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Why Dean is Still the Democrat to Watch http://www.msnbc.com/news/910604.asp
Even if you follow politics closely, you probably didn't notice that the Howard Dean boomlet faded a few weeks ago. The theory was that no anti-war candidate—and Dean is one—can survive the fall of Baghdad and the rise of a president playing Top Gun on an aircraft carrier. Well, Democratic insiders (and their media cousins) may think that Dean's a non-starter in the race for their party's 2004 presidential nomination. I don't agree. In fact, the former governor of Vermont is still a man to watch, if not the man to beat.
Why? A FEW reasons. For one, Dean has made himself the organizing principal—pun intended—of these earliest innings of the campaign. As they say in baseball, he's the straw that stirs the drink. He has the august Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts reacting to his moves (and elevating Dean by attacking him). Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri unveiled a sweeping healthcare proposal, playing to an issue that Dean, a doctor, hoped to own.
And Dean's dovish views and chesty demeanor are defining the debate, drawing reactions from other contenders. His biggest applause line is: "I represent the democratic wing of the Democratic Party!" Sen. Bob Graham of Florida had a retort last week in South Carolina: "I represent the electable wing of the Democratic Party!" In a TV debate there, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut added his own reaction, which was that no candidate who wasn't "strong on defense" could defeat George W. Bush. Translation: That means you, Howard.
Another reason Dean still bears watching is his organizational savvy. Being an outsider, yet one with sterling connections and technical skill, is a good combination. He is running a relatively lean but efficient operation, with knowledgeable veterans (Steve McMahon and Joe Trippi from D.C.) teaming up with Ben & Jerry types from Vermont and elsewhere.
So far, Dean's outfit is the most adept at using the Internet, which is to the 2004 campaign what cable TV was to 1992 and direct-mail to 1980—the new Best Practice for reaching and motivating voters.
This week, the Dean campaign's grass-roots enthusiasts will put themselves on display, gathering in about 250 "Meetups" generated through the Web site of the same name. These events turn traditional organizing on its head: The campaign people go to the meeting, they don't put it together.
A tiny but revealing indicator of organizational skill: the speed with which the allegedly inexperienced Dean campaign responded to attacks during the TV debate in South Carolina. They matched the top-shelf and perhaps top-heavy Kerry campaign stride for stride in rushing printed rebuttals into the press room during the event. "Kerry has a Noah's Ark campaign," a top Dean lieutenant told me in South Carolina. "They've got two of everything."
Then there's the candidate himself. Howard Dean, at least as a candidate, is a shark in Land's End clothing. He is always moving forward and always on the attack. Most of his rivals genuinely loathe him at this point, but Dean doesn't seem to care. He's looking to inspire voters, and thinks his combative style is what they want. He thinks that Democrats want some anger in their candidate to confront Bush's Red State triumphalism. Dean appears to draw inspiration from the cutthroat side of the Kennedy legacy, Bobby and Jack in particular. Their rhetoric soared and their ideals were noble, but their tactics were tough. When they wanted to dismiss someone as a nonentity, they called him a "nice man."
Dean is not a nice man. His Web page, for example, derides Kerry as "The Anointed One." In the latest polls, he and Kerry are running neck and neck in New Hampshire, where only one of them will survive the primary next year.
Finally, there's the question of the war. The swift military victory in Iraq, so the argument goes, made Dean look bad, or at least irrelevant. The American people generally back President Bush's strategy, which is to drain terrorism-producing swamps by forcing changes in the corrupt and brutal regimes that control them. Even so, Dean continues to insist that Saddam Hussein was not a threat to America, and that attacking his regime wasn't necessarily in our interest.
For now, it seems like a losing argument for Dean to make. But, in politics, a week is a year and a year is a lifetime. No one knows what Iraq will look like a year from now. No one knows where the war on terrorism is headed. And at the grassroots of the Democratic Party, there remains deep, Dean-like skepticism about the war in Iraq and military answers in general.
Remember: To win the Democratic nomination, you need only Democratic votes—and plugged-in Democrats at that. In that small universe, you don't have to play the role of Top Gun to win.
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About Nation-Building
Nation-Building was founded by Aziz Poonawalla in August 2002 under the name Dean Nation. Dean Nation was the very first weblog devoted to a presidential candidate, Howard Dean, and became the vanguard of the Dean netroot phenomenon, raising over $40,000 for the Dean campaign, pioneering the use of Meetup, and enjoying the attention of the campaign itself, with Joe Trippi a regular reader (and sometime commentor). Howard Dean himself even left a comment once. Dean Nation was a group weblog effort and counts among its alumni many of the progressive blogsphere's leading talent including Jerome Armstrong, Matthew Yglesias, and Ezra Klein. After the election in 2004, the blog refocused onto the theme of "purple politics", formally changing its name to Nation-Building in June 2006. The primary focus of the blog is on articulating purple-state policy at home and pragmatic liberal interventionism abroad.


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According to Rob Rains of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Cardinals have exercised their "due diligence" and have checked into the condition of Chien-Ming Wang's elbow.
It's hard to gauge from that statement just how interested the Cardinals are, but since we've already heard that they have an interest in him this winter we have to assume that this could be serious. Although with Wang coming back in May at the earliest there doesn't seem to be any threat that this will or could go down quickly.
I've written before that the Cardinals make sense for Wang as their pitching coach, Dave Duncan, specializes in sinkerballers. The Yankees have made it known that they are willing to match any offer made to him though so it is hard to say if the Cardinals would be willing to get into a bidding war with them. Although the term "war" may be a bit overblown.

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A MOTHER of three charged with obscenely exposing herself, pleaded not guilty to the charge Monday.
Shamela Gokool, 46, appeared before San Fernando Magistrate Annette Mc Kenzie who read the charges that she wilfully and obscenely exposed her person, assaulted and resisted a police officer in the execution of his duty, and also used obscene language to the annoyance of people.
She was arrested on Sunday at Esperance Village, near San Fernando.
Defence attorney Ainsley Lucky said his client had no previous or pending matters before the court.
He said, Gokool, a married mother of three adult children, worked as a cleaner with the construction firm involved in the building of the San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway, and lived with her father.
Lucky asked that Gokool be allowed her own bail.
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Strange, I thought the English Are a Free PeopleI thought that free speech was an English tradition. I suppose there must be some sacrifices in the name of political correctness.
And now the first British blogger is about to face the Multicultural perp-walk.At issue is Lionheart's blog, he writes about he perceives as a Moslem threat to his civilized world.
Lionheart is a well-known patriotic blogger in England, and is on our blogroll. He is currently outside the UK, and has been informed that he will be arrested for stirring up racial hatred as soon as he returns home.
The cultural weapon in the hands of the modern Jihad within Great Britain, silencing the opposition using our own laws against us - The Dumb Filthy Kaffir's as the Moslem would say to his children behind closed doors.
What has become of my homeland, the land my forefathers fought and died for on the battlefields of the world when one of their children is forced into the position of facing years in prison for standing up for what is right and just within British society.
At least my words of truth have obviously now reached people's eyes and ears, with the powers that be now intent on silencing me - Third World Tyranny in a supposed 21st Century democracy!
I wonder if the Moslem peer Lord Ahmed was one of the people behind trying to silence me, I did wonder about why he crashed his car and nearly killed himself over Christmas, let that be a lesson to you - 1 Chronicles 16:22 Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."
How dare any Moslem try and silence the truth from being told by an Englishman about the Islamic enemy in our midst within the British homeland.
Although I do understand tha his rhetoric is a bit on the extreme side. He has a valid point about the Moslems helping destroy freedom of speech, at least in this instance.


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Dadar resident claims he had to languish in prison for three months, based on a complaint lodged by a man who wanted to seize his property
Dadar resident claims he had to languish in prison for three months, based on a complaint lodged by a man who wanted to seize his property
Here's a crime with a twist: Dadar resident Parashuram Govind Kulye was arrested by the police for robbing his own house. To add to his woes, his bail was cancelled and he was left languishing behind bars for three months.
House troubles: Parashuram Govind Kulye, his wife and children were
constantly harassed by Manohar Baburao Bhosale, who wanted to acquire
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Kulye, now a free man, claims that his entire duress was due to one man's interest in usurping his home.
Kulye resides in a one-room apartment in Ladiwala Chawl, Prabhadevi, along with his wife.
He claims that the house belonged to his mother Janakibai, which he later inherited from her.
Kulye adds that a person, identified as Manohar Baburao Bhosale, had been eyeing his property and that Kulye had made several complaints to the police, which fell on deaf ears.
On the contrary, the cops told him that Bhosale had registered an FIR against him for robbing his own house. A month later he was arrested for the crime.
Shocked by the entire incident, Kulye approached the court and on February 18, 2011 the court passed an order in the favour of Kulye ordering that the room's possession be given to him.
He further alleges that the authorities were not happy with the order and hence, cancelled his bail application and arrested him again on March 14. He had to spend three months in Arthur Road jail.
Kulye further alleges that when he was arrested the first time, he hired a lawyer on the suggestion of the police. But he alleges that the lawyer gave him false advice.
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When MiD DAY approached Manohar Bhosale, he said, "I am a retired fire brigade official and I don't care about this complaint. This means Kulye's worst days are approaching. He grabbed my room and stole my belongings. I have all the documents to prove that I am the owner of the room.
Meanwhile, Senior Inspector Ashok Unde of Dadar police station said, "I don't remember this Kulye. Lot of people approach the police station and I will check the records and let you know."


