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We have located 8 free and income based clinics in or around Barnwell, South Carolina.
We listed all of the free, income based health clinics, public health department clinics, community health centers that we have located in Barnwell, SC. For the most part these clinics are for low income persons or those without insurance.
Review all of the information we have provided for the clinics. Some of them provide a wide array of services ranging from free to sliding scale services. We have provided as much detailed information including phone numbers, emails, and websites where available.
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Barnwell Family Medicine - Barnwell
Sliding Scale
Open 8 am - 5:30 pm, Monday Open 8 am - 7:30 pm, Tuesday Open 8 am - 5:30 pm, Wednesday Open 8 am - 5:30 pm, Thursday Open 8 am - 5:30 pm, Friday This site became part of Low Country Health Care System in April 2005 in an effort to continue to meet the medical needs in Barnwell County. see clinic details
Barnwell County Health Dept Public Clinic - Barnwell
Sliding Scale
Service Hours and Fees Regular Hours: The Barnwell County Health Department is open from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Fees: Services will not be denied due to a client's inability to pay. Medicaid, private pay, and private insurance are billed when appropriate. Services provided: Env see clinic details
Norfield Medical Center - Neeses
Location: 19 miles from BarnwellNeeses, SC - 29107
Sliding Scale
Services include: Adult Medicine, Pediatrics, GYN, Health Services, Behavorial Health/Social Services, Laboratory, Pharmacy, and Migrant Farmers Worker Program Payments include: BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurances Walk ins welcomed! see clinic details
Low Country Health Care System - Fairfax
Location: 19 miles from BarnwellFairfax, SC - 29827
Sliding Scale
Open 8 am - 5:30 pm, Monday Open 8 am - 7:30 pm, Tuesday Open 8 am - 5:30 pm, Wednesday Open 8 am - 5:30 pm, Thursday Open 8 am - 5:30 pm, Friday This center became part of Low Country Health Care System in April 2005 in an effort to continue to meet the medical needs in Barnwell County see clinic details
Hampton Medical Center - Hampton
Location: 30 miles from BarnwellHampton, SC - 29924
Sliding Scale
Monday - Friday 8:30am-5:00pm Services provided at this clinic include: Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, and Prenatal Counseling. At this clinic there is a sliding fee discount available to their patients. see clinic details
Family Medical Center Of Blackvil - Blackville
Location: 10 miles from BarnwellBlackville, SC - 29817
Sliding Scale
Open 8 am - 5 pm, Monday - Thursday Open 8 am - 12 pm, Friday This site operates with one primary care provider with several medical support personnel. They arre unique in that it is the only medical practice in the city limits of Blackville. Their goal is to provide a medical home for the re see clinic details
Denmark Medical Center - Denmark
Location: 14 miles from BarnwellDenmark, SC - 29042
Sliding Scale
Services include: Adult Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Podiatry, Behavorial Health, Health Education, Laboratory, and Migrant Farm Worker Program Payments include: BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurances Walk ins welcomed! see clinic details
Allendale County Health Department Clinic - Allendale
Location: 16 miles from BarnwellAllendale, SC - 29810
Sliding Scale
Hours 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Call 1-800-868-0404 to make an appointment. Ask about extended or weekend hours. Services WIC Classes Family Planning STD HIV Immunizations see clinic details
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LAUGHLIN, NEV. – March XX, 2016 – Aquarius Casino Resort is offering a memorable Miranda Lambert room package in honor of the Grammy award-winning artist's highlyanticipated Laughlin show on May 6. Fans of the southern songstress who book with special code MIRA161 can enjoy a two-night stay, two concert tickets, two-for-one Bud or Bud Light at all casino bars and two-for-one drink specials in The Cove Bar & Lounge and Duet Coffee & Wine starting at just $334 (plus tax). While parking is unavailable at the Laughlin Event Center, fans staying at Aquarius can enjoy complimentary transportation to and from the concert venue.
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Lambert will bring her signature southern charm and sass to the Laughlin Event Center on Friday, May 6 at 8:00 p.m. Coming off her extremely successful fourth studio album Four the Record, Lambert will perform fan favorites such as 'Only Prettier' and 'Little Red Wagon,' as well as new hits from her latest album Platinum, including hit single 'Automatic.' Those interested in the Miranda Lambert room package can make their reservations on AquariusCasinoResort.com or by calling 800-662-5825 and using special code MIRA161.
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What are a Business Renter's Rights?
Many small businesses rent their premises. Renting is relatively inexpensive and convenient, but along with renting comes the added burden of dealing with a tenancy agreement, landlord or real estate firm. As a small-business owner renting a building or storefront, you should be aware of your rights as a tenant. These rights vary from state to state, but federal and state law provides basic rights in all jurisdictions.
Lease Term
Almost all tenancy agreements specify the amount of time you are allowed to stay on the property. Under the law, you have the right to run your business for that length of time unless you breach the contract. The landlord cannot evict you from the property without just cause. If the agreement does not specify an expiration date, most state laws require that a landlord give you a 30-day written notice.
Anyone renting a building, whether for commercial or personal use, has the right to privacy. You are entitled to do anything on the property that you wish, so long as whatever you are doing is legal. The landlord cannot prevent you from operating your business nor from allowing guests or patrons on the property. Likewise, if the landlord or lease owner wishes to enter the property, he or she must give you so-called "reasonable notice" and obtain your permission first. However, most tenancy agreements provide that tenants cannot unreasonably withhold permission to enter the property. In emergency situations, the law generally allows landlords to enter without permission.
General Upkeep
One of the benefits of renting a property instead of buying it is that the law entitles you to have the landlord maintain the property. The extent of the upkeep depends on your tenancy agreement and on state law, but generally landlords must fix any plumbing, electrical and structural problems that arise. By the same token, as the tenant you must keep the property in the same condition as it was given to you. If you want to make structural or decorative changes, clear these with the landlord first to avoid any disputes.
