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In the furious debate gripping America over the future of its health system, one voice has been lost amid the shouting. It is that of a distinguished gynaecologist, aged 67, called Dr Joseph Manley.
For 35 years Manley had a thriving health clinic in Kansas. He lived in the most affluent neighbourhood of Kansas City and treated himself to a new Porsche every year. But this is not a story about doctors' remuneration and their lavish lifestyles.
In the late 1980s he began to have trouble with his own health. He had involuntary muscle movements and difficulty swallowing. Fellow doctors failed to diagnose him, some guessing wrongly that he had post-traumatic stress from having served in the airforce in Vietnam.
Eventually his lack of motor control interfered with his work to the degree that he was forced to give up his practice. He fell instantly into a catch 22 that he had earlier seen entrap many of his own patients: no work, no health insurance, no treatment.
He remained uninsured and largely untreated for his progressively severe condition for the following 11 years. Blood tests that could have diagnosed him correctly were not done because he couldn't afford the $200. Having lost his practice, he lost his mansion on the hill and now lives in a one-bedroom apartment in the suburbs. His Porsches have made way for bangers. Many times this erstwhile pillar of the medical establishment had to go without food in order to pay for basic medicines. In 2000 Manley finally found the help he needed, at a clinic in Kansas City that acts as a rare safety net for uninsured people. He was swiftly diagnosed with Huntington's disease, a degenerative genetic illness, and now receives regular medical attention through the clinic.
So how does he feel about the way the debate in the US has come to be dominated by Republican-inspired attacks on Britain's NHS and other "socialised" health services which give people the treatment they need even if they cannot afford to pay for it?
"I find that repulsive and an absolutely bone-headed way to go," he says. "When I started out practising I certainly didn't expect this would happen. I thought the system would take care of everybody."
Over the last month President Obama's attempts to live up to his election promise to extend healthcare to all Americans has stalled in the face of a sustained rightwing guerrilla attack. Opponents of Obama's reforms have succeeded in distracting attention from Manley and the 46 million other medically uninsured, swinging the focus instead on to the "evils" of publicly funded healthcare. The fear tactics were epitomised by Sarah Palin's wholly inaccurate claim that the reforms would set up "death panels" that would force euthanasia on to older people.
Such scaremongering has dismayed and infuriated Sharon Lee, the doctor who now treats Manley in Kansas City. "I'm very angry, very angry," she says. "Many of the people I treat have already been in front of a death panel and have lost – a death panel controlled by insurance companies. I see people dying at least monthly because we have been unable to get them what they needed."
Lee's clinic, Family Health Care, is a refuge of last resort. It picks up the pieces of lives left shattered by a health system that has failed them, and tries to glue them back together. It exists largely outside the parameters of formal health provision, raising funds through donations and paying all its 50 staff – Lee included – a flat rate of just $12 an hour.
Poverty line
Lee has just opened an outpost of her clinic in the outlying neighbourhood of Quindaro, an area of boarded-up houses and deserted factories where work is hard to find and crack plentiful and a per capita income is $11,025. A third of the population is below the federally defined poverty line.
And yet the local health department has decided the only health centre in the area will be closed by the end of this year and moved 30 blocks west to a much more prosperous part of the city where income levels are five times higher. Before long, one of the poorest areas of Kansas – of America – will be left without a single doctor, with only Lee's voluntary services to fall back on.
Even that is academic. Many of the residents of Quindaro were unable to see a doctor in any case – because they were uninsured. In Kansas, anyone who is able-bodied but unemployed is not eligible for government-backed health insurance as is anyone earning more than 39% of federal poverty levels. That leaves a huge army of jobless and low-income working families who are left in limbo. "It's the working poor who are most at disadvantage," Lee says.
As a result, she sees the same pattern repeating itself over and over. People with no insurance avoid seeking medical help for fear of the bills that follow, until it is too late. "When people come in they are already very, very sick. They have avoided seeing the doctor thinking that something may clear up, hoping they may be getting better."
Beth Gabaree, who came in to see Lee for the first time this morning, has experiences that sound extreme but are in fact quite typical. She has diabetes and a heart condition. Until two years ago they were controlled through ongoing treatment paid for by her husband's work-based health insurance. But he was in a motorbike crash that pulverised his right leg and put him out of work.
That Catch 22 again: no work, no insurance, no treatment. Except in this case it was Beth who went without treatment, in order to put her husband's dire needs first. He receives ongoing specialist care that costs them $500 a go, leaving nothing for her. So she stopped seeing a doctor, and effectively began self-medicating. She cut down from two different insulin drugs to regulate her diabetes to one, and restricted her heart drugs. "I do what I think I need to do to keep four steps out of hospital. I know that's not the right thing, but I can't justify seeing the doctor when my family's already in money trouble."
The problem is that she hasn't kept herself four steps out of hospital. Her health deteriorated and earlier this year she became bedridden. Even then, it took her family several days to persuade her to go to the emergency room because she didn't want to incur the hospital costs. "It was hard enough without that," she says.
After an initial consultation, Lee has now booked Gabaree for a new round of tests for her diabetes and is arranging for free medication. "It's wonderful," Gabaree says. "I'm so blessed. I didn't know you could get this sort of help."
That she sees basic healthcare as a blessing, not as a right, speaks volumes about attitudes among the mass of the working poor. Also revealing is the fact that Gabaree has absolutely no idea about the debate raging across America. She hasn't even heard of Obama's push for health reform, nor the Republican efforts to prevent it. "I don't watch much television," she says.
That provides Palin et al with a massive advantage: the 46 million people who would most benefit from Obama's plans are also among the least educated and informed, and thus the least able to make political waves. All of which leaves Lee fearful about the prospects for change. She has, after all, been here before – in 1993 when Hillary Clinton's pitch to overhaul the health system foundered. That attempt ended up doing more harm than good from Lee's perspective. Many of her most important donors stopped funding the centre because they assumed that the White House was fixing the problems. After the Clinton reforms crashed, brought down by the same rightwing assault that Obama is now enduring, it took many months for the centre's funds to regain their pre-1993 levels.
Lee fears history could be repeating itself. This time round there is the recession more unemployed equals more uninsured people who come knocking on the door of Family Health Care. Last year Lee and one other doctor between them dealt with 14,000 visits, and the numbers are rising daily. All of which leaves Lee part despairing, part determined to fight even harder for the bare minimum of human dignity. The frustration is that every day she must beg and plead with other health providers for simple treatments for her patients. "It drives me crazy with frustration," she says.
She rattles off a litany of horror stories. There was the man who walked into the clinic with a brain tumour. It took Lee three months to get him an MRI scan and another two to get an appointment with a neurosurgeon. Or the patient whose nerves in his neck were pushed against his spinal cord so that he lost use of both arms; by the time Lee found a way of getting him an MRI he was so sick he had to be operated on immediately. Or the woman who had such heavy periods she would wind up in ER every three months requiring a blood transfusion. What she really needed was a hysterectomy. "It took us almost a year to beg hospitals until she finally did get a hysterectomy," Lee says.
These are the stories, the broken lives, that have been obscured by the fury generated by the Republican rump. Unless Obama finds a way to regain the political initiative, to remind Americans that only nine months ago they voted overwhelmingly for change, then the future of millions appears bleak.
"Here's what I'd like to ask Palin," Lee says. "People without health insurance are dying, here in America, right now. So I'd like to ask her: how does that fit into your vision of good and evil, Sarah Palin?"
Obama's plan: health of the nation
What is Obama trying to do?
The goal is to increase access to healthcare by regulating costs. His plan would guarantee all citizens eligibility for care, but the government is not proposing a "single-payer system", like the NHS. Instead, private health insurers would continue to operate under new rules that would lower premiums and remove loopholes that allow them to avoid paying for treatment when it is most needed. Per person, healthcare costs are higher in the US than in any other country, and have been rising faster than the level of inflation. The quality of care is less of an issue — although citizens with solid insurance may be frustrated by the paperwork and costs associated with the current system, they have fewer complaints about their doctors and hospitals.
Who's opposing Obama's plan?
Those who fear the government would introduce congressional "death panels" to make end-of-life decisions for the elderly. The insurance industry is worried about their bottom lines. Members of Congress and voters on the left and right are concerned about the future tax burden. Many Americans also object to any increase in government involvement in their personal lives.
How can healthcare costs get so out of hand?
Many insurance plans do not cover "pre-existing conditions", so it can be difficult for people who have a chronic ailment to secure cover. Loopholes allow insurers to refuse reimbursement even if the policyholder did not know they had a particular condition when they took out insurance. "Lifetime caps" allow insurers to set a maximum amount of cover.
Who are the uninsured?
Up to 46 million Americans are uninsured, because they are unemployed, or their employer does not provide cover, or because they do not qualify for existing government-funded healthcare. People 65 and older can qualify for Medicare, the poor can qualify for Medicaid, veterans and members of the military can qualify for Veterans Health Administration and Tricare and children can be covered under a programme called SCHIP. Those overlooked by the system include the young just entering the workforce, the self-employed, the unemployed and people who work for small businesses.
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We have written about the U.N.'s laughable attempt to reform its Human Rights Commission (HRC). That reform purports to address issues that made the HRC such as embarrassment, including the fact that some of the world's worst human rights offenders, such as Sudan, Libya, participated in and even chaired the body. However, the new plan does not establish strong membership eligibility criteria and, in fact, provides no reason to believe that the worst human rights offenders won't continue to serve on the HRC.
U.N. amabassador John Bolton led a valiant fight to defeat the sham reform. Unfortunately, he came up more than 100 votes short, and the Bush administration has agreed to participate the "reformed" body. Apparently, we will support it financially and may seek a seat.
Senate Majority Leader Frist has written a letter to President Bush voicing his opposition to U.S. participation. Frist urges the president to organize a council of democratic governments outside of the U.N. to monitor, examine, and expose human rights abuses around the world. Unfortunately, it seems that the administration no longer has enough steam seriously to contemplate taking such a strong stand in the face of what Frist aptly calls "global peer pressure."


