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Producers of the film "Charles Claiborne: Sojourn in Lake Charles" held a special screening of the film's trailer at the Central School Arts and Humanities Center.
The trailer, which had a running time of nearly 15 minutes, was created with a local cast to give investors an idea of what the film would be like with a full budget.
The premise of the film involves the character Charles Claiborne, who after surviving being shot in the head in battle during the American Revolution, realizes that he can regenerate and is unable to die or age.
After Claiborne's abilities are discovered a couple of centuries later, he is taken into custody by the U.S. Center of Neuroscience for study. Eventually he escapes and seeks refuge in the swamps of Creole Louisiana, where presumably the story of the finished film would unfold.
Writer, director and star of "Charles Claiborne" Jace Johnson, whose other film, "Little Chenier: A Cajun Story," also prominently featured the Lake Area, said he was happy to be able to present his work Thursday to the people of his hometown.
"Being able to show my work in Lake Charles means more to me than showing the film anywhere else. That is why I do this. I really care about making my hometown proud," he said. "I just love the culture and the people here; I feel like Lake Charles has so much potential, that it's right on the cusp and I really want to showcase that."
The film is still in production and will not be able to be completed until investors are found.
"After tonight's premiere, we plan on showing the trailer at festivals around the country to drum up support and investors," Johnson said. "This approach is becoming more and more common as investors want to see something tangible that's already produced."


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When a person's throat is cut and their tongue is pulled through that slit. a fear tactic. Often done when money is owed for illegal commodities e.g. cocaine.
known to happen in SoCal.
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About to face his second battle against cancer.
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text: Seems most of my dislikes have already been mentioned (Hightower, Burfict, Brown, Jeffery) but there is one thing that I don't agree with the majority and that is the Coby Fleener and Dwayne Allen comparisons. I just get the vibe that a lot of people write off Allen because he is shorter and didn't perform as many deep routes as Fleener but I don't think people give Allen a fair shake. Allen didn't have nearly as great of a QB throwing him the ball and also wasn't asked to do deep routes much because of Sammy Watkins being on his team. Not that I think Allen is an all around superior prospect compared to Fleener but it's a lot closer than I think people believe.


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I don't like that format but I think it is quite good for the rays. I will always be hard with the sox and yanks so two teams getting a card (but having to play a one game playoff) might be good for the rays.
of course that extra game is tough and you lose your ace for game 1 but it's not like the rays 4 and 5 starters are bad. of course it is still a crapshoot but better than not making it at all.
I know the rays made it anyway 3 out of 4 times since 08 but the red sox have been very bad two times (10 and 11) and the yanks were very bad in 08. of course the rays still played great but if the sox and yanks all play in top shape they still will be hard to beat.
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From what I understand, most of those fumes evaporate soon after wood is built.
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The Public Health Insurance Option
Original post made by stephen levy, University South, on Sep 10, 2009
The President's first point was to tell people who have private insurance that nothing in his proposal forces them or their employers to change their current coverage. The public insurance option, he argued, adds choice and competition to the health insurance system. This is true but it does not address the fear and possibility that companies could choose to reduce or eliminate current health insurance coverage.
The President then offered a new and thought-provoking point about the public option. Look, he said, we have public colleges competing with private colleges and the result is more choice. We know in California that the large and publicly financed UC, CSU and community college systems in California have not put Stanford, USC and other private colleges out of business.
I like the idea of a public health insurance option but I am not sure that it is essential in 2009 and or that a trigger approach isn't a viable compromise.
But I do think there are additional arguments for a public insurance option that the President only hinted at last night.
First, I think there is a point of clarification that most everyone knows but which rarely gets said out loud. We are talking about a public health insurance option, not public health care provision. In the case of public colleges or the Post Office, the payment is publicly funded but the delivery is also done by public employees. It is public funding and public delivery.
In the health care reform debate, no change is proposed in who delivers the care. The same doctors, nurses and hospitals will deliver care with or without a public health insurance option. It is another insurance choice but not a change in who delivers care.
The Post Office is a more interesting case for thinking about a public health insurance option. The Post Office is heavily subsidized although we are trying to make it pay for itself. No one can argue that the Post Office competition has prevented FedEx or UPS from thriving. As the President said if the public health insurance plan can't compete well, it will simply die or shrink as the Post Office is doing—although that is affected by the drop in demand for paper transmittals.
The key point about choice that is not said often enough is that the choice of employer based health insurance coverage is diminishing and likely to fall further. And the cost to employers of their company plans is increasing much faster than their wages.
That makes the choice of the status quo not a choice at all. It is there now and uncertain for tomorrow. So this is an especially good time to add a new choice and to focus the spotlight on decreasing health care costs, which I think involves changes in medical practice in some cases and changes in how the fee for service system affects care incentives.
Since 2000 the nation's population has increased by 25 million and the number of people covered by employer-based insurance plans has increased by---zero. In fact in 2008 the number of people covered by their employer dropped by 1 million and that figure will surely be higher in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
As a people we have a tendency to imagine problems away or think they can be solved without any change in behavior. We think up all sorts of reasons not to deal with public deficits or the impending Medicare funding crisis. And in this case we are on the verge of thinking that the status quo in employer-based health insurance and costs can continue. It can't so we need to make our choices with that reality in mind.
And, as the President said, our economy and public budgets feel the strain of high and rising health care costs.
I wish there were more attention to rising costs and more attention to being real about how health care insurance reform will be paid for. I am not satisfied with the President's answers but I am not satisfied with anyone's answers in Congress at this point.
But, as the President argued, that part of health care reform that involves improving choice and competition through a public insurance option has a sound foundation and should force us to be real about adding it to an employer-based insurance system under great pressure and unlikely to survive without the pressure to change.
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 10, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Bru is a registered user.
The President's speech last night was well done.
I support a "strong" public option and I believe a majority of Americans who are serious and informed about health care do as well.
Some say just maybe the public options is not absolutely critical, but given the decades of deceit by private industry on health care taking that chance is foolish, dangerous and would only indicate the power of money to corrupt the system.
When you look at the language used on this discussion there is a lot said about insurance companies not being able to refuse people coverage. People who will be forced to buy private insurance. Insurance companies will have to offer coverage and stop denying claims once their customers are covered, but there is nothing said about being affordable or how good the enforcement of regulations will be.
What good is qualifying for insurance that is too expensive for people to afford or that they lose if they become unemployed and cannot pay?
A strong public options is critical to any reform.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Mike-Crescent Park is a registered user.
After the election but pre-inauguration I attended a panel presentation at the Stanford Faculty Club. Its subject was what to expect in 2009 from the new administration. There were three panel members, experts in healthcare policy, politics and government.
