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By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan
Over the last two weeks, Rylee explored what it means to be both an academic and everyday feminist [2] and discussed her own research [3] in the context of other scholarly work. This week she focuses on the implications of real women in political office.
By now, it might be obvious that I want more women to run for office. However, when I express that wish without qualifications or conditional addendums, it may be misleading – especially because I am writing so openly as a feminist with clearly defined politics.
So now I am going to qualify that statement: Seriously, I want more women, of all sorts, to run for office. No, I do not mean only liberal women, or only white women [4], or only straight women, or even only rich women. I mean more of all types of women.
Political representation is complicated [5]. Hanna Pitkin, a professor at UC Berkeley [6], developed the basic framework we use today to understand political representation from four basic perspectives. As it pertains to women running for office, I will focus on only two of Pitkin's views of representation: descriptive and substantive representation.
Pure descriptive representation occurs when a political body actually resembles its constituents. If this were perfectly implemented in the United States, there would be 51 women [7] in the Senate and 14 black people [8]. The idea is that there should be proportional representation that actually describes the whole population. In reality, 17 women [9] and zero black people [10] serve in the Senate.
Substantive representation suggests that elected representatives can act on behalf of the represented, even without resembling them or their experience. The textbook example is the wealthy and white Teddy Kennedy as a substantive representative of the poorest Americans' interests.
Similarly, men can act as substantive representatives of women's interests [11]. As it turns out, women are not always substantive representatives of all women's interests [12], as when the Paycheck Fairness Act failed in part because Republican women voted along Republican lines with corporate rather than women's interests [13]. The point is not that Republicans and Democrats disagree, but that elected women are not always substantive representatives of women before all else. Sometimes they represent business, or the environment, or the military first, just as elected men do. Being a woman does not inherently make feminism priority number one.
And really, women shouldn't be limited to "women's issues." When women or men run for office, it should be because they believe in the power of the system, because they are sincere in their desire to serve, and because enough people have faith that they will serve with grace and integrity. People like Senator Barbara Mikulski [14] (D-MD and the longest-serving female senator) are actively involved in areas not traditionally deemed "women's areas." She has served on the Subcommittee on Defense and the Select Committee on Intelligence as well as on committees related to the elderly, labor, and commerce. People are often unpredictably talented.
Jane Mansbridge, a political scientist at Harvard, tentatively suggests that descriptive representation does promote substantive representation [15]. And I understand why she's tentative – as feminists, the whole point is gaining better representation of women's interests, and the Phyllis Schlafly [16] types just don't do it for us.
But this is not a zero-sum game. So why shouldn't we have descriptive and substantive representation?
We should.
First, women and men can be great feminists together; we should vote for substantive representation because it's what we value.
Second, we must work for greater diversity in our government. When young women consider which women to admire in our government, more options are better than fewer options (and good options are even better). As Rosabeth Moss Kanter reported in the American Journal of Sociology in 1977, greater diversity means more legitimate government and less polarization of "token" women or minorities. And it has been demonstrated that more diverse, descriptive representation [17] yields more effective and sustainable decision-making [18] in a variety of arenas.
We can support substance first. But in this support, let's not lose sight of diversity and why it matters.
Rylee Sommers-Flanagan graduated from Emory University in May 2011, with a BA in International Studies. She will be pursuing an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews in the fall.
To support women running for office, check out the following fabulous organizations:
- The White House Project [19]
- The Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers [20]
- The Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School [21]
- Emily's List [22]


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Police are still sorting out what happened in an early morning melee that left three people injured outside a home in Salem.
Shortly after 2:45 a.m., two men were outside a house in the 2400-block of Maple Avenue NE, calling a missing dog.
Two men passing by apparently heard the yelling, thought they were being called derogatory names, and confronted the men at the house, said Lt. Steve Birr, Salem Police spokesman.
In the melee that followed, Michael Wheeler, 30, and Paul Bennett, 35, sustained stab wounds. Then they caught the man with the knife and dispensed their own punishment.
"A flowerpot may have been involved," said Birr, who added that "alcohol was apparently a factor on everybody's part."
Wheeler and Bennett sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The 51-year-old suspect, who was not named, was hospitalized in critical condition.
The fourth man, who was not involved in the assault, police said, fled the scene.


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Six Long Island teens, apparently inspired by the violent video game ``Grand Theft Auto,'' were charged with robbery after a crime spree.
Nassau County Police said three teens mugged a man in a New Hyde Park parking lot at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. They were joined by three other teens and the six walked down the center of a Garden City street early Thursday.
Police said the teens, armed with a bat, a crowbar and a broomstick, robbed one motorist and smashed a passing van with the bat.
Nassau Det. Sgt. Anthony Repalone said the teens admitted they were copying a character in the ``Grand Theft Auto'' video game. The teens were all charged as adults with first-degree robbery and one teen was also charged with criminal possession of stolen property.


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Just wanted to add: "sprinting" doesn't have to mean running. It just means pushing yourself to your limit. You can "sprint" in the pool or on a bicycle or even walking.
It sounds like you are on the right track. I was also a lazy one. I'm new to this and haven't lost much weight yet, but my energy has soared since I went primal, and I'm no longer lazy at all. I have a hard time making myself rest! I wish the best for you.


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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Some weeks may have been worse, but the past two are among the most challenging on the job for Jefferson County Manager Tony Petelos.
On Monday, state lawmakers held a public hearing to do away with his position. Last week, one County Commissioner and some commenters on al.com criticized Petelos for not establishing procedures to monitor credit card spending by county employees.
That's not to mention the ongoing concerns over the downsizing of the former Cooper Green Mercy Hospital.
And, on Saturday Petelos even learned that his signature slogan as mayor of Hoover would be canned.
Petelos, who was named Jefferson County Manager in September, 2011, acknowledged in an interview that the past several weeks have been a challenge, but said he's had worse.
"Dealing with employees, and the employees having to lose their jobs, to me that was a much rougher week," Petelos said.
It was Petelos who had to deliver news to workers at the former Cooper Green Mercy Hospital and the Jefferson Rehabilitation Health Center that they would be placed on administrative leave without pay.
Petelos has also had responsibility for the downsizing of Cooper Green which has angered many and led some to call for his job.
'Repeal the county manager bill'
On Monday, about 20 people attended a public hearing over whether to repeal the Jefferson County manager position
Rep. Mary Moore, D-Birmingham, has introduced a bill to repeal the county manager law, and the position with it.
Moore has argued that some County Commissioners have violated the law by continuing to interfere with the day to day operations of the county, which is the responsibility of the chief executive officer. County officials have denied those charges.
Petelos said he's not worried about the bill because he's heard from both Democrats and Republicans that the likelihood of the repeal ever making the floor of either the Alabama House or Senate is unlikely.
Rep. Paul DeMarco, R-Homewood, said he believes Petelos is doing a good job and the position is crucial for a county that in the past was plagued with mismanagement, fraud and corruption.
"I think over time we're going to look back and see this was one of the best moves that we've made for the county, changing to this new form of government," DeMarco said.
Petelos has done an admirable job of handling a recent credit card controversy, DeMarco said.
"I have confidence this will get resolved because I know that is what citizens want to see," DeMarco.
Credit card controversy
Last week, al.com/The Birmingham News reported nearly two dozen receipts and backup information to support credit card charges made by Jefferson County employees are missing and thousands of charges totaling close to $500,000 have been made over the past 13 months without county commission review or approval.
Petelos dealt with the issue directly, accepted responsibility and set about to fix the problem.
"When we have found something that has gone wrong we have brought it forward," he said. "We did it at Cooper Green, we have done it with the budget shortfalls. We're not going to sweep anything under the carpet. One way to deal with it is head on and if there is criticism so be it."
Slogan canned
Petelos may have responsibility for the day to day operations at the county but obviously no longer in Hoover, where he was mayor from 2004-2011.
Last week, the "Hoover's happening" slogan that Petelos made as mayor and popularized with his TV commercials on Fox 6 for many years was canned.
The new Hoover mayor, Gary Ivey, has a new slogan, Hoover is "exceeding your expectations."
Petelos' "Hoover's happening" commercials ran from 2006 into 2011, putting his face on TV thousands of times.
"It was a catchy slogan," Petelos said. "My kids said it was corny, but it stuck and it worked. The new mayor has his slogan and that's fine."
Asked what he thought of the new slogan, Petelos, said, "I like my old slogan. Who knows? Since we're not using 'Hoover's Happening' I may change it to 'Cooper Green's Happening.'"


