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Police have asked off-licences in Manchester city centre not to sell alcohol ahead of Manchester City's Champions League clash with Dutch champions Ajax.
The M.E.N. understands that officers do not want a repeat of the scenes when fans of German club Borussia Dortmund came to Manchester for their match last month.
Then, around 300 supporters gathered in Piccadilly Gardens before the game which is thought to have caused concern for the force.
Bars have also been advised to employ extra door staff.
It is thought that most Ajax fans have been encouraged to gather in the Shambles Square area.
In February, when Ajax played United in the Europa League, 15 fans were arrested after Dutch supporters attacked Reds in the Binary Bar. That came after 144 arrests were made at the first leg in Amsterdam, of which 15 were United fans.
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The highly anticipated annual economic conference that features Stephen Fuller, Dwight Schar Faculty Chair and University Professor and director of the Center for Regional Analysis in the School of Public Policy, will be held on Friday, Jan. 14 from 8 a.m. to noon.
Presented in partnership with Cardinal Bank, "The Shape of the Recovery" will be held at The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, 1700 Tysons Blvd., McLean, Va.
Mason President Alan Merten, who is a member of the Cardinal Bank board of directors, will give the welcoming address.
Other speakers at the conference include Lisa Sturtevant, assistant research professor at the Center for Regional Analysis; and representatives from the U.S. General Services Administration and CB Richard Ellis Inc., a real-estate services firm.
The conference will conclude with a panel discussion and questions moderated by Alex Orfinger, publisher of the Washington Business Journal.
Registration, which includes a breakfast buffet, is $50; register online.
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I love writing. Writing energizes me. Why, then do I have so much trouble making the time to do it?
Sound familiar? If you're like me and juggling writing and another career, it probably does. I don't do formal New Year's Resolutions, but I did set a goal to be more consistent in my writing this year. My release schedule was slipping to about 18 months, and I want to tighten that up, which means I need to finish the current book before the end of the year.
Fortunately, an excellent tool crossed my path. It's Habitica, which makes keeping habits into a game. I wrote about it on my business blog. (If you didn't know I had one, this is a great time to check it out.) In brief, the idea is that your habits become like quests in an role playing game. Do you habits and you earn gold and experience. Don't do your habits, and you lose health. Lose enough health and you die. 🙁
Don't worry. I'm still alive. I'm one of those people who responds well to this sort of motivation, and Habitica has helped keep me consistent with my writing. I made "Write 500 words" a weekday habit. I get bonus credit for each additional 250 words.
Starting this has done a couple of things. First, I've been consistently meeting my goal, and I've written around 30K words this year so far. While that's not going to break any records, I've completed one novella and am well into the next novel. So far, I'm on track to publish the novel by the end of the year. Oh, and I have written on holidays. Or written ahead so I could take a day off. The game aspect has kept me committed because I don't want to take damage. My husband thinks it's silly, but it works for me.
Not surprisingly, the more I write, the faster and easier it becomes. Last year, when I wrote only sporadically, it was hard work most of the time. (Part of that was the story I was working on.) This year, yes, I have tough days, but mostly it's going smoothly. It's not uncommon for me to reach 1K words or more in a session.
Setting the goal had one other, unexpected effect. By setting a specific word goal, I know when I'm done. On days I just don't feel like writing, I can tell myself "It's only 500 words. You can do that." And I can. And I allow myself to quit as soon as I hit the 500 mark. Previously, I just had a vague goal to "write when I could." You can imagine how well that worked. In hindsight, it's amazing I've published as much I have.
I know that word count goals don't work for everyone. I recently read an article on reasons not to track word count, but the system and Habitica works for me. (Sorry, can't find the article.)
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...for some teens with a pre-existing mental health issue playing violent video games seemed to be associated with less bullying.
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In an effort to change the cultural dialogue about violence in media causing aggression in teenagers, an international group of 228 media scholars, psychologists and criminologists recently sent an open letter to the American Psychological Association (APA) asking it to reconsider its position on the effects of violence in the media.
"We sent the letter to the APA asking them to refrain from making certain declarative policy statements that are likely to do more damage to the field and mislead the public than be helpful," said Christopher J. Ferguson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and chair of the Psychology Department at Stetson University.
In 2005, the APA issued a policy statement called the Resolution on Violence in Video Games and Interactive Media, which stated in part that exposure to violent media appears to increase feelings of hostility, thoughts about aggression and suspicions about the motives of others. But, "Research shows there is not consistent evidence to support this statement," said Ferguson.
In fact, the opposite may be true, said Ferguson, who initiated the letter to the APA.
"In my recent research," said Ferguson, "we found that for some teens with a pre-existing mental health issue, playing violent video games seemed to be associated with less bullying." That research was published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence in April.
Ferguson and Cheryl K. Olson, Ph.D., an expert on using media to change behavior, tested 377 children. The results revealed no increase in aggressive or bullying behavior among those who played violent video games. One group, those with ADHD, appeared to have less aggressive behavior, particularly bullying, when they played more violent games.
"This was just one outcome of four, and needs to be replicated in other work," cautioned Ferguson.
So why do violent video games get blamed whenever there is a mass shooting like recent incidents at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., and Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.?
"The impression that a link exists is a classic illusory correlation in which society takes note of the cases that fit and ignores those that don't," said Ferguson in a recent blog post. "When a shooter is a young male, the news media make a fuss over violent video games, neglecting to inform the public that almost all young males play violent video games. Finding that a particular young shooter happened to play these games is neither surprising nor meaningful."
Ferguson also cautions against extending research into psychological issues beyond where it can go.
"In the 1950s, psychiatrists testified before Congress that comic books caused delinquency and homosexuality because, they claimed, Batman and Robin were secretly gay," Ferguson said. "We have to be careful not to repeat these mistakes.
"Unfortunately, the line between reasonable reflection and cultural crusade can sometimes be blurred, with activists drawing in shootings to advance their particular axes to grind," he said.
Even worse, is that such claims are a distraction from the real issue: the common thread for most mass shooters is a person full of anger and struggling with mental health problems, according to Ferguson.
On the positive side, the research may be having another impact: the APA has assigned a task force to review its earlier policy statement, a move that Ferguson welcomes. However, he cautions, policy statements can set scientific agendas and at stake is the credibility of the field as a careful and objective science.
"The signers of the statement to the APA welcome the APA's initiative to look into their 2005 statement," he said. "We hope that they will take up this opportunity to either retire the problematic 2005 statement or replace it with something that carefully reflects the debates and inconsistencies in this field."
About Stetson University
Founded in 1883, Stetson University in Central Florida is an independent university that provides a transforming education in the liberal arts tradition. Stetson stresses academic excellence and community-engaged learning, and consistently earns high national rankings. In 1982, Stetson was awarded a chapter of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. The College of Arts & Sciences, School of Business Administration and School of Music are located at the historic campus in DeLand. The College of Law is in Gulfport/St. Petersburg. The university also has two satellite centers: the Tampa Law Center and the Stetson University Center at Celebration near Orlando.


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A AV rack is a look, feel, piece of furnature, and requires some thought as to how to solve a problem. Below is a summary of different racks that solved different problems that I had and I still own to this day.
Many years ago consumer racks were generally 3 to 4 feet in height had MDF walls and shelves and mostly feel into two camps : those that supported components that mounted on fixed height MDF shelves and those famous 19" racks that had 50% or more black metal. My first rack was the latter and a semi-pro unit and was made by Yamaha. IT currently is used reversed and is about 5' in height.
