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Bugaboo Donkey Stroller Review
October 5th, 2011
The Bugaboo Donkey had a limited production run in early April 2011. Customers snatched them up almost as fast as an iPhone on opening day. Since April, it's been hard to get one…until now. October 1st marked the nationwide release of the Bugaboo Donkey stroller, which is now available at many retail stores across the US. We started selling them a few days ago, and they are still flying out the door…
There has been so much publicity about this new breakthrough stroller, but there are still so many people that are not quite sure what it is or why and when to buy one. So, I wanted to take a few minutes to answer some of the FAQs we've been getting in hopes of providing you all with a better understanding of the wonderment that is the Bugaboo Donkey.
What's so great about this stroller?
The Bugaboo Donkey is a revolutionary product for it's function. It is a single stroller that will expand into a double. The expansion is made possible by releasing 3 clips and pulling the stroller out width-wise. It's really as easy as it sounds. It takes approx 15 seconds to expand or contract the stroller.
As a parent of 2 boys and a store owner selling these products, I'm a huge fan of strollers that can accommodate multiple children while still being able to function as a true single stroller. In years past, customers would purchase a large, clunky double stroller if they had 2 kids. However, what happens when you only have 1 of them that morning? Or the older one is now in pre-school. Do you just push your large double around with one empty seat? or perhaps buy a single stroller just for those days? Yesterday, I might have advised you to do one of those things. Today, there are a few stroller companies that have engineered the perfect strollers to accommodate a growing family. Bugaboo is one of them, and the Donkey is the newest and best (to-date).
There are 3 Bugaboo Donkey models. Which one should you buy?
Before I answer that, I'd like to clarify that all 3 models share the SAME stroller chassis (frame). So, whether you purchase the MONO, DUO, or the TWIN version, the stroller frame is exactly the same. The Bugaboo Donkey MONO
So, again, regardless of the model you select, the stroller chassis (frame) will always be the same. So, if you are buying the Bugaboo Donkey MONO stroller now, all you need to purchase for baby #2 is the DUO extension kit which is essentially the second seat.
Can the Donkey fit through a normal doorway?
Yes! The Bugaboo Donkey MONO is 23.5 Inches wide. In the DUO/TWIN configuration, it's 29 inches. A standard doorway measures 30 inches. So, in every configuration, the Bugaboo Donkey will easily fit through the door.
Is it easy to fold?
Yes! The stroller folds much the same way as the Bugaboo Cameleon. In addition to the 2-piece fold, the Bugaboo Donkey can also be folded as 1-piece. It's a little bulkier and heavier to do it this way, but if you've got the space in your trunk it's a little quicker. The stroller weighs 28.6 pounds as a MONO and 33 pounds as a double (DUO/TWIN). Definitely one of the lighter doubles on the market.
What about accessories?
Bugaboo has updated most of their stroller accessories this season to be compatible with all Bugaboo Strollers. So, whether you have the Bugaboo Cameleon
Color Options
The Bugaboo Donkey is offered in 2 base colors, Sand and Black. The canopy (Stroller Canopy) and Tailored Fabric (Canopy + Bassinet Apron) colors are Black, Red, Off-White, Pink, Royal Blue, and Sand. In typical Bugaboo fashion, you can mix and match to create your own unique color pallet.
To sum it up, we think that the Bugaboo Donkey is an incredible product; a definite advancement in the stroller industry. Meeting the demands of a growing family, this stroller will be as popular in its MONO configuration as it is as a DUO/TWIN. It's been a long time coming, but Bugaboo certainly did not disappoint. So, when you are thinking of dishing out about as much as you would for a used car, I would strongly consider this stroller.Tweet This Post
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1. To get a user name and password, visit our regions website at www.ayso76.org and click on the Registered Users link in the top right hand corner of the page. Or go directly to this link https://www.ayso76.net, Once you see the main login page, click on "Register as New User"
2. Follow the instructions on the "On-Line Registration Page". If you are simply creating a new account in order to be a referee and are not registering children to play in our region, please read item #5 on this page. It will instruct you to go through this process but ignore anything related to children. Enter your email address and click "Proceed to Registration".
3. Enter the information required and select "Create Parent Record". At this point, you are done. You do not need to follow any other steps related to adding familly members to your profile.
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4. Once logged in, click on the "Activate Referee Functions" link in the top navigation bar under the heading "REFEREES". (If you already see the Self-Schedule and Allocate Points links, you are already activated and you can skip to step 5)
5. On the Referee Volunteer Information page, check the box that says "I would like to volunteer as a referee for AYSO" and then press "Update Volunteer Info". This is CRITICAL as you will not appear in the referee mailing list and you will not have the ability to schedule referee assignments unless you are in the system as a referee volunteer.
You should now see a screen with some optional information to enter. For example, if you are an upper division referee and want to sign up for U16 and U19 games, check that box. The rest of the information is purely descriptive and you can always come back to this screen at anytime to update the information by selecting "My Referee Record" under the REFEREE tab once you have completed the referee activation process.
6. Press the "Update Volunteer Info" button one more time to complete the activation. At this point, the Activate Referee Functions link should be replaced with the following options, My Referee Record, Self-Schedule, Allocate Points, and Cup Signup (if they were not there already).
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Late-night jailbreak attempts at two major prisons outside Baghdad have killed dozens, including at least 25 members of Iraq's security forces who battled militants armed with car bombs, mortars and machine guns, officials said Monday.
In northern Iraq, a suicide car bomber targeted an army patrol on Monday, killing 12 people, officials said.
The coordinated attacks on the prisons in Taji and Abu Ghraib on the outskirts of Baghdad, which both hold convicted al-Qaida militants, were the latest indication of Iraq's deteriorating security conditions.
There were conflicting reports on whether inmates had escaped following the assaults, which started late Sunday. Local media and militant Internet forums said some prisoners managed to flee, but authorities did not confirm any break-outs.
Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan Ibrahim denied any prisoners had escaped, while Justice Ministry spokesman Wissam al-Firaiji said 21 prisoners were killed during the fighting and 25 were wounded. He was unable to confirm reports of prisoners escaping, saying authorities were still counting the inmates.
Many of the thousands of the prisoners at the two facilities are insurgents, including members of al-Qaida's Iraq branch convicted on terrorism-related charges.
Early on Monday, government forces combed the areas around the prisons searching for more attackers, and guards at Taji appeared on high alert with assault rifles at the ready. Police imposed a curfew in the Abu Ghraib area.
The jail-break attempts started with attackers detonating bombs and lobbing mortar rounds Sunday night at Taji prison, 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Baghdad. A suicide car bomber then attacked the main gate while another suicide bomber blew himself up nearby, sparking clashes between militants and the guards, according to police.
As the battle raged for about two hours outside, rioting inmates set fire to blankets and furniture, police said. Army helicopters were called in to help thwart the attacks, according to the Interior Ministry.
