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With Atlanta's accreditation in jeopardy, the five-member majority of the Atlanta school board that is operating in probable violation of the law ought to come to its senses and comply with the state attorney general. In refusing to acknowledge that the policy change they forced through to enable them to elect a new chair and co-chair violated their charter, the five are putting the children of Atlanta in the crossfire.
And those kids have already paid enough of a price because of the self-serving and illegal actions of adults in the system.
The cheating by some APS teachers and administrators on state exams has cast a shadow on the legitimate achievements of Atlanta schools. It has tarnished the reputation of honest teachers and sparked tensions with the governor who has now sent GBI agents into the schools to investigate cheating.
This week, Mark Elgart, president and CEO of AdvancED, warned that his accrediting agency would be concerned if the board continued to operate in conflict with state law. If the APS board does not resolve its conflicts by Dec. 1, he said his agency will make a recommendation to its governing body concerning the system's accreditation status. A loss of accreditation undermines the ability of APS high school students to qualify for scholarships, including HOPE.
To Khaatim Sherrer El, Yolanda Johnson, Courtney English, Nancy Meister and Brenda Muhammad, this is not about taking a stand. This is about taking the children of Atlanta into account and acting in their best interest.
The five board members have every right to question how Superintendent Beverly Hall has handled the CRCT investigation. They should ask hard questions. They should hold her and her staff accountable.
But they should do so within the confines of the law under which they were elected and under which they must operate.
Their policy change and their coup d'état were deemed in conflict with the law by Attorney General Thurbert Baker earlier this month. Baker ruled that the board's governing charter — last revised in 2003 and approved by the General Assembly — spells out six specific situations when a board chairman or vice chairman may be removed from those positions in the middle of the two-year term. None of those six justifications was present when the five staged their revolt in September and commandeered leadership of the board, ousting Chairwoman LaChandra Butler Burks and replacing her with El.
This is not the moment to engage in a court battle with the Atlanta Public Schools in free fall and GBI agents roaming the halls.
The APS board is headed down the road taken by the dysfunctional and damaging Clayton County board of old. It ought to reverse direction now before it ends up in the same dismal place — with the schools losing accreditation and parents losing faith.
October 27th, 2010
1:34 pm
yea…isnt it funny!!
October 27th, 2010
1:40 pm
…..and this is the same school system which Joe Martin brags of leading. I know he is not a current member of this board but it just seems the Atlanta School System has not done well with him or without him. They need to get their act together or Ol' Joe will sue them also (like the failing lawsuit he pushed schools to foot the bill.)
October 27th, 2010
1:49 pm
"Atlanta school board members marching off the same cliff as Clayton counterparts and dragging students with them"
Every single board member on the Clayton Co school board is black and they purposely got rid of white people. Just saying…
October 27th, 2010
1:49 pm
This is just sad, sick and so funny all at the same time.
October 27th, 2010
1:53 pm
"if the board continued to operate in conflict with state law", the case would have to go to court to see if they overstepped their bounds. The AG is just an opinion; must like his opinion on Obama care and guess what a judge says the Indiviual mandate may not be Constitutional, but our AG says it is. Hall must be calling in some big favors for SACS to cover HER "yes" board. 300,000 dollars a year; yes, 70000 dollar bonus; new car with driver 200000; travel priceless…… yes, yes , yes……..
October 27th, 2010
2:03 pm
I think "Cupcake" Hall makes more than her hero Obama…is that correct?
October 27th, 2010
2:12 pm
"Every single board member on the Clayton Co school board is black and they purposely got rid of white people. Just saying…"
And as I recall the mantra was "NOW its our turn"…LMAO!! What a group of jerkoffs.
October 27th, 2010
2:14 pm
"Every single board member on the Clayton Co school board is black and they purposely got rid of white people. Just saying…"
If thats true why don't the white citizens of Clayton County file a lawsuit? Just saying…
October 27th, 2010
2:18 pm
Surely, surely, five people would not put their egos before the good of 48,000 students. Surely.
October 27th, 2010
2:19 pm
If next week's election do not make some valid changes on the Dekalb School Board, you can save these headlines for next year when DeKalb fails our students again and uses our tax dollars to support their bone-headed decisions.
October 27th, 2010
2:20 pm
"If thats true why don't the white citizens of Clayton County file a lawsuit? Just saying…"
Because they moved.
October 27th, 2010
2:20 pm
Atl Mom…ABSOLUTELY they would. After all most of them are ministers, preachers, bishops and God has spoken to them in they hearts and advised them they are doing not only work for the children but work for God!
Praise God, HO GLOOWREE!!
October 27th, 2010
2:21 pm
"Because they moved."
LOL…yea they did.
October 27th, 2010
2:22 pm
It is obvious that the board's paramount concern has nothing to do with the best interests of its students. Unfortunately, the board members appear to be a bunch of self serving egomaniacs.
October 27th, 2010
2:29 pm
Sadly (and this from a graduate of 12 years in the APS) this is the trend in Atlanta city governence and governence of the schools in the city. This once proud system is a shambles, a political toy for egregiously silly board "members" who are more interested in political posturing that in teaching children. God, what a mess this city has become!
October 27th, 2010
2:50 pm
"Because they moved."
"As of the 2000 census[3], there were 236,517 people, 82,243 households, and 59,214 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,658 people per square mile (640/km²). There were 86,461 housing units at an average density of 606 per square mile (234/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 37.94% White, 51.55% Black or African American, 0.32% Native American, 4.49% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 3.55% from other races, and 2.08% from two or more races. 7.50% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race."
Ok I see I'm dealing with a racist fool now. Have a nice day.
October 27th, 2010
2:54 pm
"Ok I see I'm dealing with a racist fool now. Have a nice day."
Yes, Black Man, you are a racist.
October 27th, 2010
2:55 pm
"As of the 2000 census"
Black man, can you not count? This is 2010 not 2000.
October 27th, 2010
3:09 pm
Just saw the last APS Board of Education re-run on the APS Chanel 22.
Apparently, District 1 rep. pleaded with her fellow 4 members to return power back.
If this is true, why doesn't she just change her vote? She is the board member that made the initial policy change motion back in July. For all those out there that care, please contact her at email@example.com
October 27th, 2010
4:05 pm
PBM, PWM, & cracker
Where did YOU go to schools?
October 27th, 2010
4:09 pm
You tell me where you went to school and I will tell you. Deal?
October 27th, 2010
4:10 pm
Can we get back on topic and stay there?
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October 27th, 2010
4:18 pm
It's all a game. If you can't beat them at the polls, get SACS to take away their power. Hey, Mark and I have to take care of the Chamber folk! Yipppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! We gonna mess with Atlanta now. Corruption? Who cares? Cheating? Who cares? Hardly an ounce of classroom discipline? Who cares? It's all about who controls the money.
Who elected SACS, anyway? This function of accreditation should be under a state organization like the Board of Regents. After all, SACS uses state employees to go around "visiting" and "evaluating." Heck, what do the ladies who work at the SACS office do? Invoice the school systems! What else?!
SACS is a private organization and not accountable to the people of Georgia. But, when it comes to control on the school boards and who controls the purse strings, then 'Lil Mark Elgart comes 'a runnin'. Mark Elgart…Fake. Beverly Hall…Fake. SACS…Fake.
Mark Elgart, get back up in that Sycamore Tree!
October 27th, 2010
4:52 pm
Next the school board will say that they problem is not enough money. It is always the answer with the schools, but when they get more money they can not solve any of the problems. At some point it is not the money, it is those running the systems. This is true for all of the local school systems.
October 27th, 2010
4:53 pm
APS students and parents have an uphill battle in front of them. It's really very sad. The parallels with the sorry mess in Clayton County are impossible to ignore. This is what happens when a group of voters decide that being from a particular race is a prerequisite for service. You get a pool of candidates that are generally limited in terms of qualifications. I urge the parents, students, and voters in Atlanta to start looking for the best candidates, rather than the best black candidates. You may like what you see!
October 27th, 2010
4:54 pm
"Every single board member on the Clayton Co school board is black and they purposely got rid of white people. Just saying…"
That is NOT true. If you are going to make a statement like that, at least get your facts straight.
October 27th, 2010
4:56 pm
Race is not the issue, attitude is.
