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I have just gone through a major crisis, averted a diagnosis of lymphoma. Through this, lots of blood work, 2 neck surgeries and CT scans, thyroid cancer test, thyroid numbers everything has been poked and proded. I have "craniofacial hyperhydrosis"of no known cause. The only anomoly for me is the severe osteoarthritis of the c-spine, my discs are herniating in my neck, there is central canal stenosis and the sweating continues.
It is only my head that pours sweat, I am not talking beads of sweat I am talking about sweat that pours off my head onto me, the table, my grandkids. It's disgusting. Rivlets of sweat pouring down while I eat or watch tv or shop for food or do anything. I cannot make it stop. Also I have the sensaton of things walking on my head, feels like bugs walking around the scalp. Nothing is there it's a most annoying feeling. I get those nerve twinges on my head, twiches I guess you would call it. It drives me nuts.
Horminal? That stopped a long time ago. That is a catch all, doctors throw lots of stuff in that category. I wish doctors were made to suffer some of the things that we suffer, hormonal.
I am going to make an appointment with my neurosrgeon to see what he thinks. He is a good doctor and he is very sympathetic.View Thread
I know your pain and I know your dilemma. Please get a Social Security lawyer ASAP. You will not have to pay out of pocket for services if there is no case then they are not inclined to take the case but if the medical evidence is there then you will begin the process. The law office I used is in Philadelphia and if you would like to contact them (if you are a PA resident) then email me and I will send you their information: email@example.com. If not and you are from another state just utilize a firm that has experience, they will have a better put together website. After your denial they should appeal for you. And mine was pretty quick after the appeal went in. They conducted everything by phone interview, they got your medical files from treating physicians, they go into court with you if the judge wants to meet with you. My judge did want to see me. He was really very nice, it was not as stressful as I expected it to be and he made the decision then and there. I think he already made the decision just wanted to meet with me. He had an occupational specialist there and she made her recommendation and he found "less than sedentary work" which is no work. It was such a relief when it was all over with. But you really need to file with a good firm. Let me know if you want the referral to the law firm I used.
God bless, I am keeping you in my prayers.
SharonView Thread
I will figure this out and share the outcome.View Thread
This is definitely not female hormone related. This is much, much more profuse and is only the head my arm pits are bone dry when this occurs. Not even sweating on my chest, it's just the head. Of course after several minutes I do begin to sweat in other areas due to the sheer embarrassment of it all. I skipped the Pumpkin Patch last week with my grandkids due to it. I just could not bring myself to go. When something affects me this much it's bad, very bad. I hate missing fun with the kids. I don't get out much these days and it's not healthy for us to do this. I spent an hour crying, sobbing and of course sweating from my head because I had to say no. It has to end and I will do anything to stop it.
So I go back to be poked and prodded with needles, medications, anything is better than this.View Thread
Anyone with OA in the neck probably has severe enough muscle spasms as I did and Botox can be used for that.View Thread
Here is how it goes: Company tests batches for issues, they notice issue they contact FDA and let them know that they have a problem. The division of Biologics is the exact group at FDA involved in "injectables". The FDA then investigates the site of the contaminate. This takes lots of time to happen. At any rate physicians or facilities are notified by the supplier that they have an "incident" and they issue a recall. Somewhere along that line the press becomes aware of the goings on. If it is widespread the FDA, CDC, HHH and others setup with the company the recall. If the drug in this case an injectable medication has been used then a recall is very silly, does the patient have to be "recalled"? Well your doctor would already have notified you. Do you have anything that states what lot number was on the vial you were injected with? Your doctor does and you need to call ASAP. This is not something to play around with.
I don't know if this is your problem, you may have an allergic reaction to the medication. My mother and sister have this type of reaction to lidocaine and other ____caines. It is not topical lidocaine it is only in the injection. You may also have a problem with too much cortisone in your system. I have had this when I have had lots of injections at different doctors or when taking higher dose orally. You can have rash, feel hot like you are burning up, get chills, and suffer a little mania (which co-workers think is funny but it's not really).
Meningitis is no joke and you would suffer such a headache you would go to the ER. You would be very, very sick. Call a doctor.View Thread
My pain guy is now scheduling me for RFA in cervical facet joints. OUCH when he uses a little "sleepy" medication. I have had this done without I told them but he insists that I be sleepy. He has been my primary go to guy of late for injections and when he says "sleepy" he's gonna hurt. Maybe this time he will do the correct procedure because the first guy to do it was eating donuts, bs'ing with his assistant and it just didn't work out right at all. Didn't work at all.
If you need it you should ask for it and they should comply with your request it is a "standard of care" in the U.S. to numb prior to shooting. I call it shooting now adays, sometimes that's what it feels like.View Thread
I have had doctor's nurses say "It's only ol arthur" when calling about xray results. So now I say back, "no, it's worse than that, it's primary, idiopathic, generalized, oseoarthritis". Primary- Not secondary to injury, Idiopathic-Of no known cause, Generalized-Multi-site and bilateral joints. But PIGO does not sound good so we need to get that gone because it implies a weight issue which most of us do not have at onset but the pounds build up when you can't keep yourself mobilized all the time and some of our medications add pounds, Lyrica is one such medication. We often have other pain "syndromes": Fibromyalgia, Myofascial Pain, RSD and so on.
We are so different than the wear and tear group and they do not understand this disease. We need to make sure our doctors know this. My GP is really good when I told him of my latest dx (my spine guy sent me to the knee guy) both knees he just said "oh gez", he is getting it. My GP is my medication doctor and I request all "shooters" report the cortisone injections to him due to an issue a couple years back with glaucoma. My regular eye app. and my pressure was up in both eyes. I did a lot of reading and discovered that as a result of all the shooters I had too many doses of cortisone in a short period of time and developed glaucoma which quickly resolved as the injections stopped.
We need to be diligent in our care and aware of these types of issues.
Maybe I'll look around and see what we can do about a site that informs people of the possibility that they have this form of OA. We need this to be recognized as a completely separate form of arthritis.
I hear you loud and clear!View Thread
I would first call the doctor to let them know just how bad it is. Pain level, pain calendar often helps. Not weird reaction just not as expected.
Elevate and ice for the first 24 hours, then try some heat. Sometimes the medication can crystallize, it's a weird thing. If that has happened it takes longer to dissolve which takes longer to help the inflammation.Remember cortisone is only an anti inflammatory and has no pain relieving properties. So you need to take some pain medication, did they provide a script or suggest what to take? Be careful of acetaminophen or paracetamol because this is not an anti inflammatory only pain and be very, very careful of how many you take as this can have disastrous effects on the liver. I have had this happen in my back (crystallization) and have found heat to be very soothing. Same instructions as for ice; 20 minutes on and off. I find though that I become to used to the heat and it doesn't have the same soothing effect after a while.
