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innovations aiming to reduce X-ray dose, improve imaging quality and enable more efficient endovascular
repair. The imagiQ tables are used in a wide range of procedures from advanced tAAA to conventional
peripheral interventions.
Ziehm Imaging is a Germany-based innovation leader founded in 1972, with offices in the U.S., Italy, France,
Finland, Russia, Brazil, China, Singapore and South Africa. Ziehm Imaging specializes in the development
and production of mobile C-arms with a range of award winning products that include a leading line of high-
end devices for hybrid operating rooms.
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:42, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Shine <shine(dot)prakash(at)icasework(dot)com> wrote: >> We would like to know if there is a workaround built into postgres by >> setting some kind of COMPATIBILITY variable (similar to SQL SERVER 2005 / >> 2008)... > > Sorry, there is no such mode... However, you can add them back if you must: http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2008/03/readding-implicit-casts-in-postgresql.html Be aware, they were removed for a reason. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-3.html section E.17.2.1 for more.
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EMCare now available via Dialog and Datastar
Amsterdam, 31 August 2006 - Elsevier Bibliographic Databases announced today that EMCare, The Database for Healthcare Professionals, is available via the Dialog and DataStar platforms. EMCare is the most recent addition to Elsevier's portfolio of bibliographic databases, and with close to 2 million records from the nursing, allied health and biomedical literature, it is a key information resource for professionals engaged at all levels of healthcare, whether in patient care, scientific research or education.
Magdaleine Margaritis, Marketing Manager, Elsevier Bibliographic Databases, stated, "We are very pleased that EMCare is joining the collection of healthcare databases hosted on Thomson Scientific's Dialog and DataStar platforms. EMCare is competitively priced and designed as an affordable alternative to other allied healthcare and nursing databases. Its availability on these services will expand the audience to which EMCare is accessible and enable users to search EMCare simultaneously with other information sources."
With cover-to-cover indexing of more than 2,700 international sources, including peer-reviewed journals, trade publications and electronic-only titles, EMCare includes unique content not found in other nursing and allied health databases. As well as supporting the practice of evidence-based treatment in hospitals and community healthcare settings, EMCare furnishes timely access to new information that may lead to more cost-effective and higher quality healthcare, and supports faculty and equips students with the information they need to perform successfully as members of tomorrow's workforce.
EMCare's comprehensive coverage includes evidence-based healthcare, all nursing specialties and professions, nursing education and training, nursing development and management, health and health care economics, midwifery, psychiatry and mental health, traumatology, emergency and critical care medicine, emergency services, dental hygiene, nutrition and dietetics, physical therapy and surgical technology.
Currency is an important feature, with new records available online as quickly as two weeks after print publication. The files on both Dialog [File 45] and DataStar [EMCA] are updated weekly and feature a 10-year backfile. More than 200,000 new records are added each year.
EMCare's indexing supports consistent retrieval of relevant records across the entire database. Underlying the indexing is EMTREE: Elsevier's Life Science Thesaurus, which has been significantly expanded with close to 1,500 nursing terms in addition to existing allied health terms. Additional fields enable searching for Molecular Sequence Numbers, and for both Trade Names and Manufacturer Names of drugs and medical devices.
Additional information about EMCare is available on the Dialog Bluesheet at http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0045.html or DataStar Datasheet at http://ds.datastarweb.com/ds/products/datastar/sheets/emca.htm or www.info.embase.com/emcare. 30-day free trials are available upon request.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.scopus.com/), bibliographic databases and online reference works.
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Buprenorphine/Naloxone Versus Clonidine for Outpatient Opiate Detoxification - 1
This study has been completed.
University of California, Los Angeles
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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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Last updated: January 11, 2017
Last verified: April 2010
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McCarron was drafted 25th overall in the NHL Draft by the Montreal Canadiens, who announced Thursday morning they signed the 6-foot-6, 235-pound forward to a three-year entry level contract.
Murray said McCarron called him Thursday morning and informed him of his decision to give up his amateur status and play professionally, most likely for the London Knights, who have a strong relationship with the Canadiens organization.
"London's a good program and has good coaches and we wish Mike luck," Murray said. "The only thing we were disappointed in, and we told Mike this, is the lack of communication the last number of days here from him."
RELATED: WMU coaching staff has a short list of players to find McCarron's replacement
McCarron could potentially play for the Canadiens next season or the organization's AHL affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs.
More reaction from Murray coming shortly at mlive.com/broncos.
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Today I am excited about introducing you to Nir Eyal.
Nir is a super sharp guy that has a fascinating process of getting people to become hooked on your product or service, so that they will buy from you over and over while remaining a long-term client.
In this episode we talk about the hidden framework that Facebook uses to keep people engaged at a high level.
Nir is the author of a brilliant book entitled Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. This is a fast paced interview with lots of great information so be prepared to take notes if you possibly can.
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In an effort to wean myself off crime fiction, I searched the ordinary fiction shelves in my local library for some books that looked interesting and ended up with this one. Written in 1980 by one of India's most famous writers in English, Clear Light of Day is about the reunion of two sisters in Old Delhi. I know very little about India, old or new, but I found this book to be a fascinating insight into Indian culture.
The author
Anita Desai was brought up and educated in India. She has written a number of novels, including children's novels, short stories and novels for adults. Three of her books, including Clear Light of Day, have been short-listed for The Booker Prize. She teaches literature in the US, but also spends time in the UK and India. Her books are written in English.
The story
Tara returns to India from overseas with her diplomat husband, Bakul. She goes to stay with her sister Bim and brother Baba in her old family home. However, the visit, although welcome, opens some family wounds, including Bim's long-term split from her other brother, Raja, whom she hasn't seen for a number of years.
During the course of Tara's stay, the two sisters are forced to face the memories of their past, some good, some bad. Tara is worried about Bim, who seems to be losing her grip on life and wants to reunite her with Raja at his daughter's wedding; whereas Bim sees Tara as interfering in a life that she is happy with, except when she sees it through Tara's eyes. Slowly, it seems that the sisters are heading towards an argument that may be the end of family life as they know it.
The characters
Bim, the eldest sister, is the one that didn't get away. While her brother Raja left home to marry into a rich, much respected family and Tara went abroad with her diplomat husband, Bim was left at home to look after her younger brother, Baba, who is mentally handicapped and her aunt Mira-masi, who was an alcoholic and eventually died. Bim has a teaching post at a nearby college and that and some revenue from her father's old company just about manage to cover the household expenses. She never married and never forgave Raja for leaving her in Old Delhi. Bim is a complex character; intelligent, but she finds it hard to accept that things have changed from her childhood days when she and Raja ruled the household. Despite her nursing abilities, she is quite a cold person, yet I did sympathise with her. She finds her relationship with Tara particularly difficult to handle, because she feels that Tara looks down on her life now that she is a jet-setter with two nearly grown-up daughters. For Bim, Tara's visit is an important milestone in her life, although she hardly knows it.
