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Things were boring, to say the least. Blue was lazily reclined on the large cushion in her private room at the club, her back arched to allow her to gaze upside-down out the windows. A brilliantly bright cloud of hydrogen gas was passing by outside, backlit by a nearby star. The Tallest thought to herself as she watched the burning cloud waft past, somewhat surprised to discover the fact that she was actually missing that stupid mobster.
Things were changing quickly with her, and she knew it. Since Donato started following her around, she seemed a little less consumed with the all-to-familiar misery of loosing a close companion and even another child. The corners of her mouth tugged back to form a frown. She really hated doting on any of these things: It all just reminded her of how unnecessary she had always been to people. Perhaps if her father accepted her, to begin with, she wouldnt have had these problems (she writhed at the thought of him); but that couldnt have been it, no. It must just be her thats the problem, it had to be. Everyone she had ever cared for eventually forgot her, and thats how it always was. Being discarded had become so commonplace for her, yet she doubted she could endure it again. She had been left by three husbands so far, that was enough in her eyes. Maybe telling Donato that she would be his woman was a bad idea. Though it was hardly a tangible commitment, she couldnt help but feel apprehensive about the whole idea. Maybe it was because she had come to enjoy the sweet sting of heartache, an addict perhaps. Maybe that was the reason she kept doing it to herself.
As the pretty blue and fuchsia cloud moved on its way past the ship she heaved a heavy sigh, now connecting the stars haphazardly in her mind to form pictures for amusement. Even though she knew he was bad for her, she couldnt help but find herself wishing hard that he was there just now. He had to go to Ulterius
He was in the Insurgo. Another mistake, she thought. Though he was only going to be there for a couple days, she was overwhelmed with boredom and loneliness. She wanted him back simply for the fact that she felt better when he was with her, just another reminder that she was getting deep into something she shouldnt be. But love makes one irrational. The simple fact that his presence made her smile and feel like nothing else mattered was enough to keep her infatuated with the stubborn thug, despite the fact that it put them both in danger of being killed. To put it bluntly, she liked it best when he was around, because then she wouldnt have to think like this. Her heart was weak, and she hated lying around, reminding herself over and over of what a fool she was for love.
The door slid open: ah, finally, a sweet distraction. A little girl, painted with tattoos and laden with peircings was there, and instead of entering she froze in the doorway, staring up at Blue with a mix of fear and apprehension in her gleaming purply-pink eyes. The Tallest rolled to her belly, gazing down at the female, the connection clicking in her mind. She made haste to speak up before the girl could run away,
Hey, dont be afraid. Its okay
youre that Zaafira girl, right? Surprised, the girl nodded, her body going lax as she found she wasnt going to be yelled at. She craned her head as she gave a reply, as if looking for something.
Yesm, thats my name. But we never met, so...m not sure how you know me, but I heard about you. Miss Blue, m really sorry fer walkin in on ya
I didn know you were in here. Zaafira said in a shy and quiet voice as she stood in the doorway awkwardly. Blue gave somewhat of a smile, sitting up. Having company was good for her right about now, getting her mind off of things was imperative at the moment and she was having a hard time doing it herself. She held her hand up and waved Zaafira closer,
Donny told me about you. You guys are
good friends, from what I hear. So come up here and we can talk. I dont know if he got to tell you but he had some urgent business on Ulterius
so he had to leave for a couple of days. The little female slowly shuffled in, her large pant legs brushing together to make a soft rhythmic sweeping noise as she walked, her pullover colored in a bright palate of colors. She ducked under the curtain and daintily folded her legs underneath her as she sat on the cushion and then addressed Blue directly, trying as hard as she could to be polite,
Yesm, we are, an
crap, I was lookin fer him. I guess he couldn find me ta tell me he was goin away for a bit. Thas okay though, I aint mad. Im only here for a little while anyhow.
Whatcha doin? Blue smiles down at her and shrugs, sighing softly.
Nothing, now. I was just looking out the window and tracing shapes in the stars. Zaafira beamed at Blue, antennae perking.
I like tdo that too, when m bored
but, anyhow, I guess its good that I could finally meet you, Miss Blue. I wanted ta tell you somethin important
The girl seemed unsure for a moment before she smiled again. Blue could instantly tell why Donato liked her so much. She really was charming, even though she wasnt articulate at all. Blue simply nodded at her, glancing out the window for a moment.
Important? About what?
about Donny. M kinda worried for im. He dont tell people how he feels about stuff. The Tallest rolled her eyes upon hearing that
that was a well known fact.
A lot of boys are that way, hun. I know he is. I cant say Im not curious sometimes, but. Whats the use if they never want to say? Zaafira just shakes her head.
Nuh, I found im all drunk not to long ago, an he was all
scribbling out long letters to imself and stuff. I had to throw a fit to get the thing from im, he was gonna burn it
Zaafira pauses and reaches down into a large pocket in her pants, producing a folded stack of papers that looked as if they had been in there for days. She shoves them into Blues hand, looking to her eagerly as if to bid her to read them. It was important. Important fer you to see, cause
yer sposed tbe his woman, an he writes about you in there
a little, and he writes about other stuff I don understand, but I figured you might, and that maybe you could help make im feel better. I cant tell whas wrong all by myself. She rocked a little on the cushion, half in boredom, and half in impatience while she waited for Blue to read the notes. Blue just seemed surprised at receiving the notes, and after slight hesitation began to open them to read. Hopefully this would offer some clue to what that stubborn man was thinking about all the time
Zaafira watched her carefully as she read the pages. Blue seemed to smirk lightly at the beginning, but that soon faded to a blank expression. Somewhere near the middle she shook her head, muttering something along the lines of you shouldnt have read this, Zaafira under her breath. Instead of retorting the girl just sat and watched the Tallest, knowing it wasnt the time to backtalk or make jokes. Another minute or so passed, and when Blue was finaly on the last page, the tears came. Zaafira observed quietly as they welled up in the bottom of Blues eyes, the pools swelling to breaking point and then spilling down both of her cheeks which were now tinged with a deep emerald blush. In that moment after she had read the last word, she sat
and then looked up to meet the bright eyes of the girl in front of her. On most occasions she would have been ashamed of her tears
but somehow this was different. Blue leaned forward to put her arms around the small girl, to which Zaafira responded by outstretching her arms to receive the distressed Tallest. It was nice to have someone to hug onto, Blue thought. After a good few moments had passed and she had composed herself enough, Blue spoke softly to Zaafira in a strained voice, still leaning on her.
I have to thank you for saving this letter from being burned
Her lips curled into a weak smile as she sat up, wiping her face with her forearm to make herself at least a little more presentable. Zaafira returns the smile briefly and nods.
I cried too when I read it. But yshould be happy you got someone that loves yeh that much. I know Id be happy. Anyway
I thought you should have it, cause youd understand what he wrote more than I would
But he told me not to show no one
Its a secret, kay?
thank you, Zaa. The girl nodded and bounced back up onto her feet, stepping away slowly towards the door.
I think I gotta go soon
Akus gettin off soon, Ill be back later. Bye Miss Blue, it was nice tmeet ya.
You too
Blue said quietly as the girl slipped out the door and the room was quiet again. This letter
this letter certainly changed a lot of things. She really had no idea before, she had no way to gauge whether what she was getting into was a mistake or not. She read that he was willing to die to be with her. Then, if he was, she would be willing to risk herself for him as well. She gave another shaky smile, tucking the papers in her back pocket. After reading those words she didnt feel nearly as afraid of being abandoned, and she felt like doing all she could to give him a good life, one that he deserved to have after he had been through so much. Blue didnt know what she could do to achieve that, her head was swimming
but she did know that things would end happily ever after. She wanted to believe it. It had been such a long time since she was able to
She made herself comfortable and turned to look out the window again, mentally tracing out the form of two hearts in the random spatter of stars as another glowing red and magenta cloud of gas wisped by.
