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Former prime minister Gordon Brown will focus on the security of people's pensions in an attempt to put forward the case for Scotland remaining in the UK.
The Labour MP is due to make a speech in Glasgow on Tuesday as part of a week of campaigning on the issue by the Better Together group.
Pro-independence campaigners Yes Scotland said most people want pensions controlled from Holyrood - and claimed that Scots have not forgotten Mr Brown's "tax raid" on pensions when he was in power at Westminster.
Mr Brown said: "In every speech since the referendum was announced I have argued that the strongest case for the union and the greatest benefit to Scottish people is that we pool and share risks and resources across the United Kingdom.
"In Glasgow I will present detailed findings from new research that shows the multimillion-pound financial dividend pensioners and families gain from our membership of the UK."
Better Together leader Alistair Darling, who was Chancellor under Mr Brown, said: " His 30 years of experience inform his powerful argument that Scotland can benefit from both seizing the opportunities that come from being part of the UK, and at the same time draw on the strength of that union.
"On pensions, Gordon Brown will argue the strong case for sharing resources across the whole of the UK. It means we are better placed to deal with challenges in Scotland in the years to come."
But Blair Jenkins, chief executive of Yes Scotland, said: " Almost two-thirds of Scots want decisions on pensions and welfare to be made here in Scotland rather than by Westminster.
"Time and time again, Westminster has failed Scots when it comes to pensions. People haven't forgotten Gordon Brown's tax raid on pension funds. And the current Tory changes to the state pension will, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies, see the vast majority of pensioners worse off. That's why more and more people in Scotland are moving to Yes.
"With a Yes vote, we can build on the successes of the Scottish Parliament and continue delivering for older people with free personal care and the free bus pass."
The independence referendum is being held on September 18.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Brown "lacks all credibility" on pensions.
She said: "The last person anyone in Scotland will take lessons from when it comes to pensions is Gordon Brown - the man who destroyed final-salary pension schemes with his £100 billion raid, and insulted our older folk with a miserly 75p increase in the state pension. His track record means he lacks all credibility, and his speech next week sounds just like a rehash of what he has said before.
"The Scottish Government has set out clearly and unambiguously that people will continue to receive the pension entitlements they have built up - and any attempt to insinuate otherwise is grossly irresponsible.
"Opinion polling has consistently shown that people in Scotland want decisions on pensions and welfare to be made in Scotland rather than by Westminster - with the recently published Scottish Social Attitudes Survey showing that 63% of people want either independence, or 'devo-max', that would see only defence and foreign affairs remain in Westminster control.
"Social protection costs represent a lower share of tax revenues in Scotland than for the UK as a whole - meaning pensions are more affordable for Scotland.
"Scotland is better placed to afford our pensions and welfare than the UK - which is why Scotland's Future set out our plans to maintain the triple-lock, and set up an independent commission to look at the appropriate retirement age for people in Scotland."


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It had been quite a series. The 1962 Stanley Cup final pitted the Toronto Maple Leafs against the reigning champions, the Chicago Black Hawks. In Game 1, Chicago's Golden Jet, Bobby Hull, opened the scoring on a powerplay but Toronto rebounded and won 4-1. The Maple Leafs edged the Hawks 3-2 in Game 2. Not to be pinned to the mat, the Black Hawks blanked Toronto 3-0 in Game 3.
But Game 4 posed a challenge for the Leafs. Down 2-0, at the 14:40 mark of the first period, Johnny Bower pulled his groin muscle and was replaced by back-up netminder Don Simmons. Rallying in front of their cold goalie, Toronto popped a goal late in the first but went on to a 4-1 loss and the series tied at two games apiece.
Game 5 was a shooting gallery for the goalies with the Maple Leafs coming out on top of an 8-4 decision. Bob Pulford scored a hat-trick to pace the victors.
In Chicago on April 22, 1962, neither team scored in either the first or second periods. Bobby Hull put a shot past Simmons mid-way through the third but it was responded to with a goal by Bob Nevin followed by what turned out to be the Stanley Cup winner from Dickie Duff on the powerplay at 14:14. The Toronto Maple Leafs had won the Stanley Cup! They had beaten the existing champions! Although not able to contribute in the last few games, Johnny Bower was an avid cheerleader and finally fulfilled his hockey dream.
On Thursday, August 25 at 11 AM, Johnny Bower picked up the Stanley Cup once again. As a four-time winner, Johnny's childhood dreams of winning hockey's top prize were realized (1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967) but the child-like smile still creased Johnny's 80-year-old lips as the Cup was handed to him at King's Riding Golf Course in Aurora, Ontario.
The Stanley Cup was placed at the entrance to the clubhouse. Each golfer got his or her photograph taken with the Stanley Cup. The picture was then inserted into a frame with the date, course name and was personally autographed by Johnny. Later in the day, each participant picked up their marvelous souvenir.
Johnny went off and golfed with Ron Ellis, his teammate with the Maple Leafs. The two are great friends — Ron credits Johnny and his wife Nancy with helping him adjust to NHL life when he joined the team as an 18-year-old in 1964.
Other celebrities on the Aurora course included former Leafs Wendel Clark, Brian Conacher and Rene Robert, jockey Sandy Hawley as well as Gord Stellick and Don Landry, the morning show hosts of the FAN590, Toronto's all-sports radio station.
When the tournament was over, the Stanley Cup was placed on a table by the bar. Diners enjoyed roast beef, potatoes and vegetables. While duffers devoured a scrumptious cheesecake, Bower paraded between tables wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey autographed by Leafs' alumni. Participants were invited to bid on the sweater as part of an auction, and the jersey went for $1,600. Recipients of the charitable proceeds included the Jennifer Ashleigh Foundation, the Good Shepherd Ministries, Peel Partners, the York Central Hospital Foundations and the ALS/SLA.
"Hey Johnny," someone hollered from the crowd. "Point to your name on the Cup!"
"I'd love to," laughed Johnny, "But I think the Canadiens rubbed my name right off the darned thing!"
Although born in Montreal, Fleming Mackell became part of the Toronto Maple Leafs organization in 1945 when he joined the St. Michael's Majors. Mackell, the son of Jack Mackell who won back-to-back Stanley Cup championships with the old Ottawa Senators in 1920 and 1921, was the top point-getter during St. Mike's run to the Memorial Cup championship in 1947.
Mackell played 3 games with the Maple Leafs in 1947-48 and 11 in 1948-49, a year in which he earned the right to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup for the first time as the Leafs won the big prize. A part-timer again in 1949-50, Fleming gained full-time status in 1950-51.
As has been well-chronicled, the Toronto Maple Leafs met the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup final that year. Every single game went into overtime, and as the teams lined up for the opening faceoff on April 21, 1951, Toronto was up three games to one.
Fleming Mackell arranged to have the Stanley Cup show up at 9:30 on the morning of Friday, August 26 at Sir Richard W. Scott Catholic School in Markham, Ontario. There, first-time principal Kathy Hutton welcomed the Stanley Cup�as well as her father. "Dad, thank you so much for bringing the Cup to my new school," Kathy smiled. Fleming just beamed. His little girl has done well!
A red carpet led to the school's stage, and Kathy had lined both sides with photographs of her Dad during his NHL career. Fleming was more than happy to pose for photographs with the Stanley Cup. Those staff members in the school working on their rooms were gathered around the Stanley Cup for a souvenir photo, too.
