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College of Education Associate Professor publishes patient advocate bookUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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College of Education (COE) Associate Professor Cristy Kessler has published 5 S.T.E.P.S. to Being Your Own Patient Advocate. The book chronicles Kessler's personal medical journey and provides strategies for others who face difficult medical situations. Kessler is a bone marrow stem-cell transplant survivor, but the life-saving procedure came after years of pain, fatigue and frustration.
In 2006, Kessler was diagnosed with three autoimmune diseases that were destroying her internal organs. Treating her for symptoms associated with scleroderma, ankylosing spondylitis and vasculitis, doctors were unable to eradicate the diseases. Without any promising treatment or health insurance that would cover the stem-cell transplant in the U.S., Kessler traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, where she received the transplant at Anadolu Hospital on March 21, 2011.
"It dawned on me while I was presenting at a conference in England that, after all I had been through to get my stem-cell transplant, I have, in fact, learned a lot about health care," Kessler explained. "I then asked myself why I couldn't develop something for all patients, similar to what I do when I am teaching teachers, that would help them navigate their own journey."
Kessler teaches in the COE Institute for Teacher Education Elementary program and has led numerous teachers to successful National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification. Despite her lifelong struggle with illness, she has served as a role model and an inspiration for countless students, colleagues, friends and family – all of whom rallied to raise funds in support of her medical expenses. Sharon Miller, owner of Buckskin Books publishers who collaborated with Kessler on her book, designed and managed the fundraising website and campaign, One of Our Own.
Kessler is known for her innovative and exciting projects. A year after her return from Turkey, she hosted four celebrity chefs who worked with outreach programs and college and high school students, providing hands-on lessons and gourmet farm-to-table meals. In January 2013, she began working with the IM4U Campaign, a leading early-childhood development non-profit organization. With twenty Leeward Coast teachers from the COE master of education program, the initiative is pilot testing an anti-bullying curriculum in six of Hawai'i's elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools.
Kessler said she hopes to encourage others through her own determination to live. The "5 S.T.E.P.S." she describes in the book are sensibility, teamwork, education, perseverance and patience, and sustainability. "It doesn't matter if you are dealing with a long-term health issue or are someone who visits the doctor once a year for a physical exam; there is valuable information for anyone, patient or caregiver," she concluded. "If nothing else, there are a few stories that will make you laugh."
The ebook is available at Amazon.com for Kindle and Nook, as well as other retailers, for epub format. The print version will be available soon. For more information, go to 5stepstobeingyourownpatientadvocate.com.
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Astron Hotel operates all year round and offers a friendly and warm family atmosphere, and at the best relation of price and quality. The sandy beach (blue European flag) is only 300 m. away from the hotel and the restaurants and traditional Greek taverns and bars only a few meters. In our hotel, you can find Pegasus Bar and Andromeda restaurant with Greek and International cuisine, both holding excellent views of the harbor.
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The Astron Hotel was recently completely renovated (2002), while all common areas are fully air-conditioned. Guests can enjoy in coffee or a drink at the cafe-bar of our hotel with spectacular views of the harbor and the Medieval Castle. Visit the restaurant of our hotel and taste delicious Greek and International specialties with excellent views of the harbor.
The Astron Hotel 14-meters swimming pool, the 12-person Jacuzzi and the children's pool are located at the back of the hotel surrounded by exotic plants and flowers. Snack bar Orion located by the swimming pool offers snacks, fresh juices, drinks and refreshments.
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Here's a television program by Italian channel Rai 5 about World Dance Movement! The 30 minutes program is featuring Rick Tjia, Dance Senior Artistic Talent Scout, explaining the principal elements he looks for in a dancer at Cirque du Soleil.
A dança representa uma parte intrínseca do nosso mundo, indo do hip-hop ao balé clássico, da dança contemporânea ao breakdance. A dança é uma forma de arte anatômica, poética e física que transforma as emoções em movimentos.