Tara is very different from her sister. She looks back fondly on her childhood days, but is not sorry that she has left them behind. As a child, she always felt inferior to her older brother and sister - she struggled with school and games, whereas they excelled and took the first opportunity she could to leave. Yet she has never been truly happy with her husband and feels a lot of guilt that she left her sister to cope with the family after she had gone, not even returning home when Mira-masi was so ill. I felt deeply for Tara; I saw much of myself in her, because I lived abroad for a long time and felt the same type of guilt for having left my family. Both sisters are superbly described; I found their feelings for each other portrayed very realistically.
This is a superbly written book. Descriptions of even tiny things like the rose garden, the verandah and the wildlife are so exact that I could see the images vividly as I was reading the book. One of the girls' childhood memories was of a cow that their aunt bought for the fresh milk, which later fell into the well and drowned. Thereafter, the girls were terrified of going anywhere near the well. Their fear is palpable. Poetry is used throughout the book to highlight the sisters' feelings, which links into their childhood when their brother Raja thought of himself as a poet.
The story is told by switching between the views of Bim and Tara. There is quite a lot of cross story-telling - we read about the same event more than once, from the angle of the sister telling the story at the time. This could have been boring, but somehow the author manages to embellish the language in such a way that it was just as fascinating, if not more so, when reading if for the second time.
I think my only criticism of this book is that the ending is somewhat flat. The third quarter of the book reached such a crescendo of emotion that I really thought something big was going to happen to end the book, but it kind of drifted to an end. I suspect this may come from having read too many crime fiction books, where the ending is (nearly) always exciting; nevertheless I was disappointed.
Despite this, it is a book well worth reading. Recommended.
The book is available from Amazon for £6.99. Published by Vintage, it has 192 pages. ISBN: 0099276186
Clear Light of Day is both an examination of contemporary India and a family history in which two sisters, Bim and Tara, learn that although there will always be family scars, the ability to forgive and forget is a powerful ally against life's sorrows. Twenty years ago when Tara married, she left Old Delhi and a home full of sickness and death, while Bim continued to live in the family home, taking care of their autistic brother, Baba. Now Tara has returned, her first visit in ten years, for their niece's wedding. Bim refuses to attend; she can't visit their brother Raja who, like Tara, left her many years ago. Instead Bim dwells bitterly on her feelings of abandonment and the impact on her of her country's recent history: the violent conflict between Hindus and Moslems, the death of Gandhi and the ensuing struggle for political power, and the malaria epidemic that killed so many. In Bim's presence, Tara once again feels herself shrink into that small miserable wretch of twenty years ago, both admiring and resenting her tall striding sister, while Bim was calmly unaware of any of her sister's agonies, past or present. With language that describes both the harshness and beauty of family and the land, Anita Desai takes the reader with Tara and Bim on their struggle to confront and heal old wounds.


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Rail bosses are to run extra trains to help St Johnstone and Dundee United fans get to and from the Scottish Cup Final at Celtic Park.
First ScotRail said special trains on May 17 will have enough seats for more than 2000 fans.
Up to six outbound services will run to Glasgow Queen Street; provisionally timetabled to leave Perth between 9.30am and 11am and Dundee between 9.40am and 11.30am,
Network Rail engineering works planned more than 18 months ago mean the usual routes are closed on the day.
But the companies have worked together to identify alternative routes to ensure all fans who want to get to the game by train are able to do so.


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Sephora BODY Whipped Body Souffle
Sephora BODY Whipped Body Souffle Reviews
ok but there is betterI dont hate it, but I definitly tried better. The texture is nice and soakes in well. Most body creams leave white marks that need to dry, but with this I can inmediatly put on my clothes not worrying it would leave stains. It makes my skin a bit softer, but I have really dry skin and therefor it's not hydrating enough. More for the regular skin. — 8 years, 5 months agoCheercherry | 2 reviews
Delightfully DecadantI adore Sephora products, but the Whipped Body Souffle is definately one of my favorites. My skin feels so soft and supple after I apply it to my skin. Even being here in the south with the humidity the creme still keeps on working, it lasts through all this heat and gives my body the most beautiful soft looking appearance, I am not ashamed to go out with my dresses on and show off my legs. Thanks Sephora for a brilliant product, AGAIN. — 9 years, 2 months agobritwit | 11 reviews
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Hotel Rusava
Rusava 334, Rusava
(in the distance of 0.2 km from Swimming pool Rusava)
Hotel Rusava is located in Rusava in the attractive Hostynske Hills. The hotel offers comfortable accommodation, all day dining, relaxation centre, and conference facilities.
- Free internet
- Breakfast
- Free parking
- Pets
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Art Professor Wins
First Place Award
Gardner, Associate Professor of Art at USC Lancaster, won
FIRST place in "Art
by Southeastern Artists, Fiber Fantasia" exhibit
of fiber artists.
The exhibit includes the work of artists from twelve
southeastern states and is sponsored by the Chattahootchee
Handweavers Guild. Both of her entries were accepted and
the winning entry is titled "Difficulty in Translation" (image
at left).
The exhibit will be held at the Hudgens Center in
Duluth, GA.


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Are you certain some guy in your raid is spamming your latency to hell and back with his insane addons? Now you can prove it (not that that could ever happen, I think, but hey, it's fun to blame people!)
Broker: CHAT_MSG_ADDON gathers information about the bytes travelling through the addon communication channel and gives you a "high score" list of the top spammers, in addition to average bytes transmitted over the last 10 seconds, and other small statistics.
It is designed to be small and effective, and actually mostly for fun. The data it gathers and displays is fun to watch, at least for me!
The screenshot shows Broker_CMA running on the Blockoland LDB display addon, but of course any capable LDB display addon will do; like NinjaPanel, Fortress, Bazooka, etc. Also note that in the screenshot, I've been online for at most 15 seconds, just long enough to line up the screenshot to the sky and snap it. The display will become a lot more lively during a raid session ;)
If you want to request a feature or report a bug, please visit the ticket tracker for Broker_CMA on wowace.com. If you want to help translate Broker_CMA, you can do so at the project page on wowace.com.


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What's New
- Bug fixes
App Description
Instatube is a full featured video player that supports YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion videos allowing you to seamlessly stream content to your device.
You can create playlists for all your favorite movies giving you instant access to your most watched content.
Video is played in full 720p and 1080p with high quality sound. Set your videos to repeat and shuffle so you can view them over and over again without lifting a finger.
You can also sync your favorites, playlists, and subscriptions with your YouTube account, merging your content for absolute convenience.
This app is a really great way to merge all of your media content from YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. This makes managing everything very simple and fun.
* Key Features:
- Support YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion.
- Continuous playback, playlist playback.
