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on Hospital Care Drives Double-Digit Jump in Health Costs
Outpatient Hospital Care Surpasses Drugs as Fastest Growing Cost Component
WASHINGTON, D.C.Spending on health care jumped 10 percent in 2001, the first double-digit increase in more than a decade, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) published today as a Web-exclusive article in the journal Health Affairs.
Driven by increased use of services and higher prices (payment rates), spending on inpatient and outpatient hospital care climbed 12 percent in 2001, accounting for more than half, or 51 percent, of the overall health care spending increase.
"People are getting more tests and treatments as managed care plans abandon tight restrictions on care, but higher hospital prices are playing a role as well in rising costs," said Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., president of HSC, a nonpartisan policy research organization funded exclusively by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The study analyzes per capita spending on health care servicesinpatient and outpatient hospital care, physician services and prescription drugscommonly covered by private insurance. Per capita health care spending trendsalso often referred to as cost trends-are important because they determine long-term health insurance premium trends.
Growing use of services accounted for about two-thirds of increased spending on hospital care, with the other third coming from higher payment rates, thanks, in part, to hospitals' increased bargaining clout with health plans, the study found.
Rapidly rising health care spending helped spark a 15 percent average increase in the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance in 2002, including a 12.7 percent premium increase and a 2 percent to 3 percent "benefit buy-down" by employers who reduced benefits and increased employee cost sharing.
"Higher premiums are almost certainly going to result in more Americans becoming uninsured. More people will decide they can't afford health insurance, and some businesses, especially small firms, will drop coverage," Ginsburg said.
"Increased cost sharing means people will pay more when they go to the doctor or fill a prescription," Ginsburg said. "Giving consumers more of a financial stake in their care can raise awareness about costs and encourage more responsible health care choices, but too much cost sharing can create barriers to needed care, especially for low-income people and people with chronic illnesses."
Early evidence from 2002 suggests overall health care cost trends may have peaked in 2001. Higher consumer cost sharing appears to be slowing demand for care, and much of the recent growth in utilization may be a one-time consequence of the retreat from tightly managed care. Through June 2002, compared with the same period in 2001, the increase in total spending per capita, while still high, slowed to 8.8 percent.
The study is available online at www.healthaffairs.org, and the findings also are detailed in a new HSC Data BulletinTracking Health Care Costs: Hospital Spending Spurs Double-Digit Increase in 2001available online at www.hschange.org. A second HSC Data BulletinAging Plays Limited Role in Health Care Cost Trendsis available online, as well.
A webcast of a National Press Club briefing on the study will be made available by kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation, after 12 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The webcast, transcript and related resources can be found at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/hsc/25sep02.
Other key findings of the study include:
Spending on outpatient
hospital care grew 16.3 percent in 2001, accounting for 37 percent of the overall
health care spending increase. Outpatient spending was the fastest growing component
of overall spending, surpassing prescription drugs for the first time since
Spending on inpatient care jumped 7.1 percent in 2001, accounting for 14 percent of the overall increase. Growing at almost three times the 2000 rate, inpatient spending continued a stunning reversal from 1997, when inpatient spending decreased 5.3 percent.
Spending on prescription drugs rose 13.8 percent, slowing for the second year in a row and contributing 21 percent to the overall spending increase.
Spending for physician services increased 6.7 percent, accounting for 28 percent of the overall spending increase.
The study also shows that hospitals are facing significant financial pressures from rising payroll costs. Hospital payroll costs grew 8.6 percent in 2001more than double the 3.7 percent increase in 2000because of increases in both wage rates and hours worked. Hospitals are probably facing even steeper payroll increases because the study didn't capture increased costs for agency nurses and other workers who are contractors rather than employees.
The average hourly hospital wage grew 6.1 percent in 2001nearly double the 2000 paceproviding evidence of the financial pressures on hospitals from the severe shortage of nurses and other skilled employees. Total hours worked by hospital workers also grew in 2001, up 2.4 percent compared with 0.4 percent in 2000, reflecting the increased use of hospital services.
To control rising premiums, many employers "bought down" the price of health insurance in 2002 by reducing benefits and increasing patient cost-sharing requirements. The most important benefit buy-downs were increased deductibles and higher drug copayments.
"The economic slowdown has allowed employers to reduce health benefits more aggressively because they don't have to compete as hard to attract and retain workers," said Bradley C. Strunk, an HSC research analyst and lead author of the study written with Ginsburg and Jon R.Gabel, Ph.D., vice president of the Health Research and Educational Trust.
Employers, however, did not raise the proportion of the total premium that employees are required to pay. In both 2001 and 2002, employees paid about 15.5 percent of the cost of single coverage and 27.3 percent of the cost of family coverage.
Stakeholder Comments on the HSC Study
Gail Shearer, director
of health policy analysis, Consumers Union, www.consumersunion.org
"As health care spending and insurance premiums continue spiraling upward, more and more consumers, especially lower-income people, will find health coverage unaffordable. At the same time, as employees' out-of-pocket costs grow, more people will find themselves underinsured."
Helen Darling, president,
Washington Business Group on Health, www.wbgh.org
"As health care costs continue rising rapidly, employers have little choice but to share increased costs with employees. While employers are giving workers more of a financial stake in decisions about their care, employers also are providing more health care decision support tools to help employees make more informed choices about their care and what they can do to help lead healthier lives."
Carmela Coyle, senior
vice president for policy, American Hospital Association, www.aha.org
"For years, hospitals kept their costs at historically low levels. But today's hospitals are facing a new set of challenges. The shortage of nurses and other caregivers is driving up labor costs; prescription drug and technology costs are spiraling out of control; and the ranks of the nation's uninsured continue to swell. At the same time, demand for hospital services is rising as the baby boomers age and medical advances allow us to care for and cure more Americans.
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The Center for Studying Health System Change is a nonpartisan policy research organization committed to providing objective and timely insights on the nation's changing health system to help inform policy makers and contribute to better health care policy. HSC, based in Washington, D.C., is funded exclusively by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is affiliated with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Health Affairs,
published by Project HOPE, is a bimonthly, multidisciplinary journal devoted
to publishing the leading edge in health policy thought and research. Copies
of the journal are free to interested members of the press. Address inquiries
to Jon Gardner at Health Affairs, 301-656-7401, ext. 230, or via e-mail,
email@example.com. Selected
articles from the September/October issue are available free on the journal's
Web site, www.healthaffairs.org.
©2002 Project HOPEThe People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.


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Kim Kardashian Talks Divorce on 'Leno': I Know I Made the Right Decision (VIDEO)
"I'm a girl that really believes in love," she declared. "I'm in love with love, and I thought this was it for me. But when I realized it wasn't, I thought — I've always tried to be really respectful of everyone involved. I wanted to be fair to me, but I wanted to be fair to someone else."
"I hear stories of people that are married for 10 years and they knew it wasn't right but they wanted to stick it out, and then they involved kids," she added. "I want that forever, and I believed in love, I still do, but I felt like, to be fair to everyone, I just knew I had to end it. I'm okay with that decision. I know I made the right decision."
Kim also talked about the intense reaction from the media, concluding that it changed the way she values things in life.
"I really think everything happens for a reason," she said.
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Allegiant to offer nonstop flights to Ariz.
Allegiant is coming back to the Rochester International
Airport to offer flights west once again, but the destination is not a gamble this time.
The regional airline and travel company will offer two weekly
non-stop flights with 166 seats each to Phoenix, Ariz.
Starting on Nov. 1., Allegiant flights will leave Rochester generally on Thursdays and Sundays to make the less than three hour trip to Arizona.
