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From The Consumerist (via the Great Orange Satan):
"Blue Cross Blue Shield Calls Miscarriage 'Elective Abortion,' Denies Claim"
Click through the link for the story, but the headline pretty much sums it up. The patient, explains in her own words:
"I just got off the phone with the hospital and was told that the claim was not miscoded. The billing clerk told me that the wording clearly stated that I had had a spontaneous miscarriage and not an elective abortion. I was also informed that this is common practice with BCBS of Kansas City to deny miscarriage clams as an "elective abortion." [...] Mind you we have had Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City for less than three months, they have denied every claim we have submitted to them. EVERYONE!"
This is the problem with for-profit health insurance. They have a motive to engage in practices which minimize the amount of claims actually paid. It's well-known in ER billing circles that insurers use computer filters to automatically deny a certain fraction of claims, knowing that some consumers won't bother to appeal (or lack the sophistication to navigate the byzantine appeals process), and those denied claims are pure profit for the insurer. Any claim that isn't a "clean claim" -- meaning submitted in accordance with each insurer's idiosyncratic rules and procedures -- is automatically returned to our billing office denied, usually with minimal explanation, forcing us to research why it was denied and resubmit. Maybe 5% of our claims are denied in this manner -- but we see over 120,000 patients a year. And if some of those denied claims get lost in the shuffle and never are resubmitted? Pure profit for the insurer.
Contrast that with Medicare: claims filed electronically, paid quickly and without hassle, funds electronically deposited in our account. Sure, it's not perfect -- the Medicare compensation rate is about half that of the typical commercial insurer, and Medicare can audit us and send me to jail on a technicality. But forgive me for sometimes wishing Medicare was the only payer I had to deal with.
26 September 2007
From The Consumerist (via the Great Orange Satan):
Posted by shadowfax at 9:28 AM
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There is money to be made with this. Bad Faith in the auto insurance claims made many an plaintiff's attorney a millionaire.ReplyDelete
My mother was diagnosed with uterine fibroids (sp?)which were small enough to not require treatment. Years went by and they never caused her any problems. I believe a large percentage of postmenopausal women have fibroids (you docs out there can confirm or deny that better than me) A few years ago, after she had switched (unfortunately) to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, the fibroids began to grow, and her doctor recommended a hysterectomy. BCBS refused to pay for it, saying she had a preexisting condition, and my parents picked up the tab to the tune of (i think) about $25K.ReplyDelete
My opinion is that her fibroids were a preexisting condition in the same way that someone with a genetic predisposition for, say, breast cancer has preexisting condition. Yes, she did have a slightly higher probability of needing a miscarriage than your average woman on the street, but since she had never been TREATED, how can it be considered a pre-existing condition?
maybe I'm just whining because this happened to my mom....does it seem to anyone else that this was wrong?
- Anonymous9/26/2007 8:48 PM
I think any kind of automatic preexisting condition exclusion is wrong. Like it's so bad for people to get themselves into a position where they would get better health insurance because they - horrors! - have a need for health care? And in most cases it's not even that, it's just changing jobs and the change in insurance comes along with it.ReplyDelete
That said, we have switched insurance many times in the last ten years, and not once have we been hassled about preexisting conditions, of which there are some in our family. Does it depend on how long the interval between leaving one plan and joining another, or maybe it's been outlawed in some states? I'm lucky not to have needed to find out, I guess.
When you go from a group plan to a group plan (like most large employers offer) there is usually no or only a limited pre-existing condition exclusion.ReplyDelete
When you want an individual plan, or a small group plan, then the exclusions become more common and onerous.


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May 21, 2004
New Haven, CT - Led by a 73 from junior Andrew Vitt (Winnetka, IL), No. 25 Yale shot a 302 on the second day of the NCAA East Regional at The Course at Yale Friday. That marked a nine-stroke improvement over the previous day. With a 613 overall, the Elis sit in 25th place. No. 19 Penn State leads with a 575, 15 over par, followed by No. 1 Florida (576) and No. 10 North Carolina (577). Wake Forest's Bill Haas had the top individual score (137), followed by Camilo Villegas of Florida (138).
Ironically, Vitt's day began with a double-bogey on the first hole. Freshman Mark Matza (Southbury, CT), Yale's leader from the first round, got a birdie on that hole to start strong. Vitt gained momentum with a birdie on three.
"I started with a double-bogey on one, but after I birdied three I got more confidence," he noted.
Three Elis birdied on four -- Matza, junior Steve Gray (Lee's Summit, MO) and junior Jason Shin (Bethesda, MD). Gray added another on the par-three five, and by the time Yale finished the front nine Gray (+1), Shin (+2) and Vitt (+2) were neck-and-neck for the top spot. A birdie by Vitt on 12 left him just one over par, and double-bogeys by Gray (on 13 and 16) and Shin (11) on the back nine left Vitt in the lead for Yale. His 73 represented a six-stroke improvement over the previous round.
"I just hit the ball in play," Vitt explained. "I never put myself in terrible situations like I did yesterday. On this course, if you miss the wrong way it's a bogey at best."
Gray's 75 was a five-stroke improvement over the previous round. Sophomore Rick Reissman (Suffern, NY) shot an 81, while Matza shot a 77 and Shin finished at 77.
Sitting in 25th place, and with only 10 teams advancing to the the NCAA Championship June 1-4 at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., the Bulldogs will use the third and final round as a chance to show even further improvement. The teams have been re-seeded to determine tee times on Saturday. Yale tees off on the tenth hole, starting with Reissman (12:36), then Shin (12:45), Gray (12:54), Matza (1:03) and Vitt (1:12). The Bulldogs are once again paired with Army and LIU-Brooklyn.
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The favourites emerge
This stage joins two towns also linked in the 2008 Tour. The route between them is slightly different, though, with the cat 2 Col de Croix Saint-Robert providing a stiff test prior to the final climb up to the ski resort of Super-Besse. Three years ago, Riccardo Riccò led the field home while Stefan Schumacher lost the yellow jersey after crashing in the final charge to the hill-top finish. Neither, of course, will race this year, but the yellow jersey could still change hands. The final ramps are steep enough to split the field and to ensure all the yellow jersey favourites will be working hard.
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These guidelines are to help the [[Main Page|LOLCAT BIBLE]] stay consistent.
These guidelines are to help the [[Main Page|LOLCAT BIBLE]] stay consistent.