- Manage videos & playlists
- Protect private videos by Passcode
- Perfect in-app video player with playlist supported
- Full HD videos (720p & 1080p)
- Supports repeat one, repeat all, shuffle
- Sync favorites/playlists/subscription with YouTube account
- Share videos via social networks (Facebook & Twitter)
- Backup data with Dropbox
App Changes
- September 02, 2014 Initial release


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DETROIT — The national Democratic Party's platform committee is meeting in Detroit to discuss party positions ahead of a convention next month in North Carolina.
The committee will discuss the draft platform worked out two weeks ago in Minneapolis and possibly come up with amendments.
The platform committee is chaired by Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, N.J., and retired Army Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy.
A draft of the Democratic Party's platform includes support for gay marriage for the first time. The meeting takes place Saturday at the Marriott hotel at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit.


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A Study to Evaluate the Effect of CCX140-B on Urinary Albumin Excretion in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes and Albuminuria
This study has been completed.
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 22, 2011
Last updated: January 8, 2015
Last verified: January 2015
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of treatment with CCX140-B on urinary albumin excretion in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus and albuminuria, as well as to study the safety and efficacy of the medication in this patient population.
|Diabetic Nephropathy Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
|Drug: Placebo Drug: CCX140-B
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Study to Evaluate the Effect of CCX140-B on Albuminuria in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Further study details as provided by ChemoCentryx:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change from baseline in 24-hour urinary albumin excretion [ Time Frame: 84 days ]The primary efficacy objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of CCX140-B treatment on urinary albumin excretion by measuring change from baseline in 24-hour urinary albumin excretion.
- Subject incidence of adverse events [ Time Frame: 84 days ]The primary safety objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of CCX140-B in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with albuminuria.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Change from baseline in hemoglobin A1c [ Time Frame: 84 days ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo (Group A)
Drug: Placebo
Placebo capsules once daily
Experimental: Active study medication (Group B)
Drug: CCX140-B
CCX140-B capsules once daily (Group B)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Key Inclusion Criteria:
- Aged 18-75 years inclusive, with documented previously diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (per American Diabetes Association [ADA] criteria), and treated with oral antidiabetic drugs
- Albumin:creatinine ratio (ACR) of 200 to 3000 mg/g creatinine, inclusive, based on two values obtained from two first morning urine samples taken on two separate days during the screening period
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate based on serum creatinine (eGFR, determined by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD] equation) of ≥ 25 mL/min/1.73 m(2)
- Must be on a stable dose of an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) for at least 8 weeks prior to screening
- Fasting plasma glucose less than 270 mg/dL at screening
Key Exclusion Criteria:
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus or history of diabetic ketoacidosis
- Previous renal transplant or known non-diabetic renal disease, except related to hypertension
- Undergone renal dialysis at any time in the past
- Received chronic (more than 7 days continuously) systemic glucocorticoid or other immunosuppressive treatment within 8 weeks of screening
- Use of bardoxolone, atrasentan or other endothelin antagonist within 8 weeks of screening
- Received chronic (more than 7 days continuously) non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) treatment within 2 weeks of screening
- Cardiac failure (class III or IV), history of unstable angina, symptomatic coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction or stroke within 12 weeks of screening
- Poorly-controlled blood pressure (systolic blood pressure >155 or diastolic blood pressure >95, with blood pressure measured in the seated position after at least 5 minutes of rest)
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01440257
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01440257
|Centre for Human Drug Research
|Leiden, Netherlands
Sponsors and Collaborators
|Study Director:
|Pirow Bekker, MD, PhD
|ChemoCentryx, Inc.
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Sullivan T, Miao Z, Dairaghi DJ, Krasinski A, Wang Y, Zhao BN, Baumgart T, Ertl LS, Pennell A, Seitz L, Powers J, Zhao R, Ungashe S, Wei Z, Boring L, Tsou CL, Charo I, Berahovich RD, Schall TJ, Jaen JC. CCR2 antagonist CCX140-B provides renal and glycemic benefits in diabetic transgenic human CCR2 knockin mice. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2013 Nov 1;305(9):F1288-97. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00316.2013. Epub 2013 Aug 28.
|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01440257 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 22, 2011
|Last Updated:
|January 8, 2015
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Diabetic Nephropathies
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Diabetes Complications
Urination Disorders
Urological Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
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The 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy's assassination has special significance for the group of Irish Army cadets who were asked to form an honour guard at the funeral on 25 November 1963.
With the eyes of the world on them, the young cadets performed their silent drill at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia as Kennedy's grieving family gathered at his freshly dug grave.
Jacqueline Kennedy made the request because her husband had been so impressed by the drill performed at Arbour Hill during a visit to Ireland in June of that year.
Kennedy had described the drill as the highlight of his four-day trip and asked for a copy of the drill to be sent to him in the White House.
"That is the finest honour guard I have ever seen," Kennedy told Lieutenant Frank Colclough, the officer in charge.
The 36th cadet class who performed the drill had graduated by the time of Kennedy's request, so it fell upon the 37th class to perform the drill for the film and subsequently at the funeral.
As the world reeled from the shock of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on Friday 22 November, the young cadets were recalled from leave to return to their base in the Curragh.
After hectic preparations on the Saturday night, and armed with their rifles, one holdall each, and some money from a local shopkeeper, the cadets travelled to Washington in the company of President Eamon de Valera.
Retired colonels Richard Heaslip and Martin Coughlan were among the 26 cadets selected from the 37th class to participate in the ceremony that was watched by millions of people around the world.
"When that tragedy dawned on everybody, this was a Friday evening, we were facing a Saturday morning inspection. Surviving Saturday morning's inspection was what it was about and then relaxation and local leave," said Ret Col Heaslip, who is the father of Irish rugby player Jamie.
Ret Col Coughlan said: "I think the phone call came through here at about 9.30 at night that the cadets were to be got back in here.
"I went to Newbridge with a few mates because we were always hungry then because you were so busy. It broke that we were probably going to Washington and we didn't believe it."
Other cadets, including Ret Col Heaslip, were at a local cinema.
"It all happened so quickly after that," he said. "It was the wrong time of the month too because we didn't have any money."
For many of the fresh-faced youngsters, it was their first time in an aircraft and the retired colonels recalled how surprised they were that President de Valera took the time to chat to each cadet.
"We were in Dublin Airport and 'Dev' decided he wanted to meet us personally," said Ret Col Coughlan.
"He came along and shook hands with each of us individually. We thought that was that, but somewhere across the Atlantic he came down along the plane and chatted to each one individually."
Once in Washington, the cadets had little time to prepare for their moment in the spotlight and rehearsed at Arlington on the morning of the funeral.
They returned in the afternoon and stood by the graveside for about two hours as the cortège made its way from St Matthew's Cathedral in Washington.
Ret Col Heaslip recalled: "I don't think the solemnity or the aura and the mystique that was there dawned on us until, in a sense, we had the rehearsal by the graveside in the morning.
"We began to realise it then, but I think part of our brief was Frank Colclough telling us that 'remember the eyes on the world is on you and you have to perform'."
"How could Jacqueline Kennedy even remember to invite us?" wondered Ret Col Coughlan.
