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Emigre 18 further explores the unknown possibilities of type as an expressive/communicative medium.
This issue features a 16-page typographic experiment by Paris-based designer Pierre di Sciullo. The pages presented are an adaptation of several chapters from issue No. 8 of Qui? Resiste, a journal published by Sciullo. For this issue, titled "Reading Manual," Sciullo designed a phonetic typeface named Quantange, a design which, as much of his work does, fluctuates between applied and Utopian research.
Also included in this issue is Beowolf, the first typeface generated with "Random Technology." Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum, the two young Dutch designers responsible for random technology, raise the question, is best really better?
Also featured is a special project created by London based graphic designer Phil Baines, titled "Clear Enough to Read," which is a continuation of his St. Martin's School of Art thesis "The Bauhaus Mistook Legibility for Communication."


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James Gandolfini and Saoirse Ronan are both joining the cast of "Violet and Daisy", an indie drama about teenage hitgirls. The film marks the directorial debut of Geoffrey Fletcher, who won an Oscar for adapting "Precious".
"Violet and Daisy" centers on a pair of teenage assassins who are lured into what is supposed to be just another quick and easy job, only to find complications as the man (Gandolfini) they're supposed to kill is not whom they expected. Ronan is to play one of the hitgirls, and Gandolfini the target of the assassins.
This set up sounds promising. A bunch of adolescent assassins running around killing people could prove to be wildly entertaining, but I can't help but think that the emphasis will be more on weighty emotional drama and less on miniature killers going after Tony Soprano. But for now I will remain optimistic and chose to believe that this might be awesome. The film will begin shooting later this month.


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The Capital Improvement Authority on Monday unanimously approved allocating an additional $50,000 toward the Blighted Property Fund that is being used to demolish derelict houses throughout Excelsior Springs.
Public Works Director Chad Birdsong made the request along with an update on the program. Birdsong explained to the new authority members that the Blighted Property Fund was originally established to clean up properties deemed by city officials to be in bad enough shape that they were not worth trying to save. With no one moving to put money into their rehabilitation, the homes were purchased by the city at relatively small amounts in order to remove them.
"The program has been very successful, cleaning up properties and making those areas of town more pleasant to live in," Birdsong said.
He reported that the properties located at 1004 Don Shelton, 203 S. Kansas City Ave., 404 E. Broadway, 113 Perry Lane and 511 Grand Ave. along with the old Animal Control Center have all been removed through this program. A property on 722 Isley Blvd. is next on the list.
Birdsong said that so far, these demolitions have cost $30,578.29 which averages to $5,096 per site. April's balance sheet shows $20,961 remaining in the fund leaving a deficit of approximately $10,000, thus his request to allocate additional funds to the account from Capital Improvement.
The Isley Blvd. property is expected to be slightly higher in costs due to the fact the adjacent property has a foundation that needs removal as well. The structure was removed earlier, but now the foundation needs to be torn out. Birdsong estimates that work to cost around $6,500.
"Plus we like to keep a balance in this account in case of emergency needs," Birdsong added.
Tray Harkins moved to allocate the requested funds and John Hill seconded the motion, which passed unanimously.
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Murder by the State
No. 211
Monday, September 01, 1997
by Gerald W. Scully
Table of Contents
Democide and Genocide as Rent-Seeking Activities
Humans prefer to dominate rather than be dominated. They also tend to distrust and dislike people who are different. These traits often manifest themselves in government, either as official government policy or by toleration of antipathy. The extreme expression of antipathy is murder; its less pernicious expression is discrimination. Civilized societies are committed to the rule of law, which constrains the scale and scope of domination and punishes illegal acts, but the rule of law is not widespread.11 Apart from moral considerations, enmity has economic implications. The extent to which discrimination is practiced depends on its cost to the discriminator, including its legal repercussions.
"Majority groups usually have higher per capita incomes because they
discriminate against minorities."
Among groups of equal productivity, the majority group usually has higher per capita income than minority groups.12 The majority group usually gains this advantage through discrimination, which transfers income from the minority and is a form of rent seeking. The majority resists any rule or policy change that limits discrimination, since it lowers their relative income.
Among authoritarian states, domination and rent seeking by one group over another are often associated with restrictions on occupational choice, denial of educational opportunities, preferences in the licensing of trade, confiscation of land, nationalization of business, restrictions on property ownership and exchange, mobility restrictions and so on. The dominant group has an obvious vested interest in maintaining these sanctioned restrictions. For example, holders of large tracts of land in Asia and Latin America resist peasant pressure for land redistribution and often control governments. Politicians also benefit from maintaining domination; bribery and corruption are endemic throughout the less-developed world and exist in some advanced nations as well.
"A dominant group clings to power in part so it can seek 'rents'."
Thus part of the motivation for maintaining rule is to protect the rent-seeking capacity of the dominant group. Politicians extract a fee for "renting" the coercive power of the state to that group. The aggregate size of these rents is largely unknown. In one case, it has been estimated that licensed trade in India and Turkey generated rents of about 7.3 and 15 percent of national income, respectively.13 The size of the rulers' fees also is unknown. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some, including Batista, Peron, Marcos, Duvalier and Mobutu, have extracted many millions of dollars.
Measuring the amount of rent seeking in a society is difficult in part because measuring the size and scope of rent-seeking activity is difficult. It also is hard to measure the potential national income lost because special interests capture the trade. For example, in measuring the value of trade licensing, one can compare the prices and volumes of imports under license with what they would be under free trade. But for every winner in the rent-seeking game, many others seek government favor by devoting resources to acquiring it but are unsuccessful.14 Those resources are wasted. They could have been employed in private, productive activity. Some fraction of GDP is not produced as a result of that rent-seeking activity. Where rent seeking is on a grand scale, the lost GDP may be quite large. Thus the rent-seeking losses associated with trade restrictions and other market restrictions ought to include the value of the resources withdrawn from private, productive activity.
My purpose here is to estimate the rents associated with democide. It is quite impossible to know the value (not necessarily pecuniary) of those activities to the officials who have practiced it. But it is possible to crudely calculate lost national output arising from democide. Democide makes life and property insecure and lowers the rate of savings. Reduced capital formation lowers the rate of economic growth. I hypothesize that the path of per capita income in nations that practice democide is below the path of income in nations that do not engage in it. By comparing the divergent paths of per capita income, I estimate the order of magnitude of this form of rent-seeking activity.


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A U.S. marshal is in critical condition after he was shot in the head during a gunfight in St. Louis.
The U.S. marshal for eastern Missouri, William Sibert, says a second marshal was shot in the ankle and is undergoing surgery. A St. Louis police officer who was working with the marshals was wounded by a bullet that grazed his face.
Sibert says the marshals and police were trying to take a suspect into custody in a house on the city's south side Tuesday morning when that man fired, prompting authorities to return fire. Officials have not said what the suspect was wanted for.
St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom says the police officer is expected to recover and be released from the hospital Tuesday.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Two federal marshals and a police officer were wounded Tuesday in a gunfight at a St. Louis home, and a suspect later died following a standoff, authorities said.
One marshal is in critical condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
St. Louis police confirmed in a statement that a "male suspect is deceased." The brief statement did not explain who the man was or how he was killed.
Talking to reporters outside the house, Sannita Vaughan said her brother was the dead suspect who had been holed up inside.
"All we know is, they killed him," Vaughan said as relatives tried to shield her from the media crush.
The two U.S. marshals and a police officer had been serving an arrest warrant at the house on the city's south side when a gunfight broke out, according to Jeff Carter, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service.
One U.S. marshal is in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Saint Louis University Hospital, spokeswoman Laura Keller said. The other is in fair condition and is undergoing surgery, Keller said.
She did not provide the officers' identities.