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The affairs of Eberron's surface dwellers are well known and well documented, but very little is known or recorded about the intelligent life that thrives beneath Eberron's seas. Anyone who's travelled by sea from Khorvaire to Xen'drik has likely dealt with the Sahuagin, but very few know about the vast underwater society of which they are but a small part. Beneath Eberron's seas lie vast civilizations as complex and filled with as much intrigue as the cities of the surface world the largest and most cosmopolitan of which is Madidus.
Madidus is the undersea equivalent of Sharn. All intelligent aquatic races live, play and do business here. It's the centre of underwater commerce. Much like Sharn, Madidus was built around a manifest zone. Where Sharn's connection to the plane of Syrania allows building to reach heights that seem impossible, Madidus is connected to the plane of air which crates permanent pockets of breathable air. This allows surface dwellers to live in Madidus comfortably. The area of the city enveloped with breathable air is home to hundreds of people from the surface including Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Halflings. Few who end up here make any effort to leave.
The existence of Madidus is known only to select few surface dwellers. Many members of House Lyrandar are aware of the city's existence. Captains travelling the waves above Madidus with any regularity are informed of its existence so that they can pay appropriate tribute and take advantage of possible trading opportunities.
The Daughters of Sora Kell along with a many of Droam's populace are aware that a vast underwater civilization exists if not the specific details of where such cities are located. Representatives from Madidus have even sent diplomats to Droam asking for the monstrous nation's assistance in facilitating introductions with the leaders of the other surface nations.
Madidus may be unknown to most surface dwellers but it is a very welcoming place once discovered. Many adventurers have come to the city in the past decade. Some have sought Madidus out for no other reason than to prove its existence. Others find the idea of interacting with such a foreign culture exhilarating. Some seek to leave behind their past and begin anew in a place where their problems will never catch up to them.
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- We're on a diplomatic mission
A contingent of diplomats from one of the surface nations which includes the PC and a team of Warforged bodyguards accept an invitation to visit Madidus. While touring the section of the city overlapping the manifest zone one of the dignitaries recognized some of the city's inhabitants as deserters. During the war those fleeing the violence and carnage managed get to Madidus. Here they found a safe haven away from scrutiny or punishment undersea. Although presumed dead, many of Madidus's residents are still wanted criminals. Should their existence and whereabouts become common knowledge, the leaders of Madidus will have a diplomatic nightmare on their hands and they can forget any peaceful relationship with the surface worlds.
- The missing undersea vessel
Members of House Cannith and House Orion have created new vessels capable of traveling underwater. While they continue testing the vessels' capabilities they strive to keep its existence a secret, especially from House Lyrandar. With a fleet of five working vessels, they are almost ready to announce their latest venture to the world and give House Lyrandar some real competition. Unfortunately one of the vessels has disappeared. It was on a survey mission, mapping the undersea floor and was supposed to return to port days ago. Some fear that the vessel might have been attacked; others believe that House Lyrandar is somehow involved. The PCs are asked to join the rescue mission and accompany they search party just in case hey run into any trouble. During the third day of searching for the missing vessel the search party discovered the underwater city of Madidus. What is this place? Could this be where the missing vessel ended up?
- Trapped inside a sinking ship
Following a battle that doomed their ship, the PCs find themselves trapped in the hull as their vessel sinks. Superior craftsmanship has kept the hull intact, trapping enough air within for the heroes to survive in the short term. However, if a rescue is not forthcoming the PCs may end up in a watery grave. Shortly after the ship touches down on the seafloor the PCs are beset upon by Sahuagin. However, these normally aggressive and dangerous sea creatures explain that they were sent from the undersea city of Madidus to rescue the PCs. Can the PCs trust them? Do they have any other choices?
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Code Outreach
The goal of our Code Outreach Program is to lobby for support and enforcement of residential building codes. These codes create regulations for residential and commercial construction and are intended to protect the property of the consumer. Code Outreach Representatives meet with city officials, engineers and building officials across the country to encourage enforcement of these codes.
Part of our efforts with Code Outreach is focused on creating a better world through the environmentally friendly practice of rain water harvesting. In addition to being environmentally friendly, rain barrels can actually help protect the foundation of a home through gradual watering of the permeable areas around the perimeter of a house. This practice of foundation "watering" works by attaching a soaker hose to the spigot on your rain barrel. This will allow excess water to be evenly dispersed throughout your yard.
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Roof Drainage Building Codes & Standards
International Code Council – International Residential Code 2006
Ch. 8 Roof-Ceiling Construction: Section R801
"In areas where expansive or collapsible soils are known to exist, all dwellings shall have a controlled method of water disposal from roofs that will collect and discharge roof drainage to the ground surface at least 5 feet (1524 mm) from foundation walls or to an approved drainage system."
"Saturated expansive or collapsible soils can lead to foundation failures because their additional loads are imposed on the foundation wall. To minimize the potential for the soil adjacent to the foundation wall to become saturated due to roof drainage, the code requires that the roof drain 5 feet (1524 mm) from the foundation."
Ch. 4 Foundations: Section R401.3
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As illustrated in Commentary Figures R401.3(1) and R 401.3(2) , drainage patterns should result in adequate slopes to approved drainage devices that are capable of carrying concentrated runoff. In some cases, control of concentrated roof runoff by gutters and downspouts may be needed, and if gutters and downspouts are used, provisions should be made to discharge runoff in order to prevent soil erosion. Refer also to Section R801.
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Water Efficiency: Credit #1 Water Reuse – Maximum Points: 2
There are no mandatory requirements. Optional requirements include:
1.1 Design and install of rainwater harvesting system which includes the collection of surface and roof run-off for irrigation uses. (1 Point) 1.2 Design and install gray water re-use system, with minimum of dedicated clothes washer with 2 inch drain directed to subterranean drain field for landscape irrigation. (1 Point)
USGBC Rationale: 50% of potable water use in a home may be for maintenance of lawns and gardens. This credit promotes the re-use of indoor waste water and rainwater to help meet landscape water demands.
Materials and Resources: Credit #4 Durability Plan – Maximum Points: 3
The mandatory requirement is:
4.1 Prepare a detailed durability plan per the design process in Exhibit MR4-A.
Optional requirement:
4.2 Verify implementation of durability plan via third party inspection as described in Exhibit MR4-C. The synergy between durability, energy efficiency, and indoor air quality are inextricably linked in high performance homes. Moisture management becomes more critical as energy management reduces the buildings overall drying potential."
Moisture can be a major cause of indoor environmental problems (e.g., mold)". The point value of this credit therefore reflects the related indoor environmental benefits of improved water management at the foundation, exterior walls, and roof.
Water management of the property (i.e., both lot and structure) is a combination of surface and ground water management, with the dual goals of protecting the structure from water as well as keeping as much water as possible on the site in order to limit the burden on municipals infrastructure, recharging the aquifer, etc. To the greatest extent possible, the site and landscape should be designed with these goals in mind. The durability plan is intended to prevent damage to the home by water – both surface and ground – that can not be effectively managed at the site level, as well as to protect the structure from other damage functions.
USGBC Rationale is that durability problems can substantially shorten the life of assemblies, systems, and/or materials in a home and indeed the home itself. While the development and implementation of a durability plan can not guarantee improved durability, there are a number of precedents in the insurance industry, in particular, supporting the premise that a prescribed process aimed at improving durability can indeed correlate to improved performance, as measured by decreases in warranty claims for durability-related building defects and failures.
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1. Moisture Control Required Measures References Water Managed Roofs
1.1Provide Minimum No. 30 roof felt under layment or equivalent.
1.2 In IECC 2004 Climate Zones 5 and higher, provide self sealing water protection membrane ice flashing over the sheathing at the eave extending 2 feet inside the exterior wall plane.
1.3 Provide metal drip edge at all exposed roof decking.
1.4 Provide self-sealing bituminous membrane at all eaves, valleys and penetrations except in climates with less than 20 inches annual rainfall.
1.5 Provide Insulated wind baffle or other air barrier to block wind washing at all attic eave bays in roof assemblies with soffit vents.
1.6 Provide step flashing at all intersections of roof and walls with the exception of continuous flashing at metal and rubber membrane roofs. Metal "kick-out" flashing shall be provided at the end of roof/wall intersections to direct water away from wall. Drainage plane above shall be directed water flow onto and not behind flashing. Intersection wall siding shall terminate a minimum of 2 inches above roof. HUD/NAHB specs for gutters and downspouts
1.7 Direct roof water from house with either:
Guttering and downspouts shall empty to lateral piping that deposit(s) water on finish grade a minimum of 5 ft. from foundation, or in limited spaces, deposit to underground catchment system that carries water 10 ft. from foundation.
In dry climates with less that 20 inches annual rainfall as shown in EEBA Builder Guides, provide minimum 18" roof overhangs that deposit water to grade sloped away from home.
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Moisture & Durability
Moisture is the greatest threat to the durability of your home. Over time exposure to moisture can lead to corrosion of building components, insect habitation, wood rot and mold. Moisture can also affect indoor air quality and, without proper drainage, could lead to foundation failure. It is essential that rainwater be diverted away from buildings. Gutters and downspouts are a critical line of defense against foundation problems. Absence of gutters can result in a range of issues from foundation wall failure to cracked foundations and wall joints.
Senox has concluded that the most critical element of optimal gutter performance is eliminating gutter debris. Therefore, we are developing products and methods that will provide solutions for long-term roof drainage and collection needs.
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Durability By Design – A Guide for Residential Builders and Designers
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This guide was written by the NAHB Research Center, Inc. with support from U.S. Housing and Urban Development. It is intended to raise awareness and understanding of building durability as a design consideration in housing. The guide covers basic concepts of durability and presents recommended practices for matters of moisture management, UV protection, Insects, decay, corrosion, and natural hazards.
Building Moisture and Durability
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This project set out to develop a set of recommendation for future research on moisture problems in housing. The research recommendations were developed following a review and analysis of the extensive technical literature concerning the problems created by bulk water and excessive water vapor in houses, and the solutions to those problems.
Building America Best Practices Series
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This Building America Best Practices guide book is a resource to help builders large and small build high-quality, energy-efficient homes that achieve 30% energy savings in space conditioning and water heating in the hot and humid climate. The savings are in comparison with the 1993 Model Energy Code. The guide contains chapters for every member of the builder's team. There is also a chapter for homeowners on how to use the book to provide help in selecting a new home or builder.
Healthy and Affordable Housing
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The fundamental principles of groundwater control are to keep rainwater away from the foundation wall perimeter and to drain groundwater with sub-grade perimeter drains before it gets to the foundation wall. This applies to slabs, crawlspaces and basements (see Figures 8a, 8b and 8c) regardless of whether they are newly constructed or undergoing rehabilitation.
Preventing Moisture in Below Grade Walls
Moisture Control in Buildings
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This guide was written by the NAHB Research Center, Inc. with support from U.S. Housing and Urban Development. It is intended to raise awareness and understanding of building durability as a design consideration in housing. The guide covers basic concepts of durability and presents recommended practices for matters of moisture management, UV protection, Insects, decay, corrosion, and natural hazards.
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NAHB – Consensus Committee on Green Home Building Guidelines
Building America Best Practices Series: Volume 1
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Onward, Bugsy
A few weeks ago one of our equine residents quietly slipped away.
Not in an end-of-life kind of way. No, Bugsy stepped aboard a horse trailer and moved onward.
Or rather, "backward" — back to his old home. His real home.
The kids always thought that Bugsy was our pony, when actually, he was a longterm loan. When the kids outgrew him, or out-paced his capabilities, the plan was to return him to his owner. And the time is right; his owner has a grandchild who's nearly lead-line ready.
And that's Bugsy's area of expertise: lead-line pony; living, breathing teddy bear; babysitter of diaper-clad, horse-crazy toddlers. His talents shouldn't be wasted or shelved. A little kid should be crawling under his belly or hugging his head off.
So a few weeks ago, Bugsy left as quietly as when he arrived, 3 1/2 years ago.
Hadley was tearful when I announced Bugsy's impending departure. But she recovered quickly.
She's moved onward, too.


