RUSH: We've got more on Benghazi. In fact, if I understand what I have here correctly, CBS News actually... I don't know if I'll use the word "colluded," but, gee, it's close to it. They actually helped Obama promote the notion that it was a video that led to the Benghazi attack when Obama had told them during a Steve Kroft 60 Minutes interview on September 12th that it was a terror attack.
CBS had that video all this time and never used it until recently, until Friday night on the CBS Evening News a week ago. But they had it September 12th. Obama was not blaming the video. They had Obama talking about how it was a terror attack.
They actually came to the conclusion that, "Okay, Obama wants to blame it on a video. So..." I was watching Greta Van Susteren last night.
She had a great show last night. She had Trump on, and Rudy was great last night. Brit Hume was on the show last night. She asked him about the media, and Hume said (paraphrased), "Look, I was with the mainstream media for a long time, I was at ABC News, and they are not looking at this every day as, 'How can I help this candidate or how can I hurt that candidate?' They just look at Benghazi and they just don't see anything interesting there.
"They probably look at the Benghazi story and say, 'How does this relate to the campaign? It isn't any big deal,'" and I'm sitting there pulling my hair out. How do you say that? Don't they mean the same thing? If you're looking at the Benghazi story with the mainstream media and you don't see anything that relates to the campaign, are you not obviously in the tank for Obama? Or maybe not obviously, but where is this notion that we're not looking at stories that...?
I hate disagreeing with Brit Hume. I mean, he knows what he's talking about, he was part of 'em, but it was hard for me to digest. Now with the CBS stuff today, there's one other story in the Stack in here that indicates the media is doing what they can to help Obama. And what they can to hurt Romney. We had a Brian Williams interview with Obama and he doesn't even bring up Benghazi! I guess we would be told, "Well, they just don't think it's a story, Rush."
Here we are with two weeks to go in the campaign and they just don't see Benghazi as a story? Why? Why isn't at terrorist attack...?
RUSH: I watched Condoleezza Rice. Condoleezza Rice was on Greta last night. In ten minutes she didn't say anything. Perfect diplomacy! She didn't say a word. Greta gave her every opening. (paraphrased exchange) "Okay, you're a former secretary of state. How would it happen? You got the attack going on, you've got the video, people are watching it in real time, and...?"
"Well, you know, it would go through many different agencies and people, and it would go through very many timelines. Protocols would have to be followed. The protocols were followed and the agencies were looking at this, some really well-intentioned people in there. The State Department's made up of people that really care. They'll get to the bottom of this, but clearly there's a problem."
"Okay, well, do you think maybe there's something that could have been done to prevent the deaths of the ambassador and the others?"
"It's always bad when we lose ambassadors. It's really a shame when that happens. We always mourn the loss of Americans -- ambassadors or military or whatever. But the protocols were followed, or maybe they weren't in some cases. But we'd have to look at it protocols, look at the various agencies involved."
It went on for ten minutes. Now, she's a perfect diplomat. I mean, she spoke for ten minutes and didn't say anything. She stood by the overall integrity of the State Department writ large. She didn't rip anybody in there. Perfect, perfect diplomacy. The role of a diplomat is never to solve anything. If you solve something, then you got no job. It's also the role of a bureaucrat. The problem is never solved.
It's also the role of the race industry. The Reverend Jackson? The worst thing that could happen to him is if everybody's perception was that the race problem was fixed. That'd be the worst that could happen. Anyway, this is what I mean. We're all over the place on this program today, folks. It's a scatter-shot, shotgun approach. But this Colin Powell business is what it is now. (interruption)
The White House answered my show yesterday? What did the White House do? (interruption)Well... Oh, oh. Those e-mails? (interruption) Yeah, Hillary also... Did you hear what Hillary said? (paraphrased) "Well, you know, any terror group can go on Facebook and say that they did something. That doesn't mean that it happened. We need to look at the protocols and then at the various agencies and then we have to look at the timeline and then we have to examine the credibility of all the people.
"Just because it's on Facebook doesn't mean anything." But whatever's on YouTube, go with it! A YouTube video, by God, by golly, that's it. "But what's on Facebook? You can't trust that. Anybody can go on Facebook." That was Mrs. Clinton yesterday.