I have so many good and bad experiences with shots, everywhere-back, neck, elbows, carpal tunnel, knees, ankles, once for plantar faccitits (that one I would never, ever repeat) I clawed the table, I think I left a hole in the upholstery. He said "scream if you have to but don't pull away, I'll have to start over again". When a doctor says that to you LOOK OUT!!
They know how bad the shots can be and they need to sound proof the room they use for shots. The only one that left me moaning was one at the base of my tail bone after my first back surgery because he thought it would be a better location for the shot, "literature states". How embarrassing because I was not prepared for that one, just above the anus into the spinal canal or whats left of it. Face down screaming into the table padding. Never again, plus I think he caused a pilonidal cyst with that. Link to that:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilonidal_cyst
Good luck, prayers for you, call the doctor.View Thread
I will keep everyone informed. Of course after a very gentile examination I have a terrific headache now. It started shortly after I posted yesterday. This has the makings for a really bad one. I keep changing pillows, my bed is brand new and very comfortable. I find feather pillows to be the best for support because I can fluff and position them anyway needed. Oh boy this one will hopefully work.
I had the RFA done way back in 2006, it did not work so good but it was a different doc who was not so clean shall we say. I never knew a doctor to eat during a procedure before or since. Donuts one day. That bothered me because you should be in a kind of sterile environment when sticking needles into someone's neck, I would imagine anyway. No pre-meds of any kind, when I read the reports he made of the procedures, the RFA, he noted that the actual pulse lasted 90 seconds. Well, I can tell you that it was not a minute and 1/2. More like 30 or 40 seconds. I was fully awake and if it would have lasted that long it would have seemed an eternity. Really. He also had hit a vessel because blood poured out and down my chin onto the fluoroscopic machine, I thought it might have been an anesthetic when I opened my eyes I realized it was a pretty fast flowing stream of blood and I had to tell them (Dr. and assistant) that I was bleeding. They were just chit chatting and the actual ablation had not started yet they were still placing the needles. Eating donuts, chit chatting not paying attention to the patient at all. " Hey! bleeding here!". Then they had not grounded me, they have to attach an electorde to your leg and they could not figure out why it was not working. Again I had to tell them "Hey! not grounded here!"
I know that with the real pain specialist this will not occur. And I get to be minimally sedated unlike my 2006 experience wide awake.
I will let you all know as soon as it's done. It's not unlike epidurals but this is the neck not the low back. Most of all if it stops the sweats since they do the smaller nerves, rami nerves I think it is.
Thanks for your well wishes.View Thread
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TOCCOA, Ga. - The Stephens County Hospital Auxiliary soon will be brought under the legal umbrella of the hospital.
Stephens County Hospital administrator Ed Gambrell said that since the auxiliary was founded in 1962, it has been a separate legal entity from the hospital with a separate federal tax identification number.
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Sixteen-year-old Logan Pluhar of Canyon had a long day Friday, beginning when she arrived at the Taylor County Expo Center to prepare herself and her horse for the day's events.
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January 1, 1896
Cairo, Illinois, United States
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Estelle "Mama" Yancey (January 1, 1896 – April 19, 1986) was an American blues singer. She was nominated four times for the Blues Music Awards as "Traditional Blues Female Artist."[1]
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Yancey, born Estella Harris in Cairo, Illinois, grew up in Chicago, where she sang in church choirs and learned how to play the guitar.[2] In 1925, when she was 29, she married Jimmy Yancey,[3] who had traveled the U.S. and Europe as a vaudeville dancer. She often sang with him at informal get-togethers and house parties in the 1940s and performed with him at Carnegie Hall, New York in 1948. Because Jimmy Yancey was a great boogie-woogie/blues piano player, Estelle recorded several times with her husband. In 1943, the Yanceys recorded for Session Records, and went back into the studio to record the album Pure Blues for Atlantic Records in 1951. The session was just a few months before Jimmy Yancey's death that same year.[4]
Estelle continued to perform and record. In her late years, she often performed with Chicago pianist Erwin Helfer, especially at University of Chicago Folk Festivals. One of the best examples of her soulful, expressive vocals can be found on an album for Atlantic Records, Jimmy and Mama Yancey: Chicago Piano, Vol. 1. (1952). Songs include "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor," "Four O'Clock Blues," "Monkey Woman Blues," "Santa Fe Blues," and "How Long Blues."
Mama Yancey's recordings with other pianists include "Mama Yancey, singer, Don Ewell, pianist" for Windin' Ball Recordings (1952), "Chicago--The Living Legends: South Side Blues" for the Riverside label (1961), "Mama Yancey sings, Art Hodes plays Blues" for Verve Records in 1965, Maybe I'll Cry with Erwin Helfer for the Red Beans label in 1983, recorded at ages 86–87, and "The Blues of Mama Yancey: Axel Zwingenberger and the Friends of Boogie Woogie, vol. 4 for Vagabond Records, recorded in 1982 and 1983 and released in 1988.
Estelle Yancey died April 19, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois.
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|"How Long Blues," "Pallet On the Floor," and "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor"
|Jimmy and Mama Yancey: Chicago Piano, Vol. 1. (Originally released as "Ma and Jimmy Yancey Special")
|Maybe I'll Cry
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- ^ The Blues Foundation Blues Music Awards
- ^ Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who (Revised Ed.). New York: Da Capo Press, p. 591, (1994). ISBN 0-306-80155-8
- ^ Bowers, Jane (2000). "Writing the Biography of a Black Woman Blues Singer". In Moisala, Pirkko; Diamond, Beverley. Music and Gender. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 145.
- ^ Santelli, Robert. The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia, page 532, (2001) - ISBN 0-14-015939-8
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Last 50 pages or so were quite good....Graves knew many exceptional people.
[on T.E. Lawrence)"To him painting, sculpture, music, and poetry were parallel activities, differing only in the medium used. Lawrence told me:'When I asked Doughty why he had made that Arabian journey his answer was that he had gone there to redeem the English language from the slough into which it had fallen since the time of Spenser'".
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"Hardy then laughed a little. Once or twice recently he had looked up a word in the dictionary for fear of being again accused of coining, and found it there right enough-only to read on and discover that the sole authority quoted was himself in a half-forgotten novel."
War effects different people in different ways. Some it strengthens their convictions about matters of faith and some it weakens. Tolkien and Graves are two examples of such differing effects.