Fifteen soldiers were killed and 13 others were wounded in the Taji attack, ministry officials said. At least six militants were also reported killed.
Around the same time, a similar raid unfolded at the prison in Abu Ghraib in Baghdad's western suburbs. Insurgents there struck the prison walls with mortar rounds and a car bomb, and at least one militant blew himself up at the main gate. Ten policemen were killed and 19 others were wounded, the officials said. Four militants were reported killed in that attack.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.
Security forces reported finding undetonated car bombs and explosive belts used by suicide bombers near both prisons after the attacks.
The U.S. military previously operated the lock-ups in Taji and Abu Ghraib but handed control of both facilities back to Iraqi authorities before the last American troops departed in December 2011.
Abuse of prisoners at the hands of American guards inside Abu Ghraib following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion sparked outrage around the world and helped fuel anti-American sentiment in Iraq.
In a separate incident early on Monday, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laded car into an army patrol in northern Iraq, killing at least 12 people, police and medical officials said.
The bomber hit the patrol in a residential area in the city of Mosul, killing nine soldiers and three civilians, a police officer said. He added that 14 people, including four civilians, were wounded.
Mosul, 360 kilometers (220 miles) northwest of Baghdad, is one of Iraq's major flashpoints. Officials who gave the details of the attacks there also spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.
A surge of attacks has killed more than 450 Iraqis since the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on July 10.
The violence comes amid a larger spike in bloodshed in recent months that has raised fears of a return to the widespread sectarian killing that pushed the country to the brink of civil war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Associated Press writers Adam Schreck and Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report in Baghdad.


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Artists on Monday put the finishing touches on a giant mural portraying the four seasons on the outside wall of the Ashland Emergency Food Bank.
The 52-by-18-foot mural, funded by local philanthropists and done in ordinary acrylic housepaint, portrays the changing seasons and the planting and harvesting of food in Ashland. It keys in on the theme of beauty, joy and sharing expressed by the food bank, says Executive Director Pam Marsh.
The new mural, now the largest piece of public art in Ashland, will be dedicated at 3 p.m. Aug. 3 with food and music. The food bank is at 560 Clover Lane near the south interchange. It was commissioned by a grant from Barry and Kathryn Thalden of Ashland.
"It's been a privilege to watch this wonderful piece of art unfold and join the city's art collection," says Marsh, who is also a City Council member. "It's a tremendous donation and it speaks of the giving and receiving that goes on here as we share food with our neighbors."
The long, colorful mural portrays the Ashland landscape, people, animals and produce in various seasons: a couple at a campfire at Emigrant Lake in winter; the planting of fields in spring; a family wading in the Fairy Ponds of upper Ashland Creek in summer; a hand-holding couple at harvest time, in the shadow of Mount McLoughlin.
"I'm pretty happy we stayed on our (three-week) schedule and got it done despite challenging rain, heat and wind," says Denise Baxter, executive director of the Ashland Art Center and lead artist on the project.
"Doing this mural was an interesting microcosm of life," says Baxter. She and her five apprentice artists from Southern Oregon University worked on small parts of it, mapped by grids, and weren't able to see the big picture till they got well into the work.
The project has been intense, says Baxter, noting her two children had to do their own cooking over the last three weeks.
"Finally, it said, 'I'm done enough,' " says Baxter. " 'Don't fight the 1/8ths and 1/16ths.' It's like we planned and I'm very happy."
The mural is the first to be reviewed and shepherded by the city's new Public Arts Commission, says member Sandy Friend. It opens the door for more murals that meet the commission's standards as listed on the city's website.
"It's the first mural project after we drafted our new procedures and they followed it perfectly, every step," says Friend. "It's quite gorgeous. ... We visited it at the preliminary stage, the mid-stage and will sign off on it at our public meeting at the final stage."
Baxter painted some of the public art that lawyer Lloyd Haines affixed without a permit to the underside of the Lithia Way overpass in 2007, a controversial move that opened the discussion for public art — and its guidelines — in the city of Ashland.
"We've been delighted with the mural and its progress on schedule," said commission member Alissa Clark.
"This mural is an amazing and wonderful thing, a thrilling opportunity," says one of its artists, Erin Gilpin. "It highlights what a beautiful place this valley is and, through the year, will lift up what might otherwise be a depressing day."
Another painter, Jose Rivera, notes, "It's a good thing for the community. It brings more people out and gives everyone a chance to see something colorful. It's been a big learning experience for me."
Richard Sangeleer is producing a 15-minute, time-lapse film of the project. It will be shown at the dedication ceremony and may be offered in the Ashland Independent Film Festival.
"It's beautiful. It came out really good because they stuck to the original design and didn't let it get out of control," says Sangeleer. "It feels like it was done by an old master with many apprentices who know how to do her style. It will grow and change with the seasons it portrays."
John Darling is a freelance writer living in Ashland. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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No one charts the wilds of childhood more precisely than the Dardennes.
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Working on a scale that's minuscule by studio standards, the Dardenne brothers have made yet another movie that does what Hollywood used to do - keep us rapt, and leave us grateful.
Kindness is evident in even the most hurt or exasperated moments of de France's lovely performance as Samantha. But then, kindness couched in unblinking social realism is an intrinsic part of how these supremely gifted filmmakers view the world.
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Downbeat but powerful drama about childhood and love.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The Kid with a Bike is a very downbeat, but highly acclaimed French drama about an 11-year-old boy whose father refuses to take care of him and the boy's attempts to deal with being abandoned. The movie contains some fighting, a robbery sequence in which people are hit with a baseball bat, and a scene in which the 11-year-old hero is knocked unconscious with a rock (offscreen). There's also some very brief language, including one use of "f--k," one use of "a--hole," and two uses of "s--t" (all in subtitles). One older teen character is said to be a drug dealer -- though no drugs are shown -- and he smokes a cigarette. Though the movie is rated PG-13, the material is very mature and complex. However, it has its hopeful aspects, and viewed with parents, the movie could lead to some interesting discussions.
Messages: Generally, the movie seems to be saying that kids long for attention, and if they can't get it from their parents, they'll get it from other places, even from criminals. Responsible adults can step in and possibly turn young destinies back toward a positive path.
Role models: Cyril is not necessarily a role model; he's hurting after being rejected by his dad, and in his anger, he acts out, fights, and commits crimes. But Samantha is a fine role model, taking on the responsibility of a child without seeming to have any motivation other than the goodness of her heart.
Violence: Cyril gets into a couple of brief fights, mostly pushing and wrestling, one after having caught a bike thief. During a robbery sequence, he hits an adult and an older boy with a baseball bat. In one scene, an older boy throws rocks at Cyril; a rock hits him, knocks him out of a tree, and briefly knocks him unconscious. Adults handle Cyril fairly roughly in one or two scenes, trying to control him after he has acted out.
Sex: Not applicable
Language: "F--k" is heard once, "s--t," twice, and "a--hole," once.
