text: 2012-13 Men's Basketball Roster Choose a Player: Bullock, Reggie Davis, Luke Hairston, P.J. Hubert, Desmond James, Joel Johnson, Brice Manor, James McAdoo, James Michael McDonald, Leslie Moody, Wade Paige, Marcus Robinson, Denzel Simmons, Jackson Strickland, Dexter Tanner, Frank Tokoto, J.P. 5 Marcus Paige Position Guard Height 6-0 Weight 157 Class Freshman Hometown Marion, Iowa High School Linn-Mar Bio Related Stats Biography Named a preseason first-team All-America by the Sporting News • Named the No. 2 high-impact senior in the nation by Sports Illustrated prior to the 2015-16 season. CAREER Earned All-ACC honors in each of the last two seasons • First team by media and coaches in 2014, second team (coaches) and third team (media) in 2015 • The 2015 winner of the Skip Prosser Award as the ACC's top scholar-athlete for men's basketball • Named second-team Academic All-America for the second year in a row • Is the third Tar Heel to earn Academic All-America honors in consecutive years (with Tommy LaGarde in 1975-76 and Tyler Zeller in 2011-12) • Scored his 1,000th point on 12/13 at Kentucky • Career stats include 1,416 points (13.2), 474 assists (4.4) and 225 three-pointers (.381) • Carolina's alltime leader in free throw percentage at .865 (275-318), which is sixth-highest in ACC history • Has two of the top five single-season FT percentages in UNC history • Is the 32nd-leading scorer in UNC history (12th-highest total in three years) • Scored in double figures 70 times with 17 20-point games and two 30-point efforts (35 at NC State and 32 vs. Louisville as a sophomore) • Made three or more three-pointers 41 times (three 26x, four 8x, five 5x, six once and seven once) • Carolina's all-time leader in three-point attempts with 590 (passed Shammond Williams, 578) • Has 225 three-pointers, the third-most in UNC history • Shammond Williams made 233 in four seasons and Wayne Ellington made 229 in three years • Five career games with eight or more assists and no turnovers • Is one of two Tar Heels with at least 1,400 points, 450 assists, 100 steals and 200 three-pointers (with Jeff Lebo) • As a sophomore, was 86 for 221 from three-point range (.389); as a junior he went 94 for 238 (.395) • In 2013-14, his assist-error ratio was 1.96; in 2014-15 it was 2.33 • Started 105 of 107 games (only two non-starts on Senior Night first two seasons). JUNIOR SEASON (2014-15) Recipient of UNC's Dean Smith Most Valuable Player award for the second consecutive season (one of six players to win MVP honors as a sophomore and junior with Lennie Rosenbluth, Billy Cunningham, Michael Jordan, Antawn Jamison and Tyler Hansbrough) • Also named a permanent captain for the second year in row and the defensive player of the year and top scholar-athlete for the third straight year • Fourth player to win defensive award three times (with Derrick Phelps, Brendan Haywood and Marcus Ginyard). Led the Tar Heels in scoring at 14.1 ppg, three-pointers (career-high 94), assists (career-high 170) and steals (career-high 65) and was second in free throw percentage (.865) • Earned first-team All-ACC Tournament honors after averaging 17.0 points in four games – had 24 assists, eight turnovers and eight steals • Second straight season with at least 500 points • Had 33 assists and 13 turnovers in seven postseason games • Averaged 15.3 points in 22 games against teams in NCAA Tournament • Was third in the ACC in three-pointers, fourth in 3FG% and FT%, fifth in assists, assist-turnover ratio and steals and 13th in scoring. His 94 three-pointers were the second most in a season by a Tar Heel (one shy of Shammond Williams' 95 in 1997) and his free throw percentage of .865 was the seventh-highest in UNC history • Set the single-season school record with 238 3FG attempts (previous was 227 by Shammond Williams in 1997) • Made 60 of his last 65 free throws since Christmas • Carolina's defensive player of the game 11 times (including five straight games in the postseason) • Led UNC in double figure scoring games (30) and games as top scorer (13) • Scored in double figures in each of the last eight games • Scored 20 or more points six times (24 vs. Notre Dame, 23 at NC State, 23 vs. Duke, 22 vs. Syracuse, 22 vs. Arkansas and 21 vs. UCLA) • Made three or more three-pointers 19 times with a season-high five at NC State, home vs. Duke and in the ACC Tournament final vs. Notre Dame • Earlier this year made multiple threes in 13 straight games (ended at BC), which tied the UNC record by Shammond Williams in 1997 • Made 94 of UNC's 184 three-pointers (51.1 percent) • Made at least one three in all but one game (East Carolina) • Made a 3FG in the last 30 games • Only Tar Heel to average 30 minutes a game (33.2) • Played 30 or more minutes in the last 23 games (including 14 games with 36 or more minutes) • Had more assists than turnovers in 29 games, including 15 of the last 16 games (78 assists, 27 turnovers in that stretch) • Had 25 steals in the last nine games • Shot 94.4 percent from the FT line in ACC road games (17 of 18). 2014-15 Game Highlights: Scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half, including 11 in a 13-2 UNC run that erased Arkansas' last lead of the game and gave Carolina a 10-point advantage • Was the second time in three games he scored 20 in the second half (22 of his 24 vs. Notre Dame in the second) • Free throws gave UNC a 60-59 lead, then stole the ball and drove in for an acrobatic three-point play • Moments later he hit back-to-back 3FGs for a 71-61 lead • Went 9 for 9 from the FT line, the 11th time in his career he made 6 for 6 or better from the line in one game. Scored 12 points and had six assists, including one on the game-winning basket by Justin Jackson, vs. Harvard • Hit a three-pointer with 3:21 to play to give UNC a 63-59 lead. ACC Tournament: Scored 24 points, the most by a Tar Heel all year, and had five assists in the ACC Tournament championship game loss to Notre Dame • Took a season-high 18 field goal attempts (made 9), including 5 for 11 three-pointers • Made five threes in the second half, including one with 9:54 to play that gave UNC a 63-54 lead • Scored 13 of UNC's final 22 points • Hit a shot-clock buzzer beater with 41.7 seconds to play to give UNC a 65-62 lead in the win over third-ranked and top-seed Virginia in the ACC semifinals • Made two free throws with four seconds to play and UNC ahead by two to seal the victory over the Cavaliers • Had 17 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds vs. Boston College in the second round. ACC Regular Season: Scored his 1,300th career point against Duke on 3/7 as he matched season highs with 23 points and five three-pointers • Three-pointer with 14:40 to play gave UNC a seven-point lead • Was the second time in six career games vs. Duke that he scored 20 or more points • Made his 200th career three-pointer and had a career-high six steals at Georgia Tech • Answered Miami's only lead of the second half with a go-ahead three-pointer and finished with 17 points (most in February, most since he had 22 vs. Syracuse on 1/26) • Tied his career high with 10 assists and posted his first career double-double with 13 points vs. Georgia Tech on 2/21 • Had no turnovers, becoming the first Tar Heel with at least 10 assists and no turnovers since Kendall Marshall in 2012 • Scored all 13 of his points in the final 11:39 in the win at Boston College • Scoreless first half was his first such of the season • Hit three three-pointers and led UNC with 15 points in a season-high 40 minutes at Louisville, but also committed a season-high five turnovers • Played one of his finest all-around games as a Tar Heel in the 93-83 win over Syracuse with 22 points, six rebounds, eight assists, four steals, a blocked shot and no turnovers in 35 minutes • Made 4 of 7 3FGs and 6 of 6 FTs • Was his third 20-point game this year (14th career) • Scored 16 of his 22 in the second half including back-to-back threes to tie the game after the Orange built a 56-50 lead • Was the ninth time in his career he was perfect from the FT line with at least six attempts. Led UNC with 19 points vs. Florida State • Eight assists and three steals in win at Wake Forest • Was sensational in the 81-79 win at NC State as scored a game-high 23 points and added five rebounds, nine assists, no turnovers and four steals • Posted season highs in points, three-pointers (5), assists and steals • Went 5 for 5 from three-point range, tying the second-best single-game three-point percentage in UNC history and the best since Jason Capel went 6 for 6 vs. Clemson in the 2001 ACC Tournament • Has scored 58 points in his last two games against NC State in Raleigh • Hit a driving, layup that he banked in high off the glass with 8.5 seconds to play to defeat Louisville, 72-71 • Was his second career game-winning basket under 10 seconds (beat NC State in Raleigh in 2013-14 with 0.9 seconds to play in overtime). Non-Conference: Hit two of his three three-pointers and scored 11 of his 14 points in the second half against William and Mary • Hit four three-pointers and had six assists at Kentucky • Made 4 of 16 from the floor for 13 points against Iowa (did not have an assist for only the third time as a Tar Heel) • Had 16 points and four assists vs. Florida, hitting a decisive three with four minutes to play • Scored 21 points with five assists and three steals in win over UCLA • Scored a game-high 18 points in the loss to Butler, but was an uncharacteristic 5 for 9 from the free throw line • Was the first time he ever missed more than two free throws in a game as a Tar Heel • Sank three three-pointers at Davidson and led UNC with four assists and no turnovers SOPHOMORE SEASON (2013-14) A second-team All-America by the Sporting News and a third-team All-America by Basketball Times • A second-team CoSIDA Academic All-America • Earned first-team All-ACC honors and was selected the Most Improved Player in the ACC by votes of both the media and the league's head coaches • Is the first Tar Heel point guard to earn first-team All-ACC honors as a sophomore since Phil Ford in 1976 • Is the 46th UNC player to earn first-team All-ACC honors • ACC All-Academic team selection • Two-time national and four-time ACC Player of the Week • First four-time ACC Player of the Week for UNC since Tyler Hansbrough in 2007-08 • Only two UNC players (Hansbrough and Antawn Jamison in 1997-98) have ever won ACC Player of the Week