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Religious Liberty | Christopher and Mary Anne Yep fight the contraceptive mandate and make female employees happy
OAK BROOK, Ill.—The Obama administration says Triune Health Group, an Illinois healthcare management company, disrespects women because its health insurance plan does not cover abortifacients and contraceptives.
Women, though, disagree. When Crain's Chicago Business sent anonymous surveys to Chicago companies last year and asked female employees about work culture, fairness of pay, vacation time, and relationships with management and co-workers, Triune's employees were so happy with their situation that Triune beat out Microsoft for first place in Crain's 2012 list of "Best Places to Work for Women."
"Can you imagine our joy?" recalls Mary Anne Yep, Triune's vice president: "We're getting the news that this is being announced while we're writing the brief for our lawsuit against the government," which is trying to force all companies into an Obamacare vise. The president of Triune, Christopher Yep, also relishes the irony, which isn't surprising: He and Mary Anne are partners in business and marriage, with eight children.
The Yeps started Triune 23 years ago after the birth of their sixth child. Back then Christopher made calls from a home office, periodically disturbed by the sound of kids pounding up and down a wooden staircase. Today, Triune has grown to about 80 employees—two-thirds are female—and moved into a suite of offices behind locked glass doors in Oak Brook, Ill. With a network of "field nurses," Triune assists other companies by overseeing workers injured on the job, ensuring they get the medical care they need to return to health and employment as soon as possible.
As Roman Catholics, the Yeps cannot in good conscience pay for abortive and contraceptive drugs and devices, and are suing in federal and state courts to stop the mandate's enforcement. Following church doctrine, the Yeps don't believe in contraception or in vitro fertilization. "It's separating human beings from the procreative process," Mary Anne says. They are fervently pro-life: Although they have eight children (five work for Triune today), they count 10, since the last two were miscarriages.
Mary Anne used to take her children to pray the rosary in front of a local abortion center: "We were married in the year that abortion was [legalized]. We thought to ourselves: Our children's classrooms are going to shrink before our eyes."
The Yeps have been maneuvering to avoid paying for contraceptives for years, long before Obama invented Obamacare. In 1990, when they started the business, Mary Anne called around for a health insurance plan that didn't provide abortion or contraceptives. Some people laughed at her request, but a pro-life group finally gave the name of an insurer willing to write the policy the Yeps wanted.
When they later switched insurance providers to meet Triune's growing needs, they had the understanding their new policy would contain the same exclusions. But in 2004 Illinois revised its law, requiring insurers to cover all FDA-approved contraceptives. The Yeps' insurance company quietly slipped the coverage into Triune's policy.
"The legislators kind of back-doored it," Kevin White, an attorney with the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, said of the Illinois law. "Most employers are not even aware it's in their coverage, and many, I think, would be offended to discover it there." Illinois is just one of 28 states that have their own contraception mandate for businesses, with various exemptions for some religious employers.
The Thomas More Society is helping Triune sue both the federal government and Illinois over the mandates. Courts have granted injunctions in both cases, meaning Triune won't have to pay fines until judges make final decisions. White said the cases argue the state and federal contraceptive mandates force the Yeps to violate their First Amendment right to freely practice their religion as employers: "There is no separation in their minds between acting out the gospel, if you will, and running their business."
Christopher Yep started Triune partly as a reaction to secular business practices that could harm marriages and steal family time: He remembers his former employer, for example, hosting a dance at a hotel without spouses, and asking employees to attend an after-hours picnic at the boss's house. Triune is the Yeps' effort to create a pro-family work environment where hours are flexible and employees can get time off to deal with personal or family matters.
"They will set you up with a therapist, if that's what you need," says Jodi MacEwan, 60, a nurse case manager and an Episcopalian. MacEwan says she came from a "tumultuous background" and joined Triune 5½ years ago with a defensive spirit, but the kindness of company managers convinced her, "You don't have to rule by harshness." The company's emphasis on listening carefully to employees' needs and complaints has even prompted her to improve her communication with her husband.
The work culture flows directly from the relational and communication skills the Yeps, both 60, have honed during 40 years of marriage. Christopher is naturally reserved and speaks after carefully forming his thoughts. Mary Anne is more outgoing and free flowing in conversation. After four decades together, they often finish one another's sentences. They listen attentively, brainstorm together, and laugh together. Christopher says after their children grew up, the company improved because Mary Anne was able to offer more of her time and perspective. They've learned if they can't agree on a decision, it might be the wrong thing to do.
Christopher says: "As I become more aware of my failings and weaknesses, and Mary Anne of her own, we become a little bit more humble, a little bit more accepting, and a little bit more able to see how God's providence uses those struggles to draw us closer together."
Forgiveness keeps both marriage and the workplace running smoothly, says Mary Anne. "People are human. They're fully human here. People are not robots." Turning to her husband, she inadvertently reveals another secret ingredient—praise: "Your patience has been fantastic. For everybody."
Another one of Triune's nurse case managers, Emily Camaioni, 63, says Triune has a team spirit and a focus on helping people she didn't experience at her previous job: "I felt I was a money generator." But at Triune, managers genuinely care. "When my mother passed away, Chris and Mary Anne Yep, along with my supervisor … came to her funeral." Like the Yeps, Camaioni is Catholic, and supports the lawsuits "100 percent."
