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A frozen food producer caught up in a scandal over horsemeat found in beef products in the United Kingdom, Sweden and France said Saturday it will sue the Romanian producer it blames for the problem.
The French arm of Swedish frozen food firm Findus said it would file a legal complaint Monday against the unnamed Romanian business.
Findus said it had been told that its products were being made with French beef, not Romanian horsemeat.
"We were deceived," said a Findus France statement. "There are two victims in this affair: Findus and the consumer."
Also, the British arm of Findus said Saturday said it was considering legal action against suppliers, adding that early results of its internal investigation "strongly suggests" the horsemeat contamination of a beef lasagna product "was not accidental."
Meanwhile, an emergency meeting was held in London Saturday, as ministers, food inspectors and retailers grappled with a scandal that appears to be spreading across Europe.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said it was "completely unacceptable" that consumers were being sold food that contained horse in place of beef.
The evidence so far suggests "either criminal activity or gross negligence," he said.
Paterson warned that "more bad news" could come.
UK food businesses have been ordered to test all processed beef products for "authenticity" and report back to the authorities by Friday.
"I am determined that we get to the bottom of this and that any wrongdoing discovered is punished," said a statement by Paterson after the meeting.
Retailers in the United Kingdom, France and Sweden pulled millions of lasagna and other processed beef products off the shelves as the alarm was raised over the Findus lasagnas.
The controversy comes less than a month after horsemeat was found in hamburgers sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Officials in Ireland have pointed to Polish meat ingredients as being the source of horsemeat found in burgers there.
The UK Food Standards Agency said the evidence "points to either gross negligence or deliberate contamination in the food chain. This is why we have already involved the police, both here and in Europe."
An agency spokesman, Brad Smythe, told CNN that participants in Saturday's meeting had agreed that "meaningful results" must be achieved by Friday.
"This concerns products that are most likely to have been contaminated, such as beef lasagne and other budget ranges," Smythe said. The meeting was about clarifying what tests are possible, what laboratory capacity is needed, and what can be done to protect consumer confidence, he said.
"This is completely unacceptable -- this isn't about food safety but about proper food labeling and confidence in retailers," Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday, quoted on his official Twitter feed.
The revelations have thrown the meat industry into crisis and revolted many meat eaters in the United Kingdom, where horsemeat is generally considered taboo, although it is commonly eaten in neighboring France, as well as countries including China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Italy.
Findus said Thursday it had withdrawn its lasagna -- labeled with the British spelling, "lasagne" -- from UK stores Monday as a precaution after its French supplier, Comigel, raised concerns about the type of meat used.
Meanwhile, Findus France has temporarily withdrawn three ready-prepared dishes -- lasagna bolognese, shepherd's pie and moussaka -- because of the discovery of horsemeat in purported 100% beef products, the firm said. The company added, however, that the three products could still be eaten without health risk.


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Treasuries fell, pushing 10-year yields up to the highest level in two weeks, as the U.S. prepared to sell $32 billion in three-year debt in the first of three note and bond sales this week totaling $66 billion.
Longer-term securities led the declines after a report showed German investor confidence jumped more than forecast this month. The yield gap between Treasuries and inflation-indexed debt indicates inflation expectations are at the highest level in a month as Federal Reserve policy makers start a two-day meeting at which they're forecast to decide to make additional Treasury purchases.
"There's a big chunk of supply," said Thomas Roth, senior Treasury trader in New York at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities USA Inc. "It puts a little pressure on the market. The three-year auction won't be a big deal. The front end has plenty of buyers."
The benchmark 10-year yield climbed four basis points, or 0.04 percentage point, to 1.65 percent at 9:56 a.m. New York time, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The 1.625 percent note due in November 2022 fell 10/32, or $3.13 per $1,000 face amount, to 99 3/4. The yield matched its level on Dec. 3, the highest since Nov. 27.
Ten-year break-even rates, the difference between yields on U.S. 10-year notes and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, touched 2.51 percentage points, the most since Nov. 7. The gap measures investor expectations for inflation over the life of the securities.
Thirty-year yields rose four basis points to 2.84 percent.
Debt Auction
The three-year notes to be sold today yielded 0.33 percent in pre-auction trading, compared with a yield of 0.392 percent at the previous sale of the maturity on Nov. 6.
Investors bid for 3.41 times the amount of debt available last month, down from 3.96 times at the Oct. 9 sale. Primary dealers, which trade directly with the Fed, bought 52.7 percent of the securities, the most in three months.
"Three-year notes are at expensive, historically rich levels," said Craig Collins, managing director of rates trading at Bank of Montreal in London. "This little backup in yields we've had will probably help the auction go even better."
Short-term Treasuries may be supported by a potential flood of cash into the U.S. money markets if unlimited Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage is allowed to lapse later this month.
"There are enough people on the front end willing to be long," Roth of Mitsubishi UFJ said, referring to bets that shorter-term securities will gain. "Everyone thinks the expiration of the TAG program will cause a wave of inflows."