October 27th, 2010
5:00 pm
I think it is a pretty good bet where those 5 board members went to school!!!
October 27th, 2010
5:02 pm
The legislature meets in January and the first order of business must be abolishing the elected BOE in every county but Gwinnett. The board should be an appointed body with specific qualifications and duties spelled out by law. No "activist citizens" who do not possess the qualifications required to set policy for a school system should be allowed. This job requires a specific skill set that is sorely lacking in 95% of the members of BOE's across the state. Time to revist this outdated notion and go to a professional board. Could you imagine Microsoft or Walmart holding popular elections among the workers to seat a Board of Directors? These companies would fail within 12 months if they did this. Why, then, do we entrust our children's future to Bozo, Groucho and Casper?
October 27th, 2010
5:13 pm
I live in-town and have a 4th grader in an APS charter school who will never set foot in an APS high school (read: we will be moving). The only real investment I have in Atlanta is my home that has lost a good chunk of value already. With all that said…..
Let the loss of accreditation begin. It may be the only way possible that APS will ever lose it's title as the single worst, half-billion-dollar-a-year-taxpayer-investment in the state of Georgia. Out with the BOE, Hall, and the legions of do-nothing bureaucrats in the central office. We need a fresh start where our kid gets something resembling our $13k per investment.
It's funny that you, Marueen and others, only want to blast the five – like things were all roses before the coup.
October 27th, 2010
5:13 pm
@ Bear: Kvetching about Elgart doesn't make our Board any less dysfunctional nor Bev Hall any less compromised.
Let's recap:
Our BOE gave Hall carte blanche, and in return Hall presided over the biggest cheating scandal in the history of public school standardized testing; a SECOND multimillion dollar technology spending scandal and the complete disintegration of the Program for Exceptional Children (special ed) which will ultimately cost APS millions in lawsuits and the loss of federal funding. (In scandal terms, the PEC is in the bullpen, and has just finished its warm-up tosses).
Panicky and in disarray after the cheating scandal, our Board swan-dove into pig s##t with its handling of the "Blue Ribbon Panel" investigation, which impressed actual grown-ups on the state level so little they essentially tore it up and threw it back in the Board's face.
After that very public bit of humiliation, embarrassed Board members started attacking each other in a way that has quickly become more tedious than an argument between Proud Black Man and Proud White Man on the demographics of Clayton County (or any other issue, for that matter).
Bev Hall and her $100k driver must be ecstatic that our BOE exists. I thought it impossible that someone else could make her look competent by comparison, but the BOE proved me wrong.
And so it turns out that Bev does indeed have a personal relationship with her Savior.
It's just that his name is Khateem Sherrer El.
October 27th, 2010
5:31 pm
The BOE is incompetent.
The administrators are incompetent.
The teachers are incompetent
The Students are incompetent
October 27th, 2010
5:35 pm
"That is NOT true. If you are going to make a statement like that, at least get your facts straight."
Prove me wrong then.
October 27th, 2010
5:37 pm
let me finish…
the parents of the students are incompetent.
The families of the students are incompetent
The community of the families is incompetent
The BOE is from the community.
to fix…
The Community does not stand for incompetence and rises to correct.
The families do not stand for incompetence and rises to correct behaviors
The parents do not stand for incompetence and rise to correct.
The students not stand for incompetence and rise to correct.
The teachers do not stand for incompetence and rise to correct.
The administrators do not stand for incompetence and rise to correct.
The BOE becomes competent.
Sadly this will never happen
October 27th, 2010
5:40 pm
PWM – Just stop. You have qualified yourself already.
October 27th, 2010
5:48 pm
This should be a forum for the civilized, instead, one or two neanderthals have invaded this space and insist on vomiting all over the rest of us. Please move over to one of the hate boards at Rush, Sean, Randy or the FNC and stop trying to infect the rest of us.
October 27th, 2010
5:50 pm
So Mark Elgart now considers himself to be the equivalent of a GA Superior Court Judge. Who is this guy to appoint himself the Judge & Jury to resolve a Legal dispute? Is he some self-appointed scholar on the GA Constitution?
This is an item that should be decided by a Judge – not some megamaniac who wants to get his name in the paper anytime he disagrees with a local School Board.
How did this organization get selected for providing Accreditation for GA Schools? This guy seems more corrupt – and power hungry – than all of our dysfunctional School Boards combined.
October 27th, 2010
5:55 pm
Stop, Look, & Listen – you have qualified yourself as well.
October 27th, 2010
5:58 pm
What needs to be done is to have the Atlanta BOE chair elected as an at-large position for residents to select. Board self-selection of the chair out dated. In the interim, the five have taken this as far as they can and any attempt to subvert (which is the motion under review to create a Governance & Operating Committee of three with a chair that acts on behalf of the district) will just make matters worse.
BTW Springdale – the foolish five started this well before the report went to the state. They used the current situation as a power grab and nothing else.
October 27th, 2010
6:05 pm
After the Clayton County debacle, wasn't the law changed so the governor could remove board members. Maybe now's the time to exercise that authority.
October 27th, 2010
6:17 pm
first of all, Mark Elgart is a arrogant SOB who has no place in this argument. If SACS is more concerned about the composition of a board rather than wide spread cheating and fiscal fraud by APS, they need to be abolished as well. Frankly, Dr. Hall and her den of thieves, leeches and cronies need be shown the door after refunding any and all performance bonuses. Ms. Downey, how can you call yourself a voice of reason when you preface anything you say negative with how much APS has improved before any facts come in about the breath of the cheating. Believe me it is far reaching and no one will be able to quantify the actual effect of this debauchery. The APS students are damaged goods and I, for one, as an educator wear the stench of this mess as we, the front line employees have indeed a scarlet A and no other school system will touch us. Our careers begin and end with APS and we are the second significant effected group, the first one being the children.
October 27th, 2010
6:19 pm
Proud Black Man: Theres no way you can tell me Clayton is only 51% Black!! I think 80% is more likely. And shouldn't you be more concerned with saving your own race of women than arguing with "evil white racist"?
Last time i checked, it wasnt white peoples fault that Murder was the #1 killer of young black men, and the #2 killer of young black Women.
October 27th, 2010
6:33 pm
"PWM – Just stop. You have qualified yourself already."
Explain please.
October 27th, 2010
6:34 pm
"Please move over to one of the hate boards at Rush, Sean, Randy or the FNC and stop trying to infect the rest of us."
November 2 is gonna suck for you.
October 27th, 2010
6:41 pm
PWM – the explanation is clear. You have identified yourself as a bigoted man with a single interest. Having logged that interest, please allow the rest of us to continue the discussion.
October 27th, 2010
6:51 pm
Elgart acted on the state attorney general's ruling. An accreditation agency would pretty much become a laughingstock if it didn't.
October 27th, 2010
7:01 pm
exactly… SACS is basically saying "WE ARE THE LAW"
October 27th, 2010
7:05 pm
Isn't the SACS one of the (if not the only) governing body that colleges and universities across the country recognizes as the school board "accreditation" police? And if my memory serves me correctly when Clayton Co. school board lost it's accreditation that some of the graduating seniors
had a difficult time getting into out of state colleges……..


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Patrick Valdez, 18, and Erin Chism, 18, both of Martin, were each charged with one count of felony harassment and one count of felony conspiracy to commit harassment.
The 27th Judicial District Attorney General requested Tuesday that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation look into allegations that Valdez and Chism were behind a UTK student receiving a threatening message on her Facebook page last month.
TBI determined Valdez wrote and produced a song that made reference to sexually assaulting and killing the victim, killing her family and burning her house down.
Chism then friended the victim on Facebook and sent the song to her. TBI says Valdez had a previous relationship with the victim.
Both suspects are in the Weakley County Jail.
The UT Martin Police Department and Knoxville Police Department assisted in the investigation.
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"Grandpa bought this in 1919, mom and dad in '69 and I was 9 years old," he said.
He grew up here and now runs the farm. With so much to do, some things fall off the list, like maintenance. And Maille says this Shelburne barn built in 1939 needs help. That's where Melinda Mitchell comes in. She and a group of women volunteered to help with little construction projects, like painting and repairs. There's just one little detail-- all of these women are prisoners.