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I would like to get my girlfriend a digital voice recorder for Christmas — she already has a nice one, but it doesn't allow her to extract the files and put them on a computer where she might edit them, save them, etc., which she had been lamenting recently (and I kept my ears open, wisely! )
I thought I'd start here for any leads — any of you have/know of such a device?
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The Eagles announced they have named Anthony Patch as Director of College Scouting and Rick Mueller as Pro Personnel Executive.
"We are very pleased to promote Anthony and add Rick to our scouting staff," GM Howie Roseman said in a statement. "Anthony has been one of our top talent evaluators during his tenure as a college scout, has great relationships throughout football and is an extremely hard worker. Rick brings a wealth of NFL experience while giving us a new and fresh set of eyes to evaluate incoming talent. They will both play a role in helping us prepare for this offseason of free agency and the draft."
Patch, 33, spent the last 10 seasons on the Eagles scouting staff. He first joined the team in 2002 as a college scouting coordinator, was quickly promoted to college scout before being named assistant director of college scouting in 2010.
Mueller is a veteran of 15 NFL seasons with New Orleans (2000-08) and Jacksonville (1994-2000). With the Saints, he was vice president of player personnel from 2006-08 and director of player personnel from 2000-2006. He worked as the Jaguars director of college scouting (1998-2000) after 5 years as a college scout (1994-98).
Mueller, 44, most recently spent two seasons as an executive in the UFL, serving as general manager of Omaha in 2010 and as vice president and general manager for all four teams in their inaugural season of 2009.
The most significant move in the personnel department will involve finding a replacement for Ryan Grigson, who left to become the general manager of the Colts. Roseman suggested this week at the Senior Bowl that the move might not come until after the draft. The contracts of most personnel people run through the draft.


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SOURCE: BIOLASE, Inc.
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Endodontic Probes and Biofluids Treat and Remove Deposits From Tissue Surfaces
Endodontic Probes and Biofluids Treat and Remove Deposits From Tissue Surfaces
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 1, 2012) - BIOLASE, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOL), the world's leading dental laser manufacturer and distributor, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded BIOLASE a new patent, number 8,221,117 B2, titled, "Probes and Biofluids for Treating and Removing Deposits from Tissue Surfaces."
The new patent expands the Company's intellectual property ("IP") portfolio in the area of laser endodontics to a total of 14 issued and 19 pending patents, with 8 issued and 8 pending in the U.S. and 6 issued and 11 pending in international markets. BIOLASE currently has a total of 159 issued and 130 pending patents.
Chairman and CEO Federico Pignatelli said, "Our laser endodontic therapy system has the ability to reduce root canal bacteria levels by 99.7 percent and treatment time by 10 to 15 minutes. These are significant advantages to dentists who, according to industry sources, perform an estimated 30 to 50 million root canals annually in the U.S. and who we estimate perform more than a hundred million globally. Despite various improvements in conventional root canal therapy, failure rates continue to range between 10 and 15 percent. The primary causes of this high rate of failures include under-filled or missed root canals, tooth fractures, and inadequate cleaning which result in leakage, bacterial contamination or re-contamination. These failures result in three to seven million additional advanced dental procedures annually ranging from antibiotic therapy to extraction of the infected tooth. Multiple independent studies have shown that improving the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection at the apex of a root canal double the chance for a successful clinical outcome. We estimate that in the U.S. alone, the improved clinical outcomes facilitated by Waterlase root canal therapy could save as much as $3.5 billion annually in retreatment expenses for practitioners, insurance providers and patients."
The new patent relates to the ability of a radially firing or side firing endodontic probe to combine multiple wavelengths of infrared and near-infrared lasers, such as the Waterlase iPlus™ and iLase™ diode laser, with biofluids or biopowders comprising one or more biologically-active particles or cleaning agents. These could be cleaning or disinfectant particles, anesthetizing agents, and particles or agents suspended in a liquid. Claims also include minimally invasive access to a surgical site of tissue comprising one or more of a canal, pocket or periodontal pocket.
"We believe the elements included in this new patent, in combination with our other related IP, move us closer to our goal of having technologies and patents that offer a thorough and protected process of root canal sterilization which should attract more general practitioners and endodontists that have not yet adopted laser endodontic therapy. We remain committed to innovation that furthers our core technologies and protects our market leading position in laser dentistry," Pignatelli concluded. "This new patent reflects the strength of the overall BIOLASE patent portfolio and rewards our commitment to maintain our research and development activities at high levels to keep our technological leadership in both hard tissue and diode lasers and to advance high-tech dentistry as a real and sustainable innovation."
About BIOLASE, Inc.
BIOLASE, Inc., the World's leading Dental Laser Company, is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures and markets dental lasers and also distributes and markets dental imaging equipment; products that are focused on technologies that advance the practice of dentistry and medicine. The Company's laser products incorporate approximately 285 patented and patent pending technologies designed to provide biologically clinically superior performance with less pain and faster recovery times. Its imaging products provide cutting-edge technology at competitive prices to deliver the best results for dentists and patients. BIOLASE's principal products are dental laser systems that perform a broad range of dental procedures, including cosmetic and complex surgical applications, and a full line of dental imaging equipment. BIOLASE has sold more than 19,600 lasers among 16,000 customers. Other products under development address ophthalmology and other medical and consumer markets.
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Woman pushing stroller stabbed in Dorchester
Baby in stroller was not injured
A young mother pushing her baby boy in a stroller was stabbed repeatedly in Dorchester Monday afternoon.
Boston Police said the woman, who had been seen by witnesses arguing with a man, was stabbed in front of 15 Midland Street around 4 p.m.
The mother, in her 20s, still pushing her stroller, reached the Savin Scoops ice cream shop on Savin Hill Avenue before she collapsed, screaming "Call 911."
"She was stabbed pretty badly," Savin Scoops owner Joe Conway told the Boston Herald. "There was blood all over the stroller." Witnesses believe the woman, who was stabbed four times, knew her attacker.
The baby, who Conway said appeared to be about 1 year old, was not injured.
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BOSTON – After a week's worth of rumors and innuendo about Marc Savard and his reasons for not starting training camp with the Bruins, now we know just what type of team player the star center he is.
Depicted often during the course of his career as a me-first guy who might not live up to the standards of toughness established long ago for most NHLers, Savard has been proven to be just the opposite.
Unfortunately, now instead of standing as the epitome of what every player should aspire to be, he's limited to serving as an out-of-action sample of what can sometimes result when a player puts his team and the ideal of hockey players being indestructible before his own well-being.
As Savard explained today about his decision to return to the lineup against Philadelphia, and tough it out through all seven games, last May:
"I'm obviously still a little ways away," said Savard, who has been unable to participate in Boston's training since it opened last week. "I'm going to take my time here and make sure I'm good. I think, of my own fault, I might've come back a little too early here, so that's my own fault. That's, I guess, just the hockey player in me, wanting to play hockey in the playoffs. Right now, I'm just going to take it slow here. Hopefully I'll be around the guys and get the help that I need right now, and it'll help."
In fact, Savard said he was feeling the effects of his March 7 Grade 2 concussion throughout the series, mostly in the form of fatigue. It hit him especially hard when his minutes were increased after David Krejci's season-ending injury. Savard's able to joke about that a tad now.
"I pretty much should have been sitting with you guys after that," he quipped to the assembled media. "I didn't really have anything left."
If only fatigue had been Savard's only problem. After he took a month off, Savard started to work out, golf and then even skate over the course of the summer. He acted as though he had just broken a foot or dislocated a shoulder, figuring if he kept working hard the symptoms would go away. Instead the dizziness, nausea, headaches and – more disturbing – depression persisted. It finally became too much to take, so Savard explained everything to his agent Larry Kelly in mid-August. Soon thereafter they told Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli, who finally revealed to the media what Savard was going through on the first day the Bruins reported to camp Sept. 17.
While giving his first public statements today in the Bruins' dressing room, you could tell Savard wasn't himself. His hat pulled low over his face, he wasn't the bubbly, witty Savard we've come to embrace as a go-to quote since he arrived in Boston in the summer of '06. At times he mumbled, and one reporter's question (about depression) obviously choked him up a bit. If, as some have written to this reporter or claimed on radio, Savard is faking as some bizarre revenge on the team that dared shop his services this summer, he should be given both this year's Academy Award and every one that has been handed out the last five years.
The Savard saga isn't one about a player that signs a seven-year contract extension, finds out he's come up in trade rumors and then says he's not showing up to camp because his feelings or hurt or he has a headache. This is all about a guy dogged throughout his career by the selfish tag, a guy accused of not always going hard for the full 60 minutes (on occasion with good reason) attempting to make the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of the ultimate team goal. Now he's truly paying the price.
Ultimately, Savard's rest and recovery might land him back on the Boston front line. There's always the chance he doesn't return, or he comes back but is never the same player. There are too many tragic tales of players losing the concussion battle and having to hang up the skates forever far too early to list them.
At this point, the Bruins players and other skaters throughout the NHL should look at Savard with hope that he can make a comeback, and also with perspective that they could easily be in Savard's shoes. It's dangerous to return too soon from any injury, but when it comes to head ailments there should be no messing around. You never know, you might suffer a reoccurrence of the injury's symptoms and have hundreds of people scream that you're a faker.
For now, Savard is an example of what goes wrong when someone messes around with a concussion. For his and the Bruins' sake, hopefully he turns into an example of a player that overcame a nagging case of post-concussion syndrome to make a triumphant return to elite NHL status.