honors more in one season • One of six finalists for the Bob Cousy Award. One of two players in the top 10 in the ACC in scoring and assists • Led UNC and was fourth in the ACC in scoring at 17.5 points per game • Led the the ACC in free throw percentage (.877), third in three-pointers made per game (2.5), third in three-point percentage (.389 ), fifth in assists (4.2), sixth in minutes played (35.6), seventh in steals (1.5), ninth in field goal percentage (.440) and 10th in assist-error (2.0) • Had the third-highest single-season free throw percentage in Carolina history • Is the first Tar Heel to lead the ACC in free throw percentage since Shammond Williams in 1998 • Made 86 of UNC's 146 three-pointers (58.9 percent), the highest percentage in UNC history (previous was 58.3 by Hubert Davis in 1991-92 • Scored 89 points (22.3) in the last four games (at Duke and three postseason games) • Scored 89 points (22.3) in the last four games (at Duke and three postseason games) • Averaged 19.9 points in eight games against Top 25 teams • Hit at least three three-pointers 17 times • Scored in double figures a team-high 29 times • Scored 30 or more points twice and 20 or more points 11 times • Scored 20 or more points in the second half three times (21 vs. Kentucky, 21 at NC State, 20 vs. Pitt) • Scored in double figures in both of UNC's overtime periods this year (11 vs. Davidson and 10 at NC State) • Led UNC in scoring 13 times, something he did not do as a freshman • Scored single digits in the first half and double digits in the second 20 times • That included scoring just four points or fewer in the first half and double figures in the second 12 times • Averaged 6.0 points in the first half and 11.6 in the second half/overtime • First half shooting was 68 for 185 from the floor (.368), including 28 of 93 from three-point range (.301) • Second half/overtime shooting is 123 for 249 from the floor (.494), including 58 of 128 from three-point range (.453) • Made 31 straight from the free throw line at mid-season • UNC's defensive player of the game a team-high 10 times • Had five or more assists 16 times. Had a team-high 19 points, but had four turnovers in loss to Iowa State • Made four three-pointers against the Cyclones, the eighth time this year he hit four or more threes • Scored 12 of his team-high 19 points against Providence in the second half including a pair of three-pointers that tied the game in the final three minutes • Nailed a three with 3:01 to play that tied the game at 71, capping a 7-0 UNC run • Less than two minutes later (at 1:06), he nailed another three that evened the game at 77. ACC Highlights: Led UNC with 24 points at Duke • Scored more points in the second half (18) than any other Tar Heel scored for the game • Hit all three of his three-pointers in the second half, including an off-balance, double-clutch shot on which he was fouled and converted for his third four-point play in the last 10 games • Had four turnovers, more than he had committed in the previous four games combined • Helped UNC shoot 61.9 percent from the floor in the first half and 59.6 percent for the game in the loss • Blocked a game-winning layup by Notre Dame's Eric Atkins with less than two seconds to play in UNC's 63-61 win over the Irish • Scored his 500th point of the season in the win at Virginia Tech (attempted a season-low seven field goals). Had one of the most memorable performances in recent ACC history when he scored 31 of his career-high 35 points in the second half and overtime, including the game-winning basket with 0.9 seconds to play, in UNC's 85-84 win at NC State • Scored 21 second-half points, then scored 10 of UNC's 14 points in the extra five minutes • Went 11 for 21 from the floor, including a career-high seven of 12 from three-point range • Made five threes in the second half and two more in overtime • Both threes in overtime came with UNC trailing by six points • Most points by a Tar Heel since Harrison Barnes had 40 vs. Clemson in 2011 • Most three-pointers by a Tar Heel since Will Graves hit seven vs. Dayton in 2010 • Second 30-point game of the season • Third-most points by a Tar Heel against NC State in series history • Second time this year he scored 21 points in the second half (also vs. Kentucky) • Second time this year he scored double figures in OT (had 11 vs. Davidson) • Also had six rebounds, five assists and only one turnover in 41 minutes • Had two of the Top 10 plays that evening on ESPN's SportsCenter (acrobatic, one-handed save of a ball going out of bounds that led to a Tokoto dunk and the winning basket). Earned ACC Player of the Week honors on 2/24 for his play against Wake Forest, Duke and FSU • Helped UNC shoot 54.7 percent from the floor (.613 in second) in win over Wake Forest • Scored all 13 of his points vs. #5 Duke in the second half including a pair of baskets with 2:11 (jumper) and 1:30 (twisting drive between three Blue Devils) to play that gave UNC a 66-62 lead • Scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half at Florida State • Also had seven assists, no turnovers and four steals vs. the Noles • Nailed three three-pointers and another jumper in a span of 3:17 to break a 57-all tie and give Carolina a 70-62 lead • Made 5 of 6 three-pointers and finished with 18 points in win over Pitt • Made a four-point play for the second time in the last three games • Had 16 points and six assists at Notre Dame, including five straight points to tie the game at 23 (ND's last lead) and a lob assist to James Michael McAdoo for a 27-23 lead at the half • Scored 18 of his game-high 25 in the second half in win over Maryland • Made four threes (most since Texas) and had seven assists and three steals against the Terps • Hit a four-point play (UNC's first since 2007) • Was his top scoring game since Louisville • Hit a twisting, reverse layup with 7:15 to play after Maryland cut UNC lead to six • Made all six of his field goal attempts, including 3 for 3 from three-point range, and scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half in the win at Georgia Tech • Picked up the scoring load after McAdoo and Tokoto went to the bench with four fouls apiece early in the second half • That followed a 1 for 7 shooting performance in the first half • Scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half and finished with five assists and three three-pointers (most since Northern Kentucky) in the win over Clemson • Scored 14 of his game-high 21 points in the first half in win over Boston College (had scored a total of 12 points in the first half in the previous four games). Paige's Pre-ACC Highlights: Career-high nine rebounds against Northern Kentucky • Scored 11 of his 17 points in overtime, including nine of UNC's first 11 in extra time, in win over Davidson • Did not score until 8:17 left in regulation • Hit five three-pointers en route to 23 points in loss to Texas (and rimmed out a potential tying three at the buzzer) • Earned USBWA National and ACC Player of the Week honors for his performance vs. Kentucky • Scored 21 of his game-high 23 points in the second half in win over the Wildcats • Had three second-half steals, all of which led to UNC baskets • Broke 46-all tie with steal and layup, hit a key three with 8:17 to play and a beautiful baseline floater to help seal the win • Scored more points in the second half than any other player on either team scored in the entire game • Season-high eight assists vs. UNCG • Scored 11 second-half points, including two three-pointers, in the win at #1 Michigan State • His second three came with 6:46 to play and gave UNC a 63-52 lead. Earned CBSSports.com's National Player of the Week and ACC Player of the Week honors for his play vs. Richmond and Louisville • Earned all-tournament and Most Valuable Player honors at the Tipoff event Scored a then-career-high 32 points in win over #3 Louisville Was 6 for 9 from the floor, made three 3FGs and was 11 for 11 from the FT line against the Cardinals Scored a then-career-high 26 points and made a then-career-best six three-pointers in win over Richmond Hit five second-half threes, including three in the final 8:40 after the game was tied at 56 Scored a then-career-high 23 points on 8 of 17 shooting vs. Holy Cross Scored 16 of his 23 in the second half, including six in a decisive 18-3 Tar Heel run that started with his steal and layup Made first start at the 2-guard against Oakland and responded with four three-pointers and 14 points to go along with five assists. FRESHMAN SEASON (2012-13) Named to the ACC's All-Academic team and both the coaches' and media All-Freshman teams • Named to the Kyle Macy Freshman All-America team • Averaged 8.2 points and 4.6 assists • Fourth leading UNC scorer • Started 34 games at the point • Had 161 assists and 86 turnovers • Third in the ACC in assists per game and sixth in assist-error ratio and steals • More assists than turnovers in 25 games, including 16 of the last 20 • Made 20 of 45 (.444) three-pointers in the last 12 games after making 12 of 43 in the first 11 ACC games (.279) • Averaged 10.4 points in the last 12 games • Scored above his season average in eight of the last 12 games • Connected on multiple threes in 14 games with a high of four against Virginia Tech • Was 51 for 61 from the free throw line for a team-high percentage of .836 • Led the team with eight defensive player of the game honors • Second on the team with 48 steals (made 19 steals in his first 21 games and 29 steals in his last 14 games) • Led all ACC freshmen in assists • Scored in double figures 11 times • Season-high 19 points against Virginia Tech and 10 assists against Florida State in the ACC Tournament. NCAA Tournament: Made a season-high five steals against Kansas • Scored nine of his 14 points against Villanova in the second half, including seven straight UNC points from the 3:20 to 1:36 mark • Hit a three-pointer with 2:02 to play that answered a 7-0 Wildcat run and gave UNC a 70-66 lead • Was Carolina's defensive player of the game. ACC Tournament: Earned second-team All-Tournament honors • Averaged 11.3 points and 5.7 assists, made 12 of 20 from the floor (60 percent) and 5 of 11 from three-point range (.455) • Scored 17 points and had five assists in championship game vs. Miami • Made 6 of 9 shots from the floor against the Canes • Scored all eight of his points in semifinal against Maryland in the second half, including five