A St. Louis police officer was hit in his bullet-proof vest and suffered a graze wound and injuries from a fall, according to a recorded statement on the city police media hotline. It said he was taken to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Jason Merrill, a spokesman for the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, confirmed that one person wounded in the shooting was being treated there, but provided no name or details of that person's condition.
Earlier Tuesday, city police spokeswoman Schron Jackson said police were involved in a standoff at the property, but she had no more information.
Police cordoned off several blocks on every side of the house with police tape in the neighborhood in a poorer section of the city's south side. They blocked access to the property with police cars and vans.
Television video footage from KTVI in St. Louis showed one marshal being carried down an alley by several officers and being put into an ambulance.
There has been no word on any arrests.
Earlier Tuesday, Vaughan told reporters that her brother was inside the house and had been shot by police. She looked into television cameras and implored the brother to come out and surrender.
As police began to disband, bystanders appeared inflamed and began shouting obscenities at police. One officer with a police dog tried to quell the tempers.
Associated Press writers Margaret Stafford in Kansas City, Kan. and Christopher Leonard in St. Louis contributed to this report.


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The Michael Schumacher rumours could rumble through Christmas, after Mercedes admitted it was unlikely to make an announcement about its line-up before 2010.
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The recently-rebranded Mercedes Grand Prix team will not be rushed into making a decision on its second driver for 2010, despite speculation surrounding its pursuit of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher intensifying.
Although the team has made no secret of its desire to pair the Ferrari favourite with already-signed Nico Rosberg, CEO Nick Fry has admitted that an announcement before Christmas is now unlikely.
"We are working on it, as you might expect," he confirmed to 422race.com, "We have nothing to say at the moment, we might say something before Christmas, but it's more likely to be at the beginning of January."
Fry also insisted that Schumacher was just one potential target and repeated the claim that Mercedes was not fixated on finding an all-German line-up, following rumours that 2009 world champion Jenson Button's departure was dictated as much by nationality as it was by his financial demands. Button has since signed with former Mercedes partner McLaren - where he will partner Lewis Hamilton - while the new 'works' team is rumoured to be considering a ?20m salary to lure Schumacher into the fold [see story here].
"Michael Schumacher?" Fry continued, "We are discussing things with a number of different drivers, three or four. Nationality has literally nothing to do with this at all. Mercedes said it would be nice to have a driver who was German and we got that already with Nico. It wasn't a big deal from the start and it's completely irrelevant to
the decision."
Instead of nationality, Fry insisted that it would be more important for Mercedes to net a line-up that reflected the experience enjoyed by predecessor Brawn GP when it paired Button with Rubens Barrichello. The 2009 line-up, inherited from Honda and retained despite interest in Bruno Senna, was a vital component when the BGP001 proved to be a competitive car, bringing eight race wins and both world titles.
"I think we learned this year that it's important to have two drivers capable of scoring points in every single race," Fry admitted, "The reason we won the constructors' championship is because we had that. Both drivers did a sensational job and they were very similar to each other. We knocked in the points in every single race or virtually so, and we need that [in 2010]. With the lack of testing, it's very difficult to expect a younger driver to do that so, clearly, we'll hire some people with F1 experience."
Schumacher aside, the likes of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica - despite the Pole having a contract with Renault - have been mentioned in connection with a move to Mercedes, but neither would be able to bring the experience of winning races possessed by the most successful man in F1. The former BMW Sauber pairing has one win between them, courtesy of Kubica's 2008 success in Canada, while Rosberg has yet to break his duck, having spent his entire F1 career at Williams. Fry, however, remains unconcerned about the young German's potential.
"I think Nico is a race winner," he claimed, "He's not won races yet, but neither had Jenson until he won with us in 2006. Give him a very good car and I think Nico will flower, especially under Ross [Brawn]'s tutelage.
"I'm hopeful we'll give him a very good car next year. Possibly, he didn't have the best car in the last couple of years, but what he has done is accumulate a very large amount of experience, which is very attractive to us. He is still very young, has three years of experience in F1, there is no doubt he has got the speed - he has the genetic structure and, with Ross coaching him, I think he can be a race winner, undoubtedly."


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Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli de Veracruz
The acclaimed traditional dance and music group, direct from Veracruz, Mexico, performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, 324 Pine St. Tickets $28, $24. (727) 942-5605.
Theater buffs
'Jackpot': A Las Vegas revue with matinees and evenings through April 22 at the Show Palace Dinner Theatre, 16128 U.S. 19, Hudson. Dinner and show, $49.50; show only, $38.45, plus tax and tip, for adults, $24.95 and $19.95 for 12 and younger. (727) 863-7949 or toll-free 1-888-655-7469.
'Doubt': The award-winning drama about a nun who suspects a priest of child molestation will be presented today through Sunday and April 20-22 at the Forum at Stage West Community Playhouse, 8390 Forest Oaks Blvd., Spring Hill. Shows are at 8 p.m., except Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10, reserved seating. Call (352) 683-5113.
The Aaron Klingebiel benefit concert is today at the Center for the Arts at Wesley Chapel, 30651 Wells Road. Tailgate party from 4:30-6:30 p.m. ushers in the concert at 7 featuring former Weightman Middle assistant principal Kirsten Joyer and the band Mainstream. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the event. Proceeds will help pay medical expenses for Aaron Klingebiel, a Weightman seventh-grader with a malignant brain tumor. (813) 794-8772 or (727) 774-8772.
School tunes: The Pine View Middle music department presents "A Night Under the Stars" from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the school, 5334 Parkway Blvd., Land O'Lakes. Bring blankets or chairs and enjoy music by the school's symphonic and jazz bands and the annual drumline battle. There will be a silent auction and barbecue dinner. With dinner, $9; concert only, $5.
In the Sinatra style: Singer Andy Stefano will join the Richey Community Orchestra in a tribute to Frank Sinatra, "A Salute to Ol' Blue Eyes," at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Center for the Arts at River Ridge, 11646 Town Center Road, New Port Richey. The program includes My Way, Nice and Easy, Witchcraft and New York, New York. Tickets are $15, open seating. Call (727) 919-3866 or buy at the box office, 6827 Amberjack Lane, Hudson, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Got doo-wop? The Saints perform at 8 p.m. April 21 and 2:30 p.m. April 22 at Richey Suncoast Theatre, 6237 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. $17. (727) 842-6777.
Art offerings
Art by cancer survivors and caregivers: An exhibit called "Survivors" is open through April at the HiBrow Art Gallery, 14125 Seventh St., Dade City. An opening reception is from 5-8 p.m. today. (352) 521-3823.
Consider this
Discover the Preserve, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at James Grey Preserve, at Plathe Road and Baker Road, New Port Richey. Make nature gifts, go on a nature walk, enjoy healthy snacks, visit with the Audubon Society, get seed packets to plant and enjoy the park. (727) 841-4560.
Annual scholarship show: "Ticket to Broadway" is at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Richey Suncoast Theatre, 6237 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. Proceeds benefit scholarships for high school seniors. Call (727) 842-6777 and leave your phone number. The box office will call back to arrange seat selection and confirm.
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Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2014/04/02 - Nest Labs, Inc., the Nest Learning Thermostat for the UK, a programmer and a thermostat in one device - npower.com / Nest.com.
Combination Programmer and Thermostat Keeps People Comfortable, Helps Save Energy;
npower Offering Nest Thermostat to Millions of Customers.
The Nest Thermostat programs itself, automatically turns down the heat when youre away, and can be controlled from your mobile. Nest is also announcing its first U.K. energy partnership. npower, a leading U.K. energy company, will offer the Nest Thermostat to millions of customers, providing them with the ability to save energy as part of their energy plans.
