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In a Jan. 17 decision, the the Appellate Division of the HIgh Court reaffirmed the Land and Titles Division's decision in January 2009 awarding the Aumoeualogo chiefly title of Aoa to Te'o J. Fuavai.
The first trial in this dispute — which started in 2006 when Te'o filed a claim to the title — was in 2008, where the court at the time awarded the title to Te'o. However, a retrial was carried out in 2009 after one of the sitting associate judges passed away.
Contesting Te'o's claim to the title during both trials, are Malagamaali'i L. Misailegalu, Simei Pulu and Fepulea'i Sila Poasa. The matter ended up in court after an unsuccessful mediation by the Office of Samoan Affairs.
After the 2009 decision by the lower court, the appellants moved for reconsideration or new trial, which was denied by the trial court. The appellants thereafter filed appeals with the Appellate Division, who stated in its Jan. 17 order that the lower court found that Malagamaali'i and Fepulea'i prevail equally over Te'o and Simei on the first "criterion of best hereditary right".
"However, the trial court found that Te'o prevails on the other three criteria, to wit: clan support; forcefulness, character, personality and knowledge of Samoan customs; and value to family, village, and country," according to the 26-page appellate decision signed by associate justices Lyle L. Richmond and John L. Ward II and associate judges Satele A. Lili'o and Fa'amausili P. Pomele.
The appellate decision outlined the reasons for upholding the trial court's ruling.
According to appellate judges, the trial court found that all candidates are blood members of the Aumoeualogo family with "Te'o having a 6.25 percent hereditary right to the Aumoeualogo title, as the great-great-grandson of Aumoeualogo Malosi".
And this hereditary right for Te'o "is supported by substantial evidence", the judges pointed out.
The trial court found that the Aumoeualogo family recognizes two clans: Fanuatanu and Falealo — but Simei argues that this finding lacks evidentiary; however, the record shows that all four candidates testified that the family is divided into two "sides" or "branches", which is Fanuatanu and Falealo and this was also the testimony from Salanoa Soli during trial, according to the appellate judges.
Additionally, "we see no clear error in the trial court's finding that Te'o's succession to the title was supported by a majority of the Aumoeualogo family."
According to the appellate judges, the trial court's finding that "Te'o prevails in terms of forcefulness, character, personality and knowledge of Samoan customs is supported by the evidence" and therefore "is not clearly erroneous".
"It was the unanimous opinion of the trial court that Te'o 'better impressed in terms of self-confidence, clarity in his answers, as well as the presence of mind to promptly answer questions correctly'," the appellate judges said.
"In addition, the trial court found Te'o surpassed the other candidates in knowledge of Samoan customs, 'indicative of his forty plus years of day in and day out experience as one of the leading matai of Aoa'," the judges pointed out.
Regarding the value of service to family, village and country, the trial court found that, while the other three started their service to church and country off-island, Te'o devoted his service all his life on-island, and has been a leading chief in Aoa, second only to Aumoeualogo, the appellate decision states.
Therefore the lower court's finding that Te'o prevails in terms of value to family, village and country is supported by the evidence; it did not abuse its authority in making the decision; and the decision is not clearly erroneous, according to the appellate judges.


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If the slippery ice-covered streets don't get me, it will be the hidden potholes and puddles.
Walking the collies in the bitter cold winter we have just about finished experiencing (note my optimism here) has been an incredible challenge. Temperatures hovering well below zero and windchills adding to the fun have made my daily appointed dog walks less than pleasant, not just for me, but the dogs have protested as well. But when you gotta go ... well, you know the rest of that story.
Now that the great meltdown has begun in earnest the problems for the three of us are related to getting wet. Apparently when you are a collie you consider it beneath your dignity to dip your pretty feet and feathery legs up to the hips in frigid, dirty water. A deep pool of H2O lurks at the end of our driveway, the only usable exit from our still deeply-snowy yard. Max and Lacey are not impressed with the situation, no, not one bit! These two aristocrats of the dog world think getting dirty is beneath them. I keep reminding them how fortunate they are to be tall and not close to the ground like a Corgi or, worse, a Dachshund! They have turned deaf ears to my reminder. Does anyone have a boat for rent?


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From The Shop Blog (June 22, 2011)
It's been three years since TaylorMade brought the Spider line of putters to the Tour. With adjustable weights in the back corners of the head, it resists twisting on impact, and even miss-hits roll nearly as far as those hit in the sweet spot.
Last season the company released a line of white Ghost putters, touting them as easier to aim than black, chrome or metallic putters.
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The Poems of John Donne.
Notes to Poems hitherto Uncollected
is no reason to suppose that all the poems written during Donnes long life have been gathered together. One copy at least is recorded in his own letters of which I have found no trace, namely some French Verses, mentioned in a letter of 1612, to Sir Henry Wotton (Alford, vi. 361). Doubtless others will turn up from time to time out of the multitude of commonplace books extant in public and private collections. Such, however, must not be too readily received as authentic, since the compilers of these commonplace books frequently ascribe their extracts to the wrong author. There are two or three people who might be easily confused with Donne, owing to the similarity of their names to his. One is his son, also a Doctor John Donne, but a D.C.L. not a D.D. Another is John Done, the author of
Polydoron, or a Miscellany of Moral, Philosophical and Theological Sentences
and of an Ancient History of the Septuagint
(1633). He appears to have been a schoolmaster (
Notes and Queries,
Sixth Series, vi. 47, 95), and also an alchemist, judging from a long letter of his on the science in Bodl. Ashm. MS. 1415, f. 19 (b). I doubt whether he is the person referred to in Sir James Whitelocks
Liber Famelicus
(Camden Soc. p. 16). Whitelocke, recording the death of his wife, on 28th February, 1606, says, There preached at her funeral Doctor John Done, the parson, that had been my acquaintance when he was of Christ Church, Oxford. Now there is no John Donne of Ch. Ch. in the University Registers. There is however a John Dove of Ch. Ch. who became a preacher of some distinction (
ed. Clerk, ii. 1. 137; 2. 102; 3. 117), and I expect that he is the parson alluded to by Whitelocke.
are practically indistinguishable in MSS.
There is a letter to Walsingham, signed John Done, and written from Dieppe on April 11th, 1586 (
Cal. State Papers, Dom. Eliz. and James I.
Addl. 15801625). This can hardly be by John Donne, who was only 13 in 1586.
Of the eleven additional poems which I have printed in this Appendix, it is only the first six that I put much faith in as genuine work of Donnes.