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Perhaps the phenomenon can learn from the phenomenal.
Maybe this was the thinking behind the New England Patriots' decision to sign sometime quarterback Tim Tebow, whose brief tenure with the division rival New York Jets in 2012 came to virtually nothing. His lost season last season followed the hype that followed the former Heisman Trophy winner to Denver in 2010, where he quickly made his mark before just as quickly becoming yesterday's news.
And now he is a Patriot.
The news last week was, at first blush, shocking – What? Tebow a Patriot? Are you kidding? But almost immediately, upon even the briefest reflection, it began to make some real sense.
Why? Because the Patriots are coached by Bill Belichick, who looks out on the gridiron as a grandmaster views a chessboard in seeming disarray. While others are still endeavoring to figure out what's what, what pieces are where, Belichick is thinking about the 15th move he might be making. Even as he is considering not a few alternatives.
Is it Tebow time in New England?
The Patriots, even the most nonchalant fan need not be reminded, happen to have themselves a quarterback. Tom Brady, on anyone's list of the top QBs of our era, has led the Pats to three Super Bowl wins. He also got them to the big game on two other occasions. Tebow won't be contending for Brady's job.
And Tom Terrific has a backup, his heir apparent, in the person of Ryan Mallett. Tebow, though, might well learn a whole heck of a lot by watching the best in action.
In the meantime, it's possible that Belichick has something else in mind for Tebow. Does the coaching genius have some secret up the sleeve of his raggedy sweatshirt? We look forward to finding out.
Editorial: Is it Tebow time in New England? It might make sense
on June 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, updated June 15, 2013 at 10:32 AM
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Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart will serve a three game suspension after shoving a fan in the Cowboys loss at Texas Tech Saturday.
Smart and head coach Travis Ford and athletic director Mike Holder addressed the media Sunday after Smart shoved a fan after falling into the crowd in the game against Texas Tech Saturday.
In his remarks, Smart apologized to the Texas Tech fan, Jeff Orr, and his teammates.
Smart also said he takes all of the responsibility for the incident.
Ford said he would not address what was said in the exchange between Smart and the fan.
"Understand that Marcus is a young man who made a serious mistake, but he is a young man who has a great heart." Ford said.
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby announced Smart's three game suspension Sunday in a press release.
"Mr. Smart's actions were a clear violation of the Big 12 Conference's Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct Policy," Bowlsby said. "Such behavior has no place in athletics, and will not be tolerated."
Texas Tech released a new angle of the incident Sunday. The university also announced that the fan Jeff Orr has agreed to not attend any Red Raider basketball games for the remainder of the season.


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The Miami Hurricanes return 13 starters for the 2014 season, leaving the nine vacated spots to position battles throughout the spring session.
Headlined by the quarterback competition, the 'Canes are looking for a handful of players to step up and lead the rebuilding program.
At certain positions, injuries are allowing youth to showcase their skills while incumbent starters are temporarily sidelined.
Additionally, a few roles have players returning from an injury-hampered 2013 campaign, so spring practices at the Greentree facilities are important opportunities to impress the coaches.