The Letter by thetallestblueWatch
©2007-2017 thetallestblue
this story is based around the letter Donato wrote, here
Zaafira had a temper tantrum in order to make him give it to her and in turn she took it and gave it to Blue, because she thought Blue should have it.
Now, I havent written anything presentable, ever. This is actualy my first submission of writing. I dont think I've ever finished but one or two short stories, and they're old and terrible. So be easy on me. I'm not a writer, I'm an artist.
Zaafira had a temper tantrum in order to make him give it to her and in turn she took it and gave it to Blue, because she thought Blue should have it.
Now, I havent written anything presentable, ever. This is actualy my first submission of writing. I dont think I've ever finished but one or two short stories, and they're old and terrible. So be easy on me. I'm not a writer, I'm an artist.
I like it a lot. I remeber reading the one in the comments a few months back. The only thing I even see wrong in the story is that it ocassionally switches from past to present tense, other than that your diction is marvelous and you wove it together quite beautifully. I'd love to see more writing from you Blue.
Oh yeah..I do that. I suck at writing.
its ok I did the same thing in a few of my written works so its no big deal but don't ever let an English professor see that. Seriously I speak from experience. ._.;
I don't know why you keep saying you can't write, Blue. Once I found the time, slow reader for the lose, I really enjoyed this. <33 Write moar.
.-. Poor Bloo....
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
You say you're just an artist, but this is still really good. o-o I always envy people's ability to string sentences together so well. I find my always going on too long with too many commas or too block like in structure. I've been talkin with my English teacher about that. o-x
But yeah, nice job Bloo.
But yeah, nice job Bloo.
That made me cry.
That made me cry.


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I pondered about writing a Christmas blog with meaning.
It's well known that the holidays are unbearable for some and joyous for others. The same can be said for any day or event of the year, yet it seems to exacerbate during the Christmas season.
Truthfully, it has always been that way.
Whether the reasons for a downcast spirit stem from past memories that darken the heart, or from personal circumstances involving health, finances, or the loss of a loved one, there have always been two holiday and two non-holiday worlds.
Never were those two worlds more obvious than during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Because of the stock market crash, bank failures, and drought, thousands of wealthy and middle-class people became poor overnight. Consumerism slowed to a crawl. Fewer products were manufactured. Jobs were lost.
People were starving, out of work, and homeless. Churches, missions, private organizations, and the government set up soup kitchens and bread lines in the cities to feed the multitudes. Cardboard boxes became home to some, while others meandered aimlessly in shock and emotional illness.
Back then, some folks had such a polished sense of pride *the good kind,* they found it
tremendously difficult to "beg" food by standing in food lines. Yet the alternative might mean starvation for themselves and their families. Certain ones found it unbearably embarrassing and moved to rural areas to live off the land.
Was that any better? Usually not. The poverty of the people who made their living from the earth was sometimes unfathomable.
Conversely, there were entertainers and athletes who prospered greatly during the Depression.
James Cagney, for instance, earned the equivalent of $40,000 a week in 1933.
With hits like "In the Mood," "String Of Pearls," and "Moonlight Serenade," Glenn Miller and his band had high-dollar success on the radio and in the movies. His salary of nearly $20,000 a week is indicative that big money was "out there," during the 1930s.
Likewise, the Great Depression didn't harm legendary Babe Ruth. His $80,000 a year salary (more than a million dollars today) was $5,000 more than that of the President of the United States.
Many of the established American super-rich families didn't lose their wealth during those perilous times, families like the Getty's, Rockefeller's and Kennedy's.
The survivalist entrepreneurs arose to surf the dire circumstances and grow rich – people like Howard Hughes, Michael J. Cullen and the Hess Brothers, to name a few.
The two worlds of Christmas in the 1930s were physical polar opposites, but what about in spirit and truth? Did depression, anxiety, and a sad life envelope only the poor and disadvantaged? Would people, as Victor Hugo espoused, rise to great moral and emotional heights if given enough opportunity and money?
Perhaps the best example of NO to that question is Barbara Woolworth Hutton. Though she was given a lavish debutante ball in 1930 and was one of the wealthiest women in the world, she was married seven times. None of her marriages lasted more than three years, and her only son was the victim of a bitter custody battle. Envied by all who encountered her, this wealthy beauty took refuge in alcohol, drugs and playboys. Her son died before her, and she died of a heart attack at age 66.
The woman who had everything had nothing.
Contrariwise, many who had nothing had everything.
A paradox of opposite worlds…
…often coming down to choices.
I'm choosing to be happy this holiday season.
How about you?
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This tribal instrument, carved from one piece of wood is hollowed out from underneath to give it resonance. This one is only 21 and 1/2 inches long, but they can be as long as your couch and take two men to carry. As you can see, they can be very ornate. If anyone has any information as to what the creature on the bottom is, please let us know.


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Panaji, June 22 (IANS) The Goa government will donate Rs.5 crore in aid to Uttarakhand, which has been ravaged by floods leaving hundreds dead and thousands stranded, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Saturday.
Speaking to reporters here, Parrikar, who also donated his one month salary as assistance, said that the state government would also adopt two villages in the disaster-stricken state and help build infrastructure, which has been destroyed by the flooding Ganga.
"I am also appealing to other MLAs (legislators) to donate their one month salary towards the cause," he said.


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NOT widely known and little appreciated, Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) offers high intellectual entertainment that might surprise readers who know him principally as the author of Madame Bovary. Bouvard and Pécuchet are the descendants of the European novel's archetypal literary pairings like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and Diderot's Jacques and his Master, and are themselves the precursors of characters like Beckett's Didi and Gogo in Waiting for Godot, which in turn influenced the creation of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. And the rise of the cinema in the 20th century caught on early to a similar creation of twin contrasting characters, the most famous being Laurel and Hardy: well-meaning men who are constantly confounded by reality.
Meeting by chance, Bouvard and Pécuchet realise that living a mundane existence as copy-clerks in Paris, they share a great deal in common and become inseparable companions. Bouvard comes into an inheritance that enables him to buy a country estate in Normandy and the two friends move there, determined to leave behind an existence of constricting mediocrity with its unthinking acceptance of received ideas. They plan to organise their life according to the latest thinking.
Their first experiment is to cultivate their land by following the most advanced methods described by 'experts' in textbooks and journals. All they reap is disaster. They attribute their failure to ignorance and attempt to be more thorough in their study when applying the latest learning to other projects; and so, in a succession of hilarious chapters relating their experiments, they put to practice the theoretical knowledge gleaned from a detailed examination of archeology, psychology, literature, philosophy, the nature of sexual passion and on to the upbringing of children, only to fail with each project. It is as if Laurel and Hardy were building a house by following a blueprint and even if it was beginning to look crooked they stubbornly went on with the construction until, just when Hardy banged in the final nail, the whole structure collapsed.
Bouvard and Pécuchet are bewildered by the world around them. Their repeated attempts to establish a rational order invariably ends in chaos or utter bafflement. Life mocks their quest for meaning by showing them the commonplace and rewards their aspiration for grandeur with a mountain of banalities. Their expectation of some profound philosophical understanding leads them to fall neck-deep into clichés.
