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Super Bowl Week. A special time to remember for San Diego Chargers fans. The 1994 season was a long time ago, yet when you close your eyes, you can remember it so distinctly,
The Super Bowl run by the '94 Bolts, was led by the free spirit GM Bobby Beathard, the old style coach Bobby Ross, the gunslinger QB-Stan Humphries and the high energy Junior Seau.
Some teams are built for a long haul run to Super Bowls, like this year's version of the Seattle Seahawks. The 1994-version of the Chargers was the least likely to be considered as a Super Bowl team. A few draft picks, a couple of key trades, strong journeymen free agent signings, chemistry and leadership. They grew, they got hot, they got tough, and they got there, to the Big Show in Miami, and they got blown out by the 49ers.
There are landmarks along the Bolt Highway to remember from that season. A 6-0 start, beginning in a place they hardly ever won, but with a victory no one could forget. And huge road wins later in the year.
Postseason was exciting, as Miami came to town. It rained, it was sloppy, the field was soft. Don Shula wanted a walk thru on the field on Saturday; the Bolts said no; the NFL interceded, and said yes. So Shula is driving a golf cart up and down the soft turf tearing it up. Come Sunday, end of the game, Miami needs a field goal to move on, Pete Stoyanovich tries a kick from the exact spot Shula and his golf cart had made a stand the day before. He missed a sure chipshot in the muck. Game over. Payback Miami.
Pittsburgh has NFL history, Steel Curtain defense, Terrible Towel and all. The Steelers spent the week talking about winning that AFC-championship game, the Super Bowl trip and the parties planned. The Chargers seethed privately, and then went out and battered them at Three Rivers Stadium. They took away the Steelers run game and QB-Neil O'Donnells' big plays. They were known as Blitzburgh, and they brought heat, but Humphries threw 2-touchdown passes on my call "3rd down-season on the line" plays. Linebacker Dennis Gibson deflected a 4th down goal-line pass, deflating the crowd. As I said on the air "listen to the silence-here's your Terrible Towel, use it as a crying towel." The Lightning Bolt was headed to the Big Show..
It rained in San Diego that night, but it was a right time for a party, and they packed theStadium for a welcome home to the heroes. It was a night of great theatre. Heroes everywhere, maybe 72,000-fans on hand with hopes too for a Super Bowl win.
San Francisco was brilliant. Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Ricky Watters, and defense. Ross had looked at 19-different videos preparing for that game. They thought they knew everything about the Niners. Then the game started, and Jerry Rice was in the backfield as a running back. Tight end Brent Jones lined up wide. Watters showed up in the slot. The Bolts got hit by lightning bolt plays. As Laslavic said on our Chargers broadcast, "Six plays, down (14-0), we're in trouble." Humphries tried to rally them, but running uphill, coming from behind all night, was impossible. NFL Films picked up my call "If I wasn't' the Voice of the Chargers, I think I could enjoy this San Francisco offense-best in NFL". It was a 6-TD night for Young.
The journey turned out to be more fun than just the final game. Yes 1994 was a long time ago, but if you close your eyes, you will hear the sounds, remember the days and plays, and get a rush. The Seahawks and Broncos are experiencing that this coming weekend, but longtime Bolt fans, cherish those snapshsots in a scrapbook. It was Chargers football at its best.
Lee Hamilton was the longtime radio voice of the Chargers, and hosts Hacksaw & Company (6-9am) on the Mighty 1090. Follow him on twitter @hacksaw1090


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Republicans in the U.S. Senate, often collectively scolded by conservatives for their weak-willed response to Barack Obama, were active Thursday in delaying the confirmation of two high-level nominees.
While senators voted 56-42 to approve the nomination of Congressman Melvin Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, members of the GOP blocked the process based on the opinion he is too driven by his political ideology.
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Slated to lead the agency in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it is no wonder Republicans were wary of injecting the troubled lenders with even more leftist influence. Watt has been criticized in the past for his belief in more government intrusion into the housing market.
Democrats need at least 60 votes to curtail the GOP's efforts to stall nominations, a threshold they also failed to reach in the approval process of a prospective U.S. Court of Appeals judge. Obama picked Patricia Millett to join the District of Columbia circuit court, which is the second most powerful court in the U.S. behind the Supreme Court.
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Following a 55-38 vote in favor of Millett's nomination, Republicans once again engaged in procedural tactics designed to delay the process. In this case, members of the GOP explained that they do not want to give the court a 5 to 4 majority of Democrat-appointed judges.
Though these and other Obama nominees might yet ascend to the positions for which they have been slated, Americans can at least look at Thursday's action as a sign some of our representatives are indeed working on our behalf.
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Hopefully, the leadership of young conservative senators such as Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee, combined with the treacherous policies of the Obama administration, will inject some much-needed backbone into the establishment Republicans so willing to capitulate.
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Fukushima – CNN finally after 2 years, report [some of the truth] the truth about the clean up
Let's have a look at what we knew 2 years ago, but is now mass media confirmed:
1. 40 year clean up at the least – check
2. robots can't even get near it – check
3. Tepco confirmed to have released radioactive water directly into the ocean – check
4. radiation into the ground water – check
5. fish not eatable due to radiation – check
6. Dosimeter and safety gear lacking for res-ponders – check
Previous disasters have cost huge sums and taken years to clean up
"We will have to be creative," a government spokesman says
"I hope now that the whole town will move to another place," one evacuee says
Tokyo (CNN) — The worst may have passed in the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl, but cleaning up when it's finally over is likely to take decades and cost Japan an untold fortune.
A six- to nine-month horizon for winding down the crisis, laid out by plant owner Tokyo Electric Power this week, is just the beginning. Near the end of that timeline, Japan's government says it will decide when — or whether — the nearly 80,000 people who were told to flee their homes in the early days of the disaster can return….
…For those displaced, Japanese authorities have promised to decontaminate "as much of an area as possible," as Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, told reporters earlier this week. But they have no decontamination plans prepared, and no real model for trying to clean up whole municipalities….
Shikata said the situation at Fukushima Daiichi was "somewhat different" than at Chernobyl, were the amount of radioactivity released was 10 times higher that is believed to have escaped from Fukushima Daiichi.[*cough]…
"A substantial amount of core had melted and burned its way into the reactor vessel, which we previously didn't know about," said DeVine, now retired. About 25 percent of the fuel assembly had melted, leaving behind a depression in the center of the core "like a giant ice-cream scoop."
Cleaning up and shutting down the damaged Unit 2 took 10 years, Devine said — and unlike Fukushima Daiichi, little radiation was released at Three Mile Island. In Japan, workers are dealing with "essentially four Three Mile Islands," plus levels of radioactivity "which will be an impediment for all the work on-site."…
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The CNN report on the TV was more scathing…..
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You've been voting tirelessly for your favorite reads of the year, and now, we can finally reveal which books you've chosen to get some awards glory.
This year, the People's Choice Awards teamed up with TheReadingRoom.com to launch a brand new category aimed at celebrating your favorite books of 2015. Bibliophiles far and wide made themselves heard when they turned out to vote for the books they just couldn't put down!
Check out the winners of "Favorite Books 2016" winners below:
Favorite Fiction
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah — Winner
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Favorite Nonfiction
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling — Winner
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
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Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
The Cartel by Don Winslow
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter — Winner
X by Sue Grafton
Favorite Young Adult
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard — Winner
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
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An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir — Winner
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Prachett
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
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After You by Jojo Moyes
Confess by Colleen Hoover — Winner
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
Grey by E.L. James
Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts
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Rwanda's Prosecutor-General, Gerald Gahima, said the move was necessary for logistical reasons.
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Flowing from the top of the Flattops to the Western border of Colorado, the Yampa River moves through downtown Steamboat Springs, giving you easy access to a diverse group of fish right out your front door. Approximately 250 miles long, fishing on the Yampa varies depending on where you decide to settle down with your gear. 'The Upper Yampa holds cold-water species whereas warm-water species are found downstream at river's end. Somewhere in-between, the two meet with opportunity to fish for trout and pike in the same river spot.'
