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The relocation of CompuCom Systems' Texas headquarters and 1,500 jobs to Indian Land is yet another sign of the Panhandle's remarkable economic pull.
But for some residents, that growth comes with growing pains.
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Christmas Parade winners announced
Winners for the Lancaster Christmas Parade are as follows:
- Brightest - Lynches River
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When you're at Springs Memorial Hospital, you often hear color-coded alerts over the intercom.
If you're not an employee, you probably don't know that a "code red" means there's a fire or that "code grey" means an active shooter is in the building.
That will change Monday, when Springs Memorial Hospital switches from its 14-color code system to "Emergency Code Plain Language." Codes will be read over the intercom in plain English, explaining the alert.
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The Epperman family lost its house to foreclosure and neither they nor their neighbors ate for a week.
These situations were just a simulated taste of what people living in poverty experience daily. Sponsored by the United Way of Lancaster County's Lancaster Area Coalition for the Homeless, or LACH, a poverty simulator put residents in the shoes of struggling families as part of national Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
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Tina Plyler of Lancaster has been named Administrative Support Staff Employee of the Year by the state Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.
Plyler is a field office specialist in the agency's Lancaster County office. She is a graduate of Lancaster High School and a four-year employee of the agency.
The Ward Faulkenberry Sr. Christmas Basket has received 17 more donations this week, bringing the total to $3,630.
This year's goal is $10,000.
"The Ward Faulkenberry Sr. Christmas Basket fund is a longstanding tradition in the Lancaster community," said Bekah Clawson, executive director for HOPE of Lancaster. "I am confident that the community will help us toward our goal and help us keep this tradition alive."
The money raised will be used for Christmas meal food boxes and for gifts to fill stockings.
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Celebrating its sixth year of sold-out concerts in the Carolinas, The Jennifer Licko Band's "A Celtic Christmas" returns to Lancaster with a new Christmas album release.
With two weeks until Christmas, maybe you need a break from the shopping, the decorating, the pre-holiday bustle.
Tuesday night, treat yourself and those you love to a Christmas film classic the way it was seen on the big screen in 1947. At 6 p.m., Crown Cinema and Agape Hospice will show "Miracle on 42nd Street." The movie is free, and popcorn and a drink cost just $3. Crown Cinema is at 1041 W. Meeting St. in Lancaster.
Delay-plagued Fancy Pokket has hit another snag, stalling its production startup at least until the end of March.
The gluten-free bakery, located in Lancaster's Air and Rail Industrial Park near the county airport, announced in late October that it would start hiring in November and begin production by the new year. That announcement was made just after meeting the county's Oct. 31 deadline to obtain a certificate of occupancy and avoid paying the county a $274,000 penalty following four years of delays.
When he thinks about his friend Harlean Carter, Bobby Bailey remembers driving up on a murder scene a decade or so back.
A sobbing woman stood in the yard, behind the police tape, grieving the loss of a loved one. Cops were rushing about, gathering evidence and keeping bystanders away.
Carter stood with the woman, arms wrapped around her, absorbing her tears.
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Damn video. Without it, they would be building a statue on the campus of the State University of Albany for the three black women who would be victims of a horrible racist attack. A presidential candidate twitted her support. A college president rushed back to campus after sending a note to his community to express his outrage. Hundreds of students rallied to the cause.
The incident occurred on January 30, 2016, and one of the students, Asha Burwell, spread the word:
I just got jumped on a bus while people hit us and called us the "n" word and NO ONE helped us.
— Asha Burwell (@AshaBurwell) January 30, 2016
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Three black female State University of New York Albany students alleged they were victims of a hate crime when a group of white students harassed and assaulted them on Saturday.
The women claimed they got into an argument with a group of 10 to 12 men and women from their school after they boarded a city bus, according to the Times Union. The women then allege that they were beaten and called racial slurs by the white students. One women told university police that several men kicked her after she fell to the floor.
From there, it took on a life of its own.
Campus community members and activists are showing their support for the three women by using the hashtag #JusticeForUA. Burwell tweeted she appreciated the demand for justice, but she said she doesn't know "if I'm ever going to be able to get over this experience."
And the three black women would have been overnight celebrities, heroes to the cause, adored and beloved by all as victims. Except there was video.
As described by the Albany Times Union:
The shocking allegations of a racially tinged assault at the University at Albany appeared to unravel Thursday as police accused three black students of making the story up and charged the women with assaulting a fellow bus passenger.
In social media posts that spread like wildfire far beyond campus, the women claimed to have been the target of racial slurs and to have been assaulted while on the bus floor.
But authorities now say there's no evidence any of that happened and that the women were the aggressors in the fracas, which was captured by cameras on the bus and other cameras in the hands of bus riders. All three defendants are charged with misdemeanor assault and are facing campus disciplinary proceedings.
The reaction on campus was muted, to say the least.
Students Ashley Brown and Mikaila Williams said they tried to reserve judgment and avoid jumping to any conclusions until all the video footage was released. Their instinct, though, was to err on the side of the alleged victims.
"I do agree that certain things about this seem to be exaggerated and blown out of proportion," Williams said. "But we didn't know how much video they have and we didn't know what they saw, so it's more like, until I know for sure, of course I'm going to support them."
Many said their fellow students seemed to have moved on after the initial incident, and that people outside the campus community are far more "obsessed" with the case than they are.
"Obsession" in one direction gives rise to obsession in the other. To raise inflammatory allegations such as these is to beg for scrutiny, and scrutiny is what the three women got. Parallels to false rape allegations are obvious, and shape the question of what drives people to lie, to fabricate claims to victimhood, and by doing so, undermine a worthy cause?