I. From MSS. in the British Museum.
These are all from Addl. MS. 25,707. This is a folio commonplace book of the seventeenth century. It contains poems written in it by three or four hands, the latest of whom has made a list of those collected by his predecessors, and added some of a later date. Besides a number of Donnes, most of them initialled, there are others by Francis Beaumont, Sir John Beaumont, Lord Digby, Sir Henry Goodyere, Sir William Skipwith, Richard Corbet, Henry King, etc. This appears to be the MS. described by Nicholls in the account given of Sir William Skipwith in his Hist. of Leicestershire (iii. 367). It was then in the possession of Lord Harborough. Nichols thinks that it was once a commonplace book of Sir. W. Skipwith, who died 3 May, 1610. The four poems given here are all in one or other of the earlier hands and initialled. There is a fifth, which I have not reprinted. It is no part of an editors duty to expurgate his authors text, but neither is he called upon to rake up forgotten indecencies from the muck-heap of time. The poem in question is on f. 60 (b) of the MS., and begins
Why should not pilgrims to thy body come,
And miracles be wrought at thy poor tomb.
There are also, in another part of the book (f. 164), some Latin verses, signed J. D.
In Obitum M
Philippi Washinton.
I cannot say whether these are Donnes. They begin
Ille ego, qui vivo retuli solamen amico.
To the Blessed Virgin Mary
From Addl. MS. 25,707, f. 32 (b). It has there no heading.
To my Lord of Pembroke
From Addl. MS. 25,707, f. 34 (a).
This poem evidently refers to the poetical controversy about love between William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, and Sir Benjamin Rudyard, contained in their
(1660). See the note to the lines called
Love and Reason
in Appendix A. Besides the poems contained in this volume, many others are ascribed to Lord Pembroke in various MSS. He was the nephew of Sir Philip Sidney, a kinsman of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and possibly the W. H. of Shakespeares
Of a Lady in the Black Mask
From Addl. MS. 25,707, f. 34 (a).
A Letter written by Sir H[enry] G[oodyere] and J[ohn] D[onne], alternis vicibus
From Addl. MS. 25,707, f. 39 (a).
On Sir Henry Goodyere, see the note to Donnes verse letter to him (vol. ii. p. 10). This poem seems to have been written by the friends to their wives on some absence. Donne was at Polesworth in the spring of 1613. (See note to
Good Friday,
vol. i. p. 172.)
The following lines are from Bodl. Mal. MS. 14, f. 28. They are headed
On the interlinearie poem begot twixt S
H. Goo. and Dr. Donne.
Here two rich ravishd spirits kiss and twine,
Advanced and wedlockd in each others line.
Gooderes rare match with only him was blessd,
Who has outdonne and quite undonne the rest.
l. 25.
a stream in the Forest of Arden, close to Polesworth.
l. 28.
St. Ediths nuns.
Before the Reformation, there was a Benedictine convent at Polesworth, founded by the Saxon Saint Edith (Dugdales
II. From
Coryats Crudities
289. To the Author
290. In Eundem Macaronicum
These Macaronic verses immediately follow in
Coryats Crudities
the lines reprinted in the 1650
(vol. ii. p. 68). The third set comes at a different place in the book, and the name is differently spelt, but I do not doubt that this also is by Donne. His name is variously spelt Donne, Done, Donn, Dunn, etc.; it is Done in Jonsons
Conversations with Drummond.
III. From MSS. in the Bodleian Library.
On Friendship
From Ashm. MS. 36, f. 124. The lines are headed, On ffriendship. Dr. Donne. They are also found unsigned in Brit. Mus. Addl. MS. 10,309, f. 110, in Sloane MS. 1446, f. 88 (b), and in T. C. Dublin MS. G. 2. 21, f. 303. They are printed in Pembroke and Ruddiers
(1660), but without any distinguishing initial. J. A. Manning, in his
of Rudyard, claims them as his, but gives no other authority than that of the 1660 volume. The text there given is inferior to the MS. one. They may be Donnes.
The next three poems are from Ashm. MS. 38, which also contains some undoubted work of Donnes.
The Constant Lover
The first of three poems grouped together as Doctor Donn Verses on Ashm. MS. 38, f. 62. It also occurs unsigned in Sloane MS. 1792, f. 132, and is printed anonymously with the title here given to it, in
Wit Restored
(1658). The second poem of the group is certainly not Donnes. It is Ben Jonsons, Doing a filthy pleasure is and short, a translation from the
Brevis facere est et foeda voluptas
of Petronius Arbiter. Jonson definitely claims the authorship of this, which is printed among his poems, in the
Conversations with Drummond.
An Ideal
This is the third poem of the group above mentioned. So far as internal evidence goes, both this and the first might be Donnes, but the MS. is clearly not very trustworthy.
The Lie
From Ashm. MS. 38, f. 152, where it is signed D. Donn. I have not found the whole poem elsewhere, except in a very different anonymous version in
Wits Recreations
(1640), but the last two lines occur separately in at least three other places, and in two they are ascribed to Donne. In Ashm. MS. 47, f. 36, they are headed Dr. Dunn to a Gentlewoman, and in Sloane MS. 542, f. 12, Dr. Donn to a Lady that gave him the lie. In a collection of MS.
bound up with the Brit. Mus. copy of Shakespeares
(1624) and other pamphlets (C. 39. a. 37), they are anonymous. Probably they are by Doctor Donne, but was it the D.D. or the D.C.L.?
True Love
From Rawl. Poet. MS. 117, f. 222. The MS. also has Elegy xx. This might be Donnes.
I append a list of pieces which, after careful consideration I have decided not to include in this Appendix.
(1) The
on Mrs. Boulstred, which I have already printed in vol. ii. p. 231.
Stay, view this stone, and if thou best not such,
Read here a little that thou mayst know much.
The notion that this may be Donnes is purely a conjecture of my own.
(2) A set of
Commendatory Verses
prefixed to Capt. John Smiths
General History of Virginia
I know not how desert more great can rise,
Than out of danger taen for good mens good.
The verses are signed Io: Done. They are very commonplace, and Donne was not writing secular verse in 1625.
(3) An
on Prince Henry
Keep station, Nature, and rest, Heaven, sure.
This is signed J. D. in
Le Prince dAmour
(1660). But this is of little authority, and the Elegy is in Henry Kings
Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets
(4) Lines headed
Dr. Dons Elegy on the Death of King James.
Who now shall grudge to die, or not desire
To weep himself away, quench his own fire.
This is found in Addl. MS. 19,268, f. 30. It might conceivably be Donnes, by no means at his best; but I can hardly believe that so important a literary production, as an Elegy on the King by Dr. Donne, Dean of S. Pauls, would have been, could have reached us only through the medium of one obscure commonplace book.
