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Leaked? List of upcoming Sony products (for August-24-2011)
Sony Alpha Rumors has a list + pictures of the rumored August 24 Sony announcement Big Bang! According to the leaked/rumored list, there will be two new pellicle-mirror DSLRs (A77, A65), two new NEX models (NEX-7, NEX-5N), four new lenses, three major accessories, and Sony's second NEX-mount APS-C video camera (VG20). As usual please note rumors are rumors until or unless they become real!


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Back to Kukup Village after 20+ years!
We first learnt that there would be a trip to Kukup village organized by Jelyn & Howard's friends some time back in late April'07. Since then we have met up with some of the folks going on the trip (Jason, Chiew Lin, Shirley, Yaohui, Jelyn, Howard) at Citylink's New York New York for dinner.
It was soon 14th July and we all met up at Singapore Science Centre in Jurong East in the late morning. With a a convoy of 4 Toyota's (1 x Camry, 1 x Corolla, 2 x Altis), we soon made way via Tuas 2nd Link to Kukup. The trip was pretty smooth through the various checkpoints and toll booths and took approximately an hour traveling mostly on single lane roads. We managed to get to Kukup at about 1pm+ and the cars were left overnight at the nearby Carpark #1 for a low fee. With about 3 ferries from the provided transport, we were soon making our way to Kukup Venice, our accommodations for the weekend.
I remember my first time here 20+ years ago when my dad used to drive the family up for weekend trips that Kukup was a small and rather quaint village. It definitely has changed somewhat over the years with more houses and vehicles plying the roads. The houses in the village however look pretty much the same near the entrance. They are still pretty much constructed from wood but there were small upgrades like air-conditioned units. We walked through the small village on stilts during the low tide and caught sight of the inhabitants of the mangrove swamp, crabs and mudskippers which were abundant. Walking nearer end of the village could see signs of modernization with houses being renovated for tourists and having much better facilities.
Kukup Venice was a short 10 minute walk through the houses near the end of the village. We were pleasantly surprised to actually find a well furnished brick house with high ceilings and clean sleeping environments. The owners of the house were extremely friendly in helping ensure we had a good stay and even personally prepared most of our meals during our stay. With facilities like karaoke and mahjong, it helped most of us spend the time over the weekend enjoying ourselves.
Kukup Venice Holiday Villa Resort
No. 40 Kukup Laut
82300 Pontian, Johor
Tel : 07-696 1516

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Frankatstein – A Scaredy Cats Story
As the full moon calls, each cat slinks through the shadows to where the storyteller waits. Will you stay in your warm, cosy bed? Or dare you go and join the Scaredy Cats?
Click the video and watch the tale of Frankatstein, the mad professor who dices with death, and the cats who get caught up in his chilling experiments.
Find out more and buy signed copies of the book.
Ricky Rocket – space-themed readers
Are you planning a space project in school this year? If you are, you may well be looking for space-themed readers to excite your children.
Ricky Rocket is the only human boy on the Planet of Hammerhead – He lives a pretty normal life with his Mum, Dad and horrid little sister, Sue, but his classmates are aliens from all over the Universe, his teacher, Mizz Fizz, is a robot and Ricky flies to school in his own rocket – with stabilisers!
These books are perfect for reading aloud and for newly confident readers to finish in a confidence-building sitting. They are funny, fast paced and loved by children all across the Universe! Get signed copies here with free Ricky Rocket Posters
There are colouring-in sheets available here, and a how to draw Ricky Rocket video at the bottom of this page.
The British Family Fayre
I will be at the British Family Fayre in Westerham Kent this weekend Map and Visit Details Here
Check out my video of last year's event to see how much fun it's going to be!
I'll be telling stories and showing how to draw stuff with Derwent Aquatones and Watercolour Pencils
Why not come along for a great day out? I'll be signing books and lots more. You'll find be at the GOPAK tent – You'll know GOPAK, they make the very best folding tables for schools!
Why Where the Wild things Are is my Favourite Children's Book
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was a hugely influential book for me.
When I first encountered it in the college library in the early 1980s I was bowled over.
In this book, I could see how all my various talents might come together. That was the day I realised there was a person behind the illustrations in a book and the day Istarted working towards being a children's book illustrator.
Where the Wild Things Are is a perfectly crafted piece of work. I've made this video to show you how brilliantly it is written and composed.
In many ways I've been trying to emulate this book over the years. I've written one or two cringingly bad homages to it shared with the world.
Although when My Series, Monster Boy came out, it was pointed out to me that The werewolf in WereWolf Wail looks like Max all grown up. That was purely subconscious!
School Libraries and Librarians – The Beating Heart of the School
The recent report by the Libraries all party parliamentary group came to the conclusion that school libraries and school librarians are a good thing.
I tweeted the following: If you want to raise literacy standards in schools, isn't a school library and a librarian who knows about books an obvious place to start?
I've been surprised at how often that has been retweeted – it seems so blooming obvious to me!
I visit many schools. Some really don't have a library at all! Some have a few tatty books in the corner. Some have wonderful libraries – usually supported by tireless parents.
I often visit international schools. Many of them physically build the school around the library, which becomes a central hub of learning. I know they have pots of money and dedicated intelligent parents with time on their hands to help out, but I think they show what happens when you take libraries seriously.
These libraries are run by people called Teacher Librarians. Yes, they check books in and out and do all the library stuff, but they also teach about which books are good to read and they teach how to research. They help children to find things out in between and after lessons.
Teacher Librarians know their stuff, they know which books are new, cool and inspiring. They know the right book that will get a particular child reading. They are also whizzes when it comes to researching the internet. They are Librarians – they know how to find stuff out!
Teachers in primary schools have so much going on. They have little spare time to read children's books to recommend to their children. This is where a dedicated Librarian comes in.
If we are serious about raising literacy standards, I presume that means we want children to be able to read beyond a standard piece of text on a screen – to read anything freely and confidently.
Literacy only comes through hard work and practice. Hard work and practice means reading a lot. A good book makes you want to read – the hard work becomes a pleasure.
If there is no one to recommend brilliant books and inspire children to try new things, how are they ever going to put in the hours to achieve a reasonable level of literacy?
If you have a school librarian, someone to inspire you and keep you interested, then you need the books on hand to read – preferably in the well-stocked school library – the beating heart of the school.
How to draw Goal Posts
I am having a big rethink about my drawing channels at the moment. I set out originally to make videos of how to draw my book characters. Things have changed a lot since then!
I am now going to make my ShooRaynerDrawing Channel aimed more at a more mature audience of students, professionals and serious hobby artists, so I won't be putting many videos from that channel on this website from now on.
If you want to keep up with that channel and more go to ShooRaynerDrawing.com instead.
I'll now be working on monthly themes, which you may like to join in with.
I'll be doing simpler primary/elementary aimed drawings on this website through my DrawStuffRealEasy channel.
So, to get things off to a new start, here is a new Drawstuffrealeasy video – How to draw goalposts requested by twitter tweep @Tony_TheDoctor
Drawing for Literacy
Children love drawing. Give them paper and pencil, suggest something for them to draw – maybe show them how to draw it – and they are away.