The reaction to this fabricated claim of a racist attack, similar to the false rape reactions, is underwhelming. While Albany students were sufficiently outraged by the allegations to rally to the cause, there was little zeal to act when it was revealed that it was a lie. The school's president suddenly learned patience as well:
"This matter is now in the hands of the criminal justice system," SUNY Albany President Robert J. Jones said in a statement to NBC. "I ask the community for its continued patience and respect as the judicial process continues."
The tepid reaction serves only as a reminder of the fear and cowardice on campus when it comes to inflammatory issues. As outrageous as the murders of Tamir Rice and Eric Garner, Walter Scott and Laquan McDonald may have been, false claims like this do grave harm and feeds those who would dismiss the existence of the problem.
What drives people to make such false allegations? In this instance, it could be that the young women sought to cover their own aggression by alleging victimhood. But the combination of celebrity and victimhood, whether on its own or as a defense, has grown into a goal in itself.
Victimhood has become an independent status that elevates a person from facelessness to celebrity. It takes no special skill to be a victim. It's not something that makes their voice any more thoughtful or valuable, important or worthy of hearing. To be a victim, one need only be in the wrong place at the wrong time, to suffer harm or indignity. It does not make one special. It does not make one important.
Yet, we attribute a level of value to victims that is unwarranted and undeserved. The media publishes their utterances, as if someone whose opinion the day before was worthless, but who then becomes the victim of some wrong, suddenly has thoughts worthy of national concern. The perverse incentive created is obvious.
After the UVA/Jackie false rape fiasco, and its ensuing cries that we must believe rape accusers no matter what, no lesson was learned. False allegations prove neither that a problem exists nor doesn't. What they do prove is that they occur and warrant a healthy skepticism when evidence fails to support their truthfulness.
What they further prove is that we've created a culture of wannabe victimhood as a means of turning people into something they're not. Heroes. Voices of consequence. Celebrities. They're not. They're just people to whom something bad has happened. Beyond that, there is nothing intrinsically important about being a victim. They have no place as stars atop a pedestal. And sometimes, they're just liars.
H/T Jonathan Turley

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Today was a sailing day, so we amused ourselves around the ship. Besides the 24-hour food buffet, out on the top deck in the morning is an omelet station and a coffee/tea station where pastries are offered as well as freshly made Belgian waffles. So we had our breakfast in the open air on the top deck, and then attended another Port Lecture. This lecture was on Port Darwin, which we will be at on Day Seven. These port lectures are extremely helpful for planning our visits in ports. The ship offers tours but we haven't booked any of them. We decided to book one for Darwin but it was sold out, so we will merely get off the ship and make our way to several points we found intriguing from the Port Lecture.
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So while on a food roll, we went to afternoon tea, where white-gloved, black-bow-tied men served us. They came around with platters of little tea sandwiches and platters of unique desserts. Not just once did they stop at our table, but many times. Oh yes, we actually did have tea, too.
Right after lunch on the upper deck was an ice carving demonstration. Two men from the Philippines were the carvers, and a narrator explained that in their country, learning to be ice sculptor was a part of what fathers taught their sons. These guys rapidly transformed two very large chunks of ice into a fish and a horse. It was amazing to watch.
On the plane ride to the Great Barrier Reef we met a couple from Michigan, and we invited them today to our balcony room in the afternoon for some great conversation. Think we will be getting together with them more on this trip.
We have found on every cruise we have taken, there is an art auction. It's a big business, and works are featured by some of the great painters of the world. Peter went to the auction today, and he said it was so jam packed with people he left (but not before getting his free glass of champagne!). We will try again another day. He did see two paintings sell for $4000, so obviously people come on these cruises with the intent to buy art. Who would have guessed?
I took in a Bon Jovi concert streamed live from Chicago on the jumbo tron outdoors. After dinner we went to a second and new show by Karen Beckett. We both have really enjoyed her music and show. The rest of the evening we wandered around the ship and listened to parts of various shows – a pianist, a Canadian male quartet, a shipboard band, and then turned in for the night. Another great day.


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They sure know how to enjoy a picnic in South France. This sandwich version of a Salad Nicoise, the Pan Bagnat, is the perfect make-ahead dish to pack along in your picnic basket.
Pan Bagnat (pronounced pahhn ban-yah) is a sandwich specialty of Nice in the south of France. The name literally means bathed or wet bread, for the way the ingredients soak in and infuse the bread with flavor as it is pressed. In southern France, the sandwich can be found in restaurants and cafés, but it is also common for families to make a pan bagnat in the morning and take it with them on an afternoon picnic.
(As a side note, those of our readers who know some French may be wondering about the use of pan instead of pain for the word bread. Pan is the correct spelling for the word for bread in the Niçard dialect of the Occitan language, or langue d'oc, spoken in southern France and parts of Italy and Spain.)
The sandwich is basically a portable version of a Salad Nicoise. The bread is brushed with garlic and olive oil and then layered with tomatoes, onions, green peppers, tuna, anchovies, hard boiled eggs, and black olives. All the goodness you would find in a classic Salad Nicoise. We opted to skip the anchovies in our sandwich, because Tim's not a huge fan of them. To pick up on the salty flavor, we went heavy on the Kalamata olives which are as close as we can find to traditional Nicoise olives.
In France, it is common to find the sandwich made on a slightly hollowed out round loaf of hearty country bread. The sandwich is pressed and then sliced in to wedges for serving. We made our sandwich in the slightly lesser common baguette style. And, after using a baguette, we can understand why the people in Nice who make this sandwich often opt for a round loaf. Piling the layers upon layers of ingredients onto a long and skinny baguette becomes a sort of balancing act, and then, cutting the finished sandwich requires a bit of concentration to make sure you're not loosing olives, eggs, and tuna. Once cut, wrapped, and pressed, the baguette version is incredibly easy to pack and eat, making it perfect for taking along individual servings.
From a construction standpoint, using a round loaf of bread does make layering the ingredients a bit easier. When working with a round loaf, you would wrap and press the sandwich as a whole. The firm, pressed sandwich is then easier to cut into wedges for serving, making this version great if you need to serve a lot of people at once and have the ability to cut the sandwich as you serve it.