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Liam Payne takes to Twitter to shoot down Leona Lewis dating rumors.
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Liam Payne isn't dating Leona Lewis, didn't insult Kim Kardashian and won't be going solo...
The One Direction singer shot down a lineup of rumors in just a single tweet, taking to Twitter on Monday to say: "Okay bored of constant news articles...I'm not dating Leona...My YouTube channel isn't for a solo career and I didn't insult Kim k...Pow!"
Way to set the record straight in just 140 characters or less, Liam!
In a new interview with Look magazine, Leona talked about dating someone younger, drumming up the Liam dating rumors yet again.
She said, "If you have a bond with someone it (age) doesn't come into it. I'd date someone younger or older, age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really--it's all about maturity."
Leona said of her dating life, "I'm having fun and enjoying myself."
So, while she does talk about the possibility of dating a younger guy, Liam's tweet says they are not a couple.


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A number of readers submitted rumors about a few announcements HP was to make today. Now that has actually happened and the news looks grim. For starters they are exiting the tablet and phone market and repositioning webOS for use in appliances and vehicles. While confirming they are in talks to acquire Autonomy, they also announced they are considering exiting the PC hardware business entirely in order to focus on their software business.
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Packers are still in talks with FB John Kuhn
Green Bay --- Re-signing James Starks doesn't have much to do with the Green Bay Packers' decision on fullback John Kuhn. The Packers are still in talks with the fullback, a source said Monday.
Kuhn is also in discussions with other teams as well.
Two weeks in, the Packers don't have a ton of free-agent decisions to make. General manager Ted Thompson opted to bring back cornerback Sam Shields, defensive end/outside linebacker Mike Neal, tight end Andrew Quarless, nose tackle B.J. Raji and Starks. Meanwhile, center Evan Dietrich-Smith and wide receiver James Jones signed elsewhere.
The remaining unrestricted free agents in Green Bay are now Ryan Pickett, Johnny Jolly, C.J. Wilson, Jermichael Finley, Matt Flynn, Seneca Wallace, Rob Francois and Kuhn.
Green Bay remains a team that still employs a fullback. Before last season, there were only 22 fullbacks on the 32 NFL depth charts.
Kuhn had value last season, playing an average of 20.3 snaps per game. He's been one of the team's core special teams players and an asset on offense. Green Bay didn't credit Kuhn for a pressure all season and his chip of Julius Peppers in Week 17 was the difference on the fourth-and-8 touchdown.
The Packers must decide if a.) they want to keep a fullback and b.) if Kuhn is their best option. Early this off-season, they did sign Ina Liaina. Possibly Green Bay would rather go with more of a battering ram at the position.
In seven seasons with the Packers, Kuhn has rushed for 488 yards on 163 attempts (3.0 avg.) with 12 touchdowns. He has also caught 71 passes for 478 yards and eight touchdowns.
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The door is still open.
Houston Cougars starting forward Qa'rraan Calhoun ultimately could decide to return for his senior season.
Calhoun is strongly considering leaving the program to play professionally in Europe.
While Calhoun is doing some soul-searching, nobody on the UH coaching staff is telling him not to let the door hit him on his backside on the way out of Cullen Blvd.
Calhoun, after all, is still a UH student in good standing. What's more, Cougars coach Tom Penders likes having Calhoun in the program for reasons that go beyond scoring (10.2 points per game, fourth on the team), rebounding (5.3 per game, third on the team), shot-blocking (1.09 per game, second on the team) and sharp shooting (42-for-120 from beyond the three-point line).
"He's a real good kid," Penders said. "He's a fun kid to coach and be around. I enjoy him.
"I fully understand the dilemma."
Calhoun, you see, recently became a father. He is feeling financial pressure, and he doesn't have a ready-made support system.
During his final three years at Raritan (N.J.) High School, Calhoun lived with the family of teammate Marques Johnson. Calhoun's father was in prison and his mother was dealing with personal issues. Johnson's parents became the legal guardians of Calhoun, who had been regularly skipping school at Asbury Park because he didn't feel safe.
Given a real chance to make a life for himself, the 6-8 Calhoun blossomed into a high school star and earned a scholarship at St. John's. Calhoun left St. John's after one year, drifting from Barton County Community College to UH. He politely declined Tuesday to comment on his future, saying by text message: "I really don't want to talk to anyone yet. No disrespect …"
Penders said it may not be until July that Calhoun knows exactly what opportunities there are overseas. Until classes start in the fall, there are no scholarship ramifications to address.
Maybe more than at any point during his time at UH, Penders can afford to be sanguine about the assorted scenarios. A recruiting class that includes 6-9 Maurice McNeil, 6-9 Kirk Van Slyke and 6-6 Kendrick Washington leaves Penders with that he considers a full cupboard at power forward.
"Arguably our strongest position is going to be the four (power forward) — without (Calhoun) in the equation, even," Penders said. "Van Slyke and Kendrick Washington come into the picture. McNeil's abilities will allow him to play at the 4, and we already have Horace McGloster. We think with our recruiting this year, we've upgraded a lot of positions.
"We've got a lot more options. A kid like Kendrick can play the 5 (center), the 4, he's even agile enough to play the 3 (small forward). Van Slyke is the same way. He is 6-9 and 220, but he handles the ball better than some of our guards and he's a great outside shooter. He's a good athlete."
Penders sees a much deeper, quicker, more versatile team than he had last season. With 6-11 Marcus Cousin entrenched at center this past season, UH got away from the pressing style that Penders favors.
"This year we'll definitely be a pressing, trapping, switching, aggressive defensive team in the full-court because of the speed and depth we have," Penders said. "McNeil is 6-9, but he can guard a point guard. He's got long arms, he's quick, can run the floor, defend. He gives you more flexibility in what you can do.
"On the defensive side, I don't think there's anything we can't do. My best teams have always had that ability."
The UH men's basketball team is trying to line up home games against Georgia Tech, Providence and Utah for the 2009-2010 season. The Cougars already have locked in non-conference home games against TCU, Mississippi State and Louisiana Tech and a road game against Iowa State.
UH also is discussing a road game against Louisville, which would not return the favor with a trip to Hofheinz Pavilion, and a Toyota Center encounter with Oklahoma State. Another scenario, UH associate head coach Melvin Haralson said, would be playing in Great Alaska Shootout. The 2008 Shootout field included Gonzaga, Michigan, Butler, Texas Tech, Western Kentucky and Virginia Tech.
"We can't get Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, those guys to play us," said Haralson, who does much of the heavy lifting with the scheduling. "We try to get them to play, but they won't do it."