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NHIAA Boys' Lacrosse: Bedford proving Division I-worthyBy HARRY KOZLOWSKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 19. 2014 8:10PM
BEDFORD - Host Bedford used a four-goal second quarter to pull away from Exeter for an 8-5 victory in an inter-divisional game Saturday morning.
The Division II Bulldogs improved to 3-0 while the Blue Hawks are still winless at 0-2 in Division I.
The game was the first of four against D-I opponents for Bedford, which will move up a division next year.
"They're a D1-caliber team," said Exeter coach Gerry Holly. "They can play with anyone."
Senior captain Dan Colella led the scoring for Bedford with four goals, while Sam Stanton had three assists. Brad Simas had two goals for Exeter."We brought the intensity, and I think they came out a little flat," said Bedford coach Matt Guerard. "We got the jump in the intensity, and that helped us from the start."
The game began as a tightly played defensive contest, with neither team able to generate much offense. Simas put the Blue Hawks on the board first, a little more than three minutes into the game, but 40 seconds later, Tyler Sullivan tied the game.
The Bulldogs went on to score the next five goals, three of them by Colella, to take a 6-1 lead into halftime.
"We changed some things up in the second quarter and went into a new offense to generate more goals," Guerard said.
"We couldn't possess the ball," Holly said. "They outworked us on the ground."
Exeter would outscore Bedford 4-2 in the second half but could not make up the deficit. "I though (Exeter goalie) Cole Finerty played well today," said Holly. "At one point he was our best defense."
With fewer scoring chances, the Bulldogs relied on their defense to get things done, especially on penalties. "I think the key was our man-down play today."
Colella has 12 goals Bedford's three games and also leads the team in assists. "He's determined to put the ball in the back of the net no matter how it goes in," Guerard said.
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Pinkerton 15, Portsmouth 2: At Portsmouth, Pinkerton's Maggie McCarthy scored five goals to help the Astros improve to 3-0 in Division I.


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NH college students honor Dr. King with day of community service
GOFFSTOWN - College students statewide attended events marking Martin Luther King day, made possible by grants from Campus Compact for New Hampshire.
At St. Anselm College, members of AmeriCorps gathered hundreds of food items for the New Hampshire Food Bank following a celebration of King at the college's Institute of Politics.
Dan Heying, who helped organize the drive, said the food drive was an appropriate way to honor King.
"His vision was one where we can all engage in the community as equals," Heying said. "I think Dr. King would be happy to see people in all walks of life engaging the community."
Matt McDonald, a 2011 St. Anselm graduate who now works in its Office of Campus Ministry, agreed.
"The idea of Dr. King's that everyone can be great because everyone can serve is a perfect way to remember him," he said. "A lot of our focus is on student education - this gets us back to the roots of why we serve."
CCNH, a statewide consortium of college and university presidents, provided grants to other campuses as well, including Keene State University, Southern New Hampshire University and New Hampshire Technical Institute, to highlight the significance of Martin Luther King Day, raise awareness of community needs and address social issues such as racial equality, diversity, poverty and homelessness.
According to its website, the mission of the organization is to promote community service and civic responsibility throughout the academic student life goals of its members.
"We're committed to service and service learning," said Debby Scire, executive director of CCNH. "The food banks are a place where we knew we could have an impact."
Scire said community service programs increase college retention, and are an important way for students to see how what they are learning connects to the real world.
"It's really a different way of learning," she said.
"New Hampshire's colleges and universities are deliberate about educating students to be active and engaged citizens as well as knowledgeable community members, leaders and professionals," said James Birge, president of Franklin Pierce University and vice chair of CCNH.
"The MLK Day of Service underscores that all of this great work serves an even greater purpose - to create strong communities in which all people can thrive."


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Two women were killed in homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found.
A 37-year-old woman was fatally struck by a car Sunday in the 1100 block of North Mason Avenue in Austin, according to officials. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a homicide.
Three days earlier, a 24-year-old woman was shot to death in the 6600 block of South Stony Island Avenue in Woodlawn, police said.
Female homicide victims account for about 12 percent of the 386 homicide victims this year, as of Wednesday afternoon.
Last year, female homicide victims represented about 9 percent of the 519 homicide victims, according to RedEye data.
Citywide, gunshot homicides were logged in the last week in Chatham, Lincoln Square, New City and South Lawndale, RedEye determined.
Twenty homicides have been recorded so far this month. Thirty-eight homicides were logged in November 2012, RedEye determined.


