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Registration is under way for a special section of food safety certification training being offered in Spanish on Oct. 4 and 5 at Penn State, The Lancaster Center. Food safety training has become an important part of the restaurant business and to break down the language barrier that sometimes exists, Penn State, The Lancaster Center is offering a special section of this important program in Spanish. Sergio-Nieto Montinegro of Hispanic Workforce Management, El Paso, Texas, will teach this session.
Each year in the United States there are an estimated 76 million cases of food-borne illnesses that result in an estimated 5,000 deaths. The mishandling of food causes about 95 percent of all food-borne illnesses. These statistics justify the concern that has arisen throughout our society over the mishandling of food.
This special class in food safety certification training meets from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Oct. 4 and 5. The two-day course is designed to train food service managers, chefs, caterers, cooks, health officials and inspectors to ensure the standards and regulations of food safety.
The food safety certification training course addresses topics that ensure safety in food handling. The 16-hour course instructs participants on topics such as contamination and food-borne illness through the storage, preparation, serving, and sanitation management of food handling through informative and dynamic lessons.
This nationally recognized certification demonstrates to the public and employees a commitment to provide safe food. Safe food handling practices protect customers, help increase profitability, reduce liability, maintain patronage, and enhance the competitive position of the business.
Developed by the National Restaurant Association Education Foundation, the ServSafe food safety program is accepted by more federal, state, and local jurisdictions than any other food safety program.
The National Restaurant Association will certify participants who complete the ServSafe course and pass the exam in food safety and sanitation.
The fee of $190 per participant covers the cost of the ServSafe course book, instructional materials, and the exam, all in Spanish. For more information contact Debbie Rubin at 717-299-7667 or e-mail her at email@example.com . Register early to ensure your space in this special class.


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In the 1920s and 1930s, the German city of Nuremberg was host to massive and lavish rallies for the Nazi party. This film footage, produced by Julien Bryan in 1937, shows crowds in the Nuremberg stadium watching groups parade past Adolf Hitler.
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I have a small house (about 1100 sq. ft)
The ductwork was originally setup for a swamp cooler.
When a package unit was installed, a single common return air was cut into the hallway under neath the unit (easy enough, I guess).
I'm looking at several options.
Change out the existing package unit and run some more flex duct to each area for individual return air registers.
Or, remove the rooftop and go with a split system heatpump which I can install where the old indoor furnace (forced air system) used to be. (now being used as a storage closet).
Or, might it be just as cost effective to put in a couple of mini splits, one in the living room and one in the master bedroom.
Any thoughts or other options out there?


text: Meta Rate My Team PokéBase - Pokémon Q&A Login Register All Activity Questions Unanswered Tags Users Ask a Question Rules Chat what is a good moveset for a special tank walrein ? 1 vote 5,374 views so i know this question has been asked but i dident like most of the answers so i want to ask again : whats a good moveset for a walrein ? so im not sure if its going to be a special tank but probeblly will since it has high HP and special attack so here is what i thought : name : sub-zero (walrein) nature: calm (+special defence, -attack) abilety: not sure i need recommendes moveset: ice beam- STAB powerfull and accurate surf-STAB powerfull and accurate signal beam-extra coverge and verity hail/toxic/aqua ring-all are fitting to the target of the tank im just not sure what to pick movesets walrein special-attack asked Jul 2, 2011 by charizard edited Jan 5, 2012 by Josh Wow. you haven't been in this site for a lot of time. how are you? commented Jul 2, 2011 by NJDevil http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/5828/what-is-a-good-moveset-for-walrein 4th answer down, DarthDestiny made a set for a Special Tankrein. (Special tank Walrein) commented Jul 3, 2011 by Linkpower22 True, thanks, linkpower22 commented Jul 3, 2011 by DarthDestiny @Speed Freak - When we had the debate about the " Special moveset " or " Physical moveset " or anything related, we agreed that they shouldn't be asked anymore. Although, we also agreed that the ones that were already there, should stay there. commented Jan 5, 2012 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 2 Answers 4 votes If you want a good staller Go with this set Walrein @ Leftlovers EVS : Def / Sp Def Toxic Protect Aqua Ring Hail The plan is simple, stall your foe to death with this, i recommend that you do this : Hail - Protect - Aqua Ring - Protect - Toxic - Protect and then whatever you want, if you can succesfulyl do this, you can get 3 recoveries (Ice body, leftlovers and aqua ring) and your foe will take the damage from toxic and hail, well i hope i helped :b answered Jul 2, 2011 by Jellypizza One problem - TAUNT. commented Jul 3, 2011 by NJDevil Change pokemon >:D commented Jul 3, 2011 by zombozt He said special *tank*. commented Jul 3, 2011 by Linkpower22 Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Mines Is A Boss Tank It OHKO Best Plan Ever [email protected] Ability: Ice Body EV: Sassy 252 SpDef, 252 Def, 4 Hp Moves: -Rest -Sleep Talk -Fissure(Egg Move) -Sheer Cold(Learned Level 65 Walrein) Okay The Plan Is If You Have A Abomasnow It Will Have The Ability Snow Warning So Always Use Abomasnow First. Then If It Dies Switch Out To Walrein And Use Rest. Because Of It Speed Walrein Will Get Hurt And Rest At Same Time. Then You Use Sleep Talk And It Will %100 Be On Fissure, Sheer Cold And Or Rest. But Sheer Cold And Fissure Would Never Miss. And Ice Body Heals It From The Hail And LeftOvers Also So Walrein Is A Good Tanker. And OHKO answered Feb 18, 2012 by ReviewDis how can it not miss?? wat am i missing?? Sheer Cold and Fissure have an accuracy of 30. commented Mar 27, 2012 by 5th of November Please log in or register to add a comment. Related questions What is a good moveset for Walrein? What offensive set for Walrein works better? Which moves for Walrein in gen 3? Which is better: Walrein or Lapras? What is a good special moveset for lileep? What is a good special moveset for Dragonite? Can someone give me a good special moveset for sceptile? Who is a good Special Tank in NU? Useful Meta Posts How to change your username How to add a user avatar Why was my post hidden? The points system Question etiquette Flags vs Downvotes Anime FAQ


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From the publisher: Career fields can't stop at math, science
Doctor, lawyer or crime-fighting chief, which one of these things would you like to be?
That is the kind of question students at Tuttle Elementary School were asked this week, and on Friday, I joined more than 20 professionals from throughout Catawba County in trying to help provide a few answers. The school's "Career Roundup" was a great way for young people to learn about many career options available to them as they begin charting their paths into a profession. It was also a great way for leaders of our community to share why we chose the careers we did.
In nearly nine years in Catawba County, I have been to countless career days, either as a guest, or to provide coverage. During that time, it has become clear that on every level, from school teachers all the way up to system administrators, the people responsible for educating our next generation of leaders are dedicated to helping young people forge successful lives for themselves. So, too, are the professionals who hold positions in our workforce to which young people aspire.
That is a great thing, and it is a positive mark for this community — a selling point for a county that is polishing up its every amenity in hopes of winning new industry, new jobs and new residents.
Evidence of the county's education systems' dedication toward career preparation extends beyond special days where visitors grace school hallways, however.
Educational opportunities emerging during recent years illustrate a broader commitment to helping students ready themselves for cutting-edge careers that will replace manufacturing as the backbone of our local economy.
That said, I can't help but wonder what we are doing to help young people who might not be cut out for math and science fields? Or for young folks who don't want to enter a technical vocation that delivers services our society requires?
There's little doubt that Newton-Conover's Health Science High School is turning out graduates who will be health care professionals, engineers or professionals in other fields.