While they draw, they are improving their hand/eye co-ordination skills, learning about the thing they are drawing and building up a story.
When I show a class of children how to draw, there are a couple of minutes silence, when I've finished, as they catch up and put the finishing touches to their masterpiece.
I love this moment. I wait for the hand to go up.
"Please Miss, can I draw a city in the back ground?"
"Of course you may," I say, and gently remind them I'm a mister not a miss!
"And can I draw an aeroplane in the sky?" asks another child.
"You can draw anything you like." I smile, sweetly and innocently and nonchalantly add, "You could build up a whole story if you like."
The blue touch paper has been lit. Stand back and watch what happens.
Their original drawings are soon surrounded with incidental detail, patterns, backgrounds, enemies, explosions, love-hearts jelly fish – you name it.
Each child is building up a story.
"You can put some words in there if you like," I tell them, adding a speech bubble or a caption to my drawing.
By the end of the lesson a class full of first drafts have been completed. The children who would normally be staring out of the window when asked to write, have their story organised and ready to go.
For many, myself included, the pictures aren't a pretty thing that is added on at the end if there is time, the pictures are what it is all about. Its the words that are the embellishment. Words are decoding clues for the thick kids who can't draw!
We are not all wired up the same way. The children who do words well, grow up to be the teachers, because the visual kids are excluded. Each new generation of education experts becomes more word biased than the one before and further removed from the visual.
Once there were art teachers and art rooms. The art room was a refuge for the visually and practically-minded. Now art seems to have become an academic subject to be written about. Sadly, examiners can only tick facts and not make subjective decisions.
Years ago, before photocopiers were invented, children used hard, shiny toilet paper to trace maps and pictures into their exercise books. The line was traced, then reinforced on the back with pencil, then traced again onto the paper and then redrawn over the faint image that had been transferred.
The image was drawn at least four times. As we know, repetition is the essence of learning. If you trace or draw the plans, maps and illustrations in your exercise book, you remember.
If you draw freehand, you are so intensely involved ion the process that, again, the message is deeply impresses, especially if the picture has to be planned and re-drawn to get it right.
Colouring in a worksheet is just filling in time – mere crowd control.
If you are wondering why half the children in a class don't write and don't retain information, maybe they are visually minded. Or maybe they see the world in numbers or in dance movements instead of words. Maybe their Fridays are lovely shade of orange – maybe they think literacy tastes of lemons.
We are all wired up differently.
Throw away the photocopier. Burn the worksheet. Let children illustrate their own work. The message and the lesson will be ingrained deeply in their subconscious.
Maybe, once in a while, start a literacy lesson with drawing – if there is time left at the end of the lesson, then… let them write the story as a treat!
This article first appeared on the Awfully Big Blog Adventure
Learn to trace with authority with this video!
Choosing names for book characters
I had an email last night from Laura in Shetland who's says, "I've just finished Dragon Gold, which I really enjoyed. One question, why did you change Harri to Harry on p119? Or were you just checking we would read the book?"
Oops! I don't know how that happened! Well, actually, yes I do. A glaring typo like that can stare you in the face as the author and you just don't see it. Similarly, editors and copy readers can skim over it and not see it either. There are some typos which are destined to make it through to the first edition!
Why did I choose a different spelling of Harry? How do authors choose the names of their characters. This is how Harri came to be:
I'd had the idea for Dragon Gold floating around in my head for some time, but couldn't quite get it to work. It needed another ingredient. Stories are like that.
When Firefly Press, the first and only children's publisher in Wales asked me to be one of their first authors, I was thrilled. The invitation was the missing ingredient. Firefly had been asked by the Welsh Government to commission stories set in contemporary Wales but written in English.
I'd not thought to set the book in Wales before. Wales has a Red Dragon as it's symbol – the Ddraig Goch. The setting was what I needed, everything fell into place in my mind. Now to choose the name of my hero.
I wanted it to be contemporary, so I Googled popular boy's names in Wales. At the top of the list was Harri! Perfect, I thought. It reads the same in English and Welsh and is very contemporary – Prince Harry was doing something manly on the TV news at the time!
More used to spelling the name the traditional, English way, one or two Harrys slipped through. I imagine I was caught up in the story and my fingers did the writing on their own – writing is a strange business when you are in the flow. Spellings don't worry me at that point, they can always be sorted out later. Anyway, I edit voraciously and continuously while I'm writing.
I'm pretty sure I even did a spell check to make sure there weren't any Harrys floating around in there. The trouble with editing is that miss-spellings can enter right near the end of the editing process, when everyone thinks the text is clean and sorted.
I did stop for a moment to wonder why Harri might be a popular name. I assumed it was to do with Prince Harry – who surely has a lot of influence on the popularity of the name – and moved on. It never crossed my mind that it might be down to one Harry Potter! (Assume makes an Ass out of U and Me!)
Neither did it cross my mind that Harri might himself be wizard material! That possibility grew as the story evolved – the Welshness of the story taking me off in a new direction.
I'm hoping Harri's story will continue at least into a trilogy – there is a path of destiny calling him onwards. I'll have to make sure that the spell check is done just before the texts go to the printers next time, (and maybe we can sort out page 119 in the next edition).
But never mind all this… what does Laura really think about the book? She says:
"This is the first book that I didn't want to put down."
Thanks for that, Laura! Order a signed copy from me and get a free, fabulous A3 poster – while stocks last.
Also available on Kindle
Millie and Bombassa Story
I've been working on getting my ShooRaynerStoryTime Channel sorted out. For some reason my channel name didn't work properly, but my YouTube channel Manager, Lynda, seems to have got it sorted out.
So this is the latex video to be added to the channel. I did it a while ago so it's time I started making new story videos. With the story comes a how to draw millie video too!
Bombassa is a lazy but loveable rhino who would rather lie in bed all day, drinking tea and dunking biscuits. Millie is a sweet and sensible bird who want's Bombassa to buck up his ideas. Together they make a great pair.
Yikes! Auntie Daz is coming for tea, but Bombassa's only chair is very wobbly. It's time for a bit of DIY – but soon the chair is wobblier than ever!
" Funny with great pictures"
Make sure you learn to draw Millie! http://youtu.be/hQSyoKGjpSE
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Storytime Videos
Did you know that I have story videos on YouTube
Have a look at this creepy retelling of the old Bluebeard story from my Scaredy Cats series
Now you've seen it why not buy a signed copy from Shoo?


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Frenchish Bikes at jpw's mini open house at the work shop… by jp weigle on Flickr.
MAP RP 2011 by mapcycles on Flickr.
And possibly the second-best constructeur in the U.S., Mitch Pryor, of M.A.P.
MAP 650B tourer by mapcycles on Flickr.
Continental Bicycles Batch One Completed by pereiracycles on Flickr.
Side View, no bag, unlocked by pereiracycles on Flickr.
Black Tie Affair on "Black Friday"… by jp weigle on Flickr.