They forecast, among other things, that the public option would be put forward as a strategy to lead to single payer. And that the first steps once enabled would make the process irreversible in any practical way. That is what Obama and the Democrats are doing here.
If you want to believe Obama at face value, you must look at the number of times he was disingenuous in his speech last night, and how that can possibly be reconciled with a his oft proclaimed love of transparency. The answer is he is working to sell a concept that would be unpalatable to a lot of people if they understood where it will end up. And to do it he (and the Democrats) has been anything but transparent. Obama is on record in a speech to a labor group that he is for a single payer system, but he believes it will take some time and patience to get there. In this I do believe he was being transparent.
Polls show a majority of Americans happy with their healthcare and insurance. In order to cover a minority of uninsured Americans, our current plans will be devastated and a new monster government run bureaucracy brought to life. You don't cover 50 million more people, fund a bureaucracy and at the same time save money.
Got any good examples of major government run programs that come in at budget and deliver on the stated initial (unrevised) goals?
a resident of Downtown North
on Sep 10, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Curmudgeon is a registered user.
"Got any good examples of major government run programs that come in at budget and deliver on the stated initial (unrevised) goals?"
Looks like a variation on the classic false choice to me. Shall we apply the same criterion to private industry, say, the Boeing "Dreamliner" 787?
And gosh, ain't it too bad Stanford didn't know its Faculty Club was such an oracle? Maybe it could have sheltered its endowment from the financial crash if it had sought the panel's advice.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 10, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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President Obama put forth the public option after decades of abusive behavior by the health care industry. If they had not screwed over the public to the point that thousands of people are falling out of the system every day there would be no need for the entire debate, or government action at all.
But as usual, when corporations are given regulatory power over themselves and trusted to be fair, they fall down on the job - and that is why Obama and many others who have studied the health care industry, with perhaps more objectivity that Stanford University can bring to bear on the matter, support a public option.
It would only be the first step to single payer if the insurance companies continue to do what they have developed the expertise and power to do to our system - or rather if they cannot resist maximizing profit and increasing their political monopolistic power to control our health care system.
There are countries where they have universal health care and insurance companies still dominate, they just know how to do something we apparently do not have the ability to do in our system - regulate their private sector to prevent abuses.
Anyway, for me, single payer would be fine with me, but I am also happy to support the President's vision as a compromise. The big thing is that even now, what we have is not doing to the job, and it is trending worse. If you were an employee and your performance was as dismal as our insurance industry you would have been sacked a long time ago. The reason we have not is due to our political corrupt system, which in all fairness Obama is trying to turn around and fix.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 10, 2009 at 6:04 pm
bru is a registered user.
By the way, I would love to critique Stanford Hospital and Medical Center as I have long and negative experiences with it. [Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
The private health care industry needs a shake up, and if they cannot whip themselves back into shape, then they need to fail not be rewarded with more monopolistic power.
a resident of University South
on Sep 10, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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Are you saying that the Marines or Army are incompetent? Does the UC system provide bad service. I hear good things about the VA--do you disagree? Do you think the Center for Disease Control or NIH funded cancer research should be scrapped?
I tend to agree with Bru that the only way the current plan leads to single payer is if the private insurance companies are incompetent, which I am not arguing.
What do you think about the points made by the President and me about public colleges and the Post Office. Are you arguing that they have unfairly ruined private competitors?
I don't read all the polls but I have not seen any that show people are satisfied with their insurance if you include a question about cost or those denial of care issues.
Finally, do you disagree that employer-based coverage iz expensive for business and is slowing eroding from high costs?
a resident of Palo Alto
on Sep 10, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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What remains the "black box" for me is how any approach will bring down the cost of health care in the US as a % of GDP.
Forbes has an interesting article this week about how Germany's system works. Included in the article is the % of GDP that health care expenditures represent in different western economies. To quote the article: "nowhere is more expensive than in America."
Journalist TR Reid had a recent write up about health systems in different western nations, and pointed out how comparable bundles of care were much more costly in the US than in other countries. His take on it was that we have so many different entities involved in the payment side of things that it has created a huge overhead that is not found in other countries, whatever model they use. And it all has to do with billing and payments. He goes on to describe ways in other countries that take that complexity out of the health care equation, and good health care is delivered. Not mediocre health care, good health care.
I think Reid is on to something, and I am not convinced that this particular Gordian Knot is part of any proposal or obstruction that is presently circulating in Washington, DC.
Among the SPAM I constantly get on my e-mail accounts are messages with a picture of a nice looking young lady below a headline that reads: "have a career in medical billing." She is dressed in greens and looks like she is having a great time at work. I suspect that reality of the job is something different, and more importantly, part of what is contributing to the cost disparities US health care faces.
Does anyone else find lacking discussion around the cost containment/re-structuring side of this whole matter? The DC drama is to be expected, and it has taken some nasty turns, but this is a fundamental question. I see the VA model from first hand experience with my dad as one possible example of how it could work for the entire country, but I don't even see the question getting discussed adequately as part of this entire conversation.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 10, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Bru is a registered user.
From a simple superficial point of view one has to compare what we get with the commerical right-wing production line media with the more information based media such as PBS.
With right-slanted media, the repetitive criticisms of things like death panels, socialism, combined with other right wing claims, all "kitchen-sinked" to create maximum associative distress with their viewers and making it hard to discuss or refute since the climate of objectivity is poisoned. The whole issue is framed as government bad, freedom, liberty, capitalism, with few actual facts at issue at all.
On the other side, there is PBS, for example, McNeil/Lehrer or Bill Moyers. For the last several months they have had experts on such as T. R. Reid who has actually been to and used the health care systems that for decades we have heard from the commercial media are so terrible - Canada, Germany, France, Britain, etc. We have former Cigna excecutive Wendell Potter telling it like it is from the inside of these very companies as they strategize about how to use tricks to marginalize people like Michael Moore. Potter said that health insurance companies had to attack Moore because the facts told in the story of his movie was essentially correct. Almost every night there is a factual intelligent interview or discussion on these issues.
What we are seeing is the intersection of pathologies of our corporate society that scares the heck out of me. If we have health care reform, and we start to see the pathology of our way of life and how it breaks down our health in multiple ways, whether it leads to socialized medicine or not is not the issue, the issue is the changes and work to be done to fix things like our dependence on fast food, and chemicals.
I saw the movie Food Inc. at the Aquarius several weeks ago, and it was astounding to see the extent to which we are in the dark about the by-products of our way of food production. I think this is the real fear.
Another media issue was that it is illegal to criticize certain agricultural industries in our country. When Oprah Winfrey made an offhand comment about never eating another hamburger she was sued by the Texas beef industry. My jaw dropped when I heard this ... why is this clear abridgement of our freedom of speech not taken up by our mainstream media? They are afraid to be sued or to lose sponsors, or offend their own parent corporations.