At noon, Mackell took the Stanley Cup to a retirement home for Jesuit priests. Fleming wanted to visit one of his dearest friends, Father Jerry Leclair, who was now residing there. Fleming and Jerry have known each other since they were 11-years-old back in Montreal, and had played ball together. Now 76, the two old friends shared a special moment of celebration together.
One of Fleming's granddaughters was disappointed that she had to leave the party early in order to show up for her job as a hostess at East Side Mario's restaurant. After she left, Fleming suggested, "Can we take the Cup to her at work?" Why not?" Shortly after her arrival, Fleming's granddaughter was astonished but thrilled to have the Stanley Cup arrive in the arms of her Grand-Dad. Hey, Badda-boom, badda-bing!
On Tuesday, the Stanley Cup Journal visits Ed Litzenberger and Pierre Pilote, teammates on the remarkable Chicago Black Hawks squad that won the Stanley Cup in 1961. Enjoy your weekend!
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TOKYO—Of all the Tokyo Game Show attendees who visited the Kinect booth, one salaryman in a button-down shirt stood out. He jumped into the Dance Central game with gusto, busting out crazy moves in his patent-leather shoes, literally going leaps and bounds beyond what the dance game required.
A small crowd gathered to watch his moves. At one point, he did a handstand in front of the Xbox 360 camera controller. He was making Kinect look like barrels of fun.
But did the man, who gave his name as Yoshida, plan to buy the upcoming game and do "The Humpty Dance" at home?
"No," Yoshida said. "I don't have an Xbox. There are no games I want for it."
A few months from now, Microsoft will celebrate its 10th anniversary of not being able to sell many videogames in Japan. The company is enjoying record-high sales in the United States and Europe with its redesigned Xbox 360 and the Kinect motion controller. But it remains locked in a struggle to make its console appealing to one of the world's biggest markets for gaming.
Aside from an Xbox 360 roster filled with the kind of shooting games that historically don't do so well in Japan, the biggest thing holding back Kinect might be a simple issue of real estate: The unique sensor, which lets players use their bodies to control the on-screen action, requires a lot of physical space to operate—and that's something a lot of Japanese people just don't have.
A history of failure
Microsoft has had no luck in Japan since it launched the original Xbox there in February 2002. It was the exact opposite of what the country wanted out of a game machine—a giant, noisy, power-sucking box with a massive controller and nothing but Western games, like first-person shooters, that were unpopular with gamers here. The marketing, the design, the content—everything was out of whack with what Japan wanted.
On paper, few of those things apply to the Xbox 360, which is probably why it has sold three times as much as the first Xbox. But even these sales numbers are relatively tiny. Since its launch in 2005, the Xbox 360 has only sold a pitiful 1.5 million units in Japan compared to PlayStation 3's 6.7 million and Wii's 11 million. In fact, sales of the console in Japan linger barely above those of the ancient PlayStation 2.
The Kinect doesn't seem to be helping the problem. The controller, with its camera and microphone sensors, "doesn't fit with Japanese culture," a player named Takizawa told Wired.com at the Microsoft booth. He thought Michael Jackson: The Experience looked like a lot of fun, but questioned whether he'd have room to play it in his typically small living space.
Another gamer named Takumi, who is a student at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, said he could probably get a Kinect into his place, although his friend Akira said "no way." Both of them are PlayStation 3 owners, but neither owns an Xbox. "It's too expensive," said Takumi. A Kinect alone costs ¥15,000.
The ironic thing about Microsoft's struggles to sell Kinect to an apathetic Japanese audience is that the company says Japan's gamemakers are coming up with the best concepts for the motion controller.
Two of the Microsoft-funded games are on display at the booth: Masaya Matsuura, the popular creator of the megahit PlayStation game Parappa the Rapper, is making a first-person haunted-house adventure. Suda 51, creator of ultraviolent action games like Shadows of the Damned, is contributing Demonic Pitch, in which you play a baseball player that fights monsters with his killer fastballs.
These are clever, original games from talented designers. But Microsoft has been down this road before, commissioning the original creators of Japan's popular RPGs to make Xbox-exclusive games. The strategy didn't work. Eventually the company successfully lobbied Square Enix to release Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360, as well as PlayStation 3. The incredibly popular series barely moved the needle.
Sometimes it seems like it doesn't matter what Microsoft creates—Japan's gamers just aren't that into Xbox games.
The craziest ideas
Richard Newman, head of Microsoft's game-development studios in Japan, spearheaded the move to get well-known Japanese designers making Kinect games.
"Kinect is an interesting paradigm to design for," Newman said at an event Wednesday at which Demonic Pitch was introduced. "When you break away from the controller, there are a lot of conventions that get broken. A lot of the early itches that we got were controller games adapted to Kinect. What we really wanted was for creators to think outside the box."
The pitches that Microsoft Game Studios got from Japanese designers, Newman said, were some of the most unique and unexpected. They looked at several prototypes and tried to pick the "craziest" ones.
"These are core games for core gamers," Newman said.
Masaya Matsuura's Haunt was one of the chosen few. It's a first-person game that attempts to replicate the feeling of being spooked by a haunted house at an amusement park. Wired.com tried the game in developer Nana-On-Sha's Tokyo office, in a small room that, if you push all the furniture out of the way, is just barely big enough to play Kinect games.
"Haunt is not a game that requires a big space," Matsuura said; players don't have to move their bodies in extreme ways. But, he added, when he wants to watch an employee play the game, he has to lie down prone in the room to avoid accidentally being picked up by the Kinect sensor.
It's probably no coincidence, then, that even the Japanese gamemakers are aiming their products at the global audience. Nana-On-Sha's Matsuura thinks that working alongside Japanese creators is important if Microsoft wants to make the Xbox 360 more of a success in the territory.
But, he says, "the biggest market for the Xbox is the US, so we have to concentrate on the English-speaking territories." Haunt was built in English and translated into Japanese later.
So even if their countrymen don't want the Kinect, the hands-free controller is becoming so popular in the United States and Europe that the games might still sell. Just not here.
Microsoft's Newman believes that the Kinect, simply by virtue of being a brand-new method of controlling games, could help game creators express truly new ideas.
"The aspirations of the creators were greater than Kinect," he said. "They were ready to break free from some of the constraints they were feeling in the industry. Some ideas were nothing short of philosophical about where they wanted to take things."
Wired.com did speak to one Kinect owner at the Microsoft booth. She was standing with her friends watching Dance Central 2.
"It's fun," she said, "but I hardly use it. I barely have enough room. My back is against the wall."
Did she play any regular games? The kind that use a controller?
"Yes," she said, struggling to remember the name of the game she owned. "What's it called... what's it called... Ha... Halo."


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In 2005, James Wagner revived efforts to preserve the Brown Company Research and Development Building. Under his direction, in partnership with the board of directors of the Northern Forest Heritage Park (NFHP) and Tri-County Community Action Program (TCCAP), Brownfield grants were obtained to begin environment cleanup of the building. In 2010, the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance placed the Brown Company Research and Development Building on its Seven to Save list.