The Yampa is known for being one of the best Smallmouth Bass and Northern Pike fisheries in the United States, but is not limited to these species. 'A summertime trout grand slam is possible on the Yampa in the stretches around Steamboat Springs: rainbows, browns, Snake River cutthroat and brookies all call this part of the river home.' And with the abundant insect and whitefish population the trout are huge.
The flow of the Yampa varies between 600m3/s in the spring runoff, to 17 m3/s in late summer.
The Yampa is also one of the last river systems in the west that is still a relatively intact riparian zone. 'While riparian areas occupy less than 3 percent of the western landscape, they provide habitat for 80 percent of the region's wildlife. Mature Cottonwoods line the river corridor and provide the base for other riparian plant species.'
Fishing Advice- ESPN.com wrote an article in late 2006 about Fly-fishing on the Yampa. They recommend to 'bring the usual assortment of midges, emergers, Prince Nymphs and Hare's Ears. Streamers are tops for both pike and smallmouth (black is the favorite color), and tube jigs are a top choice for the bronzebacks.'
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BIG name guest presenters have been announced for an event rewarding the achievements of young people across Oxfordshire.
Chairman of Oxford United Ian Lenegan, author Philip Pullman and Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes will be presenting awards at the Oxfordshire Youth Awards.
The charity Oxfordshire Association for Young People (OAYP) which is organising the event to be held next month hopes it will be the biggest in their history.
Young people aged between 11 and 25 have been nominated for awards in seven categories for the ceremony in the Town Hall on Thursday, February 21.
Mr Pullman, who wrote the His Dark Materials trilogy, said: "The organisers just got in touch and asked me to do it.
"I'm always in favour of supporting young people and it seemed like a good idea. I will certainly be there."
This year is the first time the awards have been organised by young people themselves.
Ten Wheatley Park School students, aged between 15 and 17, make up the committee organising the event.
They were chosen because they had demonstrated the necessary leadership skills to be able to co-ordinate the awards.
Their work includes organising fundraising, sponsorship, budget management and event planning.
Record nominations have already been received for the awards, with 300 young people to attend, along with an audience of 300 guests. Awards will be presented in the categories arts, bravery, enterprise, literature, sport, volunteer, science, technology and environment.
An eighth award – the Jake Spicer Special Recognition Award will be awarded by the youth committee to one outstanding young person.
It is named after a former pupil of St Gregory the Great School, East Oxford, who passed away in 2009.
He died after a five-and-a-half year battle with a rare form of bone cancer. After he was diagnosed, Jake raised thousands of pounds for charity.
To go with the theme of a celebration of young people, there will also be performances from talented young people in the county.
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Thaw threatens water supplies with manure runoff
With warmer weather finally on the way, state officials are warning farmers and the public that there is a potentially high risk across most of Wisconsin for manure to pollute groundwater, streams, rivers and lakes.
Following the highest number of manure spills in seven years in 2013, this year's threat is due to melting snow and rainfall that could send soil and animal waste into streams.
Under the right conditions, manure also could soak into aquifers, from which drinking water is drawn.
Manure, an important source of fertilizer, contains bacteria, phosphorus and nitrogen, which can enrich soil.
But if misapplied, it can pollute waterways and groundwater.
So far, the seemingly endless winter has meant snow has melted gradually, which has kept manure runoff problems to a minimum, according to officials at the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
The chief exception has been tainted private wells in a subdivision of Brownsville in northern Dodge County that state officials are investigating.
Initial tests show high levels of fecal coliform and E. coli, which could be caused by human or animal waste. The DNR is advising people living in about a dozen homes not to drink the water.
With warmer temperatures and rain predicted over the next week, conditions could change quickly, officials say.
The state agriculture department's runoff risk advisory forecast is currently listed as "high" across most of Wisconsin.
The system lets farmers and others check individual watersheds and judge the risk of spreading, based on soil moisture, snowpack, temperature, the forecast for rain and other factors.
The online system is part of a series of initiatives in the aftermath of a surge in manure spills in 2004 and 2005.
A total of 52 manure spills were documented statewide between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2005, according to the DNR.
This month, the DNR and agriculture department spent more than $9,000 airing radio spots, warning farmers about proper spreading practices.
The Journal Sentinel reported in December that farmers had the highest number of spills in 2013 in a seven-year period.
Livestock operations spilled more than 1 million gallons of manure last year, which is less than 1% of manure produced by dairy cattle in Wisconsin.
The data between 2007 and 2013 showed no clear trend, but state officials say there is growing awarenessof proper manure handling.
Management and engineering issues can be a source of the problem, as evidenced last week when the DNR issued two notices of violation against a publicly financed manure digester in Dane County for environmental problems starting in 2012. The most recent spill occurred on March 12.
Still, weather is a major factor.
"Conditions are worse this year than last year," said Andrew Craig, a nutrient management specialist for the DNR.
One factor that could compound any problems: Wisconsin's largest dairy farms, with 700 or more cows, will soon be heading into the fields to start spreading.
Known as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, the farms are prohibited from spreading manure in February and March, except in emergencies.
Some are reaching the maximum capacity of their pits and must start emptying them soon.
"This is go-like-hell time, that's just the way it is, " said David Eisentraut, of Eisentraut Ag Services, a Sheboygan County company that pumps manure from pits and spreads it on fields.
"Winter's running a little late, so everyone is very tight on storage."
Eisentraut and others who handle much of the spreading for large farms are days away from a frenzied period, moving farm to farm, draining pits and working the manure into the soil.
The work has to be done before planting season.
Unlike CAFOs, smaller farms aren't required to follow plans that spell out how manure is applied to individual fields.
But some smaller farms do. Today, 26% of all cropland is covered by such plans, a figure that is rising steadily.
Eisentraut and his crew will handle up to 60 million gallons of manure over a six-week period.
"We can't just pour it on-we're going to have to be on our game," he said.
Lynn Utesch, a small-scale beef farmer in Kewaunee County and a critic of CAFOs, believes large farms are growing too quickly, outgrowing their ability to store manure.
Too many farms are asking for emergency approval to spread manure on frozen ground, "where it's going to end up right in our streams," he said.
Casey Langan, executive director of public relations for the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, agreed farmers have to be vigilant in the spring.
"Yes, it rains in the spring, and farmers have to be careful," Langan said. "But by and large, the system works."
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Thanks so very much Jo!
Very relaxed, and inviting !! Thanks for showing us!! :) :)
You are SO right, Ank, you slip around on these stones!! I don't know why they have become so popular in the communities!! Thanks so very much!!
Hi Hanne. I took a good look to that stones, and I agree that are awful stones. I can remember when I was a child there was a street with this stones. We called them "kinderkopjes" "children's heads" The stones we have on the streets don't make much difference with snow. It's almost as flat as asphalt.
No it's not!! The street, where you could drive if you were allowed to do so, is covered with fine paving stones and the sidewalks are made of bricks. They mostly are - or some kind of tiles. Most streets where cars drive are asphalted. The paving stones are awful to drive on when it's frost and snow. Thanks so very much Ardy!!
I'm noticing the streets and sidewalks are brick like in Ank's pictures on our walks. Is this common throughout your northern countries? Looks like a lovely town. Thanks for sharing.
We are on the main street and right ahead is the town square. This is towards the north and if we follow the street we'll come to the harbour with palm trees - fake!! Then they make it through the winter outdoor!!


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The rumor mill was in full swing yesterday as word got out that Melbourne-born Robert Thomson, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, was leaving his post and returning to Australia. According to sources close to the situation, Thomson isn't going anywhere and any discussion about him leaving WSJ are "complete nonsense." Thomson was linked to an executive position with the News Corp. owned News Ltd. located in Australia.