Failing in all their experiments at living an original and meaningful existence, Bouvard and Pécuchet return to their life as copy-clerks, and one imagines them copying down the same old sentences and repeating worn, trite ideas to eternity, which perhaps is the fate of humanity. And now, in this age of mediocrity, of novelists.
There's a lot more to Flaubert's novel than the story of two friends trying to come out of the rut of a banal, repetitive existence only to fall deeper into it. It is both a representation of society and a critique of its organisation; it contains a precise rendition of people. Even the stock characters like the priest and the doctor are living individuals and not caricatures and present an amusing comedy of manners made sharp by a satirical undercurrent. Engaging the reader with encyclopedic knowledge, the novel will appeal to those with some learning and they will discover in it incomparable intellectual entertainment.
Whatever the quality of one's appreciation, there's no denying the sociopolitical and philosophical ideas generated by Flaubert's novel, which is what I propose to examine. Those ideas are very much relevant today, and readers who prefer their literature to be didactic might like to note that some of the best instruction is to be obtained from works that were never intended to teach anything but only to show the existential confusion that is the essential human condition, while works written with a specific moral in mind become stiff as corpses. Because he has no intention to instruct but only to examine reality with almost a scientific objectivity, Flaubert ends up being a greater teacher than many a committed writer. He analyses, tabulates, shows, and lets the reader make a judgment of any truth that may consequently be deduced.
Most of humanity, so we deduce from Bouvard and Pécuchet, experiences life as a succession of clichéd situations and perceives reality through the lens of received ideas. Original thought, minority opinions or any non-conformist expression are a threat to a society which finds stability in the undeviating recurrence of familiar events and linguistic expressions. Societies structured on some dogmatic belief are quick to brand an original thinker a heretic, an accusation for which Galileo was punished by the church in 17th-century Italy and many a brave soul in the 20th century, from China in the East to Chile in the West, was branded a dissident for questioning the state dogma and incarcerated, tortured or made to disappear. Modern democracies, for all their lip-service to human rights, find self-righteous justification in inventing new forms of punishable heresy, as witnessed in the fate of the music band Pussy Riot in 21st century Russia.
A world of clichés is one in which no one does anything differently and everyone derives a tribal strength, which is not without a spiritual dimension, from observing a communal uniformity of ideas and action, and most importantly, from the repetition of hackneyed phrases: 'Many happy returns'; 'Please accept my sincerest condolences'; 'Eid Mubarak'; 'Merry Christmas'; 'Feliz Ano Novo'.
Our tireless use of trite expressions induces a soporific sense of stability. I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill but I hope I'm being crystal clear without needing to open a whole new can of worms or starting a tempest in a teapot. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Attend a wedding ceremony, a christening, a funeral, a memorial service, the opening of parliament, an independence day parade, an award ceremony, even a literary festival (where the attending writers are supposed to possess a talent for creating a fresh, original language), and you will hear the same old hackneyed phrases. In fact, people are nourished by repetition; it's like building one's muscles by doing the same exercise again and again, whereas any deviation from hackneyed phrases creates insecurity because one feels threatened by not knowing what might follow the new expression.
Recently, President Obama's second-term inauguration ceremony provided a perfect example of how society sustains its identity through repetition, which is grandly presented as tradition. After the gratifyingly familiar symbols — the swearing-in ceremony, the blessing — there was the president's speech. Obama's brilliant oratory thrilled the nation with its impressive rhetorical mastery that made one hear the consolingly familiar metaphors — "America will remain the anchor" of the free world; it is "the star that guides us still", "Our journey is not complete" — as forceful fresh ideas. So much so, that the rhetorical flourish with which he repeated "Our journey is not complete," making the crowd roar in ecstatic agreement each time, so impressed The Washington Post that it quickly made the phrase the front-page headline on its online edition; it was also emblazoned across the front page of the next morning's paper in Austin, Texas, and across television screens during two talk shows, so that the cliché took on a pontifical tone and one felt privileged to be hearing the words again as if it was not Obama who had spoken but Confucius.
The speech contained substance of crucial importance to its audience, but the language chosen to make it forceful was based upon the usual dead metaphors with which politicians present their vision. They are always on some journey to a happier future or on the path to peace or riding the currents of progress or facing a mountain of problems. Well, let's leave them making their usual hue and cry and clutching their delusion that their ideas will sell like hot cakes. Every social group, whether of illiterate peasants or of professors of literature from the most distinguished universities, carries out its discourse in clichés particular to that group.
In literary studies, for example, while some original thought might be expressed by a Walter Benjamin or a Michel Foucault, the expression soon evolves into a received idea that at first is the smart thing to say and then the thing that everyone feels obliged to make a reference to in their articles and conference papers. Finally it falls as a curse on tormented PhD students whose dissertations must contain phrases like, 'As Derrida so emphatically states,' or 'To quote Roland Bathes' or 'Bakhtin's analysis is to be preferred to Merleau-Ponty's' or some reference to the latest guru whose work few have read, fewer understood, and no one remembers a generation later, least of all the professors who first made the name-dropping obligatory. Where, indeed, are the snows of yesteryear?
In the organisation of society, the more despotic a government the greater its insistence on enforced common habits that compel society to adhere to strict physical and intellectual codes, which include the way people dress, speak and think. Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia and Afghanistan under the Taliban are recent examples of such despotism, of which history provides several others. And in the 'free' countries where people supposedly may dress and think as they please, the tyrant fashion imposes a dress code to which the 'liberal' population, convinced that it is exercising free choice, goes at great expense to choose to conform; and as for their ideas, talk show hosts on radio and television, evangelical priests from their amplified pulpits in mega churches, and partisan politicians provide the people with talking points to channel their 'free' thinking. Many of us who flaunt what we believe is our attractive and unique individuality are conformists even in the choice of language with which we proudly proclaim that individuality. Despotic governments, determined that their people should keep their heads deeply sunk in cliché-filled pillows of the establishment's religious orthodoxy, especially target scientists and artists, whose fresh, challenging ideas are considered an insult to the unthinking masses, and brand them as enemies of the state. To force a society to accept the conforming discipline of general mediocrity that enables despotism to thrive, the preferred clichés are presented in a number of sanctimonious guises: national habit, custom, cultural distinction, and tradition, with the people encouraged to think of the dominant social clichés as institutionally sacred; in the process the leader assumes a spiritual authority that the people dare not question because his authority is presented as sanctioned by divine will. In countries like North Korea and Iran he is known as the supreme leader and acts as if he sits on an ecclesiastic throne as God's own deputy, issuing fatwahs against anyone who suggested to the heads dreaming on that cliché-stuffed pillow that the image of the world presented by the national orthodoxy was a fanciful fiction.
What these leaders don't possess is the sense of irony or humour that would show them that they are clichéd copies of past leaders and that they exemplify one of the most repeated clichés — that history repeats itself, and that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And incidentally, if you follow the reasoning implied by the word 'absolute', you have no choice but to accept the logical conclusion that if absolute power corrupts absolutely, it must follow that the most corrupt figure in the universe has to be the one to whom we ascribe omnipotence because no power can be more absolute than that assumed by one who is all-powerful. That at least is how Socrates would have argued. However, the language that keeps society under control has little to do with logic and reason; it is more concerned with not disturbing the unthinking mind with an idea that might challenge its preconceptions. And it is not just despotic regimes that exploit cultural clichés. Free capitalist nations, with their obsession with the gross national product and the daily nervous watching of stock market numbers, find solid stability when there is no radical change to upset clichéd expectations.