Waiving Your Rights
While it isn't very common, some tenancy agreements contain clauses that purport to give landlords more rights than the law entitles them to. Know that a contract or tenancy agreement cannot strip you of most tenancy rights that are based in state or federal law, even if it says you are doing so. In other words, a landlord cannot force you to give up your legal rights, and any terms or clauses in a contract that would strip you of those rights are void. Carefully read through the contract and make sure the contract does not attempt to jeopardize your rights.
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Once upon a time, when I was a kid, we researched information by looking it up in encyclopedias. For those of you not quite as old as the dirt beneath the pavement, encyclopedias were collections of books which contained information about historical and famous people, events, things, animals and places. If you needed to write a report, you reached for an encyclopedia. It was like the stone age search engine, except the articles were well vetted for accuracy and devoid of opinion. Why am I bringing up the obsolete reference resource? Because I remember reading through them and seeing photographs from tribes in other countries that showed women topless. My first reaction was of shock. Women just running around without shirts on! Women openly breastfeeding babies! In fact, that is how I learned the actual purpose of a breast is to feed a baby. When I was young, no one spoke about breastfeeding. You gave a baby a bottle. I didn't think about it. Women covered their breasts, for the most part, unless they wanted to look extra pretty for a man, then they showed just a bit of them. I was surprised to see they were actually useful for something else. But then quickly decided we must be feeding babies with bottles for a reason, it must be healthier and feeding a baby like that must be barbaric and uncivilized and probably dangerous. And I, of course, also thought Yuck! Who wants to drink human milk?" Just to set the record straight, I was six years old. So the conclusions were not so atypical or illogical. Or were they?
At six years old I had already determined breasts had a particular use, to make you look feminine and attract men. To sum that up: I thought breasts were for men. Even though I had no comprehension about sex, how babies were made (I had not read that entry in the encyclopedia yet, as Africa comes long before Reproduction in the alphabet) or really any idea of physical relationships outside of holding hands, hugging and kissing. Yet, the impression that the purpose of women's breasts were for men had already been so well ingrained into my psyche that, I deduced, when confronted with their actual purpose, it must be a primitive practice they only do because they have no other choice.
It is a shocking revelation that by six years old I had already identified my body parts, which still had yet to arrive, were meant for men. I was not outright told that. No one had said, "When you grow breasts, those are special toys you use to please your husband." No one had even told me that men liked breasts or found them attractive or that they were considered attributes to a woman. At least not directly.
However, I watched television and movies, even cartoons. I listened to the conversations around me. I saw what people wore and how others responded. I saw the world, even if I didn't intentionally calculate and classify everything. I learned it all. I heard comments about women with large breasts, and the suggestions that it was why they were so popular. I heard derogatory comments about flat chested women. I heard women commenting on their own breasts, wishing they were bigger, or fuller, or perkier, or looked better in a bathing suit. I heard old ladies' breasts called knockers because they were saggy and old. I saw television shows where a woman jumped up and down and a man was distracted by her breasts bouncing. I heard men say things about appealing, curvy figures. I heard and saw a great many things about breasts, yet none of them had anything to do with feeding a baby. Not once.
So what does that mean? It means I thought breasts were toys, men's toys. No different than anything shelved on the boy's toy isle, except for grown-ups. Taking away the identity of our bodies degrades us into submissive toys. Sure, men can find breasts attractive. But the greedy lust of our ancestors has created a degrading atmosphere. We have been taught that sucking on a breast is a sexual act rather than nourishment for a child. Misogynistic men do not want to see a baby sucking on a breast because they find it disgusting. Why? They aren't disgusted by puppies or kittens. And the answer is not because it makes us look like animals. The fact is, they have been claimed. They are designated as sex toys rather than serving a real and vital purpose in child bearing and development.
At six I thought breast feeding must be wrong, unclean and unhealthy simply because I had no evidence anyone did it. When I asked about it, I was told it was frowned upon and respectable women gave a baby a bottle. Women had been taught it was unsavory to breastfeed. A misogynistic society further placing women beneath men by devaluing their purpose, by claiming their bodies and demeaning natural practices which benefit both a woman and a baby, simply because the men preferred to keep breasts all to themselves. Pretty much, they just didn't like to see a baby sucking on them because they liked sucking on them, too. They were sex toys.
To this day, despite the medical community encouraging breastfeeding to new mothers, despite knowing the irreplaceable benefits to both mother and child, we still think of breasts as sexual toys first. We have a culture refusing to let go of the idea that breasts are somehow indecent simply because men like them. So, the rational is that because men find breasts attractive, it is disgusting to feed your child with them. They have equated breastfeeding to a sexual act in public. Now tell me who the sicko is: the woman nourishing her infant in the most healthy way possible or the deranged person berating her who seems to think it is somehow sexually explicit and indecent?
Despite my shock at age six, by the time I was a young woman, I had learned the benefits of breastfeeding and elected to breastfeed all three of my children. Twenty-two years ago, breastfeeding was a serious challenge. In fact, most women were discouraged from it simply because it was so difficult. By my third child, a decade later, it was somewhat easier, only because breast pumps were not quite so cumbersome. Still, it was impossible to travel anywhere and breastfeed. At that time you could not even feed your baby in public if you were completely covered. You were expected to go into a toilet. Because that is sanitary. Right? Even today many people argue or suggest women should do this. Think about that for a minute, think about why this is misogynistic. Why is it offensive? Why do we place more importance on the fact that some man may find breasts exciting than we do on the nourishment, well-being and safety of an infant?
So, I finally came to the conclusion that the pictures I saw long ago did not depict a primitive ideology. I think, perhaps, the more primitive is the one we seek to overcome today, for it is one of coveting and human ownership. Breastfeeding does not demean a woman in any way. Misogynists demean women for breastfeeding. It has been taught to us as unacceptable behavior, but it only is so because we yielded to the opinions of people with, evidently, very naughty minds. We accepted that it was uncouth in public because breasts were sexual organs. If we decide to see something one way, we can decide to see it another. Collectively, that will not happen overnight. But we can begin the process by teaching our children, both boys and girls, what breasts are for. Do not teach children to be offended by breastfeeding, and they won't be. We can support local, state and federal legislation to protect women's rights to feed their infants, however, breastfeeding is perfectly legal in most states. (Idaho, time to catch up with the rest of the world.) The real problem is public harassment. To defeat this, we must continue to stand together and support businesses and venues which provide friendly atmospheres for nursing mothers. Our daughters will grow up with a healthier self-image and our sons will have greater respect for women and their bodies.