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Traditional recipes will have you use tuna that is packed in olive oil, because Mediterranean cooks love their olive oil. It can be difficult to find quality tuna packed in olive oil, so we decided to go with a solid packed tuna in water. That way we could be sure about the oil we were adding and control the amount. If you have a trusted version of tuna packed in olive oil, give that a try for a more authentic version of the sandwich.
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- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- 1 16-18 inch baguette
- 1 large tomato, sliced
- ¼ large red onion, sliced
- ½ green pepper, sliced
- 12 oz can solid white tuna (in water or oil)
- 2 hard boiled eggs, peeled and sliced
- 12-15 black Kalamata olives, halved
- 2 oz anchovies (optional)
- In a small bowl, mix together olive oil, minced garlic, salt, and pepper. Set aside to infuse the oil for 5-10 minutes while you prepare the other ingredients. (This could be done up to 12 hours ahead of time to really get a punch of flavor into the oil.)
- Slice the baguette length-wise, all the way through, creating two long halves.
- Drizzle the garlic infused olive oil over the two halves of the bread. Layer the tomato slices, red onions, and green pepper slices over one of the halves. Continue layering the tuna, sliced eggs, olives, and anchovies (if using).
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Today the Sunday Supper crew is bringing you a great collection of recipes to take along with you, wherever you are traveling. If your traveling on vacation, headed out for a picnic or pot luck, or bringing a dish to someone who could use a good meal, these recipes are sure to make your summer a bit tastier. Thanks to Marion of Life Tastes Good and Coleen at The Redhead Baker for hosting this week's event.
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- Farro with Eggplant and Tomato by Cooking Chat
- Mediterranean Pasta Salad by Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch
- Mexican Breakfast Casserole by Simply Healthy Family
- Pan Bagnat (Provençal Tuna Sandwich) by Curious Cuisiniere
- Pastitsio by Food Done Light
- Roasted Vegetable Tart by Adventures in All Things Food
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Medicaid Personal Care Services: CMS Could Do More to Harmonize Requirements across Programs[back to top]
GAO-17-28: Published: Nov 23, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 22, 2016.
Four states that GAO reviewed varied in how they implemented safeguards to protect beneficiaries receiving in-home personal care services from harm and in their methods to help ensure billed services were actually provided. For example, to help keep beneficiaries safe, the four selected states—California, Maryland, Oregon, and Texas—reported that they monitored beneficiaries by having case man...
Released on December 21, 2016
Homeless Veterans: Management Improvements Could Help VA Better Identify Supportive-Housing Projects[back to top]
GAO-17-101: Published: Dec 21, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 21, 2016.
As of September 2016, for veterans who were homeless or at risk of homelessness, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had developed 35 enhanced-use leases (EUL) for supportive-housing with low cost rental housing and coordinated access to medical, rehabilitative, mental healthcare, and other services. Each supportive-housing EUL is located on a VA medical center campus. Some lessee representati...
Released on December 20, 2016
Declining Resources: Selected Agencies Took Steps to Minimize Effects on Mission but Opportunities Exist for Additional Action
GAO-17-79: Published: Dec 20, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 20, 2016.
The three selected agencies GAO reviewed for this report—the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—each took a number of different approaches to manage declining resources that aligned with the three key themes outlined in GAO's framework. For example:Top Management Should Lead Efforts to Ma...
Social Security Offsets: Improvements to Program Design Could Better Assist Older Student Loan Borrowers with Obtaining Permitted Relief[back to top]
GAO-17-45: Published: Dec 19, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 20, 2016.
Older borrowers (age 50 and older) who default on federal student loans and must repay that debt with a portion of their Social Security benefits often have held their loans for decades and had about 15 percent of their benefit payment withheld. This withholding is called an offset. GAO's analysis of characteristics of student loan debt using data from the Departments of Education (Education), Tre...
Released on December 15, 2016
Child Care: Access to Subsidies and Strategies to Manage Demand Vary Across States
GAO-17-60: Published: Dec 15, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 15, 2016.
According to GAO's analysis of nationwide data for an average month in 2011-2012 approximately 8.6 million children under age 13 were estimated to be eligible for subsidies under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program based on policies in their states, and about 1.5 million received them. When compared with all eligible children, those receiving subsidies tended to be younger (under ag...
Medicare: Initial Results of Revised Process to Screen Providers and Suppliers, and Need for Objectives and Performance Measures
GAO-17-42: Published: Nov 15, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 15, 2016.
GAO's analysis of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare enrollment data found that CMS used its revised enrollment screening process to screen and revalidate over 2.4 million unique new applications and existing enrollment records. GAO's analysis showed that the screening resulted in over 23,000 new applications being denied or rejected and over 703,000 existing enrollment r...
Mortgage-Related Assets: Capital Requirements Vary Depending on Type of Asset
GAO-17-93: Published: Dec 15, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 15, 2016.
Rules for capital adequacy require banks to hold a percentage of their assets as capital to act as a financial cushion to absorb unexpected losses. Under current rules, banks must hold capital equal to at least 8 percent of risk-weighted assets. Since the early 1990s, U.S. federal banking regulators have used a risk-weighting system under which banks multiply asset amounts by factors, known as ris...
Newborn Screening Timeliness: Most States Had Not Met Screening Goals, but Some Are Developing Strategies to Address Barriers
GAO-17-196: Published: Dec 15, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 15, 2016.
Most states that reported timeliness data had not screened newborns within recommended goals to detect conditions that may require treatment. The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children recommended time-frame goals in 2015 for newborn screening, such as reporting all results within 7 days of birth. Data provided by 38 states...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Results of Enrollment Testing for the 2016 Special Enrollment Period[back to top]
GAO-17-78: Published: Nov 17, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 15, 2016.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires that federal and state-based marketplaces verify application information—such as citizenship or immigration status—to determine eligibility for enrollment in a health plan, potentially including a subsidy. However, there is no specific legal requirement to verify the events that trigger a Special Enrollment Period (SEP), which is...