Constantemente atrás de novos talentos, organizamos audições pelo mundo a cada ano! Nos próximos meses, caça-talentos estarão nomeadamente nos Estados Unidos, Índia, Coreia do Sul, Áustria, Alemanha, Escócia e Islândia. Curioso de saber como decorre uma audição no Cirque? Veja aqui vários excertos de audições de atletismo, acrobacia e atuação.
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They met the Artistic Director and many talented performers from our newest show!
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Curious on how Cirque du Soleil scouts talent? Learn more by watching this video about Krista Monson, Director of Casting in Las Vegas. (Courtesy of CNN International)
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Watch this video of parkour specialists Vincent Deplanche and James Stewart who are now training for Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour, a new Cirque du Soleil show that opens in October 2011. Learn more about their discipline, their career transition and their life at our international headquarters in Montreal.
Blogging from Los Angeles, world and Olympic medalist Raj Bhavsar describes his new life in Cirque du Soleil, which begins its newest show, "IRIS: A Journey Through the World of Cinema," Sept. 25 at the Kodak Theatre. Pictured: Bhavsar hits a handstand in LA's Runyon Canyon Park near the Kodak Theatre.`
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North Carolina's unemployment rate has increased slightly for the first time since January.
The state Commerce Department said Monday the jobless rate for July was 8.9 percent, or an increase of 0.1 of a percentage point compared with the month before. The national rate fell to 7.4 percent in July.
The state agency says North Carolina employers dropped nearly 14,000 jobs from June to July, with the largest decline in the government sector at more than 5,000. Transportation and utility fields and hospitality services saw the largest employment sector gains.
The state rate was 9.5 percent in January but had been slowly declining until now.


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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The formation of a Palestinian unity government backed by rivals Hamas and Fatah will be announced Monday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday, adding that Israel already warned him it would take punitive steps against the new alliance.
The formation of the government would be the most significant step yet toward ending a crippling seven-year-old Palestinian political split. However, it is also bound to increase friction between Abbas and Israel's hard-line government.
Abbas said Saturday that he would respond to any Israeli punitive measures, such as withholding the monthly transfer of some $100 million in taxes and customs Israel collects on behalf of his Palestinian Authority. The funds are vital to keeping the self-rule government afloat.
The long-running Hamas-Fatah rivalry escalated in 2007 when the Islamic militant group Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from the internationally backed Abbas in 2007. Hamas, which has carried out scores of bombing, shooting and rocket attacks against Israeli targets, is considered a terror group by Israel and the West.
After the April collapse of a U.S.-mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the Palestinian rivals revived reconciliation efforts. Negotiators met repeatedly to agree on a government of technocrats backed by both sides that is to prepare for general elections in 2015. In recent days, there were last-minute disagreements, but Abbas' announcement suggests the issues have been resolved.
"The announcement of the government will be on Monday," he said during a meeting with several dozen pro-Palestinian activists from France. "The Israelis informed us today that they are going to boycott us immediately after we form the government."
"They are going to withhold our money," he said, referring to the monthly transfers. "This is our money, not aid from Israel, and we will not stay silent. They want to punish us because we have an agreement with Hamas, which is part of our people."
Abbas, the leader of Fatah, reiterated that the unity government would follow his pragmatic program.
"We say (the government) is going to recognize Israel, denounce violence and recognize the international agreements," he said, echoing the international community's conditions for dealing with Hamas. "This is a technocrat government. It has nothing to do with Fatah, Hamas or any factions."
A senior Israeli government official said the formation of a unity government "is a great leap backward," but declined to say whether Israel would take punitive action. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue with journalists.
Abbas said that "we are going to react to any Israeli action."
He did not elaborate. However, Abbas and his aides have said in the past that they might step up efforts to gain further international recognition of a state of Palestine. The United Nations General Assembly recognized such a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — lands Israel captured in 1967 — as a non-member observer in 2012.