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I stumbled over this artist some time ago – he is Robert Rickhoff who seems to be an incredible photo manipulist. Some misplaced items appear where they should not so to draw your attention to the absurd. It appears that this is yet another modern art form gaining in popularity and acceptance and is becoming more pervasive through common photo software.
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Pure Fashion is a faith-based program that encourages teen girls to live, act, and dress in accordance with their dignity as children of God. Pure Fashion focuses on guiding young women ages 14 to 18 to become confident, competent leaders who live the virtues of modesty and purity in their schools and communities. Through a 7 month Model Training Program that covers public speaking, manners and social graces, hair and make up artistry, personal presentation, and much more, Pure Fashion models learn the importance of living a life in accordance with God's will and fostering a life of grace through purity of heart, mind, and body. The Pure Fashion program culminates in a fashion show featuring clothing that is pretty but not provocative, trendy but still tasteful.
Pure Fashion works with local leaders, clergy, and lay people to promote the virtue of modesty, protect and preserve purity, and foster an awareness of the dignity of the human person.
Pure Fashion hopes to positively impact the fashion industry by motivating customers to choose clothing and accessories that are fun and fresh, yet modest and respectful of the dignity of the human person.
The Pure Fashion Chairwoman and her committee work together to implement the program in their church, school or city-wide program. The program consists of a 7-month training course for the models, ending in a Fashion show, organized by the local chairwoman and her committee.
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Our second morning in Luang Prabang began since 3 AM to get ready to join the traditional alms-giving with sticky rice that starts at 5.30 AM every morning, it was a Buddhist holy day on our visit (we were lucky) but in Thailand is the next day. We have a similar tradition, but we use regular rice instead of sticky rice. We walked along the street to the point that the monks will pass (as guided in the given map from the hotel). There was a lot of stalls that you can get the set of sticky rice and breast cloth to put across your shoulder (we were told that it is their tradition to have a breast cloth during this ceremony). But I recommend buying those sticky rice set from the morning market if you could walk in the early morning (it is a bit far from my accommodation). Our sticky rice has finished before 209 monks arrived, we decided to head back and have some sleep before breakfast.
Breakfast starts from 7.30 – 10.30 AM, we can order from the given menu, unlike many hotels that provide a buffet breakfast. We emptied our dishes quickly, and I offered an idea to have a chilly walk to a local coffee shop. We chose a small coffee shop not far from our guesthouse (less than 10 minutes by walk). The temperature was a bit cool but beautiful atmosphere. We touched the slow life environment of the living hood there, but also a lot of tourists. What makes this town attract people around the World? It could be nice weather, friendly people and the local tradition that remains until present. I would escape from a hectic life in Bangkok Metropolis where I was born and even Doha where I have been worked for a decade to such peaceful town here. If you are looking for a place to rest, where your answer is.
Time to cast off the coffee shop and start the first trip of the day. We walked up to the north to Mae Khong River and kept walking along the river until reached Wat Xieng Thong. The view along the river, we spotted a hotel boat, canvas paints sells and a lot of guided tours that annoyed me by kept following us for a while.
Fact: Wat Xieng Thong is a Buddhist temple on the northern tip of the peninsula of Luang Prabang, Laos. Wat Xieng Thong is one of the most important of Lao monasteries and remains a significant monument to the spirit of religion and traditional art. (Wikipedia)
Information: The entry fee is KIP 20,000 (USD 2.34). The proper and polite attire required.
Not many tourists in the morning, we could walk around and get inside chapels and pray. There is a Buddha statute named Pra-Man which is kept inside the locked chapel and will be brought out only once a year on 21st April for the traditional holy ceremony in Luang Prabang. People are not allowed to get inside this chapel. I went inside a building where keeps various Buddha statues and the golden sculptured 7 heads of the king of Nagas that I guess it is used for Pra-Man ceremony.
We left the temple and used the different road heading to the national museum which is our next target. Unfortunately, it was closed when we arrived and will reopen again at 4 PM. So time to have lunch, we were told that the spicy papaya salad in Luang Prabang is a must. I followed the map that I got info from the internet where the recommended restaurant is, and again it was not open until evening. With no choice, we randomly pick a restaurant on the way back. We order spicy papaya salad, grilled chicken and juice. What surprised me is coconut juice, it is not juice, but they use coconut milk blended with ice, OMG. I felt eating a thick cream.
Papaya salad was not much impressed, it was too sweet, but grilled chicken was superb. The sweet-scent and savoury flavour of Laos coriander seasoned the chicken very well. We paid around USD 12 in total.
The national museum and royal palace schedule were shifted to the next day. We couldn't do anything but tried to look up from outside.
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Rapper C-BO has long been known for his no-holds-barred, shock-filled, self-described "killer style" of gangsta rap. Ever since his debut album Gas Chamber sixteen years ago, the Sacramento rapper has been consistently satisfying his dedicated legions of hardcore rap fans with both controversy and countless releases. In addition to a string of solo albums, he has also collaborated on songs or albums with the likes of first cousin E40, 2Pac, Yukmouth, Killa Tay, Spice-1, Master P, Brotha Lynch Hung, as well as his crew Mob Figaz, to name but a few.
Unlike so many self-described "gangsta" rappers, Shawn "C-BO" Thomas is genuinely 'gangsta'. Growing up in the notorious gang-filled Garden Block of Sacramento, the artist became a member of the Crips while barely into his teens, and openly admits his past involvement in drug dealing and other gang related crimes before he became a full time recording artist. His rap name stands for Cowboy: "I got the name cowboy from being around guns all the time," he told me in a 1997 interview.