That same model infects the production of literature. Time was when we applauded writers who risked an original approach to see if some exceptional beauty could not be achieved through a radical formal experiment. To create a work of literary distinction that derived its power from some dazzling new aesthetic design seemed the ambition of many a writer in the 20th century. Ezra Pound had uttered the battle cry in 1915: "There must be no clichés, set phrases, stereotyped journalese." And so we valued writers who made it new for their time. But not any more. Now we award the highest distinction to purveyors of topical subject matter presented in a clichéd language.
Of course, every age is fixated on those current events that seem crucially important at the time and it is perfectly appropriate that the artist respond to them. For the artist, the most crucial current event is the mystery of existence that the human imagination has been trying to penetrate in an ever-changing language: whether it is that language of surreal Rabelaisian lunacy or Jane Austen's measured elegance, Robbe-Grillet's cinematic precision that replaces the narrator's 'I' with a seeing 'eye' that makes no comment but simply presents the objective image or the poetic density of Beckett's late novels, it is always the style that gives value to literature. The subject matter is not important until a fresh new style makes it so. This is why Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a masterpiece and Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is just that, what its title says.
But just as despotic governments are intolerant of any heretical variance from the clichés embedded in the preferred religious orthodoxy, the so-called free nations with their priests in Wall Street profess a nearly zero-tolerance policy against work that doesn't sell, thus ensuring the triumph of mediocrity. Octavio Paz described this some 25 years ago: "Today literature and the arts … are threatened not by a doctrine or a political party but by a faceless, soulless and directionless economic process." Capitalism has forced publishers to surrender to the market. "But the market," wrote Paz, "… is not fond of literature or of risk, and it does not know how to choose. Its censorship is not ideological: it has no ideas. It knows all about prices but nothing about values."
In an earlier essay, Paz had written that in the arts "beauty is born of a necessary infringement of the rules." But the market is not interested in beauty, only in that which sells. Some three decades after Paz made those remarks, I doubt if the books in which he made them would be published today.
In those three decades we have been sold mediocrity as high art. We have become accustomed to equating quality with success. We are not shocked when a writer whose idea of descriptive prose is to string together such clichéd phrases as "tall and slim, with long black hair and dark, liquid eyes" on the first page of his latest novel is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is enough to make one want to become a copy-clerk and go sit beside Bouvard and Pécuchet and spend the rest of one's days copying a choice of such sentences from the latest bestseller. Or perhaps one should abandon one's obsession that demands fresh language and aesthetic brilliance from new literature, and instead surrender to the rule of clichés, switch to YouTube and check out some Laurel and Hardy clips. The silent ones.


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Chapter 5
Adam's POV
The drive home from dropping Kaitlyn off went pretty fast. I drove past the park where I had practically saved Kait's life from that son-of-a-bitch. I can already tell I'm going to go through hell trying to protect this girl. Why do I even care? What makes her so special? Maybe it's her long flowing hair that's so silky, or her big brown eyes that sends tingling sensations throughout my body. Maybe it's how cute she looks when she blushes. Haha. I should make her blush more often. Maybe it's her down to earth personality. She's feisty, independent, and smart. Her beauty is just the icing on the cake. Maybe it's because she's the only other girl that I've met that doesn't drool over me. She's so unique in a number of ways. Maybe that's why I feel the need to defend her. I will not fail her like I did Hailey— no. Don't think about her right now. My knuckles turn white from gripping the steering wheel too hard as I scowl at the memory. "Shit." I hiss as I pound on the steering wheel before I get out of the truck. I walk inside my house only to find my poor excuse of a father lying passed out on the floor. The smell of alcohol hit me as soon as I walk into the living room. I feel bad for him. I find it ironic that when my father broke down after my mother's death, he turned to the source that had killed her. I helped him up on the couch and laid him in the correct position so that he doesn't kill himself from puking in his sleep.
"Ughh." He moaned before falling back to sleep. This is ridiculous. If my mom was here, she'd put him in check. She'd help me with my problems like she always had. She'd make everything all better again. I go up to my room and lay in bed. I lay there for a while thinking 'Why me? Why do I have to be cursed?' before I'm met by more nightmares.
Kait's POV
The last couple of days have been a drag. I haven't talked to Adam about anything else about our situation. Every time I tried to talk about it, he'd brush me off and say that telling me is not going to help. But I have the right to know right? I mean, if some psycho thug was after you, you'd want a clearer explanation right? It's my life. I should know what's going on. Well, the bright side is that at least no one else had tried to kill me. I smell my mom's cooking coming from the kitchen. Mmmm. Pancakes. My favorite. As soon as I step out of bed, my phone vibrates on my table. A text from Tia.
'Hey lazy. Get up. We're all going shopping today!' Saturday is usually the day when Tia, Nikki, and I have a girl's day out consisting of shopping and going to the movies. But, the past couple of weeks, I have been busy visiting Aunt Sharon and babysitting Stevie.
'Okay. Pick me up at noon.' I need a break from everything. Worrying about Aunt Sharon and some psycho guy that probably wants me dead can be stressful.
'See you then.'
It's about 10 am and I can already hear Kyler and Eddie in the game room playing Xbox arguing about tacos. I make my way down stairs and say good morning to my mom and dad. Mom yells that breakfast is ready and everyone makes their way to the kitchen table. My dad sits next to my mom across from Eddie, Kyler and I, with Stevie beside her.
"Mommy?" Stevie asks sweetly while poking around his pancakes and eggs.
"Yes sweetie?"
"What are these?" He says pointing to his pancakes.
"You know what those are honey. They're chocolate chips."
"Speaking of chocolate chips..." Kyler gets up to get the bag of chocolate chips on the counter only to pour half of the bag onto his plate.
"Hey!" Eddie yells.
"What?" Kyler asks confused.
"Pass the sweetness. Oh and get the syrup while you're up." Kyler just looks at Eddie like he has three heads.
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The Centre of the Universe is under attack again - this time by ESPN - but its federal politicians have come to the rescue.
The sports network recently declared Toronto the worst city in North America for professional sports. It arrived at this finding by ranking and weighting team performance against fan commitment, including the amount of money and emotion fans invest in their teams without results.
The Blue Jays have not made a playoff appearance since their World Series win in 1993 and the Maple Leafs have not won a Stanley Cup since 1967. The Raptors have an even more dismal record.
But enough of this trash talk, Toronto-area MPs say
Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, represents nearby Peterborough. "Toronto is a great sports city. I'm not sure what they are talking about. MLSE and Rogers strongly encourage all of their players and coaches to support important community events and they do, and they are loved for it."
A hockey player himself, he offered a tactical view. "It's moments like this that you wish you still had Darcy Tucker, Gary Roberts and Tie Domi under contract," Mr. Del Mastro said. "It's easy talking smack about Toronto when you don't have to line up against them!"
And he also found a silver lining: "Leaf fans and Toronto fans in general can take great pride in knowing that ESPN, in its wisdom, has found the hockey Mecca of Tampa Bay to be the pinnacle of success. Enough said about ESPN's opinion."
Bob Rae, the Interim Liberal Leader, offered a bit of self-gratifying nostalgia as a retort to the U.S. criticism. "Well," the Toronto Centre MP said, "when I was Premier the Blue Jays won the World Series twice. This is not a coincidence."
Rookie New Democrat MP Matthew Kellway, who represents Beaches-East York, says he can personally defend city's sports fans. He is a long-suffering Maple Leafs fan and can attest that Toronto sports-team supporters are "extremely loyal" and likely the "most hopeful fans in the world."
He remembers with much nostalgia being on Yonge Street in 1992 when the Blue Jays won their first of two back-to-back World Series. It was the most exciting night of his life, he said - "at least until May 2."