Palestinian officials have said a state of Palestine is eligible for membership in 63 international organizations, treaties and conventions. Last month, Abbas signed membership requests for 15 conventions, and his aides have said the Palestinians planned to sign up for more in several stages.
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Okay, so I was going to put this out a long ass time ago, but I forgot and it got lost in my drafts. Now I found it. So, since there are so many characters from FMA that I think look awesome, here is a whole post devoted to them (Top 5…they are not in order, but I labeled which character I thought is the best:
Edward Elric
Metal arm/leg = sweet. I mean…..even "cosplayers" look good. Sweetness.
Izumi Curtis (Sensei)
Definitely one of the coolest female characters from FMA. I mean, the dreadlocks, or braids, or whatever are just awesome. And she has big boobs. However, one might look….err…..scary? in "cosplay".
Like….I don't have to explain this at all.
Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye
What, you didn't think that I wouldn't include Hawkeye after all of the things that I said about her, did you? Awesomeness. And yes, even a "cosplayer" can look good.
Okay, so those are all some pretty cool characters, but none of them beat my top character for looks. This character, sadly did not become very major, and also was killed off, which is probably the worst thing ever. Almost as bad as 9-11. All jokes in bad taste aside, here is the number one spot, and it isn't "Ludacris":
Number One: Martel
Personally, I thought Martel looked better in the first FMA series, when her tattoo was an awesome purple. I mean, true, green makes more sense, seeing as she's spliced with a snake, but I don't give a shit about that, I just care about looks. Let's look at the facts:
- Awesome tattoo.
- Sweet hair style (short hair with one long strand…can't go wrong.)
- Nice black wife beater thing, you know else wears a black halter top? Hawkeye.
- Check out that knife.
- Green fucking eyes.
Martel could've been the best character ever, but they killed her. Damn them.
Others that didn't make the list (that I decided wanted to be top 5) and why:
- Al: He would be in the top 10, but he missed the top 5.
- Colonel Mustang: He's boring except for the gloves.
- Lieutenant Ross: I wish she was in the top 5….she's probably number 6…just because of the short hair.
- Winry: Nothing special about her.
- Paninya: I don't know how she didn't make it, she has two legs of automail with like, guns in them, and she fits the black wife beater thing criteria. I guess I don't like her hair.
What about Lust?
Sadly for Lust, this is the only picture/screen shot where she actually looked cool. She's pretty bland as a character. No color, no cool tats, not much going on besides those claws and her tits.
Some of the cosplayers displayed here (Ed and Hawkeye) were from this "site".


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Oil prices are holding up better than you might think considering the negative mood out of China this morning. Psychological support for oil near the $90.00 a barrel area and the gap at $89.96 has bearish traders a bit concerned about piling on at this point. Still Chinese property stocks got hammered, hitting the daily limit down in some cases as the Chinese government decided to put the hammer down on their real estate sector. The Wall Street Journal said, "State Council said authorities will strictly enforce a personal income tax of 20% on profits from home sales. Previously, home sellers had a choice to pay a 20% tax on the profit from property they sold or a 1% to 3% tax on the selling price, which is more widely opted for. The statement didn't offer a date for the move."
"The new rules would mean that a seller would have to pay a 20 million yuan ($3.2 million) tax on a home bought for 100 million yuan and sold for 200 million yuan, a sharp increase from the previous 2 million to 6 million yuan the seller might pay under current rules. China's policy makers were responding to evidence that — after three years of attempts to control prices — the property market is heating up again. Beijing's top leaders fear that fast-rising home prices and the lack of affordable options could threaten economic and social stability."
Oil prices also got pressure from some progress allegedly with Iran. Market talk of Iranian tankers being filled with oil did not exactly improve the market mood. Bloomberg reported that at least seven Iranian oil tankers able to hold 14 million barrels of crude are anchored in the Persian Gulf, ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg show. The Oceanic, Companion, Freedom, Valor, Millionaire, Maharlika and Tamar haven't left the region since the start of last month, according to data compiled by IHS Inc., an Englewood, Colorado-based research company. Signals were captured from each of the ships today. All except the Millionaire were at least 80% of their maximum depth in the water, data show.
