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1. The general rule is that a statute operates only prospectively unless there is clear language indicating the legislature intended otherwise. However, courts have recognized an exception to the presumption against retroactivity involving amendments designed purely to clarify the meaning of a prior enactment.
2. Even when the legislature expresses a clear intent for a statutory amendment to operate retroactively, courts must question whether such application would affect a defendant's vested or substantive rights and, thus, violate due process. If retroactive application of a statutory amendment prejudices a defendant's substantive rights, it will not be permitted by the courts.
3. The 2000 amendment to K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(5), which requires an appellate court to remand a case for resentencing when it reverses a defendant's primary conviction, was intended to clarify rather than change existing law, and its retroactive application does not prejudice a defendant's substantive rights.
Appeal from Shawnee District Court; RICHARD D. ANDERSON, judge. Opinion filed October 7, 2005. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Robert D. Hecht, district attorney, Deborah L. Hughes, assistant district attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for appellant.
Virginia A. Girard-Brady, assistant appellate defender, for appellee.
Before ELLIOTT, P.J., MALONE and McANANY, JJ.
MALONE, J.: The State appeals the trial court's denial of its motion to correct Pernell Montgomery's sentence. The issue is whether the 2000 amendment to K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(5), see L. 2000, ch. 37, sec. 1; K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4720(b)(5), which requires an appellate court to remand a case for resentencing when it reverses a defendant's primary conviction, can be applied retroactively to Montgomery's case. We hold the amendment was intended to clarify rather than change existing law, and its retroactive application to Montgomery's case does not prejudice his substantive rights.
On December 19, 1996, Montgomery was convicted by a jury of aggravated robbery, a severity level 3 person felony, and attempted rape, a severity level 4 person felony. At sentencing on January 24, 1997, the trial court established the aggravated robbery conviction as the primary offense for sentencing purposes; with a criminal history score of A, Montgomery received the standard presumptive sentence of 194 months' imprisonment. The trial court specifically noted that Montgomery's standard presumptive sentence for attempted rape would have been 162 months' imprisonment had his full criminal history score been applied to that offense. However, the attempted rape conviction, as the nonbase offense, was scored as a criminal history category I, and Montgomery received the standard presumptive sentence of 41 months' imprisonment, concurrent with the aggravated robbery sentence. Montgomery also received a postrelease supervision term of 36 months.
Montgomery appealed his convictions but raised no sentencing issues. On August 6, 1999, this court reversed Montgomery's aggravated robbery conviction and affirmed the conviction of attempted rape. State v. Montgomery, 26 Kan. App. 2d 346, 350, 988 P.2d 258 (1999).
On March 11, 2004, the State filed a motion to correct Montgomery's sentence. Montgomery was serving his postrelease supervision term for attempted rape at the time the State filed its motion. In fact, Montgomery's postrelease supervision had been revoked for a violation, and he was incarcerated when the motion was filed. In its motion, the State argued that when the aggravated robbery conviction was reversed on appeal, the attempted rape conviction became the primary or base offense. Thus, according to the State, Montgomery's 41-month sentence for attempted rape, which was calculated without applying the criminal history, became illegal. The State argued Montgomery should be resentenced for the attempted rape conviction so that his full criminal history score could be applied to that offense.
The trial court ruled that Montgomery's sentence for attempted rape was legal when imposed and did not become illegal when the primary conviction was reversed. The trial court noted that K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(5) was amended in 2000 to require an appellate court to remand a case for resentencing when it reverses the defendant's primary conviction. However, the trial court ruled that the amendment only applied prospectively and did not affect Montgomery's case. Thus, the trial court denied the motion. The State timely appeals.
The question of whether a sentence is illegal is a question of law over which an appellate court's review is unlimited. State v. Huff, 277 Kan. 195, 199, 83 P.3d 206 (2004). Furthermore, this case involves interpretation of the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (KSGA), K.S.A. 21-4701 et. seq., which is subject to unlimited review. State v. Engles, 270 Kan. 530, 532-33, 17 P.3d 355 (2001).
On appeal, the State reasserts its argument that once Montgomery's aggravated robbery conviction was reversed, the sentence for the attempted rape conviction no longer conformed to the sentencing guidelines and was therefore illegal. The State also argues that the 2000 amendment to 21-4720(b)(5) did not change the law, but instead clarified existing law. Thus, according to the State, the amendment should be retroactively applied to Montgomery's case. We shall focus on this argument as we deem it to be dispositive of the issue on appeal.
Some background on sentencing in multiple conviction cases might be helpful. Pursuant to the KSGA, subject to a few exceptions, all of a defendant's prior convictions must be counted in determining the defendant's criminal history classification for sentencing purposes. K.S.A. 21-4710. In a multiple conviction case, however, the criminal history is not applied to each count. Rather, the sentencing court must establish a "base sentence" for the "primary crime," which is the count with the highest severity level ranking. K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(2). The defendant's full criminal history score is applied in determining the base sentence. However, the remaining "nonbase" sentences are calculated without applying any criminal history score. K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(5). This is the case even when the sentencing court runs the sentences on each count concurrently. State v. Starr, 259 Kan. 713, 723, 915 P.2d 72 (1996).
The State argues that, in a multiple conviction case, if the defendant's primary conviction is reversed on appeal, the case should be remanded for resentencing in order for the court to determine the new base sentence. This is precisely how the KSGA now operates. The current statute, K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4720(b)(5), reads:
"Nonbase sentences will not have criminal history scores applied, as calculated in the criminal history I column of the grid, but base sentences will have the full criminal history score assigned. In the event a conviction designated as the primary crime in a multiple conviction case is reversed on appeal, the appellate court shall remand the multiple conviction case for resentencing. Upon resentencing, if the case remains a multiple conviction case the court shall follow all of the provisions of this section concerning the sentencing of multiple conviction cases." (Emphasis added.)
However, the statute in effect at the time of Montgomery's convictions, K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(5), did not contain the italicized portion. This language was added by amendment in 2000. See L. 2000, ch. 37, sec. 1. The State argues that when 21-4720(b)(5) was amended, the legislature was clarifying existing law, not changing the law; thus, retroactive application of the amendment to Montgomery's case is appropriate.
In determining whether the provisions of any statute apply prospectively or retroactively, the general rule is that a statute operates only prospectively unless there is clear language indicating the legislature intended otherwise. This rule has been modified where the statutory change is merely procedural or remedial in nature and does not prejudicially affect the substantive rights of the parties. State v. Martin, 270 Kan. 603, 608-09, 17 P.3d 344 (2001). Courts have recognized an exception to the presumption against retroactivity involving amendments designed purely to clarify the meaning of a prior enactment. See In re Care & Treatment of Hunt, 32 Kan. App. 2d 344, 358-60, 82 P.3d 861, rev. denied 278 Kan. 845 (2004).