The same is true for the Challenger High School, where high school students can earn associate degrees on their way to higher education or other technical professions in the workforce. Don't forget the N.C. Engineering Technology Center, and the Hickory Metro Higher Education Center. All of these places are delivering a great education for young engineers, business people and health care professionals. There's plenty of other programs focusing on careers based in math, science and business that are thriving in our high schools and community college, too.
Preparing students for careers based on math and science is certainly a good thing, but these types of programs don't reach every young person.
How are we helping hopeful artists or photographers? How are we preparing singers, actors or musicians for their own careers? What are we doing to help the folks, like me, who try to string words and sentences together to convey thoughts?
While we focus on those students equipped to pursue careers based on math and science, are we letting all of the "humanities" fall through the cracks?
I many ways, at least from a public education standpoint, I fear we are.
Sure, education in math and science leads to careers in emerging fields like technology, health care and business, but if our only focus is in these areas, our society will very quickly become very boring.
Think about it.
What would our world be like if we don't also start fostering students who want to become artists, musicians, chefs, designers, historians or follow countless other careers that require less 'rithmatic and its sister, science, and more reading and writing?
Fortunately, there's good news toward this end. In its first year, the Hickory Career Arts and Magnet High School (HCAM) offers students countywide the opportunity to pursue disciplines like culinary arts, graphic design, cosmetology, theater arts and photography. More options will be forthcoming to the school Hickory Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Lillie Cox told members of the Catawba Valley Rotary Club on Thursday.
And while HCAM is funded by a three-year grant, currently administrators are promising that the school will be self-sustaining after that grant concludes. Unfortunately, in a time when education funding is threatened at the state level, the reality is, the future for every school and every program in our school systems are uncertain.
That is especially true for disciplines that don't relate to subjects of math and science.
That means that no matter how many successful students a school like HCAM produces, it, too could go the way of music, choir, art and even physical education classes that have disappeared from far too many schools.
Focusing on preparing students for careers based in math, science and technology is good, but it is important to realize a "Career Roundup" would be incomplete without hairdressers, artists, graphic designers — and even newspaper writers.
Michael Willard is the publisher of The Observer News Enterprise.


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Retrofitting Your Business
New. That one little word creates a sense of excitement like none other. When you 're asked, "What's new?" the last thing you want to say is "Nothing." People are naturally drawn to the newest hi-tech gadgets, new store openings and new restaurant menus. Why should your company by any different?
Look around. What services are you performing that are old and outdated and should be replaced with new and exciting ones? More importantly, what aspects of your current or potentially new client's landscape can you identify as being ripe for a change? Performing the same services year after year might keep your business surviving, but incorporating new and exciting programs will help make it thrive.
Just ask Bill Kisich, owner of Inspired Landscape Creations, Glendale, Arizona, who has reinvented himself and his company more than once since he began his career.
"Fourteen years ago, I started installing irrigation systems for homeowners in the Phoenix area, which is notoriously hot and dry. They were so pleased with my work, I was constantly being asked what I thought of their yards and to suggest plants and other material for them to install. So, I started designing landscapes in addition to irrigation."
From that point, word of mouth spread and his business began to grow rapidly. Then, the recession hit and he was forced to downsize. Kisich noticed that the one division of his landscape company that suffered the least was irrigation.
"When we weren't installing big, new impressive irrigation systems with the landscape contracting side of the business, we began doing some very nice retrofits, taking existing systems and making them much more efficient."
Understanding that some of his clients might not be able to afford the cost of an entire system, Kisich began to design his plans in phases. "The clients become very excited when I show them that they don't have to install an entire landscape or irrigation system all at once. We put together a three- or five-year plan that we can do in phases. I'll draw up the plans that show which part is installed first, how it connects to each phase, and how it can be purchased over time. We've had a great deal of success with our phase plans in the area of retrofitting."
Coming from an irrigation background, Kisich has never lost his passion for water conservation, so once again he's decided to reinvent his company from one that makes landscapes beautiful into one that also makes them sustainable. "I believe beautiful landscapes can be functional and 'sensible' at the same time. Balance is the key," Kisich says. "One of the most exciting things I've been doing is working on my own irrigation program to reduce people's water bills with the existing system they already have. Most of the time, the homeowners' water rates are high simply because they've been irrigating improperly for years."
Kisich's program involves three facets his clients already have: their plants, their soil and their irrigation system. With 50 to 60 percent of the average Arizona residential water usage going directly into landscape irrigation, Kisich's program has been able to reduce landscape water use by 35 to 50 percent by improving irrigation system management, installing upgrades using "smart" controllers, choosing more sensible plant selections and incorporating soil amendments.
Like Kisich, Marcus Kerske's landscape road to success also took an unexpected detour. When Gardens of Babylon in Nashville, Tennessee, began operation eight years ago, the company offered a limited number of common landscape services. Once they began to define their brand, they developed a specialization and unique market niche.
"Our name has become synonymous with healthy, natural outdoor solutions—that's probably the single strongest brand attribute people identify with Gardens of Babylon," Kerske says.
With a little imagination, you can transform any backyard into a tropical "vacation" paradise that can be enjoyed without having to pack a single suitcase.
"Most of the time, we're retrofitting first-generation irrigation systems with smarter systems— more efficient spray heads, pulsing systems that reduce runoff and systems that are triggered by evapotranspiration rates. We calculated that a good retrofit can save about 30 percent in water bills, which is considerable for the apartments and commercial clients we serve."
Kerske continued to add other specialized divisions to his company, including a soil improvement division as well as a number of other soil amendment services. In 2008, they added commercial maintenance, which soon became the company's fastest growing division, but they didn't stop there.
"Landscaping is much more than pretty plants," Kerske says. "Our clients wanted better-looking, low-maintenance spaces, so we've specialized in those landscapes that require minimal trimming, weeding and fertilizing."
Seeing a growing trend in edible landscapes, Kerske added an innovated service to their landscape business to meet the needs of their community. "Around two years ago, we began a new landscape division called the "Personal Farmer." Our crews go out to the homeowner's property and replace parts of their backyard landscape with cedar timber-framed raised-bed gardens. We offer our clients a selection of planting vegetables, fruits, herbs or installing compost bins. This spring has been a busy one, with a demand for our vegetable gardens and we've thoroughly enjoyed helping our clients become more self-sufficient and grow their own food," Kerske said.
Knowing what your particular client's needs are is vital to the services you provide. The "landscape" of the landscape industry is constantly changing along with the economy, government regulations, the eco-green movement, and climate conditions. With the price of gas skyrocketing and airline travel becoming more of a headache than
its worth, many people are choosing to forego their annual family vacations and stay home. With a little imagination, you can transform any backyard into a tropical "vacation" paradise that can be enjoyed without having to pack a single suitcase.
A few years ago, Tommy Todd, owner of Tommy Todd Landscape & Design, St. Petersburg, Florida, noticed a dramatic shift in the way his clients were utilizing their backyards and found a way to capitalize on the trend. "In Florida, as in many parts of the country, homeowners are not only remodeling their yards with plants and flowers, but they're creating livable outdoor environments where they actually want to stay home and enjoy a "staycation."
After more than 25 years of being focused on lawn conversions, lawn and ornamental pest control and residential landscape projects, Todd took his company into another direction. "Our clients are investing in remodeling their homes from the inside out. We saw this as an opportunity to expand our business by offering a new landscape service, so a few months ago we started installing outdoor lighting and fireplaces to create outdoor leisure areas homeowners could enjoy all year long," Todd said. "We not only renovate and update the aesthetic beauty of their landscape with new plant material, but we also add waterfalls and ponds to give the homeowner a sense of their very own oasis."