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In 2004, it had been 86 years since the last time the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. A near collapse, a stolen base, a miracle comeback and a defeated curse later and the Boston Red Sox were World Champions for the first time since 1918.
The baseball world was turned upside down.
Fans across the country couldn't believe what they had just witnessed. Red Sox fans celebrated in a mixture of absolute euphoria and a foggy haze of this world around them they no longer recognized. The Boston Red Sox had finally won the World Series.
There were few Red Sox fans alive in 2004 who were around to see the team win in 1918 (the year they defeated, guess who? The Chicago Cubs). That's how long it had been since the club had won it all. Yet, there their team was on the field. The team's closer running a cleanly fielded, lively ground ball to the first base side of the infield and gently tossing the baseball through the air like it were a water balloon toss competition on Field Day. You've never seen a grown man toss a baseball with more grace and more caution than in that moment. The first baseman corralled it in his glove and held on for dear life, to the point where the organization had to fight in order to get the ball back long afterwards. The Red Sox were on top of the baseball world. Something no one in February of 2004 could have ever guessed would turn out to be that particular team's ultimate destiny.
And right in the center of it all? The first baseman the Chicago Cubs signed to a minor league contract today, Kevin Millar.
Every piece of that 2004 Red Sox team was a small piece of the puzzle in what resulted in one of the most memorable baseball seasons of all time. Imagine if a little bit of magic existing in Kevin Millar's piece were to carry over to this Cubs team in 2010. How amazing would that be? As crazy at that may sound, some people just have that thing. That thing that makes believers out of their teammates and fans. That thing that makes a group guys believe they can be, and ultimately turn themselves into winners. What if Millar is that kind of guy?
Now, Xavier Nady has also been added to the Cubs roster. With his second Tommy John surgery occuring last year, I hardly expect a very memorable season from him although he serves as a decent option as a fourth outfielder. A low-risk platoon member for starting right fielder Kosuke Fukudome. Xavier Nady, however, has never truly contributed to a winning ball club. His Yankees of '09 won the World Series but Nady went down and out with no real production to help take home the trophy by going down in mid-April. He might bring a great attitude to the clubhouse (so says his ex-teammates, managers, etc) however he hasn't proven to be a winner in his time with the Pirates, Mets or Padres. I believe the Cubs will get exactly what they expect out of Nady and nowhere near what they hope.
With Millar, however, I plead to the front office, not to overlook the intangibles. Here is a guy who was part of one of the most historic years/teams in the history of the game. A season that featured a Boston team so blessed with charisma, character and chemistry, they loved referring to themselves as Idiots and it spread throughout the media like wildfire. It drove them to be great. To 'Cowboy Up'. To believe.
What if Millar turns out to be one of those necessary intangibles you need to, as Eddie Vedder so eloquently puts it in his tribute song to the Cubs, go 'all the way'? What if one of the most important pieces of the puzzle for 2010 is merely signed to a minor league contract and no one even realizes what he could truly be worth to this squad. Here's to hoping that if that's the case that it only lasts for the next couple of months ending with Millar serving up a magical Spring Training (as magical as a successful Spring Training can be, that is) finding himself on the big league roster come April 5th against the Braves in Atlanta.
Don't laugh. It may not be as much of a long shot as it sounds.
When you take a look at his twelve year career you'll see some very Cub appropriate milestones and magical moments. Dave Roberts stole the base that kept the Red Sox alive in the 2004 ALCS allowing the Sox to come back from down three games to none against the Yankees. Who did he come in to pinch run for? Kevin Millar. Along with the efforts of some of the best players in the game, he helped a storied franchise break a curse and win a long awaited championship. That curse part sound familiar? In his second season playing in the major leagues he hit the first home run of his career. Where, you ask? Wrigley Field. How, you ask? An inside-the-park home run. Rare. Special. Some may say…magical. Cubs baseball is in his blood. His uncle, Wayne Nordhagen, played for the team in 1983. Also, without even suiting up in Cubs pinstripes the front office has shown a long time belief in his abilities considering Gary Hughes, the Cubs special assistant to the general manager signed Millar to his first contract with Florida back in 1998.