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I love Flickr. I mean who doesn't? Forget the fact that Facebook.com has more than 5 million photos uploaded daily. Flickr rocks!
But what the hell is Yahoo! upto? Why aren't they listening to the community? Why aren't we getting what we want from one of the most popular photography communities in the world, when we give so much to it? I want my Favorites in rss feeds, I want to have full screen slideshows, I want to have better searching and browsing through results.
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Find the boy or girl who matches the other half of you picture. A good game for matching teenage girls and boys or single adults.
As the players enter the hall, they are given envelopes. The young men are given blue envelopes (or something similar), and the young women are given white ones. In all the envelopes there are halves of picture cards or post cards and also small notes with the following text:
"In the envelope there is a half of a picture card. The missing part of it has someone who is present here. Try to find him/her. The first 3 pairs get prizes. Good luck!"
It's better to use cards with the pictures of flowers or different post cards in this game. Cut the cards in half in a zigzag line. Then put the halves into envelopes - one half into the white envelope and another into the blue one. You may manage without the envelopes by making a poster with the rules of the game and mounting on the wall.


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As you might recall, back in March, my husband and I bought a new car. I had intended to make a down payment of over $10,000 on my credit card, but the sales manager told me that the maximum I could pay with a credit card was $5,000. When I mentioned this on CFO, I received a comment from MITBeta stating that Visa and Mastercard do not allow merchants to impose minimum or maximum limits on purchases.
I had known that merchants can't impose a minimum purchase amount, and that the mom and pop stores that have signs that say "Credit card purchase requires $10 minimum" were in violation of their merchant agreement. But it never occurred to me that the opposite might also be true.
I was reminded of this issue by this Bankrate.com article. The author quotes a Visa rep confirming that their "rules require merchants to always honor valid Visa cards regardless of purchase amount — large or small." (Mastercard has the same rules, but American Express allows merchants to limit transactions.)
If I had known this back in March, I definitely would have insisted on being allowed to make the full down payment that I wanted to make. And, according to the Bankrate article, the dealership would most likely have given in when I informed them that I would pursue the issue with Visa. The article's author points out that the dealer might want to re-negotiate a deal under such circumstances, but it wouldn't have worked in our case. My husband and I had made clear when negotiating our old car's trade-in value that we were prepared to walk away.
We don't plan to buy a new car for at least another five years, but I plan on paying cash for that car. In fact, I've already started saving money for it each month. And in five years, I'll be paying for that new car with a credit card!


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Cattle: Bull-ish Bubble
40-Year Bull-ish Bubble
For centuries, the consumption of meat is associated with wealth & affluence. The Old Testament book of Daniel describes the privileged captives being fed meat & delicacies from the king's table. In modern capitalist societies, there are two places to look for signs of economic prosperity – the (stock) market and the (food) market. The wealthiest are usually awash in steak & stocks… in filets and financials. And no two markets have better reflected the inflationary-driven prosperity of the past 40 years. Both are a bubble about to burst!
03-28-14 – 2014 is the climax of an inflationary-Stock Index 40-Year Cycle that began in 1974. That has already been discussed. 2014 (possibly stretching into 2015) is also the climax of another 'bull'-ish inflationary move that has been described the past 5 years. And this one fits precisely with the ongoing, 200+-year old, 40-Year Cycle of Food Crises – expected to take hold again in 2014–2016.
Bubble Bookends
The market in question – in case you did not pick up on the transparent pun – is Cattle (and Hogs). It is the Livestock sector that is fulfilling long-term cycles – which reach a Major peak in 2014/2015 (and entered a crescendo in early-2013, when Hogs fulfilled multiple cycle lows that portended a multi-year bottom).
On a corresponding page (Cattle: Bull-ish Bubble – 2009 Analysis) I have reprinted excerpts from 2009 – when Cattle & Hogs were projected to set multi-year lows and enter the next phases of acceleration in their multi-decade bull markets. All of this has been expected to culminate in 2014/2015… as first described back in 2009…
Cattle & Hogs Confirming Cycle Crescendos
(Excerpt from 2009 analysis projecting overall advance into 2014/2015)
03-31-09: "Live Cattle did decline into a consistent 8-9-week cycle and bottomed on March 11th….the intra-year trends are projecting more downside into mid-year. This – if it transpires – would dovetail with another very consistent cycle in Cattle… Live Cattle has maintained a very consistent 3-year and 6-year cycle for several decades.
Going back to 1973, Cattle set a peak and then declined for 3 years. It then surged into 1979, 6 years later, and set a new multi-year peak. Cattle corrected and then set a secondary peak – 3 years later (1982) – before dropping into 1985 and completing a 6-year decline. This was followed by a 6-year advance – into 1991… followed by a 3-yeardecline into 1994.
Cattle deviated from this cycle when it extended this drop into 1996 but then began a new bull market with an intervening bottom in 2002, 6 years later. A 6-year advance ensued, into 2008, when an important peak was set. This sets the stage for the next peak in 2011, 3 years in the future.
However, within its 12-year bull market, Cattle set its initial peak in 2003 and never gave a monthly close above this peak (even during its spike high in 2008). This '3rd wave' peak in 2003 also completed a 12-year high-high-high Cycle Progression, connecting tops in 1979, 1991 & 2003. This was followed by a volatile, 3-year period with an important low – a type of '4th wave of lesser degree' – set in mid-2006. 3 years after this low – creating a 3-year high-low-low Cycle Progression – is mid-2009, when another bottom could be seen…
While it is impractical – and perhaps a little too 'theoretical' – to be looking this far into the future, the ideal cycle scenario (incorporating all of these 3, 6 & 12-year cycles) for Cattle would be to see a low in mid-2009, a rally into 2011 (3 years from 2008 peak), a drop into mid-2012 (3-year high-low-low-low Cycle Progression) and then a rally into 2015 (3-year high-low-low-low-high Cycle Sequence AND 12-year high-high-high-high Cycle Progression)."
3-27-14 — For over a decade, since the 2003 highs were confirmed, Cattle cycles have looked ahead to 2014/2015 when a Major top is expected. Longer-term cycles, including 6-year, 12-year & 40-year cycles – all converge in 2014/2015 and auger a multi-year top at that time.
As stated back in early-2009, Cattle was expected to set a low in mid-2009 (it bottomed in June 2009), rally into 2011, set a subsequent (ascending) low in mid-2012 (it bottomed in June 2012) and then surge into a major cycle climax in 2015. Well… so far, so good!
(There is an almost-equal convergence of long-term cycles in 2014 – including a 6-year low (2002)–high (2008)–high (2014) and a related 3-year high (2008)–high (2011)–high (2014) Cycle Progression. And, 2014/2015 is 40 years from the double-bottom of 1974/1975… so a multi-year peak could be seen in either – or both – 2014 or 2015.)
Hogs reinforced this longer-term outlook with a low in August 2009 (for the preceding 8 months, Hogs were projected to drop into June/July 2009, at which time a multi-year bottom was expected) and the ultimate blast-off expected after Feb. 2013.
They have a related, 6-year low (Aug./Sept. 2002)–high (Aug. 2008)–high (Aug./Sept. 2014) that dovetails with a 3-year high (Aug. 2008)–high (Aug. 2011)–high (Aug. 2014) AND a 1-year high (Aug. 2011)–high (July 2012)–high (Jul./Aug. 2013)–high (Jul./Aug. 2014) Cycle Progression – all coming into play in 3Q 2014. IT
Watch July/August 2014!! (…although a more significant cycle follows that one – in Nov./Dec. 2014).
The interesting thing is that Cattle is poised to experience a 2nd 'bubble-and-crash' sequence at the culmination of its 40-Year Cycle… just as it did during the inceptionof that same cycle. 1973–1975 was the first one with Cattle completing a 1-year surge of over 80% and a 2-year advance of almost 100%, before crashing into mid-1974.
A secondary low (double-bottom) was set in early-1975, ushering in a near 40-year period of steadily advancing prices. Once Cattle broke above its late-1973 peak, the highs of 1973–1975 became a floor under prices for the next 3+ decades (resistance turned into support).
2014 completes a 40-Year Cycle in Cattle and could pinpoint the time for a MAJOR peak (the culmination of a bubble in 2010–2014 – in which Live & Feeder Cattle have advanced about 100%). This 40-Year Cycle began with a bubble and could end with a bubble… like bookends. If so, watch 2014–2016!
However, with the magnitude of this cycle and the 1975 double-bottom, I have to include 2015 in the discussion of when a MAJOR peak is likely. So, 2014–2015 is a multi-decade cycle culmination – the likely peak of a ~40-Year bull market… in bulls.
That is corroborated by multiple cycles described repeatedly over the past decade, in INSIIDE Track & related Reports. These include a web of 3-year, 6-year & 12-year cycles – all of which peak in 2014/2015 (so, more upside is still possible although Live & Feeder Cattle are attacking pivotal price levels; see very basic Feeder Cattle chart on page 4).
40-Year Cycle Madness
Looking back at Cattle over the past century, the 40-Year Cycle has been at work – in more ways than one. And, as repeatedly described, it is often the devastating combination of natural events and man-made foolishness (madness) that exacerbates these major transitions.
One example has been in and out of the news for ~20 years (half of a 40-Year Cycle) and played a role in where Cattle are today. To adequately understand this, we need to go back 100 years…
In the 1910's, the British came up with this brilliant, cost-saving concept to make their herbivorous Cattle into carnivores – completely perverting the natural order of things – by feeding the rendered (boiled and ground-up) meat, bones, blood & organs of their dead and diseased livestock… to their live, healthy livestock. After all, you wouldn't want those diseased animals to go to waste.
This practice became widespread in the 1950s (40 years later), after World War II. Like any disease, when it is in smaller proportions, it often goes unnoticed or is viewed as an anomaly. And, the consequences of a forced perversion of nature – like this – often take several decades to play out.
Eventually, Canada also joined this 'madness'. In the U.S., other feeds remained cheaper than pulverizing diseased animals, so we simply decided to alter Cattle from being a grass-eater to being a corn/grain-eater (that has its own set of negative repercussions – that are still playing out).
On a very basic (overly-simplified) basis, the Mad-Cow evolution went from inception in the 1910's to widespread acceptance in the 1950's to ultimate culmination in the 1990's… in 40-year increments. However, as I originally stated, this was just one facet of the evolving bull market.
When discussing long-term, food crises cycles, it is important to recognize the interplay between multiple factors – and these fundamentals and the governing cycles. The 40-Year Cycle of Madness ushered in a different kind of madness… that also took multiple phases to play out… as incremental parts of a 40-Year Inflationary Cycle…
Cattle embarked on its inflationary bull market in the mid-1970's. 10 years later – in 1986 – the first confirmed case of BSE (Mad Cow Disease) was diagnosed. 10 years later – in 1996 – British beef was banned from the EU… for another 10 years. 10 years later – in 2006 – that ban was eliminated, setting the stage for a parabolic rise in prices in the ensuing years (as pent-up demand surged).
As this man-made supply/demand vacillation was unfolding, nature began to take its course. The economic contraction in 2007–2009 coincided with the same time the Cattle herd in America began to retrench. When the economy stabilized, however, Cattle ranchers had new problems to deal with…
A devastating drought in Texas – in Oct. '10–Sept. '11 – accelerated the herd decline. In 2012, parts of the Midwest US suffered their driest year since the Dust Bowl(the UK also had drought) – pushing grain prices to never-before seen levels. The exorbitant cost of feeding Cattle prompted more herd liquidation – further reducing the supply.
The challenges continued in 2013, when California suffered its driest year on record – impacting its beef and dairy herds. And all of this has resulted in the smallest US Cattle herd in over 60 years.
Could all these events have been anticipated in 2009 – when cycle analysis was calling for a major surge in Cattle prices until 2014/2015?
Probably not! And that is why technical & cyclical analysis are so important… and so effective.
However, it is not just these major cycles in livestock that are worrisome for the coming years. This is just one small facet of the over-arching, longer-term socio-economic cycles – including the 40-Year Cycle – that are in the parabolic phase (a Cycle Progression inversion – when the entire 40-Year period is from one extreme (inflationary low) to the opposite (inflationary high)).
As I illustrated last month, inflationary stock moves are one example and include the projected peak in 2014, the culmination of a 40-year advance originating in late-1974.
From a broader, economic perspective, that links economic depressions in the 1890's & 1930's – the two lowest points in a textbook Cycle Progression evolution – with an intervening low (following a 50% crash in less than two years) in 1974, the period that marked the onset of accelerated inflation.
That 1974 low triggered an entire 40-year inflationary stock advance into 2014, when a multi-year peak is likely. However, it is not just stock prices that are expected to peak. It is many commodities & inflationary markets. And, as would be expected at the culmination of a full-cycle advance, these peaks are likely to be parabolic peaks in many markets. Livestock is one of these.
Inflationary Parabolas (Stocks AND Livestock) Culminate in 2014/2015! And then…