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Executive Board Motion on Conceptual Frameworks for New Science Education Standards
In July 2010 the Committee on Conceptual Frameworks for New Science Education Standards (a committee of the National Research Council) released a draft report titled A Framework For Science Education that presented a vision of the scope and nature of education in science and engineering that is needed in the 21st century. The document described the major scientific ideas and practices that all students should be familiar with by the end of high school.
The committee sought public comment, so the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) sponsored a focus group that met during the 2010 AAPT Summer Meeting in Portland, Oregon. A representative from David Heil & Associates, Inc facilitated the group. The members were all science/physics education experts from throughout the United States.
The NRC Science Conceptual Framework Discussion Group Meeting Summary can be read on the AAPT website at http://www.aapt.org/Resources/upload/100815-Focus-Group-Report-on-Draft-Frameworks.pdf.
Executive Board Motion
The AAPT Executive Board, on behalf of the Association, strongly encourages the NRC to address the following aspects in the next version of the Framework document:
The AAPT commends the NRC for tackling these difficult topics by incorporating some of the educational research in teaching and learning over the last 15 years. Further, we recommend that they continue to examine discipline specific educational research as they work to prepare the next draft of the Frameworks.


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Digitech are one of the biggest and best manufacturers of FX pedals in the world. Their wide range of products include every type of effect you could possibly want, from distortion to delay to integrated drum machines and the list goes on. It's no surprise that their pedals are some of our bestsellers, and we'll tell you why...
5. Digitech DG Grunge
The DG Grunge has not achieved its legendary status from being a mediocre pedal; it has been one of the world's bestselling effects pedals for more than a decade. Although the pedal is specifically designed for "dirty" sounds, if the guitar is strummed lightly you will notice some brilliant definition shining through all of that power.
The DG Grunge houses a range of various sounds from ultimate distortion and heavy grind to chunky rhythm and sustained leads. The controls include loud, low, high (level), grunge (distortion), with amp output and a dedicated mixer output featuring cabinet emulation circuitry the DG Grunge is capable of both live performance and recording.
When the grunge controller is raised, the sensitivity at string level is increased, so to retain integrity you may need to be a little bit more careful and accurate with your fretting. The pedal may be called grunge, however, it has been said that it lacks that grungy 'chorus' effect that features in a lot of grunge music, BUT, the heavy distortion and responsive EQ makes it absolutely perfect for metal and other "heavy" musical styles.
4. XSW Synth Wah
The XSW features 7 selectable and modifiable wahs in just one pedal. The pedal facilitates switching between a wet and dry output and an adjustable envelope range, cut-off frequency or frequency envelope depending on which controls are activated.
Digitech themselves stated that the XSW is "considered by many to be the industry standard "to go" pedal when you want to add spice to a riff."
The XSW may not be the best synth or Wah pedal but it has the ability to combine the two effects and formulate an incredible fuzzbox featuring the best elements of both. For a really unique sounds and lots and lots of tonal possibilities the XSW Synth Wah is the way forward.
3. XDD DigiDelay
"It does exactly what it says on the tin." Capable of four seconds of delay, check; various delay times available, check; includes the must have stereo ping pong and tape delay, check; two outputs for effective live performance and studio use, check… you get the idea.
A lot of delay pedals can be seen as mundane and unadventurous, but with features like the reverse delay and loop functions the XDD just keeps on giving. With the reverse delay wet signal cranked to the max, the XDD can produce some out-of-this-world guitar solos and very intriguing vocal sounds, and the loop mode enables you to construct uniquely layered solo performances.
2. XTD Tone Driver
The XTD is a fairly simple pedal to use, making it excellent for beginners, and it works with any amplifier to create a wide variety of rich and interesting overdrive distortion sounds. The powerful Audio DNA DSP integrated chip makes it possible to achieve distinct sounds like a blues solo tone for example. The XTD features level, tone and gain controls and will unveil a library of incredible tones with just a twist of the 'morph' knob. Spectral contouring EQ and normal (amp) and CIT cabinet modelling (mixer) outputs make the XTD a very versatile overdrive pedal, useful for both live and studio use. With so many sound options coming from the function of the morph knob, the worst thing about having this pedal will be deciding which of the awesome sounds you like the best.
1. RP55 Multi-Effects
The RP55 truly goes above and beyond the traditional idea of a guitar effects pedal. The RP55, despite its intimidating exterior, is one of the easiest RP products to use as is doesn't have any really deep parameter settings. Being a fairly recent model, the RP55 contains some of the best pedal technology such as the Audio DNA DSP chip, and is equipped for anything you're after.
With 11 different amp models, 20 studio quality effects and up to 8 of these can be used simultaneously, you're bound to discover whatever sound you're looking for. The pedal features a bunch of very popular and great sounding amps including the Fender Twin Reverb and Vox AC30. This multi-effects pedal allows up to 40 user and 40 factory presets, is battery powered and includes an expression pedal input for whammy, wah and volume.
Possibly the most impressive feature of the RP55 is the integrated drum machine that includes over 30 different patterns. The RP55 literally gives you everything you need and more and that's why it's our bestselling effects pedal.
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The stretch run has such a way of magnifying the good and the bad.
For instance, a puck banks off the skate of Kings defenseman Jake Muzzin past his goalie Martin Jones and a segment of Kings fans want Muzzin put on the next plane back to the minors.
The Ducks beat the Kings, 2-1, Saturday night at Staples Center, putting together consecutive victories after Wednesday's loss at Calgary. That 7-2 pratfall against the Flames now appears more like a wake-up call at a key time rather than a precursor of doom.
Anaheim felt as if it was able to find its identity again in the last two games. The Kings, who face Phoenix on Monday night, have lost twice since the Olympic break, and it is exactly the same with the Ducks, who are off until Tuesday against Washington.
"Last night, was sort of a microcosm of it because we made two really soft plays in our zone that cost us two goals against," Coach Darryl Sutter said Sunday after practice. "If you want to be a playoff team, win in the playoffs, you don't do that. It's very simple. We had plenty, lots of opportunities to score and just didn't quite get it done."
The Kings often hit the right balance during their recent eight-game winning streak, getting unexpected offensive contributions from the likes of forward Trevor Lewis and defenseman Alec Martinez, as well as strong sustained play from the line of Dwight King-Jarret Stoll-Dustin Brown. That line struggled against Toronto on Thursday and Brown sat out Saturday's game because of illness and an unspecified lower-body injury, not believed to be serious.
"You can't win with one line or one or two guys," Sutter said. "You can't win consistently. You can steal it or surprise it. Just look at last night. I mean, we played really well against the [Ryan] Getzlaf line and did a good job in special teams, which is just about what you do in playoff time.
"You match up. But lesser guys scored goals for them. Lesser lines or lesser guys that don't get as many minutes and that's what we need."
Kings No 1 goalie Jonathan Quick, who has been sick, practiced Sunday but Brown did not. Several players have been under the weather of late. Brown is not expected to play Monday; Thursday against Washington is a more likely possibility. His injury was previously reported by the Fourth Period.
Recently acquired Marian Gaborik has enabled the Kings to make proper adjustments. Gaborik has two points in five games since joining the Kings from Columbus at the trade deadline.
"It puts all those guys right now in slots," Sutter said. "In today's game, the teams are too balanced. If you bunch everybody together and you don't have the personnel to do it, you're not going far. It looks good tonight. But it's not going to look good tomorrow.'
Sutter detailed the fine balance that helped push the Kings to the Stanley Cup two years ago and the final four last season. Gaborik adds a new piece.
"With us, if [Marian] can play with Kopi [Anze Kopitar], that's good," he said. "That means Willie [Justin Williams] has got to step up and play because if we put Jeff [Carter] there, you're overloading it. Jeff and Mike [Richards] are familiar with each other. That means Mike's got to step up and play a stronger brand of hockey for us.
"And that puts Brownie where he should be. It puts him in that third-line role with guys who go up and down and check and play hard, chip in your 15 to 20 [minutes]. It all shakes out perfectly."
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Etc.: Center Martin Hanzal (lower-body injury) has sat out seven straight games for the Coyotes, and Coach Dave Tippett has indicated there is a chance he might return against the Kings.
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Experiences of working with the COL electronic template.
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At PCF-4 2006 in Jamaica, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) launched an electronic template designed for the development of distance education instructional material. In this paper I discuss the experiences of working ...