Starting out on the right foot, Millar considers Dempster to be a great friend and has stated that he has a lot of friends on the team. I believe that counts for a lot in keeping things loose and fun through a challenging and tumultuous season. It could turn out to be a key 'intangible' that Millar could bring to the Cubs in 2010, helping push this team over the proverbial hump.
I realize that there are only so many spots on a major league roster and there may not be room for Millar right away. But the rate this team has seen itself hitting the DL in recent years proves that an opportunity may arise and Millar may find himself with the Cubs at Wrigley. Depending on how things go from there will determine whether he gets to stay and how much of that intangible magic he actually ends up bringing to the team. I also realize this may sound crazy, it's not like we signed Pujols here. However, crazy seems to be what people call unbelievable turns of events that no one ever saw coming.
Piniella, Hendry…please be the guys that say "What do you mean crazy? I knew it all along", when the calendar flips to November this year. Keep an eye on Millar this off-season and really give him a shot despite having Lee, Tracy and Hoffpauir already lined up to contribute at first.
You may just have more than meets the eye in Kevin Millar. And I'm going to say it again here, too. In addition to Millar's potential in contributing a second long standing curse/streak, it wouldn't hurt to give Pedro Martinez a shot at helping bring that curse breaking magic to Wrigley in 2010 either. What's the worst that happens? We don't become World Champions in 2010? I think we've proven we'll get over that and show up again 'next year'. But, why not try something new? The game has seen some strange things happen. And one of the most amazing resulted in a championship with great contributions from Kevin Millar…and of course, Pedro. (I'm just saying).
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The last time we spoke at length, in 1989, you said our country "has no vision of where we want science to take us." Do you feel that we have more of a vision now, or are we still possessed of too much 'know-how' and too little 'know-what'?
I don't think it's changed much. I think we're at the place where we're going to have to begin to change. The Office of Alternative Medicine was mandated by the Congress, and at first it was thought that they could hire some fellows to go out into the field and investigate the alternatives. But it can't really be done in such a simple way. The alternative therapies can't be shoe-horned into the scientific model.
If we want to find out what the scientific evidence is for the efficacy of these therapies, we have to look again at the questions that we ask. You can't, for example, take someone who's meditating for their health, and give them a placebo meditation. We have to be more imaginative, and use science in a way that is broader and more original.
I think it's still true that there is no master plan at the National Institutes of Health in terms of what they do and what they fund. There's no master plan in terms of education, on we want to know and need to know. All of this, I think, refers back to the need for people of vision at the highest levels, and I don't mean just the president. Everybody who is in a position of leadership in the country should be thinking about, talking about--what do we want to know?
Joseph Jacobs, the former director of the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine, has said that it's important to evaluate the various alternative therapies in a manner consistent with their own paradigms. That sounds very good to me in theory. I am very unclear, however, as to how we begin to actually do that. Do you have thoughts on this?
We can look at the evolution of research designs, in a way that has more to do with subtle means. For example, they have found that the health effects of having a "Type A" personality don't relate to the workaholic syndrome so much as to hostility. People who are hostile get sick, but you can be very hard-working and not have that happen.
... You have to sometimes get a little imaginative, because we're talking body-mind. It may be that an herbalist is going to use a combination of herbs, so you can't isolate the effects of just one part of that. And that may be okay, because it may be that the effects are synergistic. Normally in the scientific method, they try to look at just one factor at a time. But in alternative therapies, frequently a combination of methods are used. When someone uses a combination of diet, acupuncture and imagery, it may not be possible to separate out the various aspects. We're talking about using common sense.