Exhibit research and text by Professor Linda Upham-Bornstein
For more information on the exhibit and related research please contact:
Linda Upham-Bornstein, History, Heritage and Culture Coordinator at (603) 535-3282, or firstname.lastname@example.com
Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, Director, Center for Rural Partnerships, Plymouth State University at (603) 535-3276, or firstname.lastname@example.com or visit plymouth.edu/rural
Catherine S. Amidon, Curator, Museum of the White Mountains, at (603) 535-2646 or firstname.lastname@example.com or visit plymouth.edu/museum-of-the-white-mountains/
A special thank you to the individuals and institutions who have helped to make this exhibition possible:
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Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, Director, Center for Rural Partnerships, Plymouth State University
Susan Jarosz, Michael J. Spinelli, Jr. Center for University Archives and Special Collections, Lamson Library, Plymouth State University
All of the photographs in this exhibit are from Beyond Brown Paper, Michael J. Spinelli Jr. Center for University Archives and Special Collections, Herbert H. Lamson Library and Learning Commons, Plymouth State University, beyondbrownpaper.plymouth.edu/
Exhibit Design by Lisa Lundari, True Colors
This program was funded in part by the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.


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Author: Raoul Fransen-dos Santos (ICSS Senior Policy Adviser), Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2009;87:877-879. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059915
One quarter of the world's population is made up of 1.7 billion young people aged 10–24, 1.5 billion of whom live in developing countries where HIV/AIDS has reduced their chances of living to the age of 60 by 20%.1 Despite their vulnerability to HIV infection, young people's needs are often overlooked when national AIDS strategies are designed and implemented.1
Half of all new HIV infections occur among young people, aged 15–24.2 In 2007, an estimated 33.2 million people were living with HIV, 5.4 million of whom were aged 15–24 years. In sub-Saharan Africa, there are 3.2 million young people living with HIV, with a ratio of three young women infected for every young man.3
In 2001, governments committed that 90% of young people would be able to correctly identify modes of HIV transmission and prevention by 2005.4 Yet, by 2007 only 40% of young males and 36% of young females had accurate HIV knowledge.4
Until recently, these statistics were only used to address youth as a target group for prevention messages, rather than allowing each new generation to work through the issues themselves. We are slowly recognizing youth as a resource and actively involving them in finding solutions. Is it too little, too late?
One of the great challenges in HIV prevention is that today's young people have never known a world without AIDS; they did not experience the shocking early days of the "new disease". Improved (access to) treatment has changed HIV and the image of AIDS from a fatal disease to "just a sexually transmitted infection". Many young people are fatigued by prevention campaigns that are out-dated or unrealistic. Not all youth experience the same HIV vulnerabilities. An impoverished young girl in a rural village in Malawi has different needs in terms of effective HIV prevention than emerging gay youth in the favelas of Rio. The key lies in providing young people with the information and tools they need to make safe and healthy choices. But they must be true choices, not based on other people's ideologies.
Girls and boys
Young women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS due to biological factors and structural elements of culture, economic and social inequalities. Marriage and long-term relationships do not protect them from contracting HIV and insisting on abstinence is simply not realistic.
To address the global feminization of the epidemic, policies, programmes, legislative frameworks and social norms must guarantee women's rights, ensure protection from gender-based violence and discrimination. Despite the numerous references in national and international documents to the rights of women and girls, few countries have actually implemented and enforced policies and laws that protect such rights.
While the focus on young women and girls remains necessary, particularly in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa where more than 75% of those living with HIV are female, it risks excluding the very group whose involvement is essential if we are to successfully turn the tide on HIV; namely, young men, particularly those living with HIV.5 The engagement of young men is also essential to improve their own health outcomes.
The importance of directly engaging young men and boys in shaping the response to HIV and AIDS is clearly reflected within the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action. Commitments to ensure special efforts around this have been reiterated in several key international declarations since then.6
Traditional sex education and HIV prevention often focus (intentionally or otherwise) on young women and do not adequately address the needs of young men.7 Sexual and reproductive health clinics are often perceived, and indeed sometimes promote themselves, as "feminine spaces". Young men often feel uncomfortable visiting these clinics, which frequently lack services catering for their specific needs. There is a shortage of male service providers, who have a vital role in helping young men articulate their thoughts and feelings about sex and sexually transmitted infections. Programmes need to be gender-transformative, changing preconceived gender notions and promoting relationships between men and women that are fair and just.8
Too often, prevention activities focus merely on the biological or medical facts or provide ideological approaches to sexuality and choice, rather than addressing the needs of young people living with HIV and enabling them to continue living positively.
Young people who contract HIV around birth experience unique challenges. Interventions targeting this group to date have tended to emphasize delaying sexual debut, reducing the number of sexual partners and condom use, rather than providing comprehensive information and support on sexual reproductive health and rights. With an increasing number of young people born with HIV reaching adolescence, it is more important than ever to address the specific needs of this group.
Young people living with HIV have their own specific needs and desires for sexual reproductive health. Greater focus is needed on the specific prevention, treatment and care required by this group, including psychosocial support and sexuality counselling. Such activities should be implemented in a "positive prevention" framework9 that aims to protect their sexual health, avoid other sexually transmitted infections, delay HIV/AIDS disease progression and avoid onward HIV transmission, including mother-to-child transmission, based on the following guiding principles.10
Promotion of human rights
This should ensure the right to privacy, confidentiality, informed consent and voluntary disclosure. Stigma and discrimination – including self-stigma – drive people underground and make prevention even more difficult. A supportive and enabling legal environment is a fundamental cornerstone as it recognizes that prevention strategies based on coercion and criminalization are not the answer.
People living with HIV must be involved in the decisions relating to their life. In accordance with the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA) principle, the active engagement of people living with HIV in determining their own prevention approach is key to success in ensuring relevance, efficacy and applicability.
Shared ownership
Positive prevention places the responsibility for reducing HIV transmission on everybody and removes the undue burden on people who are aware of their status. Safer and responsible sexual behaviour is the responsibility of all partners – irrespective of status. Promoting a culture of shared responsibility could also improve communication and equality within relationships.
Recognition of diversity
People living with HIV are heterogeneous and represent a cross-section of all sectors of society. Issues of race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, age, language, and risk profile will all have an effect on how positive prevention initiatives need to be tailored, including approaches adopted in service delivery and programming as well as in advocacy efforts. With clinical settings being one obvious venue for interventions, positive prevention also needs to reach out to networks, organizations and support groups of people living with HIV. Specifically tailored information and support also needs to be provided to key vulnerable populations (sex workers, men who have sex with men and injecting drug users).
Positive prevention has to be conceived as part of the comprehensive prevention agenda. Moreover, HIV programmes should deliver a comprehensive package of inclusive messages – irrespective of status – which could act as a modality for stigma reduction. At a technical consultation held by the Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in April 2009, people living with HIV reinforced the importance of a supportive and protective legal and policy environment free of stigma and discrimination in a new framework: "Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention,"11,12 promoting a more holistic approach to prevention, including equitable access to voluntary HIV testing, treatment, care and support services and the need to address psychosocial, economic, educational and sociocultural vulnerabilities, gender and sexuality. In this way positive prevention does not become an excuse for shifting the responsibility for prevention onto people who are already marginalized and particularly vulnerable. Furthermore, it does not aim to have disclosure as an end point – as disclosure does not guarantee safe behaviour(s).
Counselling and testing
Most young people living with HIV do not know their status. Most young people, who have been at risk of HIV infection, have never been tested.13 Merely increasing access to testing will not solve most of the issues around this. Rather than rolling out provider-initiated testing or even mandatory testing, we need to address the obstacles to HIV testing. Focusing efforts on increasing the number of people who know their (positive) status does not mean we will have made any improvements in fighting stigma and discrimination or in providing better care and prevention. Moreover, the different role and concept of counselling in voluntary versus provider-initiated counselling and testing needs to be seriously revised. The importance of good quality counselling (pre- and post-test, but also sexuality counselling) has not been sufficiently recognized in developing or revising strategies to get more people tested.