Some war memoirs very much focuses on the war. There is a little biography before and perhaps after to get the reader a basic understanding of the who the characters are in the protagonists life. This book on the other hand has quite a bit of autobiography in it. We learn about Graves' time in school. His comments about the problems with the British public school system of his youth. One critique he had was that the segregation of the boys from the girls caused quite a bit of homosexual activity, both physical and emotional. He states that for every one genuine homosexual male there were probably 9 experimenter. He was one of the 9 out of 10 though he never admits to anything graphic other than emotional attachment. He marries after the war and never mentions issues with male attraction after that point.
He talks about his love for climbing and long walks in the country. And he talks about getting in the military. He was fortunate enough to be guided into the officer corps. Talks about his time in training, adjusting to the military way of doing things, and finally being sent to France.
Naturally his experiences on the front lines are described. He was wounded on several occasions. Once seriously and he was reported dead. Which report was duly communicated to his family. He was able to communicate with them not to long afterwards and let them know he survived.
He speaks about life after the war. Going to school. Meeting and spending time with Lawrence of Arabia. Moving to Egypt for a year or so to teach. An abortive effort to open a general store. His few friends. Finally moving from England finding the politics and religion there disagreeable. He did return and was there during WWII which he mentions. One of his sons was killed in action as a British soldier.
Worth reading but the effects of his experience were not the effects on everyone who served. His faith was lost but not all responded to the war that way.
He did comment that Catholic priests on the front lines were better than the Protestant pastors. the priests pushed forward all the way into the trenches and were often there during attacks to give last rites and comfort to the dying. The Protestant pastors were rarely at the front. Some commanders noted the same issue in WII. Obviously not to the credit of the Protestants.
Truthful, direct, unvarnished, beautifully written - but make sure you read the author's revised 1957 edition not the original. As well as his childhood and schooldays, Graves' account of the trenches in WWI tells of the horror, yes, but also the humour, the bravery - and the sharp differences there could be between infantry units - to the extent that they were or weren't well-trained and well-officered. And then the aftermath - as a poet among poets, in sophisticated Oxford and the relatively unchanged environment of a rural village. A must read. With thanks to Bill, who kindly gave me this copy.
If you only want to read one book about the trench war and World War I, or the Great War, as it was called in its time, Goodbye to all that by Robert Graves would be an excellent choice. Graves was one of the long-term, active combattants. Goodbye to all that is a first-hand account of the horrors of trench warfare. It describes all the images which have since become emblematic for that event: snipers, gas, gas masks, severed limbs, etc. Horrors including sinking once fingers into a putrified corps while groping in the dark under shell fire, comrades who are felled by a shot in the skull from a sniper, and soldiers being blown up by grenades. There is also a passage in which he described the successive colours of the stages of decomposition of a corpse. Gruesome! Robert Graves survived these horrors much longer than most other soldiers, apparently through a great deal of luck, and the sensible attitude to not take any unnecessary risk, and pursuing a strategy of survival.
The first 80 pages, or so, deal with Graves time at boarding school in England, and the reality of war comes on very soon. The writing is very engaging, and the whole book is a very easy read. Towards the end, Graves descibes many literary figures he met, such as Siegfried Sassoon whom he actually met at the front, and other authors, later such as Aldous Huxley. The final 100 pages of the book seem to be dragging a bit, as they describe Graves life after the war.
Goodbye to all that is a very good introductory read to understanding the action of the Great War.
Great book. Martin Jarvis is a wonderful reader. Robert Graves is very frank about his time in the trenches during World War l. It was eye opening! I was especially interested in his connection to George Mallory. Found this on a list of best books about World War l.
Goodbye to all what? Not just to the trenches of World War I, but to all his life in England up to 1929, the year when poet Robert Graves wrote this memoir of his early years. I read it as an accompaniment to Pat Barker's Regeneration, on which I will be commenting in a few days.
The same characters and the same war appear in both books — Graves himself, Sigfried Sassoon, the trenches, the mutilated bodies. While Regeneration is a novel, Goodbye to All That is a firsthand account of the horrors. Graves tells us how, as a boy of 19, he casually made the decision to fight.
"I had just finished with Charterhouse and gone up to Harlech, when England declared war on Germany. A day or two later I decided to enlist. In the first place, though the papers predicted only a very short war – over by Christmas at the outside – I hoped that it might last long enough to delay my going to Oxford in October, which I dreaded. Nor did I work out the possibilities of getting actively engaged in the fighting, expecting garrison service at home, while the regular forces were away."
And so it goes! Four years later,
"…I was still mentally and nervously organized for war. Shells used to come bursting on my bed at midnight, even though Nancy shared it with me; strangers in daytime would assume the faces of friends who had been killed."
Although my edition had a brief Epilogue from 1957, in the memoir itself Graves captures the mood of England's middle and intellectual classes during the years before and after The Great War. As a new officer, Graves learned of his responsibilities as gentleman:
"First of all – I had not only gone to an inefficient tailor, but also had a soldier-servant who neglected to polish my buttons and shine my belt and boots as he should have done. Never having owned a valet before, I did not know what to expect of him. Crawshaw finally summoned me to the Orderly Room. He would not send me to France, he said, until I had entirely overhauled my wardrobe and looked more like a soldier…."
Once in France, Graves found more serious responsibilities than the polish of his belt. His report of those years is almost unemotional. He doesn't feel sorry for himself, there is no "poor me" to get between us and his account of his experiences. After the war Graves was disabled by shell shock. Nervous and twitching and unable to settle comfortably into a new life, he continued as a writer. I am glad he survived to tell this story and all the others he gave us during a long career.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0385093306, Paperback)The quintessential memoir of the generation of Englishmen who suffered in World War I is among the bitterest autobiographies ever written. Robert Graves's stripped-to-the-bone prose seethes with contempt for his class, his country, his military superiors, and the civilians who mindlessly cheered the carnage from the safety of home. His portrait of the stupidity and petty cruelties endemic in England's elite schools is almost as scathing as his depiction of trench warfare. Nothing could equal Graves's bone-chilling litany of meaningless death, horrific encounters with gruesomely decaying corpses, and even more appalling confrontations with the callousness and arrogance of the military command. Yet this scarifying book is consistently enthralling. Graves is a superb storyteller, and there's clearly something liberating about burning all your bridges at 34 (his age when Good-Bye to All That was first published in 1929). He conveys that feeling of exhilaration to his readers in a pell-mell rush of words that remains supremely lucid. Better known as a poet, historical novelist, and critic, Graves in this one work seems more like an English Hemingway, paring his prose to the minimum and eschewing all editorializing because it would bring him down to the level of the phrase- and war-mongers he despises. --Wendy Smith
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The school custodians are some of the first casualties in the Republican War against public education. These school custodians were dedicated to the welfare of the students. The school custodians give the extra effort to maintain the buildings so the students and teachers could focus on education. This extra effort, care and dedication provided by the school custodians cannot be obtained in the language of a contract.