The FDIC's expanded deposit insurance is part of the Transaction Account Guarantee Program, known as TAG. An emergency 2008 government provision providing unlimited insurance on certain bank accounts during the U.S. financial crisis to help prevent sudden withdrawals will expire at the end of the year unless Congress extends it.
There's about $1.4 trillion sitting in banks' non-interest- bearing transactions accounts that hold more than $250,000, the previous insurance ceiling, FDIC data show. It will become uninsured in January if Congress doesn't act.
The Treasury is scheduled to auction $21 billion of 10-year notes tomorrow and $13 billion of 30-year bonds Dec. 13.
Volatility in Treasuries traded close to the lowest level since 1988. Bank of America Merrill Lynch's MOVE index, which measures price swings based on options, was at 52.2 basis points yesterday, up from the 51 basis points reached on Dec. 3. It has averaged 71 basis points in 2012. Volatility reached 265 basis points in October 2008 as the financial crisis intensified.
Fed Meeting
The Fed will announce tomorrow after a two-day meeting that it will begin buying $45 billion in Treasuries each month, pushing its balance sheet almost to $4 trillion, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists.
Forty-eight of 49 economists predict the Federal Open Market Committee will purchase the securities to bolster an existing program to buy $40 billion in mortgage bonds each month. Policy makers pledged in October to continue that plan until the labor market improves "substantially."
A program known as Operation Twist, in which the Fed sells shorter-maturity Treasuries and buys longer-dated debt, is due to expire at the end of the month. As part of the plan, the central bank will buy as much as $1.5 billion today of TIPS due from January 2019 to February 2042.
The Fed bought $2.3 trillion of assets from 2008 to 2011 in two rounds of the stimulus strategy called quantitative easing.
"The market is still expecting something" from the Fed, said Michael Leister, a fixed-income strategist at Commerzbank AG in London. "When we maybe look at things like the labor market and other measures we don't really see a substantial improvement, so these further easing fantasies are there."
Treasuries declined earlier as the ZEW Center for European Economic Research said its index of German investor and analyst expectations, which is designed to predict economic developments six months in advance, climbed to 6.9 this month from minus 15.7 in November. Economists in a Bloomberg survey predicted a gain to negative 11.5.

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Chris369 wrote:I always (I say always, only surfed twice lol) put my toes on the end of the board. I'm sure I was taught that in my lesson. I'm guessing that's just to make learning easier and you're supposed to grow out of it?
micho wrote:anyways,i just cant understand that idea of using arms only,,,or i mean where i put my arms when popping up??and anyone here surfs on a shortboard shorter than him/her??
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Last week we gave you 10 celebrities who lost serious weight for a movie role, which, by the way, is a practice we don't condone. Today, we're doing the opposite – showcasing ten Hollywood movie stars who've gained serious weight for a movie role (or, who are we kidding, in the hopes of nabbing an Oscar, which several of them did). Losing or gaining, we're not into dramatic weight shifts simply for the sake of a paycheck and royalties, no matter how hefty. It's simply not healthy, even under the care of a professional. (A few of these celebs actually have experienced lasting negative health effects from their rapid weight gain.) In the cases of most of the gents, you'll hardly recognize them. But the funny thing is that a few of the women actually look more normal and real after having put some meat on their bones. (Obviously, they were way too skinny to begin with.) Check out our gallery of ten stars who aren't afraid to transform themselves into slightly overweight people whom Hollywood would never cast in movies in the first place. (And see exactly how much they gained during their hardcore hunt for Oscar.)
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MANCHESTER, NH – The Manchester Monarchs, the primary affiliate of the 2012 Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings, have released defenseman Matt Case from his professional tryout agreement, Monarchs Director of Hockey Operations Hubie McDonough announced today.
Case, 27, appeared in five games with the Monarchs recording zero points and four penalty minutes. Case has collected six goals and 29 assists for 35 points and 31 penalty minutes for the ECHL's Idaho Steelheads this season. The six-foot, 200-pound defenseman is second amongst ECHL blueliners with 29 assists and leads all ECHL skaters in plus/minus with a plus-31. Case has appeared in 171 ECHL games registering 12 goals 45 assists for 57 points and 155 penalty minutes for the Gwinnett Gladiators and Steelheads. Case has appeared in 16 career AHL games recording an assist and 10 penalty minutes with the Norfolk Admirals, Texas Stars and the Monarchs. The Plymouth, Minnesota native played four years for NCAA's Ferris State University Bulldogs recording 10 goals and 37 assists for 47 points and 139 penalty minutes in 144 games from 2006-2010.
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This Sunday April 29 at 22:00 (CET) // 21:00 (GMT) // 16:00 (EST) the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Holland and Fink are joining forces to present a collaborative performance in Amsterdam's prestigious Concertgebouw to a sold out crowd.
As part of the event, the RCO has launched a live concert iPad App, 'RCO meets Fink'. The App will allow users to watch the concert live in HD on the iPad or Apple TV, with the stream being available on-demand until the release of version 2.0 of the App. Conducted by Ivan Meylemans the concert will feature Fink songs orchestrated by Jules Buckley, in combination with classical pieces.