"I wasn't sure what to think of it, to be honest with you," said Melinda Mitchell, 21.
Mitchell has been in jail for two years. She says she was 19 when she was arrested.
"I was caught bringing drugs into Corrections to an ex-boyfriend," she said.
This is the Vermont Barn Painting Project; a partnership between the Agriculture Agency, Corrections Department and the Preservation Trust of Vermont. Money and supplies are donated from local businesses.
"There's an opportunity to make Vermont's working landscape really work. This is hearts and hands coming together and making a difference in the working landscape," said Jolinda LaClair of the Vt. Agriculture Agency.
Farmer Maille was skeptical when he first got the call from agriculture officials, but the women are supervised.
Maille said, "I was wondering, are they going to walk off with a screwdriver or wrench or what?"
He says the women changed his mind and his farm. The inmates' work saved him about $10,000 and renewed his sense of pride.
"My goal has been to get a dairy distinction award and this might be one step towards achieving that," Maille said.
Today, these women are celebrating over 1,000 hours of hard work on the Maille farm.
Gina Bullard: How do you feel when you see this?
Melinda Mitchell: I'm... impressed. It was a lot of work and it paid off.
Every day on the job site is one day subtracted from their sentence. Mitchell earned a month off her sentence and is set to get out of jail in 12 days.
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Cleaning Out the Clothes Closet Painlessly
Our closet's a little jam packed but we hate the idea of devoting a whole day, even a few hours, to going through everything. Here's an easy tip we've started to put into practice to make it easier to figure out what you actually wear vs. what you think you need to keep...
As you wear your clothes, rehang them so that the hangers face backwards. (You can also spend the time to rehang all your clothes with the hangers facing backwards and then put back clothes with the hangers facing forward. Either way works.). After few months you'll have a quick visual that will let you know what you're actually wearing and you can discard the clothes that haven't made the cut.
Other closet posts
- Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Wardrobe
- New Uses for Old Clothes
- The Color Coded Closet
- Which Celebrity Closet Fits Your Style?
[Image: cathyse97's Flickr, with a Creative Commons License]
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What about clothes in drawers? Use an empty drawer, maybe? Might be hard to come by at my place. ;)
@Allsunday - when I did this for my dresser drawers, I used four laundry baskets, and filled each with different clothes (jeans & shorts, pj's, tee shirts, sweaters). Once something had been worn, it got to go back in the drawer. In some ways it worked better and quicker than the hanger trick. Since I got SOOO sick of seeing the laundry baskets in my room, I made some very drastic decisions.
It's also a good idea to weed out the things that don't make you feel good about yourself. If a shirt hangs funny, you're constantly adjusting a skirt, or a jacket doesn't fit through the shoulders, it's time to get rid of it! Sounds like common sense, but it's surprising how many clothes people keep because they "spent good money on that". I see it all the time...
@hmr - Hmmm, that sounds like it could be a plan!
I could never keep this up, when I've tried.
Instead I had my best dressed friend come over one Saturday when I was swapping winter for summer clothes and we put a white sheet on the living room floor, took all my clothes out of the closet and drawers and she helped me make outfits. I got rid of everything she told me to, and we made a list of a very few items I needed to add. This was a few years ago. I've added a few pieces and got rid of a few since, but having someone with taste help me structure things really helped as a basis.
It's a bit of a pain, but it feels SO nice to have only the things that look and feel good! I just went through my closet, and now as I wear items, I consider how they feel or make me feel, and if they are not up to snuff, I get rid of them.
after my massive clutter clearing project last year I came up with my own little method. As I have a lot of outfits that are 'special occasion' or 'once in awhile' types of pieces (like black tie affair dresses which took up way too much space, etc)... I got these great garment storage bags at Bed Bath and Beyond that open to a semi hard box shape. I just folded all the pieces and put them in a few of those (loosely so they didn't wrinkle) and put them on the top shelf of the closet. I also did this with all the really impossible to walk in shoes that I hardly ever wear... but love too much to part with as well as my hat collection. this took up a full top shelf. A few of the extra coats & purses I couldn't decide on yet, I put in my large suitcase that I use for major trips. This way I have more room to find what I wear on a regular basis but get to keep those occasional outfits too. The rest, well, my friends all have a lot of new clothes, lol.
ps: it's a good idea to throw in some sort of bag with a scent in the storage bags (I love the ones from L'Occitane, especially the Verbena scent) as it prevents clothes and shoes from getting that musky been stored too long smell...
what about comforters, duvets ect?
Since I'm away at college through the year I noticed my closet has become the bearer of all my mum comforters, blankets, ect. Would those space bags be good enough(I used them when they first came out and the bags always ripped!)? Every time I open the door a pillow lands on my head!
I just did a project where I cleaned out my closet and dresser and limited myself to 100 items for spring/summer and 100 items for fall/winter (since I live somewhere with all four seasons, though winter seems the longest).
Like this post, I figured I should only keep the clothes I really wear, so I had a lot of decisions to make. It was easier to do than I thought, though -- one trick/cheat I used was that items that counted in both seasons (bras, underwear, layering tops) only counted for a half an item in each season. When I finished doing spring/summer, I realized I was actually coming in under my self-imposed limit of 100 pieces because I'd gotten rid of so many tops that I just didn't wear anymore for whatever reason. I got to go buy some new summer tops!
Hi Charlotte, where does your friend live?
lol @ witchbaby! whenever I open the work suits/shoe closet, which is to say every week day, I succumb to an unprovoked top-shelf-pillow attack.
This is pretty weak advice IMHO. It would be annoying and difficult for most people since 1.) most of us don't hang up our clothes again right away... although it's key to keeping your clothes organized, clean and wrinkle-free and 2.) for people who don't have swivel top hangers it can be frustrating to always flip the hangers around.
My advice (and I do closet therapy as a job) is to invite someone you know well and who has great style over to your apartment and have a day of going through everything you own. Try on all the clothes in your closet. With that other person as a second opinion you will be able to see what really doesn't suit you anymore and also what you forgot you owned and can now wear again.
If anyone is totally lost on this, email me and I'll be happy to give you free advice or point you to the most inspiring reading on getting your wardrobe together. You can contact me through my website www.styleadviser.cz I think it's fair to say that this isn't a plug for my services since I live in Prague. lol...
When I clean my closets, I found out that I need a step between "cleaning" and "purging." I put items that I'm not sure about in cloth bags in the back of my closet. If I find myself pulling items out, I know that they should be kept (or replaced with a similar item). If I haven't reached for it, I donate it. Most of the time, I find that when an item is out of reach, I find that I don't miss it.
I recently decluttered my closet and dresser. If you're honest with yourself, you know what you routinely wear. I got rid of everything I don't wear at least once a month, including a full length leather coat and black leather knee boots! I now use only half my closet space and three of my dresser drawers are empty. Have I missed anything I disposed of? NO. And I'm now ready for when I move to a smaller place with less closet space and I could even get a smaller dresser, like a lingerie chest that will take up a LOT less room in a condo.
I live in Utah with summers in the 100s and winters hovering around 0. I can't possibly wear everything I own once a month! But I do try to cull twice a year as things wear out.
I've found my biggest challenge these days is my age. What was cute at 30 is not as cute at 40 -- though there are plenty of classic pieces that won't ever look too young.
I also hate the weight change thing. I hang on to some favorites because my weight tends to fluctuate from year to year. Two years ago I was a skinny 4. Last year I was an 8. This year I'm a 6. If I got rid of my 6 jeans last year, I'd be spending $200 this year for two new pairs. But sometimes, yeah, you gotta toss the skinny or the fat clothes out.
I have learned something super helpful: SOLID colors in harmonizing palette are the most versitile. I am minimizing prints to scarves and a few fun pieces.
Oh, and acessories totally change an outfit. Shoes/belt/sweater change to sandles / no belt /neck scarf make a solid colored dress more flexible.
The lazy method of closet decluttering: don't do laundry for a month, or two weeks, or however long it takes for you to get into the "things I only wear when I'm out of quarters" territory. Anything that's left in the closet, that you refuse to wear even though you're totally out of clothes, goes in the bin. Anything you wear reluctantly also goes in the bin. This won't help you if you totally lack personal style but it will help if you have a lot of clothes you don't wear because they don't fit or aren't emotionally comfortable.
