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I'm really feeling this subdued color combo, as found on bash eco-events. It's a great color palette for the not-so-flashy bride, and can even be spruced up with lighter shades of color like pink, blue, yellow or orange (and others, too). Not only that, but the colors could go along for any season wedding.
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I think this would be gorgeous with some pink or orange or YELLOW flowers!
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@Sarah Definitely love that this scheme can be accented with some great colors!


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We Take You Now To Grover's Mill: The Making of the War of the Worlds Broadcast, written, produced, directed, and narrated by Joe Bevilacqua.
In this 1988 documentary, award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The half-hour program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman and writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson, and the people of Grover's Mill, New Jersey, who lived through the "Martian invasion".
"The Making of the War of the Worlds Broadcast is engaging, informational, and sound rich. This program, like the original War of the Worlds, rates a listen. Thankfully, the producer interviewed WOW producer John Housman not long before he died [on the 50th anniversary of the landmark broadcast, Halloween of 1988]. The story of this legendary Orson Welles broadcast is for the most part allowed to unfold through descriptions by Housman, and writer Howard Koch, along with voices recorded at Grover's Mills' 50th anniversary event. You can hear traces of amazement in the voices of people who heard that broadcast 70 years ago. Housman, reflecting 20 years ago on why the program still holds fascination, said: 'It's history. It's one of the great events of the new age of mass communications.' True still." (Sydney Lewis, Atlantic Public Media)
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The Defiant Hero (Large Print / Mass Market Paperbound)
In The Unsung Hero, award-winning author Suzanne Brockmann dazzled readers with her remarkable cast of tough and tender U.S. Navy SEALs. Now her daring men in uniform return for THE DEFIANT HERO--a thrilling novel of steadfast courage, intimate passions, and the profound risks that are taken in the name of love. . . . "The United States refuses to negotiate with terrorists." Meg Moore remembered the warning from her job as a translator in a European embassy. Those same words will spell out a death sentence for her daughter and grandmother who have been kidnapped by a lethal group called the Extremists. Meg will do anything to meet their unspeakable demands; anything--even kill--to save her child. When Navy SEAL Lieutenant, junior grade, John Nilsson is summoned to Washington, D.C., by the FBI to help negotiate a hostage situation, the last person he expects to see holding a foreign ambassador at gunpoint is Meg. He hasn't seen her in years, but he's never forgotten how it feels to hold her in his arms. John could lose his career if he helps her escape. She will lose her life if he doesn't. . . .
About the Author
After childhood plans to become the captain of a starship didn't pan out, Suzanne Brockmann took her fascination with military history, her respect for the men and women who serve, her reverence for diversity, and her love of storytelling and explored brave new worlds as a New York Times bestselling romance author. Over the past twenty years, she has written more than fifty novels, including her award-winning Troubleshooters series about Navy SEAL heroes and the women--and sometimes men--who win their hearts. In addition to writing books, Suzanne Brockmann has co-produced a feature-length movie, the award-winning romantic comedy The Perfect Wedding, which she co-wrote with her husband, Ed Gaffney, and their son, Jason. She has also co-written a YA novel, set in the world of her paranormal Fighting Destiny series, with her daughter, Melanie. Find Suzanne Brockmann on Facebook, follow her on Twitter, and visit her website to find out more about upcoming releases and appearances.


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Portugal wildfires: Three dead as Brits flee huge blazes ravaging tourist hotspot
BRITS have been forced to flee wildfires destroying a holiday hotspot – killing at least three people, including an elderly woman, and seriously injuring two other people.
Dozens of homes have been destroyed as more than a thousand people have been forced to flee the inferno on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
A shopping centre and a hospital have reportedly evacuated while many are being treated for smoke inhalation.
Flights to and from the airport have also been disrupted by strong winds blowing smoke across the runways.
Local reports say a woman died when her home caught fire near the centre of the city.
British diplomats are due to arrive in the fire-ravaged resort this evening to help tourists caught up in the disaster.
Britain's Ambassador to Portugal, Kirsty Hayes, told regional government officials she was sending consular staff to the island in a phone call in which she expresed her "consternation and solidarity" following the devastating fires.
The island's main motorway has also been reportedly closed for security.
Firefighters said steep hills and dense woodland were making it difficult to tackle the flames.
The fires follow high summer temperatures in the area.
please pray for my country !! everything is being destroyed by flames and it breaks my heart #PrayForPortugal pic.twitter.com/w3B3XZXPWO— jess (@wildmoony) August 9, 2016
The two British Embassy representatives were due to touch down around 7pm local time.
They are expected to meet with British holidaymakers who were among guests evacuated from a boutique hotel overnight and put up temporarily in a sports stadium.
Local authorities allowed guests back to the 81-room Castanheiro Boutique Hotel this morning.
A receptionist at the four-star hotel in the heart of the capital Funchal's historic area said they had "some British guests but not many."
British holidaymakers staying at the five-star Choupana Hills Resort and Spa, which was completely destroyed by fire after being evacuated, have been relocated at other hotels on the island.
Regional officials were not able to say how many Brits had been affected but said all the guests at the luxury hotel had been offered complementary tours of the island for the inconvenience they had suffered and were staying at other "emblematic hotels."
isso é tao triste, e eu amo tanto esse pais... #PrayForPortugal pic.twitter.com/58DYGGkzpE— manu (@shoutmila) August 10, 2016
Regional President Miguel Albuquerque said he was hopful that cooler temperatures expected later today would ease the situation.
The fires – still burning near the island's capital, Funchal – have been brought under control by firefighters, he added.
People have rushed to social media to show their support with the hashtag PrayForPortugal.
One Twitter user wrote: "Thank you to all the firemans who are trying to save your country, you are our heroes [sic]."
Another added: "Please pray for my country!! Everything is being destroyed by flames and it breaks my heart."
Mainland Portugal has also been swept with seven major fires in the north.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, Portugese officials reported that they were burning out of control.


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The award-winning Sisleÿa Global Anti-Age, which launched in 1999, has been re-invented. Sisleÿa Intégral acts not only upon the visible signs of intrinsic and extrinsic ageing, but also, and for the first time, on those linked to behavioural ageing (lifestyle factors).
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If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my… mom? Outside of the world of pornography, that's a complicated scenario. Nerve just ran a piece by a guy whose girlfriend's mom walked in on them in a compromising situation. Which got us thinking, life-scarring moments aside, how much should your parents' opinions weigh in your relationships?
The resounding answer? "Stop telling me what to do! God! You're the worst!" Or at least the adult version of that. 80% of Nerve Dating members said their parents' opinions don't matter all that much because "I'm in the relationship, not them." Take that, Dad. Of course, things can be difficult if your parents hate your choice of mate. "I'm an adult and make my own decisions," one Nerve Dating member commented. "That being said, life would be more difficult if my parents disapproved. It wouldn't be a dealbreaker, but an annoyance certainly."