Sexual rights?
Possibly the greatest challenge is the increasing complexity of HIV. Nearly 30 years into the epidemic, HIV treatment has improved, quality of and access to medication, care and services are improving, but HIV-related stigma is getting worse in many settings, even in western Europe and North America. If we continue to fail to acknowledge, protect and celebrate people's rights and diversity, we are far from pushing back the epidemic. With governments and United Nations agencies struggling to adapt effective strategies on comprehensive sexuality education and counselling – even to mention such wording in publications – and with sexual rights still not much more than a concept, we will not be able to improve the quality of life of so many (young) people. Today's young people will be responsible for sustaining the response to HIV/AIDS. We have to enable new generations to take on this task. ■
Competing interests: None declared.
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Those potentially eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion are just as healthy -- if not healthier -- than the current Medicaid population, a second study in less than 3 months found.
Potential new beneficiaries report a better health status and are less obese and depressed than current enrollees, according to an analysis published Monday in the Annals of Family Medicine.
However, rates of diabetes and hypertension aren't significantly lower for these potentially newly eligible individuals, the analysis by Tammy Chang, MD, MPH, and Matthew Davis, MD, both of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, found.
"Physicians who have been reluctant to accept Medicaid as a payer because of a perceived imbalance between the typical complexity of illness for current Medicaid beneficiaries and Medicaid reimbursement may be encouraged by these findings to start accepting Medicaid patients," the authors wrote.
The study used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a health survey that assesses key measures of population health. The survey collected demographic data and self-reported health measures such as body mass index, hemoglobin A1c level, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, alcohol and tobacco use, and overall health status on a 5-point scale.
Researchers compared the results of current Medicaid beneficiaries with those reporting no insurance coverage and making less than 138% of poverty, the income threshold for an expanded Medicaid program.
Current beneficiaries were more obese (42.9% vs. 34.5%, P=0.008) and depressed (22.3% vs. 15.5%, P=0.003) than potentially newly eligible individuals. More also reported themselves to be in "fair or poor" health (35.0% vs. 24.8%, P<0.001).
However, potentially newly eligible Medicaid beneficiaries more often reported being current smokers (49.2% vs. 38.0%, P=0.002) and "heavier" drinkers (16.5% vs. 9.8%, P<0.001) than current enrollees.
Chang and Davis said spending on Medicaid expansion may not be as high as first projected because of the relative health status of newly eligible enrollees.
Also, outreach will be key for newly eligible enrollees "as there is potential to improve their modifiable risk factors for future chronic disease," they said.
The study also found the expanded Medicaid population will be more young, male, and white than current beneficiaries, but education levels will be roughly the same.
This week's findings are similar to that of the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in June. Those authors warned, however, that many newly eligible Medicaid enrollees may have many undiagnosed and uncontrolled chronic conditions to treat once in a physician's care.
"Taken together, these analyses indicate that the potentially eligible appear to have a somewhat lower chronic disease burden, though greater prevalence of poor health behaviors such as tobacco smoking and heavy alcohol use," the authors wrote. "Their currently lower chronic disease burden may be explained by the fact that the potentially eligible -- despite being uninsured -- are drawn from a population with higher income than current Medicaid beneficiaries and are therefore likely healthier."
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Source Reference: Chang T and Davis M "Potential adult Medicaid beneficiaries under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act compared with current adult Medicaid beneficiaries" Ann Fam Med 2013; DOI: 10.1370/afm.1553.


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Violence against women can take many forms, from humiliation, harassment, and exploitation to torture and murder. One of the most heinous and shocking forms of violence against women is bride burning. It is practiced in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Men douse their wives in kerosene and set them on fire. The question is instead of burning them, why don't they strangle them, or shoot them or poison them! They burn them because they can later play innocents and say 'she committed suicide or it's just an accident. She used kerosene stove to cook.'
Innocent 'kitchen fires' are not really innocent.
Bride burning is linked to the custom of dowry, the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage. Thousands of young married women in India are routinely tortured and murdered by husband and in-laws who want more dowry from the bride's parents. After burning the bride to death, the husband is free to remarry and get new dowry again from new bride. In India, in every one hour and 40 minutes a woman is killed by husband or in-laws who are consumed by greed. More than 5000 women get killed for dowry each year.
'In 1995, Time Magazine reported that dowry murders in India increased from around 400 a year in the early 1980s to around 5,800 a year by the middle of the 1990s. A year later CNN ran a story saying that every year police receive more than 2,500 reports of bride burning. The Indian National Crime Records Bureau reports that there were about 8172 dowry death cases registered in India in 2008.'
'In 2004, Amnesty International said, 'at least 15000 women are murdered in dowry related cases each year in India.' Some women's organizations in India said, 'the number is much higher'. Yes of course, all cases are not reported. The Ahmadabad Women's Action group has declared that because of dowry at least 1000 women get murdered each year in Gujarat alone.'
In Pakistan 300 women are burned to death each year by husband or in laws. Women organizations in Pakistan would probably say, 'the actual number is much higher than 300.'
Dowry Prohibition Act in India bans paying and receiving dowries but the tradition continues to exist. As long as patriarchy and misogyny exist, women will continue to pay dowry and will continue to be harassed, humiliated, oppressed, suppressed, beaten, and threatened. They will continue to be burned to death by beloved husband if they are unable to give them more money, more gold, all house furniture, a house, a car, a motorcycle, a bicycle, a branded wrist watch, a set of clothes, anything expensive.
Are you thinking poor and illiterate people do it, rich and literate not? You are wrong. Software Engineers have been torturing and murdering their wives for dowry more or less everyday. They want a new Mercedes-Benz and millions of dollars, business ownership or a high paid job in the West. Men believe they deserve world's all the big things only because they have a penis.
This tiny penis (above) thinks that it must get all the big things (below) for free.
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Jimmy Albertson – Broken Wrist
Comment: Albertson crashed on the start of the LCQ in Toronto and is out for the remainder of supercross.
Michael Byrne - Lateral Tibial Plateau Fracture
Comment: Byrne injured himself at Unadilla. Byrne is back on the bike and will be racing the Nationals.
Kyle Chisholm – Injured Ankles, Leg and Knee
Comment: Chisholm broke a bone above his ankle in his left leg and injured his knee after a midair collision with Matt Goerke in St. Louis. Chisholm underwent surgery for his injuries and will miss the remainder of the season.
Kyle Goerke - Leg Injury
Comment: Goerke suffered a severe leg injury in Atlanta and following two surgeries his leg is still imploded, from which he has compartment syndrome.
Matt Goerke is out until Budds Creek with a wrist injury.
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Matt Goerke – Broken Wrist
Comment: Goerke will miss the rest of supercross with a broken wrist. The team expects him back at Budds Creek.
Josh Grant - Fractured Tibia and Injured Shoulder
Comment: Grant sustained ankle and shoulder injuries at A3. Grant started riding this week and is expected to be ready for the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross season opener at Hangtown.