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I have to admit, I really love this month's theme: International Superstars. I always welcome the chance to try products that aren't easily accessible in the UK and this box is an absolute treat.
In my box I received:
Allesandro: Pro White Nail Polish
DHC: Deep Cleansing Oil
All For Eve: Eve's Balm
Vera Valenti: L'Ombre a Paupiere Margarita
Glossybox Lipstick in Glossy Pink
Winners & Losers
Overall I'm really impressed with this month's offering. But my star item has to be Lipcote. I've wanted to try this product for ages and it really does what it sets out to do. I used with the bonus Glossy Pink Lipstick and it didn't budge for 5 hours, not bad! (I'm loving this lip colour by the way!)
I gave the Allesandro Pro White a whirl and whilst I didn't notice immediate brightening, it'll work as a lovely base coat.
I'm always in the market for a good balm and the All for Eve Balm is a winner. I love the fact it has a really herbal fresh scent and the mirror in the compact is a nice touch. The fact that all of the profits go to a good cause makes it an even more special little product.
I'm currently wading through an entire drawer full of various oils but my first impressions of the DHC Oil are good. I think I'll keep this for going away as it's such a convenient size.
The only product that really did let me down this month was the Vera Valenti Eyeshadow Palette. I initally thought it was a colour correcting concealer palette but on closer inspection found it was eye shadow. This wasn't a problem but the quality of the product is...a bit naff. There is no pigmentation and the texture is chalky. I imagine this will end up with a friends daughter as it really only warrants being used a dressing up make up.
Apart from this small blip I really think Glossybox have pulled together a really nice box this month.
I'd love to see more like this in the future!
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About three years ago, there was a thread with this same title. I want to rekindle discussion of it.
I consider it an extremely interesting sub-genere of the culinary world. This is because of the inguenity that was born out of avaliablity of little or poor resources.
What I think is great is when the so called 'peasant' food becomes adopted by the nobility. As was the case when Louis XIV was traveling through Bretagne and came across crepes. Before you know it - guess whats on tonights menu at the palace of Versaille?!
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ChevronTexaco Chairman & CEO David O'Reilly Addresses Institute of Petroleum
Improved Communication, Performance and Behavior Keys to Strengthening the Energy Industry's Reputation
LONDON, Feb. 18, 2003 -- ChevronTexaco Chairman and CEO David J. O'Reilly today challenged the oil and natural gas industry to work together to improve its reputation. Speaking to more than 350 attendees as keynote luncheon speaker at the Institute of Petroleum's "IP Week 2003" Conference in London, O'Reilly described the potential consequences of the industry's weak reputation, and urged the industry to work together to strengthen its image through improved communications, performance and behavior.
"Our industry commits massive resources to successfully develop new technologies, products and fields for exploration," O'Reilly said, "Yet we've been unwilling to apply the same effort to the shared challenges of reputation."
Noting the potential ramifications of a weak reputation -- including costly and onerous regulations, restrictions on access to oil and gas resources, and an inability to recruit and retain talent, O'Reilly said, "If we do not act together to address this challenge, I believe our performance will be impaired, and our basic mission imperiled."
O'Reilly pointed out what he called a "paradox" -- the growing importance of energy as a driver of economic development and quality of life, while the reputation of the industry is in decline in the minds of many.
The solution, he suggested, is to focus on three important areas, including performance, behavior and communication. Regarding communication, O'Reilly said, "We provide the energy that powers the world's economic engines. Energy is essential to improving the quality of life -- especially in developing countries. That's something to be proud of, and we need to reinforce that value proposition through effective communications."
O'Reilly continued, "I'm proud of what the energy industry contributes. We have a powerful and positive story to tell, and we should be neither shy nor apologetic about telling it. But we need to do it together Through these shared efforts we can lift all boats, not just our own.
"While we need to tell our story better, we also need a better story to tell," he said. "So, we have to improve performance; doing more to protect the environment and communities where we operate, while improving our operations."
Addressing the issue of behavior, O'Reilly said, "Behavior is how you express your values in practice. I think you'll agree that performance without values is no better than values without performance. We can't focus on one at the expense of the other -- like looking at how our products are made and not how they're used."
O'Reilly used conservation as one example of where industry behavior can be improved. "We should be encouraging consumers to use our products more efficiently. Why? Because we're in this for the long haul. If we want our products to continue accelerating economic growth, conservation will help keep energy plentiful and affordable."
O'Reilly concluded by saying, "The commitments we make here and now will have a powerful impact on our future, and they will make us an even greater force for positive change. If we do these things, we can strengthen our collective reputation, as well as our individual performance. And we can better fulfill the mission that is unique to our industry and so vital to our world."
About ChevronTexaco
ChevronTexaco is a leader in the global energy business with wide-ranging activities in more than 180 countries. ChevronTexaco is the third-largest energy company in terms of global oil and gas reserves (more than 11 billion barrels of oil and gas equivalent) and fourth largest in global oil and natural gas production (2.7 million barrels of oil and gas equivalent per day). It has the capacity to refine more than 2 million barrels per day, sells more than 5 million barrels of fuel and products daily and owns or has interest in more than 25,000 retail outlets under Chevron, Texaco and Caltex brands. It is the fourth largest company in the global lubricants business, is an industry leader in the power and gasification businesses and has extensive technology operations, ranging from core business research and development to e-business and venture capital activities.
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" Hardcover: 240 pages / Publisher: Puffin / Published: 8 Aug 2013 / Language: English "
After reading 'Love, Aubrey' by Suzanne LaFleur, I was excited to read her new book 'Listening for Lucca'. Surprisingly, I found this book very different to her other book and not as I expected. I found that although 'Love Aubrey' was very real and as if it was a true story, this book had more of a fantasy element to it.
Siena and her family moved from Brooklyn, New York to Maine in hope to help the youngest child Lucca, who is three. Lucca's sister Siena had been imagining a house she would live in and when her parents believe they have found it they take it as a sign to move in. Lucca hasn't spoken for over a year and the family and doctors don't know what has caused this to happen. Hence they hope a move from the busy New York lifestyle may be the key to bringing his speech back.
Once in Maine, Siena starts to see the past and finds a magical pen which gives her an insight into a families life who once lived in the same house with a similar issue. She hopes that she will have enough knowledge to help her brother out.
Throughout the book I found myself intrigued as to why it was that Lucca wouldn't speak as there seemed to be no reasonable explanation. Although I was pleased with the ending I found that it was not properly explained why Lucca remained silent for a year, I can only assume from the history Siena saw.
Although I preferred reading the story of Siena's family rather than the ones from history, I liked that Siena only saw that family when she had the pen or wanted to. I think the way the past was written meant it fit well into the story and didn't make it confusing to read like some books do when they keep jumping into the past.
I enjoyed reading about the relationship the family had as it was nice to see a family working together and all respecting and helping out each other. The bond between Siena and Lucca was a beautiful brother and sister bond but its a shame that no one really knew what Lucca was thinking.
Overall I enjoyed the book despite it not meeting my expectations. I hope her future books are more similar to 'Love, Aubrey' though.


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The Netherlands to Produce Two Billion Tulips in 2017
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Edible 3D Printed Sculptures
As mentioned in a previous post, I have been learning a bit about grant/proposal writing in our class art as practice.
My friend and 2nd-year Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA candidate Chelsey Shilling and I have been looking for and writing grants recently to get funding to build our own 3D printer to print food and biological material. That's right—we are going to print food. Yes, that is awesome. There is already some really interesting work being done in this area. Some have dubbed 2013 the year of the 3D printer, and in a recent article by Smartplanet.com it was projected that 3D printing will enter the mainstream soon.
One of the grant opportunities I found is perfect for individuals who are interested in Art and Science collaborative projects. The grant is called the Rhizome Commission Grant. Chelsey and I are interested in building the 3D printer for two performance/installation projects as well as a series of workshops on edible 3D printing. Below are the three projects we are hoping to propose.