In Hunt, the court addressed the retroactivity of amendments to the Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act, K.S.A. 59-29a01 et seq., and ultimately declined to apply the "clarifying amendment exception" to that Act. 32 Kan. App. 2d at 358-62. However, in suggesting factors to determine whether the exception applies, the Hunt court noted that "'courts may rely upon a declaration by the enacting body that its intent is to clarify the prior enactment.'" 32 Kan. App. 2d at 361 (quoting Piamba Cortes v. American Airlines, Inc., 177 F.3d 1272, 1284 [11th Cir. 1999], cert. denied 528 U.S. 1136 [2000]).
Here, the State has provided numerous references to the legislative history of the 2000 amendment to K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(5). Minutes of both the Senate Subcommittee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on the Judiciary regarding Senate Bill 488 (2000) indicate the amendment was intended to clarify existing law on sentencing in multiple conviction cases:
"SB 488 amends the sentencing guidelines law to clarify the law in a multiple conviction case when a defendant has the primary crime conviction reversed on appeal." (Emphasis added.) Minutes, Senate Subcomm. on the Judiciary, February 21, 2000 (S.B. 488).
"Representative Shari Weber appeared before the committee as a proponent of the bill. She explained that it would clarify the law with regard to if the primary crime of conviction in a multiple conviction case was reversed." (Emphasis added.) Minutes, House Comm. on the Judiciary, March 13, 2000 (S.B. 488).
Further, the Legislative Research Department's Supplemental Note on S.B. 488 indicates the amendment was a clarification of the law:
"SB 488 clarifies the criminal sentencing law to provide that if the primary crime of conviction in a multiple conviction case is reversed, the appellate court is required to remand the case to district court for re-sentencing." (Emphasis added.)
We agree with the State that the legislature's intent in passing the 2000 amendment to K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(5) was to clarify how the statute was to operate rather than to change the existing law. However, the analysis concerning retroactive application of the amendment does not stop here. Even when the legislature expresses a clear intent for a statutory amendment to operate retroactively, courts must question whether such application would affect a defendant's vested or substantive rights and, thus, violate due process. In re Hunt, 32 Kan. App. 2d at 362 (relying on Owen Lumber Co. v. Chartrand, 276 Kan. 218, 220-28, 73 P.3d 753 [2003]). If retroactive application of a statutory amendment prejudices a defendant's substantive rights, it will not be permitted by the courts. In re Hunt, 32 Kan. App. 2d at 362; see also State v. Barnes, 278 Kan. 121, 129, 92 P.3d 578 (2004) (retroactive application of statutory amendment to penalty against manufacturing methamphetamine determined unconstitutional as violative of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution, Art. I, § 10).
Here, in denying the State's motion to correct Montgomery's sentence, the trial court stated: "In any event, because application of the amendment would nearly quadruple Montgomery's sentence, the amendment must be viewed as a substantive change in the law which can only be applied prospectively." At first blush, the trial court's analysis seems persuasive. On closer examination, however, it is clear that the amendment merely outlines the procedure the courts should follow in determining a base sentence when a defendant's primary conviction is reversed on appeal.
As the trial court noted at Montgomery's sentencing in 1997, the standard presumptive sentence for attempted rape would have been 162 months' imprisonment had that been his base sentence at the time. The KSGA has always provided that a defendant's full criminal history shall be applied to the base sentence. The State is only attempting to have the attempted rape conviction established as the primary offense now that the aggravated robbery conviction has been reversed. The sentence the State now seeks to impose on Montgomery for attempted rape is not additional punishment to that prescribed by law at the time he committed the offense. For instance, had Montgomery's aggravated robbery conviction been overturned by the trial court (e.g., on a postjudgment motion), Montgomery would have originally received 162 months' imprisonment for attempted rape. Moreover, Montgomery's original sentence, with the aggravated robbery conviction, was a controlling term of 194 months' imprisonment. Thus, if resentencing occurs as suggested by the State, Montgomery's new sentence of 162 months' imprisonment will still be less than the original sentence. Cf. State v. Heywood, 245 Kan. 615, 620, 783 P.2d 890 (1989) (sentencing following remand is not presumed vindictive unless the new sentence exceeds the original sentence).
In summary, we conclude that the 2000 amendment to K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(5) was intended to clarify rather than change existing law. See K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4720(b)(5). We also conclude that retroactive application of the amendment to Montgomery's case does not prejudice his substantive rights and, thus, does not violate due process. Rather, application of the amendment to Montgomery's case only results in Montgomery receiving the sentence for attempted rape he would have received in 1997 had it been his only crime of conviction at the time.
Finally, Montgomery argues that the State has waived or abandoned its right to seek resentencing by not raising the issue at the time this court reversed the aggravated robbery conviction. He argues the State was required to have filed a motion for rehearing with this court or a petition for review with the Kansas Supreme Court in order to preserve this issue for consideration. We disagree. Montgomery's direct appeal raised no sentencing issues, and this court never expressly modified Montgomery's sentence in its original decision. It appears from the record that the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) took it upon itself to adjust Montgomery's controlling sentence in this case to 41 months' imprisonment without any order from our court. Although the State could have filed its motion sooner than it did, we conclude the State never waived or abandoned its right to do so.
Had Montgomery completely served his sentence for attempted rape and been discharged from KDOC custody at the time the State filed its motion, we would question whether the courts retained any jurisdiction over Montgomery to correct his sentence. However, at the time the State filed its motion, Montgomery was still serving his postrelease supervision term which was an integral component of his original sentence. See K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4704(e)(2); McComb v. State, 32 Kan. App. 2d 1037, 1043, 94 P.3d 715, rev. denied 278 Kan. 846 (2004). In fact, Montgomery was incarcerated on a postrelease supervision violation when the State's motion was filed. Thus, the trial court retained jurisdiction over Montgomery's case. Regardless of what Montgomery's current KDOC status may be, the courts have continued to retain jurisdiction over the case while the appeal has been pending.
For the reasons stated herein, the trial court's denial of the State's motion to correct Montgomery's sentence is reversed and the case is remanded with directions for the trial court to resentence Montgomery for attempted rape as the primary conviction, with credit for time served.
Reversed and remanded with directions.


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Edward Is the Phoenix
As a boy, I loved a novel called "David and the Phoenix." You've never heard of it.
It came out in 1957, 15 years before I was born. But that's not why you never heard of it. You have probably heard of plenty of books that came out before I was born.
You haven't heard of it because it is not an unmodified classic. It may be a cult classic. I like to think that another reason you haven't heard of it is because if you had, the following story wouldn't exist, and I personally need more stories like the following.