15% of you took the middle ground and said your parents' opinions matter — somewhat. "My parents know me pretty well, so I value their opinion," one Nerve Dating member commented. That's adorable, and probably wise. "My parents are so awesome they wouldn't say anything until we broke up," another member commented. Well, that's always helpful. Modern times also mean some of you find that the dating advice goes both ways. "Actually, I'm trying to have more influence on my Dad's dating choices," one user said.
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A snorefest is expected as Liverpool head to Unirea Urziceni in the Europa League
Unirea Urziceni v Liverpool, Europa League last 32, second leg, February 24, 2010
Unirea Urziceni 9/2; Draw 11/4; Liverpool 4/5
All the signs point to this game being another cagey encounter much like the first leg at Anfield a week ago. If it is excitement and goal mouth action you are looking for stay well clear of this Europa League second leg.
If you are a betting man, tips such as betting under 2.5 goals may also at least bring the cash rolling in to compensate for what could be a dreary match in Romania. (Under 2.5 goals at 8/11.)
Much of the build-up to this match for Liverpool has been the return of Fernando Torres, who manager Rafa Benitez has confirmed will start the match from the bench. "El Nino†made a 15 minute cameo at Eastlands on Sunday in one of the worst ever Premier League matches and the Spanish striker could well be called upon to inject some life into this match in the second half. (4/1 to be Draw/Liverpool.)
Whilst Liverpool's results are clearly picking up in 2010, the excitement levels are hardly setting the pulses racing. There have been no more than two goals scored in any of the last eight matches involving the Merseyside giants. David Ngog's winner against the Romanian side was their only goal in the last three matches and although one can point to five clean sheets in the last six games, all signs suggest this match will be another borefest. (Liverpool are 6/5 to keep a clean sheet.)
Throw in the fact that Liverpool can sit on their 1-0 lead, that Steven Gerrard has yet to hit top form in 2009/2010 and that Yossi Benayoun is also likely to be on the bench and we have all the ingredients for another frustrating night.
In truth, Unirea are hardly likely to light up this game themselves. In 18 matches in the Romanian Liga I this season they have scored a paltry 25 goals which belies their position in second. Their 4-1 win at Rangers in the Champions League in October may well have distorted our perception of what is a rather ordinary team.
Since the exit of Dan Petrescu as coach, Unirea have returned under Israeli Roni Levi from the winter break by failing to score in their first encounter against Liverpool and falling to a 1-0 defeat to title rivals CFR Cluj on the weekend.
Arguably Unirea's most talented player, Pablo Brandan, is suspended after picking up a yellow card at Anfield and almost all their best players are in defence. Top goal scorer Marius Bilasco has claimed just five goals in the league and their best attacking threat at Liverpool came from right back Vasilei Maftei.
This match will not be pretty. Liverpool could well snatch a 1-0 win similar to the game last week but Unirea may throw caution to the win and really go for it. Expect the worst.
101gg predicts: Unirea Urziceni 0 – Liverpool 0 (9/1)
Unirea Urziceni 9/2; Draw 11/4; Liverpool 4/5
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Geovany Soto is back at catcher after giving way to Robinson Chirinos in Wednesday's series finale against the A's. Yu Darvish will be on the hill for the Rangers for the highly-anticipated matchup against Justin Verlander and the Tigers. Here are the lineups:
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Outercurve Foundation Announces Jim Jagielski as President of Board
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Jul 02, 2013, 11:00 ET from Outercurve Foundation
BOSTON, July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Outercurve Foundation, an open source software foundation, announced today that Jim Jagielski would be taking over as the President of the Board of Directors.
Jagielski is a driving force and developer within the open source community. He is best known as one of the developers and co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation and currently serves as a consulting software engineer for open source software company Red Hat. Jagielski's extensive IT background includes roles as the CTO for both Zend Technologies and Covalent Technologies, and the Chief Architect and Chief Open Source Officer for SpringSource. He is also an accomplished coder (in numerous languages) and frequent presenter/interviewee/consultant on Web and cloud-related topics.
Jagielski has had a longstanding presence on the Outercurve Board of Directors. He's served as Board Secretary since March of 2010. He takes over the role of President from Sam Ramji of Apigee, who held the position for the past three years. Jagielski will further strengthen the foundation's dialog with other open source luminaries in the same spirit of collaboration that Ramji pursued.
"My plans are to help make Outercurve one of the pre-eminent Open Source foundations," said Jagielski. "We hope to be able to provide more guidance and help to a larger group of people, and to expand our presence at related conferences and summits. "
"I am extremely excited to continue as a Director for Outercurve, and to accept the position as President," Jagielski said. "I feel that Outercurve is not only ideally suited to be the central clearinghouse for Open Source governance and community expertise, but is also the only foundation which makes this a prime objective."
The directors voted on the full slate of officers, including Tony Hey, of Microsoft Corp. as Vice President, Sam Ramji, of Apigee as Secretary, and Gianugo Rabellino, of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. as Treasurer.
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The Outercurve Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation created as a forum in which open source communities and the software development community can come together with the shared goal of increasing participation in open source community projects. For more information on the Outercurve Foundation, see www.Outercurve.org.
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Celebrate St Andrews Day with us!
Kilts are encouraged! 30th November is St Andrews day and although we're in one of the furthest possible points of the UK from Scotland and we're about as Scottish as something that's really not very Scottish at all I do like shortbread and we do have a number of Scottish exiles who run with us quite often and would be rude not to mark the date as we have an event on it!
This is going to be the on our new route at Ramsgate which seemed to be very popular, using a stretch of the Viking Coastal path and a bit of park and not much sea wall which might be a welcome break for some runners! There is a bit of a hill, well, a cliff, to run through, yes through (there is a tunnel) and it'll be a little bit convoluted to get the distance right, but will be well signed and its on nice wide tarmac paths in the main.
The course is 100% good surfaces with perhaps about 500' of climb for a marathon distance run, so slightly hillier than our usual coastal routes but nothing too severe.
Having completed lots of marathons and ultras we believe we know what it takes to put on an enjoyable event for the fit, the dedicated and the hardcore long distance runners. And for those, like myself, who fit none of those categories, we'll do our best to get you round!
This event forms part of a 10 Challenges in 10 Days Challenge, each event though is totally separate and you are free to just take part in one event, two events or however many you wish!
We put on events run exactly the way we wish they were all run. Low key, friendly and with most of the entry fee being spent on the runners. Please explore and consider joining us.


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GROWERS who can slow down the rate of nitrification and limit nitrogen loss from their soils could apply less nitrogen fertiliser.
Seen here at the University ofWA, researcher Nui Milton says that keeping the soil organic level up produces positively charged humic compounds, which lock up the negatively charged nitrate.
She also suggests, where possible, using summer crops to use up the nitrates year-round. There's also a chemical solution to the problem, Dr Milton says. Chemicals such as nitrapyrin inhibit the activity of bacteria in the soil and slow down the nitrification process. These could be used as a stop-gap during the build-up of organic matter.
Her work has particular relevance to WA where producers routinely apply 25 per cent more nitrogen fertiliser than those in eastern states.
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Singer Sia Brings the Message: It Gets Better
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Pam Spaulding: 'Why Did Tyler Clementi Die?'