"It was remarkable. All the trouble she had – her husband had just been shot dead and she with him. It was years later that we realised the importance of the whole trip.
"The funeral was on Monday and on Tuesday, President de Valera wanted to lay a wreath on the grave and we did the honours there.
"The only night we had off was Tuesday night, when the American GIs took us out and showed us Washington. They looked after us very well."
This was the days before mass communication and some of the cadets' families were not aware they had taken part in the funeral until after they returned home.
Ret Col Heaslip said: "I don't know that my parents knew I was even in the States because there was no way of communicating because we didn't have a telephone.
"I think they had to wait for the publication of the Limerick Leader to see myself on the front page."
The men returned to Ireland on Wednesday 27 November 1963 and were back on duty the following morning.
It was the only time a foreign military has had a presence at a US President's funeral.
"It was a wonder for the time we were there. As old men we can reflect on it a little bit," said Ret Col Heaslip.
Five members of the current cadet class will fly to Washington to perform the same drill 50 years on, while some of the original cadets will join them to mark the occasion.
Visit the President Kennedy in Ireland exhibition on RTÉ Archives
Radio documentary Ireland on the day JFK died
RTÉ Sport commentator Michael O'Hehir was in New York at the time of the assassination and described the shock in the city


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By Deanna C. White
Unlike many of his fellow Republican presidential candidates, whose tax reform plans would dispose of the entire, current United States tax system, Jon Huntsman, former Governor of Utah, advocates a tax reform proposal, that while sweeping in its scope, still adheres to the basic structure of the existing U.S. tax code.
Despite some of the more dramatic aspects of his tax reform proposal – eliminating all tax deductions, including those for home mortgages and charities, and lowering tax rates to three levels, 8 percent, 14 percent and 23 percent – analysts say Huntsman's plain is still relatively mainstream.
"He is staying within traditional income tax concepts, but saying what we need to do is lower tax rates and have fewer deductions and credits", said Clinton Stretch, managing tax principal of Deloitte LLP, and a member of the Tax Legislation and Policy Committee of the AICPA. "Although there is a broad consensus in this country for that view, the problem with is that the details are untested."
The polls would seem to indicate many Americans concur.
At the end of September, several polls, including a CNN/Opinion Research and USA Today/Gallup poll, placed Huntsman squarely in last place among his Republican running mates, with only 1 percent of the popular vote in comparison to frontrunners Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
If Huntsman were to pull from the back of the pack however, his extensive tax reform plan would have significant effect on individual taxpayers, small business owners, corporations, and the accounting professionals who administer their finances.
According to documents posted on Huntsman's campaign blog, Huntsman's "Time to Compete; An American Jobs Plan" outlines six basic tenets aimed to reform the U.S. tax code and stimulate jobs and the economy.
Huntsman's tax reform proposal would:
Simplify the personal income tax code and lower rates. Huntsman would introduce a revenue-neutral tax plan that eliminates all deductions and credits in favor of three drastically lower rates of 8 percent, 14 percent and 23 percent. Huntsman posits eliminating deductions and credits in favor of lower marginal rates will yield a simpler and more efficient tax code, decreasing the burden on taxpayers.
- Eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax. Under his new simplified plan, Huntsman would eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax, which he says is not indexed for inflation and is penalizes an increasing number of families and small businesses.
- Eliminate the taxes on capital gains and dividends in order to eliminate the double taxation on investment. Huntsman believes capital gains and dividend taxes amount to a double-taxation on individuals who choose to invest. Because dollars invested had to first be earned, Huntsman says, they have already been subject to the income tax. The Huntsman plan argues taxing these same dollars again when capital gains are realized deters productive and much-needed investment in our economy.
- Reduce the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. The Huntsman plan argues the United States cannot compete while burdened with the second-highest corporate income tax rate in the developed world. According to Huntsman's plan, reducing the corporate income tax rate will keep American corporations, capital, and jobs at home.
- Shift from a worldwide system of taxation to a territorial system of taxation. Huntsman believes taxing businesses on a worldwide system of taxation punishes companies that bring revenue home to the United States. Shifting to a territorial system, he says, will allow American companies to compete with other global players and allow U.S.-based multinationals to bring capital home and invest in new jobs.
- Implement a tax holiday for repatriation of corporate profits. Huntsman says a tax holiday for repatriation of corporate profits earned overseas would make $400 to $600 billion available for companies to make corporate investments – a critical tool in growing the economy and putting Americans back to work.
But while these sweeping reforms, including the abolishment of capital gains and dividend taxes, may seem promising to some high-earners on the surface, analysts say it still remains to be seen how other components of the plan, like the elimination of all tax credits and deductions, including the mortgage interest deduction and health care deductions, will play out for the average American family.
Although he believes the Huntsman tax reform plan is decidedly "aggressive" in the way it brings tax rates down, Stretch said it is still unclear what the lingering effects of the Huntsman plan, or the tax reform plans of any of the GOP presidential candidates, would be on the average taxpayer.
When former President Ronald Reagan revamped the tax code in 1986, Stretch said, his plan was outlined in 500 pages. The current candidates' tax reform plans are generally outlined in less than 500 words.
"In all of these plans there is an enormous lack of detail. You cannot look at them and find an answer to the basic questions people will struggle with – is there enough revenue in the plan and is the way the tax burden is being shared fair", Stretch said. "The real question here is whether middle class taxes are increasing or decreasing. There simply isn't enough detail to say."
Other lingering questions in the Huntsman plan, according to Stretch, include how the elimination of deductions and credits would balance out against a lower tax rate for individuals; who would ultimately bear the burden of the 25 percent corporate tax rate; and how the loss of deductions, like accelerated depreciation and medical coverage, could impact small business.
"I could look at this and say reducing my tax rate feels pretty good, or I could look at my lost deductions and say that does not feel so good", Stretch said.
Ultimately, the political feasibility of the Huntsman plan, Stretch believes, will come down to how much the average American is willing to sacrifice in deductions and credits, and how fairly the tax burden is shared.
"When you say investment income should be completely exempt from tax, you raise the question, who is supposed to pay more in tax? In America we believe in hard work, in sweat, and in building things. If you exempt investment income, the person with the hammer and saw gets taxed, but the guy who is making the loan doesn't. That is a big shift."


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Tell el-Burak, Tell el-Bräk, or Bräk et-Tell, is located on the shore of Addusiyye, 9 km south of Sidon, and 3 km north of Sarepta-Sarafand. (Map Fig. 1). It measures ca 115 x 115 m and it rises ca 19 m above sea level. The modern name of Tell el-Burak is clearly an Arabic toponym that the site owes to the near-by springs and cisterns (in Arabic bräk or burak), and which, unfortunately, does not betray the ancient toponym.