Because of the unnecessary Republican budget cuts and fear of having an emergency manager take over the Spring Lake schools, our locally-controlled school, the school board privatized the custodial services.
While the custodians are the first casualties, there will be more. Next year, there will be more Republican budget cuts, public schools will be forced to use their reserves and Spring Lake Public School will be forced into a financial emergency. The financial emergency will justify the takeover by one of the 400 emergency managers being trained by the state. The emergency manager will lead the way to achieve the Republican agenda of a complete privatization of public schools.
When the emergency manager arrives and takes over the Spring Lake school district, you, the voter, will be disenfranchised. Your vote will be meaningless. You will no longer be able to vote for school board members.
If you doubt it will happen here, just ask your brothers and sisters in Benton Harbor, Detroit or Pontiac. It is happening in their community and it will happen here.
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Teaser Trailer For Iron Man 3 Unlocked
Earlier this week the Iron Man Facebook page started a promotion to power up Tony Stark's armor by "likes." As you can imagine, fans started flooding the page with likes and the armor power level went up hourly.
Today the counter finally hit 100% and an 18 second teaser trailer was released. The full trailer as well as a poster for the highly anticipated movie will be released Monday and Tuesday. Check back with CBT and we'll have those for you as soon as they hit. You can check out the Iron Man Facebook page by clicking here as well.
Marvel Studios' Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Directed by Shane Black, Iron Man 3 stars Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Rebecca Hall, James Badge Dale, Jon Favreau, and Guy Pearce. Iron Man 3 is set for a 3D release on 26th April, 2013 here in the UK, followed soon after by a 3rd May release in the US.
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MOORE — Pill bottles were popping at the Brand Senior Center.
And not for the usual reasons.
About 25 seniors opened large orange pill bottles, known as Vials of Life.
MOORE — Pill bottles were popping at the Brand Senior Center.
And not for the usual reasons.
About 25 seniors opened large orange pill bottles, known as Vials of Life.
Each bottle contained a refrigerator magnet and a form on which the vial's owner can list medical conditions, allergies, emergency contacts and insurance information.
The vials, provided by volunteers with Norman Regional Health System, are free to the public and allow users to store medical information, history and contacts in one location.
Girl Scout Cadet Mikayla Thompson, 13, of Troop 798 in Moore, presented the vials to the seniors as part of a Girl Scout project that will allow her to receive the Silver Award, the highest award a Girl Scout in her league can achieve.
"Start by putting your name on the vial and filling out the medical information on the form provided inside the vial," Mikayla said. "Put the magnet on your refrigerator door and store the vile inside your refrigerator on the top shelf."
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In the event of an emergency, paramedics will see the magnet on the refrigerator door and know the medical information is inside the refrigerator, Mikayla said.
Some paramedics have even begun looking for the magnet first, she said.
"I've wanted to do this ever since my grandma was admitted to the hospital due to heart problems. I remember how long it took us to find her medical information," Mikayla said.
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Kelly Wells, the Norman Regional Health System's public communication coordinator, said Vials of Life are available at the three hospitals associated with the health system — Norman Regional Hospital, 901 N Porter Ave.; Norman HealthPlex at Interstate 35 and Tecumseh Road; and Moore Medical Center, 700 S Telephone Road. For more information, call Norman Regional Health System's Education Center at 307-1827 or go to www.
Some people our age are as healthy as a horse, and others you never know. In either case, it's good to know what you have and to have something like this to keep it all together."
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chatting during the round should be an automatic kick from game. Need to teach people team play one way or another.
chatting during the round should be an automatic kick from game. Need to teach people team play one way or another.
It's a little mean but you have to protect yourself. If I was playing in a competition or on lan I would probably not do this in an attempt to preserve the integrity of the game. However there you have timeout/timein that absolutely should be used.
depends who it is
i don't think its very honorable to kill someone whose chatting, on the contrast to that sometimes you better kill off someone standing around as they might just shoot you in the back the second you turn your back on em.
Unless it's a duel with a friend, I say take 'em out. In FFA, a chat frag is worth just as many points as a double mid-air rocket juggle combo, and in a team game, they're probably giving information to their teammates, so you must make it costly for them. And it's not like the other person is losing a point by dying.
Besides, someone's going to get credit for the free kill. It might as well be me.
i agree that chatfragging is offensive, but *chatting* is more offensive, if you are in the server with me, you should be playing, not chatting.
said that, i generally let them be, more so if it's the beginning of the round. i do however have a spambind /bind m say LESS TALKY MOAR FRAGGY that sees a lot of use.
I sometimes stop to type something mid-game if I'm ahead, or have no chance of catching up. But I harbor no illusions that the little speech bubble grants me some sort of temporary immunity from someone looking for an easy kill.
in quake live you can frag and chat in real time, which is great. Sometimes the fragging is fun, sometimes the chatting is fun. Sometimes peoples chat can be annoying, particularly if they are using racist or homophobic language, but then coming upon them whilst they are typing and revving the gauntlet up their ass is hugely satisfying. If I feel like making some pithy comment, I don't expect to be alive when I hit enter. Also I have played some games where I have been top of the scoreboard half way through, but sabotage my own chances of winning because I feel compelled to say "feel the power of ... THE GROCER" or similar because it makes me happy and I enjoy the subsequent abuse. It's like having real friends.
QL is shooty shooty not chatty chatty. Spec if you want to practice your typing. I also like to frag those who are scratching their nose or on the phone even though somehow in game I should know they are doing that and leave them be.


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Catch the Live updates across the two Ranji Trophy semi-finals being played from January 18 to 22.
It will be a battle between top-notch batting line-up against a quality seam attack when Maharashtra with the likes of Kedar Jadhav and Vijay Zol take on Laxmi Ratan Shukla-led Bengal in the Ranji Trophy semi-finals.
Bengal, who have been a surprise package in the national championship, peaked at the right time defeating Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Railways in three back-to back matches while Maharashtra recorded an inspirational eight-wicket win against defending champions Mumbai in the Lion's den at the Wankhede Stadium.


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The Chairman of Elizade Group, Chief Michael Ade-Ojo, has urged parents to support the government to achieve the educational development of their children, saying education is a major tool of fighting poverty.
Ade-Ojo made the appeal in Ilara-Mokin in the Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State during the first anniversary and celebration of role models of Ilara-Mokin Youths for Positive Change.
He stressed the need for parents, particularly those in the rural, communities of the country, to develop interest in their children because education remained a major avenue of waging war against poverty in their lives.