Allsunday - for clothes in drawers, the trick I learned from a magazine (not sure which one) was to put a safety pin on the tag of each item (which can take a really long time to do). When you wear the item (either before putting it on or before washing it or when you take it out of the dryer, whatever works for you), you remove the safety pin. After 6 months (or some other predetermined length of time), you can easily tell which items you haven't worn (like the hanger rule in this article).
Of course, the challenge then is making yourself actually get rid of the items with safety pins. I have some t-shirts in my drawer that have been safety pinned for about 2 years now, and I still can't seem to let go. :)
@kls987 That's a great suggestion! If you don't want to take the time to put pins on all your clothes, why not try it in the reverse? When you wear an item, it gets a pin on the tag. After the predetermined cut-off time, all items WITHOUT pins get donated.


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That's why I can't stand it.
It's pretty commutative.
Can't wait tho
I'm not a fan of Young and Gettin' It - I like that he was trying a new style with the Auto-Tune but it just sounds awful. I hope he doesn't incorporate the Auto-Tune into most of his songs on this album cause I am stoked for the drop at the end of this month.
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MIAMI – Dan Uggla hit a three-run homer in a four-run first inning against his old team, but for a while it looked like the Braves' Monday blues were back when they frittered away most of a six-run lead at Marlins Park.
They have found all sorts of unusual ways to win recently and did again, building a 6-0 lead after 3-1/2 innings, then seeing Tim Hudson give most of it back before the Braves finished off a 7-5 series-opening win against Miami that moved them a half-game closer to NL East leader Washington.
Martin Prado went 4-for-4 with two RBIs for the Braves, who pushed their winning streak to four and got to five games behind the Nationals, who were off Monday after getting swept by the Braves in a three-game series that ended Sunday night in Atlanta.
"We got a six-run lead and kind of let them back in the game," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "Nevertheless, we won the ballgame. The bullpen did a terrific job. Prado had a great night offensively. Danny had the three-run homer, but to me Danny saved us defensively."
The Nationals have lost five of nine and start a series against the Dodgers on Tuesday. The Braves have won 11 of 15 and opened a 7-1/2-game lead on second-place St. Louis in the wild-card standings, with the Dodgers a game behind the Cardinals.
There are only 14 games left on the Braves' schedule, but they believe they still have a chance to catch the Nationals.
"We definitely want to win the division, because that one-game playoff is such a gamble," Uggla said of the single-game playoff between the wild-card teams to determine which advances to a division series. "It's one game deciding who's going to go [to the division series]. It's kind of scary. We'd rather automatically be in the NLDS and not have to worry about that one-game playoff."
The win was just the fourth in 20 Monday games for the Braves and second in 11 road Mondays.
Craig Kimbrel struck out one in the ninth inning and collected his 37th save.
Hudson (15-6) lasted five innings and gave away most of a six-run lead in a four-run fourth, the latest in a string of big innings against the veteran. He was charged with 10 hits and four runs, and threw 81 pitches without recording a walk or strikeout.
"That's kind of been the story most of the year for me," Hudson said. "We get a big lead [tonight] and I'm not really trying to go to the corners with a big lead like that. You've got to tip your cap to those guys over there; they hit some pretty decent pitches."
It was the fifth time in his past eight starts that he allowed at least four earned runs, including three times in five or fewer innings. He has a 4.56 ERA in that period.
Uggla capped a four-run first inning with a two-out homer that sailed over the Marlins bullpen beyond left field and landed in the bleachers seats above it.
He also hit two homers in a four-hit, five-RBI game here against Miami on June 6, the day before his epic slump started.
Uggla was benched three games Sept. 2-4 and told by manager Fredi Gonzalez that Gonzalez didn't know how much playing time the second baseman would get in September. The Braves were going to play the matchups and use whatever lineup Gonzalez believed would give them the best chance to win any given day, with Prado playing plenty of second base.
But Gonzalez was encouraged by some of Uggla's at-bats Sept. 5-6, and he got another start Sept. 7 and had a double and a homer in a 3-0 win at New York. He went 3-for-3 the next day and has stahyed in the lineup ever since.
The day after his two-homer game June 6 at Miami, Uggla began a 77-game stretch in which he hit .151 with seven homers and 90 strikeouts in 251 at-bats. But in 10 games since he's 12-for-34 (.353) with three doubles, two homers and seven RBIs.
"He seems to be comfortable hitting down here," Hudson said. "He's really hurt his former team with the home run here. It's great to see it. He's a guy that we're going to need to lean on some going into this last couple of weeks and in the playoffs. If we can get him hot, it's going to very much help our offense."
In addition to his homer Monday, Uggla beat out an infield single in the eighth inning and made a diving defensive stop.
"No matter what the batting average is, no matter how he's doing, that's the only way he plays," Gonzalez said. "And that's why you love him and stick with him. Because that's the way he plays the game every single night. He brings it. He brings the intensity. He can separate the offense from the defense, and that's why you stick with a guy like that as much as you can."
Asked whether he was more proud of, the homer or the diving stop, Uggla didn't hesitate: "Homer. You kidding me? Come on, now. Those have been few and far between this year, and it got us off to a good start and gave Huddy a little cushion. Yeah, definitely the homer."
Hudson cruised until the fourth inning, when he allowed a run on three singles within the first four batters. Then he surrendered consecutive two-out triples by Bryan Petersen, who came in batting .241 with a .267 slugging percentage, and Gorkys Hernandez, a light-hitting former Braves prospect batting .157 with a .245 slugging percentage before Monday.
Petersen was 5-for-53 with one extra-base hit in his career against Atlanta before tripling to right to bring in the second and third runs of the inning. Hernandez had four extra-base in 103 at-bats all season before doubling in the third inning and then lining a ball far over the head of center fielder Michael Bourn in the fourth, driving in Petersen to cut the lead to 6-4.
They were two unlikely characters in an improbable turn of events against Hudson, who before Monday had a career record of 152-6 when his team scored four or more runs while he was in the game, and a 134-3 record in starts when provided with a lead of at least three runs. He raised those marks, but not without some uneasy moments.
"Four runs in the first is a pitcher's dream," Hudson said. "I just hate that I gave a big chunk to them right there in that fourth inning."
The Marlins added another run in the seventh off reliever Cory Gearrin before the Braves pushed the lead back to two on Prado's RBI single in the eighth.
Prado's four-hit game matched his career high (done six times) and gave him an NL-leading 55 multi-hit games this season.
September 17th, 2012
10:08 pm
Nice game for uggla and prado! Go Braves!
September 17th, 2012
10:11 pm
Braves win four in a row…….UGA 3-0 and Falcons look great so far!!!!! Is ATL ready for some sport-to-sport excitement?!!! Bout damn time all our teams (sorry if you're not UGA fan) playing at high level!!!! BTW atta boy uggla how huge would it be if he got hot? Also Huddy while i love him should not start a one game playoff
September 17th, 2012
10:23 pm
Its monday and the braves have won, the hell you say?
September 17th, 2012
10:23 pm
Its monday and the braves have won, the hell you say?
September 17th, 2012
10:23 pm
good win but the fact that Hudson has given up some big innings here as of late bothers me.. he is supposed to be the veteran no. 1 guy. he can't be going like that if the team is going to go deep in the playoffs he has got to get it together quickly nice game Prado and Uggla.
September 17th, 2012
10:28 pm
Uggy and Prado were huge tonight. However, Huddy does not look good. It's the first time I'm seriously worried about him this year. He's had a few rough starts, but recently he's been getting shelled more than he usually does. He was so sharp in that start against the Giants and needs to find a way to regain that form.
Offense was good tonight, gotta get more consistent pitching though. It can't just be Minor and Medlen, we need at least one other guy to step up to have a solid three man rotation for the postseason if we (and we should) make it. Hudson has it in him, he's just gotta straighten out with his mechanics and not throw pitches down the middle of the plate when he gets ahead 0-2.
I hope Maholm bounces back, he REALLY needs to get it going.
Go Braves!