At the end of June version 2.0 of the App launches with extra features – backstage footage, rehearsals, interviews with key members of the team, a video commentary by Fink, and layered multi-camera viewing. It also features a 360 degree video component, allowing you to watch the concert as though you were right there on stage – simply point your iPad in the direction you want to see, and it shall move around the room with you.
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Cereal FACTS 2012: A Spoonful of Progress in a Bowl Full of Unhealthy Marketing to Kids
0Editor's Note: This post is part of an ongoing series that will highlight the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's work in Latino communities across the country.
Cereal companies have improved the nutritional quality of most cereals marketed directly to children, but they also have increased advertising to children for many of their least nutritious products, according to a report by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity.
Spending on Spanish-language TV advertising for all cereals has more than doubled, and Hispanic children's exposure to those ads has tripled. In addition, cereal companies launched new Spanish-language TV campaigns for seven brands, including Froot Loops and Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
The Cereal FACTS report quantifies changes in the nutritional quality of cereals and children's exposure to cereal marketing after companies pledged to reduce marketing of unhealthy products to children.
"Children still get one spoonful of sugar in every three spoonfuls of cereal. These products are not nutritious options that children should consume every day," said lead researcher Jennifer L. Harris, director of marketing initiatives at the Rudd Center.
The new Cereal FACTS report, which was supported by grants from RWJF and the Rudd Foundation, documents changes in industry practices since the first study in 2009. Additional findings include:
Companies increased child-targeted advertising for some of their least nutritious products:
- Children viewed more TV ads for seven of 14 child-targeted brands, including Reese's Puffs, Froot Loops, and Pebbles.
- Post launched a new Pebbles advergame website, and General Mills launched new sites for Honey Nut Cheerios and Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
- Kellogg more than doubled banner advertising on children's websites, such as Nickelodeon.com and Neopets.com, for its child-targeted brands. General Mills also increased banner advertising for four child-targeted brands, including Honey Nut Cheerios and Lucky Charms.
- Kellogg introduced the first food company advergame for mobile phones and tablets targeted to children for Apple Jacks.
Changes for the better
Companies improved the nutritional quality of most cereals marketed to children:
- Overall nutritional quality improved for 13 of the 14 brands advertised to children. Of the 22 different varieties of these cereals available in both 2008 and 2011, 45 percent had less sodium, 32 percent had less sugar, and 23 percent had more fiber. General Mills improved the nutritional quality of all its child-targeted brands.
Companies reduced child-targeted advertising for some products:
- Millsberry.com and Postopia.com, the two most-visited children's advergame sites, were discontinued. Due to the elimination of Millsberry.com, General Mills decreased banner advertising on children's websites by 43 percent.
- Children viewed fewer TV ads for seven of 14 child-targeted brands, including Corn Pops and Honeycomb.
More of the same
Companies continue to aggressively market their least nutritious products directly to children:
- Companies do offer more nutritious and lower-sugar cereals for children, like regular Cheerios and Frosted Mini-Wheats, but they are marketed to parents, not children.
"While cereal companies have made small improvements to the nutrition of their child-targeted cereals, these cereals are still far worse than the products they market to adults. They have 56 percent more sugar, half as much fiber, and 50 percent more sodium," said co-author Marlene Schwartz, deputy director of the Rudd Center. "The companies know how to make a range of good-tasting cereals that aren't loaded with sugar and salt. Why can't they help parents out and market these directly to children instead?"
The full report and tools for consumers and researchers are available at www.cerealfacts.org. Report findings specific to Hispanic and black youth can be found on page 27 of the full report.
Follow the Rudd Center and the conversation on Twitter at @YaleRuddCenter with the hashtag #cerealfacts.