The forces have moved into place and aligned such that they are all threatened by a society where people are tired of the direction we have been moving and want to turn around its health care system to care for people first. This is astounding when the pieces become visible.
The good part is that there is so much work to do and things to make as we fix and correct our system that the US could well easily become an international leader again. We just need the will and to see clearly and the determination not to be led down the primrose path of marketing and inflamed emotions.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 11, 2009 at 11:21 am
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As usual on these posts, the ensuing discussions have gone a thousand directions. "Right slanted media" is an indication of this. Except for a few talk radio shows that are successful and conservative, the entire mainstream media is heavily biased to the left.
As an example (as if one were needed) look at the way Cindy Sheehan was covered by all the networks and papers when she was camped out in Texas protesting Bush, but now that she has moved her protests to focus upon Obama's continuation of the two wars, Charles Gibson (whose ABC network covered Cindy in Texas extensively) says " enough already." And the NYT did not cover the Van Jones story until the spotlight was on him by others and resignation was imminent. "Right wing slanted media" is the minority here.
To the (I hope) point of this original post-It is disingenuous to counter my challenge to name a government program that attained its original goals and came in on budget by bringing up the Boeing Dreamliner. Boeing has been a successful company for many years, and has to do it overall without having Congress appropriate more funds to cover major bungling. And the Army, Marines etc do seem to be more successful than most government agencies, but that is likely because they are not subject to everyday political control, just budget allocations and frequent criticism. Even so the waste in the military is huge and would not be sustainable by business.
Regarding peaceful coexistence of private and public universities and USPS with UPS, the answer seems clear. The government could run universities and UPS out of business if it so wished by imposing regulations, taxes and other conditions making it impossible to make a profit and survive.
This is pretty much what has happened in Washington DC where Senator Dick Durbin has killed an existing school voucher program used by hundreds of local students despite saying that he would approve what the DC City Council decided. It is a decision motivated by politics and what the teachers' union wants. Any government foray into our health care will have the same political motivations.
Let's get specific with another government run health program-Medicare. Here is the link to a piece answering the claim that Obama just made: Medicare is a template for the new health care plan. See what you think of the arguments made and data quoted in it.
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a resident of University South
on Sep 11, 2009 at 2:17 pm
stephen levy is a registered user.
I agree that discussion of the cost side of health reform is lacking.
I would like to see more about how the proposals will be funded but even more important to me is discussion of how to reduce health care costs. I have seen some interesting ideas and will try and post over the weekend.
I have tried to stay out of the whether private insurance companies are evil debate. BUT I do think that private employer-based health insurance is under tremendous cost pressure to companies and is on a slow death path.
I read today that 63% of companies plan to shift some more costs to employees in 2010 and the article has a spirited comment section at the end.
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I continue to believe that people are kidding themselves if they think the present employer-based coverage will continue as is. We need to make some choices to face the slow erosion of employer-based coverage and escalating costs to workers and companies.
a resident of Menlo Park
on Sep 11, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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Stephen--Good post.
Just a few observations:
If Medicare is an example of a failed public program, and the public largely agrees, why don't the Republican's propose dismantling it and substituting a privately funded program? I think we know the answer to that question. They saw what happened when Bush & Company tried to privatize Social Security. If in fact Medicare is "going broke," why is it not being adequately funded? If Medicare were extended to everyone, wouldn't Congress have to at least attempt to ensure that it was well run and funded? After all, it would then be everyone's puppy.
I agree with some of the reform nay-sayers on at least one point: Any plan that Congress comes up with should apply to every member of Congress and his or her family, as well as to members of the other branches of government, no matter how long their tenure. Call it the "eat your own cooking," or perhaps the "pack your own parachute" incentive plan. Why is this idea considered so fatuous? The voters would love it if the generals got down in the trenches with them and took some fire once in a while.
And we need a real debate about why government is so reviled by so many. Is it really in the very DNA of government institutions to be inefficient, unimaginative, and unresponsive, always and forever? Are all government workers by nature incompetent time-servers who have no pride in their work? Isn't this just a sort of reverse Marxism? If you worked in a company where a group of senior executives regularly reviled the organization as "the problem, not the solution" and accused employees of being a bunch of good-for-nothings, what would the effect be on that company's performance in the marketplace? Would that negative, defeatist attitude be tolerated in the board room or among the shareholders? In a Dilbert world, maybe.
You want a few examples of major government-funded programs that achieved their goals. How about the 1941-1945 war effort? How about the space program? (Man on the moon by the end of the decade: done.) How about the federal highway program in the 1950s and 1960s? How about the Bay Area bridges? (Golden Gate: on schedule, under budget). How about Hoover Dam? (Two years ahead of schedule, under budget.) Apparently it is possible, given the right attitude and the right governance. Now shall we consider some corporate initiatives that did not achieve their goals? That list would go to the moon, too.
Bottom line: Why not think of healthcare reform as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for America to really hit something out of the park for a change? Create the best health system in the world for the whole citizenry, not just the rich, the well-employed, and the aged. Put top people in charge. Enlist the best talent we've got. Apply some of that American ingenuity and know-how we supposedly possess in such large supply. Get behind it or get out of the way. Make it happen.
Or maybe we just don't have it anymore, and it's time to hang up the spikes. That would be sad indeed.
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 13, 2009 at 9:15 am
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Make one change and watch - instead of hospitals having to cover the cost of treating can't pays b y adding those costs to other customers, why not have the government pay those costs directly?
a resident of University South
on Sep 13, 2009 at 11:20 am
stephen levy is a registered user.
Below is the link to a recent Brookings Institution essay on the causes and cures for high health care spending in the United States. I encourage readers who are expert in this field to comment on teh Brookings essay.
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Below are the final two paragraphs and Exhibit 5 is a summary
To lower spending without lowering net welfare, it is necessary to organize the
delivery of care to promote efficient cooperation among the many providers and
practitioners involved in delivering modern treatment, to conduct costly research
over many years to identify which procedures are effective at reasonable cost, to
develop protocols that enable providers to identify in advance patients in whom
expected benefits of treatment are lower than costs, to design incentives that encourage
providers to act on those protocols, and to educate patients on why such
protocols should be sustained. Furthermore, if spending reductions are to prove
beneficial over time, it is also necessary to provide research support to maintain
the flow of beneficial innovations.
Provider payment reform has a critical role to play in promoting efficient and
coordinated delivery. Fee-for-service payment, especially when relative values are
distorted, works against efficiency. Changes in theMedicare program have the potential
for broad impact, sinceMedicaid programs and private insurers tend to follow
Medicare methods. Reform would involve increasing both the degree to
which current relative payments reflect relative costs of efficient production of
services and the use of broader units of payments, such as per episode and per person,
in either case likely blended with fee-for-service.
a resident of University South
on Sep 20, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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The Kaiser Family Foundation just released 2009 data on health care costs and coverage.