In your keynote address at the May 1993 alternative medicine conference at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, you said that the chances for integrating holistic health methods into the mainstream are greater now than they were in the past. What leads you to this conclusion?
The need, the desperation. We can't afford our patterns, we can't afford our habits. Most people who use alternative therapies do this when all else has failed. And when budgets spin out of control, putting some conventional therapies out of reach, then people reach for the less invasive, less intrusive methods.
I remember, in terms of my own experience, that about 20 years ago I was feeling a painful pressure behind one of my eyes. I was afraid I had glaucoma, and I went to an ophthalmologist. He said it wasn't glaucoma, but that I had an ear infection. So I went to an internist who prescribed an antibiotic, which didn't work. Then I tried a second one, which also didn't work. Then I had to wait for an appointment ... this had taken months by now ... I finally got an appointment with an ear, nose and throat doctor, who ended up telling me that it was an ear infection, but it was an ear infection in a place where antibiotics couldn't go.
So I went home and I meditated (I did TM at that time), and while I was meditating I pictured my ears draining, and when I did that they went "crack" and started to drain. And over the next few days, whenever I thought about it, they would go "crack" again and drain some more. That was the last time I went to a doctor for seven years. I discovered that there are so many things you can do for yourself, or that can be done by alternative practitioners. It's great to have antibiotics available for emergencies, but I do think that the people who are involved in chiropractic, acupuncture, herbs and other alternative methods are people who discovered it while they were searching, and found that it was not only helpful but preventive.
If you were advising the president, what would you say should be the highest priorities on the health reform agenda?
I would advise him to strongly support the Office of Alternative Medicine, which has a very tiny budget. This would probably have to be done through Congress, but they're ready. They're doing it without him anyway. But if he could really get behind that, health reform would benefit greatly from the study of alternative therapies. Recently Mutual of Omaha, among the oldest and largest health insurance companies, announced that it is going to start reimbursing the cost of Dean Ornish's heart program. They're going to pay $3500. I think the insurance companies may be among the first to wake up, to save money.
I would advise the President to hang in there as he has been doing, in spite of the opposition, because basically the people are behind this. The non-invasive technology is more cost-effective. And if we institutionalize medical care as we have it now, we will be buying into disaster. I remember in 1975, just before I started
Brain/Mind Bulletin,
there was a meeting of top medical people including the outgoing president of the AMA, along with a lot of alternative therapists and doctors. What all the people were saying was that if government-sponsored health care were to be instituted at that time, they would just be locking the old system into place. Unfortunately, that hasn't changed much. The only thing is, people are now much more awake to the choices.
What do you think a sustainable health care system would look like?
I think it would look more like the Canadian system, which I don't think we have much chance of getting. A single-payer system. All the Canadians I know are very strongly in favor of it.
How have they dealt with the issue of high-tech medicine?
I think it's probably pretty conventional, but you could, with a single-payer system, incorporate other methodologies. The main thing is that you can't have these programs dictated by the industry.
My concern with single-payer is that if everything is coming from one source, and bad decisions are made (in terms of what methods and practitioners are included, for example), the consequences of these errors can be immense. Whereas if it's spread out more and there are different choices, an across-the-board disaster is less likely. It offers the opportunity for the creation of smaller pilot projects where alternatives are able to demonstrate that they work.
I know what you're saying, and that is a concern. Anytime the government's doing anything, you've got a problem. It could go either way. It could be much more intelligent, all in one stroke. It's like Gorbachev was able, when he was in a more dictatorial position in the government his country then had, to make sweeping changes. We can see how gridlocked our president is. But you have a good point, Daniel. I guess we have to say, how can that be countered? Maybe you can have a single-payer system, but with decisions made more democratically. With a rotating body of decision makers, and with some kind of recourse, some kind of checks and balances.