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Christie Dedman/News StaffWhen it started raining this weekend I had to three restless kids who were screaming "I'm bored."
So after exhausting crafts, books and games I whipped out an extra (CLEAN) shower curtain and drew the kids a map of the Magic City.
I drew the airport, I-65, I-20/59, Zoo, Botanical Gardens, Vulcan, Sloss Furnace and more.
It was loosely based on the city the main thing they played with were their Hot Wheels on the faux interstate.
I also let them color the map with washable markers, which is easy to wipe off and start over.
I used a clear shower curtain but if you plan to do this, buy a white so there will be more definition and the kids can see their artwork better.
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We're very excited to announce the next round of The Circuit, which will begin Friday, October 4th, 2013!
Applications for Circuit teams will open the first week of September and applicants will be chosen by lottery. If chosen, you will be placed on a team of 8 improvisers and assigned a coach. You will rehearse with your coach and team once a week, with rotating performances on Friday nights at 10PM at the Magnet Studio Theater.
If you have completed Level 3 of Magnet's Training Program and are not part of a Magnet house improv team, you are eligible to apply.
The Circuit is a great way to gain experience in being in an improv ensemble. We highly encourage you to apply.
Stay tuned for more information and announcements regarding applications in the next few weeks. Thank you and we are looking forward to an exciting new season of The Circuit!
If you have any questions, please email us at circuit [at] magnettheater [dot] com.
"The Blackout" is the newest installment of The Director Series, a 5-week series of performances wherein a Director selects a cast and presents a different form. This month Louis Kornfeld is directing The Blackout, featuring Phoebe Tyers, Alexis Lambright, Ely Aina Rapoza, Rebecca Robles, Charlie Whitcroft, Rob Penty, Eli Itzkowitz, and Desiree Nash.
This past Thursday saw the premier of "The Blackout", a unique and refreshing improv show relying solely on scenework. The cast, proficient in subtlety and poise, performed the series of scenes in two and three person combinations that came together naturally and comfortably to fill the hour with standalone vignettes and thematic revisitations under the direction and technical expertise of Director Louis Kornfeld.
The audience watched childhood friends discussing the ups and downs of having two mothers, a needy secretary fail to grasp the humor of a screen-saver, a married couple deal with three years of built up frustration and resentment, teens peeping on their "girlfriend" undressing in her bedroom, and a man out himself to passengers on his plane during a recreational flight, among many other episodes. Never a dull moment, while all of the energy of this show flowed steadily and with intention.
There are four more opportunities to catch "The Blackout" – August 8th, 15, 22 and 29th at 9:00pm at The Magnet Theater!
This was a re-blogged review from Charlie Whitcroft.
Magnet Theater will be holding auditions for the fall season of Megawatt. Auditions will be held Friday, August 23rd with callbacks on Sunday, August 25th. To be eligible, performers need to have completed Magnet Level 6 Team Performance Workshop. Please note that due to the limited number of slots auditions are not guaranteed.
To apply, please follow THIS LINK and fill out the availability form no later than August 15h. Confirmations will be sent out on August 16th.
If you've never seen Junior Varsity, Hello Laser, or The Boss perform at the Magnet Theater, I'm guessing you've had some longstanding obligation on Thursday nights for the last several years.
They're the Magnet Theater's longest standing, longest standing teams – veterans who've been performing high quality improv together for almost seven years. That's a length of time most people can't even wrap their heads around in this ever-more present-focused world of ours.
Now they're loading themselves up into chambers randomly (not really randomly… there's a set schedule) for a weekly round of Russian Roulette known as The Revolver. Each week you'll see two of these teams perform, each in their own unique and seasoned styles.
Come out and see them, every Thursday Night at 8pm.
Then talk to them afterwards. Being around so long, they have stories to tell.
Congrats to Alexis Lambright (Bloomer) and Mallory Schlossberg (The Jezebelles) on having their one woman shows accepted into the 2013 NYC Fringe Festival! We're very proud of both shows, which have been performed and developed on The Magnet stage! Mallory's, "Molly Marjorie Rosenblatt Needs A Man (and other stuff)" and Alexis's, "The Alexis Lambright Tell-A-Thon: Combating Adult Virginity", will be playing in August in theaters around NYC. Be sure to check both of these shows out! Show Info Here!
The Magnet Theater is proud to announce the newest members of Magnet Sketch Teams! Thank you to everyone who applied! Sketch teams perform every Sunday at 9 pm.
David Sewell
Chet Siegel
Becca Schall
Andrew Mills
Robert Ramsey
John Kitsis
Sebastian Conelli
Billy Bob Thompson
Megan Meadows
Ruby Marez
Alex Marino
Todd Shaeffer
Adam Twitchell
Ingrid Ostby
Robert Kern
Steph Garcia
Pat May
Emily Johnson
Marcus Brunt
Janie Stolar
Gretchen Poole
Jana Schmieding
Matt Antonucci
Lauren Olson
Matt Wassung
Rob Webber
Joe Lepore
Kevin Lalka
Shalini Tripathi
Alan Fessenden
Joe Miles
Sean Taylor
Kelly Warne
Gwen Mesco
James O'Connell
Kate Emswiler
Darrel Haynes
Matt Alston
The Circuit is made up of improv ensembles consisting of veteran Magnet performers and students. Performances are every Friday night at 10pm at The Magnet Studio Theater. Congratulations to the following teams!
Bob Kern
Emily Schorr Lesnick
Evelyn Peppas
Tim Lewis
Henry Bergstein
Nicole Lee
Tamar Gressel
Alex Ford
COACH – Teddy Shivers
Jess Wyant
Nolan Constantino
Ari Miller
Bevin Campbell
Carolyn Bucas
Erica Wiederlight
Adam Pasulka
Sulaimon Beg
COACH – Michael McLarnon
Chris Simpson
Joe Lepore
Katy Berry
Kerry Kastin
Jon Demuth
Daniel Atwood
Stephanie Leke
Chris Hastings
COACH – Kim Ferguson
Jenn Stone
Kate Weinberg
Scott Morwitz
Melissa Caminneci
Sacha Nandal
Philipp Goedicke
Marc Davila
COACH – Laura Dlug
Tomorrow (FRIDAY, MAY 17th) is the last day to submit applications for the next round of MAGNET SKETCH TEAMS.
Each sketch team will write and perform a show approximately every 3 weeks. This run of shows begins in June and ends in September. Shows will take place Sunday nights at 9 pm. Completion of or current enrollment in Sketch Writing Level 2 is required to apply.
Send an email with the subject line, "MAGNET SKETCH TEAM APPLICATION" and your name to email@example.com. Include your improv/sketch experience and at least 2 writing samples as attachments (please limit total to 10 – 12 pages).
Shacottha Fields is a bartender and performer at The Magnet Theater. Her one woman show, 1 Deep, was a Critics' Pick in Time Out Chicago. Shacottha performs weekly with her newly minted Megawatt Team, Call Tokyo and monthly with the all-female improv group, We Might Just Kiss. If you don't know and love Shacottha yet, read on…
*Questions: So Shacottha, what's your story?
I'm from Nacogdoches, Texas. A small place where everybody knows everybody, I graduated with 18 other people. I went to college for Business and right after I graduated I moved to New York City to pursue acting. I realize that my personality was not fit for a 9 to 5. I figured utilizing my gifts of listening and making people laugh was a better way for me to live.
*Question: When you got to New York, how did you get started?
I was taking an acting class from an agent that would come to class and yell at us, "If you want to be an actor, you have to take improv!" So I did. I have taken classes at The People's Improv Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade. I started taking classes at The Magnet Theater two years ago and I'm so happy I did. I loved the foundation of improv that I received, more so the wide variety of improv forms that I learned as well. It was like a whole world of improv that I never knew. Last year, I saw Ben Jones do his one person improv show "Just Ben." I was so inspired. The experience I had at that show was so amazing I just felt like I wanted to create something of my own to share with the world. Unsure of everything, I started coaching with Rick Andrews. Together we developed my own form for my one woman improv show. Shortly after, I gave birth to my own improv baby, 1 Deep, now traveling to different festivals. I am also proud to say that I am a part of a new house team at The Magnet Theater, "Call Tokyo".
*Question: If you could have one super power, what would it be?
My super power would be to fly. I've always felt birds had the best view of the world and all its beauty. I would fly all over the world and see all the different people, the way they live, the ocean and terrain. I would observe the change in its texture, tone and material. I would just fly all over to experience every nook and cranny of the world.
Fly with Ms. Fields and Call Tokyo every Wednesday at Megawatt!
"The Butterfly Effect" is the newest installment of The Director's Series, a 5-week series of performances wherein a Director selects a cast and presents a different form. This month Megan Gray (Magnet Artistic Director, Junior Varsity) and Alan Fessenden (The Weave, Hello Laser) team up to bring you The Butterfly Effect. We sat down with them, via email, and asked them why they chose to direct this form.
MAGNET BLOG: What is The Butterfly Effect? Why are you directing it?
MEGAN: "The Butterfly Effect" is an improv long form that borrows from Close Quarters (which was developed in Chicago by Director Noah Gregoropoulos at Second City) and Tracers (which was developed by Kevin Mullaney at the UCB in NY). Based on the suggestion of a location and a time of day, the cast creates a series of scenes that are all happening at the same time. It's almost like a combination of Monoscene Eventes.
This form requires a great attention to detail and a pretty sharp memory. I first saw it performed at a Del Close Marathon in 2004 and was blown away. The entire piece took place in a mansion with all these secret passageways. The cast remembered every piece of information and kept it really fun. Since then, it's been a form I've been wanting to develop for a Director Series. I was talking to Alan Fessenden about it and he mentioned that he also wanted to work with Tracers. So we decided to direct it together.
ALAN: When I first saw Tracers at the UCB years ago, it was amazing and looked semi impossible, so I wanted to try and recreate that impossible feeling. Additionally, I was working with Matt Antonucci and a a few others in this style and I thought, we need to need to put this up, and I want to do it soon. We were having so much fun.
MAGNET BLOG: What is your favorite type of improv?
MEGAN: I like to watch improv that has a lightness to it. The performers are having fun, making interesting choices and connecting with each other. This may sound stupid, but I love to watch improv that looks improvised — not like the performers are just saying things they've been writing in their heads on the backline. I want to be surprised by improvisers making discoveries in the moment.
ALAN: I like it fast, I like it slow, I guess it depends on my mood. But really I like improv where people are really making discoveries in the moment, so the audience, the actor and maybe even the characters are all figuring something out together.
MAGNET BLOG: What is the future of improv?
ALAN: Structured plays with stock characters where all the dialogue is improvised, only now it will take place in a virtual reality and the actors will be able to digitally enhance the world as they create it. Probably.
MEGAN: Thunderdome.
The Butterfly Effect plays every Thursday in May at 9pm.