1. Cannibal Cake explores the practice of cannibalism and its metaphorical potential. In its first iteration of the piece, the artist cuts a life-size figure of a human out of angel food cake, projects his image onto the cake, and proceeds to serve the cake to his audience. The next iteration of the piece will require a life-size, edible sculpture of a person.
2. Honey Dress by Chelsey Shilling is a durational performance wherein Chelsey will print a dress out of honey and document its decomposition. In this piece, Chelsey will explore the codependent relationship between bees and humans, the idea of honey as healing agent, and honey as a symbol for the labors of communal connection.
3. We are interested in running a series of workshops on art, food, and 3D printing around the city of Chicago. We are interested in growing an awareness of art & science collaborative works as well as encouraging a growing community of citizen scientists in the Chicago area. Once these projects are complete, the printer will be given over to the artist group Image Unit who's mission is to promote the work and professional development of Interdisciplinary Arts students at Columbia College Chicago while providing a forum for interdisciplinary practices within the larger Columbia community.


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UK Music Shows has announced the first exhibitors and sponsors for Music Production North, which will be held at Old Trafford in Manchester on June 1st and 2nd.
Yamaha, sE Electronics, Source Distribution, Sound on Sound and JAMES have now signed up, with Production Room, KMR Audio and Music Tech magazine sponsoring the event.
"The reception to the Music Production Show in 2011 was incredibly positive and we're looking forward to taking the event to Old Trafford in June. It's a fantastic, iconic venue and it'll be a great show for both visitors and exhibitors – more of whom we'll be announcing in the coming weeks," said show manager Jason Hunt from UK Music Shows.
Tickets are priced at £10 in advance, or £15 on the door. For more details or to book tickets, click here to visit the Music Production Show website.
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Recently, we had to bring out the old hammer and nails to repair some of the loose joining pieces of a cabinet. Unfortunately, some of the thin nails bent, because of the density of the hard wood...an annoyance for any weekend home handyman/woman. Then we remembered a helpful hint we once read about using beeswax to help lubricate your nails before hammering into hardwoods (some early carpenters and furniture builders supposedly used lard or tallow, but we find beeswax more hygienic). You can also use this technique with for easier drilling into harder woods. The bee's knees of a tip, huh?


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I can stop any time I want.
Then around the middle of July I was riding my bike down to the Cape, which is about 95 miles from my house. It usually takes me about 4.5 hours. On this day, I had a strong tailwind and beat my previous best time by almost 30 minutes. With the endorphins flying around my head like mosquitoes at a cookout, I started thinking about my favorite race, the Green Mountain Stage Race, which is held on Labor Day weekend in the mountains of Vermont.
Like an alcoholic stopping into the bar for "just one drink", I've found myself face down in a lactic haze of tracking intervals, watts, heartbeats, kilojoules, and time ridden. I can tell I'm getting into race shape because riding a bike is just about all I can do. A 4 hour hard ride with 6000 feet of climbing? Sure. Climbing out of the car and up the stairs to my front door? I don't think so. I need to rest and catch my breath in the middle. It's a very specific strength one develops while training to race a bike, to the exclusion of almost all other normal activities.
I'm not sure what it is about all the pain and suffering, the sweat, snot and bloodshed involved, that keeps me coming back. I often say that if our government put the detainees at Guantanamo through the kind of torture that my friends and I subject ourselves to willingly, Amnesty International would be all over them with valid charges of human rights abuse.
I have met some of my favorite people in the world through this sport, so there's that.
I've fallen off the wagon completely. Hopelessly. I swear I'll stop after Labor Day and get back to the serious work of working seriously. Just one more race. Really.


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Today Sen. Joe Biden announced his health care plan for all Americans.
"I know what it is like to be wheeled into an emergency room, unsure if you'll see your family ever again - and I was lucky because I had health insurance," said Sen. Biden. "All Americans should have access to health care and the principles that I have laid out today represent a gateway toward that very important goal.
"I pledge that during the first 90 days of my administration I will bring together groups on all sides of this debate and seize the historic opportunity we have before us to make heath care in this country both universal and affordable. The key will be tackling the four steps that will ultimately get us to universal coverage: covering all children, increasing access for adults, providing reinsurance for catastrophic cases and encouraging prevention and modernization in our health care system."
"Getting this done will require the kind of experience and leadership that comes from years of success corralling bipartisan support for numerous issues. I have that experience and it will prove invaluable when I am president."
The Biden CARE Plan:
Four Practical Steps Toward Health Care For All
Joe Biden's highest priorities - along with ending the war in Iraq - are universal health care and education. He will convene a national gathering of key health care stakeholders from labor, business, health care and government within the first 90 days of his administration to seize the historic opportunity created by the recognition from organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies, the Business Roundtable and the AMA to the labor movement that the time has come for universal, affordable health care.
Joe Biden's CARE plan proposes four essential steps to lay the foundation for universal health care:
(1) Cover all Children
(2) Access for Adults
(3) Reinsurance For Catastrophic Cases
(4) Encouraging Prevention and Modernization
Step One: Cover All Children
The path to universal health care starts with making sure that the most vulnerable, our children, have health insurance. Today 9 million children are uninsured.
Joe Biden would cover all kids by:
* Expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program to at least 300 percent of the federal poverty level ($61,950 for a family of four).
o More than 80 percent of uninsured children are in families below 300 percent of the poverty level[1]:
o Under 100 Percent of FPL ($20,000) - 2.9 million or 31.8 percent
o Between 100 and 199 percent of FPL ($40,000) - 2.9 million or 32.1 percent
o Between 200 and 299 percent of FPL ($60,000) - 1.7 million or 18.4 percent
o Over 300 percent of FPL ($60,000+) - 1.6 million or 17.6 percent
* Allowing all families to buy into SCHIP with sliding scale premiums and co-payments based on family income.
* Extending coverage to at least age 21 (as states can choose to do in Medicaid)
* Emphasizing wellness and prevention by eliminating co-payments for physicals, vaccinations, vision and hearing screenings and preventive dental check-ups for children of any income level.
* Automatically enrolling eligible uninsured children at birth, school registration or through other income-tested programs like WIC, reduced price school lunch or Head Start.
* Expanding Medicaid eligibility for some parents of low-income children.
Step Two: Access for Adults
While insuring all children must be our top priority, it is also important to offer uninsured adults access to health care. Building on the existing system, Joe Biden would open the doors to insurance for adults in three ways:
(1) Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan Buy-In
* Senator Biden would allow uninsured Americans to buy into an insurance program that mirrors the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP) - the program that provides health insurance to members of Congress, their staff, and federal employees.
* While the program will contain the same carriers and the same plan offerings, the new program will have its own insurance pool. Carriers in the FEHBP program would have to offer plans in the universal buy-in plan, but would have access to reinsurance to help with catastrophic costs for enrollees with greater than usual health costs. The buy-in program could also have an age-adjusted "payment" or "bonus" for plans that enroll older and less healthy people to help carriers avoid the effects of adverse selection.
* People would be permitted to buy-in on a sliding scale based on income.
* Small businesses would be allowed to participate in the program to help provide insurance for their employees. For companies that buy into the plan, employers, employees and the government would share the cost of the premium. Firms with a high proportion of low-wage workers would get a larger subsidy from the federal government than would firms with higher-wage workers.
(2) Medicare Buy-In For People Aged 55-64
* There are 29.5 million people between the ages of 55 and 64. Of those, an estimated 4.8 million are uninsured, 1.5 million purchase insurance through the individual market, and 2.7 million are early retirees that get insurance through their employers. Many people in this age group who are uninsured simply cannot afford to purchase insurance in the individual insurance market because of high premium costs due to their age and health history.