10 or so years ago, large CRTs weighing 100s of pounds were common and a rack to support a TV plus could be custom built by US company called Billy Bags. I had one built with 4" I-Beams as legs and welded metal shelves.
THe third and last bought rack was made by a company called Sound Anchors. THat stand again was custom and was designed to hold just extremely heavy amps below a screen. Yes, they also make speaker stands.
My last stand is a hybrid DIY and uses Salamander flat panel parts bolted to the top shelf via two uprights. The 24" wide shelves are solid 1 1/4" inch thick maple wood with four stainless steel 36" 1/2" inch roof threaded rods as legs. The shelves are bolted in place. The rods are rated at over 5k lbs each and can be bought at Home Depot. The rack holds over 500lbs of electronics. It was a overkill solution to allow the flat panel to be winged over 2 short subs. The closest Salamander Duo rack that supported a raised flat panel uses a single upright (limit size and weight of panel) and didn't/doesn't support 100 lb plus each amp and a total weight of 500 lbs.
So, IMO 1) You need to decide what type of equipment it is going to hold 2) whether wood / MDF or metal is what you want 3) whether it is to support a TV or a panel 4) Will you design it or just buy it and 5) Lastly the price....
Lastly, if any of your AV equipment is going to be HEAVY or HOT, my suggestion is to stay away from glass and acrylic as shelves. Yes. it looks good, but both have major drawbacks...
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It seems that some members of the NYPD are able to understand that they aren't the "good guys", but unfortunately they seem to be embracing it.
Multiple police cars have been spotted blasting Darth Vader's theme song from their squad cars, the music that typically signals the entrance of the dark lord and his storm trooper minions.
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor, which, in its most basic definition, is humor that makes light of otherwise solemn subject matter, or gallows humor.[1] Not to be confused with black humor referring to black people funny (IE The Barber Shop) The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor.[2][3][4][5][6]
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...It's not clear whether the incidents are the work of a single pair of cops or if the practice is more widespread. We reached out to the NYPD for comment and never heard back. ...
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I'd first heard about U.S. patrols doing this in urban Iraqi areas in 2004 as a way to screw with the locals and/or piss them off, depending on which neighborhood and intent at the time.
And even if it was a moment (or two) of bad judgement. What would you prefer they play? Paul McCartney's We all stand together?


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" Anyone who refuses to leave his/her past in the past is likely to adversely affect his/her future. Yes you heard me right, therefore, you've got to have a rethink and do live for/appreciate what today/present has to offer you and not at all what the past/yesterday has already taken away from you. Besides, the future ahead of you has a lot of goodies/positivities to offer you even more than whatever you think that you've lost in the past.
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By Carin Lane/HealthyLife
Some of the most interesting gear can be found online. These homemade Fit and Fab finds from Etsy.com are each unique — and made in the U.S.A.
Custom Collapsible Hula Hoop:
Hoopnotica is a hot new workout that incorporates dancing with traditional hula hooping. You'll look and feel the part with this fun customizable hoop available with a 3-4 piece breakdown for easy storage and transport. Choose from various fabrics sized from 30″ to 44″; sizing chart available online, based on skill level and class type. $35. Etsy shop: Teton Hoops
Dynasty Tank with Removable Bra:
Versatility and style best describe this workout tank. Available in royal blue or black, it has a built-in shelf bra with removeable cups that make it wearable in or out of the gym. The stand-up collar adds a touch of flair. $44. Etsy shop: Loop and Labor
Lack motivation? Add these 11″ x 17″ letterpress posters or 8″ x 10″ prints to any room in your house and get inspired for a long day at work — or reaching your goals and dreams. "I can because I think I can" and "Because it can be done" are great ones to get you started. $20. Etsy shop: happydeliveries
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A girl can always use a new bag. This heavy-duty canvas tote bag is available in several colorful styles and is perfect for a trip to the gym, toting your work necessities or a day of fun with family and friends. $70. Etsy shop: Monday Morning Studios
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Tony and Carol Messerly make their home in Salem Utah nestled between the Wasatch mountains and the cedar valley. They are "Many strings and Co." Their music and songs are often refered to as vintage western with a twist of vaudvillian fun, sometimes quirky and rarely serious. They were amoung the top five finalists for the 2012 western duo group of the year by the Academy of western artists and 2013 nomonees for the Wesrern Music Assoc. duo/group of the year. Tony was givin the award for 2013 yodeler of the year by the Western Music Association.
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Join Green Mobility Network our 10th Annual Biscayne – Everglades Greenway Ride this coming Sunday! The ride is FREE and riders can choose to ride a 14, 22 or 42 mile loop that stretches across two National Parks. Lite snacks and water will be provided. Make sure to bring a helmet!
Miami-Dade Making an Effort to be Bike-Friendly
The Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization is hosting a Bike-Friendly Summit targeted at all Miami-Dade city mayors, city managers, public works directors, parks directors, local bike advocacy groups, universities and businesses who are interested in becoming officially designated as Bicycle-Friendly for the League of American Bicyclists. The Summit will provide attendees with information and data needed to complete their Bicycle-Friendly application. More information on programming and Agenda soon to come.
West Kendall Bus Terminal Scheduled for Public Space Enhancement
Green Mobility Network is proud to be partnering with Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works for the West Kendall Bus Terminal Enhancement Project. Funds for this project are provided by The Miami Foundation's Public Space Challenge. More details to come, but for now check out this Teaser video!
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We are proud to announce that Green Mobility Network together with Miami-Dade County Transportation and Public Works Department, and Street Plans Collaborative, are launching an county-wide Transportation Quickbuild Program.
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Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating
Extensive preparations have made to get here: grants written, technicians hired, literally tons equipment packed and sent, crew and ship logistics finalized, scientists traveled from home to here-- all to study the Arctic.
How do they study the Arctic? What do these scientists look at, measure, compare and contrast, talk about, ponder in quiet moments? The methods used are way cool -- like no science I have ever seen. Today the CTD (Conductivity, Temperature and Depth) team conducted a practice Rosette cast. After all the effort to get here, it is important to get it right.
Will Burt waits for permission from the Bridge to deploy the Rosette.
If you wanted to know about the water in a pond, you could go out in a boat to various locations in the pond and take samples, using, say, a cup and your arm. Up here the pond is the Arctic Ocean, our boat the Louis, the cup is the Rosette, and the arm is a winch.The Rosette is an ocean sampling device about the size of a VW Bug. It has all kinds of detection and collection devices on it-- one being the Niskin bottle, 24 of them. These bottles collect sea water at specific depths. Before being out in the water, each Niskin bottle is cocked, held open with a nylon wire. The Rosette can also measure water temperature and pressure, salinity and currents. The water in each Niskin bottle can be tested for dissolved gases, nutrients, sediments-- any factor that is of interest.
Mike Dempsey shows how to correctly trigger a Niskin bottle while Kenny Scozzafava looks on.
Mike Dempsey makes sure that Waldek Walczowski's LADCP will fit through the shack door!
The Rosette is so big and so heavy that it must be put in the water using a winch. Once in the water, it is lowered all the way down to a maximum depth. Then it is raised up slowly and, at specific intervals, each Niskin bottle is tripped closed via computer. In this way, water can be collected at different depths - giving scientists a "picture" of the Arctic ocean water column, from bottom to top.