With the U.K. Office of Gas and Electricity Markets saying that U.K. residents spend on average about £1,342 per year on electricity¹, and heating making up over 60 percent of U.K energy bills, its the perfect time to bring the Nest Learning Thermostat to the U.K. said Lionel Paillet, general manager for Europe, Nest. Nest Learning Thermostat customers in the U.S. experience savings of approximately 20 percent on average off their heating and cooling bill and were looking forward to helping customers in the U.K. save as well.
The Nest Learning Thermostat can turn the boiler on and off according to the temperature in your home. It learns your preferred temperatures and adjusts based on your personal schedule. And with its built-in sensors, the Nest Thermostat knows when the house is empty and automatically turns down the temperature, helping to save energy.
Nest Learning Thermostat Features
The Nest Learning Thermostat for the U.K. has the same features as the award-winning U.S. and Canadian version, including:
Auto-Schedule Nest programs itself in a few days, creating a personalized schedule based on the temperature changes you make, and continually adapts to your changing life.
Auto-Away After youve left the house, built-in activity sensors notice that youve gone and Nest automatically adjusts the temperature to avoid heating an empty home.
Remote Control Control your homes temperature from your laptop, mobile or tablet.
The Nest Leaf A green leaf appears on the display when you turn Nest to a temperature thats energy efficient, guiding you to energy savings.
Energy History Energy History shows you how often, and for how long, your heating system was on. Customers will also receive an Energy Report summarizing the last months heating usage versus the month before, and why it went up or down.
True Radiant With True Radiant, the Nest Thermostat reduces temperature swings and starts heating early so you get the temperature you want when you want it, whether you have underfloor radiant system or a radiator.
Works with Nest Protect Families who have added both a Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm to their Nest Account will benefit from these products working together. If Nest Protects carbon monoxide alarm goes off, your Nest thermostat automatically turns off your gas or oil boiler, a possible source of poisonous carbon monoxide leaks. In addition, the Nest Protect activity sensors improve the Auto-Away feature of your Nest thermostat.
New features for the U.K. include:
A thermostat and a programmer all in one The Nest Thermostat replaces your programmer, giving you precise control of your heating from one place.
Heat Link It turns your boiler on and off when you change the temperature on your Nest Thermostat.
The Stand for Nest Learning Thermostat Accessory for those who dont have thermostat cables available in the wall, want to replace wireless thermostats, or just want to put in a better location, the Stand for the Nest Learning Thermostat is available to place Nest in a better location.
Nest Energy Services
Nest offers a variety of services to energy companies to better manage energy loads, keep customers comfortable, and help them save energy. In the U.K., Nests first partner is npower, with more to come. npower is offering the Nest Learning Thermostat to its six million customers with a three-year fixed tariff energy bundle.
Were committed to helping our customers manage their energy use and Nest offers a great solution, said Simon Stacey, managing director of energy services for npower. The Nest Learning Thermostat is the excellent combination of design and technology and we think our customers will love the learning features of Nest, as well as being able to control their heating remotely.
Pricing, Availability, Installation and Compatibility
The Nest Learning Thermostat has a suggested retail price of £179 (VAT included), or £249 (VAT included) with a professional installation. The Stand for the Nest Thermostat is £29, sold separately. Both products are sold separately and available at more than 400 retail stores as well as online through Apple, Amazon, B&Q, John Lewis and nest.com/uk. Because the Nest Thermostat connects to the heating system using high-voltage cables, professional installation is highly recommended. Professional installation is available for purchase through Nest certified professional installers found at nest.com/uk.
The Nest Learning Thermostat is compatible with almost all central heating systems, including:
Combi and condensing boilers;
System and heat-only boilers;
Hydronic underfloor systems;
Air source and ground source heat pumps (heating only);
Zoned systems (one Nest Thermostat per zone);
Switched live systems;
Low-voltage (dry contact) systems.
The Nest app is available for Android (from Google Play and Amazon Appstore) and iOS (from Apples App Store) devices at no cost.
About Nest
Nest (nest.com) reinvents unloved but important home products, like the thermostat and smoke and CO alarm. The company focuses on delighting customers with simple, beautiful and thoughtful hardware, software and services. The Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Energy Services offerings address home energy consumption, and Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide helps keep people safe. Nest products are sold in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, and are installed in more than 120 countries. The Nest Learning Thermostat has helped save more than 2 billion kWh of energy to date.
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Food Lion has some great buys starting 11/4 including chicken drumsticks and thighs (.99/lb), pork ribs, green grapes (.99/lb), roma tomatoes, Bellafina baby bell peppers, Yoplait Greek yogurt, Green Giant veggies, Cheerios, Pepsi, Sierra Mist, a 3-day sale & more!
Food Lion Coupon Basics
Food Lion does not double coupons.
They have no limits on number of total number of coupons they will take, unless specified in the ad. You may only use a maximum of 10 (ten) coupons for the same item per customer. This includes coupons that are downloaded onto your personal MVP Card.
BOGO items ring up at half price so if you only buy 1, it rings at half price. You can use a coupon on each BOGO sale item.
You cannot use Food Lion store coupons and manufacturer's coupons on the same item. "Stacking" coupons like that is not allowed per the Food Lion coupon policy.
You can see their entire coupon policy on their website HERE.
The ad indicates that prices are valid for stores in these cities: Apex, Bunn, Cary, Clayton, Franklinton, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Louisburg, Morrisville, Raleigh, Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell, Youngsville, Zebulon. If you do not live in one of these cities, your ad may be different and you can check for any differences on FoodLion.com.
E-Coupons: You can now load RedPlum.com manufacturer's coupons to your Food Lion MVP card and when they scan your card at the register and you buy the qualifying items, the discount will come off automatically. I spoke with corporate and they confirmed that these are manufacturer's coupons and not to be combined with hard copy manufacturer's from the newspaper and other sources. She said their policy is only 1 coupon per product. No e-coupons will double. Click HERE for more information.
Quality Guarantee: Food Lion offers a double money back quality guarantee on all Food Lion store brands.
These deals are valid November 4– November 10, 2015.
Shop, Collect, Earn $20 Promotion
Shop with your MVP card between 9/30 and 11/24 and spend $40 or more per visit. Collect 6 out of the 8 weekly tickets, Earn $20 coupon when you redeem 6 tickets. Must redeem tickets by 12/1/15. Coupon expires 12/8/15.
3-Day Sale
These deals are valid Friday, 11/6 at 8 am through Sunday, 11/8.