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EAST LANSING — Denicos Allen has always described himself as a guy who "flies under the radar,'' and the recent release of the Big Ten all-conference units proved him correct once again.
Allen, perhaps the most dynamic of all the Michigan State football playmakers, is nowhere to be found in the ranks of first-team linebackers.
"It kind of bothered me when I first saw it,'' Allen said at a Tuesday press conference at Spartan Stadium. "I can't do anything about it.''
Allen can, however have a lot to do with the outcome of the Big Ten championship game when 10th-ranked Michigan State (11-1, 8-0) tackles No. 2 Ohio State (12-0, 8-0) at 8 p.m. Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The 5-foot-11, 218-pound Allen might prove to be the Kryptonite to stop Superman Buckeyes quarterback Braxton Miller and an Ohio State offense filled with super heroes.
It's more than just Xs and Os for Allen, a fifth-year senior from Hamilton, Ohio, who grew up hoping to play for the Buckeyes but was shunned by that program in recruiting.
"It's my last chance I get to play them, there's a lot I have built up for this game, and I can't wait to let it out,'' Allen said. "This is the best challenge I could ever ask for. Being an Ohio kid, not being accepted by Ohio State is kind of tough , that's where all my family wanted me to go, to come back and tell me they didn't want me, that's tough.
"It's personal to me, It's always been personal ever since 2010. I'm going to go into this game and show them for another year why Michigan State got a better player.''
Allen's teammate and friend, fellow senior middle linebacker Max Bullough, is Spartan royalty -- a third-generation Michigan State player with a gift for motivating talks and the coveted role of QB on defense.
But it's Allen who leads the team in tackles (83), tackles-for-loss (15) and ranks second to Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year Shilique Calhoun in sacks (5.5). The NFL scouts are higher on Allen than any other Spartans' linebacker, too.
But it is what it is, and Allen holds no grudge against those who fail to acknowledge his greatness.
The people who matter most to him know.
"Denicos is the most productive player on our defense, in terms of production points we give,'' Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said. " He's another guy who has played for us for four years, started as a redshirt freshman for us, he can run 4.5 (40-yard dash), has a 420 (-pound) or 430 bench press. So he's a player. He's operated in this defense and he's highly motivated to play. Not just this game, every game.''
Bullough is the heart and the voice of the defense, but Allen is the muscle and fuels the fire.
"A lot of our guys, there's a sense of urgency,'' Dantonio said. "They understand we lost a lot of close games last year, and what's going to be the difference? Our seniors have taken the attitude that they will be the difference.''
Allen embodies that attitude and approach, and another snub will do nothing to discourage him any more than losing five games last season by a combined 13 points.
"That's a lot of motivation for this team, coming off last year, all the teams we lost to by inches,'' Allen said. "We owe them. They got by us by an inch, and we're going to do whatever we got to do to not let that happen again.''
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The Manila 10 and under Xtreme Softball Team won the pre-season tournament held at Manila. Pictured are, from left: Michael Rawson, Grace Wilkins, Sydney Gillham, Sydney Adcock, Ali Smith, Madison Bibbs, Hannah May, Michael Adcock. Front - Anna Grace Adams, Kayla Parker, Beth Rawson, Victoria Hawkins, Anna Beth Baugher.


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At any of many Wellfleet vacation rentals you will feel just like at home, but with a variety of amenities that will make your vacation a memorable experience.
From silent beaches and cozy Wellfleet cottages to wildlife sanctuaries and traditional museums, Wellfleet has it all for all tastes and interests. Boating along the National Seashore and fine dining in the Wellfleet's harbor are among favorite activities. Keep reading to find about the area's points of interest.
Located on the 1,100 acres of salt marsh, sandy beaches and pine woodland is the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. This beautiful region attracts a wide array of songbirds and shore birds which can be admired by tourists who stay at a vacation rental in Cape Cod MA.
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By Jennifer Essary
Birthdays: Jason Potter; Michael Nixon; Rose Rector; John Lee; Kendall Buzard
Anniversaries: There are no anniversaries this week. If you would like your special day in the news, please let me know.
Upcoming events
• Today is the first day of school.
• Seniors will meet Thursday at the Floyd Senior Citizens Center for games and fellowship. Potluck is at 6 p.m. and games begin at 7 p.m.
• Back Porch Pickers will meet Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Community Building. Everyone is invited to play or listen.
There will be NO commodities this month. They will resume again as scheduled in September.
Watermelon welcome
The school's Watermelon welcome will be Thursday at 6 p.m. under the big tree behind the school. The cheerleaders will be selling hamburgers and soft drinks to raise money for uniforms and homecoming decorations. All-you-can-eat watermelon is free. There will also be a cake auction, with a special cake to raise funds for the girls chosen to be in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
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This may be the future of computer monitors. I prefer a dual monitor setup to cover my field of view with two full windows, but this 21:9 monitor may obsolesce the double monitor arrangement. 16:10 monitors have become the norm these days, but I've always felt that it was an awkward compromise between the cinema-friendly 16:9 and the productivity-friendly 4:3 aspect ratios. On the other hand, 21:9 aspect ratio is like having two 4:3 monitors, so there is no compromise for productivity, and it won't display any black bars for the latest movies formatted in this ratio.
In a few years, everyone will be using these 21:9 monitors.


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What went wrong in the First Half:
- Tech came out at practice speed, not game speed. The eight day layoff really seemed evident in the first half, VT was rusty. Sidney Lowe noticed the same thing about his team last year, and as a result, scheduled a cupcake (nc central) this week to keep the guys in game shape. Greenberg/Weaver might have to look into this next year.
- This has become an issue all year long: Tech's low-post defenders allowed the nc state big men to catch the ball way too close to the hoop. Then, the pack players were backing the Hokies down with ease. When an ACC-caliber player is shooting a two-foot hook/jumper, they are going in 80-90% of the time. It almost looked like a practice drill. Let the offensive guy receive the ball low and do his move, instead of forcing him out or fronting him. Tracy Smith, who averaged just 8 ppg coming in, had 13 in the first half.
- The Hokies don't get a lot of easy buckets in transition. But they counter that by not giving up any. VT wins because they force you to earn every point in the half court set. This was not the case in the first half. On numerous occasions, a Hokie defender blew an assignment and a wolfpack player was left wide open for an easy deuce. Again, this was likely due to rust. Also…
- Lazy passes: Hudson had a couple in the first half, though he was not alone. These led to some easy breakaways for state.
- Bad fouls: Allen committed yet another foul 80 feet from the hoop. This was his second foul and cost him the final 10 minutes of the half, a half he had nine points in and was Tech's best offensive weapon.
- Losing focus: At the end of the half, the Hokies completely lost their cool. While that is acceptable for Greenberg to an extent, as he was making a point and his technical was probably the right thing to do to send a message, the Hokies didn't respond. Instead, Vassallo forced a bad shot down 10 in the final 80 seconds, followed by an easy bucket for state. Then, Tech could have held for the last shot, but instead shot the ball with 20 seconds left, giving state another possession. On that possession, it looked like Tech had already checked out for the half. Tracy Smith was left wide open inside for an easy flush. The result: a 9-0 run by the pack and a 14 point halftime deficit.
- Tech allowed 49 first half points to a team that had only surpassed 70 points in regulation once in their previous seven ACC games.
What went right in the Second Half:
- Extend pressure on the ball: Greenberg actually made this adjustment late in the first half and it paid big dividends. nc state's guards are weak. Similar to what Delaney does at times, the pack ballhandlers will pick up their dribble 30 feet from the basket if pressured. This keeps them from setting up their offense and being able to feed the ball inside on the first pass. This bogged down state's offense and forced them to put Costner on the perimeter to receive that first pass.
- Front the low-post players or force them farther out: J.T. Thompson by far is the best at this for the Hokies. In the second half, he was working his tail off to keep McCauley or Smith or Costner from catching the ball down on the low block. Jeff Allen also did a much better job at this. You have to root the guys out from inside, or simply set up where they want to be before they get there. If they do get position, front them. When state could not feed the ball inside, it exposed how weak their offense was. Tracy Smith, after 13 first-half points, had a big goose egg in the final 25 minutes.
- Defensive intensity: Greenberg was imploring the team (and crowd) to pump up the intensity on every possession in the second half. It worked. nc state only made one field goal between the 13:30 and 2:10 mark of the second half. As a result, the pack only scored 13 points in the final 13:30 and had just 27 points all told in the second period.
- Versatile Vassallo: Courtney Fells had A.D. on lockdown on the outside. As a result, Vassallo did not hit a three in the game. So A.D. focused on penetrating and either shooting midrange jumpers, shooting runners/floaters, or backing defenders like Costner down in the paint and showing that he has moves with his back to the basket. A.D. was an impressive 10/14 on two-point shots.
- Killer instinct: For whatever reason, VT knows they are going to win in overtime. Just chalk up the 'W' for VT and start the bus to Raleigh once that game goes to the extra period. The Hokies have won eight straight ACC overtime games. They need this confidence late in close games. Treat the final five minutes like OT. Plus, nc state expects to lose close games like that. They are used to it. VT had the confidence on their side.
For the whole game though, Tech's defensive rebounding was terrible. The biggest play of the game, if Tech hadn't come back and won, would have been that missed free throw by Tracy Smith late in the first half. At the time state was up six. Grab that rebound, and the foul on Delaney and the subsequent technical on Seth would never happen. It seems at times like the only way the Hokies will get the ball back is if the other team scores, turns the ball over, or it gets knocked out of bounds. Not good.
Summary: The wolfpack monkey is off our backs! The Hokies now sit at 5-3 at the halfway mark of ACC play. I think we all would have taken this before the duke game (and certainly after it). Tech could have easily won the clemson or at bc games, but should have lost this one. So things sort of evened out.Â
The Hokies were 5-3 at this point last season. They responded with a three game losing streak, followed by a four game winning streak, and then a loss in the regular season finale. Tech cannot afford a three game slide now. The next three games are all very winnable: ga tech (1-8), @maryland (4-5), and @uva (1-7). The Hokies need to go at least 4-4 the rest of the way to keep alive NCAA Tournament hopes (and then likely need to win one in the ACC Tournament). To do that, they need at least two of these next three. Hopefully, that run starts with a win over the ACC's last place team on Wednesday at the Cassell.