To help the new flights take off, the Las Vegas-based airline is offering the Arizona flights for $99 one way.
Allegiant had previously offered non-stop flights from Rochester to Las Vegas for more than two years until it pulled out in 2010 due to lack of demand. During 2008, 27,854 passengers flew out of Rochester on Allegiant.
With Mayo Clinic having campuses in Arizona and Rochester as
well quite a bit of tourism traffic, Allegiant is not worried about demand this time, says Eric Fletcher, the airline's airports manager.
"We've had good luck returning to markets that we've previously
pulled out of. We feel good about coming back to Rochester," he says.
Could Allegiant bring back non-stop flights to Vegas or add
flights to its other major vacation destination of Orlando, Florida?
"That always a good possibility," Fletcher says. "We like to
have more than just two flights w eek going out of an airport. But we believe
Phoenix is a good destination to start with right now."


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- 6" chef's knife and sheath
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Eight-Piece Ceramic Knife Set
With laser-honed edges that are harder than those of steel blades, these knives quickly reduce whole vegetables and meats to neatly chopped piles. The lightweight blades are made of a lightweight and rust-proof ceramic that won't impart flavour on foods or leave oxidation behind on sliced fruit. Aside from three knives with matching sheaths, the set also includes a ceramic vegetable peeler and a folding cutting board.
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Marc Anthony Shows Off Busty 24-Year-Old Girlfriend Shannon De Lima at Charity Event (PHOTOS)
Jennifer Lopez has moved on with backup dancer 25-year-old Casper Smart, her ex Marc Anthony also has some young arm candy.While 42-year-old
The Puerto Rican singer, 42, stepped out with his new girlfriend, 24-year-old model Shannon De Lima, in support of the 27th Annual Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Sports Spectacular event in Century City, Calif. on Sunday night.
Do you think Marc's new (younger) gal resembles J-Lo?
She's certainly flaunting her assets like the American Idol judge does!


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Repa (REgular PArallel arrays)
Repa provides high performance, regular, multi-dimensional, shape polymorphic parallel arrays. All numeric data is stored unboxed. Functions written with the Repa combinators are automatically parallel provided you supply +RTS -Nwhatever on the command line when running the program. Repa means "turnip" in Russian. If you don't like turnips then this library probably isn't for you.
Repa is split up into a few packages to help control dependencies.
If you want the lot then just install the examples, and this will pull down the rest.
cabal install repa-examples
Report a bug
If you have a bug or feature request, please add a new ticket.
Note that for spam prevention you must first register (takes 10 sec) before you can add a ticket.
You can also send email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Here is the output of some of the examples included in the repa-examples package:
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There is also an OSX demo that does edge detection on a video stream:
- The source should compile with XCode 3.2.1 and GHC 7.0.3, but you need to update and run the CONFIGURE.sh script to point it to your GHC install.
- There are also prebuilt OSX i386 versions for two four and six threads. These just have the corresponding +RTS -N# option baked in, you can set it in the main.m module. Some day I will make it so you can select this from the GUI.
- If you don't have a Mac then you can watch a video of me demonstrating it.
- You can also run the edge detector over a single uncompressed .bmp file using the repa-canny program from the repa-examples package.


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After a few days of speculation, the New York Mets and the Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a deal to send knuckleballer RA Dickey north of the border. I don't generally write about deals from other teams, unless it directly affects the Philadelphia Phillies. This trade changes the landscape of both Eastern Divisions in baseball and, most importantly, the Phils.
In the finalized deal, the Blue Jays will receiver Dickey (and his $25 million extension), catcher Josh Thole, and catcher Mike Nickeas. The Mets will acquire catching prospect Travis d'Arnaud, catcher John Buck, right-handed pitcher Noah Syndergaard, and outfielder Wuilmer Becerra.
The New York Mets won 74 games last season. RA Dickey got the win in 20 of those contests. The Mets added some great prospects and will have made their team better in the long run, but they won't be making any playoff runs this season. They're pitching staff is weak after Johan Santana and they don't exactly have talent littered across the diamond.
The Blue Jays have, like the rest of their American League East counterparts, developed a win-now mentality. They have a stacked outfield with Jose Bautista, Colby Rasmus, and Melky Cabrera. They traded for more infield talent and will be running Brett Lawrie, Jose Reyes, Emilio Bonifacio, and Edwin Encarnacion out every day. J.P. Arencebia and Adam Lind round them out at catcher and designated hitter. That lineup, regardless of where you're sitting, is the best in the American League East.
Don't forget their recently bolstered pitching staff that includes Dickey, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Brandon Morrow, Ricky Romero, and J.A. Happ. It remains to be seen what they Blue Jays will do with that sixth starter (Happ), but they could be in the market to trade him and snag some more talent for the bullpen. Although, a move to the bullpen for Happ isn't out of the question.
To wrap that up – The Blue Jays have successfully made themselves much better and the Mets are starting to build towards the future. A good pattern for the division as one more team prepares to win tomorrow while the Phillies are still built for today.Tags: Baseball, MLB, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies


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What's not to love about this cover from the April, 1935 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics? A fantastic logo font! Money-making plans! An amazing, completely impractical sky toboggan pitching itself towards the ground as a single passenger takes notice of the pilot's worried grimace!
Nobody made the future more terrifying that Hugo Gernsback, Editor. That's why today in the tech publications business we call a death machine cover with a nice font—a jet-powered grain combine underneath a banner of Futura, say—"The Ol' Gernsback." Like most technology cover stories, that is nearly true.
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The Dallas Mavericks are playing the New York Knicks on Friday night in a matchup of 4-1 and 3-0 teams, respectively.
Dallas is also facing Jason Kidd for the first time since he left the Mavs this past offseason to sign a deal with New York. Him and Tyson Chandler, who came to the Knicks in the summer of 2011, were cornerstones of a team who magically rode its way to the top of the NBA for a championship, Dallas' first in franchise history.
Chandler and Kidd loved being in Dallas, and even though they are now happy to be with the Knicks, they stated Thursday that Dallas could have done something special had they kept the championship core intact together.
"I'm very happy with this situation, but to speak past tense I definitely think that we had an opportunity to go back-to-back and unfortunately things were blown up," Chandler said on Thursday.
Kidd talked about the possibility of the Mavs repeating as champions last season had the same team in 2011 stuck around together.
"You never know. In a shortened season anything is possible," he said. "That group of guys that we had was very special."
Dallas hopes to slow down Chandler, Kidd, and especially Carmelo Anthony as the Knicks try to stay unbeaten.Tags: Basketball, Carmelo Anthony, Dallas, Dallas Mavericks, Jason Kidd, NBA, Tyson Chandler


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Behind the scenes of the Big Day Out is an operation run with dictatorial precision, writes Dino Scatena.
On Australia Day, a mass of this city's youth - almost 55,000 of them - will congregate at the Showground in Homebush Bay for the annual Big Day Out music festival. Tickets for the show sold out nearly two months back.
The scale of each individual Big Day Out event is immense. A 13-hour spectacle featuring more than 50 local and international music acts, projected against a setting of fairground attractions and market stalls.
Cast, crew and staff for the Sydney show will number nearly 3000. So the logistics involved in organising, moving and staging the whole trans-Tasman Big Day Out tour - which began in Auckland last Friday and ends in Perth on February 6 (six shows in 16 days) - is staggering. Overall costs for this year's tour will top $25 million. Last year, it drew a total of 270,000 music fans.