RUSH: Now, I mentioned at the top of the program, I watched Brit Hume last night on Greta. Brit was with ABC for a long time, part of the mainstream media, and he said reporters do not look at stories and say, "How can covering that or not covering that help or hurt a candidate." The Benghazi story, they just look at it, and they don't see how it relates, Greta, to the presidential race, the election two weeks from now. They don't see Benghazi as a big deal. It's not that they think they can protect Obama or hurt Romney. They just don't see it's a story. Okay, so he said that. I was scratching my head when he said it.
Then we've come to find out something very interesting about this Benghazi business. There was an interview, CBS did an interview with Obama on September the 12th, one day after Benghazi, and in that interview Obama acknowledged that it was a terror attack. But CBS kept that. In the interview that was broadcast, they edited that out, because all the while Obama was blaming a video. And so the thought is that CBS was helping Obama spread the notion that it was a video when they had him on tape saying it was a terror attack. The firestorm that has resulted in the second debate, Candy Crowley, as Obama's debate partner, discussing the fact that Obama had called it a terror attack, but as far as anybody knew, he hadn't. But he had.
So let's go to the audio sound bites. I mean, I think this is big, because as I said yesterday, watching the news media reporting on Benghazi has been akin to watching Woodward and Bernstein help Nixon cover up Watergate. That's the best analogy I can come up with. The fact that CBS edited out Obama's comments about the Benghazi attack, when their interview was done the day afterwards and the interview was aired when Benghazi was the biggest thing in the news, tells me that CBS was actively helping with the cover-up from the start.
Now, in the clip that CBS left out, when they aired the interview with Obama on 60 Minutes, Obama said to Steve Kroft, "You're right, this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt. My suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start." Obama said this the next day. Now, leaving aside how bizarre it is for Obama to call these murderers "folks" -- have you noticed he does that? These folks, us folks, your folks. If I were Bill O'Reilly I'd sue him 'cause O'Reilly owns the "folks" term. But here's Obama appropriating it all over the place, even referring to the murderers as the folks.
Leaving aside how bizarre that is, it's clear he was saying this is a terror attack targeting Americans from the start. It was not like the spontaneous demonstrations against the embassy in Cairo. So he told CBS it was not a demonstration that went out of hand. They had that on tape and they didn't air that for over two weeks. So here's what we've got. Friday night, CBS Evening News. It's a portion of David Martin, the national security correspondent, report about what Obama said about the attack on the consulate in Benghazi and when he said it.
MARTIN: Shortly after he spoke to State Department employees about the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, President Obama sat down with Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes for a previously scheduled interview.
OBAMA: How's it going, guys?
MARTIN: It had been about 14 hours since the attack, and the president told Kroft he did not believe it was due simply to mob violence.
OBAMA: You're right that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt, and my suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start.
RUSH: He told Kroft that in an interview on September 12th. They didn't air that. They edited that out of 60 Minutes. That did not air. Now, remember, Susan Rice from the regime's staff, UN ambassador, she went out and said that what happened in Benghazi was an offshoot of what happened in Cairo. The protests in Cairo started the protests in Benghazi, which got out of hand, which led to the four deaths. She said that a week later. Days before she said that, Obama told CBS News it wasn't that. It had nothing to do with Cairo. It was people targeting Americans. CBS sat on that. All the while Obama is out blaming this on a video. They had him on tape saying this, and they didn't air it. Here's what did air. September 12th, CBS 60 Minutes. This is from the website. They posted online portions of an interview between Steve Kroft and Obama, and during a discussion about the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Kroft and Obama had this exchange.
KROFT: It's been described as a mob action, but there are reports that they were very heavily armed with grenades. That doesn't sound like your normal demonstration.
OBAMA: Right. As I said, we're still investigating exactly what happened. I don't want to jump the gun on this, but you're right that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt. And my suspicion is is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start. So we're gonna make sure that our first priority is to get our folks out safe, make sure that our embassies are secured around the world, and then we are gonna go after those folks who carried this out.