After receiving permission from the Bridge, the Rosette is lowered into the water.
Watch the video at the bottom of this page to see a Rosette deployment. (Note that this footage was shot at the next Rosette deployment, at 1AM CDT. Check out the light conditions!)As the Rosette gets close to the surface, scientists gather ready to draw samples. Some samples must be drawn right away because the elements in the water are very susceptible to contamination.
Melissa Hennekes, Kristina Brown, Brian Hunt, Chad Cuss and Rick Nelson wait in the Rosette shack, ready to samples.
The Rosette is carefully maneuvered into the shack..........
Will Burt and Mike Dempsey and a LSSL deck hand bring the Rosette into the shack. Removing samples from the 24 bottles can take more than two hours. The shack provides shelter for the scientists.
....and the sampling begins!
Nes Sutherland and Rick Nelson are the first to collect their samples because they are measuring CFC gases which are most likely to be contaminated by the air.
After all samples are drawn, the Rosette is cleaned and checked and ready to go back in. The run-through has gone well and everyone is ready for the real thing. We will reach our first sampling station at about midnight tonight. Then, the Rosette will take a sample in another part of the ocean, and then another, and another again..........at the end of the cruise, scientists will have sort of a "3-D picture" of the Beaufort Sea. They can begin to compare and contrast the amount of specific elements at different places and at different times. From these data, they can begin to understand how this most beautiful part of the world is changing.How do you think the Rosette got its name??So long, for now, from the Louis!
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The big story over on Gawker today is headlined, "'F*ck Bitches Get Leid,' the Sleazy Frat Emails of Snapchat's CEO." The post features emails obtained by Gawker written by Evan Spiegel when he was in college at Stanford, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. They feature such scandalous things as this sentence found in an email to some of his fellow frat bros: "Hope at least six girls sucked your dicks last night." In other words, the whole thing's pretty tame in my opinion. Typical frat boy stuff. You can read all of the post here.
To his credit, Spiegel has vehemently apologized for the things he wrote in the emails.
I'm obviously mortified and embarrassed that my idiotic emails during my fraternity days were made public. I have no excuse. I'm sorry I wrote them at the time and I was jerk to have written them. They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women.
My point is writing this post is to highlight how happy I am to have not had the internet around as a thing when I was a teenager and in college in the mid-90s. Most people are idiots at that point in their lives — I was an especially huge one — and to have multiple means of documenting thoughts and feelings digitally forever for anyone to see is just something I'm glad I didn't have at my disposal. Yes, it sucked to have to go to the library to do research, but at least I don't have to worry about an email in which I shared details of a sexual encounter with my friends — and I most certainly would have done such things — popping up years later to embarrass the hell out of me.
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Prophets of Recognition
Idelogy and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty
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An arresting comparative analysis, Prophets of Recognition invites readers to consider four well-known post–World War II American novels—Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Saul Bellow's Seize the Day, and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter—from a different perspective. Julia Eichelberger argues that although these writers are quite diverse and thus usually assigned to separate categories, they share a common conception of the individual's relationship to modern American society.
The four novels examined here represent very different experiences, but in all of them individuals seek a place within a public world. Eichelberger posits that each novel demonstrates a view of the individual she terms "suspicious humanism," a philosophy that acknowledges the power of individuals to resist dehumanizing cultural beliefs and to recognize the innate value of human beings. Using the word recognition to identify this ideal form of democracy, she maintains that each novel at least implicitly champions recognition.
In its application of critical theory to an interpretative analysis of these contemporary novels, Prophets of Recognition is a stimulating and enlightening discussion of the relations between the individual and society. Ultimately, this study's valuable contributions to literary scholarship will include not only its critical insights into the novels at hand but also its universal relevance to other American fiction of this period.
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Today's French Connection sale at Rue La La simply can't be missed. Since 1972, this iconic brand has been offering up the perfect mix of bold and sexy, and now, you can channel your inner Parisian chic with these cool designs. Find dresses, tops, hoodies, outwerwear, accessories, and more.
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Hey guys! So with all the recent additions to warlocks in way of quests and scenarios, I've been wondering if there is a purpose to all of it.
I personally don't play a warlock as I'm not fond of the mechanics and feel of the class, but it's always been interesting. The lore behind it is fascinating and now with the next patch I'm wondering what the ulterior motives are of having an entire island and quest chain dedicated to green fire. Is this perhaps setting us up for another focus on the Burning Legion? Are we going to have to revisit Outland or are the demonic armies making their first full fledge appearance in Azeroth since the whole Mount Hyjal incidence.
(Please don't make this a "Please make quests for [class x] because Warlocks get one now," forum.)
All opinions are appreciated! Thanks guys!


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NEW YORK (Sep. 4)
More Jews emigrated from the Soviet Union in August than in any single month on record, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported Friday.
The tally was 6,756, of whom 793, or 11.7 percent, went to Israel, according to the NCSJ's Soviet Research Bureau, which began tabulating emigration from the Soviet Union in 1968.
The previous monthly high was in October 1979, when 4,746 Jews departed. That year, Jewish emigration totaled 51,320, a figure that has not been matched in recent decades. Total Jewish emigration so far this year stands at 33,444.
This year's second-highest monthly figure was 4,557, recorded in April.
"We welcome the August increase, which surpasses the previous month high for 1989 by more than 2,000," Shoshana Cardin, NCSJ chair-woman, said in a statement. "This is a development of major significance."
Cardin expressed hope that the upward trend will continue. However, she added, "While we rejoice for those who have been able to leave the Soviet Union, we remain mindful of the fact that capriciousness is still part of the Soviet emigration procedure."
"For example, only last week, long-term refuseniks Igor, Inna and Slava Uspensky received official permission to emigrate, while Igor's 77-year-old mother, a retired biologist, is still refused" because she lacks the requisite "security" clearances, Cardin said.


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Small Business Makes a Risky Bet on Health Care
SouthCoast Medical Group had long provided health insurance to its employees the conventional way, paying premiums to an insurance company that covered medical claims. Then in January 2011 the 65-doctor practice with offices in and around Savannah, Ga., opted to take on more of the risk itself.
SouthCoast thought it could save money by self-insuring, a strategy typically used by much larger companies. Today it pays directly for the medical care of the 280 staffers and family members on its plan, setting aside the cash it would have spent on premiums to cover claims and paying an administrator to process them. To limit its risk, the group also purchased "stop-loss" insurance that would kick in after any individual's medical bills exceeded $100,000.
The approach is common for corporations with thousands of employees, where the cost of care and the attendant risk is spread out over large numbers of people. For small employers, though, one car accident or organ transplant can push expenses far above the expected level. Still, with premiums for traditional policies continuing to rise, small businesses are increasingly ready to roll the dice. Some 20 percent of companies with 50 to 199 workers self-insured in 2010, up from 14 percent four years earlier, according to a Rand Corp. analysis commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor. Until recently, insurance broker Craig Hasday advised against self-insurance for any company with fewer than 500 workers. Now, "we're putting it on the table for every group over 100 employees," says Hasday, chief operating officer of New York brokerage Frenkel & Co.
That could spell trouble for the state insurance exchanges expected to launch in 2014. In those markets, premiums will reflect the total risk of all the people insured, so companies with younger and healthier workers may decide they're better off self-insuring to avoid subsidizing others with higher medical costs. "It makes the risk pool worse," Hasday says. The Rand report warns that such "adverse selection could lead to a 'death spiral' " where only companies with high-risk workers are left in the exchanges, pushing up premiums.