Not surprisingly, that lifestyle resulted in C-BO's spending several periods of his life incarcerated from his teens onwards. It was in jail in 1993 that he first met Killa Tay, who he would later collaborate with. And it was also during a separate stint in the Sacramento County Jail that he collaborated with fellow inmate X-Raided on writing some music. In fact, it was X-Raided who wrote the song "Deadly Game" for C-BO, a song that later landed C-BO back in jail and caused a national controversy -- drawing attention and outrage amongst freedom of speech advocates while simultaneously only further fueling C-BO's notorious reputation amongst hardcore rap fans.
One collaboration in particular by the artist would give him his biggest exposure ever. In 1996 he worked with 2Pac on the album All Eyez On Me (on the two songs "Ain't Hard To Find" and "War Stories") which would sell over 10 million copies in the US alone and to this day is considered by many critics and fans alike to be one of the greatest rap albums of all time. Further assisting in raising C-BO's profile was the distribution that his label AWOL inked with Noo Trybe/Virgin by the release of his 1998 album Til' My Casket Drops. This album contains with more of the artist's trademark mob/ghetto tales and features collaborations from such fellow Bay Area rap stars as his cousin E-40 (with whom he had previously collaborated for the 1995 single "Birds In The Kitchen"), Spice-1 (with whom he would work with again, including on the 2006 album Trilogy Thug Lords along with Yukmouth), Mac Mall, JT the Bigga Figga, Lunasicc, Big Syke, fellow AWOL act female emcee Marvaless, Tupac proteges Outlaw Immortals, Killa Tay (with whom he would later collaborate on the 2006 album Moment Of Truth), 151, Pizzo, and the Mob Figaz.
In keeping with his gangsta rap stage image, C-BO has had numerous run-ins with the law, especially during the nineties-- a decade that the artist spent much of behind bars. One incident occurred in November 1994 during a picnic and video shoot for the song "4 Deep" in Sacramento's Meadow View Park. As reported by Contra Costa Times, Sacramento police accused C-BO of pulling out a gun and shooting several shots in the air amid rival gang members. The shots incited a fight that left one fan dead and three others injured. Since then, C-BO was on the FBI's radar, something that caught up with him in April 1996 in Cincinnati where he was arrested by local police who found a loaded handgun and one pound of marijuana in his possession.
C-BO disputed this claim, saying that he only had a very small amount of weed on him. Regardless, the arrest cut short the recording of his album One Life 2 Live, which was to have included tracks with 2Pac, Too $hort, Scarface, and Snoop Dogg. C-BO was moved back to California where he was incarcerated in Soledad State Prison. In July 1997 he was released early on parole after signing an agreement in which the unprecedented promise was made that he not record lyrics that "promote the gang lifestyle [or are] anti law enforcement."
Not surprisingly, when his 1998 album Til My Casket Drops dropped in March, law enforcement took notice of the fact that it was was brimming with graphic gang tales and less than complimentary references to police and arrested the artist. As reported by the LA Times at the time the "State says [the]Sacramento performer violated parole conditions with [his] new album. Experts on 1st Amendment call the action 'outragous.'" The album track that law enforcement officials singled out was the X-Raided (who is serving a 31 year prison sentence for conspiracy to murder) penned "Deadly Game" with the lyrics "You better swing batter batter, swing/Cos once you get your third felony/Yeah 50 years you gotta bring/It's a deadly game of baseball/So when they try to pull you over, shoot em in the face ye'all." One loophole in the questionable legal case against the artist was that the lyrics were written and recorded before he signed the agreement to get out of jail.
In an interview I conducted with the artist at the time he stressed that, "Rapping about crime is very different from doing crime...I create a story based on something that happens on the street and put some kind of twist on it." Giving the example of another X-Raided collaboration off the same album, the song "357," whose lyrics include the line "I'm a legal weapon, registered and everything. Used by the police, dope dealers and your local gang," he said, "The concept of '357' is what a gun would say to you if it could talk." C-BO's incarceration over his lyrics got major national media attention and finally he was released from jail. In consequent years, the artist, who moved to Seattle for a time to get away from the heat in his hometown, toned down his confrontational lyrics but has still kept an edge to his mob style hip-hop and has remained quite prolific.
C-BO J's On My Feet (2008)
C-Bo still has a constant flow of solo releases, averaging about one a year and including 1999's The Final Chapter, 2000's Enemy Of The State, 2001's Life As A Rider, 2002's West Coast Mafia, 2003's The Mobfather The Return Of The Bald Head Nut & West Side Ryders (the first in the three part series), and 2006's Money To Burn (he also released a Money To Burn Mixtape) and 100 Racks In My Pack. Besides all of those solo albums, C-BO has also done several noteworthy collaboration recording projects such as 1999's C-BO's Mob Figaz including The Jacka plus appearances from Yukmouth & Spice-1 and more, 2001's Blocc Movement with Brotha Lynch Hung, 2004's In Thugz We Trust with Yukmouth, and 2006's Moment Of Truth with Killa Tay in addition to the other collaborations listed above. In 2007 C-BO signed a record deal with G-Unit star Young Buck's newly formed label, Ca$hville Records, with Ready 4 The World and The Rise To Fame slated as releases. There are also some recommended C-BO collections out there, including 1995's popular Best Of C-BO, 2001's C-BO's Best Appearances, and 2007's West Coast Classics.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — If you are an old school hockey fan you have to hope the Columbus Blue Jackets take the rest of the regular season off.
That way, the Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers can resume a rivalry that's among the most storied in the NHL.
The Rangers are currently in second place in the Metropolitan Division with 93 points and two games to play. The Flyers and Blue Jackets each have 91, but Philly has three games left, one more than Columbus.
Under the NHL's new playoff format, the teams that finish second and third in each division meet in the first round of the playoffs. Whichever of these three teams ends up fourth will be a wild card and get either top seed Boston or No. 2 Pittsburgh.
Let's assume, for the sake of wanting to see hated rivals do battle yet again, that the Rangers and Flyers do end up meeting in the first round. Rangers forward Brian Boyle said Wednesday he can imagine no better scenario.