Released on December 14, 2016
Federal Judiciary: Progress Made in Reducing Appellate Space, but Innovative Practices Should Be Shared across Courts[back to top]
GAO-17-134: Published: Dec 14, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 14, 2016.
Various judicial policies, such as those in the U.S. Courts Design Guide, help guide appellate space use decisions. Other key policies include the judiciary's national 3 percent space-reduction target and the No Net New policy, which requires regional judicial circuits—including each circuit's court of appeals—to offset space increases with equivalent reductions. In practice, space use decis...


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CLSI Develops Best Practices
When his mother developed life-threatening HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets) syndrome, Baby B was rushed into the world at 36 weeks' gestation. As a premature newborn, Baby B was immediately taken to the hospital's Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU), sometimes referred to as the neonatal intensive care unit. There, neonatal specialists quickly converged on his incubator. Assessments were made, treatments ordered, and interventions begun, all within the baby's first hour of life.
In a rapidly developing situation like this, where does newborn screening (NBS) fit into the care plan for the infant? In your facility, are the blood specimens taken immediately after birth, 24 hours after birth, or maybe 2 days later? Do you test just 1 blood sample, or is serial testing part of your NBS protocol? And finally, how much difference does any of this really make? For Baby B, as you will later learn, the difference was life-changing.
The challenges inherent in planning any NBS program are many, from deciding which tests will be performed to identifying when and how many (serial) samples should be collected. Considering the sheer number of conditions for which screening is now available, more than 50 in some NBS programs, and realizing each analyte has its own ideal screening window, the complexities inherent in identifying "best practices" in an NBS protocol become readily apparent.
With preterm, low birth weight (LBW), and sick babies, numerous variables are added to the NBS equation. The multilayered health and developmental issues of this population can affect both specimen collection and result interpretation of NBS tests. Repeatedly collecting even small amounts of blood, for example, can be problematic for a fragile baby whose blood volume is already very low. Then, too, the delayed development of some metabolic systems in preterm newborns can cause inaccuracy in NBS tests for some conditions. Even life-saving infused nutritional support can create confusion in the interpretation of metabolic NBS results.
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) published a new document, Newborn Screening for Preterm, Low Birth Weight, and Sick Newborns; Appro ed Guideline (I/LA31-A), which focuses on the best practices for NBS of preterm and other at-risk newborns in SCBUs. A team of international experts in neonatology, NBS, endocrinology, metabolism, hematology, hearing loss, genetics, and cystic fibrosis collaborated to research and develop this comprehensive guideline. The intent of the document's recommended best practices is to help caregivers perform NBS on SCBU infants with the highest degree of reliability in the shortest period of time and with the fewest number of specimens.
Christina Valentine, advisor to the CLSI subcommittee, noted the effects of nutritional support on NBS testing. "Pre-term and sick newborns receive varying levels of nutritional support," she explained. "It's one of the biggest issues that complicate newborn screening in these babies. To avoid malnutrition, we start specialized nutritional support right after delivery, which is different from past practices. The amino acids that are infused at this very early stage prevent malnutrition and promote growth." However, she added, "They can also complicate the interpretation of test results when some of these amino acid metabolites appear in the blood and mimic the screening of an infant who is at metabolic risk."
Recognizing the complexity of treatments such as parenteral nutrition with amino acids, the committee developed tables for inclusion in the document listing not only the effect a treatment has on NBS results but the duration of those effects. The document includes 7 tables in all, which, along with charts supplied in the appendix, distill a vast amount of complex data into easy-to-follow guidelines. For instance, Table 4 focuses on various infants' conditions—the best screening window for the detection of these conditions, and the ways in which they can affect NBS panels. Special considerations for many known or suspected conditions such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease are detailed in Appendix B. Maternal conditions, like vitamin B12 deficiency, are addressed in Table 1 and Appendix A. This document, organized in a logical and sequential format, may well be the most comprehensive compilation of this type of information available to clinicians and laboratory professionals today. (See Sidebars)
Table 1. Maternal Conditions Affecting the Newborn Screening Results
Table 2. Treatments Used in Special Care Baby Units and Effects on Newborn Screening Results
Table 3. Conditions of the Infant Affecting Newborn Screening Tests
Table 4. Conditions Included in NBS Panels and Factors Affecting Newborn Screening Tests
Table 5. Rising Serum Thyroxine Levels in Cord Blood with Increased Gestational Age
Table 6. Follow-up Load for SCBU Infants Screened on Admission or < 12 Hours Old
Table 7. Special Considerations for Specific Conditions
Appendix A. Summary of Factors in Preterm/Sick Infants Affecting Reliability of Newborn Screening Results
Table A1. Maternal Conditions
Table A2. Treatments Given to the Infant
Table A3. Conditions of the Infant
Appendix B. Summary of Conditions Included on Screening Panels
The timing of blood specimen collection, a basic tenet of NBS, varies widely from state to state and country to country. Committee member Dianne Webster noted that, internationally, some programs use cord blood for NBS, while others use capillary blood collected from a few hours of age to 5–10 days.
Admittedly, knowing the best time to collect blood samples for NBS can be very complicated in any newborn and certainly more so in SCBU infants. Subcommittee Co-chair Judi Tuerck cited 1 example. "Hypothyroidism in this population can be missed entirely because the preterm infant's hypothalmic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis is immature. As a result, the infant cannot increase the thyroid-stimulating hormone level in response to a decreasing thyroxine. It can take several weeks for the infant's HPT axis to mature, and only serial NBS will identify these infants, who may or may not all be preterm or low birth weight." This example illustrates the importance of following the I/LA31-A guidelines for the timing of sample collection.