They emphasize an important point, one which the President is making more and more--employer-based coverage is getting increasingly expensive at the same time coverage and benefits are being cut. The status quo for people who have good coverage now is not safe.
Drew Altman, KFF CEO, summarizes the findings
Web Link
There are enourmous issues of paying for reform and making reform focus on bending the cost curve, but this IS an issue of interest to people who are doing well under the current system as well as those who are being left or forced out.
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WINSTED >> After being presented with revisions for the charter on June 27, the Board of Selectmen met to discussed the next plan of action. In its second meeting of the month, the Board decided to hold a public hearing on July 29.
Community Lawyer, Charlene LaVoie, presented the suggestions and clarified the time in which the Board of Selectmen had to present the town with a hearing.
"Let's face it-the former finance director probably exploited the Water and Sewer Commission." LaVoie said. "He saw that open door and he rushed right in. We have a chance now to correct this error."
The board has 45 day days from the filing of the suggestions to conduct a public hearing. After the hearing, they must submit the suggestions or revisions to the Charter Revision Commission within 30 days.
Nancy Eisenlohr, former mayor, selectman and Water and Sewer Commission member said dismantling the commission will eventually be counterproductive for the town.
"I think if you kept the volunteer board that you have now with the public works director with the background he has, that would be an extremely good system to have," she said. "I don't think it's right."
Eisenlohr, who is currently a Litchfield resident, says taking the power away from the volunteer commission will give the Board of Selectmen the opportunity to take money from the commission's budget. She said this was an issue she noticed in her years serving on the Board.
"We never had a problem with Centrella," she said "We had a problem with the manager and the board taking those monies."
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A lot would depend on the ammo you are using...JJ
Hi, names Matt. Iv been shooting on and off for 13 years. And I was wondering someone might have an answer to a question I have. If you give me 2 guns same make and model ie( USPC 9mm & USPC 40sw, Sig P229 9mm & P229 40sw, or even a 1911) I can shoot pretty close to lights out with the higher calibers. But with the 9mm I am struggling to just stay on target. Any suggestions/ideas/theories?
A lot would depend on the ammo you are using...JJ
I would tend to agree with that,it is odd.If they weren't the same base gun I'd say the gun just doesn't work for you,but that's not the case.If this was tested with only a few guns,it could be a combination of the way the barrel was fit and finding the ammo that gun likes,so maybe a larger selection of guns can change the outcome.The 9 is a fairly accurate round,but barrel groove diameter is quite varried.Last I knew the range was from .354 to .357 but the .357 is pretty rare.If you are shooting guns with a bore on the large side,you're getting alot of blowby with jacketed bullets which is detrimental to the accuracy potential of the barrel.My Beretta is on the large side,it's fine with FMJ,but TMJ (base is jacketed too) won't obturate and seal the bore so accuracy falls off.
I shoot the larger calibers better than I shoot the smaller calibers also...not counting .22 cal.....don't know what it is either???????
I think it might have to do with your grip.
Folks tend to keep a more firm grip on harder-kicking calibers because of the recoil, and I've found the inverse is also true; they get a little "sloppy/loose" when shooting smaller calibers, even in the same size/model guns. I know I experience a similar effect when shooting revolvers in Double-Action vs. Single-Action (thumb-cocked) modes; I shoot MUCH better DA, at ALL distances, and years ago I chalked it up to a firmer, more consistent grip that is needed to shoot DA rapidly with good control. In SA, the trigger pull is so light that I just don't need to hang on as tightly to keep the sights on target against the heavy DA pull weight, and so I loosen my grip, and then my shot group (usually) spreads out a bit.
I've seen the same thing with new shooters who haven't yet developed the muscles needed to support and control a handgun; as they get tired, their grip pressure falls off, and their groups begin to scatter.
Try using a consistently firmer grip with the smaller caliber handguns, and see if it makes a difference.
Oddly, I shoot my 10mm Glock 20 more accurately than anything else, at 25 yards, and it has considerably more recoil and a rougher trigger than my .45's, 9mm's, and about the same or maybe a little more than my .357 Magnum revolvers. With me, it is a concentration thing.
Something about controlling the extra power makes me more deliberate and I seem to concentrate more.
I too seem to shoot better with larger calibers.
I've always written it off to shooting slower with the larger calibers.
Assuming reasonably accurate gun and ammo, after you get past the basics of handgun shooting (sight alignment/sight picture) it gets down primarily to steadiness, the grip and trigger pull. I put the most emphasis on trigger pull, because bad trigger control will offset all the others.


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Wow, I was set to wake up at 4:00 am to watch skating, but last night's patrying got the best of me
Then I wake up and find out Akiko won the whole damn thing!!!! That is just fabulous!!!
Need videos. Pretty please...
I do hope that this sends a rebuke to those who feel that the short program is all that counts under the new system. Both Rochette and Suzuki were off the podium based on their short.
Yes, but their podium positions were thanks to their long programs. People have been saying that COP hurts the competition because the podium is pretty much decided after the short program. The fact that Suzuki and Rochette made the podium proves that this is decisively not the case.
ETA: Congratulations to the medal winners who with the exception of Akiko showed us mistake after mistake and some of the least inspiring skating seen since the the last GP event.
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any way i don't think mao shouldd be worried even if yukari , miki, and akiko all make the gpf, she will still have nationals to prove herself
First of all: Congrats to Akiko, she was wonderful!!!
As for Rachael and her jumping consistency, my impression is that she has been working on her (f)lutz and as a result is now struggling with both flip and lutz, which is not really that surprising. She's a determined, hard worker, so I'm sure she'll get that under control sooner or later.
As for Mirai and her underrotations, that was the first time she was in a position to medal at a senior gp. Let's give her the benefit of a doubt here, part of her underrotation problem in the long was probably due to her nerves.
Rachael is a in a much better place, she got every jump rotated - despite all the gloom and doom concerning her body type, puberty, rather tiny jumps etc. I guess Rachael will sort her small lapses of concentration out and come back strong.


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The contentious political fight over gun control moved into the White Mountains of New Hampshire on Tuesday as gun-control activists began to focus on Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) as a prime target in their effort to revive their push for stricter gun laws…
Back home this week for a series of town hall meetings, Ayotte is facing new constituent anger and a coordinated effort by gun-control groups to turn her vote into a political liability. These organizations include Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the group founded by New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I), and the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress. Other groups are deploying organizers to New Hampshire, Arizona, Arkansas, Nevada and North Dakota in hopes of shaming moderate senators of both parties who voted against the background-check plan…
"There's a sense that the people who support background checks know that they're in the mainstream," Stadtman said. "To be rejected by Ayotte like that, when it was so obvious that many of her constituents wanted her to vote for it — it was a tipping point."