=== The Translation Philosophy ===
=== The Translation Philosophy ===
Revision as of 10:51, 21 July 2010
These guidelines are to help the LOLCAT BIBLE stay consistent.
The Translation Philosophy
Every translation of the Bible has a philosophy behind it. Some, for example, are quite formal. ("As literal as possible, as free as necessary", as one translation committee puts it.) Others are dynamic or paraphrases.
The philosophy behind the LOLCat Bible can be summarised as:
As fun as possible, no more misleading than necessary.
At all times, remember that you're trying to produce a translation that's understandable by cats. In particular:
- Cats like having fun. Keep the translation fun.
- Cats have short attention spans. Use short sentences, and feel free to skim the more tedious bits, such as lists of "begats".
- Prefer references to things that cats would understand. A typical domestic cat probably hasn't seen a desert tent, but they have probably seen a sofa.
General formatting guidelines
- Keep Page Navigation Intact
- The page navigation for all of the books of the bible should already be setup and working correctly. Please try to make sure that you don't overwrite this, or modify it.
- Use The Verse Template
- Check out Template:Verse for usage information. And try to group them into paragraphs as noted on the Verse Template Usage Page.
- Indent with {{indent}}
- Normally you would use : to indent, but this causes an unnecessary gap between the text, so use the indent template instead. It is a drop-in replacement for :.
- No Numbers
- Please don't use numbers within verses (for to, for, etc). This conflicts with verse numbers and can be confusing.
- Do Not Use & Signs
- & signs should not be used. Use "An" or something similar instead. & Signs in some chapters make it extremely difficult to read when they are grouped into paragraphs.
- Do Not Use ALL CAPS
- Even though lolcats tend to speak in all caps, the translation should be easier to read. ALL CAPPED LARGE BLOCKS OF TEXT ARE REALLY HARD ON THE EYEBALLZ.
- Use h5's for section title.
- Use an h5 when creating section titles. You do this by placing ===== (5 equals) on each side of the section title.
General translation guidelines
Translations should, at all times, be not too misleading with respect to the source material. Try to get the sense of the text across. We are here to make the Bible funny/amusing and to translate, not to completely rewrite it.
That in mind, do have fun with the translations. It comes out funnier.
Play with the Text. Typical Bible translations are boring, let's face it. Pages of dense theology and philosophy can be tedious at the best of times. Try to add color.
Amplify emotions. Cats are over-emotional to the point of being neurotic. (A closed door isn't a minor inconvenience, it's a mortal insult.) Reflect this by making emotions really strong. A good example of this is Acts 2. The crowd isn't merely puzzled, they are saying "WAI DO THEY SPEEK DIS WAY?!?! WAI?"
Final Drafts
The Category:Final Draft category is a special category for chapters that are "completed." If the admin feels the page meets the Guidelines he'll protect the page and all edit requests must be made on that chapter's talk page.
LOLCat jokes
You can use lolcat specific jokes (cheezburger, etc), but try not to abuse them. A better approach is to try to imagine what a cat would think of what you're reading.
Borrowing from other memes (e.g. "All Your Base") should be used sparingly if at all. If you must, try to ensure that knowing the meme isn't necessary for understanding the text. (It should, at most, be an extra joke for those who get it.)
Language cleanliness
Try to refrain from cursing, l33tspeak, or racial slurs, unless that's what's in the original text. Be creative if you need to say something unclean. Find a round-about way to say it.
If it's not needed at all, then don't say it.
The most common, theologically important, figures like God and the Holy Spirit, have their own lolcat titles ("Ceiling Cat" and "Hover Cat"/"HovrCat" respectively). This is especially true of titles rather than names.
Everyone else should keep names as they are, unless there's a good reason to play with them. Some play may be made with ownership ("jobes" instead of "job's"). If in doubt, ask on the talk page.
As translation has proceeded, the use of asides seems to be fairly common. This is fine, but:
- Don't overdo it. Too many asides breaks the narrative.
- Only do it if it adds something (i.e. fun).
- Limit it to what a cat would be likely to say at that point were they reading it.
There are some great examples of asides in Genesis 2.
Avoid ecclesiastical jargon
Cats don't have millennia of confusing catma to spoil their own Bible translation. Let's not inflict it on them now!
Many ecclesiastical jargon terms are perfectly ordinary words that got a gloss on them. For example, the Greek word translated "baptized" just means "washed". We haven't been consistent on this yet, but in general, prefer the ordinary word to the jargon word.
If in doubt, ask. Srsly.
Cats or humans?
The "cats or humans?" question isn't entirely settled.
Histrkal akurasi suggests that historical passages should keep the human characters as humans, though they can act like cats. In general, this seems like a reasonable approach. Bear in mind that many animal psychologists think that, since they bond with humans in catlike ways, cats consider humans to be "cats" as well. In other words, to a housecat, a human being is some kind of giant, upright, hairless cat.
If the text is instruction (e.g. one of the epistles), though, you can safely interpret it as if it were addressed to cats. Similarly, poetry (e.g. the Psalms) can be written in such a way that it looks like a cat wrote it.
Common Word Translations in the LOLCAT BIBLE
(TODO: As this section grows, we'll need to split it out.)
- Earth
- Urf(s)
- God
- Ceiling Cat
- Satan
- Basement Cat
- Jesus
- Happy Cat or Ceiling Cat's kitteh
- Holy Spirit
- Hover Cat
- Heaven
- Ceiling
- Sin
- Invisible Error
- Blessing
- Cheezburgrz
- Seriously
- Srsly
- Angel
- Birdcat or BirdKat
- Sheep/Rams/Other sacrificial animals
- Mices
Anachronisms are okay
Modern technology in ancient settings are fine in small doses. It adds a flavor. Just don't overdo it or make it the central theme of a chapter.
If you have any ideas for more guidelines, feel free to post them to the talk page.
See Guidelines/Images.
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Did you know....that 3 out of 100 rapes actually get prosecuted?
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97 of Every 100 Rapists Receive No Punishment, RAINN Analysis Shows
While the percentage of rapes reported to police has risen in recent years, a majority — 54% — still are not reported, according to the Justice Department. But increasing reporting alone won't solve the problem: only about one out of four reported rapes leads to an arrest, and only about one out of four arrests leads to a felony conviction and incarceration.
RAINN's new analysis is based on the most recent available Justice Department data, using an average of the five most recent years when available. Based on older data, RAINN had previously estimated that about 6% of rapists ultimately go to prison for their crime.