RUSH: The folks, gonna go after the folks who carried this out. Are we making too big a deal out of this? I don't think so. He didn't once blame the video in the 60 Minutes interview, not in this section, anyway, with Steve Kroft. So my only question here is: "Why did CBS sit on it?" He's out there blaming the video for how many days? It was eight or nine days, and six different references to it in one speech at the UN, and they had him on tape. And then at the Candy Crowley debate it comes up and they still didn't reveal what they knew! I don't know why they revealed it Friday night. Their national security correspondent, David Martin.
That's how we know this happened. CBS eventually came clean with this, but it was last Friday (that's six days ago) on the CBS Evening News. If it weren't for CBS, we wouldn't know what CBS was told. It's very, very strange. By the way, this admission here comports with... Remember that McClatchy article that I mentioned last week?
It reported that a review of briefing transcripts and administration statements showed that immediately after the attack, "senior Obama [regime] officials strongly alluded to a terrorist assault and repeatedly declined to link it to an anti-Muslim video..." Remember that McClatchy story we had? This confirms that. You want to talk about deception, misdirection, protection, shielding and so forth? This has it all. Every bit of it.
RUSH: Now, folks... (chuckles) Here I am "folks." Ladies and gentlemen, there's one thing more about this. Obama been taking royal heat for having it assumed that he never called this a terror attack, when he did. Well, he didn't use the words, but he knew it wasn't the video, and he knew it was not a protest. Okay? He knew that. He admitted that to CBS on September 12th. But in the ensuing days, Jay Carney is out there blaming the video. Barack Obama is blaming the video. Susan Rice is blaming the video.
Meanwhile, Obama knows it ain't the video.
CBS knows it ain't the video.
Then the second debate comes up, and Obama then tries to say, "I always called it a terrorist attack," but nobody at CBS comes forth with this. In other words, Obama had the evidence that would have helped him refute the charge that he wasn't calling it terrorism. He had this; CBS had it. They coulda called on it at any time. They could have sunk Romney with this. They didn't. Why?
There is an answer.
And that's why you listen to me, because I, El Rushbo, have the answer. It is abundantly clear to me that this was, without question, a political calculation to pretend that this was not a terrorist attack until after the elections (for whatever convoluted political reasons), and I think it is related to Obama being the giant Al-Qaeda slayer. He took out bin Laden. It's one of his campaign themes: "Al-Qaeda's on the run!"
I think it was a political calculation that they weren't gonna reveal this was a terrorist attack until after the elections, if even then. They knew. They thought that with the help from their media friends, like CBS, they could get away with it. And they still might. I mean, even though CBS put it out there, I don't know to how many people this might matter to now because it's gotten so colluded.
But Jay Carney, on September the 14th, constantly said that the Benghazi attack had nothing to do with the Obama administration, or American policy or anything like that. It was strictly about the video! Carney was naked out there on this. So was Susan Rice and any number of administration people, including Obama himself. So it is clear to me a political calculation had been made that prior to Election Day in no way, shape, manner, or form was it going to be permitted to be concluded that this was terrorism.
This was a bunch of angry, decent Muslims who were worked into a frenzy over an American-made video. The political calculation was that there were votes to be had in that story, that there were gains to be made by Obama. But if it came out that it was terrorism, Obama would be hurt, because he'd supposedly ended terrorism. There wasn't any terrorism. And by the way, we were now loved.
Libya loved us! How could this happen? We couldn't allow a terrorist attack in Libya where we just got rid of Khadafy. They should love us now. If only they spent the same amount of time tracking down the people who did this and killed the ambassador instead of covering it up. You know, the energy they have expended covering this up, if they would have just used the same amount to track down the people who did it...
In fact, we know who did it. It's a former Gitmo resident who was let out! The guy is all over the Middle East on television doing appearances on their versions of the Oprah show over there and their versions of The View. This guy's all over Middle East television bragging about being the brains and the leader behind the terror attack.


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The Alternative Investment Management Association
Alternative Investment Management Association Representing alternative asset managers globally
18 July 2007
London, 18 July 2007: The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the leading global hedge fund and alternative investment industry association has announced the creation of a new hedge fund industry Investor Steering Committee (ISC).
