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I found out from a former Consecrated that she left the 3G's in July but was working at a LC school in Mexico. Details are sketchy, but apparently, she didn't feel good I'm thinking Monday nite, went to the hospital and died the next day. Meningitis? Not sure but will let folks know when I hear something. Lot's of things going around in my brain about this. Rather not say anything until the facts are out there. God Bless her family. I can't imagine having to work out the details with Mexico..
Erin was, indeed, a 3GF. She worked at Overbrook for a number of years. What a bright light... I am relieved to hear that she left the 3G's - as it seemed to weigh heavily on her - but am saddened to hear her of her passing. It doesn't seem real.
After seeing her facebook page, I'm having a hard time with her 'friends' who seem to have the same dehumanizing response to her death that I experienced regularly with RC/LC: joy and optimism with no room for grief. It has always bothered me, but today it feels unbearable.
All of my prayers for her and her family.
In Mexico somebody told she died during a panic attack. No confirmation and no more info.
When we met her a few years ago at Overbrook, we thought Erin had the only genuine smile we had seen from the staff at Overbrook; not one of those plastic, permanent, super-smiles that RC is known for. She was so real and light-hearted, not nervous, forced, or on guard like the others. She was a refreshing ray of light in a dark tunnel. When she told us her parents had the same misgivings about the movement that we had, and that they had moved to a position of being "at peace" with it, I thought we should look them up and compare notes and maybe we could reunite with our RC family members – together. I Googled combinations of "Erin" and "Belfi" several times in several locations and never found a lead that made sense. Belfi=Bellefeuille? I wish I had known.
I have not been able to collect more information either. However, it seems highly unlikely that she had a panic attack. She was one of the most genuine and balanced people I knew there. My contacts either have no information, or more likely, are not willing to discuss it. I hope someone can shed some light on the situation.
I was a novice with her older brother Matt. He thought the world of her, talked about her all the time, mentioning that she was considering the consecrated life, basically because of his example. I remember seeing her and her parents at professions, she was probably about 15 then. Cute kid.
Funny, I never got along with Matt, we were polar opposites. For three years he bugged the living shit out of me. He was such a nice boy with a naturally happy disposition (not like me at all), but religious life, and especially the Legion, wasn't good for him; he was so sensitive, so scrupulous, got wrapped so tight, I found him unbearable... I made him cry at least twice, poor thing. I really did try to be nice to him but just couldn't pull it off. I was relieved when he left, for his sake and mine. I was sick of feeling guilty about disliking a sincere and generous person, however out of place he may have been.
But then, he was lucky, only wasting three years of his life, less than me, less than his sister.
We all tried so hard.
I can't imagine Matt taking this well.
Christ, I'm not taking this well and I didn't know the girl.
Thanks for sharing that Another ex-LC. I feel very badly about what happened to this girl. I didn't know her, but it sounds like she was a gem. Wish she had lived. I've heard too many tragic stories related to the Legion. I think God is watching.
We all have so much to be thankful for - our FREEDOM. Be glad you're no longer in shackles. Do something nice for someone today!! and without motives!!
Jack Bellefeuille - Erin's brother - posted this detail:
The funeral for Erin Bellefeuille will be at 9AM on Saturday November 24th at Saint Andrew's Catholic Parish: 3450 West Ray Road Chandler, AZ 85226.
He also said they do not know how she died and may never know. I think he and the entire family would benefit from our prayers.
You can see his postings at: https://www.facebook.com/jack.bellefeuille
Giselle!! Haven't heard much about Atlanta and the weekend and this whole situation with Erin is very difficult to understand...depression and sadness and all that we all have been through is one thing..but death??? Will there be an investigation or is another moment in LC history going to get lost in their la la land shuffle...???
From Trastevere:
La noche antes de su muerte Erin conducía su automóvil cuando sufrió un ataque de pánico, tuvo que estacionarse, un policía la auxilio, llamó desde su móvil al último número marcado y pidio ayuda a una amiga. La recogieron y llevaron a un hospital donde se les dijo que había sufrido un ataque de pánico pero que se repondría, salió del hospital y horas mas tarde falleció. Es lo que se. Es una tragedia. Que descanse en paz, que su familia encuentre consuelo. Que Dios nuestro Señor tenga misercordia y tome encuenta todo su sacrifcio y entrega sincera.
Indignante que los legionarios le hayan hecho un funeral y misas en la Anáhuac como si de verdad se hubieran preocupado por su situación una vez abandonado el 3GF, como si de verdad les importase que es de los muchos que salen con la vida rota, sin familia, sin dinero, sin amigos, sin salud, etc. Indignante que hayan vendio consagradas de todo México y que alguna se haya atrevido a decir con la mayor ligereza y naturalidad que "murió en paz", ¿cómo se atreve a afirmarlo?, ¿alguna vez le llamó por teléfono? ¿alguna vez se interesó por su salud? ¿alguan vez la visitó al cuarto donde vivió? Los últimos días de su vida Erin encontró apoyo y acogida en una "comunidad" de exconsagradas que le abrió las puertas de su casa. Ellas asistieron también a los funerales y tuvieron el valor de increpar a los LC y a sus excompañeras, fueron momentos muy tristes y muy tensos.
Ex-3gf, Ex-LC, por favor atiendanse y busquen apoyo su salud física y mental ha sido atentada gravemente por este monstruo llamado RegnumChristi.
LAN, this is sad and tragic.
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Getting people that were in a cult like environment to talk to each other can be healing. Some suggestions based on the Atlanta experience: keep is simple, local (in the end, what worked was word of mouth, not the website; when the meeting happened, we had no registration lists) and free (find prior a few good souls to fork out for the speaker's travel, stay and per diem). As described we had introductions, two great speakers (Genevieve Kineke and Mary Kochan) and a discussion. I think it's a good idea to book end the meeting with a short prayer, or something like that. Have a good Advent, peace, all!
..shoul read more so than the website
Clarification. what I said about the registration/payment process was an impression. There are strong arguments for a secure web based registration/payment process, as was done in Atlanta: people share the cost of the meeting; the meeting is transparent (the local Church is informed); people that may not be reached by word of mouth can be notified. One does not want to create is a new secret society either. Peace.
Getting back to a previous post, to my knowledge no one dies of panic attacks. If the doctors told her she had a panic attack, and she died the next day, they misdiagnosed her.