Consumerism: An older boy tempts Cyril with an offer to play Assassin's Creed on the PlayStation PS3. (The game is not shown, but can be heard offscreen.) Coke and Fanta soft drinks are mentioned, and Cyril chooses a Fanta.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: An older teen character is said to be a drug dealer, though no drugs or deals are ever shown. The older teen smokes a cigarette.
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What is a torn rotator cuff?
The rotator cuff is a group of tendons and their related muscles that help keep the shoulder and upper arm bone securely placed in to the socket of the shoulder blade. The rotator cuff stabilizes the shoulder joint and helps you to raise and rotate your arms.
There are three stages of rotator cuff tears:
What is shoulder impingement?
Impingement syndrome is a common disorder of the shoulder that refers to an improper alignment of the bones and tissues in the upper arm. Inflammatory conditions such as tendinitis, bursitis, and arthritis are all closely related to impingement syndrome, as are tears to the rotator cuff tendons.
If the rotator cuff becomes inflamed from overuse or there is a bone deformity or spur on the end of the shoulder blade, then the space between the upper arm bone and tip of the shoulder blade is narrowed, causing the rotator cuff and its fluid-filled bursa to be squeezed or pinched. This impingement causes irritation and pain to the rotator cuff when the shoulder is raised.
What is frozen shoulder?
Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) is a condition in which the tissues around the shoulder joint stiffen, scar tissue forms, and shoulder movements become difficult and painful. It can develop when you stop using the joint normally because of pain, other injury, or a chronic health condition, such as diabetes. Any shoulder problem can lead to frozen shoulder if you do not work to maintain its full range of motion.
What is a separated shoulder?
A shoulder separation (acromioclavicular joint injury) occurs when the outer end of the collarbone separates from the end of the shoulder blade because of torn ligaments. This injury occurs most often from a blow to the shoulder or a fall on a shoulder or outstretched hand or arm.
What is a dislocated shoulder?
A shoulder dislocation (shoulder instability) occurs when the upper end of the arm bone pops out of the shoulder joint. This injury may be caused by a direct blow to the shoulder, a fall on an outstretched hand or arm, or an exaggerated overhead throwing motion.
What is carpal tunnel syndrome?
Carpal tunnel syndrome is the term used to describe a specific group of symptoms (tingling, numbness, weakness, or pain) in the fingers or hand and occasionally in the lower arm and elbow. These symptoms occur when there is pressure on a nerve (median nerve) within the wrist (carpal tunnel). Carpal tunnel syndrome develops over time because of repetitive hand motions that damage muscle and bone in the wrist area.
What is tennis elbow?
Lateral epicondylitis, commonly known as tennis elbow, is inflammation of the tendon that connects the muscles of the forearm, wrist, and hand to the upper arm at the elbow. The tendon on the bony outside (lateral) part of the elbow (the epicondyle) is most often irritated by overuse during physical activity.
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS for short) is an Internet standard for influencing the display of HTML documents: see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/.
By default,
makeinfo includes a few simple CSS commands to
better implement the appearance of some Texinfo environments. Here
are two of them, as an example:
pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller }
A full explanation of CSS is (far) beyond this manual; please see the
reference above. In brief, however, the above tells the web browser
to use a 'smaller' font size for
@smalldisplay text, and to
use the same font as the main document for both
@display. By default, the HTML '<pre>' command uses
a monospaced font.
You can influence the CSS in the HTML output with two
makeinfo options: --css-include=file and
The option --css-ref=url adds to each output HTML file a '<link>' tag referencing a CSS at the given url. This allows using external style sheets. You may find the file texi2html/examples/texinfo-bright-colors.css useful for visualizing the CSS elements in Texinfo output.
The option --css-include=file includes the contents file in the HTML output, as you might expect. However, the details are somewhat tricky, as described in the following, to provide maximum flexibility.
The CSS file may begin with so-called '@import' directives,
which link to external CSS specifications for browsers to use when
interpreting the document. Again, a full description is beyond our
scope here, but we'll describe how they work syntactically, so we can
explain how
makeinfo handles them.
There can be more than one '@import', but they have to come
first in the file, with only whitespace and comments interspersed, no
normal definitions. (Technical exception: a '@charset'
directive may precede the '@import''s. This does not alter
makeinfo's behavior, it just copies the '@charset' if
present.) Comments in CSS files are delimited by '/* ... */', as
in C. An '@import' directive must be in one of these two forms:
@import url(http://example.org/foo.css); @import "http://example.net/bar.css";
As far as
makeinfo is concerned, the crucial characters are
the '@' at the beginning and the semicolon terminating the
directive. When reading the CSS file, it simply copies any such
'@'-directive into the output, as follows:
makeinfo's default CSS, thus overriding it.
default CSS is included. If you need to override
defaults from an '@import', you can do so with the '!
important' CSS construct, as in:
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makeinfo's defaults, and lastly the inline CSS from
makeinfo includes
its default CSS and then the rest of the file.
If the CSS file is malformed or erroneous,
makeinfo's output
is unspecified.
makeinfo does not try to interpret the
meaning of the CSS file in any way; it just looks for the special
'@' and ';' characters and blindly copies the text into the
output. Comments in the CSS file may or may not be included in the
In addition to the possibilities offered by CSS,
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The most useful way to load jQuery and Bootstrap in Electron is to install the npm modules and directly use the files in the respective
directories. That way you're not dependent on a 3rd party service, and are instead in control of your destiny.
In your Electron app project directory install the required modules as so:
As of this writing Bootstrap 4 has been released as a Beta, and therefore we can install it using that tag. With Bootstrap v4 they've introduced Popper, which must be installed this way.
Let's now inspect what we've installed:
Therefore, you can add this to your HTML file(s) in your Electron app.
That's a straight translation of the HTML snippets in the Bootstrap installation instructions into the conditions we have in the Electron app. BTW, if you want to use the minified versions of these libraries, modify the paths to include
to reference the minified files.
Start the application and you'll see this in the JavaScript console:
What's up? Again, you can see clearly that jQuery is loaded first, and you can see clearly in the developer tools that the jQuery module was indeed loaded first.