As an adult, I became a writer myself. A few years into my career, circa 2002, I rediscovered the book, which had recently been reissued by a small press.
The author had written numerous other books; "David and the Phoenix" was his first and his last came out in 1985. You've never heard of him, either. His name is Edward Ormondroyd. He wouldn't have minded that you haven't heard of him.
But see, thing is, I minded.
The summer of 2011, I thought I might want to write about Ormondroyd for my blog. I found very little about him on the Internet. I thought it likely that he was dead.
I am always surprised whenever I see that someone whose work I loved in a younger day has almost no or literally no online presence—barely a photo and nary an interview. But then I get excited because it means maybe I can be the one to help change that.
So I contacted Purple House Press, the small press that republished "David and the Phoenix." To my surprise, the publisher responded. To my surprise, he said Ormondroyd (born 1925) is alive. And he said he'd be happy to forward my e-mail to him.
No response.
I asked if the publisher would try again, and he kindly obliged.
No response again. I asked what my options were and the publisher suggested I send a letter by postal mail. So I did.
Paper was the magic potion.
Ormondroyd responded by mail, and by hand. In articulate prose, he had written that he was flattered I asked to interview him and happy to participate. He gave me his wife's e-mail and I sent him the questions.
"Cry you mercy, sir! Forty-one questions!" he wrote. (Actually, his wife wrote, taking dictation from him.)
Yet he graciously answered all 41, with verve. I posted the two-part interview on my blog that October. He then became Edward to me.
Yet in terms of moving experiences, that turned out to be mere prologue to the Edward-related event that would take place in upstate New York two months later. I believe it is unprecedented in the known history of author appearances.
In the interview, Edward had said that, but for two "unofficial" (my term) exceptions, he never spoke in schools, as many children's authors do today.
A humble and happy man, he didn't say this with any discernible hint of regret or longing, but I saw an opportunity just the same.
By pure, freakish chance, at the same time I had been tracking down Edward, I was also booking an author visit at Trumansburg Elementary in Trumansburg, NY…which, I would soon learn, happens to be the town in which Edward lives.
Apparently, the fact that he is a published author was largely unknown among the townsfolk.
More broadly, "David and the Phoenix" remains beloved by certain adult readers yet largely unknown among the current generation (though it could be one of the books to which HarryPotter owes some debt).
I believed kids and Trumansburgians alike would be most interested in Edward's books and in Edward himself.
So I asked Purple House if they could discreetly donate any copies of "David and the Phoenix" to the school so the kids could take turns reading it in the month leading up to my presentation. The publisher kindly agreed and sent 30 paperbacks at no charge. And I asked the school librarian if the kids could read the book before I came. She agreed. The kids were not told that their assignment to read Edward's novel had any connection to my upcoming author visit.
Edward had already planned to attend my talk—anonymously, he thought. He, his wife Joan, and his friend sat at the side of the room, calling no attention to themselves.
About halfway through, I ambushed the audience.
I said that I wanted to highlight a few books that influenced me as a child. I showed "Where the Wild Things Are." The kids knew it, of course. I showed "The Mouse and the Motorcycle." Some knew that one, too. Then I put "David and the Phoenix" on the screen. The room crackled with enthusiasm, louder than for the previous two. I innocently asked the kids if they knew the book and they breathlessly shouted "We just read that!" As I suspected, their reaction quickly turned to disbelief: what are the chances this guest author would mention the very book by an unrelated author that, it just so happens, they all just read?
I asked if they knew anything about Edward Ormondroyd. I don't know how they knew, but two boys called out that he lived in Trumansburg.
I said they were right, and, as a matter of fact, he's sitting…right…over…here.
I gestured to him to "introduce" him to the crowd—a surprised author greeting surprised fans...for the first time. Applause. Wide eyes. Lumped throats. Edward stood and gave a gentlemanly bow.
To close my program, I announced a Q&A. Some hands went up. I said this Q&A would be different than what I normally do. I said today, you can ask questions not only of me but also of Edward—at which more hands shot up and most everyone raising them turned to Edward. (I had not cleared this with him in advance, but he continued being a good sport.)
After the questions were over and the kids had filed out and Edward was talking to the school librarian, Joan told me that Edward had been touched. Edward's friend said seeing Edward get such long-deserved attention brought tears to his eyes. Edward would later tell that me he had not thought I would involve him in my presentation, let alone even mention him.
After the presentation, Edward and I posed for two photos. One was a standard side-by-side smiling one. The other, at Edward's suggestion, was each of us throwing up bunny ears behind the other's head.
His wife shrugged and said authors of books for children never fully grow up.
As if this weren't memorable enough, the Ormondroyds kindly invited me to their house for dinner (featuring vegetables they grew themselves) that evening. Adding to the honor, fellow author Bruce Coville (whom I'd run into online but never in person) joined us.
After dinner, Joan took a picture of the three authors. Bruce called it "three generations of David and the Phoenix"—the author (holding the lone first edition hardcover he owns), a fan from circa the first edition (Bruce), and a fan from circa the 1981 Scholastic edition (me).
Let's recap how many surprises were bundled into this story:
• surprise on me: that Edward lives in same town as a school I was booked to speak at
• surprise on Edward: that I was going to shine the spotlight on him during my presentation and that the kids read "David and the Phoenix" in prep
• surprise on the kids: that Edward was there and that they'd read "David and the Phoenix" BECAUSE Edward was there
• surprise on the people of Trumansburg: that Edward lives in town
The press release I'd sent began with this plea: "Due to the surprise nature of this event, please do not run story (or even discuss locally) until after!" The Ithaca Journal (the region's daily paper) covered it.
The day prior, I had seen the film "Hugo" (itself based on a book for young people), in which a younger person shows an older person (silent era filmmaker Georges Méliès) who had a significant creative impact that he (the older person) is still fondly remembered. I felt like this Edward Experiment was a Hugo moment of my own.
It would not have been possible without Trumansburg Elementary librarian Gail Brisson. She was immediately willing to take on this additional effort and she managed to keep the whole thing a secret for a month, even from Joan…who, it just so happens, volunteers in the school.
Like the fabled Phoenix of his book, Edward (as author) had risen again. It didn't require a pyre…but it did require fire.

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As our thoughts continue to remain with the millions of Americans who have suffered from the effects of destructive storm that has hit the eastern half of the U.S., we also take comfort in knowing that Americans have a resolve and fortitude unlike any other nation. Hard-hit cities in New York and New Jersey will rebuild and prosper once again. U.S. history provides countless evidence of that.