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I believe there is a problem in how the PW:S cooldown is measured now, which causes the effective cooldown to be more than the intended one second, even with fully talented Soul Warding.
It appears the cooldown is not triggered when the spell is cast, but only after the client receives the server's confirmation that the spell has been cast.
If your connection has 100ms lag, this means your effective cooldown is now 1.2 seconds.
If your connection has more like 300ms lag, this means that your effective cooldown is 1.6 seconds.
I believe this is untenable. Not just because it nerfs disc priests; but because it adds a severe additional burden on players with imperfect latency, in a game that attempts to reduce those burdens.
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.cymru and .wales now open for the first phase of applications29 August 2014Businesses that have already registered their trade marks with ICANN's Trademark Clearing House can now apply to secure their new .cymru and .wales domains. This Sunrise phase that starts today prioritises and secures trade mark rights, provided there are no duplications in these applications which would then need to go onto a tie-break and possible auction process.
Nominet takes another step to increase the security of the UK namespace29 August 2014Nominet is boosting the security of the UK namespace to help protect it from attack and exploitation. As part of this, we'll be offering two-factor authentication access to our Online Services (OS) to registrars later on this year. Two-factor authentication is a two-step verification process and provides an extra layer of security to users accessing online systems.
2013 in UK web domain disputes28 August 2014674 complaints handled and £6.55m in legal costs saved by Nominet's award-winning Dispute Resolution Service in 2013.
Nominet to begin emailing .uk rights holders21 August 2014From 15 September, Nominet will begin emailing registrants with rights to a short .uk domain under the .uk 5-year reservation mechanism. This step is part of a wider programme of communication and outreach committed to as part of the launch of .uk, and reflects our commitment to inform our existing registrants of the additional rights now connected to their domain/s.
The countdown to .cymru and .wales begins following delegation18 August 2014ICANN has now delegated both .cymru and .wales meaning that they are not yet available for registration but are now on the internet's official database. From 1st September, businesses that have already registered their trademarks with ICANN's Trademark Clearing House can begin the process of registering their new Welsh domains. The second registration phase, which gives Welsh businesses priority, starts in November with availability to the general public beginning on St David's Day, March 1st 2015.
Change to Data Quality Policy30 July 2014The Data Quality Policy introduced earlier this year will be amended with effect from the 22nd September to remove the planned automatic cancellation of domain names that do not meet the necessary validation checks after 30 days. An initial Data Quality transition period, from 7th May to 22nd September, was implemented during which domain names on Accredited Channel Partner and Channel Partner tags were not automatically cancelled where validation could not be completed.
Update on Nominet Registrar Services28 July 2014As the launch of .cymru and .wales gets closer, further details about Nominet Registrar Services Limited (NRS) are now available.The company is a wholly-owned Nominet subsidiary which will guarantee a distribution channel for .wales and .cymru as ICANN rules mean that the new domains may only be sold through ICANN Accredited Registrars.Registrars who wish to offer the Welsh domains but are not ICANN-accredited can choose to offer them by becoming a reseller of NRS or any ICANN Accredited Registrar who has signed up with Nominet to sell these gTLDs.
Deadline for .wales and .cymru trademark registrations approaches22 July 2014Businesses that hold a trademark and wish to appeal to customers in Wales, or want to be identified as having a Welsh heritage, need to register with the Trademark Clearinghouse before the 31st July to ensure the best possible chance of securing their .wales or .cymru domain names.
S4C, the National Assembly for Wales and Sport Wales among many getting behind .cymru and .wales at the Royal Welsh Show21 July 2014Strong backing of .cymru and .wales came from a host of organisations that will be the first to switch to the new domain names at the Royal Welsh Show today. S4C, the Welsh language TV channel; the National Assembly for Wales; Wales Federation of Young Farmers Club; Sport Wales; the Welsh Books Council and the Arts Council for Wales will all be using them to underline their Welsh identity online.
Nominet Internet Award winners 2014 revealed3 July 2014The winners of this year's Nominet Internet Awards have been announced. The annual awards celebrate projects that help to make the internet a force for good and showcase the very best that the UK internet has to offer. The winners and runners up are as follows: Innovative Internet Business Winner: Write Latex - Overleaf Runner up: Lawbite Online Skills and Training


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When Jay Gilbert grows up, he wants to be a firefighter.
On Tuesday the Lakehead Thunderwolves defenceman joined teammate Luke Maw at Westmount Public School, and together with Thunder Bay Fire Rescue's Anthony Stokaluk, delivered a fire-prevention message to a pair of Grade 4 classes.
"Hopefully the kids can go home and ask mom and dad what their smoke alarm sounds like and get their escape routes planned because like we said in the presentation, it's preventative measures to stop situations from happening before they do," Gilbert said.
"Hopefully these kids take something out of this, start asking some questions and just be aware and how serious these kind of things are."
Westmount principal Anne Marie McMahon-Dupuis said the players delivered more than just a stack of hockey cards to the students.
They also handed out fire-safety related homework assignments. It's all part of the school's emphasis on all-around safety.
"It carries that message back to the home," she said. "They have to go test their smoke alarms at home as well they have to come up with a fire escape plan."
Having the players deliver the message might make it stick a little longer.
"The hook is the engagement is working with the players from the hockey team," McMahon-Dupuis said. "The kids are excited to have guests into our school and giving that message."
Stokaluk, a fire-prevention officer, said the partnership with the Thunderwolves and Tbaytel is all about targeting youngsters and teaching them about fire safety measures.
The earlier, the better, he said.
"What we're effectively trying to do is change a generation of kids and the way they think about fire safety. It's a two-fold message," Stokaluk said.
"By talking to the children it gets our message home to the parents as well. They're great ambassadors and it's hard for any parent to not do something that their children are asking them to do."
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Bullied Michigan teen Whitney Kropp triumphed at homecoming Friday night where even fans of the other team supported her — showing up at the football game in her favorite color orange.
Her case — which we discussed earlier this week – has attracted supporters worldwide. Whitney was elected to the homecoming court at her Michigan high school as a joke by some mean classmates, but she turned the tables on them and emerged a national heroine after her hometown rallied behind her and a Facebook campaign was launched.
Cheers erupted and cameras flashed Friday as Whitney Kropp stepped onto her high school football field as a star. "I'm overwhelmed," she said later, with flowers in her hair and the straps on her red, ruffled dress sparkling under the stadium lights.
Kropp, a 16-year-old sophomore, made headlines this month when she decided to join Ogemaw Heights High School's homecoming court, despite being nominated as a joke. Many people around West Branch, as well as across the country, praised her courage and embraced her anti-bullying message.
Whitney's supporters donned orange, her favorite color, as they cheered her on from the stadium stands. Students from Cadillac, home of the visiting team, were in orange. "We support her," said 13-year-old Molly
"There's definitely a different mood," 61-year-old John Young said before the game as he hawked raffle tickets near a man grilling hot dogs. "People came here together to support her." And when halftime finally arrived, the marching band played and a pickup carried Whitney around the track that surrounds the field. She carefully stepped out and turned toward the crowd, beaming.