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Dan Blatt's Kind Words on Tyler Clementi
This represents a stark difference from the loathsome words we read from gay conservative Alex Knepper on the subject of Tyler Clementi. I've publicly disagreed
UPDATED: Michigan Assistant Att. Gen. Andrew Shirvell Takes 'Leave of Absence'
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Stefanie Doebler is of counsel in the firm's health care and food and drug practice groups. Her practice focuses on health care compliance matters for pharmaceutical and medical device clients. She provides advice related to advertising and promotion, fraud and abuse, state law compliance and reporting regulations, interactions with health care professionals, clinical trial conduct and results disclosure, supply chain management, Medicaid price reporting, and other aspects of federal and state regulation of pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices.
- Advice to trade association regarding implementation of the federal Sunshine Act and related advocacy before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
- Assistance to a pharmaceutical company regarding compliance with a corporate integrity agreement, including developing and implementing a comprehensive compliance program.
- Advice on kickback and related issues associated with product support programs for a specialty pharmaceutical product.
- Evaluation of the promotional activities of a medical device company to identify high-risk initiatives.
- Representation of major pharmaceutical company in criminal investigation under the FDCA.
- Internal investigation for a pharmaceutical company regarding its publications policies and practices.
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- Representation of a local non-profit organization in legislative and regulatory efforts to ensure that the regional affiliate of a national insurance company fulfills its charitable health care obligation to the National Capital Area.
- Assistance to dual-eligible individuals regarding their Medicare prescription drug benefits
November 8, 2017, Covington Alert
On November 1 and 2, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") released two final rules addressing changes to Medicare Part B reimbursement policies for biosimilars. These final rules—for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ("PFS") and the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System ("OPPS")—announced new directions for both the coding and ...
October 11, 2017, Covington Alert
On Monday, October 9, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 17 (SB 17), establishing substantial new reporting and notification requirements in California for prescription drug manufacturers related to drug pricing. California is the latest of several states to enact legislation related to drug pricing. This alert, prepared by ...
October 10, 2017, Covington Alert
This e-alert is part of a series of e-alerts summarizing publicly available FDA enforcement letters (i.e., warning letters and untitled letters) relating to the advertising and promotion of prescription drugs, medical devices, and biologics.
September 20, 2017, Covington Alert
This e-alert is part of a series of e-alerts summarizing publicly available FDA enforcement letters (i.e., warning letters and untitled letters) relating to the advertising and promotion of prescription drugs, medical devices, and biologics.
June 6, 2017, Covington Alert
This e-alert is part of a series of e-alerts summarizing publicly available FDA enforcement letters (i.e., warning letters and untitled letters) relating to the advertising and promotion of prescription drugs, medical devices, and biologics. In May, FDA's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) posted the following letter on FDA's website: Untitled ...
January 30, 2017
WASHINGTON—Covington represented India-based Piramal Enterprises and its wholly owned Critical Care subsidiary in the UK in its agreement to acquire a portfolio of intrathecal spasticity and pain management drugs from Mallinckrodt LLC. The purchase price was $171 million, plus an earn-out of up to an additional $32 million. This is the third acquisition that ...
January 9, 2017, Covington Alert
This alert reviews trends emerging from the warning and untitled letters issued in 2016 by the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). No warning or untitled letters concerning promotion were issued this year by the Office of Compliance and Biologics Quality (OCBQ) of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) or by the Office of Compliance (OC) of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).
Covington Announces New Counsel
April 1, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC — Covington has promoted eight lawyers to of counsel and eight to special counsel, effective April 1, 2016. The new of counsel are as follows: Stefanie Doebler (Washington) focuses her practice on health care compliance matters for pharmaceutical and medical device clients. She provides advice related to advertising and promotion, fraud and abuse, ...
February 1, 2016, Covington Alert
January 2016, Covington Alert
This e-alert is part of a series of alerts summarizing publicly-available FDA enforcement letters relating to the advertising and promotion of prescription drugs, medical devices, and biologics. This alert reviews warning and untitled letters issued in 2015. In 2015, FDA's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) posted the following letters on FDA's ...
Build Compliance Practices to Match Business Needs
September 17, 2015, CBI Compliance Congress for Specialty Products
August 17, 2015, Covington Alert
August 11, 2015, Covington Alert
Managing the Effects of Reporting— Responding to Alleged Inconsistencies; Handling Physician Disputes; and Minimizing the Potential Impact of Spend on Public Perception
June 8, 2015, ACI Sunshine Act Compliance & Aggregate Spend Reporting
Claims Substantiation & Comparative Claims: Learning from FDA Warning and Untitled Letters
June 3, 2015, RAPS Advertising, Promotion and Labeling: the US Regulated Environment
May 4, 2015, Covington E-Alert
April 7, 2015, Covington E-Alert
The Impact of Open Payments on Fair Market Value
March 3, 2015, CBI, Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress
October 27, 2014, Covington E-Alert
The Devil is in the Details: Best Practices for Handling the Gray Areas in Reporting
October 20, 2014, ACI Sunshine Act, Open Payments, and Aggregate Spend Compliance
September 2, 2014, Covington E-Alert
August 5, 2014, Covington E-Alert
July 2, 2014, Covington E-Alert
June 5, 2014, Covington E-Alert
May 1, 2014
LONDON, 1 May, 2014 — Covington & Burling advised Lombard Medical, Inc. on its $55 million U.S. initial public offering and the listing of the company's ordinary shares on the NASDAQ Global Market. Covington also advised the company on its change of domicile from the U.K. to the Cayman Islands and the delisting of its shares from the AIM market of the London ...
Claims Substantiation & Comparative Claims: Learning from FDA Warning and Untitled Letters
April 30, 2014, RAPS Advertising, Promotion and Labeling: the US Regulated Environment
April 30, 2014, Covington E-Alert
April 25, 2014, Covington E-Alert
April 1, 2014, Covington E-Alert
Multi-State Survey—Adjusting Compliance Programs from Standard Models in order to Meet Varied State Guidelines
March 21, 2014, ACI National Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Forum
March 4, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2014 —The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia has awarded Stefanie Doebler its Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence, which recognizes lawyers early in their careers who have made a significant volunteer contribution to the Society. Ms. Doebler, special counsel in Covington & Burling's health care and food and drug practice ...
Reporting Obligations of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act and Compliance Implications
February 28, 2014, ABA Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law Summit Conference
February 28, 2014, Covington E-Alert
January 29, 2014, Covington E-Alert
WASHINGTON, DC, November 7, 2013 — Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., and Santarus, Inc. announced today that the companies have entered into a merger agreement where Salix will acquire all of the outstanding stock of Santarus for $32 in cash per share, for a total value of approximately $2.6 billion. Covington & Burling LLP is advising Salix on both the acquisition ...