September 17th, 2012
10:28 pm
Uggla had the key RBI hits in the last two games. His 2-RBI single put the Nats away in the series sweep on Sunday night, and his 4-run homer tonight gave the Braves series breathing room. This is precisely why Fredi Gonzalez showed all that patience with Uggla and to be honest, it is starting to payoff for the Braves as Uggla is showing consistent production at the plate. He also made an excellent fielding play at second base to record an out that likely prevented another Marlins run.
Huddy has had two games in the last five starts where he was given a sizeable early lead and then by the fifth inning had pitched poorly enough to cough most or all of it up. This time he barely hung on to earn the win.
Magic number is now down to 7 for the Dodgers to make post-season and is now 8 for the Cards to get the home field Wild Card with 14 games left to play. But, frankly, the Braves should be focusing now on the division as motivation — they are in striking distance at only 5 games back.
September 17th, 2012
10:29 pm
Only non-producer: Bourn. Good thing he plays decent D.
September 17th, 2012
10:29 pm
It would be a no-brainer for Medlen not to pitch the one game wildcard game. Since it's on Fri., the 5th, and the NLDS starts on Sunday, the 7th, he could pitch again, after 4 days rest, on Wed. Two games would have been played but with the first two games in ATL, that 3rd game in the other team's park is HUGE! The Braves could split the first two in ATL, take the third one with Meds and be in good shape only needing to split the last two away. You see I have it scripted. Now if they will just follow it.
September 17th, 2012
10:34 pm
Martin Prado should take Tim Hudson's spot in the rotation
September 17th, 2012
10:37 pm
by the way bourn losers defence wasnt all that good anything hit to right or center is little league ball run tell the coach grabs ya or your back in the dugout pathetic!!!
September 17th, 2012
10:43 pm
WOW!! What a game. Prado is an All Star. Mr. "I'm back" I hope he keeps it up. Tim tried his best to turn this into a typical Monday. What's up with that?
Lets keep rolling……
September 17th, 2012
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September 17th, 2012
10:49 pm
What's Jair up to these days?
September 17th, 2012
10:55 pm
Nice win. Hopefully the Braves keep it up. Last year on this date the b raves had the identical as today. 22 games over .500. They finished up by losing the last 5 games. Hopefully freddi keeps the troops fresh and from here it looks like Hudson may have hit a wall. he's been struggling. Hopefully Maholm steps up. I thought he would be good when he got here, he was but then he's pitched lousy. Guess the pennant race has got to him. He stunk up the joint in Milwaukee.
How bout the Nats schedule. 15 games 6 with Philly, 3 each with the Cardinals, Dodgers and Brewers. All Wild Card wanna be's.
The Braves win the next 2 or 3 and the Dodgers beat the Nats the same,the Nats start to sweat. This is their first pennant race.
September 17th, 2012
10:59 pm
Nats sure looked like a team feeling the heat this weekend – they basically gift-wrapped those games for the ol' Bravos – especially the first two.
September 17th, 2012
11:06 pm
Prado may be the answer to this teams problems with RISP and LH pitching in the number 4 slot.
September 17th, 2012
11:12 pm
Bourn bashing? How about last night, first to third on an infield error then scoring on a hard grounder to a drawn-in first baseman, sliding headfirst around the tag? Margin of victory right there.
September 17th, 2012
11:14 pm
Oh, and how about Yunel in hot water with the league for printing "You are a fa–ot" on his eyeblack?? What the h#ll??
September 17th, 2012
11:19 pm
Just got back from the game!
1- Uggla swing seems to be back – most of his AB's were really battled and you he pulled some bullets for Fouls down 3B
2-Prado – wow – the AB with Heyward on 3rd and 1 out was amazing…
3-Simmons has a cannon – could have tried to go after some hits back the middle – overall nice
4-Ross drilled a ball to LF in his 1st AB that wdve been gone anywhere else
5-Huddy not so great – seemed to have great command for first 3 innings and then gone – close to the game in Philly
6-Came away very impressed by AVILAN!! Kid throws hard
7-KIMBREL makes the 9th inning fun
September 17th, 2012
11:20 pm
Forgot this – GREAT D
They made the basic plays and then Uggla saving that run in the 8th was huge!
HINSKE had the worst AB of the whole game
September 17th, 2012
11:21 pm
He didn't print that. He printed "ur gay" but in Spanish. Not good, but still a big difference. He's about a "nutcase" anyway, so what did they expect? If someone had not been overly-sensitive nobody would probably have even known about it. The PC crowd at work again!
September 17th, 2012
11:32 pm
DOB – Going to the game tomorrow again – that place is so empty it kinda gets boring after a while
How about a Tour of the Press area? I'll buy u a beer
September 17th, 2012
11:36 pm
There's just one word for Hudson now – unreliable. He's no better than our number 4 starter at this point in the season; he scares me almost as much as Hanson.
September 17th, 2012
11:56 pm
About time the offense carried the load in getting a win. Huddy and the rest have had some great pitching efforts wasted repeatedly.
September 18th, 2012
12:53 am
The Braves are playing great baseball at the best possible time! Keep the momentum going into October!
September 18th, 2012
1:07 am
bravesgrl4life..@10:29pm…."Only non-producer:Bourn"
Were you watching the same game that I was watching?
Btw, he was robbed of an infield hit, by the infamous CB Bucknor.
September 18th, 2012
1:25 am
I've not been a Fredi fan. However, if someone told you before the season began:
(1) the team's most experienced pitcher and a proven high percentage winner would be out the first month of the season;
(2) the pitcher leading the league in ERA near the half-way point last year and an All-Star would be have an ERA near 7.00 and would be all but useless to the team;
(3) the other pitcher near the lead league in ERA at the half way point last year would fall apart once again in the second half;
(4) the pitcher leading the league this year in ERA by June would be lost for a year;
(5) the can't miss phenom rookie pitcher would be horrendous in Triple AAA – never mind how bad he was in the majors;
(6) the third year pitcher who had the highest ERA after 10 games would start to look like a cagey, highly capable veteran in the second half because he was given patience and supported;
(7) the bullpen would not be worn out like last year because the manager had learned from previous mistakes;
(8) the number two pitching prospect would only be 4-9.
Would you then be willing to admit that he might have done at least a decent job with his team when they were about to clinch the top wild card spot?
September 18th, 2012
3:15 am
Time for the Braves to carry this momentum in a WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!!
September 18th, 2012
4:47 am
Uggla 216??? 216? Not worth $600,000 much less $60 million.
September 18th, 2012
4:48 am
@BOISESTATEBRONCO…This guy is really a Georgia Bulldog. Notice the way he talks..
September 18th, 2012
6:20 am
Where oh where are all the Uggla haters? It seems like the Braves are taking away all the target one by one. The naysayers look pretty foolish hating on Chipper, Heyward, Minor, FG, FW and now Uggla is pulling out of the target zone. Seems to me many of the naysayers on this blog aren't really Braves fans; this just like to complain. Now they look ludicrous coming on here calling for FW or FG dead.
September 18th, 2012
6:22 am
Bad typing, sorry. FW or FG's head. Too early in the morning.
September 18th, 2012
6:22 am
Anyone who doesn't think Medlen should start the WC game is insane.
September 18th, 2012
6:26 am
Ken Stallings, Braves beat Cards 5 of 6 this year, so magic number for home field in the Wild Card game is also 7.
September 18th, 2012
8:22 am
Uggla for September MVP!!
September 18th, 2012
9:00 am
Das Uggla served das dirt biscuits vonce agains for das critics. Von Uggla to das rescue…………to das title Von Uggla………..to das title…………….To Vell with das playoff . Ve vant das title Von Uggla
September 18th, 2012
9:09 am
The stimulus is working!
Unemployment is down and housing starts are up!
Keep up the good work, Obama!
September 18th, 2012
9:18 am
All I have to say today is…..WTG DANNY BOY!!! 3 run HR and spectatular defense. Good for you. I'm not sure it will coninue but let's ope this is a sign of whato expect till the end.
September 18th, 2012
9:37 am
What is the world coming to? Tech runs up the score on credible conference opponent, UGA rated number 5, Braves go to playoffs and Falcons are leading division at 2 and 0. Lets just stop now, it can only go down from here.