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Temple 82, La Salle 74
Liacouras Center, Temple University
The stakes: La Salle (35 RPI) trying to tie up first NCAA bid in 21 years against Temple (49 RPI) desperate for another quality win to counterbalance ugly home losses.
The narrative: A crackling good game through the first TV timeout was disrupted when La Salle's metronome, point guard Tyreek Duren, got into quick foul trouble six minutes in. Duren means everything to the Explorers and that was quickly proven when more highly recruited but less cerebral replacement Tyrone Garland entered to run the offense after Duren acquired a quick second foul. Garland's idea of offense is, "You guys watch while I take my man and shoot."
Within a few minutes, an 18-14 La Salle lead vanished amid an 18-0 Owl run. Rhalir Hollis-Jefferson, playing perhaps his most complete game as an Owl, and Scooty Randall, largely MIA this season, each scored 4 points amid the run. The Owls (18-8, 7-5 Atlantic 10) turned a 24-21 deficit into a 39-24 lead before a rabid home crowd.
Temple mounted a 22-point lead early in the second half. La Salle got Duren back and made a couple of runs that pared the deficit to 9 at two different junctures but no closer until the very end.
Duren is an indispensable part of the Explorers' offense, the mind who organizes what has for so long been a mindless program. They can't live without him. This game proved it.
The stats: Hollis-Jefferson finished with 23 points and 18 rebounds as La Salle coach John Giannini went with a 5-guard lineup through much of the second half in attempts to scramble back into the game. His 7 of 8 Owl points midway in the second half, 4 on tip-ins, unplugged the Explorers' rally. Khalif Wyatt added 17 points. The Owls out-rebounded the visitors by a whop[ping 42-27.
The ramifications: Temple needed this win more than La Salle did and got it. The Owls are desperate because of ugly home losses to Canisius, St. Bonaventure and Duquesne and need quality wins to balance their NCAA resume.
The Explorers will get other opportunities, though winning this one on the road could have all but locked up that first NCAA bid since the 1992 Randy Woods team.