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Thanks for doing this, love seeing everyone's cover and Quiltbea, that will be good to have to record plantings in. We will see spring? Right? piney | ||||
Here is my Notebook Cover! I might tack some buttons on the front... Again, thank you, Angela. | ||||
Jessica - that is fabulous!!! Those fabrics are gorgeous!!! | ||||
Thank you! When I picked out the darker fabric (at Joann's), no one liked it! I thought it looked Vintage Kitchen (?). Then, I got out the fabrics that my sister bought for me (across the country) and these two pieces went together as if they were part of a collection.... Fa lala la la lalala! | ||||
● ● ● Is there any toffee left? Oh, M ♪ a ♫ l ♪ o ♫ u ♪ ♫ ♪ . . . Phooey, I need a toffee fix. Now I'm really sorry I missed your party Angela. It's amazing how well behaved your class was. You must be one he11uva teacher to command such respectful students. Maybe, it's a good thing I didn't show up. whispering (Malou, you still have my address, right?) Oh, and don't forget to send me a file for the PJ Party Link. ▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲ Life without quilting is not an option! • • • • • MY Photos • • • • • • ENJOY! Have you met my Circle of Friends? • • • • • • • PJ Party Tutorials • • • Please! • Support • OUR • Troops: • Gratitude Campaign • • • | ||||
I think I was lucky Malou was there with the toffee...it probably helped to keep them in line. Well, that & the regular troublemakers didn't show up! | ||||
I'm happy to see the finished journals...they're all wonderful! Glad y'all found the instructions easy to follow | ||||
I got my 3 finished today. I cut the fabric on the center one to short so I inserted a center "spine" to create a new design opportunity. I think they turned out really cute & thank you Angela for the P.J. Party. These are easy to make & sure do dress up a blah notebook. Nicki We live in the home of the free...because of the brave. | ||||
Pretty! | ||||
Ooh, I like!! I see you added the beads to the bookmarks like Jacky suggested...nice touch | ||||
It's nice seeing others try this! See Angela, I told you you gave good instructions!! quiltbea... really like the seed packet/garden theme! jessica, love those two fabrics together! It turned out so pretty. Nicki, love all three of yours! Very clever to make a spine and it worked good! Jean, do I have your address? If you haven't moved in the last 5-6yrs. I probably do... do you need a toffee infusion??!! This was a neat PJ Party class. I need to make a couple more of these journals for gifts. | ||||
Maylou, Jean always needs a toffee infusion. LOL You could always send it to me and Maybe I could get it to Mil. LOL No probably wouldn't be able to find her place way up there. | ||||
I made a journal cover for my embrodry book. I put a pocket on the front and a belt to hold it together. I also put a flap over the pocket. Handie Ann | ||||
Very nice Handie! Is that leftover COF challenge fabric?? | ||||
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● ● ● Oh Malou, you are such a dear, that would be FABULOUS!!!! I finally found the recipe you enclosed, but now I have no time to make it. It's been one thing after another around here. If you are serious, my address is the same. Your toffee is to die for. Thank you! Great Job Nicki! I'm loving the one Bluesnail made for me as a retreat gift. It's the only cats I'm not allergic to. ▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲ Life without quilting is not an option! • • • • • MY Photos • • • • • • ENJOY! Have you met my Circle of Friends? • • • • • • • PJ Party Tutorials • • • Please! • Support • OUR • Troops: • Gratitude Campaign • • • | ||||
I like yours, HandieAnn, with the pocket on the front, and oh, yes... that fabric does bring back memories! jean, I'll see what I can do!!! Tee-Hee!! | ||||
I made one, and really like the method. Mine came out a tad small this time, but I'm still using it. I'll make another at some point. Thanks for a great class! | ||||
You're welcome! I'm glad people are finding this helpful. Love your fabric choices. Looks like you also did the ribbon bookmark? | ||||
Handie Ann, I like your cover & putting a pocket in was very clever. Elsie, your cover is pretty & colorful. I know what you mean about being small. For some unknown reason I cut the fabric on one of mine too short so I made a "spine" down the back to increase it. Luckly I discovered it before I made th whole thing. These make great gifts! Nicki We live in the home of the free...because of the brave. | ||||
Great class! I can't wait to make some too. Everyone's covers are so prretty. You guys are so ceative. I have to get "unburied in my quilting studio-it's a mess! Then I can make some. Hey Malou-I sure could use a toffee fix too!! I saved mine from retreat and shared with DH when I got home. It was sooo FABULOUS!!! I would love the recipe too since I seem to have misplaced mine. I loved meeting you and your DH. It was certainly a treat!! Hope to see you again one of these days!!! WQFC-your table runner is so gorgeous!! I love the colors. Pam | ||||
Pam, it was nice meeting you too! I can't seem to send you a PM... if you would PM me your email I will send you the recipe. Marylou | ||||
great job ladies ,love all the pics! " Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.. " | ||||
This pattern is so much fun! Here are 2 more that I made up for **gifts**. This is using my Wave Edge ruler... | ||||
This one turned out really pretty... either the front or the back could be the 'front'... it's up to the person that gets it! I cut out fabric to make MORE of these - with the kids during the holidays! DH and I take off tomorrow to travel to the Pacific Northwest... that is, if Draco doesn't ruin our plans. **Merry Christmas, Everyone** | ||||
Jessica those are pretty! The great thing about these are that they are so quick to whip up once you decide what you want it to look like | ||||
Better late than never. I had to use my seamripper a few times. I got the lining in upside down or inside out. But I'm thinking my grandaughter will like it. What's not to like with chocolate candy??? LOL | ||||
Jessica, those 2 covers are great looking. I like the wavy one & didn't know there was such a thing as a wavy ruler. I learn soooo much from y'all on this board. Your second one is very elegant looking. I like the black spine. Patty, your granddaughter is going to love that cover....yum....everyone loves chocolate! Aren't rippers just THE BEST!! I line all of mine & just discovered that I can turn them inside out if I want & use the "lining" as the outside. It's a 2fer (two for one). This message has been edited. Last edited by: nlk, Nicki We live in the home of the free...because of the brave. | ||||