Whitney said she has a message for victims of bullying. "The kids that are bullying, do not let them bring you down," she said. "Stand up for what you believe in, and go with your heart and go with your gut. That's what I did, and look at me now."
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
September 29th, 2012
10:06 am
Would that teachers also have an advocate for them when they faced bullying from abusive administrators whose mindset never evolved from high school.
The APS administrator for example who made a teacher crawl under a table; where were PAGE and GAE on THAT issue?
Nice to see that sometimes good people DO stand up in support of those who have been wronged.
September 29th, 2012
10:12 am
Beverly Fraud, just once can you address teh topic at hand instead of blogging the same message about discipline? Bullying of students is a huge problem in schools. We need to focus on it. We need to cure it. This anti-bullying message on this blog made headlines in a good way. Let's celebrate it and focus on the entire reason schools exist — for the kids.
Let's focus on the kids for a change on this blog. (I really like your posts but just this once, focus on the kids.)
September 29th, 2012
10:27 am
Haven't heard of this story til now, but how exactly was she "bullied"? (which is a GROSSLY overused phrase by the media lately) She's freakin homecoming queen. If this was truly a "bully" situation, why did teachers and administrators let her remain on the voting ballot? Something about this story isn't adding up.
September 29th, 2012
10:27 am
Seems to me your mind set never evolved from grade school,you babby.
September 29th, 2012
10:38 am
she had been bullied in school a lot and the people who nominated her for homecoming candidate thought it would be funny to nominate her, then afterwards told her it was a big joke
September 29th, 2012
10:48 am
Hey "Name (required)" : She was picked as a joke so the other kids could laugh at her, and they expected her to withdraw. Makes lots of sense as a bullying situation, and teachers and administrators have often been less than vigilant in responding to these situations.
You need to understand that when you say things like "Something about this story isn't adding up", you don't sound like a eagle-eyed internet detective, you just sound clueless.
September 29th, 2012
10:55 am
Go back and click the link in the article and you can read all about it.
Also, if it was your child being bullied (the worst of which, by the way, is NOT of the physical kind) then I doubt you'd be trying to pass it off as a creation of the media…
September 29th, 2012
11:10 am
This same scenario happened in my high school in 1963 long before the word "bully or bullied" became part of every day talk about schools. It was horrendous in 63 and still is. In our case, a good friend of the girl helped make up and dress the girl into a beauty..;.which she naturally was inside and out. The girl was perceived "less" than some of the bullying boys, who now cannot hold a candle to her in character…not then, not now. I oftentimes wonder what must have gone through her mind as she cared for an ailing mother, being substitute mom to younger brothers and came to school with tears in her eyes facing the boys every day. It must have been her private hell. Good luck to the young lady in this case…and in all cases where an annointed crowd ruins your daily walk. And quite frankly, as a retired principal, to all you parents who came to my office ranting that your child was charged with bullying and said the other student should have sucked it up and gotten used to kids being kids, I can now say, "Go to Hades!!!" Interpret that how you wish.
September 29th, 2012
11:17 am
Bullying by mean girls is real and devastating. My daughter was a victim of mean girl bullying in 4th and 5th grade. If I had known it was going on, I would have moved her to a different school, but the victims rarely tell (she didn't until it stopped in 6th grade when they moved on to some other girls). She felt it was something she brought on herself and tried to solve it by herself.
Every parent of a daughter should read "Odd Girl Out" by Rachel Simmons.
Bullying is not just physical. In fact, perhaps the most devastating bullying occurs with verbal and actions and reactions toward the victim.
September 29th, 2012
11:22 am
Thumbs up Whitney!!!! A similar situation happened in the district where I was employed about 12 years ago. Just as you did, the student stood strong (also 10th grade) and much to nasty students involved, everyone supported her just like they did for you. Stay strong and keep smiling.
September 29th, 2012
11:44 am
The main reason I turned down some opportunities to move to the US (which I love, respect, and admire) is that my wife and I worried about our kids growing in the harsh "teenage ecosystem" you have there. Yes, Brazil has many problems, but bullying at USA levels is (yet) rare here.
Maybe it's a bad side effect of the highly competitive drive which on the other hand makes the USA so great, but it is heartbreaking to see a period, which for most of us was the best of our lives, become a torture for so many kids. Unfortunately in the past years we have seen bullying slowly creeping into our schools too. Some are taking steps ahead to stop it before it grows.
September 29th, 2012
12:26 pm
I saw this story on the news. She was nominated as a cruel joke. She was she, unpopular teen who was picked on. Her mother encouraged her to remain on the ballot and court. When the story was released publicly, the town rallied for her. She was given a complete make over, a new dress and the works. A very happen ending and huge boost in confidence.
September 29th, 2012
12:30 pm
Thank goodness in this case the community was able to turn what could have been a very, emotionally negative experience to a positive for this young lady. I have never understood people who feel the need to make themselves "more" by putting down others. It exposes an inherent weakness in their "soul". Apparently, they cannot raise themselves up through improving themselves, they can only do it by trying to tear down others. In the end, such behavior does NOTHING to enhance the attackers, and only reveals their own flaws. It does not make you "more", it makes you "less".
September 29th, 2012
12:36 pm
Why hasn't the system done everything in its power to root out the bullys and deal with them accordingly?
All the "education" in the world WITHOUT consequences is pretty much meaningless, unless people go to EXTRAORDINARY lengths, as has happened in this story.
September 29th, 2012
12:52 pm
"Grossly over used term in the media." Tell that to the millions of kids (Now adults) who lost their school years, the years that should have been their very best in their young lives. It shapes you, it tears you down day after day. I loved my school and wanted so much to be a part of all the activities but never attended one activity, not even my graduation. It was only two years ago, on the 42 anniversary of my graduation that I received my diploma. My first one I tore to shreds in anger and shame. Grossly underused and largely ignored for many, many years, in my opinion.
September 29th, 2012
1:01 pm
A "feel good story" to be sure. Congrats to the community, to the young student, and especially to her mom for supporting her daughter. Now, the kids who pulled this little "prank," why don't you guys/gals jump off a cliff and not come back. Yeah, that about sums it up.
September 29th, 2012
1:07 pm
@Name "How exactly was she bullied"?!? "She was freakin' homecoming queen."?!? You seem to be suggesting that being homecoming queen makes up for the cruel joke that was played on her in the first place. Let me guess: you wanted desperately to be a member of your homecoming court and saw it as a huge honor and validation…instead of the asinine, low-brow, demeaning experience it actually is. I was my school's homecoming escorts to our class queen. I thought it was a bunch of crap then and did it only because the girl asked me to. The entire homecoming ritual is nothing more than a livestock show, the parade of genetic randomness that allows the little cutie-pies and their stud wannabe dates to rub their physical "superiority" and popularity in the faces of all those "lesser" individuals. And one of them ever realize that, in five years, nobody will remember or care. It teaches our kids that it's better to be cute than smart, industrious, determined, and wise; that what matters is attractiveness and a set of straight teeth or perky breasts. It's long past time that this barbaric ritual stopped altogether. If you don't understand how she was bullied, YOU are the problem. And not using your name was a very wise move. If people who know you – like an employer or a business associate – knew how shallow and obtuse you can be, there might very well be real-life consequences for your obliviousness.