Self-insured plans are governed by federal law and not states, which typically oversee health insurance. Some regulators fear that insurers attempting to avoid state taxes on insurance premiums and skirt state laws requiring minimum benefit levels will offer plans that are self-insurance in name only. One way they can do that is with stop-loss policies that start paying out at very low levels, after as little as $10,000 in claims, which sharply reduces the risk companies face. If "the employer is not in fact bearing the risk and the insurance company is, then the states take a look," says Sabrina Corlette, a researcher at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. New York and Oregon already forbid insurance companies from selling stop-loss insurance to groups with fewer than 50 employees, and California's insurance commissioner wants to outlaw the sale of certain stop-loss policies to small businesses.
Self-insuring appeals to employers because dollars not spent on medical care stay in the company instead of flowing to the insurance carrier's bottom line. The approach also gives businesses more detailed information about how their workers use health care. Claims data, which insurers are often reluctant to share, can help companies tailor plans and wellness programs to improve workers' health by helping them quit smoking or lose weight.
For small employers, self-insurance programs can bring unexpected problems. In its first year of self-insuring, SouthCoast faced a spike in major claims that ate up 60 percent of its reserves. When the company's stop-loss policy came up for renewal, the premiums more than doubled, to $250,000, because of the costly claims, even after SouthCoast agreed to take on an additional $25,000 of risk per employee. The total cost to SouthCoast—including claims, stop-loss coverage, and administrative fees—jumped 25 percent, says Chief Financial Officer Gary Davis. Traditional insurance, though, would cost double what the company spent last year, he estimates. "You have to keep your eyes open that it's a risk," says Davis. "One out of every five or six years, you're going to have a bad year."
Insurers offering stop-loss policies sometimes protect themselves with what the industry calls "lasering." That's when they raise the dollar amount the employer must pay before stop-loss kicks in for certain workers deemed to be high-risk—which can shift even more cost to employers. The practice can be "devastating" to small businesses, says Carl Mowery, a managing director in consultancy Grant Thornton's compensation and benefits practice. Employers pay more up front for guarantees that they won't have sick workers carved out later on, but Mowery says small businesses should insist on that protection to avoid being overwhelmed by catastrophic claims. "A premature baby who has a lot of health issues could be a million-dollar claim in a single year," he says. "That could be twice as much as [small companies] pay in health premiums altogether."
Any benefits from self-insurance don't materialize overnight, cautions Sam Fleet, president of AmWINS Group Benefits, a wholesale insurance brokerage in Charlotte. "You need an engaged employer, and it's not a one-year savings," he says. Fleet says small companies drawn by the promise of lower costs may not fully grasp the risk involved. "What scares me is there are a lot of people out there that recommend self-funding to employers," he says. "It's really, really important that you understand what you're getting into."
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Samsung Galaxy S II Plus i9105 priced, launched in Taiwan. Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 cancelled?
Announced earlier this month as a slightly improved version of the Galaxy S II i9100 (introduced in 2011), the Galaxy S II Plus i9105 has been officially launched in Taiwan – which seems to be the first country to get it.
According to VR-Zone, the S II Plus costs 13,900 TWD in Taiwan. That's about $474, or €352. It looks like only the blue version of the handset is available starting this month, while the white one should be released in February.
Running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, the Galaxy S II Plus i9105 features a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus display with 800 x 480 pixels, TouchWiz UI 5.0, HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, 8MP rear camera with LED flash, 2MP front-facing camera, dual-core 1.2GHz Broadcom processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal memory, MicroSD card support, and a 1,650 mAh battery. You can check out the handset here at Samsung Taiwan's official website.
In other Samsung news, Sam Mobile is reporting that the South Korean company has cancelled the release of the new Galaxy Tab 3 7.0, which was supposed to debut at MWC 2013 next month. However, Samsung will introduce a new Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, and possibly also a Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 (but this depends on the success of the Galaxy Note 8.0). We'll bring more details as we get them.


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Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics Preview
Oakland Athletics vs Texas Rangers Odds
A key battle on the MLB odds menu sees visiting Oakland duelling Texas on Wednesday at Rangers Ballpark.
Texas sends Justin Grimm out against Tom Milone for the Athletics in this game. Grimm is 5-5 with a 5.59 ERA on the season, while Milone is 6-6 on the year and has a 3.61 ERA.
View Oakland vs Texas Odds and Stats.
Betting Line:
Sportsbooks such as Bovada had installed the Rangers as -115 moneyline favorites in this particular MLB matchup. The total, meanwhile, was set early at 9.5 before betting at SportBet started to move the line.
Power Rankings:
It's a baseball betting matchup between the American League No. 5-rated Rangers and the league No. 6-ranked Athletics, according to the latest MLB power poll here at Odds Shark.
How They Match Up:
At the plate, Texas owns the No. 5 ranking for hits in the American League at 9 per game. By contrast, the Athletics are rated No. 10 in the same category at 8.6 per game.
Comparing defensive stats, Oakland owns the American League's No. 5-rated road mark, allowing 4 runs per game on the highway. Texas, on the other hand, rates No. 8 in scoring at home.
Last time out for Oakland, they were a 6-2 winner as they battled the Rangers on the road. Moneyline bettors who got the Athletics at +165 were rewarded, while the 8 combined runs moved the game UNDER for totals bettors. Oakland looks to continue its winning ways following a victory last time out against the Rangers, a 6-2 final on Tuesday in support of Jarrod Parker at Rangers Ballpark.
Oakland Athletics Trends:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Texas are 7-3
After playing Texas are 6-4
After a win are 6-4
Texas Rangers Trends:
When playing on Wednesday are 8-2
Before playing Oakland are 4-6
After playing Oakland are 5-5
After a loss are 3-7
A few Athletics at Rangers trends to consider:
Oakland is 18-7 SU in its last 25 games
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Oakland's last 19 games
Oakland is 8-15 SU in its last 23 games when playing on the road against Texas
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Texas' last 12 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Texas' last 9 games
Texas is 15-8 SU in its last 23 games when playing at home against Oakland
Texas is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games
Next up:
Oakland at Texas, Thursday, June 20


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- n. All the pundits and commentators of the news media collectively
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The level of ignorance among the commentariat is astounding.
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Either the VC commentariat is exhausted from discussing these issues, or really, really hates podcasts.
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I might have had more respect for his views if he had followed in his family tradition of service to the Conservative party, rather than joining the "commentariat" - wielding great influence without accountability.
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I think the problem the commentariat is having is simply that the effective attack now is coming from the left – having already conceded to the right, they're feeling kinda cornered. duus Says:
As a member of the so-called commentariat I should know what the Tories 'policies are on a wide range of subjects, but I don't.
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The commentariat are the modern equivalent of Canute's fawning courtiers.
The British media establishment, the "commentariat", by and large think and act the same.
But the supposed member of the "commentariat" who said that was not, in fact, a commentator.
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A sense of propriety, of dignity, sits heavily on the "commentariat," as Krugman calls it.
Telegraph blogs 'commentariat': they are not simply united by a common employer in the Barclay brothers: they are a self-perpetuating cabal of like-minded individuals whose allegiance is to forces far deeper than Tory politics.


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Job seekers will be able to speak directly to recruiters and hiring managers across a broad range of industries at a free job fair Tuesday in Jacksonville.