(5) Lines headed
J. D. to his Paper.
Fly, paper, kiss those hands,
Whence I am barrd of late.
This is found, so headed, in Addl. MS. 30,982, f. 13, and in Sloane MS. 1792, f. 45. In Addl. MS. 13,998, f. 68, it is signed Jo. Dun. It is printed without any sign of authorship in
Wit Restored
(1658). It is a mere trifle, and I do not for a moment suppose it is the elder Donnes.
(6) Lines headed
Dr. Don on the Eucharist
Priests make Christ body and soul; you need not doubt.
This bit of profanity from Addl. MS. 15,226, f. 25, is probably by the younger Donne.
(7) Lines headed,
Jo Feltons epitaph made by Dr. Donn.
Here uninterrd suspends (though not to save
Surviving friends th expenses of a grave.
This is found, with the above heading, in Ashm. MS. 38, f. 20. It is anonymous in half-a-dozen Brit. Mus. and other MSS., and in Addl. MS. 15,226, f. 28, is accompanied by a poem
Super eundem et contra
by H. Ch[olmeley] which begins
Here uninterrd suspends, doubtless to save
Hopeful and friendless, th expenses of a grave.
This is a fine poem, but I do not see how it can be Donnes. Buckingham was killed by Felton on Aug. 23, 1628. The Dean was not likely, at that date, to write in a pronounced anti-court vein. The verses were printed from Sloane MS. 826, f. 177, by F. W. Fairholt in
Poems and Songs relating to the Duke of Buckingham
(Percy Society Publications, vol. xxix.).
(8) Lines beginning
Like to the damask rose you see,
Or like the blossom on the tree.
These are ascribed to Donne in Rawl. D. MS. 859, f. 158. At the end is written the message which Donne sent to his wife when he lost his secretaryship in 1601. It was John Donne, Anne Donne, Undonne. I have not a complete copy of the poem before me, but its opening lines are identical with those of a verse which appears both in Wastalls
(1620), and in Quarles
Argalus and Parthenia.
See H. Kings
ed. Hannah (p. cxviii).
(9) A Verse Letter to Lord Craven.
My lord, now youre at Rome and there behold
Things which are wonders when in England told.
This was communicated to
Notes and Queries
(Fifth Series, v. 243) by A. R. B., who adds the following note, which is endorsed on the MS.: This curious poem, never before printed, was written by the famous Doctor Donne, in the year 1630, and sent to Rome to William, Lord Craven, who served with so much credit under Gustavus Adolphus. It was entrusted to me with the curious State papers of the said Lord Craven, by Fulwar, Lord Craven, in the year 1762.
W. Harte.
The MS. reached A. R. B. through an uncle, the Rev. Thomas Lawrence, formerly chaplain to Lord Craven. The letter is 114 lines long, and contains a sketch of the sights and associations of Rome. I have not printed it because, in 1630, Donne was an infirm divine, and had long done with secular poetry. Very likely it is by his son, who dedicated the 1650
to this same Lord Craven.
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AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has hinted at the possible revival of a move for Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli.
The former Inter forward has fallen out of favour under Roberto Mancini at the Etihad Stadium and has only one league goal to his name this season.
On Saturday, Galliani said he was "99.9 per cent" certain that the Rossoneri would not be able to sign Balotelli but in a press conference on Sunday he suggested further progress has been made.
"Yesterday was 99.9% no, today is 99.5% no," he told reporters. "It is a situation different from that of yesterday, but the bag is closed until tomorrow morning."
Goal.com revealed last week that City had lowered their asking price to £20 million, but the Premier League champions want the fee paid up front.
Milan, on the other hand, are believed to have offered around £25 million across six years for the 22-year-old, who led the line for his country at Euro 2012.
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The 2012 campaign gets underway when the Bucs battle UNC Asheville on Aug. 24, at 10 a.m., in the Gamecock Invitational in Columbia, S.C. ETSU then plays Temple later that day, before wrapping up the event against Akron and tournament host South Carolina on Saturday, Aug. 25.
ETSU remains on the road for a single non-conference match against Presbyterian on Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. The Bucs continue their swing through the Palmetto State when they participate in the Clemson Classic, Aug. 31 – Sept. 1. The Blue and Gold will open the tournament against longtime rival Chattanooga on Aug. 31 at 4 p.m. The following day the Bucs will face Charlotte at 12:30 p.m. before closing out the event against tournament host Clemson at 4 p.m.
The Bucs open the home portion of their schedule on Sept. 4 when they host Conference USA opponent Marshall at 7 p.m. inside Brooks Gym.
ETSU returns to tournament play when it travels to Tuscaloosa, Ala. for the Hampton Inn Bama Bash Sept. 7-8. The Bucs will take on Alabama State and Austin Peay during the opening day before facing Lamar and tournament host Alabama on the event's final day.
The Bucs return home to face longtime rival Western Carolina on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. in preparation for their first conference match just a week later.
On Sept. 18, ETSU will travel to Mercer to open up Atlantic Sun play at 6 p.m. The A-Sun schedule will expand to 18 matches this season, up from 13 in 2011 and 10 in 2010. In the new format, each team will have a home-and-home series with one another.
The Bucs will then host USC Upstate in the first home conference matchup of the season on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. inside Brooks Gym.
After visiting the Sunshine State to face Florida Gulf Coast and Stetson on back-to-back nights (Sep. 28-29), the Bucs return home for a six-match homestand beginning with North Carolina A&T on Oct. 2. Just three nights later, ETSU will welcome in new Atlantic Sun member Northern Kentucky to Johnson City for the first time. The homestand will include three-time defending A-Sun champion Lipscomb the very next day as well as Mercer (Oct. 9), Jacksonville (Oct. 12) and North Florida (Oct. 13).
Following the long homestand, ETSU will hit the road for its longest conference road swing of the season with four straight matches away from Johnson City. The road swing begins at Kennesaw State on Oct. 16 and USC Upstate on Oct. 19. The Bucs will close out the four straight road matches at Lipscomb and Northern Kentucky on back-to-back nights Oct. 26-27.
The Bucs will close out the home portion of the schedule with four straight matches beginning with the final non-conference match of the season against Gardner-Webb on October 30. ETSU will then host Florida Gulf Coast (Nov. 2) and Stetson (Nov. 3) before hosting Kennesaw State on Nov. 6 for the final home match of the year.
ETSU will wrap up the regular season with a trip to Jacksonville, Fla. to face conference foes North Florida and Jacksonville on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10.