Ken West, 46, of Sydney and his friend of more than 20 years, Melburnian Vivian Lees, 51, are business partners in Creative Entertainment. They have produced and self-financed the Big Day Out since the first one-off show in Sydney in 1992, two-million tickets ago.
After 13 years and some 65 individual day-long events, today the Big Day Out tour is, despite its size, an almost faultlessly slick production. Everything rolls so smoothly from one year to the next that the key acts for this year's line-up - Powderfinger, New York's the Beastie Boys, London's the Chemical Brothers and LA's System of a Down - were already in place before last year's tour hit the road. Another 20 local and international acts were kept on standby until the last minute, just in case one of the headliners pulled out.
West and Lees jointly oversee every facet of the Big Day Out. They personally direct and stage-manage the events in their respective home cities, the two biggest shows on the itinerary. It can be a nerve-wracking job. There are 400 security staff to keep the peace at each show, but with anywhere between 40,000 and 55,000 youth gone wild, you have to be constantly prepared for the worst.
West, hyperactive, quick-talking, constantly sarcastic, admits to running his event in Sydney like a dictatorship: "You have to be military about your decision-making process so no one has the capacity to debate with you, because you don't have the time," he says.
Mild-mannered and quietly spoken, Lees tackles life and his show at a completely different speed. Across the company's Sydney and Melbourne offices, Creative Entertainment's small team of year-round full-timers - the circus family, as West calls them - have worked the same jobs for more than a decade. They're so well trained in their key roles that they could run the whole thing without West and Lees, if they had to.
And it might come to that sooner than later. Not for the first time, West is having grave doubts about his ongoing involvement with the Big Day Out.
"I'm still trying to work out how to get out of it," he says. "Because I'm trapped, and I don't mean that in an over-emotional way. I now work for the Big Day Out. It's this entity and I don't feel it's mine any more. And that scares the shit out of me."
Lees and everyone else at Creative Entertainment have often heard West talk like this, but this time is different. In the months following last year's Big Day Out, West's personal life descended into chaos. First, his father died from cancer. Then, seven weeks later, his mother died. "Of a broken heart," West says.
He was understandably a mess, and still hasn't fully recovered from the trauma. "I was in denial mode about what I was going straight into after the last Big Day Out," he explains.
"I've got to keep my shit together now until the middle of February so I can grab my four months off. It's what I need now. And there's no guarantee at the end of it that I'll do this again."
The Big Day Out was West's idea, his great idea. But business nous was provided by Lees and his studious attention to detail, allowed West's vision to flourish. Their starkly contrasting personalities - the foundation of their partnership - causes constant friction between them. Outside the two weeks of the tour each year, they live and work 800 kilometres apart. Lees laughs as he explains how they speak on the phone daily and still regularly slam the receiver down on each other.
"To Viv, yes, it's a creative process, but it's a business," West says. "And I see this as an artistic statement that has to be a business. My inspiration are people like Christo: 'I need $3 million to drape the Grand Canyon. How do I find that?' This needs to be financially sound so I can do what I want to do."
The partners first met in 1981 when West, a 23-year-old former art school student from Cabramatta, put in a call to the 28-year-old Lees, an economics graduate living in Melbourne's inner-east. Lees had just started managing a new art-house rock band called Hunters and Collectors. West was already promoting his own rock gigs in Sydney with acts such as the Birthday Party (featuring Nick Cave) and the Laughing Clowns (Ed Kuepper), and wanted to do a show with the Hunters.
They worked together on and off throughout the 1980s, promoting successful Australian tours by the likes of Iggy Pop, New Order and the Violent Femmes. They shared the Lees house in Melbourne for a while, and also co-managed Kate Ceberano's first band, I'm Talking.
In 1986, the Violent Femmes invited West to act as their tour manager through America. It was in the band's hometown of Milwaukee that West attended a 10-day, multi-stage, multi-genre event called Summerfest, which got him thinking.
In late-January of 1992, West staged his first Big Day Out at the old Sydney Showground in Moore Park. The rock gods were smiling upon him. One of the 20 acts he booked for the three-stage event, at a fee of $3000, was an underground rock trio from Seattle called Nirvana. In the weeks leading up to the show, Nirvana suddenly became the biggest band in the world. They pushed their appearance fee up to $10,000, but their mere presence ensured the first Big Day Out was a sell-out, drawing 9500 fans.
"After that, Ken was like a maniac," Lees says. "He was completely driven after that first year." The following year, the Big Day Out went national. As tastes in pop music rapidly shifted in the early-1990s with the rise of the Nirvana-led grunge rock movement, West's concept of an alternative music/lifestyle festival was quickly embraced by the local mainstream.
His original ethos of "controlled chaos", however, was forced to be reviewed following the tragic events of the 2001 show in Sydney, when a crowd crush caused the death of a 15-year-old audience member, Jessica Michalik, and injured 30 others.
Michalik's death had a profound effect on West and Lees and everyone in their organisation, and they came close to bringing the curtain down on the show. "We were faced with an incredibly tragic situation which we felt responsible for," Lees says. "But we hadn't felt as if we'd done anything wrong. We were rocked by the loss of Jessica and we were concerned that we might not be able to produce a safe show."
But with new safety measures in place, the show survived its darkest hour. As for this latest crisis involving West's ongoing involvement, Lees can only manage tempered sympathy for his partner's state of mind. One way or another, the show must go on.
"Look, we all know Ken's had a very difficult year of it," Lees says. "So there have been times in the past year when Ken's been very difficult to talk to and difficult to reach. To that extent, we've had differences about what we're doing and they, in this last year, have become pronounced."
As for West, he's kept himself together in the past few months by focusing his energies on a secret project for the Sydney show. It involves an eight-metre, two-million volt lightning machine. He promises that this Big Day Out will have a finale unlike anything anyone has ever seen. "These are the things that get me out of bed in the morning," he says.
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This article was published 20/10/2010 (2468 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG - The candidates keep saying it and polls suggest they're right: Winnipeggers want a crackdown on crime to be the next mayor's top priority.
A new poll – the same one that gave Mayor Sam Katz a six-point lead over challenger Judy Wasylycia-Leis yesterday – says two in five Winnipegger believe reducing crime ought to be the new mayor's first task.
Another 32 per cent of those surveyed said fixing roads and bridges should be job one.
The poll, done by Leger Marketing for the Winnipeg Free Press and the CBC, surveyed 800 randomly selected Winnipeg adults between Oct. 6 and 17. The firm can say with 95 per cent certainty its results are accurate within a margin of error of 3.5 per cent.


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One of the biggest fears a parent has is that something might happen to their child. When you drop them at school, you no longer have control over what happens. You cannot run to their aid. They need to know how to be safe themselves. You can start teaching your kids about safety from the age of 2. To keep your child safe when at school, follow these tips:
Contact information. Once your child is of school age, he or she should know their name and surname, as well as a contact number by heart. They should also know their address.
Questions. Make a habit of talking to your child about school. Ask them everyday how it was and what happened. This way you will be able to pick up on suspicious behavior or people.
Labels. It is important to label your child's belongings, but avoid doing so where it is visible. Only mark clothes and suitcases on the inside. If their name is visible, a stranger might call out to them with the pretence to know you or them.
Strangers. Teach your children from when they are small that they should never talk to or go anywhere with a stranger. No matter what they want or need, they should rather get help.
School procedures. Educate yourself on the school's emergency procedures. Make sure your child knows who to contact in an emergency.
Participate. Be active at school. Join the PTA or volunteer in some way. Your participation will be visible and everyone will know that you are interested in your child and care about them.