in the final 2:50 • Hit a pair of key shots late • With UNC leading 71-70, he hit a baseline jumper, then dropped in a floater over 7-foot center Alex Len with 36 seconds to play to give Carolina a 77-72 advantage • Set a personal best with 10 assists and also scored nine points against Florida State • Helped the Tar Heels shoot 61.3 percent from the floor in the second half and total 83 points, the second-most the Seminoles allowed all season • Won UNC's defensive player of the game honors for the fourth time in as many games. Regular Season Highlights: Hit three three-pointers, including a key shot late in the game, and was UNC's defensive player of the game in the win at Maryland • Committed a season-high eight turnovers, including two in a row that helped the Terps cut a 13-point UNC lead to six with 6:00 to play • However, with the shot clock running down, he then hit a three from the left wing to give the Tar Heels a 66-57 lead • Nine assists and was UNC's top defender in home win over Florida State and helped UNC shoot 55.4 percent from the floor • Outstanding in win over NC State, scoring 14 points (all in the second half) with eight assists, no turnovers and three steals • Scored 11 points in the final 7:15, including a three-pointer from the right wing with 7:15 to play that gave UNC the lead for good at 57-55 • Added a three-point play on a driving layup and foul with 5:01 left to up the lead to 64-57 • Went 8 for 8 from the foul line (best by a Tar Heel all year) and had a season-best four steals at Georgia Tech • Made three three-pointers and totaled 17 points in win over Virginia • Scored nine in the first half, helping the Tar Heels earn a 40-40 tie at the break after falling behind by 10 points on two occasions • Hit a pair of threes in the second half, the second of which gave UNC its first double-digit lead of the game • Scored a season-high 19 points, handed out five assists and tied his season-high with five rebounds in the overtime win over Virginia Tech • Made a season-high four three-pointers, the fourth of which came with 3:00 to play in overtime and gave Carolina a 62-58 lead, its first two possession lead • Scored eight of UNC's 17 points in overtime as he out-scored the Hokies, 8-5, in the extra period • Handed out six assists with just one turnover at Boston College and hit a key three-pointer late in the game • Had six assists and no turnovers in home win over Maryland • Carolina's top defensive player in the win at Florida State and added eight points, four assists and two steals • Hit a pair of first-half threes at FSU, then made two key plays late in the 77-72 win • With UNC leading 75-72, he stole the ball from Terrance Shannon after Shannon had swiped the ball from UNC and was going in for a layup with 55 seconds to play • He later hit both ends of a one-and-one with 11 seconds to play to provide the final points of the game • Had 10 points and five assists and won defensive player of the game honors at home against Miami • Scored 12 points and had four assists in win over #20 UNLV • Helped UNC shoot 50.9 percent from the floor against Runnin' Rebels • Handed out nine assists with no turnovers and earned his first defensive player of the game award vs. McNeese State • Scored 15 on 6 of 10 shooting from the floor at Long Beach • Had 13 points and five assists in the loss to Butler • Had 11 points and three assists against top-ranked Indiana • Became the eighth freshman point guard to start his first game at Carolina (Phil Ford, Kenny Smith, Ed Cota, Adam Boone, Raymond Felton, Quentin Thomas and Bobby Frasor) • Strained his left shoulder in practice on Nov. 30 and did not play against UAB. PREP Played for coach Chris Robertson at Linn-Mar High School in his hometown of Marion, Iowa • Parade All-America • Played in the McDonald's All-Star Game (had seven assists) • Invited to play in the Jordan Brand Classic and Nike Hoop Summit but was unable to play due to a stress fracture in his left foot • Averaged 28.1 points as a senior, leading a young team to a 20-6 record and the semifinals of the state tournament • Set the school's career scoring record • Scored a personal-best 49 points against CR Kennedy in the state playoffs • Also had a 46-point game against CR Prairie • As a junior, he averaged 17.7 points and led Linn Mar to an undefeated season and the 2011 4-A state championship • Earned both all-state and state tournament honors in three different seasons • Member of the honor roll in all four years • Graduated with better than a 4.0 grade point average. PERSONAL Marcus Taylor Paige is the son of Ellis & Sherryl Paige • His sister plays basketball at the University of Wisconsin • Birthday is September 11 • Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa • Double-majoring in journalism and mass communication (public relations concentration) and history. Related Content There is no related content available. Related Headlines Related Press Clips Related Videos Related Photos Statistics Season Statistics Career Statistics There are no statistics available for this player.


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Researchers at the University of Nottingham England determined that babies who were spoon-fed purees were more likely to prefer sweets as they got older, as opposed to babies who fed themselves finger foods. A total of 155 children were studied, ages ranging from 20 months to six and a half-years-old. Those who were spoon-fed tended to be overweight as children, while the babies whose parents weaned them gradually preferred healthier meals and were able to maintain normal weights.
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Researcher Ellen Townsend explains, "Our study suggests that baby-led weaning has a positive impact on the liking for foods that form the building blocks of healthy nutrition, such as carbohydrates." Maybe it's time to let the little guy get messy and feed himself.
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Ruling is a boon to some uninsured, an irritant to others
Rachel Sukeforth of Litchfield is one of about 125,000 Mainers — 10 percent of the state's population — without health insurance.
In 2014, under the Affordable Care Act, the number will drop dramatically.
Some uninsured Mainers could be added to MaineCare, Maine's Medicaid program, because of expanded eligibility rules. Some could be added to employers' coverage plans because more businesses will be required to provide them. And many will be required to buy their own private insurance through a new government-run exchange that will provide subsidies for people who qualify.
Sukeforth, for one, is looking forward to being insured again.
Sukeforth works as a lab assistant for a small business that does not offer insurance coverage. She can't afford hundreds of dollars a month for private insurance now, but hopes the coverage mandate will bring costs down.
"I was a little worried that they were going to strike it down," she said. "I'm 27. My generation is struggling to find jobs and starting families and the fact that we're going to have access to affordable insurance, hopefully this will make things easier for us."
Ethan Francine of Topsham, on the other hand, was disappointed Thursday.
The 25-year-old college student is currently on his parents' plan, but may soon be uninsured. He had hoped the law would be struck down because he doesn't want to be forced to buy health insurance.
"It seems like it's taking away from freedom and the American way of life," he said.
Bringing coverage to the uninsured is the basic goal of the law and perhaps the most important way it could ultimately reduce the cost of insurance, advocates say.
That's because the uninsured tend to avoid doctors and preventive care, waiting until they are so sick they have to go to the emergency room for expensive acute care.
Much of the cost of emergency room care is paid for by everyone else through higher medical fees and higher insurance premiums. Maine's medical community estimates the cost of caring for the uninsured adds as much as 30 percent to the cost of health care in the state.
Political fallout over court decision has already begun
The fallout from the Supreme Court decision is sure to stir up the partisan battles over health care in Maine's state capital.
In fact, it started within hours of the ruling Thursday.
Democratic legislators hailed the decision and said it will prevent Maine from going through with plans to cut off some 27,000 from coverage by MaineCare, the state's Medicaid program.
"These were all people who were going to lose their health care if the Affordable Care Act went down, no questions about it," said Rep. Sharon Treat, D-Hallowell. "We're really lucky in Maine that this law was upheld."
While the Affordable Care Act allows for waivers to make cuts in special cases, it requires states to continue with existing levels of coverage. Democrats said that leaves a $10.7 million hole in the Maine budget for the fiscal year that starts next week.
The LePage administration had a different view — and a different interpretation.
Gov. LePage blasted the decision in a written statement.
"This is a massive overreach by the federal government, and is infringing upon the individual choices that we, as Americans, have in pursuing our own American Dream … This massive tax hike will only destroy the American economy as it forces us over the financial cliff," said LePage.
Meanwhile, Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew released a statement saying the administration would move forward with the MaineCare cuts. It will notify the federal government about the changes, but it won't seek special waivers, a spokesman said.
"The language of the Supreme Court decision affirms that Medicaid expansion cannot be mandated and that states have the flexibility to manage their Medicaid program without risking the loss of existing matching federal funds," Mayhew said.
The dispute centers on a section of the ruling that says states cannot be required to expand their Medicaid programs in 2014, as the law had required. Under the law, states could have lost huge amounts of federal health care funding if they refused to expand their Medicaid programs in 2014.
Democrats argued Thursday that the ruling only applies to future expansions. The Lepage administration took the position that it also allows the state flexibility to change existing coverage levels.