Ade-Ojo said he had designed some programmes to encourage primary and secondary school pupils from the town to excel in their academics.
He also canvassed the protection of the culture of the people and the local language to prevent Yoruba language and the local dialect from going into extinction.
The Alara of Ilara-Mokin, Oba Abiodun Adefehinti, noted the contributions of the awardees to the development of the community, and emphasised the importance of education to the development of the town.
He advised the young ones in the town to be productive and aim at contributing to the upliftment and the development of the town in particular and the country in general.
The founder of IY4PC and the Lisa of Ilara-Mokin, Chief Ayo Ojo, said the group had in one year drawn attention to the need for the people to focus on their tomorrow and the future of the country in general.
He said the group planned to commence quiz competition amongst all secondary schools in Ifedore Local Government Area with the prize for "Academic Excellence" debuting next year.
Those who were honoured on the occasion included; Adeojo, the wife of Ekiti State Governor, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi; the Ondo State Commissioner for Works, Mr. Gboye Adegbenro, and an educationist, Dr. Isaac Odeyemi.
Others were late Prophetess Aladekungbe, Mrs. Oladunni Oshakuade and Late Olawale Fagbolagun.


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Jacks stalled by Cowboys...
The South Dakota State wrestling team stalled against Wyoming on Thursday night in this season's dual finale...
The Jacks wrestled hard, but could not overcome the seventh-ranked team in the country as the Cowboys rolled to a 45-0 win.
On senior night, lone SDSU senior Nick Flynn put forth a strong effort. After a scoreless first period, Flynn scored a reversal after choosing to be down to start the second period. A third-period escape and riding time advantage evened the score and Flynn was outlasted in overtime, 7-2.
Aaron Pickrel posted another close decision, falling 5-2 at 125 pounds to his nationally-ranked opponent.
SDSU finishes the season with a 4-9 overall record, 0-6 in the conference.
Wyoming improves to 9-3 overall, 5-0 in the conference with only North Dakota State remaining on the season schedule.
Play-by-play from tonight's dual is available at the beginning of this article.
Individual match scores from tonight's dual are available below.
Next up the Jacks head to the West Regional to take on individuals from the other WWC schools for the right to go to the NCAA Championships.
The West Regional is set to begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 4, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It is the third trip to Cedar Falls for SDSU this season. The Jacks competed at the UNI Open in early December before returning for a conference dual one and one-half weeks ago.
No. 7 Wyoming 45 - South Dakota State 0
125 - No. 18 Michael Martinez (WYO) dec. Aaron Pickrel, 5-2
133 - No. 16 Zach Zehner (WYO) fall Nick Chavez, 4:21
141 - Chase Smith (WYO) dec. Dustin Walraven, 9-2
149 - McCade Ford (WYO) fall Tyler Johnson, 0:39
157 - Andy McCulley (WYO) dec. (in overtime) Nick Flynn, 7-2
165 - No. 3 Shane Onufer (WYO) maj. dec. Dillon Reid, 10-2
174 - Pat Martinez (WYO) maj. dec. Joe Rasmussen, 11-3
184 - No. 1 Joe LeBlanc (WYO) fall Tony Lisek, 3:50
197 - No. 9 Alfonso Hernandez (WYO) maj. dec. Nick Mart, 17-4
Hwt. - L.J. Helbig (WYO) fall Joe Skow, 6:09
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Sewing workshop firm and haberdashery store team up to display and showcase some of their bespoke products
Posted: February 17, 2014|
A BUSINESS based in a village near Ashbourne has joined up with one of the town's independent stores to showcase hand-crafted products in a new window display.
Threads, which is based in Alstonefield and jointly run by Cathy Reavy and Jani Barnard, has a new display in Best Stitches, in Dig Street.
The two firms have been running for around 18 months and the new window display is based around a variety of items that can be made on the Threads workshops, including Japanese temari balls, embroidered biscornu and corsages.
Products on display also include quilted IPAD cases and a tray cloth worked on pure linen with Chicken Scratch stitch, a style thought to have originated in America.
A Bayeux stitch spectacle case in pure silk will also be on display, as will a Crewelwork sampler entitled 'A Nice Cup of Tea'.
The majority of the items on the diplay, which will be in place until Monday, March 3, can be made by complete beginners.
A full list of workshop dates for 2014 can be obtained from Best Stitches, by visiting www.threadsworkshops.co.uk or by calling 01335 310125.


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When I was twelve years old my parents dropped me off at my first sleep-away summer camp, International Sports Training Camp in Stroudsburg, PA. Although I was nervous, I was greeted with warm welcomes, strange accents, and an experience that would come to shape the rest of my life. I returned as a camper for three more years after that summer, and every week at camp was the best of my life. The facilities were beautiful and the games were fun, but the reason I returned was because of the staff.
ISTC employs people from as many as fifteen different countries in a summer and there are no words to describe what an amazing opportunity it is for a child to be surrounded by different cultures and different perspectives. Growing up in camp, I learned more and more from my coaches from Australian, counselors from Ireland, canteen workers from Slovakia, and even food service staff from Mexico. I learned about other parts of the world in a way that no geography class in high school could teach me. It was the international staff members that made camp such a special experience, unlike anywhere I had ever been before. These people allowed me to have such a great camp experience that I never wanted to leave… which is why I am still here ten years after my first day at camp, now as a staff member myself.
I have been working here for the past six years and still feel honored to be able to gain all that I am from the people of this camp. Just last night I was practicing my French and learning some Polish, which I now know is one of the hardest languages in the world. The people I have met here have opened my eyes to all that the rest of the world has to offer. Their courage and adventurousness to leave their homes and spend months working in America has inspired me to make it a point to get outside of my comfort zone and travel as well. From just recently taking a three week tour of eastern Europe to soon be spending three months studying in Morocco, I have witnessed the benefits of travel first-hand and will forever strive to immerse myself in the diversity of the world.
There is no doubt in my mind that my journey within the camp grounds at International Sports Training Camp have bettered me as a person, and will forever influence my future. This would not have happened without the opportunity to meet, befriend, and learn from the hundreds of international staff members that have been a part of my life for the past ten years. They are what makes this camp special, what takes it from a simple summer camp to a life changing experience, and what has been the single most positive influence in my life.


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The Women's Fund is dedicated to increasing support in Middle Tennessee for programs serving women and girls. The Women's Fund was established within The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in 1994 by a committee of community leaders who wanted to invest in long-term solutions for transforming the lives of women and girls, improving the well-being of our entire community.