Promotional Speaker Programs and Continuing Medical Education: What You Need to Know When Managing the Complicated New Rules for These Programs
October 7, 2013, American Conference Institute's 5th Annual Forum on Sunshine Act Compliance & Aggregate Spend Reporting
July 30, 2013, Inside Medical Devices
Medical device manufacturers are just days away from being required to track and report financial arrangements with health care providers, as required by the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (the "Sunshine Act"). (Read the final rule.) Beginning August 1, 2013, most device manufacturers will be required to annually collect data regarding payments and transfers ...
July 30, 2013, Covington E-Alert
The Sunshine Act: How to Avoid Getting Burned by Health Care Reform
June 4, 2013, ABA
April 29, 2013, RAPS Advertising, Promotion and Labeling: the US Regulated Environment
February 15, 2013, Inside Medical Devices
On February 8, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its much-anticipated final rule implementing Section 6002 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as the Sunshine Act. The Sunshine Act requires applicable manufacturers to collect and report to CMS data on payments and transfers of value made to physicians and...… ...
February 13, 2013, Covington E-Alert
December 4, 2012, Inside Medical Devices
On November 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sent its final rule implementing the "Sunshine Act" to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. OMB review and approval is the final step before the regulation is released and published in the Federal Register. CMS published a proposed rule in December...… Continue Reading
December 3, 2012, Inside Medical Devices
On November 21, the Massachusetts Public Health Council adopted final regulations governing the definition of "modest meals" provided in connection with an educational presentation by a medical device or pharmaceutical company held outside of a physician's office or hospital. The regulations finalize emergency amendments adopted in October following changes to ...
Disclosure Reporting
November 14, 2012, AdvaMed Physician Payments Sunshine Act Seminar for Medical Devices
November 2012, Regulatory Focus
Comprehensive State-by-State Breakdown of Disclosure and Reporting Requirements
10/16/12 - 10/17/12, American Conference Institute's 4th Annual Forum on Physician Payments Disclosure & Aggregate Spend
Covington Advises Meda on Acquisition of Jazz Pharmaceuticals' Women's Health Products
September 6, 2012
LONDON, 06 September, 2012 — Covington & Burling LLP acted as legal advisers to Meda in an agreement with Jazz Pharmaceuticals to acquire a portfolio of six pharmaceutical products for women for $95 million in cash. The largest and most important product in the portfolio is Elestrin, a patented product with sales of almost 100 MSEK, that doctors prescribe for ...
August 10, 2012, Covington E-Alert
PDUFA V How Will the Changes Impact You?
August 8, 2012, Webinar
May 7, 2012, Covington E-Alert
CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Implement Drug Pricing and Rebate Provisions of the Affordable Care Act
February 10, 2012, Covington E-Alert
CMS Issues Proposed Rule Implementing Sunshine Act Reports Regarding Ownership or Investment Interests Held by Physicians
January 3, 2012, Covington E-Alert
CMS Issues Proposed Rule Implementing Sunshine Act: Review, Correction, and Publication of Data on Public Website
December 30, 2011, Covington E-Alert
December 23, 2011, Covington E-Alert
Anticipating 2013: Managing Relationships Downstream with HCPs and Consumers in Light of Disclosure
October 18, 2011, ACI Physician Payments Disclosure & Aggregate Spend Conference
March 9, 2011, Covington E-Alert
Promoting Transparency in Clinical Trials: Navigating the Complicated Intersection of State and Federal Laws Regarding Disclosure and Reporting Requirements
January 26, 2011, American Conference Institute 13th National Conference on Clinical Trials
June 3, 2010, Covington E-Alert
Health Reform: Sunshine Act and Sample Transparency
May 25, 2010, TGaS Advisors 2011 Commercial Operations Summit
April 28, 2010, Covington E-Alert
April 2010, Covington E-Alert
Clinical Trial Registry Laws: Compliance Considerations & Implementation Issues
February 23, 2010, 12th National Conference on Managing Legal Risks in Structuring & Conducting Clinical Trials
Jan 28th, 2010, Covington E-Alert
November 30, 2009, Covington E-Alert
Mastering the Mechanics of the Final DRA Rule for Medicaid Price Reporting
November 12, 2009, American Conference Institute's 4th Annual Rx Drug Pricing Boot Camp
October 30, 2009, Covington E-Alert
US FDA Signals Increased Enforcement Activity Against Prescription Drug Advertising and Promotion
October 2009, RAJ Pharma
Clinical Trial Registries: Implementation and Challenges in the Drug Industry
September 14, 2009, 2009 RAPS Annual Conference & Exhibition
August 31, 2009, Covington E-Alert
FDA's Final Rules Regarding Expanded Access and Charging for Investigational Drugs and CMS Payment Implications
August 26, 2009, Covington E-Alert
July 27, 2009, Covington E-Alert
June 24, 2009, Covington E-Alert
March 30, 2009, Covington E-Alert
March 20, 2009, Covington E-Alert
March 17, 2009, Covington E-Alert
February 17, 2009, Covington E-Alert
January 15, 2009, Covington E-Alert
December 23, 2008, Covington E-Alert
December 1, 2008, Covington E-Alert
November 18, 2008, Covington E-Alert
Testimony before the Texas Department of State Health Services regarding drug pedigrees
October 2, 2008, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
August 11, 2008, Covington E-Alert
July 11, 2008, Covington E-Alert
June 9, 2008, Covington E-Alert
State Regulation of Prescription Drug Marketing
May 20, 2008, Thompson Interactive
Follow-on Biologics: How the Current Legislative Models Could Change the Pharma Industry
February 25, 2008, The Center for Business Intelligence
February 12, 2008, Covington E-Alert
January 18, 2008, Covington E-Alert
Strategies for Navigating New Pharma State Gift Laws
January 8, 2008, FDAnews Audioconference
November 6, 2007, Covington E-Alert
September 5, 2007, Covington E-Alert
Testimony before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Public Health, Senior Issues, Long-Term Care and Privacy regarding prescription drug advertising
August 15, 2007, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
CMS Issues Final Rule to Implement Medicaid Drug Pricing and Reimbursement Provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act
August 7, 2007, Covington E-Alert
August 6, 2007, Covington E-Alert
June 8, 2007, Covington E-Alert
May 17, 2007, Covington E-Alert
DDMAC Warning Letters: Avoid Regulatory Action
May 9, 2007, FDAnews Audioconference
May 3, 2007, Covington E-Alert
April 4, 2007, Covington E-Alert
February 6, 2007, Covington E-Alert
CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Implement Medicaid Drug Pricing and Reimbursement Provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act
January 12, 2007, Covington E-Alert
December 7, 2006, Covington E-Alert
November 6, 2006, Covington E-Alert
October 9, 2006, Covington E-Alert
Covington Represents Eisai In $205 Million Acquisition of Four Oncology-Related Products
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 13, 2006 — Covington represented both Eisai Co., Ltd. and Eisai Inc. in the recent $205 million product acquisition agreement with Ligand Pharmaceuticals. Eisai obtained exclusive global rights to four products, including ONTAK®, Targretin® capsules, Targretin® 1% gel and Panretin® 0.1% gel. This acquisition will help to ...