Fig. 1 Map showing the location of Tell Burak Fig. 2 Tell Burak. View from the South
The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project is a joint venture of the American University of Beirut, the Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen, and the German Archaeological Institute-Berlin (hereafter DAI). The excavations are co-directed by Uwe Finkbeiner (Tübingen), Jens Kamlah (University of Kiel), and Helen Sader (AUB). They are funded by AUB, the Henkel Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute with individual financial support from the University of Tübingen and Kiel. Excavations started in 2001 with a twofold purpose: to study formation processes of Lebanese coastal sites and to provide opportunity for AUB students to be trained in archaeological fieldwork. Eight graduate and undergraduate AUB Archaeology students participate every year in these excavations.
Three periods of occupation have been identified: The Middle Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the Islamic Medieval period.
Fig 3 Plan of the site showing the three excavation areas and the main buildings
The Middle Bronze Age
In area I on the Tell summit, directly below a Medieval period house, which partly covered its remains, a massive mudbrick building dating to the Middle Bronze Age was found. Immense amounts of earth were piled up on the site of Tell el-Burak in the course of the Middle Bronze Age in order to create an artificial mound. This latter was held in place by a cyclopean retaining wall built around the foot of the Tell. In the centre, a mud-brick building with an extension of ca. 32 by 40 m was erected. The layout of this structure as well as its foundations had already been put in place when the process of piling up the hill began. This explains why the foundations of its walls reach - at least in the area of the central courtyard - a depth of more than 11 m. The core element of the mud-brick building is an inner courtyard of 15 by 15 m which appeared directly under the remains of the medieval house. Eleven rooms have so far been partly or entirely exposed. The walls have an average thickness of 1.20 m, the exterior walls sometimes up to 2 m. The module of the mud-bricks is 40 by 40 by 12 cm. All corner-rooms protrude beyond the outer walls and can thus be interpreted as towers.
Fig.4 Mudbrick building: stairwell and pebble-paved room
The southern corner of room 10 was plastered with a light mortar. The plaster showed faint traces of polychrome painting, with small irregular polygons and short strokes in red, black and blue.
Fig. 5 Room 10 with traces of wall painting
Abutting the south wall of the mudbrick building was a tomb containing the remains of at least five individuals. Pottery and bone inlays were found with the skeletons. They date the tomb to Middle Bronze Age IIB.
Fig. 6 Middle Bronze Age tomb in Area I
This building could have served as a fortified stronghold, as an administrative building, or simply as a prestige palace in the southern part of Sidon's fertile coastal plain. Thanks to its raised position on top of a hill, one could see Sidon from the Tell el-Burak palace and could visually communicate with the mother city. Tell Burak was instrumental in controlling the access to the main communication route which linked Sidon to the hinterland. The underwater investigation that was funded by the German archaeological Institute and directed by Ralph Pedersen (link to Underwater Investigation) has shown that there were no ancient harbor installations on the shore of Tell Burak. So no warships could have come close to the site which was hence safe from maritime attacks. This new evidence adds support to the nature of the MBA settlement as a stronghold and defensive installation. The site was abandoned at the end of the middle Bronze Age.
The Iron Age
In Tell Burak, Iron Age domestic buildings and a fortification wall were uncovered in area III and II respectively. The Iron Age occupation lasted from the late 8th to the mid-4th c. BCIn Area III, the most ancient Iron Age structure is a house of ca. 5 x 8 m subdivided into a front and two back rooms (Plan Fig.8). The structure of this house provides valuable insights into Iron Age building techniques. The builders used large and well-hewn blocks in order to strengthen statically weak points, like the entrances and the intersections of the walls while the remaining parts of the walls were built of fieldstones. This is an early form of the 'pier-and-rubble' technique, which is a well-known and typical feature of Phoenician architecture during the Late Iron Age (Photograph Fig.9).
Fig. 7 Iron Age house
At a later stage, the terrain was levelled and a structure consisting of two separate rooms of unequal size was built in front of the southwest corner of the first house. Both are paved with limestone blocs and shared a back wall, which has been destroyed to its very foundation by a modern disturbance. The walls of these added rooms consisted of segments of hewn blocks alternating with segments of fieldstones. On the whole, one can observe a lower quality of workmanship with regard to the earlier phase.The last building phase saw the abandonment and destruction of the earliest house. Contemporary with this later occupation phase is the burial of a dog which was found outside the house under the sherds of a broken vessel (Photograph Fig. 11). A considerable number of finds, in particular metal objects and potsherds which include above all cooking pots, storage jars and mortaria, and a few imported Greek vessels, were found in this house. They all indicate the domestic character of the buildings.
Fig. 8 From left to right: a bronze fibula, a storage jar and and an imported Greek vessel
In area II, a fortification wall built on the Middle Bronze Age retaining wall was found. The wall has a width of 3-4 m and both its inner and its outer face are made of fieldstones. To stabilize this construction, transversal segments of well-dressed blocks joined the two faces at regular intervals. We are hence dealing with the same 'pier-and-rubble' technique, which was already recognized in the domestic quarter.
Fig. 9 The Iron Age city wall
The city wall collapsed at some point during the Iron Age, probably in the 6th or 5th c BC. A massive layer of fallen building blocks was found in front of the outer façade. This layer contained various finds from the Iron Age, in particular an inscribed funerary stele (Photograph Fig. 17). During the last phase, the inhabitants continued to settle Tell el-Burak without rebuilding the collapsed city wall.In the 4th c. BC, Tell Burak was abandoned. The Medieval Islamic and Ottoman Period
In the 13th c. Tell Burak was re-settled. Two domestic dwellings dating to the 13th-14th c. were found in area I on top of the Middle Bronze Age mudbrick building. House 1 was completely excavated and removed (Plan Fig.18). It is a 7,14m wide rectangular structure the original length of which is unknown because of a modern destruction. The house entrance was in the southwest and a two-stepped platform stood in front of it. Inside, the house was divided into two rooms, one of which had preserved its stone pavement. House 2 was only partly excavated: a wall made of fieldstones as well as floor paved with large, flat limestone slabs were found. On the floor, two broken but complete vessels were found in situ. They date the house to the 13th c. These houses remained in use probably as late as the early 17th c.
Fig. 10 Medieval Islamic dwellings on Tell Burak. Left: House I, right: House II
Scattered on the surface of the Tell, Ottoman pipes of the 17th-18th c. (Photograph Fig. 19) were also found. They give us the date of the latest occupation of the site.


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The Retail Confectioners Association of Philadelphia was founded in 1918 for the purpose of sharing information and knowledge about candy making and retailing among Philadelphia area confectioners. Currently, we ave over 300 active and associate members throughout the United States and Canada.
Our goals are simple: inform, educate, enlighten. From independently owned mom and pop businesses to large, multi-million dollar corporations, we aim to provide a network for confectioners to share ideas, solve problems, and to develop their candy making skills.
The RCAP is perhaps best known as the sponsor of the Philadelphia National Candy Gift and Gourmet Show held twice a year in Atlantic City, NJ. It is the largest trade show dedicated to the retail confectioner, and attracts exhibitors and speakers from across the country and around the world. Admission to these shows, and all educational seminars, are free of charge for trade members.