The fair - hosted by JobNewsJax.com, Keith Pierson Toyota, The Hanania Automotive Group and in partnership with CareerSource Northeast Florida - will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University of North Florida's University Center, 12000 Alumni Drive.
Attendees should dress professionally and bring their resumes. Parking and admission are free.
For more information or to pre-register for the event, visit www.jobnewsjax.com.
Booth space is still available and employers should call 904-296-3006 for more information.


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Ferrara's only consistently smart move has been casting Christopher Walken over and over again, since Walken can make a good movie great and a loathsome movie durable whenever he's onscreen. His 8-minute scene in The Addiction is the saving grace of that otherwise abysmal, unwatchable, and pretentious failure. When he starts talking about his vampiric bowel movements, or questions whether Lili Taylor has ever read Naked Lunch, there's a much-needed dose of humor in an otherwise terminally unfunny affair. You know those Gothic club kids who are too cool to smile and let you know they're actually having fun? The Addiction is that movie.
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For a use case that pinpoint a word from a page, the context information needed besides word might be the language that the word is in.And yes, as you said, if the hit node is needed, elementFromPoint should do. Thanks, Xiaomei On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Anne van Kesteren <email@example.com> wrote: > On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:52 +0200, Xiaomei Ji <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > >> Maybe I should propose Document.wordFromPoint() which directly returns >> the word under the mouse (and handles both the DOM node and non-DOM form >> control nodes). >> It hides the information about the node and should be a useful API. >> > > Don't you need at least some context information as well besides just the > word? Although I suppose you can get that using a combination of > elementFromPoint and wordFromPoint... > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > http://annevankesteren.nl/ >Received on Monday, 12 October 2009 16:38:10 UTC
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Agression, Regression, C'mon Recoupment!!I am currently struggling with my son who is severely autistic, non verbal,etc.. He is 7 years old and this last year has been horrible. He has become aggressive, and is hurting himself. We find that he is ok as long as we understand what he wants and needs or as long as he gets his way. His lack of communication skills as well as his OVERWHELMING need for sensory input are no doubt what triggers his violence. We are currently doing tons of therapy and are still trying to find a med to help him. any suggestions???
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I am going through the same thing with my daughter though, and I understand how hard it is. She is 8 years old and has stopped hurting herself, but has started hurting others. She only knows a few words and gets angry easily. One way that we try to find out what she wants is by having her lead us to what she wants. Keep your head up, it will get easier.


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Wednesday's Racing Podcast
Attheraces presenter and William Hill Radio regular, Gordon Brown, is heading to Doncaster on Wednesday and he took a bit of time out to contribute to the racing podcast.
Gordon tips three at Town Moor, assures people not to worry about the coughing in the Paul Nicholls yard, and let's you know why Richard Hills was one of his favourite jockeys.
Simon Mapletoft, Chris Pimlott and Mark Slater will be live from 1.35pm on Wednesday. Make sure you tune in.


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This is the second post in my series on school fees and financing. In the last post, I highlighted those prep schools with the most affordable fees. In this post, I want to highlight all the prep schools that offer scholarships and bursaries among those featured on London Pre-Prep's top prep schools and what the conditions for those scholarships or bursaries are.
Almost all independent schools offer scholarships and bursaries from the 11+ or 13+ level – as they are ranked by GCSE and A-Level results, schools are usually happy to attract those pupils who score highest on the entrance exams. It is much harder to find schools that offer financial assistance to talented boys and girls at the primary level, and it is those scholarships or bursaries that I want to focus on. Here is a description of the various scholarships and bursaries I have found at the prep school level among the top schools in London. If you know of any further scholarships that I have not included here, please do leave a comment so I can add it to the list.
- Arnold House Bursary Scheme: offers four bursary places of up to 100% of fees to boys based on academic potential whose parents would not otherwise be able to afford private education. These bursaries are available to boys in Years 5, 6 and 7. The school aims to increase the number of bursary places to eight over the coming years.
- Bute House Bursary Scheme: parents can find out more about this newly introduced scheme by emailing the school at firstname.lastname@example.com (see the comment by Headmistress Mrs Helen Lowe below).
- Cameron House School Foundation Scholarship: this is a bursary scheme for talented boys and girls aged 8, 9 or 10 to enjoy a Cameron House School education "at a heavily reduced rate". Candidates are assessed in English and Maths and spend a day at the school.
- St Paul's Junior fees assistance: offers bursaries up to 100% for parents with low income whose boys have gained entrance to Colet Court
- Devonshire House Academic and Music Scholarships: these are again for candidates at the 7+ or 8+ level. Details can be obtained by the admission secretary.
- Garden House Boys' School Scholarship: this scholarship covers 50% of fees and is based on academic performance. It is open to boys applying for 8+ entry and a further means-tested bursary may be available
- Latymer Prep School: up to two bursary places per year offered from Year 3.
- Newton Prep School in Battersea Park offers academic scholarships for candidates applying for a 7+ / 8+ place up to a value of £250 per term. These can be increased by a means-tested bursary fund.
- Pembridge Hall / Wetherby Prep Tsukanov Scholarships: the Alpha Plus Group of schools offers two scholarships from the 7+ level for boys and girls with excellent academics paired with outstanding musical talent. Preference is given to candidates of Russian or other Slavonic origin.
- Redcliffe School Bursary Scheme: this lovely co-educational (boys 3- 8, girls 3 -11) prep school with nursery on Redcliffe Square in Chelsea offers bursary places of up to 100% for families who can't afford the fees.
- St Anthonys School for Girls has just announced it is launching a means-tested 7+ scholarship programme
Do let me know if I have left any out!


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How To Beauty
This Blog Features Hair + Makeup How-To's, Skincare, As Well As Countless Quick Tips.
How to curl hair with a straightener #hair_curling
Step 1: Start with clean, blow dried hair. If your hair is frizzy, run the straightener through large chunks just to smooth it a bit before curling.
Step 1: Take 1 inch sections and clamp the straightener on the hair and turn it to the right as you run it down the length of the hair. If your hair is long you may need to hold onto the ends of the hair to prevent them from slipping out. The more you turn the straightener, the tighter the curl will be. If your hair does slip out half way through the curl, pick up where the curl left off but you do not need to recurl the entire strand again, that will just cause further and unnecessary damage.
Step 1: Do that to your entire head and then take large sections and lightly run the straightener over large chunks of just the ends to give it a beachy look.
Step 1: Finish with hairspray and you are done!
How to chalk your hair #hair_chalking
Step 1 : Start with clean hair and section off the bottom half, securing the top half with a clip.
Step 2 : Take a small section of your hair and twist the hair. Mist the section with a water bottle.
Step 3 : Take your soft chalk pastel stick and rub over the section while twisting the strand back and forth. Repeat over as many sections as desired.
Step 4 : To get the color to stick around, run a flat iron or curling iron through your hair, then spraying with a light hair spray.
Step 5 : Be creative after chalking your hair! Style in a messy bun or braids to show off the vibrant colors!
How to do a crown braid #braids_tutorial
Learn how to do a braided crown with a step-by-step instructions in this hair tutorial.
Step 1: Divide hair into 4 sections, seperating the front from the back on either side.
Step 2: Braid each section starting close to the root, 4 braids total, and look like a crazy person.
Step 3: Pull the end of one braid to the beginning of the next braid, going in the same direction all around the head.