Yoplait Greek yogurt, 5.3 oz, .88 - .50/2 coupon from Pillsbury.com recently = .63 each
Pepsi Products, 2 ltr, .79, limit 4 (rest of week they are .99 each)
Sierra Mist soda, 2 ltr, .79 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday only (rest of week it is .99 each), limit 4
Betty Crocker fruit snacks
Sale: BOGO
Coupon: .50/2 coupon from 9/27 RP
Pillsbury Toaster Strudel, 11.5 oz, $1.50
Cheerios, Reese's, or Cookie Crisp cereal, select
Sale: BOGO for $1.69 each
Coupon: $1/3 GM cereal coupons from 9/27 and 10/25 SS, $1/2 Food Lion digital coupon for Cheerios
Betty Crocker Premium Brownie Mix, select
Sale: $1.89
Savingstar: .75/3 Savingstar cash back offer
Green cabbage, .49/lb
Roma tomatoes, .99/lb
Dole Iceberg lettuce, 12 oz bag, .99
Green seedless grapes, .99/lb – good deal
Winter squash, select, .99/lb
Sweet onions, .99/lb
Bellafina sweet baby bell peppers, 3 count, $1.29
Organic green grapes, seedless, $2.29/lb
Navel oranges, 3 lb bag, BOGO for $2.49 each
Honeycrisp apples, $2.49/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Food Lion red potatoes, 5 lb bag, $2.99
Organic yellow onions, 3 lb bag, $3.29
Chicken drumsticks or thighs, value pack, .99/lb – good deal
Sr. Louis style pork ribs, $1.99/lb
Ground round, 85% lean, value pack, $4.49/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $4.99
London Broil, beef, $4.99/lb
Beef cube steak, value pack, $5.49/lb
Inland Market flounder, 10 oz, $5.49/lb
Food Lion raw shrimp, 16 oz, $8.99
Nature's Place boneless beef stew, $6.99/lb
Nature's Place ham steak, 7 oz, $2.99
Nathan's beef frank's, 11 – 14 oz, $3.99
Dairy & Frozen
Minute Maid juice drinks, 59 oz, $1.50
Food Lion cheese singles, 12 oz, $2.00
Michelina's dinner entrees, $1 - $1/5 printable coupons
Green Giant boxed vegetables, 7 – 10 oz select
Sale: 4 for $5
Coupons: $1/4 coupon from in-store coupon kiosk, .80/4 coupon from Food Lion digital coupons or Smart Shopper coupons link above
Savingstar: .80/4 Savingstar cash back offer
Total after kiosk coupon = 4 for $4
My essentials frozen vegetables, 16 oz, $1.00
Misc. Grocery
My essentials canned vegetables, 14.5 – 15.25 oz., .68
Keebler Fudge Shoppe Cookies, 6.6 – 15 oz, BOGO for $1.84 each - $1 coupon from Kelloggsfamilyrewards.com when you redeem 850 reward points = .84
Food Lion soda, 2 ltr, .84
Food Lion cream soups, select, 10.5 oz, .99
French's mustard, select, 12 – 14 oz, $1.59 – various printable coupons from their website
Take & Bake breads from the bakery, select, $1.29
Cheez-It crackers, select $2.50 - $1 coupon from Kelloggsfamilyrewards.com when you redeem 850 reward points = $1.50
Prego pasta sauces, 14.5 – 24 oz, $1.79 - .50/2 printable coupon = $1.54 each
Nabisco Saltine crackers, 11 – 16.5 oz, BOGO for $1.69 each
Food Lion sugar, 4 lb bag, $1.77
Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms or Toast Crunch Cereal, select
Sale: BOGO for $1.79 each
Coupon: $1/3 coupon from 9/27 and 10/25 SS, $1/2 Food Lion digital coupon for Cheerios
Food Lion bottled water, 24 pack, $1.99 – good price for bottled water
Lay's chips, 10 – 10.5 oz, BOGO for $2.15 each
Thomas' English muffins, 6 pack, BOGO for $2.15 each
Pepsi products, 6 pack, bottles, 4 for $9 ($2.25 each)
Coke products, 12 pack cans, 4 for $10
Coke products, 6 pack, bottles, 4 for $11
Eight O Clock coffee, 11 – 12 oz, $4.99 - $1/1 coupon from 9/27 SS = $3.99
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the photo album of Pauline Allen
iT WAS NOT MY INTENTION TO OFFEND ANYONE BY PUBLISHING THESE PHOTOS ON THE INTERNET. If your picture is In this photo album and you WOULD LIKE it removed, please email me AT THE ADDRESS ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. pLEASE REMEMBER THAT BY mY MOTHER CARED FOR EACH AND EVERY PERSON WHOSE PHOTO SHE CAREFULLY PLACED IN THIS ALBUM. i THINK, IF SHE COULD UNDERSTAND TODAY, SHE WOULD ENJOY KNOWING THAT SHE IS SHARING THESE PICTURES WITH OTHERS.
James V. Allen & Howard Swift Allen, 1940's
Howard Swift Allen, Horace Allen
James Verlon Allen, Grada Swift Wallace
Grada Swift Wallace & Billy Wallace, Unknown, Billy Wallace
Unknown Couple, Sherry Tanner Schneider & Eddie Schultz, Sherry Tanner Schneider, Minnie Allen Tanner & Sherry Schneider Tanner
Eugene Stoffle, Eugene Stoffle & Katherine Stoffle Armes
Hooker's Bend Girls, April 25, 1940
Mary Oleta Powers, Maxine Ratliff, Minnie Allen, 1936
Pauline Allen and Artie Fisher
Verlon Allen, First Day of School at Saltillo, July 1936
Pauline Allen and Maxine Allen
Harry & Annie Fisher Allen Family
Pauline Allen & Nancy Carolyn Allen
J. M. Allen, Mattie Ethel Swift Allen, and Pauline Allen
Minnie Allen, Catherine Stoffle, Pauline Allen
Evelyn Frazier and sons Jim and Bob
Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Allen, Minnie Allen Tanner, and daughter Sherry Tanner
Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Allen and children Pauline, Howard, and Minnie
Pauline Allen, Katherine Garey, & Artie Fisher
"The Gang" at the Creek Bridge: Ralph Love, Pauline Allen, Bonnie Love, Keeton Ross, Mary Oleta Powers, Ouida Mae Ratliff, Maxine Ratliff, Theo Alexander July 1936
Otha Allen, Leo Watson, Maxine Allen, Clyde Allen, Eva Mildred Love, & Katherine Stoffle
Pauline Allen,
"Creek," April 4, 1937
James Leo Watson, U. S. Army, 1942
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Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law Monday a bill that would require doctors to administer anesthesia when performing an abortion during a pregnancy between the 20th and 27th weeks of gestation.
Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, argued that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks and that, if the procedure was going to be performed, doctors should ensure the fetus is free of pain. Bramble had initially planned to ban abortions after 20 weeks, but he was told such a move would be unconstitutional.
The new law is the first in the nation to require doctors to give anesthesia to women having an abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later.


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|Climbing to the fourth bolt was fun, but the guidebook I was using said that there were 5 bolts. So after clipping the 4th, I was trying to climb directly above thinking there was going to be a 5th ha ha. Now I know that there are only 4 bolts. In my misguided confusion, I took one short fall after the fourth. Then I realized my error. I just needed to climb up and right to the anchors. Sometimes you just need to follow the path of least resistance and all the obvious chalky holds, ha! Sometimes I'm just an idiot. If you took a fall before clipping the anchors, it would be a grand, swinging, heart throbbing whipper onto the fourth bolt but safe enough with a good belay, I guess.


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Monday, September 25, 2017
Healthy Mouth, Healthy Kids
Brushing teeth
I recently adopted a 14 month old. She will not allow me to brush her teeth. She will chew on the toothbrush with non-flouridated tootpaste, but will not allow me to hold the toothbrush in her mouth and brush. I have tried two tooth brushes, she holds one and I hold one. Any suggestions?
Sounds like you are doing everything right. Maybe you could try allowing her to brush your teeth and then you take your turn brushing hers? Or...(hand over hand) you hold her hand while she brushes your teeth and she holds your hand while you brush hers.
I applaud you for your efforts. Stick with it! As you obviously understand, it is important for us to assist our children for quite a few years to make sure their teeth and gum tissues are cleaned.
Your daughter is still getting some cleansing action and gum stimulation by just chewing on the brush so you've got some time to take it slow. That way, you have the best shot at making tooth brushing as pleasant an experience as possible.
Congratulations on your adoption!
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TO SHAVE OR SHAVE NOT ... Laurie McHugh's quest to help African children will get intensely personal next month, when she learns whether she has to exchange blond locks for a pink Mohawk. McHugh, an associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto, is putting her hair on the line to raise money for African children with cancer. As part of the "Shave It or Save It" campaign, the church has accepted a grant from an anonymous donor to support the "shave it" option. Congregants and other contributors will be trying to "save" McHugh's hair over the next months by trying to match the "shave it" grant. According to a statement from the church, proceeds from this competition will be divided between the congregation's local mission and the Treating Childhood Cancer Program of IMA World Health in Tanzania. "My hair is not long enough to donate to Locks of Love," McHugh said in a statement. "So finding another tie to a mission addressing cancer seemed appropriate given the visual association of losing my hair for a good cause." The moment of truth will come on Sept. 18, when McHugh either shaves her hair or doesn't. More information about the campaign is available at www.firstpaloalto.com/give.