The Yeps say they've never had a conflict with an employee over the lack of birth control coverage. When newcomers join Triune, they understand the company's policies up front. Triune has workers who are Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, and "searching," the Yeps say.
Mary Anne admits a few employees have left the company, abruptly and without explanation (she declines to say how many), but each position was immediately filled, thanks to the five to 10 résumés Triune receives each week. "I'm tired of working for companies who don't value people," one job hunter recently told her over the phone.
Even if the Yeps' public stand for conscience rights scares off some employees or customers, they say they'll keep fighting to preserve national religious liberty. They believe the contraceptive mandate is the biggest single attack on that liberty in American history.
"If we don't fight these battles now, our children, our grandchildren, will pay the price in an entirely different country," says Christopher.


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I've gotten over it pretty much—I've tried the whole saying hi first thing, but that's getting annoying because I always say it first. I know this friendship is over, and for the past two years, I've been trying to tell him that, but whenever I tell him he gets all upset. How can I put closure in this friendship and get it over with?
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I don't know why you want to close this relationship off completely. You say he's the sweetest guy, and you've had a long-term friendship, or at least a long-term acquaintanceship. Lead your life and say, "Hi," when appropriate.
He may be preoccupied in thought when he passes and is the reason he doesn't speak. Give him the benefit of the doubt.
Making a big deal of closure with him will make you appear immature. You may find yourself in class with him where you'll have the opportunity to get to know each other again. Each of you has been growing and changing. You never know what the years will bring!
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As many of you know by now, John Cena was the very first guest on the Chris Jericho podcast interview show that he is doing for WWE. His second guest is a rather interesting one as well. Jericho will be having a discussion with Vickie Guerrero on Wednesday. She will more than likely talk about what she has been doing since leaving the wrestling business. It will be interesting if Jericho asks about why she refused an offer to return.
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Yellowstone National Park: Wildlife Viewing
Road Journals Blog—I've seen Yellowstone National Park in every season: deep snow and beleaguered bison in winter, traffic jams and rising trout in summer, bugling elk and golden aspens in fall. But the park is at its best—its liveliest, most scenic, and most inspiring—in spring. From early May to mid-June, visitors can see more wildlife with less aggravation than at any other time of the year.
My family has made an annual springtime visit to Yellowstone for the last seven years. Our 2012 excursion was one of the best: wildflowers, t-shirt weather, and mostly quiet roads. And the animals were out in a big way. We saw five wolves working on a bison carcass, four grizzlies (including a sow grazing in a meadow with her two fat cubs), a cow moose with her calf, four bighorn ewes, a bald eagle, a cinnamon-colored black bear, several elk herds, and bison beyond counting, complete with a bumper crop of fuzzy red calves.
We picked the route that gave us the best chance to see wildlife. Starting in Mammoth, we first headed southwest towards Norris Geyser Basin. After five miles or so, the road passes through Swan Flats, a huge expanse of wetlands, green grass, and sagebrush. It's a good place to see elk and bison. It's also where we saw the mama griz and her cubs. We like to go at least as far as Gibbon Meadows, about 30 miles from Mammoth. It's another gathering spot for bison and elk, which, in turn, makes it popular for wolves, too.
Then we backtracked up to Mammoth and headed south to Tower Junction. (After Dunraven Pass opens in late May, you can get to Tower by way of Canyon VIllage.) The 29-mile stretch between Tower and Cooke City, Mont.—especially the Lamar River valley— is the prime wildlife real estate in the park. You don't need to be especially sharp-eyed to see grizzlies or wolves around here. They're often doing their thing within sight of the road. You can simplify your search by looking for small knots of wildlife watchers, a sure sign that something's afoot.
We like to spend at least one night in Cooke City, a small town near the park's northeast entrance, known for snowmobiles and moose. After checking in and finding a quick dinner, we drove back into the park to scope out the evening scene. The Lamar Valley really glows in twilight, and the wolves and bears are often on the move. It's springtime in Yellowstone—a lively time for a lively place.
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During my formative reading years, a
dominant theme among the big-name male authors of my parents' day was the middle-aged, middle-class white guys getting old storyline. They all needed something more than that 9-to-5 job, that
suburban stolidity. At least a girlfriend, maybe a road trip, usually some drinks.
Through my teens and 20s, I didn't have
much of a taste for the novels on my father's bedside, nor for the self-absorbed
struggles of Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe, John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom, or the other neurotic Philip Roth-like characters of the 70s and 80s, with their
secrets and longings. Now that I'm one of them--a middle-aged 9-to-5-er--I suddenly find myself drawn to
modern versions of the Bascombes and Rabbits, the lost and/or damaged souls, ages
40 and up, still trying to "figure it all out," a process that often
involves intoxicants and reckless, even decadent behavior.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a happy guy. I
swear. But I also recognize the mid-life changes (or lack of change) that can
cause a man to veer off life's highway and ask himself, Where the hell was I going?
Then again, it's not the typical woe-is-me
narrative that appeals to me. I prefer authors who take it all a step further.
Call it Loser Lit or Rabbit Redux-Redux, here are five examples of compelling how-do-I-be-a-man
storylines, featuring memorable (if not admirable) characters trying to
turn their lives of quiet (or noisy) desperation into something meaningful. Because,
more than the infidelities, the estrangements, the alcohol, Loser Lit is characterized
by a battle against the ticking of the clock and a search for relevance.