September 18th, 2012
9:54 am
Are there any more questions about which pitcher should start the wild card game? Hudson shows again that the Braves can't rely on him to pitch the kind of game against a good team that will be required in that play in game. The Marlins are not a good team and Stanton was not in the line up. Fredi has to manipulate the starting rotation to give Medlen that start. Was it just me or did Kimbrel look a little uncomfortable last night? Braves really need to score some runs in the next couple of games and give him some rest. All they need is to lose Kimbrel!
September 18th, 2012
10:14 am
September 18th, 2012
10:15 am
Fredi, please don't overthink or overmanage and have Hudson pitch one game playoff. Let Hudson pitch game 1 of the LDS if there is one.
September 18th, 2012
10:24 am
Great Job Braves! Keep up the good work! Chipper wants another ring before he leaves!
September 18th, 2012
10:25 am
Ugglas's been clutch this month. If he were half this good during the summer months, the Braves would be tied for the division lead.
September 18th, 2012
10:31 am
I think in 2007, Phils were 5 out of first at game #147 and overtook the Mets. The Mets had their own meltdown that year. Let's hope that the Nats go down this year against the Dodgers, Phils, Brewers, Cardinals.
September 18th, 2012
11:16 am
Hanson one more start….. then to the bull pen
September 18th, 2012
11:16 am
-Still want to give the Ball to the Veteran for ONLY WC Game? Give The KID the Ball-he is a
-Uglga made good play to his left to save run but Freddy F. somehow got up to a typically poor Uggla throw AND SOMEHOW KEPT HIS FOOT ON THE BASE-helps to be 6′5″ but Uggla will test you…..
September 18th, 2012
11:27 am
Most dangerous team in the playoffs, dominating pitching, good defense, and if we get some consistant hitting. World series bound!!!! go Braves let go get our swagger on boys, finish!!!!
September 18th, 2012
11:48 am
Prado continues to impress me. If Uggla, Bourn and Mccann get hot there is no ceiling to this team…Go Braves!
September 18th, 2012
1:29 pm
As of today, the Braves play 14 games to Washington's 16. The Braves have Thursday and next Monday off where as the Nat's play every day for the rest of the season. This means a win or loss by the Nat's on those 2 off days only equate to a 1/2 game swing per day. Let's say the Nat's split on each of those days. Then the Braves have to win 6 more times then the Nat's over the other 14 games to pass the Nats. That would be something like a 12-2 finish for the Braves and a 6-8 finish for the Nats. (7-9 really with the off days split) With the remaining schedules for each team, there is still a chance for this or even a better 10-4 vs 4-10 finish to take place. Doubtful but historical if it were to happen.
September 18th, 2012
1:34 pm
need to sweep the fish. a division title should still be the target. and; after all this time, uggla is doing something, finally.
September 18th, 2012
2:06 pm
Get a grip people! Uggla still sucks! He still hasn't gotten a game winning hit. Even with the few hits he's gotten in the last couple of weeks, IT'S A 162 GAME SEASON!. He only hits for about 20 games. On top of that he is the worst 2nd baseman who ever played in the major leagues! He has to go!
September 18th, 2012
2:07 pm
And Fredi Gonzalez and Frank Wren have to go, too!
September 18th, 2012
2:31 pm
Uggla has gotten a lot of game winning hits.
Read the box-scores for this season, play-by-play.
September 18th, 2012
2:41 pm
Is there a tiebreaker for the Division or if there is a tie, it's a 1 game playoff?
September 18th, 2012
2:46 pm
Casey – On top of that he is the worst 2nd baseman who ever played in the major leagues!
That is quite a bold statement. I would have to disagree.
September 18th, 2012
2:49 pm
And that Casey…..
He's got to go too……..He's a bad seed for the origanization.
All that negativity……Bad for the team…….Like a Cancer.
September 18th, 2012
2:56 pm
Obama Supporter
Romney will serve dirt biscuits to Mr.Change in November. Too many Americans love America to see it go into 3rd world country status.


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Study Finds No Overall Increased Brain Tumor Risk from Cell Phones
A large international study has found no overall increased risk of two types of brain tumors among people who use mobile phones. The case-control Interphone study analyzed data on cell phone use from more than 5,000 patients in 13 countries who had either glioma or meningioma and from matched comparison groups.
No evidence of overall increased risk was found when the results were analyzed according to increasing numbers of calls, duration of call time, or time since a person started to use cell phones. For a very small proportion of persons who were heavy users, the researchers found an increased risk for glioma, but the results were inconclusive.
"An increased risk of brain cancer is not established from the data from the Interphone study," said Dr. Christopher Wild, director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which coordinated the study. He noted, however, that further research was warranted because of the result involving heavy users and because usage patterns continue to change, particularly among young people.
The findings, published online May 18 in the International Journal of Epidemiology, are consistent with the majority of published reports on cell phones and malignant or benign brain tumors. No previous study, however, has included as many patients with brain and central nervous system tumors who had histories of cell phone use, particularly long-term and heavy users of mobile phones, as this one.
"Interphone will be the most definitive study of cell phones and risk of brain and central nervous system tumors for some time to come," said Dr. Martha S. Linet, chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch in NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. She praised the investigators for going to great lengths to understand and address the methodological challenges in studying cell phone usage in patients with cancer.
The study focused on patients who developed brain tumors between age 30 and 59. A Nordic study is expected to provide some results on children in the next few years, Dr. Linet said. Plans are also under way for a study called MOBI-KIDS, which would evaluate risk from new communications technologies, including cell phones, and other environmental factors in people between age 10 and 24.
Cell phones emit a form of radiation known as radiofrequency energy, but how this affects cancer risk is not clear. Dr. Linet noted that although cell phone usage has been increasing, exposure to radiofrequency energy from cell phones to individuals has declined steadily. This is in part because technology has improved and because there are more cell phone towers, which reduces the amount of radiofrequency energy exposure to the user. The farther a cellular telephone is from the base station antenna, the higher the power level needed to maintain the connection.
Dr. Linet and her colleagues have been monitoring the incidence of brain cancer in the United States during the rise in cell phone usage. "We have not seen an increase in brain tumor incidence that one might expect if there were an increased risk of cancer from cell phone usage," she said. "This is an important public health message." (For more information, see NCI's Cellular Telephone Use and Cancer Risk Fact Sheet.)
Cost of Cancer Care in the U.S. Doubled in the Past 20 Years
The total yearly medical cost of cancer in the United States nearly doubled from $24.7 billion in 1987 to $48.1 billion between 2001 and 2005, according to Dr. Florence Tangka of the CDC and her colleagues in an analysis published online May 10 in Cancer. This increase paralleled the overall increase in medical spending over the past 20 years and remained approximately 5 percent of total medical expenditures over the time period measured.
The researchers used data from 28,639 patients who took part in the National Medical Expenditure Survey in 1987 and data from 135,714 patients who took part in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey between 2001 and 2005 to produce their cost estimates. All costs were adjusted to 2007 U.S. dollars.
The share of the total costs paid increased for private insurers (from 42 percent to 50 percent), Medicare (from 33 percent to 34 percent), and Medicaid (from 1 percent to 3 percent) but decreased for other public programs (from 7 percent to 5 percent). Out-of-pocket costs decreased from 17 percent to 8 percent.
The delivery of cancer treatment shifted away from the inpatient setting and toward the outpatient setting during the same time period, with 64.4 percent of cancer costs generated by inpatient treatment in 1987 but just 27.5 percent of costs generated by inpatient treatment during 2001 through 2005. Along with increased outpatient costs, spending on cancer-related prescription drugs as a proportion of all cancer-related costs also rose, from 1.8 percent to 6.1 percent.
For private insurance and Medicaid, over 80 percent of the increase in costs could be explained by the increased prevalence of cancer from 1987 to 2005. For Medicare and other public insurance, the cost per person actually decreased; however, the increase in prevalence seen with an aging population "more than made up for a decrease in costs per person," explained the authors.
Liver Cancer Cases in the U.S. Continued to Rise Through 2006
Rates of the most common form of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), continued to rise in the United States, increasing an average of 3.5 percent each year from 2001–2006, according to an analysis published May 7 in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Close to one-fifth of all cancers worldwide are caused by infectious agents, including chronic infections with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Using population data from 45 cancer registries (SEER and CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries) that cover about 90 percent of the U.S. population, CDC researchers identified 48,596 HCC cases during that period and found that incidence rose from 2.7 to 3.2 cases per 100,000.