PARKING WOES ... Palo Alto's transportation officials have been busily gathering data and brainstorming ways to improve parking options in downtown Palo Alto and surrounding neighborhoods. On Aug. 24, they are scheduled to present their findings at a Planning and Transportation Commission meeting. For residents of the Professorville neighborhood this moment cannot come soon enough. Many of them have long complained about downtown workers who park their cars in Professorville to avoid downtown's two-hour-parking restriction. On Aug. 1, they reasserted their position at a City Council meeting and asked city officials to create a residential-parking program in their neighborhood. The program would allow residents to buy permits and put stickers on their cars. Visitors and drivers who don't live in the neighborhood would be subject to parking restrictions. The city had recently established a similar program in College Terrace. Ken Alsman, who lives in Professorville, told the council that the city shouldn't sacrifice the neighborhood's values to subsidize downtown businesses and property owners who don't provide adequate parking. "We think it's essential that we get going with RPP," Alsman said. The council is scheduled to consider the issue on Sept. 19.
CREDIT BLUES ... The American stock market has been gyrating wildly since last week's decision by Standard & Poor to downgrade the nation's rating from AAA to AA+. And it's not just the feds who are feeling anxious about credit ratings. Palo Alto City Manager James Keene said at the Aug. 1 meeting of the City Council that the credit-rating agency Moody's has announced that it will review 162 local governments with perfect credit ratings for a possible downgrade. The news is pertinent for Palo Alto officials, who take pride in the city's AAA rating. So far, at least, the city's perfect rating doesn't appear to be threatened, Keene said. "Moody's has informed us that the City of Palo Alto would not be included in that list and our current AAA rating continues," Keene said.


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61% of UK adults access the internet from mobiles
Mobile phones cannot work without a network of base stations (masts). There are approximately 52,500 base station sites (excluding microcells) in the UK. Only a third of these are large, free standing masts. A YouGov survey for MOA (Sept 2014) showed that nearly 8 out of 10 people recognise the link between masts and good mobile coverage. Mobile telecommunications are vital for the UK's economic competitiveness and in promoting social inclusion. There are now 89.9 million mobile subscriptions in the UK. In Q1 2015 61 per cent of UK adults used their mobile phones for internet access. Tablet ownership is 54% of UK households.
No Established Health Effects
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Senate Budget Makes Changes For Ohio's K-12 Schools
The Ohio Senate's version of the budget would provide more than 115 million dollars of extra funding to bolster K through 12 school funding over the two years of the budget. It increases the foundation formula for those schools and ensures each school district receives as much state foundation formula aid as they will receive this year. 30 million dollars of that increased spending would go to public schools that are performing above state standards. Senate President Tom Niehaus says senators decided to reward districts that were performing at excellent standards or above by giving them 17 extra dollars per student per year.
"Let's reward excellence. We currently measure it. We just want to make sure we reward those people who achieve it."
The house passed budget lifted many restrictions on charter and e schools but the senate plan largely restores those. And it goes on to say that if a community school sponsor wants to sponsor new schools, it can do so only if 80 percent of the schools they already sponsor are performing well.
"We wanted to make sure that anyone who was starting a new school have a track record of being a very good or excellent provider. So that's why the language was included was that we are going for excellence….whether it's in teachers, whether it's in school districts, whether it's in charter schools, we are going for excellence."
The senate's version of the budget strips out the merit pay features that were included in the house plan. Niehaus says the senate is still looking at how to reward good teachers but he wants to make sure that's based on the federal race to the top requirements that many of Ohio's schools are trying to meet.
"I believe this sort of removed anything that people suggested was related to senate bill five so that we could go back and look at it and make sure this was absolutely clear that this was about race to the top and nothing else."
Dale Butland, A spokesman for Innovation Ohio, a liberal think tank that's opposed many of the provisions in the house passed budget, says this senate version is an improvement .
"Overall I'd have to say we take our hats off to the senate. By and large, we think this is a real positive step forward. Now the challenge is going to be to convince the house that these changes need to stay"
Butland says he's encouraged that the senate stripped out controversial teacher merit pay language that is also part of the controversial collective bargaining bill Ohioans are likely to vote on this fall.
"We think senate bill 5 should get a clean up or down vote by the people of this state this fall. Secondly, they took out the indefensible amendments regarding charter schools that were inserted into the budget bill in the house at the specific request of David Brennan who's a big contributor so that was good."
Butland says he is not happy with the 17 dollar per student payment the senate wants to give high performing schools. He sees it as a plus for wealthy schools at the expense of poor schools.
"If you have a limited amount of money to go around, it seems like instead of doing a reverse Robin Hood approach where you give to the wealthier districts that are already succeeding, it seems to me that we ought to be looking at the poorer districts that are facing bigger challenges."
The senate plans to send the bill to the senate floor for a vote later this week. The big challenge will be after that when senate and house leaders meet to hammer out their differences.


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Tiffany Gee Lewis: The end of education
antodav TAMPA, FLJune 19, 2014 3:45 p.m.
My kids are going to a secular private school with high standards, solid discipline, and good teachers who are worth their salt and have a genuine interest in educating their pupils, or they're being homeschooled. I would need to get my Masters degree first before homeschooling them. I don't believe I would be qualified without one.
AmkaProblemka South Jordan, UTJune 10, 2014 7:31 p.m.
jimhale -
Actually, for interaction and the exchange of ideas in an atomosphere of creativity and communal learning, there really should be more than one student. And more important than over all class size is in class student to teacher ratio and student density.
One on one shelters learners to only one person's attitudes, opinions, and teaching style. And if that's a computer then, oh dear. Computers are excellent tools in education but I don't believe they replace good human teachers. Even while teaching facts from a very strict curriculum in both content and technique, each teacher has a different personality. Maybe that's what you mean by being a coach?
I'm a huge fan of computer aided learning, but I still think a stronger social element is needed. Adults are very accomodating of quirky but intelligent learners, but peers will give them more cues and cluse for succesful social behaviors. And computers even poorer replacements for peer to peer interactions.
jimhale Eugene, ORJune 9, 2014 12:41 p.m.
Some here say we should all just pay teachers more, respect them more and then get the heck out of their way and let them run education any way they so choose.
That attitude is precisely why educators cannot be trusted to control education.
Big class sizes? If 25 is better than 35, if 20 is better than 25, then 10 must be better than 15 and five would be better than 10.
The optimal class size is one-on-one. We all remember fondly teachers who reached us one-on-one. We remember little what they did for us one-on-25.
For most subject matter, we need kids one-on-one with a computer - loaded with software capable of taking them through content with 100% success - giving instantaneous feedback for incremental progress - just like a video game.
Kids need coaches not teachers. Platform instruction is too inefficient, too unaffordable and too highly variable in quality.
Software should keep the classroom coach (and the parents) automatically abreast of the details of every students progress.
jimhale Eugene, ORJune 9, 2014 12:12 p.m.
It is time to stop building new schools (red brick or otherwise)....just like it is time to stop building libraries.
What is a school good for anyway? Social interaction? Play ground equipment? Gymnasium facilities? Child care?
Those are the main reasons for the continued existence of school buildings.
Education as we know it has utterly failed. One third of kids are not graduating from high school. No child left behind? Hardly! Not even close.
Kids should have coaches, not teachers.
Kids should learn most academic content by computer - where they can progress as individuals - as fast and deeply as they can.
Expecting a teacher to take 25 first graders (who come to school with highly different individual intellectual abilities, learning styles, pre-school experiences, and parental support) to a certain standard as a class is simply asking the impossible. Then we wonder why the impossible didn't happen.