September 29th, 2012
1:10 pm
Another one, closer to home, NC.
The joke is on the insecure cowards who are too dim to understand that technology today can muster an army of thousands to support any supposed misfit or outcast.
September 29th, 2012
1:37 pm
Why wasn't the abusive principal who made an APS teacher crawl under a table in a faculty meeting fired even BEFORE the cheating in the school was disclosed?
Bullying; not just for kids. Apparently it's still an APS staple of their corporate culture.
September 29th, 2012
1:41 pm
The only way to slow down bullying is to make it "uncool" to bully. Alert teachers and administrators can establish the right atmosphere but student leaders will have to do the heavy lifting.
September 29th, 2012
1:42 pm
@Beverly hey! this ain't about the aps you tard…it's about a young woamn who triumhed over some evil…just give her her due and not try to drag a different situation into her 15 minutes.
September 29th, 2012
1:42 pm
Overcome evil with good. This young lady has exceptional parents. Her ability to overcome this social challenge is a reflection of their good parenting skills. Whitney has a bright future! The other students and adults have gained a valuable life lesson thanks to her courage. This type of bullying is rare in the home school community.
September 29th, 2012
1:51 pm
If these children today don't face a little adversity in life they are going to get crushed by the real world. We need to take the bubble wrap off and let them deal with it themselves. If mommy and daddy are always there to save them they will never grow up.
September 29th, 2012
2:05 pm
My daughter, then 16, was sexually bullied in high school. The district (Clarke County, GA) did not have a policy on student on student sexual harassment in 1993! So she stood up to the boys, stood up in front of the school board, and even went back to the school board when the "policy" they came up with made the person bullied put up with MONTHS of it before anything would be done! Some of the boys were football players, some had dangerous girl friends, but she lifted her chin and confronted them, repeating what they said and what they did. It proved a big boost for her sense of self, as she found out that she COULD do something about the mistreatment, that there WERE adults who would listen and help.
She has gone on to become a woman of common sense, strenght, and self-possession, raising a daughter to have the same sort of qualities. She won't be anyone's doormat!
Bad stuff can be transformed to good!
September 29th, 2012
2:09 pm
Would be nice if the girl's tormentors could be paraded in front of the people in the stadium, and roundly booed and made fun of! As Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes said, "Where is a lightning bolt when you need one?"
September 29th, 2012
2:53 pm
Bullying them back would defeat the good that has been done. Even if not publicly by individual name, they have been appropriately shamed by her GOOD response. Whitney's escort was shamed into doing what was right. Initially, he had refused to escort her, then, when the story became public, he accepted the HONOR. People can repent and learn from their mistakes.
September 29th, 2012
3:44 pm
Three cheers (and more, and more, and more in the future) for Whitney! (Comments on this board should be kept to subject at hand – Whitney. If you feel you must stand on a pedestal and beat your own chest, for whatever cause, take it elsewhere.) We love you, Whitney.
September 29th, 2012
4:26 pm
What an inspiring story! Wonderful community support and great courage by this young lady!
September 29th, 2012
4:35 pm
As a middle school teacher, I see bullying on a daily basis. I do everything I can to stop the bullier and help the bullied. There is a lot I don't see because it is covert and the victims don't want to tell for fear it will get worse. Bullying is systemic…there are school personnel who don't want to deal with it and some times weak policies to try to stop it, but unless parents realize that "their little darlings" might actually be participating in it, we're sunk. I can't even count the number of times that a child has bullied another, and parents RUSH to their defense instead of getting the facts and dealing with their child.
I also can't count the number of times that we get NO support from parents for anything UNTIL their child is in trouble. Their reaction is to – finally – email, call or come to the school, not to help us hold their child accountable, but to automatically accuse the teacher, student, or administrator of lying or picking on their child; then, in front of their child, blast any and everyone involved as liars, refuse to have their child have any consequences and threaten to contact the superintendent or to sue all the while widening the smug smile on their childs' faces as mommy and/or daddy gets them out of trouble – once again…A few of my fellow educators and I have kept track over the last few years of children whose parents ran to their rescue instead of allowing logical consequencesto happen. These kids are almost 100% more likely to get traffic tickets, DUI's, get in fights, suspended, some expelled, get pregnant, not be accepted by choice colleges, lose sports scholarships, become dependent on drugs and alcohol, commit suicide, or fail at most relationships. They have NO idea how to handle lifes challenges, and believe that "it will never happen to them" and "they are owed everything." People, it's time to wise up…we are doing NO ONE any favors – it might be easier to live with your little darlings if you always say yes, and don't have to hear them whine, but if you won't as their parents, why should I have to as their teacher??? You want to know why bullying is such a problem now, look in the mirror…
September 29th, 2012
6:06 pm
Truth: I don't call it bullying or shaming; let's call it "recognizing their contribution" LOL
September 29th, 2012
6:23 pm
This girl's courage brings tears to my eyes.
September 29th, 2012
6:49 pm
The bullies should be shot.
September 29th, 2012
7:24 pm
@Carl: That, or an old-fashioned vigilance committee "necktie party!"
September 29th, 2012
7:27 pm
Dayum can we just stick to her story and let this child shine? @Pride and Joy, THANKS! @Beverly – GEES! Well kudos to this young lady. After reading about 1/3 of the responses I think I will just click off. People can NEVER stick to the subject at hand.
September 29th, 2012
7:27 pm
As I said in my response to the original story, "Living well is the best revenge." Having watched the coverage of this fantastic young woman's triumph over those who would demean her and bring her down because she isn't "popular", I say to Whitney — you have served those bullies the dish of shame they deserve. May you live long and prosper, Ms. Kropp!
Oh, and Kim – I agree with everything you had to say, but I'd like to add one word to one sentence. You said "…in all cases where an anointed crowd ruins your daily walk." I would add the word "self-" before anointed. These "popular" people are such with nobody but themselves.
September 29th, 2012
7:33 pm
@Pride and Joy, THANKS. @Beverly can we just allow this child this time to shine. What that watusi does your comment have to do with the story. People can we please STICK TO THE STORY AT HAND! You all talk about kids – GEES!
To those asking where was the board and teachers, etc – you try being an educator with the empty kids there are today. I wouldn't teach for all the gold in the US Mint. Sadly when I read comments posted in response to the AJC's stories it doesn't surprise me why some kids are as empty as they are.
Congrats to this young lady.
September 29th, 2012
8:04 pm
B Fraud-this is not about you, stop using this forum for your bully pulpit to make more people resent teachers and education employees. I came to a profound discovery one day: we have a tendency to judge ourselves on our own intentions, but other people don't know our intentions and judge us on our behaviour. Its about intentions vs. behaviours. I'll assume your intentions are good. Your actions don't follow your intentions and discredit your cause. And your delivery sucks. Stop being so abrasive and people may actually listen to you.