- A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers
Like a modern Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman, Alan Clay desperately needs just one big deal
to turn his life around. He's staked everything on the sale of an IT
system to the King of Saudi Arabia, and during a hot and boozy week in
an under-construction Saudi resort town he confronts the financial
terrors that define his generation. As he tells his estranged daughter
in a letter: "It's important to know that with adults, though there is
continual development, there is not always improvement. There is change,
but not necessarily growth."
- The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, by Jonathan Evison
Evison, getting more sure-handed with each book, gives us the
nearly-broken character of Ben, who is pot-smoking and sleep-walking his
way through the aftermath of tragedy, until a road trip with a
terminally ill teen gives him a glimmer of what he might still become.
Even so, as Evison warns us in this deeply personal novel, there are no
guarantees: "Be ready to be brought to your knees and
beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force
of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is
- Me and the Devil, by Nick Tosches
The darkest among these five books, Tosches's tale of an aging, recovering alcoholic writer named Tosches and his newfound thirst for female blood is uncomfortably crude and profane, a desperate man's descent from one decadent layer of hell to another. And that's the point: sometimes there's no stopping the downward spiral of a life without purpose. As Tosches/Tosches admits at the start of this raw, brilliant, twisted and hard-to-look-away novel, ""Somewhere along the line, something went wrong."
- A Familiar Beast, by Panio Gianopoulos
I loved this little book. Despite it's slim size (think postcard on steroids) and a page count of 54, it packs an unexpected punch, capturing the sorrowful angst of that kind of modern man who
doesn't quite know what it means to be a man. "You're a shadow of
a man," a woman tells Marcus after they meet at a bar, and she hears the story
of his ill-timed affair and estrangement from his wife and newborn child.
"You're a worm." Marcus knows she's right, and asks himself: "Had he
learned anything?" This is surprisingly elegant and smart stuff from a debut author.
- Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See, by Juliann Garey
young daughter and their well-funded life to travel the world, giving free
reign to the bipolar disorder he's kept hidden for almost 20 years. The lone novel among these five written by a woman, the difference here is that the damage isn't entirely self-inflicted. Told in twelve chapters, each introduced by Todd receiving electroshock treatment in a psychiatric ward, Amazon senior editor
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Users/Historical Data Working Group
The Users/Historical Data Working Group is established under the auspices of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) to promote and coordinate activities among Federal agencies who are primarily users of, not generators of geospatial data. The intent is to provide a vehicle for those agencies who may not have a significant Geospatial Infrastructure to collectively share their experiences and needs with the larger Geospatial community. It is recognized that topic areas of interest to the Data Working Group, in many instances, will be of importance to the entire community, e.g. promoting an awareness of the historical dimension of geospatial data. A part of the duties of the Users/Historical Data Working Group is established to promote an awareness among Federal agencies of the historical dimension to geospatial data; to facilitate the long-term retention, storage, preservation and accessibility of selected geospatial data; and to establish a mechanism for the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of historically valuable geospatial data which have been financed in whole or part by Federal funds.
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- FGDC Users/Historical Data Working Group Information Sheet [PDF]
- GeoPlatform Version 3 UHDWG Collected Comments [Excel]
- Guidance on the Selection and Appraisal of Geospatial Content of Enduring Value, May 2015 Draft [PDF]
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- June 26, 2014 presentation: Imagery at the Aerial Photography Field Office - Louise Matthews, Cartographer/GIS Specialist in the USDA-FSA-Aerial Photography Field Office [PPT 13MB]
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I'll be honest, the zombie infatuation in pop-culture these days doesn't do much for me. With that being said though, when I came across Ethan Gulley's Apocalypse series I took notice. Being a big advocate of shooting personal work, I naturally took interest in Ethan's series.
Ethan, inspired by The Walking Dead and in the spirit of Halloween,put this whole series together out of his own pocket. It was shot in and around northern Alabama, where he is from. Makeup was done by himself and friends. It was his first time working with liquid latex and as he put it, "it was a learning experience." To make the hair on the zombies appear greasy they used conditioner. He did the eyes on the zombies in post, and as far as lighting goes he shot mostly natural light. In the shots with lighting he used a couple vivitar flashes with umbrellas or just bare.
Personally I think it's pretty rad to see someone go all in on a personal project like this. To see the whole thing, check it out on Ethan's site here.
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not bad, what i think would have made it better was if the "survivors" didn't look like half zombies already, men in business suits (straight out of the office look) would have been much more interesting
I wanted the survivors to look like they had been "surviving," not attending a business meeting.
Great work1
...i actually know of people who actually believe there will be a zombie apocalypse.... there mostly young, under 25, and still live with their parents......
There could be an outbreak. I don't know, some sort of chemical accident in one of the labs around the world. The thing is that we should be ready for when the shit comes down hahahaha By the way, I'm 25 and I live by myself since 18.
walking dead rip off?
walking dead is not the first Zombie thing on TV, so how could this be a Walking dead rip off?
I wouldn't say this is a rip off. Like this post says, I was inspired by the Walking Dead, as well as other zombie movies/video games. There's a difference between inspiration and "rip off."