Matt Lemoine – Torn ACL
Comment: Lemoine tore his ACL in practice in Dallas and underwent surgery and won't be back until after the Nationals. The good news is that his recovery is going well. Lemoine tweeted the following last week: "Got awesome news today I can walk everything's ahead of schedule but still is going to be a few months #fistpump ready to get to work."
Justin Sipes - Torn ACL, MCL, PCL, and Meniscus
Comment: Sipes went down during his heat race in Houston and will need surgery.
Les Smith – Fractured Hand and Ribs
Comment: Smith crashed in the main in Minneapolis. He will not be racing in Salt Lake City, but says the injury won't affect him for the Nationals.
James Stewart – Wrist Injury
Comment: Stewart crashed in his heat race in Minneapolis, injuring his wrist (the same wrist he injured last year) in the process. Stewart has opted to skip the remaining three rounds but still plans on being on the gate for the Nationals.
Nick Wey - Three Fractured Vertebrae, Dislocated Hip and Broken Ribs
Comment: Wey had a terrible crash at Spring Creek that sent his bike tumbling into the creek and him to the hospital. Wey's fractured vertebrae have been fused, he is back riding and is planning on getting back behind the gate for the Nationals.
Josh Grant is expected to return at Hangtown.
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Gannon Audette – Fractured Pelvis and Clavicle
Comment: Audette sustained a fractured pelvis and clavicle in Dallas. Audette has resumed riding but will miss the rest of supercross.
Blake Baggett - Broken Hand and Wrist
Comment: Baggett injured his hand in a first-turn pileup at A1. Baggett has undergone surgery and will not be returning before the end of supercross. His team says he'll be ready for the opening round of the Nationals.
Zach Bell – Shoulder Injury
Comment: Bell hurt his shoulder during practice in Toronto and will sit out the rest of supercross.
Justin Bogle - Broken Right Scaphoid and Dislocated Left Wrist
Comment: Bogle is shooting to be ready for the beginning of Lucas Oil Motocross in May.
Darryn Durham - Torn Achilles Tendon and Shoulder Problems
Comment: Durham has resumed riding, and his team says he'll be ready for the Nationals.
Zack Freeberg – Cracked Tibia
Comment: Freeberg injured himself when he went down in the main event in Houston and will likely miss the rest of supercross.
Jeremy Martin will make his return at Hangtown.
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Jacob Hayes - Broken Collarbone
Comment: A broken collarbone kept the SX rookie out of the first two Eastern Regional 250SX rounds, and then he rebroke it in a crash in St. Louis. The break is too close to the end of the bone for surgery and a plate to work, so Hayes is out until the Nationals.
Justin Hill – Fractured Radius
Comment: Hill sustained a fractured radius (forearm bone) when Gavin Faith landed on him in Toronto. Hill is week-to-week at the moment.
Casey Hinson - Torn Hand Ligament
Comment: Hinson sustained a deep gash in his hand, and underwent surgery. Hinson will be back on the gate in Salt Lake City.
Nico Izzi - Torn ACL
Comment: Izzi had surgery for a torn ACL in October. Izzi is back on the bike and plans to line up at Hangtown.
Alex Martin - Broken Wrist
Comment: Martin broke his wrist while training at ClubMX in December. He underwent surgery to remove the pins in his left wrist and is planning on being ready for the Nationals.
Jeremy Martin – Fractured Wrist
Comment: Martin sat Houston out after going down hard in practice on his wrist. Initially the wrist checked out okay, but Martin crashed again a few days later while practicing and finished it off. He is expected to be back for the start of the Lucas Oil Motocross Championship.
Jessy Nelson will miss the rest of supercross with an elbow injury.
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Jessy Nelson – Elbow Injury
Comment: Nelson hurt his elbow and will be out for the rest of supercross. He is expected to be back on the gate for the Nationals.
Kyle Peters – Strained Shoulder, Injured Hip and Pulled Muscles
Comment: Peters crashed during the Easter break while practicing on his 450. He should be back for the Nationals.
Bradley Ripple – T12 and L1 Vertebrae
Comment: Ripple will miss the rest of supercross.
Shane Sewell - Multiple Fractures and Dislocations in Left Foot
Comment: Sewell will need surgery and will be out for a few months.
Gareth Swanepoel – Broken Wrist
Comment: Swanepoel broke his wrist in practice in Daytona. He has resumed riding, but there is no date for his return.
Dean Wilson – Broken Ribs and Collapsed Lung
Comment: Wilson injured himself in a hard crash in his heat race in Indianapolis. He will miss the rest of supercross, but is back riding and his team says he'll be ready for the opening round of Lucas Oil Motocross.


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Rating: 3/5
The Stamford Plaza was the last word in sophistication when it opened, as the Regent, in the 1980s. Smug yuppies and teenage sharebrokers flocked to parties laden with wannabe celebrities.
Plenty of other flash hotels have opened since, though it's hard to keep track of their changes of name and livery. I never knew there were Pullman hotels until the name Pullman appeared on the side of the hotel that used to be the Hyatt that used to be the Intercontinental.
In the Stamford Plaza, what was once a cavernous lobby behind a registration desk is now a lobby bar. It is sheltered from the street by a wall, but it still looks like a lobby bar. The enormous television screen showing sports rather detracts from the couth factor; on the other hand, the television screen is split into quarters by large black lines, which will annoy sports fans, so it's an equal-opportunity irritant.
Perhaps sensing that I hate split screens and the Professor hates sport, they seated us close to the kitchen behind a pillar that conveniently blocked our view of the screen. It also gave us an excellent view of the chefs as they repeatedly banged the bell summoning a waitress to pick up a meal.
Then we needed only turn around to see all the waitresses, gathered at the cash register in a conclave that was almost Vatican in its intensity, oblivious to the ringing bell.
It was highly entertaining and in tintinnabulation-free moments, we could amuse ourselves by studying the large cylindrical jars of coloured lentils and beans on the breakfast buffet, which were very fashionable at those parties in the 80s.
It was just as well, because we had a bit of time to fill in. The place was almost empty but our drinks order - a tap beer and a bottle of San Pellegrino - had to go to the man in that split-screen sports bar, and he must have been busy pouring sweet sherries and shandies for the league fans because it took ages to arrive.
In the meantime, a waitress approached us with a jug of water and, being told that we were waiting for a bottle of San Pellegrino, suggested she pour us a couple of glasses anyway.
Perhaps she knew how long we still had to wait.
She was followed by a third waitress, who was very keen to take our food order even though we hadn't wetted our whistles. We thought it best to comply so we'd be home by bedtime.
As to the food, it was ordinary, without ever being spectacular, particularly considering the prices: the tiny $20 entrees are only a couple of bucks cheaper than the French Cafe's and most of the mains are in the high 30s.
I found the pasta in the handmade tortellini starter quite perfect, thick and al dente, but the filling (braised duck and wild mushroom) was very plain and the light and summery orange puree didn't work at all with the rich dark meat. The Professor said her layered avocado and goats cheese paté was "adequate", but again the accompaniment - a tomato and olive confit - seemed to jar and the brioche was devoid of spirit.
Mains were more successful: my veal scaloppine, like tiny schnitzels, with a mushroom risotto were excellent and her lamb loin was perfectly pink.
It came with baba ghanouj, crumbed bocconcini and spring rolls of shredded lamb shank, which were lovely, but seemed, in her words, "like a whole lot of beautiful things that didn't have anything to do with each other".