"We're not focusing on (the Flyers) yet, but in terms of them as a team, there's no friends, really," Boyle said. "They play hard, and it's effective. Late in games they play hard. They're willing to do whatever.
"It's a pretty good rivalry," he continued, adding, "because we hate each other."
The Rangers and Flyers split four meetings this season, with the home team winning every game. On the other hand, the Blueshirts also split with the Blue Jackets, with the road team winning every game. So, regardless of who they play in the first round, the Rangers will in all likelihood have a fight on their hands.
The New York-Philadelphia playoff rivalry dates to 1974, with the teams meeting in 10 series since. The Flyers have won six times, including the last three. The teams last met in the postseason in the 1996-97 Eastern Conference finals, a series Philadelphia took in five games before being swept in the Stanley Cup finals by Detroit.
The Flyers have won 27 of 47 playoff games against the Rangers.
The Rangers have been excellent down the stretch this season, going 11-5-2 since March 5, and they've done it despite injuries to key personnel. That said, their all-hands-on-deck mentality will have to continue at least a little longer. Top defenseman Ryan McDonagh, who is day-to-day with a left shoulder injury, participated in a full practice Wednesday for the first time since his injury. However, he will not play on Thursday against Buffalo, head coach Alain Vigneault said.
Vigneault also said it's unlikely McDonagh will suit up before the playoffs begin.
Left wing Chris Kreider has skated this week, but has been unable to use his surgically repaired left hand. He is expected to miss at least the first round of the playoffs.
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Speech given at the opening dinner of Consilium, hosted by the Centre for Independent Studies, in Coolum, Queensland
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Greg has suggested that tonight I try to answer the question "Why bother with public life?" And I'm delighted to do that, because it's a question I often ask myself!
As we all know, lots of people live in the public eye - sports heroes, Hollywood actors, TV newsreaders, high profile politicians. All of them are susceptible to various kinds of abuse and denigration - if you think it's only politicians who are subject to abuse, ask how Graham Henry feels after the loss of two games against the Springboks last week!
But tonight I'm talking about why anybody would consciously choose to go into public life, in the sense of seeking some kind of involvement in public policy-making.
My own involvement in public life has been of three kinds.
First, I've been a member of umpteen advisory boards and committees - the Monetary and Economic Council, the Committee of Inquiry into Inflation Accounting, and the Planning Council in the seventies; I chaired the four committees which recommended the extensive reform of the New Zealand tax system, and was a member of the Market Development Board, in the eighties; and in the nineties I was a member of the committee which recommended that we not establish a permanent body to monitor the insurance industry but instead rely on a mandatory rating system.
Second, I've been, for 14 years, the Governor of the Reserve Bank.
And third, I've been a Member of Parliament, and Leader of the Opposition.
In all three roles, I've attracted a degree of critical media attention, though the nature of that attention varied greatly.
As a member of an advisory board, I sometimes attracted disagreement, very occasionally strong disagreement, but it was rarely personal.
As Governor of the central bank, I often attracted intense disagreement and hostility, whether I was tightening monetary policy or easing it: perhaps surprisingly, I used to get more letters of complaint when I was cutting interest rates than when I was raising them, no doubt because those with savings in the bank typically have more time to write letters (or perhaps are more literate!) than big borrowers. But even in that role, while people often thought I was seriously misguided, very few people questioned my integrity.
But of course in politics, one invites the full wrath of at least half the population - and often much more! And people question your integrity, and your motives, and often your parentage!
Apart altogether from the abuse, public life certainly has plenty of frustrations, as many people in this room know only too well.
For starters, we live in countries which practise democracy, a system of government which Churchill once called the worst form of government, with the exception of all the alternatives. It's a system of government which invites the majority to exploit the minority - a system where governments have learnt that robbing Peter to pay Paul guarantees them the support of Paul; a system where taking $25,000 from one person and giving $5,000 to five others almost guarantees the government a net four votes.
I don't know enough about Australian history to know whether it was true in this country, but in New Zealand there was little political support in Parliament for a progressive income tax (under which the affluent pay not only more tax than the indigent, but proportionately much more as well) until the advent of universal suffrage. As Paul Goldsmith notes in his excellent history of taxation in New Zealand, the first New Zealand election which adopted the principle of one man one vote in 1890 (women were not to get the vote until three years later) saw the victory of the Liberal Party, "which promised tax cuts for most people but also saw a new, progressive tax that would extract more money from a small, wealthy minority".1
And thus it's been ever since, with the result that in most democratic countries a small minority of citizens pay the overwhelming majority of the tax.
Is this fair? Does it lead to policies which would enhance the well-being of all citizens? Almost certainly not, but it's the reality, curbed only by the freedom which the more affluent have to move to friendlier climes abroad.
We see the same factor driving government spending. During the 2005 election campaign in New Zealand, the Labour Government announced that, if re-elected, they would waive interest on all student debt. They justified the move on the grounds that it would encourage students to remain in New Zealand rather than going abroad. It was always an absurd argument - only 6% of the student loans outstanding at the time were owed by people who were outside New Zealand. But it had enormous political appeal, and absurd and damaging though the move was, the present Government seems certain to leave the policy in place. There are just too many people who would be angered by any move to a more sensible policy. Now, those who want taxpayers to provide totally free tertiary education are lamenting the huge increase in student debt - as if an increase in student debt after it becomes interest-free should be a surprise. Anybody too stupid to realise that they should take as much interest-free money as they're offered is too stupid to be at a tertiary institution!
If it were not for the virtually inevitable tendency for undemocratic states to degenerate into corrupt kleptocracies, those who genuinely want to see our societies have more freedom and more prosperity would favour a move away from a system of government which gives as much political voice to somebody who can't even name the current Prime Minister as it does to, well, us!
I also find the media a source of intense frustration, and I suspect that most others holding public office have the same sense of frustration. And I'm not just talking political bias, though there's plenty of that, but rather the sheer superficiality of so much of the media, particularly of the television variety.