8/28/2006, Covington E-Alert
2006, The Wayne Law Review
- Washington DC Super Lawyers, FDA "Rising Star" (2014-2015)
- Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia (2014)
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 2004
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- Michigan Law Review, Executive Note Editor
University of Michigan School of Public Health, M.P.H., 2004
Carnegie Mellon University, M.A., 1998
Northwestern University, B.A., 1997
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ToadMan (7) Washington, Washington DC | June 14, 2004
They only have Andechser beers, but what else do you want? The food is very very good and the mustard is quite possibly the greatest (excpet for beer) thing I have ever tasted. Unbelievable atmosphere sitting outside about 10 feet from the Frauenkirche church. The service is European, so its slow and relaxed, but why would you be in a hurry to leave?
cubs (420) Fort Collins, Colorado | October 22, 2010
If you can't make it out to Andechs, you should definitely hit up this place. The Doppelbock is unbelievable. Even Bill Clinton came to this place!
hrabren (39) Zagreb, Croatia | December 25, 2010
Being smaller than other "main" bars in Munich, we couldn't find a place to sit inside on a December weeknight, so we took a table outside. The staff wasn't exactly quick, but they were polite. Beer selection is very good, we tried their Doppelbock Dunkel and it was poured in a proper glass on the right temperature. Shame it got to cold, since we were sitting outside.
alebrewer (15) Mentor, Ohio | May 6, 2007
April 2007 - Nice small corner bar with limited seating inside and 2 outdoor seating areas. Fresh Andechser bier makes it a must stop, located at the foot of the Frauenkirche.
rickgordon (41) Göteborg, Sweden | January 3, 2011
Cosy little place. Good service. Ultra fresh beer. Sepp Krätz is everywhere and nowhere ;-)
hobsch (57) Cologne , Germany | February 25, 2014
Centrally located behind the Frauenkirche. Upstairs seats are a bit limited but there is more space downstairs. Service is very friendly and effective. Even when crowded you do not have to wait long without reservation. Food is way above the normal bavarian brewpub standards. Can be good to very good. Beer is from Andechser and of very good quality. Highly recommended.
massingasetta (15) München, Germany | June 8, 2014
StewardofGondor (122) Washington Heights - Milwaukee, Wisconsin | April 26, 2006
A really nice tap room and restaurant, slightly tucked away from the hustle and bustle but right in the thick of things. Most of their offerings were available on tap, and the place had a very classy feel to it. On the steps going down to the bathroom and all around the lower level, there are some awesome pics of the monks throwing back beers with the general public. Priceless. I'd say make it to the monestary in Andechs if you can. If you can't, it's necessary you hit this place. If it were me (and it was) - I'd hit both.
y0cola (21) fremont, California | October 3, 2005
i really love this damn place. the beers are great. andechser only, but very tasty. the food is great. i got some pig body part. who knows what part! thats the fun of eating here. just point at some german name and see what you get. try their brewskies doggies.
ALLOVATE (109) Perth, Australia | October 2, 2006
A lovely 'blink-and-you miss-it' bar tucked neatly aside the massive edifice of the Frauenkirche. Small interior but enough seating outside to soak up the Bavarian sun. Mixed crowd of young and old, mostly business-types enjoying a lunch and a few bevvies. Service was great, the waiters polite and efficient as is normal in all of Deutschland. And the food - ample, tasty and well-presented, not entirely local fare which is good. Nice collection of photos inside, wood panelled bar, rest-rooms downstairs, and, more importantly, is the Andechser biers vom fass and available in the bottle for home consumption. Nice and quiet, away from the hustle and bustle and aside one of the most beautiful buildings in München. Nice!!!


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Rooms, services The guests of Parkhotel Klüschenberg Plau am See may stay in 76 nicely furnished, comfortable rooms in Plau am See. You may taste delicious, fresh meals in the restaurant of the hotel every day. Should you be arriving by car, parking will be available nearby. Relaxing wellness services will be available to you at the hotel, the steam room, solarium and indoor pool will also be waiting for you. The fans of actively spent leisure time may take the nearby opportunities to rent a bike, play bowling, billiard, go water skiing, play volleyball, go diving, sailing, surfing and rent a boat. The local gym will provide a great opportunity to do sports and exercises. For meetings and nice evening chats the local bar will provide an ideal location. Your valuables can be the safely secured in the safe. In case you'd bring your laptop along, you may go online via wireless Internet connection (WiFi) available at the hotel. The exact equipment and the exact list of available services of Parkhotel Klüschenberg Plau am See can be read on the information sheet below.
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The key to safety in jackup operations is constant risk management, and this white paper presents some of the challenges facing the global jackup fleet along with the research and development (R&D) efforts ABS has undertaken to address those challenges.
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ABS first published a Fuel Switching Advisory Notice in March 2010. This 2014 Advisory provides a significant update and provides guidance to shipowners, operators and builders to identify potential risks associated with fuel switching and best practices associated with safe operations.
This Advisory Note offers a high level overview of the recently adopted International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (IMO Polar Code). Its objective is to introduce the various parts of the Polar Code to all stakeholders in the marine industry, each of whom will play an important role in continued Arctic and Antarctic maritime safety and environmental protection.
In response to the industry's growing interest in gas propulsion, Report explores the benefits and challenges of natural gas power from the perspective of fuel providers and operators.
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In recent months, Japan has been getting increased attention; not for its economic success, but its supposed failure. Jeff Kingston's "Contemporary Japan: History Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s" tells a story of Japan in stagnation since the bursting in the early 1990s of its economic bubble (like us, based on excessive real estate values). "The Economist" describes Japan as being in a state of "gentle decline." The "New York Times" has been running a series on "Japan's slow disheartening decline.
This is a critically important topic, not only for its implications for the United States and other developed economies, but also for the future of the global trading system and for nations like China that are taking a page out of the Japanese development play book.
First, the stories on Japan. It's long been popular among the Washington economic punditry to sneer at the Japanese economy. Japan, Inc. (the idea that business and government should work collaborative to grow the economy) has long been a threat to the so-called "Washington consensus" that holds that markets, not governments, should be the sole determinate of an economy's fate. And so these stories are nothing new. But this time are they right, given that Japan's woes seem quite severe?
As is often the case, the reality is more nuanced. First, while Japan is not thriving, it's hardly the economic disaster many of the stories would have us believe. The New York Times writes that the Japanese economy has declined since the mid-1990s and the average worker is worse off. The only way an economy can get smaller is if fewer people are working or if productivity (e.g. output per hour worked) goes down. In fact, between 1996 and 2007 Japanese per-capita income went up 7 percent, nowhere near the 23 percent for the United States, but still up. Japanese citizens on the whole are a bit better off than a decade ago.
Moreover, certain Japanese industries continue to perform well in global markets. Remember, it was GM and Chrysler that went bankrupt and had to be rescued by government, not Toyota and Honda. In fact, as The Economist notes, Japanese firms hold more than 70 percent of world market share in 30 industries worth more than $1 billion, including digital cameras and car navigation devices. Likewise, as ITIF found in The Atlantic Century, out of 40 nations, the one that made the least amount of progress over the last decade on a collection of innovation indicators (such as growth in corporate R&D, scientists and engineers, IT investment and others) was not Japan, but the United States. Japan actually ranked a quite respectable 10th in progress.