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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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I just want to shout out to John, Ward, and the rest of the gang representin' over at Drawn! for their article the other day. Their generous post about Today's Inspiration and this week's focus on Lowell Hess resulted in approximately five hundred hits each for both of the last two days, and several new TI list members. If you've never visited Drawn! get over there right now! Go on, scoot. We'll still be here when you get back.
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LIMA, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The South American and Arab Countries summit in Lima got off to a shaky start after Bolivian President Evo Morales accused Chile of being a regional menace.
"Chile is not only a threat to Bolivia but also to Peru," Morales said the day before the summit convened Tuesday.
Morales made the comment after Chile rejected Peru's claim to sea access along the Pacific coast, The Santiago Times reported.
Morales voiced his request for Bolivia's maritime access during his speech before the U.N. General Assembly last week.
Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said his country would abide by the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904, which granted Chile sovereignty over territories Bolivia lost during the Pacific War, including the country's access to the sea.
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said during the summit he was open to discussion.
"We will keep looking for paths to dialogue with Bolivia to find useful, concrete and plausible solutions for both countries," Pinera said. "This is the way forward, and I don't intend to ignore international treaties that are in full effect."
The organization's 22 Arab and 12 South American members are meeting to promote political and economical integration.


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Figgs & Phantoms
Mona Lisa Figg Newton is an overweight, lonely, and cynical teenager. She hates her family, who, even though they have the best intentions, are just too 'weird' for her. Many years ago, before Mona was born, they were ex circus freaks, and they still act in the unusual ways, much to Mona's embarassment. There's Sissie, Mona's mother, who constantly tap dances, Newton, a used car dealer, "who always manages to lose money in every car deal he makes.", and ...
The Westing Game
It arrives in a clean white envelope from the sixty-two year old delivery boy. Strange!? The main character opens the envolope and remove and single sheet of paper saing he are one of sixteen heirs. Not just an heir but and heir to the entire fourtune of Samuel Westing's factory. This is not a normal legal battle. This is a game, the Westing Game. The main character's task is simple, to find the murder. Once the character wins then he splits a cool t...


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The subjects of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood have proved to be one of the most fertile grounds (pardon the pun) in horror fiction in both longevity and richness. They are tropes that relishes in some of the most drastic of physical changes brought upon the human body while also confronting or affirming how our culture views women and regards the female body. These thematic and ideological questions become more complicated when translating these stories to the visual and auditory world of cinematic representations, including television.
This weekend the Bloody Good Horror team will be making its yearly pilgrimage to the Indianapolis Marriott to take in all the "Terminator"-related highs and
The first trailer for Lars Von Trier's new end of the world flick "Melancholia" has hit the tubes and much to my surprise it looks fairly un-hammer-to-the-penis-like. Yes that women who took a hammer to William Defeo's penis in "Antrichrist" is in this movie, so you keep thinking about it, but there's nothing to lead me to believe that's going to happen again. God I hope that doesn't happen again.
Speaking of Willem Dafoe and his lumbering manbits, they'll both be in the upcoming big screen adaptation of Dean Kootz's "Odd Thomas". The story focuses on a cook who's able to speak to the dead. Defoe plays a police chief who knows the young lad's secret. I have no clue if Defoe's member will be playing a different role.
It looks as if Rob Hall's "Fear Clinic" mini-series will be making it's way to the big screen, and Danielle Harris and Robert Englund are both on board for the magic. For those of you who aren't familiar with the series or Rob Hall's spiky hair, it follows a group of patients who come to a clinic in order to cure the phobias that run their lives. Much like the god awful fear I have of Willem Dafoe's privates. Let's keep this going!
Jessica Biel his apparently been offered a role in the upcoming "Total Recall" remake. No confirmation on which role she's been offered but chances are it's one of the two leads. She doesn't seem like the kind of girl who would be into playing that big women who has an exploding head or the three boobed hooker. Then again what do I know, I'm still focused on Willem Dafoe's flim flam. Happy Monday folks!
The best and worst horror films of 2010, and what to look forward to in 2011.
We celebrate Easter the right way, by discussing Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist". Prepare your naughty bits, ladies and gents.
This Sunday is Easter my good friends an on that holy day the gang will be sitting down to discuss Lars von Trier's 2009 controversial flick "Antichrist". I swear this wasn't intentional.
Rejoice fine people, you can now see Willem Dafoe's bare ass without having to leave the comfort of your own home. In other words "Antichrist" is now streaming on Netflix.
The always reliable Onion News Network has the surprising news that Lars von Trier's directorial follow-up to "Antichrist" is a new series of ads encouraging people to visit his native Denmark.
The designer of movie posters for films such as "Dying Breed," "Surveillance," "Martyrs," and the short film "Spider" has created a poster for Lars Von Trier's much anticipated "AntiChrist."
New concept posters for "Let Me In", Matt Reeves remake of the Swedish vampire film "Let The Right One In". Not a whole lot to latch on to at this point considering they haven't even cast the roles yet, but they're semi-interesting if you're invested in how this will turn out.
"Gatekeeper" is a "zomcom" (their words) starring Lea Thompson, Judge Reinhold and Ron Perlman. It has a great cast, but their selling point is sure to make you cringe, "Shaun of the Dead" for American audiences... because you know, us stupid Americans can't watch a movie with British accents (?)
Platinum Dunes will be revealing something big for "A Nightmare on Elm St." at comic-con this year. In his blog, producer Brad Fuller also calls you an "idiot" if you don't think anyone else can play Freddy Krueger. Make your own judgements about his limited vocabulary.
The first images from Thomas Jane's directorial debut "Dark Country" have surfaced. The film is about a couple who decides to get married in Vegas, but along the way they run into an accident victim who quickly turns their vacation into a nightmare.
Stephen King's "The Cell", which we last heard was NOT being made by Eli Roth, is being adapted into a 4 hour mini-series.


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Update: Please refer to this page for an update on this concept; I recommend that you use the newer functions presented on that page.
To me, this is a pretty handy function to have in your toolbox:
Create function MDate(@Year int, @Month int, @Day int)
returns datetime
declare @d datetime;
set @d = dateadd(year,(@Year - 1753),'1/1/1753');
set @d = dateadd(month,@Month - 1,@d);
return dateadd(day,@Day - 1,@d)
This function basically lets you build dates exactly as you can in VB using the DateSerial() function -- just pass in a year, a month, and a day.
The idea is you can use this function to perform "date math" really easily, without worrying about going over month or year borders. Everything is relative (like DateSerial in VB), and you can add 1 to the 12th month to get the 1st month of the following year, and things like that.
So, if @Date is a date, you can easily calculate things like:
Try it out -- I hope you'll find it very useful! If nothing else, it'll make your code much shorter! Just adding this one function to your T-SQL toolbox will allow you to handle and manipulate dates in a much easier manner.
(Again: do not use this function if your need is for MDate(2003,13,34) to return an error -- use it if you need it to return Feb 3, 2004.)
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Manfred elected next MLB commissioner
BALTIMORE (AP) — Rob Manfred was elected Major League Baseball's 10th commissioner on Thursday and will succeed Bud Selig in January.
A labor lawyer who has worked for MLB since 1998, Manfred beat out Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner in the first contested vote for a new commissioner in 46 years. The third candidate, MLB executive vice president of business Tim Brosnan, dropped out just before the start of voting.
"I have very big shoes to fill," Manfred said.
The 55-year-old Manfred, who grew up in Rome, New York — about an hour's drive from the Hall of Fame — must address issues that include decreased interest in baseball among younger people and longer games. He has served as MLB chief operating officer for the past year.
"There is no doubt in my mind he has the temperament, the training, the experience," Selig said.
Selig turned 80 last month and has ruled MLB since September 1992, when he was among the owners who forced Commissioner Fay Vincent's resignation. He said he intends to retire in January.
Manfred fell one vote shy of the 23 out of 30 owners needed in the first ballot. On the second ballot, he won unanimously, several owners confirmed.
Werner was supported by Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno. Other teams have said Reinsdorf wanted a commissioner who would take a harsher stance in labor negotiations.
Selig is the second-longest-serving head of MLB behind Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1920-44). The trio of candidates was picked by a seven-man succession committee chaired by St. Louis Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr.
Manfred has been involved in baseball since 1987, starting as a lawyer with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius who assisted in collective bargaining. He became MLB executive vice president for labor relations and human resources in 1998, received an expanded role of executive vice president of economics and league affairs in 2012, and last September was promoted to chief operating officer. He helped lead negotiations for MLB's last three labor contracts with players and the joint drug agreement that was instituted in 2002 and has been repeatedly strengthened.