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Melissa and Aaron- 10.25.08
posted by Kelly
Melissa and Aaron know what they want and they wanted us. They are one of those couples that did some major homework researching for wedding vendors and we were so flattered when they fell in love with our work and adamantly told us they wanted US to shoot their wedding. Not a problem!
Even the rain and long limo commutes getting everyone to location could not damper the spirit of the day. I actually rode with the bridesmaids who instantly made me an honorary girlfriend for the day. We "had to" wait at the gorgeous Craddock Terry Hotel for the bride to arrive so we took full advantage of the lobby. One of the bridesmaids (thanks Agatha) even ordered some champagne for the girls, to keep the festivities going, while waiting for the impending nuptials! So very fun.
The wedding was held at downtown Lynchburg's Holy Cross Catholic Church and the reception was hosted by Oakwood Country Club. After the rain some glorious clouds rolled in and even a few peeks of sunshine. It was a beautiful wedding of two wonderful, thoughtful people. Thank you for choosing us Melissa and Aaron, we could not be happier with how the pictures turned out and hope you enjoy your moment to shine on the blog!
The boys taking it easy by watching a game and relaxing at the Craddock Terry Hotel.
One of the groomsmen gifts
The girls working it for me
The boys weren't too shabby either
Perfect fall boutonniere
Sisters, very very tall sisters. It is no wonder I had to have them sit down.
Catching a laugh with dad. Melissa has a great laugh and she laughs a lot which is terrific!
Melissa kept sneaking peeks back at her girls, it was cute.
All the Janoske siblings
This was a VERY windy day. I actually love the leave blowing into the frame on the upper right….
Let's play "I Spy". I spy my husband and me doing nothing in the background…..
We went up to their suite to catch some more intimate moments and eat some yummy Irish car bomb cupcakes Melissa made..SCORE!
My favorite shot.
Melissa and Aaron have a nickname for each other which is "Lamb" and "Chicken". Their rings were inscribed with this as well as it was our dinner choices of the evening!
This, my friends, is a song we are all familiar with, "Living on a Prayer". I believe we were half way there on this shot……WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAA living on a prayer.
I am sure this is brother/sister sign language for "You are the best!"
After the reception Melissa and Aaron grabbed a bit to eat at the notorious Texas Inn, or "T-Room" if you are a local. They gobbled down a "cheesy western" to round out the night!
What an awesome fall wedding. You did a great job planning and executing your perfect wedding day Melissa. We had a ball that night, your family and bridal party were so good to us! Thank you.
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Amy Martin says:
December 5, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Ha! hey, I know some of those people! :) Yummm, the T-Room…
Emily says:
December 6, 2008 at 12:49 pm
My friend, Lyndsey Pippin, who you took some pretty AMAZING pictures of(!), told me to check out your blog and I just had to leave you a comment! Your work is incredible! I have a small photography business with my mom and sister in Gretna and I'm always trying to find not-so-traditional photographers in the Danville-Lynchburg area. I love the relaxed and fresh look of your work. I would love to follow you around at a shoot one day, if that would ever be possible. Keep up the amazing work! God bless.
ohana photographers says:
December 6, 2008 at 10:56 pm
i absoloutely LOVE that last image!!!
Loren says:
December 8, 2008 at 6:23 am
My favorite…the T room shots. Sooo classic Lynchburg.
Elissa says:
December 8, 2008 at 10:19 am
Wow! When I got married a few years ago, I spent a lot of time looking for just the right photographer, & I only wish you were on the west coast—I would have hired you in a second. I love the group shot of the bridal party—obviously posed but definitely captured the personaliey of the group!
Julie Nickerson says:
December 9, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Saw these on Flickr. Love them!
Why does she remind me of you?
Love the heart ring shot! That was neato!
You guys seem busy. So happy Kellan is doing so awesome! YAY!
(cute how they served lamb and chicken)
Julie Nickerson says:
December 9, 2008 at 3:40 pm
oh, i just realized that was the T room. Was that the place that did those egg burgers? gross!
Sorry, I always hated them, but Seth loved that place!
adam says:
December 10, 2008 at 12:15 pm
love these photos… you guys are sooo talented! where were you when we got married ;)
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South End mourns passing of legendary coach
Legendary South Whidbey cross country coach Carl Westling died Thursday at age 65.
Westling, a snake-toting science teacher who led the Falcons to seven league championships, was a soft-spoken man who loved the poems of Robert Frost.
His favorite was "The Road Not Taken," and, like the narrator of that poem, Westling decided on taking the road less traveled.
And, for uncounted South Whidbey students and athletes, that has made all the difference.
From 1970 until he was felled by a stroke in 1997, Westling was a science teacher and coach at South Whidbey High School, earning the coveted title "Coach of the Year" in 1992 for his work with the girls cross country team.
Although he'd been slowed by medical problems, Westling continued to be involved with the running program in recent years and was an assistant with the Falcon track team. He could be found dispensing advice and words of wisdom on any given spring afternoon at Waterman Field, as kids would come by in ones and twos to pick up valued pointers on timing and form.
"Carl was a great mentor and very good friend," said Falcon track coach Doug Fulton.
"During the past 12 years, he continued to volunteer coach with both the track and cross country teams. He never complained about his situation; he just made the most of the opportunities he had," Fulton said. "He and his wife, Pat, traveled all over the state to watch the kids compete; he was our greatest supporter and our inspiration.
"We will miss him immensely, but the legacy which he left will guide us forever."
Westling began coaching high school girls track in 1975, and his teams captured seven league championships and four state awards during his career. Four of Westling's athletes went on to receive All-American honors in college.
He and football coach Jim Leirer were the first two coaches inducted into the high school's Walk of Fame in 2007.
In fact, Westling and student runner Curt Gordon pretty much began the successful cross country program.
"We'd travel to other schools so I could run, and eventually the school district caved in and we started cross country as a full-time sport," Gordon said.
Westling designed and, with lots of volunteer help, built the trails that bear his name in the woods at Community Park, one of the top-rated cross country courses in the state.
On April 25, in one of his last public appearances, Westling was surrounded by several dozen of his former high school runners as they set off for a ceremonial lap before the start of the 26th annual Westling Invite.
The coach and his wife lived for 28 years in the house they built in the Sun Vista community.
"He was a vibrant man who loved life and people, and boy, did he love coaching all those kids," Pat Westling recalled. "He influenced their lives and helped set them on the path, the right road that each needed to take to be successful in whatever they did."
Pat Westling said her husband was a hard worker who inspired others to do their best. But that didn't mean he didn't like to have fun.
The couple's only daughter, Carrie Duggan, recalled how her father would tell highly imaginative but totally fabricated stories in biology class.
"My classmates would turn to me and ask if it was true. Sadly, I'd have to shake my head and say no," she said.
And woe betide anyone falling asleep. When the errant student woke up, he would find himself face-to-face with Fire, Westling's pet python.
To discourage kids from staying away too long, his hall pass was a giant skull that students would lug through the corridors at school.
"It was very effective," Duggan recalled.
Westling was an inveterate traveler, and he and Pat would take off on adventures whenever they could, including three Olympics in Los Angeles, Barcelona and Atlanta.
The years following his stroke were a challenge of another dimension as Westling was in and out of care centers and hospitals. His wife and Gordon were by his side when he slipped peacefully away from complications of diabetes and bacterial infection.
His final wish was to find a way to continue the adventure.
"Carl will be cremated and his ashes will be available in tiny pill bottles," Pat explained. "When someone is headed out on a journey, Carl wants to be there, too."
His wife intends to have folks submit photos of their journey, and she'll maintain an album of memories with all of her husband's future adventures.
"In those 28 years at the high school, he touched a lot of lives," she said.
Former students and friends can share their stories of Westling during a celebration of his life at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 16 at the high school auditorium, followed by a potluck to share memories and laughter.
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Randolph's Katja Brackelmanns scored a season high four goals in a 6-1 victory over Parsippany Hills last week. She then added two goals against both Sparta and Pope John and was named The Star-Ledger's athlete of the week.
Dani Kabat scored two goals and had an assist in both of Morristown-Beard's victories over Montclair Kimbley and Butler last week. Morristown-Beard (6-2-1) has not lost a game in which Kabat scored a goal.
Randolph (6-1-1) has won six straight games since tying Mendham 2-2 on Sept. 13th. Randolph had six different goal scorers last week and outscored opponents 18-1 in victories over Parsippany Hills, Sparta and Pope John. Randolph received a bye as the third seed in the Morris County Tournament and will play 14 seeded Whippany Park in the second round this weekend.
Following consecutive 1-0 losses to West Morris and Roxbury, Mendham has won three straight games over Chatham, Morristown and Parsippany. Mendham (3-4-1) rotates Brianna Scarola and Paige Terwilliger in net and combined they have only allowed more than one goal in a game twice this year.
Kinnelon's Nicole Schmitt, who has only given up three goals in a game once this year, will look to shut down Kendall Machak, who is second in Morris County with 12 goals, when Pequannock visits Kinnelon tomorrow.
West Morris, No. 20 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, heads to Roxbury (4-2) Thursday afternoon. West Morris (8-0) defeated Roxbury 2-1 on Sept. 11 and has scored three or more goals in four of its six games since. Roxbury is coming off a 2-0 victory over Morris-Knolls (6-3) and has shutout opponents in three of its four triumphs.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - An warm opening in the winter season led to a beautiful day last week, and Jennifer Gonzalez and Shorn Drucker decided to take advantage of it.
Ms. Gonzalez of New Dorp, and Ms. Drucker of Rosebank, longtime friends, both originally from Brooklyn, traveled to Willowbrook Park for a day out.
"We're just happy to get out," said Ms. Gonzalez, holding onto the stroller occupied by her 1-year-old daughter, Nora. Her friend was with her son, Shamus, 3.
"We gotta see the ducks," said Ms. Drucker. "Usually we come here all the time."
Ms. Drucker called this winter the "worst."
"It was horrible," she added.
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Race For Kids a chance for adults to have fun - May. 28, 2014
Kathy Bockus
St. Stephen
The more teams the merrier!
Thats the opinion of the organizers behind the third annual Race For Kids event in support of the Boys and Girls Club of Charlotte County.
So far there are 12 teams signed up to participate in the race, set for Saturday in St. Stephen. The slogan of the event is When Grown Ups Play, Kids Win.
Heather Estey, executive director of the boys and girls club, said the event can accommodate however many teams wish to participate. A team consists of four individuals who have raised a minimum of $375. Teams can register online or, if they need assistance doing so, can contact Estey at the club at 466-4300, ext. 5, and she can lend a hand.
The prizes are nothing to sneeze at.
The team which posts the fastest time after registering at all 10 checkpoints along the race course wins $1,000. Second place collects $600 and third place receives $400.
The individual who raises the most money wins two free WestJet tickets.
The members of the best dressed team, voted on by participants, each receive one year free of Gold Rush play, a weekly 50-50 draw sponsored by the club. Members of the team voted to have the most team spirit will each win six months free Gold Rush play.
Estey pointed out the first year of the event, a team dressed as the Avengers won the best dressed portion of the race and one of those members ended up winning a weekly Gold Rush draw, too, because of his free chances at playing.
Estey said the race is fun for participants.
They get to do things as an adult that they dont do on a regular basis. They get to play and have fun.
Some ideas for the race come from a pool of ideas used by other clubs across Canada and posted by the national boys and girls club office.
The events for this years race are all new, promised Estey.
Every year its a different route and different challenges. She said ideas are also stolen from television shows and some shes thought of on her own.
While she and the majority of onlookers thought the pizza toss (throwing pieces of pepperoni onto a pie plate anchored to another team members head) was fun, participants said it left them greasy.
So, while the pizza event is out this year, there will be one more messy challenge this year, promised Estey with a laugh.
Money raised by the race in its first year paid for the clubs move to its new headquarters on Route 170, just outside St. Stephen town limits and for some capital expenses.
Last year, proceeds were used for air conditioning and a heat pump to make the club building more energy efficient. This year, Estey said the funds raised will be used towards having air conditioning installed in the Kids Zone play area.
To be operational, it definitely needs air conditioning, said Estey.
Anyone who is not on a team but wishes to participate in the event can make a pledge on line or sponsor a team or a player.