September 29th, 2012
8:13 pm
Congrats I would have loved to have seen the other girls faces
September 29th, 2012
8:28 pm
and "bully pulpit" was certainly a pun intended. Whitney-from geeks everywhere, you go girl
September 29th, 2012
8:36 pm
Great story!
September 29th, 2012
11:35 pm
Great story. Congrats Whitney!
September 30th, 2012
4:52 am
@Beverly hey! this ain't about the aps you tard
I believe the story WAS about bullying, was it not?
September 30th, 2012
5:55 am
This young lady is the winner. She is very cute and out classed the rest of the field. I hope God continues to bless her for the rest of her life for what she has had to go through.
September 30th, 2012
8:30 am
Bev Fraud — the story is about the bullying of children, not teachers.
As I and many others have said — give your agenda a rest and stick to the story at hand — the BULLYING of CHILDREN in SCHOOLS.
By repeatedly hijacking this blog you bring NO one to champion your cause. Instead you are bringing several of us to resent your message.
Is that what you really want?
Because that's the effect your hijacking is having.
STICK to the topic at hand or don't blog at all.
September 30th, 2012
9:23 am
Great Story! Good things happen to good people…
September 30th, 2012
9:38 am
This is slightly similar to the storyline of the movie "Carrie". Thank goodness this story worked out much better. Good for her.
September 30th, 2012
10:20 am
That took a lot of courage and character to do what Whitney did at her age, and this experience will add so much to her beauty, both inner and outer. Good on her mother and her supporters (the opposing side, too! Wow!). As for Beverly F. — Beverly, this story is for YOU! You don't have to take abuse. Never crawl on the floor on your knees when you can stand on your feet and say. "No, I'm not going to take your abuse." Any time you choose, you can choose to do what Whitney did.
We all can. And that's the lesson to be learned here.
September 30th, 2012
11:29 am
Other teachers: Have you noticed how when it is a parent's child doing the bullying they were "just playing around" or "boys being boys" but when it is their children being the butt of the bullying it becomes BULLYING with a capital B?
September 30th, 2012
11:31 am
Sort of like, when "those people" get help it is WELFARE, but when you get it it is "I earned it."
September 30th, 2012
11:45 am
An article on bullying behavior and what parents can do about it is at this site. http://issuu.com/woodburymagazine/docs/www.woodburymagazine.net/1


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From tsunami-wrecked town to winter Games
This handout picture taken by Hitachi Solutions on February 9, 2013 shows Japanese one-armed cross country skier Yurika Abe at the local competition at Hakuba in Nagano prefecture, central Japan
The 18-year-old's move to the big stage comes just three winters after she took up cross-country skiing, clutching a single pole in her right hand.
She skied six kilometres and fired off 10 rifle shots to finish 13th in the woman's short standing biathlon on Saturday in her Paralympic debut on Russia's Black Sea coast.
On Tuesday, three years to the day after monster waves ravaged Japan's northeast coast, Abe will tune up on the eve of another battle -- the third of six cross-country and biathlon races which she has determinedly signed up for in Sochi.
"I will try to ski in a way that gives energy to people back home as I feel them cheering me on," Abe told a send-off rally before leaving her home prefecture of Iwate in early February.
Her high school headmaster Hiroshi Kikuchi praised his student, saying he hoped she could "show we have not been defeated by the disaster".
Abe hails from the fishing town of Yamada, which lost more than 800 residents and several thousand homes, including her own, in the 2011 disaster.
On March 11 that year, a massive 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake unleashed a towering tsunami that smashed into the Japanese coast.
More than 18,000 people were killed, and damage caused to the Fukushima nuclear plant sparked the worst atomic accident in a generation.
Abe's efforts are the latest example of the immense role sport has played in the healing process for the region, as top Japanese athletes both encouraged victims and took inspiration from their struggle.
At the Sochi Olympics, Japan's 19-year-old sensation Yuzuru Hanyu, who hails from the tsunami-hit city of Sendai, won the men's figure skating gold medal -- Japan's only title of the Games, which also made him the first Japanese man to win an Olympic figure skating gold and the youngest Olympic men's champion in 66 years.
Abe is the only disaster victim among Japan's 20 Paralympians in Sochi, and her ambitions are modest -- for now.
"I'm aiming to finish in the top eight," she has told Japanese media.
"I want to aim much, much higher later on and would like to go to the Paralympics four years from now and again in eight years."
- 'I can do it too' -
Despite suffering permanent nerve damage in her left arm during birth, Abe was able to take up volleyball and played on her junior high school team.
When she saw television coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics, she was awed by cross-country skiers who were able to compete with the use of just one arm.
"I can do it too," she thought to herself, and contacted the head of Japan's national Paralympic ski team, Hideki Arai.
Her leg muscles steeled by years on the volleyball court, Abe was invited to take part in Arai's training camp just a few months before the disaster -- which struck Japan on her last day of junior high school.
While she and six the family members she lived with survived -- including elderly grandparents -- they lost their home, situated just one kilometre (0.6 miles) from the Pacific shoreline. Three years on, they still live in housing units hastily constructed for tsunami refugees.
Abe herself left the family to attend a high school known for cultivating competitive skiers in the city of Morioka, about 70 kilometres inland.
She trains with able-bodied athletes and belongs to a private skiing team, coached by Arai, which is renowned for its disabled competitors.
Abe sealed her path to the Paralympics by finishing seventh in the 15-kilometre cross-country standing race at the world championships for the disabled last year.
The athlete, who is due to start university in Tokyo next month, has said that if not for the disaster, she might have become a serious competitive skier much later in life.
"The tough experience of the disaster may be one reason why she never says die," said team head Arai.
"She gives it all she has, right to the end."
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Categories > Anime/Manga > Naruto > Unspeakably Right
Not Anymore1 Reviews
An hour had passed.
Had Naruto decided to stay with Gaara? Sasuke felt like an idiot, he should have stayed. Kissed him in front of Gaara, marked him as his property, but no, he decided to leave him there, probably heartbroken. Because Sasuke knew he had abandoned Naruto lately.
The attention was only physical.
"Naruto," Sasuke whispered. It took him a second to realize Naruto was probably in trouble. He needed help.
Love has no boundaries.
It was love, Sasuke was sure. Love was what guided him to find Naruto standing up in a dark alley, wet, crying, red, cold and almost dead. As soon as he saw his boy, he hugged him. Why was he there all alone? "Naruto," Sasuke called, but he didn't answer. He just kept looking at the ground, his blue eyes looking dull. "What's wrong?" he asked.
Naruto looked into Sasuke's onyx eyes and started crying more than before. "I'm sorry Sasuke!" he cried. "It's all my fault!"
Sasuke hugged him tighter. "What are you talking about?!" Sasuke asked, getting worried.
In his arms, Naruto closed his eyes and dropped weak.
"Naruto…" Sasuke whispered. He was sure it was his voice, there was no mistake. "Oh no, you're still burning up." After those words, he felt a cold towel on his forehead. It was soothing him, the coldness in his face and Sasuke's warm voice. Soon, he was asleep again.