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Garda inquiry after Shatter quits
07/05/2014 - 18:34:02Back to Ireland Home
The Government is setting up a full-scale state inquiry into alleged Garda corruption after the Justice Minister dramatically resigned over his role in the affair.
Alan Shatter, a veteran within the senior coalition partner Fine Gael, has stood down just weeks after the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan stunned the country with his resignation amid a storm of controversies involving his force.
Mr Shatter, who also serves as Defence Minister, told Taoiseach Enda Kenny he was offering to stand down after reading a Government-ordered report into the handling of whistleblower allegations of widespread Garda wrongdoing and malpractice.
A dossier by serving Sergeant Maurice McCabe has rocked the force.
In a bid to calm growing tensions over a series of scandals, the government asked a senior criminal barrister to examine ten sample cases – including alleged murder, abduction and assault – which Sgt McCabe claims were not properly investigated.
The 300-page report is to be published on Friday but was handed to both Mr Kenny and Mr Shatter last night.
Announcing the resignation in the Dáil, Mr Kenny said the report found Mr Shatter to be "inadequate" in his obligation to be independent in his investigation of the whistleblower allegations.
"The Minister having read the report and considered its implications has sent me his resignation which I have accepted with regret," he said.
Mr Kenny said he did not demand Mr Shatter's resignation and added that he was not expecting anyone else to stand down over the controversy.
The Government will now set up a full statutory inquiry – known as a Commission of Investigation – into the corruption allegations.
In a resignation letter, Mr Shatter said he had reservations about the report but was offering to stand aside in the interests of his party and the junior coalition partner Labour Party ahead of upcoming elections.
"I am anxious that any controversy that may arise on publication of the report does not distract from the important work of the Government or create any difficulties for the Fine Gael or Labour parties in the period leading in the European and local government elections," he wrote.
"It is my judgement that the only way in which such controversy can be avoided is by my offering you my resignation."
However, Mr Shatter said he had only read three chapters of the report and agreed there should be a statutory inquiry.
It is the latest in a wave of top-level investigations into alleged Garda wrongdoing.
Six weeks ago, then Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan shocked even his closest colleagues when he resigned over the uncovering of a secret system recording telephone calls at police stations for decades.
A Supreme Court judge is heading up a State inquiry into the impact of the taped conversations – specifically on the investigation into the murder of French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
A legal action by former English journalist Ian Bailey for wrongful arrest in the investigation in west Cork exposed the recording system.
A retired High Court judge is leading another independent investigation into the alleged bugging of the Dublin headquarters of the force's official watchdog, the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission.
Mr Shatter had previously shrugged off allegations of an unhealthily close relationship with Mr Callinan.
Cabinet colleagues stood by him yesterday when it was revealed that he had breached data protection laws in revealing on live television last year that a political opponent, Mick Wallace, had been seen by police using his mobile phone while driving, although he was not prosecuted.
Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Justice and Equality, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has said that his resignation was "long overdue" and he stated that the lessons of the Minister's tenure must be learned by the Government.
Deputy Mac Lochlainn said: "Our party has twice voted no confidence in Minister Alan Shatter in Dáil votes in the last year and we believe that his resignation is long overdue.
"However Minister Shatter's resignation is only the start of what needs to be done. The crisis in public confidence in the administration of justice must be urgently addressed by this Government and by the incoming Minister.
"We need to see the implementation of a new independent policing authority accountable to an independent policing board, the Oireachtas and to local Joint Policing Committees.
"Further, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission needs to be given more powers to effectively carry out their important work.
"And we need a new Minister that demonstrates humility and listens to the opinions and expertise of all stakeholders."


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Justice Department Poised to Join Armstrong Whistleblower Suit
Justice Department officials have recommended joining a federal whistleblower lawsuit aimed at clawing back sponsorship money from former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department has been weighing the matter since 2010, when the suit was filed by Armstrong's former teammate Floyd Landis.
All whistleblower suits are kept under seal, and neither the Justice...


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A healthy diet is essential for managing diabetes and losing weight. And there are certain foods that you need to choose carefully, particularly carbohydrates. But, this can be a confusing task. We are told to avoid simple carbs and refined ones, and choose complex ones, but what does that all mean?

What Foods Contain Carbohydrates?

