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Cindy DiBiasi: Now let's talk about what you did in the second part.
Dr. Gretchen Berland: The second part of our study says, well,
let's say that you did land there. What we did is we picked some
of the more popular health-related Web sites that people go to according to
a number of surveys. These are surveys that, for instance, the Los Angeles
Times tells us are the most popular visited health-related Web sites. We
said, OK, for these four conditions, how comprehensive and accurate is some
of the information provided on these health Web sites?
Our approach to this part of the study was really, if you will, to design a fair test to
assess places of information on these Web sites. What we did was first
for each condition, we convened panels of patient advocates and clinical experts
for each of the conditions. We said, "Your task is to come up with
5-7 sort of 'need to know' if you will, topics and consumer-oriented
questions." So what we really said to them, if you were a content
provider on a Web site, and you have a patient who has a question about breast
cancer, what are the basic five questions that you think should be there?
Let's say if you have a car, the engine should be there. Then we said, for
a question, we also want to know, what are answers or what are concepts that
if a consumer were to go to a Web site with a question, what should be there?
Sort of, what their bar-types of information should be there. This was part
of the test. Let me just give you an example of one of the questions
that the breast cancer expert panel came up with. The question was, "I
have a lump in my breast. What should be done to check it?" Very
The expert panel felt that these four elements below are types
of information that a consumer should find on a Web site. Breast lumps
should be brought to the attention of a physician. Mammography
and ultrasound are useful in evaluating lumps. A negative mammogram doesn't
eliminate the need for further evaluation. A persistent, non-fluid filled
breast mass felt by a physician should be biopsied. These are the types
of questions that each of the expert panels designed for each of the questions
as well as sort of the basic concept that this should all be there.
After we designed these questions for each condition, we then had two searchers
go to each of the Web sites we were studying and spend 90 minutes with the
questions looking to see if they could find the answers. So if you went
to a Web site and you searched for this information, the products of this research
were then saved and put into a notebook. All information identifying
the site was (unclear).
We then developed a standardized rating form,
a scoring system if you will, and recruited expert reviewers to evaluate the
information on two domains: coverage and accuracy. Was the information
present at all and if information was present, what was the level of accuracy?
This was a test that we wanted to make it fair and objective. Rather than
just say, "Well, do you like what you find or do you don't like
what you find?" Let me just give you an example of how we ask the
physicians and reviewers to rate coverage for breast cancer screening.
The question that was saw earlier, "I have a lump in my breast." If
a Web site didn't mention mammography at all, it received a score of
no coverage. But if a Web site said that mammography was a way to identify
early-stage breast cancers, but it didn't tell you when the screening
should start or if there was a difference in screening for high-risk populations,
it got a score of minimal coverage. But if it mentioned that women over
the age of fifty should have the early mammogram and talked about some of the
pros and cons of mammography screening of different populations, it got a score
of more than minimal coverage.
So these are the bars that we set for the reviewers to look at the information.
Cindy DiBiasi: So what were the results in this part of
the study?
Dr. Gretchen Berland: OK, so what did we find? On English
language Web sites, you can see what this shows here that this is the percentage
of topics that the reviewers felt were handled really well. This meant
that breast cancer did the best. Overall, two thirds of the topics that
expert panelists felt should be on a Web site were covered well. Unfortunately,
childhood asthma and obesity did not do as well at all. Barely a third
of the information was covered well and on depression about half of that information
was covered well on some of the more popular Web sites.
This looks pretty good compared to what we found on Spanish sites. In
this instance, you can see that really almost the best condition was breast
cancer, which was rarely covered as well as the worst topic for English language
sites. What we don't show here is that nearly half of the topics
that the expert panel felt should be covered on a Web site about these topics
weren't covered at all. Nearly two thirds of the elements that
related to depression weren't found.
Cindy DiBiasi: It is really fascinating. This is so profound.
Dr. Gretchen Berland: There is not only a difference in the quality
of the information, but there was a difference in the quantity of information. For
instance, if you were to go to a Web site and spend an hour and a half searching
for information on breast cancer, on an English language site, on average,
you will pull about 250 pages of material off that search. If you spend
an hour and a half on a Spanish language Web site, you pull about 70 pages
There is not only a difference in quality, but there is also a
significant difference in quality in terms of, you really point out an important
point, there is a huge disparity in the quality of health information.
Cindy DiBiasi: Let's talk about the final part of
your study.
Dr. Gretchen Berland: Right. This is the really important point,
which is that let's say you can find the information. Let's
say the information is there, but the third part of our study really asks the
question, "Well, is it really going to be of any use to the population?" This
is important because we know that the few Internet survey groups and the Harris
Interactive Group reports that the Internet is becoming more and more representative
of the U.S. population. That more people who are high school educated
are going online. More Hispanics are going online.
What we did was we used widely accepted readability formulas which measure grade levels
as a function of basically word complexity in a sample of text and applied
these formulas to randomly selected passages of text in the Web sites that
we studied. This is important because most people in the United States
have graduated with a high school level education, but the actual average reading
level in the U.S. is about the eighth grade level.
We found that on average, health information is not necessarily going to be accessible
to many people. The average reading level on English language Web sites is the freshman level
in college. The lowest level reading level on the Web sites that we studied
was grade ten, which meant that for anybody who has a high school level education,
much of the information they can find may not be useful to you because you
can't read it. Spanish language sites did a little bit better. If
you are a sophomore in high school, there were two sites that were acceptable
that had a lower reading level.
Cindy DiBiasi: So what does this mean? What issues
does this raise for public policymakers?
Dr. Gretchen Berland: I think this is the first study that really
takes a slice of the technology that is very popular. I think it
means that the promise of the Internet, many of us talk about it as serving
as sort of the leveler or the Great Digital Divide and the ultimate tool that
can really improve access to care for people. I think what we found initially
is that we probably still have a little bit of ways to go.
Overall, we didn't expect to find the huge deficiency in Spanish language material.
We didn't realize there would be such a variation in quality. We
were surprised to find that there is such a variation by condition. Breast
cancer, the good news is that for breast cancer overall the information is
pretty good. We were a little disappointed to see that childhood asthma
and obesity didn't do quite so well. I think also disappointing
to us as well as the California HealthCare Foundation is that the reading levels
on many of the health-related Web sites are probably still too high if we really
talk about this tool serving as a tool that can really reach a wider, a broader
Cindy DiBiasi: It really needs to be taken down to the level
of the consumer press almost, a typical newspaper reader might be 13 years
Dr. Gretchen Berland: I mean, the New York Times I think
is written at grade 13. I think that the Web is such a fluid pool, that
what we found is we are not developing the right content. We are developing
contents for providing health information, or providing health information
that is successful to people is really hard. But the Web is a place where
you can provide information to a variety of levels, to people of different
levels of education. I also mean this is also technology where the information
doesn't necessarily have to be provided in text. Put it in video. You
can put it in audio.
I think probably the study was conducted and we
finished the study in November of last year. Since then, I know
the Web sites have modified their sites. They have put up more videos. What
we have found is that we set a bar and it probably needs more work.
Cindy DiBiasi: Great. We will be getting back to you
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The first one is to Pete. Is the public able to research a specific
doctor's records through the South Carolina System?
Pete Bailey: No. We do not believe that
the data systems are really ready for that in terms of the quality that exists
there. I don't know when that world will be or if we ever want
that world to be, but this is strictly for the provider. I think this
question will continue to (end of tape)...to make sure that we have quality
providers, but I think that a good part of healthcare is making sure that we
don't destroy the bond of trust that is between patients and their doctors. I
personally do not think that the average patient, I mean, I think we just had
a great discussion about the difficulty of understanding.
I do not think the average person would be able to have the statistical ability to
understand a lot of the issues and to be able to (unclear) like just for AIDS. It
is just a very complicated way. I hope that our world doesn't
go in that direction.
Cindy DiBiasi: One of the complexities is, aren't
physicians afraid of being compared to other physicians who treat less complicated
Pete Bailey: I had heart surgery several years
ago and the night before I began thinking if I had scores on my physician and
this guy was a B- or a B+, what would that do to me? I just don't
want that world. I want us to have a world where we make sure that these
physicians have the best quality information and that there are people monitoring
that to make sure we have that quality.