The heat had finally abandoned his body. It was as if life had sprung once again through his body and it felt nice. Then he felt a warm breath in his neck. "Sasuke?" he whispered.
"Naruto!" Sasuke immediately hollered. He looked at his lover sick face and smiled. Just to see him alive made Sasuke so happy. "How are you?"
Naruto's eyes instantly became cold. He was feeling horrible. He had kissed Itachi Uchiha.
"Naruto! Don't give me that face, it makes me worry about you," he said and wrapped his arms around his torso. "I love you."
His silence was deep and cruel. Now Naruto was positive Sasuke knew something was really wrong and he also knew he had to tell him the truth. "Look Sasuke," he began.
Sasuke noticing something was definitely very wrong kissed Naruto's lips softly and held him tighter. "Don't be nervous."
"How can I not be nervous when your brother kissed me!!?" Naruto confessed.
His dark eyes went blank as he separated from Naruto, feeling disgusted. "Kissed?"
Naruto felt tears in his eyes. Sasuke hated him, he was positive about that. The look on his face said everything. "I'm sorry," he slurred.
Out of nowhere, Sasuke pinned Naruto to the bed and starred straight into his blue eyes. "Did you like it?" he asked.
"What?" Naruto asked shocked. He tried to read Sasuke's expression, but it was just blank. It didn't show anger nor shock. His eyes were just there, looking at him.
"Did you like it, Naruto?" he asked again. "Don't lie to me."
His cheeks went red. Why was Sasuke asking him this? Why did he care if he liked it? What should he respond? That he thought his brother, who he hates, was a good kisser. That the reason why he felt so bad wasn't just because a stranger kissed him, but because he had actually enjoyed it. That if Itachi tried to kiss him again, he would actually let him. "Sasuke..."
"Don't say it, you don't have to," he slurred, not moving from his position. "It's inevitable. His eyes have something that seduces you, I know it."
"Sasuke you," he began, but didn't know exactly how to put it.
"I'll make you forget about him," Sasuke whispered in Naruto ears and began kissing his neck. He heard Naruto moan so he continued moving down.
"Stop it!" Naruto screamed as he pushed Sasuke away. "I don't want you touching me!"
Sasuke looked at his partner in shock. Naruto was shivering and fresh tears covered his cheeks. "What? Why?!"
"You have changed!" Naruto hollered. "I don't like you anymore!"
"Naruto…" his heart was falling apart. Why was he saying this? What had he done?
"Can you please leave?" he asked then.
Sasuke didn't say anything. He simply nodded and left.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB-TV) -- Family and friends of a Western Kentucky University student who was murdered over the weekend are returning to the scene of the crime.
Cheryl Williamson's family and friends want her to be the last person killed after leaving a party or nightclub.
"It's going to be called the 'Stop the Club/Venue Violence," says Kenyatta Drake, Williamson's cousin.
Drake is planning a march on Sunday, Dec. 2. She's hoping to raise awareness about the issue.
Drake says, "I really would like to get like 10,000 people out, you know, I told 'em bring your kids, your animals, your parents, your grandparents...any living thing."
Williamson was a senior at WKU and was shot and killed early Sunday morning after leaving a party at the Gillespie in downtown Louisville.
"It's like you got to watch who you bump into, watch who you talk to," says Shawn Sanders, local promoter.
Witnesses say Williamson was shot after arguing with two men inside the party. As a result, Sanders says, "A lot of people really don't want to go out and party no more."
Sanders has brought in nationally known artists like Master P. to Louisville. He says the ongoing violence is starting to scare people away.
"You know, you want to go out and have a good time but you don't know what's going on behind it," says Sanders.
Sanders has been involved with dozens of parties at the Gillespie and other venues and believes criminals are creative when it comes to getting weapons inside.
"Anybody can say 'hey, I'm going to the car or I'm going out to light a cigarette," Sanders explains. "Anything can go on behind that."
And that's why Kenatta Drake hopes Sunday's march will lead to changes in the law and eventually at night clubs and parties.
Drake says she favors a law requiring nightclubs to be equipped to detect weapons -- "the body scan or whatever."
Drake is using social media to spread the word. So far the response has been good.
"I started posting it on Facebook just to see what type of impact it would have on people, and wow. A lot of people were like, 'Let's do it. Let's do it,'" says Drake.
The March is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2. It will start at Floyd and Market and end at The Gillespie at 421 W. Market.
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The Silver Crescent Awards for excellence in manufacturing in South Carolina were handed out recently. The winner in the Large Manufacturers category for 2011 is the Robert Bosch company in North Charleston.
Mike Switzer interviews Larry Lautenshlager, the company's technical plant manager. www.silvercrescentsc.org and www.bosch.us
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Third-Party Charges Based on Sound Methodology; Implementation Challenges Remain
HEHS-99-124: Published: Jun 11, 1999. Publicly Released: Jun 11, 1999.
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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) third party charges, focusing on: (1) the soundness of VA's methodology for setting reasonable charges for inpatient facility, skilled nursing, outpatient facility, physician, and nonphysician services; and (2) potential effects of the new charge-based system on VA, insurers, and veterans.
GAO noted that: (1) GAO believes VA's methodology provides a sound basis for setting reasonable charges and optimizing its collection revenues; (2) its methodology logically applies available data to set local market charges for each geographic area where VA provides care; (3) in cases where VA's charges are higher than the insurers' usual payments to other providers for the same care, insurers are permitted by law to pay VA these usual amounts rather than VA's billed charges; (4) however, if VA submits charges that are less than the insurers' usual payments, the insurers may pay the lower amounts; (5) therefore, if VA sets its charges below market prices, it will forego some of the revenue it could collect from private insurers; (6) VA is working with a contractor to establish a way to identify charges that need to be modified to better reflect market prices; (7) VA expects that the shift to reasonable charges will increase collections from private insurers, but it cannot accurately project the amount; (8) the potential revenue gain is dependent on the difference between the reasonable cost and reasonable charge payments and the volume of payments received from third-party payers; (9) however, VA does not have reliable data on either; (10) for example, VA data bases do not contain sufficient detail on the type of insurance coverage veterans have or the specific care provided to insured veterans in order to project revenue changes; (11) consequently, GAO agrees that the effect on VA's collections--and the corresponding effect on insurers' costs--cannot be accurately determined; (12) moreover, in cases where insurers exercise their option to pay their usual amounts instead of VA's proposed reasonable charge, VA faces the challenge of determining whether the payments it receives from insurers are in fact the appropriate amount; (13) VA has not established procedures to make this determination; and (14) while the effect of the shift to reasonable charges on VA revenue and insurers' costs is not precisely predictable, it should not have an appreciable effect on veterans because it does not change the copayment and per diem payments set by statute that are required of some veterans receiving VA care.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: VA is planning to revise its charges to make them more precisely reflect local markets. Inpatient facility charges are to be based on 3-digit zip-code areas rather than by larger metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) because average charges can vary considerably across areas found in the larger MSAs. In this way, VA will more adequately assure that it does not forego some of the amount that insurers usually pay other providers for the same service in the same locality, which would occur if VA set its charges too low for that locality. On August 13, 2003, VA reported that it continues to update its charges to be more reflective of local markets. The last rate increase was published in the Federal Register in April 2003, and the next version is expected in October 2003.