Step 4: Bobby pin the end of each braid into the start of the braid beside it. Be sure to hide those bobby pins so that it looks like one braid all the way around!!Via: treasuresandtravelsblog
How To Do a Sock Bun #sock_bun
This is my go-to hairstyle when I haven't had time to wash my hair. It is simple, versatile and only takes a few quick minutes to put up. It works well in both a casual and dressy setting, so you can do your hair like this on days when you plan on going out later.
Here's a simple method of doing a sock bun hairstyle:
Step 1: Wet your hair a little. A spray bottle works well for this. You don't want your hair too wet, but just enough to make it slightly more manageable.
Step 2: Comb your hair back in a high ponytail with no part in your hair.
Step 3: Take an old sock (use a white sock if you have blond-ish hair and black or brown for brown-ish hair) and cut the toe portion out of the sock. Fold the sock up into a little bun.
Step 4: Take your ponytail and fold your hair into the sock bun. Keep folding until you reach the crown of your head.
Step 5: If you have any loose strands, simply secure them with bobby pins.
Step 6: Secure the rest of the bun with bobby pins if you feel it is needed. Most people with thick hair, or very fine hair, will need the extra security.
Step 7: Spray your hair down with hairspray or holding spray.
How to Trim Your Own Split Ends #split_ends
My favorite hair cutting techniques on how to completely get rid of your split ends at home! It's super easy and fool proof , anyone can do it and you'll save a ton of money. You're left with gorgeous beautiful hair, always!
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Flashback a few decades to when this programmer pilot fish is on the team developing a large, complex turnkey business system running on PDP-8 minicomputers.
"I had a pair of two-year degrees from a local technical college, but two of my co-workers who were hired at the same time as I was had masters degrees in computer science," says fish.
"Needless to say, my hands-on degree program that included mainframe assembler classes prepared me for this near-bare-metal programming environment much better than the advanced, theoretical classes prepared these two co-workers."
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"I finished this book in one sitting … the dialogue is amusing and the plotting is deft. It's a complex story, handled with some style by Declan Burke … like any good crime novel, [it] twists and turns until the very last sentence."All of which would have been lovelier than Arthur Lee's rose garden if they hadn't gone and spoiled it all by tucking a disclaimer into the middle thusly: "Disclosure: [Burke] reviews films for this magazine." Pah, rumbled with our greasy mitts in the till. Damn their beautiful, beautiful eyes.
Praise for Declan Burke: "Burke shows again that he's not just a comic genius, but also a fine dramatic writer and storyteller." – Booklist. "Proust meets Chandler over a pint of Guinness." – Spectator. "Among the most memorable books of the year, of any genre." – Sunday Times. "A hardboiled delight." – Guardian. "Imagine Donald Westlake and Richard Stark collaborating on a screwball noir." – Kirkus Reviews. "A cross between Raymond Chandler and Flann O'Brien." – John Banville.
Monday, June 4, 2007
The Embiggened O # 9,012: Damn, We're Going Need A Bigger Trumpet
Another red letter day in the world of independent publishing, people – The Dubliner, bless its cotton socks, gives our humble offering The Big O the four-star treatment in its current New Poor / New Rich issue. To wit:
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The Dubliner Magazine invite you to Old City, New Dreams. A week of debates, lectures and performances that will raise questions such as:
Is nuclear power the only way to go?
Are Dublin's Best Days Over?
What are the solutions for improving the quality of life in Dublin?
It will be held in the Mill Theatre in Dundrum from June 25-29.
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Why Labour should call for an immediate EU Referendum
Yesterday Lord Prescott, John Prescott, Prezza, declared that he was for a referendum. Not a 2017 referendum, not for a referendum at the General Election, but for one now.
I can't fault his logic; the line is "let's shoot Cameron's fox and give the people their say on Europe now". It would be beautiful. Ed Miliband stands up at the next PMQs, whenever Cameron can be bothered to take one, and declares that 'The Prime Minister's course is destabilising, unnecessarily causing uncertainty and not in the national interest, and so we must have a referendum now to settle the issue for a generation'. Either way Labour would win points by doing the right thing. If Cameron called a referendum Ed Miliband would look statesman-like, Labour would be defining the agenda, ready to govern again, or Cameron would falter, not call a referendum, and his party would implode.
Beyond that, during the referendum, Cameron would split The Conservative Party, he would lead a decent sized number of pro-Europeans campaigning to stay in, while a vocal minority of his MPs would vigorously campaign for 'Out'. His leadership would never recover. We, on the other hand, would be largely united on the issue, Ed Miliband leading an almost certainly victorious 'In' campaign. It would wash away any remaining progressive shame for the loss of the AV referendum, give us a new sense of purpose, and a leader who spoke to the people of The United Kingdom and took them with him.
Until now it has been unfashionable to argue for a referendum in the Labour Party. Within the last few months that has been changing increasingly quickly. As with the AV referendum, which was seen as an internal coalition fight originally, it has taken John Prescott's intervention to make it a wholly credible position for committed Labour activists. The shift is not just visible in our venerable ex-Deputy Prime Minister. Ed Balls has been repeatedly dropping hints that he thinks a referendum is the right policy for us. Most recently, on Friday, Ed Balls said "I certainly don't think we can ever afford to give the impression that we know better than the voting public." This follows similar comments a few weeks before (also in the Yorkshire Post). Keith Vaz has been arguing for a referendum 'now' for months, and is feeling truly vindicated that so many others in the Party have come round to his position, because "we cannot afford to be painted as anti-democratic".
Personally, as I speak to more and more Labour members, activists, candidates and those already elected, I see that there is a serious shift. People see the validity of the argument, and mostly think that 'In' will win any vote and, most importantly, understand that it is the symbolism of truly consulting the people that matters most. John Prescott saw that, and so he is calling for us to support an EU Referendum, and that is why he was Deputy Prime Minister in one of the greatest governments this country has ever had.
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A Rescued Brooklyn Tudor
This Tudor-style house sits in Prospect Park South, Brooklyn. The New York Times takes us inside and shows how homeowners Nathan Thompson and his wife, Eva Lewandowski rescued the 83-year-old house after "the previous owner had shared the premises with more than a hundred cats" — yikes!
See the interior and read the whole story: The New York Times | To the Rescue of a Tudor Beauty.
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All-star music benefits regularly support worthy causes like AIDS research and the homeless; this summer a special tribute album will bring it all back home by helping out a fellow musician. In honor of L.A. alternative folk singer Victoria Williams, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last year, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, the Lemonheads and others will add their voices to a record of Williams's songs, Sweet Relief, expected in stores in June. Like many artists, Williams has no health insurance, so profits from the new album – which also includes Michelle Shocked, Michael Penn, the Jayhawks, Matthew Sweet, Buffalo Tom, Maria McKee and the Waterboys' Mike Scott, among others – will be used to cover her mounting medical expenses. In addition, Williams, 34, plans to use some of the proceeds to launch a new trust fund for other ailing musicians. "I always thought it'd be great if there was a pot that we could all put money into for emergencies," she says. "It'd be nice to do something so we could take care of ourselves."
Besides the obvious financial assistance, Sweet Relief should also help focus attention on Williams's original folk-rock talents. Although she is actively preparing fresh songs and looking for a label home, both of her previous albums are out of print. "Hopefully this will be something that lets people find out about her songs," says Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum, whose version of Williams's lyrical "Summer of Drugs" graces the tribute album. "Victoria's music is an adventure, and her special world has more personality than anything else you'll ever listen to."