Well, Storm Draco grounded all the flights... so, I'm stuck for a 3-day delay (that's how over-booked the flights were - no sense of priority for those that booked their flights months and months ago). I'm finding my 'calm' through feeling blessed, the drive to the airport and back was intense... I spent the rest of yesterday cutting out as many doggie jackets as I could for my girlfriend's rescued pets - today I'll sew them up and hum the song, Love the One You're With! Thank you for the comments on the notebook covers... I'm loving yours as well. Each cover is inspiration! Maybe I'll make a couple more on Saturday. I really like the idea of lining it and being able to flip the cover, Nicki! - so, you add a fabric to cover the batting and then proceed with directions?! | ||||
Wonderful, I didn't get a chance to get to the party, but I think you did a great job explaining it. I hope to get started on a couple of these this p.m. Everybody posted such great pics, I've got lots of ideas bouncing around this old gray head. I can't wait to get started. | ||||
Its nice to see all the pretty fabrics used for journal covers. You all did good. | ||||
Yes Jessica, I add a liner fabric on my because with the first one I made without a liner the journal was hard to slid in because the ends kept getting caught on the batting. Nicki We live in the home of the free...because of the brave. | ||||
Coming up for air... I've got fleece-furies all over me after cutting out a pile of Doggie Jackets! I just pulled some Fat Quarters that are good 'guy' fabrics to take with me on the trip - this should be a great sewing project with the kids, which includes my son... he likes stepping on the 'peddle'! Last year we left the sewing machine on the table for everyone to use and my son sewed (gifts) for his co-workers! This is a close-up of that pretty combo... it did look like Black in the small picture! Dark Plum (yummy color!) .This message has been edited. Last edited by: jessicasews, | ||||
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"Euthanasia" is a broad term for mercy killing—taking the life of a hopelessly ill or injured individual in order to end his or her suffering. Mercy killing represents a serious ethical dilemma. People do not always die well. Some afflictions cause people to suffer through extreme physical pain in their last days, and euthanasia may seem like a compassionate way of ending this pain. Other patients may request euthanasia to avoid the weakness and loss of mental faculties that some diseases cause, and many feel these wishes should be respected.
But euthanasia also seems to contradict one of the most basic principles of morality, which is that killing is wrong. Viewed from a traditional Judeo-Christian point of view, euthanasia is murder and a blatant violation of the biblical commandment "Thou shalt not kill." From a secular perspective, one of the principal purposes of law is to uphold the sanctity of human life. Euthanasia is so controversial because it pits the plight of suffering, dying individuals against religious beliefs, legal tradition, and, in the case of physician-assisted death, medical ethics.
This moral dilemma is not new. The term "euthanasia" is derived from ancient Greek, and means "good death." But while the debate over mercy killing has ancient origins, many observers believe that it is harder today to achieve a good death than ever before. Advances in medicine have increased people's health and life span, but they have also greatly affected the dying process. For example, in the early twentieth century the majority of Americans died at home, usually victims of pneumonia or influenza. Today most people die in the hospital, often from degenerative diseases like cancer that may cause a painful, lingering death.
Most observers trace the modern euthanasia debate back to the court case of Karen Ann Quinlan, and her story is a poignant example of medical technology's ability to prolong life. In 1975, after consuming alcohol and tranquilizers at a party, Quinlan collapsed into an irreversible coma that left her unable to breathe without a respirator or eat without a feeding tube. Her parents asked that she be removed from the respirator, but her doctors objected. The New Jersey Supreme Court case that followed was the first to bring the issue of euthanasia into the public eye. In 1976 the court allowed Quinlan's parents to have the respirator removed. Although Quinlan lived for another nine years (her parents did not want her feeding tube removed), the case set a precedent for a patient's right to refuse unwanted medical treatment.
In 1990, this right was further expanded in the case of Nancy Cruzan. Cruzan had gone into an irreversible coma in 1983 after a severe car crash, and her parents wanted the machine that was keeping her alive removed. However, in this case the machine consisted of intravenous feeding tubes that provided Cruzan with hydration and nutrition. Her parents viewed the removal of the machine as the termination of unwanted treatment. However, the state of Missouri argued that to remove the feeding tubes would be to intentionally kill Cruzan through starvation. In a controversial vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the provision of artificially delivered food and water is a treatment which patients may legally refuse, even if doing so will result in death.
The cases of Quinlan and Cruzan helped develop a social policy that recognizes that some lifesaving treatments are not always appropriate, and permits the removal of these treatments as a form of "passive" euthanasia. But shortly after the Cruzan case more active forms of euthanasia became the focus of public attention. One of the persons most responsible for this is Timothy E. Quill, a physician who in 1991 described in the New England Journal of Medicine the case of "Diane," a longtime patient of his who was suffering from acute leukemia. She asked Quill for the means to end her life should she find it intolerable, and, unable to dissuade her, he prescribed sleeping pills, telling her how many were necessary to cure insomnia and how many were necessary to commit suicide. Four months later Diane killed herself.
Quill's article provoked immediate and heated discussion over the legality of physicians' assisting in suicide. Quill's selfproclaimed goal is to improve the care dying people receive rather than to legalize any form of euthanasia. Nevertheless, he became a central figure in a court case that challenged the constitutionality of state bans on assisted suicide—Quill and other right-to-die advocates essentially argued that terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to assisted suicide. In 1997, however, the Supreme Court disagreed, ruling that states may legislate for or against physician-assisted suicide as they see fit. (Currently, over 35 states have laws against assisted suicide; only Oregon has legalized the practice.)