Something smells really fishy to me. I agree with Another-ex LC that no one dies of a panic attack. In addition, all of the written accounts of her stated that she was naturally, very calm. That she was full of joy and not grief. The only thing that stinks is the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi. They are con artists, bullies for Christ and very good at brainwashing people by initially sweeping them off their feet. Once trapped in their spider's web, they will milk you and your family and friends for every penny. They target the wealthy and the older, the better so they can get on their will (read
the post about Mrs. Mee). If you quit their
order, they take offense to it and will make your life miserable through guilt and badmouthing. I imagine they treated Erin the
same way they treated all of the wise consecrated women who escaped and spoke the truth about this very corrupt and scandalous order from Mexico.
I was very close to Erin and her passing away has been hard... But I feel like you are building this up without real knowledge of anything.
Erin left consecrated life a few months ago because she felt that was not get vocation, but she didn't have a traumatic experience that caused the separation. Actually, she was still close to the 3gfs and ex 3gfs.
She was in Mexico but not working at an LC school.
Though the cause of death remains uncertain, doctors believe it was a heart attack caused by a congenital defect previously undetected... And guess what, it happens.
Realizing I won't see her smiling face anymore hurts, a lot! But in all justice and in her memory I had to state some facts... Erin was simple and she hated taking things out of proportion...
I love you Erin, and I'll miss you every day until we meet again
Nooneportant: thank you. Are you at all affiliated with Regnum Christi?
Giselle, you should be following Trastevere on this.
Giselle, the "gringo," counts on her readers to follow Trastevere and keep them informed. She can't "google" the whole world...
I was reading noone's email again. He/she stated that they were close friends with Erin, but the tone is that of a detached person.
I quote..." guess what, it happens.". This sounds typical of an LC/RC person. They are cold people... like snakes.
I thought I'd read everything...but I get Page Not Found when I try and access the original link in the original post, "...but more information may be found HERE"
I am Erin Bellefeuille's brother, Matt. The moderator of this site is deleting my comments without telling me why. I have information to share and I would like to talk to Another (ex) LC. my email is matt at kraemer d0t co d0t nz
I'm happy to speak to anyone who would like to share their experiences of me or my sister.
Please don't "moderate" this comment without sending me an email telling me why.
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Looked at the docs and they say it is possible to 1:1 NAT WAN to OPT
but that you will almost always do it to LAN.
I want to leave the LAN interface unused except for admin'ing the Monowall.
What steps are needed to configure a 1:1 NAT like so:
OPT1: 140.x.x.0/24
I'd like the OPT1 interface to get an IP address of 140.x.x.1 so that
hosts inside the OPT1 interface can use that as the default gateway.
Is proxyarp needed if 1:1 mapping an entire subnet?
Upstream of the monowall, 10.0.0.2 is the interface on the router.

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Estelle Getty, who played Sophia, died July 22, 2008, of complications of advanced dementia, just three days shy of her 85th birthday. Although she played the mother to Bea Arthur's character, she was about 15 months younger than Arthur.
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Get to talking baseball with Skip Nipper and a visitor may just never get away.
The 59-year-old sales representative for New Era baseball caps, who makes Mt. Juliet his home base, is passionate about the sport known as the national pastime. He's also an expert on the 150-year history of Nashville baseball, so much so that he has written Baseball in Nashville: Images of Baseball (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99).
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For years she's been called "mom."
Of course she's been called that by her own children and then also by an extended family, those who have passed through the doors of Leadership Wilson.
Yes, Lucy Lee, the honoree at last night's annual Wilson County Library Roast, was the first executive director of Leadership Wilson and held that post until just a few years back when she was replaced by Dorie Mitchell.
To the Editor:
I enjoyed seeing the two aerial photos in your March 19 issue. I remember when Lebanon looked like that.
However, there were errors in both captions. The building identified as Highland Heights School in the picture on the front page was actually Lebanon High School, which I attended. The building to the right (east) was the LHS Gymnasium, where I played basketball, and the next building, at the north end of North College Street, was Highland Heights Elementary School.
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A man with a criminal history including a charge of attempted second-degree murder was arrested yesterday and is now facing vehicular assault charges in a hit-and-run accident Wednesday night that sent two women to the hospital, one of them with serious injuries.
Carroll Hart Smith Jr., 37, of 314 Hill Street, Lebanon, has been charged with two counts of vehicular assault, one count of DUI and one count of leaving the scene of an accident with injury.
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A Mt. Juliet business is hosting a special fund raising event this week in an effort to aid the grieving parents of a 2-year-old child who died just days ago.
Brittany Butler, who works at Pump-It-Up in Mt. Juliet, said the story about the death of Ava Bright, 2, who died on March 21 following surgery, "sorrowed my heart to the core."
From Post staff reports
Dr. John R. Gallaher, a Lebanon optometrist, who many will remember from his teen years as being a nationally ranked tennis player, is also a credible movie critic who will begin next week offering his opinions on new releases on the silver screen in The Wilson Post.
Gallaher, a Lebanon native and son of Dr. Thomas and the late Elizabeth Gallaher, said he developed an interest in the cinema at an early age.
LEBANON -- Cumberland University is ranked fourth in the first regular season 2010 NAIA Baseball Coaches' Top 25 Poll released Tuesday by the national office.
The ranking is the highest for the Bulldogs since earning the second spot in the preseason poll in 2007.
Cumberland owns a 25-6 record this season heading into Wednesday's contest against Lambuth University, which also received votes in the poll, at 2 p.m. at Ernest L. Stockton Field.
The Bulldogs already have six victories this season over ranked opponents - three versus No. 3 Oklahoma City Univ., two against sixth-ranked Embry-Riddle and one versus No. 8 Campbellsville Univ.
Cumberland was ranked 19th in the 2010 NAIA Baseball Coaches' Preseason Top 25 Poll in November.
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They are greyer at the temples now and perhaps a little thicker around the midsection.
But members of the 1988 Grey Cup champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers -- gathered here this week for a 25th anniversary reunion of their title -- have not lost any of their zeal for life and spinning yarns... especially if it details any chapter of their championship, the ninth in franchise history.
"Man, I'll tell you this has been fantastic," said Canadian Football League and Blue Bomber Hall of Famer James Murphy Friday, not long after a luncheon at Investors Group Field to honour the old gang. " To think that after 25 years the personalities don't change... they get bigger, the stories get better. It's like being on a fishing trip."
The '88 Bombers were hardly considered championship material as the campaign opened, or as it unfolded. After 1987 -- featuring one of the greatest collections of Bombers never to win a championship -- the club began anew without Tom Clements, Willard Reaves and Scott Flagel, among others.
The Bombers would limp home at the end of the '88 regular season with three straight losses before knocking off Hamilton and Toronto in the playoffs to set up a finalé with the B.C. Lions in Ottawa. And in the Grey Cup, Winnipeg would not grab the lead until under three minutes remained. Making the ending more dramatic was Michael Gray's interception of a Matt Dunigan pass -- dubbed the "Immaculate Interception" -- that preserved a 22-21 lead.