The 2012 Atlantic Sun Championship will be held Nov. 15-17 at Allen Arena on the campus of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. for the second straight year. The top six teams in the league standings will compete in the event. The Bucs advanced to the A-Sun finals in 2010 and reached the semifinals in 2011.
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By Janeen Madan
Gordon Jenkins is the Network Engagement Manager with Slow Food USA. Gordon joined Slow Food in 2009 to help organize the Time for Lunch campaign. He grew up in Berkeley, CA, eating McDonald's Happy Meals and boneless skinless chicken breasts. In college, he worked as a student farmer at the Yale Farm, where he began to see food activism as a very local, personal solution to the world's many crises. He has worked in Alice Waters' Office at Chez Panisse and as Content Coordinator for Slow Food Nation, which took place over Labor Day 2008 in San Francisco.
Why is it important to preserve America's food traditions and safeguard food biodiversity? How does Slow Food-USA work to achieve this goal through its network of local chapters?
We live in an era where a single pest can wipe out an entire region's harvest, because that region is only growing one or two types of crops. Our food traditions are not only a big part of our identity, they also provide the diversity that is integral to healthy, resilient ecosystems. They're the foods we enjoy the most, and they're also the environmental solutions that are going to shape the future.
I love that in my community I can buy hand-made tortillas, heirloom apples and heritage pork–these foods are all more delicious than the standardized processed foods I can find in any supermarket. And when I buy those foods, I help farmers build healthier ecosystems. As an organization, Slow Food works to preserve biodiversity by helping people find local foods in their region. Across the country, Slow Food chapters organize food meet-ups and workshops and help producers get access to new seeds and ingredients.
What are some of the activities and events that local chapters organize to encourage better/healthier food habits within local communities?
I'm inspired every day by what our 225 chapters in the United States do to make their communities more like they want them to be. Slow Food Denver, for example, runs a network of 35 school gardens to teach healthy eating to public school students. Slow Food Memphis has started a farmer's market in a neighborhood without many healthy food options. And in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, Slow Food organizes regular potlucks so people can trade recipes and shopping tips. These chapters are all volunteer-led. It's amazing what groups of committed people can do together.
How is Slow Food-USA working to promote these values in schools and harness the youth's potential in creating a fairer, cleaner food system?
We dream of a world where there are more school gardens than McDonald's.
I think it's possible. There's so much energy, especially among parents, for improving children's food environments. Last year, Slow Food chapters helped start or expand over 300 school gardens, reaching more than 50,000 kids. And what we're finding is that as soon as children get involved in the planting and cooking, they become a lot more willing to eat the fruits and vegetables they used to think were yucky.
In December 2010, President Obama signed the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act into law. What progress has the government made and what are organizations like Slow Food-USA doing to ensure that students across the country eat healthier lunches?
The school lunch legislation that passed is a step forward and I think it softens the ground for some bigger changes to come. But it's ultimately up to the people – to you and to me – to make sure those changes happens. Our Time for Lunch campaign was a milestone for Slow Food—we had a flood of new people join because they wanted to do something about school food, and with those people we were able to send over 150,000 emails and phone calls to Congress. We've need to maintain that pressure and make sure that Congress makes school food a public priority.
How does Slow Food-USA engage communities politically around the idea of food? What are some of the ways that your organization works to make food issues an important priority for the government?
There are millions of people who've read Michael Pollan's book or who've seen their family farm decline, and many people are now aware that government subsidies and policies have played a big role in creating this unhealthy, unjust food system. We work to open doors and give people opportunities to do something about it. Whether it's creating a national campaign, pushing elected officials to raise school lunch standards, or helping local Slow Foodchapters push their own political agendas, our role as an organization is to use our collective power for positive change.
The U.S. Food and Farm Bill – the government's key food and agriculture policy tool – is up for reform this year. What are some of the most important changes that you hope to see?
I think we're approaching a historic opportunity with the next Food and Farm Bill. As far as I can remember, never before have so many people been aware of its impact on their daily lives and the food that is available to them. I hope to see the next Bill prioritize making healthy food more available and affordable. And I hope it levels the playing field for farmers who want to make a living growing food they can be proud of.
At Nourishing the Planet, we are researching local innovations in agriculture that can be scaled up or replicated around the world. How does your organization (through its broader international network) promote food activism as a way to address the many inter-connected problems around the world?
Food is at the core of so many of our global problems, including hunger, obesity, energy, climate change, economic disparity, and on and on. But it's also something that unites us— everyone eats. We all have a stake in fixing problems in the food system— and we all have the ability to participate in the solutions. We can participate as individuals, by the food choices we make; and we can participate as communities and countries, by the actions we take together to create the world we want to see. There's power in working together and eating together. That's what Slow Food is all about.
Janeen Madan is a Communications Associate with Nourishing the Planet.
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The South Davis Bike Path connects Research Park Drive to the UC Davis Arboretum.
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2013-03-24 23:01:29 It took almost nine years (since this page was created) for someone (me) to notice the major error in Davis geography on this page. Yes, Mace Blvd. is in South Davis, but it's way at the far end, miles away from the location of this bike path! (Or at least from the location of the photo on the right which said it was on Mace.) I corrected it with "Research Park Drive." —RussellReagan


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Healthcare workers assisting people to sign up for insurance on the HealthCare.gov marketplace on Monday told Reuters they had noticed improvement in the problem-plagued website.
Seven organizations funded through the health reform law that assist applicants, from Kansas to Pennsylvania, said that they'd seen successes enrolling people from start to finish in recent days.
Another group of the workers, often called navigators, said problems persisted unchanged. None offered numbers.
"Saturday was the first day that I was actually able to get someone through the entire process on the website. That was pretty exciting. And I know on Saturday that wasn't the case for everyone on my team, but more and more consistently we're having success with it," said Rachel Udow, program director for MHP, a community-based organization focused on migrant issues in Weslaco, Texas.
The Obama administration has pledged that the websites would be working smoothly by the end of November, just two weeks before the December 15 deadline to purchase health insurance that starts on Jan 1.
"We've had more completed online enrollments in the last week or so than probably all the weeks before combined, and we're pretty excited about that," said Laura Line, corporate assistant director of healthcare at the Philadelphia-based Resources for Human Development.
Others were more muted, but still encouraged by the improvements. Debbie Berndsen, navigator project director at the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, said that two of the group's navigators were able to fully enroll applicants Monday morning.
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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Can/should you get the vaccine if you have already had HPV?
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
If you already have HPV, you can certainly get the Gardasil vaccine.
The vaccine gives protection against 4 different types. Even if you have contracted one of the 4, you may still gain immunity to the three other strains.