"This staggering statistic sends a clear message to offenders that they can commit this horrible crime and get away with it. The single most important thing we can do to prevent rape is to put more rapists in prison," notes Scott Berkowitz, RAINN's president and founder. "That's why we have made it a priority to pass the SAFER Act and eliminate the backlog of untested DNA evidence from open rape cases." [/admin edit]
How can this be in the US?
Aren't we supposed to serve justice?
We have a long way to go.
Ladies keep your pepper spray close, and take no shit.
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And it can happen between a man and another man... and a woman with a penis and a man... and so on. Talking about sex in a gendered manner (especially about rape) really closes our minds to a lot. I really think you need to look more into gender identity and sexual and romantic orientations before making judgement.
Having any drunk consented sex is not necessarily rape, but it can be if it was unwanted.
Again you are assuming that people get up after having sex and decide to sue their partners. Why do we always look at victims as if they were the manipulative aggressors? How often do rape charges even happen? How often are innocent men charged with rape? Well let's look at all the lovely college rape cases since 2010 and look at how they are portrayed in the media. It seems to make you think that all convicted rapists must be innocent (at least the ones who had a potentially good career because they come from upper class white families?lol). However, if you looked at the case you'd realize that it is one fucked up situation... like the case where a passed out girl was raped and recorded and people actually laughed and watched and tweeted and called her a slut for being raped with she was passed out... this is in the US. I don't know much about the UK. So this whole idea of rape victims has got to go away. Chances are, if unwanted sex happened, the victim will not even want to speak about it. This is factual. Now the chances that an innocent man will be convicted of rape, do exist, but are very slim (and are often due to politicized nature of the judicial system not because rape victims have unequal powers over their rapists... it will just so happen that most of these men are from lower class, the victim was white or have a criminal record or come from a marginalized area or group). So it is very unlikely that people will abuse this law to get at their sex partners... because well, most rape cases are often unrecorded because people do not report them.
Ofcourse that was rape. But what if you had had only a few drinks and had giving your consent to have sex while only slightly intoxicated. Would that still be rape?
When you used to drink did you never have consensual sex while even the slightest bit drunk?
You started to make a point about explicit consent there and then you lost me. Sorry.
What DO you mean by "explicit consent." I couldn't find your meaning in there anywhere.
And again of course that is rape. Seriously but can you show me once where i said having sex against a woman's consent was not rape?
"For instance, if someone is drunk or high on drugs, then that person cannot give consent. This means that even if someone seems eager to engage in sexual behavior, doing so can legally be considered sexual assault or rape if he or she is intoxicated."
From a U.S lawyer
"You absolutely need a criminal defense attorney. In most states a drunken woman is unable to give consent and therefore a male partner can be charged with assault. In most states the defense that the woman actively participated in the sexual activity, even encouraged it is NOT a defense. You may find this discriminatory, but it is the norm. You need to know that unlawful sexual contact is not always associated with violence. If the woman is very young, mentally challenged, or intoxicated the law assumes no consent. If afterwards she charges the male with assault, the defense is NOT a walk in the park. "
"Most state laws say that an intoxicated person cannot legally give true, informed consent to sexual intercourse, even if they say yes."
BTW, I met a woman who admitted to me that she could only orgasm when being (her word) "taken." The male would have to just do it and do it hard and ignore any protests she made.
Here's another wrench in the works: I read a book or article years ago about a study of the sexual habits of college women. One of the questions asked the subjects was, "Have you ever said no to sex you had, but meant yes?" and well over half of them admitted that they had done that at least once. In the follow up interviews, the main reason given was so that they they could make the male primarily responsible for the sex, which I take to mean that they didn't want to appear whorish to their partner and could allow them to put any "blame" on their partner.
Now, that was probably about two decades ago. Hopefully, today's girls are a little bit more aware of the implications of saying one thing and meaning another. Hopefully, men have evolved, too, and are afraid enough of a rape charge to be very aware of any signs of non-consent.
Also, there are pro forma no's and really serious no's, and hopefully most males can tell the difference. I'm sure most women have said "Stop that!" in a playful way from time to time, or said something similar while really meaning to encourage the behavior.
That is so gray.
How about a woman in the same situation as you described who likes it really rough and wants to be taken by a guy who just does it, doesn't try to ascertain (much less ask) if she is liking it. She would be getting what she wants.
Do we say she likes rough sex or that she likes to be raped? And can a woman like that in that situation BE raped?
Some states draw distinct definitions of "sexual assault" and "rape" for this reason.
The word "rape" is used very broadly. For example, one might describe severe verbal bullying as a "mind rape" and in that sense the rape may not even be particularly sexual in nature. A "sexual assault" can mean something involving no actual or attempted sex at all, for example using an object of some sort in the vagina of an unwilling victim.
Rape and sexual assault are two distinguishable things.
I still think it is an unjust law, but i guess i can accept it is unjust because it is trying to counteract an even greater injustice. Namely the number of woman who are raped but where the rapist can not really be charged for anything due to the difficulty of prosecuting these sort of crimes.
I'm proud to say that once the situation with rape kits was pointed out to the AG in my state (Ohio) he saw to it that they would all get processed, and arrests are already being made.
Why this backlog developed is worth a hearing or two. Was it lack of funds for expensive tests or simply a lack of will?
You are assuming that we have a functioning justice system in the US. It is my opinion that we have a judicial system rather than a justice system. There are far too many instances where the right thing--i.e. justice--is not done.
Pepper spray doesn't really solve anything, believe me. A change in culture and the patriarchal structure might.


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Hello, im learning scheme now for one week. And i have a Problem with one programm. I have to create a programme, which validate a given date witout year and give bach true or false.
So for example (valid-date? 31 4) has to return #f
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4th Circuit Court of Appeals denies request to delay marriage ruling
August 13, 2014
UPDATED 8/14: This post has been updated to reflect that the mandate is now scheduled to take effect at 8:00am on Thursday, August 21.
Today, August 13, the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit denied a motion from defendant Michele McQuigg to grant a stay in the mandate of their marriage ruling from late last month.
The ruling, which simply says, "Upon consideration of submissions relative to the motion to stay mandate, the court denies the motion," means that unless there is further action from the United States Supreme Court, a mandate will be issued in the ruling on Wednesday, August 20 and same-sex couples will have the freedom to marry and have their marriages respected in VA.