Desserts of baked cheesecake and tarte citron were also quite acceptable, although the presentation had the highly decorated grandiosity typical of hotel kitchens.
In all, though, it was unremarkable for the price - which was made palatable only by a two-for-one deal.
In a part of town only a few steps from the Viaduct and Britomart, this place would do well to think more laterally if it wants to pull diners who are not in-house guests.
Verdict: More foot soldier than knight


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Welcome back to another installment of Ammertime Podcast!
Part 1:
We discuss the philosophical question of "What is an acceptable model for the 9th age?"
We have a little birthday surprise for Ulrik!
Part 2:
Casimr, Henry and Kristoffer talk through a practice game for Battle of Copenhagen. We discuss a lot of Undying Dynasties, a little Highborn Elves and have a psychological crisis about some UD special rules!
Battle of Copenhagen:
Part 3
Rasmus and Henry interview special guest Red from the Chicago gaming Group, the Dice Dojo. We discuss the differences in the two meta's and how Red can modify his list to play in the Danish Meta.
We also talk about Rasmus and Henry's lists for the upcoming Battle of Copenhagen. Lists below!
Casimirs Undying Dynasties Castle:
Hierarch, master, 4 spells, 4+ wardPharao, Destroyer of eterneties, armour of destiny
Harbringer, Bronze breastplate, lucky charm
21 Archers, musician, champion
5 Scouts
5 Scouts
3 Chariots, free reform
3 Chariots, free reform
34 Necropolis guard, halberds, full command, Stalker standardSand scorpion
Rasmus Dread Elves:
Oracle, 4 spells, Wizard Master, alchemy, Familar, ring of fire
Cult Priest, Cult of Nabh, Divine Altar, Stalker's Standard, bronze breastplate Executioner's Blade, bsb, paired weapons
Prince, Headsman's Axe, Crimson Mail, Holy Icon, lucky charm, nabh
19 Corsairs, fc, , PW, flaming stanard, repeater handbows, nabh
10 Repeater Auxiliaries
10 Repeater Auxiliaries, musician
15 Dread Legionnaires, spears
13 Tower Gaurd, fc, Banner of Blood
5 Harpies
5 harpies
Raptor chariot
Raptor chariot
Dread Reaper
Dread Reaper
Dread Reaper
Henrys Highborn Elves Ancient Dragon (Daisy) list:
High Prince [Great Weapon, Ancient Dragon, Light Armour, The General]
Magic Items [Divine Icon, Lucky Shield]
Mage Wizard Master Asfad Scholar [Divination, 3 Learned Spells]
Magic Items [Dispel Scroll, Ring of Fire]
16 Citizen Archers Musician
5 Elein Reavers Champion Bows
35 Citizen Spears Full Command [Icon of the Relentless Company]
Giant Eagle
13 Lion Guard Champion, Musician
12 Lion Guard Champion
13 Sword Masters Champion, Musician
Sea Guard Reaper
Sea Guard Reaper
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DALLAS (AP) — A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that stopped a Dallas suburb's ban on illegal immigrants seeking housing.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Farmers Branch overstepped its authority in 2008 when it passed a law calling on the city's building inspector to check the immigration status of anyone wanting to rent an apartment who wasn't a U.S. citizen.
Under the law, illegal immigrants would have been barred from rental housing, and landlords who knowingly allowed them to stay could have their rental licenses barred.
The appellate court said the city was seeking to exclude illegal immigrants, particularly Latinos, under the guise of policing housing.
"Because the sole purpose and effect of this ordinance is to target the presence of illegal aliens within the City of Farmers Branch and to cause their removal, it contravenes the federal government's exclusive authority over the regulation of immigration and the conditions of residence in this country," the court's opinion stated.
The city had appealed the decision of U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle, who ruled two years ago that the law is unconstitutional after a lawsuit was filed by apartment owners and tenants.
William Brewer, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said he sensed a "strong undercurrent" throughout the appellate court's decision that Farmers Branch was engaged in discrimination. The ruling is particularly meaningful because the 5th Circuit has a reputation for conservatism, he said.
Brewer noted that the ruling affirms Boyle's decision that Farmers Branch must pay the plaintiffs' attorney fees, which before the appeal were nearly $2 million. He called that portion of the decision "a strong deterrent" against other cities seeking to pass similar laws.
"Clearly, both the trial court and the appellate court recognize that this ordinance was discriminatory," Brewer said.
Farmers Branch Mayor Bill Glancy said he will talk with City Council members before deciding whether to push for the matter to be heard by the full appeals court or the U.S. Supreme Court.
Glancy, who took office last year, said he supported the law and other efforts to keep illegal immigrants out of Farmers Branch, a suburb with nearly 29,000 residents northwest of Dallas.
"Basically, it has discouraged people who are illegal from coming into the city," he said.


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March Madness wasn't just going on in basketball last month. March was a very exciting month for my genealogical research. Ancestor mojo was in full force!
First, I was contacted by a new cousin who is related through my maternal line. Esther saw my tree on Ancestry and contacted me through another researcher that we have in common who is also a cousin to Esther and probably to me as well.
My maternal great, great grandparents were Albert Middlebrooks and Malinda [?] of Woodbury, Meriwether County, GA. They had a daughter Laura Middlebrooks. Albert and Malinda also had a son, Alexander "Alex" Middlebrooks who was my great grandfather. Laura and Alex were siblings. Laura Middlebrooks married Salis Stinson and they had a daughter Leola Stinson. Leola was Esther's grandmother. So, Esther and I have the same great, great grandmother. Yes, I said great, great grandmother, not grandparents. Therein is the mystery.
Esther's brother did very extensive research on the family. According to his research, Malinda's maiden name was Gill. I had assumed that Malinda's maiden name was Guise because that is the name listed on the death certificate for my great grandfather, Alex Middlebrooks. According to family lore, Malinda was part white (probably by a slave owner) and had a child or children fathered by her Gill slave owner. We don't know which child or children, but one could have been Laura. There are notes in the research that Malinda would go up to "the house" and say things like "here, take it, it ain't mine no way" referring to her child who was fathered by the slave owner. Fascinating stuff!!
Esther is full of family stories, and our conversations never fail to release another piece of the puzzle. I am anxious to visit her and go through those "six big binders" of information that her brother complied during his 30 years of research.
During our first conversation, I told Esther about my 2011 resolution to find a slave owner for my Middlebrooks line. So far, that has been a major brick wall. Recently, I found my great grandfather, Alex Middlebrooks, in the 1880 census for Woodbury, Meriwether County working as a laborer on the farm of R.T. Powell. His name was enumerated as "Elic Middiebrok". I didn't tell Esther any of this, thinking it could wait for another time.
I guess the ancestors thought differently because…….
Later that night Esther called me back and said I have something I want to read to you. She had found it in her brother's research. Then she read this one sentence… Alex Middlebrooks was a slave on the Powell plantation. I was speechless. Of course, there is much research to come before I can confirm this statement, but for now all I can say is WOW!!
And then…..
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a lady, Debra, who is a cousin on my paternal side.
Debra stumbled upon my blog when she googled to find information on Greene County, GA in preparation for an upcoming family reunion. Debra is responsible for writing up the family history. Reading my blog, she noticed that we had the same surnames in our tree, Brewer and Lawrence, and that my ancestors, like hers, were also from Greensboro, Greene County, GA. After a few emails and a phone conversation we easily made the connection.