Cindy DiBiasi: Gretchen, the question you said you get most
about your study, what are the best search engines to locate medical information?
Dr. Gretchen Berland: I think that there were about 12 people
who participated in this study who were listed in the JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association] paper and
probably every one of those twelve people has a favorite search engine and
a favorite Web site. Just to answer your question, in our study there
were really only two Web sites that statistically performed better on average.
One was for breast cancer, which was Oncolink.com, which was a site that is sponsored
by the University of Pennsylvania. The other was the National Institutes
of Mental Health site, NIMH.gov. No other sites that we studied
statistically performed better. Those are sites that the reviewers felt
covered; what it really meant that if you were to send 100 people to that Web
site, that 95 percent of the time you would know that those topics were covered
Cindy DiBiasi: However, if you are going to NIMH.gov, you
have got to be talking about mental health. You have got to be searching
for those things.
Dr. Gretchen Berland: Those were the only two sites that we found
in our study that performed better. The rest performed average and we
couldn't statistically tell if they were any better or any worse.
In terms of search engines, there were two search engines that statistically
took you to content that seems to be more relevant and one was Google and the
other was Northern Lights.
Cindy DiBiasi: Karen from the V.A. in Michigan has a question
about the study being published. We should have mentioned that the study
has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Gretchen Berland: It has been published. It has been
published in JAMA in the May 23rd issue. We have had a lot of
reprint requests for it, but you can also download it if you go to the JAMA Web
site, http://www.jama.com. You can find the paper there as well as a number of
additional tables that were posted on the Web only.
Cindy DiBiasi: Anne, a question for you. Is there
a way to query a private/public insurance payment by diagnosis?
Dr. Anne Elixhauser: Yes, indeed. That is one of the
most basic searches that you can do in HCUPnet. You can look at diagnoses
in a number of ways. You can look at them by individual ICD codes [International Classification
of Disease], by
groups of ICD codes, that you may find there is a certain series of ICD codes
that describe the condition that you are looking at.
You can look at diagnoses by what we call the Clinical Classification Software, which
is an aggregation of ICD codes that we developed here at AHRQ. Also by DRG [Diagnostic Related Group]. Then
you can look at the patient's insurance status, whether they are Medicare,
Medicaid, commercial, uninsured. It classifies patients that way. That
is indeed one of the most common searches that can be done using HCUPnet.
Cindy DiBiasi: Do find that there are the top three ways
that HCUPnet is really being used? Is there one thing that really stands
Dr. Anne Elixhauser: I think probably the most common use
of HCUPnet is to look at a very specific condition and then to get any kind
of detailed information that HCUPnet provides. For example, you can look
at a condition like depression or septicemia and you can build a fairly comprehensive
profile of what is happening in hospital care for that condition. For
depression, for example, you can look at length of stay, the charges for hospital
stay with depression, how many patients are hospitalized for depression.
Then you can break it down by all kinds of patient characteristics, comparing males
and females, comparing different age groups. Then you can look at it
by peer as a previous question just illustrated. You can look at it by
low-income vs. not low-income patients. You can compare types of hospitals
and what they do in terms of the treatment of depression. You can also
look at trends in depression over time and you can compare national, regional
and State, all those estimates, for depression on the national, regional and
State level as well.
Cindy DiBiasi: Pete, I know you are also working on a plan
to link data from a number of your State's existing health-related databases
so that this information can be better used to support policy decision-making. Can
you talk a little bit about that?
Pete Bailey: Yes. This is really an exciting
area that we are involved with. Our office is, as I mentioned earlier,
a research and statistics agency and as a neutral agency, we have been able
to pull together an enormous amount of data from different agencies. What
we have found is that, our belief in general is that a high percentage of the
people with problems in society that we are attempting to try to solve with
our programs have multiple problems that cut across specialty areas or lines
of authority or how we can use our resources.
Those problems might be health or poverty or education or training or inabilities to get
a job or alcohol and drug abuse or mental illness or family structure or child support or law
enforcement. If you look at the slide that we have up now, all of these
agencies including the private sector system, which you see down at the bottom
right hand corner. We have their data in our computer down to the individual
level and we have developed a unique tracking number where we can track people
across these systems. It enables us to link health and social services
and poverty and a whole range of issues.
What we are doing with this, of course having this is one thing and being able to do
special research studies off of it is another thing, but what we are developing is a
Web-enabled data warehouse where users must have a certificate to enter the system and that
certificate would control what they have access to. What our desires
would be for any of these agencies to be able to come into the system and be
able to take a cohort and query and see that, be able to ask as many questions
and cut across systems as possible.
In the next slide, what we are trying to show is the way we are thinking about
this, and that is, how can people access all of this data? One of our
biggest challenges has been the enormous amount of data. How can you
set up a system where people can come into it and get that kind of information? We
have set it up where they can either come in through a State agency program
or service. They can come in through special populations that we have
created, like children with special healthcare needs, either through geographic
profiles or they may be interested in a particular zip code or a block or block
We are also setting this system up so that we would be able to
do analysis at the House and Senate level which will be really interesting
to be able to do that. They could come in through some demographic group
like "Children under 6" or through healthcare utilization like
you are interested in, only diabetes and you want to look at those patients. It
allows people to track through this kind of information, which I think has
tremendous advantage.
Cindy DiBiasi: Gretchen, let's just talk about some
of the research steps that you are now looking at.
Dr. Gretchen Berland: Let's go to slide eight. I think
it is important to point out that probably many people online, I suspect that,
I gave this recent talk and asked 500 people who went to the Internet to look
for health information and nearly every hand came up in the room. I
think our first step really, we just classified what you might find out there
in a certain place or time. I think, as this slide will show, that we
really don't understand yet how health information influences the doctor/patient
There is a lot of anecdotal information about patients
bringing in more health information in to their doctors from the Web that we
haven't really studied how it influences utilization. Whether patients
are asking for different things, if they are asking for inappropriate things
or more appropriate things. We haven't studied that. Probably
most importantly, we haven't studied how health information is influencing
healthcare outcome. Is it improving people's health? Are
people taking better care of themselves? Are the decisions that are occurring
as a result of health information having a better impact on their health outcome
or a worse impact?
Cindy DiBiasi: We certainly know anecdotally that patients
are walking in with reams of printouts from those to their doctors.
Dr. Gretchen Berland: Right. They are. I have a number
of colleagues who are oncologists where, even when I was training in medical
school, part of the standard medical history was, there is a whole kind of
series of things you need to ask. Now what a standard question is "Are
you going to the Internet to look for health information? If you are
going, to what Web sites are you going?" That's something
that you... often people will come in with chemotherapy regimens that they are
asking for because they found it on the Web. This is new.
Cindy DiBiasi: Do you have recommendations? Is that
part of the study or a followup to the study? Recommendations on how
consumers can use these Web sites more effectively?
Dr. Gretchen Berland: That is an important question. I think it
also points out one of our study limitations. Partly in research, you
would like your study to be able to answer all research questions and this
was just a first step. We hope that there are plenty more. Our
study did not use consumers. We sort of, we basically broke it down in
a very structured way. What you might do on the Internet and we tried
to mimic what consumers might do.
I think there needs to be more studies that look at how consumers use health
information. How consumers use the Internet. I know the National Cancer Institute has a
lot of usability testing studies where they, how do you place things in a way that it is
easier for people to use? That may mean maybe for the elderly or people who
may potentially have limited vision. So how consumers use health information
is really some of the next steps that either we will be doing or we hope that
other groups are doing.
Cindy DiBiasi: Wow. Anne, a question from Jean. She
wants to know what States are participating in HCUP.
Dr. Anne Elixhauser: I was afraid that question would come
up and I of course don't have a list. I am sure this is like the
Academy Awards and I am going to forget somebody. Like I said before,
we have got 24 participating States right now. States from all corners
of the country: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia,
New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin, Oregon, there
is probably more.
Cindy DiBiasi: You did them almost entirely in alphabetical
order. That's impressive. (laughing)
Dr. Anne Elixhauser: At this point, we have about 90 percent
of all hospital discharges from the Northeast and from the West. We have
got really good coverage there. We have got a little less than 50 percent
of discharges from the South and the Midwest. We are trying to really
build up our participation in those two areas.