Foods that contain carbohydrates include starches such as grains and starchy vegetables, fruit, milk/yogurt, snack foods, and sweets. Carbohydrates are the macronutrient that affect blood sugars the most. They are important because carbohydrates play a role in providing the body with energy. They also add flavor, fiber, and texture to foods.

What Do Carbohydrates Do and Why Do You Need Them?

When eaten, carbohydrates are metabolized and broken down into sugar or glucose. Glucose is the body's primary source of fuel or energy, but when you have prediabetes or diabetes your body does not handle sugar properly. Instead of sugar being taken to the cells to use as fuel, it remains in the blood. Excess or high sugar in the blood can be very problematic. To avoid elevated sugars, you should aim to eat a variety of good quality carbohydrates. In fact, the type of carbohydrates you choose can affect your mood, blood sugar, and energy levels. Eating a healthy, balanced, high fiber, carbohydrate controlled diet can help to reduce blood sugars, lose weight and increase energy levels. Excess carbohydrate intake can cause weight gain because glucose that is not used as energy or stored for later use in the muscle or liver is stored as fat in adipose tissue.

What Types of Carbohydrates Should you Eat and Avoid?

When choosing carbohydrates, it's best to choose complex carbohydrates that are rich in fiber and low in sugar. Simply stated, complex carbohydrates are defined as polysaccharides, which means that they contain at least three glucose molecules. Foods that fall into this category are starches, such as legumes, grains, peas and potatoes. Dietary fiber is also considered to be a starch and is found in non-starchy vegetables and whole grains.

Simple carbohydrates are those foods that contain only one or two sugar molecules, they are referred to as monosaccharides and disaccharides. These foods include things like milk, fruit, juice, table sugar, and syrup. Some simple carbohydrates are healthy, such as fruit, and low-fat/non-fat milk. These foods contain protein, calcium, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fiber, which can boost nutrition and slow down how quickly blood sugars rise. Although they are healthy, they should be portion controlled. Other simple carbohydrates such as syrup, juice, soda, table sugar, etc contain little fiber and no real nutritional value - which can cause blood sugar spikes, cravings, and weight gain. These types of foods should be avoided altogether or eaten very sparingly.

Refined carbohydrates, such as white bread and white pasta, are starches undergone processing which removes the bran and germ of the grain, stripping them of fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. These foods can also cause big blood sugar spikes and yield little to no nutritional value. Instead of choosing refined grains, it is better to choose whole grains. In fact, research has shown that choosing whole grains instead of refined grains can reduce the risk of heart disease, decrease blood pressure and aid in weight loss. The fiber found in whole grains slows down the speed at which blood sugars rise. Whole grains also contain more vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.

So Where Do I Start?

Avoid These Types of Carbohydrates:

 Beverages: Juice (even 100% fruit juice), soda, sweetened iced tea, lemonade, Gatorade, Vitamin water, sweetened coffee drinks, flavored milk

 Starches: White breads: rolls, bagels, hero bread, Italian bread, multi-grain bread (this is not necessarily a whole grain), white pasta, white rice, muffins, croissants, scones, sweetened cereals

 Snack foods: white crackers, chips, pretzels, sweetened dried fruit, yogurt covered snacks, cookies, cake, ice cream, candy bars, cereal bars

 Condiments and added sugars: Syrup, sugar, brown sugar, sugar in the raw, honey, agave, molasses, corn syrup, fructose, high fructose corn syrup, sucrose, dextrose, maltose, fruit juice concentrates

Choose These Carbohydrates Instead:

 Beverages with zero carbohydrates: water (add lemon or lime for added flavor), seltzer, unsweetened iced tea, herbal tea, coffee, diet drinks

 Beverages low in carbohydrates: almond milk (plain), soy milk (plain)

 Dairy: Low-fat and non-fat milk, Low-fat or non-fat Greek yogurt, low-fat kefir, low-fat cottage cheese

 Starches: Legumes (beans), any type, preferably dry, but if canned be sure to rinse, sweet potatoes, squash, pumpkin, peas, corn, grains: 100% whole grains are best choices (oatmeal, quinoa, barley, etc), non-starchy vegetables (aim to make 1/2 your plate non-starchy vegetables)

 Snacks and other foods: air-popped popcorn, whole grain crackers, whole grain cereals

Ask your registered dietitian or certified diabetes educator how many carbohydrates you should be eating per meal for weight and blood sugar control. If you are not sure how to count carbohydrates, get started here: Carbohydrate Counting Should You do It?

Resources:

Center for Disease Control. Carbohydrates. http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/basics/carbs.html

Leehman, Sheran. What are Simple Carbohydrates?

Scott, Jennifer. What are Refined Carbohydrates.


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January 2014 - Carnival Sensation to Caribbean - Bahamas
Cruise Staff made the cruise exceptional. Always Friendly and accomodating. The Casino staff made my losses fell like winds and indeed they were. I was forunate to have great conversation and lighthearted banter with all those working the table games and even those staff members working the casino floor. I have already scheduled my next cruise on the Sensation and am looking forward to that date..