There are a number of modular exterior fire products, including barbeque islands, fire tables, fire pits and fire urns, which create an exotic feel. By offering and installing these items, you'll be opening a new avenue of revenue for your business.
It's no secret that water rates are skyrocketing in nearly every city in the country. Irrigation rationing and conservation laws are being enacted at a rapid rate. These are excellent opportunities for your company to offer cost-saving and water-conserving irrigation projects. Also think about retrofitting landscaped areas by installing drought-resistant and native plants to just about every residential and commercial property owner in your area.
The term retrofitting describes the measures taken that replace old and outdated parts with new and updated ones. Usually, the replacements are connected to environmental savings in energy and water.
"We just added retrofitting to our company and almost immediately were contacted by clients in our area."
"Last year, our water district announced they were offering a rebate program for homeowners who installed water conservation irrigation systems. Once the program went into effect, I mailed information about new smart controllers and water conservation irrigation systems to all our former clients, and also to homeowner associations, condominium and apartment complexes, senior living communities and business complexes in our area," says Arlene Wing, owner of Lifestyle Landscape, Seattle, Washington. "The rebate program benefited everyone. It gave us work, the homeowners received their rebates, and they'll also be saving on their water bills in the future."
Michael Garcia, owner of The Lawn Jockey Landscape, San Diego, California, also jumped on the retrofitting bandwagon, and business has never been better.
"We just added retrofitting to our company and almost immediately were contacted by clients in our area. We have added ten new residential clients and six large commercial properties, and more are calling nearly every week."
Sometimes reinventing yourself can be as simple as adding a word to your company's name. Kathy Horbund has been specializing in drought-tolerant landscaping for more than 30 years. Her company, Kathy's Landscaping, in Santa Monica, California, was doing a fairly decent business, but her clients were more interested in general landscape services than what she had to offer. "I found out that there was another landscape company with the same name as mine in another city, so about eight months ago I decided to add the word "sustainable" to my company name."
Seemingly overnight, Kathy's Sustainable Landscaping came up on the top listing on Internet search engines and her website began to receive three times the number of hits. And her phone is just as busy. "I'm not doing anything differently, but with all the media talking about our water problems, the word sustainable has become much more popular than ever and so has my business," Horbund said.
There is always something new, different and exciting to be found in the landscape industry, if you take the time to look. Whether you choose to retrofit existing irrigation systems, rejuvenate old worn out landscapes, renovate backyards with edible gardens, create a livable outdoor environment, or simply add a word to your company's name, the opportunities for continued success are out there. Now is the best time for you to go out and try something new.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Boston Children's Hospital, the nation's largest pediatric research medical center, disclosed Tuesday that it has struck a partnership with a California diagnostics equipment maker to form a company that will develop tests for pediatric diseases and interpret the results for doctors around the world.
The new company, Claritas Genomics, will be based in Waltham, where Harvard-affiliated Boston Children's Hospital quietly opened a genetics diagnostic lab two years ago. Boston Children's Hospital will own a majority stake, while a minority will be owned by its partner, Life Technologies Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif.
Life Technologies executives are scheduled to officially unveil the new venture Tuesday afternoon at the 31st annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference here, which has drawn more than 8,000 investors and executives.
"Our goal in this venture is to continue to be a world leader in caring for children," Boston Children's Hospital president Sandra Fenwick said in an interview. "This will be a tool to help in the treatment of rare diseases. We will be offering both the testing and the medical interpretation to physicians ordering tests."
The venture, similar to those being formed by other academic medical centers in California and Texas, comes at a time where it is increasingly difficult for nonprofit hospitals to raise money in the bond market to expand operations and they have begun to turn to private funding sources.
Partners Healthcare Systems Inc., the Boston-based parent of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals, has formed an alliance with Illumina Inc., a San Diego genetic analysis company, to install Partners-designed software, called GeneInsight, in an Illumina gene sequencing hardware system being marketed to clinical research laboratories around the United States and abroad.
Speaking at the J.P. Morgan conference Monday, Partners chief executives Gary Gottlieb said investors can expect other similiar moves by the health care system to commercialize its technology.Robert Weisman can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Friday, November 5, 2010
MGH leadership meeting highlights Be Fit, the bicentennial and United Way
BICENTENNIAL LEGACY: In honor of the MGH bicentennial, the hospital established the MGH Bicentennial Scholars program.
MGH and MGPO managers and supervisors at the Oct. 27 leadership meeting in the Bulfinch Tent heard updates on research results from the Be Fit and Choose Well/Eat Well programs, the MGH's upcoming bicentennial and the United Way employee campaign.
Following a welcome and brief remarks by MGH President Peter L. Slavin, MD, Ann Thorndike, MD, MPH, of the MGH General Medicine Unit and Cardiac Prevention Center, highlighted research on the Be Fit and Choose Well/Eat Well programs. Thorndike and her staff initiated the Be Fit study in 2006, tracking participants' health information immediately following completion of the program and one year later. Employees generally lost weight and reduced their blood pressure and cholesterol during the program. At the one-year follow-up, there were still small but significant health improvements. Employees also reported improvements in nutrition and exercise behaviors at the end of the program and at one year. In the Choose Well/Eat Well programs -- which label foods at MGH dining areas as green, yellow or red corresponding to healthy, not-so-healthy and unhealthy choices --foods are strategically located so that healthy options are more readily at hand than the unhealthy selections. This "choice architecture" has led to a significant change in customers' choosing
more healthy options.
Next, Peggy Slasman, senior vice president of Public Affairs, reminded attendees of the hospital's upcoming bicentennial in 2011. She introduced Lynn Dale, director of MGH Bicentennial Planning, who provided an overview of events and activities to commemorate the bicentennial.
Several upcoming events that pay tribute to the MGH's rich past and build excitement for the future include the renewal of the hospital's charter at the State House in February and the opening of an MGH museum in late 2011. Dale encouraged all hospital departments to incorporate the bicentennial theme into their departmental events throughout the celebratory year. Other approaching highlights are a new MGH website homepage, which will launch Jan. 1, the announcement of the "bicentennial babies," a new in-house MGH200-TV channel that will broadcast MGH history programming around the clock, and the sale of bicentennial merchandise at the MGH gift shops. Employees also can look forward to the springtime release of a new MGH history book, "Something in the Ether: A Bicentennial History of Massachusetts General Hospital 1811 to 2011," by Webster Bull and Martha Bull. Following her presentation, Dale introduced Webster Bull, who read an excerpt from the book.
In honor of the hospital's 200 years, the MGH has established a legacy gift through the MGH Center for Community Health Improvement (CCHI). Joan Quinlan, executive director of the CCHI, explained that the gift not only perpetuates the hospital's heritage of serving its community, but it also focuses on the community's youth, who represent the future. For more than 20 years, the hospital has worked with Boston high school students interested in health careers, offering them hands-on experience and mentoring from MGH employees. Approximately 70 percent of these high school participants are accepted to college, but many have a difficult time completing their degrees. To help them reach their higher learning goals, the MGH has committed $1 million to the "MGH Bicentennial Scholars," a program for students currently in the MGH high school program who will graduate in 2012. By providing students with mentors, connections to resources such as tutoring and counseling, peer support and financial aid assistance, the program aims to help this group enter, remain in and graduate from college. Students are eligible for scholarships of up to $5,000 for each of the four years they are in college, as long as they complete their academic requirements.
The last presentation was from MGH United Way employee campaign co-chairs Deborah Washington, RN, PhD(c), director of the MGH Diversity Program for Patient Care Services, and Elizabeth Mort, MD, vice president of the MGH/MGPO Center for Quality and Safety. They provided an overview of this year's campaign, which features the tagline, "Upholding a 200-Year Promise to Our Neighbors." The campaign runs from Nov. 8 through 19 and will include many of the same highlights as recent years --such as the rolling rally, United Way specialty items at the MGH eateries and raffle prizes. More information about the campaign is available in this United Way article and at the MGH United Way intranet site. (Note: Login to MGH Intranet required).