Cindy DiBiasi: What future enhancements are you planning
for HCUPnet?
Dr. Anne Elixhauser: Probably one of the biggest things
that we are going to be adding in the next six months or so is quality indicators. Pete
mentioned those a little bit earlier. A number of States have been
using these. What we did a couple of years ago is a group of us here
at AHRQ, in response as a matter of fact to the HCUP [Healthcare
Cost and Utilization Project] partners, developed what
we referred to as the HCUP Quality Indicators. These are indicators of
healthcare quality that you can look at using just hospital administrative
We have recently just released a study that Stanford University
has completed for us where they expanded and enhanced what we referred to as
the next generation of HCUP Quality Indicators. What Stanford has done
is come up with 45 measures. Things like in-hospital mortality for specific
conditions or procedures. Volume of procedures for those conditions
where there has been a demonstrated link between the number of procedures that
are done in the hospital and the outcome of care, such as in-hospital mortality.
We have some measures for utilization of procedures for procedures where there
is some question about the appropriateness of care, like C-sections and hysterectomies.
There is also a group of indicators looking at what are referred to as ambulatory
care-sensitive conditions, which are indicators that don't even look
at what is the quality of care inside the hospital, but are using hospital
data to get at potential primary care problems. Problems in the delivery
of care in the community. For example, pediatric asthma is a great example.
Most kids should be able to be treated on an outpatient basis so that they
never have to be hospitalized for their asthma. If there is a high rate of
asthma hospitalizations for children, there is something going wrong in the
primary care those kids are receiving. Other measures like that would
be diabetes complications. Again, people with diabetes should be able
to be treated outpatient without getting admitted for short-term diabetes complications
like coma and ketoacidosis.
Stanford is continuing development. They are going to be releasing these later in the
year, what we refer to as Patient Safety Indicators or Complications of Care that can be
looked at using again hospital administrative data. We are going to be applying these
quality indicators to our HCUP data. That will then be put on the Internet so
that individual States can have national and regional comparisons. How
does my State compare on these indicators with the nation as a whole or with
other States in my region? Or individual hospitals can compare their
performance with specific peer groups. Other teaching hospitals in the
Northeast, for example. That sort of thing.
Cindy DiBiasi: Let's talk a little bit about the HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] requirements. Pete, let's start with you. What are the implications
of those requirements on your initiatives?
Pete Bailey: We are certainly scared of what
they might do to us and I certainly am no expert in that area. The way
we are doing our best, we have done this before with HIPAA. We developed
a unique tracking number. We used identifying information to develop
this tracking number, but when data come to us, we separate the identifying
data and the statistical data. We use the identifying data to develop
the tracking number and then we link that tracking number over to the statistical
data set.
If we get data on you from four or five different agencies
or sources, you would have that same tracking number. We never put any
information together about you on anything that would identify you. Not
in our office, not anywhere, because I think that does break the law. The
other thing that we think we are in pretty good shape on is that the work we
are doing, we have laws that require the data and that also I think (unclear).
Cindy DiBiasi: Anne?
Dr. Anne Elixhauser: I guess HIPAA affects us in a couple
of ways. One is the standardization of healthcare information. That
actually is going to help HCUP a lot because we spend an awful lot of resources
right now just standardizing the data that we receive from the States, converting
it into a uniform format so that we and other researchers can do analysis with
it. Once HIPAA standards are in place, we can basically tend to other,
more interesting things. Instead of just standardizing the data, we can
do more research and spend our resources in other ways.
With respect to privacy, there are a couple of ways that HIPAA affects us and a couple of
ways that we have sort of dealt with it already. HCUPnet, for example,
does not use, it is not built on the data itself. We don't have
patient-level data that underlies HCUPnet. HCUPnet is based on aggregate
statistics. It is based on principles of data warehousing where we have
these huge data cubes that we have basically compiled all possible combinations
of data and made that available through HCUPnet.
One of the reasons why HCUPnet works so quickly, if you had to actually do the principal
analysis right on the data itself, it could take 45 seconds to a minute to get your
results, which would be deadly on the Internet. It just wouldn't
hold on to anybody. Because we have these data cubes and because everything
is aggregated already, whenever you do a search, most of the searches come
up pretty quickly.
The main reason that we did that was because we didn't
want to have the patient-level data on the Internet so that a hacker could
get in and actually get access to the discharge-level data. The side
benefit of it was the speed that it provided. The HIPAA privacy issues
are affecting us just in terms of I think we're mostly just concerned
about the extent to which data can be shared with us. There are a number
of people who are on the HCUP staff who are working very actively with a number
of the States who are concerned about this, trying to understand the HIPAA
There are a couple of people on our staff who have actually
helped to draft some guidances that hopefully will be released as part of explanations
for the HIPAA regulations so that it explains exactly what HIPAA means in terms
of sharing data with us and then us making data available to researchers.
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Everyone on earth has a purpose, homeless Betty declares, and hers is to act as a mirror--the one you can't get away from when you leave the bathroom. In her is reflected the whole human condition, and playwright Joe Turner Cantu wants us to gaze long and hard into that mirror in his poignant drama about homelessness, Rock and Betty Dance. The trouble is, Cantu can't resist piling on the social ills, as if he had to squeeze every sociopolitical evil into a single two-act play.
Editorial commentary as drama can quickly grow tiresome. But fortunately for us, the Ad Hoc Theatre production mitigates the more ham-fisted elements of Cantu's play with sophisticated acting and direction. It is finally, to borrow a term from the play, an "uplifting" experience, as well as an eye-opening take on recent American history.
In Cantu's tale, middle-aged Betty Dance sits on "her" bench outside the public library every day, reading voraciously. Books are her calling, and she considers herself a scholar--who sleeps each night in an empty room behind the library. Betty's world is peaceful until Rock, a disturbed, illiterate Vietnam vet, descends with a bang. He's noisy and he's all over the place, and though she tries to get rid of him, he inspires compassion in her. She invites him to dinner at the homeless shelter and comforts him through one of his vacant spells.
Betty teaches Rock to read and they eventually fall in love, in the process opening up to each other about how they ended up where they are. It's a heavy emotional load--his guilt and anguish over events in the war, her husband's desertion and child's death. Betty appears to have made a conscious choice to live on the street--to spend all her time reading rather than to waste any of it working. Rock, meanwhile, has been cast out because the mentally ill have nowhere to go. As drug pushers move into the neighborhood, the lovers decide to do something about it, and the tragedy that follows is inevitable.
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Through it all, Rock and Betty discuss their plight with believable intelligence and flashes of genuine insight--whenever Cantu can restrain himself from preaching. Katharine Guthrie gives a sensitive reading of Betty; her New York accent works most of the time, and she keeps a wide range of emotions hovering near the surface. The most revealing and most affecting moment of the play is Betty's description of her child's death. It's a tough scene, fraught with dangers for an actress, but Guthrie keeps her passion in careful check, and the discipline pays off.
John Arp's amazing performance moves Rock from madness to a vestige of mental health, from remorse to the clarity of hope. Steering through a torrent of emotions, Arp brings Rock safely to harbor in his love for Betty. But even in the relative peace love confers, Arp stirs an undercurrent of past suffering, keeping his character poised at the brink. These people are worthy of cherishing each other and of being cherished by us.
It's a pity Cantu couldn't have expressed his moral vision by showing instead of telling. One of the great challenges of political art is to speak to those who aren't yet converted and to reach them where they live. Still, the playwright's admirable sentiments do disturb certain complacencies--and that's good, even if it's not enough.


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Roberto Luongo saved his best game in the first round for game 6, and was the best player on the ice. Everyone will be talking about his big save off of Ryan Smyth, dubbed the "save of the series" by Jim Hughson, but his game was more than that save, as big as it was. The Los Angeles Kings were the best team on the ice for the first 40 minutes but it was none other than their team captain Roberto Luongo that kept them in it. They were outshot 26-11 through the first two periods, but were bailed out by Luongo until the Canucks finally found their groove and grossly outplayed the Kings in the third.
The Kings power play finally ran out of steam in game 6, going 0 for 5. Give credit to the Canucks coaching staff for making the right adjustments on it. They were much more aggressive on their penalty kill, not just in their own zone, but all over the ice, making the Kings entries more difficult.