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• Achievement of economic self-sufficiency for women
• Prevention of violence and crime against women and girls
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The Women's Fund is working to become Middle Tennessee's leading resource for identifying and supporting the needs of women and girls. As the only endowed fund of this kind, by building our capital to $10 million we can affect powerful social change within our constituencies.
Through our endowment within The Community Foundation, the interest generated from the Fund is given annually to provide support to programs dedicated to helping women and girls in our community. As the principal grows, so does our ability to meet crucial needs and effect social change.
At $10 million, our ability to address current needs in our community will increase almost fivefold to $500,000 annually, enabling The Women's Fund to not only address immediate needs, but also to address the root cause of the needs – to help craft solutions and effect social change. Growing the endowment enables us to shift from intervention to prevention, from temporary to permanent, and from short-term to transformative. Unmet needs will be met. Women's lives will be transformed.
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We are building on a solid foundation – more than 15 years of providing the vehicle for women-led change in the lives of women and girls and, as a result, their families and community. The Women's Fund has been a catalyst, identifying challenges, marshaling resources and pursuing opportunities, and has granted more than $614,000 to over 70 area nonprofits in Middle Tennessee.
We have come so far, and yet we have only just begun to meet the tremendous challenges that lie ahead for women and girls in Middle Tennessee. To connect more individuals and families with resources that bring health, hope, education and enrichment, The Women's Fund seeks to grow its endowment and grantmaking abilities.
We have the opportunity to focus on women-led solutions by providing leadership and stewardship in identifying the needs and supporting solutions. Together, we can unite money, ideas and actions to create lasting change for women and girls, their families and our community.
To learn about opportunities to contribute toward our endowment building goal, contact us at 615-321-4939.
The Women's Fund of The Community Foundation is For Women … For Generations.
Thanks to its generous supporters and volunteers, The Women's Fund has made grants of more than $1,000,000 to nonprofit organizations providing a range of services to support women and girls throughout Middle Tennessee.
The Women's Fund is committed to continue growing our endowment and grantmaking capability for the benefit of countless women and girls throughout Middle Tennessee.
2014 The Women's Fund Grant Recipients
Actors Bridge Ensemble Theatre received a grant to provide scholarships for 10 at-risk teenage girls to attend Act Like a GRRRL writing and performance program.
Bridges of Williamson County received a grant to provide healthcare services for victims of domestic violence receiving assistance at Bridges.
Center of Hope/Maury County Center Against Domestic Violence received a grant to
provide counseling sessions for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and human trafficking.
Community Homeless Outreach & Support/The Brooks House received a grant to provide preventive and corrective physical/dental/vision care and necessary medications for residents as they prepare to re-enter the workforce.
End Slavery Tennessee received a grant to furnish and equip a new Career Path program for survivors of human trafficking.
Faith Family Medical Clinic received a grant to provide medical exams with for 39 uninsured, low-income women.
Families in Crisis, Inc. received a grant to provide services to victims of domestic violence by providing them with resources to become safe, independent, healthy and self-sufficient.
Friends in General received a grant to provide 550+ uninsured and indigent women with a free screening mammogram, and necessary follow up diagnostics and care.
Friendship House, Inc. received a grant to provide support, counsel, and recovery for alcoholic and drug addicted women, to help them and their children.
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Inc. to provide financial assistance to girls who would like to attend summer Girl Scout Summer Camp.
Girls on the Run Nashville received a grant to provide 70 girls with the opportunity to participate in a life changing character development program.
Good Neighbor Mission received a grant to provide basic transportation needs to 12 families in our homeless shelters to retain employment, thus regaining self-sufficiency.
Haven of Hope received a grant to provide contract counseling, travel to/from counseling and housing assistance to 20 victims of domestic violence or sexual assault.
Junior League of Nashville received a grant to provide 4 additional themed sessions for graduates and current attendees of the Music City Girls Lead! (MCGL) program.
King's Daughters Day Home received a grant to prepare 55 at-risk children for school and beyond.
Mary Parrish Center for Victims of Sexual & Domestic Violence received a grant to help defray the costs of healthcare, childcare, transportation, food and other essential emergency needs for our residents.
Maury Regional Healthcare Foundation received a grant to provide wigs, scarves, gas cards and compression garments to women battling cancer and to provide free mammograms to needy women.
McNeilly Center for Children received a grant to purchase items needed for classrooms at McNeilly Center for Children including three iStartSmart computer systems and rocking chairs.
Nashville CARES received a grant for peer-based HIV prevention education, counseling and testing services to 3,000 women, predominately African American, at high risk for infection.
Nurses for Newborns of Tennessee received a grant to provide nurse home visits to those at risk for infant mortality, child abuse or neglect including medically fragile infants.
Renewal House, Inc. received a grant to provide gender-specific intensive outpatient addiction treatment for 70 low-income women, including specialized programming for pregnant and postpartum mothers.
Starlings Nashville received a grant for the guiding concept of providing an opportunity for girls (ages 5 to 18) to participate regardless of their socioeconomic background.
Susan G. Komen Greater Nashville received a grant to provide screening mammograms and clinical breast exams for women without insurance in our 11 Middle Tennessee counties.
Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition received a grant to assist 3,500 immigrants statewide (specifically females in crisis), and empower 25 immigrant women to become leaders, engaging systemic issues.
The New Beginnings Center received a grant for Building Wellness From the Inside Out -- a health and wellness program for low-income women.
The Next Door received a grant to provide reentry services to 150 women returning to the community from incarceration.
Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center received a grant to continue their high-quality educational program for at-risk preschoolers, ages 1-4, year round, 6:30-5:30, M-F.
Women Are Safe received a grant to provide court advocacy to victims of domestic violence in rural Middle Tennessee.
YMCA of Middle Tennessee received a grant to provide health and wellness guidance, education, encouragement and support for 30-35 breast cancer survivors through a free 12-week program.
The Women's Fund Advisory Board is comprised of community leaders who believe deeply in ensuring that the needs of women and girls in Middle Tennessee are met both today and tomorrow. Our Advisory Board members are a diverse group of women with a common passion for our community and the desire to improve the lives of all of its women and children.