What made the '88 team special?
"We had great coaches and great leadership all the way up to the management side," said linebacker James West. "In any corporation, when you have great leadership it filters down. That gave us security in the knowledge all we had to do was play football. We had fun because of that.
"And then in the midst of all that, we looked out for each other. You never heard the stories coming out of the Bombers -- some of the stuff we did then would be national news now -- because we kept it in the locker-room. Later on it became jokes, like the stories we've been telling now at this reunion.
"But the competition didn't come from our opponents, it came from ourselves. We were always trying to outshine each other. It wasn't negative, it translated into something good.
"I'll tell you... if you interviewed every one of these guys you'd hear and see their leadership," added West. "(GM) Cal Murphy knew talent and how to find the kind of players he was looking for. You can see now how successful these guys are in whatever they are doing. All of them.
"Close your eyes and pick out any one of them and they are successful or impacting somebody's life. To me, that's amazing and it tells you how many quality people we had on that team."
On Thursday night 20 players from that team -- along with family of the late Steve Rodehutskors -- gathered to watch the '88 game in its entirety. And at the luncheon on Friday there were also video messages from Gray, head coach Mike Riley and linebacker Greg Battle -- all of whom weren't able to attend the reunion.
"That was awesome to watch that game again," said Murphy. "You know what the score's going to be, but still all that emotion and feeling comes back. That last hurrah, with Mike Gray's interception and when everybody was screaming and yelling and clapping... that was unbelievable.
"We had that chemistry around us. When the stakes got higher, the guys knew what time it was. There was a lot of turnover from '87 to '88, but there were a lot of guys around then who all had the same characteristic: We never missed the playoffs in our days as Bombers."
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The cost of cyberespionage and cybercrime to the U.S. may reach $100 billion a year, according to a study to be released Monday, casting doubt on earlier estimates that the costs were as much as 10 times higher.
The latest estimate is backed up by some U.S. intelligence analysts, who also believe the figure is closer to $100 billion, according to a former U.S. official familiar with the intelligence discussions. That figure is 1% or less of the U.S. gross domestic product and, for companies, puts cybertheft losses in a category of costs incurred in the course of doing business.
The joint study by the nonprofit Center for Strategic and International Studies and the computer-security firm McAfee reflects major revision of McAfee's own previous estimate of $1 trillion, which has been cited widely, including by President Barack Obama in a 2009 cybersecurity speech. McAfee is a subsidiary of Intel Corp.
That figure also contrasts sharply with oft-quoted statement by Gen. Keith Alexander, head of U.S. Cyber Command, who last year said that the losses represent "the greatest transfer of wealth in human history."
This study represented McAfee's effort to work with CSIS "to develop the most analytically-sound report on the market," said Tom Gann, McAfee's vice president for government relations. The company's previous $1 trillion estimate, he said, had been criticized by economists, and while it "was an honest effort" to extrapolate a figure from surveys, "some of the assumptions were wrong."
One of the key reasons the study's estimate is lower than many previous ones is that it takes into account the shifting benefits of cyber theft. "Cyber spying is not a zero-sum game," the report says. "Stolen information is not really gone."
If the Chinese steal intellectual property, they may not know what to do with it and the cost of the theft would be limited because the original company still has the data, too. Likewise, if one U.S. bank is knocked offline by a cyber attack, customers may just use another bank.
The wide range of estimates shows how difficult it has been for government and private industry to gauge the net impact of cyber mischief. The reluctance of companies to report hacking incidents, much less their costs, is a major barrier.
When the National Intelligence Council tackled that question last year, it ultimately decided not to put a dollar figure on the cost and instead chronicled the rapid escalation of particularly Chinese cyberespionage and its sweeping nature–ranging across many sectors from military to energy.
If the $100 billion estimate is accurate, those losses compare with costs that the American public and businesses often confront. The cost of car crashes in 2010, for instance, was estimated to be between $99 billion and $168 billion, the study notes.
The study appears to be the first to look at potential impacts on American jobs, citing the loss of as many as 508,000 jobs lost each year. Global losses, it finds, are between $100 billion and $500 billion each year.
To assemble the estimate, the researchers asked 20 top economists about the best modeling techniques that would avoid many of the weaknesses of the survey approach.
"We're trying to get away from the 'Magic 8 Ball' approach to estimation, where you shake the ball until you get the number you want," said CSIS's James Lewis, who co-authored the study with Stewart Baker, a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security agency. So they broke down the problem of cybertheft into six component parts and devised costs for each of those components: intellectual property loss, direct losses due to cybercrime, loss of sensitive business information, opportunity costs, and reputational impact.
They then used analogies to gauge the scope of the problem and concluded that the tolerated costs of cybertheft are in roughly the same range as car crashes and rates of "pilferage" or inventory shrinkage in major companies.
The authors of the study make clear their estimate is an initial attempt to calculate the incalculable. The cost range cited in the study is $25 billion to $100 billion, but there may be additional costs not reflected in this estimate.
Still unknown, for example, is the unseen cost of military cybertheft, said Mr. Lewis. "A lot of the cost overruns in some of our big programs are because they had to rewrite the code after the Chinese got in–and the real damage won't appear until we see how weapons actually perform," he said.
Another challenge, Mr. Gann said, is the difficulty of gauging the long-term impact on U.S. competitiveness. McAfee is funding another study by CSIS to look at that question.
"There isn't any question that America is less competitive as a result. This is a business problem we didn't expect," Mr. Lewis said. "Cyber espionage is like a subsidy from the world to Chinese companies."


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on 3/20/2017 9:28:00 AM
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I am simply in love with this ! Such a light but sexy smell.. Wish it was more lasting but as much as I know most light fragnances are not staying that long..
on 1/8/2017 5:38:00 PM
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I got the set for Christmas with the large bottle, rollerball and lotion. Love love love the scent. Smells so clean- rollerball scent lasts longer than the spray and I love how I can throw it in my purse and use it for a quick touch up.
on 1/8/2017 2:49:00 PM
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I just find it smells quite cheap and doesn't last very well.
on 9/25/2016 2:34:00 PM
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The tried the roller ball version at sephora and i loved it. I decided to buy a set of light blue at Macy's. There are a lotion, 100ml light blue perfume and a mini roller ball. The scent from the 100ml bottle just stays for 1 hour max many times I've experimented it while the roller ball one stays all day long and I dont know whats wrong with the bottle version like its not a pure scent or mixed with too much water in my opinion. The price was $103 for one set. Just very disappointed and feel wasted of money. Not gonna buy it again.