Great observation by the Hockey Night in Canada analysts in the second intermission about the fatigue of Michael Handzus. The checking centre, given the responsibility of limiting the Sedins in this series, really looked like he couldn't handle the big minutes tonight. Handzus played 21 minutes in game 6, up significantly from his 18 minutes of ice time that he averaged in the regular season. Watching labour around the ice reminded me a lot of Mats Sundin huffing and puffing last season, unable to keep up.
For the Canucks, this series was about a few things. Luongo finding his game, the Sedins dominating and coming up big in the clutch, as well as the emergence of Alex Edler. All great things to see, but they'll need even more in the second round. They'll play Chicago unless Nashville comes back to win that series, in which case they would play the winner of Detroit-Phoenix. Who would you want to play? Drop a note in the comments section. I loved Luongo's reaction, saying he wants Chicago (check it out here at the 6:40 mark), wanting some redemption for last season's playoff series. I'm not sure that's the most favourable matchup, but it would definitely be the most exciting.


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Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2013-40
September 30, 2013
Table of Contents
- Amendments to the Regulations
- Drafting Information
Internal Revenue Service
26 CFR Part 1
This document contains final and temporary regulations relating to the application of the straddle rules to a debt instrument. The temporary regulations clarify that a taxpayer's obligation under a debt instrument can be a position in personal property that is part of a straddle. The temporary regulations primarily affect taxpayers that issue debt instruments that provide for one or more payments that reference the value of personal property or a position in personal property. The text of these temporary regulations also serves as the text of the proposed regulations (REG-111753-12) set forth in this issue of the Bulletin.
Effective Date: These regulations are effective on September 5, 2013.
Applicability Dates: For date of applicability, see §1.1092(d)-1T(e).
This document contains amendments to 26 CFR part 1. On January 18, 2001, a notice of proposed rulemaking (REG-105801-00; RIN 1545-AX92) (the 2001 NPRM) was published in the Federal Register (66 FR 4746). The 2001 NPRM addresses the definition of personal property for purposes of section 263(g) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), the types of expenses subject to capitalization, and the operation of the capitalization rules. Another portion of the 2001 NPRM (proposed regulation §1.1092(d)-1(d)) would clarify the circumstances under which an issuer's position under a debt instrument is treated as a position in personal property that is part of a straddle.
No public hearing was requested or held. Written and electronic comments responding to the 2001 NPRM were received, and the only commenter that substantively addressed proposed §1.1092(d)-1(d) urged its adoption. This Treasury Decision adopts proposed §1.1092(d)-1(d) (REG-105801-00) in the form proposed. As so adopted, this provision is designated as §1.1092(d)-1T(d). This Treasury Decision also adopts the 2001 NPRM's proposed amendment to the effective/applicability dates (proposed §1.1092(d)-1(e)). As so adopted, this effective/applicability date is designated as §1.1092(d)-1T(e)(2). The amendments are discussed in section 2 of this preamble. The remainder of the 2001 NPRM remains proposed.
The temporary regulations provide guidance under section 1092 regarding when an issuer's obligation under a debt instrument may be a position in actively traded personal property and, therefore, may be part of a straddle.
Section 1092(d)(1) defines "personal property" to mean "personal property of a type that is actively traded." A debt or obligation generally is not property of the debtor or obligor. Nevertheless, if a debt instrument provides for payments that are (or are reasonably expected to be) linked to the value of personal property as so defined, then the obligor on the instrument has a position in the personal property referenced by the debt instrument.
Section 1092(d)(7) provides that if a debt instrument is denominated in a nonfunctional currency, the obligor's position under the debt obligation is a position in the nonfunctional currency. Some maintain that section 1092(d)(7) evidences an intent by Congress to limit the circumstances in which an obligor's interest in a debt instrument may be a position in a straddle, and that such treatment is proper only with respect to debt obligations denominated in nonfunctional currency. The IRS and the Treasury Department do not believe that section 1092(d)(7) describes the only circumstance in which an obligor's interest in a debt instrument may be treated as part of a straddle. The statute and the legislative history do not contain any indication that Congress intended to limit section 1092 in this manner; rather, the legislative history characterizes section 1092(d)(7) as a clarification of prior law:
The Senate amendment clarifies that an obligor's interest in a foreign currency denominated obligation is a "position" for purposes of the loss deferral rule. The rationale for this treatment is that a foreign currency borrowing is economically similar to a short position in the foreign currency.
H. R. REP. NO. 99-841, pt. 2, at 670 (1986) (Conf. Rep.); 1986-3 (Vol. 4) CB 670. Moreover, it is clear that an economic exposure associated with an obligation that is not a debt instrument (such as a written option or the obligation created by a short sale) may be a straddle position. Similarly, a debt instrument may be a position in personal property, and accordingly subject to the straddle rules, if the obligation is linked to personal property. Therefore, §1.1092(d)-1T(d) of the temporary regulations expressly provides that an obligation under a debt instrument may be a position in personal property that is part of a straddle.
The temporary regulations adopt the effective/applicability date set forth in the 2001 NPRM by providing that §1.1092(d)-1T(d) applies to straddles established on or after January 17, 2001 (the date on which the 2001 NPRM was filed with the Federal Register). No inference is intended with respect to straddles established prior to January 17, 2001. In appropriate cases, the IRS may take the position under section 1092(d)(2) that, even in the absence of a regulation, an obligation under a debt instrument was part of a straddle prior to the effective date of §1.1092(d)-1T(d) if the debt instrument functioned economically as an interest in actively traded personal property.
It has been determined that this Treasury decision is not a significant regulatory action as defined in Executive Order 12866, as supplemented by Executive Order 13563. Therefore, a regulatory assessment is not required. It also has been determined that section 553(b) of the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. chapter 5) does not apply to these regulations. For the applicability of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. chapter 6) refer to the Special Analyses section of the preamble to the cross-reference notice of proposed rulemaking published in this issue of the Bulletin. Pursuant to section 7805(f) of the Code, this regulation has been submitted to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration for comment on its impact on small business.
Accordingly, 26 CFR part 1 is amended as follows:
Paragraph 1. The authority citation for part 1 continues to read in part follows:
Authority: 26 U.S.C. 7805 * * *
Section 1.1092(d)-1T also issued under 26 U.S.C. 1092(b)(1). * * *
Par. 2. Section 1.1092(d)-1 is amended by redesignating paragraph (d) as newly-designated paragraph (e) and revising newly-designated paragraph (e), and adding new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
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(d) [Reserved]. For further guidance, see §1.1092(d)-1T(d).
(e) Effective/applicability dates. (1) Paragraph (b)(1)(vii) of this section applies to positions entered into on or after October 14, 1993. Paragraph (c) of this section applies to positions entered into on or after July 8, 1991.
(2) [Reserved]. For further guidance, see §1.1092(d)-1T(e)(2).
Par. 3. Section 1.1092(d)-1T is added to read as follows:
(a) through (c) [Reserved]. For further guidance, see §1.1092(d)-1(a) through (c).
(d) Debt instrument linked to the value of personal property. If a taxpayer is the obligor under a debt instrument one or more payments on which are linked to the value of personal property or a position with respect to personal property, then the taxpayer's obligation under the debt instrument is a position with respect to personal property and may be part of a straddle.
(e) Effective/applicability dates—(1) [Reserved]. For further guidance, see §1.1092(d)-1(e)(1).
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (e)(1) of this section, paragraph (d) of this section applies to straddles established on or after January 17, 2001.
(f) Expiration date. The applicability of this section expires on September 2, 2016.
Beth Tucker,
Deputy Commissioner for
Operations Support.
Approved August 26, 2013.
Mark J. Mazur,
Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury (Tax Policy).
(Filed by the Office of the Federal Register on September 4, 2013, 8:45 a.m., and published in the issue of the Federal Register for September 5, 2013, 78 F.R. 54568)
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The Dallas Bar Association (DBA) will present the Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Award to Al Ellis (pictured), of counsel at Sommerman & Quesada, on Jan. 21 during the annual MLK luncheon at the Belo Mansion.
"It's probably one of the best honors I've ever had," Ellis says.