But still Japan's overall GDP growth is slow, and it has just been overtaken by China as the world's second largest economy. One reason for this, however, is that Japan is one of the few countries seeing its working age population decline. Since 2000, they have lost about 2.3 percent of their workforce as cohorts moving into retirement age are not replaced by children becoming adults. In contrast, the U.S. workforce increased about 7.7 percent during this time. This means that even if the Japanese economy was as productive and innovative as the U.S., it would still underperform it by about 1 percentage point on annual GDP growth.
This gets to Japan's real problem, and perhaps our own. As long as the ratio of retirees to workers continues to grow in Japan, the only way that they can see average worker incomes grow at all, much less grow at the rates they enjoyed from the 1950s to the 1980s, is to boost productivity. In other words, they have to produce more with less.
Unfortunately, whenever the Japanese think they have to produce more with less they turn to their standard approach: when in doubt crank up the export machine (in part by keeping the yen artificially low). But it's actually the reliance on this strategy that has been their problem. The McKinsey Global Institute recently studied six leading developed nations, including the U.S. and Japan, and calculated the rate of growth expected based on the country's initial industrial mix (in other words the mix between high growth, high value-added sectors and low growth, lower value added sectors). The expected growth actually falls into a small band from 1.8 to 2.3 percent. But the actual growth is widely divergent. Japan had the lowest growth (0.4 percent per year) while the United States had the highest (3.3 percent).
Why the difference? It's pretty simple. The comparatively greater productivity performance of all U.S. industries (think retail and wholesale trade, insurance, telecommunications, etc.) contributed to the U.S. annual growth rate between 1995 and 2005 being 0.9 percent larger than would otherwise have been expected, while Japan's comparatively lesser productivity growth over that time period was 1.7 percent less than would have been expected.
Thus, while Japan boasts world-leading exporters of manufactured products—think Sony, Toyota, and Toshiba — its non-traded sectors are decidedly sub-par. Japan's service sectors have achieved but a fraction of U.S. productivity levels. Japan's retail sector has achieved barely half of U.S. productivity levels, while its construction and food processing industries have reached only 40 and 33 percent of U.S. productivity levels. This helps explain why the whole of Japan's economy, even with some of the world's most productive manufacturing industries, is only 70 percent as productive as America's. When only about one-quarter of your economy is growth-oriented, you can't grow very fast.
This dual economy (a few world class exporters and a lot of sub-par domestic serving firms) world is no accident. Japan is not set up to be a high productivity economy for the simple fact that the raison d'être of Japanese economic strategy since WWII has been export-led growth. In other words, Japanese economic planners bought into the notion that the way to grow your economy is to shift your industrial base to high value-added, export-based sectors. And they did.
What they failed to do was remove (or resist passing) a host of restrictive laws and regulations that reinforce the backwardness of their non-traded sector. For example, in Japan, laws limiting the entry of large supermarkets and providing incentives for small retailers to stay in business explain the country's high share of family retailers, and their low productivity. Japan's government subsidizes mom and pop stores with generous loans, while the country's high capital-gains tax rate provides little incentive for owners to sell some of the most valuable real estate in the world. Consequently, Japan's retail sector is 50 percent comprised of mom and pop stores, compared to 25 percent in France, and 12 percent in the United States. The combination of onerous environmental and safety regulations, along with rules stating that no new retail stores greater than 10,000 square feet in size could be opened in Japan, have blocked the evolution of higher-productivity retail formats and kept out foreign competitors, such as Carrefour, which aborted its efforts to enter Japan's retail market after just two years.
Japan's myopic focus on export-led growth strategies misses the greatest opportunity to improve their economic growth: by increasing the productivity of domestic sectors, particularly through the application of IT. Indeed, the evidence suggests that Japanese firms have invested much less than U.S. firms in productivity-enhancing IT. Jorgenson and Nomura find that investments in IT can explain the productivity differences between the United States and Japan since 1990. The authors found that Japanese productivity levels increased from 52.4 percent of the U.S. productivity levels in 1960 to 86.1% in 1990 (during the Japanese economic miracle). Yet, over the last 15 years the productivity gap between widened to 79.5%. According to the authors, two key factors in this growing gap were the rapid productivity growth of American IT industries in the late 1990s and the explosive productivity growth of American IT-using industries after 2000. Fukao and Miyagawa confirm their conclusions by finding that Japanese sluggish productivity growth after 1995 has been due to insufficient investment in IT capital. Japanese firms may know how to make computers, but they don't know how to use them, or at least not as well as U.S. firms do.
As ITIF notes in its new report The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Innovation Policy, countries that rely predominantly on export-led strategies risk being a one-trick pony; they may reach the technological frontier and boost growth for a while, but they are liable to languish there, or perhaps even decline if global export markets become saturated, as countries with more robust service sectors pass them by. Clearly this explains Japan.
But it also explains China, Korea, India, and many other Asian nations who look to Japan as the model. Crank up the export machine, including through a wide array of unfair trade practices and sit back and reap the benefits. Only for Japan, the benefits are over. Japan can't continue to grow through the tech-mercantilist model. Whether they can summon the understanding and political will to shift course—for doing so risks alienating powerful political constituencies who enjoy the safety of lack of competition domestically—remains to be seen.
It's even worse for the Japanese wannabes. In essence, nations like China are on a path to becoming Japan—a country with competitive export sectors, but woefully lagging in domestic services. However, unlike Japan, China will never get there, because it will not be able to generate enough trade surplus (because the United States and Europe are no longer in a position to import sufficient amounts) to get them there. So the more we and our allies push these nations to end technology-mercantilism the better for them and us.
What lessons can Japan hold for the U.S? There are at least two. The first is that we need to take much more assertive steps to keep people in the workforce for longer before retiring, while also limiting excessive pensions, especially to state and local government workers. No one should be retiring with a pension before the age of 65, unless they are on disability. And the retirement age should continue to move over the next decade towards 70. Unless we want to be a society where every last spare dime in the public purse goes to health care, starving out investments in education, infrastructure, and research and technology, we had better start making sure that people work longer and contribute more back to society before they start taking it out.
The second lesson is that unless we want to end up like the Japanese we will need to keep the pedal to the metal and keep pushing IT-enabled growth and innovation. The U.S. has been the global leader on IT innovation, but we risk losing it, especially if we cut back on needed investments in health IT, smart grid, broadband, R&D tax credits, and a host of other areas, while at the same time passing innovation-dampening legislation on issues like internet privacy and net neutrality.
The stakes are too high, for ten years from now we don't want to be reading in the New York Times about America's "slow disheartening decline."


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An August amendment to the New York Labor Law guarantees time and space for breast-feeding mothers to express milk at work, but stops short of emancipating them from the lowly toilet stall.
All New York employers, regardless of size, now must give breast-feeding mothers reasonable unpaid break time—or allow them to use paid break time or meal times—to express milk. Employers also must provide a private, accessible place to express milk and may not discriminate "in any way" against employees who do so at work.