Following the meeting, MGH managers and supervisors enjoyed the Annual Manager and Supervisor Appreciation luncheon in the Bulfinch Tent.
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Now that the "thinkable" has happened, and Mitt Romney is just an historical footnote in politics, the United States must fasten its seatbelt and wait out four more years of the Obama White House.
Or is it merely "waiting out"? Is that even possible, to sit by rather passively and pray we live to see January 2017?
Wayne Allyn Root isn't going to sit on his hands and wait to find out. His new book, "The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper During Obamageddon," is an inspiring bit of writing and passing on of vital knowledge.
The former host at CNBC and self-described "capitalist evangelist," Root has the moxie, knowledge and perseverance to lead committed Americans to a way out of the zombie-apocalypse economy Obama has rigged for this nation.
Root, a former classmate of Obama's at Columbia University, has written a classic handbook for protecting your assets for the next four years. It's an absorbing read, and with Root's go-get'em attitude, even the financial novice need not be intimidated. Root's book is that good.
For some time, we've heard that a choked economy will turn ugly. Now, with fast-food restaurants charging for condiment packets, average Americans are noticing the darkening shadows. First, Root shows us:
- Specifically how Obama is killing capitalism by creating only two classes: the super-rich (rewarded with bribes, stimulus money and government contracts) and the poor (who seal their slavery to the system by supporting Obama and his subsequent handouts).
- Obama is overwhelming the system with deficits, debt, entitlements, regulations and tax hikes.
Sure, there's plenty that's gloomy in "The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide," but that's the point. If we don't face it head on, we are in for a worse period than just the next four years.
Root, however, maps out a strategy that can actually work. For example:
- How to use Y-Pods – Your Personal Obama Defense Shields – to improve your financial position. Yes, this can be done, even in a sick economy. In fact, some of the best opportunities of your financial life are possible!
- Developing your own personal economy boom by understanding investments and assets, such as farmland, energy sources, collectibles and medical real estate.
Root also highlights the financial strategies being used by 18 millionaires to protect themselves from Obamageddon.
Root pulls no punches: "Never underestimate Obama. He is, in my opinion, the most brilliant stealth Marxist ever. … He has figured out how to make something work that no one else ever could. How to slowly collapse the formerly great U.S. economy. How to slowly hook a majority of Americans on government dependence. How to use crisis to turn America into a socialist economy – without a big fight. … It's all breathtakingly brilliant."
According to Root, in his first three years, Obama created four times as many regulations as Bush did, at a cost of $46 billion to the American businessman.
Ironically, as Obama continues his planned path to destruction, his very presence is creating new avenues of profit for people willing to look. Root points out that as gun-control initiatives proliferate, those very efforts are driving a "new economy": "On Feb. 27 [2013], gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. reported that 2012 earnings were up 77.7 and sales up 49.7 percent. Sturm Ruger stock is up 789 percent since the day Obama took office."
The reader will actually enjoy the detail in "The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide" related to personal wealth creation, but notice the can-do attitude Root emphasizes: "Multiply yourself to create additional sources of income. Get a second job, a third job – or, better yet, start your own business. This author has a dozen careers and still took on another to write this book. I can sleep when I'm dead. Until then, I owe it to my family to work 16 hours a day (minimum) to survive and thrive. That is how you create financial freedom and independence. These are things Obama hates. He wants you desperate, hopeless and dependent on him. But those of us willing to work 16-hour days, seven days a week, don't need Obama or the government. Therefore we aren't beholden to him."
Frankly, this book is fun to read and process. Why? Again, Root's enthusiasm for helping real Americans, plus his penchant for making difficult financial concepts (for some) easier to understand and, most importantly, to implement.
"The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide" will become perhaps your favorite book about the nation's worst president.
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KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- Seven Tri-Cities residents have been federally indicted for their roles in the distribution of opium poppies, which can be used to make heroin and morphine.
Six of the defendants appeared Monday in U.S. District Court in Yakima.
The Tri-City Herald reported all seven face one count of conspiracy to distribute or conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. They also face other charges.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Whaley has been assigned the cases.


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Canada's Bouchard reaches first WTA final, Stosur awaits
(Reuters) - Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard reached her first WTA final on Saturday after she ended the surprise run of home favorite Kurumi Nara at the Japan Open.
The 19-year-old beat the Japanese wildcard 6-2 6-2 to set up a showdown with former U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur, who downed American teenager Madison Keys 6-1 6-2 in the other semi at the $250,000 event on the hard courts in Osaka.
Bouchard and Nara, competing in her first WTA semi-final, traded breaks early on before the Canadian found her rhythm to reel off seven games in a row and open up a 6-2 3-0 lead.
The fifth seed then swiftly wrapped up the win over her 21-year-old opponent, who is certain to improve her world ranking of 87 when the list is updated on Monday.
Bouchard will face a tough task to claim a first WTA title against the experienced Stosur, who is enjoying another strong showing in Osaka.
The Australian, seeded three, was a losing finalist here two years ago after she won her first career title at the event in 2009.
Her serve provided too much of a test for the promising Keys on Saturday, with the 29-year-old losing only 12 points in her eight service games.
"I thought I did everything very well today," Stosur told the WTA Tour after reaching her second final of the year.
"I always play well and enjoy my time here. And it's no trouble coming here either - at the end of the year there are a lot of tournaments in Asia, so of course I wanted to come back to this event too.
"I'm very motivated," the world number 20 said as she goes in search of her fifth career title.
"I'm really looking forward to tomorrow now. It's going to be great to be in the final again. Hopefully, I can repeat what I did four years ago instead of two years ago."
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Pirates have put it away, now 4-0 bot 8
Pirates have put it away, now 4-0 bot 8
Gallardo singles to left. 1-0
good chance that thats ballgame. Pirates only gonna be 3.5 back and Cards only 6 back if they hold on
Arroyo done for the night it appears.
Arroyo losing it fast
When is our chemistry going to get a big hit?
Yep, Arroyo's done.
Oh wait... Gomez grounds into a 4-6-3 dp...
Double play. Beautiful. Don't think we turn that with Cairo or Valdez at 2B.
I don't think it would have taken a dive. Yes, he would have hit the wall, but I think he could have caught it had he kept going. Pulled up a good bit.
That's what I meant. A good outfielder would.
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HIV Treatment Series: Early Intervention for Metabolic Complications of HIV
A Healthy Lifestyle and Treatment Early on May Prevent Complications Down the Road
March/April 2006
Today HIV management in the developed world is not just about clobbering the virus. It's about whole health and improved quality of life. Simpler medication regimens and symptom management are not the only priorities. HIV treatment now includes strategies to optimize other health outcomes.
In the general medicine and endocrinology literature we are seeing a surge in a combination of risk factors called "Metabolic Syndrome." The increased incidence of Metabolic Syndrome is identified as a clinical and public health crisis. Table 1 identifies components of Metabolic Syndrome. Table 2 identifies related conditions and symptoms related to Metabolic Syndrome and Table 3 defines the current basis for diagnosing Metabolic Syndrome.1,2
The staggering problems of diabetes and obesity in America underline the importance of doing something about metabolic abnormalities early on. In the general population the rate of diabetes has increased dramatically in the last decade. The projection of new diabetes diagnosis is staggering. Metabolic Syndrome is a precursor to diabetes and bodes our strict attention. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 21 million Americans are believed to be diabetic, 90 million have insulin resistance, and 41 million more are pre-diabetic with elevated blood sugars that could reach the diabetic level if something is not done to curb faulty food and lifestyle habits. This means over 50% of Americans are impacted by the manifestations of insulin resistance, problems with body composition, pre-diabetes and diabetes. Data shows an increased rate of diabetes in HIV. Also, the DAD study and others have shown that there is a slightly increased rate of heart disease in people living with HIV.3 Health practitioners are turning to more aggressive and early clinical intervention instead of waiting for the manifestations of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes to complicate heath matters.