* Joe Biden will allow people between 55 and 64 to buy in to the Medicare program. Like the FEHBP buy-in proposal, the federal government will provide a subsidy for low-income individuals in this age group to afford to purchase early coverage in the Medicare program.
* While the federal government would invest money now to allow uninsured individuals between 55 and 64 to buy into Medicare, this proposal could save money for the Medicare program in the long run. By the time people become eligible for Medicare at age 65, many are already dealing with numerous chronic health conditions. Providing an earlier window to participate in Medicare can allow treatment of chronic diseases to start at an earlier age that can save Medicare costs in the long run. Only 59.3 percent of uninsured near-elderly manage to be able to see a doctor, compared to 87.7 percent and 84.2 percent of privately and publicly insured near-elderly respectively.[2] Giving the uninsured near-elderly the opportunity to enroll in Medicare at an earlier age can improve the number of people able to see a doctor and treat any medical conditions they have that would be more expensive to treat if they had to wait until they were 65 to enroll.
(3) Reform The Insurance Industry
Insurance companies often discriminate against people who need insurance the most -those with pre-existing conditions and those with high-risk factors for certain diseases. For individuals who do not have access to employer-sponsored insurance, the high cost of individual insurance policies simply forces them to go without health insurance.
To help people afford health insurance, Joe Biden would:
* Allow insurers that offer individual policies to access the reinsurance pool if they agree not to turn people away because of pre-existing conditions or risk of them.
* Protect against genetic discrimination by prohibiting employers and insurance companies from collecting or using genetic information when making decisions about hiring, providing health coverage, or discriminating in the pricing of an insurance policy.
Step Three: Reinsurance For Catastrophic Cases
Most Americans, 60 percent, receive health insurance through their employers. But employers are scaling back benefits as the cost of health insurance and health care rises. Millions of workers no longer receive insurance from employers - 70 percent of the uninsured are employed.
Around 5 percent of people with the greatest health care costs account for half of health care spending in this country.[3] Just one employee with high medical expenses can push premiums up for all and make insurance unaffordable.
The top 1 percent of spenders - those with expenses above $50,000 a year -- account for 22 percent of health care spending.[4] In contrast, the 50 percent of the population with the lowest expenses accounted for only 3 percent of overall U.S. health care spending with annual expenses of $664 per person.
Those in the top 5 percent of costs spend on average 17 times as much as the bottom 50 percent of spenders.[5] In addition, 57 percent of the top 5 spenders are under the age of 65: 18 percent between the ages of 55-64, 15 percent between 45-54, 10 percent between 35-44, 9 percent between 19-34 and 5 percent 18 and younger.[6]
By creating a federal reinsurance system for catastrophic costs, the risk and burden of covering these patients are spread among the general population, instead of smaller subgroups of employees.
In addition to helping families and business avoid financial disasters, a catastrophic coverage plan (often times called a stop-loss plan) can help lower administrative costs and reduce the variation in health care costs. Ken Thorpe, a professor at Emory University, has estimated that a stop-loss plan that pays 75 percent of claims above a catastrophic threshold would, on average, reduce the variance in claims costs by more than 50 percent. Reducing the risk factor for health plans would translate into lower health insurance premiums.
Providing this type of coverage is not a new role for the federal government in the private insurance market. Indeed, the federal government currently assumes the risk for high-cost cases in several other private markets. For instance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plays a key role in providing financial assistance for the private sector (households and businesses) facing catastrophic losses.
Joe Biden would stop the race to the bottom in providing health care benefits by:
* Establishing a federal reinsurance pool to reimburse employers, insurers or associations (including voluntary employee benefit associations) for 75 percent of catastrophic health costs (those exceeding $50,000 per individual) for active and retired employees and their families.
o To participate in the rebate program, employers would have to cover all employees and apply best practices to chronic disease management.
o Private insurers in the individual market would have to demonstrate that they operate an effective high cost case management system.
Step Four: Encouraging Prevention and Modernization
Too often the debate over health care centers around whether we're spending enough on health care in this country - when the reality is that the US spends more on medical services than any other developed nation, including those countries that provide health insurance for all.
We can afford to provide universal health care in this country - and we can help pay for it with a national agenda of sensible steps to get skyrocketing health care costs under control.
The U.S. spends over $2 trillion on medical care every year - approximately $6,697 per person.[7] Health care is 16 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).[8] Health insurance expenses are the fastest growing cost component for employers. Premiums have gone up 78 percent since 2001 - almost four times the rate of wages.[9] In 2007, the average annual premium increased by 6.1 percent.[10] Unless something changes dramatically, health insurance costs will overtake profits for many businesses by 2008. Yet we have no national agenda to address the affordable health care crisis. Joe Biden will begin to bring health care costs under control and increase quality of care by taking the following steps.
Focusing on Prevention: According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), approximately 108 million people in the United States have at least one chronic disease. Including such diseases as heart disease, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, or osteoarthritis, these conditions have severe impact upon the quality of peoples' lives and health care costs.[11] Obesity, which increases risk for these conditions, has doubled among adults over the last two decades. It is estimated that 75 cents of every dollar spent on care in the United States is spent on patients with chronic diseases.[12] Treating chronic illnesses accounts for approximately 74 percent of private insurance spending and 83 percent of government spending.[13] But many adults and children don't receive adequate preventive care to manage these conditions before they result in costly complications. For example, according to AHRQ:
* Approximately 1.7 million hospitalizations occur annually for a heart attack or congestive heart failure, and over 600,000 people die each year of heart disease.
* Nearly 50,000 people die each year as a result of diabetes, making it the sixth leading cause of death.
* Health care costs for asthma patients rose dramatically from $4.5 billion in the 1980's to $10.7 billion in the 1990's.
* Over 50 million people suffer from high blood pressure (hypertension), which contributes to the incidence of stroke and heart disease.
* More than half of people age 65 and over have evidence of osteoarthritis; it is the major cause of disability in this age group.
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 80 percent of type 2 diabetes, 80 percent of heart disease and strokes and 40 percent of cancer could be prevented if the American public would stop smoking, eat more nutritious foods and make physical exercise part of their daily routine.[14]
Simply put, no health reform plan will be able to work without addressing the high costs associated with chronic disease. In order to contain health care costs associated with chronic diseases, Joe Biden would:
* Increase funding for existing programs that promote awareness and prevention of chronic diseases and obesity.
* Require insurers participating in federal programs to cover preventive care.
* Establish chronic disease treatment programs in Medicare and other federal programs to better manage care, especially when a patient has multiple conditions.
* Support research on the best approaches to coordinate chronic disease care.
* Waive copayment requirements under Medicare for screenings for cervical, breast and colon cancer, as well as other high cost chronic diseases.
Increasing Comparative Effectiveness Research: The US spends far more per capita on health care than any other industrialized nation; but the increased spending does not result in better health outcomes. In addition, the United States is the largest consumer of medical devices in the world.[15]
One of the challenges facing our health care system, especially with the aging of the population and the health care resources older Americans consume, is controlling the amount of money we pay for treatment. While it is tempting to control Medicare costs by simply reducing payments to providers, that approach does not address the issue of volume of services used and also creates an access problem, as many providers drop out of publicly-run programs when reimbursement drops too low.
Our current system reimburses providers on the volume of services used, without truly examining what services work best. We need to establish a mechanism to examine what methods work better than others.
To reduce ever-increasing health care costs Joe Biden will create a panel to compare the effectiveness of medical treatments and technologies. This could be housed in an existing federal agency like AHRQ, NIH or HRSA, or it can be an independent, public-private partnership receiving funding from both the federal government and private industry. Many other countriesincluding Australia, Canada, England, and Germanyalready require clinical and economic assessments of medical services as a condition for reimbursement.
To take advantage of this potential, Joe Biden will:
* Establish a Comparative Effectiveness Panel to: evaluate treatment protocols, medical devices and new technology and establish best practices for management of chronic diseases.