Ironically, however, the person most responsible for bringing euthanasia into the public eye is one from whom most right-todie activists have tried to distance themselves: former pathologist Jack Kevorkian, who has admitted helping over 130 people die since 1990. Whereas Quill is regarded as a reasoned, thoughtful spokesman for the terminally ill, Kevorkian is seen as a renegade. Many of the people he has helped to die were not terminally ill, and he did not know them before they requested his assistance in suicide. He holds some bizarre opinions: In his book Prescription: Medicide, Kevorkian advocates experimentation on patients before they die and nonvoluntary euthanasia for anyone whom physicians deem to have an extremely low quality of life. Many of his views and methods have been condemned by right-to-die leaders, yet Kevorkian is the name people most associate with euthanasia.
Prior to 1998, Kevorkian only assisted in suicides. He rigged so-called suicide machines that allowed patients to self-administer a lethal dose of drugs. However, on November 23, 1998, 60 Minutes aired a videotape of Kevorkian participating in a more active form of euthanasia. For the first time, he administered the fatal injection himself, ending the life of Thomas Youk, a fifty-twoyear- old who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. On March 26, 1999, a Michigan jury, faced with this videotape evidence, found Kevorkian guilty of murder. The judge in the case did not allow the defense to present testimony about Youk's pain and suffering, and emphasized that whether the victim consents is legally irrelevant in murder cases. Kevorkian plans to appeal the verdict.
Kevorkian's is the latest in a series of contentious euthanasia cases that have challenged and, in some cases, changed Americans' beliefs about death, mercy, and killing. Less than three decades ago, many people considered the removal of a comatose patient's respirator a shocking act of passive euthanasia. Today, the most divisive euthanasia cases concern physician-assisted suicide and Kevorkian's direct mercy killing. The authors in Euthanasia: Opposing Viewpoints debate these increasingly complex topics in the following chapters: Is Euthanasia Ethical? Should Voluntary Euthanasia Be Legalized? Would Legalizing Euthanasia Lead to Involuntary Killing? Should Physicians Assist in Suicide? The viewpoints in this book help shed light on the legal and ethical problems that Americans continue to face in their quest for a "good death."
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If Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis sang opera and were graduates of a famous Parisian clown school, they might have had an act similar to the Donovan Ensemble's "Super Spectacular: To Opera with Love."
Union City resident Joseph Kolbow plays theatrical ringleader Merril Garrik, "a hasbeen who never was," he said, to his partner Johnnie Niel's manservant Emmet, and in the span of an hour, the two run down six operas interspersed with the musical stylings of Guns and Roses and Taylor Swift.
"Emmet ends up upstaging Merril, which causes conflict because Emmet is far more talented," Kolbow said as he sat in the empty sanctuary of St. John's Episcopal Church on Palisade Avenue in Union City. When asked if their stage relationship had any bearing on their real relationship, Kolbow said with a snicker, "No comment."
But the fact is, in reality, Kolbow has become a ringleader of sorts in two local crusades: one, to bring together the rich artistic community that exists in the city and surrounding area; and two, to save St. John's.
"The goal is to fill the church, and more specifically the sanctuary, with arts of all kinds." – Joe Kolbow
But they still need help.
Beyond the mass
Kolbow hopes to build on the slim congregation of 15 with what he terms an arts initiative entitled "Arts at St. John's," with the intention to bring all sorts of entertainment together beyond the once-weekly hour long masses.
"The goal is to fill the church, and more specifically the sanctuary, with arts of all kinds," Kolbow said. "Whether it be visual art, theatre, dance, or clowns, we want to generate community participation as well as a sustainable income stream for the congregation."
Vicar Geoff Curtis of All Saints congregation in Hoboken heard of the dilemma and offered to help. His plan for St. John's, Kolbow explained, mirrors the rescue operation he led in the 1980s when he consolidated three Hoboken churches on their last legs and consolidated them into All Saints on Washington Street.
Curtis oversees the Jubilee Center, which is a thriving children's program, and he has taken over St. John's popular after school children's program, Puerta Abierta (Open Door), which now has much surer financial footing thanks to the takeover.
St. John's consists of more than just a sanctuary. Its large upstairs gymnasium and downstairs theatre space currently host Puerta Abierta activities, but from a real estate perspective, these vacant spaces could be generating more income, Kolbow posited. They've been used in the past for performances and community yoga classes but have not lasted long.
"Church has always been important for arts in the community," Curtis explained. "St. John's is trying to provide the opportunity for artists to use its space for a variety of activity and become a place where spirituality and art meet."
Staging a future
Over 30 people from the community joined together April 12 in the sanctuary and formed a sort of think tank to figure out how best to promote the arts and save the church.
"We were actually laughing a bit at the meeting at how there were more people there that night than there were in the whole congregation," Kolbow said. "It was fantastic. People were laughing, talking, having a good time; it was more like what church should be."