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American Airlines Parent AMR Files Bankruptcy; Horton Is CEOPhil Milford, Mary Schlangenstein and David McLaughlin
American Airlines parent AMR Corp. filed for bankruptcy after failing to secure cost-cutting labor agreements and sitting out a round of mergers that dropped it from the world's largest airline to No. 3 in the U.S.
With the filing, American became the last of the so-called U.S. legacy airlines to seek court protection from creditors. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company, which traces its roots to 1920s air-mail operations in the Midwest, listed $24.7 billion in assets and $29.6 billion in debt in Chapter 11 papers filed yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
"It's painful but probably necessary," John Strickland, an aviation analyst at JLS Consulting in London, said in a telephone interview. "They will have to go through the whole process that their peers have gone through."
Job and flight reductions are likely in the future as AMR seeks to trim expenses and leave bankruptcy in less than 15 months, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tom Horton said yesterday. Normal flight schedules will continue on American and its American Eagle regional unit for now, along with the airline's frequent-flier program, the company said. A spinoff of American Eagle, which already had been delayed from this year into 2012, is on hold, Horton said.
Court Hearing
American's cost structure compared with other airlines had become "untenable," said Harvey Miller, the company's bankruptcy lawyer, at a court hearing yesterday in Manhattan. The airline "fought ferociously" to avoid filing for bankruptcy, and now planned to use the court process to turn around its business to become a profitable global airline, Miller said.
At the hearing, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane approved American's requests to pay employees, continue its customer programs, and pay what the company said are vendors that are critical to maintaining its operations.
American said in court papers that it needed permission to pay $50 million in claims from critical vendors. Miller said the company will later request approval to pay an additional $35 million in claims.
"We are talking about an emergency and the survival of this company," Miller said about the request. "We have to operate this airline and assure customers that when they book on American, that flight is going to be there and that flight is going to depart on time."
Arpey Retires
Horton, 50, most recently AMR's president, replaced Gerard Arpey yesterday as chairman and CEO. Arpey, 53, opted to retire after the board asked him to stay, Horton said. Arpey will join Emerald Creek Group LLC, a private-equity firm founded by former Continental Airlines Inc. CEO Larry Kellner, on Dec. 1, the firm said in a statement.
Arpey supported the bankruptcy filing, Horton said. Arpey decided to leave after concluding that AMR would be better served with new leadership "because it was going in a different direction," Tom Roberts, an attorney at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP who represents AMR, said in a telephone interview. "It was his decision because he had been the one that had been leading the charge for so many years to avoid bankruptcy."
AMR doesn't plan to seek so-called debtor-in-possession financing to fund operations during bankruptcy, Horton said at a news conference at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
AMR's board voted unanimously Monday night to file for bankruptcy after considering options for months, Horton said. AMR was determined to avoid Chapter 11 as air travel fell and losses mounted after the 2001 terrorist attacks, even as peers used bankruptcy to shed costly pension and retiree benefit plans and restructure debt. Rival carriers later combined, giving them larger route networks that were more attractive to lucrative corporate travel customers.
'Untenable' Gap
"It became increasingly clear that the cost gap between us and our biggest competitors was untenable," Horton said on a conference call. "The economic climate has been most uncertain, oil prices remain high and volatile, and all of that taken together led to the conclusion that now is the right time to take this step and put the company back on the path to long-term success."
AMR plunged 84 percent to 26 cents in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday. The shares earlier fell as much as 88 percent. Unlike secured creditors, shareholders typically get paid last in a bankruptcy and often receive nothing for their shares.
The stock had declined 79 percent this year on concern that a Chapter 11 filing was inevitable as AMR's losses drained cash reserves. AMR had $4.1 billion in unrestricted cash and short-term investments as of Nov. 25, Chief Financial Officer Isabella Goren said in an affidavit.
Union Talks
AMR's bankruptcy filing "resets" the process for union talks, Horton said. American had been engaged in negotiations with unions for all of its major work groups as far back as 2006, seeking to boost employee productivity and erase part of what it said was an $800 million labor-cost disadvantage to other carriers.
The company has the highest operating costs among the four surviving major U.S. network airlines, Goren said in court papers. AMR is set to post its fourth-straight annual loss this year and analysts had forecast a loss for next year as well.
"AMR cannot continue to progress toward a viable and stable future without further, significant remediation of its uncompetitive cost structure," Goren said.
American fell from its perch as the biggest airline by traffic after Delta Air Lines Inc. bought Northwest Airlines Corp. in 2008, then slid to No. 3 last year when UAL Corp.'s United Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc. merged.
All operate traditional hub-and-spoke systems, with their own regional units or partner airlines ferrying passengers to be collected at larger airports. US Airways Group Inc. is the other major carrier with that kind of route network. It ranks No. 5 in the U.S. by traffic, behind Southwest Airlines Co., the largest discounter.
In late 2005, Delta, Northwest and UAL were all under bankruptcy protection. US Airways left Chapter 11 in September of that year through a merger with America West Holdings Corp.
American and leaders of its pilots' union were scheduled to meet with federal mediators on Dec. 6 to provide an update on contract talks that stalled two weeks ago. The two sides hadn't set a date to resume negotiations since Allied Pilots Association leaders declined to send a Nov. 14 contract offer to union members for a vote, saying it "clearly" would be rejected.
'Leaner, Stronger'
"You would expect a leaner, stronger company to emerge from bankruptcy," said Chris Logan, an analyst at Echelon Research & Advisory LLP in London. "As they are in Chapter 11, it will be more easy to demand concessions from the labor force."
American's pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and baggage handlers wanted to use the contract talks to regain some of the $1.6 billion in annual concessions they gave in 2003 to help the company avoid bankruptcy.
"We agreed to sacrifice based on the expectation that our airline would regain its leadership position," David Bates, president of the Allied Pilots Association, told members in an e-mail. "What has transpired since has been nothing short of a 'perfect storm.'"
The Transport Workers Union, which represents aircraft mechanics and baggage handlers, "will fight like hell to make sure that front-line workers don't pay an unfair price for management's failings," James Little, the union's international president, said in a statement.
'Loss of Jobs'
"It's a loss of jobs I worry most about," Laura Glading, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, said in an interview. "That's a horrible, horrible nightmare in this economy. We'll do what we can to mitigate that as much as possible."
AMR had about 80,800 employees at the end of September, including 67,100 at American, with the rest at American Eagle, cargo operations and other units, according to the company's October earnings release. American has 8,700 active pilots, with another 950 on furlough, and 17,000 flight attendants.
Among the company's largest unsecured creditors listed in court papers was Wilmington Trust Corp., trustee for holders of $460 million in 6.25 percent convertible senior notes due in 2014. AMR on Sept. 27 sold $725.7 million of 10-year bonds backed by aircraft to refinance maturing debt. The company paid the highest interest rates since 2009 to raise the cash.
The 8.625 percent notes due in October 2021 fell 2.5 cents to 96 cents on the dollar as of 8:20 a.m. in New York, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Sept. 11
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, carriers saw "a dramatic drop in air travel" for 18 months to two years, FareCompare.com CEO Rick Seaney said in an interview. Airlines in the U.S. lost about $9.7 billion in the year following the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York and damaged the Pentagon. American, which operated two of the four hijacked planes used in the attacks, posted losses for four straight years afterward.
American responded by negotiating the union concessions that helped to restore profit in 2006 and 2007. The carrier had blamed losses since then partly on its labor costs and slower-than-expected gains from business ventures with partners across the Atlantic and Pacific.
The airline also has a fleet of older, less fuel-efficient planes that put it at a disadvantage when fuel prices rise. AMR spent $1.56 billion more on fuel through the first nine months of this year than a year earlier, according to the company's third-quarter earnings release.
Flights Shuffled
In September 2009, the carrier shuffled flight schedules to increase operations in Chicago, New York, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Miami to attract more high-fare business travelers.
"Airlines still face that fundamental issues of cost levels versus achievable revenues in the market place," Strickland, the JLS analyst, said. "Higher fuel prices and the weaker U.S. economy would have given them the final push."
AMR said in July it would buy 460 single-aisle jets -- 260 from Airbus SAS and 200 from Boeing Co. -- in the industry's biggest-ever order. The orders remain "rock solid," Horton said yesterday.
"When we're completed with this process, our company will be competitive and poised to grow and prosper and go out and capitalize on these aircraft orders," he said.
MD-80s Replaced
American's mainline jet fleet of 619 planes includes 247 twin-engine MD-80s made by McDonnell Douglas Corp., according to the airline's website. Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Those planes, which are no longer in production, are being replaced by Boeing 737-800s that are about one-third more fuel efficient.
Placing an order for aircraft "creates a contract," and in bankruptcy accepting or rejecting the contract will be up to AMR, said Scott Peltz, the national leader of RSM McGladrey's Financial Advisory Service in Chicago. Boeing and other suppliers will probably have representatives at AMR's bankruptcy hearings who "will be looking at what their options are," he said.
Boeing said it has "no reason to doubt" that the jet order remains pivotal to AMR. Boeing and Airbus will provide $13 billion of financing on the first 230 jets, American said in July.
'Key Part'
"We anticipate as part of American's reorganization that new, fuel-efficient airplanes will be a key part of their ongoing success," Mark Hooper, a spokesman for Chicago-based Boeing, said in an e-mailed statement.
International Consolidated Airlines Group SA, a U.K.-based joint venture partner with AMR that owns British Airways and Spain's Iberia, said it has "every confidence in the future of American Airlines" and looks forward to working with Horton.
Weil Gotshal, based in New York, is AMR's lead bankruptcy counsel. The company's financial adviser is Rothschild Inc.
American Airlines was formed from companies including Robertson Aircraft Corp. of Missouri, which employed Charles A. Lindbergh as a mail pilot, according to the carrier's website. The companies began consolidating in 1929 and became American Airlines in 1934.
Company stock began trading in 1939, and during World War II, half of American's planes flew for the Air Transport Command. American pioneered nonstop transcontinental service in 1953 and 20 years later was the first major airline to hire a woman pilot, according to its website.
The case is In re AMR Corp., 11-15463, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Mollyramstetter - posted on 01/11/2012 ( 28 moms have responded )
My daughter will be 2.5yrs in a month and I have a 6month old son. I've waited to potty train because of having a second child. Now she is in a phase where she's obsessed with being naked and/or taking her diaper off when it's dirty. Constanty.
She does not want to go sit on the potty for more than a few seconds. So I am guessing she just isn't ready or doesn't understand it yet.
Would you recommend just waiting it out still, or should I do the candy/reinforcement thing? She loves candy of course but it hasn't made her sit on the potty yet.
Has anyone else had this issue?
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22 Jun Strawberry-Rhubarb En Papillote
As if Friday isn't reason enough to celebrate. Today is the first anniversary of Lynn Ogryzlo's The Ontario Table, and I'm one of her virtual guests.
I'm pretty chuffed to be asked to take part. Not only do I enjoy a party, I like hanging out with Lynn, even if it is online. First of all, she spells my name right. Granted, with a surname like Ogryzlo, you're probably sensitive to such things, but it still earns her bonus points. Secondly, she loves my doughnuts, and last but certainly not least, she takes one of the most sensible approaches to eating local I've ever seen.
Instead of giving you the stink eye if everything on your shopping list doesn't comply with the 100-mile diet, she simply issues a $10 challenge. The concept is easy. Each week, spend $10 of your grocery money on local food. That's it. Small (locally grown) potatoes, right?
Well, assuming Lynn's math is right, if every household in Ontario did this for a year, through some formula I've no chance of understanding, the provincial economy would be $2.4 billion richer and we'd be up 10,000 jobs. All this and you can still eat pineapple, slurp coffee, and nibble chocolate. I'm guessing this concept works for any region, although the ratio likely jumps around a bit.
To celebrate The Ontario Table's first birthday, Lynn has asked her guests to bring a dish to show off local food. In keeping with the $10 Challenge, I created a dish using about $10 worth of local ingredients. Beguiled by the roasted strawberries I made last fall, I created a late-spring version adding rhubarb from my garden and a few sprigs of lemon verbena. I sweetened things with some of Susur Lee's Vidal Ice Wine Syrup, made in the nearby Niagara Region. Then, because I have been itching to try vanilla bean paste, I added some of that, too. The results — strawberry-rhubarb en papillote.
If the heat wave hadn't consumed the vanilla ice cream, I'd have served the roasted fruit on that. Undaunted, I used vanilla yogurt with a bit of ice wine syrup stirred in for good measure.
Doing the math on the local ingredients….
Strawberries – $5
Rhubarb – free (from my garden)
Ice Wine Syrup – free (I won it as a door prize, but used about $3 worth)
Yogurt from a local dairy – $5
TOTAL – $10 (or $13 if you're a stickler)
The results? I ate one bowl for dessert and had the second for breakfast. No sharesies.
- 1 cup rhubarb, cut in ½-inch pieces
- 1 cup strawberries, hulled and cut in half or quarters, to make them uniform
- ¼ cup Ice Wine Syrup (or maple syrup)
- 2 tsp vanilla bean paste (or the seeds from a vanilla pod)
- 1 tbsp lemon verbena, minced (optional)
- vanilla yogurt or vanilla ice cream
- good quality aged balsamic vinegar (optional)
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Combine rhubarb, strawberries, wine syrup, vanilla bean paste and lemon verbena in a medium-sized bowl. Toss to evenly coat the berries with the syrup and bean paste. Spoon mixture into a parchment cooking bag. To seal the bag, fold the rim over a few times, then crimp to seal. If you don't have a bag, you can improvise with two sheets of parchment paper folded and crimped along the edges. (Alternatively, you can do this using aluminum foil on the grill.) Place the bag on a baking sheet.
- Bake 15 minutes. Carefully open the parchment bag so as not to scald yourself on the steam. Transfer the fruit and juices to a bowl and allow the mixture to cool for a few minutes. Serve the warm fruit with vanilla yogurt or on top of vanilla ice cream. Drizzle lightly with some of the berry juice. Add a splash of balsamic vinegar if you like. Or a glug of ice wine syrup. Or both.