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TREBES , France — Mourners packed a church in a rural French town rocked by a deadly terror attack for a Sunday service in tribute to the victims, who included a policeman hailed as a hero for offering himself in place of a hostage.Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, 44, was shot and stabbed after taking the place of a woman whom Radouane Lakdim had been using as a human shield during his attack on Friday at a supermarket in the town of Trebes.The sleepy town of 5,000, located on the picturesque Canal du Midi, is just eight kilometers from the famed medieval walled city of Carcassone, where a silent march is planned next Saturday, the eve of Easter Day.The bishop of Carcassonne and Narbonne celebrated the mass in Trebes' Church of Saint-Etienne to honor the four killed and three wounded in the attacks claimed by Daesh (the so-called IS)."We want this to stop," said Jean-Pierre Bordeaux, who came with his wife Henriette from the nearby village of Capendu to attend the remembrance mass. "We aren't safe from anything anywhere."Parish priest Philippe Guitart warned against blaming Muslims in general for terror attacks. "We must... help people to learn to live together," he said.Representatives from the Muslim community attended the mass, which had an overflow crowd listening to the service through loudspeakers outside the small church as armed police stood by."We have had a long friendship with them," Bishop Alain Planet said. "They are very aware of this sadness, which affects them as well."People laid bouquets of white roses outside the town hall in Trebes, with one message reading, "Stop the violence, stop, stop".A national tribute will be held at a later date for Beltrame, who President Emmanuel Macron said had "died a hero" and deserved "the respect and admiration of the whole nation".Beltrame's brother Cedric said the policeman would have known all too well the risk he was taking. "He certainly knew he didn't stand a chance," he said. "He gave his life for another."Following the worst terror attack of his presidency, Macron has called a meeting later this week of the security services who monitor individuals suspected of radicalization.Lakdim, 25, a petty criminal, was on a watchlist, but authorities had concluded the Moroccan-born French national did not pose a threat.Investigators found notes referring to Daesh at Lakdim's home in Carcassonne, a legal source said, including a hand-written letter in which he claimed allegiance to the terror group.Lakdim, who was armed with a gun, knife and homemade explosive devices according to a security source, was shot dead as police moved in to end his siege of the Super U supermarket where he had holed up after a shooting spree in Carcassonne.World leaders paid homage to the slain officer, with British Prime Minister Theresa May tweeting that his "sacrifice and courage will never be forgotten", while US President Donald Trump denounced the "horrible attack".The shootings come as France, part of the US-led coalition fighting Daesh remains on high alert following a string of deadly attacks that have killed more than 240 people since 2015. Lakdim fit a familiar profile as a petty criminal who had turned to extremism.A small-time drug-dealer, his rap sheet included convictions for carrying a banned weapon and for drug use. He spent a month in jail in 2016.His girlfriend and a 17-year-old friend were in custody. — AFP
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If you've been reading my blog for a while you'll know of my never ending love for Hummus. What you may not know is I'm also a huge baba ganoush fan. What can I say, I was brought up in the Middle East and both dips were a big part of my diet and so have a very special place in my heart! Luckily as well as being delicious they also happen to be super healthy, high in fibre, nutrients and good fats!
I don't eatbaba ganoush as much as I would like to since it's slightly more time consuming when compared tohummus (which I literally eat on the daily!), and when I do make it, it's gone within a day or two. I just seem to inhale the stuff! I try to eat as many greens as possible and usually leave them bland and just add a huge tablespoon or two of hummus or baba ganoush on top. That's my excuse for eating so much!
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This is the prettiest dip I've ever seen :). I'm loving that color. I too eat hummus regularly and don't eat baba ganoush nearly enough. But I love beets so I'll have to try your spin on it!
Let's Talk About It , with Rod Love and co-host Greg Jackson, now on its 24th episode, is an edgy new radio program that has a distinct "Apopka" tone.Rod Love
Hosts Rod Love and Greg Jackson are well-known figures in Apopka. Love is a local businessman, was the co-chair of the Apopka Task Force against Violence, and was recently named the Orange County District 2 Commissioner. Jackson is a local attorney that ran for the Florida Legislature in 2016 for District 45, which includes a part of Apopka.
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Let's Talk About It describes itself as a show in search of results-oriented solutions. It tackles important subjects such as crime in urban communities, jobs, business growth, relationship with the police, transitioning from a mom and pop proprietorship to mom and pop incorporation and a whole lot of other action initiatives that affect the quality of life of individuals and families are the major focus. Its goal is to develop an understanding of the everyday needs and issues of people and assist in empowering them with the necessary information or motivation towards addressing such needs, all with the support of professionals or experts who will be the show's guests.


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It's another new coaching staff, a new offense, new quarterbacks, a whole new regime. But some things you can always count on. As the Bills approach a new season, Fred Jackson is singing an old, familiar refrain.
"I've got a lot to prove," the veteran running back declared Wednesday after the second day of mandatory minicamp.
We've heard that one before, haven't we? Jackson has been proving people wrong since his high school days in Texas. He played at Coe College, a Division III school. Dismissed as too small for the NFL, he spent two years playing indoor football and another year in NFL Europe.
Jackson was underestimated when Marv Levy gave him a shot in the NFL. He had to prove he belonged, then he had to prove he was worthy of starting. As soon as he established himself as a featured back, people said he was getting old. Then the Bills drafted C.J. Spiller in the first round.
In February, Jackson turned 32, which is old for his position. But barely 18 months ago, at age 30, Jackson was a leading MVP candidate and threatening to break O.J. Simpson's team record for scrimmage yards when he broke his leg and missed the last six games.
Even at that, it was a year to remember, a career year. But Jackson still thinks about that season, about how it felt to perform at his absolute athletic peak, and what might have been if he'd stayed healthy.
"All the time," Jackson said. "That's the number one thing. I know what I'm still capable of doing. I'm sure that the 'He's too old' thing will be out there. 'Is he at the end of his career?' Which is all the more reason to go out and prove people wrong."
Jackson isn't likely to have a year like 2011 again. Doug Marrone says there's an open competition for every job, but you know he'll want to get more touches for C.J. Spiller, who gained 1,703 yards from scrimmage and reached 1,000 yards rushing in the fewest carries of any back in 78 years.
There's also the injury issue. Jackson missed six games with right knee injuries and a concussion last year. He has played 10 games in each of the last two seasons. Last year, he averaged 3.8 yards a carry, a career low.
Jackson says he was sickened by what happened a year ago. He said it was the worst year of his career. But he said his knee is "100 percent ready to go." He knows there's an imperative to get Spiller more work. But physically, he believes he can be the player he was in 2011.
"Without a doubt," he said. "I still feel like I can play at a very high level, and all I need is the opportunity to do so. Yes, I had some injuries last year, but I feel without those I could have done some things for us.
"That's not to take away from C.J. He did some phenomenal things last year. He's a tremendous player. They're expecting big things of him. But I feel like I can still compete, still do whatever I need to get out there and make plays. That's what I'm looking forward to."
The Bills are eager to find out. Finding enough touches for Spiller and Jackson is a problem, but it's a good problem. There's been a lot of talk about the rookie wide receivers, but fans shouldn't lose sight of the fact that running back is the team's best position.
For two years in a row, the Bills have led the AFC in yards per rushing attempt. The problem was, Chan Gailey didn't run enough. So for all the talk about inventive passing schemes, Marrone and Nathaniel Hackett's primary concern should be maximizing the production at their best position.
"For anything we're doing, we always want to hand the ball to a back," said Hackett, the 33-year-old offensive coordinator. "We want to have the running backs carry the load. That's always the case. We're very lucky because we have both of those guys. When in doubt, give it to a back. That's our motto."
Invariably, there will be questions about giving both running backs enough touches to keep them in rhythm.