The defendants in the case could still seek a stay in the case from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, Executive Director of the ACLU of Virginia, said today: "We hope that the Supreme Court will leave this ruling in place, so that same-sex couples may begin marrying right away. Our clients have already waited far too long to exercise their constitutional right to marry, or to have their marriages from other states recognized."
McQuigg filed her motion nearly two weeks ago with the 4th Circuit, seeking a delay in the mandate while she files a writ of certiorari with the United States Supreme Court. In the meantime, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has already filed his own writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court, explaining that the country needs national resolution on marriage as soon as possible.
Two other cases out of Utah and Oklahoma have been petitioned for review by the Supreme Court.


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
This week, for the 65th consecutive season, a concert series will begin in Chestnut Hill's Pastorius Park.
Sixty five years is an awful long time to do nearly anything, but it's a very long time to run a volunteer-supported and community-sponsored concert series.
Once again, the series has been produced by the Chestnut Hill Community Association, namely by Julie Byrne, who in her capacity as the chair of the association's social division, has raised the funds, made the deals and hired the bands needed to complete the seven-concert series.
Chestnut Hill Hospital also was largely responsible for the series' ongoing success, having given $10,000 in support for several years now. Financial and organizational support has also come from the Chestnut Hill Community Fund, WXPN and the Parks and Recreation Department.
Interestingly, despite its age, the Pastorius Park Concert Series has changed a lot. It has changed a great deal in just the last 15 years.
Fifteen years ago, the series was mostly a collection of large concert band ensembles curated by the late Fred Williams. Those concerts were real throwbacks, typically inaugurated with a performance of the Chestnut Hill Orchestra. That group was founded in 1962 by Art Conkey, who was head of Chestnut Hill Academy's music department from 1940 to 1978.
In the late 1990s, the picture of Martin Knoblauch – who has conducted the group since 1986 – would inevitably hit the front page of the local as the first concert approached.
Much of what followed was similar – orchestras that specialized in the classics, show tunes or the John Philip Sousa songbook. The most contemporary music you'd expect to find in any given summer was the odd swing band.
There was nothing at all wrong with the programming under Williams' direction, and it was a popular series for many years because of the extraordinary work he put into it. In the early 2000s, however, seeking a fresher approach, association member Tia Burke took over the series and attracted some notable acts, including rock, folk and other contemporary artists. During Burke's stewardship of the series, Pastorius Park hosted the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Now in its 65th year, the concert series is smaller in that fewer acts are scheduled for the season, but it is as eclectic and interesting as ever. From folk to Celtic and alt rock to blues, the series is easily one of the best summer bets in the region. How can you beat a free outdoor show?
So, 65 years after its inception, the Pastorius Park Concert series still is fresh and interesting – an event in which the neighborhood should take pride. There are other summer concert series out there, but few featuring the level of talent and the unique ambiance of Pastorius Park.
Suzie Brown kicks off the series on Wednesday, June 19, and that concert is followed the next Wednesday by the John Byrne Band. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. at the park, at Abington Avenue and Lincoln Drive. In the event of rain, performances will be held at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, 8000 Cherokee St.
Be sure to go often. You won't regret it.


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This Hearthstone Cup is an officially sanctioned Hearthstone Cup and can be found listed along with other point granting events here in accordance to the rules for the 2017 Hearthstone Championship Tour found here.
The ninety-ninth community tournament from www.hearthstone.fi and www.fraktio.fi for Hearthstone!
Hearthstone.fi Monday Night Community Tournament #99 is the Finnish community site's ninety-ninth weekly tournament open for Europeans only.
You need to add your nationality from your Dashboard --> Edit your information. You also need to add your battletag from Dashboard --> Add game. Failure to add either of these will result in your removal from the tournament.
The tournament has 128 spots and 50 Euros in prize money. The tournament starts at 17:00 CEST and check-ins open one hour in advance.
All communication during the tournament will be handled on QuakeNet's channel #hearthstone.fi.tms. If you don't own an IRC client of your own, you can join the channel via this link on your browser: QuakeNet webchat.
Join the channel one hour before the tournament starts and keep the channel open at all times!
The tournament will be played Monday the 8th of May.
The tournament is played on the EU server.
Just create an account for the site and then press the "Sign up" button located at the top right corner. Guide to reporting results is here: IMAGE GUIDE
Check-ins start one hour before the tournament. The first 128 people to check in will get the spots to participate. The check-in button will appear next to the the sign-in button, you need to refresh the page to see it.
Do note: You will report results on this site, not on the URL mentioned in the images. Only the winner reports results. Please use the upload space to upload the screenshot of your win. Uploading the screenshot is mandatory. You are required to report the classes used.
A single-elimination bracket, with round structure as follows:
50€ for the winner, paid via PayPal or traditional bank transfer. HCT points according to the following split:
Do note: According to the new rules you can only receive HCT points once per month and only your top finish counts. So even if you achieve first place twice within the same month you will only get 5 points.
The tournament uses the Blizzard-created format called Conquest. You will use 4 different decks from 4 different classes (4 decks altogether, no zoo lock and handlock at the same time etc.).
Before you start playing you are required to exchange a screenshot of your challenge screens to each other using a service like imgur or similar. This screenshot has to show that you don't have more than 4 decks available for play. You can mark extra decks with red crosses or make them Wild decks, they just have to be unavailable for play during the tournament.
Once you've exchanged your challenge screenshot, both players ban one class from their opponent. The player that is considered to have a weaker rank (Largest rank number or within legend) on the Hearthstone standard ladder will ban first. Stars inside a rank count. In case of a tie, contact an admin.
The first player to win 3 games within the match is considered the winner of the match and advances. A player must win the games with unique decks to win the match. This means that when a player wins a game, the deck used by the winning player cannot be used for the remainder of the match. The losing player can keep the same deck used or switch to a different one of their choice that hasn't won yet or hasn't been banned.
You are not allowed to leave the challenge screen during a match.
You are only allowed to play the chosen 4 decks for the duration of the whole tournament. First round is blind pick, after that all class picks are public information via the match links.
A disconnect is considered a loss.
The winning player is required to take a screenshot of the winning screen and upload it when reporting results.
If a player has not started playing within 10 minutes of game starting time, they will automatically forfeit their game. This timer is 15 minutes during the first round.
In case of a draw, both players win and have to pick new decks to play with. If the game was the deciding one for the match, the game will be replayed using the same heroes.