Metabolic syndrome in HIV has a unique set of characteristics.6 Patients most commonly worry about physical changes. Altered body composition may be more exaggerated in HIV disease. The redistribution of body fat shows up as marked fat accumulation in the stomach and back of the neck and sometimes fat in the buttocks, arms and legs. Other hallmark symptoms include blood sugar changes (high or low fasting blood sugar or fluctuations after meals), pervasive alterations in blood fat levels, high blood pressure, and heart disease, also associated with HIV disease above and beyond what we normally see in HIV-negative people. HIV medications aggravate the condition. Genetic predisposition as well as poor dietary and lifestyle choices may further complicate symptoms.
Due to the health consequences of the symptoms, HIV providers commonly treat these conditions separately. Patients may be prescribed medications such as diuretics, ACE inhibitors, lipid-lowering agents, and anti-diabetic medications. However, addressing insulin resistance directly may be more beneficial. The use of metformin (Glucophage or Glucophage XR), a diabetes medication that decreases the liver's production of sugar, increases sugar uptake in fat and muscle cells, and reduces absorption from the GI tract improves (and may be an important co-therapy in) managing metabolic syndrome.10 Metformin is shown to significantly improve insulin resistance, and impact cardiovascular risk factors and weight.11-13 Also, alpha glucosidase inhibitors -- Acarbose (Precose) and Miglitol (Glyset) inhibit enzymes in the small intestine, slow carbohydrate absorption, and lower insulin resistance.14 While thiazolidinediones -- Pioglitazone (Actos) and Rosiglitazone (Avandia) -- lower insulin resistance, they may increase blood fat levels or cause weight gain (as subcutaneous fat -- fat under the skin.) Data also support the combined effectiveness of these medications and lifetsyle approaches.15
In our practice we take a practical approach to instructing clients about powerful food stratgeies. Data clearly support reducing sugar and refined carbohydrate intake (white bread, white rice, potato, pasta, crackers and most cereals).17 We emphasize high-fiber carbohydrates that are slow to convert to sugar (low glycemic) (Table 4 and Table 5). The glycemic index measures how fast a food is likely to raise your blood sugar and can be a helpful tool for managing sugar and corresponding insulin responses to a meal or eating occasion. The glycemic index indicates the after-meal response your body has to a particular food compared to a standard amount of glucose (simple sugar). Several factors impact sugar rise after a meal or snack: age and activity level, the amount of fiber and fat in the particular food, degree of refinement, meal composition (what else was eaten with the food), how the food is prepared, and how quickly your body digests the food. In general, fiber-rich foods are often the same foods that are thought to be low glycemic foods and seem to have less effect on blood sugars. Individual responses to carbohydrates may vary. Determine your response to food based on the impact on energy appetite and satiety (feeling of fullness) to the various meals and snacks you incorporate.18
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You can add public July 4th activities at Camp Lejeune as another victim to sequestration cuts.
The Marine base today announced that they have decided to cancel this year's Fourth of July event for the public to minimize the impact on vital programs on the base.
"Our continued support to the operating forces, our Wounded Warriors and our families always comes first," said Brig. Gen. Thomas Gorry, the Commanding General of Marine Corps Installations East - Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. "I didn't make this decision lightly as I understand how important this event is to our service members and the local community, but canceling it will allow us to use all available resources to ensure we can mitigate the fiscal challenges we are currently facing."
In the past the celebration usually brought in big name acts and was capped off with a large fireworks display which was open to the public.
Last month when Fort Bragg announced plans to eliminate its Independence Day celebration, Camp Lejeune said it had no plans to do the same.
Camp Lejeune says it plans to offer a number of free activities on July 4th for Marines, retirees and their family members.


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I think its important to note the guy did not post a direct link to the daughter's registry anywhere. He posted a link to her wedding website, which had links on it to the registry. It also presumably had lots of other wedding info, probably more prominent then the registry links, like photos, info on the couple, info on the wedding, the wedding party the families, maybe the honeymoon, etc.
I think any mention of his DD's registry/wedding website on the church FB page is wrong. He can post whatever he wants on his own page, but putting it out there on the church page is like a boss sending his workers a memo to tell them and it makes people uncomfortable and feeling as if they must buy a gift. As for a dad posting it..no problem what so ever with that. I was raised by my father, but had a step mom after I was 12 but my dad answered any and all questions about both my sister and I's weddings if asked.
It was extremely unprofessional to post it to the church's FB.
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Susie Peek-Swint 1/30/2004 1:07:48 PMGreat shot Joanna -- very creative! #92767
Jason 1/30/2004 5:19:12 PMWhat! Im only the second to comment on this? This is really magnificent in my opinion! A lovely ,sharp image suitable for a brochure. #354733
Leonard Pierce 1/30/2004 5:48:07 PMJoanna, this is a very beautiful and fantastic work of graphic art! I know we'll be seeing it again in the winner's circle. This one should be on public display there at the Udvar - Hazy Center for the general public to appreciate. Absolutely perfect!!!!! #354739
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LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will lead off the fall Bucknell Forum national speaker series with a talk highlighting the semester's theme of "Power and the President."
Goodwin is scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 in the
Goodwin's visit will precede by a week a talk by renowned presidential biographer David McCullough, who has been named the 2008 Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters at Bucknell. Though not a Bucknell Forum event, McCullough's talk will add to the forum's ongoing discussion of this year's presidential election.
Revered and well-known
"Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough are two of the most revered and well-known presidential historians and biographers of our time, and it is a great privilege to have them both visit our campus within weeks of the November presidential election," Bucknell President Brian C. Mitchell said.
Goodwin has studied and written about several of the country's most influential presidents and their legacies. Her most recent book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005), was a New York Times best-seller and winner of the 2006 Lincoln Prize for an outstanding work about the president, the inaugural New York Historical Society Book Prize, the Richard Nelson Current award, and the New York State Archives History Makers Award.
Steven Spielberg is developing a feature film about the book, set to star Liam Neeson as
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Goodwin is also the author of Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream (1976) and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987), which was made into a six-hour ABC miniseries in 1990. Both books were New York Times best-sellers as well.
In 1995, she won the Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II. The book also was a Times best-seller and won the Harold Washington Literary Award, the New England Bookseller Association Award, the Ambassador Book Award, and the Washington Monthly Book Award.
Goodwin also has reported on politics and baseball for more than two decades for leading national publications and network television programs. She is a commentator for NBC and a consultant and on-air personality for PBS documentaries on Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy Family, and Franklin Roosevelt, and for Ken Burns' The History of Baseball. She was the first female journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.
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The fall 2008 theme is "Power and the President."
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Gordon Brown has called on the Ministry of Defence to clean up a radioactive beach in Scotland.
The former prime minister said the government needed to "recognise their responsibility" to take action at the Dalgety Bay beach in his Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency.
Dalgety Bay was used as a Royal Navy air base up until 1959 and the beach has been contaminated with Radium-266 from special paints used in aircraft's instruments.
Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland he said: "People must have their fears allayed. This is a radioactive substance, it's something that's only been discovered in the last few weeks. Action has got to be taken immediately.