"Run a lot of plays," Hackett said. "Run a whole lot of plays so everybody gets a lot of touches. That makes everybody happy."
Jackson said he's impressed with the new coaching staff. He likes their energy and the fact they expect to make the playoffs. He loves hearing Marrone say he'll ride his backs and use them in multiple roles.
"We think that this offense should go through us," Jackson said. "We feel we're capable of making plays for this team and taking us where we want to go. We have to set the tone early. If we get the running game going early, it takes a lot of pressure off a lot of different people – whether it's Kevin Kolb or EJ Manuel, or the receiving corps."
Personal achievements matter to Jackson. He hates seeing that 3.8 per carry next to his name in 2012. But winning is the ultimate goal. If you knew you would make the playoffs as a backup, I asked, would you take that?
"Without a doubt," he said. "I'm a team player first and that's what this is all about, getting the opportunity to win a championship. Of course, I want to be out there making the plays that get us to the playoffs. That's why we play. You don't want them to say you didn't contribute.
"As long as we win football games and get to the playoffs, I'll play any role they want me to."
Jackson has been saying for years that he's young for his age, that getting to the NFL late saved some wear and tear on his body. As usual, he has to prove it. But the new coaches should make sure they find out for sure just how much this consummate pro has left in him.
It's an old story, I know, but the man has been underestimated before.
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Ms. Weisz is always a strong presence, but her talents are wasted here on a naive heroine - the fictional Kathy is exceedingly slow to grasp the extent of the corruption - and a narrative style that turns the horror of the prostitutes' plight into harrowing melodrama.
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Rarely has a movie captured the obscene violence of sex trafficking with such unvarnished grubbiness. In the end, though, The Whistleblower is a corporate thriller.
For 20 years the news has reported from time to time of crimes alleged by employees of paid defense contractors. These cases rarely seem to result in change, and the stories continue. We can only guess what may be going unreported. The Whistleblower offers chilling evidence of why that seems to be so.
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Strong role model in otherwise disturbing, depressing movie.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this downbeat drama -- which is based on a true story about human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999 -- features disturbing violence involving the teenage victims, who are tortured and brutalized (though most of this is suggested rather than actually shown). A rape sequence focuses on the victim's screams and terror rather than on graphic details of the act, but in another shot, a man shoots a girl point blank in the head (with sprays of blood). Nudity (mostly toplessness) is shown via Polaroid photos but never actually onscreen. The heroine has sex with one of her co-workers, whom (she finds out later) is married. Language includes many uses of "f--k," plus "s--t" and more. The heroine (Rachel Weisz) -- a police officer who wants to save the girls but winds up uncovering layer upon layer of corruption -- is a strong role model, and the material is well-researched and undoubtedly powerful, but this movie is far too intense and depressing for kids or younger teens.
Messages: The movie illustrates the depth and breadth of corruption and cruelty -- apparently based on real incidents -- in even the most respected organizations on earth. It also depicts some racial and/or cultural discrimination. It's a bit overwhelming and depressing, but the movie also shows how one brave, caring person can make changes.
Role models: Kathryn is a very strong role model, though the movie's intense, graphic nature means younger teens won't be able to "meet" her. She has a troubled past but works hard to correct that and earn the right to see her daughter again. She won't allow corruption or laziness to interfere with her work in Bosnia and Herzegovina; she does her best, all the time, and truly seems to care. She faces danger, makes ethical choices, and strives to overcome challenges.
Violence: The movie depicts the trafficking of teen girls and shows many disturbing images related to this topic. There's a horrifying rape sequence; though no graphic details are shown, the scene focuses on the victim's terror and screams. There are suggestions of prostitution, drugs, and torture (with shots of needles and condoms). Teen girls are shown to be cut, bruised, and battered. The most horrifying images are seen in Polaroid pictures. One girl is shot point blank in the head, with a spray of blood. Viewers see threats, fighting, ruthless pummeling, and dead bodies.
Sex: Some of the teen victims are seen naked in Polaroid photos, mostly topless, though there are quick, hard-to-see shots of other regions. There are strong suggestions of teen prostitution. The main character sleeps with a married man (she doesn't realize it at the time) in a scene that includes groping, kissing, and the partial removing of clothes.
Language: "F--k" is heard at least a dozen times; "s--t," "bitch," and "Jesus Christ" are used less frequently.
Consumerism: Quick shots of a U-Haul truck and a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: In early scenes, law enforcement officials are shown blowing off steam by drinking beer and/or smoking cigarettes.
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|1.21 (PC) / 1.06 (Mac)
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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (or Warcraft I) was the first game in the Warcraft series, it was released in 1994 quickly becoming a best seller and was one of the original Real Time Strategy games.[1] It featured two races, the humans of the kingdom of Azeroth and the invading orcs of the Horde. The game is now out of print and the demo that was available on Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft: Orcs & Humans homepage was removed when the site was updated.[2] There was a CD re-release, namely version 1.21 (CD version), that didn't have the word-from-the-user-manual copy protection of prior versions.[citation needed]
Note: DOS BOX may be needed if you attempt to run the DOS based game.
Overview Edit
Warcraft has not only became a classic, winning many awards, but set new standards for multiplayer games. Set in the mythic kingdom of Azeroth, players are given the task of maintaining a thriving economy while building a war machine with which to destroy the enemy.[1]
By playing either the Humans or the Orcs in this saga, two separate story lines evolve with 12 scenarios per side telling the tale of the battle for Azeroth. From swords to sorcery, all the elements of classic fantasy are here to explore: rich forests, dark dungeons and bubbling swamps await the stalwart troops amassed to fight for dominance.[1]
The player can command many unique armies and creatures including Knights, Archers, Clerics, Warlocks, Daemons, Elementals, and The Dead.[1]
The multiplayer aspects of the game bring Warcraft to a new level of excitement. A player can challenge another one on over 20 custom maps and determine who is the supreme warlord. Head to head play is supported over modem, serial link, and IPX networks, and works cross-platform with both the IBM-PC and Macintosh versions.[1]
History Edit
- Main article: First War
This title had great part of the history retconned with later games, for a list of changes see here.
The orcs originated from the world of Draenor were corrupted by the Burning Legion to form the Horde. They slaughtered the other races of their planet, but still wanted wars. Their leader Gul'dan joined forces with the Last Guardian Medivh, corrupted by the demon lord Sargeras to open a portal to another world called Azeroth.
After many battles and through attrition the Horde defeats the human kingdom of Azeroth, and later choose to pursue the survivors to the north.