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The vaccines will only work in women who have not already been exposed to the types of HPV covered by the vaccine. This means that the vaccines will not prevent HPV in women who have already had these HPV types. (This is why it is important to get vaccinated before being exposed.) Most often a woman does not know what types she has been exposed to. The testing for HPV does not always specify the type when it is a positive test. A negative test does not tell you if you have been exposed to HPV in the past and now it has resolved. Therefore, it is still beneficial to get the vaccine in case you were exposed to a different type.
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A world premiere of an original musical comedy, two classic performed in repertory, a reunion of the theater's five artistic directors and a "rejuvenated" "A Christmas Carol" will be among the highlights of Hartford Stage's 50th anniversary season beginning in September.
The season kicks off with two shows performed in repertory, staged by artistic director Darko Tresnjak: William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" with Kate Forbes ("The Crucible," "The Cover of Life") as Lady Macbeth and Marivaux's comedy "La Dispute."
The same cast will perform in both productions: "La Dispute" running Sept. 12 to Nov. 10 and "Macbeth" from Sept. 14 to Nov. 10. "La Dispute" is adapted by Tresnjak and Elizabeth Williamson, senior dramaturg/director of new play development who also did the translation.
Also on tap is the 15th season of "Brand:NEW" play reading series which will run Oct,. 24 to 27.
On Nov. 3 all five of the theater's artistic directors over the years — founder Jacques Cartier, Paul Weidner, Mark Lamos, Michael Wilson and Tresnjak — will reunite for a panel discussion at the theater. On Nov. 4, former artists, staff, board members and members of the community will gather for a special benefit performance and party celebrating the theater's milestone.
Running Nov. 29 to Dec. 28 will be the 15th go-round of the off-subscription show, "A Christmas Carol — A Ghost Story of Christmas" which will get a holiday goose for its set, costumes and special effects. Michael Wilson, the show's adapter and original director, returns to refresh the show, in collaboration with the production's current director and the theater's associate artistic director Maxwell Williams.
Next up from Jan. 9 to Feb. 2, will be Steve Martin's comedy, "The Underpants," adapted from the German farce by Carl Sternheim, which will be a co-production with New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, staged by its artistic director Gordon Edelstein. The show will play Long Wharf in late fall of this year.
The two theaters previously collaborated on 2005's "A Moon for the Misbegotten." 2008's "The Bluest Eye" and 2012's "Bell, Book and Candle." Edelstein also directed "The Crucible" two years ago at Hartford Stage.
On Jan. 9 to 12, Hartford Stage, collaborating with Hartford Symphony Orchestra, will present Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream,'" with music by Mendelssohn, with HSO music director Carolyn Kuan conducting. The event will be at Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts as part of HSO's Masterworks Series.
Former artistic director Mark Lamos returns to stage Noel Coward's bittersweet comedy "A Song at Twilight," Feb. 20 to March 16, which will also be a co-production with Westport Country Playhouse, where Lamos is artistic director. Lamos' last Hartford Stage show was 2002's "Much Ado About Nothing."
It will be followed April 3 to 27, 2014 by the East Coast premiere of "Somewhere," by Matthew Lopez, current Aetna New Voices Fellow. The production will star Priscilla Lopez, original cast of Broadway's "A Chorus Line," and Tony Award-winner for "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine," who is also Lopez' aunt. The dance-filled family saga will be directed by Giovanna Sardelli. Lopez' "The Whipping Man" was presented at the theater last year.
The season will conclude May 22 to June 15 with the musical comedy, "Love and Other Fables," a re-imagining of the life of Aesop. The show has a book by Jay Jeffries and John McMahon and lyrics by Jeffries (Broadway's "Stardust") and music by McMahon ("Satan's School for Girls"). John Rando (Broadway's "Urinetown") directs. The show had a workshop production in New York in 2011.
The anniversary season is made possible by a $250,000 "Legacy Sponsorship" from Travelers.
The National Corporate Theatre Fund will honor Hartford Stage — and four other regional theaters celebrating their 50th anniversaries — at a gala in New York on April 29.
Subscriptions for the anniversary season and single tickets to "A Christmas Carol" are now on sale.
Information: 860-527-5151 and www.hartfordstage.org.


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While watching Hulu on your browser today, you may have noticed something different. Dwight Shrute's head appears bigger, Sue Sylvester's tracksuit seems starchier and Phil Dunphy's parenting just got cooler.
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Stephen J. Morin, who has had an extensive career in higher education philanthropy, has been appointed senior vice president for Advancement at Suffolk University.
Most recently, Morin has overseen fundraising efforts for eight schools and the Marsh Chapel at Boston University, with impressive results.
"Stephen Morin will provide strong leadership to the Advancement office at an important time for the University," said Suffolk University President James McCarthy.
"He has a solid record of strengthening development and alumni programs. His energy, collaborative leadership style and strategic thinking will be instrumental in moving Suffolk University forward."
In this new position, Morin is charged with developing strategic priorities aimed at increasing Suffolk University's philanthropic support while fostering alumni engagement and participation. These initiatives will more fully integrate the University's advancement programs.
Morin will oversee all of Suffolk University's efforts that touch on external communities and constituencies. The new Office of University Advancement that he will head will encompass Development; Alumni Relations; Marketing and Communications; and Government and Community Affairs. The unification of these closely related units under a senior vice president will play a critical role in allowing the University to achieve the ambitious goals included in its new Strategic Plan.
"It's a great pleasure to join Suffolk University during this transformative and exciting period for a dynamic institution that's so focused on its students," said Morin. "I am eager to join forces with President McCarthy, the trustees, University colleagues and alumni to bolster scholarship opportunities and to advance University goals."
At Boston University, Morin served as assistant vice president for school development, helping to plan and execute major giving strategies and overseeing the transition and restructuring of school-based development offices. He also directed development and alumni efforts at the College of Communication, which increased alumni giving by more than 70 percent.
A graduate of Bates College with a bachelor of arts degree, Morin holds a master of arts from Northeastern University.


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The University of Connecticut, in cooperation with Pratt & Whitney and Siemens Energy, will use a novel solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS) process to deposit low thermal conductivity, high durability yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) and to utilize surface protective layers (SPLs) to provide high temperature contaminant resistance and increased surface temperature capability, while minimizing the use of rare earth elements. The SPPS process provides a unique TBC microstructure that consists of through-thickness vertical cracks for strain tolerance, ultra-fine splats for spallation crack resistance, and the ability to produce very low thermal conductivities. The low thermal conductivities, or low-K (with K representing heat conductivity), will result from planar arrays of fine porosity called inter-pass boundaries (IPBs) and the ability to vary porosity content over wide ranges. The IPBs are generic conductivity lowering features that can be implemented for any TBC. Pratt & Whitney and Siemens Energy will contribute valuable specimens and will test the down-selected low-K TBCs.