With an initial estimate of some $20 billion in damages, there can be no doubt that the U.S. economy will be affected both today and tomorrow. In the short term, one can only expect that the economy will experience some slowdown. While the Northeast may occupy a small geographical footprint relative to all of the continental U.S., the region affected is perhaps the most populous and urbanized part of the United States, with a great deal of economic activity. Clearly, the insurance companies will be affected as millions if not billions of P&C claims will undoubtedly affect underwriting profitability. Segments of retail will be affected, 33but the extent of that damage will only be known in the days and weeks ahead as we get more accurate damage data.
In the longer term, it is expected that the economic impact will turn positive. The great thing about America is the unity we display during times of crisis. According to Mohammed El-Erian, CEO and Co-CIO of PIMCO, predicts that after several weeks of negative economic impact overall GDP should turn slightly positive. In essence, the increased economic activity that will ultimately result from Sandy's aftermath will bode well for economic growth. If this increased economic activity can help put more Americans to work right before the holiday season that will be a really positive thing.
With the demand for reconstruction goods and services likely to pick up in the weeks and months ahead, Home Depot (HD) and Lowe's (LOW) will are likely to be impacted in a positive way. I suspect that general retailers will fare quite well not only as folks replenish essential supplies, but also get ready for the holiday season. Wal-Mart (WMT) and Target (TGT) are certainly the two big ones, but names like Dollar General (DG), which has more stores than Wal-Mart, will also be very favorably impacted in the longer term.
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Just as it makes no sense to invest based on a fad, I would certainly not anchor an investment based on a singular event. But the unique opportunity here is that state and government coffers are financially strapped and don't have the spending flexibility as before. Perhaps this storm will be the catalyst that gets private enterprise expenditures going which, to a free market capitalist like me, will be a positive for the economy.


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Spencer Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1 Dash Orange Juice.
1/3 Apricot Brandy. (3/4 oz Brizard Apry)
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass Add a cherry (Toschi Amarena Cherry) and squeeze orange peel on top.
Very mellifluous: has a fine and rapid action: for morning work.
With such a positive description, I had high hopes for this one. I went with a relatively soft, fruit friendly gin with the Plymouth and hoped for the best.
I dunno, not sure if it is the gin choice, or the sad deserted 5 year old bottle of Brizard Apry, but I really wasn't feeling this. Funny, I think Brizard Apry was one of my first great ingredient quests, predating the Savoy Project. Just as I started looking for a bottle, it disappeared from the shelves. I must have bothered the liquor store manager for 6 months before it finally became available again.
The Spencer is just kind of bland and sweet. Maybe a more generous hand with the bitters? Or perhaps the Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot would be an improvement. I have had very good luck with it in the past. Unfortunately, I need a new bottle.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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There are plenty of places I'd rather shop than Wal Mart. Believe me.
From the moment I wander through the automatic doors to be greeted by an automatic greeter and lulled into automatic shopping mode, I feel guilty of crimes against humanity. All I can do is keep my head down and pray that God will forgive me for playing sidekick to an evil corporation intent upon running small businesses into the ground and taking over the world one smiley face at a time.
But the Evans family is on a budget just like everyone else, and economics often trump conviction…especially when Oreos are two for five dollars. So I've grown familiar with the various aisles, absently aware of the ebb and flow of the crowds, oblivious to the endless beeping of the barcode scanners.
By the time I reach the check-out line, I've usually checked out of reality. Sometimes I neglect to place the divider between my groceries and my neighbor's. Sometimes I'm too tired to meet the cashier's eye. Sometimes I forget there are other people around me.
But occasionally, a fellow shopper will capture my attention in such a way that forces me to confront the living, breathing mass of humanity that surrounds me.
Yesterday it was a small, white-haired woman whose thin frame was so severely bent over that she could barely reach the products on the middle shelves. To adjust to this handicap, she kept her arms close to her chest like a squirrel and shuffled down the aisles with her head cocked to one side. I could see a wrinkled hand grasp the bar of the grocery cart now and then, but I couldn't really see her face.
Sitting in the cart among her groceries, was a little boy—probably seven or eight years old. The boy had brown hair and freckles, and his shoes were untied. I thought I heard him humming as I passed.
I looked around to see if there were any other adults accompanying the unlikely pair, but it soon became clear that the two were going it alone. Perhaps the boy was being raised by his grandmother. Or perhaps she was his great-grandmother. Whatever the case, it was obvious that their trip to Wal Mart required a lot more time—and a lot more courage—than my own.
The whole thing got me thinking about the people of Wal Mart. The popular Web site that bears the name is certainly funny, with its unbelievable pictures of strange-looking shoppers, submitted by readers who capture the images on their cell phones. Living in a rural community, where mullets have yet to reach extinction, I confess to releasing more than a few knowing chuckles while visiting the site.
But as I contemplated the physical handicap that encumbered the old woman I spotted in the pasta aisle, the mental and economic handicaps that no doubt plague many of the victims of Peopleofwalmart.com, and my own emotional and spiritual handicaps that keep me from connecting with and loving my fellow human beings, I realized that the people of Wal Mart are not "them," but "us." We're all just a bunch of crazy, broken people—whether we wear it on the outside or not.
I don't care what my progressive friends say; there's little doubt in my mind that if Jesus lived among us today, he'd be hanging out at Wal Mart, not to endorse the company's business practices, but to love on the people—the poor, the sick, the whackos, the mulleted, the morbidly obese, the sluts, the drunks, the perverts, the lost, the lonely, the bent over, the motherless, and the tragically disconnected.
Perhaps I'd catch a glimpse of him now and then if I simply payed more attention.
What kind of people do you encounter at Wal Mart? What can you learn from them? What do you think of Peopleofwalmart.com?
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by Jason Gamel, ARDA State Affairs
April 30, 2012
On Friday, April 20, several timeshare industry representatives testified in front of the Maui County Council to oppose Mayor Alan Arakawa's proposed increase in the timeshare property tax rate from $15.00 to $16.15 per $1,000 of assessed value. While we remain positive about preventing an increase, the County also became aware that its prior property tax revenue assumptions were overstated, meaning the Mayor will have to revise his budget to include $6 million in revenue increases. At this time there is no indication that Maui County would be interested in cutting spending vs. raising more revenue, explaining the proposed increase in the timeshare property tax rate. Click here to view the testimony submitted by ARDA, ARDA-Hawaii, and ARDA-ROC. We'd like to thank the representatives from Starwood Vacation Ownership, Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Diamond Resorts International, Sands of Kahana Resort, ARDA, ARDA-ROC (Resort Owners' Coalition), and the law firm of Imanaka, Kudo and Fujimoto for their presence at the hearing on April 20 as well as the owners and developers who submitted testimony.
On May 3rd, the Maui County Council will have another public hearing to take testimony on the proposed property tax rates, including the timeshare rate. Even though the industry has made its position clear to the council over the past two years, ARDA and ARDA-ROC will continue to express its concerns about any increase to the timeshare tax rate.