Requirements Edit
- PC System Requirements[1]
- 386/20 with 4MB RAM
- MS-DOS 5.0 or Higher
- VGA Video Card
- Microsoft Compatible Mouse
- CD-ROM Required for Movies
- Mac System Requirements[1]
- 68030/68040 or PowerMac
- System 7.1 or Higher
- 256 Color 13" Video Display
Awards Edit
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans had the following awards:[3]
- 1995 Premier finalist - Computer Gaming World
- Editors' Choice Award - PC Gamer
- Strategy Game of the Year runner-up - PC Gamer
- Critics' Pick - Computer Life
- 1995 Best Strategy finalist - Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
- 1995 Innovations Award - Consumer Electronics Show, Winter 1995
- Four out of five rating - Computer Gaming World
- 92-percent rating - PC Gamer
- Four out of five rating - Computer Life
Media Edit
Images Edit
- Screenshots
- Compact disk design
Video Edit
- Warcraft: Orcs & Humans intro
References Edit
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 Blizzard Entertainment 2005-12-29. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans archived site. Web.Archive.org.
- ↑ LEGACY GAMES. US.Blizzard.com.
- ↑ AWARDS. US.Blizzard.com.
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External links Edit
- Story
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The Heat will travel to Milwaukee tonight. And with a win over the Bucks, they will extend their winning streak to 21 straight games.
While the Heat have a ways to go before they reach the Lakers record of 33 straight wins, it would still be just the third winning streak in NBA history of at least 21 games.
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At its most basic level, the word "mysticism" refers to a direct, intimate union of a person with God through contemplation and love. The Scripture readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter can help explain why every serious Christian can and should be a mystic.
The allegory of the vine in John 15 teaches that believers in Jesus are related to him in a vital and organic way, and that their discipleship entails abiding in that relationship and demands faithfulness to it. An allegory is a figure of speech in which each element in a narrative is equated with someone or something else. Here the vine is Jesus, the farmer/vine grower is God the Father, and the branches are those who follow Jesus. Today's text is part of Jesus' farewell discourse in John 13–17, whose setting is Jesus' Last Supper with his disciples. Their main topic is how the community formed by the earthly Jesus can carry on when he is no longer bodily or physically present as he was during his earthly ministry. The point is that the life-giving Spirit of Jesus will still be present and active among his disciples and their successors.
In the vine allegory, Jesus is the vine in the sense that his vital energy courses through the whole plant and its branches and serves as its source of life and dynamism. The Father is the farmer or vine grower, who tends to the vine at every stage in its existence. The disciples are the branches, who depend upon both the vine and the vine grower for their growth and continuing care.
The vine grower's activities include cutting away the dead branches and pruning back the live branches so that they may produce fruit ever more abundantly. The criterion by which the branches live or die is their productivity, or bearing fruit, by keeping Jesus' commandments to believe and love. The disciples whom Jesus addresses have already been "pruned" through his word—that is, they have been cleansed from what prevents their bearing fruit. But just as branches cannot bear fruit unless they remain connected to the vine, so disciples of Jesus cannot bear fruit unless they remain or abide in Jesus. Those who fail to abide in Jesus can expect to be cut off, to wither up and be burned as fuel for the fire. The allegory of the vine is basic for understanding Christian mysticism. The defining character of Christian mysticism is direct, intimate union with God through the person of Jesus.
Today's reading from 1 John 3 develops the concept of Christian mysticism from the perspective of the response expected from disciples of Jesus. First, they must express their relationship with God through Jesus "in deed and truth." That expression evokes the Johannine concept of doing the truth. In the Johannine theological lexicon, the truth is not merely something to be contemplated, talked about and admired. Rather, the truth is something to be done, acted upon and expressed concretely. For John the truth is incarnate in Jesus as the way, the truth and the life.
Doing the truth is best expressed by keeping the two great Johannine commandments: "Believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us." Those who keep these commandments will "remain in him and he in them." Christian mysticism in the Johannine context demands a response from the believer in the practical arena of everyday life. Doing the truth involves believing and loving, all in the framework of abiding in Christ.
The biblical prototype of the Christian mystic is the Apostle Paul. The story of Paul's conversion and call to become the Apostle to the Gentiles is narrated three times in Acts, in Chapters 9, 22 and 26. Today's reading from Acts 9 describes the aftermath of his transformation from being the enemy of the early Christian movement to becoming the instrument chosen by God to bring the Gospel to non-Jews.
On his own testimony (see Phil 3:4-11), Paul's experience of the risen Jesus on the Damascus road was so powerful that it made his past accomplishments in the practice of Pharisaic Judaism seem to him like so much rubbish. From then on Paul's whole life and energy were consumed in sharing that experience and its consequences by showing others their new dignity in Christ and encouraging them to act in ways appropriate to their new status in Christ. The classic expression of Christian mysticism comes from Paul himself: "I live, not longer I, but Christ lives in me" (Gal 2:20).
Christian mysticism is not limited to a tiny minority of religious professionals or spiritual virtuosi. Rather, Christian mysticism, in its Johannine and Pauline senses, is available to all who believe, love and abide in Jesus and his Father.


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Pearland raising funds for family of train wreck victims
A barbecue fundraiser is under way for the family of a Houston woman killed last month in a train wreck in Spain.
The event continues until 4 p.m. at Scooters, 134 N. Main in Pearland.
Organized by friends, the fundraiser is intended to help the family deal with funeral costs for Myrta Fariza and medical expenses for her husband, Robert Fariza, who was injured in the accident, said the couple's oldest daughter, Dominique Fariza-Buerkett of Pearland.
"You don't realize how expensive those things are," she said.
Robert Fariza suffered a broken hip and multiple bruises in the July 24 train derailment in northwestern Spain that killed 79 people, his daughter said.
"His injuries are healing, but he hasn't been checked out here yet," she said. "He's also a cancer survivor. My sisters and I tell him we want to put him in a bubble."
Her sisters are Jisselle Fariza, of Houston, who was married July 12 and was on her honeymoon in Madrid when the wreck happened, and Yalisse Fariza, a marketing student at the University of Texas-San Antonio.
The entire family gathered in Spain when they heard the news and ended up spending two weeks there, Fariza-Buerkett said.
Myrta Fariza lived for four days after the accident, apparently the only victim who survived that long, Fariza-Buerkett said.
"We think she was waiting for all of us to be together," she said. "Her family was the center of her universe. She was the centerpiece of our family."
In addition to today's event, Gina's Italian Kitchen in Clear Lake also held a fundraiser and donated food for a family gathering after Myrta Fariza's wake, Fariza-Buerkett said.
"We're blessed with a great support community," she said. "Our family and friends have lifted us up in prayer."


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NHIAA Boys' Lacrosse Preview: Traditional powers expected to be near the top againBy IAN CLARK
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 12. 2014 9:15PM
The ScoopPlayers to watch -- Division I: Dom St. Laurent (Bishop Guertin senior midfield), Connor Donahue (BG senior attack), John Miller (BG senior midfield), Teddy Geraghty (Hanover senior defense), Chris Washington (Hanover senior goalie), Eric Coburn (Londonderry senior defense), Tom Haller (Nashua North senior midfield), Mack Walker (Souhegan senior attack), Jake Lisauskas (Pinkerton senior midfield), Brett Connal (Pinkerton senior midfield), Todd Billetter (Pinkerton junior attack).