Investing In Information Technology: Joe Biden's home state, Delaware, is a leader in adopting new health information technology. The Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) is a state-wide health information and electronic data interchange network for public and private use. With funding from both the federal and state government, DHIN is building a Clinical Information Exchange Utility to provide secure, fast, and reliable exchange of health information among the many health care providers treating patients throughout Delaware.
The potential for a significant improvement in the delivery of health care when healthcare providers and consumers have access to complete health and treatment histories is enormous:
* Improved quality of care: When a health provider or hospital has information about a patient's prescription medications, medical history, treatment history and allergies, he/she can make better clinical decisions, which result in better health outcomes for the patient.
* Improved patient-provider communication: When a patient has access to more information, he/she is more likely to engage his/her health care providers in communication about treatment options and wellness opportunities. As a result, the patient is more involved in treatment decisions, improving compliance and overall health outcomes.
* Reduced duplication of services and treatments: Two of the most significant cost drivers in the health care industry are prescription drugs and high technology diagnostic and testing services, such as MRIs and CT scans. Compounding these costs is the potential for duplication of these treatments or tests. A quick check of an electronic medical record can show a provider the results of tests already performed and stop duplicative tests and procedures from being performed.
The potential savings to the health care industry from full adoption of electronic medical records is substantial. In fact, researchers at the RAND Corporation estimated that full adoption of electronic medical records could save $77 billion annually.[16] RAND also determined that by 2004, 15 to 20 percent of U.S. physician offices had adopted electronic medical records systems.
To get to 100 percent Joe Biden would:
* Invest at least $1 billion dollars per year in moving to electronic health records systems.
* Provide grants to states to develop electronic medical records and other health IT systems.
* Assist hospitals, medical facilities and doctors in upgrading to electronic record systems and implementing them in their practice.
Requiring Uniform Billing and Claims: Administrative costs account for roughly 30 percent of all health care expenditures in the United States. One of the reasons for high administration costs are the numerous insurance claims forms that providers must fill out to get paid for their services. The State of Utah recently tackled this problem by getting all insurers and providers to use a standardized, electronic claim form designed to eliminate claim disputes and loads of paperwork. Every procedure on the form is listed the same way and patients no longer receive notices titled "This is Not a Bill."
When the Utah Health Information Network (UHIN) was created in 1994, health officials there estimated the state could save $100 million to $200 million per year by switching to a common system for medical billing. UHIN created a computer system that allows the many different billing systems used by doctors, insurers and hospitals to communicate with one another. But the network also required substantial cooperation from Utah's competing insurers. They agreed, for example, to cut a list of 900 codes for accepting or denying medical claims down to 90 and also agreed on common definitions.
The cost of health insurance has remained flat in Utah while it has increased an average of 13 percent per year in the rest of the United States. Several states are already studying what Utah was able to accomplish. Like federal investment in health information technology, the federal government should help states in their efforts to reduce administrative costs in medical billing.
To support the movement to a uniform billing system, Joe Biden will:
* Provide federal funding to support state initiatives to adopt Utah-like insurer agreements to create one claim form used by all insurers with a goal of moving to a uniform system on a national level.
* Require insurers participating in federal programs to shift to "paperless" uniform billing and claims forms.
Negotiating For Prescription Drugs: The Medicare Part D prescription drug program was created in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. Medicare covers more than 40 million seniors and disabled Americans who are projected to consume $1.8 trillion worth of prescription drugs over the next decade. However, instead of using the purchasing power of 40 million Americans to get the best prices possible for prescription drugs, the Medicare and Modernization Act of 2003 expressly forbids the federal government from interfering in drug negotiations between pharmaceutical companies and the numerous private insurers spread out across the country that offer Part D coverage. Simply put, this "noninterference clause" dilutes Medicare's bargaining position. The federal government successfully uses its bulk purchasing power to keep costs low in the Veterans Administration health systemwhy not allow it to do the same for our nation's seniors who rely on Medicare?
In order lower prescription drug prices in the Medicare Part D program, Joe Biden will:
* Remove the prohibition against the federal government negotiating prices for prescription drugs for enrollees in Medicare Part D to allow the federal government to use its bulk purchasing power to reduce costs for Medicare beneficiaries.
Meeting the Need For New Health Professionals
Nurses play a critical role in this nation's health care system - they make the difference in the quality of care patients receive. With an estimated 2.9 million licensed registered and advanced practice registered nurses (RNs and APRNs), nurses represent the largest occupational group of health care workers and provide patient care in virtually all locations in which health care is delivered. Unfortunately, the US is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows. Even the VA, the largest sole employer of RNs in the US, has a nursing vacancy rate of 10 percent. In the January/February 2007 issue of Health Affairs, Dr. David I. Auerbach and colleagues estimated that the U.S. shortage of RNs will increase to 340,000 by the year 2020 - three times larger than the size of the current shortage when it was at its peak.
There are several reasons for the nursing shortage. First, the nursing workforce is rapidly aging. The average age of the RN population in March 2004 was 47 years old. Second, the population of RNs is growing at a slower rate. Third, many nurses feel burdened by heavy patient loads, stressful working conditions and long hours and subsequently leave the nursing profession. Fourth, nursing schools are unable to educate more RNs at the rate they are needed. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN), U.S. nursing schools turned away 42,866 qualified applicants in 2006 due to an insufficient number of faculty, clinical sites, classroom space, clinical preceptors, and budget constraints.
Joe Biden will help train and put 100,000 new nurses in the workforce in the next five years by:
* Increasing yearly loan amounts available in the Nurse Student Loan Program.
* Explicitly including accelerated degree nursing studentsthose who already have an undergraduate degree in another field who have gone back to school to get a degree in nursingin the Nursing Student Loan Program.
* Providing funds for academic institutions to establish doctoral nursing degree programs in states that currently lack even one such program.
* Establishing doctoral nursing consortia pilot projects to allow academic institutions to share faculty and other resources to better teach nursing students.
* Establishing pilot projects between health facilities and academic institutions to allow nurses to stay in their jobs while also attending school to earn a graduate degree and eventually teach.
Public Health Workers
Public health officials are crucial in reacting to public health emergencies and they are critical to the safety of our communities. Joe Biden will help train the next generation of public health workers by:
* Establishing the Public Health Workforce Scholarship Program to provide eligible students with scholarships to study public health.
* Establishing the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment program.
* Creating a catalogue to publish federal health employment opportunities.
Physicians are the backbone of our health care system, and Joe Biden will continue to support the training of physicians by:
* Continuing support for Graduate Medical Education.
* Supporting initiatives to prepare physicians to practice in specialties to meet impending needs of Americans, especially geriatrics, family medicine and emergency care.
[1] U.S. Census Bureau: 2005 (revised), 2006 (revised), and 2007 Annual Social & Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS); Census Bureau Estimates of Persons by Race/Ethnicity and State for Single Year of Age as of July 1, 2006.
[2] Developing a Medicare Buy-In Program: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians, 2006
[3] Conwell LJ, Cohen JW. Characteristics of People With High Medical Expenses in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutional Population, 2002. Statistical Brief #73. March 2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Rockville (MD)
[4] Ibid.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. National Health Expenditures Overview page. Available at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/proj2006.pdf
[8] Ibid.
[9] Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust. Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 2007. Available at: http://www.kff.org/insurance/7672/upload/EHBS-2007-Full-Report-PDF.pdf
[10] Ibid.
[11] Chronic Disease in Adults. AHRQ Focus on Research. AHRQ Publication No. 02-M026, March 2002. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/focus/chadult.htm
[12] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chronic Disease Overview page. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/overview.htm.