We need your help. Please share your concerns with the County Council Members. For contact information or to review talking points on this subject, visit the Maui County Tax Center on the ARDA-ROC website.
Unfortunately, this will not be the last time that ARDA, ARDA-ROC, and the timeshare industry will be doing battle with the Maui County Council on property tax issues. Rest assured that we are continuing to look at ways that the industry can convince the council that taxing the timeshare industry is not a long term solution for the county's budget issues. Please check back with us in the next few weeks for more information.
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The Boston Marathon bombing was named the sports story of the year Friday in a vote conducted by the Associated Press.
Ninety-six ballots were submitted by U.S. editors and news directors. Voters were asked to rank the top 10 sports stories of the year, with the first-place story receiving 10 points, the second-place story nine points and so on.
The marathon attack received 761 points and 67 first-place votes. The No. 2 sports story, Lance Armstrong's admission of doping, had five first-place votes and 517 points.
Two pressure cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the April 15 race in an area packed with fans cheering the passing runners. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured, including at least 16 who lost limbs.
Authorities say brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechens from Russia who emigrated to the United States as children, planned and carried out the bombings in retaliation for U.S. involvement in Muslim countries.
The rest of the top 10:
3. NFL concussion settlement
4. Baseball drug bans
5. Aaron Hernandez arrest
6. Red Sox win World Series
7. Ravens win Super Bowl
8. Auburn's turnaround
9. Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax
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Grandson of Bobby Bowden killed in single-car accident
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April 2013
In summer semester 2013, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business will offer students a new opportunity to earn an entrepreneurship minor in just six weeks.
Six two-credit classes are offered, and students will identify a business opportunity to develop throughout the six-week period.
The classes include new venture fundamentals, management, marketing, financing, planning, and social responsibility. These courses will guide students in learning to identify and develop new products and services; start, launch, and manage a new business venture; and develop entrepreneurial leadership skills.
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RENO – Nevada used an 11-run sixth inning to rip open a close game in the opener of a three-game series at Nevada and defeat UC Santa Barbara, 12-2, on Friday afternoon.
Nevada trailed 2-1 entering the sixth. The outlook of the game would change dramatically in the biggest inning of the season for the Wolf Pack.
On the 10th pitch of his first at bat in the inning, Austin Byler tied the game at two with a single into right field to score Kyle Hunt with no one out. After Byler's RBI-single, Brooks Klein put a ball back up the middle to load the bases and knock UCSB starter Austin Pettibone out of the game.
With the bases loaded, reliever Cameron Cunio threw a wild pitch that allowed Brett Jones to score from third and put Nevada ahead 3-2. After Cunio walked Kewby Meyer to load the bases again, he was relieved by Jeremy Peterson. Peterson could not improve on the work of the previous UCSB pitchers, walking Garrett Yrigoyen to make the score 4-2 in favor of the Pack.
A bases-clearing triple from Carlos Escobar Jr. followed, breaking the game open and putting Nevada up 7-2. After another double-digit pitch at bat by Jay Anderson resulted in a single to right to score Escobar, Nevada led 8-2, and still wasn't done scoring.
A bunt single from Hunt, followed by a single to right by Jones made the score 9-2 Pack. Byler's second hit in the inning was his third home run of the season, as he blasted the first pitch he saw from reliever Jared Wilson over the right field fence to make the score 12-2 Nevada.
The Gauchos actually jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning on RBI hits by Joey Wallace and Greg Mahle. The freshman Mahle collected two of the Gauchos' five hits.
Freshman Austin Pettibone, making his first Friday start, went five innings, allowing eight hits and five earned runs. Jeremy Peterson allowed five earned runs on four hits in 0.1 of an inning.
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Snow sculpting starts with a giant block of compacted snow, usually about 10 by 10 feet. The blocks are delivered in time to let artists work on them for two to three days.
"The ideal outdoor temperature is about 10 degrees," said sculptor Tom Queoff. "But it's never too cold." When it is warmer than that, or very sunny, the artists can't do as many details because of melting.
Snow sculpting is very physical work. It's not unusual to see the artists working in shirt sleeves on a frigid day. They use saws and brushes but also make their own tools. Even outdoor barbecue tools can make an appearance.
As long as it is cold outside, visitors often can see the sculptures a week or more afterward.
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Ed Ehlen, owner of a flooring company, said he wanted an environmentally friendly lawn, so he installed artificial turf at his new, $4 million home.
But officials in this Gulf Coast city of 15,000 year-round and 35,000 seasonal residents have refused to grant Ehlen the certificate of occupancy he needs to move in until the plastic grass is removed.
Ehlen has painted a part of his house pink with purple and green polka dots as a protest.
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But critics say it absorbs less rainwater, increasing runoff. And Greg Niles, Marco Island's community development director, said city officials conducted tests that found that rubber pellets in the turf could be dislodged by heavy rain and flooding and get into the storm sewers and canals, threatening birds and fish.
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Yesterday, Facebook announced "Home," a home screen you can add-on to an Android phone.
At the end of the show, CEO Mark Zuckerbeg gave a little speech outlining his vision for the future of computing, and how "Home" fits into it.
Developer Dustin Curtis transcribed the remarks, calling them "the epitome of a vision statement" and "the philosophy driving Facebook's work."
Here is Zuckerberg's vision:
At one level, [Home] is just the next mobile version of Facebook. At a deeper level, I think this can start to be a change in the relationship that we have with how we use computing devices. For more than thirty years, computers have mostly just been about tasks, and they had to be-they were too expensive and clunky and hard to use, so you wouldn't really want to use them for anything else. But the modern computing device has a very different place in our lives. It's not just for productivity and business, although it's great for that too. It's for making us more connected, more social, more aware.
Home, by putting people first, and then apps-by just flipping the order-is one of many small but meaningful changes in our relationship with technology over time.
When I think about the world today, what amazes me most is the number of people who are getting on the Internet every day and how it's improving their lives as they join this modern knowledge economy. I grew up with the Internet, and I can't really imagine a world without sharing, and messaging, and searching, but actually only about a third of the world is on the Internet today-a little more than two billion people. So we're really very close to the beginning of this. If you look out, maybe five or ten years, when all five billion people who have feature phones are going to have smart phones, we're soon going to be living in a world where the majority of people who have a smart phone-a modern computing device-will have never seen in their lives what you and I call a "computer."
So, just think about that for a moment.
The very definition of what a computer is and what our relationship with it should be hasn't been set for the majority of the world. And when it is, I think a lot of that definition is going to be around people first. We're about to see the most empowered generation of people in history, and it's really an honor to be able to work on these problems.