My grandmother was Fannie Mae Lawrence and her mother was Lessie Brewer. Lessie's mother was Fannie Mae Brewer. Fannie Mae Brewer also had a son Whit Brewer who had a daughter Hester Brewer. Hester was Debra's grandmother. So, Debra and I have the same great, great grandmother – Fannie Mae Brewer. We were both thrilled to make this connection and quickly arranged to meet. Debra is just starting her journey into genealogy and her enthusiasm is refreshing.
Debra was raised by her grandmother, Hester Brewer, and has breathed new life into my Greene County research, and the Brewer line in particular. A few years ago while researching through some Greene County records at the GA Archives I found court papers concerning a custody battle for a child – Hester Brewer. Along with Hester, the other parties involved were Fannie Brewer and Whit Brewer. My focus was on something else at the time, so I made copies of the papers and filed them away for another day when I could examine them more closely. Of course, I never got back to them and they remained in that file until a few weeks ago when I met with Debra. She was thrilled to receive this piece of history about her grandmother. Debra had heard bits and pieces of the story, but the court papers pulled it all together. What a great story to begin her family history!
As Debra and I have discovered, it seems the ancestors have been working their mojo in our family for years through the generations. Follow along….Debra's grandmother, Hester Brewer, was raised in the household with my grandmother, Fannie Mae Lawrence, whose mother, Lessie Brewer, was Hester's aunt. Debra has an Aunt Ruth –Hester's daughter. I have an Aunt Ruth – Fannie Mae's daughter. Debra's Aunt Ruth was told that she is named after my Aunt Ruth. It gets better. Follow along….I have a cousin Zelphyr. Debra has a cousin Betty (who would be my cousin as well). Betty has a daughter, Zelphyr. Debra's cousin Betty named her daughter after someone she worked with whose name was Zelphyr. Betty and this Zelphyr became really good friends, so she named her daughter after that friend. As it turns out, that friend, Zelphyr, is also MY cousin Zelphyr! They were coworkers who became good friends, and never knew they were also cousins. As it turns out….We are all COUSINS!!


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A Supreme Court Nomination Next Week?
Updated 6:35 p.m.
By Paul Kane and Shailagh Murray
President Obama told senators at a White House meeting today that he would review names of potential Supreme Court nominees over the weekend, leading participants to believe an announcement could come within days, according to senior Senate aides who were briefed on the gathering.
Obama did not give out any names of potential successors to retiring Justice David Souter, nor did he give a specific timeline, said Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and one of four senior senators who attended the meeting. But the president encouraged Sessions, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) to follow up with written comments about nominees they would favor or thoughts on any of the nominees whose names had been discussed in the media as potential picks.
Sessions said the president did "most of the talking" at the 40-minute meeting gathering. "He had not made up his mind, and he had resolved to try to go forward as quickly as he can," Sessions told reporters. He did not indicate whether he would provide Obama written guidance on potential nominees who would provoke the strongest objections from Republicans.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters afterwards that Obama reiterated to the group that he "would choose a nominee who respects the Constitution and judicial precedent and also has the good judgment and common sense to reach fair decisions." The president urged senators to act quickly on the nomination to ensure that the new justice is confirmed before the court's new term begins in October, "with time to prepare beforehand."
Senate aides said Reid told Obama that the goal was a confirmation vote before the Senate departs on its summer recess. The official adjournment date is August 7.
Gibbs said senators concurred with Obama "that the process would be civil" and that the aim was for the nominee to receive a "fair hearing in which their views could be thoughtfully discussed in a way that highlights the strengths of the American justice system." Senate aides said Reid and Leahy noted their preference for a justice "with real-life experience."
Also today, Sessions announced that he was bringing in his own top staff to the Judiciary Committee, replacing the top echelon of aides that his predecessor, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), had compiled before he switched parties two weeks ago.
Brian Benczkowski, a veteran of the Justice Department, will serve as staff director. Benczkowski recently served as chief of staff to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and before that was deputy assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, and chief of staff at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
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Posted by: joelevin | May 14, 2009 2:54 PM
In case anyone's curious, Sotomayor and Kagan are being traded at about equal prices (30% likelihood) at the predictions market at Intrade.com. Following them are Wood (26), Wardlaw (15) and Granholm (10).
Numbers don't add up to 100 because the market is not perfectly efficient at low volumes...
Posted by: B2O2 | May 13, 2009 8:16 PM
Hey Carleen 19771 I just read this same report in my Arizona Republic on line and
saw an AP Breaking News Alert as well that
Good Old Flip Flop From Kenya President
Barack Hussein Obama will nominate his fool
incompetent Sec of Homeland Security Total
Screw Up Janet Napolitano to be the New
US Supreme Court Justice,so have you or
anyone heard anything out of the Obama Post
on this yet by now? WAPO was much better
at covering real news then this Endless
Obama Fluff Piece Obama PR Rag.
Posted by: Pam83 | May 13, 2009 7:55 PM
Heads Up,the Arizona Republic and AP are
now reporting Sleazy Barack Hussein Obama
the Flip Flop from Kenya,is seriously now
considering naming Obama's Incompetent
Sec of Homeland Security and Ex-Az Gov
Janet Napolitano for the upcoming vacate
US Supreme Court Justice position!!!...
It just keeps getting crazier all the time
as Obama must want to pay Napolitano off
with a nice high paying life time job to
get the Incompetent Village Idiot Loser
Janet Napolitano out of his hair at DHS!
God help us all if Napolitano becomes a
US Supreme Court Justice. Where is WAPO?
Posted by: Carleen19771 | May 13, 2009 7:30 PM
You forgot one:
Unlike republicans or republican's nominee's both parents must be of opposite sex and married.
Posted by: Bubbette1 | May 13, 2009 4:41 PM
Requirements for hussein's Supreme Court nominee:
Posted by: justjunkemail | May 13, 2009 7:16 PM
Why do I have feeling that looneyleft really is looneyright, or maybe even Uncle Dick.
Posted by: ksobserver1 | May 13, 2009 7:11 PM
Do you know how long it took to get John Robert confirmed? Sam Alito?
Posted by: JakeD | May 13, 2009 6:06 PM
The Republicans want to wait 60 days ? I guess dear old Rush has an other Court appearance in Florida on drug charges. Cheney's gay daughter's wedding to Ms Connie is next month & Gingrich is lost for words as usual. There isn't any other Republicans with any authority is there ?
Posted by: wasaUFO | May 13, 2009 4:41 PM
Let's see if Obama Trotsky's out Harold Koh to facilitate application of Sharia law. "Just say no to Koh".
Posted by: Bubbette1 | May 13, 2009 4:41 PM
Requirements for hussein's Supreme Court nominee:
1. Hispanic (NB: English speaking or understanding is NOT required.)
2. Female (NB: No test will be made to confirm this to allow janet "wrong-way" napolitano to think she actually has a shot at the nomination.)
3. Dues-paying Union member
4. Has one black parent and at least one illegal immigrant parent.
5. TAX CHEAT who has swindled the government out of at least $50,000 (more is BETTER).
6. Gay or a gay-rights advocate
7. Member of La Raza advocating AMNESTY plus unlimited government benefits for all illegals.
8. Totally, completely committed to the socialist philosophy of Karl Marx.
9. Experienced as a "community organizer" with ACORN who has enabled at least 1000 cases of voter fraud (more is BETTER).
10. An experienced drug user (as close to the hussein level as possible) and an advocate for the legalization of all husseinallucinogenics.