And Carolyn Bennett, the veteran Liberal MP for St. Paul's, thinks "ESPN is dead wrong."
In an email to The Globe, she added: "Toronto has the most enthusiastic fans who vote with their feet and their wallets! We have ALL the Sports! Carolina won the Stanley Cup and can't fill the stands. Phoenix is going to have to move."


text: Sustainability > Sustainability & Responsibility Sustainability & Responsibility Kingspan Insulation's latest Sustainability and Responsibility report (based on 2015 calendar year data) reaches new levels as an exemplar of good practice. Kingspan Insulation has been breaking new ground in this area for a number of years, often leading the way for other construction product manufacturers. This latest report conforms with the rigorous requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Framework 3 Level B+. Whilst most companies today are addressing their environmental impact, far fewer have looked at how to balance that with their impact on people and their economic performance, and yet these are absolutely fundamental to sustainability. Kingspan Insulation has been monitoring and reporting on progress in all areas of sustainable development since 2004, but the introduction of the GRI indicators for its 2008 report brought even greater transparency to the process. The extension of GRI reporting to level B+ significantly raises the bar. The difference between level B and level B+ is the requirement for external assurance of the GRI report. A copy of the external assurance report for the GRI content of Kingspan Insulation's latest Sustainability and Responsibility report can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this page. The GRI Framework is a universally recognised benchmark for sustainability reporting, and was developed using a wide range of stakeholder groups to make sure that it was relevant, comprehensive and credible. Reporting at level B+ is a clear indication of the level of commitment Kingspan has shown and the progress made. However, the simple reporting of achievements is not an end in itself; this Sustainability and Responsibility Report is not a static tool but supports Kingspan's aim to set new targets and continuously improve, challenging other construction product manufacturers to follow suit and make meaningful and measurable progress. The report covers the UK business of Kingspan Insulation Ltd., which includes its headquarters and manufacturing facility at Pembridge, Herefordshire, and its manufacturing site at Selby, North Yorkshire. This report was published to present an holistic picture of Kingspan Insulation Ltd.'s long-term commitment to sustainability and responsibility in all of the company's guises: as a manufacturer of insulation products; as an employer; as a substantial landholder; and as a key member of its neighbouring communities. The data and commentary in this report summarise Kingspan Insulation's journey from 2004-2014, and highlights key achievements from the calendar year 2015. 2015 Sustainability and Responsibility Report 2015 External Assurance Statement


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"To me, clean eating is about not only eating healthy, but also eating organic. It's about putting foods in your body that supply it with great energy and fuel while being health-conscious at the same time. Lots of grilled chicken, leafy greens, fruits, quinoa, rice, etc., and the occasional protein shake! Clean eating also isn't about 'starving' yourself and eating an apple for breakfast. EAT. Just eat smart." –Kat Steele
"Absolutely nothing processed. No preservatives, artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, etc. And eating organic!" –Irene Bradley
MORE: 9 Signs You're Obsessed with Clean Eating
"One word: PALEO." –BeautyAzaire Agostinelli
"Clean eating, to me, is only eating things with ingredients that are from the earth or that I can make, hunt, or grow MYSELF. Anything I need a chemistry set to make or a chemistry degree to understand is off-limits. And if it has a shelf life longer than I do...off-limits." –Meredith Perrin
"Anything that grows from the ground, and meat that you 'kill' for. Replicate the cavemen back in the day. They killed for their meat and picked their veggies/fruit/nuts from the ground/trees. They weren't sitting around a fire cooking s'mores and popcorn." –Sarah Kuhlman
"Clean eating is taking out chemicals from your diet. A good rule is that if there are more than four ingredients added, you should probably pass on it." –Lena Ordaz
MORE: 6 Lessons From Organic Pioneer Alice Waters
"All RAW foods!! Nothing processed, all natural! Eating clean is not being a vegan or vegetarian. ... Just concentrate on the produce section in the grocery story, and of course, don't forget your meats and fish! Eating clean has changed my life completely. You don't crave those bad awful foods/soda anymore." –Brecken Kipfmiller
"Clean meat (no hormones, antibiotics, no meat eaten outside the home unless you know its source), organic veggies and fruits, free-range eggs, and organic dairy (half and half and butter only). Few grains, eaten sparingly. Nuts! Nuts! Nuts! No soda or juice, lots of lemon water and iced tea, good dark chocolate." –Nicole Mauk
"Very few packaged foods, whole foods mostly. Lots of vegetables, a few fruits. High-fiber grains. No avoiding one whole part of the diet, like carbs, for example. Enjoy in moderation. No soda. Make things from scratch 90 percent of the time." –Susan Smith
"Deserted island diet: If you got stranded on an island, would you find the food you're about to eat there? And if you have trouble pronouncing any ingredient, stay away." –Ashley Diane Brewster
"To me, clean eating is a bodybuilder's diet. And it is horrific." –Leane Knight
"Clean eating to me means variety. Different colors, tastes, and textures, and try to go organic as much as possible. ... I try different ways of preparing things (e.g., eating raw and juicing). Variety stops me from getting bored, so I don't reach for processed and packaged foods!" –Hannah Lane


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Frustrating weekend in Renault Clio Cup for Josh Files
PUBLISHED: 17:14 15 November 2012
Like many of his rivals Josh Files is hoping to use the Renault Clio Cup as a springboard to the British Touring Car Championship, resulting in some robust racing as the Poringland racer has found to his cost.
The Norfolk racer finished a frustrated sixth overall in the end of the season points chart after a season which promised more than it delivered, exemplified by the final race of the year.
Files, always quick at Brands Hatch, gambled on a mixture of tyres for the greasy track conditions in qualifying, fitting dry tyres to the front and wet tyres to the rear, helping him to secure pole position for both of the final races.
"Double pole at Brands again," remarked Files who had secured the prime starting spots for the opening two races of the season at the Kent track.
"It's my track this one, I love it. I went out there and grabbed it by the horns and hustled it through the bends and it worked out.
"I'm hoping to come away with two race wins as that's what I came into this weekend wanting."
Starting from pole position on the heavily cambered grid at Brands can be tricky, as the 21- year-old racer found out, having to follow fellow front row starter Stefan Hodgetts through the first corner.
Files pushed hard to try and take his first Clio Cup victory and briefly got his nose in front, after a bit of contact, but elected to hand back the position instead of evoking the wrath of race officials.
"It was a hard-fought race and Hodgetts wasn't giving any room at all so I gave him a little tap at Druids to pass," confirmed the Direct Debit's Big Break campaign supported racer.
"We were right on his tail for the whole race and I think our car was better, bring on tomorrow. It'll be another hard battle because Hodgetts is alongside again, so we'll do the same and hopefully hold on to the win this time".
However Sunday brought nothing but frustration as Files rolled out of the final race of the season.
Hodgetts again beat him to the first corner, resulting in Files being clipped from behind and in the melee he found himself at the back of the field before colliding with the Clearways crash barriers which tipped him onto to his side.
"What a complete disaster," said Files. "The start was good, but I was pushed on to the wet grass and lost momentum.
"I managed to recover at the tail end of the field but I then suffered a massive lock-up at Clearways, possibly as a result of damage from the first-corner incident."
"On the whole, the weekend was pretty encouraging. We were definitely quicker than everybody else. I had hoped to translate my two pole positions into at least one race win.
"But we'll come back bigger and stronger next year and I know we'll dominate."