Ellis says that during his term as the Dallas Bar Association president in 1990, the board agreed, at his suggestion, to make the presidents of the minority bar associations in Dallas voting members, not just ex-officio members, of the DBA. Working with minority bar association members, the DBA board also mapped out goals for a five-year plan to increase inclusion, Ellis says. One goal of that plan was to increase minority involvement in the DBA, he says.
Another goal, Ellis says, was to start an MLK celebration in Dallas. He says the celebration began in 1991 with an evening candlelight ceremony, which has evolved into the annual luncheon that now marks the event.
Ellis says the MLK award usually goes to an African-American. He says the fact that he has been named the recipient for 2013 shows that progress is being made toward inclusion.
"It's recognition that Martin Luther King Jr. is a hero to a lot of us," he says.
Ellis received his law degree in 1971 from Southern Methodist University School of Law. He says he entered law school after serving as a U.S. Army Airborne infantryman from 1965 to 1969, including a one-year tour of duty in Vietnam.
— Mary Alice Robbins
Robbins is an Austin-based freelance writer and a former Texas Lawyer senior reporter.


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It is comparable to the Nikon cool pix, and the pictures it takes is clear and concise. I have a friend who is a semi Professional photographer and this Samsung is one of the cameras she uses. It can also does video. The Cannon is also a good camera, but the Samsung really shines as far as ease of usage and what you can do with it. Joan
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TOWER FM presenter Simon Morykin is reportedly leaving the station after less than two months to take on the mid-morning slot on Sheffield station Hallam FM.
Radio news website Radio Today tweeted about his departure, saying: "Moves: Well he didn't stay long! Simon Morykin moves to Hallam."
Another post on the Radio Today website, also dated April 15, said: "New Tower FM breakfast presenter Simon Morykin is moving to Hallam FM to host mid-mornings."
The 30-year-old presenter, who lives in Tonge Moor, began his Morykin in the Morning breakfast show on March 3 when he took over from long-standing duo Jon and Vix, saying it was his "dream job".
Since taking over the flagship slot on the UTV station, Simon has built up a solid Twitter following, including singer Olly Murs and celebrity twins Jedward.
So far, no reason has been given for the shock departure, which mirrors what happened when Jon and Vix were axed in February.
Simon moved to Tower from sister station Signal 1 in Stoke, which broadcasts across Cheshire and Staffordshire, presenting Total Access.
Both Simon and UTV were unavailable to comment.


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Coastal Trek
3 Night Coastal Wilderness Stroll
Includes Naturalist Guide.
Airfare not included in price.
$1075 Cash Price Basic Trip
Rate shown is per person based on four guest minimum, six guest maximum.
Bush Plane Flight Information
Booking Information Request Form
Payment and Refund Policy
The coastal strolls are a guided backpacking excursion that allows the guests to view and experience other remote and unexplored areas of the coast of Katmai National Park. A Hallo Bay Naturalist Guide will lead you to some of the most beautiful and scenic areas of the Katmai coast. Only those of sound mind and body, and with prior backpacking experience and a passion for adventure should consider these trips.
Our number one priority will always be the safety of our clients and secondly to have no adverse affect on the behavior or the well being of the bears or any other wildlife while leaving no trace of our presence.
Your trip will be led by one of Hallo Bay's experienced wilderness guides who are familiar with the local conditions, the weather and the wildlife of the Katmai coast. Our guides are also skilled in wilderness lore, emergency wilderness medical training and evacuation techniques. Additionally your guide will be carrying radio and satellite communication equipment which he will use to maintain regular scheduled communication with Hallo Bay Wilderness Camp as an added measure of safety.
Our 3 night Coastal Stroll package begins when you board the bush plane in Homer for your flight to Katmai. The enjoyable and scenic flight will be approximately one hour in duration prior to arriving at the coastal jump off point. A little time is utilized to familiarize yourselves with your starting point and testing the communication equipment, we will then begin our journey along the coast to our first night's camp. Our days will be spent hiking 4-10 miles per day along the coast, stopping often to explore, view wildlife and relax. As we hike and trek along the coast, we will set up our camp each evening in a safe, comfortable location. Our last morning hike will have us arriving at Hallo Bay Wilderness Camp where we will meet our flight returning to Homer.
The Hallo Bay Safari Camp based tours lend themselves far better to photographic opportunities of the bears than the coastal treks. The coastal trek will give the guest the opportunity for scenic and some wildlife photography but if your interest is in bear photography, the coastal trek would not be the best choice.
Where will we be hiking to?
We have a variety of coastal routes to choose from on the treks. These individual routes vary, requiring 4-10 miles per day of hiking. Other factors such as tides, weather and volcanic activity as well as physical ability of the participants will determine the particular route chosen.
How tough are the hikes?
Our hikes vary from day to day and place to place. To play it safe and to make sure you know what you will need to do, expect on a typical day to hike up to four to ten miles in varying terrain from soft sand to muddy flats to creek crossings. You will hike up and down hills and be walking on several different grades in any given day. We suggest you "shape up" for your trip by hiking in your local wilderness first to see how you do. This may be your nearest beach, local mountain range, or maybe nearby desert. Your Hallo Bay Guide does not want to force you on a "Death March" by any means. We will walk at a leisurely speed in the most comfortable fashion available.
How long are the hikes?
We will hike between 4 to 10 miles per day over rocky beach terrain, ford frigid glacial rivers up to 3 feet deep and will be at the mercy of the area's unpredictable weather.
What will we see on this trip?
- brown bears
- fox
- eagles
- moose
- otter
- shorebirds
- seabirds
- marine life
- old boat wrecks
- whale bones
- other treasures from faraway places
What will I learn on this trip?
This is the best opportunity available to learn firsthand from experienced guides the proper techniques of:
- back country bear safety
- camp hygiene
- food storage
- camp placement
- wildlife behavior
- low impact style on the bears and their environment
- interpretation of the biology
- traditional uses of endemic plant life
What should I bring?
- Backpack
- Tent
- Sleeping Bag & Pad
- Cooking Utensils
- Camp Stove & Fuel
- Food & Snacks
- Water Filters
- Nalgene Bottle
- Rain Gear
- Clothing
- Hat & Gloves
- Head Lamp
- Camera Gear
- and other personal gear for the trail
Hallo Bay does not provide the guests with any camping gear, food, equipment or personal products for the coastal treks. These items are the responsibility of the guests to bring, always with the consideration of the weight you will be carrying.
We operate an environmentally friendly eco camp. All products that we use and that the guests use have to have the environmentally friendly label on every product or you will not be able to use it on the coastal trek. You can purchase environmentally friendly shampoos and bath soap products at local health food stores or sporting goods stores in your area or in Homer before you fly out to our camp.
Our advertised prices, specifications and availability are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right to correct typographic, photographic, pricing and or descriptive errors.
By purchasing services from Alaska's Hallo Bay Wilderness Camps you are agreeing to the terms and conditions which we have set in place governing our operations. If you are not comfortable with these terms we respectfully ask that you do not book with us as these are our company policies set in place for your safety, the safety of other guests, staff and our deep concern for protecting this magnificent wilderness area and the wildlife within it from those who may not realize how very fragile it is and how easily it can be overrun. Our watch is one of concern for all living things and their environment.
For more information feel free to contact us.


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Berkeley Rep Announces Teen One-Acts Festival
Famous names like Rita Moreno and Mikhail Baryshnikov may be on the marquee, but every spring local teens steal the spotlight at the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre. During the 10th annual Teen One-Acts Festival, enthusiastic high-school students can try their hands at acting, directing, playwriting, producing, and more.
The Teen One-Acts Festival encourages young writers to develop ideas about issues that inspire them. Every year, a panel of students selects two original plays penned by Bay Area teens to be performed, directed, and produced by their peers. Then the staff at Berkeley Rep mentors these teens at each step of the process to help them perfect their craft. There are many ways to participate:
Write on! Young playwrights are encouraged to submit their scripts to the festival. Each play should contain at least three characters and be no longer than 35 minutes in length. Submissions can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com and must include the playwright's name, age, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, grade, and school. The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 11, 2011.
Visit the script doctor. Aspiring authors can take a series of free playwriting workshops from 4:30 to 6:00 PM on the following Tuesdays: October 11, October 25, and November 1, 2011. Attend one class or attend them all! Madeleine Oldham, Berkeley Rep's resident dramaturg, will help teens learn how to beat writer's block and create cohesive stories. To participate, just call (510) 647-2973 or e-mail email@example.com before Monday, October 10, 2011.