Republican Attorney General William Schneider said the protection of states' rights was a positive piece of an otherwise diappointing decision. But he carefully avoided taking a position on the pending budget cuts in a statement released after the ruling.
"The expansion of Medicaid on the backs of state budgets through all-or-nothing bullying tactics was rejected by the court," he said. "We are carefully reviewing the decision to evaluate how this will specifically impact Maine."
Business sector has mixed reaction to health care ruling
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act drew mixed reaction from Maine's business community, but some business owners interviewed said they were glad to have the law's legal status resolved.
"Nothing really has changed. What was the law yesterday is the law today," said Peter Gore, vice president for advocacy and government relations for the Maine Chamber of Commerce. "A lot of employers went into a holding pattern, waiting for what the court would do. Employers will now begin to see how the law will affect them and can make choices."
The biggest impact, business owners said, is that the law requires businesses with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees to provide health insurance for all workers by 2014 or face penalties. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees — about 29,400 in Maine, more than 97 percent of all businesses in the state — are exempt.
In Maine, 47 percent of residents get their health care coverage through their employers, just below the national rate of 49 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Small businesses will be able to shop for less expensive health insurance on state exchanges, but some with 25 to 50 employees might think twice about expanding so they don't have to provide insurance plans.
"If a business is threatened by extinction by this, there will be a backlash," said Dick Grotton, president and chief executive of the Maine Restaurant Association. "There are some people who will say 'I have 49 employees and I'm never going to hire again.' That's an emotional reaction. We need to wait another year and a half to see how this all pans out."
Grotton said the average restaurant employs about 40 to 45 employees, but a restaurateur who owns more than one establishment would probably qualify as a larger business and be required to provide health care coverage for all workers.
"This presents burdens and challenges for all small businesses, especially the mandate for larger small businesses to provide health care," said David Clough, director of the Maine chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business. "We've been trying to recover jobs since the worst recession since the 1930s. The new requirements could slow down job recovery and stunt growth."
For young patient on parents' plan, a feeling of relief
The Drew family of Scarborough watched television coverage of the ruling from Ashley Drew's hospital room in Boston.
"We were pleased. It was a big relief," said Tom Drew, Ashley's father.
Ashley Drew is one of an estimated 9,000 young adults in Maine who now have health insurance due to a provision in the law that requires insurance companies to provide coverage to young adults up to age 26 on their parents' health insurance plans. The coverage for adult children has become one of the most popular provisions of the act, and might have survived even if the rest of the law did not.
Three of the five companies that offer insurance in Maine had already pledged to continue offering coverage to young adults up to age 26, regardless of the Supreme Court decision.
Now, it remains a federal law.
The provision was a life-saver, maybe literally, for Ashley Drew, her parents said.
Drew was born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition that leads to life-threatening lung infections. Drew's condition worsened in her 20s as she worked toward a master's degree in music education at the University of Maine in Orono.
She was repeatedly hospitalized, left school and was on a waiting list for new lungs. She turned 25 while she was waiting, but the federal law ensured that she could stay on her parent's insurance. Drew finally got her lungs June 8 and continues what will be a long recovery.
"She has insurance now until she turns 26 (in August). Then we've got options," Tom Drew said.
The family has options because the law prevents insurance companies from turning down people with pre-existing conditions, he said. Also, the federal law, along with state law, prevents lifetime limits on insurance claims.
When Ashley Drew was waiting for her transplants, she was featured in a video posted online by the Obama administration talking about how the Affordable Care Act helped her family and took away the stress of possibly losing insurance coverage and having to pay for the expensive operation and care.
While she was not comfortable enough to comment for this story, her father said, the news Thursday morning put a smile on her face.
"It takes a lot of worry out moving forward. It gives us options," Tom Drew said. "When you're going through all the things that she's going through, the last thing you need to worry about is 'Am I going to lose my insurance coverage?"'
'Oh, my God, that makes me almost want to cry'
Theresa Blankenship of Limerick was waiting for the Supreme Court decision Thursday morning when the tension became too much. She left the television and went downstairs to do laundry.
"Oh, my God, that makes me almost want to cry," she said, when told of the decision. "I was so worried that all of the work that we had done and all of the effort that we had put in had been for naught. All of the dedication that Rocky put into this. I'm beyond words. I am beyond words."
Blankenship is still paying hospital bills and trying to rebuild her credit more than two years after her husband, Rocky D'Andrea, died from cancer in March 2010. Her husband's health insurance coverage was cut off when he hit a $250,000 lifetime cap on claims, leaving Blankenship with about $60,000 worth of bills she could not pay.
Before he died, Rocky D'Andrea became an advocate for health care reform, testifying in Augusta in a favor of a successful bill to ban lifetime insurance caps in Maine. The federal Affordable Care Act, signed a day after D'Andrea died, banned lifetime caps nationwide.
Blankenship was publicly thanked by President Obama when he came to Portland days later.
"It felt so good to know that other people wouldn't have to go through what we went through," she said.
Blankenship has since been working with the Maine Parent Federation on health insurance issues, and she was afraid the Supreme Court might strike down the law.
"I was very worried that people who are now receiving care and could take a deep breath and focus on their families would be reverted right back to the financial disaster that I went through. I was sick to death that would happen," she said. "I'm just so pleased."
Political candidates take partisan lines on court decision
Mainers probably haven't heard the end of the political posturing over the controversial health care law.
Candidates for Maine's U.S. Senate and two U.S. House seats are likely to continue debating the perceived merits and pitfalls of the controversial law. And whoever represents Maine in Congress next year might vote on attempts to repeal the law, depending on which party controls the White House and the two chambers after the November election.
As with Maine's sitting representatives and senators, candidates' reactions to the court ruling fell along partisan lines.
Secretary of State Charlie Summers, Senate President Kevin Raye and Sen. Jonathan Courtney — all Republicans — said they were disappointed with the ruling. Summers is running for retiring Olympia Snowe's U.S. Senate seat, Raye is challenging Mike Michaud in Maine's 2nd Ddistrict, and Courtney, a state senator from Springvale, is running against Chellie Pingree in the 1st District.
Pingree is married to S. Donald Sussman, majority share owner of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.
"Today's Supreme Court decision makes this Senate race more critical than ever," Summers said in a statement. "The court's ruling makes it clear that the president's plan amounts to a massive tax increase. Maine people need a senator who will provide a voice for businesses and families as we address this critical issue."
Raye called on Congress to work on bipartisan reforms that would allow individuals to purchase health insurance across state lines and enable small businesses to pool together to buy insurance at lower rates, among others.
Courtney said he was confident that it would be a campaign issue and said he planned to ask "people on Main Street" for their ideas on ways to move forward with health care reform.
"I think you have to repeal it and start over … and do it in a bipartisan way," Courtney said.
Sen. Cynthia Dill, the Cape Elizabeth Democrat seeking Snowe's seat, said the Affordable Care Act is already lowering prescription and health care costs for seniors and prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage due pre-existing conditions. But Dill said other reforms are needed and repeated her calls for a so-called "single-payer" health care system.
"I also believe we should go further in ensuring that Americans don't have to choose between health care and bankruptcy, through better cost controls, increased reliance on preventive care, decreased reliance on fee-for-service models, and, ultimately, a universal single-payer system," Dill said.
For senior citizens, a burden of worry is finally removed
Stan Cohen said he knows a lot of seniors who are feeling relieved today.
Cohen, who is 83 himself, is a volunteer Medicare counselor in the Bridgeton area. Some of his clients have been worried about the Supreme Court decision.
"If they had struck it down, it would have hurt a lot of people on Medicare," Cohen said.
The law's benefits for seniors on Medicare include 100 percent coverage of preventive care.
It also includes subsidies for seniors with high medication costs who have had to pay the full price for their drugs when they reach a coverage gap known as the "doughnut hole."
In 2011, some 11,892 Mainers saved an average of $530 in discounts — $6.3 million in all, according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Maine seniors have saved $11 million on prescriptions since the law was enacted, it says.
"For some (seniors), what they used to have to pay out of pocket put them in a position where they simply couldn't afford their medications and didn't take them," Cohen said. "I have clients who now are back taking their medicine" because of the discounts.
Expanded coverage of preventive care actually affects everyone who has insurance. It's the reason that routine exams and screenings no longer require copays or deductibles.
The general goal behind the enhanced preventive coverage is to avoid costly illnesses, keep patients healthier and gradually bring down medical costs and health insurance premiums across the board.
For seniors enrolled in Medicare, the enhanced preventive coverage also now includes an annual health assessment by a doctor.
"I can sit down with my health care provider and talk about a long-range plan for my health. That wasn't available before," Cohen said.
For women, enhanced preventive coverage includes screenings such as mammograms and pap smears, as well newly covered services such as contraception, breast-feeding supports and screening for gestational diabetes, domestic violence and sexually transmitted diseases.
Cohen, meanwhile, said he is looking forward to sitting down with some relieved seniors at his next counseling sessions.
Physicians ask what will happen with MaineCare
Maine's physicians generally welcomed the court's ruling Thursday, although doctors and others said they fear that Maine can refuse to go along with a planned expansion of MaineCare coverage.