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Diabetes is a devastating chronic disease that affects blacks more than whites. Regular lab tests
can monitor diabetes care and identify early when interventions are needed to prevent and limit its
many complications, which range from vascular and vision problems to kidney disease. Yet less
than one in five persons with diabetes receives the minimum number of tests recommended by the
American Diabetes Association (ADA), according to a study of patients with diabetes enrolled in
a large urban health maintenance organization (HMO).
The study, supported by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (HS07386) through the
Minority Research Center Program, shows that more than 40 percent of insulin-using patients
with diabetes and more than 30 percent of noninsulin-using patients with diabetes did not have a
single glycosylated hemoglobin test during the study year. This test measures blood sugar levels
over a 2- to 3-month time period. Elevated blood sugar levels indicate poor diabetes control,
which increases the risk of diabetes-related complications.
Many patients also did not receive other recommended tests that, when elevated, indicate
increased risk for developing complications, according to the researchers from Henry Ford Health
System, the University of Michigan Medical School, and the University of Nebraska Medical
Center. They used computerized medical record and billing data to analyze receipt of diabetic
screening tests for 2,312 patients with diabetes enrolled in an HMO during 1991; 57 percent of
patients had between 6 and 16 visits to the doctor during the year. Overall, between 60 and 71
percent of patients had annual cholesterol testing (high cholesterol can complicate vascular
problems), and between 67 percent and 73 percent of patients had annual creatinine tests (to
check for kidney problems) performed as recommended by the ADA. It is unclear whether this
failure to consistently meet guidelines was due to lack of physician knowledge, insufficient time to
interact with the patient, the patients' lack of understanding of the importance of diabetes care, or
some other factor.
No differences were detected by race in the overall rate of receipt of recommended tests.
Although black patients had cholesterol and creatinine measures similar to white patients, blacks
had higher glycosylated hemoglobin values. Less diabetic control among blacks may be explained
by differences in diet, exercise, or body weight that are strongly linked to race, but more studies
are needed to confirm this. Nevertheless, blacks who have diabetes remain at increased risk for
premature death and disability, and they and their health care providers should be targeted for
programs to help them improve diabetes control.
See "Comparison of laboratory test frequency and test results between African-Americans and
Caucasians with diabetes: Opportunity for improvement," by Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D.,
M.S., Jon P. Fryzek, Ph.D., Suzanne L. Havstad, M.A., and others, in the June 1997 Diabetes
Care 20(6), pp. 971-977.
Three million stroke survivors are living with varying degrees of neurological impairment due to
stroke. The disabling effects of stroke can be lessened through timely provision of rehabilitation
services and other followup care. However, the use and intensity of rehabilitation services for
stroke patients vary dramatically nationwide. This practice variation is not due to patient
characteristics but probably results from differences in physician choices, according to a study
supported by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (contract 290-91-0085).
Individuals at risk for stroke can help prevent stroke by not smoking, controlling blood pressure,
following a low-fat diet, and taking other measures.
Individuals who recognize their increased risk for stroke are more likely to engage in stroke
prevention practices than those who do not. Yet over half of patients at increased risk for stroke
are unaware of their stroke risk, concludes a second AHCPR-supported study (Stroke Prevention
Patient Outcomes Research Team [PORT] contract 290-91-0028).
Lee, A.J., Huber, J.H., and Stason, W.B. (1997, June). "Factors contributing to practice
variation in post-stroke rehabilitation." Health Services Research 32(2), pp. 197-221.
One-half to two-thirds of the practice variation in post-stroke rehabilitation is unexplained by
patient and market factors; because the practice differences observed in this study were so large,
this finding is particularly troubling, according to A. James Lee, Ph.D., of the Center for Health
Economics Research. The researchers analyzed post-stroke rehabilitation services provided to a
20 percent random sample of Medicare patients admitted for stroke to acute care hospitals in 151
metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) during 1991. Analysis showed that patient factors, such as
number and level of disabilities, ability to tolerate intensive rehabilitation, other complex medical
conditions, and level of home support, rarely explained a third of practice variation and often
explained substantially less than that. Market variables, such as number of physicians in the area
and bed capacity of various types of facilities, tended to be relatively less important but still were
more important than one would like to see, notes Dr. Lee.
Patient characteristics should be the driving force behind choice of rehabilitation setting. Inpatient
rehabilitation hospitals (IRHs) provide the most intensive rehabilitation and are appropriate for
patients who are at least moderately disabled and can tolerate at least 3 hours per day of
rehabilitation. Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) generally provide less intensive rehabilitation and
are appropriate for patients who have minimal disabilities but require more medical monitoring or
lack sufficient home support to receive outpatient rehabilitation. Ambulatory rehabilitation is
appropriate for people with minimal to moderate levels of disability and with adequate home
Some differences in use of post-stroke rehabilitation services across metropolitan areas were
found to be related to differences in patient characteristics, consistent with recommendations
contained in the AHCPR guideline for post-stroke rehabilitation. To the extent that practice
variations are not attributable to differences in patient needs, clinical practice is inconsistent and
possibly inappropriate, according to the researchers. They conclude that to the extent clinical
guidelines correct misinformation and provide a common understanding of clinical practice for
post-stroke rehabilitation, otherwise unexplainable practice differences should begin to disappear.
Samsa, G.P., Cohen, S.J., Goldstein, L.B., and others. "Knowledge of risk among patients
at increased risk of stroke." (1997, May). Stroke 28(5), pp. 916-921.
Over one-half of patients at increased risk of stroke because of conditions such as atrial
fibrillation, hypertension, smoking, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and congestive heart failure
are unaware of their risk, finds this study. These patients are less apt to engage in stroke
prevention practices, such as undergoing carotid endarterectomy (for clogged carotid artery),
attempting to control blood pressure, following a low-cholesterol diet, and taking the
anticoagulant warfarin or aspirin.
The Stroke Prevention Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT), led by David Matchar, M.D.,
of Duke University, recruited 621 patients from the Academic Medical Center Consortium (five
academic medical centers), 321 from the Cardiovascular Health Study, and 319 from United
Health Care (five health plans). These patients were identified from inpatient records as having
one or more codes indicating stroke or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs, mini-strokes) or as
asymptomatic but at increased risk for stroke. The patients were interviewed about their health
status, functional status, cerebrovascular symptoms, medical conditions, prevention practices, and
knowledge of stroke risk.
The results indicated that only 41 percent of respondents were aware of their increased risk for
stroke and less than one-half of patients with previous minor stroke acknowledged any increase in
stroke risk. About 74 percent of patients who recalled being told of their increased risk of stroke
by a physician acknowledged this risk compared with 28 percent of patients who did not recall
being informed by a physician. Young patients, depressed patients, those in poor current health,
and those with a history of TIA were most likely to be aware of their stroke risk. The researchers
conclude that by communicating information about stroke risk to their patients, health care
providers can encourage adoption of stroke prevention practices. In addition, clinicians should
recognize that patients tend to misunderstand risk, underestimate their risk for stroke, and assume
that adverse events will not happen to them. This underscores the need for increasing public
awareness about stroke prevention, particularly in the at-risk population.
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Persons with AIDS are much more likely to use home care than individuals who are HIV-positive
but have not yet developed AIDS. Limited ability to carry out ordinary daily tasks and higher
levels of fatigue are related to receipt of formal home care, according to a study by John A.