We also sponsor plant tours, educational meetings and a 3-day Spring getaway tour.
The Philadelphia National Candy Gift and Gourmet Show is sponsored by the Retail Confectioners Association of Philadelphia (RCAP). The RCAP, a non-profit Trade Association, was founded in 1918 for the purpose of sharing information and knowledge about candy making and retailing among Philadelphia area confectioners. Over the years, the local focus has expanded and the RCAP currently has over 300 active and associate members throughout the United States and Canada. Today these candy makers and suppliers still share information to maintain a very high quality chocolate and hard candy. The Association holds educational meetings, plant tours, a spring getaway tour, and two national candy, gift & gourmet trade shows and each year.
The History of the Philadelphia National Candy, Gift and Gourmet Show was Founded in 1949 by a few local suppliers displaying at Christmas and Easter RCAP meetings, it was an instant success. Eight original exhibitors continue today. They are Asher's Chocolates, Buy-Vue Displays, Casani Candy Co., Crawford Candies (Plantation Candies, Inc), Koppers Chocolate Specialty Co., Merckens Chocolate Co., and Nestle Co. (Peter's Chocolate Co.) Housed in Philadelphia's Broadwood Hotel then the Ben Franklin Hotel, the Show grew steadily. In 1961 it was moved to the Exhibit Hall of the Sheraton at what is now Philadelphia's Suburban Station. Exhibitors numbered 35, some with multiple booths. In 1974 the Show celebrated 25th year with 20 "originals" still in the Buyer's Guide. By the mid-eighties, relocation was critical to accommodate continued expansion, and in 1984 the Show moved to the Valley Forge Convention Center. By then, 85 exhibitors were showing, many with expanded multi-booth displays. Attendance soared into the thousands, and by 1989 floor space had doubled again. In 2006, the show moved to The Atlantic City Convention Center in order to accommodate all exhibitors on one show floor, and provide a destination for attendees to incorporate business, networking opportunities and fun into their visit to the show.
With its dedication to service, RCAP has provided the show at NO ADMISSION CHARGED TO THE TRADE, and at unmatched low cost to exhibitors. Show management is the responsibility of volunteers, as is the floor operations. Free educational seminars with complimentary Continental Breakfast are open to buyers, and there are no schedule conflicts with the "all business" concentration of the Show. All of this effort has enjoyed the dedication of untold individuals over the decades, as well as the spirit of Philadelphia RCAP people at large. The original Committee members who pioneered the Show were Harry Nuss, James Asher, and Philip Wunderle III, Present Chairman Emeritus. Later, the reins were picked up by Bill Medlicott Sr. and Bud Asher. The next committee was led by Chairman, Jack Lees, with members Marty Bevan, Peter Gerhard, and Erwin von Allmen. The current Committee is chaired by Bill Westernman and Vice Chairman Dave Giambri, Joe Crevino as Secretary, Don Spillane as Treasurer, Seminar Director Bruce Smith. As we are in the 21st Century, RCAP will welcome its special challenges… especially maintaining the intensely personal touches that have established its preeminence, as attendance and exhibitor numbers soar. With our people and their enthusiasm, confidence is easy to sense as we become a world-class event by a unique local organization… Retail Confectioners Association of Philadelphia.
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-Only 35% of Kentucky voters think Rand Paul should run for President, compared to 49% who think he should sit it out. But he'd still be a favorite in both the primary and general elections in the state.
34% of GOP primary voters say he'd be their top choice to 20% for Jeb Bush, 12% Chris Christie, 7% Ted Cruz, 5% each for Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan, 3% for Bobby Jindal, and 2% each for Rick Santorum and Scott Walker. Paul's standing is pretty similar to the 31% he had in April. He's particularly strong with voters identifying as 'very conservative,' where he gets 43% to 16% for Bush. The big mover since the spring has been Rubio, who's declined from 17% on our last poll down all the way now to 5%.
Paul is also the strongest Republican for the general election in Kentucky, leading Hillary Clinton by 6 points at 49/43. Bush and Christie both lead Clinton by 4 points at 46/42 and 44/40 respectively. Ted Cruz actually trails Clinton 44/41 in the state, a good data point for how weak he is. Clinton does far better than Barack Obama did in all of these match ups, even if winning the state still seems like a long shot.
-Paul has a decent 49/40 approval rating but Kentucky's most popular politician is its Democratic Governor Steve Beshear, who comes in at 51/33. Speaking to the difficulty Democrats have in federal races in Kentucky though, Paul would lead Beshear 49/42 in a hypothetical contest despite Beshear's greater popularity. In a rematch of their 2010 contest Paul would lead Jack Conway by the same 12 point margin of victory he attained last time around, 50/38. Half way through his first term Paul's in pretty decent shape for getting another.
-Kentucky's been getting more and more Republican in national elections and at least at this early stage we're starting to see some evidence that could bleed down to the state level as well. Right now voters generically say they want their next Governor to be a Republican by a 44/37 margin. And they also say they'd vote GOP if there was a legislative election today, 44/36.
-Louisville may have won the national championship in basketball last year but there aren't a lot of fans jumping on the bandwagon. 63% of voters in the state consider themselves to be Kentucky fans, compared to only 20% for the Cardinals. Those numbers aren't a whole lot different from last year when Kentucky won out 66/17. Fans of both schools are pretty happy with the job their coaches are doing. For Louisville Rick Pitino has an 88/5 approval rating and Charlie Strong's is 66/8. For Kentucky John Calipari has a 76/8 approval rating and even after a rough first season fans are mostly happy with Mark Stoops, giving him a 42/13 spread.
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TheStreet) -- Friday was a supremely ugly day for equities, the kind of bloodbath that will test the conviction of even the most bullish investors. Such an extreme pullback after the period of outperformance that the major U.S. stock averages have enjoyed since early summer begs the question: Is the market putting in a top? According to S&P Capital IQ Chief Technical Strategist Mark Arbeter, the answer is no. "While the S&P 500 remains in a short-term downtrend based on a series of lower highs and lower lows, there are a number of key reasons we think that the minor retracement may be quickly coming to an end," he wrote in commentary released late in Friday's session. "First, the '500' fell from the top of its bullish channel down to the bottom of this channel. Second, the index pulled right back to its breakout area in the 1,420 to 1,425 region. Breakouts followed by tests of the breakout area are seen many times in a bull market." Arbeter also saw other reasons or optimism, saying a drop back to the 50-day moving average, as seen with the S&P 500 at 1430, happens "many times during a bullish run," and that the index had cycled "back to neutral territory" from a momentum standpoint. Friday's low for the S&P 500 was 1429.85 "We think this allows the index to resume another leg higher," he wrote, describing a visit to the 50-day moving average as a "pretty good entry point" while adding that there is also major chart support in the 1420 area. "Yes, a break of 1,430 will complete a small double top, opening the possibility of a measured move down to 1,400," Arbeter acknowledged. "We see this as a worst-case scenario and a low probability outcome." The mass exodus out of tech stocks, indicative of panic selling, and the spike in bearishness among retail investors revealed by this week's American Association of Individual Investors's sentiment survey were viewed as contrarian indicators by Arbeter. "From an intermediate- to longer-term perspective, we think these readings just don't jive with a major market top. In our view, the majority are bullish at tops and bearish at bottoms," he wrote.