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Oregon hospitals are bracing for a tough year after investment losses, increases in charity care and expansion debts have pushed their costs to an average $2,800 per patient per day. Collectively, Oregon's 58 community hospitals in 2008 saw $7.5 billion in operating costs –about the same the state's general fund spends on schools, universities, prisons, police and social services, according to the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems in a report summarizing hospital costs and trends.
While inflation in the Portland area climbed by 13 percent between 2004 and 2008, Oregon hospital costs climbed 40 percent, the report shows.
Oregon insurance companies blame rising hospital costs as the primary reason their premiums have climbed by double digits in recent years to an average of $13,378 a year for family coverage.
Health advocates and economists say rapidly rising health care costs in Oregon offer more evidence of the need for health reform at both the state and national levels.
Health care is commanding an ever greater share of the economy, said Laura Etherton, health policy advocate for Oregon State Public Interest Research Group.
"The bottom line is these costs aren't sustainable," she said, "and we ought to be able to get better quality at lower costs."
Congress will try to bring rising costs under control by combining Senate and House health care reform plans into a final bill. Oregon's new Health Authority also is looking at changes, including collecting claims information to shed more light on hospital costs and results.
Hospital costs can crush families hit with serious injuries and illnesses. Paul and Jean Solomon, both 62-year-old Portland area residents battling serious diseases, say they spend $2,000 a month to hospitals, though their bills total about $9,000.
Paul Solomon, who has leukemia, diabetes and heart problems, gets disability pay and qualifies for early Medicare, he said. His wife, who has multiple sclerosis, collects Social Security. They devote the majority of their income to hospital bills, but still face close to $100,000 in medical debt, he said.
The couple sold their house, have no other debts, and are now burning through their retirement savings, said Solomon, a former bank fraud investigator."I owe (hospitals) more money than I'll ever earn in my life," he said. "I'm embarrassed...But I made a decision. I chose life."
All but two of Oregon's hospitals are nonprofit, but they can still pay their executives high salaries, invest in new buildings and state-of-the art equipment and keep money that exceeds their costs. Their earnings above expenses are called margins, and their collective margin dropped from 6 percent of revenue and investment income in 2004 to 1 percent in 2008, the association reported.
With Oregon unemployment at 11 percent, thousands of Oregonians have lost their jobs and their health insurance.
Consequently, hospitals must rely on a shrinking pool of commercially insured patients to offset growing losses in charity care, bad debt – unpaid bills of people deemed able to pay –and payments from Medicare and Medicaid government insurance programs that they say fall short of their costs.
"If nothing changes, hospitals are very definitely in trouble in Oregon," said Kevin Earls, vice president for policy for the hospital association.
Hospital executives say they also are getting hit by increasing costs for supplies, equipment, prescription drugs and nurses. Salem Hospital, for example, shifted to a $35 million electronic medical records system. The new system is improving quality, but not yet bringing efficiency savings, though it is expected to in time, said Aaron Crane, chief financial officer.Many Oregon hospitals have expanded in recent years, adding wings and high-rises and filling them with expensive high-tech equipment such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners and surgery robots.
"There is a reasonable argument that hospitals are over-extended in a number of different areas and ways," said David Rosenfeld, associate editor for The Lund Report, an online health care watchdog report. "They are investing heavily in cardiac care and oncology (cancer care). These traditionally are large money makers."
John McConnell, health economist for Oregon Health & Science University, said that for Portland newcomers in recent years, "the way to find your way to the closest hospital was to look for a crane." Those expansions have "to be clobbering some of them," he said. "We all pay for it through higher premiums."
OHSU, for example, built its Center for Health and Healing, which primarily supplies ambulatory services and day surgery, and the five-floor Peter O. Kohler Pavilion, with more beds for cancer and cardiac care.
Hospital finances has been the surge in charity care, most of which is provided in hospital emergency rooms.
On one Monday evening this month, the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center emergency room in Northwest Portland hums with an orderly bustle as nurses and doctors in scrubs move between curtained examining cubicles and work stations filled with glowing flat screens.
Nearly all of the 15 examining berths have patients, and the emergency room is on track to see the typical 100 by day's end. Most of the patients are older, averaging age 60, and their most common ailment this afternoon is weakness and a shortness of breath.
In Room 12, lies Monica Ruiz, 29, whose eyes tear with pain from a back injury she got in a car crash five years ago. Her back always hurts, she says, but this afternoon it flared into excruciating pain. Like a growing number of patients showing up at Good Samaritan and other Oregon emergency rooms, Ruiz gets no health insurance for her work as a fast-food restaurant cashier.
That's part of the reason Oregon hospitals, including Good Samaritan, saw their charity care costs double between 2004 and 2008 to $561 million, according to the hospital association. Bad debt also climbed 56 percent to $422 million during that period.
Because more people are losing their jobs and insurance, more resist coming to the emergency room until they have no choice, says Jennifer Thornburgh, a nurse and emergency room manager.
"People are being very careful about what they are being seen for and are not rushing to the hospital for every complaint," she says.
That may be one reason there are no patients this afternoon across the hall in the ambulatory care unit, where people are treated for less serious injuries and illnesses.
Even people with insurance are having trouble paying their rising deductibles and copays, said Terry Smith, chief executive officer for the Providence Health System, which operates eight hospitals and employs 17,000 workers in Oregon.
Consequently, Providence hospitals are seeing their charity and bad debt costs accelerate, he said. In 2000, those costs added up to about $8 million; this year they're going to exceed $80 million, he said.
Economic hardship also is driving more people to put off care, such as elective hip replacement surgery, when they have a choice, said Pamela Vukovich, chief financial officer for Legacy Health. People are deciding "just to be in pain longer," she said.
Nationally, the recession curbed health spending in 2008 to the slowest pace in 48 years, according to a report by the Department of Human Services. Spending on health care was up 4.4 percent in 2008 from the previous year, totaling $2.3 trillion.
Hospitals in Oregon operate more efficiently than most in the country, with shorter stays and fewer admissions per capita, the hospital association reports. The average stay in Oregon hospitals, for example, is 4.2 days, the third lowest in the country behind Idaho and Wyoming.
Still, Oregon hospitals over the last year made cuts in staff, equipment purchases and building expansions to reduce expenses. Salem Hospital announced in October it is making $9.3 million in cuts, about a third from labor costs, after experiencing losses for the first time in nine years.
Cascade Healthcare Community, which operates hospitals in Bend, Redmond and Prineville, reduced labor expenses 5 percent last year by cutting 75 positions and reducing all salaries by 5 percent between February and November. Some positions have since been added back.
OHSU Hospital also made cuts in staff and put a two-year freeze on capital spending.
Oregon hospitals expect to see only a slight increase in admitted patients this year, but they also expect those patients will be older and sicker and more of them will be uninsured. They can also expect to see continuing political pressure for reform.
Health care advocates and economists say making hospital costs clearer and changing pay incentives to reward prevention and discourage unnecessary procedures could help bring hospital costs under control.
"We are doing things to patients that are not necessarily helping people," McConnell said.
-- Bill Graves