But I'm sure you're just a troll anyway. :)
Following your statement, The Walking Dead is a Night of The living Dead rip off. Right?
The Walking Dead is based off a graphic novel, I'm not sure they were inspired form Night of the Living Dead or not.
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The controversial bill passed Friday, even though most lawmakers complained the omnibus bill had undergone voluminous changes in recent weeks. Both sides agreed the state must act to address a serious doctor shortage.
But opponents worried that allowing doctors to practice telemedicine even though they do not have a Florida license could jeopardize patient care. The Florida Medical Association and other critics also complained that nurse practitioners should not have powers to prescribe controlled substances without a doctor's supervision.
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Many investors tend to avoid trading through earnings season simply because stocks can make unpredictable moves. However, avoiding these unpredictable moves is a huge missed opportunity.
The problem most investors run into is they simply don't know how to structure the right kind of trade to take advantage of a modest move. The most common "non-directional" trade is a long straddle or strangle.
The long straddle is often used as a strategy to trade earnings when you believe a stock will move … but they're not sure which direction. By buying a call and a put at the same strike price, with the same expiration date, you hope to earn more on the winning side of the trade than you lose on the other side.
The long strangle is a similar strategy, but one in which the strike prices are different. You're still buying a call and a put that have the same expiration dates. But the call you buy would have a higher strike price than the put you buy. This strangle may appeal more than the straddle because it should be just a little cheaper to enter.
A Better Way to Trade Earnings With Options
While it is true that long straddles and strangles can make money no matter which direction the stock moves, neither strategy is a good fit for earnings because they become very expensive to buy prior to the report.
Take a look at what happened with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG). The straddle on GOOG before it reported earnings cost over $35, with only one day until expiration! This is because the implied volatility on the options was around 120%, making them very expensive. (That's $3,500 a contract!)
Basically, after you've spent $35 a share to trade the straddle, you need for the stock to make a move that's bigger than what you've spent to recoup your capital on that trade. Rather than betting GOOG will make a $35+ move over earnings in order to show a profit, it is better to bet on a much-smaller move to make your gains.
Wouldn't You Rather Get Paid to Trade Earnings?
A simple twist on a common income strategy makes for a great "hold over earnings" trade. The long butterfly — where you sell two at-the-money options and buy one out-of-the-money on each side — is a trade many investors use to benefit from time decay.
The time decay is compounded by the weekly options' always-fast-approaching expiration date. (So, you won't be seeing $35-a-share prices like Google's on the day before expiration!)
We've talked about long strategies so far with the straddle, strangle and butterfly. There are also short strategies, that give you income. Now, you'd take on an incredible amount of risk doing a short straddle or strangle. But a short butterfly – buying two at-the-money options and one two out-of-the-money option on each side – is actually a fairly conservative strategy … and one that can work for you.
By taking the short side of the butterfly, we can benefit from a much-smaller move in the stock, without having to put excessively large amounts of capital on the table. I am doing the following trade now on Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) going into and most likely holding over earnings.Trade #1 — Caterpillar
With the last two earnings reports on CAT the stock moved $4 and $7, putting the odds in our favor that this trade will make money over earnings, if not sooner.
With CAT trading at about $105 I am structuring the following position:
- Selling 10 $100-strike calls for Jan 27th expiration
- Buying 20 $105-strike calls for Jan 27th expiration
- Selling 10 $110-strike calls for Jan 27th expiration
This position can be done for a $1.60 credit. Therefore, it doesn't matter exactly what you pay or collect for each option, as long as you end up with a net credit of $1.60 ($160 a contract) in your pocket.
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MEDINA — Chester may just wear the stripes of a tiger, but surviving a bullet to the leg shows strength much like the distant relative.
The cat — a stray estimated to be 4 to 6 years old who has been hanging around Larkspur Court— was hit by a .22-caliber bullet Sept. 19, shattering his leg bone, said Barbara Lakin, who lives on Larkspur Court and has been caring for the cat for about a year whenever he stopped by her home.
"I got up earlier (Sept. 19) and went outside to get the newspaper and fed him,†she recalled. "Between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. I heard a quick bang, but I don't know what a gun or rifle sound like, so I didn't think anything of it.â€
Barbara and Richard Lakin have been caring for Chester, a tiger-striped stray cat who has been frequenting their Larkspur Court neighborhood in Medina. On Sept. 19, they found the 4- to 6-year-old cat had been hit by a .22-caliber bullet, which fractured his femur. Following surgery to repair the leg, the Lakins are looking for a good home for Chester. (Shirley Ware | Photo Editor)
Lakin said around 1 p.m., she and her husband, Richard, noticed Chester was limping, but didn't realize how bad it was until later that evening, when they saw he could barely get around.
"There was no blood, but he could hardly walk,†she said. "We kind of nursed him in the garage for a couple of days, but he wasn't getting any better.â€
So the Lakins took Chester to their veterinarian, David Duncan, of Litchfield Veterinary Clinic, and an X-ray showed Chester had a bullet lodged in his leg, Lakin said.
"Even though he wasn't our cat, we didn't have the heart to put him down, so we went ahead and let them do the surgery,†she said.
"He came in not using the leg. We were hoping for a popped hip, but the X-ray showed a fractured femur caused by the bullet,†Duncan said. "The entry wound was very small.â€
He added they were able to get the bullet out and fix the fracture.