"I want the Ministry of Defence to recognise their responsibility - we know it's come from previous work done by the Ministry of Defence - and to take action. They've got to clear the surface, they've got to continue to monitor this, then they have got to remedy what has been wrong here."
He added: "Action has got to be taken before the worst of the winter weather comes in."
The radiation was first detected in the 1990s. According to reports one sample collected was 10 times more radioactive than anything previously discovered at the beach and would have burned anyone if they had picked it up.


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College faculty endorsed Goucher's academic strategic plan in their meeting this past May. Specific sections of the Plan, which members of the faculty have been working on since the Board of Trustees approved Goucher's overall strategic plan in October 2011, will now be sent to individual departments and committees for work-shopping and official approval.
"I'm really excited and I'm really very, very thankful that the faculty put in a huge amount of work and a lot of thinking about how we can improve the quality of the academic experience for students and how can we best support students and faculty in learning," Provost Marc Roy said. "They put a tremendous amount of effort into that and the result, I think, is an exciting Plan."
The Plan's first step is the expansion of the degree programs offered by the Welch Center for Graduate & Professional Studies. In May, the faculty approved three new programs proposed by the Center.
"They've done some incredible work in the Welch Center to pull [the programs] together," Roy said.
The three new programs are all based around the synthesis of existing programs: a technical degree in digital arts, a master's in environmental studies that will focus on cultural sustainability, and a master's in management.
According to the Provost, the management program is "not as intensive as an master's of Business, but it's not meant to be."
The program will instead serve students who need management skills to advance in their chosen fields. Additionally, all of the new programs will be available to Goucher undergraduates as a four-plus-one program, where students receive both a bachelors and master's in five years.
Goucher is currently waiting for the new programs to be approved by the Maryland Higher Education Committee. All three of the programs have been submitted, and if approved, should be ready in early August 2014.
One of the most exciting actions outlined in the Academic Strategic Plan's final report is the creation of a Math and Science Center modeled after the Writing Center. Currently, specific planning for the logistics of the center has not yet occurred. According to the final report, necessary actions to establish the section include establishing a "faculty working group to organize and oversee the Math and Science Center," deciding how the center will be funded, and identifying students who could be trained to tutor.
"I love the idea," Roy said. "Nobody has been given the task to develop this . . . ultimately some sort of collaborative effort between some groups of faculty and probably ACE [will have to occur]."
One of the other innovative strategies integrated into the Academic Strategic Plan is the creation of a new Global Liberal Arts degree. This strategy has its roots in the Crossroads Task Force, created in September 2011. According to Roy, there have been no new developments in the creation of the degree over the summer. A group of faculty still must be assembled to determine the details of the program, such as what majors could be offered and what partner institutions Goucher would work with.
"What we're seeing is that many of the new students have had more than one international experience, so it wouldn't surprise me if there are students interested in this idea," the Provost stated in response to the other major question surrounding the program: Is any viable market for the degree?
Many of the strategies in the Academic Strategic Plan are expanded versions of Crossroads recommendations. Partly as a result of Crossroads, the Plan emphasizes scheduling more classes in the winter and summer to maximize campus resources.
The Academic Strategic Plan also expanded a Crossroads recommendation that Goucher research atypical pedagogical options, such as online courses flipped classrooms. According to the final report, the strategy is to "embrace innovative pedagogy [and] new paradigms for instruction," and to "create non-traditional teaching materials and methods such as interactive lessons, videos, slide shows, surveys, experiential learning opportunities, etc."
Similarly, the Academic Strategic Plan expanded the Crossroads recommendation that student mentoring be emphasized at Goucher and applied it to faculty mentoring as well. According to Roy, while there has traditionally been an informal mentorship for new faculty members when they first arrive at Goucher, their support systems usually dwindle the longer they are here. Steps to increase faculty mentorship will begin this fall. The school also plans to begin helping new departments chairs acclimate to their roles.
Because most of the Plan's strategies are small changes that can be put into action in the next year or innovative new initiatives, there is still much work to be done.
According to the Plan's final report the goals are wide ranging and include, among others: to "internationalize the curriculum," "develop the 21-century learner," improve mentoring of both students and professors, increase "opportunities for faculty scholarship," to generate start-up funds for new, financially prudent innovations, and to restructure student and faculty workload.
The Crossroads Task Force has been "monitoring the progress toward the implementation of [its] recommendations," wrote trustee William Couper in an email. Couper was appointed as the new Chair of Crossroads over the summer and conducted his first Crossroads meeting as chair on Monday September 8. He has been a member of the Task Force since January.
According to the Provost, President Ungar's departure shouldn't have an enormous effect on the Plan.
"Obviously a new president could come in and have different priorities," Roy stated, "[However,] I would hope that the priorities would not be significantly different… This is, basically, a five-year plan. We may or not accomplish all of that," Roy said, " [but]it will guide our decisions as we move forward."
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"""e.g. think punchcards."""
You make me feel very old.
I remember clearly back in college, standing in line to hand the sysop the stack of cards I'd keyed in on the keypunch, so that they could be put in the queue to be fed into the System/360. At the end of the "turnaround time" I would get back a printout of my program's output. (Syntax error!!! Dang!!!!)
Turn around times varied from 10 minutes to 3 hours or so, depending on the volume of students submitting, and how much time the sysop spent chatting, studying for exams, or having one or more of the several lunches they seemed to have per afternoon.
The windows were small and mirrored (and locked!) so that it was extremely difficult to make out what was going on in there.
But I digress.
I assure you that our System/360 was running OS/360. ;-)
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For more than 50 years, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School has been a leader in the field of executive education. Today UNC Executive Development designs programs for Fortune 500 companies and government organizations that have a significant impact on their businesses. Its track record is stellar: the Financial Times ranks its custom programs No. 13 in the world and No. 5 in the United States.
Having a conference center designed with executive development as its core purpose has been a competitive advantage for UNC Kenan-Flagler. That became possible after the DuBose family donated 28 acres of historic land and the family home to the university, and UNC Kenan-Flagler broke ground for the Paul J. Rizzo Center in 1997. The result: a campus designed specifically to serve the needs of executive programs, including the historic DuBose Home that serves as an executive dining facility, the first-class residence center, McLean Hall; and the state-of-the art classrooms of Loudermilk Hall.
Now in its 13th year as home to UNC Executive Development, the Rizzo Center will break ground again – on expanded facilities to accommodate the growing demand for its programs.
"We offer scaffolding for leaders to build on, new frameworks to challenge their thinking and build on through practice in our programs," says Susan Cates, UNC Executive Development president. "Our campus at the Rizzo Center allows executives to learn in an environment where they are surrounded by their peers, and builds capabilities that individual participants can apply the next day to deliver business impact."
The expansion accompanies projections of growth in the coming years. "The uniqueness of the Rizzo Center is that it has great proximity to campus but is in a retreat-like setting more conducive to executive training, contemplation, and strategic thinking," says Dave Stevens, associate dean of finance and operations for UNC Kenan-Flagler. "This expansion will serve to enhance the executives' experiences in our programs."
The $37 million project, funded by a combination of debt and private donor contributions, will get underway this summer. The expansion and renovations are expected to be complete by the end of 2014. Among the new features the Rizzo Center's expansion will offer are:
Since the Rizzo Center opened in 2000, UNC Executive Development has consistently increased the business school's revenues. The continued growth will allow school to compete for the best faculty and students, expand program support and offer new, innovative learning experiences to those enrolled in executive development courses, says Stevens.
UNC Executive Development builds strong connections with its client companies that benefit both the firms and the business school. "To the extent that we're able to have an impact on companies and individuals, that really benefits the overall brand of the business school among companies," Cates says. "It leads them to hire more students coming out of UNC Kenan-Flagler and to encourage their employees to come to us for their MBA."