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My d& g light blue's spray bottle is broken, i cannot spray it anymore. Im planning to transfer the perfume to another bottle, how can i do that without breaking the bottle?
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Top Notes: Granny smith apple, Sicilian cedar, Bluebells
Heart Notes: Jasmine, White rose, Bamboo
Base notes: Cedarwood, Amber, Musks
It seems like everyone and their grandmother wears this perfume down here in FL. It's become synonymous with the small town beach life, at least to my nose.
It's a well-crafted fragrance, and you can't go wrong with this one if you like light, fresh, crisp, clean frags that are completely inoffensive and safe to wear near people who hate perfumes.
You'll just smell "good," not necessarily like you're wearing perfume, as if you just took a shower with high-end lemon scented bath soap. And there are just some days when that's all you want or need. :)
on 6/13/2016 10:39:00 PM
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I used this for every formal occasion I went to and whenever I wanted to smell sexy. I noticed that guys would tell me they liked my perfume and girls always knew it was light blue. With that being said I think light blue has become so mainstream and well known as a scent that I will not be repurchasing since I would rather not have people knowing what scent I am wearing.
on 6/9/2016 5:49:00 PM
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I always keep a mini of this around because it is very inoffensive and does not become overwhelming in the summer (I live in a desert).
It lasts VERY well for an EDT. Better than some edp!
My skin makes every scent I wear extremely warm, but the Light Blue is still extremely wearable despite my skin's chemistry.
Everyone has this scent/ not unique
Also, if it came down to it, I think I prefer ck One to this scent. It is slightly less well-known and lasts very well for an EDT. It is more androgynous.
on 6/9/2016 4:40:00 PM
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This scent is a classic for a reason. It's very light and fresh.
I think it would smell good on anybody and is a foolproof bright fragrance
There are many fresh scents, but this one is done right. all of the notes work so well together and it doesn't turn bad.
You can wear this and not reek of perfume - just smell simply good.
I suggest spraying it on you, then smelling it a little bit later. It smells just alright when I spray it on a tester paper - kind of like just basic fresh perfume with maybe sparkling citrus and light pure perfume scent. When I spray it on me it smells irresistible but not overpowering and not heavy.
I would have given it a perfect score except: it's everywhere and many people wear it - the scent in itself is unique but definitely not a hidden gem, price, it fades before the day is over, and although i can see it as a signature scent it isn't quite deep enough for evening
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This has a strong smell but is amazing all in all. I've found that if I layer this with a vanilla lotion (like warm vanilla sugar from Bath and Body Works) it just mellows the scent out a little bit and makes it blend a little better. For some reason it also seems to last longer when I do this but that just might be because of the oils in the lotion. Overall a great scent.
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The Sulphur Springs Symphony League will host Independence Celebration 2014 on the square, Saturday, June 28, beginning at 8 p.m.
Northeast Texas Symphony Orchestra, led by Dr. Douglas Bakenhus, will perform prior to a fireworks display. The event is underwritten by Alliance Bank and GSC Enterprises Inc.
"The Sulphur Springs Symphony League Board of Directors is thrilled to present the annual Independence Day Celebration featuring the Northeast Texas Symphony Orchestra," said Kayla Price, president of the league. "Some highlights of the program are sure to be Sulphur Springs' own Kim Baxter leading the singing of the 'Star Spangled Banner,' sixth grader Mason Gillem serving as guest conductor and the grand finale of fireworks."
In addition to the orchestra, Michael Rorex, associate professor of music — voice and opera — at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La., is scheduled to perform several solos, including "God Bless America."
"This will be Michael Rorex's third appearance with NETSO," Price added. "He is sure to be a welcome addition to the excitement and entertainment for the evening."
Rorex has served on the NSU faculty since 1994. He teaches studio voice and directs both the Opera Theater and Northwestern State Men's Chorus. He is a graduate of University of Tennessee, Chatanooga, and Indiana University, Bloomington, where he completed a master's degree in vocal performance.
"I am happy to be singing with the Sulphur Springs orchestra for this great celebration," Rorex said. "Patriotic music is always exciting, if for no other reason than it is about devotion to one's country and the freedom of the American lifestyle. For this reason alone, a vocalist has to keep his emotions in check.
"Of all the pieces I am singing, I think the popular 'God Bless America' is my favorite," Rorex noted. "It is a little like the famous hymn "Amazing Grace' in that it never gets old and its message somehow seems new each time it is sung and heard. It is with the swelling of the orchestra and highest note for the vocalist on 'God bless America, my home sweet home,' that makes it always a thrilling number."
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About FDA
Effective Date: July 1, 2004
|1. Purpose
2. Background
3. Scope
4. Structure
6. Procedures
The purpose of the FDA Business Process Planning (BPP) function is to ensure that common business processes performed by component organizations are strategically aligned and will be supported by common systems with responsive, reliable and efficient delivery of needed Information Technology (IT) capabilities. This is accomplished through strategically focused and systematic analysis of common business needs, current and planned systems capabilities and identification of options that can provide business synergies. The BPP function operates at the direction of the FDA Management Council and provides timely, accurate and comprehensive analysis to support business process and related IT investment decisions by the Management Council.
FDA's strategic plan calls for Agency-wide consolidation of IT systems and support, and calls for the transition of IT from an enabler to a strategic tool for realizing FDA policy goals and objectives, while making reductions in total IT spending. To accomplish this difficult objective, IT investments must be driven by business planning from a corporate Agency-wide perspective. During the same time, the FDA realized the concomitant need to take a quality system approach to achieve, uniformity, transparency and consistency in business process management. Adopting a quality system with repeatable characteristics is expected to result in robust processes and systems, better servicing internal and external customers.
Previously, the Agency has made most system investments at the Center level, including investments for new application development and maintenance. There has been relatively little coordination of these investments across the Agency. In addition, the value versus cost of these systems has not been fully documented, but this information will be critical to the successful transition to consolidate systems and a well-coordinated approach to investment and management in the next year and beyond.
The FDA Management Council has endorsed the formation of a high-level business planning group, to serve as the principal developer of common Agency business process requirements and associated requirements for system capabilities. This is based on the understanding that, a) many Agency processes cross organizational lines and b) the Agency needs to ensure continuity, standardization and consolidation of common processes which will make it possible to automate them, and c) cross-agency data standards would enable the Agency to decrease duplicative data requests and do cross-system performance analysis. It is anticipated that instituting a business process planning function at the Agency level will enable FDA to build better information system capabilities per dollar of investment; and enable the Agency to eliminate duplication of common systems, allowing for expansion of support for common needs and for special needs, through more efficient allocation of IT funds.
The processes listed in this document are those for operating the Business Process Planning function being implemented in FDA.