The Maine Medical Association, which represents more than 3,600 physicians, supported the law as a way to expand insurance coverage and allow more people to get preventive care.
"That's the most important thing to our members — to get everybody covered. Once you do that, then you can start focusing on controlling costs," said Gordon Smith, vice president of the association.
"By having insurance, people can focus on preventive care rather than having to go to the emergency room because they don't have health care coverage," said Dr. Nancy Cummings, president of the association and an orthopedic surgeon in Farmington.
They said they were less happy with a part of the ruling that allows Maine and other states to opt out of an expansion of MaineCare — Maine's Medicaid program — in 2014 without losing federal funds. The expansion, if Maine goes along with it, will bring thousands more residents into MaineCare.
The expansion would be paid for almost entirely by the federal government. But advocates fear that opponents of the law will fight the expansion in Maine and other states.
Opponents of the law in Maine, including Gov. Paul LePage, did not say Thursday whether they will oppose the MaineCare expansion in 2014.
Maine Republicans made it clear, however, that they don't believe that expanding taxpayer-funded insurance programs — whether with federal money or state money — will lower costs.
Sen. Rodney Whittemore, R-Skowhegan, who co-chairs the Legislature's Insurance and Financial Services Committee, said he was disappointed that the law was upheld Thursday because it doesn't do anything to stop health care costs from rising.
"There's nothing standing in front of that freight train, as far as I'm concerned," he said.
Attorney General William Schneider said it was an important victory for states to have the ability to opt out of the expansion.
"The expansion of Medicaid on the backs of state budgets through all-or-nothing bullying tactics was rejected by the court," he said in a written statement.
— Staff Writers John Richardson, Kevin Miller and Jessica Hall contributed to this report
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Nitto Tire Returns as King of the Hammers Presenting Sponsor, Sponsoring Six Competitors
Nitto Tire U.S.A. Inc. Returns for Second Consecutive Year for King of the Hammers Off-Road Challenge and Sponsor of Six Teams Vying for 4×4 Championship
Cypress, Calif. – Feb. 5, 2013 – Nitto Tire returns again this year as Presenting Sponsor and sponsor of six topnotch off-road racing teams for the grueling seventh running of the Griffin King of the Hammers Presented by Nitto Tire on Fri., Feb. 8, 2013. The tough 4×4 race will be the culmination of this years week-long event billed as the most impressive to date with an expanded vendor show, additional entertainment and improved spectator areas.
"The Ultimate Desert Race" set in Californias rugged Johnson Valley northeast of Los Angeles pits expert drivers and finely tuned vehicles against the areas sand, hard-packed rock trails, near-vertical rock walls and treacherous ledges in breathtaking, all-out, high-speed runs. There is nothing like the excitement of off-road action at this level that takes its toll every year with less than half of the participants typically finishing the race. The event has evolved from 12 teams racing for bragging rights and a case of beer to more than 150 teams competing before thousands of fans both live and online.
Nitto has made an equally aggressive commitment to this signature Ultra 4 racing event as the Presenting Sponsor and sponsor of six racing teams. That impressive roster includes 2012 Ultra 4 series champion Nick Nelson, 2010 King of the Hammers Champion Loren Healy, 2009 KOH Champion Jason Scherer, as well as Cottin Rodd, the groundbreaking first female Ultra 4 competitor. The Nitto sponsorship also includes the striking championship rings for the winning driver and co-driver.
Nitto-sponsored teams, running on Nitto Trail Grappler K-Spec tires, for this years King of the Hammers competition include:
– Nick Nelson, Nick Nelson Motorsports, Las Vegas, NV; 2012 Ultra 4 series champion; 1st 2012 Ultra 4 Glen Helen, San Bernardino, CA; 1st 2012 Mint 400, Las Vegas, NV; 1st Vegas to Reno, Reno, NV
– Cottin Rodd, Jimmys 4×4, Cortez, CO; only female driver in Ultra 4; co-owner of Jimmys 4×4, top car fabricator in Ultra 4 racing
– Loren Healy, Healy Racing, Farmington, NM; 3rd 2012 Ultra 4 overall champion; 5th 2012 King of the Hammers; 3rd Ultra 4 American Rock Sports Challenge, Toole, UT; 2nd Ultra 4 Cinco De Baja, Albuquerque, NM; 2010 King of the Hammers champion
– Derek West, Crush Motorsports, Springfield, MO; 3rd 2013 Ultra 4 Badlands Offroad, Attica, IN
– Jason Scherer, PSC Motorsports, Berkeley, CA; 1st Ultra 4 Championships, Blackwell, TX; 2009 King of the Hammers champion
– Mel Wade, Off Road Evolution, Long Beach, CA; only stock body vehicle to race in KOH
In addition to the avid crowd of spectators on the scene, King of the Hammers week activities and racing action will be streamed for live viewing online at http://www.nittoracing.com.
Visit http://www.nittoracing.com to check out 2012 King of the Hammers highlights including championship footage with Champion Nick Nelson, 2013 pre-race trailers and Nitto tire technology.
For complete details on Ultra 4 Racing and the King of the Hammers event, visit http://ultra4racing.com.
Information on Nitto Tire U.S.A. Inc. and its products can be found on the web at www.nittotire.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NittoTire and on Twitter at @NittoTire.
Johnson Valley is a varied landscape for off-highway enthusiasts punctuated by steep red-rock mountains, rolling hills, open valleys, dry lake beds and sandy washes. Elevations range from 4,600 feet (Hartwell Hills) to 2,300 feet (Melville Dry Lake). Vegetation includes creosote scrub, annual grasses, wild flowers and Joshua trees. The 188,000-acre OHV area is open during King of the Hammers week to visitors from across the world.
About Nitto Tire U.S.A. Inc.
Nitto Tire (www.nittotire.com) develops performance tires for all uses, including racing, off-road and street. Using state-of-the-art manufacturing and testing facilities in Japan and the United States, Nitto provides innovative and high-quality performance tires for the most demanding automotive enthusiasts. For more information, visit the company's website or contact the company directly. Nitto is a registered trademark of Nitto Tire U.S.A. Inc., 5665 Plaza Drive, Ste. 250, Cypress, Calif., 90630.


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During the year 1927, the state health department granted licenses to 521 persons, on recommendation of local physicians, to practice midwifery in the state. The midwives are to be found in every county, the greatest number being in the more rural communities where medical service is hard to obtain. Among the number are 16 men, several of whom had studied medicine but are not licensed to practice, and a number of women who had some training as nurses.
Of the 521 persons granted midwife licenses in the State this year, 28 are in Wayne County, and these are the only persons qualified, under the law, to serve in this capacity.
Following is the list of licensed midwives in Wayne County:
Mrs. James Wheeler, Route 2, Fort Gay
Mrs. Matilda Ann Vinson, Webb
Nancy Thompson, Box 35, Queen's Ridge
Mrs. Sallie Smith, Ferguson
Laura B. Smith, Radnor
Eliza Smith, R. F. D. 1, Box 68, East Lynn
Dora Smith, Dickson
Isabelle Skeens, Route 1, Box 70, Prichard
Virgie Roberts, Route 2, Box 51, Fort Gay
Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, Grassy
Mrs. Enster Perry, Dunlow
Adelia Evans, Webb
Mrs. Hulda Finley, East Lynn
Mrs. Mahala Farley, Queen's Ridge
Maggie Farley, Queen's Ridge
Mrs. Armilda Gilkerson, R. F. D. 2, Wayne
Liza J. Adkins, Wayne
Allie Brown, R. F. D. 1, Box 14, Dunlow
Eva Moore, Prichard
Sinda Messer, Crum
Mary Mathis, Dunlow
Rachel Marcum, Crum
Polly L. Crum, Wilsondale
Armilda Marcum, Dunlow
Mrs. Ollie Crum, Webb
Martha Copley, Webb
Mrs. Ires Dyer, Cove Gap
Mollie Dortin, Wilsondale
The state health department calls attention to the fact that all of these licenses must be renewed in December 1927 for the year 1928 under the law passed by the Legislature of 1925. This law requires every person practicing midwifery in the state, and who accepts any renumeration for services rendered, to register with the state health department, the registration to be accompanied by the endorsement of a local physician before the license can be granted. The law further states that midwives shall practice only in normal cases, defining the conditions under which a physician must be called. All midwives are required to place in the eyes of the new born baby two drops of one percent solution of silver nitrate to present sore eyes and blindness and also to report the birth to the local registrar.
By the passage of this law, it was hoped to raise the standard of those practicing midwifery and to give some supervision to the work, in an attempt to reduce the high maternal and infant death rate in this state, which last year showed a toll of 299 mothers and 1748 babies under one month.
After the law was enacted, a survey was made by the state health department in an effort not only to acquaint those affected by the law, with its provisions, but also to give instruction to those applying for a license.
The survey revealed a number of interesting facts, among the most important being that the practice of midwifery is on the wane in West Virginia. This is due to the fact that midwifery was practiced more generally by the older generation of women and that very few are entering the field; that an increasing number of families are employing physicians, the midwife acting only in the capacity of a practical nurse; and that, because of good roads and education, more and better medical attention is available. The survey further disclosed the fact that in many instances those applying for a license were graduate nurses or women with some training, living in the more isolated communities where medical care is hard to obtain.