[13] Partnership for Solutions. Chronic Conditions: Making the Case for Ongoing Care: September 2004 Update. Johns Hopkins University. Available at: http://www.partnershipforsolutions.org/DMS/files/chronicbook2004.pdf
[14] Mensah G. Global and Domestic Health Priorities: Spotlight on Chronic Disease. National Business Group on Health Webinar. May 23, 2006. Available at: http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/pdfs/preventing_chronic_disease_issue_brief.pdf.
[15] Angrisano C, Farrell D, Kocher B, Laboissiere M, Parker S. Accounting for the Cost of Health Care in the United States. McKinsey Global Institute. San Francisco (CA). January 2007.
[16] RAND Research Highlights. Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality? Available at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9136/index1.html


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Could we execute a successful global tourism campaign with a budget of $1.2 million? As it turns out, yes – with a little creative thinking. The key insight we uncovered was that people don't truly experience something unless they immerse themselves in it. And in terms of Queensland's Islands of the Great Barrier Reef, a little-known slice of tropical paradise, the only way we could immerse people was to have them live there…or at least fantasize about living there.
Who wouldn't want to become the well-paid caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef?
This legitimate, full-time, six-month position was advertised in classified ads around the world. And its jaw-dropping benefits were enough to make just about anyone take notice: a salary of about $8,800 a month, plus rent-free accommodations in a stunning three-bedroom waterfront villa, complete with a plunge pool and spacious eating deck.
Making the proposition even more astonishing was the fact that there was only one job requirement – writing a weekly blog post – and no other experience required. Any interested candidate was invited to submit a 60-second video application to www.islandreefjob.com. And let's just say the interest level was high. Very high.
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The Screening Room
|By James Sanford
Expert cast brings 'Morning Glory' to full bloomIn writer-director James L. Brooks' classic 1987 comedy-drama "Broadcast News," dynamic, idealistic producer Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) spent much of her time fretting about the rise of puff-pieces in network newscasts. In "Morning Glory" (no relation whatsoever to the Katharine Hepburn drama of the same name), producer Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) doesn't fight fluff — she eagerly seeks stories like "Eight Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Potatoes" and gets excited at the thought of sending a camera crew to a sauerkraut festival where attendees will be bowling with heads of cabbage.
Somewhere, Jane Craig is weeping.
Audiences, on the other hand, will be laughing.
While "Glory" may not have anything good to say about the current state of TV journalism, it does a swell job of throwing out some of the zestiest, most quotable one-liners since "Juno" and "The Devil Wears Prada" (no surprise, since screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna also contributed her wry wit to "Prada").
Even better, the film is graced with a trio of delectable star turns, led by McAdams, who has a wicked way of making her brand of sputtering spunkiness extremely funny and utterly beguiling.
"Glory" doesn't aim for the incisive, behind-the-scenes drama of "Broadcast News," opting instead for more familiar comic territory. Becky is the ringmaster of "Daybreak," a weekday morning show that is continually stomped in the ratings by "Today," "Good Morning America" and "whatever they call that thing on CBS," cracks network boss Jerry Barnes (Jeff Goldblum). So Barnes figures he has nothing to lose by hiring Becky to manage the mess.
Becky soon wonders if she's the ringmaster of a show-biz circus, or merely being thrown to the lions. Her primary job duty involves being the mild-mannered mediator between self-important veteran reporter Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford) and the queen of "Daybreak," Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton), a bitter Diane Sawyer wannabe who knows all too well that she rules a kingdom of fools.
Mike, blessed with a prickly personality that would make W.C. Fields seem cuddly by comparison, snickers at Colleen's heartfelt "Diary of a Pap Smear" story. "You wore a silk robe — nice touch," he growls.
She knocks his imperious attitude. "Pompous — that's interesting, that's a different color for you," she notes, sarcastically.Keaton's brittle, barely reined-in rage plays marvelously well against Ford's stonefaced stuffiness, and it's hard to believe no one has ever thought of putting them together before now. Both work quite effectively with McAdams, too: In her presence, Keaton becomes the older and wiser sorority sister wearily showing the youngster the ropes, while Ford has several fine moments in which he's torn between
cheering Becky on in her quest for success and warning her that tunnel-visioned workaholics can easily wind up in a very lonely place after their careers have peaked.
Director Roger Michell ("Notting Hill") never allows the pace to plod — even though it does seem as if at least one subplot-inthe-making gets abruptly shut down — and he allows many of the supporting performers their own chances to shine, most notably John Pankow as Becky's seasoned, sympathetic associate and Matt Malloy, who is hilarious as a meteorologist whose every on-camera appearance brings a 90 percent chance of humiliation.
'Morning Glory'
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Outed CIA spy Valerie Plame thinks "Homeland" has seen better days.
Plame's cover was famously blown in a 2003 Robert Novak column. Until then, her mission to protect the U.S. from enemies in the Middle East was a lot like that of "Homeland" lead Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes.
Also read: 'Homeland' Season Finale: Very Brave, Very Bizarre (Spoiler Alert)
"It's compelling TV — Claire Danes is of course fabulous," Plame said at a Television Critics Association panel Wednesday, before going all CIA analyst on the show.
She added: "I think they have jumped the shark this season."
At this, some of the critics applauded in agreement.
Also read: 'Homeland' Season 4 Preview: Claire Danes, Alone and Abroad
Plame also took issue with a few points.
"You see all the things that make you roll your eyes, like come on," she said. "But it has to be entertaining, and it certainly is entertaining."
One complaint: "The fact that the character she plays is bipolar and no one really notices?" asked Plame.
Also read: Jennifer Lawrence Freaks Out on Red Carpet Over 'Homeland' Spoiler (Video)
Her biggest issue, however, is with the rampant use of traceable cell phones by undercover agents.
"They always use their cell phones inside headquarters," she said. "You realize your cell phone is really like a little transmission device? Okay, great. Little GPS inside there? That doesn't happen."
Plame was at the TCA tour as one of the women featured in PBS's "Makers," which looks at women's accomplishments in war, entertainment, and politics, among other fields. She said that in some parts of the world, "women are wallpaper," barely noticed by men — which can actually be helpful to a spy.
"You can move around in a lot of places without anyone looking askance at you," she said.


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The Significance of Special Education Teachers
Children in special education face many challenges in their education, social life, and future. Most of these children are poor and do not have good role models at home. They struggle to learn how to read and excel in math. They learn inappropriate behaviors that pull them away from their peers that end up having negative consequences as they get older. I have seen these individuals graduate from high school and not know how to write and do simple intermediate algebra. I have seen them make poor decisions and end up with the wrong crowd and with a criminal record. These children need excellent teachers as good role models—someone who teaches these children to excel through their disabilities and succeed in a suitable career path.
Special educators are the immediate support channel to these children in the classroom. Special educators recognize the child's social challenges with their peers and reinforce appropriate behaviors to succeed in the classroom environment which will help the child later in life. Special educators recognize particular learning challenges and finds a way to turn these into a strength and have the child feeling adequately and successful.
Most of these children are discouraged and need the proper role model to believe in them and feel successful with their peers and their intellectual abilities and foster in them as sense of hope. Being a special education teacher is an extremely rewarding field. This is why I majored in Special Education and have two semesters left to graduate.


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Ahwatukee Foothills residents Anthony Serra and Philomena Rossi have been through a life that a Hollywood writer could turn into a script and call it his or her masterpiece.
Serra and Rossi celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in September 2011. All those years ago, Rossi was living in Italy, and Serra had just come out of the U.S. Army and was living in New York City. As it was, their meeting almost didn't happen. Rossi was living in Naples when bombing began during World War II and continued for weeks while she, her brother, and about 200 people lived underground to avoid the blasts. Somehow, she said, she and her brother were the only two to survive.
Back in the United States, Serra was visiting a family he had befriended in New York City and saw a picture of his wife to be. He had never met her in person but that wasn't about to stop him from going after her.
"I saw her pictures and I was taken by her," Serra said.