Fleishman, Ph.D., of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
The study was based on data obtained in four interviews over a 12-month period with 1,727
HIV-infected adults cared for by major medical providers in 10 U.S. cities. The interviews
revealed that nearly 30 percent of persons with AIDS received home care from nurses, compared
with 3 percent of HIV-infected individuals without AIDS; 20 percent were cared for by aides or
helpers (3 percent for HIV-infected individuals); and 12 percent of AIDS patients received care
from other professionals, such as social workers or case managers (4 percent for HIV-infected
Overall, 39 percent of people with AIDS received any formal (paid) home care, and 38 percent
received any informal (unpaid) care from family, friends, or more rarely from community
volunteers. Use of formal home care services was negligible among asymptomatic HIV-infected
persons and was only slightly higher among those with symptoms.
The likelihood of service use increased with the level of physical impairment, level of fatigue, and
prior hospitalization. Individuals with both AIDS and limitations in their ability to carry out
routine activities of daily living (ADLs), such as dressing or eating, were most likely to use formal
services. Thirty-two percent of this group received nursing care and 28 percent received
paraprofessional care, compared with 2 percent and 12 percent, respectively, among people with
AIDS but no ADL limitations. In addition, higher levels of fatigue significantly increased the
likelihood of receiving care from nurses and other professionals but not from paraprofessionals.
Respondents with public insurance, such as Medicaid, were more likely than those with private
insurance to receive home care from paraprofessionals. A person with AIDS may be capable of
performing ADLs or other activities, but the effort required may be exhausting, prompting the
need for home-delivered meals, aides, or homemakers. However, many private insurers do not
pay for services such as paid helpers at home. Medicaid may be more likely than private insurers
to cover personal care attendants and homemakers.
Details are in "Utilization of home care among people with HIV infection," by Dr. Fleishman, in
the June 1997 Health Services Research 32(2), pp. 155-175. Reprints (AHCPR Publication No.
97-R082) are available from the AHCPR Publication
The U.S. health system is undergoing unprecedented changes in its organization, financing, and
delivery of care. There is very little information on the impact of these changes—in particular the
rapid growth of managed care—on child health.
Unfortunately, child health services research (CHSR) currently lacks the tools necessary to
monitor the impact of health system change on children's health and health care, compare the
effectiveness of alternative treatments, or assess quality of care delivered, according to
Christopher B. Forrest, M.D., Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Lisa
Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., Deputy Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research,
and Carolyn Clancy, M.D., Director of AHCPR's Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness
Research and Acting Director of the Center for Primary Care Research. In a recent commentary
on the topic, they point out that ignoring or minimizing attention to CHSR is both shortsighted
and ultimately costly for families and the entire nation.
Children merit a separate research focus for several reasons, assert the authors. Since children's
cognitive, emotional, and social development is constantly changing, outcome measures must be
sensitive to the interplay between change in development and change in health. Moreover,
alterations in the rate of development are themselves important outcomes for children and should
be part of studies on children's health-related quality of life. Fewer than 5 percent of children are
affected with one of the conditions usually addressed by outcomes research in adults, for example,
diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis. Yet one in three medically underserved persons in the United
States is younger than 18 years of age.
The authors propose six strategies for increasing the quantity and improving the quality of CHSR:
expand the disease orientation of health services research to include a focus on child health
development; establish child-sensitive standards for setting research priorities; increase the size
and capacity of the CHSR workforce; develop appropriate laboratories to study child health care;
improve coordination of research funding across the Federal government, foundations, and the
private sector; and enhance the research function of health care delivery in the private sector.
For more information, see "Child health services research: Challenges and opportunities," by Drs.
Forrest, Simpson, and Clancy, in the June 11, 1997, Journal of the American Medical
Association 277(22), pp. 1787-1793. Reprints (AHCPR Publication No. 97-R071) are available from the
AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse.
CAHPS®, which stands for Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study, is an easy-to-use kit of
survey and reporting tools for use by organizations—such as employers, purchasing
unions, and Medicaid programs—that purchase health coverage for their employees,
members, or
beneficiaries. The kit contains a set of questionnaires that ask consumers about their experiences
with their health plans, sample formats for reporting results to the consumers, and a handbook to
help sponsors implement the surveys and produce the reports. Using CAHPS®, sponsors can
provide consumers with reliable information to help them assess and choose among health plans
based on the experiences of plan enrollees.
CAHPS® surveys and reports have been tested to ensure that they will accurately and clearly report
the experiences of a wide range of respondents. CAHPS® yields results that are applicable to all
plan types and a wide range of respondents. Surveys are provided in formats for mail and
telephone administration. Questionnaires are included for Medicare beneficiaries, Medicaid
recipients, and for consumers with children. Users of the surveys also can form their own
questionnaires by combining core and supplemental items in a customized questionnaire. For
example, supplemental items are included for persons with chronic conditions.
CAHPS® users maintain ownership of their data. Users may engage a survey vendor or conduct the
surveys themselves; free technical assistance is available to facilitate the use of CAHPS® surveys
and reports.
CAHPS® is sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. CAHPS® materials were
developed by a consortium led by Harvard Medical School, RAND, and the Research Triangle
The CAHPS® Survey and Reporting Kit includes the survey kit, the reporting kit, and an
implementation handbook. It will be available in late fall 1997. The CAHPS® Preview Kit (AHCPR
Publication No. 97-0012) is available now. To find out if CAHPS® is right for your organization,
request the Preview Kit from the AHCPR
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LOS ANGELES – August 28, 2013 – The sixth season of Style Media's "Giuliana & Bill" continues to sizzle delivering the season's highest rated telecast on Tuesday, August 27, attracting 632,000 Total Viewers, +5% over the season's record breaking premiere. The series also marked Style's most watched telecast to date for 2013. Additionally, Style's new series, "Hot Listings Miami," also hit a series high among the coveted W18-49 and Total Viewers, making it the most watched new series among W18-49 to date for 2013 on Style.
On last night's episode of "Giuliana & Bill," Giuliana celebrated her first Mother's Day as a new mom. And as a gift to her own mother, Giuliana and Bill met with book publishers to discuss the possibility of a Mamma DePandi cookbook. On the next episode, airing Tuesday, September 10 at 8pm ET/PT, Giuliana faces her fears, while Bill tries to make sure Duke doesn't grow up to also be afraid.
On "Hot Listings Miami," Katrina and Ben discussed how best to expand their business internationally while Sophia urged her daughter to think more about her personal life and less about the business. Taking her mother's advice, Katrina attended a party where she met Ben's fiancée for the first time. The next episode of "Hot Listings Miami," airing Tuesday, September 10 at 9pm ET/PT, features Katrina, at her mother's insistence, meeting with a shaman to address the voids in her romantic identity – with surprising results.
"Giuliana & Bill" is produced by Wilshire Studios, a division of NBCUniversal. Executive producers are Robert Sizemore, Jay James and Betsy Rott for Wilshire Studios and Giuliana Rancic and Bill Rancic for You & I Productions.
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Michael Duffy has followed up his radio show that misrepresented the science of global warming with more of the same. He had Bob Carter on this time and Carter trotted out all the favourite falsehoods of the global warming sceptics. Actually, Carter complains about being called a sceptic:
Such persons, and myself as you introduced me, are often termed 'sceptics' and that's meant to be a term of denigration, but I'm a scientist…it's my job to be a sceptic, Michael, and those who are not sceptical towards human-caused global warming or, indeed, towards any other fashionable environmental concern, are acting in unscientific manner…religious, even.
If "global warming sceptic" has become a term of denigration, it's because of the way they have conducted themselves, dismissing real science on the flimsiest of grounds. I guess I'll use the more accurate "global warming denialist" to describe Carter.