Education of the mother and expectant mother is being aided through the motherhood correspondence course conducted by the state health department and those counties having full time health units. A total of 13, 021 mothers have been enrolled for this course up to July 1927, in many instances the names being sent in by local physician or midwife.
Two bodies were exhumed in the town of Wayne, Tuesday of this week, after having been in their graves for nearly seventy years.
The bodies were those of Colonel Joseph Mansfield and his daughter Louisa Ann Mansfield. The bodies were taken up by relatives from the garden plot of the Boyd-Adkins property in Wayne and removed to the L. B. Ferguson cemetery at Elmwood, a mile South of town.
Colonel Mansfield was buried here in 1861--sixty years ago. He was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, and married Miss Amanda Smith, better known to her many Wayne County friends as "Aunt Amanda" Osburn. She died at Wayne last Spring at the age of 97 years. Colonel Mansfield was a colonel in the militia of Cabell County, and then of Wayne County, from the time it was designated a separate county until the opening of the Civil War. With the State Militia he went into service when the Federal army invaded this portion of the state, and he was shot by a picket at Neary, in Putnam County, in July of 1861. He died at the Asa Booton farm on Miller's Fork, this county, as he was being removed to his home.
Notwithstanding the fact that Colonel Mansfield's body had been in its grave here for 66 years, his skeleton was found intact when the body was taken up Tuesday. Even some portions of the clothing he wore could be recognized. It was discernible that the casket in which he was buried was made from walnut lumber, and the nails in the casket were the square type of nails that were common seventy years ago. The body was re-interred alongside that of his wife, the late Amanda Osburn, at the request of relatives.
The little daughter of Colonel Mansfield, Louisa Ann, died a short time before her father, in 1860, at the age of about one year. She died from measles. When her body was taken up Tuesday, very little could be found of her remains, most of the bones having perished to dust. a quantity of dark dust was removed as the remains of the little girl.
A company composed principally of local people has been organized here for the manufacture of King-Kol, a fuel to take the place of gasoline, and it is claimed it will have thirty percent per gallon more efficiency than the ordinary gas and will cost but little more.
Incorporation papers will be taken out in a few days and business started.
The building formerly used by the High Grade Oil Co. at Fifteenth and Beech Streets, has been secured and will be used for the new factory.
W. S. Tabor of Birmingham, Ala., will probably be manager. He has rented the Ezra Ball property on Poplar Street and will move his family (a wife and one small daughter) here in a few days.
Honor roll for the fourth month is as follows: Jewell Newman, Pearl Edra Newman, Virgie Irby, Letha Irby, Evelyn Plymale, Louise Ray, Phoebe Staley, Leata Marie Smith, Leonard McCoy, Mary Catherine McCoy, Beulah Staley, Evelyn Ray and Ruby Newman.
Jewell Newman has made the greatest effort in all her classes of any pupil in school this month.
We are planning to have a Christmas tree party Friday, December 22.
The Work and Win 4-H Club baked pumpkin pies and presented them to the kiddies at the Union Mission in Huntington for Thanksgiving. They also prepared a big basket of good eats for old "Uncle George" and "Uncle John" Pyles, two of our old men who live alone.
The girls are planning some good deeds for Christmas week.
Sam Jay, Leonard and Mary Catherine McCoy have made perfect attendance every day this year.
In spelling this month we kept a record of the ones who made perfect spelling lesson and we list the following who were perfect: Phoebe Staley, Virgie Irby, Letha Irby, Jay Staley, Leslie Ray and Pearl Edra Newman. Jay Staley and Pearl Edra Newman have missed only one word each during the whole four months of school.
The little town of Iaeger has two first class hotels and a traveler's inn, where all the traveling salesmen stop, two or three department stores, a meat market, soft drink stands, one theatre, high school and graded school, two churches, electricity and water system.
C. E. Price's five sons are all located here at present and are building a 16 mile stretch of road which will connect with State Highway No. 8. H. C. Price has a twelve room house and boards the single white men. Mrs. Elizabeth Sparks of Wayne County is running the boarding house. He also has a modern office in the same building.
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In Japan today, there an increasingly urgent effort to conserve on electricity consumption. While most economists would suggest that the price mechanism could be used to discourage use (see Frank Wolak's study), an alternative strategy is peer pressure, "shame and ostracism" and relying on guilt. UCLA scholars have been studying how UCLA students respond to information about their relative electricity consumption to see if our impressive students can be nudged to change their behavior.
But, back to Japan. Here is an impressive quote from the NY Times article;
"In the Tokyo area, the government is pushing to cut electricity use by 15 percent between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays to prevent blackouts — and on Thursday, for example, that target was met compared with last year.
Japanese are bringing to the conservation drive a characteristic combination of national fervor, endurance, sloganeering, technology and social coercion.
A "Super Cool Biz" campaign, which builds on the option of no-tie summer business attire begun in 2005, now encourages salarymen to dress down even further by wearing polo shirts or the traditional aloha-style shirts worn on the Japanese tropical islands of Okinawa.
To back up the call to conserve, electricity reports that forecast the day's power supply and track demand in real time have become as much a part of this summer as the scorching sun and humid air. They are delivered along with the weather on the morning news and announced along with the next stop aboard some trains.
Government alerts are also sent to subscribers' cellphones if overall demand nears capacity, prodding households to turn down the air-conditioner or, better yet, turn it off altogether. "
This adherence to "good behavior" impresses my inner-Chicago economist. Why aren't these individuals free riding? The economics of identity literature would say that sacrifice for a worthy cause provides direct pleasure and that during a time of crisis that individuals are willing to sacrifice such as volunteering for the army rather than draft dodging.
It has been pointed out that in the United States that few people pay more to the government than what they owe on their taxes. Do Americans do fewer "good deeds" than other people? What is it about Japanese culture that they may reach conservation goals without explicit pricing incentives?
This article highlights that conservation has real costs! "Offices here, already balmy by American standards, have been directed to set the room temperature to 82.4 degrees Fahrenheit, though the real temperature, especially on hot days, has climbed above 86 degrees in many offices." Would Al Gore and Joe Romm put up with that?
Economists have not done a great job investigating the willingness to sacrifice to achieve social goals. Right now in the midst of our budget debate, it appears that everyone wants a free lunch and nobody wants to sacrifice for the common good. Are the Japanese better people than we are?
I recall that Casey Mulligan has published a JPE paper arguing that during World War II that Americans were willing to accept lower wages to work and lower interest rates to hold U.S Treasury Bills as these costly actions helped the War effort. This is an example of sacrifice during a time of crisis.
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Another North West Coach in the spotlight today. Former Seattle Mariners skipper Lou Piniella. Danny Ferguson one of our Seattle sports area bloggers points out Coach Lou Coach has coached 3× World Series champion (1977, 1978, 1990). In 1993, he was hired by Seattle. It was heartbreaking for fans when he demanded to be traded to Tampa. Piniella would go on to manage the heart break clubs of the Rays and the Cubs.
Northwest Coach Profiles: Lou Piniella
January 18, 2012 By Danny Ferguson
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I just released a new PyGObject for GNOME 3.7.92. This fixes a couple of crashes and marshalling errors again, but most importantly got a change to automatically mute the PyGIDeprecationWarnings for stable versions. Please run
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We got through all our bugs that were milestoned for GNOME 3.8 and don't want to or plan to introduce any major behavioural change at this point, so barring catastrophes this is what will be in GNOME 3.8.0.
Thanks to all contributors!
- Fix stack smasher when marshaling enums as a vfunc return value (Simon Feltman) (#637832)
- Change base class of PyGIDeprecationWarning based on minor version (Simon Feltman) (#696011)
- autogen.sh: Source gnome-autogen to fix out of source builddir (Alban Browaeys) (#694889)
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From the ceremony teepee to the lush floral crowns, every single detail of this romantic, boho bash makes my heart sing. Just when you think it can't get any better... it does. Savan Photography outdid themselves with these images and this gorgeous gallery right here is one for the Pinterest pages if I do say so myself. Dive into these details and dream away!
From Savan Photography... Savannah and Gavin are the most amazing, sweet and intelligent couple. They held a gorgeous wedding at Savannah's parents' summer home in Holly Michigan, where Savannah ran around in the woods and spent endless warm days in the lake throughout her childhood. Savannah looked stunning in a gorgeous gown that was simple, yet had a very playful flare. Their ceremony was held on the beach part of the lake and her father built the wooden tee-pee, surrounded on all sides by friends and family. Their vows were emotional and beautifully-written. The romantic, a touch of boho chic, and that comfort of home theme of their wedding was accented with blush bridesmaids gowns and blush, greens and whites with accents of local blackberries in florals by The Weed lady and gorgeous farm tables displayed in the beautiful "Field House" that her father built for this special event. It was a magical day that had a wonderful heart, Midwest charm, love and an overwhelming sense of family.


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Ok, who wants one? It looks really tempting to me. It is exactly the E-3 in an E-410 body I wanted when I bought an Olympus camera four years ago. That being said... I might start with an E-PM1 instead, since it is small and cheap, the same rationale that led me to the E-410.