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Medical Specialties Distributors, LLC Signs $53 Million Credit Agreement With GE Healthcare Financial Services
Published: Aug 17, 2006
"We are very excited with the expansion opportunities of MSD into the hospital and skilled nursing home markets. We believe that MSD's commitment to service and quality will translate into large gains as we expand into hospitals and skilled nursing homes," said Mike Fernandez, Chairman of MSD and MBF Healthcare Partners, LP. "MSD is expanding its sales and service organization to react quickly to the service and delivery needs of the local hospital and skilled nursing home. We are very pleased that GE Healthcare Financial Services has provided us with the capital required to execute on our vision."
Mike Rizzo, MSD's President and CEO, added, "Everyone at MSD is enthusiastic about our expansion into the acute and long-term care markets and the addition of an experienced sales force in both areas. We are confident that the addition of these talented sales professionals to our organization and the availability of additional capital will assist our successful growth in the acute care and skilled nursing home markets while continuing to expand our national home healthcare business."
About Medical Specialties Distributors, LLC
Medical Specialties Distributors, LLC headquartered in Stoughton, Massachusetts is the largest supplier of healthcare products and bio-medical equipment rentals and service to the home healthcare market and rapidly expanding into the hospital and skilled nursing home markets. MSD offers its products and services through a national footprint of seven distribution facilities, seven bio-medical equipment service and repair centers, and thirty medical equipment rental depots. MSD is a wholly owned portfolio company of MBF Health Care Partners, LP. For more information, visit http://www.msdonline.com.
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GE Healthcare Financial Services is a provider of capital, financial solutions, and related services for the global healthcare market. With over $15 billion of capital committed to the healthcare industry, GE Healthcare Financial Services offers a full range of capabilities from equipment financing and real estate financing to working capital lending, vendor programs, and practice acquisition financing. With its knowledge of all aspects of healthcare from hospitals and long-term care facilities to physicians' practices and life sciences, GE Healthcare Financial Services works with customers to create tailored financial solutions that help them improve their productivity and profitability. For more information, visit http://www.gehealthcarefinance.com.
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Our annual fund drive provides the funding for us to continue to operate. We receive grants from both Federal and State agencies, but that is not enough to cover daily operations as well as other financial obligations. We as a department have been, and continue to be, vigilant with our spending. Continue reading "2017 Fund Drive Progress"


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SYRIZA and Elections in Greece: Crisis, Challenges and Potential
Portions of this essay of my 2013 essay The Crisis in Greece and the Prospects of SYRIZA are reprinted here generally unchanged, particularly on the background to the crisis, since I believe the analysis stands.
Few countries have been harder hit by the economic crisis than Greece. Since 2008, the European Union, International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank (popularly known in Greece as the Troika) have instituted devastating austerity measures which gut social programs, sweeping privatizations and a general attack on the working class in order to bail out the financial system. These cuts have been implemented by the two historic main parties in Greece – the social democratic Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and New Democracy. Austerity measures have met with fierce resistance by Greek workers and social movements. On January 25, SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left), formed only a decade previously and opposed to austerity measures is poised to win the elections and become the governing party in Greece. While the prospect of SRIZA dominating the election excites leftists and revolutionaries, there are real pitfalls, possibilities and revolutionary challenges should they actually win.
The crisis in Greece can be traced back at least a decade, during which time huge debts were piled up .When the economic crash of 2007 occurred, the Greek government became unable to pay back these massive debts, mostly owed to Greek and European banks. To prevent the utter collapse of the economy, the "Troika" made up of the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund "bailed out" Greece to the tune of hundreds of billions. Canadian activist Paul Kellogg says: "The word "bailouts" must be put in quotation marks, because what in fact are being bailed out is not the Greek government, let alone the people of Greece, but rather financial institutions, particularly key European financial institutions, which stand to lose heavily should the Greek economy go under."
To pay for the bailout, the Greek government has been imposing austerity on the country. Government spending was drastically lowered on public services such as unemployment insurance (when tens of thousands were thrown out of work), health care, public service jobs, and education. At the same time, taxes were increased on most of the population. The Greek government is not only instituting austerity to pay for the bailouts, but also to stay in the European Union. International creditors fear that if Greece leaves the EU, it will lead to economic collapse across Europe and the world economy.
The austerity measures have had a devastating affect on the Greek economy, shattering the social fabric and leading to large-scale despair. Since 2010, Greece has seen only contraction of gross domestic product and in the last quarter of 2012, GDP went down 6.9%. In other words, Kellogg says, "absolutely all of the growth experienced in the first years of this century in Greece has been wiped out by five years of slump."
In 2010, wages were cut by 22 percent. Public services from health care (half of the public hospitals are closing) to education are being reduced. Factories and public jobs are vanishing. In June, there were 350 suicide attempts and 50 successes in Athens. The unemployment rate rose from 8.5% in 2007 to 27% in October 2012, with an unemployment rate of 56.6% among those aged 15 to 24 . What the crisis shows is that the social democratic compromise of a welfare state that has characterized Greece has ended. Greece looks like it has lost a war in 2009 and is paying the consequences. By the end of 2012, GDP had declined more than 21% since 2008. Austerity package raised the retirement age from 65 to 67 years old and slashed pensions by an average of between five and 15%. Yet the Greek military has been spared any cuts in order to be in a strong position to deal with social unrest.
These austerity measures have not been suffered silently by the people of Greece. There has been an eruption of rebellion. Since 2010, there have been more than 20 general strikes that have brought hundreds of thousands into the streets. A few years ago, a massive outpouring of worker strength would be enough to stop government cutbacks, but now the situation is different.
The Rise of SYRIZA
The crisis has created an unprecedented opening of radical realignment as the main parties of PASOK and New Democracy, who have loyally carried out austerity, have lost credibility and led to the rise of SYRIZA. So what exactly is SYRIZA and where did it come from? SYRIZA was originally founded in 2004 as an anti-globalization as an electoral coalition based on coalitions of left reformers, revolutionary communists, Trotskyists, and radical Greens has emerged as a place for resistance by representing the hope for a way beyond austerity.
Unlike other formations on the left, SYRIZA was actively involved in the fight against austerity from the beginning. This was shown most clearly in 2011 when Greek youth and students began the Movement of the Squares, which was reminiscent of the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement. Large numbers of people with no previous political experience gathered in people's assemblies declaring themselves a real democracy and challenging the PASOK-led government.
The Squares Movement was also a challenge to the whole Troika, telling them to "GET OUT!" and posed the people as the legitimate rulers of Greece. While other groups such as the ANTARSYA and the Communist Party (KKE) stood on the sidelines, denouncing the Squares Movement for not falling under their preconceived notions of how a revolution was supposed to unfold, SYRIZA activists played a key organizational and political role.
SYRIZA was also involved in trade union, immigrant and student protests. They built support before the crucial May and June elections of 2012 on a program of nationalizing the major banks, raising taxes on the wealthy, expelling military bases and saying no to the crippling austerity measures. In the 2009 elections, SYRIZA only managed to win under 5%of the vote–six seats in Parliament. By June 2012, SYRIZA was the second largest party in Greece with 28%of the vote and 71 seats in parliament. A new government was formed by New Democracy in coalition with PASOK and the Democratic Left (DIMAR) which continued to administer austerity measures.