The low-K YSZ TBC structure will be created using the SPPS process. Taguchi methods for design of experiments will be used to systematically determine the deposition parameters to minimize the thermal conductivity. Cyclic durability tests of the low-K TBC will be conducted to verify that the excellent durability of the SPPS TBC is preserved. A protective surface layer of gadolinium-zirconium will be added to the low-K YSZ TBC to increase the maximum allowable surface temperature by at least 100 degrees Celsius (°C) and improve its calcium-magnesium-alumina-silicate (CMAS) resistance, while minimizing the heavy use of rare earth elements. This improved contaminant resistance will be verified by testing in CMAS and moisture. Contaminant resistance will be further enhanced by employing two novel approaches, one using aluminum-titanium additions to the YSZ, and the other by deliberately adding calcium sulfate, shown to block CMAS when deposited by natural processes in service engines. The spallation failure mechanisms of the low-K TBC will be defined to provide guidance for subsequent improvements and a sound basis for life prediction methodologies.
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This project will use a novel solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS) process to deposit thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). Turbine materials research seeks to improve coating materials that will allow for higher temperature operation and increased durability leading to increased turbine efficiency and reduced maintenance. Specifically, this project will determine the depostion parameters to use with SPPS, use them to apply a TBC with unique microstructure that will have high thermal conductivity with reduced rare earth metals, and analyze the resulting coatings for durability.
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At its 1964 convention in San Francisco, the Republican Party emerged from a corrosive faction fight between its left and right wings to do something that was supposed to be impossible: It nominated a conservative. Barry Goldwater earned that nomination by the efforts of a stealthy organizing juggernaut against the party's moderate and liberal establishment unlike any seen before in the annals of American politics. Then he went down to devastating defeat in November at the hands of Lyndon Johnson. And there, for most observers, the matter stood: The American right had been rendered a political footnote–probably for good.
The wise men weighed in. Richard Rovere of The New Yorker: "The election has finished the Goldwater school of political reaction." James Reston of the New York Times: "He has wrecked his party for a long time to come and is not even likely to control the wreckage." James MacGregor Burns: "By every test we have…this is as surely a liberal epoch as the late 19th Century was a conservative one." For, as The Atlantic Monthly insisted, government's active obligation to provide "a solution of the manifold problems of modern urban life–housing, education, welfare, mass transportation, health, and civil rights," was simply not a matter of ideological dispute; it was reality. And one did not argue with those who denied reality. As Stewart Alsop said, conservatism was "not really a coherent, rational alternative at all–it is hardly more than an angry cry of protest against things as they are." (Richard Hofstadter joked that he welcomed the Goldwater-for-President movement when it sprang up because it was providing conservatives "a kind of vocational therapy, without which they might have to be committed.") Wide-ranging ideological disputes on first principles were a thing of the past. America was a nation of consensus–right down to its soul.
It was one of the most dramatic failures of discernment in the history of American letters. Few noticed that in the same election in which Goldwater lost California by more than a million votes, a proposition to strike the state's fair housing law from the books won by almost a million and a half. After off-year elections a mere two years later, there were so many conservatives in Congress that Lyndon Johnson couldn't even win a budget appropriation for rodent control in the slums. Ten new conservative Republican governors were installed; one of them was Ronald Reagan. And even as conservatives invaded Congress and George Wallace began plotting a startlingly successful 1968 presidential run, left-wing students took to the streets, receiving reports from establishment mandarins concerning their mental health much the same as that delivered to right-wingers by Hofstadter.
The illusion of an American consensus was in tatters, in about the amount of time it takes a mediocre sitcom to vanish from the air.
It happened at a time much like the present. The nation was affluent and confident, besotted with tech-driven theories promising that every economic limit could be transcended. It was an end-of-history moment in American culture; not the first, and not the last. There were portents of danger and risk around the edges of that Kennedyesque vision, to be sure: all those outliers who voted for Goldwater; and the wet blankets, loudmouths, crackpots and pinks; and the young–but they were just folks for pundits to mock and abuse as irrational or worse when they weren't to be ignored altogether.


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Equine facilities claim positive results with hyperbaric-oxygen therapy
As hyperbaric-oxygen therapy (HBOT) – the use of oxygen under pressure – gains wider acceptance in human medicine, its application in equine and small-animal veterinary medicine has been growing, too.
They are used in human medicine to help treat some diseases (with Medicare approval) and conditions such as acute carbon-monoxide poisoning, decompression illness, gas embolism, gas gangrene, progressive necrotizing infections and preservation of skin grafts. The list has become extensive.For horses, HBOT is used to assist healing and to speed recovery of poor-healing wounds, certain aerobic and anaerobic infections, bone (osteomyelitis) and necrotizing soft-tissue infections. It is also reportedly showing some benefit in patients with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, tendinous and ligamentous injuries, respiratory conditions, as well as intestinal ischemic injury like colon torsion and small-intestinal strangulation.
HBOT physiology
In a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, horses breathe air at 2 to 3 atmospheres absolute, or about two to three times the normal environmental pressure at sea level.
Normal oxygen delivery to the tissues is dependent upon the proportion of O2 in the air, lung function, red-cell hemoglobin (Hb) and blood pressure.
Under normal circumstances, Hb is 97 percent saturated with oxygen, with a very small amount dissolved in the blood plasma.Via the mitochondrial oxygen-transport system, the partial pressure of oxygen is reduced in a cascade of succeeding decreases, ultimately delivering oxygen to tissues at a significant decrease in partial pressure as blood flow exits the lungs and progresses to the cells.
HBOT and wound healing
The failure of wound healing often is due to persistent infection, malperfusion and hypoxia, cellular failure, unrelieved pressure or recurrent trauma.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy produces a directly proportional increase in the plasma volume fraction of transported oxygen and delivery to the injured tissues. With increased cellular and muscle pO2, the tissues become saturated with oxygen, assisting the healing process.
Hyperoxygenation allows for reversal of localized tissue hypoxia, which may be secondary to ischemia or other factors of the compromised, non-healing wound site. For the hypoxic wound, HBOT corrects the pathophysiology related to oxygen deficiency and impaired wound healing.