Carter offers up the usual misrepresentations of the science: urban heat islands contaminate the surface record (no they don't), equivocation about the word "consensus", the "hockey stick" is broken (no), ice cores show that warming precedes increases in C02 (only partly), the IPCC summary does not reflect the body of the report (yes it does).
One particular misrepresentation is particularly troubling. Carter claims:
[the surface record] conflicts with independent estimates or measurements that we have of changing temperature made in the atmosphere by satellites and weather balloons. They show very little net change over the last 30 or 40 years.
But the satellite data shows significant warming over the past 30 years. The only discrepancy is that some analyses find only half as much warming as the surface record, while others show a similar amount of warming. It is wrong to pretend that disagreement somehow proves that there hasn't been any warming.
I remonstrated with Carter when he made similar claims in a Tech Central Station article last year. Here is what he wrote in reply:
There is no conflict between the two following statements, and I stand by both of them.
"There is indeed a small, statistically significant trend.(in the MSU data as analyzed by e.g. Christy et al., 2003)"
"The (MSU data) show virtually no long-term trend of temperature increase despite the increased carbon dioxide levels over the last 25 years"
The first is a statistical statement. The second is a statement of scientific judgement which takes into account, amongst other factors, the statistical result.
The sort of technical detail in which you are seeking to discuss the MSU data is most usefully conducted in the relevant professional journals. For reasons of length as much as any other, it is in general not possible to go into such details in an editorial piece written for the general public. That accepted, of course it becomes even more important that the writers of such pieces take particular care with their words. That I have tried to do, and I am sorry if it has not been to your satisfaction.
By coincidence, an interesting new article on MSU results has just come out in Nature (attached). It adds some weight to your evident belief that atmospheric temperatures are rising. On the other hand, many will be concerned that it has proved necessary to selectively manipulate the data to achieve the result. Earlier attempts to make such corrections are acknowledged to have failed.
I shall be interested to see what the expert atmospheric scientists make of Qiang's study, whilst rather doubting that it will prove to be the last word on the subject.
As I said last time, what one makes of the MSU results (i) depends upon the date and authorship of the paper one chooses to trust; (ii) requires that allowance be made for exceptional events such as the 1998 El Nino; and (ii) will be much clearer when we have another 20 years of data.
So Carter is well aware that the satellite data shows warming but did not mention this on the radio show.
John Quiggin has more on the Duffy and Carter show.


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As usual President Chavez stepped on some steps during the bioregional south American-Arab summit. First, apparently President Lula was quite unhappy that Chavez was taking the limelight of his summit by violently attacking the US, with Chavez quoting Mao and Ho Chi Min.
But where the verbose President really ran into problem was in doing exactly what he criticizes everyone for, involving himself with sovereign issues of another country. He called for an end to the US occupation of Iraq right under the nose of Iraqi President, which clearly did not sit well with Iraqi President Talabani who immediately asked to speak again asking Chavez to rectify his words. Chavez was so undiplomatic that his words came right after Talabani's explanation to the summit of what is happening in Iraq. In the end Chavez had to give in and agree on the final declaration supporting the Government of Iraq, which, of course, favors the US occupation until they can control the situation better.
And to make him even more popular among his Latin American peers, a Mexican newspaper is reporting that funds that came from the Mayor's office in Mexico City were triangulated via Havana to Venezuela, so that Chavez could purchase AK-47's for a Mexican guerrilla group. According to that report, the funds were diverted without the knowledge of Mayor Lopez Obrador, the leading Candidate for the Mexican presidency in 2006. The weapons went to the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario, Mexico's best organized guerrilla group in Mexico.
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"First of all…"
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Just some of the words and names that came out of my daughter's mouth on the way to school this morning. The best was that some of the words, like "consequence," "realize," and "skinny" she was using incorrectly. It was really cute.
I know skinny may seem like an easy one, but I'm avoiding that word all the time.
She's petite and people constantly tell her she's so skinny! I'm terrified of body image issues with girls so I have never taken the time to explain what "skinny" means. All she knows is that I'm not a fan of the word and I don't like her saying "fat" either.
The other day I put on a dress and she said, "Mommy, that dress is skinny."
Under most circumstances that would be flattering, but I'm proud to say she has no clue what "skinny" really is, and I'm going to try and keep it that way as long as possible.
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Vehicle2013 Hyundai Elantra Limited 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl 6A)
ReviewI recently purchased a 2013 Hyundai Elantra Limited. After a lot of research I decided this car was the best value for the money - and it is.
However, within 2 weeks of owning this car I was in a minor fender bender and my strut was broken. Yes, minor accident = broken strut. Turns out Hyundai sold me a car they do not have replacement parts for. When this car is running, it's great, but dealing with Hyundai to get replacement parts has been a nightmare. It's been three weeks and Hyundai has not been able to tell me when this part will become available. So for now, my brand new car is collecting dust at a garage waiting on Hyundai to pull a part from the production line.
Best FeaturesThe interior and exterior are very sleek and stylish, and the car comes with more standard features than other manufacturers at the same price point. It definitely looks more like a luxury car than an economy car.
Worst FeaturesFirst, I would suggest Hyundai not sell consumers cars they do not have replacement parts for. Second, I would advise that their consumer affairs team actually be of some service to their customers. Telling me you are sorry does not improve my situation, nor does escalating my case to the "regional office" that does not exist. Third, this car does not get 40MPG on the highway. Maybe 35 at best. The 1999 Honda Civic I had before this car got better gas mileage. My advice to consumers: Buy a Honda.
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Sorry to hear about your accident. I'll have to keep an eye out on the issue of replacement parts. As to your comment on the mpg, I filled up this morning, reset the trip computer and am happy to report that, during my commute, I actually achieved 40.2 mpg and I took a picture to prove it if necessary.Report it
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I would suggest that you ask for a loner car from your dealer I have asked my garage if they have this part and was told that it is available now.Report it
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Delta girls rally past Palisade
But for a 2 1/2—minute span at the end of the second quarter, the Palisade High School girls basketball team played fairly evenly with Delta on Tuesday.
The Panthers more than took advantage of that stretch, however, turning a three-point deficit into a six-point lead to close out the half as Delta took a 48-36 win.
Palisade (5-17, 5-8 Western Slope League) led 19-16 with 2:24 remaining in the second quarter. To that point, the Bulldogs had turned the ball over nine times.
The Panthers (7-11, 6-7) forced four turnovers down the stretch. Moreover, Delta, which had shot only 6 of 29 from the floor to that point, hit three consecutive baskets to lead 25-19.
"We've been focusing this half of the season on shutting down scorers (and) putting pressure on them," Delta coach Matt Hamm said.
"We're definitely working on that," Palisade coach Toni Gunther said of a season-long turnover problem.
The Bulldogs did make a mini-run in the fourth quarter, keyed by solid defense.
"We're trying really hard to play straight-up defense," Gunther said.
Shooting woes, another season-long problem, plagued the Bulldogs, who were 13 of 48 from the field.
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Sarah Hay and Kendra Barnes each scored eight points and Holly Odneal six to lead Palisade.
Odneal joined Hays and Jenny Brown in playing their last home game for Palisade and were honored on senior night after the game.
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Palisade closes out the regular season on Friday at Rifle.
The Wildcats couldn't withstand a balanced scoring night from Montrose and fell to the Indians 55-38 on the road.
Montrose had five players score at least five points, led by Kaylee Walker's 11.
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Schmalz said Tuesday night's game was similar to the Wildcats' last loss to Central, where they felt like they never let the game get away but couldn't make shots when it counted.
Fruita was led by Taylor Johnson who had 11 points. Katie Lewis added eight.
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