Tuerck also saw "a dichotomy between the complex analytical interpretations of the metabolic specialists and the busy neonatologists who need a simple screening algorithm they can easily understand and quickly apply to a rapidly evolving situation in the SCBU."
The point is well taken. Not every birthing center has a team of neonatologists and newborn screening specialists to make well-researched decisions about NBS results and follow-up testing. The subcommittee devised an SCBU screening algorithm, presented as an easy-to-follow flow chart detailing collection and follow up from birth to 28 days of life. By using current literature and case studies, the committee was able to produce an algorithm that, according to Dr. Valentine, "really helps the busy practitioner be able to just say, 'Okay, let's do the test on this day.'" Nursery staff and laboratory technologists will also find the algorithm and document's tables invaluable aids in understanding the complicated issues surrounding NBS in these at-risk infants.
Although I/LA31-A will serve as a comprehensive resource to birthing centers with an SCBU, it has application possibilities in all facilities where babies are born. Preterm, LBW, and sick babies are born in all birthing centers. Before transferring newborns to another center, physicians and medical staff should be aware of the recommended NBS practices for this special population and have an understanding of how the treatments they initiate immediately following delivery may affect the NBS results.
What about Baby B whose preterm birth was a result of his mother's developing HELLP? He was born in Oregon, where the NBS protocol includes "admission screening" for all infants admitted to the SCBU, 1 of the "best practices" recommended in I/LA31. Baby B's first NBS blood specimen was collected before he was 1 hour old.
The initial screening showed a significant elevation of all the long-chain acylcarnitines, indicating possible long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency. The metabolic specialist, consultant to the Northwest Regional Newborn Screening Program, immediately contacted the neonatologist and recommended frequent feeding and follow-up confirmatory testing, for which blood was then collected.
When Baby B was 7 days old, before confirmatory testing was complete, a second NBS specimen was collected. (The recommended "best practice" in I/LA31-A calls for a 48–72-hour recollection.) The screening at 7 days was completely normal; the LCHAD disorder was by now masked by the baby's adequate caloric intake. Had the facility's protocol not included "on admission" NBS, the disorder may not have been identified.
Thirteen days after his birth, Baby B's neonatologist received a second call from the metabolic specialist, confirming the diagnosis of LCHAD deficiency, and treatment for the disorder was immediately initiated, thanks to NBS "on admission."
Subcommittee Co-chair Julie Miller summed up the benefits of I/LA31-A by saying, "This document should help programs harmonize their follow-up protocols to ensure reliable screening for newborns in SCBUs. Many babies get transferred across borders, and the more similar these neighboring jurisdictions are in their practices, the less risk there will be in missing an affected newborn."
Dr. Valentine added, "I think a copy of the I/LA31-A newborn screening guideline should be placed in both the laboratory and nursery of birthing facilities." Although NBS challenges that information unique to SCBU babies is the primary focus of this document, Dr. Valentine believed the information is useful for the screening of non-SCBU newborns as well, when she said, "It reviews in detail the most up-to-date newborn screening guidance and complements other CLSI newborn screening guidelines."
As for the international application of CLSI NBS guidelines, Dr. Webster believed the importance of having such guidance developed by CLSI is directly related to the process creating it. As 1 of 3 international committee members, she believed, "The expert advice and the robust review process ensure that the documents have high credibility. Even when local practices or legislation and regulations differ from CLSI documents, the documents provide a framework for the assessment of screening and other clinical and laboratory processes."
For Baby B and the other preterm, LBW, and sick babies born every year, NBS is a very personal matter. The effects of unrecognized LCHAD deficiency in Baby B could have meant feeding difficulties, lethargy, muscle weakness, and liver problems as he developed, and possibly put him at risk for serious heart problems and even sudden death.
Without the standardization of practices such as those researched in the development of I/LA31-A, a certain number of metabolic disorders in SCBU babies will surely be missed every year. By creating this thoroughly researched set of recommendations for "best practices," the subcommittee hopes to help ensure the best possible quality of life for all infants who require care in an SCBU.
The Experts
Julie Miller, BS, Program Manager, Newborn Screening and Genetics, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Judi Tuerck, MS, BS, RN, retired from the Metabolic Clinic at Oregon Health & Science University; now a Newborn Screening consultant
Christina J. Valentine, MD, MS, RD, The Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's Hospital and representative of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition,
Dianne Webster, PhD, Director of the National Testing Center, Auckland, New Zealand
Jon DeMartino is a freelance medical writer and training course designer. He can be reached firstname.lastname@example.com.
CLSI is a global, nonprofit organization promoting the development and use of voluntary consensus standards and guidelines within the health care community.


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Bathrooms: 1
Sleeps: 4
Type: Apartment
Pets allowed: No
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About:Currently retired, my wife Sally and I lived in Puerto Rico for over 34 years and I worked at the Humacao campus of the University of Puerto Rico for over 30 years. We are currently living in Sarasota, Florida, but we travel to Puerto Rico often. I have also lived in Colombia, South America and...
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|Deposits: We take Master Card & Visa. For most short-term (1-2 week rentals), we would reserve your dates by either placing a $100 deposit hold ("authorization") on your credit card or charging the card $100. Then, 30 days prior to your rental date, you would mail us a check for the balance due. After you check out, we would either remove the hold or refund the deposit.
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Reviews for this vacation apartment rental in Isla Verde, North, Puerto Rico
A great getaway!
Marysory Irizarry
Miami, Florida
A great getaway!