Recommendation: To help ensure that VA does not forego some of the amount that insurers usually pay other providers for the same service in the same locality, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should establish and implement policy and procedures to monitor reasonable charges and identify those that should be increased to conform with local market prices.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: VA concurred with the recommendations. On August 13, 2003, VA reported that it has begun to implement a payer relations program to ensure that health plan payments are made according to federal regulations. The program will be rolled out by the end of fiscal year 2003. Health plans may pay either 100 percent of billed charges or an amount paid to other providers for the same services.
Recommendation: To help ensure that VA does not forego some of the amount that insurers usually pay other providers for the same service in the same locality, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should establish and implement policy and procedures to verify the appropriateness of insurers' payments when they pay an amount less than VA's reasonable charge.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
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One man is dead after officials say he fell off of a truck bed.
Students involved in a fight at Monroe High School that was widely seen on a Facebook video are being interviewed as part of a school system investigation.
Dougherty County School police say the incident happened Wednesday in a Monroe High hallway. School Police tell us that Monroe High Assistant Principal Dr. Joey James is the man in the white shirt, apparently pushing one of the fighting girls to the ground roughly.
School officials began an investigation into the video Thursday when WALB showed the Facebook video to them after students provided it to us.
James remained on the job Friday at the school.
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Carbohydrate Addict's Diet
The remarkable success of The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet -- by Rachael Heller, MD, and Richard Heller, MD, and first published in 1993 -- led to a handful of best-selling books. Each is based on a single theory: Many overweight people are "carbohydrate addicts." Among these people, biological processes that convert food into energy fail to perform as they are supposed to and, the Hellers say, "for reasons that are not yet clearly understood, sustained high levels of insulin in the blood result." The elevated insulin, according to their theory, makes carbohydrate addicts crave food throughout the day. But a big question -- why does this condition create carbohydrate craving? -- is not answered.
Given the premise, the Hellers claim that this is not a diet for everybody -- only for those with this metabolic imbalance that they call "carbohydrate addiction." However, their "documented research" shows that 75% of overweight adults identify themselves as "carbohydrate addicts," but they maintain that the actual figure may be as high as 85%. Alas, these theories on addiction and the related figures are not founded on scientific research.
The diet is based on the Hellers' own theories about controlling fat-storing insulin in the body. And insulin, they claim, can be controlled by drastically reducing carbohydrate consumption during most of the day.
For the first two weeks, you eat two small Complimentary Meals daily, consisting of a portion (three to four ounces) of meat, fish, or fowl or two ounces of cheese, and roughly two cups of vegetables or salad. The third meal is your Reward Meal, which can be anything you want, in any quantity -- though it should be nourishing and well balanced. You can have wine or a cocktail or a glass of beer, promise the Hellers. This meal can be breakfast, lunch, or dinner. But there's a time limit. The Reward Meal -- from cocktail to dessert -- must be consumed within an hour.
After the first two weeks, the regimen splits into several eating plans, depending on how much weight you still want to lose, or on whether you just want to maintain what you've already lost. Some will choose a plan that allows one prescribed snack a day, made up of the same low-carb foods that you eat at the Complimentary Meals. You may never choose carbohydrate-rich foods such as fruits, fruit juices, breads, pasta, snack foods, or sweets as your snacks. Never. And these snacks are limited to half the size of a meal.
The book gives an extensive list of food to chose from, which covers five pages, and urges you not to deviate: "If the food is not listed here, don't eat it during your Complimentary Meals or Snacks. ... When in doubt, save the food for your Reward Meal."
Other rules: Drink plenty of water. If you have milk or cream with your coffee, you can have one cup a day the way you like it. Keep to the rules, say the Hellers, and you will improve your metabolism and miraculously lose weight, and all the time you'll feel great.
The Hellers claim that by restricting carbohydrates drastically during most of the day, the body releases far less insulin than if you had been eating a high-carb diet at each meal. They say that the entire chain of metabolic events is altered: Less insulin is released, less fat is stored, and more fat is burned up. Because the body is releasing less insulin, the brain regulates the appetite better with a release of serotonin, a biochemical that gives that nice, complete feeling of satiety.
The time limit on the Reward Meal, when you are eating and drinking carbs to your heart's content, controls the insulin release, which the Hellers say occurs about one-and-a-quarter to one-and-a-half hours after you begin eating. If you are still polishing off that apple pie, your body will compensate for the initial low release of insulin with a big blast of it. But if you've stopped eating within an hour, "this second phase appears to be kept low," they write.
High insulin in the blood leads to a decrease in the number and activity of receptor sites in the muscles and fatty tissue that absorb insulin and glucose. This is called insulin resistance. Only one carbohydrate-rich meal a day, the Hellers say, lowers insulin production and leads to an increase in receptor sites, which then gobble up the insulin and glucose more quickly, removing it from the blood. This in turn allows the "carbohydrate addict" to feel less intensely hungry throughout the day, have fewer cravings, and lose more weight.
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A wife "grinding" while dancing "seductively" with another man sparked her husband to hit her at a wedding reception at the exclusive DeBordieu Colony, Georgetown Sheriff Deputies say.
The incident happened around 11:40 pm on Sept. 28 after a wedding was held at the DeBordieu Clubhouse on the marsh and a reception was held afterwards at the clubhouse, according to a sheriff's report.
The DeBordieu Colony island in Georgetown County is private and entry to the island is limited to homeowners or those placed on a guest list for weddings at least 3 days in advance.
"(The suspect) stated that he and his wife were at a wedding in Debordieu when he observed his wife grinding up on another guy while dancing and he got upset and told her they were leaving the wedding reception," deputies wrote in a report.
"(The victim) stated that her husband got upset after she danced "seductively" with another man and grabbed her by the arm and escorted her out of the clubhouse. (the victim) stated that once outside the club house, her husband hit her several times but only hitting her arms."
"(The victim) stated that her husband had threatened to hit her and kick her out because she is 'trailer park'," the report also said.
The suspect, who was a guest at the wedding along with his wife, told deputies that he did not hit his wife, but that they merely argued verbally regarding a divorce, deputies said.
The victim, age 41, told deputies that she hit her husband back with car keys to get away from him and to stop him from hitting her. A small bloody scratch was noticed by deputies on the husband's cheek, the report said.
Charles William Arnold, age 43, of Pawleys Island, was charged with criminal domestic violence – first offense.
Arnold, who has no prior criminal record, was released just before noon the next day from the Georgetown County Jail after paying a $2,505 bail, according to the jail website.
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Imogen Thomas has never shied away from flaunting her cleavage. And Wednesday night was no different for the 29-year-old who stepped out in a plunging pink dress to attend Famous Cosmetics Launch at the Rose club.
The Welsh glamour model, who is infamous for bedding footballer Ryan Giggs, teamed the flirty and feminine dress with a black leather jacket and Christian Louboutin peep toe heels. ANI


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