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Henry becomes King after defeating Richard III of York at the Battle of Bosworth Field. The Wars of the Roses are ended.
Henry marries Elizabeth of York, thereby uniting the houses of York and Lancaster.
Henry crushes a revolt by the Earl of Lincoln on behalf of Lambert Simnel, a claimant to the throne, at Stoke.
Henry invades France but at the Treaty of Etaples agrees to withdraw English forces in return for a large sum of money
Perkin Warbeck an impersonator who claims he is Richard the younger of the Princes in the Tower attempts to overthrow Henry, but is defeated and put to death in 1499.
Christopher Columbus crosses Atlantic and lands in San Salvador, Cuba and Haiti which he calls the 'West Indies' in the belief that he has sailed around the World to India.
John Cabot sails west from Bristol on the Matthew and discovers New-found-land. He believed it was Asia and claimed it for England.
Perkin Warbeck is hanged in the Tower of London. The Earl of Warwick is also executed.
Catherine of Aragon, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, marries Prince Arthur, Henrys eldest son.
Prince Arthur dies, and Prince Henry (the future Henry VIII) becomes heir to the throne, later marrying Arthurs widow, Catherine of Aragon.
Margaret, Henry's daughter marries James IV of Scotland. The marriage gives James' descendants a claim to the English throne.
Death of Elizabeth of York, Henrys wife.
Henry VII dies at Richmond Palace, at the age of 52.
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Press Release – Xero
Online accounting software leader Xero is thrilled to announce the results of the New Zealand Xero Partner Awards for 2012. These annual awards recognise organisations for their delivery of services using Xero and/or delivery of high quality innovation and marketing.
This year an additional special award was added for Most Valuable Professional, and awarded to Accountant Peter McCarroll of Lower Hutt for his assistance and contribution to the community spirit through the Xero online forums.
"The small business economy is the biggest contributor to GDP in New Zealand by far," says CEO Rod Drury. "The small business experts recognized at the Xero awards are at the forefront of the technology wave and it's inspiring to see them get alongside their customers to help them grow. These are the people making a difference to New Zealand."
The Xero Partner Awards were celebrated on the evening of the Xerocon NZ 2013 conference held on Friday 22 February, which attracted 800 attendees from the accounting, bookkeeping and software development industries.
As well as bringing attendees up to speed with the latest Xero thinking and product roadmaps, Xerocon supports small business success through educating and enthusing advisors in more efficient and effective ways to assist small businesses and themselves.
With the continuing expansion of the Xero global community of accounting, bookkeeping and API partners, Xerocon conferences will be held this year in Melbourne, London and for the first time San Francisco – on 5 September ahead of the finals of the 2013 America's Cup. Xerocon is the largest event of its type in New Zealand and becoming one of the biggest industry events in each region Xero operates in.
The winners of the Xero Partner Awards are:
• Partner of the Year: Winstanley Kerridge, Marlborough
• Bookkeeping Partner of the Year: Katalyst Office Management, Auckland
• Fastest Growing Partner: Curtis McLean, Wellington
• Partner Innovation Award: Finman Services, Paraparaumu
• Add-On Partner of the Year: Unleashed, Auckland
• Emerging Add-On Partner of the Year: Quotient, Hamilton
• Training Partner of the Year: Training & Beyond, Christchurch
• Xero MVP: Peter McCarroll, Lower Hutt
• Partner Website Award: Enable Business, Wellington, Auckland
About Xero
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) --
An Illinois
medicine-monitoring program has joined a national data-sharing network to help
prevent prescription drug abuse.
The Department of Human Services will link its prescription monitoring
program to a National Association of Boards of Pharmacy network. It will help
Human Services officials to better identify patients who have been issued
duplicate prescriptions for controlled substances in different states.
To prevent abuse of prescriptions it will alert physicians and
pharmacies when a patient has been given more than recommended dosages.
The program began in Illinois
in 1986 but monitored only certain drugs.
Last year, the program collected 18 million prescription records which
19,000 doctors and pharmacies consult regularly.
A federal grant is funding the program's expansion.
Online: http://www.ilpmp.org


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The overall mobile ad market is projected to grow from $1.7 billion to almost $8 billion by 2016. These figures are up slightly from the last forecast, due to updated market analysis and things like Google's global mobile run rate. Because of Google's 95 percent share of mobile search, its disclosures are useful in extrapolating the entire market.
Drilling down, location targeted ads now represent under half of mobile ad dollars, growing to almost 2/3 by 2016. This measures mobile ads (all formats) shown based on someone's location, geo-modified search term, or those that have geographically relevant ad copy or calls to action. This definition will continue to evolve.
These are similar projections from our last forecast, which we explored here back in July. But the data deserve a second look, given new inputs and dynamics in the rapidly evolving mobile marketplace. These inputs mostly come down to three reasons or driving factors:
- Usage: Mobile local search is on the rise. Google reports that 40 percent of mobile searches have local intent, up from 33 percent 18 months ago. Mobile local ad network xAdmeanwhile reports 117 percent year-over-year growth in mobile local search volume.
- Advertiser Evolution: Advertisers are starting to take this reality to heart by building mobile-only campaigns that utilize location targeting (rather than port existing campaigns to smaller screen). Millennial Media reports that location targeting in mobile ads is up 53 percent year-over-year.
- Premium Ad Rates: The above factors will create increased ad volume. But in parallel, premiums on locally targeted mobile advertising will boost the dollar growth. Those premiums will result from higher performing location targeted ads, such as CTRs and other metrics reported to us by mobile local ad networks.
As we examined in the last column, mobile local searches, from both browsers and apps, are on pace to surpass desktop local searches in 2015.
Looking deeper, it's clear that this is a function of increasing mobile searches per user (again, 40 percent of which are local). It also results from total search users, which account for 44 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, growing to 75 percent by 2016. That's about 225 million people.
Advertiser demand is catching up, but not as quickly as supply (such as mobile local search volume) is growing. Premium ad rates aren't yet materializing, due to laggard advertiser adoption. This has kept prices like CPCs and CPMs down (for now).
As a side-note, because location targeted mobile ads haven't lived up to the value that's commensurate with their performance, there's undervalued ad inventory out there. Buried in that finding is the comment that now is a good time to experiment with mobile local advertising,especially in search.
But the larger point is that the relevance and higher performance of location targeted mobile ads, in both search and display, will be required to prevent the commoditization of ads that we've seen on the desktop over the last decade. This has been more pronounced in display than in search.
This is important because we're starting to see that same oversupply of ad inventory happen in mobile. This is causing ad rates -- such as average display CPMs – go down where they now hover around $2.50 on average. More depth on these economics can be read here.
There are a few ways to avoid these sinking mobile ad rates though. One is for demand to catch up with supply, for which we see some evidence. Another is to establish more premium sources of ad inventory. And that's where location targeting comes in.
There are a few emerging forms of mobile engagement that could house premium advertising. They include earned or achievement-based advertising (like kiip), or organically generated social advertising. For the latter pay close attention to what Facebook is beginning to roll out with mobile sponsored stories.
But most of all, location targeting could create the degrees of relevance necessary to boost ad performance and engagement – and thus premium advertising. The former (performance) is something we've already seen play out, while the latter (premiums) are only beginning to be seen. Just give it time.
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What a difference a year makes! Last year The Nation's Honor Roll recognized courageous, if often lonely, battlers against an austerity agenda, an ascendant Tea Party and a Republican electoral wave that had put Democrats, working folks and the unions that represent them on the defensive nationwide. This year we celebrate the remarkable movements that have arisen not just to stem the conservative tide but to build a new vision of progressivism for the twenty-first century. How much has changed? As 2011 finished, even Barack Obama was sounding populist themes. And progressives were organizing, fighting and winning critical battles on the streets, in the polling places and in the media. The events of 2011 did not transform America. But they did confirm that millions of Americans are ready to fight for the 99 percent.
MOST VALUABLE SENATOR: Sherrod Brown
Faced with what was supposed to be a tough re-election race in 2012, Brown could have taken the easy way out when Ohio Governor John Kasich signed legislation attacking the collective-bargaining rights of public employees. Instead, Brown leapt into the fight, speaking and rallying with the workers of Ohio and even turning what had been his campaign website into a vehicle for the movement to overturn the antilabor law. It was a gutsy move, but it paid off. Brown's poll numbers soared as Kasich's plummeted. Brown threw himself into the successful campaign to overturn Ohio's law in a November referendum. At the same time, he was fighting in Washington against flawed free-trade deals that shutter US factories while failing to bring prosperity to foreign lands. Brown, a leader in the push to address poverty and disease in developing countries, is anything but an isolationist. He's an internationalist who understands the need for global resistance to policies that privilege corporations over workers from Cleveland to Chongqing. In 2011 he linked those struggles more effectively than any other senator.
MOST VALUABLE REPRESENTATIVE: Raúl Grijalva
Few members of the House have been so consistently progressive as Arizona Democrat Grijalva, who has a history of challenging Republican, and Democratic, administrations on issues of economic justice, civil rights, and war and peace. Grijalva made headlines when—in the face of death threats—he opposed Arizona's draconian anti-immigrant laws. He has been just as outspoken at the federal level, working closely with his Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair, Keith Ellison, against the GOP austerity agenda while prodding the Obama administration to support a dramatically bolder jobs agenda. Grijalva's no-punches-pulled progressivism is all the more impressive because he represents a district where in 2010 he faced a serious re-election fight. He saw off that challenge, proving that even in the toughest years it is possible, perhaps even necessary, to run left to win.
MOST VALUABLE STATE SENATOR: Nina Turner
"An apology! An apology! I want an apology!" announced Turner, a Cleveland Democrat, as thousands cheered the defeat of Governor Kasich's antilabor legislation. Appearing on Ed Schultz's MSNBC broadcast from Columbus on the night of Ohio's historic November 8 vote, Turner was every bit as energetic and every bit as unyielding as she had been throughout the long campaign to defend the rights of public sector workers. Kasich "owes Ohioans an apology for not working on the No. 1 issue, which is jobs!" said Turner. While many Washington representatives disappointed in 2011, state legislators stepped up as champions for labor rights, the public sector and economic justice. Turner wasn't the only smart, passionate legislator to take the national stage, but the breadth of her agenda stood out. As she was standing up for workers' rights, Turner was also taking the lead on an array of economic development, voting rights and social justice issues.