New PPP polls in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio find serious backlash against the 5 Senators who voted against background checks in those states. Each of them has seen their approval numbers decline, and voters say they're less likely to support them the next time they're up for reelection…
After just 3 months in office Jeff Flake has already become one of the most unpopular Senators in the country. Just 32% of voters approve of him to 51% who disapprove and that -19 net approval rating makes him the most unpopular sitting Senator we've polled on, taking that label from Mitch McConnell…
We saw serious improvement in Rob Portman's poll numbers in the second half of 2012 following his consideration as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, but he's taken a nose dive in 2013. Portman's approval has dropped a net 18 points over the last 6 months from +10 (35/25) in October to now -8 (26/34) in April. Portman's popularity decline has come across the board with Democrats (from 15/39 to 8/50), Republicans (62/11 to 46/19), and independents (28/23 to 24/32) alike…
And in Nevada Dean Heller has seen a more modest decline in his approval numbers, from 47/42 right before the election to 44/41 now. However with the independent voters who were critical to his narrow victory in November, his approval has dropped from 52/37 then to now 42/42.
Nothing like waking up to a poll saying you're the nation's least popular senator. Given the public's dim view of Congress in general, that probably puts me somewhere just below pond scum.
Now, notwithstanding the polling firm's leftist bent, I would assume that my poll numbers have indeed taken a southerly turn since my vote against the Manchin-Toomey background check proposal. It was a popular amendment, and I voted against it.
Via Gallup:
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) revealed that some members of his party opposed expanding background checks for gun sales recently because they didn't want to "be seen helping the president."…
"In the end it didn't pass because we're so politicized. There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it," Toomey admitted on Tuesday in an interview with Digital First Media editors in the offices of the Times Herald newspaper in Norristown, Pa.
The Times Herald noted that in "subsequent comments," Toomey "tried to walk that remark part-way back by noting he meant to say Republicans across the nation in general, not just those in the Senate."
"After you get the 29" votes to filibuster, one conservative staffer put it, "you know who to beat up." The filibuster effort, by this telling, was something of a whip count by a guerilla unit of conservative freshmen.
So Lee, Cruz, and Paul — and their staffs — set out to work on those Republicans who were less than firm. Almost the entire GOP conference was pretty strong in opposing the Democrats' more Draconian gun control proposals — such as an assault weapons ban — but the conservative rump didn't want any new regulations on gun ownership by law-abiding citizens. Cruz, along with almost every other Republican, signed on to an alternative bill by Sen. Charles Grassley, which mostly beefed up the current federal database behind background checks.
Anything more ambitious was a nonstarter in the eyes of Cruz, Paul and Lee. Specifically, they rejected the proposal by Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to create a mandatory universal background check. Toomey-Manchin was the only real chance Obama had of passing a gun control bill. If that went down, gun control went down…
So, the Obama account is wrong in part because it portrays the NRA as calling all the shots within the GOP on guns. But it seems it was Cruz, Lee and Paul who drew the line, and then the NRA came in to hold that line.
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Senior forward Kaylyn Eggena was chosen most valuable player for the Northern Lakes Lightning girls' hockey team at a recent banquet.
The forward, who finished with 24 goals and 15 assists in 25 games, was an All-Mid-State Conference selection.
Other all-conference players are senior defenseman Morgan Demars, four goals and 13 assists; senior forward Alex Palm, 15 goals and 11 assists; and senior goaltender Kat Jensen, 2.42 goals-against average and 91.4 save percentage. Receiving all-conference honorable mention was sophomore defenseman Hannah Zimmerman, sophomore forwards Mariah Reed and Megan Snyder, and freshman forward Isabella Abear.
Other awards include: Zimmerman, coaches award; and sophomore defenseman Mikaela Florey, most improved player. Other letterwinners are Madison Galligan, Sam Henrichs, Lexi Danielson, Erika Monson, Kim Jessen, Courtney Kittock, Stephanie DeGrote and Hailey Deutsch. Jo Jo Rischke was an honorary letterwinner.


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text: Brad Johnson Answered Your Questions! He is doing these in parts.... here's at least a start........... And keep an eye here...cuz they are suppose to land on his website as well...http://www.bradjohnson14.com/bradsqanda/index.htm How does it feel to be on a team that has so much tradition? Did it play a factor when it came to signing with the cowboys? It's great to be one team like the Cowboys, coming from Florida State, I've always respected teams with great tradition. Any advice you can offer to these young players coming into the league Keep working and play with passion. I've always believed if you do those two things you can do anything. What will you remember most of your days in Minnesota? It would probably be the fans. They always treated me great, even when I signed with the Cowboys I was still getting nice notes from them. What are your thoughts on the upcoming Cowboys season? We were a play-off team last year and I know everyone is excited about our potential this season. I'm looking forward to it. I didn't realize you were also a High-School All-America basketball player. Did you get any interesting offers to play college hoops? Ever wish you had gone for it? Actually, I was Player of the Year for basketball my senior year but not an All-American. I did play basketball freshman year at FSU. These days, I just focus on Pop-a-shot, where I hold 9 city records (unofficially!!). Can you explain your experience in NFL Europe (How it affected your career, how it was to be a long way from home, etc.)? NFL Europe was great for my career. I didn't play a lot my senior year of college so NFL Europe gave me a chance to show what I could do in game situations. It was tough being far from home but I got to see Europe and play football so it was all worth it. Good day, Mr. Johnson, and welcome to the Dallas Cowboys. In 1992, you were drafted in the 9th round by the Vikings. Since then, you have enjoyed a successful career, which includes a Super Bowl victory with the Buccaneers. With the addition of compensatory picks I the current draft, a player picked as the 227th over all selection (as you were in '92) would manage to land on some team's roster within the 7th round. Being a late rounder yourself, what advice would you give college quarterbacks concerning their personal and/or professional expectations before entering the draft, who are otherwise projected to be selected in the late rounds or not drafted at all? If you look around the league you see as many late round guys playing (myself, Matt Hasselbeck, Tom Brady) as you do early round guys. My advice would be to work just as hard if not harder as those early round guys. With scouting as good as it is today in the NFL, if you can play, they'll find you – then its up to you to make sure you're putting in the work to get on the field. Can you name your most memorable play, and the one play you'd just soon forget in your career? Thank and Welcome Aboard My most memorable play is every play in the Super Bowl. I remember that game, and everything around it, really well. If I remember correctly, I think you're the only QB to ever complete a TD pass to yourself. Could you tell us what was going through your mind when that happened? Whenever a ball is tipped, you just want to make sure it's not picked-off; the touchdown was secondary in my mind to preventing a turnover. But it got attention for the ESPY Awards so that was cool. I love the game of football… and it's quite obvious you do as well, otherwise you would have hung up the cleats a long time ago. My question is: what is it about the game that draws you in so much? Is it the passion you have to put into every play? The chance to be a hero in someone's eyes? I'm sure everyone has their own idea for what it is about this great game that they love, so…what's yours? I do love the passion that you have to put into every play. In fact I wrote a kid's book after the Super Bowl called Play with Passion. I have such a passion for the game that I always want to keep playing. Thank you for the questions everyone, go Cowboys!