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Cocktails, glorious cheese, fresh coconut water and swine served 15 different ways. Or as some of us called it, Sunday at Newport Dunes. While we bounced between cocktails and pork, occasionally we remembered to take a photo. Here's a taste of what stopped us in our tracks.
Dee Nguyen's Break of Dawn team offered a duo of delicacies, one being a Mexican chocolate custard topped with a spicy candied bacon. Yet we were salivating over their rosemary braised bacon, which melted the moment we started eating. The nutty mango-napa slaw with spiced peanut refreshed and gave us texture. Scallion ginger puree and pork jus reduction took it over the top.
Bacon chowder from Old Vine Cafe
Despite the heat, there was still a breeze, justifying a stop over at Mark McDonald's Old Vine Cafe soup station. A chili verde pork soup had heat seeking qualities, but we gravitated towards his hearty version of chowder. He adds smoky bacon, stewed pork shoulder and pork sausage. Fried potatoes are a deceiving, but delicious crouton garnish.
Bruschetta a la Pizzeria Ortica
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Deconstructed taco, courtesy of The Crosby
Four hours, one Portola Coffee Lab gift basket, and many Haven bacon fat cupcakes later, we dragged ourselves home to crawl into a fetal position on our couch. Pork products are banned from our household until next week. Thank you Bobby and Amar for throwing a porktastic gig. The meals were excellent, but the best part was knowing we were contributing to C-CAPS culinary scholarship program.
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Saco, Montana: Sleeping Buffalo Hot SpringsHot mineral water springs accidentally discovered in 1922 during oil drilling, flowing at 750 gallons a minute. The kitschy facility dates from the 1930s, peaked in the 1970s.
- Address:
- US Hwy 2, Saco, MT
- Directions:
- US Hwy 2 - 10 miles west of Saco, 17 miles east of Malta. Go north 1 mile at Sleeping Buffalo Rock.
- Hours:
- M-Sun 9 am - 9 pm. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 406-527-3370
- Admission:
- $5 to swim.
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This resort has been bought out, is under new ownership, has been totally remodeled, and is open year-round. If anyone has read an old review, disregard it. This is a great place for a family outing.[Dave G., 04/27/2016]
Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs
This is the most disgusting, spooky, smelly hot springs I've ever been to. The minute we drove up, it looked like an abandoned ghost town where anything gross or scary could be lurking around the corner. We walked in and not one soul was around. Finally a woman popped out from a corner and asked if we wanted a room.
Straight ahead you could see and smell the hot springs. The smell was a mix of methane gas (sewer smell), algae, mold and sulfur. The water was green. There was one person in there swimming around. The woman took us to a room at my husband's request (I wanted to walk straight out of there), and we trekked down a long, dark, smelly hallway. The room was dark, dingy and smelled. I said, "Let's go." My husband started saying, "It's...." until he saw my "look" and we said no thank you. The woman was smiling and very pleasant, however. She did not seem surprised or affected by our disgust.
A man came running up the hallway with a big smile on his face and said, so and so "said two people were here!" He was very excited. As we kept walking, I could see he was the cook.[G. Winters, 03/02/2012]
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This is just about a mile north of the Sleeping Buffalo Rock historic point. It's about 10 miles West of Saco and 17 miles East of Malta on Hwy 2. Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs is funky, but it is a hot spring. The place is going down the tubes, but there is some interesting history, and the springs still work. There is also camping, a little store, a restaurant, and a bar.[Phrank, 09/08/2011]
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(AP/ABC7) - The holiday shopping season got off to a strong start on Black Friday, with retail sales up 7 percent over last year, according to ShopperTrak. Now stores just have to keep buyers coming back without the promise of door-buster savings.
Buyers spent $11.4 billion at retail stores and malls, up nearly $1 billion from last year. It was the biggest amount ever spent on the day and the biggest year-over-year increase since 2007.
ShopperTrak gathers data from 25,000 outlets across the U.S., including individual stores and shopping centers.
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Super Rugby Final preview: Chiefs v Brumbies
The Chiefs are sweating on the fitness of winger Lelia Masaga for Saturday's Super 15 final against the Brumbies.
Last Updated: 03/08/13 10:24am
The nature of the Super Rugby draw has kept the teams apart thus far, meaning the Waikato showdown will be their first meeting of the 2013 campaign, with the defending champions avoiding fixtures against both the Australian and South African conference winners.
Despite the tournament's fixture compilation, the Chiefs have scored 458 points and 50 tries, more than any other side in the regular season.
While the hosts top the majority of statistics, the Brumbies do hold a superior penalty conversion rate, which could prove vital in the final. Furthermore, victory for the Canberra-based franchise would create history, making them the first side to win the competition having faced every team since the conference system was introduced in 2011.
After clinching top spot in the Super Rugby conference, the Chiefs went on to beat compatriots the Crusaders in last weekend's semi-final to ensure the grand final was contested on home soil. Meanwhile the Brumbies cross the Indian Ocean for a second time in as many weeks following their three-point victory over the Bulls in Pretoria last time out.
Both coaches have placed faith in the men who reached the final with Dave Rennie and Jake White naming unchanged starting line-ups.
The Chiefs are however left sweating on the fitness of winger Lelia Masaga who sustained an ankle injury after scoring during his side's narrow semi-final victory.
Robbie Robinson has been listed as cover should the 26-year-old fail a late fitness test but coach Rennie remains confident Masaga will take to field.
Meanwhile Brumbies coach Jake White heads into the final with a fully fit squad meaning Wallabies Jesse Mogg, Christian Leali'ifano, Ben Mowen and George Smith all feature from the start.
The teams have met six times since 2007 with honours even, while the Brumbies have not won at the Waikato Stadium in their previous two attempts.
Chiefs: 15 Gareth Anscombe, 14 Lelia Masaga/Robbie Robinson, 13 Charlie Ngatai, 12 Andrew Horrell, 11 Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 10 Aaron Cruden, 9 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 8 Matt Vant Leven, 7 Tanerau Latimer, 6 Liam Messam, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Craig Clarke (capt), 3 Ben Tameifuna, 2 Hika Elliot, 1 Toby Smith.
Replacements: 16 Rhys Marshall, 17 Ben Afeaki, 18 Michael Fitzgerald, 19 Sam Cane, 20 Augustine Pulu, 21 Bundee Aki, 22 Robbie Robinson/Patrick Osborne.