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Led Zeppelin, "Led Zeppelin," ''Led Zeppelin II" and "Led Zeppelin III" (Atlantic)
Perhaps we should admit the truth about Led Zeppelin: It's time to move on.
Yes, even you superfans.
If the unreleased material included on reissues of landmark albums "Led Zeppelin," ''Led Zeppelin II" and "Led Zeppelin III" is any indication of what's to come, there's little hope of hearing anything truly new — let alone interesting — over the rest of the band's ambitious plan to rerelease all nine of its studio albums.
Truth be told, Zeppelin probably should have let the 2012 "Celebration Day" box set stand as its final message. The 2012 release capturing the band's brief 2007 reunion for a live stadium show in London had a fresh feel despite its age upon release. It was meant to salve the feelings of fans hoping Zeppelin's living members — Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant — would reunite for one last run.
It was something, at least.
The reissue project seems intent on soothing fans who'd forgo the tour if they could just get another song, something fresh and new.
There's nothing like that on the bonus discs that accompany Page's remastered versions of the original albums, which rewrote rock 'n' roll. Even completists will probably be disappointed at the collection of castoff mixes, alternate takes and work tapes. The few pieces we've truly never heard before are ephemeral bits, rightly abandoned as Zeppelin blazed ahead with better material.
The best thing here is the live concert included with "Led Zeppelin." The set, recorded in Paris in 1969, is energetic and on the verge of falling to pieces. It's a pretty fascinating glimpse of the band pre-fame, but the group hadn't quite pulled it all together and there are other live sets that are more fulfilling.
Like "Celebration Day."
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DUCKS at NEW JERSEY
Faceoff: 4 p.m., today, Prudential Center.
TV/Radio: Prime/KLAA 830-AM
Update: Ryan Getzlaf, the Ducks' leading scorer with 39 points (16 goals, 23 assists), needed several stitches to mend a wound near his mouth after Kyle Quincey of the Red Wings cracked him into the boards Tuesday in Detroit. Quincey managed to avoid a suspension from the NHL for his illegal hit. The Ducks settled for a 5-2 rout of the Red Wings to start their four-game trip. Getzlaf will be in the lineup for today's game against the Devils. The Ducks felt they gave away their first game against the Devils, on Nov. 20 in Anaheim. The Ducks gave up Jaromir Jagr's tying goal in the closing moments and then defenseman Ben Lovejoy accidentally shot a loose puck off the leg of teammate Corey Perry and into the back of his own net for a rather distressing 4-3 overtime loss. The Ducks (24-7-5) are 9-1-2 since losing to the Devils and take a six-game winning streak into the rematch. New Jersey is 14-15-6.
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April 07. 2013 10:22PM
Proposal made on empty Chestnut Street police station in Manchester
By PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER - A real estate investor has made an offer on the empty Chestnut Street police station although the agent hired to market the building says it is nowhere near the $2.1 million asking price.
Michael Reed of Stebbins Commercial Properties would not identify the potential buyer or the amount of the offer made last Monday. He said it was his understanding the investor wants to renovate the building for multiple uses for two or three tenants.
Mayor Ted Gatsas said City Solicitor Tom Clark, Finance Director William Sanders and Reed are reviewing the proposed contract to work things out in it.
Gatsas said they are in the "middle of negotiations" and it would be improper for him to disclose who made the offer or the amount.
He does not expect the proposal will be presented at the next meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
"We'll just keep working on it and hopefully we'll get somebody in it who is going to create jobs and change the look of the old police station," Gatsas said.
Reed said the proposed contract is about 25 pages long, so it may take some time for the review. Once the contract is worked out and presented to the aldermanic board, members will have the option of accepting it, rejecting it or making a counter-offer.
The building has been on the market since December, after police moved to a new modern and spacious one on Valley Street.
Reed said about a half-dozen people looked at the building; half had some moderate interest in it, while the others had a higher level of interest.
The $2.1 million asking price for the 351 Chestnut St. building, built in 1976 and renovated in 2007, is "as is" and does not include the cost of a refit, Reed said. It comes complete with a cell block and firing range in the basement.
Taxes on the 45,956-square-foot building (33,000 square feet usable) are estimated at $56,000, according to the online listing.


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PARIS (AP) — Paris hopes to persuade couples to end the unwelcome recent tradition of fixing padlocks to the Seine River's aging bridges, and instead upload hashtagged selfies to a website dedicated to enduring love.
With giant stickers in French, English and Spanish on the Pont de l'Archeveche, behind Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris began its #lovewithoutlocks campaign on Wednesday, saying the city's famed bridges "can't resist your love" — the padlocks clinging to every available surface.
The lovers' locks craze dates back only a decade or so. But the weight is pulling bridge railings down.
Attacking a lock is a "symbol of togetherness," said Lawrence Phillips of Wales, at the bridge with his Australian girlfriend.
Dutch tourist Bob Te Booy agreed. "I think (a selfie) isn't a good replacement."


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pro football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk has been picked to replace Drew Brees as host of a celebrity golf tournament.
In December, Brees and his foundation sued tournament organizer David Miller and his firm, Integrated Sports Marketing, in San Diego Superior Court, saying he cheated benefactors of the foundation out of thousands of dollars he kept for his company.
Last month, Miller filed a motion seeking to have the suit by the New Orleans Saints quarterback dismissed.
Faulk played at San Diego State before starring in the NFL.
Some proceeds from the tournament will go to the Junior Seau Foundation and the Marshall Faulk Foundation.
The tournament is scheduled for May 16-19 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad.