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ER doctor reports treating patients who have used heroin laced with prescription drug
Doctor links prescription drug crackdown with increased heroin use
PUEBLO, Colo. - An emergency room physician reports treating patients who have overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl, a narcotic pain reliever.
Donald Ross Patrick, an emergency medicine physician at Parkview Medical Center, said fentanyl is a synthetic narcotic derived from morphine. When combined with heroin, he said the results can be deadly.
"It has very strong respiratory depressions so patients are getting small amounts of this drug and it's decreasing their ability to breathe," Dr. Patrick said. "That's where a lot of overdoses are being suspected now."
According to Dr. Patrick, the heroin problem is directly tied to another issue in Pueblo and across the country -- prescription drug abuse. "With the combination of decreased availability of prescription drugs on the streets and increased amounts being used by the patients or by the users, they're starting to switch to other cheaper alternatives," he said.
Emergency room doctors at Parkview limit the amount of prescription narcotics patients receive while they're in the emergency room. Doctors have access to a statewide database that allows them to see if a patient is going doctor to doctor in search of prescription drugs. "As we started to scrutinize and be a little more restrictive in how we dole out these medications, people have turned to alternatives," Dr. Patrick said.
Leroy Lucero, president and CEO of Crossroads, a drug treatment center in Pueblo, said there has been a more than 20 percent increase in the number of people seeking treatment for heroin use since August 2013.
A spokesperson for Parkview said she didn't have any data to reflect the increase in heroin cases at the hospital.


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"How could you not be interested in finance? It is a technology that underlies everything."
I want my students to be able to make sense of the intricacies of finance, to follow their curiosity and creativity, to be concerned with the quality of evidence they use to shape their reasoning, to become better in thinking critically and in solving problems, and to be interested in ethical issues.
I want my students to be able to use what they learn about finance in other areas of management, and to relate what they learn in my classes to their previous learning and experience. And I want their learning to stay with them when they leave school.
My commitment to students is to know finance extremely well, to deliver classes worth attending, and to help students learn outside of the classroom.
Michael Dothan teaches courses in investment management, finance and strategy, and finance and economics. Michael's teaching awards include United Methodist Exemplary Teacher Award (2001) and Excellence in Teaching Award (2007).
Michael was also honored with Meritorious Service Awards in 2004, 2008 and 2011.
Michael's research has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and other journals.
Prior to joining Atkinson faculty, Michael taught at the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota, where he was Chair of the Department of Finance, and at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Michael lives in Wilsonville, Oregon.
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- M.Sc., Israel Institute of Technology
- B.Sc., Israel Institute of Technology (summa cum laude)
Areas of InstructionInvestments, Student Investment Fund, Strategic Finance, and Economics, Finance, and Markets.
Research InterestsFinance and strategy, private and public financial engineering.
Awards and DistinctionsExcellence in teaching awards (2007 and 2001), meritorious service awards (2011, 2008, 2004).
Selected Professional ActivitiesAmerican Finance Association; reviewer for Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and other journals. Consultant in financial derivatives.
Selected Publications
"A Better Budget Rule" (with F. Thompson), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 3(2009).
"Appraising Commitments and Guarantees with Option Prices" (with S. Hansen and F. Thompson), Public Budgeting and Finance, 4(2007).
"Costs of Financial Distress and Interest Coverage Ratios," Journal of Financial Research, 2(2006).
"Restrictions to Foreign Exchange Rate Dynamics" (with S. Ramamurtie and S. Ulman), Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Derivative Securities Conference, April 1996.
Prices in Financial Markets, Oxford University Press, 342 pp., 1990.
"A Random Volatility Correction for the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula," Advances in Futures and Options Research, 2(1987).
"Equilibrium Interest Rates and Multi-Period Bonds in a Partially Observable Economy" (with D. Feldman), Journal of Finance, 41(1986).


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(Japan/2002—directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
Wandering through an abandoned carnival site, ten-year-old Chihiro is separated from her parents and stumbles into a dream-like spirit world where she is put to work in a bathhouse for the gods, a place where all kinds of nonhuman beings come to refresh, relax and recharge. Here she encounters a vast menagerie of impossibly inventive characters — shape-shifting phantoms and spirits, some friendly, some less so — and must find the inner strength to outsmart her captors and return to her family. Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award®-winning masterpiece Spirited Away was the biggest box office hit of all time in Japan and a film that helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers. Combining Japanese mythology with Through the Looking Glass-inspired whimsy, Spirited Away cemented Miyazaki's reputation as an icon of inspired animation and wondrous, lyrical storytelling. As a viewing experience for audiences of all ages, it remains an enthralling, timeless experience. English language version. (125 min.)
"A masterpiece, pure and simple." –Dave Kehr, The New York Times
"Spectacularly inventive." –Jane Horowitz, The Washington Post
"As funny and entertaining as it is brilliant, beautiful and deep." –Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal


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Peer-Reviewed Publications
A latent class analysis of injury patterns among rear-seated, seat-belted children." J Trauma. 2006;61(5):1244-8."
The Knockout Game: Recreational Assault and Traumatic Brain Injury." The Lancet. 2014;383(9916):513-514."
Kinetics of the cervical spine in pediatric and adult volunteers during low speed frontal impacts." J Biomech. 2012;45(1):99-106."
Kinematic Comparison of Pediatric Human Volunteers and the Hybrid III 6-Year-Old Anthropomorphic Test Device." Ann Adv Automot Med. 2010;54:97-108."
It takes two: A brief report examining mutual support between parents and teens learning to drive." Accid Anal Prev. 2013."
Investigating the link between gun possession and gun assault." Am J Public Health. 2009;99(11):2034-40."
Introduction to the special issue: Posttraumatic stress related to pediatric illness and injury." J Pediatr Psychol. 2006;31(4):337-42."
Interpersonal violence." Curr. Opin. Pediatr.. 1999;11(6):588-93."
An integrative model of pediatric medical traumatic stress." J Pediatr Psychol. 2006;31(4):343-55."