When the loony-left d-crats talk of their "big tent" they actually mean their "circus tent" - as that is what they need to contain this "diversity" freak show.
Posted by: LoonyLeft | May 13, 2009 4:19 PM
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Tudor Tales - Steering Column: Part 9
A few months back—June 2013 issue, to be exact—we half-tackled the steering on our 1933 Tudor project. I say half only because that's just what we did, the lower "half" of the Vega-based cross steer setup. The remaining portion, that being everything above the Borgeson Universal Company box (as with most things on the build), was still in the air at that point regarding what Jimmy White and I would need to complete the steering.
You may have noticed that for mock-up purposes, we'd incorporated an original '37 Ford steering column, complete with banjo wheel. A then-reluctant White eventually gave in, literally, offering up the parts for the cause. That was/is great for me, as it made for one less item (or if you dissect everything, "items") to procure for the project. Ultimately, it truly fit the cause—nice, excuse the term, patina, bolted right up to the sedan's dash, and had already been severed from its original box. (Later, as you're about to learn, that last part would play a near-pivotal role, no pun intended.)
So, for the time, the 1937 wheel and column hung proudly till we could focus our attention back to finishing up the steering. Well, that time has finally come. With the Borgeson box mounted and ancillary tie-rod/draglink connections made, the linkage continued between box and column.
Initially, I—not being as well versed on early Ford mechanical gear as I should—assumed the steering column's output shaft was "OE", simply what you'd have once the steering box itself had been peeled away from the column. Despite Jimmy's doubts, I proceeded by ordering a U-joint from Borgeson to fit the protruding splines and diameter of the steering shaft. Borgeson themselves questioned the application, but still sent what I requested, a 9/16-26xDD stainless joint (along with a 3/4-36xDD for the Vega box, as a length of stainless DD shaft for the intermediate connection). And so as I always do things—backward—I went to separate the shaft from the column after receiving the goods. Alas, everyone's disbelief was confirmed: rack-and-pinion input shaft.
Now, what's a 9/16-inch diameter shaft doing on a 1930s Ford steering column, you ask? Well, I'll tell you: at some point in time, someone, after severing the column from the box (the only part I got right), welded—very professionally I might add—a short section of steering shaft to the column, assumedly for the same purposes as ours. Now, under normal circumstances—and I highly stress that—welding steering shafts is a no-no. However, this had been done so well (not only was it perfectly TIG welded, it had been properly pinned in not one, but three spots) that I felt comfortable using it. Beyond the mating aspects, whoever performed the work also outfitted the column with Delron bushings top and bottom (along with a caged roller bearing below), disabled the stock ignition lockout, and as mentioned, it "fit" our application. We just had to clean everything up and make the proper connections. (Note: we don't recommend modifying steering shafts whatsoever. Manufacturers such as Borgeson and CPP make new shafts. Any compromise in a mechanical part as crucial as a steering shaft is a potential compromise to you and your passengers' personal safety!)
With column hung, parts in hand, and time to burn, we finally knocked out the remainder of the Tudor's steering—and made it possible, when necessary, to move the sedan around the shop without the aid of Go-Jacks!


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With its Human Adventure permanent exhibition and the Our Five Senses children's museum, the Deutsche Hygiene Museum is one of Dresden's most important and innovative cultural attractions.
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good example of this. Joan Crawford marries bon vivant Robert Montgomery, hoping to mend his wastrel ways. Montgomery refuses to assumes the proper responsibilities of a husband, so Crawford tries to make him jealous by taking up with more
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The following is a guest post by Jeff Donnell, President of NoMoreClipboard.
Health information exchanges have become quite adept at moving medical data from provider to provider on behalf of patients, but making that data available to those same patients has rarely been attempted – until recently.
Not including patients at the HIE exchange table is understandable, but ironic. Understandable for reasons ranging from policy challenges to a lack of standards to technical limitations. Ironic because HIEs are ideally positioned to aggregate data from multiple providers – leveraging the interfaces already in place with provider applications – and deliver that data to consumers, overcoming several of the major barriers to patient adoption and use of tools like PHRs and patient portals.
HIEs have recently grown interested in supporting electronic patient engagement, in large part based on provider inquiries regarding meaningful use stage two requirements. Many providers are looking for affordable alternatives to the tethered patient portals being offered by their EHR vendors, and they want to provide their patients with a solution that can be used across the care continuum. Increasingly, providers recognize that a patient who visits five different clinicians is not about to create five different patient portal accounts. Savvy providers realize that the HIE is well equipped to provide portable, interoperable solutions.
For HIEs interested in long-term sustainability, patient engagement makes perfect sense. The HIE can leverage its existing interfaces and aggregated data – making existing medical information available to patients from a single pipe, in a standardized format. The HIE can act as a conduit between consumers and clinicians – adding value for all parties. Providers can transmit data to patients, and recent CMS guidance indicates that all providers who contribute data to a shared portal (like that provided by an HIE) can count patients who use that portal toward their 5% patient participation requirement. Patients avoid having to collect data from every provider they see, and can populate a PHR or HIE portal account with existing electronic data. Everybody wins.
The value is evident, but what about those challenges? In the state of Indiana, we received an ONC Challenge Grant to figure out how to get HIE data in the hands of consumers with a PHR. We are fortunate to reside in a state with five well-established HIEs and a provider community eager to innovate, and we have spent the last two years working on those challenges (giving us a real appreciation for why the ONC affixed the challenge label to this grant program). We have addressed issues ranging from patient ID/Auth/Match to minor consent to provider skepticism to amended data use agreements. We have overcome any number of obstacles to get data flowing, and we are seeing increased levels of engagement and enhanced clinical outcomes.
We have learned any number of lessons to help other HIEs, state agencies and healthcare providers avoid pitfalls and make accelerated progress. We are eager to share what we have learned. Perhaps the most important lesson is to get started now – as crafting and implementing a patient engagement strategy takes time. As nobody appears to be manufacturing more time these days, HIEs and other organizations that envision sharing data with patients even a year or two down the road would be well advised to begin working in earnest, with an eye on making incremental progress.
Jeff Donnell is president of NoMoreClipboard, a web-based, Personal Health Record (PHR) management system designed to consolidate medical information in one convenient and secure location for easy retrieval and updates. NMC enables consumers to share personal or family member medical information with medical professionals electronically, reducing the need for repetitive medical paperwork. Jeff and the company are committed to developing PHR applications that are consumer-friendly, interactive, secure, mobile and interoperable. For more information, follow us on Twitter @NoMoreClipboard or visit www.NoMoreClipboard.com.


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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 26 (UPI) -- Daniel Alfredsson's second goal of the game, late in the third period, proved to be the game-winner Monday in the Ottawa Senators' 6-4 victory over Winnipeg.
Alfredsson scored with 2:33 to play in regulation, breaking a 4-4 tie and sending the Senators to their second straight win.
Kyle Turris had a goal and an assist while Chris Neil, Milan Michalek and Kaspars Daugavins all scored goals for the Senators.
Craig Anderson earned the victory with 44 saves as Ottawa, seeded seventh in the Eastern Conference, pulled to within three points of first-place Boston in the Northeast Division.
Winnipeg saw its fading playoff hopes dim further with its fourth loss in five games.
Antti Miettinen notched a pair of goals and Ondrej Pavelec made 29 saves for the Jets.