The meeting generated "tons of ideas," according to Kolbow. People suggested everything from coffee houses to open mics, acting classes to gallery openings, and even a possible classical chamber music series which would suit the soaring acoustical space of the sanctuary well.
There was an overriding takeaway from the meeting, Kolbow said, and it was that any of the brainstormed events held at the church must be driven by volunteers who are willing to own the programs and to make them happen.
Kolbow asks that those with ideas bring in proposals that include the extent of access to space they will need, which space (the sanctuary, gymnasium, or basement theatre), how much time it will take, and a tentative startup budget that includes where the money will come from.
"My most optimistic take on this is that Union City is ready to build a thriving artistic community together outside of Manhattan similar to how it's been done in Brooklyn and Queens," Kolbow said. "Our dream is to make this happen, and the key is to find people with the passion and energy that can excite passion and energy in others and get the ball rolling."
The next meeting will be held at the church, located at 1516 Palisade Ave., on May 15 at 7:30 p.m. For more information on Art at St. John's, visit stjohns-unioncity.dioceseofnewark.org, or email email@example.com.
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Now that the field of 64 teams in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is down to the Elite Eight, I thought it might be fun to see how the different conferences have fared over the past two weeks.
The tourney committee had definite feelings about the comparative strength of the conferences, and gave slots to the teams according. Let's review how many:
Big East: 8
Big 12: 7
Big Ten: 5
Mt West: 4
Horizon: 1
(A lot of other conferences got one slot, too.) And now, let's review how many remain:
Big East: 1
Big 12: 2
Big Ten: 1
Mt West: 1
Horizon: 1
So, what's my point?
Historically, the Big Eight, Big Ten, and ACC get the most at-large berths to the NCAA tourney. Since its inception, the Big 12 has been added to that list.
This year, only the Big 12 has lived up to their billing, with two of their seven teams in the Elite Eight. The Big East and ACC were big disappointments — and not for the first time. When will the committee learn?
But with both Kentucky and Tennessee still in the hunt, the SEC boasts a 50 percent showing, since tourney officials only saw fit to send four teams to the big dance.
Kentucky plays West Virginia tonight for the East Regional Championship and a berth in the Final Four. Tomorrow, Tennessee plays Michigan State for the Midwest Regional Championship.
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Date: Feb 19, 2013
Hofstra Long Island Regional Spelling Bee
Winner will Represent Long Island at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May
Who: 4th-8th grade students from 103 schools in Nassau and Suffolk Counties – see full listing below
Hofstra University's Dr. Carole Clark Papper, a noted professor of writing studies and composition, will serve as head judge and moderator of the event.
What: Hofstra Long Island Regional Spelling Bee. The winner of the Bee will go on to represent the region at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., later this spring.
When: Sunday, February 24, 2013. (The Spelling Bee was originally scheduled for February 10 and had to be rescheduled because of Snowstorm "Nemo.")
Schedule for the day is as follows –
- 10-11:30 a.m., Registration
- 10:30-11:45 a.m., Written exam (students will take the test in small groups, on a rolling basis as they arrive)
- Noon, Preliminary oral round
- 1-2 p.m., Break
- 2 p.m., Finalists announced – test scores for the written exam and the preliminary oral round will be added together. The number of finalists are expected to be between 35-50 children.
- 2:15 p.m., The traditional spelling bee "spelldown" will begin and will continue until there is a winner.
Where: Hofstra University's John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus. Directions below.
How: This is a ticketed event, not open to the general public.
Media: Participating students have had a media release form signed by their parents on file.
Once the Spelling Bee has started, all media will be stationed in the front row balcony
where a mult box will be available. No flash photography will be permitted as it could distract participants during the competition.
Directions to the John Cranford Adams Playhouse:
Meadowbrook Parkway to Exit M4 (Coliseum, Hempstead Turnpike, Rte. 24 West). Once on Hempstead Turnpike, make a U-turn at the fourth traffic light - just before going under the third Unispan (pedestrian bridge). After making U-Turn, drive approximately 70 feet and make the first right onto the South Campus. Go past 2 stop signs. The building around the corner on the left is the John Cranford Adams Playhouse.
More information is available at http://spellingbee.com.
In the event of inclement weather please call the weather hotline (516) 463-SNOW or visit www.hofstra.edu regarding the status of the competition.
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Judge Ron Northup continued the women's arraignment to 8:30 a.m. Sept. 13 in the Manteca branch of San Joaquin County Superior Court.
According to Rothkehl's court-appointed attorney, Robert Remlinger, his client could enter a plea with the court during the next hearing.
"The possibility of something could happen at the next hearing … it's, I think it's certainly within the realm of possibility," he said.
Remlinger, who was appointed to represent Rothkehl during an arraignment July 9, said during a phone interview after court that he needed to review evidence and that he also wanted time to talk to his client about the charges she faces.
John Casenave, who was appointed to represent Trout during the July 9 hearing, was unavailable for comment Monday.
During the arraignment, the defense attorneys and the prosecutor met with the judge in his chambers while the two sisters remained in the courtroom. They appeared in court free on bail.