Injury risk to restrained children exposed to deployed first- and second-generation air bags in frontal crashes." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159(4):342-6."
Injury risk for children in rear impacts: role of the front seat occupant." Ann Adv Automot Med. 2008;52:109-16."
Injury prevention: is the pediatric emergency department the appropriate place?" Pediatr Emerg Care. 2005;21(7):460-7."
Injuries to children in forward facing child restraints." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2002;46:213-30."
Injuries to Child Pedestrians Admitted to an Urban Pediatric Trauma Center. Hannover, Germany; 2006.
Initial neurologic presentation in young children sustaining inflicted and unintentional fatal head injuries." Pediatrics. 2005;116(1):180-4."
An initial evaluation of a culturally adapted social problem-solving and relational aggression prevention program for urban African-American relationally aggressive girls." J Prev Interv Community. 2009;37(4):260-74."
Influences on youthful driving behavior and their potential for guiding interventions to reduce crashes." Inj. Prev.. 2006;12 Suppl 1:i9-14."
The influence of harness type on child restraint system misuse." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2002;46:261-9."
The Influence of Enhanced Side Impact Protection on Kinematics and Injury Measures of Far- or Center-Seated Children in Forward-Facing Child Restraints." Traffic Inj Prev. 2015;16 Suppl 2:S9-S15."
Incorporation of CPR Data into ATD Chest Impact Response Requirements." Ann Adv Automot Med. 2010;54:79-88."
Incidence and descriptive epidemiologic features of traumatic brain injury in King County, Washington." Pediatrics. 2011;128(5):946-54."
Incidence and clinical significance of abdominal wall bruising in restrained children involved in motor vehicle crashes." J. Pediatr. Surg.. 2004;39(6):972-5."
Inaccuracy of Federal Highway Administration's Licensed Driver Data: Implications on Young Driver Trends." Journal of Adolescent Health. 2014;55(3):452-454."
The Importance of Family to Youth Living in Violent Environments." Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 2011;18(7):653-656."
Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach in Pediatric Health Care Networks." JAMA Pediatr. 2016;170(1):70-7."


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Starting Position: Place your feet securely into the foot cradles positioned directly under the anchor point. Apply downward pressure with the tops of your feet by pointing your toes. Lie flat on your stomach with your hands placed shoulder-width apart, under your shoulders and fingers facing forward. Brace your torso by engaging your core/abdominal muscles. Keep the glutes (butt) and quadriceps (thigh) muscles engaged and strong.
Upward Phase: Exhale and slowly press your body off the floor until your elbows are straight (plank position) Keep your head and spine aligned. Do not allow the low back or ribcage to sag or arch. Do not allow the hips to hike upward. Keep the glutes and quadriceps contracted to maintain hip stability. Your feet should be together throughout the exercise and avoid any back and forth swinging of the TRX straps. Slowly pull your knees toward your chest, bending your knees as they tuck under your hips, keeping your feet together and toes pointed. During this movement, your hips will rise upwards and your spine will round into a ball. Continue pulling your knees inwards until they are directly under your hips.
Downward Phase: Inhale and slowly lower your body back to a plank position. Keep the torso rigid, and head and spine aligned; do not allow the low back or ribcage to sag.
Exercise Variation: The intensity of this exercise can be increased by positioning your body further away from the anchor point of the TRX and lengthening the straps.
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Every year I have problems with this and this year is starting out the same. My fume boards don't move the bees out. It's probably my technique but I've tried a million different ways and none work - consistantly.
Here's what I do: Pop the lid, put a couple puffs of smoke, or not, put the fume board on crooked to let the bees on top fly out, then straighten it after a minute or so. I do this with 6 to 10 boards at a time depending on how many workers. Anyway, it doesn't seem to matter how hot it is, how long I leave it on or anything. 90% of the time I have lots of bees left in the super (I would guess anywhere from 300 to 1000). Yesterday it clouded up in the afternoon and they started working better after that - go figure.
Considerations: I use Bee Go that's a few years old (does it go bad?)
Got my boards from Mann Lake (never used anything else.)
I thought shallow supers would help, it hasn't.
Bees usually go to the bottom of the super and just hang out there.
Many times the super if full of "wet" bees that refuse to descend.
Any suggestions? I know I'm doing something wrong just haven't figured it out yet. I carry a blower to finish the job the fume boards don't. Thanx
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Dr. Dan Laich, a neurological surgeon at the Chicago Back Institute, was the first American surgeon to be trained to provide this procedure. He traveled to Germany in 2006 to learn the technique and spent months perfecting his skills. Today, Dr. Laich is the only spine surgeon in Illinois consistently performing the surgery, and he trains other spine surgeons from across the United States and the world. Dr. Laich is also one of five surgeons chosen to collect data for a national clinical study measuring the effectiveness of minimally invasive spine surgery. Surgeons from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America recently attended an educational symposium about this procedure hosted at the Chicago Back Institute.
Watch this video to learn more from Dr. Laich about the TESSYS procedure and the symposium held at Swedish Covenant Hospital>>
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Getting back to a 'Nawlins lifestyle
Tom McCauley, 65, and his wife split their time between Aurora, Ill., and New Orleans, often making several trips back and forth every year. Tom enjoys his active but laid-back lifestyle, filled with good food, good music and an occasional round of golf. However, this lifestyle was recently threatened by a sudden bought of back pain which caused Tom to lose feeling in his left foot while on vacation. He immediately returned to Chicago and visited the Chicago Back Institute. Dr. Laich identified a herniated disk which could cause permanent nerve damage and recommended a TESSYS endoscopic microdiscectomy surgery. Less than an hour after the procedure, Tom had regained feeling in his foot and has since made a full recovery.
Even so, Tom returned to the Chicago Back Institute several months later for another surgery — but not for himself. His daughter, Kristin McCauley of the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, had injured her back while moving furniture, and by coincidence, also suffered a herniated disk. After trying to manage her pain through medication, physical therapy and chiropractic visits, Dr. Laich recommended the TESSYS procedure for her as well. Like her father, she immediately felt relief after surgery and is now fully recovered and back to work and everyday life.
Aiding an international traveler
When Craig O'Brien, a 40-year-old from Naperville, hit the water slides with his kids on a family vacation, he had no idea how much suffering it would bring him and his career. A fluke injury caused two herniated disks that got progressively more painful and debilitating despite physical therapy and other conservative treatments.
The pain reached its worst just before a long-planned, crucial business trip to Hong Kong. Craig's doctor said he needed surgery but Craig feared missing the trip would damage his career.
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Justin Rose Benefits from the UIS Fund
Above: During his years at UIS, Justin Rose, now a graduate student in public administration, has benefited from donors' generous gifts to the UIS Fund. Read articles and view videos here.