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Victoria Beckham at David Beckham's Soccer Game in Paris
Victoria Returns to Paris to See David's Saint-Germain Debut
Victoria Returns to Paris to See David's Saint-Germain Debut
Victoria Beckham cheered her husband, David Beckham, on from the stands of Parc de Princes stadium during his first Saint-Germain soccer match yesterday in Paris. Victoria was accompanied by David's mother, Sandra Beckham, for David's successful debut — he helped his new team to victory by scoring the final goal in their 2-0 victory over Marseille. Besides winning his first game, Sunday marked a special occasion for David and his team as he became the 400th player to represent Saint-Germain. The combination left David overjoyed, and he shared his gratitude, saying, "We have played better but it was very important to win. Today was the perfect day. Not only because I'm the 400th player in the history of the club but also because I'm part of a very special team. The welcome from the supporters was unbelievable, and I want to say thank you to them."
Although Victoria was there to support her husband, the rest of his cheering section, their four kids, were absent. David did, however, get to spend quality time with his little ones in Paris last week. The Beckhams celebrated Cruz's eighth birthday with a family outing in the City of Light before Posh and the kids headed home Friday.


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The estimated $3.4 million expansion would include five multipurpose fields, pickleball courts, three new parking lots, 1.5 miles of trails and a dog park.
ORMOND BEACH — Commissioners have signed off on long-range plans for future development, including a dog park, at Nova Community Park.
"You're looking at seven to 10 years before you see this come to fruition," Leisure Services Director Robert Carolin told commissioners this week. "Unless money fell out of the sky and we were ready to go. It's just a plan."
The City Commission received a conceptual plan of proposed improvements to the western part of Nova Community Park based on comments taken from the public last year.
The expansion, which is estimated to cost about $3.4 million, would include five multipurpose fields, pickleball courts, three new parking lots, 1.5 miles of perimeter trails and a dog park, the first of its kind in Ormond Beach.
Commissioners said they were impressed with the plans while also making their own suggestions.
Deputy Mayor Bill Partington asked that exercise stations be geared toward children to help fight childhood obesity. Others were concerned about the amount of parking — or lack thereof.
Commissioner Rick Boehm said he anticipates a soccer league using the multipurpose fields on Saturday mornings.
"Everything you have there will be full, particularly on Saturdays," he said.
While some of the expansion may be a ways off, February is shaping up to be a busy month for one of the city's largest parks.
Carolin said crews are scheduled to finish construction on racquetball courts and a full-length basketball court with lighting in the beginning of February. Those improvements cost about $340,000. The city is also planning to expand its existing skate area in the park.
On Feb. 11, construction will begin on the park's Magic Forest playground. A nonprofit group called Project ROMP (Renovate Ormond's Magic Forest Playground) is leading the construction effort, which will be carried out mostly by volunteers.
Though funds have not been approved for the western expansion over the next five years, Carolin said it's possible certain aspects like the dog park could be added sooner rather than later.
"You just never know," he said. "Having that on the radar is always a good thing."


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Of the more than 9,000 babies that Dr. Patricia Hatton estimates she's delivered in her career, two of them were her youngest sister's.
Of the more than 9,000 babies that Dr. Patricia Hatton estimates she's delivered in her career, two of them were her youngest sister's.
"Oh, yeah, she was there for both of them," Joselyn Davis said. "The second one, she tried to leave me, and I was having a fit. I was a little late, so she induced me so I could have him before she left. She had to go to some conference in L.A."
That the Stockton obstetrician/gynecologist had two important places to be at the same time will come as no surprise to those who know her.
Commitment is the essence of Hatton, equally dedicated to God, her family, her friends, her patients and her community.
St. Mary's High School will honor Hatton at a dinner Thursday, held in conjunction with its second Empowering Young Women program.
"What's special about Dr. Hatton is she loves science and math classes," said Tori Verber-Salazar, one of the event organizers. "She took it to the next level in becoming a doctor. That's a positive role model for all of us."
Beyond her professional accomplishments, though, her devotion to the community made her an ideal honoree.
"She's that quiet, dignified, honorable woman, who goes about and does service to her faith, service to her community, service to her family and asks for nothing in return," Verber-Salazar said. "That's a very empowered woman that will always be a great role model for women. ... It's very powerful for young men or women to see a woman carry herself with dignity, honor and grace."
Hatton devotes herself to causes that are "going to help make a difference in empowering young students in taking control of their lives and feeling confident they can accomplish whatever their goals are."
It's why she paid to open The Rock, the downtown building where students in grades four to 12 receive free tutoring in math and science on Saturdays.
"We found the high dropout rate in San Joaquin County in general was because of math and science, and trying to pass algebra," Hatton said. "We decided this would be a good time to give back to students."
After all, not all children are the math and science whizzes Hatton was as a child growing up in Wallace, Texas, near Houston.
Nor are they all as driven to succeed.
"I cried when I didn't get an A," Hatton admitted. "It started in elementary school. It was something within. I had to achieve. I always had to have the best grades."
That determination made her valedictorian of her high school graduating class in 1968, and got her to college.
"There was no real plan how I was going to get to college, but I knew I was going to go," said Hatton, the second of six children. "I applied and ended up going to the college that gave me the most money to pay for my education."
That was Houston Tillotson College in Austin, where she majored in chemistry, minored in math, and graduated magna cum laude. From there she went to University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.
It was ground-breaking that in 1972, a black woman was heading to the oldest medical school in the state of Texas.
The medical clinic in her town had segregated bathrooms, and when she entered the white ladies' room with her high school basketball teammates, she was scolded by her coach.
"I remembered that day, but it didn't discourage me."
Telling the story, a knowing smile crosses her face. She was the only person in that clinic's bathroom that day who would become a doctor.
She didn't practice medicine in Texas, though. Anxious to live in another part of the country after medical school, she came to California, where she had an aunt living in San Francisco, and entered the residency program at San Joaquin General Hospital.
When she completed it in 1980, Hatton chose to stay in Stockton. After six months in a group practice, she ventured out on her own.
"I walked over here and this building was just a shell with rocks on the floor," Hatton said as she sat in the lobby of the blue building at the corner Harding Way and California Street. "I talked to the developer and I said, 'I want this building.' I had no idea how I was going to pay for it."
Another tenant asked to take over half of the building.
More than 30 years later, the building still suits her.
One hallway is lined with bulletin boards covered with photographs of children she brought into the world. Most are baby pictures, but there are elementary school photos, graduation pictures, Eagle Scouts and soldiers. Some mothers did more than send photos. They sent their grown daughters to their beloved doctor, who delivered a second generation of babies.
Although Hatton is now part of Gill Obstetrics, she continues to have an independent streak.
She opened the After Hours Clinic three years ago, working on Saturdays to see patients without insurance or even, in some cases, money.
"It's always been on her heart to help," said her sister, Davis, who has done clerical work in Hatton's office since arriving in Stockton as a high school graduate looking for her own change of scenery. "There are so many patients who need care, and a lot of offices don't take Medi-Cal or cash patients. Those people need to be seen. The whole time I've been with her, 20 years, she's never turned anyone away."
Hatton gave up the 24/7 demands of obstetrics when her only child, J.P., started high school in 2003. She wanted to enjoy his football games and his other activities. It also gave her more time to spend with her husband of 25 years, John Nisby, who passed away in 2011 at 74 from complications from Alzheimer's.
She remains devoted to her work, which is a labor of love; her patients, she said, are like family.
"I enjoy helping people, making a difference in their lives, improving the quality of their lives in all different aspects: physical, mental and spiritual, any way I can."
Being honored by St. Mary's is "humbling" she said, but it gives her an opportunity pass along words of wisdom to young people.
"Set a goal and decide what ingredients it's going to take to make it happen," Hatton said. "Don't let the negatives dilute it. You have to have hard work, knowledge, attitude and faith. With faith in God, you're over the top."
Contact reporter Lori Gilbert at (209) 546-8284 or email@example.com.


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Jon Tan
Solid article and a well-made point about x-heights Richard. Rendering differences can be crucial, such as different baselines for Arial and Helvetica.
Megan McDermott has previously put together a comprehensive list of system and bundled fonts , including those available with Ubuntu Linux which could also be useful.