Division II: Matthew Howe (Bedford senior goalie), Grant Mello (Bedford senior midfield), Dan Colella (Bedford senior attack), Matthew Sanford (Bow senior attack), Devin Calkins (Bow senior attack), Brad Chapdelaine (Goffstown senior midfield), Nate Sweet (Portsmouth senior defense), Jake Geppert (St. Thomas Aquinas of Dover senior attack).
Division III: Jon Lencki (Derryfield junior defense), Ryan Papineau (Hollis/Brookline senior attack), Sam Whitaker (H/B senior midfield), Matt French (Hopkinton senior goalie), James McCluskey (Hopkinton junior defense), Kyle Reisert (Plymouth senior midfield), Jared Kuehl (Plymouth senior midfield).
Notable: Pinkerton coach Brian O'Reilly enters his 32nd year at the helm and holds a career record of 433-128.
Will the reigns continue in the NHIAA boys' lacrosse ranks in 2014?
The season opens Monday and many of the top teams from last season are expected to be right in the thick of it once again.
Last season, two of the three boys' divisions were won by repeat champions.
In the Division I boys' final, Bishop Guertin won its fourth consecutive title by knocking off the No. 1 seeded Astros of Pinkerton Academy of Derry 13-6.
In Division II, Bedford won its second in a row by routing Goffstown 16-2 in the final. The Division III title went to Derryfield School of Manchester, a 10-5 winner over Hopkinton.
Pinkerton and Bishop Guertin are once again expected to the teams to beat, with Hanover and Exeter right there with them.
The Astros return a strong team led by senior midfielder and All-America Jake Lisauskas and junior attack Todd Billetter.
"Our expectations are to compete for a championship," said Pinkerton head coach Brian O'Reilly. "This team has a high lacrosse IQ and solid skills. Defense, goaltending, faceoffs and attack will carry the team."
Guertin returns a strong team as well with senior midfielder Dom St. Laurent, senior attacker Connor Donahue and senior midfielder John Miller.
In Division II, Bedford rolled through the regular season undefeated at 18-0 and didn't let up at all in the playoffs, steamrolling everyone.
That run to a second straight title had head coach Matt Guerard thinking his team might be moved to Division I (a move Guerard said he would welcome), but that did not come to pass which means the Bulldogs are once again the team to beat.
Three senior first team All-State selections lead the way for Bedford: goalie Matt Howe, midfielder Grant Mello and attacker Dan Colella.
The rest of Division II appears wide open. It was a very tight race last season with five teams finishing with double-digit wins and the other three schools close behind.
Bow has a strong team coming back with All-State senior attackers Matthew Sanford and Devin Calkins. Runner-up Goffstown also returns two All-State first team players in Jacob Ollila (defense) and Brad Chapdelaine (midfield).
In the Division III ranks, Derryfield should put up a strong title defense thanks to All-State first teamers Jon Lencki (junior defender) and Griffin Phaneuf (senior attack) and five second-teamers such as Tyler Zorn (senior midfield) and Grant Alenson (senior attack).
Runner-up Hopkinton graduated two good players in Bennett Mosseau and Henry Merrow, but return two other All-Staters in Matt French (senior goalie) and James McCluskey (junior defense).
Hollis/Brookline finished third last season and could be poised to make another run with All-State selections Ryan Papineau (senior attack) and Sam Whitaker (senior midfield) back.
Another strong team from last season, Plymouth is also expected to make some noise with leaders Kyle Reisert (senior midfield) and Jared Kuehl (senior midfield).


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Wowsa. The New York Post is reporting from a hearing Wednesday in New York between Carole Crist and her ex-husband, Todd Rome, over the issue of child support for their two daughters. Former Gov. Charlie Crist was in court, supporting his wife. But check out the Post report:
Charlie Crist, the ex-governor of Florida, sat in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday morning holding his foxy wife Carole's metallic rolling bag while she stood before a judge battling her ex-husband, Blue Star Jets honcho Todd Rome, over her alleged failure to pay child support in an emotional showdown. Rome — who spies said chanted "big d - - k, big d - - k" at Crist on the court steps after the hearing — has accused Carole of abandoning her children, Jessica, 15, and Skylar, 13. Inside the court, Judge Matthew Cooper said, "I think this is a very interesting legal issue, but why doesn't the mother want to pay some child support?" a source said. The judge acknowledged a written agreement stating that Carole does not have to pay child support for her daughters if the children live with their father in New York, but added, "I also can't make her visit her children." A witness said Rome started to "well up," crying, "These are my children," after Carole declined the judge's suggestion to handle the dispute outside of the courtroom. Carole's attorney Harold Mayerson accused Rome of manipulating his children by planning to submit a letter from Jessica stating her mother abandoned her and picked Crist over them. The judge wound up rescheduling the hearing for next year because of a technicality. A spy said Rome called out to Crist on the court steps afterward: "Nice going, Charlie. Nice look. Big d - - k! Big d - - k! Be really proud of yourself, Charlie!" Rome's attorney Mark Heller said, "It was most apparent today that Mrs. Crist's purported heartless disconnect from both her devastated teenage daughters and her alleged severance of the maternal bond shocked the good conscience of all courtroom observers, and drew genuine tears of pain from my client . . . who begged the court for help." Carole's rep didn't get back to us.
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It wasn't that long ago that money flowed steadily to entrepreneurs who dreamt up whiz-bang medical devices.
Hospitals souped up their surgical suites with robots or high-tech radiation machines for cancer treatment. Cost wasn't an issue: They just got passed along to insurance companies, who passed them on to employers and patients.
But after the Great Recession hit and the 2010 health law passed, the financiers behind the medical arms race started to rethink their investment calculus.
"If you come in with [a device] that's 10 percent better and twice as expensive, it's hard to get anyone to care," said Bryan Roberts, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based venture capitalist at Venrock, a Silicon Valley company that invests in firms working on health services, medical devices and drugs.
"The changes in the health system are rocket fuel for entrepreneurs," says Roberts' partner Bob Kocher. He is a former Obama health policy adviser who was hired by Venrock in part to capitalize on the expertise he cultivated working on the law in the White House.
The share of venture dollars flowing to seed and early-stage investments in biotechnology and medical devices has plummeted since 2007, when investors pumped $3.6 billion into 332 deals in which a price was disclosed, according to data compiled for Kaiser Health News by FactSet Research Systems. Overall venture investing declined by nearly one-third as the economic recession set in.
Kocher is eyeing businesses that do things like help hospitals keep patients from returning to the hospital with complications soon after treatment — a big-ticket cost that the health law will now tie to new penalties. Like other investors, he also anticipates that many people who gain coverage under the law will face high insurance deductibles. So, Venrock and other firms have funded Castlight Health, a technology company that helps patients choose the cheapest care.