Our 2015-2016 Board Members
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Elizabeth Akers
Grace Awh
Meera Ballal
Jean Ann Banker
Louise Bryan
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Brenda Corbin
Beth Courtney
Anne Davis
Leslie DiPiero
Missy Eason
Beth Fortune
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Stacey Garrett
Ellen Green
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Moorish revival
I never heard of Moorish revival architecture until I saw the Bloomingdale's home store in Chicago. It is housed in a restored Masonic temple built by architects Huehl and Schmidt in 1912 for the Shriners. More
I never heard of Moorish revival architecture until I saw the Bloomingdale's home store in Chicago. It is housed in a restored Masonic temple built by architects Huehl and Schmidt in 1912 for the Shriners. More
I've been thinking about the number three lately. Not unusual if you consider how much three pops-up in our collective psyche: three cheers; red, yellow, green; the Holy Trinity; birth, life, death; three primary colors. Three expresses the tripartite wholeness of our universe. We instinctively recognize it. Three is a group. Less is nothing much really and more than three is excessive or redundant. More
"This pattern is called 'The Spider'" our guide said excitedly while gesturing towards a zillige-covered wall. "The Prophet Mohammad was hiding in a cave from his enemies when a spider came and built a web over the entrance. His enemies believed he couldn't be in the cave because the web was unbroken. This is why it is haram (forbidden) to kill spiders and why this pattern is called named after the spider."
I found myself in a SUV driven by an American who was touring Morocco with his girlfriend from Chezh Republic. I assumed they were married and asked how long. "They aren't married" my tour guide whispered "that's why he laughed when you asked the question."
We talked as we drove towards the Merinid tombs. "Moroccans sure like their walls, don't they?" the man asked rhetorically. "They have walls around nothing. He told me" the American said in reference to our guide "that the holes in the walls are for birds."
Sitting on the beach in Restinga looking at the Mediterranean I imagine Phoenicians sailing their galley ships across from Lebanon to Morocco. The oarsmen could rest on a windy day like today as they sailed their ship westward towards Tingis, modern day Tangiers.
On our way to a friend's house in Ain Atiq, we happened upon a fantasia. It was a competitive tournament, not a regular tourist attraction, so I felt lucky that we were able to witness it.
The guide, a man of about 20, at the entrance to kasbah was lying. He told me the café didn't open until 6pm. It is in fact open from sunrise to sunset. But, I had a few hours to kill while waiting to meet with some friends and little else to do for a distraction as most shops were closed for lunch. I decided to follow him, interested in what he would show, tell, and expect from us at the end. He showed me his national identity card in lieu of a guide license. It showed was that he was a resident of Oudaya.
Once you see a Moroccan zillij masterpiece, you can spot the style anywhere. It is an art form that has been practiced for a thousand years. It is a unique specialization of Morocco and continues to thrive in Moroccan society within a contemporary creative framework.
In Hay Riad, Rabat, there is a street that has new government buildings, including the wedge-shaped Institute for Amizigh Culture. At the end of this street is a gateway, an arched transition. I cannot read the Arabic mixed with the geometric ornament on the gate's façade. But I know what the doorway represents. It calls attention to the action of coming and going, one and two, moving between the square (worldly) and circular (perfect).
My guide tells me that the color of Fes is blue, but I say its grey. The color of Fes is grey like the clay used to make Fasi pottery and tiles; the grey of pollution and plaster work; it is the grey of the crumbling medina walls. It is a particular shade of grey that is more a complex taupe than a simple mixture of black and white. The color of Fes is the color of creative inspiration. With 50,000 artisans and 15% of the population working in the craft trade, Fes is a specialized source of human creative energy. It is amazing what can be made with Fasi grey.
Driving from Fes to Ifrane, I spotted patches of red amongst a green patch of land. On closer inspection, I realized there were Berber women gathered dying wool in the shallow river-bed. As we drove, I saw some women running towards buses. They carried buckets overflowing with red, freshly-died yarn. I wanted to take their picture, but felt unsure about invading the moment with a camera. To be a good photographer, I suppose you must be invasive. The sight of the women and the red yarn in the green riverbed is a picture I continue to wish I had taken.
The sign on the door of Chipotle read "Easter or Equinox, either way we're closed." It seemed a good summary of the day. On Easter morning my two year old daughter found her basket, decorated with flowers and filled with chocolate eggs and marshmallow chicks. Once she was high on a sugar buzz, I had to take her out of the house. We went to the national zoo in Washington, DC. I found myself surrounding by archetypal shapes. She played with park benches, birds, berries, and rocks. I snapped photos of hexagon tile pavers, storm drains, and sewers. Neither one of us gave much attention to the animals and we both had fun.
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I have found myself neck deep in Pythagorean theory, which is interesting since Pythagoras didn't write anything. I got here by researching the origins of zillij. I'm researching connections between astronomy, Pythagoras, Sufism, and Islamic ornamentation.
The shape that most clearly represents Morocco in my mind's eye is the eight-point star. It is a simple shape made by overlapping two squares. The hard-edged lines make it indicative of Moroccan patterns, which are known for their use of straight lines in contrast to the curvilinear arabesque of the Middle East. It has a feel that is both modern and ancient. What is the meaning behind this particular shape and what does it represent? (Note: this article was revised on March 24, 2008)
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By James C. Capretta
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) recent cost estimate for the Senate health care bill, sponsored by Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), creates the impression that Senate Democrats have succeeded in crafting a deficit-neutral, fiscally responsible legislative package. But it is an illusion.
Like its House-passed counterpart, the Reid bill would dramatically increase federal budget deficits in coming years, not reduce them, because key assumptions in CBO's cost estimate--especially the viability of the so-called "firewall," which aims to prevent most workers from accessing new subsidies for insurance--will never hold up over time.
Unrealistic Medicare Payment Rate Assumptions
The Reid bill assumes that Medicare physician fees will get cut on the order of 20 percent beginning in 2011 and then remain at the reduced level indefinitely. There is strong bipartisan opposition to such cuts, but getting rid of them will increase Medicare costs by over $200 billion over a decade. Honest accounting of the so-called "doc fix" (the legislation needed to prevent the fee cuts from occurring) would push the Reid bill from the black into a deep red.
In addition to unrealistic assumptions about physician fees, the Reid bill, like its House counterpart, would impose deep and permanent cuts in provider payment rates for hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and others in Medicare, as well as cuts for those providing drugs and services in Medicaid. During the first 10-year window, CBO expects these cuts to result in spending reductions of $491 billion, including $118 billion from Medicare Advantage plans.[1]
That is a direct hit on benefits for seniors, many of whom signed up with Medicare Advantage because they cannot afford Medi-gap premiums. The last time Congress went down this road of arbitrary, across-the-board cuts, it was only a matter of months before they were scrambling to restore many of them.[2]
How the "Firewall" Works
The centerpiece of the Reid bill is a promise to all households with incomes between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level that the premiums they owe for health insurance will be limited to a fixed percentage of their incomes. At the low end of this income range, in 2016, families would pay no more than 2.1 percent of their income toward health insurance. The premium cap would increase on a sliding scale until it reaches 10.2 percent for families with incomes between 300 and 400 percent of the poverty line.[3]
If that sounds too good to be true, it is because it would be for the vast majority of workers. All but the smallest employers would be required to offer qualifying coverage to their full-time workers to avoid hefty taxes. And if the employee share of the premium is below a specified threshold, a worker would have no choice but to take what is offered on the job to avoid paying a penalty tax himself.