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Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 08/07/2010 10:05 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
Phoronix published a review on the AMD Radeon HD 4250 880G on Linux
Back in May we looked at the AMD Radeon HD 4290 integrated graphics Linux performance of the 890GX motherboard chipset found on the MSI 890GXM-G65 and many other motherboards. This ATI Radeon 4290 (890GX) wasn't the most compelling integrated graphics processor we found with its OpenGL performance using the proprietary Catalyst driver being significantly lower than even the cheapest PCI Express graphics cards. X-Video Bitstream Acceleration, the method whereby AMD exposes their UVD2 engine capabilities on Linux, was also rather useless (and to this day still is the case) that makes this an ineffective Linux Home Theater PC too. Since the launch of the 890GX chipset, AMD rolled out the 880G chipset as a less-expensive solution for motherboard vendors and offers a stripped-down graphics processor of what is found in the 890GX and is branded as the ATI Radeon HD 4250. Today we have a few benchmarks of the Radeon HD 4250 (880G) under Linux for your viewing pleasure.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York Times correspondent who has worked in China for more than a decade was forced to leave the country on Monday because his visa wasn't renewed, the newspaper said.
Chris Buckley, a 45-year-old Australian, flew to Hong Kong with his family amid increased pressures on foreign journalists by the Chinese government, which is concerned over media scrutiny of its top leaders.
Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson said the newspaper was hopeful that the Chinese government would renew Buckley's journalist visa soon so he and his family can return.
"I regret that Chris Buckley has been forced to relocate outside of China despite our repeated requests to renew his journalist visa," she said.
She said she also hoped the Chinese would issue journalism credentials to Philip Pan, who is designated to serve as the newspaper's bureau chief in Beijing.
The newspaper reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to comment on the departure of Buckley, who has worked as a correspondent in China since 2000 and joined the Times in September.
The Times said six other correspondents in China had their visas for 2013 renewed in a timely manner, including David Barboza, who wrote articles about the finances of the family of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. The newspaper said the day it published the results of a long investigation, it found its English-language website and its new Chinese-language site were blocked within China, and they remain so.
Similar actions have been taken against Bloomberg News after it published a detailed report on the wealth of China's new top leader, Xi Jinping, the Times said.
The Committee to Protect Journalists reported Monday that a correspondent for Al-Jazeera was forced to leave the country in May.


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SALT LAKE CITY - Utah construction company Holmes & Holmes Industrial, Inc. will pay three former employees $230,000 and improve its future employment practices to settle a race harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The EEOC filed suit against Holmes in September 2010, charging that the company subjected Antonio and Joby Bratcher and a class of African-American employees to racial harassment and retaliation. In a ruling last year, Judge Dale A. Kimball found that the Bratchers and class member James Buie were subjected to an objectively hostile work environment based on race. The court observed that the site superintendent, Paul E. Facer, referred to the African-American employees as "n----rs" or a variation of that word almost every time he spoke to them. Other Holmes employees used the term "n----r-rigging" while working there, and racist graffiti was evident both inside and outside portable toilets on the work site. Finally, the EEOC charged. Holmes fired one of the harassment victims for complaining about it.
The court also noted that the employer's anti-harassment policy was "unreasonable as a matter of law" because it directed employees to report harassment to their harassing supervisor with no alternative means to bypass that supervisor.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC et al. v. Holmes & Holmes Indus., Inc., No. 10-CV-955, D. Utah) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The Bratchers intervened in the EEOC's suit and alleged claims under Section 1981.
"Employers have an obligation to protect their employees from the use of racial slurs and epithets," said EEOC General Counsel David Lopez. "This case is our latest in a series of successes to combat racial harassment in the workplace. This conduct has no place nearly fifty years after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
The $230,000 to be paid to the victims is the maximum Holmes would have to pay if all Title VII claims were won at trial for all three victims; each victim will receive $50,000 for compensatory damages, the maximum cap under the 1991 Civil Rights Act, and one victim will receive $80,000 in back pay because he was fired.
In addition to the monetary relief, Holmes also committed to implement several affirmative steps to prevent and address race-based conduct on the worksite. These measures include: a comprehensive training regimen on discrimination (including racial discrimination and harassment); discussions of harassment in work site meetings on a monthly basis; the provision of an external ombudsman to receive and investigate complaints of discrimination or retaliation; and a detailed review and revision of Holmes' policies and procedures concerning protected-class discrimination and retaliation.
"I am pleased that the investigation of this case was done by our sister agency, the Utah Antidiscrimination and Labor Division; they share in this success," said Rayford Irvin, district director of the EEOC's Phoenix District Office. "I am also proud of our legal team and everything they have done to successfully prosecute this case. Preventing workplace harassment through systemic litigation and investigation is one of the six national priorities identified by the EEOC's Strategic Enforcement Plan."
EEOC Trial Attorney Richard Sexton said, "The use of racial slurs is unacceptable in any workplace. The Bratchers and Mr. Buie never should have been subjected to this egregious conduct while simply trying to make a living."
Information on some other recent EEOC cases dealing with race harassment can be found at:
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. The EEOC's Phoenix District Office has jurisdiction for Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and part of New Mexico (including Albuquerque). Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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High prevalence of opioid use by Social Security disability recipients, reports Medical Care
More than 40 percent of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) recipients take opioid pain relievers, while the prevalence of chronic opioid use is over 20 percent and rising, reports a study in the September issue of Medical Care.
The high proportion of SSDI recipients who are chronic opioid users—in many, at high and very high daily doses—"is worrisome in light of established and growing evidence that intense opioid use to treat non-malignant [non-cancer] pain may not be effective and may confer important risk," write Dr Nancy Elizabeth Morden and colleagues of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Lebanon, N.H.
Rising Prevalence of Opioid Use by SSDI Recipients
The researchers analyzed trends in use of prescription opioids (morphine-related drugs) among disabled Medicare beneficiaries under age 65 between 2007 and 2011. Nearly all under-65 Medicare beneficiaries are SSDI recipients; patients who go on SSDI are eligible for Medicare after two years.
Consistent with reports of an "opioid epidemic" in the United States, the results showed high and rising prevalence of opioid use by SSDI recipients. The percentage of beneficiaries taking opioids increased from 2007 through 2010. In 2011, the most recent year with available data, prevalence dipped slightly to 43.7 percent.
The percentage of these beneficiaries with chronic opioid use rose steadily, from 21.4 percent in 2007 to 23.1 percent in 2011. Chronic opioid users received numerous opioid prescriptions—at least six and generally 13 per year—typically prescribed by multiple doctors. Women were at greater risk of becoming chronic opioid users than men.