January 4, 2016
For my birthday my wife and I travelled to Puerto Rico and were able to find this amazing place right at the beach in Isla Verde. Since we arrived until our last day we enjoyed everything about this place. It was the perfect location with the beach, restaurants, stores and many bars at walking distance. We got our own parking space. The apartment was cleaned and well kept. It had everything we needed for our stay. We were also able to enjoyed a beautiful ocean view and the use of the facilities at the building including the pool. We were very pleased with the management staff of the building, they were very professional, accommodating and friendly. They made us feel very welcomed and at home! We will highly recommend this place to everyone!!!
great rental
malcolm Walker
yorktown va
great rental
March 12, 2013
Perfect location great owner. Lionel was a pleasuare to deal with and returned deposit promptly after the trip. Condo is in great condition and fully stocked with supplies. Would definitely wed go back
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September 12, 2012
Our experience at the ESJ Towers was absolutely amazing! Everything we needed was within walking distance, even though we rented a Vehicle.The best place to rent a vehicle is Charlie's Car Rental.Their deposit is only $250.00 and we paid about 185.00 for 8 days. There is a 24 hour supermarket right across from the Hotel. All you have to do is go through the front gate, and head straight down the street pass the Chili's, and it will be on your right... you can't miss it.They had everything we needed there including alcohol & liquor, with security at all times.We were able to cook many of our meals, as everything we needed was provided in the Condo.We visited Cerro De Nandi, which is the highest Restaurant in Puerto Rico.It had great views and we had a wonderful experience. The drive took us about 45 minutes. We also took the Ferry to Vieques which was about a 45 minute commute also, then a 1 1/2 hour Ferry ride each way.The Famous restaurant named Pinones is minutes away. When leaving the Hotel you make a left, go straight and you can only make a left or a right, merge towards the left and follow it all the way down over the bridge and it will be directly on your left. The view is Amazing of the ocean with brown sand and so is the food. The Owner was great when working with us and was available at all times.The condo provided a great comfort. The views are spectacular, and the beach is right there. In order to do laundry you must go to the front lobby to exchange your Dollar for a token.That is the only way you will be able to do the laundry. There was Wifi in the entire Hotel at all times.The mini market downstairs is open until 11pm which is great, but fairly overpriced. We were there during the Storm Isaac and the owner was there to guide us on how to close the storm shutters.We will visit the ESJ towers and Rent from Mr.& Mrs.Kaufman every time we visit Puerto Rico. It's a great location and not far from any parts of Puerto Rico. We look forward to working with them again.Come to find out Hector Camacho also owns a condo in the Esj Towers and was very welcoming when we arrived.
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Marilyn Perez
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May 8, 2012
I stayed at ESJ for 1 week with my daughters and my mom and we cant wait to go back. Lionel was very hands on, anytime i needed to speak with him he was only a phone call away and he called me 2x just to make sure everything was to my satisfactory. We were just steps away from the beach and the pool was awesome. The staff were very friendly and spoke perfect english. Some people are reluctant to rent a property over the internet but my expereience was very smooth and easy. We will definitely be back!
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Alexandra Malanina
Clean, convenient and affordable!
April 27, 2012
The apartment is very clean and has everything you need on your vacation, including plenty of linens and towels, cooking necessities and beach toys. The studio is spacious with lots of light in the morning, beautiful view of the ocean, plenty of space, fantastic balcony perfect for breakfast. Lionel is very flexible and responsive. The place is great for staying in Isla Verde. There is free parking in case you rent a car. Pool is 25 meters and great for swimming in the morning (9-10am). Beach access to Isla Verde beach, but the beach is much better to the right of the beach passed Ritz Carlton.
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We're happy Alexandra enjoyed her stay. The terrific ocean view from the 15t floor is definitely the highlight of the place, and the pool is the most spacious of any condo building in Isla Verde. Since the ESJ Towers is a condo-hotel, it offers all the amenities of a hotel while it is privately owned and managed. We try to do our best to keep it fully equipped and supplied with everything our guests need.
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Pros: I was really impressed with this Camera. It was easy to use, took great pictures and I love all the features. But... (see cons)
Cons: It gets one egg, because what they sent me was a nightmare. I bought a 64G mini SD card to go with the Camera. It worked in every other device, but not in the Camera, unless I turned it off and on multiple times. I constantly got a "card error" message. Also, right out of the box, I got a Lens Error message and that froze the camera so it would not work. After a while that went away and I was able to take some beautiful photos. The only problem with that was, it would try and process the photo and stay on "processing" for hours. I had to eject the battery to get it to stop. This continued off and on. I tried everything. Reset, Download New Firmware, etc. The camera continued to act up. Then, it just quit taking photos. It would just to to "processing", no matter what resolution I set it on. I love the IDEA of this Camera, but the one I got was junk.
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We've been stacking the shelves and ringing the tills as we've checked out the jobscene on the high street this week.
Continuing our campaign to Get Britain Working we have found an impressive 60,895 retail jobs.
Despite many retailers struggling and high street casualties such as Jessops and HMV, there are still many jobs to be had.
After all – even in a recession people still need to buy food, clothes and essentials.
"Some specialist areas such as visual merchandising and IT are seeing a shortage of candidates with the right skills," says Jane Rexworthy, Head of the National Skills Academy for Retail.
"Anyone looking for a role in retail would do well to look at recent trends in retailing – such as the rise of online retail – and make sure they have the necessary skills both now and for the future. "
You don't need to look far for that training whether you're straight out of school, changing jobs, or returning to work after a break. There are plenty of training options for people wanting to get into and forge a long term career in the sector, whether you are looking to take your first step on the career ladder or simply are ready for a career change.
The National Skills Academy for Retail, working with the likes of Tesco, Boots, John Lewis, House of Fraser and Waitrose, has set up skills shops up and down the country, to offer training and advice locally.
"More than 50 skills shops are there to help anyone wanting to up-skill or acquire new skills to ensure a long term career in this exciting sector," says Jane.
To find out more about careers and training go to nsaforretail.com
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From the moment Hannah Barlow took up a Saturday job in a local florist shop at age 16 her career path was set.