Making friends. Allow your child to participate in group activities to make friends. Encourage play dates and friends coming over. Belonging to a group and having friends promotes positivity.
Cell phone. Many children of all ages have cell phones these days. Consider giving your child one for safety purposes. Have your and other emergency numbers programmed so he or she can easily reach you.
Educate your children from the day they can understand how to keep themselves safe. Teach them to communicate with teachers and you when something is not right.


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THE head and governors of a school told it required improvement have acted swiftly to make progress according to an interim inspection by Ofsted.
School inspectors returned to St Nicholas CE Middle School in Pinvin to monitor the school in March after it was told it required improvement following an inspection in January.
The report said the highly knowledgeable and experienced governing body had established an effective system of holding leaders to account.
A better system of judging the quality of teaching was in place along with a new marking policy.
Members of a large senior team were undertaking more monitoring activities but were not yet sufficiently involved with formal observations of teaching or giving individual feedback to teachers.
Inspectors said new ideas introduced to engage boys in writing were being well received and booster groups led by senior leaders were helping encourage pupils to reach the highest possible levels.
Inspectors found pupils were unanimous that RE was not taught as well as other subjects and said their concerns should be followed up.
The accuracy of the teachers' assessments had also not been externally validated but school figures showed year 5 overall progress was in line with other year groups.
There had been a change in leadership in literacy since the previous inspection but inspectors said it was too early to see if that had led to any change.
As we reported, the school lodged a formal complaint against Ofsted's judgement following the January inspection.
Headteacher David Snell said sections of the original report were wrong particularly concerning pupils' progress.
The school also pointed out it was in the top 20 schools for progress and attainment in reading nationally, and the third best for progress and attainment in maths of the 21 local middle schools.


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Avenged Sevenfold to release new edition of second album
Avenged Sevenfold will release a new edition of their second album on August 26 with previously-unheard songs and more.
Waking the Fallen: Resurrected will include 11 never-before-heard songs, 23 total tracks, new artwork, the original first cut of the music video for "Unholy Confessions," and a 30-minute film featuring the band.
Two of the new songs, including the lead track "Waking the Fallen: Resurrected," had been lost before being discovered buried deep within the original multi-track recordings. Originally intended to make the album as a full song, it was ultimately reworked into a vocal-free intro.
Demo versions of four songs contain alternate lyrics, melodies, and arrangements.
Also featured on the re-release are five live songs recorded in 2004 from some of the band's earliest shows. Very little live material from this era of Avenged Sevenfold's career has ever seen the light of day.
The accompanying DVD features a 30-minute documentary featuring new interviews from band looking back on the of the lead up, demoing, recording, and touring around the Waking the Fallen album. The film includes personal behind-the-scenes home movies and photos from the band's earliest days.
- Waking the Fallen
- Unholy Confessions
- Chapter Four
- Remenissions
- Desecrate Through Reverence
- Eternal Rest
- Second Heartbeat
- Radiant Eclipse
- I Won't See You Tonight Part 1
- I Won't See You Tonight Part 2
- Clairvoyant Disease
- And All Things Will End
- Waking the Fallen: Resurrected
- Second Heartbeat (alternate version)
- Chapter Four (demo)
- Remenissions (demo)
- I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 (demo)
- I Won't See You Tonight Part 2 (demo)
- Intro/Chapter Four (live in Ventura)
- Desecrate Through Reverence (live in Pomona)
- Eternal Rest (live in Pomona)
- Unholy Confessions (live in Ventura)
- Second Heartbeat (live in Ventura)
- I Won't See You Tonight Pt. 1 (live in Ventura)
- I Won't See You Tonight Pt. 2 (live in Ventura)
- Waking the Fallen: Resurrected documentary
- Chapter Four (live)
- Unholy Confessions (official music video)
- Unholy Confessions (original first-cut music video)


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Business process improvement
Radical focus on customer benefits and value proposition
In many industries requirements for business-critical processes have increased drastically, driven by intense competition, high market transparency and shorter product cycles. But above all, the increasing customer expectations, especially of those accustomed to the online business models, have extremely shortened response and transaction times. Even "off-line" companies must compete with these circumstances and have to develop strategies how to cope with these requirements.
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Arena Theater at Wheaton College presents Shakespeare's sublime comedy "Twelfth Night" April 13-14 and 18-21.
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By Rita Cook
When Carlene Saelg, president of Pearl Cup Coffee opened the little coffee shop several years ago with her partner she had one thing on her mind - allowing folks to get a cup of coffee while enjoying an eco-friendly environment in the heart of Dallas.
"We are a small business so we have a pretty tight budget, but we do all that we can afford to in staying true to our recycling and re-purposing values," Saelg says.
Anchored by this environmental mindset, Pearl Cup Coffee just keeps growing.
In fact, Saelg says they are expecting to open an additional two shops in the next year and she recently signed a lease for the Sylvan/30 project, set to be the only 100% LEED certified building in Dallas.
"The comments from customers were many in the beginning," Saelg says. She says she continued to hear how great Pearl Cup was being ecologically sensitive to raves about the soy-based insulation, which got a lot of attention since most people have no idea about the chemicals from ordinary blown-in insulation.
"Our natural soy based insulation is non toxic and we always use "no VOC" paint (an eco-friendly paint) on our walls," Saelg explains also mentioning that the coffee is from local roaster, Coffee Eiland who works with a coffee broker and buys only top quality beans from around the world. Many of the beans are "direct trade," which differs from "fair trade" in that the farmers are paid directly at an agreed upon price for their coffee, which is always higher than the standard "fair trade" price.
Discussing the story behind the shop's name, Saelg sites "Rita's (Saelg's coffee shop partner) love of pearls, the classy and uniquely different name it would give the coffee shop, meaning not your usual "java joint" and her fond memories of visiting her grandmother who happened to live on Pearl Street in Kansas."
Without a doubt "The Pearl Latte" is the Pearl Cup's most popular item as well as the Italian Cappuccino, a traditional seven-ounce drink with equal parts milk and foam allowing for the taste of the sweetness of the Pearl Cup espresso.
Another green practice the company incorporates to reduce their carbon footprint is using eco-friendly paper cups. This means that the paper used in the cups are not coated with a petroleum product and therefore are 100% fully biodegradable and compostable in a commercial composting facility.
"All the green practices that we use at the shop we also use at home," Saelg says. "We recycle everything we possibly can."
Saelg says she'd like to start a vegetable garden this year too so composting is high on her list as a natural fertilizer. They also bag up the spent coffee grounds at the shop to give away to customers since spent coffee grounds are excellent for outdoor flowering shrubs.
"Being a green company is a choice and we make that choice out of our own personal commitment to doing our part for a healthy planet," Saelg concludes. " We know it costs a bit more to be green, but if more and more of the big corporations operated with the same concern for the environment we could all make a huge difference."
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By Oren Dorell and Jim Michaels, USA TODAY
BAGHDAD When a car bomb ripped through a crowded street in a Shiite neighborhood several weeks ago, Iraqi militia members rushed to the scene.
Dozens of Shiite militia members ran into a partially collapsed building and began pulling out the dead and injured, says Army 2nd Lt. Matthew Jones, a spokesman for the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, who spoke to residents afterward.
"They were saving lives," Jones says of the militia members.
When he testifies before Congress next week, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is likely to highlight the growing number of Sunni tribes who cooperate with U.S. forces, turning on al-Qaeda. Turning the population against Shiite militias may be a tougher job.