"(Chester) was just in for a recheck today (Monday) and he looked real good,†Duncan said. "He's using it and getting around pretty good.â€
The Lakins do not have plans to keep Chester, which is the name they gave him until his owners or a new loving home are found, Lakin said.
"He came from a loving home because he's very friendly, he's litter box trained … and was neutered,†she said. "This was somebody's loved house pet at one time. I'm not sure what happened, but he's been out on his own for a long time. He has this old beat-up collar you could see has been on for years.â€
Lakin said she even at one point put a small note on Chester's collar saying if his homeowners find him, to call her and let her know.
However, Chester has not been so lucky in that regard, Lakin said.
"I want to find him a good home, a loving home,†she said. "He would be a good pet for an older person. He's a very good cat. He has a very sweet disposition, just a very nice cat.â€
While he hasn't been updated on shots, Chester has been tested for feline leukemia and AIDS as well as worms and fleas, all for which he tested negative, Lakin said.
She added it was very distressing someone would shoot a domesticated animal in a residential area.
"It could have gone into any one of these houses or hit one of the kids that run around in the area,†she said. "(The shooter) is sick and pretty stupid. I think they're laying low and I think they'll do it again, quite frankly.â€
Lakin added there are other outdoor cats that roam through the woods in her neighborhood that could be in danger as well as some dogs.
"I've warned my neighbors,†she said.
The city ordinance about discharging a firearm states: "(a) no person shall discharge any air gun, rifle, shotgun, revolver, pistol or other firearm within corporate limits of the Municipality. (b) This section does not apply when firearms are used in self defense, in the discharge of official duty or when otherwise lawfully authorized. (c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.â€
"To the cold-hearted person that would shoot a domestic animal, please be aware of this police ordinance,†Lakin said. "It could endanger people's lives.â€
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DONT FORGET! GOP DEBATE ON THE 18th AT 8PM EST!
Yesterday, Ron Paul won the Los Angeles County straw poll. He had more votes than Romney and Cain combined. It was a small gathering but a confirmation of Paul's much larger victory in the California State Straw Poll last month.
And like the California Poll, it was virtually ignored by the national media. They prefer to bask in denial and focus on Herman Cain's showing in the recent Florida straw poll whose delegates were actually chosen last summer.
The distorted media coverage or lack of coverage of presidential candidate Ron Paul can sometimes reach comic proportions.
Yesterday the New York Daily News solemnly told its readers that Herman Cain, having just raised $8 million, was third in fundraising in the Republican field, right behind Romney and Perry. Don't they wish.
The truth is that Ron Paul is third and he is the candidate that raised the $8 million, not Herman Cain.
That's all right, Ron Paul supporters say. Keep it up. Nothing angers the "Paulistas" more than the flagrant favoritism and the manipulation of the media. On Oct. 19 the Ron Paul campaign is calling its next fundraiser, "Black This Out" a sarcastic response to debate hosts who purposely exclude him and blatantly promote their own favorites, regardless of the polls.
While he was the only presidential candidate in the last GOP debate to effectively use his question and while that question provoked a misstatement from the current front-runner, Herman Cain, no one seemed to notice.
Ron Paul had asked Cain why, in the past, he had opposed an audit of the Federal Reserve and why he had belittled those who were calling for it. Cain flatly denied he had ever said such a thing.
But here is the exact quote:
Some people say that we ought to audit the Fed. Here's what I do know. The Federal Reserve already has so many internal audits it's ridiculous. I don't know why people think we're gonna learn this great amount of information by auditing the Federal Reserve.
I think a lot of people are calling for this audit of the Federal Reserve because they don't know enough about it. There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve to my knowledge.
Ron Paul's subsequent call for an audit won congressional approval and the resultant expose has stunned those who have seen it. In 2008 alone, the Federal Reserve dished out $16 trillion including money to the banks of its own board members and corporations like General Electric, which owns NBC television and the McDonald's hamburger chain.
Consider that the entire nation debt, which took years to amass, is only $14 trillion and you get an idea of why the Federal Reserve has always operated in secret, passing out its money to elitists insiders and corporations all at the expense of the rest of us who pay for it through devalued money.
Television networks no longer follow their own debates with online surveys of a winner. They rely on "Focus Groups" (wink, wink,) where they control the questions and the reporting of the results of those questions that they decide are "newsworthy."
After one recent debate the focus group of 30 people clearly picked Herman Cain as the winner of the debate while the network ignored its own, open, online poll showing Ron Paul the winner.
Why have online surveys at all? Ron Paul will win again and there will be nasty online correspondents ridiculing them for not mentioning it.
This week, one lonely media outlet, The Bedford Patch, a New Hampshire online news service, was brave enough to allow an open poll after Tuesday's Dartmouth Debate. When I voted this morning it was showing Ron Paul winning at 73 percent.
It was Sen. John McCain who first angrily referred to Sen. Rand Paul, the son of the presidential candidate, as a hobbit. The Liberty Movement has taken to the idea.
As J.R.R. Tolkien once said, "The hobbits may be little folk but they are honest and hardy and easily underestimated." So let Lord Sauron, Tolkein's antagonist, and his corporate partners and their media outlets, arm for war against Romney-Perry-Cain.