In qualified employer plans, the employer share of the premium would have to cover much of the premium cost to keep the employee share below the cap. But when an employer pays for health insurance, it is really the worker who pays anyway in the form of lower cash wages. That is the consensus of credible economists, including those working at CBO.[4] Employer-paid premiums do come with a federal tax preference, but it is worth much less for most low- and moderate-wage workers than the subsidies Senator Reid is offering to those getting insurance in the exchanges.
The Disparate Subsidies the Firewall Creates
CBO estimates the average cost of family coverage at $14,100 in 2016.[5] Under the Reid plan, a household with an income at 200 percent of the federal poverty line (or about $48,000 for a family of four in 2016) would be eligible for subsidized health insurance if it joined the insurance exchange. The amount this family would be responsible to pay toward its insurance premium would be capped at 6.5 percent of their household income.[6] They would thus pay only $3,120 toward their own insurance policy, and their employer would pay a fee of $750 to cover some of the cost. The rest of the premium--$10,230 in this example--would be covered by the federal government.
By contrast, a worker with the same total compensation from his employer (about $48,000 in 2016) but with job-based insurance would get much less help from the federal government. The total premium would still be $14,100 for a family policy. If the employer paid all of it, the tax advantage for the worker would be worth about $4,300. That's nearly $6,000 less in governmental support than the worker who is eligible for direct subsidization in the exchange.
CBO's assessment of the Reid bill is built on the dubious assumption that Congress can hand out a lucrative new entitlement to a limited number of low- and moderate-income voters while denying it to tens of millions of others with equal qualifications.
According to the Census Bureau, in 2008, there were 127 million Americans under the age of 65 living in households with incomes between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty line.[7] But CBO assumes that in 2015, only 18 million people would get subsidized premiums in the Reid plan.[8] The vast majority of American workers would get no additional federal assistance due to the "firewall," even as the government pushed the cost of compulsory health insurance much higher with regulations, taxes, and fees. This is how Senator Reid shoehorns a $1.5-2.0 trillion "universal coverage" scheme into an $848 billion sack.
But will it last? Congressional Democrats are already racing ahead with amendments to demonstrate their commitment to insurance "affordability" for the middle class. It would be only a matter of time before Congress responded to the inevitable political pressure and expanded the entitlement, perhaps in steps, to larger and larger numbers of Americans.
Fastest-Growing Entitlement Ever
The history of federal entitlement programs is one of growth and expansion. The new entitlement in the Reid plan will be no exception. Indeed, it is likely to become the fastest-growing one ever enacted, with costs far in excess of what CBO has assigned to the bill as currently written.
James C. Capretta served in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during the Bush Administration and is a Fellow in the Economics and Ethics Program of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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[1]Congressional Budget Office, "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," November 18, 2009, at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10731/Reid_letter_11_18_09.pdf (December 10, 2009).
[2]For an explanation of the legislative history of recent Medicare payment reductions and increases, see Republican Staff of the House Budget Committee, "Medicare Savings for Health Care: Can Congress Stay the Course?," September 18, 2010, at http://www.house.gov/budget_republicans/press/2007/pr20090917medicare.pdf (December 10, 2009).
[3]Congressional Budget Office, "Analysis of Subsidies and Payments at Different Income Levels," November 20, 2009, at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10822/Reid_Subsidy_Examples_11-20.pdf (December 10, 2009).
[4]Congressional Budget Office, "Effects of Changes to the Health Insurance System on Labor Markets," July 13, 2009, at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/104xx/doc10435/07-13-HealthCareAndLaborMarkets.pdf (December 10, 2009).
[7]U.S. Census Bureau, "Current Population Survey: 2008," at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032009/pov/new01_000.htm (December 10, 2009).
[8]Congressional Budget Office, "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
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Comments made by controversial councillor Collin Brewer are now being investigated by Cornwall Council to find out if he has breached the authority's code of conduct.
The announcement from the unitary body comes the day after Devon and Cornwall Police announced they were investigating whether comments he made about the cost of disabled children, had broken the law.
Mr Brewer provoked public outrage in February when it emerged that in 2011 he had told a member of Hayle charity Disability Cornwall's staff that "disabled children cost the council too much money and should be put down".
The member for Wadebridge East resigned his seat on Cornwall Council but decided to stand again and was re-elected with a margin of four votes.
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A fast that has stirred up state politics (Punjab Newsletter)
A fast by a former militant has stirred up politics in Punjab with leaders of political parties, former militants and radical and religious groups getting involved with his protest.
Former militant Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa has completed 40 days of fast unto death at the Amb Sahib gurdwara in Mohali town seeking the release of six militants lodged in jails in Punjab and other states.
Khalsa's argument is that these militants, some of whom have been sentenced for life, have completed their prison terms but have not been released as the executive has not decided what to do with them.
A resident of neighbouring Haryana, Khalsa, 48, is getting support from Sikh hardliners.
Three of the militants he wants released -- Lakhwinder Singh, Shamsher Singh and Gurmeet Singh -- are in Chandigarh's Burail prison after being convicted for the assassination conspiracy of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh in August 1995. They have been in jail for over 18 years.
Another prisoner, Lal Singh, was released on parole from the Nabha prison in Punjab last week. He spent 20 years in jail. Two militants, Waryam Singh and Gurdeep Singh, are lodged in jails in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh and in Gulbarga in Karnataka respectively. Gurdeep Singh has been in jail for 23 years.
Khalsa's fast has attracted leaders from political parties including the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and the opposition Congress, radicals from groups like Dal Khalsa and Damdami Taksal, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) members and others.
Some of these leaders have not only visited the gurdwara and met Khalsa but have given speeches endorsing his cause.
With his hunger strike going past the 40-day mark, even Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has appealed to him to call it off. Khalsa's deteriorating health is a matter of concern for the Punjab government.
Badal had earlier maintained that the militants, whose release Khalsa was seeking, were in prisons in other states. But four of them turned out to be lodged in Punjab and Chandigarh. The Punjab government has claimed that it was pursuing the matter with other states.
Punjab Congress leader and party spokesman Sukhpal Singh Khaira has come out in support of Khalsa and addressed a gathering at the fast venue.
Radical Sikh organization Dal Khalsa has shot off a letter to Amnesty International highlighting the plight of the six jailed people.
"The continued detention of the six prisoners not only violates the principle of equality enshrined in the Indian constitution but is a clear violation of the UN Declaration of Human Rights," it stated.
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