Among chronic opioid users, the average "morphine equivalent dose" (MED) also dipped in 2011. Still, nearly 20 percent of chronic users were taking a dose of at least 100 milligrams MED, while ten percent were taking 200 milligrams. "Opioid use of this intensity has been associated with risk of overdose death in the general US population and more specifically in disabled workers," Dr Morden and colleagues write.
With Wide Regional Variations in Opioid Prescribing
The researchers also found variations in opioid use across US health care regions. The regional prevalence of opioid use among SSDI recipients ranged from 33.0 to 58.6 percent; chronic use ranged from 14.0 to 36.6 percent. Drug dosage and specific opioids prescribed also varied by region.
The high prevalence and intensity of opioid use among SSDI recipients parallels the preponderance of musculoskeletal disorders, such as back pain—some type of musculoskeletal condition was present in 94 percent of chronic opioid users. The researchers also note the high rate of depression, 38 percent, among patients taking chronic opioids.
Dr Morden and colleagues voice concern about the trends in opioid use by SSDI recipients—particularly chronic use at potentially hazardous doses. "We are not suggesting that all chronic opioid use is more harmful than beneficial," they write, "but rather that the common and increasing chronic use we observed seems inconsistent with the uncertainties surrounding such prescribing practice."
The regional variation identified in the study "shows a lack of standardized approach and reveals regions with mean MED levels associated with overdose risk," the researchers add. They urge further studies to assess the clinical outcomes of opioid use by under-65 disabled workers and factors associated with chronic opioid use. They also call for the development of policies and programs that balance safety with high-quality pain management for this complex group of patients.


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Honolulu Community College received recognition as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance 2-Year Education at the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education held this summer in Mobile, Alabama. Honolulu CC is the only college in the state of Hawai'i to hold this designation, and joins the ranks of 33 other junior and community colleges nationwide.
"We are honored to receive the CAE2Y recognition that was given to Honolulu Community College," shares Sally Dunan, program coordinator for the Computing, Electronics & Networking Technology (CENT) program at Honolulu CC, who represented the college at the national awards ceremony.
The CAE2Y program, jointly sponsored by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, recognizes colleges and universities that have demonstrated a commitment to providing quality Information Assurance awareness, training, and education. The CAE2Y designation not only provides recognition to the campus, but also opens the door for students to obtain federal scholarships and for the college to attain grant funding.
Honolulu's application to become a CAE2Y was anchored by the CENT program on the credit side and by the Pacific Center for Advanced Technical Training (PCATT) on the non-credit side.
"Going through the process of applying to become a CAE2Y was a great exercise for the college. It brought awareness that our institution is well equipped to support quality Cybersecurity training and be a center of support to the community on Cybersecurity issues," states Aaron Tanaka, technical coordinator for the CENT program. This past summer Honolulu CC hosted a CyberPatriot boot camp for high school coaches and mentors on the CyberPatriot program and on Cybersecurity.
As part of the college's continued mission to be a premiere technology-training center, the CENT program at Honolulu has partnered with the University of Hawai'i West O'ahu to offer a Bachelors of Applied Science Degree in Information Security Assurance. The program was launched in the fall 2013 semester with information security courses being offered at both campuses.


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This was my childhood home. My grandma and great grandpa owned the house. They are both deceased.I miss that houseSee this property: 30202 CHERRY AVE, ROMULUS, MI
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My brother lives in this house. He likes it and the area fine. The neighbors are friendly. However, This property has a lot of ghost issues. We have tried to research what has gone on here but have come up with nothing. There are loud banging sounds every night, whispering, loud yelling, things dropping, cupboards slamming closed. normally the activity starts from 11pm to 9am. He has twin little girls that are 3. The little girls say there is a monster in the corner of their room. They say she is very mean and not pretty, very scarey. A lot of activity is in the girls room. My brother set up video cameras and has caught EVP's that tell his one daughter to kill the other one. Both little girls wake up screaming in the middle of the night out of nowhere. My brother moved the girls into his room to sleep because he is afraid to leave them in their room, well one night one woke up, then woke up my brother saying "he wants me to go back to my room daddy, I need to go back to my room, he wants me to right now." My brother asked "who? who wants you to go back to your room?" His daughter pointed to the ceiling and said "HIM! He said I need to go sleep in my room." This and many other things have happened here. He is in the process of getting video evidence. This is a new home, we can't figure out why all this is going on unless something happened on the property and just transferred to the home. Either way, it's not okay.See this property: 38661 TEMPE DR, ROMULUS, MI
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The Unscientific Bioidentical Hormone DebateOctober 2009
By William Faloon
I have sympathy for the lay public who try to stay informed about life-and-death medical issues. With doctors making so many contradictory claims, it is no wonder that confused consumers die from lethal ignorance!
When the media attempts to sort out fact from fiction, the public hears biased doctors proclaim that their opposition's position is reckless and risks killing those who implement it. The tragic result of these kinds of sound bite debates is that most people do nothing, and miss out on proven methods to reverse premature aging.
Drug Propaganda Wars
Today's battleground is over who will derive the most economic benefit from the sale of female hormone drugs. All sides seem to have spokespersons to emphatically state that their product is the safest and most effective.
We at Life Extension® are in the unique position of arguing against what is in our economic interests. For the past two decades, we have advised women needing estrogen drugs to use individualized combinations of - and estradiol topical creams.
The problem is the FDA has effectively forbidden the sale of estriol.1 This ban is in direct response to pressure from a pharmaceutical company2 that wanted the FDA to censor your right to obtain estriol, which we consider a safer3 form of estrogen.
It is in the Life Extension Pharmacy™'s economic interest to sell you dangerous FDA-approved estrogen drugs. We instead refer callers to compounding pharmacies that are still providing estriol topical creams.
Dangerous Estrogen Drugs Still Sell Briskly
The market for female hormone replacement drugs is gargantuan. The lethal side effects of Premarin® (horse urine-derived estrogens) and Prempro® (horse urine-derived estrogens and a synthetic progestin) were revealed in the Women's Health Study in 2002 and 2004.4,5 These drugs, however, continue to be sold to unsuspecting female patients.6
The fact that medical doctors continue to prescribe horse urine-derived estrogens and synthetic progestins with proven risks is a testament to mainstream medicine's apathy and ignorance.
That the FDA allows the continued sale of horse urine-derived estrogens and synthetic progestin, under the guise that the agency is not sure if plant-derived estrogens and progesterone are safer reveals how much political influence pharmaceutical companies wield in government.
That the maker of Premarin® and Prempro® doesn't even make the effort to bring out "new and improved" versions of their brand-name drugs (using plant-derived estrogen and natural progesterone) shows how little pharmaceutical companies care about the public's health.
I see innovation in the natural products industry virtually every day, yet the same formulas for Premarin® (horse urine-derived estrogens) and Prempro® (horse urine-derived estrogens and a synthetic progestin) have been used for decades.