Already got the lenses figured out too .
Samyang 7.5mm fisheye,
Pinwide 11mm pinhole
Panasonic 14mm pancake
These are the rest of the lenses I bought my E-410 to get, unfortunately they were never made for it.
Followed eventually by a whole bunch of other expensive lenses. The "holy trinity" primes look good.


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It was fall 2009, and Douglas Whaley had spent 10 months on the waiting list for a heart.
But on Sept. 21 that year, a morning phone call changed everything.
Douglas Whaley stopped buying clothes and canceled family trips.
His friends began planning a wake for the 66-year-old retired Ohio State University law professor.
It was fall 2009, and Whaley had spent 10 months on the waiting list for a heart.
His was enlarged and beating irregularly. He was weak and beginning to give up.
But on Sept. 21 that year, a morning phone call changed everything.
"Mr. Whaley, we have a heart for you."
By midnight that day, a healthy 27-year-old heart was beating inside Whaley's chest. Eight days later, he was back home in his Dublin condo.
"To go from one to the other it's like science fiction," Whaley said. "People die on that list."
More than 3,200 Americans are waiting for a heart transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. And nearly 250 Americans died waiting last year.
"They get on the list only after we've exhausted all other options," said Dr. Robert Higgins, a cardiac surgeon who directs Ohio State's comprehensive transplant program.
Those include medication, bypass surgeries and mechanical assistance devices. Transplants go to the "sickest of the sick," Higgins said.
More than 1,900 heart transplants were performed last year, with 60 of those transplanted in Ohio, according to UNOS data.
Like a majority of the 6 million Americans with heart failure, Whaley had atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm, said Dr. William Abraham, who is Whaley's physician and the director of Ohio State's cardiovascular-medicine program.
The condition makes the heart work too hard, Abraham said. That makes walking, cooking and even breathing difficult.
Whaley knew he didn't have long.
"I was so clearly dying," he said.
Not everyone is a good candidate for a heart transplant.
Dr. Ayesha Hasan, medical director of Ohio State's cardiac-transplant program and director of the heart-failure-devices clinic, said doctors extensively review potential candidates to make sure they are not too sick to survive the transplant.
Some people with cancer, smokers and obese people often don't make the list, Hasan said. And of those who do, patients who have had the worst medical status for the longest amount of time are first in line.
People typically live an average of 10 years after receiving a heart transplant, she said, but some live much longer.
The difference between before and after his transplant, Whaley said, is remarkable. Climbing the stairs of his two-story condo would have taken a full minute before the transplant.
Now, he exercises, teaches the occasional law class and mentors other transplant candidates.
"I am planning on living forever," Whaley joked.


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(Reuters) - Telus Corp reported a stronger third-quarter profit on Friday, as increased smartphone adoption boosted earnings from its wireless business and spurred the Canadian telecom company to raise its quarterly dividend.
Wireless data revenue jumped 23 percent in the third quarter ended September 30 as the proportion of postpaid subscribers using smartphones rose to 63 percent, from 48 percent a year earlier.
The Vancouver-based company, one of Canada's largest telecom players, raised its quarterly dividend to 64 Canadian cents a share, from 61 Canadian cents.
In a report to clients, Desjardins Capital Markets analyst Maher Yaghi said Telus' quarterly results and dividend increase were in line with expectations.
"Telus continues to post strong wireless results, which more than offset the decline in the profitability of the wireline business," he said. "The company should continue to attract dividend growth-seeking investors."
Telus said it added some 116,000 postpaid wireless subscribers in the quarter. Rogers Communications' has said its postpaid customer base grew by 76,000, and BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecom company, added 148,502 net postpaid customers.
The number of new postpaid subscribers is watched closely, because they often enter into multi-year contracts and pay more than prepaid customers.
The average Telus wireless customer paid C$61.42 each month in the quarter, 90 Canadian cents more than a year earlier, as growth from data more than offset declining revenue from voice services.
Telus' net income rose to C$351 million ($351 million), or C$1.07 per diluted share, in the quarter from C$326 million, or C$1.00 per share, a year earlier.
Analysts had expected earnings of C$1.07 a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose 6 percent to C$2.77 billion, compared with the consensus forecast of C$2.75 billion.
The company also said Chief Financial Officer Robert McFarlane, who has been with Telus for 12 years, will retire at the end of the year. He will be replaced by John Gossling.
Telus said it also added 42,000 new TV subscribers and 26,000 high-speed Internet customers in the quarter ended September 30, partially offseting the loss of about 39,000 landline customers.
The company said its total wireless subscriber base of 7.6 million is up five percent from a year ago.
Shares of Telus were up 2.3 percent in afternoon trading. ($1 = 1.0017 Canadian dollars)
Reporting by Ankur Banerjee in Bangalore and Allison Martell in Toronto; Editing by Joyjeet Das and Tim Dobbyn


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SAN ANTONIO -- James Quick picked Louisville over Ohio State and then he picked the winning touchdown out of the air, a thrilling finish to what was a defensive-oriented U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
Jeremy Johnson was one of the few productive offensive players.
Quick, a four-star receiver from Louisville (Ky.) Trinity, caught a 34-yard pass from Auburn commitment Jeremy Johnson with 3:59 left and Alabama commit Derrick Henry's two-point conversion helped the East secure a 15-8 East victory in front of a record 40,133 Saturday at the Alamodome.
"The coach called a great play at the end," Johnson said. "He trusted me and wanted me to make the play. That's what I did. I've been in that situation many times and we came through.
"That was my read. We knew they were going to give us cover zero. I took a shot with James because he's a great receiver and I got it to him. It was my drive to come in. They wanted me to lead the way and that's what I did."
Henry, who finished with a game-high 53 yards on 10 attempts, scored the East's other touchdown late in the first quarter to make it 7-0.
Loaded with running backs, the East also had five-star Derrick Green rush for 49 yards on eight attempts and he had the game's longest run -- a 23-yard gain.
The East stymied the West offense throughout the game, sacking USC five-star quarterback commit Max Browne multiple times, using exceptional cornerback play to stall receivers and shutting out the West for nearly the entire game.
The West answered when it needed to, though, as Browne lofted a beautiful 16-yard pass into the end zone and Texas A&M commit Derrick Griffin came down with it midway through the final quarter.
Browne found LSU tight end commit DeSean Smith on the two-point conversion and the West took an 8-7 advantage.
But the East did not relent or rush. Four-star Virginia commit Taquan Mizzell took the kickoff six yards deep in the end zone and returned it to the West 28.
Jaylon Smith was an active defensive presence on Saturday.
That seemed to give the East team more than a prayer and soon after, Johnson chucked the ball to the end zone and Quick, who had three catches for a game-high 71 yards, came down with the winning touchdown.
"It was really exciting," Quick said. "I saw the ball and went to go get it. I knew it was a clutch time to do it, so just getting that opportunity to do it was great."
No question it was a defensive struggle. Johnson threw for a game-high 64 yards. Browne, sacked three times, had 52 passing yards to lead the West.
The leading rusher for the West was five-star Oregon pledge Thomas Tyner with 14 yards on four carries. Neither team scored in the second or third quarters.
Uncommitted four-star safety Tahaan Goodman, soft UCLA pledge Myles Jack and Indiana commit Antonio Allen each had five tackles for the West, tied for the game-high.
Georgia pledges Tray Matthews and Johnny O'Neal led the East with four tackles apiece.
East linebacker Jaylon Smith registered four tackles and made numerous defensive plays, especially in the third quarter. Smith had a tackle for loss and blocked a field goal in that quarter.
West defensive tackle Eddie Vanderdoes consistently broke through the offensive line, was difficult to block all game and showed impressive relentlessness.
Texas commit Antwuan Davis blocked a field goal early in the game and was involved in Smith's block in the third as well.


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Volume 18 Issue 14 | August 26 - September 01, 2005
By Andrei Codrescu
Boulder, Colorado is more like itself every time I go there. Tourists from the Sixties, now in their sixties themselves, stroll the pedestrian mall like it was their past. On a crisp sky-blue summer afternoon, two longhaired boys blew mightily into two longhorns plugged into washing machine agitators attached by hoses to earphones strapped to the heads of a middle-aged couple who moaned in ecstasy with their eyes closed, prey to a big-time flashback. Then a naked bicycle gang went by with anti-war (Iraq) signs, a daily event that all locals (except the ones who live along the route) admire. The rest of the fare was nearly unchanged: Bob-Dylan-like folk singers who put their own (rebellious but gentle) words to sentiments of social responsibility; bums paid by the city of Boulder to play homeless, peddlers of hemp shorts and tie-dyed tees dipped in patchouli; gaggles of teen nymphlings imitating streetwalkers circa 1974, followed by moms buffed in desert spas looking indulgently on any life forms with a yearly income less than their manicures; college girls with shiny new tramp-stamps on the small of their backs into which a bikini string descended like a plumbers line into a well.