"I loved the work and the shop environment right from the start ," says Hannah, 23, from Chipping Sodbury in Wiltshire.
Despite finding something she enjoyed so much, Hannah still wasn't absolutely sure what she would do when she left school.
"I went on and did my A Levels and then carried on with an art foundation course. Throughout it all I kept working part-time at The Sodbury Florist."
She reached a crossroads when it came time to decide whether she would go to university or not – the thought of debts and a threat of no job at the end of it worried her.
" I thought about it long and hard but couldn't really see the point for me. I had already found something I loved and was really keen to get proper training knowing that I had a job as well at the end of it."
To start with Hannah was enrolled on an apprenticeship scheme studying floristry one day a week at her local college.
"I then opted for an on-the-job assessment training scheme from KEITS Training Services, which allowed me to work full-time and learn all the skills I needed to get to my NVQ Level 3 in Floristry."
Whether she's on the phone taking orders, helping customers who've popped in for a bouquet of flowers, or working with families on a wedding or a funeral, Hannah is thriving in her chosen area of retail.
"I particularly love the creative side of the job. I get a real buzz working on intricate frameworks – it's like a piece of sculpture. I can let my imagination go to town."
Hannah also loves being busy – particularly at traditionally busy times of the year – such as the run up to today, Valentines.
At quieter times she has thrown herself in to the world of competitive floristry and won a bronze medal at last year's Worldskills, an event for apprentices to showcase their talents.
"I also entered a national Interflora competition which was great fun. It challenges you to do even more creative things with your skills."
Where are the jobs
Jobcentre Plus has 42,830 jobs available including 15,131 sales and retail assistants and 1,260 merchandisers and window dressers.
Check out gov.uk/jobs-jobsearch where you'll find roles varying from sales representatives and assistants to cashiers and check-out operators.
We found a retail merchandiser in Birmingham (£6.21 an hour), an assistant retail manager in Manchester (£6.93), a trade counter assistant in Cardiff (£7), store supervisor in Leicester (£6.50) and a variety of store and retail assistants, full-time and part-time, in every corner of the UK (from £6.19 to around £6.50).
Most supermarkets advertise their vacancies with Jobcentre Plus too.
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- 02-20-2013, 07:26 PM Thread Author #1
speech to text not working
All of a sudden, my speech to text isn't working....in any application. I used it quite a bit for text-messaging, but it's not working? I tried reboot restart, s voice, playing with keyboard setting as well. No good.
The Mic is working, I can record messages, and S Voice picks up what i say and turns it to text. It's my Office program and SMS that aren't outputting what I say? weird.....
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Re: speech to text not working
Are you by chance connected to BT media? This is a know issue. If you have a bluetooth device connected as media the Android voice to text will not work. S-voice still seems to work though.
- 02-21-2013, 03:58 PM Thread Author #4
Re: speech to text not working
Tried to toggle the BT because I was connected, but no luck. Now I get the error "Please try again when you are connected to the network." ? I tried toggling the wifi too, no change.
google search still not working either....
- 02-21-2013, 07:26 PM Thread Author #5
Re: speech to text not working
Well......instead of driving myself crazy I reflashed, reinstalled rom. Everything works? :-)
-lesson here: backup, backup, backup.
Good thing I backed up.
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Previous work in our laboratory as part of the present program project grant has contributed significantly to our understanding of the role of central nervous system corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and urocortin (Ucn) peptides and their receptors in behavioral responses to stressors and energy regulation. In the previous funding period, differential effects of CRF/Ucn systems and CRF1 and CRF2 receptors both in the extended amygdala and the periphery were shown for stress-like behavior and modulation of appetite. The purpose of the experiments outlined in the present proposal are to build on these results and test the overall hypothesis that CRF/Ucn-related peptides have functional roles in the central nervous system and periphery to modulate behavioral and physiological responses to stressors in the domain of excessive energy intake. A subhypothesis is that CRF/Ucn activation, via CRF1 receptors in the extended amygdala, mediates the withdrawal-like aversive responses that contribute to binge-like eating. A second subhypothesis is that excessive, binge-like intake drives dysregulation in peripheral CRF/Ucn systems that contribute to prediabetic syndromes and obesity risk. A third subhypothesis is that rats selectively bred for vulnerability to diet-induced obesity show dysregulation of their CRF/Ucn systems that resemble those elicited by environmental models of binge eating. To test these hypotheses, in Specific Aim 1, the functional significance of alterations in the extended amygdala CRF/Ucn system for the stress-like behavior of rats withdrawn from diet-induced bingeing will be explored.
In Specific Aim 2, the functional significance of peripheral CRF/Ucn systems in the glucose regulation, whole-body metabolism and obesity risk of rats exposed to diet-induced bingeing will be explored.
In Specific Aim 3, functional alterations in central or peripheral CRF/Ucn systems produced by binge eating will be explored in rats with differential genetic vulnerability to obesity. Results of the present series of studies will provide key information regarding the roles of CRF/Ucn-related peptides in stress-like responses associated with dysregulation of appetite and energy balance. As a result, the results may provide insight into the role of CRF/Ucn systems in several stress-related pathologies of energy homeostasis, including obesity, binge-eating disorder, and diabetes.