Ron Paul and the rest of the invisible band will stay on target, moving silently through the marshes, looking to Oct. 19, the next moneybomb fundraiser and a chance to speak with their dollars. Go ahead, they say to the media elites and their robber barons, black this out!
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The national president of Federated Farmers from 2002 to 2005 said the New Year Honours was a reflection of the great people he worked with.
The university chancellor was excited about the year ahead which included the rebuild of the institute after the earthquake.
The Lincoln Hub, which was part of AgResearch's Future Footprint plan, would be created this year.
Working with AgResearch, Plant and Food Research, and Landcare Research in a new way would create a significant powerhouse, he said.
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His area had created a land and water plan which determined for the first time a limit on how many nutrients the catchment could take.
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The rumors of Dan McCarney going to Iowa to be a defensive coordinator are strange to me. The idea of this guy that has been the heart and soul of the Cyclones going to the hated rivals is tough to think that would happen. OK, he has Iowa roots and has coached there, but as an ISU fan I would be upset if he went there.
I don't think it would make any of us very happy.
I don't see him going anywhere unless it is to be the head coach. He's been the Boss too long to be someone else's peon.
Well I don't think Dan is too happy right now....
I doubt he will, but who knows. I think the Iowa nation would welcome him back with open arms if he did want to.
If Mc Carney goes to Iowa .....so be it.....
Don't lose sight that Iowa State divorced McCarney ....and the guy has been all class.....and hopefully us cyclone fans can follow suit
I know Iowa fans want him, but I can't see it happening, but I'm not sure where he's going to get a head coaching job at a major college school
I hope he goes to Iowa. I would like to see him on the sideline right away. By the way, since Tom Osborne lost for Congressional run, he will teach leadership and ethics classes at UNL. They need it apparently.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
He will go to Iowa in a heartbeat, if that is his only option. BTW I thought Dan was going to get the Stanford job, and make Bill Walsh look like an amatuer
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If DMac goes to Iowa...so be it...its the nature of the business. However, if he does become a coordinator, I don't think he will be one for a long time. I see him doing it as a fill in until he gets a head coaching job.
Any route he goes...he has my support.
who wouldn't want him as a def. coordinator? He's good at it - and frankly - he's not bad at the head coach spot. Sure Iowa would love to get him, but I bet other places would as well.
Originally Posted by CyHawk
If Mc Carney goes to Iowa .....so be it.....
Don't lose sight that Iowa State divorced McCarney ....and the guy has been all class.....and hopefully us cyclone fans can follow suit
I agree. No matter where he goes we should support him... he's done too much for ISU to NOT support his future endeavors... Thanks DMAC!
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."- President Ronald Reagan, 1985
Mac has too much pride to go backwards as a coodinator. He will want to find a job where he can finish out his career. The trick is, he will target a school that has a string of losing seasons, an AD that is not looking to go anywhere, and a fan base that will accept losing. For at least 12 years.
Clone to the Bone with the up and coming IOWA STATE.
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Mac has too much pride to go backwards as a coodinator. He will want to find a job where he can finish out his career. The trick is, he will target a school that has a string of losing seasons, an AD that is not looking to go anywhere, and a fan base that will accept losing. For at least 12 years.
Good one, you hit it. Let the D-Mac pity pat party continue thru today. Then, maybe we can get on with the task at hand. Bring on a new Head Coach that can adjust at half time.
Here's one prediction that can't miss. Dan McCarney will find another job somewhere, and Darts will start to hate that team.
Mac's ties to Iowa City are a lot tighter than many think. Even of recent years. He owns property there. It is his hometown and he has been seen there countless times in the offseason over the last 15 (going back to wisky days) years. There is no evil subplot to Mac being secretly in Iowa City collaborating with Iowa. He was a cylone first and formost. He is loyal to ISU but unilike many of us he doesn't see being loyal to ISU and UofI as problematic. His daughter is/was a student at UI and it has even been highlighted in newpaper articles about her been the daughter of cross state rivals coach. The UofI still consideres Dan family. It is different than when gable came fromISU to Iowa. Mac is born and bred in Iowa City his parents hail from there and I for one am convinced that he gets the same sentimental feeling going home that I do when I return to my hometown. The difference Mac is a hometown hero in Iowa City. He marred his image by becoming ISUs coach in many Hork fans but most would never blame him for taking a job at a big time shcool in a bigtime conf. They recognize a winner when they see one similarly to ISU when they hired him. he would be welcomed with open arms. Norm Parker is old and of poor health. I wouldn't be totally shocked if Mac didn't make the move. However I think odds are against it. He is head coach material.
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DUI and DWI convictions are not limited to alcohol use. In fact, many people across the country get convicted of driving under the influence of drugs each year.
In 2006, 10-22% of all drivers involved in car crashes were under the influence of some type of illegal drug. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health for 2006 states that 10.2 million people over the age of 12 admitted to driving under the influence of drugs at some point during the previous year. Marijuana is the most common drug drivers test positive for each year.
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If the police suspect that you are impaired by drugs, they will give you a field sobriety test and a blood alcohol level (BAC) test. They will do this if you are impaired by prescription drugs as well as illegal drugs.