Act out! Aspiring actors are invited to audition for the festival at 1:00 PM on Saturday, January 21, 2012. Please come prepared with a monologue no longer than two minutes. Auditions are held in the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre at 2071 Addison Street in downtown Berkeley, right next door to the company's Thrust Stage. Call (510) 647-2973 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to set up an audition time.
But I really want to direct... Directors for this year's festival will be selected from participants in a special three-part workshop led by Mina Morita, Berkeley Rep's new artistic associate. Ten teens will be invited to learn about the casting process, how to create directing concepts, how to work with actors in the rehearsal room, and how to collaborate with designers to create the world of the play. These workshops will take place on Friday, November 18; Saturday, November 19; and Monday, December 12, 2011. To apply, call (510) 647-2973 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com by Monday, November 7, 2011.
Be the producer. Work behind the scenes with Berkeley Rep's staff to plan the Teen One-Acts Festival. This important position promises excellent practical experience to someone ready for the responsibility. Oversee workshops, organize weekly production meetings, track the shows' progress, create and maintain a budget, and manage marketing efforts for the festival. Teens who are interested should call (510) 647-2973 or e-mail email@example.com to schedule an interview.
Work behind the scenes. Are you a designer, a techie, or interested in technical things? Teens work with professional mentors to get the festival on its feet by building costumes, sets, lights, and sound. Learn about these creative disciplines and begin to collaborate with aspiring directors at an all-day workshop on Saturday, November 19, 2011. Space is limited, so apply soon. Call (510) 647-2973 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com by Monday, November 7, 2011.
Or just enjoy the results: Everyone is invited to see the final show - written, performed, and produced entirely by teens! Performances of the winning scripts take place next spring at the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre with 8:00 PM shows on March 30, March 31, April 6, and April 7, 2012 and a special 2:00 PM matinee on March 31, 2012. (This is the only part of the process with a price tag; reasonable costs for tickets will be set by the teens themselves in consultation with their mentors.)
The Berkeley Rep Teen Council is a theatre youth group organized by teens for teens. Its goal is to foster the theatre audiences and theatre professionals of tomorrow by opening channels of communication between teens, theatre professionals, and the community at large while building a base for lifelong learning. Through a variety of interactive programs, the Teen Council provides an opportunity for youth to participate in all aspects of the dramatic process: on stage, backstage, and in front of the stage through its affiliation with the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Currently, the Council has more than 200 members including youth from numerous local high schools. For more information, call (510) 647-2973, visit berkeleyrep.org/teenoneacts, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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November 2013 will mark twenty years since the release of Wu-Tang Clan's debut album Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). While the chatter of a reunion is humming louder than a swarm of killer bees, Cappadonna recently cut through the rumors with a few words on the subject.
"I already spoke to the RZA," Cappadonna told Radio.com. "We've been texting each other. We're definitely concentrating on more positivity and teachings and trying to put that back into the original recipe for this next Wu-Tang album."
Cappadonna, who is best known for his breakout verse on Wu-Tang's hit single "Ice Cream," said he's preparing for another Wu-Tang session.
"The recording has begun," he said. "I'm on tour and I will be doing more recording for the Wu album in the next week or so."
The "tenth member" also offered some insight into the Wu recording process, which hasn't changed in over twenty years.
"It's all be ing done in the secret Wu-Tang Bat chamber," Capoadonna joked. "RZA has all the tracks lined up. There are recordings taking place in New York, L.A. and perhaps at the Wu mansion in New Jersey."
While he has yet to hear the music, he said the RZA is still in control.
"A lot of the tracks are lined up and already there," he said. "We all have to get a date and go there and submit verses. At that time, he [RZA] may give you a topic or you might hear something going on already. That's how he designs the songs."
While Cappadonna is readying his Wu-Tang verses, he's also promoting his seventh studio album Eyrth, Wynd & Fyre that dropped in February.


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Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ is available in 12 electric color combinations for both men and women in Finish Line stores and online at Finishline.com. (Photo: Business Wire)"Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ is part of the same iconic Flyknit collection the 2012 U.S. Olympic team wore at last summer's Games," said Scott Hoffman, Finish Line's executive vice president and chief merchandising officer. "The Lunar1+ is precision engineered to give our customer the perfect fit for the perfect run." Nike Flyknit Lunar1+'s innovative ultra-lightweight knit upper fits like a second skin and features new wrap-around Flywire cables that cradle the foot for lockdown support and a responsive ride. The shoe is one of Nike's most eco-friendly, made with a construction process that minimizes weight and waste. Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ will sell for $159.99 in Finish Line stores and online. It will be available in 12 electric color combinations for both men and women. Finish Line will launch Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ on Thursday, Feb. 14 with the largest, most integrated omni-channel campaign of the season. This includes three-dimensional Flyknit displays and video monitors within select Finish Line stores and Nike Track Club locations. In-store events will be hosted in key markets featuring a steaming process that allows consumers to have their Flyknits custom fit to their feet. Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ will also be the main feature on FinishLine.com including key display and content areas. Consumers will be able to take a short quiz to determine which Nike Flyknit is their perfect fit and enter to win a $1,000 Finish Line shopping spree. The campaign is heavily focused on social media with plans that extend to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest. About The Finish Line, Inc. The Finish Line, Inc. is a premium retailer of athletic shoes, apparel and accessories. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Finish Line has 646 stores in malls across the U.S. and employs more than 11,000 sneakerologists who help customers every day connect with their sport, their life and their style. Online shopping is available at www.finishline.com and mobile shopping is available at m.finishline.com. Follow Finish Line on Twitter at Twitter.com/FinishLine and "like" Finish Line on Facebook at Facebook.com/FinishLineUSA. Finish Line also operates, through a venture with Gart Capital Partners, the Running Specialty Group, including 25 specialty running shops in eight states and the District of Columbia under The Running Company, Run On! and Road Runner banners. More information is available at www.run.com. Forward-Looking Statements This news release includes statements that are or may be considered "forward-looking" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of words or phrases such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "foresee," "may," "should," "will," "estimates," "outlook," "potential," "optimistic," "confidence," "continue," "evolve," "expand," "growth" or words and phrases of similar meaning. Statements that describe objectives, plans or goals also are forward-looking statements.
Runners, rejoice. The Finish Line, Inc. (NASDAQ: FINL) announced today the distribution of the Nike Flyknit Lunar1+, in stores tomorrow.


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For Sale:
Older Generation MES40 For Sale
Will Ship To: Nowhere -- local only
I just bought a new pellet pit, and need to liquidate some other gear to make room in the garage. I am selling the older(2011 model) generation MES40, 1200 watt burner, with the window and the remote. It was purchased new at Christmas time 2011, so its almost 1 1/2 years old. It has churned out lots of good Que. I did not do any Mods on it (didn't need to), so it's just like it came out of the box, except its well-seasoned. Located in NE Oklahoma, about 40 miles east of Tulsa.
PM me if interested.
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The Lazuli Bunting, named because of the brilliant blue in its
plumage after the gemstone lapis lazuli, is a small songbird that,
although not common, can be found locally in the Vancouver area
during spring and summer. This bird breeds as far north as southern
BC to Saskatchewan, across the western US, and overwinters in
western Mexico.
General: a
small, stocky bird with a short tail, rounded wings, and a small,
conical-shaped bill; averages 5.5" in length and 15.5 grams in
Adult Male:
turquoise hood, back and rump, with black lores, rufous-coloured
breast, white belly and under-tail coverts. Has 2 white wing bars,
the upper broader and more prominent than lower wing bar; the wings
and tail themselves are dark but edged with the same bright
Female: a
drab, grey-brown above, buffy and unstreaked underneath, and a
greyish throat. A delicate light-blue tone to wings, tail, and rump,
but the 2 buff-coloured wing-bars distinctive.
for the first winter and spring, the immature male has brown and
buff-tipped feathers blended into the pale-blue hood and back;
immature females resemble the adult female.
Similar species:
Western Bluebirds have a similar colour palette, but lack wing-bars,
are larger, and have a stout bill. Note that Lazuli Bunting
hybridizes with Indigo Bunting where range overlaps.