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- Oklahoma nearly doubles canola acreage
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- More than 250,000 acres of winter canola have been planted in Oklahoma.
- Texas and Kansas acreage plant 60,000 acres total.
- Canola is good rotation with winter wheat.
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Oklahoma farmers nearly doubled their planted acreage of winter canola this fall compared to the 2011 crop, according to Gene Neuens, field services manager for the Producers Cooperative Oil Mill in Oklahoma City.
"We believe more than 250,000 acres of winter canola have been planted in Oklahoma in the last few weeks," Neuens said. "We believe 25,000 acres were planted in Texas and 35,000 acres in Kansas in the same period."
More than 170,000 acres of winter canola were harvested from the 2011/2012 crop in all three states, he said. Rising interest in the crop's agronomic and cash benefits are mainly responsible for farmers' growing interest in planting this year.
"The two main go-to people who have been helping farmers start planting winter canola are Josh Bushong, Oklahoma State University Extension canola specialist, and Heath Sanders, our agronomist here at PCOM.
"They have driven hundreds of miles across the Southern Plains to help farmers who have only planted the crop once or twice or just started this year."
There are several reasons why winter canola's planted acreage in the Southern Plains has increased so rapidly, Neuens said.
"The first reason has to do with the crop's original purpose for being developed," he said. "In the 1990s, OSU agronomist Dr. Tom Peeper, who was a weed scientist looking for ways to combat perennial weeds growing in continuously planted winter wheat in the Southern Plains, decided to take a closer look at canola, an oil seed crop then grown as a spring crop in the northern U.S. and Canada."
Interest in the crop grew as plant breeders developed varieties that could be grown in the winter months like winter wheat. Growing trials demonstrated winter canola, which is a completely different crop than winter wheat, interrupted the growth cycles of such weeds as ryegrass and wild oats. Increasing presence of these weeds in wheat fields has become a major problem for wheat farmers. When selling their harvested wheat seed, having weed seed in the wheat causes serious dockages in prices paid to farmers at the grain terminals when they market their crop, Neuens said.
"Wheat farmers are doing their best to clean up their fields and get rid of the weed problem. Using herbicide applications is helpful, but the cost of the chemicals and application is high. Anything that helps farmers to successfully grow a crop and not cost a lot really gets their attention. Growing winter canola in rotation with wheat has proven to be a winning arrangement for them."
Secondly, and just as important, winter canola brings more per bushel than wheat when sold at the elevator, Neuens said.
"Winter canola is selling for $12 per bushel or 24 cents per pound. Winter wheat is averaging around $8 per bushel. So the price paid for canola is about 50 percent more per bushel than wheat is bringing," he said.
Another reason for the increased acreage planted to winter canola this year has to do with new growers, Neuens said.


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At its widest definition, affinity chromatography encompasses techniques from immobilized metal chelate affinity to molecular imprinting and technologies from affinity capillary electrophoresis to affinity precipitation, affinity partitioning, and affinity membranes.1 A very narrow definition would focus on specific or selective, reversible interactions between the immobilized ligand and target, dependent on a unique topological relationship involving orientation and molecular reactions. These include biological as well as biological mimic ligands. This is an area that has seen very significant growth and research development in recent years. The advent of affinity chromatography is usually attributed to Cuatrecasas, Wilchek, and Anfinsen.2 In 1968 — a year after the introduction of cyanogen bromide activation — they described the purification of certain enzymes on "inhibitor gels" synthesized by coupling the inhibitor to CNBr-activated agarose. They introduced the notion of protein purification based on biologically functional pairs, the molecular recognition between a target protein and an immobilized partner. The technique was rapidly assimilated into the protein purification armory. Three years later, Cuatrecasas' review cited 100 papers and applications, ranging from immunoaffinity to the isolation of nucleic acids and the separation of complex cellular structures and cells.3 By 1984, the body of literature had swollen to 1,800 papers, and a 2004 Medline search revealed 35,000 affinity chromatography citations.4
SERENDIPITOUS ORIGINS Subramanian described the serendipitous origins of dye affinity chromatography.10 Blue dextran, a 2,000 kDa soluble polymer with the covalently bound dye Cibacron Blue F3GA, was developed to measure the void volume in gel filtration columns introduced in the early 1960s. It had been noted that some proteins, when co-chromatographed with Blue dextran, interacted with the marker. It was established in 1968 that the dye chromophore was responsible for binding.11,12 Thus, the evolution of dye affinity is concurrent with the general development of modern separation techniques. The introduction of the terms mimetic or biomimetic derives from the proposed (and now discarded) mechanism of dye affinity in which the structures of the chromophores mimic the naturally occurring heterocyclic nucleotides on which many proteins and enzymes depend.13 The synthetic nature of the ligand also led to the introduction of the term pseudo-affinity, referring to the ligand's lack of biological function.Undoubtedly the earliest (1973) and most studied ligand is Cibacron Blue F3GA (Ciba-Geigy), which is also available as Procion Blue H-B (Imperial Chemical Industries) and C.I. Reactive Blue 2 (the Color Index name). These textile dyes from different manufacturers are no longer available, but single synthetic analogue adsorbents are manufactured by at least two suppliers of chromatographic media. The first reported separations predate plasma proteome studies by 30 years and concern the depletion of serum albumin from human plasma to enable identification and purification of low concentration proteins.14 This was carried out using a Procion Blue dextran-Sepharose conjugate. At the time, Travis and Pannell were interested in a1-antitrypsin and described the difficult separation of this protein from albumin at high ionic strength where any non-specific ion exchange binding is at a minimum.15 This paper identified an initial problem with dye affinity chromatography, namely the leakage of the dye into the eluate (properties of synthetic adsorbents will be discussed next month in Part II of this article). In later studies, the authors used the dye directly conjugated with agarose, thus reducing the leakage problem, improving the binding capacity to 40 mg/mL gel, and enabling elution of the albumin under non-denaturing conditions.16


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Christmas musings I think | Rudi Alcott
Here are a few things I think about Christmas.
• When did Christmas become a season of asking? I thought it was a season of giving. I think I'll rename it a season of fleecing. It's a brave new world out there. People invite you to a party and ask that you donate to their charity — after you are there. My kids give me a list of their Christmas needs on Facebook. I suggested they text it. Too many wasted key strokes with Facebook. Wouldn't want to put them out. I want a fleece shirt for Christmas to protect me from all of the fleecing. I'm making a statement.
• I have never seen the early 1980s flick "A Christmas Story." All I know is that every year I have to listen to my wife mention that she wants some leg lamp and the boys want some Red Ryder BB gun. Perhaps to shoot the lamp with. I don't know and I don't care. If I'm going to watch a classic flick, it's going to be "Hoosiers" or "Rudy." Now those are good Christmas stories.
• Straight No Chaser is the best Christmas music on the planet. Their renditions of "The 12 Days of Christmas" and "The Christmas Can-Can" are spot on. Following closely is the "12 Pains of Christmas." Look it up on YouTube. When you can include Archie Bunker and hanging Christmas lights in the same song, you can't go wrong. For someone with my pathetic lease on life, this is manna from Heaven. "Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer" is a close third. I would like Straight No Chaser to take a swing at this song. That could be worth the price of an iTunes download.
• I think jolly old St. Nick got it right with all of his ho, ho, ho's. One can never have too many ho's or ho ho's for that matter.
• I am getting fat so I can be jolly. Why should fat people have all of the fun?
• National Lampoon's "Christmas Vacation" is the best Christmas movie ever. Forget about bells and angels getting their wings and all of that sappy stuff. Clark Griswold, while getting locked in the attic, gets dressed up in his wife's old clothes and watches old home movies and then falls through the ceiling. This is as classic as it gets. If I die and go to Heaven and this movie isn't in the gated library, I'll ask to leave.
• An anagram is a word that when mixed up forms another word. So, if debit card is an anagram for bad credit, does this mean that Father Christmas is an anagram for he's fat, smart, rich? Probably not if he's using a debit card. Perhaps he watched It's a Wonderful Life for Wife, I lost real fund. That fits.
• That's all I have to say. It's Christmas and we're all in misery. Go forth and be merry or marry Merry. Whatever suits your fancy. Next Christmas is only 364 shopping days away.
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Apparently, exorcisms never go out of style.
Trailers released over the weekend for the creepy crime thriller "Deliver Us From Evil," show police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) investigating a string of crimes, which appear to involve demonic possession.
Sarchie, who says he doesn't believe in such evils, eventually joins forces with a priest specializing (Edgar Ramirez) in exorcisms.
But when the evil makes its way into Sarchie's home, things get extra creepy.
The film follows the "actual accounts of NYPD sergeant Ralph Sarchie," which inspired the 2001 book "Beware the Night."
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