While the June 2012 election did not see SYRIZA win, the coalition, it did frighten elites and their mouth-pieces across the world. Bill Frezza of Forbes magazine said that the Greeks deserve their fate, that Western governments should stop loaning Greece money and should "give the country what many of its people have been violently demanding for almost a century… Let them have Communism."
To tighten up their ranks, in July 2013 SYRIZA went from being a coalition to a unitary party. As part of the reorganization, the participating organizations of SYRIZA were given three months to complete the transition. Alexander Tsipras, leader of Synaspismos was elected as the head of the SYRIZA with 74% of the vote. Tsipras represents reformist forces within SYRIZA who want Greece to stay within the Eurozone, although he has promised to renegotiate the terms of the debt and end the punitive terms if he is elected: "Austerity is both irrational and destructive," he said. "To pay back debt, a bold restructuring is needed." By contrast, the opposition Left Platform with approximately 25% support, put forward motions calling for repudiating all of Greece's debt, nationalization of large sectors of the economy, be prepared to leave the Eurozone and a united front with other left parties such as the Communists and ANTARSYA.
The Golden Dawn
The collapse of the traditional parties as a result of austerity has not only provided an opening to the far right. The principal beneficiary has been the neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn which won 7% of the vote in June 2012. The Golden Dawn draws its appeal from attacking a corrupt political system and defending national sovereignty. Despite their anti-system rhetoric, the Golden Dawn offers no alternative aside from attacking immigrants and leftists. The police also openly support the Golden Dawn, at least 50% of them supported the fascists in 2012. Leftists who have clashed with the Golden Dawn were arrested and tortured at the hands of the police.
The violence of the Golden Dawn grew so bad that in September 2013, the Greek state cracked down and arrested their key leaders on charges of supporting a criminal organization. However, the Golden Dawn continues to maintain their support and grow. In elections for the European Parliament in May 2014 the Golden Dawn came in third place with 9% behind SYRIZA with 26% and New Democracy with 22%. Although the Golden Dawn has gone down slightly in opinion polls (9% to 7%), the party continues to draw support.
The Road to Elections
In late December 2014, Greece was headed for early elections following the failure of Parliament to support Prime Minister's Antonis Samaras nomination for President. The elections are scheduled to take place on January 25 and all the polls show that SYRIZA is likely to win with 27.1% and 31.2% of the vote while the New Democracy currently has 22.6% and 28% support. The Prime Minister is desperate to rally support for his party and warning of chaos, but he has a record in office where a quarter of the workforce are still unemployed and three million remain in dire poverty. PASOK, running the country only two years previously has seen its vote collapse to sixth place. All this said, what are the challenges and pitfalls that remain ahead for SYRIZA.
Despite the efforts of SYRIZA to moderate some of their radicalism and pull back on some of their demands, such as nationalization of the banks, they remain committed to a basic anti-austerity program within the Eurozone. Efforts by DIMAR as part of the "soft austerity left" and SYRIZA to present a joint electoral platform have fallen through. The IMF has suspended aid to Greece until following the election, which represents a form of blackmail for Greeks to not break with the austerity model. Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission has warned Greeks to not vote the "wrong" way for fear of endangering the Euro Zone. There is a fear among the ruling classes of Europe not only that SYRIZA will take power, but that it could give impetus to other left and populist movements such as Podemos in Spain.
So this all brings us to the question: assuming that SYRIZA does win the elections, as all the evidence points to, what happens next? For one, SYRIZA would face not only the resistance of the Troika, the ruling classes of Europe, the conservative and social democratic parties of Greece, and the capitalists at home. For one, SYRIZA would probably have to form a coalition government, unless they were to gain 35-40% of the vote which would give them an absolute majority meaning they'd have to compromise with other parties. If SYRIZA were to come to power, they may face heavy pressure from the Troika that cause them to fail and toppling the government. Or the pressure could cause SYRIZA to temper its radicalism and continue the agenda of austerity.
Yet ruling class is not the only resistance SYRIZA faces. They also have to deal with the Greek people – millions of whom are jobless and have spent years fighting austerity. While the reformists in SYRIZA will try to play respectful, the masses of people, possessing a government that at least promises to improve their position, could push farther than Tsipras and the reformists are willing to go. This could lead to a revolutionary showdown with the forces of Greek capitalism and imperialism throughout Europe.
This road of confrontation is not without its own pitfalls. If the masses and SYRIZA challenge capital, they would face the resistance of police, army, fascists, banks and other powerful businesses who are only interested in their profits and do everything – from funding counterrevolution, blackmail, and capital flight - to make them cave in. And in the face of that choice, they would need to make a simple choice – move in or give in? When a reformist government actually comes to power and actually wants to provide benefits for the people, they bump heads with the logic capital. Normally the reformists choose to give in and compromise their promises to the logic of capital. Yet there is the other option – to decide to move in and determine what comes first - profit or the needs of working people? And this means breaking the power of capital by moving into those institutions and making them serve the interests of the people.
The Polish Socialist Oskar Lange summed up the challenges of what SYRIZA and the Greek masses would face if they went all the way and it is worth recalling:
"A socialist government really intent upon socialism has to decide to carry out its socialisation programme at one stroke, or to give it up altogether. The very coming into power of such a government must cause a financial panic and economic collapse. Therefore, the socialist government must either guarantee the immunity of private property and private enterprise in order to enable the capitalist economy to function normally, in doing which it gives up its socialist aims, or it must go through resolutely with its socialisation programme at maximum speed. Any hesitation, any vacillation and indecision provokes the inevitable economic catastrophe. Socialism is not an economic policy for the timid."
Doug Enaa Greene is an independent communist historian living in the greater Boston area. He has been published in Socialism and Democracy, LINKS International Journal for Socialist Renewal, MRZine, Kasama, Counterpunch, Socialist Viewpoint and Greenleft Weekly. He was active in Occupy Boston and is a volunteer at the Center for Marxist Education in Cambridge. He is currently working on a book on the French Communist Louis-Auguste Blanqui.


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The beautiful Solvesborg bridge in Sweden
Completed in 2013, the Solvesborg Bridge in Sweden is the longest pedestrian bridge in Europe. The bridge consists of a higher part made out of three characteristic vaults and a long wooden bridge for pedestrians. ljusarkitektur has developed a unique lighting scheme to enhance its landmark status. the use of color changing LED fixtures from lumenpulse graze the suspension cables of what is considered Europe's longest bicycle and pedestrian viaduct.
The team of architectural lighting experts planned the lighting "with respect for the birdlife and is inspired by the migration of the birds during the whole year. In this way the character of the bridge changes over the year and the night. In addition to this there are a number of scenarios to be used for different events in the city." http://www.ljusarkitektur.com/en/portfolio/solvesborg-bridge/
"The overall design was achieved without impacting on the local wildlife – to limit glare, the firm integrated deep, custom glare shields, which also hide the light sources. influenced by the surrounding fauna and flora, ljusarkitektur pushed the fixtures' flexibility and controlability to program different color sequences throughout the year. managing to be both dynamic and understated, the glowing, reflective installation has turned the bridge into an attraction in its own right." http://bit.ly/1hlrDLJ
I close with the words of Louis Kahn who was an architect known for his philosophy of incorporating natural light in his architecture. Indeed this project is LED lighting but the use of light takes it to another level and enhances the architectural grace of the structure and it's setting.
"I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light – an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible … Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art."
Those who cross this bridge may not say these exact words but I am certain they experience "the sanctuary of art" this bridge gifts to the world.