Males tend to sing from a high perch persistently during the day.
These songs are among the handful of those heard during the early
afternoon when many other songbirds are relatively quiet.
Habitat: These
birds tend to prefer open woodland and riparian areas with low
trees, shrubs, bushes and weedy patches, often with elevated perches
nearby; residential gardens may also provide suitable habitat. Note
that this bird can be found at high elevations on occasion,
sometimes over 3000 metres!
Mature male Lazuli
Buntings have one song, which is unique to the individual bird.
Immature males arriving on the breeding grounds in their first
spring tend to not have a song of their own yet, but can copy the
songs of other nearby males. This results in 'song neighbourhoods',
where the songs of males in one area sound similar to each other,
but different from males elsewhere.
Building a small nest of grasses lined with fine hairs, usually in a
thick bush or shrub, Lazuli Buntings typically have a clutch of 3-5
pale blue eggs. Females incubate, but the male will somtimes help
feed the chicks. Although pairs are usually monogamous, polygany is
not uncommon.
Lazuli Buntings eat invertebrates, seeds, and grains, gleaning
insects from shrubs or foraging on the ground, and sometimes
visiting feeders.
For the spring migration north, males usually arrive at their
breeding grounds slightly earlier than females, and the older birds
ahead of the younger ones. After the breeding season, Lazuli
Buntings begin their prebasic molt, but then interrupt it before
migrating south to certain stopover hotspots, like southern Arizona,
Baja, and New Mexico, where they complete their change in plumage
before moving on to their wintering grounds.
The Lazuli Bunting
currently maintains a status of Least Concern; however, it is
vulnerable to nest parasitism of Brown-headed Cowbirds, thus
lowering their reproductive success rates.
Actually preferring the more arid conditions of the
interior, Lazuli Bunting has been a usual summer resident at
Colony Farm. It then migrates south for the winter as seen
by zero capture rates (2010-2012; standardized as birds
captured per 100 net hours) from October through April. The
peak in June may correspond to individuals moving throughout
the park before settling into breeding territories.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Sam's Club announced the launch of Simply Right Baby Care, which will be part of its Simply Right health and wellness brand.
The Simply Right Baby Care line will include premium diapers, premium wipes and infant formula.
"We know baby care products like diapers, wipes and formula can be a sizable expense for parents and families," said Jill Turner-Mitchael, SVP health and wellness for Sam's Club. "With the introduction of the Simply Right Baby Care line, Sam's Club provides high quality products you and your baby can trust at an extraordinary value."
To educate consumers on its new baby care line, Sam's Club is hosting a Twitter chat on Sept. 28. Those interested in learning more about the line can join the discussion using the hash tag #SimpleSavings. In addition, three #SimpleSavings tweeters will be randomly selected to win a 1-3-5 Simply Right Baby Care product pack, including:
1 67.6 ounce bottle of Simply Right Hand Sanitizer
3 boxes of Simply Right Wipes (2430 ct total)
5 boxes of Simply Right Diapers (1000 ct total in sizes 3, 4 or 5);
And a 1-year Sam's Club Membership (Current Members would win a 1-year Plus upgrade)


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Australian rock art
Linden Langdon, a printmaker living in Tasmania, has chimed in with a lovely comment on last week's post Anniversary & Rocks. She writes: "I have put together a flash file of a few photos my mum has taken while she has been travelling in the outback (Australia), which I thought you may be interested in seeing. It is always so stunning to see such similarities and also diversity in such ancient art work – no internet to let each other know what they were doing!"
So over to her blog I went, as I do almost daily, to read about her family's interest in rocks and rock art (February 8, 2005)* and Linden's kind mention of my blog. The Flash presentation of Outback Australian rock art is beautiful! Thank you, Linden, to both you and your mom for sharing, and for the compliments!
One of the very great pleasures of blogging for me are the interesting people who have written to me from around the world and shared their similar interests and sometimes their own research and photos, like Linden has today, and also Vyacheslav Mizin of St. Petersburg, Russia. The world has shrunk indeed.
I haven't really researched Australia's Rock Art yet, but here are a few links that I have bookmarked if you are interested. If any readers have suggestions and would like to share them, I can add them to the list.
The Bradshaw Foundation has been mentioned before for their excellent work around the world. Check out the "Bradshaw Paintings" for Australia's art.
Steve Lonker's page
Auranet, Australian Rock Art Research
*Linden no longer has this blog. She can be found here but the above links no longer exist, sadly.
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Alton police make fifth arrest in deadly gas station shooting
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:54:34 GMT —
Alton police have made their fifth arrest in connection to a deadly shooting at a busy gas station.
Investigators told Action 4 News Jorge Luis Ruvalcaba, Jr. was charged with capital murder in the November 26th death of Jose Luis Gonzalez.
The deadly shooting happened at an Aziz Quick Stop convenience store off 5 Mile Line and Conway Avenue.
Although shot in the heart, Gonzalez tried to drive and flee from his attackers but died about a mile down the road.
Police believe that 27-year-old Ruvalcaba was the lookout for the others suspects.
Ruvalcaba remains in custody at the Hidalgo County Jail under a $350,000 bond.
Alton police have already arrested four suspects in connection to the case:
Artemio Gonzalez Aguilar Jr, 18 Lazaro De La Rosa Olivarez Jr, 20 Juan Jose Rivera Covarrubias, 20 Luis Alberto Aleman Leo, 34
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JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency are driving foreign policy with overreaching policies and regulations that encourage a greater reliance on foreign oil, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said Friday.
Parnell told the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., that there must be a shift. He said his state must be given greater opportunities to develop its storehouse of resources to help improve the nation's energy and national security and the economy.
The message isn't new; Parnell has been hitting on these points since taking office in mid-2009, and they resonate — strongly — at home.
But he hoped to use a rare turn in the national spotlight to draw greater attention to federal decisions he believes are inhibiting Alaska's ability to develop resources it has a right to develop, better support itself and keep oil flowing through the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline.
The pipeline carries more than 10 percent of the nation's domestic oil production.
He planned to hit on similar themes during this weekend's National Governors Association meeting in Washington.
Parnell told the press club the U.S. economic recover depends on access to secure, affordable energy. He said the need for more domestic supplies is made plain by the unrest in the Middle East and north Africa, which is putting the U.S. oil supply line from that region at risk.
There's plenty to tap in Alaska, he said; companies just need access to it.
He blamed "misguided federal policy, much of it aided by misinformation and political agendas," for hindering offshore development. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar suspended indefinitely applications for permits in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas after the oil rig explosion and massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
Parnell also said the U.S. State Department is being forced into a "reactive, mitigating role because of the increasingly hostile stance" that Interior and the EPA have taken against domestic energy production.
"These are agencies that can lock down domestic oil with no responsibility for consequences. They can force America to depend ever more heavily on foreign oil at more enormous cost of lives, tax dollars and economic opportunity," he said. "They do this by delaying leasing, delaying permitting and by attempting sweeping lock-ups of land without congressional approval or authority.
"The Department of Interior in the past few years has acted like a shopaholic with a stolen credit card and a taste for empire building," he said, noting efforts to designate millions of acres as wilderness and to set aside an area that he says is larger than the state of California for critical polar bear habitat.
Parnell said he's doing what he can to improve access to state lands. He also is proposing cutting oil production taxes, a move that could cost the state up to $2 billion a year in revenue but one that he believes, in the long-run, will lead to new jobs and boost investment.
He declined to say whether he believed the current tax regime — put in place by his predecessor, Sarah Palin — was a mistake. Instead, he said Alaska can become more competitive with other energy-producing states and that he is working to make that happen.


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I am making my first princess castle cake next week and I'm still unsure about making the towers. I've seen the Wilton kits, but I really want to make them without the plastic look. I am thinking about wrapping gumpast/fondant around PVC or styrofoam. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Haven't done it yet myself, but was told that pringles cans work well also.
Check some of the cc threads. Lots of people have done castle cakes around here with and without the plastic. In fact someone has one going right now about transporting with the towers..