After a few years, those first grade differences in learning outcomes grow ever more far-ranging and failure ever more far-reaching.
Kids may need a school building for recess and lunch. But for learning most subjects they simply need a good computer and software as interesting as video games.
AmkaProblemka South Jordan, UTJune 8, 2014 9:44 p.m.
There are no simple one solution answers.
Better pay for teachers would be fantastic. But we also need the ability to fire bad ones. And that beaurocratic paperwork gives us good data - but we should hire people other than teachers to do it. We need to clear the way for teachers. Part of that is providing a clear curriculum and all the resources.
Early grades do need some rote learning, in a fun and positive way. Math, reading and writing, history and science facts provide the bones for understanding, for connecting thing together, for logical and critical thinking skills, and for the the synthesis of useful new ideas.
And more than pay, we must appreciate teachers.
And finally and most importantly, we need parents who are engaged and the ally of teachers. Who take responsibility, volunteer at school and keep structure at home.
There are probably even a few more factors like different kinds of learners. So, yeah. No one single solution.
sthomaslewis Corvallis, ORJune 6, 2014 1:20 p.m.
We need to get government out of the school systems entirely, starting with the disbanding of the unconstitutional Department of Education. The American educations system was imported from Prussia by Horace Mann, and its main purpose is to teach citizens to become obedient drones to government and corporations.
I would suggest you read books by John Taylor Gatto, such as "Dumbing Us Down", "A Different Kind of Teacher", and "The Exhausted School". Gatto was New York City teacher of the year, but quit teaching because he could see the harm being done to children and adults through compulsory, government sponsored schooling.
Coach P Provo, UTJune 6, 2014 11:15 a.m.
I've taught for 25 years and I've never heard of any curriculum, let alone any teachers, teaching the mechanics of gay intimacy. I've never heard of any curriculum, or any teacher for that matter, teaching students how to fill out welfare forms. I've never seen any of my fellow teaching comrades tell their children to disrespect their parents. I won't be bold to say that this hasn't happened somewhere in our vast public education system, but in my experience, which is a long time, I've never seen any of this stuff you say happens actually happen. I think us teachers would love if all of our students actually lived a life off of welfare and had great lives independent of the government but contributing to the framework of our society. What I see more in our schools are teachers actually trying to aspire their students to great heights and realize their dreams.
ulvegaard Medical Lake, WashingtonJune 6, 2014 8:29 a.m.
I'm not so naive as to think that all education is is memorizing multiplication tables and reciting letters and charts.
What I was implying is that under federal control, there seems to be an agenda. I don't mind my kids learning to think outside the box. I do mind them being directed to rebel against parental authority, to be indoctrinated with skewed historical facts. I worry when I hear of school districts teaching the mechanics of gay intimacy and the step by step instructions of filling out welfare forms. In an increasing way, kids are not being taught how to expand their minds, but how to rely upon government handouts and manipulation.
Fred44 Salt Lake City, UtahJune 5, 2014 8:27 p.m.
There are two things required for change, One we have to empower schools and the teachers within the school to do the things they know work, rather than trying to comply with all the things placed on them by all levels of government.
Second and the one that will never happen in Utah, spend the money needed to create change. It is funny in "the real world" we recognize the need to invest money and resources to grow and improve a company, but when it comes to public education we want to "stack em deep and teach em cheap". Whether it is yours or my personal budget, or the state budget we spend money on our priorities. Utah has the lowest per pupil spending in the country, enough said on that subject.
mtgrantlass Camden Wyoming, DEJune 5, 2014 8:53 a.m.
Get the current agenda out of classrooms (making little socialists) and true learning, a classic education, will be the result. You have to realize, the agenda has been in place since the 1930's when John Dewey a professed humanist and his cohorts took over American education. No, we weren't aware of it. And, yes, they pretty much won. But we still have to weed their agenda out of our classrooms.
DR Hampton Portage, MIJune 5, 2014 8:45 a.m.
Last year I met a young high school Spanish teacher who had 5 classes. Her smallest was 42, and largest was 57. There weren't enough seats for 57 if they all came. Honestly, no teacher can be expected to do well in that situation. We truly failed both this teacher, and our kids for letting this happen.
The issue of education quality and reform is complex. But we all know that the schools must be provided more resources than was the case for this teacher. That is not complicated at all.
My concern is that we are not doing as well for our kids as our parents did for us. That is not sustainable.
Clifton Palmer McLendon Gilmer, TXJune 5, 2014 7:54 a.m.
The Federal government does not have any authority to make any law, rule, regulation, or recommendation regarding education in any State.
When the States created the Federal government via the Constitution in the 1780s, they gave it certain specifically-named powers; then, via the Tenth Amendment, denied it all other powers.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it give any branch of the Federal government any power to do anything regarding education.
Howard Beal Provo, UTJune 4, 2014 11:11 a.m.
Most teachers find the kids to be more or less the same as yesteryear. Parents on the other hand are different. And I agree Frogs that parents can make a huge difference in a lot ways. But most teachers don't have issues with the students. But they are growing tired of the endless amount of bureaucratic stuff thrown their way. It is overwhelming. And only our Legislature has come up with stupid ideas like saying our government is a "Constitutional Compound Republic" (a made up term) and requiring teachers to teach it. The new evaluative instrument is 40 pages. Throwing out 300 million dollars for ipads when our teachers have 40 students in their classrooms wasn't a good idea either (some sanity made it so the bill wasn't passed but it got play and this should be concerning). Worf is frustrated by the Feds but most teachers are actually more frustrated by the Legislature, State School Board, Utah State Office of Education and their own local school district.
I agree Frogs that people need to wake up and get involved in their local politics, especially teachers. Ultimately the people need to step up and use their power.
slcdenizen Murray, UTJune 4, 2014 10:31 a.m.
"I just wanted my kids to learn to read, write, add, subtract and look for fall leaves and cocoons."
You present the genesis of problematic education. By inserting your prescription of a valuable education with narrow topics with which to cover, you limit the entire enterprise. We should encourage critical thought, creativity, and challenging pre-existing notions, definitely not provide our schools with a specific list of rote topics to memorize. I'm actually surprised at how poorly this is understood. Look no further than our declining educational standards and the correlation with overenthusiastic parents micromanaging educators. The solution is simple, empower teachers, pay them well, and get out of the way.
ulvegaard Medical Lake, WashingtonJune 4, 2014 9:49 a.m.
As the author of the article, in my opinion, was trying to point out --- its not just one problematic source, nor is it a one solution fits all response.
We found that we needed to home school our children. Personally, I wanted them to have the experiences I had in the public education system, but that was a few decades ago and a lot has changed. My first grader was coming home stressed - a seven year old - stressed. She was slow getting her class room work done and so rarely got to go out for recess. She was on the fast track to a breakdown. My son too - he can't sit still and was being reprimanded and punished for it. The education system, in many places, just doesn't have the resources to deal with individual students.
I'm also seeing a growing agenda - to promote anything but traditional family values or any kind of moral responsibility. There seems to be an increasing effort to promote alternative lifestyles and to question parental authority. I just wanted my kids to learn to read, write, add, subtract and look for fall leaves and cocoons.
Frogs, Fish, Windmills & Dams St. George, UTJune 4, 2014 9:31 a.m.
I agree mostly with Howard Beal, but I don't place as much blame for the decline of teacher morale on legislators as I do on the parents. Today's parents don't do a good job of building a foundation of respect for teachers, don't ensure their students do their homework, and when the child has behavioral or learning problems, blame the teacher for the problem rather than helping their kids overcome the problem. Parents have given most of the responsibility of teaching their children values, proper behavior and respect. Such usually cannot be taught by teachers when parents lack those qualities and don't reinforce them at home. The foundation for good education is built in the home. In addition, it's kind of hypocritical to blame legislators when few vote in local elections and few of those who do vote don't know much about those they are voting for. We are expecting more and more from teachers and less and less from parents. No wonder so many teachers are unhappy in their profession.