Racial and ethnic disparities in HCC have been persistent. While Asians/Pacific Islanders had the highest incidence rate (7.8 per 100,000) among subpopulations; that rate did not increase during the study period. Hispanics had the next highest rate (5.7), which increased by only 1.7 percent per year; by contrast, the incidence rate among all non-Hispanics was much lower (2.8) but increased twice as fast, at 3.6 percent per year. African Americans had a slightly lower rate than Hispanics (4.2), but their rate increased the fastest, at 4.8 percent per year. Whites had the next fastest increase, 3.5 percent per year, but the lowest incidence rate (2.6).
"The age and race profile of persons with HCC reflects the demographic characteristics of persons with chronic viral hepatitis," wrote the authors of an accompanying editorial note. "Development of viral hepatitis services, including screening with care referral for persons chronically infected with HBV or HCV, full implementation of vaccine-based strategies to eliminate hepatitis B, and improved health surveillance are needed to reverse the trend in HCC."
Doctors Urged to Monitor Hypertension in Cancer Patients Treated with Anti-VEGF Therapies
Patients with cancer who will be treated with certain anti-angiogenesis agents should have their blood pressure monitored carefully and managed prior to and during treatment, according to recommendations published in the May 5 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The recommendations were developed by an expert panel convened by the Investigational Drug Steering Committee in NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis.
The report covers the use of agents that target the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling pathway, a key regulator of blood vessel development to tumors. FDA-approved agents in this drug class include bevacizumab (Avastin), pazopanib (Votrient), sunitinib (Sutent), and sorafenib (Nexavar). All of these VEGF signaling pathway inhibitors have been associated with cardiovascular side effects, particularly hypertension, explained panel chair Dr. Michael Maitland of the University of Chicago, and his colleagues. As a result, they wrote, "Oncologists and cardiovascular medicine specialists have increasingly recognized that the prevention and management of these toxic effects is important for these potentially life-sustaining anticancer agents to benefit the greatest possible number of patients."
The recommendations were developed based on the available published data on hypertension in patients treated with these agents, as well as the panel's experience with the use and development of these drugs and current standards for managing hypertension. Based on its review, the panel advised that patients who will receive VEGF signaling pathway inhibitors undergo a formal risk assessment for cardiovascular complications from treatment; that efforts to control hypertension should begin prior to starting treatment with any of these therapies; and that active monitoring and management of hypertension continue after treatment has begun.
When necessary (e.g., because of hypertension-related symptoms or difficulty controlling blood pressure), the panel recommended that treatment with VEGF signaling pathway inhibitors can be temporarily discontinued or the dose reduced to bring hypertension under control. Nevertheless, they advised, efforts "should be made to maintain the patient at the highest tolerable dose" of these inhibitors.


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The International Energy Agency (IEA) just released a report on the state of the international energy sector and projected that by the year 2020 the United States will surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's biggest producer of crude oil. I'm not joking.
Other studies have indicated that within the next two to three years the U.S. will also become the world's biggest producer of natural gas.
As the result of the technical innovation that has led to more efficient methods of extracting oil and natural gas from shale rock and deep ocean waters the country is rapidly on the way to becoming less reliant on foreign sources. There will be no waiting in long lines to fill up your gas tank like there was in the 1970's.
Although this development won't necessarily lower gasoline prices on its own it is still good news. There is the potential that faster growth in the energy industry can contribute to an improved overall economy, create more jobs, and redirect federal spending. For example, instead of maintaining a large military presence in the Persian Gulf area to protect shipping lanes we may be able to use the funds in other ways.
And it will lead to investment opportunities in businesses that take advantage of reduced energy prices based upon hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), horizontal drilling and improvements in offshore operations, the technologies that are driving the boom.
Oil and gas
Many of the companies involved in the transportation and storage of energy supplies are classified as master limited partnerships (MLP). Most MLP's provide very competitive dividend payouts and they should be considered for your portfolio if income is important.
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) is one MLP to look at. The stock currently has a hefty 8.5% dividend yield. They just announced that one of their goals is to step up their payouts in the future.
It has grown from 20 employees in 1997 with operations only in Texas to 14,000 employees today in six states. Just in the "midstream" natural gas area the company operates approximately 12,000 miles of consolidated gathering pipelines, 8 processing plants, 17 treating and 5 conditioning facilities. It has other business interests such as natural gas liquids, interstate and intrastate energy transportation and operation of Sunoco retail gasoline stations.
Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE: EPD) is a diversified MLP in the midstream energy space that operates pipelines from Utah to Texas to New York as well as owning storage and processing facilities, offshore platforms and even tugboats. Since its IPO in 1998 assets have grown from $175 million to $34 billion. It pays an annual dividend of about $2.60 a share.
Big oil could also see a bump over the next decade too.
The world's largest oil producer and number one ranked company on the Fortune 500 list, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) could benefit. Last year the company generated revenues of over $470 billion. Theoretically, if domestic production goes up the company could reduce its costs and increase margins. Earnings could rise as the result. Right now ExxonMobil has relatively thin margins.
In addition to traditional exploration and production projects the company is currently participating in liquefied natural gas (LNG) ventures in Indonesia and Qatar. There are plans in place to expand LNG operations to Australia and western Africa.
Petrochemicals and steel
Companies involved in the manufacturing of fertilizers and steel tend to be heavy users of natural gas and could also see reduced costs and increased margins driving future EPS growth.
Nucor (NYSE: NUE) is the largest mini-mill steel producer in the country and is based in Charlotte, NC. It produces 25 million tons of product annually, primarily by recycling scrap steel.
It's possible that their relatively low margins (10% gross, 2% profit) will improve if natural gas prices remain subdued. Nucor also pays a nice $1.46 per share annual dividend, and is a member of the Dividend Aristocrats, companies which have increased their payouts every year for at least 25 consecutive years.
In the petrochemical space Potash Corporation also stands to benefit from lower natural gas prices. It already has relatively healthy margins and it's possible to see even better performance. However, the worldwide market for fertilizers in developing countries like India would have to improve further to fully take advantage of the energy boom. Meanwhile, a dividend of $0.84 could tide you over.
Utilities that currently burn coal to generate electricity could switch to gas-fired plants if prices remain low. In general electricity is less expensive to produce using natural gas. There could also be a lower amount of "greenhouse" gases emitted. Many scientists believe hydrocarbon pollution contributes to climate change, so a changeover will benefit society as well.
One such utility is American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) which is the largest consumer of coal in the United States. It recently announced that it will not retrofit its coal-burning Big Sandy plant in Kentucky with emissions controls that would have allowed it to meet tougher federal and state regulations. Will it build a gas-fired plant there instead? That remains to be seen. The company is in the midst of closing 5 of its 21 coal plants in the country.
AEP is a relatively stogy company, with revenue and earnings growing only about 2% to 3% per year. However, it pays a nice $1.88 per share dividend, yielding about 4.6%. Might be good for an income producing portfolio.
So as the United States moves towards less reliance on foreign sources of energy over the next few years this will not only benefit society but certain businesses as well. Expect improvements for the economy, the environment and for investing.
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The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust probe into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video. Thomas Catan has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video, according to people familiar with the matter.