Whats with the very young, you might ask. Ill tell you, at the risk of having you gag. Years ago, I conducted an experiment in collaborative poetry: I asked several young people I knew to write a line of poetry that started with the words: my mother
They all completed the line in various ways, some earnestly, some goofily. Some said that their mothers were unhappy drunks, others that their mothers flew to the moon every day at 5 p.m., others complained that their mothers had joined the aliens in the fight to destroy the planet. None of them, as far as I know, declared their mothers sane or useful. Now, in 2005, in the 21st century, I conducted the same experiment with new students. Without exception, they all loved their mothers. One girl did yoga with her mom and went through fire-purification rituals with her. Some even mentioned, without being asked, that their fathers were pretty cool, too. These kids were a completely different breed from my long-ago subjects. They loved their parents. And no wonder: most of them were tattooed from head to foot, a feat impossible without parental approval (or more difficult, anyway), and were attending expensive art school paid for by parents who had quit making an issue out of the uses of an education. These young persons had no Oedipal Complex! It was incredible. I shouted at them: What have you done with the Oedipal Complex! Youve destroyed the Oedipal Complex! They really had no idea what I was so worked up about, and they were actually amused. I finished my harangue with what I consider to be the ultimate curse: You are going to be tourists!
There is no greater misfortune, I told them. Tourists are grown in hothouses. If you are raised in a suburb where your only natural enemy is the Lawn Patrol, youre bound to be defenseless when transplanted to a city. If you grow up in the Boulder pedestrian mall youre going to be pet food when you descend to sea level. If you find nothing wrong with your parents, youll be just like them. And then the world will stay exactly the same. And thats O.K., if youre cool with that.
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NMS Properties is truly changing the way Los Angeles lives-one apartment building at a time! Living on the Westside shouldn't mean having to deal with a shady landlord or a delapitated, run-down apartment. NMS Properties, in conjunction with the LuXe brand, offers modern and convenient living with a hip, urban-chic feel within the most up-and-coming neighborhoods of Los Angeles: Little Osaka in West LA, downtown Culver City, lower Santa Monica and the West Hollywood adjacent area!
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Footer with all standard business contact into. Terms of Use, Help, Privacy Policy, Etc...
Professionals and creative types (24-40) that earn a nice living. They want the luxury of Westside Los Angeles ocean-breezes without settling for the stereotypical "little white box" apartment one usually finds in the area. They appreciate how modern structured, clean lines are. The quality and detail of where they live is important to them.
Like the look of http://www.bestbuy.com in respect to flash header that rotates images.
Like the design choice of W Hotels website as it is tasteful class/luxury - http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/index.html
Like the layout and title navigation (not colors) of http://www.westernrim.com/
Like the simplistic, yet classy design of http://www.onerinconhill.com
We will need a nice space for a Java Script image sequence to go into the site. This will be taken care of by CH, but we need you to put in a nice image placeholder until this is completed.
Design needs to be classy, hip, and tasteful, but NOT gaudy. This should NOT be another "Downtown LA loft website." We do not cater to the Hollywood/pretentious crowd. Our residents are well to do/wealthy and enjoy sophisticated luxury, but not "flashy luxury"
Designers should feel free to explore creative looks and feels with the aforementioned guidelines.
We are not the Paris Hilton of apartments-we do not have to use sex to personify what we are selling and we do not need to be over the top to prove this product is desired.
If the LuXe brand was a person, it would be Angelina Jolie (post 2005) -sexy, simple and with an edge.
Absolutely no pink tones! Blacks, sleek silvers, NMS green and daytime and nighttime blues…Maybe darker colors with the bright colors of the photos "popping"… Hip and tasteful, not gaudy…Define the lifestyle one would experience WITHOUT going overboard in using "sex sells" type of images etc.
LuXe is a sub brand for some of the buildings with the NMS property family. Please title all pages NMS properties
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A Texas woman got an unpleasant surprise when she unwrapped a Kotex tampon on Tuesday morning: the tampon appeared to be covered in black, moldy spots. (Ew!) This comes a few months after certain Kotex tampons were recalled for bacterial contamination (the two incidents are not known to be linked, though).
Plus: Safety 1st Recall: Child-Proof Push 'N Snap Cabinet Locks
Danielle Parr, who discovered the tainted tampon, was rightly disgusted by what she saw and immediately unwrapped the remaining tampons in the box: "After I opened this one, I went through and opened the rest, because I was grossed out," Parr said to WFAA news. Parr also posted pictures of the tampons on her blog and Facebook page.
Kimberly-Clark, the manufacturer of Kotex tampons, stated that there are no known mold issues with their product, and a representative called Parr to apologize and say that, although mold has been found on tampons before, it's a "common environmental species that carries no health risk." But Dr. Jay Staub, an OB/GYN interviewed by WFAA, stated that while a moldy tampon may not be life-threatening, "I suppose there can be a risk of infection because you're putting mold in the vagina," he said.
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I want you to come with me for a few minutes.
We are going to visit a church. It will be one neither of us has ever attended.
We will enter the doorway and pause for a few minutes, checking out the seating arrangement in the sanctuary. A couple will pass, and we will watch them move directly to a pew and take their seats.
A family comes in the door and goes to a different pew and takes their seats.
This happens a few more times, and it is then that we realize we have a problem. Where do WE sit?
We don�t dare just walk in and sit down. Chances are we will be sitting in someone�s regular pew. You know well enough that almost everyone has a special place where they sit in church. And if we walk in and sit in someone else�s pew, that someone else will not be happy. I have heard of people being asked to move from a pew by its �regular� occupant.
I have a regular place I sit in my church, and I can look around me and see that others are in the exact same place Sunday after Sunday.
We are creatures of habit.
This church habit came to mind recently when I read the manuscript of a new book being written by a friend of mine, Gene Puckett of Raleigh, longtime editor of the Biblical Recorder, the North Carolina Baptist newspaper.
It is a history of the newspaper, and in it Gene told of its founder, Thomas Meredith and his home church in Pennsylvania. Even in that church back in the early 1800s, members had their special places to sit. But there was no danger anyone else would sit there. You see, they rented the pews.
That�s right. They paid the church a rental fee on their chosen pew each year, and that money went into the church budget for operational expenses. Another time in the manuscript, this pew rental was mentioned in another church as well. So it was not something exclusive with Meredith�s home church.
Whether all seats were rented I do not know. Perhaps there were seats for non-renters. And maybe there was a special pew for visitors. That I do not know. But it seems a clever idea. That way you could be assured no one would take your favorite pew, and the church would get a little money for the budget.
You could probably get a premium for a back row pew.
This just proves again what creatures of habit we are. It�s not only in church that you have a favorite place to sit. In the movies there is likely a special place you like to sit, as well as at ball games or any place where you go on a regular basis.
I think it was last year � or maybe the year before � that the seating situation was changed in Elon�s Alumni Gym for basketball games. Season ticket holders had the opportunity to take new seats if they so desired. That opportunity was based on giving levels, and there were those down the list a bit who feared that someone above might take their seats.
But looking at the seating now, it appears that most everyone kept the same seats they had held in the past.
The same is true in Rhodes Stadium. That stadium opened in 2001, and as I look around it seems that of those who buy season tickets, most have been in the same seats every year.
We are indeed creatures of habit who get comfortable in those habits. We find a place where we like to sit, and we go back to that same seat time after time. Just proves that many of us just don�t like change � especially when it comes to where we sit in church.
But there really would not be a problem if we went back to that plan of renting pews.
Don Bolden is editor emeritus of the Times-News. His column appears every Sunday. He can be contacted at email@example.com.


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In July?
At Hobby Lobby, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I came upon an entire long aisle hung with baubles and doo-dads for the Christmas tree. I might have thought the aisle was dedicated to Christmas year-round, but then I spotted a freestanding display of giant shiny Christmas bulbs right out in the main walkway. I even saw a miniature Christmas tree. No doubt about it -- the winter holidays are upon us.
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Do: Get a Head Start
The first day of the New Year seems like the perfect day to start a new lifestyle, but why wait for a specific day to begin a healthier way of life? Waiting may actually be doing more harm than good to your resolution. The holiday temptations and the "I can indulge today/ this week/this month because I am going to lose weight in the New Year" mentality can actually set you back farther and make your resolution harder to achieve. There's no sense in putting off for later what you can start today.
Don't: Go to the Extreme
The most common reason that New Year's resolutions fail is because they are too unrealistic. It's great to be motivated to improve your health, but people often try to change too much at once. For example, a sedentary person will fail in the long run if their goal is to go to the gym every single day. Instead, it would be more doable for this person to resolve to walk around their neighborhood for 15 minutes, three days a week. Once they are in the habit of doing this, then they can gradually increase the length and frequency of their workouts.
Do: Think About Your Goals
Simply saying that you are going to lose weight won't make it happen without creating a plan. To do this, think about where you are right now and what baby steps you can take to reach your larger goals. Try these tips that will help you along the way: write your goals down, get a friend to help you, track your progress, and reward your accomplishments (but not with food!).
Don't: Forget to Revisit Your Resolution
It's OK to revise your goals. In fact, it will actually help you achieve them. Life happens and you can't always control it. Focus on the elements of your lifestyle that you can control and forget about what you can't. This will help you stay positive and focused.
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