In New Zealand, we have two state-owned free-to-air TV channels and for superficiality they're very hard to beat.
A few months ago, the new Government introduced legislation to allow some employers the right to dismiss new employees within a 90 day probationary period. It was very timid legislation, restricting that right to companies with fewer than 20 employees. It was, among other things, a way of helping those on the margins of the workforce get into employment - recently-arrived migrants, those with relatively poor education, those who've served time in prison, those with health issues and so on. But how did the state-owned TV channel handle it on the news? As an attack on those on the margins of the workforce. They showed an interview with an autistic man who lamented that he had found it very hard to get employment before this legislation came along, and would now find it even harder. Nobody challenged this patently ridiculous claim, and the Government was made to look uncaring and callous.
More recently, the new Government canned an extremely expensive tunnel option for extending a major highway in Auckland - a tunnel widely seen as proposed by the last Government only because the highway ran through Helen Clark's electorate. And who did the state-owned TV channel interview for a reaction to this proposal? A nine-year-old child, concerned that the alternative route proposed for the highway might affect his school grounds!
Personally, I'm in favour of having a state-owned television network - provided it is in some meaningful way different from the commercial TV networks and that it provides balanced and in-depth news coverage. What we have now is for the most part appalling crap - where Michael Jackson's death is lead item on the main news bulletin for days on end, but where the result of the presidential election in Indonesia - the only predominantly Muslim democracy in the world, and a country of huge potential importance both to your country and to mine - gets no mention at all.
And then there's the frustration of what at least appears like politically motivated behaviour by the organs of state which are supposed to be politically neutral.
In New Zealand, the police refused to prosecute a Labour Party Minister for physical abuse of children, refused to prosecute the Labour Party Prime Minister for forging a painting and, much more serious, refused to prosecute the Labour Party for a flagrant abuse of the electoral spending laws in 2005.
But they did prosecute a National MP for driving a tractor up the steps of Parliament in a case which the court threw out as being entirely without merit, and failed to take any serious steps to investigate a major breach of security around the office of the Leader of the Opposition.
(For the benefit of the Australians in the room, a left-wing activist published a book based around the theft of nearly 500 emails written to or by me and my close advisers over a two year period - plus other stolen material - and nine months after I lodged a formal complaint with the police about this, the police had failed to interview any of the most obvious suspects. When I asked when on earth they were going to do that, they explained that they couldn't conduct the interviews in the near future because of the APEC Leaders meeting - in Sydney three months later!)
One of the toughest things about public life is the moral dilemma around truth-telling.
Early last month, Bagehot argued in The Economist that lying "is an automatic, necessary, sometimes virtuous skill. For politicians it is an essential one." 2 I don't want to accept that view, but I can see why it's a widespread view of politicians. I can even see why Bagehot may be right.
I can't ever recall telling a lie in politics, but I was extraordinarily lucky: I came into politics with a sufficiently strong reputation that I could sometimes get away with taking a view which was slightly different from my Party's view.
One of the huge differences I noticed between being Governor of the Reserve Bank and being a politician is the difference between being somebody who could call the shots as I saw them and being part of a team where decisions are made by consensus.
Every Governor of a central bank has enormous influence over the monetary policy decisions made by that central bank. In New Zealand, all monetary policy decisions are made by the Governor alone. Of course, if he's wise the Governor will listen carefully to the views of his senior colleagues, and of board members. But ultimately, the decisions are made by the Governor. He is able to say exactly what his best judgement tells him to say.
How different it is in politics - at least in countries like yours and mine, with relatively rigid party systems, where members of the caucus are expected to defend a decision reached by the caucus even if they personally disagree with it.
And of course, that's even more true of Ministers of the Crown: they are expected to strongly defend decisions made by the Cabinet, irrespective of their personal views. Sometimes they're forced to attack decisions made by a previous Government of which they were a senior Minister.
Is it any wonder that many people see politicians as dishonest?
I well recall debating in the late eighties with a group of sanctimonious types who were incensed that the government of the day had reduced entitlements to the taxpayer-funded retirement scheme by imposing a surcharge on it, despite having promised not to do so before the election. I asked them two questions. First, could the government have been elected if they had admitted their intention to reduce the entitlement before the election? Second, could the country afford not to reduce the entitlement in the long-term? They answered "no" to both questions, and I pointed out that perhaps they were saying that the government therefore had a moral obligation to lie - not a conclusion I felt at all comfortable with.
Of course, the Governor of a central bank with a pegged currency is expected to lie about whether the currency will be devalued, no matter how much planning for that eventuality is going on within the central bank. It is in the national interest that he does so.
At the moment, I understand there are a number of members in the National Party caucus in New Zealand who are highly dubious about claims that human activity is causing significant global warming. In the relatively rigid party system which we have in New Zealand, and I suspect you have in Australia, they dare not admit that publicly. They are forced to lie - or at very least to obfuscate.
There are serious dangers in hiding your true opinions. When I was Leader of the Opposition, a friend sent me some words of wisdom. He said that, when you're on your way up in political life, you're always tempted to hide your true principles, or your views on important issues, lest by expressing them openly you lose critical support from those whose support you may need. You put them, he said, like roses in a box - you cover them up to bring them out when you reach the position of influence to which you aspire. Alas, when you achieve that position and open the box, the roses are dead.
I look back on a discussion in caucus before I became Leader, early in 2003, when we were discussing what position the National Party should take on supporting our traditional allies who were about to go to war in Iraq. I'm as pro-American as any New Zealander I've ever met, but I thought the idea of invading Iraq when we had absolutely no proof that they had weapons of mass destruction was nuts. The overwhelming majority of the caucus thought that we should go wherever our allies went. I said nothing.
As Martin Luther King once said, "our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
In due course, I paid a price for my silence in caucus. After I became Leader a few months later, I felt I had no choice other than to continue the policy of support for US action in Iraq, and was branded a lackey of the US - a reputation which may well have cost me the 2005 election.
So why do people bother about public life?