Justice Department officials have spoken to several online video providers, including Netflix Inc. NFLX +0.36% Netflix Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $451.18 +1.62 +0.36% Sept. 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.76M AFTER HOURS $450.51 -0.67 -0.15% Sept. 30, 2014 7:58 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 24,923 P/E Ratio 131.92 Market Cap $27.01 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $2,102,160 09/30/14 Corporate Watch: News Digest 09/30/14 More Cable Companies Take TV O... 09/30/14 Netflix's Coup: The Next "Crou... More quote details and news » and Hulu LLC, those people said. Investigators have also questioned Comcast Corp. cmcsa -0.70% Comcast Corp. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $53.78 -0.38 -0.70% Sept. 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13.56M AFTER HOURS $53.78 0.00 % Sept. 30, 2014 4:47 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.16M P/E Ratio 18.67 Market Cap $139.55 Billion Dividend Yield 1.67% Rev. per Employee $495,066 09/30/14 More Cable Companies Take TV O... 09/29/14 FCC Considers Regulations for ... 09/29/14 FCC Asks Media Firms for Detai... More quote details and news » , Time Warner Cable Inc. TWC -1.02% Time Warner Cable Inc. U.S.: NYSE $143.49 -1.48 -1.02% Sept. 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2.43M AFTER HOURS $143.49 0.00 % Sept. 30, 2014 6:10 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 277,280 P/E Ratio 19.76 Market Cap $40.62 Billion Dividend Yield 2.09% Rev. per Employee $434,167 09/29/14 FCC Asks Media Firms for Detai... 09/29/14 Resistance to Dodgers Channel ... 09/28/14 Starz May Not Find Merger in I... More quote details and news » and other cable companies about issues such as setting data caps, limits to the amount of data a subscriber can download each month, these people said.
Representatives of all those companies and the Justice Department declined to comment on the investigation.
Cable companies provide both television channels and high-speed Internet access for many consumers in the U.S. With broadband Internet, consumers can watch individual programs or channels through online video services like Netflix, Hulu or Amazon, bypassing the cable company's traditional bundles of channels.
Having invested billions of dollars building their networks, some pay-TV companies have shown little inclination to get out of the business of packaging television channels and become mere conduits for other companies' data. Some major entertainment companies also have an interest in preserving the current model of television viewing because they want cable companies to take bundles of their channels, rather than just cherry-picking the most popular ones.
The Justice Department probe highlights how the shifts in decades-old patterns of television viewing are shaking the tightly regulated industry. Decisions in Washington could play a role in determining how quickly the new video services spread and what form they take.
Already the Justice Department's Antitrust Division has jolted another fast-growing Internet industry, e-book publishing, by bringing a lawsuit alleging that publishers and Apple Inc. AAPL +0.64% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $100.75 +0.64 +0.64% Sept. 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 53.34M AFTER HOURS $100.48 -0.27 -0.27% Sept. 30, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.92M P/E Ratio 16.17 Market Cap $599.45 Billion Dividend Yield 1.87% Rev. per Employee $2,214,380 09/30/14 EBay Reverses Course, Decides ... 09/30/14 Market Talk: EBay, Eurozone Ec... 09/30/14 EU Believes Apple, Fiat Tax De... More quote details and news » colluded to fix prices. In April, several publishers settled the charges while Apple and other publishers continue to fight the suit.
In its cable TV probe, Justice Department investigators are taking a particularly close look at the data caps that pay-TV providers like Comcast and AT&T Inc. T +0.03% AT&T Inc. U.S.: NYSE $35.24 +0.01 +0.03% Sept. 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19.07M AFTER HOURS $35.18 -0.06 -0.17% Sept. 30, 2014 7:30 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 951,667 P/E Ratio 10.33 Market Cap $182.70 Billion Dividend Yield 5.22% Rev. per Employee $536,510 09/30/14 AT&T Sees Wireless Strategy Ga... 09/29/14 Resistance to Dodgers Channel ... 09/28/14 Security Concerns Arise With P... More quote details and news » have used to deal with surging video traffic on the Internet. The companies say the limits are needed to stop heavy users from overwhelming their networks.
Internet video providers like Netflix have expressed concern that the limits are aimed at stopping consumers from dropping cable television and switching to online video providers. They also worry that cable companies will give priority to their own online video offerings on their networks to stop subscribers from leaving.
Comcast fanned those fears in March, when it said that videos viewed on its own Xfinity app on Microsoft's MSFT -0.17% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq $46.36 -0.08 -0.17% Sept. 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 31.72M AFTER HOURS $46.35 -0.01 -0.02% Sept. 30, 2014 7:45 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.31M P/E Ratio 17.43 Market Cap $382.66 Billion Dividend Yield 2.67% Rev. per Employee $677,570 09/30/14 Microsoft Offers First Peek of... 09/30/14 Xbox Hackers Left a Digital Tr... 09/30/14 Wall Street's Chat Plan Turns ... More quote details and news » Xbox wouldn't be counted against subscribers' data caps in the same way as videos viewed using Netflix, Hulu or other apps. Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings accused Comcast of trying to get around federal rules that prevent Internet providers from favoring their own content over others on the Internet. Hulu's owners include Comcast and News Corp., NWSA -2.68% News Corp Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $16.35 -0.45 -2.68% Sept. 30, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9.12M AFTER HOURS $16.35 0.00 % Sept. 30, 2014 4:23 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 73,417 P/E Ratio 39.88 Market Cap $9.67 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $389,727 09/30/14 Cable Operator Suddenlink to D... 09/30/14 News Corp to Buy Move Inc. for... 09/30/14 Murdoch Paid $29.2 Million at ... More quote details and news » which owns The Wall Street Journal.
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According to the people familiar with the matter, the Justice Department is examining whether Comcast's Xbox policy violated legal commitments made by the company in 2011 to secure antitrust approval for its takeover of NBCUniversal. Under the terms of that legal settlement, Comcast agreed it would not "unreasonably discriminate" against other companies transmitting data over its pipes, or treat its own content differently.
Comcast has said it is complying with the terms of the settlement and isn't discriminating against other companies' content. Xfinity, it says, is unlike Internet video services like Netflix because it travels over Comcast's own private network and not the public Internet.
"We have consistently treated all video carried over the public Internet the same whether it comes from our sites or anywhere else on the public Internet," the company said in May. Nevertheless, it announced then that it would suspend its data caps and start testing a new system that would allow heavy users to pay for more data.
Another issue that investigators have asked about is whether cable companies are acting anticompetitively by making viewers have a cable subscription before being able to access certain online programming. Comcast and some other companies have verification systems requiring viewers to enter their cable subscription details before being able to watch, say, ESPN's programming on an iPad tablet.
Cable companies say they want subscribers to be able to watch their programming on any devices, not just their TVs. Among the strongest backers of the verification system is content owner Time Warner Inc., which wants to keep consumers buying packages of cable channels. Some public-interest groups have alleged that such paywalls discourage people from dumping their cable subscriptions and buying channels like ESPN individually online.
The Justice Department also is investigating the contracts that programmers sign in order to be distributed on cable systems. Some contracts include so-called most-favored nation clauses, which make programmers give the biggest cable companies the best price they are offering anywhere, among other conditions. The Justice Department is questioning whether there are legitimate business reasons for such terms or whether they are intended to stop programmers from experimenting with other forms of online distribution, a person familiar with the matter said.
Most-favored-nation clauses are also an issue in the e-books case, where Apple sought to ensure that publishers gave the Apple online bookstore the best price available.
Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday suggested he had sympathy for those who want to "cut the cord" rather than paying for cable channels they don't watch. At a Senate hearing, Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) said cable bills are "out of control" and consumers want to watch TV and movies online. Mr. Holder responded, "I would be one of those consumers."
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Double down on the waterproof breathable tech.
Built to handle some of nature's nastiest conditions, the Marmot Randonee Glove features a Gore-Tex XCR insert and waterproof breathable Marmot MemBrain shell fabric. Doubling down on tech like that is even better than a double-dip at your favorite ice cream parlor.
- Gore-Tex XCR Performance waterproof breathable insert is guaranteed to keep you dry in brutal storms while allowing evaporating sweat and excess heat to pass through
- Marmot Membrain shell fabric features a proprietary waterproof breathable PU laminate to repel melting snow or rain before it ever reaches the Gore-Tex insert
- Thermal R insulation features synthetic fibers to trap warmth, retain insulating powers even if it gets wet, and survive repeated compressions
- DriClime Bi-Component lining wicks moisture away from your skin so your digits stay comfortable
- Wrist strap, gauntlet drawcord, and quickdraw tech let you cinch down the glove to help keep snow out and warmth in
- Safety leash included for extra security during transitions
- Nose wipe dispenses rogue snot particles with the precision of a rooftop sniper and the sultry smoothness of a cabaret dancer's inner thigh
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Looking nice
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Holding up well to hauling and marking
Great glove
John Pruitt
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It has held up great after 2 seasons of ski patrol. I wear these when the weather is wet and cold. Which seems like most of the time.