Incidents such as the car bomb July 26 in Baghdad illustrate why. Unlike al-Qaeda, which alienated people with its strict interpretation of Islam and intimidation of locals, militias became popular in some neighborhoods by offering Shiites protection Iraqi security forces couldn't provide, particularly during intense sectarian fighting last year.
"They're a little bit like the Minutemen were for us in the Revolutionary War," says Army Col. Rick Welch, a tribal specialist with the American division in Baghdad. "They get a call to arms, and they're made up of regular citizens."
Tackling Shiite militias is key to achieving long-term peace. At least half of attacks on U.S. troops in some areas are staged by militias trying to drive out the military. They are involved in black market activity, kidnapping and deadly attacks on American and Iraqi troops.
"We have a lot of militias that are only fronts for organized crime," says Samir Sumaidaie, Iraq's ambassador to the United States.
The militias enjoy support from political allies in the Shiite-dominated government and have infiltrated all levels of Iraq's security forces, particularly police, making it harder for American forces to target them.
"Militia infiltration of local police remains a significant problem," the Pentagon said in a report to Congress in June.
Shiite assaults
Shiite violence has been growing. Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the American division in central Iraq, says attacks in his area are evenly divided between Sunnis and Shiites. Iranian support for Shiite militias gives the militias a deadly edge, he says.
The U.S. military says Iran is providing Shiite militias with deadly armor-piercing roadside bombs called EFPs, or explosively formed penetrators. Iran has denied the allegations. EFPs were used to carry out 99 attacks in July, accounting for one-third of the 69 coalition combat deaths that month, according to the U.S. military.
Iraq's Shiite-dominated government, which raised few objections to offensives aimed at al-Qaeda, a Sunni organization, is more tentative when it comes to firepower aimed at Shiite militias. Some of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political support comes from supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric who nominally heads the Mahdi Army.
A recent raid on a Baghdad mosque by troops looking for militia organizers illustrates the problem. Iraqi troops went into the building while American forces waited outside.
The Iraqi troops emerged after 15 minutes from the Imam Ali Husseiniya Mosque with a sniper rifle and two AK-47s, a small arsenal by Iraqi standards. None of the wanted men was inside the compound.
Maj. Keith Moser, a U.S. battalion operations officer who was on the raid, sent his Iraqi translator into the mosque with a video camera. The translator emerged with video of a trove of evidence, including a stack of Mahdi Army identification cards, body armor of the type worn by the Iraqi army, ammunition belts and magazines for assault weapons.
Moser said Iraqi soldiers are deferential when they search a building because in some cases, they know the people whose homes they search.
The presence of body armor in the mosque could be evidence of militia infiltration of Iraq's security forces, a persistent problem, or that the equipment was taken from Iraqi soldiers, says Capt. Josh Klemcke, a U.S. adviser to the Iraqi unit on the raid.
"Left on their own, many (Iraqi security force) units still tend to gravitate to old habits of sectarianism when applying the law," the White House said in a report in July.
That has bred mistrust of the army and police in some areas. "With the infiltration in some of the security forces, they can come into a neighborhood looking like they have authority but actually perhaps carrying out a sectarian agenda," Welch says. "That makes it pretty difficult and ambiguous for the people in the communities."
Signs of progress
American commanders say al-Maliki's government is beginning to support the need to target Shiite militias, despite the prime minister's public stance. Last year, raids into Sadr City required permission from Iraq's government. Political interference — Shiite politicians asking Iraq's military to target Sunnis or to release Shiite militia leaders who were detained — is less common than it used to be.
"In the past, we've had some restrictions," says Brig. Gen. John Campbell, deputy commanding general of the American division based in Baghdad. Operations in Sadr City, the Shiite slum and Mahdi Army stronghold, would require permission from higher headquarters, he says. "I have very few restrictions now," Campbell says. "That has changed drastically."
Campbell says Iraqi military commanders are beginning to show a more evenhanded approach in pursuing militants. Campbell said he went to a weekly targeting meeting last month and for the first time, Iraqi commanders presented a balanced list of both Sunni and Shiite militants to pursue.
"In the past, I've walked out of those meetings because it's been nothing but Sunni targets," Campbell says.
American commanders say they have been successful in killing or capturing leaders of Shiite militias. "We target them (the Mahdi Army) just like we do al-Qaeda," says Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander of Multi-National Division-North.
The U.S. military pursues a political and economic strategy, which is in its infancy, aimed at undercutting support for militias, similar to its successful efforts to turn the Sunni population against al-Qaeda.
"We want to drive a wedge between the population and these extremist militia folks," Campbell says. "We're just now starting to gain a little momentum."
A key part of the strategy is creating jobs for the thousands of poor Shiites in places such as Sadr City, Welch says. The Shiite slum has been a lucrative source of recruits for the Mahdi Army.
There are signs that some of the population is turning away from Shiite militias, U.S. officers say.
"There are certain areas where (Shiite) populations are rejecting criminals in their midst," Petraeus says.
Jones says he sees evidence that locals are getting fed up with militia violence.
Residents of the New Baghdad section of the capital are increasingly turning against militias and providing U.S. forces with tips leading to detentions of militant leaders and the discovery of weapons caches.
"It takes three or four strong-minded people in a neighborhood to decide, 'I'm tired of people busting down my door and shooting RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) off my roof,' " Jones says.
Michaels reported from Washington
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Superman Spends What? The Price of Being a Superhero
There's no question that superheroes are a lucrative bunch. From Spider-Man to The Dark Knight, crime-fighters on the big screen often translate to big bucks at the box office. But how much does it actually cost to be a superhero? To celebrate Superhero Week — and May 4's all-star blockbuster The Avengers — Hollywood.com delves into the sustainability of our favorite heroes' super extracurricular activities. Would they have the funds — and good health — to keep up with their secret lifestyles? We've brought you Spider-Man, Batman, Iron Man, and the Hulk, and now, it's time for the Man who's faster (and thriftier) than a speeding bullet: Superman. We break down Bryan Singer's 2006 film, Superman Returns , and discover that being Superman's life is pretty much the best. In fact, with this post comes my resignation and an application to take over his duties and general lifestyle.
Name: Clark Kent
Alias: Superman
Occupation: He's a pavement-pounding reporter for Metropolis' Daily Planet, though he's lucky to have the job after his unannounced five-year "vacation" — the one no one seems to notice matches up perfectly to Superman's five-year hiatus.
Income: Well, it's not much. The man's an average reporter at the Daily News of Metropolis. According to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, the average reporter makes approximately $35,000 a year, but that includes television reporters and those fancy folks at the New York Times. Considering that Kent is replacing an old reporter and he's been missing for an exorbitant amount of time, we're going to place him on the lower end of the scale, above the kids fresh out of college and below the solid $35k-ers. Salary: $30,000 a year.
Housing: Get ready to start tearing your hair out and screaming at that bird, or plane, or flying man in sky because Superman is about to blow your mind with the hidden superpower you can't even try to possess (no matter how many times your dad sends you Yahoo! Articles about how to save money on everyday necessities): penny pinching. When he first crash lands back on Earth, he says rent free with his mama and when he returns to the big city, he's ambiguously "still looking" for an apartment. He does take a little nap in Earth's mesosphere, where he closes his eyes and hangs out like a confused, right-side-up bat just waiting to hear a crime to disturb his slumber so he can swoop down and save the day. He also throws some crystals into the water in Antarctica, which yields a giant crystal mansion which you might call the Fortress of Solitude. This magnificent palace costs him approximately nothing. Rent: $0 (The bastard.)