After the hearing, Deputy District Attorney Stephen Taylor would not discuss specifics about the meeting in chambers, but he said the defendants' attorneys had raised some questions about the charges against each of their clients.
According to court documents, Rothkehl was hired by Dhillon in February 2009 as a clerk and later became the company's office manager. Trout was hired in July 2009 to work with her sister as the bookkeeper-accountant.
Rothkehl wrote numerous company checks and opened a Costco American Express card in the company's name, with which the pair charged more than $10,000 to the company's bank account, court documents state.
On April 4, 2011, both women were reportedly wiped out the company's computer files and shredded accounting records before leaving for lunch and never returning, according to court records.
Outside the courtroom, Taylor said that hiring relatives or best friends in accounting-related positions provides no checks to make sure the financial books are balanced.
He said Dhillon Hospitality was not insured and that the alleged actions of the sisters resulted in the Tracy-based business closing and six people losing their jobs.
The company's owner calculated the estimated loss, according to court documents.
"I hate to see this happen," Taylor said. "We need to protect small businesses. The person making the checks should not be the one doing the (financial accounts) reconciliation."
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Why Obamacare will triumph despite glitches and the GOP
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
The GOP-controlled House Ways and Means is the first of the three GOP congressional committees "investigating" Obamacare to try and pulverize it -- again. GOP committee members pounded hard on the stock GOP hit points; it's a mess because of a lousy computer system, thousands have gotten sticker shock after getting cancellation notices, there's big sneaky insurance price hikes on the way, there are the subsidies that don't subsidize, and the demand to oust HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The capper is that President Obama supposedly blatantly lied when he promised no one would lose their current health insurance plan due to Obamacare.
The GOP hit points are based on the usual mix of lies, half-truths, and wild distortions. The computer glitch is a fact. But its importance in the overall initial implementation of Obamacare has been wildly overblown. Thousands have in fact searched and signed up for various health plans both online and through the state exchanges. Millions more will sign up online when the glitches are corrected, and they will be. The overwhelming majority of policy holders have either workplace plans and grandfathered polices that were purchased before March 2010. They are not forced at Obamcare gunpoint to switch to costly coverage plans. The penalties for not having insurance that were supposed to be financial killers amount to a $95 fine or 1 percent of an individual's income whichever is greater.
The subsidies to help pay for coverage are bankrolled to the tune of more than a half trillion dollars. This will slash the actual costs of the various plans offered on the exchanges by more than half for a family of four. Most of those who fall below the poverty line won't be affected by any of this since they'll be covered through a radically ramped up Medicaid coverage in most states that's paid for by the federal government. Despite she bluster from some GOP governors about rejecting the Medicaid funding increases, the almost certain rise in health care costs will force states to pay even more for medical coverage to low income persons. The pressure will be great for the hardball GOP governors to rethink their opposition to taking the beefed up Medicaid bailout.
Then there are the supposed big price hikes that Obamacare supposedly will trigger. Insurance premium costs will likely jump no matter whether Obamacare exists or not. That's due to inflated medical treatment costs, the impotence of most state regulatory agencies to halt rapacious insurer rate hikes, and the hard reality that programs that emphasize prevention which have proven far more effective in reining in medical costs are still poor step children to the pricey and vastly more profitable drug and surgical treatments that remain the bread and butter staple of the medical establishment.
Even if in an absolute best case scenario for the GOP every one of its hit points proved true, Obamacare would still go forth for the very reasons that it became law, and has survived every court test, up to and including the Supreme Court in the first place. It provides tens of millions of Americans with access to a health plan, there will be subsidies for low-income persons to offset the costs, a half million children will be covered under their parent's plans, millions of dollars will be allocated for research and testing, the establishment of more than 1000 new health care facilities in many rural and urban communities, the National Health Service Corps workforce will be tripled and millions of elderly and disabled Americans covered under Medicare will have no cost access to health care preventive services.
Most important is that the millions of chronically uninsured and underinsured Americans for the first time will have full access to health care. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the number of uninsured Americans will fall from 55 million to 31 million between the present and 2023. The proportion of the population with coverage will rise from 82 percent to 92 percent.
The GOP hit plan on Obamacare is and always has been much more than a battle to scrap a health care plan that is supposedly flawed, failed, and a big government intrusion into the lives of Americans. It is a crude and cynical political ploy to inflame millions of Americans and stoke hostility to Obama and the Democrats. The GOP banks that its steady attack will give it the political edge it desperately needs to hold the House in the 2014 midterm elections and make a big run at gaining majority control in the Senate.
But polls consistently show that while many Americans have deep concerns and even legitimate fears about the short-term effect of Obamacare, they do not want it scrapped. The GOP's drumbeat hit campaign on Obamacare can't erase this fact. That's why Obamacare will ultimately triumph.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is a frequent MSNBC contributor. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on American Urban Radio Network. He is the host of the weekly Hutchinson Report on KTYM 1460 AM Radio Los Angeles and KPFK-Radio and the Pacifica Network.
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