It may be hard for most of you to believe, but I believe that, even in countries where politics is largely free from corruption, like Australia and New Zealand, some do it for money. Certainly, for some back-benchers and for many ministers, their total remuneration - taking into account the non-salary benefits - significantly exceeds what they could earn outside Parliament.
And of course in some countries political power provides plenty of scope for personal enrichment through awarding contracts, or selling import licences or access to foreign exchange.
Some undoubtedly do it for the public profile, or for the sense of self-importance which political life can engender. Yes, there are brick-bats, hostile cartoons, and always the risk of serious reputational disaster, but much of the time in politics one is most closely surrounded by people who tell you what a great guy you are, what a great job you are doing, how crucial to the country's future you are - and after a time, you actually begin to believe it!
But I suspect that, at least when people first go into politics, they're motivated by the very highest ideals - to serve their fellow citizens, to help their country, perhaps even to help the world. I haven't done a proper survey, but I suspect that a disproportionate number of politicians come from a strongly religious upbringing. It's interesting to me that Gordon Brown is the child of a clergyman, as in New Zealand are Jenny Shipley, Richard Prebble and I. All of us would have been brought up to serve others and to love our neighbours as we love ourselves, and I have little doubt that that motivation played a crucial part for all of us going into public life.
And of course public life can be incredibly satisfying.
I look back with huge satisfaction at chairing the committee which designed the New Zealand Goods and Services Tax, widely regarded as one of the best of its type in the world; at eliminating the persistently high inflation which had dogged New Zealand for two decades; at pioneering an internationally unique relationship between government and central bank; at developing a new approach to banking supervision; at improving the efficiency of the central bank, so that staffing could be reduced from 550 to 180; at changing, at least to some degree, the nature of the political debate around race in New Zealand; at helping to lift the National Party's share of the vote from its lowest ever in 2002 to its highest level since 1990 in 2005.
Public life is where you have at least the chance to influence the broad sweep of policy - and improve the lives of all the citizenry.
Do I have regrets? Of course I do!
But actions speak louder than words: that I still believe that taking a chance on public life is eminently worthwhile is amply demonstrated by the fact that I've just agreed to take on the chairmanship of what we're calling the 2025 Taskforce, charged with recommending ways in which New Zealand can catch up with Australian living standards by 2025.
I certainly haven't tired of public life yet!
1 We won, you lost, eat that!, Paul Goldsmith, David Ling Publishing, 2008, p. 78.
2 The Economist, 11 July 2009.
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Would be completely gutting and season ending/plunging into irrelevance if we lost this game. Even more so because its at home.Going for a 1-0 win. COYB!
Anyone picking up tickets at Bullens Road tomorrow be advised there will be big queues due to issues with email confirmations not being sent out in some cases. Make sure you have the card you paid with and something that shows your customer number.( Just had email from the club about this )
Just when you think we're moving forwards towards being a professionally run club again....
Love a drama queen me !
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It looks like we won't be seeing Blake Shelton at a Britney Spears concert any time soon.
While live on stage at the ACM Awards Sunday, the Voice mentor gave his take on the singer's performance skills…and it wasn't pretty.
"If you don't like live music, then you need to go down the block and see Britney Spears," Shelton, who co-hosted the country music awards show with Luke Bryan, said.
Surprisingly, there was no cut away to Britney's sister, Jamie Lynn, who happened to be sitting in the audience (and no tweets about it just yet from either one).


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- Irish Woman doesn't know how to take me sometimes.
- Run the side of the minivan down a cement pole in a parking garage, but nobody gets hurt? No biggee. We've got more important things to worry about.
- Get laid off from a job? We'll survive. Not going to cry about it.
- Chew gum in a closed car when I'm already irritated by her choice of modern country music? Suddenly, she's married to an irrational twit.
- Having roses delivered to the house goes a long way toward proving that I'm worth keeping around for another year.
- The cost of getting useful information out of any technical training is getting through the first two hours of folks having trouble connecting to the website and introducing themselves.
- If you're going to sell me something as a 'neck knife', please be sure that the necklace attached to the sheath will fit around my head.
- When I tried it on, I looked like I'd crowned myself with a bladed weapon.
- Am I the only one who considers it rude to ask an instructor which of the assignments in a class can be ignored?
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Modern country is, with the exception of Chris Stapleton, absolute garbage
"It's the phylactery of my people."
Did you ask the trainer in front of other trainees?
Isn't "country music" an oxymoron??? 🙂
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As a widow , I continually try to be positive in the changes and growth that have emerged in my widowhood. Attending bereavement sessions around the holidays, I hear and see the word, "surviving".
Surviving to me connotes, a time of languish, a sacrifice and an insurmountable endurance. Most of us experiencing loss have felt fleeting moments of such, but then again we may find a single bright moment that leads the way to hope and renewal and even revival on this grief journey.
Holidays not only suggest shopping as with birthdays, Hanukkah and Christmas, but also include decorating, baking and traditional activities. Weaving new into old and old into new is what our life journey entails. How can you weave yours with what treasured memories and traditions speak to you and your loved ones?
Shopping: Keep it simple. Maybe this is a year that you exchange gift certificates only and plan a family trip or excursion after the holiday. Maybe this is a time when you ask others to do the shopping for you. Be kind to yourself. Relish holidays as a time of energy conservation and renewal rather than the have to's of past years.
Gifting of memories: I am not the best seamstress but I have friends that are talented in that arena. They could create a small quilt, a Christmas tree skirt, a table runner or even holiday place mats from your loved ones old clothes. It is a way of purposeful renewal and memory. Men's ties can be especially beautiful in a tree skirt as their shape flares out. Mom's old costume jewelry can be hot glued to inexpensive picture frames for gifts to family members and even used to adorn a Styrofoam ball and hung with a ribbon from the tree. Memories will remain. Using items gives them renewal and a sense of moving forward with honor.
Barter: This word may appear harsh but often in grief we know what we have in the way of items and "stuff" but don't know how to relinquish and to whom. Think about trading or bartering your extra tools for " x number " of handyman hours. Think about trading your lawnmower for lawn care for a year or your snow plow for plowing. Relinquishing an item does not mean it cannot come back into your space, but it can allow space for other things to come in and other activities that may be burdensome to you now. Remember holidays are about giving and giving to yourself is just as important as giving to others.