As it turned out, his instinct and drive turned fruitful. He traveled to Italy to meet her. They married on Sept. 22, 1946 in Naples, and soon after she returned to New York City with him.
She came away from the bombing with a strong opinion on war and the politics behind it.
"War is a terrible thing," she said. "Why do I have to hate you and bomb you, when I don't even know you?"
As for Serra, his brother was also in the war, but was on the opposite side. He eventually went AWOL and fled before the Italian government could get to him.
"They wanted to arrest him," Serra, 89, said. "Later, after the war, we had him over to our house in the United States a few times. But we never talked about the war. Only a couple times would he want to talk about it."
After working as a butcher and meat manager in New York for 40 years, Serra retired and the two eventually moved to Ahwatukee Foothills in 2002. However, in 1997, he had a quadruple bypass, performed by none other than TV's Dr. Mehmet Oz. For about 15 years, he experienced little to no problems. But last year that changed.
"I would only walk a couple feet before my heart started to hurt," he said.
Serra returned to New York's Presbyterian Hospital where doctors told him he would benefit from what is called the Edwards Sapien valve insertion, but the problem was there was a waiting list about eight to 10 months long.
"He really didn't want to wait," his son, Louis Serra, said. "He was ready then and wanted to do it."
Serra came back to Phoenix and spoke again with his cardiologist and was informed that a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) could be done at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center.
A noninvasive procedure, TAVI was performed on Serra by Dr. Michael Caskey and Dr. Timothy Byrne on Aug. 23, 2011.
"They are the most beautiful people," Serra said of the doctors. "They didn't act like doctors. They would give me a hug every time I saw them after."
He turned 90 years old on Feb. 9 and Rossi will be turning 87 in August of this year.
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ME to play key role in Taiwan growth
Manama, July 6, 2014
The Middle East region has a significant role to play in Taiwan's dynamic and export-driven economy, said a top official of the Asian country.
With foreign trade a major thrust of Taiwan's development, the Middle East is well-suited to act as a major hub for Taiwanese goods, reported the Gulf Daily News, our sister publication, citing the official.
"The region is strategically positioned to be a transit point for Taiwanese goods," Ministry of Economic Affairs Bureau of Foreign Trade deputy director general Cynthia Wen-Jo Kiang said.
"We are planning to establish a transit warehouse in the Middle East which would act as a hub for our goods.
"The Middle East region is vital for our imports too, particularly oil and energy,'' she added.
Seventy per cent of Taiwan's oil imports are from the Middle East, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research Macroeconomic Forecasting Centre deputy director Dr Darson Chiu said.
"The Middle East region also offers an excellent market for Taiwan's goods. There is a lot of scope to improve this further," he added.
Taiwan has a trade mission in Bahrain. There are diplomatic missions in other countries in the region including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Jordan.
The total trade between Bahrain and Taiwan stands at $345 million, according to recent figures.
In 2012, Bahrain imported $67 million worth of goods and services from Taiwan and exported $277 million.
One of the four Asian Tigers, alongside Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore, Taiwan has achieved rapid growth over the last six decades.
It has successfully transformed itself from an agricultural society to a major player in the global information and technology industry.
From 1952 to 2012, Taiwan achieved a high growth rate of 7.3 per cent. This was mainly due to the government's flexible policies and far-reaching development strategy.
Taiwan has also sought outward development opportunities and expand its trade links to drive economic growth. It is now the 20th largest exporter in the world and 18th largest importer. Taiwan weathered the 2008 financial crisis well and it recovered to post a growth of 10.76 per cent in 2010.
But the euro zone debt crisis and global slowdown had its effect on Taiwan. The growth rate fell to 4.19 per cent in 2011 and 1.48 per cent in 2012.
Taiwan sees China as a key trade player as the global recovery takes hold. However, there are contentious issues between the two countries which need to be resolved.
"Our trade relations with China is very important to us," Deputy Minister Mainland Affairs Council Executive Yuan Dr Chu-chia Lin said.
"Despite the many political issues before us, we are working towards improving our trade relations. The issue of unification with the mainland is a very important one.
"Opinion is divided over it. But 85 per cent of the people prefer the situation to be status quo at the moment. But we will put aside all issues of dispute and move forward.
"We are planning a liason office in China and then in Taiwan. Hopefully we can set it up by next year," Dr Lin said.
"There is a lot of scope in tourism beside trade with China.
"We have as many as 858 direct flights to and from China. The tourism figures have also improved.
"More than Chinese 2.8m tourists visited Taiwan last year," he added.
"People from China like coming to Taiwan. They enjoy Taiwanese society, and are attracted to our night markets and many of our television shows."
However, any trade agreement with China has its share of problems.
The Sunflower Student Movement in March and April this year against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement illustrates how divided the opinion is on trade ties.
The agreement is yet to be ratified.
"There are also a lot of social issues involved here. There have been no salary increases for some time and housing problems," Dr Lin said.
There are other trade problems too.
"There is the issue of e-commerce with China. China has been blocking its Internet which has affected many of our small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from conducting trade with the mainland.
"However, we are hoping that the situation will improve as there are many benefits from having trade ties with China," he said.
"Taiwan is economically strong. We are seeking to diversify our exports to strengthen the economy. We want to make Taiwan stronger," he added.
To do that, Taiwan is looking at emerging markets, including the Middle East, to diversify its exports.
"Emerging markets hold a lot of potential for us," stated Kiang.
"We may not have diplomatic relations with some of the countries. But politics does not matter for launching a trade push," she added.-TradeArabia News Service


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Definitely one of my preferred choice of turntable makes to work, I have encountered many vinyl and CD decks in my time and use them for work, as well as a sideline hobby. Gemini was actually the first brand that I was introduced to as a kid, so I guess I have a soft spot for them. This turntable is another of Gemini's offerings for the discerning deejay or for the bedroom user.
As with all their products, a sturdy build of model, yet surprisingly light and durable. Gemini have always made the decks light which enables you to carry them with relative ease. A minimal and understated colour scheme on this deck with subtle greys and blacks keeps the look smart and dynamic.
This is a direct drive turntable and my experience with the direct drives is the boot up time is usually smoother and swifter than with a belt drive. No exception here, the quick starting motor powers the deck within a flash, meaning you can lay down the vinyl and start quickly.
The pitch variation that this model offers is ten percent making it comfortable enough for most deejays to work with. I personally prefer somewhere nearer twelve to sixteen as it gives that bit more scope for creative mixing, but this will allow you to tackle a range of genres and bpms. The fader for this feature is just at the side and is easily worked by moving it up and down. You can also reset it mid-set, with a flick of a reset button, which is an interesting concept, though I not decided how practical this would be for performance.
A sturdily built arm and nimble needle offer the user a good standard of sound quality and precision mixing and the balancing of the unit is good thanks to four footholds on the lowerside of the deck. A smart, speedy deck for deejays and one I enjoyed working with too, so it gets the thumbs up. A few more features would have enhanced it further, but overall a good buy, prices these days should be around one hundred pounds or so.
This is a perfect start up turntable for playback or djing. It's solid structure makes it ideal for transporting around and can take a good few knocks. Mine are more than 15 years old now and are still going strong with only minor cosmetic damages: brilliant for something that was originally in the hands of a hire company.
The needle arm is a great weight and it is easy to adjust the balance. The first time I set up the deck with a new needle it took less than a minute to set up, and was simple to work out the weight for playback use which I mainly use them for. You usually increase the weight of the arm for scratching purposes.
My main qualm with the product is that the output phono cables are not labeled L and R which doesn't hinder playback, your just wondering whether or not the Left the producer intended is going through the left speaker. Another little problem was the earth cable length. Usually decks are situated right next to the mixer or amp and so there is no need for a long wire, however my set up is slightly different so I had to extend the earth cable with extra wire: something I really did not want to do.
All in all a fantastic start up turntable that feels like it's still got decades of listening pleasure left.


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