I heard Ramsey Clark say a long time ago that he was less concerned with the actual structure of organizations or governments than he was with the way people behaved within whatever structure they had. And I guess that anytime I start thinking about which policy to endorse or not endorse, I come back to that. It comes down to how people are going to behave within it.
We're not going to get the single-payer system anyway. So we need to look at what we're likely to get, and try to figure out how to keep it creative.
Do you feel encouraged by the public debate on health care?
I think that Mrs. Clinton has done a good job of exposing the issue to a wide range of people. She has let people speak for themselves about their pain, in a way that's gotten a lot of publicity. I think that's the only way to counter the forces that are trying to throw a monkey wrench into it.
Do you feel an increased or decreased sense of urgency about the need for social change as you get older?
My sense that change has to happen is more urgent, because we're facing more and more dire problems. On the one hand homelessness, on the other the hole in the ozone layer. As you look about, you can see the system falling apart. On the other hand, it's falling apart so rapidly that there's a good possibility for major change. You know, out of this chaos comes a window.
As a resident of Los Angeles, what lessons do you feel the LA riots have for the nation as a whole. Has any healing taken place?
I written a book about it, actually, a photo-essay which I've just completed. It's called
The Fire and the Rose: Los Angeles in Parable and Prophecy.
I think that on a mythic level what's happened in Los Angeles is immensely exciting. I think that in a way it was prophesied by the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. It was prophesied by a lot of people--it was painted on the walls, it was written in songs, people were having dreams and visions--it had to happen.
You know, it happened on the Feast of Beltane, the Celtic fire festival, which is also Walpurgis Night. There were a lot of interesting coincidences. There were earthquakes that led up to it, one on April 22, which was Earth Day. I believe that if you look at things in a mythic way, it gives you something more interesting to interpret and
it by. That is what we have to do with our own lives, make it a creative interpretation. You can look at your life in so many ways. It's important to look at it in the way that is most creative and helpful to you.
Seeing day-to-day actions in mythic terms seems to me to be an inspiring way to live.
The intersection where the riots started (in South Central they call it "the uprising") was Florence and Normandy. If you look at the symbolic significance, Florence is the cradle of the Renaissance, and Normandy is the site of the great D-Day invasion in World War II. It's as if our civilization itself is standing at the corner of Florence and Normandy. L.A. is the most international city--it's a world city. People all over the world--Tokyo, London-- look to L.A. to be the vision maker, but also because it is so international. The neighborhood that I live in, the mountain that I live on, is in the middle of L.A. It's called Mt. Washington, and in the Fifties it was the most ethnically representative community in the United States. In Highland Park and Mt. Washington, when you go into a store, you never know what the nationality of the storeowner will be, and typically the staff is racially mixed.
L.A. was founded by eleven families, and it was multiracial. It was founded to serve the Mission San Gabriel--its mission was to serve the Mission. There's always been a very intense spiritual vision, and particularly after the Americans took over, a lot of violence. There was the massacre of Chinese people in 1871, riots in the Forties, the Watts riots in the Sixties. At the same time, the city is named after a religious holiday. It's Florence and Normandy all the way.
I think one of the lessons of the riots is that the business people can't go in alone and solve the problems. The politicians are not great at it either. People are looking to people like Edward James Olmos, the actor, and Arsenio Hall, and mainly to the church leaders. So one of the positive results is that the spiritual leaders, the church leaders, have gotten very active, very ecumenical. They've sponsored and organized most of the social repair.
One of the lessons is that you cannot count on the government to solve any problems. Because of bureaucratic entanglements, the people who need the help most never got any of it. Storeowners who got burned out. [Recovery is] a long, slow process. It's work at the grassroots. Right now, there's no support from the federal government, and the state is too broke to help out. So things have to be done by people working creatively in cross-cultural groups.
To me one of the most inspiring things is that the graffiti art, with its social and religious themes, has the recipe for recovery. Which is creativity, art, writing, communications. The lion lying down with the lamb. This was true even before the riots. It's really important for people to watch what happens in L.A., because it's a model for all the other cities. As one person who lives 90 miles away said, "Everyone who lives in Southern California is an Angeleno." You can't run away from the cities, because the health of a region depends on the health of its cities.