A Passion for Leadership
When Justin Rose first came to UIS as a first-year student, he focused almost exclusively on his studies. he thought going to classes would be enough.
Justin soon changed his mind on what a full college education would have to include.
"In my life, I have been given so much," he says, "people who cared about me who demonstrated leadership and passion, and I wanted to exude that same passion."
A Communication major with a minor in African-American studies, Justin decided to add leadership to his goals for his college education, and today he serves as an excellent example of Leadership lived at UIS.
"Men the campus could look up to…"
As a sophomore, Justin accompanied a group of other young African-American men from UIS to the Black Male Summit Conference at the University of Akron, where the men heard presentations on topics ranging from race relations, self-esteem, healthy relationships, and strategies for personal and professional growth.
The men returned to campus determined to make a change. "We wanted to be the men that others on campus could look up to," Justin says.
That fall, the men formed the Black Male Collegiate Society. The group began with nine men, all on the executive board. They met twice a week to provide support for each other and to discuss issues that affect them as black male college students. They planned events for the campus and bright in speakers to encourage and inform them. They also began mentoring elementary students one hour a week.
Helping Others to Become Leaders
From the beginning, Justin wanted to help other students become leaders. So during the first year, when he saw potential in two young men, he set up a lunch and told them he believed in them. "These were things they needed to hear," he says, "and now they have both served on the executive board for two years."
Justin also worked hard on what he calls the "brotherhood aspect," which he developed primarily by keeping communication active and frequent. He sent morning texts, holiday texts, birthday texts, and emails. He set up meetings between members and made a point of letting people know they could respect themselves and others.
"I felt like this was the way to motivate people. If we met those basic needs, they would be able to do what they need to in life."
Today the BMCS has 41 members, and the group has such a strong and positive influence on campus that in 2012 the Society won the top student organization honor for a second consecutive year.
Making A Difference Now…
Justin graduated last May and is now working on a master's degree in public administration at UIS. In the future, he hopes to become the executive director of an organization serving the needs of a developing community, but he has not waited to make a difference in the lives of those around him.
As well as his work with the BMCS, as an undergraduate Justin devoted at least 20 hours a week to volunteering with youths. He created an initiative with Boys and Girls Club to mentor at-risk boys on Saturdays, and he is a big brother in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization. He has also mentored first-year, first generation college students at UIS for two years.
In recognition of his service to UIS and the Springfield community, Justin Rose received the Star Student Award at the Springfield Good as Gold Ceremony last spring.
"UIS has allowed me to show my leadership," he says, "and I have helped prepare new leaders. We are all leaving here with more than a degree. We are leaving with a better understanding of life in general. We can take that back to our communities and they will listen to us."
Justin is One of So Many Others
Justin is a leader at UIS. He is also becoming a leader in the Springfield community, and one day soon he will be a leader in our state and perhaps even our nation as well. You can read much more about Justin's success and leadership here.
Gifts to the UIS Fund have helped Justin in his leadership of the Black Male Collegiate Society, but the UIS Fund helps many other programs and many other students.
Please consider making a gift to the UIS Fund today through the Donate button below. Your gift will help us accomplish so much on behalf of students just like Justin.
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text: A former hazardous materials cleanup specialist for Maine's Department of Environmental Protection has pleaded guilty to destroying records of projects he was involved in for the final three years of his career. Jon Andrews of Augusta entered a plea under the Alford doctrine to a charge of tampering with public records, which means he acknowledges there is enough evidence to convict. Under the plea, the case is continued for five months and will be dismissed if the 58-year-old Andrews meets certain conditions, including a $3,500 donation to Maine's Coastal & Inland Surface Oil Cleanup Fund. Andrews' lawyer tells the Kennebec Journal, his client did nothing wrong and was simply cleaning out his desk. Prosecutors say Andrews was disgruntled and destroyed the records as a "parting shot" at the department.


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I was called out today for bees entering a house. When I got there they where entering the house threw a hole that the electric conduit goes into the house. Then the troubles showed themselfs, the outside is sided with asphalt shingles that if I tried to remove would just crack and break into pieces and they are so old that replacing is imposable. So I decided to look inside and guess what they just got done remodeling the whole inside, so inside cutting was also out.
So I was left wondering how to get them out without cutting. btw she has to have them gone due to her daughter being deadly alergic. So I dont know if it would work but I had a thought about putting out a bate hive with drawn comb and lemon grass oil then injecting some almond oil into the wall ( I would use bee go but I am fresh out). This is the only thought I have had, if you have a better one please let me know. The next option was to let the pest control company that let me know about them go ahead and spay but if there was a way of saving them I am totally for it.
And before it gets said I am aware of the idea of leaving the hive in the wall with all the honey and brood will attract more bees down the line. I told her about this but she beleves that she can plug up all the holes to keep them out and dont mind the smell of them in the house.
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Its what the people in a #warez channel on a mIRC network have decided to mean "penis." Reason? Because someone did a crossword puzzle which seemed to be making up words, and if the crossword puzzle makers can just make up words, then I think we should be able to also.
He pulled out the clobbermasher and began to "give her the business"
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Friday night, somehow ended up watching The Hulk and missed my opportunity to go out. Now i'm stuck at home and having a really hard time sleeping.. so after lying still for an hour i gave up and going to see what's out there.
First item on the agenda is merging my per node IDTs aka millions-o-interrupt sources patch with the -mm tree (4G/4G and MSI to contend with). Both boot on regular boxen now but i'm having trouble making it to console_init on the NUMAQ, a bit more debugging might be in order.
Second item is PGCL, Bill really needs more bodies on this, just tracking every kernel release is work enough. I'll be doing the second round of DRI fixes this weekend, plus maybe some general debugging too.
Christmas coming soon too! I'm really fighting the urge to get a PowerBook... really i am...


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NORWALK, Conn. — Pepperidge Farm has launched a new website that will enable customers to create personalized packages of its Goldfish brand crackers.
The site offers users an array of fun options to personalize Goldfish packages. Users can add their own photos and custom messages, and even pick their favorite Goldfish cracker colors to create special combinations.
With special themes rolling out to coincide with major holidays, consumers have many ways to enjoy a Goldfish My Way experience. Consumers can choose from a 4.5 ounce customized gift box, 1.0 ounce customized party favors, or single-serve themed party cups. The site, www.GoldfishMyWay.com, is easy to navigate, and the high-quality packages are guaranteed to spread smiles during holidays, birthday parties, school and sporting events and every occasion in between.
"We love spreading smiles through the iconic Goldfish brand," said Jared Konstanty , SVP general manager snacks. "It's our pleasure to bring new ways for our fans to engage with the product and personalize the way they enjoy their favorite crackers, and we are so excited and honored to be part of people's celebrations throughout the year."
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