In most states, the consequences for refusing to take a BAC test are more severe than if you take it and fail. In the state of Maryland, you will automatically have your license suspended for 120 days if you refuse to take the test. If it is your second offense, the suspension will last for a year. Most states will either require you to take a urine or blood test if they suspect you are under the influence of drugs, since a breathalyzer won't register the drugs in your system.
Penalties vary from state to state. In Maryland, the consequences for a first offense driving under the influence of drugs are:
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So we have found out what will be available for the Mass Effect 3 Collector's Edition and it isn't a Reaper of your very own. We got this info direct from EA South Africa so this should be accurate for local gamers. The CE will be a mixture of physical content and DLC. You know, in the finest Bioware tradition.
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I am sorry to bore all of you with yet another SIA trip report, but this one's different from the rest – It's in Raffles Class. My mum in her very generous mood decided to redeem us on J class to and from New Zealand using her miles – I was thrilled of course.
3 days before departure, I decided that, since it was going to be my last time on a premium cabin in a very long time, I should make full use of it and book the cook! So I called the reservations hotline and booked Lobster Thermidor for my dinner service ex SIN.
SQ285 was due to depart at 9pm. But I arrived at Changi Airport at 6 to meet a couple of friends for some drinks. Checked in by myself at the Raffles counter. My parents checked in later at 7 and went to the First Class Lounge, with mum being a PPS with SQ. I decided to stay with my friends for coffee at Coffee Bean, and my mum was like "Wow you're giving up the First Class Lounge for Starbucks!" Well my friends had made the trip down to the airport specially and I couldn't just leave them there!
At 8.10 I decided that as much as I treasured my friendship with Yizhong and Lionel it would be a travesty if I didn't even have a five minute peek at the First Class Lounge and I bade them farewell and went straight through immigration (there was a short queue which took about 3 minutes to clear) and up to the Silver Kris Lounge Area.
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Herbert Meislich, PhD, was a Professor Emeritus at the City College of CUNY, where he taught organic and general chemistry for 40 years at both the undergraduate and doctorate levels. He coauthored eight textbooks, three laboratory manuals in organic and general chemistry and 15 papers on his research interests.
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According to Hunger Free Summer 2014, child poverty has grown to 25% and more than a third of Michigan children live in homes where no parent has full-time, year-round employment.
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Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkylation of C-H bonds with Organoboron Reagents
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The Situation: Current methods for selective introduction of functional groups to organic molecules are costly, inefficient, environmentally unfriendly, and restrictive against further synthetic manipulations.
Our Solution: We developed a novel strategy for direct functionalization of pyridyl- and pyrazole-substituted aromatic compounds. This technology is highly efficient for C−C bond formation; it allows a remarkable range of functional group tolerance; and it uses environmentally-friendly coupling partners such as organoboron as reagents.
The controlled functionalization of C−H bonds in organic molecules is one of the most challenging and rewarding processes in chemistry, generally requiring either a stoichiometeric amount of a heavy-metal salt or a catalyst containing a transition metal. Currently, such catalytic procedures are costly due to the many lengthy steps involved; use of toxic or environmental-unfriendly chemicals; low efficiency caused by the thermodynamic and homocoupling properties of organometallic reagents; and lack of versatility for further synthetic manipulations. In order to produce a new class of compounds useful as drug leads for bio-pharmaceutical research, developments of novel and synthetically practical procedures for C−H functionalization are greatly in need.
- To customize or modify pharmacologically important molecules with desired functional groups.
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- Offers a one-pot procedure for the coupling of C−H bonds with nontoxic and readily available reagents.
- The direct coupling of aryl C−H bonds and alkyl C−H bonds with organoboron reagents is a highly efficient process for C−C bonds formation.
- This technology allows a remarkable range of functional group tolerance, including substrates incorporating double bond moieties.
- Functionalized products obtained by this technology can be used as building blocks for further synthetic transformations to yield biologically active small molecules.
This invention provides a one-pot procedure for the direct functionalization of pyridyl- and pyrazole-substituted aromatic compounds. Using transition metal-containing catalysts, alkylation of sp2 and sp3-hybridized C−H bonds can be obtained with nontoxic reagents such as organo-boroxines and organo-boronic acids via a C−H activation/C−C coupling sequence. The success of this unprecedented approach satisfies the increasingly strict environmental constraints that are in great demand by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. In addition, this technology will allow the production of a novel class of compounds that are becoming targets of bio-pharmaceutical research. Currently, functionalized pyridine moieties are used extensively as intermediates in the synthesis of drugs, herbicides, and agrochemicals. Therefore, this technology is readily adaptable with existing manufacturing procedures and hence will become tremendously valuable for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries in the near future.
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With nearly half of their 280 guests travelling from out of town, Helen and Johnny realized that Four Seasons Hotel Sydney in their home city was the perfect place to spend a week. They even joined the group and checked in days before the wedding. To welcome out-of-towners, "every room that our 100 guests stayed in had Sydney Harbour views. This was the unique part of the wedding and locale," Helen says.
High Glamour . . . A Grand Ball . . . Culinary Delights
The Scene: "We wanted a black-tie, elegant, timeless affair," Helen says of the vintage-inspired details like antique chandeliers, lush florals, and gold, burgundy and pewter tones. "Everything looked absolutely amazing."
Magical Moment: Helen will never forget the moment she and Johnny first walked into the ballroom at Four Seasons Hotel Sydney: "It was like walking into a glamorous ball from the 1950s."