According to the Hyperbaric Oxygen Committee report in 2003, "a key factor in HBOT's enhancement of the hypoxic wound environment is its ability to establish adequate oxygen availability within the vascularized connective tissue compartment that surrounds the wound."
Neutrophils, fibroblasts, macrophages and osteoclasts all depend on an oxygen-sufficient environment to adequately promote healing. Proper wound healing is promoted with "improved leukocyte function of bacterial killing, antibiotic potentiation and enhanced collagen synthesis," which occurs during periods of increased tissue pO2.


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JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other U.S. swap dealers would gain limits on the Dodd-Frank Act's reach for overseas trades under a Securities and Exchange Commission proposal released today.
SEC commissioners voted 5-0 to seek comment on measures that would exempt overseas affiliates, including those guaranteed by U.S. banks, from registration when they conduct business predmoninantly with foreign clients. Overseas branches of U.S. banks could be exempt from Dodd-Frank standards for conduct with clients for equity and some credit swaps.
"This approach would allow the elimination of overlapping regulation when it truly is duplicative, while recognizing that regulatory regimes will necessarily differ in some respects," SEC chairman Mary Jo White said at a meeting in Washington.
The SEC said it hoped the proposal would influence how global regulators address rule differences while working to reduce risk and increase transparency in the swaps market. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is the predominant U.S. regulator for the $639 trillion global swaps market. The SEC, whose staff said the agency oversees 5 percent of the overall market, is writing rules for equity and some credit-default swaps.
"Its influence will clearly not be based on the relative size of the security-based swap market that is supervised by the SEC," Edward J. Rosen, New York-based partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, said of the SEC rules in an e- mail before the meeting. "Any significant impact that this guidance will have will depend entirely on the extent to which it is regarded by the broader U.S and foreign regulatory community as having sensible and well-grounded policy and intellectual underpinnings."
Under Pressure
Dodd-Frank, the regulatory expansion enacted in response to the 2008 credit crisis, calls on the SEC and CFTC to have most swaps guaranteed at clearinghouses, traded on exchanges or other platforms and reported to regulators. The U.S. agencies have come under pressure to limit their international reach from JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, both based in New York, as well as European, Asian and South American regulators.
Swaps rules under consideration by the SEC and CFTC are fragmenting the global market, nine overseas finance officials said in an April 18 letter urging Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to limit Dodd-Frank's reach.
"An approach in which jurisdictions require that their own domestic regulatory rules be applied to their firms' derivatives transactions taking place in broadly equivalent regulatory regimes abroad is not sustainable," the officials wrote to Lew, who has no formal role in SEC and CFTC rulemaking.
Prescribed Changes
The cross-border rules is the SEC's first major proposal under White, who took over as chairman on April 10. White told lawmakers during her Senate nomination hearing in March that she would prioritize rules required by Dodd-Frank, which prescribed changes to reduce the risk of repeating the 2008 crisis fueled by unregulated swaps that forced the U.S. to bail out American International Group Inc.
The proposal approved today would govern how other SEC swap rules, many of which haven't been completed, apply in cross-border transactions. The vote releases the proposal for a public-comment period to solicit views on its ideas.
The SEC outlined plans for allowing so-called substituted compliance, recognizing comparable overseas laws and enforcing its own rules when foreign standards aren't sufficient. The proposal seeks to avoid a "line-by-line" comparison of U.S. and foreign laws and take a more flexible approach based on the outcomes of the rules, White said.
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Just as doctors submit to national boards, personal trainers soon will have the option to take national boards. The question is, should they?
By Dec. 31, 2005, the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) has recommended that club owners only hire personal trainers with certifications from agencies accredited through the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). So far, IHRSA has made no recommendation about the national boards, a test that will not be accredited by NCCA. In the meantime, some insurance companies are looking at possible changes in insuring personal trainers based on whether they have certifications or have taken the national boards.
The National Board of Fitness Examiners (NBFE), which is developing the national boards and will offer the written portion starting in April, sees itself as an industry initiative that is defining "scopes of practice" and "standards of practice" for fitness professionals, said Dr. Sal Arria, who spearheaded creation of the NBFE. Arria contends that certifying organizations rely on their own standards and tests, which means standards and tests vary from organization to organization, resulting in various skill levels for personal trainers. In hopes of standardization, the NBFE is establishing one national standard of excellence that every certifying organization and college is free to adopt and use, he said.
However, some certifying agencies ask what gives the NBFE the right to say its exams are the standard. Instead, they argue, the NBFE standards are just a different set of national standards than every other certifying agency has already set.
"Who is making the decision that their standards are higher than the oldest and most revered certifying agency in the country?" asked Ken Germano at the American Council on Exercise (ACE), which is one of two certifying agencies (National Strength and Conditioning Association is the other) that already has NCCA accreditation.
NBFE detractors also argue that the NBFE is just another certifying agency.
"NBFE is not going to be any different than ACE or us, it's just that they are going to have the word 'board' in it," said Dr. Brian Biagioli, director of education at certifying agency National Council on Strength and Fitness (NCSF), which has applied for third-party accreditation through NCCA. "So you have a lot of people trying to run and hop on this bandwagon so they can keep their business going…. ACE has a board exam, NCSF has a board exam. All they (NBFE) are is a clever name to confuse people."
However, another certifying agency, American Fitness Professionals & Associates (AFPA), disagrees.
"The NBFE, which has the endorsement of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) as well as 17 independent fitness organizations in the United States is not another certifying agency," said Mark J. Occhipinti, Ph.D.c, president of American Fitness Professionals & Associates (AFPA), which is an NBFE affiliate. "The NBFE represents an idea and the initiative of many fitness and medical professionals to 'raise the bar,' so to speak, to enhance the position of personal trainers nationally."
Arria said that the critical difference between the NBFE and a certifying agency is its origin. The NBFE invited leaders of certification organizations, gym and club owners, medical and allied health professionals, fitness professionals, colleges, universities, IHRSA and related stakeholders in the fitness industry to help develop the NBFE in the belief that true industry standards cannot be identified by a single entity or by the collective efforts of just one area of the fitness industry, Arria said.
"The NBFE was founded as a place where all industry stakeholders can join together to define and create these standards to protect the public and truly raise the bar for our industry as a whole," he said.
In addition, the nature and origin of NBFE's examination differs from that of a certification organization because the NBFE has many groups and organizations involved in developing the test, which provides a broader and more expansive viewpoint from the preliminary test planning and domain analysis, through item writing and validation, Arria said. The initial focus group of subject matter experts, called NBFE fellows, collectively hold dozens of certifications from well-known agencies, have diverse undergraduate and graduate academic training and are active trainers, he said.