The BPP is charged with supporting the Agency mission to protect and promote public health by administering a governance business planning process that results in effective and efficient use of Agency resources.
The BPP is an Agency-wide planning group coordinated by the BPP Chair, who reports to the Assistant Commissioner for Planning. The BPP group is comprised of senior business managers from the Agency programs who will lead the efforts of four cross-agency business work groups correspondent to the FDA Business Process Planning Model.
The Cross-cutting Support work group will be comprised of the Agency Executive Officers, representing each of the major programs, and the Agency leads for the Shared Services organization. In addition, the work of the BPP will be closely coordinated where needed with the work of the FDA Data Standards Council (DSC). The FDA DSC is responsible for leading and coordinating development of Agency business data standards (reference FDA DSC Charter).
The FDA Assistant Commissioner for Planning makes recommendations to the Agency Centers and ORA for senior business manager nominees to serve as designated key representatives on the work groups:
a. Improve Health by Access and Availability of New Products
b. Minimize Harm Due to Low Quality Products
c. Maximize Benefits and Minimize Harm for Marketed Products
d. Cross-Cutting Support
Each of the four work groups identified above will have a Chairperson assigned by the BPP. The Work Group Chair will have responsibility for directing the work group and sub-work group activities based on direction from the BPP Chair in accordance to directions set by the FDA Management Council. Additionally the Work Group Chair will be responsible for reporting activity results to the BPP Chair or appointed alternate.
The FDA Business Process Planning Group is responsible for directing the review and analysis of current and expected FDA business process requirements, and for planning and specifying the capabilities needed in the Agency information system which are developed, modified or maintained to meet those requirements in the most effective and cost-effective manner. To accomplish its mission, the BPP group will:
a. Provide leadership in implementing a corporate approach to enterprise-wide perspective in analyzing and identifying solutions to common business problems.
b. Provide vision for a more transparent, consistent and efficient business process and reliable and responsive supporting systems, to energize and assist component organizations in overcoming any perceived organizational barriers.
c. Provide oversight and guidance to work groups formed to develop the analysis of current and future-needed business process requirements and supporting information systems, and a first level of review and ratification of plans, options and any recommendations made by the subgroup.
d. Provide assurance, appropriate communication and early input from Agency customers who participate in the business process, and will interface with and be affected by contemplated changes to Agency approaches and information systems.
e. Identify and analyze potential opportunities, to inform Management Council prioritization of specific business processes for BPP group review and analysis.
f. Provide timely follow-through to perform studies of specific business processes identified by Management Council as 'high priority', including:
1. Ensuring the formation of sub-work groups with the most knowledgeable process experts from relevant programs,
2. Effective direction and management of the analysis work of those subgroups to assure timely and complete analysis of business process requirements, current system(s) capabilities, options for future Agency capabilities and approaches to obtaining those capabilities,
3. Using a quality system approach to identify and apply "best-in-class" business practices and performance measures. This affects and informs the analysis of potential cost-effectiveness of planned or potential IT investments.
g. Applying review and analysis, both starting from business processes to requirements for system support, and starting from legacy, new or contemplated systems developed to support a business process that is common to more than one component. Examples of such systems include but are not limited to:
1. Existing [different] systems used by different organizational components to support common business process,
2. New systems recently implemented to support a common business process used by multiple components,
3. New systems being planned or under development but not yet implemented, that will - or could/should - support a common business process used by multiple components.
h. Identifying essential programs that correlate with the FDA Business Process Model (Appendix A - Figure A) and separate information technology investments supporting these programs from those IT investments that are redundant, discretionary, unnecessary or counterproductive.
i. Providing effective and accurate flow of information between FDA Management Council and four Business Process work groups:
1. Improve Health by Access and Availability of New Products
2. Minimize Harm Due to Low Quality Products
3. Maximize Benefits and Minimize Harm for Marketed Products
4. Cross-Cutting Support
j. Based on analysis of business processes and involvement of key business expertise, ensure alignment of IT investments to evolving Agency business requirements.
k. Supporting and pursuing policies and programs that provide for the efficient and sustainable use of IT investments, and working to revise or eliminate those that do not, in coordination with Agency Enterprise Architecture processes.
1. Functional -
The Business Process Planning group reports to the FDA Management Council. The BPP planning process will include the following elements of a quality system approach as described in brief herein:
a. Identify candidate processes and/or systems for further study. Include estimates of the priority and level of effort/time frame required for study.
b. Prepare annual work plan for review, prioritization and approval by the FDA Management Council. The work plan will consist of "high-yield" opportunities from the business process perspective and also from the systems capabilities perspective, as described above [reference Section 5 Responsibilities].
c. Based on priority order of work plan, and business area of prioritization, convene a meeting of related business work group to discuss, identify/formulate subgroup, and develop more detailed work plans. This shall include formulating tasks for the FDA Data Council to conduct market research, gain community or industry usability consensus and develop data standards for emerging business processes.
d. For a given study, analyze current process and business needs, and systems to support them, current versus projected.
1. Identify a set of alternatives to address business need, including 'best' solution if one option dominates others.
2. Assess impact on current business process and systems; what changes would be needed to current business process? Data Standards? Systems?
3. Assess system efficiency gains and cost savings; identifying where opportunities exist and can be realized.
4. Questions considered in the analysis of a business process or existing/candidate system will include:
- What are the objectives of the process?
- What are the products/services of the process?
- Who are the customers? And what are their needs?
- Who is involved? And what are their roles and responsibilities?
- What data and information is used?
- What is the source of data and/or information?
- Are there other resources required?
- Is the process statutory or mandated?
To answer these questions the BPP will use and implement a quality business planning model, comprised of seven (7) components, as described below, that interacts with a cross-section of committees and work groups:
1.0 - DEFINE: Provide resource for the FDA Management Council to define business objectives; propose management strategies options to be followed in identifying, standardizing or establishing business processes; through Agency work groups establish the process, data, and information system baselines from which to begin Agency cross-cutting process development and/or improvement.
Goal: To provide the FDA Management Council with "high-yielding" study candidates for further analysis. This includes potential missed opportunities for new development, as well as "pain points" for areas identified at Center level through capabilities assessments.
2.0 - ANALYZE: Provide guidance to work groups to analyze Agency business processes for redundant, discretionary, unnecessary or counter-productive processes, to investigate methods to simplify and streamline limited value added processes, and examine all processes to identify more effective and efficient alternatives to the process, data, and system baselines. Additionally provide guidance to the work groups to evaluate business alternatives; coordinate resources to baseline processes through a preliminary business and functional economic analysis to select a preferred course of action.
Goal: To gather business process details, including objectives, cost, involved stakeholders, requirements, dependencies, capabilities, and interoperability.