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Dean Burry - The Brothers Grimm 10th Anniversary
Ten years ago, Gander native Dean Burry wrote The Brothers Grimm. His then-brand new opera for children was hitting the road to tour schools throughout Ontario as a production of the prestigious Canadian Opera Company. So, a decade later, what's Dean Burry up to? I contacted Dean in Toronto and asked him what The Brothers Grimm meant to him and his career. Dean Burry's newest touring opera, Le Nay de la Sorciere, is touring Newfoundland right now with the MUN School of Music Opera road company. Be on the lookout for Dean's new musical play Beacon of Light, onstage at Trinity with Rising Tide Theatre this summer before moving to Gander for the anniversary of 9/11.
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January 2017 Reads
Feb 1st, 2017 by Tana
Yes, I got to see Wendell Berry do a reading. [Swoon!] I've read Hannah Coulter and Jayber Crow by him, the latter which was discussed on Close Reads. It was a great evening!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith — I read this soon after I graduated from college and absolutely loved it. One of those books where you wish all books were like this. So when I saw it as the January selection for the Well Read Mom, I wondered if I could possibly love it as much again as I did the first time. I started out pacing myself to read it over the course of the month, but it was so wonderful I could stop reading and finished it in the middle of the month. I loved it just as much the second time as I did the first. Highly recommended.
News of the World by Paulette Jiles — This was the main selection for January in the Modern Mrs. Darcy (MMD) book club. I would give it two stars. It is historical fiction, which I struggle with. I would much rather read about another time and place by someone who lived it or knew those who lived it. This book had several inaccuracies that made me question much of the plausibility of the book. For instance, someone was singing "It Is Well With My Soul" in backwoods Texas a couple years before the song was written on the Atlantic Ocean. Ugh. However, at the back of the book, the author said it was based on another book which I read and very much enjoyed, namely…
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch — This is a very well researched book about kids who were abducted by Indians on the Texas frontier. Their stories are known because they returned, in varying degrees, to white society. The book gives a history of relations with the Indians of that region going back to the 1820's including the debate surrounding whether or not to negotiate with the Indians for captives. It describes life in Indian society for the white captives and helps explain why they resisted returning to white society. If you enjoy history, this is a great read.
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger — This was a flight pairing along with News of the World as part of the MMD book club. One of the chapters explored heavily the issue of Indian captives not wanting to return to white society. This article is a thoughtful response to the book and sums up my reservations about it well. I think The Captured lent far more light on the subject than this book. That said, this book was very thought provoking and great fodder for discussion.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty — This was the other flight pairing for January in the MMD book club. I listened to this as an audiobook – all 36 hours of it. Great book. One that will stick with me for a long time. After reading this, I feel like I know what it was like to live in the late mid-1800s in Texas and beyond. It will likely be one of my favorite books for the year.
Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie) — I found this book through Gretchen Rubin's book club and listened to the audio version on Overdrive. It was written by Agatha Christie who took a pen name when she wrote books outside her usual genre. Joan, the main character, gets stranded on her return journey and has nothing to do for a few days and ends up re-thinking much of her life, seeing it in a very different light. Ironically, it reminded me of reading a book everyone else "gets" while missing what is obvious to everyone else (aka how I feel when I read a mystery). Great read. Highly recommended.
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson — This was one of the January selections for Book of the Month Club. I haven't joined but was thinking about it so I decided to read one of the selections to see what I thought. This was the story of several teenagers going through school. Bad things happen to them, but there was never any exploration of the consequences or what came of it — there were all sorts of things that could have been explored but were just left on the table unopened. I did not like it at all and probably won't be reading any more Book of the Month Club selections unless they are recommended to me otherwise. When one is accustomed to reading the classics – books that are so good they've remained in print, it is difficult to find contemporary fiction that measures up.
War by Sebastian Junger — I picked this up after reading Tribe. It is a first-hand account through the eyes of a journalist on the front lines in Afghanistan. I read a comment about this book somewhere that being on the front lines and observing isn't the same as being on the front lines and fighting, to which I wholeheartedly agree. This book definitely gives a piece of the picture of what it's like serving in the US military in Afghanistan, but I don't automatically assume that everyone who served over there (and I know several who served there and in Iraq) had experiences similar to this. The writing style is rather scatterbrained – jumping from this to that and only sticking loosely to the storyline. Three stars, if that.
Honorable mention: Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers — This is the current selection for the Close Reads podcast from the Circe Institute. I'm only four chapters into it, and it is not something I would ever pick up and read on my own. However, I love and adore this podcast – listening English teachers discuss, argue and debate good books. The third episode covering chapters 5-8 is already up, but I became obsessed with listening to Lonesome Dove so haven't listened to the second episode yet. So far I'm about as lost as poor Joan in Absent in the Spring, but that's just another reason why I love Close Reads.
On the docket for February:
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [Well Read Mom] – this is actually a re-read but I plan to listen to the audio version narrated by Juliet Stevenson which should be excellent
- This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel [MMD February main selection]
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides [MMD February flight pairing]
- The Mothers by Brit Bennet [MMD February flight pairing]
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These knitted lights by llot lov — a German design studio that leans toward the experimental with concept designs — were shown at a designer's fair in Germany. They've since been making the blog rounds. This knitted lamp is called the Ray, and the cable is nearly 40 feet long. Do think this expression of the crafting trend is too literal? Survey after the jump.


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Doug Koekkoek, M.D.
Chief executive, clinical services
Chief medical officer
Sept. 18, 2013
If you liked high school French class, you should love ICD-10. Yes, the conversion to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, is something like learning a new language. Fortunately we will have translators standing by.
On Oct. 1, 2014, every hospital, pharmacy and physician in the country will be required to submit new ICD-10 diagnoses and procedure codes for their charges to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and to commercial insurers.
Both hospitals and physicians have skin in this game, so we need to work together to learn the new system.
Unlike ICD-9's three- to five-digit numeric codes, ICD-10 uses up to seven alpha and numeric characters. Overnight, 13,000 diagnosis codes will grow to more than 68,000. The current 3,000 procedure codes will be replaced by up to 87,000 new codes. Nine pressure ulcer codes expand to more than 150. Angioplasty will go from one code to 854.
The coding manuals include a vast array of new terms – "extraction" rather than "delivery," "drainage" instead of "aspiration," and so on. Thankfully, physicians will not be required to memorize all these terms, but we will need to be aware of a number of specialty-specific requirements for accurate coding (and billing). These include laterality, initial vs. subsequent, open vs. percutaneous, and in general much greater anatomic specificity.
Providence is working to ensure that our information systems and our multiple software programs are updated and ready to interface with the ICD-10 codes, and we're preparing for billing compliance.
J.A. Thomas & Associates will hold ICD-10 general education sessions this fall at six Oregon hospitals. You'll receive notice of specific locations and times.
Providence Portland: Tuesday, Nov. 12
Providence Milwaukie: Wednesday, Nov. 13
Providence Willamette Falls: Thursday, Nov. 14
Providence St. Vincent: Tuesday, Dec. 10
Providence Newberg: Wednesday, Dec. 11
Providence Medford: Thursday, Dec. 12
Providence Portland: Tuesday, Nov. 12
Providence Milwaukie: Wednesday, Nov. 13
Providence Willamette Falls: Thursday, Nov. 14
Providence St. Vincent: Tuesday, Dec. 10
Providence Newberg: Wednesday, Dec. 11
Providence Medford: Thursday, Dec. 12
See our Oregon ICD-10 Education page for details about these events.
Online modules for general and specialty-specific ICD-10 education will be in place before the fall of 2014.
Epic will be populated with ICD-10-compliant diagnoses, so physicians who document using the Problem List in Epic will have their way eased. Providence also will add staff to our clinical documentation improvement programs so that our concurrent review nurses can help physicians with correct documentation in real time. The current plan is to begin dual coding in both ICD-9 and ICD-10 for a few months before the go-live date in October 2014.
The Brits transitioned to ICD in 1995. France followed in 1997, and our Canadian neighbors moved to ICD-10 in 2001, so we can do this too. While the new standard was not Providence's decision, we'll be there to help with as much education and support as possible. To learn more, visit CMS's ICD-10 website.