Premarin®, in fact, was approved by the FDA way back in 1942.7 What else do you know that was brought out 67 years ago that still sells briskly today? The only answer is antiquated drugs protected by a federal regulatory agency called the FDA.
Plenty of Plant-derived Estrogen Drugs to Choose From
There is no shortage of drug companies that sell estrogen drugs that cost them virtually nothing to make. For example, pharmaceutical manufacturers will produce tens of millions of tablets at a time containing 1 mg of a potent estrogen called estradiol.
These drug companies (and the Life Extension Pharmacy™) make money when women buy these 1 mg estradiol tablets. As you will read in this month's issue, however, the scientific literature indicates that it is safer and more effective if aging women are prescribed individualized doses of topical creams that provide about 80% estriol and only 20% estradiol.
To reiterate, while it is in Life Extension®'s economic interest to sell mass-produced estradiol and/or conjugated estrogen tablets, we instead recommend that women in need of estrogen drugs obtain them from compounding pharmacies that provide the more scientifically substantiated estriol. (Our pharmacy does provide compounding services, but we can't offer estriol because of the FDA's ban.)
Why Drug Companies Attack Estriol
Pharmaceutical companies make their money in an assembly line style which involves selling you the same drug as everyone else. The problem is that you are not like everyone else as far as your individual hormone needs are concerned.
In order to deceive the public into believing they need to be "protected" against compounded estriol-based creams, drug company shills proclaim that compounding pharmacies are "unregulated" and lack the quality control found in FDA-approved manufacturing facilities. These deceptions frighten most of the public into using toxic mass-produced drugs in lieu of safer compounded versions.
To expose the charade being perpetrated against aging women, this month's Life Extension® magazine publishes a landmark white paper titled Bioidentical Hormones: Why Is There Still a Controversy?
The bottom line is that there are billions of dollars to be made if American women can be deceived into using dangerous mass-produced estrogen and synthetic progestin drugs. You can believe pharmaceutical giants will leave no stone unturned to sic regulatory agencies against those who sell natural forms of these hormones. An even more sinister tactic is to pay doctors to attack those who seek to alert the public about the suffering and deaths caused by these unnatural and toxic hormone drugs.
Corrupt FDA Actions Cause Consumers to be Financially Raped
There is a financial downside for women seeking compounded estriol-based creams.
Since the FDA was so kind (to big pharma) to ban the sale of estriol, its gray market price has sharply increased. The FDA's biased action causes US consumers to now pay grossly inflated prices for estriol.
In order to protect the economic interests of the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA has no qualms about bankrupting the healthcare system of the United States. Life Extension® exposed this back in the early 1980s, and little has changed since then—except that the medical system is facing virtual insolvency because of unrelenting corrupt FDA practices.
A study this year in fact revealed that more than 60% of personal bankruptcies are caused not by lavish spending, but by medical bills!8


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Serena Williams went down smashing rackets and screaming as she bowed out of the Australian Open quarterfinals on Wednesday, hampered by a back injury and beaten in three sets by fellow American Sloane Stephens.
The injury robbed Williams of her serve - the most effective weapon in women's tennis - but teenager Stephens will take much credit for holding her nerve to finish off the ailing 15-time grand-slam champion.
Roger Federer's bid to emulate Williams as a five-times Melbourne Park champion survived a five-set test at the hands of an inspired Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and the Swiss marched on to a last-four meeting with Andy Murray, who crushed Jeremy Chardy.
Stephens will have 24 hours to prepare for her first grand-slam semi-final against defending champion and world number one Victoria Azarenka, who came through a minor scare to beat Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.
"Oh my goodness," said Stephens, teary-eyed and almost lost for words after beating a player whose picture once adorned her bedroom wall. "This is so crazy, but oh my goodness, I think I'll put a poster of myself up now."
The 31-year-old Williams, odds-on favorite to claim a third successive grand slam crown, pulled up to avoid hitting the net after a backhand drop shot early in the second set and shrieked as she felt the full force of a back spasm.
After lengthy treatment, Williams continued but the power of her serve and ground strokes were considerably diminished and 19-year-old Stephens took advantage in impressive fashion to run out a 3-6 7-5 6-4 winner in Rod Laver Arena.
Williams, who smashed her racket to pieces in frustration in the third set, tried graciously to honor the locker-room code that you do not diminish an opponent's achievement but was unable to wholly play down the significance of the injury.
"I even screamed on the court," she said. "I was like, 'ahh'. I totally locked up after that. It was...a little painful.
"I couldn't really rotate after that, which I guess is normal. I don't know.
"It was giving me trouble. But it was fine. I think my opponent played well and was able to do a really good job."
Federer, also 31, started his match against Tsonga by breaking the Frenchman but it was just one of nine breaks in an absorbing three-and-a-half-hour contest that see-sawed back and forth all evening.
Tsonga, a finalist here in 2008, was tactically smart, sent down 20 booming aces and produced some brilliant forehands that overpowered even Federer's defenses at times.
The 17-times grand-slam champion rode his luck on occasions, too, but had something in reserve for the deciding set and finally overcame the seventh seed's resistance with a smash on his fifth match point to clinch a 7-6 4-6 7-6 3-6 6-3 win.
"It was a tough close for sure, but the whole match was tough. Every set could have gone either way," said Federer, whose victory ensured the top four seeds made the semi-finals for the 15th time at a grand slam in the professional era.
"With Jo, you never know what he's going to come up with. I feel a bit lucky to come through but feel I played some great tennis and Jo did too."
Murray, the U.S. Open champion, ruthlessly exploited Frenchman Chardy's weaker backhand with a number of successful raids to the net in his 6-4 6-1 6-2 victory.
The third-seeded Briton had spent just over seven hours on court in his previous four matches and needed only another 111 minutes to complete a one-sided hammering of the world number 36.
"I thought I did a pretty good job throughout the match," the Scot, who was wearing a T-shirt reading "PREPARE, ATTACK, DESTROY" for his news conference, said with typical understatement.
"There were a couple of games I could have done a bit better on, but for the most part it was good."
Azarenka had barely been tested on her way to the last eight and the 77-minute first set against former U.S. Open and French Open champion Kuznetsova was longer than her entire fourth-round match.
Kuznetsova, refreshed after missing the entire back end of last season with a knee injury, seemed to catch Azarenka by surprise and raced to a 4-1 lead in bright morning sunshine.
Azarenka rode the storm, however, and the slices with which the Russian world number 75 had bamboozled the Belarussian grew steadily less effective as the world number one drove home her advantage to win 7-5 6-1.
"It was important to take the opportunities to kind of make a big statement," said Azarenka. "I think I did that and I turned things around into my own way."