Decorating: This may be a year when the tree gets a little smaller or all the decorations are not put up. This may be a year when you ask a friend to adorn a wreath for you and you go on a citywide light walk instead of putting your lights up. This may be a year, when you are not the " hostess with the mostess" and visit someone else or even go on a cruise. My first year of widowhood I picked out a fresh palette of inexpensive ornaments for my tree. My first year of widowhood I did not bake and decorate the gingerbread houses, my daughter did. My first year of widowhood I did not stay home. Did it help? I do not remember, but it did help me realize that everything did not have to be the same way in order to cushion the void I was experiencing.
Aromas and Baking: The holiday season conjures up sights and sounds and smells. What speaks to you? What smells remind you of great childhood memories? What supports you? If you love the smell of evergreens, buy yourself a beautiful soy candle or bring in some pine cones seasoned with cinnamon and nutmeg. My grandmother's recipe for poppy seed strudel was a tradition and my favorite. My father, now deceased and I loved it. Grandma has also passed away but her recipe and her handwriting of the recipe linger. Have a friend , who wants to do something special for you, make a favorite recipe. Not only will you be nurtured with food but also memories. Putting spices into a crock pot to simmer, can create another avenue of creating memories. Add what spices or fruit that appeals to you now.
Holiday Cards: If someone sent me a card, I felt guilty that I did not send them one. I was too exhausted and "low" to respond during my first years of widowhood. I did respond in another way. The cards piled up during the holidays. Beginning January 1st, I pulled one from the basket each day and said a prayer for that family and gratitude for their outreach. In grief, in life, it all takes time. Give yourself time to allow for your unique gifts to unfold. ( I have even thought about sending Valentine cards instead, but never have done it. Let me know if that fits the bill for you!)
Outreach to Others: I found that giving to strangers during the holidays, sparked a gratitude that was hard to access in my loss. I envisioned the foster sisters that would open the gifts I sent. Receiving a photo and thank you note a month later I was not far off! I remembered the Christmas I received my Polly Play Pal doll , when everyone told me the large gift was an ironing board for my mom and hoped that the burlap bag with my untidy red yarn embroidery would keep them in wonderment for a while. I remembered the first warm reversible ski jacket I got as a gift and even remember the pattern and hoped that what I picked out for the Angel Tree family would be as warming and fun.
Reviving your holidays, bringing a little something new to the old, is what makes other beautiful traditions awaken. Remembering yourself, by placing yourself in a place of support is all that is required. Remember the magic and weave a small bit of change into your celebrations.
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Room For Change: " Waiting" or "Wanting to Get Out" Rooms
Waiting Rooms. Just the sound of "Wait" conjures up the sense of not moving forward. "Wait" is a loss of momentum. So what benefits can waiting rooms fulfill for those in health care and other industry services? Are they simply " Wanting to Get Out" Rooms instead?
Waiting rooms, are like your front door, as they speak of your nature and your mindset of the day.
Waiting rooms, are like a incubator, for mental attitude to swell or mind lists to be congealed.
Waiting rooms , are like a hand written invitation, to an upcoming event and the expectations associated with it.
Do waiting rooms fulfill your needs? Are your service providers doing you a service in their waiting rooms? How are you intuitively reacting to the setting.
After numerous medical waiting rooms attended by myself and my husband in his care during his terminal illness I became a big critic of waiting rooms without realizing it. My impatience in the medical process and time I felt was wasted before and after our actual appointments lead me dreading another appointment date in most facilities or offices.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute was the first one to "speak" to me of compassion and comfort while retaining a business and service attitude of efficiency and individualization. Their waiting rooms fulfilled my needs.
What does the physical "room" exhibit?
Not only is visual pleasure comforting for the patient/client but for the staff. It sets the stage for what is to come. Physical elements can include seating, lighting, privacy elements, accessibility to water or beverages, aromas, cleanliness and reading material. Physical also includes how the flow of clients in and out proceeds and how those "waiting" are integrated within the process. Physical can include how your voice or those of the staff travels within these walls and what adorns the walls if anything.
My pet peeves include:
Dirty upholstery or seating surfaces
Lack of lighting or sources of lighting
Outdated reading material and neglected
Uncomfortable seating or limited seating
Lack of privacy of conversation with staff
Dust laden silk or artificial plants
Left over furniture and accessories from other spaces flung together
Faded pictures or photos adorning the walls
Overstuffed literature for client left unattended and in disarray
Inadequate variety of seating to accommodate different physical abilities
These ten are a fraction of what others may find discomforting within such a space.
Suggestions to consider within such a space could include:
Rocking chairs
Fish tanks
Wall mounted water fountains
Current reading material
Nature DVD and photos
Good and varied lighting as well as natural lighting
Clean surfaces
Beverage station with neat disposal setup
Variety of seating options, i.e. armless and with arms, soft and firm
Variety in shapes and size of seating or side tables.
Availability of blankets for comfort and temperature control
Private screening area as needed for confidential conversation or scheduling
Lack of intense aroma ( neither medicinal nor strong artificial)
Yesterday I visited a new dentist and his office. Not only did I do a mental checklist of what was pleasing to me, but overviewed what others might find comforting, pleasing and mind setting for their upcoming appointment.
The office included:
Efficient directions to the location and well marked door
Well appointed beverage station and welcoming staff upon entry
Several seating options around large round coffee table laden with current magazines
Chairs that swiveled to adjust client's perspective and comfort
Overhead lighting and ambient lighting
Wall mounted water fountain with backlight
Advertising material on adjacent table for inquiry, not on every surface
Separate area for interviewing new patient
Blankets available during session
Staff conversation at low level
Clean surfaces
Earthy color scheme
Waiting rooms set the stage for what is about to happen and how you, as a client ,will be serviced . More important it initiates the mindset you will bring into the interaction with the provider. Why not maximize all areas ?
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