Do note: You are not required to submit decklists or hero picks in advance or to your opponent before matches. Only the challenge screenshot.
To read more about the format, go here.
All players are also allowed to stream their own games at any stage of the tournament, we recommend a minimum of 3 minutes of delay.
All broadcasts from the past tournaments are available at YouTube
All matches are allowed to be played immediately once they become available, unless a result is contested. Play all matches immediately when available.
During the tournament:
QuakeNet channel #hearthstone.fi.tms joinable with your client or this link:
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List of admins:
We're looking for more admins. PM Olodyn if you'd like to participate.
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Headed to Israel mid november for 3 weeks, want to visit winery's and bring back about 100 bottles.. yes 100... this is purely for my own consumption. I have great carrier shipping rates because of my business, but a few questions.
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What would the us customs charge me ? im not clear in this
would these type of shipping materials be good ? http://www.uline.com/BL_5450/Styrofoam- ... 20Supplies
I want to bring in a lot of wines that arent imported in case your asking why the heck im even bothering


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I work on my feet all day. By the end of the day, my varicose veins are throbbing and painful. Someone told me that our health plan won't pay for varicose vein treatment. Why not? I did a search on the Internet and it would cost thousands of dollars – which I could never afford. I don't know what to do.
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Dear Sore Legs,
Health plans will cover services that are medically necessary. Some plans have specific requirements for covering treatment for varicose veins. Other plans consider treatment to be cosmetic, and therefore not medically needed. It's possible that the person who told you it wasn't covered had spider veins, and not varicose veins. So for him or her, the treatment was not medically needed. Don't let their experience talk you out of pursuing it.
Your doctor may already be familiar with your plan and its requirements. If not, you can call the plan and ask.


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In order to get a better understanding of what's going on with a wet phone, I had a chat with the team in the P2i labs.
What happens when your phone gets wet?
There is a magnitude of possible outcomes when your phone gets wet. If you think about the number of entry points for water to get in the phone, then times that by the number of possible angles of entry, force of entry, droplet size (fully submerged, spray, mist, sweat) and type of liquid, you begin to see why the answer is not so black and white!
Perhaps one of the most obvious outcomes is that your phone 'short circuits' and powers out. If you think of a circuit board like a series of motorways, in the same way that we drive cars according to the direction and paths provided, the circuit board controls the flow of electrons, ensuring that your device works as specified. However when you add water to the mix, it's like driving cross country or along sand dunes where there are no roads to act as a guide. As a conductor of electricity the water allows the electrons to flow freely.
With the liquid inside the phone allowing the electricity to flow in unintended directions, the essential voltage differences across the circuit board are interrupted, causing excessive electric current, heat and power outage.
Ok, so if I'm lucky enough to have my phone turn back on, why does it start going 'funny' after a couple of days/weeks?
If you have ever opened a water damaged phone or piece of electronics you may have seen what looks like rust or a perhaps a white powdery substance. In the first instance the water or liquid is interacting with the metal causing a chemical reaction, as you would see with any metals exposed to the elements, like a tin roof. Except unlike the roof, the addition of energy supplied by the phone under power, accelerates the process. This causes degradation and wearing away of the metals inhibiting them from performing effectively. This is particularly evident in devices that are used in environments such as the gym or are kept close to the skin like headphones and hearing aids, where the addition of the salts in our sweat aid in the severity of the chemical reaction.
So what is it that makes a phone die altogether?
Well this takes us back to the highway analogy. There is a type of corrosion called 'electrochemical migration'. This is essentially the movement of metal ions from one point on a circuit board to another. This is able to occur because the water allows the free flow of electricity; so where once there were paths for the electricity to flow, allowing controlled differences in electrical charge between different points on the circuit, now the water allows the metal ions to migrate. Eventually the metal ions will bridge the two points through the formation of a metal dendrite, acting as if a new road was created. Now, even when the water recedes, this new road permanently disrupts the control of electricity on the circuit board and the phone is no longer able to function as intended.
Do you have any advice for people who get their phones wet?
It's key to stop the electrical flow as soon as possible so first thing is to take the battery out. Then dry any excess visible water – worth noting that you should avoid trying to shake the water out as you may be inadvertently forcing it further into the device. Leave the phone to dry out completely before succumbing to the urge to test it…and unless it's a Motorola or Alcatel device already treated with P2i's tech, than feel free to keep your fingers crossed.


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - The IWLCA has honored 109 senior student-athletes with selection to one of the North-South rosters. The 2011 North-South games will take place at the Champions' Cup, held at the United Sports Training Center in Downingtown, Pa., on June 11. Pfeiffer University senior Amanda Smith will represent a Conference Carolinas heavy South roster in the event on Saturday. Smith earned a spot on defense thanks in part to breaking Pfeiffer's school record for career caused turnovers. The event will precede the IWLCA All-American banquet, which will take place at the Crown Plaza Valley Forge in King of Prussia, Pa., later that evening.
Division II Rosters
North Squad
Hannah Anderson - Stonehill
Rebecca Belmonte - Bloomsburg
Katie Brewer - Shippensburg
Cassie Cronin - Dowling
Brianna Falese - Dowling
Elizabeth Fey - Adelphi
Emily Kerwin - Stonehill
Christine Lanagan - Stonehill
Tia Mazzie - Bloomsburg
Katherine O'Hara - Saint Anselm
Devin O'Leary - Stonehill
Sarah Roos - Assumption
Karen Schnurr - Shippensburg
Elizabeth Siekman - Saint Michael's
Maria Varricchio - Molloy
Ashley White - Seton Hill
North Coach: Kerri McCabe, Dowling
South Squad
Morgan Achilles - St. Andrews
Allison Berger - Lock Haven
Brittany Bissell - East Stroudsburg
Alex Cross - Lock Haven
Erin Growney - Limestone
Courtney Haggerty - Millersville
Cristina Johnson - Regis
Amanda Martin - Queens Univ. of Charlotte
Kathleen McConnell - Lock Haven
Kim McDaniel - St. Andrews
Melissa Nakasuji - Limestone
Molly O'Hara - East Stroudsburg
Caitlin O'Rourke - Queens Univ. of Charlotte
Amanda Smith - Pfeiffer
Jamie Wesztergom - East Stroudsburg
Katie Zichelli - Lock Haven
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by Julia Robinson
Recently we posted a blog about 'Kylie', a term apparently coined by former Treasurer Peter Costello: 'Then he thanked the Opposition for asking a "Kylie" – an "I should be so lucky" question giving the Government a parliamentary free kick.' (2004 Adelaide Advertiser, 2 Dec.) As any Gen Xer will know, 'I Should Be So Lucky' is the title of one of the songs that made Australian singer Kylie Minogue famous. We noted that this new sense of 'Kylie' is not an established usage; it is not widely used, and is always followed by a mention of the song title as an explanation of the term. Continue reading


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Flight Design has unveiled another limited edition model of the CTLSi, the Americas Edition, which features special paint graphics and equipment. Just 25 of the Americas Edition will be produced, according to officials with the German company.