3.0 - REVIEW: Provide feedback to FDA Management Council with analysis information and current viable strategies and/or options needed to assess contemporary thinking regarding direction of the BPP and work groups.
Goal: To provide the FDA Management Council an opportunity to assess, challenge and implement change to course, scope and schedule to BPP activities. This represents a decision point for senior management.
4.0 - PLAN: Plan implementation of the preferred course of action by developing detailed statements of business requirements, baseline impacts, costs, benefits, and schedule through work groups.
Goal: To originate a plan that articulates, in executive summary form, proposed actions (e.g., IT Investment) for Management Council consideration.
5.0 - APPROVE: Oversee extraction from the planning data information (reference 4 - Plan) needed to finalize the business and functional economic analysis, which will be used by the FDA Management Council to approve proceeding with the proposed process development or improvement and any associated data or system change.
Goal: To gain FDA Management Council consensus to execute options or direction from plans formulated in component " 4 - Plan".
6.0 - EXECUTE: Govern the execution of approved process and data changes, and provide functional management oversight of any associated information system changes through coordination with Business Process Planning four work groups and/or FDA DSC.
Goal: To have the Business Process Planning Group set in motion activities towards achieving the objectives approved by the FDA Management Council.
7.0 - EVALUATE: Regular program review and assessment of inherent processes as well as emerging business requirements.
Goal: 1) To assess the effectiveness of the BPP for each implemented change by evaluating performance for each of the above components (#'s 1-6); and 2) to provide continuous review and assessment of business processes and systems supporting those processes.
2. Meetings -
The BPP will make arrangements for regular meetings with the four work groups and the FDA DSC to communicate and provide guidance on FDA Management Council directions.
The BPP Chair or alternate (as requested) will be responsible for setting the agenda, considering submitted agenda modification requests, determine the final agenda, communicate to any individual's request excluded from agenda and communicating the final agenda.
The BPP Chair and Project Manager will meet weekly with the FDA Assistant Commissioner of Planning to provide weekly progress.
The BPP Chair, Project Manager and any appointed Chair of a BPP work group (as necessary) will attend FDA Management Council semi-monthly meetings when requested by the Assistant Commissioner of Planning or the Management Council.
The BPP Chair and/or Project Manager will attend and actively participate (voting members) in FDA Data Standards Council (DSC) meetings.
3. Communication-
a. The BPP will be responsible for publishing meeting minutes of regular BPP meetings held with the four work groups and FDA DSC.
b. The BPP will respond to the needs of the FDA Management Council and make information available as required.
c. The BPP will provide each of the four work groups and the FDA Data Standards Council with FDA Management Council decisions and provide guidance where required or requested.
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WESTMORLAND and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has secured a meeting with Transport Minister Norman Baker to discuss electrification of the Lakes Line.
Mr Farron used a Parliamentary question session to make the point that Network Rail have described the process of electrifying the line as a "straightforward job."
There are fears for the future of the Lakes Line following electrification of routes around Manchester ensuring an hourly service from the city to Preston, Carlisle and Scotland.
Mr Farron called on the minister to meet with him, rail operator First Group and local users of the line in order to make further progress.
The minister's response was that either he or fellow Transport Minister Simon Burns would be willing to attend such a meeting.
Mr Farron had previously used a meeting with managing director of operators First Group Nick Donovan to secure the firm's support for the proposals, a factor which the Department for Transport had indicated would be crucial in any decision.
"The electrification of the Lakes Line makes economic, financial and environmental sense," said Mr Farron. "The plan will bring much needed construction jobs in the shorter term and in the longer term attract new businesses, boost tourism and create a better environment for job creation.
"Today ministers agreed to hold a meeting with me and the Lakes Line Users group offers us a real opportunity. I hope to get them, Network Rail and the train companies around the table and work to make this project happen. Each organisation has told me they are supportive and keen to make this happen. This meeting offers us a chance to do that.
"Electrification of the line would also help to ensure that the direct link to Manchester Airport is protected as it shows us a regional hub; a place to visit and do business. I will push the government on both these projects and do all I can to ensure the upgrade of the infrastructure of our public transport network in the South Lakes."


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Righty Diaz steers gem for Drive
Red Sox prospect strikes out nine over seven one-hit frames
By Jake Seiner / Special to MLB.com | June 30, 2013 6:34 PM ET
Paul Abbott saw Luis Diaz up close two years ago when the former Major League hurler coached the Venezuelan right-hander at Class A Short-Season Lowell. He was impressed by Diaz's intelligence and dedication, but mostly, he remembered loving Diaz's change-up.
Abbott and Diaz were reunited this summer at Class A Greenville, and what Abbott found in Diaz was a much more diverse set of offerings.
Now relying on a consistent three-pitch mix, Diaz handcuffed Kannapolis' hitters Sunday. The right-hander didn't allow a hit until the sixth inning, finishing with nine strikeouts over seven one-hit frames in a 3-0 victory.
"He had good command of all three of his pitches, and he mixed them up very well," Abbott said. "The last few times out, he's had good life on the fastball and been able to angle it down to the bottom of the zone. His slider was good with sharp, late break and good command. He's always had an outstanding changeup."
Diaz has made giant strides since struggling through 20 appearances with Greenville in 2012. He posted a 6.01 ERA with 62 strikeouts and 28 walks in 91 1/3 innings last year. After some extra time in extended spring training this season, his ERA is down to 3.38, and he's posted a 38-to-12 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 40 innings.
Abbott just moved to Greenville this season, and his familiarity with Diaz has helped unlock some of the hurler's potential. The pitching coach saw promise in Diaz's fastball in 2011, when he went 4-4 with a 2.53 ERA in the New York-Penn League. Diaz would flash above-average velocity then, but because he was still growing into his body and his mechanics were not especially refined, the offering wasn't consistent.
With a few tweaks and a few years of growth, the pitch has become a weapon for the right-hander this season. Abbott said it now sits between 92-95 mph now, and has become more effective as the 6-foot-3 Diaz has gotten better at working the pitch down in the zone.
Mechanically, Abbott thinks Diaz's greatest strides have come as he's learned to be more explosive off the mound.
"We've been trying to get him to stay on the rubber a little longer," Abbott said. "He tends to drift and get ahead of his arm so the ball stays elevated. He's done a good job staying over the rubber and getting much better angle."
The tweaks in his delivery have also helped Diaz develop an effective slider, which he mixed in regularly Sunday. Learning the breaking pitch was a point of emphasis for Diaz in 2012, when he struggled in his first run at the South Atlantic League.
"It was something he didn't really have, mainly because he would drift so much," Abbott said. "He couldn't get his arm up in time and get in front with it to get the life he needed. He's just gotten so much better with staying on the rubber."