However, Biagioli said that NCSF and many other certifying agencies also develop their tests using subject matter experts with various certifications and from various fields including academia, allied health and personal training.
But Arria insisted the NBFE standards were higher than those of certifying agencies.
"We are holding the entire test development process to a standard that far exceeds third-party accreditation and any other in the history of the fitness industry," said Arria.
For example, NCCA accreditation doesn't stipulate external audits within the test development process, but NBFE has done external audits. Most organizations elect to contract a psychometrician for the construction of the test and NBFE has selected the top high-stakes test development company in world, Thompson Prometric, to work with it, Arria said. (NCSF and others applying for NCCA accreditation also used Thompson Prometric, Biagioli said.) NBFE has elected to validate each phase of test development with an additional check. NBFE deployed its test survey to both an open and closed population to validate its outcome. In addition, the NBFE is contracting with the NBME to review the entire item bank created by the NBFE fellows. The NBME will also independently audit the outcome of the beta test and will examine the findings of Thompson Prometric. The NBFE will follow the same process in the development and deployment of the practical component of the National Board exams (part two of the exams, which is under development).
The process is long and careful, but not any longer or more careful than the process that an accredited certifying agency must go through for its tests to be NCCA accredited, countered Biagioli.
Regardless of test development methods, Biagioli's main concern is the legal defensibility of any exam, especially since one lawsuit can cost a club owner millions.
"So if you have a liability risk, you have to have defensibility," Biagioli said. "That comes from having an accredited exam or practical component — an assessment that is validated so it's legally defensible." While Biagioli said that the national boards may offer legal defensibility, Arria was sure they would hold up in a court of law because they had been developed using a psychometrician company.
Liability is a big reason for the whole accreditation push on the club owner side. However, for insurance companies, it hasn't yet become a major issue, according to Ken Reinig of Association Insurance Group. He said that while some underwriting companies say they want boards or accreditation, "the reality is that the possibility of litigation from an independent contractor being sued is so unlikely that they don't even care if they have a certification."
However, some insurance companies are studying the issue. Robert Kuchefski of insurance broker firm Hoffman Insurance Services has talked to Philadelphia Insurance Companies and "they are taking a long, hard look at insuring personal trainers who are certified through an accredited certifying agency vs. those certified by a non-accredited."
The NBFE is not getting its exam accredited, meaning that non-accredited would include personal trainers who passed the national board but don't have a certification through a certifying agency that has been third-party accredited. However, to take the national boards, a personal trainer must have a certification from a certifying agency that is an NBFE affiliate — and the majority of the NBFE affiliate certifying agencies are not applying for NCCA accreditation although some have accreditation from or are applying for accreditation from Vital Research, another accreditation company.
Arria, on the other hand, has spoken with three major insurance carriers who are considering making the national board a prerequisite for insurance through them, he said.
The different views of the NBFE can be traced back to the two schools of thought about the reason for raising personal trainer standards. One school believes club owners and personal trainers must be protected from lawsuits and the public protected from bad personal trainers. The way to do that, they argue, is through accreditation because accreditation offers legal defensibility. The other camp believes that the goal of raising standards is to improve the personal trainer's standing in the medical community (thereby increasing medical referrals and possible insurance reimbursement for sessions). For this camp, national boards are the answer because those in the allied health field must take national boards and, therefore, they understand the significance that passing national boards implies, making medical referrals more probable.
Arria does not support accreditation alone because the NCCA doesn't allow certifying agencies to require their own prescribed education courses to sit for their exams. Arria is concerned certification organizations will drop their educational requirement to meet accreditation standards.
"There are far too many organizations that require just optional study material or an optional textbook or to downloaded a free manual to qualify them to take their exam," said Arria. "We feel a mandatory educational program and practical hands-on examination should be a mandatory requirement to become a personal trainer."
Trainers who sit for the NBFE Personal Fitness Trainer Examination must have completed an educational program from an NBFE affiliate or prescribed coursework from an accredited U.S. college or university.
However, Biagioli defended NCCA's stipulation on educational requirements saying that it prevented companies from forcing people to go through their program to sit for their exam.
"We provide different ways to get educated in personal training, but if you come out of college with a four-year degree, you shouldn't have to sit through our courses to sit for our exam," Biagioli said.
Other questions have been raised about the NBFE. Biagioli said that some people have questioned where this group originated (since Arria founded the certifying agency International Sports Sciences Association) and whether its formation could "take advantage" of the accreditation confusion. After all, if the NBFE is successful in making personal trainers think they must take the national boards, then the NBFE stands to make a lot of money at $295 per written exam, Biagioli said.
However, Arria defended the organization saying, "The NBFE is a not-for-profit corporation. The cost for developing and deploying examinations at this level is extensive, particularly when considering practical examinations. Revenue will be returned into updating and improving existing examinations and developing new ones," Arria said. Some of the money will also go to promoting registered personal fitness trainers and the health clubs that employ them to doctors, chiropractors and the public.
The accreditation issue and national boards have had an effect on many certifying agencies. Some are spending thousands of dollars to become NCCA accredited. Others are embracing the NBFE by becoming affiliates. The Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) is an NBFE affiliate. It also is offering a new three-day personal fitness trainer certification course in place of its old personal trainer certification course. The two courses differ in approach, structure and numerous other details, said Linda Pfeffer, president of AFAA. Even though the exam was composed prior to the national boards, AFAA is promoting the exam as an ideal starting point to help personal trainers prepare for the national boards. The course ends with both a written and practical examination and replaces AFAA's previously offered personal trainer certification course. Vital Research has accredited the curriculum and exam.
The accreditation discussion is affecting certifications beyond personal training. The Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) will begin offering a national certification exam in August 2005 for Pilates instructors. The exam, which will be submitted to NCCA for accreditation, will measure whether or not a Pilates instructor can perform job-related duties with competence.
Although the IHRSA recommendation about accreditation only affects personal trainers, Kevin Bowen, PMA CEO and co-founder, said that the certification issue would be spreading industry wide. Besides, many personal trainers double as Pilates instructors.
Despite the flurry of activity among certifying agencies, the debate over this issue is far from over. In the end, it may not matter whether the NBFE is another certifying agency or not. Instead, the future shape of personal trainer education and exams may boil down to what insurance companies decide to do. After all, money talks, and the risk of paying more for insurance on a club and on personal trainers because of which exams they've taken to be certified or deemed NBFE approved could cause club owners and personal training managers to rethink who they've been hiring and which certifications they'll require for personal trainers in the future.
Editor's Note: For a history of the whole accreditation issue, visit the AAPT web site at www.aapt.net.