Brumbies:15 Jesse Mogg, 14 Henry Speight, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Christian Lealiifano, 11 Clyde Rathbone, 10 Matt Toomua, 9 Nic White, 8 Ben Mowen (capt), 7 George Smith, 6 Peter Kimlin, 5 Sam Carter, 4 Scott Fardy, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Scott Sio.
Replacements: 16 Siliva Siliva, 17 Ruan Smith, 18 Fotu Auelua, 19 Colby Faingaa, 20 Ian Prior, 21 Andrew Smith, 22 Joe Tomane.
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Chiefs head coach Dave Rennie
"There has been an enormous amount of hard work to get us into this position and we are excited to be playing in front of the people who mean the most to us."
Brumbies head coach Jake White
"They are the Champions, they have been here before and are playing at home so for our guys to beat the Chiefs will take a huge effort.
"Our players have worked hard to get to this Final and I can assure you they are not thinking of leaving here without another Brumbies championship."


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PRE-SEASON games are all about getting your fitness for the new season but it is still great that three of the strikers got off the mark at the weekend.
Marvin Sordell, Lukas Jutkiewicz and Ashley Barnes all scored twice in the 8-0 win over FC Grossklein in Burnley's first pre-season friendly on Sunday and that is good news.
Last pre-season Danny Ings scored a lot of goals and took that into the season and had a really good season.
He didn't score on Sunday but he will be pleased that the other three strikers did, because it takes a weight off his shoulders.
There are other people who can score the goals too and they can be shared around.
I bet Danny is thinking as well, 'I haven't scored yet, I want to get off the mark'. But there's nothing at all to worry about, it's pre-season!
It's great to have four strikers like that at the moment – even without the injured Sam Vokes.
They are all together, I use the word family a lot about this Burnley squad and it is like that on and off the pitch.
These friendlies are only for fitness but sometimes the opposition really want to give their all and beat you.
I remember playing in a pre-season game for Preston against St Johnstone once and the centre half turned to me when the score was 0-0 and said: 'You an Irish international, you're easy'.
I took insult from that, all I was doing was getting fit.
I thought, 'I want to show him what I can do' and 10 minutes later I had bagged a hat-trick.
I said to him, 'Not bad for an Irish centre forward!'.
He said he wished he hadn't said that and walked off. I was just laughing at him!
People ask me a lot, 'Will Burnley stay up this time?'.
My answer is always 'Yes, no problem', because the manager will stay strong for us and determined.
He will pass that attitude on to the squad and they will get it right.
Finally, on a different note I went to Towneley Park this week and right beside the hall there they have created a crest of the East Lancashire Regiment out of flowers.
It was really amazing, at a time when the country is marking the war.
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In terms of July Fourth apparel spending, 15% of consumers will spend $25 or less, while 23% will spend $25-$50; 22% will spend $50-$75; and 20% will spend $75-$100. Only 14% plan to spend more than $100 and 6% plan to spend more than $200.
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Surat (Gujarat), Oct.19 (ANI): A lawyer representing self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai, has claimed that all papers produced before the court for the granting of anticipatory bail are legitimate, and has flayed allegations that they have been forged.
Defence counsel Lokam told media here that charges of forgery against his client are unfair.
"An application was filed from the government's side saying that signatures of Narayan Sai on the anticipatory bail application are doubtful. The court has gone through the papers and found everything to be in order. We have also submitted a photocopy of the passport with the signature of Narayan Sai so that they can compare. There is no question of us creating a fake document, or a forged document on behalf of Narayan Sai," said Lokam.
Narayan Sai has been accused of raping women and young girls at his father's hermitage in Surat.
Two sisters had filed a complaint against him and his father. The elder of the two sisters has alleged that she was raped by Asaram at his Ahmedabad hermitage, whereas the younger sister has accused Narayan Sai of raping her in Surat.
Meanwhile, Delhi Police have picked up Dharmesh, an aide of Narayan Sai, for questioning for allegedly helping Sai to go underground.
Neelam Dubey, a spokesperson of Asaram's Mission in New Delhi, however,accused the authorities of making a mountain out of a molehill.
Asaram, 75, was arrested in August after charges of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl at his Jodhpur hermitage had been registered against him. He has been in prison since then. (ANI)


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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) doesn't believe the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) when it says that tort reform could reduce the use of 'defensive medicine' and save the federal government $54 billion over 10 years. In a six page letter to 'Doug' (Elmendorf, the director of the CBO), Rockefeller points out that the CBO recent conclusion reverses years of precedent and relies on academic studies that actually undermine the budget office's final conclusion:
CBO's recent letter to Senator Hatch creates more questions that it answers. The several cited reports contain conflicting data, which tends to support CBO's prior conclusion that the evidence available on the issue of defensive medicine is "inconsistent" and "mixed." It is impossible for CBO to conclude that we will see cost savings from a reduction in health care services without analyzing the effects on patient health.
"CBO has repeatedly concluded that cost savings associated with medical malpractice reforms would be minimal and the at evidence concerning defensive medicine is 'inconsistent,'" Rockefeller writes, noting that the budget office has previously determined that "the effect of medical malpractice reform "would be relativley small — less than 0.5 percent of total health care spending" and would "save [only] $5.6 billion over 10 years."
Indeed, states that have adopted tort reform have failed to significantly lower health care costs. When Texas capped non economic medical malpractice damages to $250,000 in 2003, most conservatives argued that the reform would free doctors from having to prescribe unnecessary treatment. It didn't happen. According to the Dartmouth research on disparities in health care spending, many Texan doctors are still prescribing aggressive treatments that don't improve outcomes. In fact, as of 2006, Texas was still at the top of the list of high-spending states.
A physician's motivation for engaging in 'defensive' behavior or overtreatment is far more complicated than the fear of lawsuits, health expert Maggie Mahar explained during an interview with the Wonk Room:
It may be that he saw a case like this once before and it went sour, and he doesn't know why and so he wants to be extra careful. It may be that he has been seeing Ms. O'Connell for years, she is a dear person and he really cares for her and he just wants to make sure that no stone is left unturned. Could be that he has been seeing Ms. O'Connell for years, she is a pain in the ass, and he knows that if he doesn't order every treatment that her neighbor says he needs, he's going to be hearing from her. And it could be that he is afraid of being sued. If I were the doctor, I wouldn't be able to untangle my motives and say to what degree fear of malpractice suits is driving my actions.
Experts believe that the current reimbursement structure does more to shape practice patterns than fear of liability. "The current health system reimburses doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers based on the number of visits and procedures that are done. As a result, health care providers' revenues and profits increase when they deliver more services and the cost of health care goes up," Ellen-Marie Whelan, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress, wrote in a recent report.
The current reform legislation attempts to re-align the incentives in the current system. It encourages providers to coordinate primary care services, expands pilot programs that reimburse providers in bundles and for episodes of care and allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to expand successful models. These kinds of reforms have saved money in places like Cleavland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic and will likely do more to reduce defensive medicine than the largely unsubstantiated reliance on tort reform.


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