Howard Beal Provo, UTJune 4, 2014 8:47 a.m.
Bottom line happy teachers make the best teachers. They are the ones that will show the greatest patience with their students and parents, they are the ones that will stay after school to help their students, they are the ones that will go the extra mile.
In all of this world of politics and legalese teachers are overwhelmed. Being overwhelmed and overworked and underappreciated and underpaid does not make happier teachers. Instead, you get tired, overwhelmed, burnt out teachers. The veteran teachers will stick it out, the new teachers with potential will leave the profession. Schools that have droves of teachers leaving and entering and leaving again will not be the best for our children.
Now, the big question with our legislature is whether they are doing this on purpose, or are they just misguided in their approach. I think the it's more of the former unfortunately.
worf Mcallen, TXJune 4, 2014 8:47 a.m.
The feds need to stay out of education. Period!
They have made it too complex, and costly.


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Hey, kids, remember that TV show 21 Jump Street? You know, the one from the '80s that launched Johnny Depp's career? Oh admit it, you probably saw it back then, and you kinda liked the idea of going back to High School, except this time as a cop that can bust some heads. It's every kid's fantasy, and probably one of the reasons the show did so well when it came out. That, and Holly Robinson Peete was some kind of smoking back in the day. Anyhoo, according to Entertainment Weekly, who must really be obsessed with Jonah Hill because this is the third story they've done on him in the space of a week or two, the fat kid from all those Judd Apatow movies is currently in negotiations to bring the TV show to the big screen.
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The breakout Superbad comic and Judd Apatow acolyte is in negotiations to develop a movie adaptation of the popular '80s TV show starring Johnny Depp. It hasn't been decided whether Hill will actually star in the movie, but Sony confirms that he'll work on the screenplay and serve as executive producer.
You know, Hollywood must be in all kinds of desperation to be giving some third-tier actor developmental deals. First a second-tier actor like Seth Rogen gets handed the Green Hornet movie to destroy for all of history, and now someone is actually handing Jonah Hill an entire movie franchise to put into the ground. This guy should be given snappy insulting one-liners in comedy movies, not developing them.
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Linda Shaw wrote an interesting piece in last week's Seattle Times. Apparently, civil disobedience against the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) is alive and well--at least, as embodied in Carl Chew, a 60-year-old science teacher who refuses to give the test to his sixth-graders at Eckstein Middle School.
Mr. Chew, a former artist who has been teaching for eight years, is opposed to high-stakes standardized testing. He claims he is taking a stand against WASL and No Child Left Behind in general.
"I did it because I think it's bad for kids," he said.
For his actions (or non-actions), Mr. Chew has been placed on leave for two weeks without pay. The WASL is given each year to students in grades 3-8 and grade 10. It covers math, reading, writing, and science. It is used to measure whether the schools in Washington state are meeting the goals established in NCLB.
Whatever one thinks of NCLB or the WASL--and I am the first to admit there are problems with both of them--Mr. Chew's supposed "civil disobedience" is not the way to fix them. In fact, it is a recipe for educational chaos and anarchy. WASL is a state-mandated exam. By refusing to give the test, Mr. Chew failed to fulfill his duties as a teacher. If he doesn't like the WASL, he can complain to his union, write an Op-Ed piece, call his local political representative, or advocate for its overhaul or termination at a public forum--in other words, he can utilize all of the tools available to a citizen in a democratic polity without violating his professional obligations.
Eckstein is not Selma or Dandi; students are not being beaten with police clubs or thrown into British jails. Hopefully, Mr. Chew will come to his senses and realize that his teaching responsibilities--including having students pass the WASL on their way to getting a high school diploma--trump his political feelings. If not, then perhaps he should return to being an artist, where real world considerations don't matter as much.
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3 carrots, coarsely chopped
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1 rutabaga, peeled and coarsely chopped
2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped
10 cups chicken or vegetable stock
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 stick of butter, softened
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1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
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Place the carrots, sweet potatoes, rutabaga and apples in a big pot and cover with the stock. Stir in the salt and pepper. Place over medium-high heat and bring to a boil.
Cook until vegetables are very tender, about 25 minutes. Drain and reserve stock. Return cooked vegetables to the pot.
Add butter, nutmeg and rosemary. Roughly mash veggies with a potato masher until chunky. Return the stock to the pot and bring to a low simmer. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste. Ladle into bowls and garnish with green onions and paprika.
Recipe from Melissa Yen, owner of Jo Snow Syrups in Chicago. Reprinted with permission from "Soup & Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time," by Martha Bayne, Agate Surrey, November 2011.
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Martha Bayne, the author, is a former food editor of the Chicago Reader and founder of a weekly soup dinner and hunger-relief fundraiser in Chicago. She organized the soup event in 2009 while tending bar at the Hideout, which she describes as "one of the city's coziest and most eclectic music clubs." Bayne created a blog and a Facebook page to encourage people to come into the tavern on Wednesday nights during the winter and early spring, to eat soup and make a donation to fight hunger. The funds raised go to the Greater Chicago Food Depository and neighborhood food pantries.
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China, counting on women's aerials, aims for Olympic gold in Torino{mosimage}BEIJING (AP) — China expects to pick up more than two gold medals at next month's Turin Games, surpassing its previous best at a Winter Olympics, the government's Xinhua News Agency quoted a senior Chinese sports official as saying Sunday.
Wang Yitao, director of winter sports for the State General Administration of Sports, said a more competitive women's ski team is improving China's medal prospects, augmenting an expected strong performance from women's short track speed skaters at the Winter Games, Xinhua said.
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Ken Henderson passed away this last Sunday. My condolences go out to his family, friends, and coworkers. I owe so much to Ken, if it wasn't for his books I would not be where I am today.
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This is sad news indeed. Mr. Henderson challenged and inspired me in writing, speaking, and - a couple times - in person to become a better database and software professional. He did the same for many others. His family, friends, coworkers, and indeed our community miss him - and are in our prayers.
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Very sad for his family and a great loss for the SQL Server community. He wrote guru-level books but I also liked reading his non-technical stuff. The essays in his books were great too, especially his response to Microsoft bashers.
Some of my favorite parts of Ken's books was the part about behavior in newsgroups from the 3rd book and the Essays on Software Engineering from book 2. I don't even need to mentioned all the cool procs and code from all three of the books (including the undocumented stuff of course, parameter sniffing)
His books are always my mentor & after meeting him in Dallas, i was happy to see a such a good & humble person.
This is very sad news. The SQL Server community has lost a very valuable member. I'm simply stunned.
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Why '07 reimbursement rates are down six percent
February 2007Feature Story
Pamela JohnsonJanemarie Mulvey
Five-year review of physician work values
Practice expense RVU method changes
Pathologists can expect a six percent reduction in their reimbursement rates this year as a result of changes in the 2007 Medicare physician fee schedule regulations issued in November by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The cuts would have totaled 11 percent on average had it not been for lobbying last year by the College and the medical community that helped pass the federal Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 in the final hours of the 109th Congress.
That law, H.R. 6111, stops the five percent cut for Medicare payments the CMS proposed in the final regulations. The five percent cut, based on the flawed sustainable growth rate formula that Congress and the CMS use as a budgetary tool to penalize physicians when total expenditures exceed a certain target, was seen as necessary in 2007 to meet expenditure targets.
Though the legislation stops the cut, it is only a short-term fix. If the SGR formula is not reformed, physicians can expect an additional 10 percent in cuts in 2008. The CAP will continue to work this year with the medical community to advocate for an overhaul of the SGR formula.