The center is named for Paul J. Rizzo (BSBA '50), former dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler; chairman emeritus of Franklin Street Partners; and former vice chairman of the board of IBM Corporation.


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Imagine having a shuffled deck of cards setting on the palm of your hand. A spectator from the audience calls out the name of ANY card. You instantly cut the cards to the exact location of the named selection. This can be repeated over and over with different cards. Then as a kicker, you perform the same effect blindfolded!
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Lauren Smith, the state's interim public health commissioner, praised the state's "powerful, engaged, articulate young people" during a meeting with family planners at the Statehouse last week. Smith is dead-on, but she did so in the context of a feeble swing at the media.
"The media always talks about youth as being incorrigible ... if you were to look at the media and look at the newspapers, you would get I think a skewed and inappropriate understanding of what our youth are actually doing; more importantly what they're capable of."
Smith's view may be colored by her time in Gloucester, where a rumored "baby pact" among high-schoolers brought the national media to the port city's door. And she may be behind on her reading in dealing with the fallout of "rogue chemist" Annie Dookhan's tenure at a DPH lab, and failed state oversight of a compounding pharmacy responsible for contaminated steroids that have killed 45 people so far.
So, maybe she missed the students of the month being recognized from Nashoba Tech and Notre Dame Academy; that students from Lowell Catholic's hockey team recently volunteered at Fisher House, which helps families of veterans; that the Lowell High School Jr. ROTC collected 3,680 pounds of food for the Merrimack Valley Food Bank; that hundreds of students received dean's list honors at 16 colleges and universities across the country; that students at and recent grads of Immaculate Conception School in Lowell created colorful ceiling tiles that will brighten the school permanently.
And that was just in one Sunday edition of The Sun.
Or, she may not have read about Brooke Treska, an eighth-grader at Dracut's Lakeview Junior High School, who collected more than 700 hats, gloves, scarves and jackets to donate to Lowell's House of Hope. Or of Vera McDermott, the Dracut fifth-grader working on a website to promote school security nationwide. Or of Sklyar Ungar, the Dracut student whose "giving tree" helped local youngsters fulfill their Christmas wishes. Or of BiIlerica Middle School students Alicia DeSousa and Angela Kobylinska, who learned the lessons of democracy by petitioning the school to improve lunches. Or of the efforts of Lowell's United Teen Equality Center, whose young advocates help others in need.
Killing the media messenger is one of politics' oldest tricks. Knocking down straw men scores cheap political points but doesn't substitute for doing one's homework.
So The Sun invites Commissioner Smith to spend a few days in Greater Lowell to meet the headline-worthy young people who've been featured on our pages, and then decide who has the "skewed and inappropriate understanding."


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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Cowherd Gives M Zone Credit, Issue Resolved
Of course, there is good news and bad news to this controversy being behind us...
GOOD NEWS: It's over
BAD NEWS: We actually have to come up with new shit now
GOOD NEWS: Online traffic way up
BAD NEWS: Bosses know something really fishy was going on last few days at "work"
GOOD NEWS: All the great new readers
BAD NEWS: Handful of crazy, crazy, CRAZY folks that have access to computers (Please, get help)
GOOD NEWS: So cool to get hundreds of emails
BAD NEWS: Sucked ass trying to respond to them all
GOOD NEWS: Support from all the other guys who have blogs and websites
BAD NEWS: No chicks (probably because we still use the term "chicks")
GOOD NEWS: Hearing our blog mentioned on a nationally syndicated radio show
BAD NEWS: Still, no chicks
Finally, I know it might be hard for folks to believe, but we here at the M Zone sincerely wish Mr. Cowherd continued success on his show and with his career.
And in case you missed it, here is the clip from yesterday's show (full show available here):
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- Becky said...
Oh, fellas, you can count on having at least one chick. (Who, oddly enough, after 4 years in Ann Arbor that included Women's Studies classes, still calls herself a chick...)
Glad you now have the opportunity to get back to providing the funny.
- March 28, 2006 9:38 AM
mzone owns cowturd like Vince owns Michigan!
- March 28, 2006 9:48 AM
- MaizeAndBlueInValpo said...
It's nice to know that i'm not the only one proud to be a chick.
- March 28, 2006 10:01 AM
Interesting pic.... not very well endowed is he.....
- March 28, 2006 10:29 AM
- Wangs said...
Becky and Maizeandblueinvalpo -
I am so glad that you found our little blog. And that you come back to it despite the, um, less than perfect women's studies perspective we may have on some issues. It's not that we don't love women - and want to study them - it's just that we're guys which means that oftentimes, we're idiots. Through no fault of our own of course. There's only so much evolving that simple creatures like us could accomplish over the last few million years. We appreciate your patience.
I know I speak for everyone involved in this blog - the more chicks the better. We definitely need more female voices on this blog. Yost tries his best to fill that void and it comes pretty naturally to him, but there's still something missing.
So, please keep coming back and sharing whatever good advice you may have with us. We desperately need it, as you can tell.
- March 28, 2006 10:34 AM
Becky is one hot chick...
- March 28, 2006 10:48 AM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
LOL! Is this some sort of proof that feminists are really lesbians?
Not that there's anything not completely hot about that.
Sorry, as Wangs stated above, evolution has yet to catch up with me.
- March 28, 2006 10:54 AM
Thought you guys might find this article interesting. It is from Volokh.com, a fairly well-known libertarian legal blog. It touches upon the issue of citation of blogs.
If there even is a permalink, I didn't know how to reference it, so I have reproduced the entirety of the post below. The first comment regarding this article (the comments are not reproduced below) discussed your interaction with Cowherd.
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The Associated Press says it doesn't credit blogs, but it does.--
In an odd story at HuffPost (tip to Instapundit), Larisa Alexandrovna says that two weeks of work on a story she wrote for an online news service was ripped off by the Associated Press. The story involved changes in security clearance standards that might affect gays, lesbians, and bi-sexuals. She complained to the AP:
We contacted an AP senior editor and ombudsmen both and both admitted to having had the article passed on to them, and both stated that they viewed us as a blog and because we were a blog, they did not need to credit us. . . . [W]we made a point of tape recording the AP apparatchiks admitting to taking our work and using it without attribution, stating "we do not credit blogs".
But it gets stranger: According to Alexandrovna, AP didn't just take her work, they misattributed the work to other people. Even if there were some legitimate reason for AP's policy, that would not justify misleading readers. The AP wrote:
"Lesbian and gay advocacy groups recently found the change in an 18-page document distributed by National security adviser Stephen Hadley on Dec. 29, without public notice." Yes, the groups had found it in my article, which they gave to the AP.
But the strangeness doesn't stop there. The AP does credit bloggers.
I did a search of the last 7 days of AP headlines and stories and got 52 hits for the word "blog." One might also search for "blogger."
Although most of these stories did not credit blogs, some did. The first AP story I skimmed discussed several bloggers and included this statement, which sounded like credit:
A self-described Iraqi blogger translated one of the documents for the American blog pajamasmedia.com - a Sept. 15, 2001, memo from the Iraqi intelligence service that reported about an Afghan source who had been told that a group from Osama bin Laden and the Taliban had visited Iraq.
Or consider this AP story:
Blogger Glenn Reynolds of instapundit.com predicted Summers' fall would help conservatives pass bills monitoring academic freedom - including one currently under consideration in South Dakota's legislature.
AP was apparently referring to this post at Instapundit:
MORE ON SOUTH DAKOTA'S intellectual diversity legislation. I'm guessing that the publicity over the Larry Summers affair will give this sort of thing a boost.