As the fastball and slider have rounded into form, Diaz has maintained the change-up, which draws rave reviews from Abbott for its change of speed, deception, movement and consistency.
"It really complements his fastball and even more so the last few times out," Abbott said. "It mirrors his fastball. It's a good, swing-and-miss change-up with good arm speed that drops away from lefties, and he uses it against right-handers as well.
"He has very good arm speed with a good change of pace on the velocity. Even if they're remotelypossibly looking for the change, there's enough movement for him to get away with it."
Diaz retired the first 15 hitters he faced in order. Eric Grabe snapped the no-hit bid with a single to start the sixth inning, but was stranded as Diaz induced a flyout to center before fanning Kale Kiser and Micah Johnson to end the frame.
The right-hander allowed a two-out walk to Keon Barnum in the seventh, but induced three groundouts to finish his day. Jeffrey Wendelken picked up a two-inning save, allowing a hit while striking out three.
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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.
Amelioration of Lupus Nephritis by a Macromolecular Prodrug of Dexamethasone in NZB/W F1 Mice.
Yuan2, Fang, Nelson2, Richard K., Liu2, Xin-ming, Gould2, Karen A., Wang1, Dong
Univ Nebraska Med Ctr, Omaha, NE
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Though developed with specific molecular targets, most lupus nephritis drugs do not have tissue specificity to renal inflammation sites, leading to limited efficacy and potentially severe systemic side effects. To address this problem, we propose to develop P-Dex, a macromolecular prodrug of dexamethasone (Dex) using N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) copolymer, which would specifically target the kidneys of lupus nephritis subjects to improve efficacy and reduce systemic toxcities associated with Dex phosphate treatment.
Female NZB/W F1 lupus-prone mice (16-wk-old) were treated with Dex phosphate (1.32 mg/kg, daily i.p. injections for 8 wks) and P-Dex (250 mg/kg, monthly i.v. injections for 8 wks) with HPMA homopolymer (PHPMA) and saline as controls. The overall doses of P-Dex and Dex phosphate are equivalent in terms of Dex content. Albuminuria was measured weekly using Ablustix. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) was measured by the tail cuff method every 4 wks. Serum was isolated from blood collected from the saphenous vein every 4 wks. Mice were sacrificed 1 wk after cessation of treatment (wk 9). Kidneys were harvested for histological assessment of nephritis. Femurs were harvested for bone mineral density (BMD) analysis.
P-Dex treatment of NZB/W F1 mice resulted in an attenuated onset of nephritis (as measured by durable albuminuria >= 2 or 100 mg/dL). At wk 9, the incidence of albuminuria was 0% in the P-Dex group, whereas the incidence of albuminuria was 100% in saline treated group, 70 % in PHPMA group and 46.7% in Dex phosphate group (p<0.001). A significant improvement of hypertension (MAP was reduced from 134±16 mmHg to 110±11 mmHg, p < 0.01) was only found in P-Dex treated group. Furthermore, the P-Dex treated group had a significantly higher femur BMD value than the Dex phosphate group (p < 0.001). No significant difference in BMD value was found among the P-Dex, saline and PHPMA groups.
P-Dex displayed highly efficient attenuation of lupus nephritis and improved renal function, compared to the treatment with equivalent dose Dex phosphate. It also significantly reduced the bone loss caused by long-term Dex phosphate treatment. Collectively, these data suggest that the macromolecular prodrug of dexamethasone could provide more effective amelioration of lupus nephritis with reduced systemic toxicity.
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Yuan, Fang, Nelson, Richard K., Liu, Xin-ming, Gould, Karen A., Wang, Dong; Amelioration of Lupus Nephritis by a Macromolecular Prodrug of Dexamethasone in NZB/W F1 Mice. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :423
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For all this talk about the need for more jobs, politicians and the corporate media rarely discuss whether those positions empower individuals rather than simply boosting the economy.
Brooklyn-based writer Ned Resnikoff takes a closer look, with a view to the personal consequences of forcing people into what is often temporary, low-paid, anxiety-inducing work. —ARK
Ned Resnikoff at The New Inquiry:
This is the danger of talking about "jobs" in the abstract: It can mean forcing people into precarious, temporary, low-wage, nonexistent-benefit work that will most likely land them back on the welfare rolls in a couple of months. Emphasis here belongs on the word forcing, because employers—faced with an oversupply of labor in the broader job market—have the upper hand in negotiations. These same employers can feel free to deprive their employees of the basic security needed to stay off welfare for good. After all, once the fallow season ends, the state will subsidize those workers' subsistence until the business community needs them again.
Thus welfare becomes a means of keeping spare workers on ice until they can again be made productive—which is to say, until they can again be slotted into temp jobs. But collecting a welfare check shouldn't mean forfeiting the right to a baseline of self-determinacy. If welfare is to serve to benefit the poor—which is to say for actual human beings, and not for an abstract intellectual construct such as the Economy—then it should ameliorate domination, not perpetuate it in a modified form.


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Katy Perry "roared" and her fans responded.
Her new single "ROAR," the first from Prism, out October 22, sold a whopping 557,024 downloads in its first week of release, achieving numerous milestones, including the biggest Digital Song sales week of 2013 to date and two personal bests for Perry.
Perry bested herself with "ROAR," as the song surpassed the digital sales of "Firework," which sold 509,000 copies the week ending December 26, 2010. It also surpassed the digital debut of "Part of Me" for the week ending February 12, 2012, which is the period when that song sold 411,000 downloads.
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Do you love "ROAR?" Did you grab a download, like 557,000 other people? Are you loving it? Or were you underwhelmed? WE LOVE IT!
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There Will Be No More Birthday Celebrations, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- Mike Davis was an artist, and the irate company-wide memorandum was his canvas. Few in the history of humankind have recognized the savage beauty of this lowliest of media. But Davis—the erstwhile head of Tiger Oil Company, and now dead at eighty-five—shattered the limits of the form with routine ease, showing us just how big an asshole one man could be to his employees. Consider his memos a spin-off of the Theater of Cruelty: " 'There will be no more birthday celebrations, birthday cakes, levity or celebrations of any kind within the office,' the boss wrote on Feb. 8, 1978. 'This is a business office. If you have to celebrate, do it after office hours on your own time.' … 'Do not speak to me when you see me,' the man had ordered in a memo the month before. 'If I want to speak to you, I will do so. I want to save my throat. I don't want to ruin it by saying hello to all of you.' "
- It's hard enough to get a human being to pay to read your book. Now robots are refusing to pony up, too. Google has just "fed" some eleven thousand books to its artificial intelligence, hoping to teach it how to talk like a real boy. But even though they're rolling in the dough, Google didn't pay any of the authors of these books, Richard Lea writes: "After feeding these books into a neural network, the system was able to generate fluent, natural-sounding sentences. According to a Google spokesman—who didn't want to be named—products such as the Google app will be 'much more useful if they can capture the nuance of language better' … 'The research in question uses these novels for the exact purpose intended by their authors—to be read,' [Authors Guild executive director Mary Rasenberger] argues. 'It shouldn't matter whether it's a machine or a human doing the copying and reading, especially when behind the machine stands a multibillion dollar corporation which has time and again bent over backwards devising ways to monetize creative content without compensating the creators of that content.' "


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That is, people love to hear what libertarians have to say until those people go into the voting both.