The six percent reduction reflects a combination of changes to the work relative values for pathology and other specialties as part of the third five-year review, the calculation of physician practice expenses, and a freeze in the sustainable growth rate adjustment.
Five-year review of physician work values
Pathology codes. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 requires the CMS to review all relative values at least every five years and make needed adjustments. The CMS initiated the third five-year refinement of work RVUs in November 2004 by requesting recommendations from the public on codes that are under- or overvalued. In response, the CAP requested that the following pathology services be included in this refinement effort:
The CAP then collected and presented evidence to the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee that these four codes were undervalued and should be increased because there had been changes in cancer protocols and the content of work. The committee recommended an increase in the work RVUs for these four codes based on CAP-presented information and submitted its recommendation to the CMS. Subsequently, the CMS announced that it agreed with the data brought forward by the College and the committee's recommendation to increase the work RVUs for CPT codes 88309, 88321, 88323, and 88325. (Related article: "Effect of five-year review and budget neutrality adjustments on select codes".)
In addition, the CAP requested early last year that the work RVU for CPT code 88334 [pathology consultation during surgery; cytologic examination (eg, touch prep, squash prep), each additional site] be increased to the committee-recommended work RVU of 0.80; the CMS had decreased the RVU to 0.59 for 2006. Based on the CAP's comments, the CMS referred the code to the multispecialty validation panel for review. As a result of the statistical analysis of the 2006 multispecialty validation panel ratings, the CMS increased the work RVU for 88334 to 0.73.
Primary care code increases result in budget neutrality reductions. In addition to the pathology codes reviewed, the five-year review includes increases and decreases to work RVUs for more than 400 services for the 2007 Medicare fee schedule based on the update committee's recommendations. This process led to increases in the work RVUs for evaluation and management services. Because of the large volume of these services, the increases resulted in a boost in expenditures of nearly $4 billion.
Current law requires that total expenditures not increase more than $20 million as a result of changes from the five-year review. Thus, to offset the expected $4 billion increase owing to evaluation and management services, a five percent across-the-board reduction in reimbursement rates across all specialties is necessary.
The method by which this budget neutrality adjustment is determined is key. Specifically, the CAP and the majority of other medical specialties recommended applying necessary adjustments across all three areas of payment (work, practice expense, and medical liability). This would have resulted in a savings of nearly three percent for pathology. This alternative was also endorsed separately by the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council and the American Medical Association (AMA). Despite organized medicine's nearly unanimous endorsement, the CMS imposed an alternative approach that applies the budget neutrality adjustment only to the work RVUs.
To achieve budget neutrality under this approach, work RVUs must be reduced by 10.1 percent. Unfortunately, this approach places a greater burden on the professional component portion of payments, the formula for which is largely dependent on the magnitude of the work RVU. The technical component, which is not dependent on the work RVU, is not affected by the approach the CMS has taken. The CMS says its approach preserves the integrity of the work RVU because the five-year review focused only on work RVU and not the other components.
Practice expense RVU method changes
New for this year are the CMS' alterations of its method for calculating the practice expense portion of the physician fee schedule. The practice expense includes the direct costs of such things as laboratory personnel and supplies and the indirect costs, which include overhead expenses such as rent and administrative staff.
The CMS announced that the proposed changes would make the practice expense method "more transparent and easier to understand" and use data that the specialty societies have collected and the update committee has reviewed. The CMS currently uses a top-down method, which allocates aggregate specialty practice costs to specific procedures, and is now proposing a bottom-up approach, whereby direct costs would be determined by summing the costs associated with the clinical staff, equipment, and supplies typically required to provide the services.
The CMS' revised method bases the measurement of indirect costs on the magnitude of direct costs. The problem is that physicians who are PC-only billers (often hospital-based physicians) have no direct costs and thus their allocation of indirect expenses is limited only to the work RVU (which was further reduced from the five-year review). It's the CAP's view that this formula unfairly compensates PC-only billers by not accounting for a large share of their overhead costs. Many of these physicians do indeed have administrative costs. The CAP provided a strong case to the CMS in a formal letter detailing its concerns about the practice expense formula.
Many of the negative effects on hospital-based pathologists would have been eliminated had the CMS accepted the CAP's alternative method. However, the CMS did express interest in working with the CAP to address this during the phase-in of the new practice expense values. Specifically, in addressing the CAP's recommended improvements to the indirect practice expense formula, the CMS acknowledges in the final rule: "One commenter recommended that the indirect PE allocation be distributed from the global services to the professional and technical services based upon the share of billings for each service." While the CMS will retain its current method for 2007, the rule also said it welcomes further clarification regarding this suggestion before full implementation. The CAP will continue to work with the CMS to change the practice expense method to ensure fairer reimbursement rates for PC-only billers.
The CMS estimated that the method changes will result in a one percent reduction for pathology services in 2007, the first year of the phase-in. However, the impact on pathologists will vary. The combination of the changes to the work RVU and the practice expense method is expected to result in a decline in reimbursement rates of eight percent for PC-only billers in 2007. Global billers will experience a minor increase of 0.3 percent reflecting a 4.4 percent increase in the technical component. Independent laboratories are expected to experience a two percent increase in 2007 reflecting the fact that they are largely global billers and benefit from the increases to the technical component.
When viewed across specialties, those facing the greatest cuts are radiologists and anesthesiologists. Internal medicine and general and family practice physicians are expected to experience the largest increases.
Additional PE items affecting pathology pay. The CAP urged the CMS to postpone the use of practice-expense-per-hour data in the CMS practice expense calculations from supplemental surveys supplied by several medical specialties. The AMA, together with medical specialty societies including the CAP, has begun to conduct a new multispecialty practice expense survey for all physician specialties.
The AMA developed the Socioeconomic Monitoring System, or SMS, survey in 1981 and discontinued it in 1999. Beginning in 2002, the CMS incorporated the 1999 SMS survey data into its calculation of the practice expense, adjusted to a common year. The AMA's SMS data provided aggregate specialty-specific information on hours worked and practice expenses. Subsequently, legislation was enacted to establish a process to supplement the SMS data for a specialty with data collected by entities and organizations other than the AMA. The deadline to submit supplemental surveys expired in 2005.
Concern was raised in comments submitted to the CMS in 2005 that for the practice expense RVUs to reflect accurately the relative indirect costs for all services, it would be preferable to have current data for all specialties collected at the same time. In the 2006 final Medicare physician fee schedule, the CMS agreed with comments that suggested that a multispecialty survey conducted for a uniform period would be helpful, and the agency said it plans to work with the AMA and the medical community to develop a strategy for funding and fielding a multispecialty practice expense survey to help ensure that all specialties are treated equitably.
In its comments, the CAP emphasized that the use of one survey instrument across all specialties would ensure a more consistent measurement of practice expenses. The use of the supplemental surveys would also decrease even further the stability of the practice expense component of the RVUs by making changes now based on supplemental surveys, only to be changed again once the multispecialty survey is completed. While acknowledging the efforts to conduct a multispecialty practice expense survey, the CMS incorporated the supplemental survey data for the several specific specialties as originally proposed. Also in the 2007 final rule, the CMS notes its support for the AMA's plan to field a multispecialty survey to collect updated practice-expense-per-hour data and says it "will consider any such data as soon as it becomes available."
Adoption of PE direct cost modifications supported by CAP. The CMS did finalize changes to direct cost data for several pathology codes. Specifically, the agency adopted its proposal to modify equipment time for codes 88304 and 88305 as the CAP requested, and to increase the probe quantity for CPT code 88367, in situ hybridization, auto, equal to that of the other two codes in the family. The CMS also finalized updated equipment, supplies, and clinical labor costs for flow cytometry services. All of these updated costs have been incorporated into the 2007 practice expense RVUs.
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