The opportunities within complex health care ecosystems are in things as mundane as billing. "There's a half a person per hospital bed on average that sits in the hospital doing coding and collections and trying to get paid," Kocher says.
Their solution? Drop the manual coding and create "a software system that learns as it codes and keeps getting better and better. And all of a sudden you can say to the hospital, Look, we'll charge you 50 or 70 percent of what you're paying now. You guys save 30 percent. But by the way, we can make great margins and make a terrific business because our costs are so much lower, because we've actually used technology rather than just people to attack the problem," Roberts gushes.
On the treatment side, the investors in Silicon Valley understand that hospitals don't want space-age solutions for tomorrow as much as they want cheap, pragmatic products that can solve basic problems. When it comes to controlling urinary infections, for instance, the future is indeed in plastics. Plastic catheters.
Vicki Farrar started a company called Catheter Connections, based in Salt Lake City. She's almost evangelical about building a better catheter – one that kills the microbes that cause infection – and it's not hard to understand why. The infections are totally preventable and Medicare won't pay for them.
"It's directly impacting the hospital's bottom line, so they don't want this out-of-pocket cost. It's about $50,000 per infection rate," she says. Meaning, the hospital loses $50,000 for every catheter-related blood stream infection. The DualCap catheter she sells, which looks like a spark plug and smells of rubbing alcohol, costs less than a dollar.
DualCap investor Anne Degheest figured the catheter was a good business to bet on, because it prevents hospital readmissions. She points to another promising investment: In-room televisions that walk a patient through a doctor's orders – from bed rest to getting prescriptions filled.
"Like while you're in the hospital, they educate you on the TV so that you cannot see your shows until you've gone through the education, and they test you," she says.
It's a bit like not getting dessert until you've had your vegetables. Maybe this all sounds incredibly simplistic, but venture capitalists say one of the trickiest things about this new world of investing is that their returns, in many cases, hinge on humans changing their behavior. And that's a lot harder than building a robot.
This story by Sarah Varney is part of a reporting partnership that includes KQED, NPR and Kaiser Health News, whose Christopher Weaver contributed.
Now, the health care industry has begun trying to address a problem that politicians have not resolved. It is the rising cost of health care. President Obama's health care law is projected to restrain health care costs but would also add new burdens on the government. The savings the law did find were attacked by Republicans, even as they proposed their own cost-cutting which Democrats have attacked in turn.
All along, venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are quietly finding ways to save money. They're adapting to an increasingly cost-conscious health care industry. And we have more this morning from Sarah Varney of member station KQED.
SARAH VARNEY, BYLINE: Oh, the aughts, and for that matter the '90s,t hose decades when money flowed steadily to entrepreneurs who dreamt up whiz-bang medical devices and shiny robotic surgeons - cost be damned. Hospitals souped up their surgical suites. They spent millions of dollars and passed those costs on to insurance companies and patients.
Then the people with the checkbooks said no more. We're not paying for all these fancy technologies that aren't any better than the ones they replace. And that, say venture capitalists, has pretty much ended the buying the spree.
BOB KOCHER: Hospitals are looking for companies that help them save money.
VARNEY: Bob Kocher is a partner at the venture capital firm VenRock. I met Bob and another partner, Bryan Roberts, at their office in Palo Alto to talk about how the cost pressures on hospitals have changed the kinds of companies they invest in.
BRYAN ROBERTS: If you come to them and say, hey, we've got this thing that's really cool and its going to cost you a bunch of money, it's a total non-starter. But there are so many opportunities to essentially put a replacement cost in there.
VARNEY: Give me an example.
ROBERTS: Billing.
KOCHER: Yeah, there's a half a person per hospital bed on average that sits in the hospital doing coding and collections and trying to get paid.
VARNEY: To Bob and Bryan, the answer is simple: find a cheaper way to help hospitals collect on their bills.
KOCHER: So bring software and technology into health care billing. Right? So rather than having people doing coding manually, have a software system that learns as it codes to get better and better. And all of a sudden, we can make great margins and make a terrific business because our costs are so much lower because we've actually used technology, rather than just people, to attack the problem.
VARNEY: This is not the sexy stuff of Silicon Valley lore, home to some of the world's most venerated venture capitalists and a lot of Porches. The investors here get that hospitals don't want space-age solutions for tomorrow as much as they want cheap, pragmatic products that solve basic problems, like managing data, making workers more productive, and, say, controlling urinary infections. The future is indeed in plastics. Plastic catheters.
VICKI FARRAR: So we have DualCap here. It comes in a sterile package that you open up, just like I did. You take it out and you've got two caps, a light blue cap and a dark blue cap. It's directly impacting the hospital's bottom-line.
VARNEY: Entrepreneur Vicki Farrar started a company called Catheter Connections. She's based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and she was kind enough to mail me a few catheters. They look like a spark plug and smell like rubbing alcohol.
Vicki is practically evangelical about building a better catheter â one that kills the microbes that cause infection â and it's not hard to understand why. The infections are totally preventable and Medicare won't pay for them.
FARRAR: So they do not want to have this out of pocket cost. It's about $50,000 per infection rate.
VARNEY: Meaning the hospital loses $50,000 for every catheter-related bloodstream infection. The DualCap costs less than a dollar.
DualCap investor Anne DeGheest says that's a good business to bet on. Under the federal health law, hospitals will get paid less if they have high infection rates, so they're on the hunt for solutions.
I met Anne at her sprawling home in the Los Altos Hills in Silicon Valley. She seems to have made some good bets.
ANNE DEGHEEST: A lot of these companies I help, they got started right here, like Visicue(ph)..
VARNEY: On this table right here.
DEGHEEST: You've got that table outside there in the garden. It really allows the right brain to kick in, and people start thinking outside the box.
VARNEY: These hills are covered by the estates of wealthy venture capitalists who have made a lot of money off the medical arms race: surgical robots, hip replacements and the like. Anne says those days are pretty much over. With the federal health law, the new opportunities lie in electronic tags that track medical supplies, software that evaluates a doctor's performance, and one of the biggest opportunities for investors: companies that help patients who leave the hospital from returning any time soon.
DEGHEEST: So I think that's an area there where hospitals are begging for help.
VARNEY: That's because this year Medicare will begin slashing payments for patients who return to the hospital unnecessarily within 30 days. So hospitals are trying to figure out how to get patients to stay healthy. They're even using the television in patients' rooms to walk through a doctor's orders, from bed rest to getting their prescriptions filled.
DEGHEEST: They educate you on the TV so that you cannot see your shows on TV until you've gone through the education and they test you.
VARNEY: It's a bit like not getting dessert until you've had your vegetables. Maybe this all sounds incredibly simplistic, but venture capitalists say one of the trickiest things about this new world of investing is their returns in many cases hinge on humans changing their behavior. And that's a lot harder than building a robot.
For NPR News, I'm Sarah Varney.
INSKEEP: This story is part of a reporting partnership that includes KQED, NPR News, and Kaiser Health News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.