King retained some hope as he watched a half dozen waverers hanging back from voting.
Then he emailed his list asking for support for all Democrats on voting day.
And with those earning less than $50,000 a year, who comprise 41 percent of the voting public, he enjoyed a 22-percent edge.
From same-sex marriage and voting rights to affirmative action, a look at the controversial cases to come.
Most people would have left a matter of that kind entirely to themselves and then voted the way they felt like voting.
In voting for him now, it is to suppress the rebellion and maintain the Union.
We, therefore, request the privilege to refrain from voting on this question.
Was it not perfectly true that the Empire could only be saved by voting blue?
Now, 'scratching' is the most difficult feature of the art of voting, and if women have mastered this, they are doing very well.
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The Dwarves are one of many races in RuneScape. They live predominately in Keldagrim, their capital city, but are also found in various mines and settlements across Gielinor. In stature, Dwarves tend to be shorter than humans, usually being slightly above human-waist height. They are long-lived, although they tend to be gruff and short in temper. They are particularly fond of ale and often have long beards. Dwarves are particularly well known for being excellent blacksmiths, miners, and craftsmen. Dwarves often use battleaxes and warhammers of all kinds, though some also use crossbows. They live longer than humans, as Veldaban mentions that his father Dondakan is older than 150 years.
During the First Age, dwarves were most likely one of the first races brought by Guthix to Gielinor. They are possibly related to humans and gnomes. The dwarves probably lived on the surface, in villages like the humans did.
However, the God Wars sent the dwarves underground. During the God Wars, most dwarves hid themselves beneath the surface. Over time they constructed Keldagrim, a massive city that has grown tremendously wealthy. Dwarves adapted to underground life in this time. There they also encountered hostile Trolls, resulting a series of conflicts collectively called Keldagrim - Troll Country War which continues today.
During the Fourth age (although Dwarves use different ages to humans) King Alvis created the Consortium, a collection of mining companies. It was originally intended to help the Kings rule, but by King Alvis's death it had become powerful and took over Keldagrim. This occurred approximately 500 years before the present date.
Only after thousands of years, during the end of the Fourth Age or beginning of the Fifth Age, did the dwarves return to the surface to find the wars over. Despite this, most dwarves still live underground.
Dwarven culture consists mostly of feasting, sparring, and songs of great deeds long ago. The dwarven capital of Keldagrim is more advanced, and has many industrial works, banks and trading corporations. Dwarves love gold, and value it greatly; they are portrayed as greedy, which is not untrue- their people are ruled by merchants and bureaucrats. Nearly all activities in Dwarven territory, particularly Keldagrim, are based around the acquisition of wealth.
The dwarves are not religious, and although they are Guthixian, they never really worship Guthix in festivals or rituals. It's shown in the Doric and Boric tasks that burial armour is an armour which is made for fallen Dwarves in smithing to be buried with, so that they may smith in the afterlife. There is also a small and secretive cult of dwarves in the wilderness and in Taverley dungeon known as the chaos dwarves, who worship Zamorak. During Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf, it is revealed that there is a chaos dwarf army led by the Red Axe in an abandoned mine who plan an attack on Keldagrim. Dwarven technology is arguably greater than that of the gnomes, with minecarts, trains and cannons all being used by dwarves. Gnomes, however, generally use their technology to raise living standards, unlike dwarves, who seek profit.
It is revealed in the Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf that dwarves are now incapable of magic use, except when casting superheat item. In order to contain Zamorak's curse of the transformation into chaos dwarves, which requires mana, their magic ability is suppressed by the council of elder magi; however, the sudden loss of magic itself causes chaos in the dwarven community which resulted in the first King to be appointed to oppress the turmoil with absolute power. The Imcando dwarves were almost wiped out during the Fremennik crusades, because the Fremennik believed their use of the superheat spell was an insult to the gods. In Birthright of the Dwarves, it is further revealed that the Imcando dwarves were granted immunity from the former Mahjarrat's curse by Saradomin.
- Keldagrim
- Dwarven mines
- Under White Wolf Mountain
- Mines North west of Seers' village
- Small camp in the Underground pass
Notable DwarvesEdit
- King Alvis
- Hreidmar
- Colonel Grimsson
- Doric
- Boric
- Commander Veldaban (later King Veldaban)
- King Drunken Dwarf III
- Supreme Commander Bisi
- Colonel Grenda
Champions' ChallengeEdit
Dwarves are one of the 'races' who have champions of champions in the Champions' Challenge distraction and diversion. It is not currently possible to fight the dwarf champion.
- Prior to 2 October 2013, dwarves were the only race to not receive a graphical update since the launch of RuneScape 2.
- On 19 January 2010, most dwarves in RuneScape apparently "went to the Makeover Mage" and got their chatheads updated. Their heads looked more round, more detailed, and they move faster than before.
- All dwarves, including chaos variants, & chat-heads, were graphically updated after Birthright of the Dwarves was released.


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I just read your post after the Stillers Game (for those that do not know I do not say the real name of that team) and I have to say that if you all felt gutted too then CHEERS !!! You are all true Raven Fans !!
I also want to point out that we in Baltimore never refer to the team that once played here as that C word! They will always be ... that team that now plays in indy.... (just so you have Baltimore understanding)
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Nurse Practitioners to receive 85% of the same MBS rebates as GPs
The future sustainability of Nurse Practitioners working to provide primary care to the wider community. Currently Nurse Practitioners in primary care have access to four Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) item numbers from which to claim as rebates. These item numbers are for consultation only and do not include access to TAC, Work Cover, or rebates for such things as for Health Management Plans, Mental Health plans, general procedures, complex health assessments, referrals to Allied Health professionals and the completion of advanced care directives. If there is no change made to the current MBS access for Nurse Practitioners, this will significantly challenge the future sustainability of Nurse Practitioners in primary care therefore impacting on the health outcomes of those consumers.
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For Nurse Practitioners to receive 85% of the same MBS rebates as GPs
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