The Bride & Groom: The couple reserved separate suites on the day of the wedding to get ready with their respective members of the bridal parties. "I had platters of food and bottles of champagne delivered," Helen recalls, "and we spent the whole day laughing with our friends and family."
The Bride Wore: Helen wore a custom gown by Steven Khalil Haute Couture. The nude and pewter dress had intricate lace appliqués. She accessorized her wedding-day look with nude open-toe pumps by Jimmy Choo and Jill Sander earrings.
A Personal Touch: "We both have a love of good food," Helen says, so the Hotel chefs worked with the couple to prepare seafood stations, complete with a sashimi carving area, oyster shots and Johnny's father's famous bisque. (His family's business provided the seafood.) "The chefs were exceptional," Helen says.
Helen's vision for her wedding was a classic ball with white, gold and pewter details, and she worked with her wedding planner, Philip Carr, and the Hotel's event team, to make it happen. The ballroom at Four Seasons Hotel Sydney was brought to life with beautiful floral arrangements and stunning antique chandeliers. Looking back, Helen says, "It was like a magical garden."
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"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son…"
Romans 8:28-29
In addition to attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe, the brilliant scientist Albert Einstein also applied his genius to making keen observations about the mysterious union known as marriage. Although E=mc2 is the formula for which Einstein is most often remembered, he is also noted for verbalizing another, "Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."
Einstein's analysis could rightly be referred to as the ideal formula for marital disappointment. To enter marriage with faulty expectations for how your spouse will or will not change is to haphazardly balance your hopes on the edge of a precipice from which they will soon be dashed. How much better prepared young men and women would be if they exchanged their vows while fully mindful of the fact that from that moment on, neither one of them would ever be the same again. In order to have a God-honoring marriage, both husband and wife must be committed to changing slowly, yet deliberately, each and every day of their life together.
In his book What Did You Expect?, Paul Tripp helps couples learn to develop appropriate biblical expectations for change within marriage:
Every marriage between the fall and eternity is in the middle of a lifelong process of change. Your marriage may be better than it once was, but it is not yet all that it could be. In marriage you are meant to grow together in an increasingly maturing love and to grow personally in your love and service of the Lord.
You see, patience in marriage is vital, because the goal of marriage is greater than marriage. The goal of marriage, from God's perspective, is not that you would reach some mutually agreed-upon plateau of romantic and interpersonal happiness. No, God's goals are much wider and more beautiful than that. God's goal is that your marriage would be a major tool in his wise and loving hands to rescue you from claustrophobic self-worship and form you into a person who lives for nothing smaller than his kingdom, his righteousness, and his glory. God's goal is to transform you at the causal core of your personhood–your heart. He is working so that everything you think, desire, say, and do is done in loyal and joyful service to him. God's goal is not to deliver to you your well-thought-through dream of personal happiness. No, his goal is nothing less than holiness; or as Peter says, that you may become "partakers of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4).
(What Did You Expect?, p.244; emphasis added)
Tripp explains the importance of focusing your attention on your own need for change within marriage instead of your spouse's:
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Let $ p,r \geqslant 1, \; f \in L^r (\mathbb R), g \in L^p (\mathbb R), \; 2/q = 1/p + 1/r$. Here $ 2p / q > 1 $ and $ 2r / q > 1 $ . Also $ \frac{q}{2p} + \frac{q}{2r} = 1$. I want to prove following. $$ \sum_{k=1}^n \left( \int_{a_{k-1}}^{a_k} |g|^p \right)^{\frac{q}{2p}} \left( \int_{a_{k-1}}^{a_k} |f|^r \right)^{\frac{q}{2r}} \leqslant \left( \sum_{k=1}^n \int_{a_{k-1}}^{a_k} | g| ^p \right)^{\frac{q}{2p}}\left( \sum_{k=1}^n \int_{a_{k-1}}^{a_k} | f| ^r \right)^{\frac{q}{2r}} $$ for given real sequence $\{a_k\}$.
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Let $b_k:=\left(\int_{a_{k-1}}^{a_k}|g|^p\right)^{\frac q{2p}}$ and $c_k:=\left(\int_{a_{k-1}}^{a_k}|f|^q\right)^{\frac q{2r}}$. We have by Hölder's inequality for sums, applied to the exponents $\frac{2r}q$ and $\frac{2p}r$ that, $$\sum_{k=1}^nb_kc_k\leq \left(\sum_{k=1}^nb_k^{\frac{2p}q}\right)^{\frac q{2p}} \left(\sum_{j=1}^nc_j^{\frac{2r}q}\right)^{\frac q{2r}}.$$ The LHS corresponds to the LHS in the wanted inequality, and the same for the RHS.


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Video: Quad-A Conference Intro by Maj. Gen. John Campbell
Video by Sgt. 1st Class Stephanie Widemond
Major General John Campbell, commanding general for 101st Airborne Division and Combined Joint Task Force 101, Afghanistan, speaks to an audience at the AAAA conference in Nashville, Tennessee from Bagram, Afghanistan. Produced by Sgt. 1st Class Stephanie Widemond.
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Date Taken:04.17.2011
Date Posted:04.17.2011 2:25AM
Video ID:113055
Location:BAGRAM AIR FIELD, AF