The Americas Edition follows the Jubilee edition, released earlier this year to commemorate the company's 25th anniversary.
"We are pleased to prepare a second special edition for our loyal customers seeking a new state-of-the-LSA-art airplane with everything they could want," announced Tom Peghiny, President of Flight Design USA. "We call it the Americas edition and we've made it very appealing."
The Americas Edition CTLSi models will be delivered in 2014 with the following deluxe equipment: Special Americas Edition exterior graphics; Rotax fuel injected 912 iS engine with 2,000-hour TBO, which is able to use premium auto or 100LL avgas; dual Dynon 10-inch SkyView glass screen featuring Synthetic Vision; Garmin 796 touchscreen multi-function display; Dynon Autopilot, commanded by SkyView; Twin Bose A-20 ANR headsets; BRS 1350 High-Speed emergency airframe parachute system; Garmin GTR 225 com radio; Whelen high intensity landing light; and, optional ADS-B for free weather and traffic.
More than 1,800 CTs are flying in 39 countries. One of the first aircraft certified under ASTM International standards in 2005, the CT ("composite technology") remains the top-selling LSA in America through eight consecutive years, according to company officials. Flight Design sold the first LSA to India and was the first LSA to earn Chinese Type Design Approval. In 2011, the German company unveiled its C4 four seat aircraft based on the CT technology.
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Dodgeball is taking off in New Zealand, after the first ever annual Speight's Summit National Dodgeball Tour was held in March/April 2010.
The Summit Black Kea's - Seven top players from around the country have been selected to compete in the 2010 Dodgeball World Championships and will be heading to Las Vegas this August.
The Summit Black Kea's are looking for a challenge. Watch for them in the Open 8.5 and Open Stinger divisions and they can't wait to meet the Australia Emus in an Open 8.5 Division, Trans-Tasman battle.
But Austrilia is not not their only challenger at the DWC: Denmark, Canada, Hawaii and teams from around the US are all heading to Vegas.
The Back Kea's will need all their skills, a little luck and any help they can get. That's where the traditional Haka, (native dance) comes in. Prepare to be intimidated, as the Haka is performed before important events to mark the occasion.


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The week is almost gone. Training was different this week as I had to do TT Intervals twice and one Spin Interval session.
For the TT, I chose the Nundah circuit, it is near by and car-free. I started sessions with a 45 and a 60 min ride to warm up (to Sandgate and back) and a couple of laps around the course to make sure it was all clear (we do get parents with young children on the circuit sometimes, best avoid hitting them at 40 km/h). Windy day with cross wind on the straight (15+ knots from the SW, I think) which means you don't get much of a push anywhere in the circuit.
- 3 x 5km (4 laps + 200 m) with 6 min recovery
I did these with Stephen so it was easy to push hard as we were playing a game of catch me. Except for my front tyre which had about 60 psi...
Av. Speed on best effort: 41 km/h
- 5 x 6 min with 6 min recovery
By myself this time, much harder without the 45 sec man. Had slower heavier wheels for these ones.
Av. Speed on best effort: 40.1 km/h
There will be no more cycling this week as I am doing a Level 1 Cycling Coach Clinic with Cycling Queensland. Will miss the club race at Lakeside which I was going to use as a test before the Anzac 25 Open event next week. Well, it is going to be another surprise...


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Canopy Properties needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 118 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
We are a west coast house flipping business in need of a logo (for business cards, letterhead, truck decals, etc.). We are after a simple design, modern and clean, reflecting strength and quality. Our intended colors will be green and gold, with black and/or white trim; however we are open to different schemes.
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We came up with Canopy in the sense of a roof or cover over your head (protection from the elements). Also the forest canopy or treetops come to mind. In my mind our logo should reflect a coexistence and sensitivity towards nature. Open to different ideas though!
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text: About the book: A colorful walk through 150 years at the Public Library, Free & Public revisits the lost library of 629 Vine Street, which made Cincinnati a national model for public libraries. It reviews the long line of branches, deposit stations, bookmobiles, and "new" Main buildings that followed. The Depression-era lows of the Library are relived, as well as great moments when it reached out to children, the blind, and those in rural areas. Free & Public remembers individuals whose dedication made the Library a vital institution. It introduces the "builder librarians" of the modern era, who transformed a paper bound archive into an interactive, multi-media, virtual Main Library district. A mix of urban history, social pageant, and library science, Free & Public offers the entertaining story of a city that surprised itself by building a world-class library.


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I have been on this forum for a while now. It's been a really difficult time. I am the late aardvarkboy's dad. He is the cyclist guy up in the top left corner, killed this last July when a van hit him from behind whilst he was out training.
I have posted on general and introductions, so if you do not know all of what this is about please read there.
I am honouring my son's memory in becoming vegan. I am still a life long vegetarian cyclist but becoming increasingly vegan.
I guess in time I'll discover what a vegan existence will do for my cycling. Right now, I am only just bringing myself to think about riding again, such is my grief.
There are a good few posts now about my son, on those other boards, but I just wanted to add this here, because it really does affect those roadies among us, indeed anyone who takes to the road on a bike.
Please take a few moments to read this link, it's my reaction to a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to take to court the guy who killed my son:
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2040 ... s_decision
I am sure my comments there sum up how we all feel. We need to look after our interests. to feel safe when out riding. aardvarkboy was doing nothing other than enjoying a beautiful English summer evening on his bike.
If you want to comment on that newspaper site, please do. Sorry admins, if I am not supposed to put links in here.