The state rejected proposed amendments, however, that would have required employers to provide refrigerated storage for the milk and a space, other than a toilet stall, for expressing it.
New York is the 14th state to pass laws protecting the rights of nursing mothers at work.
Final note: Breast-feeding mothers can be an ornery bunch. Recently, breast-milk advocates have staged "feed-ins" at locations where they have felt unwelcome in the past.


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3rd December 2012 07:34What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?
My list of 100 things I want to achieve, while I'm still able, before I die.
"Do it now, because life is too short.â€
Hey! My name is Dalton Christopher, and after watching the MTV show "The Buried Lifeâ€, I was inspired to create my own list of 100 things I want to do before I die. I am 19 years old, a freshman at Eastern Kentucky University, and a 2012 Graduate of Mercer County Senior High School. As on the show, for every item I cross of my list, I want to help someone else cross something off theirs. There is no time table for this list, the list ends when my time on Earth ends. I do realize a lot of the things on the list seem unrealistic, but I believe anything is possible, and I might as well try. I realize life is short, and I want to try to live a life worth living, and help someone do the same. If anyone could help me with any of these items, I'd greatly appreciate it, and would be glad to do my best to help you complete something on yours. My email is email@example.com.
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.â€
― Victor Hugo,
Dalton Christopher
1. Be interviewed on the news.
2. Be featured on the cover of a newspaper/magazine.
3. Play basketball/meet with Michael Jordan.
4. Ride every roller coaster that you said you'd never ride.
5. Volunteer for a completely non-profit cause.
6. Attend an NBA Finals game, but only if Miami is playing.
7. Meet the President of the United States.
8. Visit every state, at least once.
9. Be on one of the billboards in Times Square.
10. Be a commentator for a basketball game.
11. Go inside the statue of liberty.
12. Give a complete stranger $100.
13. Pay off someone's debt/layaway/etc.
14. Help someone reunite with a lost loved one.
15. Be a Radio Talk Show host for one show.
16. Have one last Friday Night Guys Group, with all the guys, one to remember.
17. Give back to my hometown.
18. Visit South Beach, FL.
19. Go to Burning Man.
20. New Year's Eve in Times Square.
21. Meet the guys that inspired this, the Buried Life guys.
22. Be on WWE Raw.
23. Design a Nike shoe.
24. Give something that means a lot to me, to someone who means a lot to me.
25. Play basketball in Rupp Arena.
26. Be a Guest Star in a popular TV Show.
27. Be in a Movie.
28. Help someone come to Christ.
29. Teach someone something they will use the rest of their life.
30. Be applauded by over 10,000 people.
31. Help a military family.
32. Greet a soldier when they return from service at the airport.
33. Help build something that will help those in need.
34. Buy a brand new car.
35. Ride in a helicopter.
36. Ride on a "Go-Fast†Boat, just like in Miami Vice.
37. Buy that Daytona Spyder, also just like in Miami Vice.
38. Buy a house with my own money, no loans.
39. Own a shop.
40. Have a drink (Non-Alcoholic) named after me.
41. Help rebuild in a storm damaged city or community.
42. Save someone's life.
43. Visit a random stranger in jail, and just give them someone to talk to.
44. Help a close friend in need.
45. Help a complete stranger accomplish their dream.
46. Do something for my old school.
47. Visit an abandoned amusement park/mall.
48. Give a stranger a full tank of gas, for free.
49. Protest for something I believe in.
50. Write a book.
51. Have that book published.
52. Go to Toys R Us, and buy a random family all the toys they need for their family for Christmas.
53. Go on a mission trip.
54. Tell my story.
55. Give a speech.
56. Speak at a Youth Rally.
57. Drive cross country with the people that mean the most.
58. Give someone a much needed vacation.
59. Go camping.
60. If I ever won the lottery, give ¾ of it away.
61. Be the Grand Marshall in a parade.
62. Open the evening news.
63. Earn a college degree.
64. Buy a family their groceries.
65. Cut the tape at an opening or event.
66. Get front row tickets to the concert of my favorite band.
67. Hit a game winning shot.
68. Be someone's hero.
69. Be the best parent I could ever be one day.
70. Get married to the girl of my dreams.
71. Be interviewed in a major publication.
72. Have an action figure of myself.
73. Be on a billboard in my hometown.
74. Make my hometown proud.
75. Say Thank You to everyone who helped me along the way.
76. Learn to forgive and forget.
77. Make my family proud.
78. Just be there for someone, when they need it.
79. Learn how to manage my money better.
80. Drive, and not go to any particular place.
81. Give money to charity.
82. Help a kid have the birthday party of a lifetime.
83. To the teen out there that needs someone, be there.
84. Perfect my jump shot.
85. Go to a Miami Heat game.
86. Meet LeBron James.
87. Meet LeBron James, (Yeah, I said it twice).
88. Give someone a job.
89. Travel to all the major US Cities.
90. Go to the Michael Jordan statue outside of the United Center in Chicago.
91. Win an award/Championship.
92. Be a positive influence on someone's life.
93. Meet Hulk Hogan.
94. Help Coach a UK Basketball Game.
95. Visit all the kids with cancer, and help give them a good day.
96. Be the leader of an organization.
97. Motivate someone to stay in school.
98. Go picking with American Pickers.
99. See all of the United States' natural attractions, (i.e. Grand Canyon)
100. Inspire someone to start their own list.
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Just went here tonight - fantastic Mexican and BYO tequila.
Started with the the tres crepas (huitlacoche, zucchini flower, and goat cheese) - they were good. The guacamole was just really well done.
I had the skirt steak- it was well prepared with an amazing poblano crema on the side. Others had the enchiladas which were very good (the salsa roja could have had a little more kick) and the brochetas which had some of the best shrimp I've here had.
Margarita mixes were the traditional lime, which had a nice bite with enough sweetness, and the mango which was a little too sweet.
To finish, they brought out a couple complimentary digestif tequilas - one was a coffee-infused Patron and another that I can't remember. The Patron was really good - the coffee taste lingered in my mouth for at least a few minutes.
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The HIMSS will hold its 2012 Annual meeting Nev. from February 20 to February 24, 2012 at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas, .
The 2011 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference was held in Orlando, Florida between Feb 21, 2011 to Feb 24, 2011. It was attended by over 900 companies engaged in healthcare, medical devices and healthcare IT.
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TOKYO, Nov 2 (Reuters) Japanese stocks tumbled shortly after the start of trade on Friday, with both the Nikkei average and TOPIX index falling 2 percent after Wall Street plunged on renewed credit worries.
A stronger yen also contributed to broad-based selling, with financial firms such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group especially hard-hit.
As of 0011 GMT, the Nikkei was down 2.03 percent at 16,523.84. The broader TOPIX was down 2.23 percent at 1,599.11.
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more Thompson columns
A couple of Thursday postings to the Athens Banner-Herald blog written by our Morris News Service bureau chief, Walter Jones, took the newspaper's editorial board to task for its attack late last week on state Rep. Bob Smith, R-Watkinsville.