Costume: Keep up the fist-shaking and the screaming, because Superman doesn't even need to buy his super suit. Why? It comes from space. Yes, as in that big mystery in the sky. The invulnerable material comes from Krypton, and unfortunately, no foreign currency exchange was willing to crunch the numbers to determine how many American dollars fit into one Kryptonian Ruble or Peso or Rupee or whatever Kryptonians use for currency. Superman does, however, (spoiler!) sustain a sizable rip in his suit when Lex Luthor stabs him with a Kryptonite crystal, and considering a sewing needle would be no match for the space-age fabric, he'd probably have to run home to Krypton to get it repaired. Then again, he does manage to shape his coif into that shiny do with the signature flirtatious curl at his temple, so he's probably got an emergency tube of Dep on hand at all times. Cost: Year's supply of Dep at $39.69, plus One Vacation Day for travel to Krypton.
Weapons: Did you not catch the part where he's Superman? He doesn't need weapons because he was born with invulnerability to everything but Kryptonite, the ability to fly, x-ray vision, heat vision, ice breath, super strength, ridiculously sensitive hearing, and the ability to disguise himself with only a terrible hairdo and some hipster glasses. Cost: $0
Disguise: This is likely where all of Clark Kent's discretionary spending goes. In the comics, Superman had a pouch under his cape in which to hide his regular clothes, but Singer's version doesn't exactly explain that. Besides, ripping one's clothes off while running has to have some sort of incidental loss. With that margin of error in mind, let's assume he loses his outfit once every three or four quick changes. And Clark's not fancy, so that's $99 dollars for a London Fog Big and Tall overcoat, $240 for his Sears brown suit and shirt, $40 dollars for his leather loafers, and $14 for Urban Outfitters prescription-less "readers" black frame glasses. Cost: $353 (Chump change, considering he doesn't pay for anything else.)
Damages: In most cases, Superman diminishes the damage from some near catastrophe by being, well, super. But on a few occasions, he makes a mess all on his own. His fiery return to earth destroys what I'll estimate at about two acres of perfectly good corn-growing farmland. According to Bloomberg news, farmland is averaging at about $2,350 an acre, so if he's the nice guy he swears he is, he'll buy the damaged land off the owner's hands — even if the owner is his mama. Then there's the cost of at least a year of corn. According to the Iowa Corn Growers Association, an acre of land yields about 183 bushels of corn per harvest and the University of Illinois places each bushel at approximately $7 a bushel. Cost of making it right: $5,981
Transportation: He. can. fly. He doesn't do the subway and taxis are for suckers. (Sorry, Lois Lane. He'll still help you hail one if you want.) Cost: $0
Risks: He's pretty damn invulnerable. Of course, that pesky Kryptonite causes problems from time to time, and when Lex stabs him, Superman winds up in critical care at the hospital. A visit like this could run him up to $20,000, especially since he is most definitely without health insurance, considering modern medicine can't do much for death by Kryptonite. Superman, however, escapes in the middle of the night, good as new, without the proper discharge papers. And when all is said and done, even if the hospital wanted to charge him for medical services after he just saved the whole city, where would they send the bill? And who'd be audacious enough to hand the Man of Steel a whopping hospital bill? That's what I thought. Cost: $0 (I repeat, the bastard.)
Perks: Is the fact that he's netting $23k and change not enough of a perk? He's got it made.
Entertainment: He doesn't really have much fun because he spends so much time staring starry-eyed at Lois and fighting crime around the world, but he does make time for a few beers with Jimmy Olsen when he finds out Lois is seriously dating James Marsden. And he even gets a little tipsy, and since he's so strapping, I'd say he'd need at least six beers to get saucy (that's about $5 dollars a beer, plus a $2 tip per drink because he's so super). He also steals a little date with Lois Lane, but he's such a baller that all he has to do is fly her around through the dark (romantic) night, which costs him — you guessed it — absolutely nothing. Total: $42
Miscellaneous: In case you missed the last hour of the movie, Lois Lane's little boy is actually Superman's son. So for good measure, let's say good ol' Superman pays Lois Lane secret child support. Based on his $30k salary in the state of Kansas, he'd owe Miss Lane about $318 a month. Cost for a year: $3816
Sustainability: Clark Kent could sustain this until the end of time. His life is a charmed one — minus that part where he's got a handful of vengeful enemies and (sigh) deadlines. But I'd fight 10-foot-tall fire-breathing tree people all day everyday if it meant I could stop paying $1,000 dollars a month in rent, okay? (Just don't quote me on that when the Tree People Apocalypse comes.)
Final Calculation: He's up $19,771.31 at the end of the year. Maybe next time he takes Lois out, he could finally spring for a steak dinner and some champagne. Verdict: Can I be Superman?
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The multipolar-post-Minkowskian method will be implemented systematically, using STF-harmonics to describe the multipole expansion [210], and looking for a definite algorithm for the approximation scheme [26]. The solution of the system of equations (23, 24) takes the form of a series of retarded multipolar waves7[26] for a proof based on the Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation). The gauge condition (24), however, is not fulfilled in general, and to satisfy it we must algebraically decompose the set of functions , , into ten tensors which are STF with respect to all their indices, including the spatial indices , . Imposing the condition (24) reduces the number of independent tensors to six, and we find that the solution takes an especially simple "canonical" form, parametrized by only two moments, plus some arbitrary linearized gauge transformation [210, 26].
Theorem 1 The most general solution of the linearized field equations (23, 24), outside some time-like world tube enclosing the source (), and stationary in the past (see Equation (19)), readsThe first term depends on two STF-tensorial multipole moments, and , which are arbitrary functions of time except for the laws of conservation of the monopole: , and dipoles: , . It is given by The other terms represent a linearized gauge transformation, with gauge vector of the type (25), and parametrized for four other multipole moments, say , , and .
The conservation of the lowest-order moments gives the constancy of the total mass of the source, , center-of-mass position8, , total linear momentum , and total angular momentum, . It is always possible to achieve by translating the origin of our coordinates to the center of mass. The total mass is the ADM mass of the Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity. Note that the quantities , , and include the contributions due to the waves emitted by the source. They describe the "initial" state of the source, before the emission of gravitational radiation.
The multipole functions and , which thoroughly encode the physical properties of the source at the linearized level (because the other moments parametrize a gauge transformation), will be referred to as the mass-type and current-type source multipole moments. Beware, however, that at this stage the moments are not specified in terms of the stress-energy tensor of the source: the above theorem follows merely from the algebraic and differential properties of the vacuum equations outside the source.
For completeness, let us give the components of the gauge-vector entering Equation (26):
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Steve Druker is a lawyer who sued the FDA (Food & Drug Administration). Check out his case against genetically engineered foods
Transcript: Feed the World Don't we need biotech to feed the world? No. The facts are abundant that there is more than enough food right now to feed every man, woman, and child on earth. The problem is adequate distribution. The resource we lack is human creative intelligence. We are not applying our God-given intelligence to the problems at hand. We are polluting our soil. We are poisoning our food, through what we're doing right now. And now the biotech promoters want to introduce new potentials for poison. That's not the way to go. What we need to do, and also the research is now clear that when given a chance, organic agriculture can outcompete conventional agriculture. We need to put our attention and our intelligence on developing an intelligent system of agriculture in line with natural law that is good for the land and good for the farmer, rather than violating the laws of nature, breaking down the species barriers, contorting DNA in ways that create great problems. Let's really use our intelligence and let's act in harmony with nature instead of trying to beat it down all the time.
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The elegant and often intricately crafted conceptually-based installations, performances and artworks by Deborah Kennedy communicate complex environmental themes through visual drama and metaphor. The artist's use of lighting, sound and symbolism brings issues such as the impact of pesticides on honeybees, the interdependence of life and the importance of sustainable technology to the public in galleries, museums and public spaces.