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Interestingly, the early adoption of LED grow light was not due to the one factor vital to commercial farming – returns on investment. As we noted, the earliest lights were many times costlier compared to HID grow lights, and were rather inefficient as well. However, they offered a number of unique advantages, such as the absence of heating. Given the closed indoor greenhouse complexes and the thousands of lights being used, heating can prove to be a major danger for the commercial concern. Matters are made worse by the fact that commercial lights have to stay on for 14-16 hours at a stretch in order to emulate the natural daylight. With LEDs however, the amount of heat produced over time is negligible enough for them to be touched by hand. This does not mean that LEDs do not produce heat at all, but rather that the heat does not escape in all directions. Instead, special cooling mechanisms are used to funnel out the heat without affecting the plants.
This lack of heating, coupled with other benefits like possible emission of UV rays (if needed), dimming capabilities and later, cost reductions, is triggering a massive shift away from HIDs to cheap led grow lights among commercial growers.
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Stocks ripped higher to close near their best levels Wednesday, with the Dow and S&P 500 setting fresh highs, after the Federal Reserve surprised Wall Street by keeping its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program intact.
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While we lesser mortals tend to think legal decisions from the Supreme Court represent final, clear-cut answers to thorny issues, fact is they often only add to the murkiness.
Such appears the case with the court's recent narrow decision on wetlands.
In a 5-4 split, the court sided with two Michigan property owners who had been denied permits to build on wetlands they own. The vote was one short of what legal observers say could have been a gutting of the federal Clean Water Act.
While the decision may represent a victory of sorts for landowners, legal analysts say there will still be confusion in interpreting regulations to determine if property has a connection to a navigable waterway. "There will be a lot of administrative headaches…(and) the reach of the Clean Water Act will change very little," one attorney said.
The legislation, enacted in 1972, has been a bone of contention for developers, farmers, and others who have encountered a mass of confusing regulations and sometimes ham-handed regulators that made obtaining permits a grueling, expensive process.
Those denied permits have contended that the government effectively robbed them use of their land, without compensation. Critics said the act federalized every drop of water in the United States, giving Washington veto power over development that might be miles away from any navigable waters.
Although the stats show that better than 95 percent of permit applications were eventually granted, the time, expense, and hoop-jumping were galling to those applying.
In the Michigan cases, two developers wanted to build a shopping center and condos on land categorized as wetlands. One, whose property was more than 20 miles from the nearest navigable water, flouted cease-and-desist orders and filled in the wetlands. The other property was adjacent to a drainage ditch that was circuitously connected to a lake one mile away.
The Bush administration supported the Clean Water Act and had urged the court not to accept the case, but the justices agreed last fall to hear it.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who voted in the affirmative, said the plurality decision will mean that lower courts and regulated entities "will now have to feel their way on a case-by-case basis." Justice Antonin Scalia, who also voted for the measure, noted that "the entire land area of the United States lies in some drainage basin," and said the Corps misinterpreted the law's language, "stretching the term 'waters of the United States' beyond parody."
Justice John Paul Stephens, who voted against it, said developers "will be confused" about whether to get permits for wetlands work, and that Congress or the Corps of Engineers should clarify the issues, not appointed judges.
The decision "provides little guidance" and represents "more questions than answers, says Shane Sandefer, associate attorney with Kean Miller at Baton Rouge, La.
"The primary effect…is to require a fact-intensive inquiry on the part of landowners and the Corps. What little guidance can be gleaned is that the facts should be interpreted in light of the purpose of the Clean Water Act — to maintain and restore the nation's waters. In the end, it is likely that the case will cause increased litigation."
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Ste-Anne Parish Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Ste-Anne Church was located at the corner of Haverhill and Franklin Streets - the chapel was on Haverhill Street. This is where my family as well as all French-Canadian immigrants worshiped when they migrated to Lawrence from Quebec. The church on the right of the street is where the parish began. It was soon too small to accommodate the growing French-Canadian population.
Once the larger church was built under the leadership of Father Forestier s.m., who was pastor at the time, the original parish church became a chapel for daily mass on the lower level and the upper lever was converted into a parish hall with stage and all where the parish school would hold its plays, graduations and all its events.
In yet later years, as the parish population began to purchase homes in the suburbs, the number of parishioners began to dwindle and Ste Anne Chapel was dismantled and became a second "hall" where parish meetings as well as other activities were conducted. Eventually and many years later, the Marist Fathers who had ministered since the early 1900's no longer had enough priests to continue on. Ste Anne Parish would come to and end as would eventually Our Lady of Mount Carmel, St. Theresa and more recently Sacred Heart. The Augustian Fathers took over ministry at St. Theresa's merging it with St. Augustine's of Lawrence renaming it Our Lady of Good Consel. Most recently, Diocesan priest have assumed its ministry.
Anyhow, that big beautiful church that was Ste Anne still stands empty today. The Archdiocese in recent years finally removed all of the beautiful stained glass windows parishioners had sacrificed to obtain for their beautiful house of worship and those a now in storage. There was a magnificent weather vane on top of the church and family oral history is that my grandfather and his brother climbed to the very top of that huge building to install it. I have not been able to verify whether or not this is true.
Ever since I can remember, Lawrence was known as the "Immigrant City." Starting with the Irish in the 1840's, it has been home to numerous different immigrant communities, mostly arriving during the great European immigration to America that ended in the 1920's. Since early 1970s, Lawrence has become home to a sizable Hispanic population, reaching over 68% of the population of Lawrence by 2006.
Immigrant communities, 1845–1920
Lawrence became home to large groups of immigrants from Europe, beginning with the Irish in 1845, Germans after the social upheaval in Germany in 1848, and French Canadians seeking to escape hard northern farm life from the 1850s onward. A second wave began arriving after 1900, as part of the great mass of Italian and Eastern European immigrants, including Jews from Russia, Poland, Lithuania and neighboring regions. Immigration to the United States was severely curtailed in the 1920's with the Immigration Act of 1924, when foreign born immigration to Lawrence virtually ceased for over 40 years. In 1890, the foreign-born population of 28,577 was comprised as follows, with the significant remainder of the population being children of foreign born residents: 7,058 Irish; 6,999 French Canadians; 5,131 English; 2,465 German; 1,683 English Canadian. In 1920, towards the end of the first wave of immigration, most ethnic groups had numerous social clubs in the city. The Portuguese had 2; the English had 2; the Jews had 3; the Armenians, 5; the Lebanese and Syrians, 6; the Irish, 8; the Polish, 9; the French Canadians and Belgian-French, 14; the Lithuanians, 18; the Italians, 32; and the Germans, 47. However, the center of social life, even more than clubs or fraternal organizations, was churches. Lawrence is dotted with churches, many now closed, torn down or converted into other uses. These churches signify, more than any other artifacts, the immigrant communities that once lived within walking distance of each church.