The committee is to comprise institutional and other investors, and will look to offer strategic and practical guidance on hedge fund industry activities to the investor community. Additionally, the ISC will offer investor input into regulatory and political issues relating to the hedge fund industry.
The idea was originally developed by AIMA's global Research Committee, with AIMA responsible for securing the involvement of high-level international institutional investors. Members of the 13-strong Committee include:
Christopher Fawcett, Chairman of AIMA said: "It is imperative that the hedge fund industry engages fully with the investor community in a positive and constructive manner.
Investors are an integral part of the development of the hedge fund industry. Accordingly, AIMA's efforts in policy, education, regulation and sound practices around the world will look to further reflect and incorporate investors' views."
Initial projects identified for the ISC including offering input to the Financial Stability Forum on its ongoing hedge fund industry deliberations; as well as developing a 'roadmap' for investing in hedge funds and funds of hedge funds.
Additionally, the ISC's input will be sought on key strategic issues for the industry such as the quantity and quality of educational and information materials available currently.
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For further information, please contact Eoin Brophy or Evan DeBarra, Hume Brophy Communications on +44 (0)20 7499 8736.
Editors' Notes
1. About AIMA
As the only truly representative global hedge fund association, AIMA, the Alternative Investment Management Association, has almost 1200 corporate members worldwide, based in 47 countries.
Members include leading hedge fund managers, fund of hedge funds managers, prime brokers, legal and accounting services and fund administrators. They all benefit from AIMA's active influence in policy development, its leadership in industry initiatives, including education and sound practice manuals and its excellent reputation with regulators, worldwide.
AIMA is a dynamic organisation that reflects its membership's interests and provides them with a vibrant global network.
AIMA is committed to developing industry skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) – the industry's first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. For further information, please visit AIMA's website www.aima.org
2. About the Investor Steering Committee
The ISC comprises pension plans (public and private), insurance and assurance companies, a family office and an academician. Its members are based in North America and Europe, primarily. Its members manage total assets in excess of US$1058 billion and have alternative investment allocations of around US$130bn.


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A subcommittee of the House of Representatives Committee on Small Business held a hearing today to discuss the value of using the cash basis of accounting in small businesses, and whether they should be required to use the accrual basis.
House Hearing Considers Cash Accounting for Small Biz
Washington, D.C. (July 10, 2014)
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The Virginia Tech tragedy points to a far worse tragedy, the U.S.-perpetrated catastrophe in Iraq.
Credible estimates suggest the number of Iraqis killed since March 2003
as a direct or indirect consequence of the U.S. attack will soon exceed
900,000, or the equivalent of 30,000 Virginia Techs.
Imagine the impact, in a small country, of 30,000 such events rooted
not in the psychosis of an individual but in the murderous foreign
policy of the most powerful force for violence in human history.
A relative to the U.S. population comparison would mean roughly 390,000 such attacks perpetrated against us.
Imagine the impact of 390,000 harrowing events over four years (25 per
day), resulting in 1 in 8 U.S. citizens killed or maimed (while 50
million were displaced) by violence rooted in a foreign superpower's
Suppose the citizens inside the attacking Superpower responsible for
these monstrosities possessed some democratic capacity to alter the
policies that were killing, injuring and displacing us by the tens of
What would we expect of them? Standing by idly while we continue to
be slaughtered; or, standing up, resisting and opposing unconscionable
and outrageous policies?
What if 80 percent of us demanded the removal of the foreign occupation
forces (as 80 percent of Iraqis demand the withdrawal of U.S.
occupation forces), and they refused? How would we respond?
Refusing to take a stand against social abominations must be
measured against the perils of taking a stand against violent power,
and there are risks either way. How one responds is conditioned by the
limitations and possibilities that historical and social circumstances
impose upon us.
However, we delude ourselves, given global interdependence and
interconnectedness, if we believe our lives will remain free of
calamitous impacts because we passively refuse to confront aggression,
violence, injustice, oppression and war.
Doug Morris