To refresh your memories, the newspaper's Thursday editorial contended that Smith's convening of a legislative committee hearing - apparently for the sole purpose of upbraiding University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll Davis, University of Georgia President Michael Adams and Medical College of Georgia President Dan Rahn for not keeping the legislature informed about plans to establish a medical campus at UGA - was a childish political maneuver.
Specifically, the editorial suggested the episode left Smith "(s)ounding like a petulant 8-year-old," and that it was Smith's own fault if he didn't know anything about plans to establish a medical campus at UGA, which would at least initially operate under the auspices of MCG's accreditation in that area.
The blog postings made a couple of good points, including the writer's observation, "I don't think it's OK, or a good idea, for university presidents - or even the chancellor - to make policy for higher education in Georgia in secret," and the further observation that "Smith is right to criticize the 'bunker mentality' of the regents and the presidents, and I am glad someone is willing to stand up for the right of common citizens to be informed and participate in the decision-making process."
The postings also note a well-reported statement from the chancellor at the hearing. The chancellor told Smith that in planning for a medical campus at UGA, "I don't think we made any conscious effort to exclude the committee. We made a conscious effort to exclude everyone." From there, the blog poster raises a completely legitimate question, suggesting that if the chancellor said there was an effort to keep the information secret, the editorial board was wrong to suggest Smith has only himself to blame for not knowing about the plans for a medical school.
In its last sentence, the final blog posting asks for an explanation of the reasoning behind the editorial.
Fair enough, so here goes: First, news of the proposal to establish a medical campus in Athens has been a matter of public record since at least the middle of January, when UGA officials submitted a proposal to the local authority steering redevelopment of the 58-acre U.S. Navy Supply Corps School property at Prince and Oglethorpe avenues. Beyond that, the governor included a $3.8 million outlay in his proposed budget for the coming fiscal year to allow the Medical College of Georgia to expand its course offerings in Athens.
The blog posting does, however, make a better point in suggesting that University System officials shouldn't be making policy in secret.
That's true enough, but discussion of establishing a medical school isn't so much a matter of policy as it is a matter of strategic planning.
No doubt there are any number of discussions on most of the University System's 35 campuses about future instructional and construction plans.
And as far as the chancellor's statement that there was an attempt to keep the matter hidden from the public is concerned, there's a legitimate reason for having taken that course. Until a fully formed plan could be presented to the public - and to Smith and his colleagues in the legislature - there was little point in announcing that a plan was being developed. At least now, legislators - who have legitimate concerns about how many state dollars will be steered to the effort, and for how long - have a concrete proposal over which to argue.
It's also important to know that, behind the scenes, Smith was actively seeking media attention for the hearing. If his sole interest was to find out about the plans for the medical college, he could have done so without any media present. The fact that he wanted reporters in the session is a clear indication that he wanted some coverage of the fact he was kicking sand in the faces of some high-ranking University System officials.
Here's a quick final point, one admittedly based on a bit of conjecture: While Adams, Rahn and Davis undoubtedly recognize the need for a second public medical school in Georgia, it certainly will take some time, and some political wrangling, for that realization to sink in with state legislators, some of whom will have a provincial interest in maintaining the status quo. It's understandable that Adams, Rahn and Davis weren't eager to kick up that political dust storm.
For those who'd like to see the Feb. 12 committee meeting for themselves, a video recording is available on the Web, at www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/house /Committees/appropriations/appArchives. htm.
Also, Smith is in the process of writing a response to the Thursday editorial. That response should appear on Tuesday's editorial page.
Jim Thompson is editorial page editor of the Athens Banner-Herald. He can be contacted at (706) 208-2222 or by e-mail at jim.thompson @onlineathens.com.
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The plan for Natalie Squared included:
1) Walk at the park early with coffee and catch up.
2) Get pedicures.
(Okay STOP right here because pedicures were not open until 10am and we needed to get on the road. Insert glitch 1 in my plan.)
3) Head to Portland. Check.
Walk around, maybe do some shopping, and of course listen to the playlist of all songs that reminded me of Nat.
(Let me just say.... we shopped until we DA-ROPPED, people. How it happened, I don't know.)
4) Eat lunch together on a picnic blanket in a park with food purchased at Whole Foods, which I had never been to.
(Insert lunch at McMenamin's instead for close-proximity-to-NW23rd street and shops)
5) At lunch, exchange a pair of socks so that we can each wear a pair and take pictures of our feet for 6 months, tagging each other on instagram wherever our socks might go.
(I still have my socks in the car. She still has hers at her house.)
6) Drive back to Salem and go to Create-A-Memory to make mugs, or something to always have with us while we are separated for 6 painful months.
(Insert pedicure, walking around Salem, and eating froyo instead)
7) Conclude evening with a dinner spent together and maybe some steam room action at the gym.
(Insert dinner with her entire family, our friend who is about to get married and her fiance, groomsmen, friends from Australia, and little brothers.... and one heck of a meal cooked by the Zukowskis).
And then we steam-roomed. And went to a SECOND McMenamin's for drinks and live music.
Somewhere in there, we changed our hair at least 5 times, changed our outfits even more, laughed until we cried (when trying to convince the other that they had bigger eyes), took a million videos (random boy at park, what is your name?) and much more.
Thanks, Nat, for being my best friend and making those kind of days so special and unforgettable.
Though I don't know if anything will ever top the night we went snowboarding together before you left for Panama.......
On a more ironic note, I now share some of my husband's ... pain? frustration? entertainment? in planning a date for someone and having it turn out totally differently.
But you know what.
I love me some spontaneity.
And it was a dang good date.


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February 21, 2006
Smokers squeezed by soaring cigarette costs and workplace smoking bans are increasingly being hit with another cost increase -- this time for health insurance. A growing number of private and public employers are requiring employees who use tobacco to pay higher premiums, hoping that will motivate more of them to stop smoking and lower health care costs for the companies and their workers.
There is a significant trend toward smoker surcharges:
- According to a general benefits survey of 950 U.S.-based employers last year, at least 41 percent used some form of financial incentives or penalties in their health care plans.
- Several companies -- such as PepsiCo, Northwest Airlines and Gannett -- and some public employers -- such as the states of Alabama and Georgia -- require employees who smoke to pay $20 to $50 monthly in addition to standard health insurance premiums.
- However, some companies waive the additional payments for employees who participate in smoking cessation programs or make other efforts to quit.
Linda Cushman, senior health care strategist at Hewitt Associates, says that "it just makes good business sense" to require employees who smoke to pay more for health insurance because employers spend about 25 percent more for health care for such individuals compared with other employees.
Gary Matthew, deputy administrator of the Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board, says, "We know smokers cost more as far as health care goes. We are putting the burden on them to take responsibility for their own health."
However, Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute, says that the practice "could be the first step down a very dangerous road." He added, "Do we really want to live in a world where employers penalize us for everything in our private lives that isn't healthy?"
Source: Lisa Cornwell, "Some Smokers Pay More for Health Benefits," Associated Press/Houston Chronicle, February 16, 2006.
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