Kennedy, a passionate educator, explores the role of art as a teaching tool through much of her work. Her own research into the subjects she addresses creates a solid framework for her desire "to work at the growing edge, where we as a global community are struggling to create new visions that will help solve our environmental problems. My hope is that these new perceptions will help us change how we think about ourselves and our role in the world. Then, perhaps, we can begin to change our actions as individuals and larger communities."
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Besides a disappointingly vague press release, Beyoncé has kept a low profile following the scandal.
It's cold and disappointingly damp in London for the great Jubilee river pageant today, in contrast to the recent heatwave.
Girl Most Likely may have been disappointingly slight, and not that vehicle.
But disappointingly, the breakout hit wallows in stereotypes and clichés, particularly ones that have to do with gender.
What the stipulations were is not clear; for with this exception the Irish Records are disappointingly silent.
The proceedings of the first half hour were disappointingly tame.
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Piranha Games has released some shots from the Mech Lab, the customization area from their upcoming mechbonanza (mechnanza?) MechWarrior Online. The Lab is where players will buy and build their 'bots, tweaking their loadouts for the optimal combination of arms and style. Also included were some new in-game shots, a few of which feature the new 60-ton Dragon Mech.
MechWarrior Online lets players command at will: go head-to-head online alone or with friends in high-octane Conquest and VS modes. Band together and form your own Mercenary Corp, invite friends and battle other player-made Merc Corps for prestige and power. Pledge your allegiance to one of the five great houses and fight for control of precious Inner Sphere planets.
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The Victoria and Albert Mountains (80°30′N 74°8′W / 80.500°N 74.133°WCoordinates: 80°30′N 74°8′W / 80.500°N 74.133°W) are a mountain range running on the east coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. The range is one of the most northern ranges in the world and of the Arctic Cordillera. The highest mountain in the range is Agassiz Ice Cap Summit at 2,201 m (7,221 ft). The range has an area of 37,650 km2 (14,540 sq mi).
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I had asked my ex-husband about getting himself and his new girlfriend to take a drug test because of the fact, before he had actually became invovled with this new woman had said that she broke him and his ex-girlfriend up because of her drug and acohol abuse. Now that I have asked because I am very concerned about my sons well being in their care every other weekend. My ex-husband had said that she might not pass the test because of all of the medications she was taking. I told him that I am sure the lab will be able to determine what is prescription from a street drug. He then told me that she took a drug that had the same components of crank and that only two other people in the USA can take this presription. This prescription is for her feet pain. I don't know if the other two special people that have been given this legal drug belong to this forum but would appreciate anyone who might know of its exsistence replying?
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Monessen library honors two women
Two of Monessen's most successful women will return to their hometown to help raise money for its library.
Jessica L. (Garfola) Wright, acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness for the U.S. Department of Defense, and former state Rep. Kathy Manderino will be the guests of honor at the fourth annual Monessen Public Library fundraising event.
"A Conversation with Monessen Women of Distinction" will take place 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Aug. 3 at the St. Spyridon Hellenic Center, Monessen.
Chairwoman Susanna Swade, who serves as library board treasurer, said officials are thrilled to welcome Wright and Manderino.
"They have been very successful in male-dominated careers, and we are so happy they will be our guests of honor," Swade said.
Wright was appointed to her position Jan. 1. She is the senior policy advisor to the secretary of defense on recruitment, career development, pay and benefits for 1.4 million active duty military personnel, 1.3 million National Guard and Reserve personnel, and 680,000 Department of Defense civilian workers.
Wright retired as a major general in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Her 35-year career culminated in her final assignment as commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard.
She was the first female aviator in the Army National Guard. Wright commanded the 28th Aviation Brigade, 28th Infantry Division at Fort Indiantown Gap from June 1997 to November 1998.
Wright is married to retired Lt. Colonel Charles Wright. They have one son, Mike, who was commissioned as a second lieutenant in May 2012.
Manderino is senior vice president of Intercommunity Action Inc., a community-based organization in Philadelphia serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral health needs, and older adults.
From 1993 to 2010, Manderino represented the state House 194th Legislative District in Philadelphia and Montgomery counties.
She served on the Appropriations, Health and Human Services, Insurance, and Judiciary committees.
She chaired the Appropriations Subcommittee on Human Services, the Judiciary Subcommittee on Family Law, and the House Committee on Ethics.
She is member of the executive committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Women in the Profession Commission and is a past PBA board governor and chairwoman of its house of delegates.
Prior to her election to the Legislature, Manderino practiced law at Fox Rothschild LLP. She graduated from Monessen High School in 1976, Penn State University in 1980, and the Temple University School of Law in 1989.
Swade said Wright and Manderino will join an elite group of Monessen natives the library have honored over the years: philanthropist John Husher in 2010; athletic sisters Suzie Williams Broadhurst and Jamie Williams Zimmerman in 2011; and Monessen football coach Joe Gladys last year.
Board President Madeline Dudas said the event is a way to not only raise money for the library, but to showcase city success stories.
"These are people extremely successful in their fields who never forgot Monessen," Dudas said.
While past events have included testimonials from the guests' relatives and friends, Swade said this year's fundraiser will be different.
"We decided to do a Barbara Walters format," Swade said.
She explained Wright and Manderino will be interviewed on stage by moderator Marissa Scarvel Sacco of Monessen.
Those in attendance will have opportunities to talk to the women at the end of the program.
Individual tickets are $50 and include a social hour with an open bar from 5 to 6 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner. Each table will be treated to a tray of homemade cookies, compliments of the Monessen Friends of the Library.
Tickets are on sale at the Monessen Public Library, 326 Donner Ave., by calling Swade at 724-684-3894 or online via PayPal at www.monessenlibrary.org.
All proceeds will benefit the library.
Stacy Wolford is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-684-2640 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Emily Stimpson (whom I don't think I know except through her writing) has an excellent post from earlier today.Basically, part of the problem we're faced with in crises like the HHS mandate on contraception and attempts to redefine marriage is that the Catholic faithful hardly know the Church's teachings and many of us have not been living them. Even those of us who are regular church-goers may be shaky on the issues because we rarely hear about them.For decades, post Vatican II, the … [Read more...]
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What's Love Got To Do With It?
Justina McCaffrey has another thoughtful piece up at Huffington Post. This time, she's talking about what's missing from some weddings: the raw passion that makes two people commit to give themselves to each other completely.Weddings become productions that are based on entertainment, not centered on witnessing an incredible commitment - one that will probably be difficult to maintain at time - between two people who are also saying that they're willing to die to themselves in order to … [Read more...]
39 Years of "Roe v. Wade"
Yesterday marked 39 years of court mandated abortion rights in every state in the U.S. People all over the country have been commemorating the decision with the biggest event happening today in Washington, DC, the March For Life.There are so many things that could be said, but I think I'll just let this essay by Paul Vitz and Evelyn Vitz address one key concern, namely that a movement that claims to be about choice should at the very least inform women about... their choices.Most women … [Read more...]
I'll Love You Forever. Until Tomorrow.
In 2010, Washington, DC redefined marriage so that same-sex couples could marry.Part of the argument in favor of redefining marriage has been that same-sex couples in committed relationships should be allowed to marry because they are in a long-term relationship...that sort of looks like marriage.Now DC is considering legislation (at the Council level) that would make it easier for same-sex couples married in DC to divorce. This would also apply to any same-sex couple that married in DC … [Read more...]