Unless I'm missing something, it appears that AP does sometimes credit things that they read on blogs and then quote or paraphrase.
I find this story triply strange.
- March 28, 2006 11:16 AM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Just some thoughts on Colin Cowherd's acknowledgement and apology. I haven't listened to it yet, but from what I gather based on the comments here, it was fairly thorough and Cowherd was gracious and a good sport about it. It was the right and honest thing to do. So, yes, Colin Cowherd and ESPN do deserve credit for eventually doing the right thing and for admitting making some mistakes.
But, I want to offer one last final perspective on this. I'm going to be something of a dissenter here and a take a view of this that differs from Yost's. First, Yost is obviously an extremely gracious and decent human being as evidenced by 1) allowing me to post here and 2) being so magnanimous about Cowherd's acknowledgement. I, however, am a darker, harsher man with a somewhat dimmer view of humanity.
Sure, Cowherd's acknowledgement was pretty much what it should have been, but seriously, what else was he going to do? The instant bloggers and sports fans from all over the internet started e-mailing ESPN and making posts about this incident on their blogs, The M Zone was victorious. Cowherd and ESPN pretty much had two options, refuse to issue any acknowledgement and continue to look like complete jackasses or issue an acknowledgement and try and salvage the situation. They chose the option most beneficial to them. Cowherd needed the apology far more than anyone in The M Zone did.
So, before everyone starts falling all over themselves praising Cowherd for doing the right thing—which he certainly did—I want to point out a couple of things. Before Cowherd and ESPN realized the strength of bloggers, his response was rude and dismissive. It was only when he truly realized what he was dealing with that an apology came. There are a couple of terms used to describe someone who deals harshly with those he feels are weaker than he is but is overly deferential to those who are stronger, they are bully and coward.
The mark of a truly decent human being, someone with genuine class, is that they treat everyone with courtesy and respect even though they don't have to and even though they can get away with treating them otherwise. It should be obvious that Yost is just such a man. I hope that Colin Cowherd has learned that lesson from all this and I also hope he's able to learn something from Yost's example.
The people who supported the M Zone on this are far too numerous for me to list here, but I want to say that this is a vindication for each and every one of you. You all have a voice and a strength that simply cannot be ignored. So congratulations to all of you, you have my deepest respect and gratitude. The best thing about this—to me anyway—isn't Cowherd's apology, it's the sense of unity and accomplishment I feel with all the other bloggers—including those who simply read and comment on blogs—in forcing a fairly powerful corporation and a semi-celebrity into doing what's right.
- March 28, 2006 11:36 AM
- Yost said...
8:16am Anon,
Great article. Thanks for sharing.
- March 28, 2006 12:07 PM
- IC said...
You make several excellent points in your comments.
I completly agree with your assessment of Cowherd as a person and your analysis (noted by The King yesterday) of the motivation that led to his on-air mea culpa yesterday.
Like you I was enormously impressed and encouraged by the support MZone received from so many people. This community of "Davids" successfully insisted on accountability for an arrogant individual and corporate goliath.
- March 28, 2006 12:34 PM
- Becky said...
Lots of valid points here, but I'm going to have to most strongly back those of feminist. And, you know, thanks and stuff.
- March 28, 2006 12:47 PM
More ESPN Radio controversy today (not as bad as the Herd situation, but this one directly speaks to Michigan fans everywhere!
During "Mike and Mike in the Morning," a Buckeye fan tried to sabotage a Michigan fan's chances in the "Marriage Madness" contest today.
Long story short, bride-to-be/contestant Lauren Perry is a Michigan fan. Buckeye Fan says since she's from Ohio, people should go all out to vote for her opponent.
So, Michigan fan, get your voices heard! 'Til 6pm tonight, defend Lauren and fiancee Perry from the
Buckeye Hatred!
Click on the link to read about Lauren and Perry, and VOTE!
- March 28, 2006 1:52 PM
Take 2 on the website:
- March 28, 2006 1:53 PM
Hell, it doesn't register. Just go to espnradio.com and click on the Marriage Madness icon!
- March 28, 2006 1:54 PM
Very cool reading about the issue on salon.com Good job guys. Go Buckeyes still!
- March 28, 2006 11:18 PM
- Yost said...
Thanks, E2. Always appreciate your comments.
- March 28, 2006 11:20 PM
Say what you want about the guy, but he wrote a hell of a book.
P.S. Heads up: If you go to Amazon, don't be confused like I was - he wrote it under a psuedonym, "Harper Lee".
- March 29, 2006 12:32 PM
- MaizeAndBlueInValpo said...
Thanks for the warm welcome. After being maried to a Sparty for over sixteen years, I have come to accept that the male species is slow to move up the evolution ladder. I won't hold it against you. I have heard it all and done it all, so nothing you say would offend me in the least.
- March 29, 2006 8:07 PM
- Wangs said...
Maizeandblueinvalpo -
Did I hear you right - you married a Sparty? I didn't think that was legal. Are you from Utah or something?
Just kidding - I'm sure he's a fine man although probably a tad annoying every five years when they happen to beat us. Of course, basketball season most be miserable for you these past 20 years or so.
Thankfully, "George Mason Commutes to a University" wiped them out in the first round this year.
No doubt your daughter could take Courtney Sims. That helps explain why we're NITchigan.
- March 30, 2006 9:38 AM
I personally have always found that if you want to get a reaction, reach for their wallet. I probably should have had everyone do this, but I sent my email with a twist. I mentioned that as someone who works at an advertising agency, I would be recommending to my clients that thye not advertise on ESPN Radio in the future. I said that the clients are not in the habit of supporting programing that is dishonest, and then responds to listeners by insulting them. It's just not good for business.
I sent it to the Ombudsman and John Fitzgerald, the VP of Sales. (Email can be found in their online media kit.)
Anyway, looks like the collective efforts of us online dorks have been a success. I learnded about it from EDSBS.com myself. Congrats to M Zone.
- March 30, 2006 9:50 AM
- MaizeAndBlueInValpo said...
Yes , I married a Sparty. A lapse in judgement I know. We even got married on the day they played each other. Started the honeymoon off at the game. The fact that Michigan won made the day all the more special. We try to go every year to see them play. The strange thing about it is i'm the obnoxious one. He is pretty laid back when they play each other.
- March 30, 2006 10:17 AM


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Halloween is no longer for the kids. Sure there's still Trick-or-Treating and all that jazz, but this holiday has become a national passtime for adults to one up each other in decorations, costumes and parties.
I, for one, support this movement.
As a kid, my Halloween costumes weren't always the greatest. In fact, most of them were just terrible. We weren't the most financially secure people when I was growing and even when things were good, my mom was almost as cheap as I am now.
So because of these facts, I was a football player more times than I count (I wore my pee-wee league uniform) for Halloween. I never got to be a Power Ranger, Batman or Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I also had to wear one of the worse costumes ever one year — I was the world's most terrible clown.
Basically, about a dozen of my cousins and I were sitting around waiting to go trick-or-treating at my aunt and uncle's house. None of us had costumes and they got sick of us running around the house, like children tend to do when cooped up, and decided to take us out to hunt for candy.
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We went all the way in. Four-finger rings, beepers, giant gold chains, Kangol hats, activator spray bottles and of course, my legendary gheri curl wig.
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In recent history, proposals to consolidate schools - especially when they hit the voting booths - have been losing propositions.
From trying to join Fredonia and Brocton to the effort to combine Westfield and Ripley - even in 1982, uncertainty brings a backlash from voters who fail to look past school colors to see the true picture. Small districts - with enrollments of 600 or less - are no longer sustainable in a 21st century economy. And as state aid continues to dry up, the burden becomes even larger on the backs of the smaller number of local taxpayers.
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