I Just bought the kit and let me tell you, plasticrama!!! Im thinking of covering the turrets with fondant and letting them dry so they wont have that look. If I i was a little less lazy i would cut to the right length and then wrap the inside cardboard of the paper towels (not sure if im describing it right) with plastic. cover that with shortening and then wrap it with a mixture of 1/2 fondant 1/2 gum paste. wait till it dries and you have a base for your turrets, i think. at least that's how it happened in my brain.
I've only done one, and I stacked cookies (glued together with royal icing) and covered the stacks with fondant. These might be too wide depending on the size and type of castle you're making; but I'm sure there are narrower cookies.
Thanks for the great ideas. I may try a few different ideas since I have a week to go. Eating a lot of pringles and cookies may not be that bad. =)
Currently I am making a cake for a 2nd wedding reception that is a sand castle. I made the towers out of RKT, then wrapped them in fondant. I will post pics after this weekend. BTW, I got the idea from 2muchsugar here
I wanted them edible, so I used little debbie swiss rolls for mine.
I also wanted edible, so I went with ice cream cones. Used candy melts to glue them end-to-end, then coated them with candy melts. I thought they turned out pretty well:


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Discussion in 'music, bands, clubs & festies' started by tar1984, Jun 1, 2012.
I bet it was U2.
nah mostly "the most relaxing album in the world ever"
i'm guessing that was some kind of overoptimistic gift
Ah, right. I'd skip, too.
I'll allow it
gee thanks
feist: tout doucement
nirvana: help me
<skip> (hitchhiker)
niel diamond: sweet caroline
sandy denny: it suits me well
kate rusby: sweet bride
tea time
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
The Elected - Beautiful Rainbow
Teenage Fanclub - Discolite
Pearl & The Band - Oh, Death! (that's this bloody hipster indie playlist again)
Bob Dylan - Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
The Police - Hungry For You
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Hey Joe
The Jimi Hendix Experience - ...And the Gods Made Love
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains
Cat Power - The Moon
Flying Burrito Brothers - Wild Horses
David Bowie - Be My Wife
Skatalites - Eastern Standard Time
The Ethiopians - Life Is A Funny Thing
Sonic Youth - Titanium Expose (Demo)
Lamb - Please
Queens Of The Stone Age - Tangled Up In Plaid
Pink Floyd - Absolutely Curtains
Sly And Robbie - African Roots
Black Grape - In The Name Of The Father
This is pretty good if you are a compulsive downloader. FINALLY I listen to some of the stuff I'd forgotten I downloaded in a fit of drunken consumerism at 3am.
True. You do get some 'what the fuck was I thinking?' moments too, mind.
I have a Hanson album
Apparently they made some decent music after the MmmBop stage
(I don't know because I haven't listened to it yet)
There's a worrying amount of vacuous ambient twaddle that you can nod off to on my hard-drive. Which comes from sharing mp3's with people in Goa.
elliott smith: no name #1
violent femmes: please do not
gillian welch: silver dagger
dead 60s: just another love song
the eagles: after the thrill is gone
telly time
He Was A Friend Of Mine - The Byrds
Will She Just Fall Down - Til Tuesday
Listening in - The Undertones
Matte Kudasai - King Crimson
Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
So - Lily Fraser
Vegas Two Times - Stereophonics
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra
Making Believe - Emmylou Harris
jamie lidell: music will not last
alabama3: the old purple tin
beta band: assessment
shirley collins/davy graham: reynardine
charlatans: love is the key
white stripes: instinct blues
the view: walls
violent femmes: gordon's message
sargasso trio: low
charlatans: north country boy
folk implosion: free to go
bonnie tyler: it's a heartache
david bowie: moonage daydream
bfb: robots
andy votel: questions & sighs
kate rusby: sweet william's ghost
house of love: blind
white stripes: jumble jumble
sundays: i won
lemonheads: the turnpike down
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Rush Apart
The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself (Mr Figit Remix)... this is pretty cool, never heard it before
The National - Daughters of the Soho Riots
Eels - Your Lucky Day in Hell
Elvis Costello & Bill Frisell - Painted From Memory
Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung
Jesus & Mary Chain - Coast to Coast
Ghostface Killah - Paragraphes of Love
Kate Bush - James and the Cold Gun
Big Star - What's Going Ahn
elvis costello: just a memory
pogues: navigator
steve mason: yesterday
billy bragg: which side are you on
nick drake: poor boy
strokes: between love & hate
gomez: free to run
dan mangan: basket
strokes: ask me anything
andy hotel: canter
California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys
I've Heard of a City Called Heaven - Hall Negro Quartet
Raw Power - The Stooges
Leap Frog - Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
Lieber Honig - Neu!
Things Ain't What They Used to Be - Oscar Peterson Trio
Waterhouse Rock - King Tubby
Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A man - Captain Beefheart
Jesus Give Me Water - Sam Cooke
Bach (JS) Cello Suite No 5 in C minor Sarabande - Mstislav Rostropovich
Hannah & Gabi - The Lemonheads
Airbag - Radiohead
Rockabye Dixie - Abigail Washington
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Sugar Blue Too - Jeff Finlin
Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
Enemy Fire - Ryan Adams
Gates of Eden - Bob Dylan
Sidewalks of the City - Lucinda Williams
Found a Job - Talking Heads
Devo - (I can't get no) Satisfaction
Madness - Baggy Trousers
The Clash - Bankrobber
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
Culture Club - Do you really want to heart me
Tindersticks - Can we start again
Piney Gir - Greetings, Salutations, Godbye
Urge Overkill - Girl, you'll be a woman soon
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Lime Tree Arbour
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
is there any chance we can establish an artist > song format please, makes it easier to make snap judgements
Ok ten more from me. The other way round now.
Johnny Throttle - Lost Sputnik
Vic Chesnutt - Everything i say
Bashy - Phonebook
Talco - Partiagano
John Grant - Marz
New Bomb Turks - Jaguar Ride
Holy Fuck - Milkshake
Emily Jane White - Victorian America
Crime - Crime Wave
Hydromatics - Power and Glory
^ particularly for posts like this where i have no idea which is which
10 more cos I'm bored and tired:
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Sex PIstols - Anarchy in the UK
Judge Dread - Big Six
MARRS - Pump up the Volume
XTC - Making plans for Nigel
The Beat - Tears of a Clown
The Stranglers - No more heroes
REM - The One I love
Gary Numan - Cars
Sir Mix-a-lot - Baby got back
heh. nick drakes up talking atm, i always forget how he talks like the queen
This has been annoying me the whole thread. Surely it is '<artist> - <song>
song - artist
The convention was clearly set out in the OP
I did both.
The first was song - artist and the second was artist -song-
Separate names with a comma.


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Lincoln County News
Magazine (of businesses & Farams) - 1904 (about 500
Celebrated Persons/Families)
This map of Lincoln County in 1904 and earlier shows the Main streams: Elk River (W/E), Cane Creek (N/S), Swan Creek (N/S), Mulberry Creek (N/S)and the West Fork of Mulberry Creek (N/S)
Shows the Rail Lines: MT & ARR Railroad from Fayetteville to Ardmore, Nashville & Chattanooga from Petersburg to Elora. This map also shows mileage from various points. Can't really tell if some of those numbers are district #?, Villages mentioned are from the top down Left to Right: Petersburg, Bidwell, Boonville, Blakeville, Bellville, Howell, Redoak, Boonshill, Mimosa, Mulberry, Hughey, Ego, McBurg, Harms, Fayetteville (City of), Millville, Cyruston, Kelso, Smithland, Clardyville, Molina, Dellrose, Coldwater, Renegar, Oregon, Yukon, Camargo,Corder, Flintville, Taft, Argyle, Corder, Wendover, Blanche, Rowell, Lincoln, Elora, Roperton, and Goshen. Charity is above Boonville and inside Moore County.
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Radiological Emergency Planning: Terrorism, Security, and Communication uses practical tools to prepare participants from all sectors to plan for and respond to radiological events, whether at the state, local, or individual facility level. Participants examine criteria and requirements for creating an effective emergency plan, expand their ability to effectively communicate with the media and public during crisis situations, and medically manage casualties of a radiological incident. Who Should Participate This course is designed for anyone involved in emergency planning, response, or recovery in the public, private, or nonprofit sectors. Health physicists, public safety professionals, and first receivers and responders will also find this program beneficial.
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