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Nige Burton is a freelance writer, novelist and travel journalist. His work has been featured in numerous national and local publications. A passionate photographer, he has travelled widely throughout the UK, Europe and Asia capturing locales as diverse as the windswept St Kilda archipelago, Chernobyl, Transylvania's verdant woodlands, the vast plains of Siberia, and the thriving cityscapes of Budapest, Zurich, Prague, Cracow, Copenhagen, St Petersburg, Moscow, Ekaterinburg and Beijing to name but a few. He lives in the sleepy seaside town of his birth on England's north west coast.
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Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez will not necessarily have to win the Champions League to keep his job but he has to ensure his side triumph in their last-16 tie with Inter Milan to alleviate the pressure he is under.
He might not get sacked even if his squad is beaten by Inter but, if they are knocked out of Europe, then that puts pressure on everybody - the owners, the manager and the players.
What you would have then is Liverpool supporters turning up en masse until the end of the season with their team having nothing to play for - and that is a frightening prospect.
Their Premier League title hopes are gone, the FA Cup went on Saturday and the Champions League is all Liverpool have to play for.
You could argue that they are still chasing fourth place in the league but that is not what Liverpool should be about. This season has been a major disappointment.
What went wrong for them against Barnsley on Saturday can be traced back to the start of the campaign.
In September they walloped Derby 6-0 then went to Portsmouth for their next game, made five changes and drew 0-0.
The Liverpool philosophy has always been to hammer home when you have an impetus and Liverpool did not do that. They have suffered ever since.
There has obviously been too much rotation in selection and there is a lot of caution when they play at Anfield too.
They have lost confidence at home in the last six to eight weeks, even though the crowd have been great, and things have gone a bit flat.
Against Barnsley, Liverpool went 1-0 up but they did not roll over the top of them and they have not looked like doing that against anyone since the start of the year.
Benitez is a cautious manager. That is an observation not a criticism because most foreign bosses, including England coach Fabio Capello, have that element about them.
But Liverpool fans have always been used to seeing their team hem in the opposition and batter them. Now the style is more cautious and I think they have suffered because of it.
I still do not think the team has gone backwards though. They are better now than they were last year and it does not matter if they finish more points behind the eventual champions this year.
While there has been an improvement, however, it has not been dramatic enough to see them challenge for the title.
It used to be that they could rely only on Steven Gerrard to deliver, now you have got Gerrard and Fernando Torres.
But they still do not have enough players of real quality to back up those two.
It has always been the case that to win championships you need to be able to replace quality with quality. Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea can all do it but Liverpool cannot. It is as simple as that.
How long can Benitez survive without delivering the title? Well, a lot of managers survive without doing that but he has to show he is getting closer.
He has got that great track record in the Champions League but obviously it is the Premier League that everyone wants to win and I think the fans have stuck with him because they can see he is going through purgatory trying to put things right.
It has still come to the stage, though, where something - a performance or a result - is needed to lift everyone and that could come on Tuesday in the first leg of their encounter with Inter.
It is a tough tie - Inter are running away with Serie A in Italy - but I would not be surprised if Liverpool reach the quarter-finals.
When they became champions of Europe in 2005, that team was well below the level you would expect from Liverpool and they beat Juventus and Chelsea to get to the final. In 2007, they beat Barcelona and Chelsea.
The atmosphere at Anfield on those four occasions exceeded anything that was there when I played and, whatever people might say, you just do not get anything like it at other grounds.
That will raise the players to a different level. We have already seen it happen and one thing is for sure, it will be one heck of a game.
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From: "Michelle Kahler" <>
Subject: Index to Clergy (by name) of St.LEVAN.
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:09:39 +1000
Hi Folk,
Here we are now in St.Levan, let's see who we can find...
Lake iii, p.107. Formerly part of St.BURYAN Deanery, became separated on death of last Dean in 1864.
c1722 TOUP, Jonathan.
1864 TYACKE, Joseph Sidney.
1868 MANSELL, Henry.
1868 BEDEL, Frank.
1868 ANSTEY, Charles Christopher.
1874 BENNNET, Timer.
1878 SILVESTER, Paul D'ocklam.
Well, that was hard work wasn't it? On to LINKINHORNE.
Seeya Soonly,
Michelle Kahler.
>From Ipswich, QLD, Australia.
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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
A Simple Fatigue Severity Scale Predicts Poor Health Outcomes, Frailty and Death in the Long-Term Follow-Up of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Zink, Gisela Westhoff and Angela
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients highlighted fatigue as permeating every sphere of life. The EULAR/ACR task force recommended that fatigue should be implemented in an RA outcome measure core set. We investigated the association between baseline fatigue severity and 8-year outcomes in an early RA inception cohort.
Data from 1,057 RA patients with a disease duration <24 months at inclusion were used. Self reports of functional capacity, pain, global health (GH) and fatigue, measured by 11-point numerical rating scales (NRS 010), were collected for up to 8 years. Reasons for drop out were investigated thoroughly. Clinical and self-reported baseline parameters were compared between patients who attained the 8th year in favorable GH (06) and those who did so with unfavorable outcomes, i.e. they attained the 8th year in poor GH (710), had stopped participation without specifying reasons, had dropped out due to frailty or had died. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to identify baseline predictors of adverse outcomes.
At inclusion, 42.6% of the patients reported no or mild fatigue, 36.2% reported moderate fatigue and 21.2% reported severe fatigue. At 8 years, 12.7% of the patients had died, 7.0% had terminated participation due to frailty, 6.2% had withdrawn without specifying reasons, 3.2% were lost to follow-up and 13.2% reported poor GH (710). Three baseline parameters were significantly associated with unfavorable outcomes in the multivariate analyses. Besides higher age and substantial functional limitations, severe fatigue almost doubled the risk for adverse outcomes (adjusted OR 1.82; 95% CI 1.212.75). Furthermore, severe fatigue at inclusion was the only parameter predicting each individual type of drop-out, i.e. drop-out without specifying reasons (OR 2.8; CI 1.45.3), drop-out due to frailty (OR 2.3; CI 1.24.5) or death (OR 2.3; CI 1.34.2). Acute phase reactants, DAS28, erosiveness, rheumatoid factor and pain were not predictive of unfavorable outcomes.
Severe fatigue in early RA is indicative of poor long-term outcomes; it outranges all other baseline parameters taken into consideration. Therefore, fatigue should be implemented in an RA outcome measure core set, and, equally important, high attention should be paid to RA patients suffering from substantial fatigue.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Zink, Gisela Westhoff and Angela; A Simple Fatigue Severity Scale Predicts Poor Health Outcomes, Frailty and Death in the Long-Term Follow-Up of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :1736
DOI: 10.1002/art.29501


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ONTARIO-L ArchivesArchiver > ONTARIO > 2008-06 > 1214022437
From: "D O'" <>
Subject: Re: [ONTARIO] Obituary request - Harriet BELL
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:27:17 +0000
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I looked at the 1881 UK Census and found a Thomas Corbell, but there were no children with him and Harriet would only have been about 12 - perhaps she was working elsewhere at that age though. However a search for Harriet Corbell didn't show anything.See: www.familysearch.org for the Census There are two Harriet Bell noted in OCFA (Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid) but neither give a reference to when the person died. You would have to write to them, give the details you know and ask if they have any additional info.........
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Her son, who was informant on the death registration is as follows on OCFA:
Thomas E.
Mt Pleasant, Bradford
Gwillimbury West
I hope this helps. A Google search or Canada411 will help you find the addresses.
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