The French Canadians
French Canadians were the second major immigrant group to settle in Lawrence. In 1872, they erected their first church, St. Anne's, at the corner of Haverhill and Franklin Streets. Within decades, St. Anne's established a "missionary church", Sacred Heart on South Broadway, to serve the burgeoning Québécois community in South Lawrence. Later it would also establish the "missionary" parishes in Methuen: Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Theresa's (Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel et St-Thérèse). The French-Canadians arrived from various farming areas of Quebec where farms had grown arrid for lack of knowledge that crops needed to be rotated after a time. Others who integrated themselves into these French-Canadian communities were actually Acadians who had left the Canadian Maritimes of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia also in search of work.
The Irish
Irish immigrants arrived in Lawrence at its birth, which nearly coincided with the Great Potato Famine of 1842, the event that drove great numbers of Irish out of Ireland. The Great Stone Dam, constructed in from 1845–1848 to power the nascent textile mills, was largely built by Irish laborers. The first Irish immigrants settled in the area south of the Merrimack River near the intersection of Kingston Street and South Broadway. Their shantytown settlement put them close to the dam being constructed, but away from the Essex Corporation row houses built north of the river to attract New England farm girls as mill workers. The religious needs of the Irish were initially met by the Immaculate Conception church, originally erected near the corner of Chestnut and White Street in 1846, the first Roman Catholic church in Lawrence. By 1847, observers counted over ninety shanties in the Irish shantytown. In 1869, the Irish were able to collect sufficient funds form their own church, St. Patrick's, on South Broadway.
The Germans
The first sizable German community arrived following the revolutions of 1848. However, a larger German community was formed after 1871, when industrial workers from Saxony were displaced by economic competition from new industrial areas like the Ruhr. The German community was characterized by numerous school clubs, shooting clubs, national and regional clubs, as well as men's choirs and mutual aid societies, many of which were clustered around the Turn Verein, a major social club on Park Street.
The Italians
Some Italian immigrants celebrated Mass in the basement chapel of the largely Irish St. Laurence O'Toole Church, at the intersection of East Haverhill Street and Newbury Street, until they had collected sufficient funds to erect the Holy Rosary Church in 1909 nearby at the intersection of Union Street and Essex Street. Immigrants from Lentini (a city in the Sicilian province of Syracuse) and from the Sicilian province of Catania maintained a particular devotion to three Catholic martyrs, Saint Alfio, Saint Filadelfo and Saint Cirino, and in 1923 began celebrating a procession on their feast day. Although most of the participants live in neighboring towns, the Feast of Three Saints festival continues in Lawrence today. My husband's Consentino family came from Mistretta, Italy. They lived next door to St. Lawrence O'Toole Church but eventually became parishioners of Holy Rosary since it was the Italian ethnic parish of the neighborhood just a few blocks away from where they lived. This parish was ministered to by the Augustinian Fathers but Diocesan priest have taken the helm and the parish was merged and renamed Corpus Christi Parish.
The Lebanese
Lawrence residents frequently referred to their Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern community as "Syrian". In fact, most so-called Syrians in Lawrence were from present-day Lebanon, and were largely Maronite Christian. Lebanese immigrants organized St. Anthony's Maronite Church in 1903 . Pictured here is St. George's Orthodox Church, the oldest Greek Orthodox-rite Church in the United States.
The Jews
Jewish merchants became increasingly numerous in Lawrence and specialized in dry goods and retail shops. The fanciest men's clothing store in Lawrence, Kap's, established in 1902 and closed in the early 1990s, was founded by Elias Kapelson, born in Lithuania. Jacob Sandler and two brothers also immigrated from Lithuania in approximately 1900 and established Sandlers Department Store, which continued in business until 1978. In the 1880s, the first Jewish arrivals established a community around Common, Valley, Concord and Lowell Streets. In the 1920s, the Jews of Lawrence began congregating further up Tower Hill, where they erected two synagogues on Lowell Street above Milton Street, as well as a Jewish Community Center on nearby Haverhill Street. All three institutions had closed their doors by 1990 as the remaining elderly members of the community died out or moved away.
The Polish
The Polish community of Lawrence was estimated to be only 600–800 persons in 1900. However by 1905, the community had expanded sufficiently to fund the construction of the Holy Trinity Church at the corner of Avon and Trinity Streets. Their numbers grew to 2,100 Poles in 1910. Like many of their immigrant brethren from other nations, most of the Poles were employed in woolen and worsted goods manufacturing.
The English
A sizable English community, comprised mainly of unskilled laborers that arrived after 1880, sought work in the textile mills where they were given choice jobs by the Yankee overseers on account of their shared linguistic heritage and close cultural links.
Yankee farmers
Not all immigrants to Lawrence were foreign-born or their children. Yankee farmers, unable to compete against the cheaper farmlands of the Midwest that had been linked to the East coast by rail, settled in corners of Lawrence. Congregationalists were the first Protestant denomination to begin worship in South Lawrence, with the erection in 1852 of the first South Congregational Church on South Broadway, near the corner of Andover Street.
First Settlers
Of course, the very first settlers were the English who pioneered our villages back in the 1600's and early 1700's. In 1776 the American Revolution ensued - the rest is history!
Sources: Personal notes and experiences and Wikipedia. I have been unable to find photos of all the churches but I am still searching. We knew where all of these communities were when I was growing up and there were postcards of all the churches and my sister took many photos as well.


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Kathryn Jean Lopez finds Barack Obama befuddled by Hollywood wizardry on his visit to Mount Rushmore last night:
He express[ed] curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in "North by Northwest," Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that included a death-defying scramble over Rushmore's presidential faces.
"How did they get up there in the first place?" he asked ranger Wesley Jensen.
"They didn't. It was a movie set," Jensen told him.
"Pretty spiffy, isn't it," said the Illinois senator, summing up his overall impressions.
Perhaps we should be impressed by Obama's knowledge of cinema classics such as "North by Northwest." I would add, however, that Obama appears to be more familiar with cinema history than he is with American history.
UPDATE: Roger Simon chides me for giving Obama too much credit: "Anyone who doesn't know that was shot on a set is a relative cinematic idiot. In fact, Hitchcock practically always used sets quite deliberately and famously. No kudos to Obama on that one."
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