The proposed studies will provide key functional insight into the biological roles of the CRF/urocortin systems in the stress-like responses associated with dysregulation of appetite and energy balance. Stress contributes significantly to obesity, binge-eating disorders, and diabetes, and the proposed studies seek to identify a biological mechanism for such pathology. Results obtained will not only provide new targets for treating disorders or stress and appetite but may identify individuals vulnerable for such pathology.
|Roustit, Manon M; Vaughan, Joan M; Jamieson, Pauline M et al. (2014) Urocortin 3 activates AMPK and AKT pathways and enhances glucose disposal in rat skeletal muscle. J Endocrinol 223:143-54
|Jappelli, Roberto; Perrin, Marilyn H; Lewis, Kathy A et al. (2014) Expression and functional characterization of membrane-integrated mammalian corticotropin releasing factor receptors 1 and 2 in Escherichia coli. PLoS One 9:e84013
|van der Meulen, Talitha; Huising, Mark O (2014) Maturation of stem cell-derived beta-cells guided by the expression of urocortin 3. Rev Diabet Stud 11:115-32
|Zorrilla, Eric P; Logrip, Marian L; Koob, George F (2014) Corticotropin releasing factor: a key role in the neurobiology of addiction. Front Neuroendocrinol 35:234-44
|Rivier, Jean E; Rivier, Catherine L (2014) Corticotropin-releasing factor peptide antagonists: design, characterization and potential clinical relevance. Front Neuroendocrinol 35:161-70
|Benner, Christopher; van der Meulen, Talitha; Cacéres, Elena et al. (2014) The transcriptional landscape of mouse beta cells compared to human beta cells reveals notable species differences in long non-coding RNA and protein-coding gene expression. BMC Genomics 15:620
|Szabadfi, K; Kiss, P; Reglodi, D et al. (2014) Urocortin 2 treatment is protective in excitotoxic retinal degeneration. Acta Physiol Hung 101:67-76
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|Logrip, Marian L; Zorrilla, Eric P (2014) Differential changes in amygdala and frontal cortex Pde10a expression during acute and protracted withdrawal. Front Integr Neurosci 8:30
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Although Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" has been praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version brings into question how much of a story it really offers. Kerouac's hero, Sal Paradise, becomes transfixed by the rambling outlaw vision of a charismatic car thief, Dean Moriarity, and joins him in a series of journeys from his mother's apartment in Ozone Park, N.Y., as they crisscross the continent to Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and then back again, until it occurs to Dean "I've never been south." They turn to Mexico, finding in its long, straight cactus-lined roads, some secret to themselves. They also find marijuana; the two may not be unrelated.
These journeys also yield forth booze, women and jazz — which contain their own secrets, but not simply through the searching for them. Along the way, Dean seeks his dead father and exudes so much charisma that the real Dean, Neal Cassady, is said to be the inspiration for the Beat Generation. Published in 1957, "On the Road" grew not into a movement but into a brand; Kerouac was a frequent guest on talk shows, and the Beats made the cover of Life magazine — a group of Beats seen sitting on a floor next to an LP player, wearing black turtlenecks, dark glasses and a look of intense cool. Compared to the Lost Generation and the Me Generation, the Beats were thin tea.
As a teenager, I snatched up the book in its first paperback edition and chose it above any other to display on my desk at the News-Gazette, sometimes underlining trenchant passages. Still in high school, I slipped away to the Turk's Head, a campus coffee shop, which played Miles Davis and Monk, and Beats were rumored by the townspeople to stand on the tables and recite their poetry, although table-standing seems to run counter to the Beat ethos.
My friends and I, newly in possession of our first $450 cars, talked idly of pointing them west and not stopping until we reached the Pacific. Whether this mission matched Mark Twain's "lighting out for the territory," you may decide.
The Brazilian director Walter Salles is drawn to the notion of young men on epic journeys of self-discovery; his "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004) involved Che Guevara on a tour of South America that shaped his ideas of South America. In "On the Road," Kerouac (the British actor Sam Riley) is more interested in how he was shaped by Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund).
Dean in this movie is a rumpled, laconic young man whose fascination for Sal was his inclination to boost cars and set off on journeys to the horizon in search of girls. The girls would be wise to hide when they see these boys coming. Kerouac's wife, Carolyn (known as Camille here and well played by Kirsten Dunst), is given a scene not long after their child is born. "Dean and I are going out," Sal tells her. "Want to come along?" "No," she says, "I'll stay and look after baby."
Having a second thought on his way out, he pokes his head back through he door: " At least I asked if you wanted to go." She fixes him with a Kirsten Dunst glare and says, "I know the look on your face. You're sick of me and you're sick of the baby. Do you realize how much I've given up for you?" No, he doesn't. Is his bond with Sal homosexual at its core? The film itself remains ambiguous.
Their long distance trips become epic, mostly in an unimaginably big and sleek Hudson, later in a beat-up Cadillac, they pass vast empty landscapes, pick up hitchhikers, stop in roadside diners, and on the whole have about as much excitement in San Francisco as you'd expect a couple of broke out-of-towners to experience.
The film's last scene is the payoff we expect. Confronting his typewriter, Sal inserts one end of a very long roll of paper and starts to type: "I first met Dean…"
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Wisconsin's New Logo: A $50,000 Mistake?
I'd heard about Wisconsin's newly redesigned logo a little while ago. The new tourism logo, for which the state paid a design firm $50,000, ...
I'd heard about Wisconsin's newly redesigned logo a little while ago. The new tourism logo, for which the state paid a design firm $50,000, has gotten a little bit of pushback because of its tagline, "Live Like You Mean It":
Gov. Jim Doyle said Monday the state will use "Live like you mean it" to promote Wisconsin as a tourism and business destination, replacing the slogan "Life's So Good."
But motivational speakers, authors and even wine and spirit maker Bacardi have already used the phrase in marketing campaigns. Some critics who aren't thrilled the state is adopting their slogan may oppose its attempt to get federal trademark protections on it or even take legal action.
But I really was moved to mention the new logo when I came across it on (ahem) YourLogoMakesMeBarf.com. The site (the purpose of which is really pretty self-explanatory) calls the new logo "a $50,000 mistake." The site user who submitted the logo described it this way:"This new Wisconsin logo is HATED amongst us Wisconsinites and the worst part was that it cost us taxpayers $50,000! It doesn't accurately represent our state or the people in it."
Frankly, I'm shocked. You mean, Wisconsin residents aren't constantly doing handstands??
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