Sometimes it seems to us in the rest of the country, from the media reports we hear, that much of California is in an economic depression.
Oh, it's in a severe economic depression, especially L.A. They've estimated that the impact of the defense cuts is six times as severe here as elsewhere...plus we were hit very hard by the impact of the savings and loan debacle on real estate...I think there are going to be a lot of people leaving, because they can't get work. People who were working at defense. But in a way, Los Angeles could use the breathing space, in terms of population. Anyway, I have this fantasy that we just grow fruits and vegetables on the vacant lots, and go back to being a farming community.
I guess that's one possible future, if the economy as we knew it doesn't recover.
Yes. And there are no quick turnarounds.
Daniel Redwood is a chiropractor and writer who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is the author of
A Time to Heal: How to Reap the Benefits of Holistic Health,
and is a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
He can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. A collection of his writing is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.doubleclickd.com, and also on the New Age Forum of the Microsoft Network.
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Jim King '52, a former teacher and coach, took over his stepfather's bankrupt roofing business and turned it into Snyder Roofing, the largest roofing business in the Pacific Northwest. In 2001, Oregon State University's Austin Family Business Program recognized Snyder Roofing as the Outstanding Mid-Sized Family-Owned Business in Oregon. That same year, RSI Magazine selected Snyder Roofing as its Contractor of the Year. King lives part time in West Linn and part time at a new home in Welches. He is in the process of transferring the business to his two sons, Scott and Kyle '88.
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Comedy Central's "Key & Peele" help the guys from "Epic Rap Battles of History" with their latest battle: Muhammad Ali vs. Michael Jordan.
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"Why don't you dodge this battle like you did Vietnam," Jordan raps to Ali, "cause you got as much chance of beatin' me as Lebron."
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A former police captain released after nearly 15 years in prison for his ex-wife's slaying landed back in custody for a few hours Thursday after an appeals court ruled a judge was wrong to free him based on bite-mark DNA testing.
A county judge ordered former Akron officer Douglas Prade taken into custody at a morning hearing, but Prade left the county jail in the afternoon because the Ohio Supreme Court granted his request to temporarily block the appeals court ruling.
"This has been a crazy day, but you guys seem to forget I spent 15 years in hell," Prade told reporters as he left the jail.
Prosecutors wanted Prade sent back to prison. But his attorneys are fighting to keep him free while he tries to appeal to the high court, which hasn't said whether it would hear the case.
Prade's attorneys didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment after he was again released.
Prade was freed from prison in January 2013 when now-retired Judge Judy Hunter decided there was convincing evidence of his innocence based on DNA tests. The tests of the bite mark on Dr. Margo Prade's lab coat showed the DNA did not match that of her former husband.
On Wednesday, Ohio's 9th District Court of Appeals said that the DNA testing raised more questions than answers and that Prade's original conviction was based on overwhelming circumstantial evidence.
"Without a doubt, Prade was excluded as a contributor of the DNA that was found in the bite mark section of Margo's lab coat," the ruling said. "The DNA testing, however, produced exceedingly odd results." Each sample produced completely different results, the appeals court said.
"While it is indisputable that there was only one killer, at least two partial male profiles were uncovered within the bite mark," the ruling said.
Prade, who maintains his innocence, had asked the Supreme Court to block the appeals court judgment, citing his intended appeal and an earlier alternative order granting him a new trial, which his attorneys say "provides a strong basis for allowing Mr. Prade to remain released."
Prade had been living in Akron, bought a home and has been getting to know his grandchildren, his attorneys said in the filing as they explained why they don't consider him likely to flee.
Prosecutors indicated they will fight to keep Prade behind bars and will challenge his appeal if the Supreme Court accepts the case.
"In order to be exonerated, Prade and his attorneys needed to show clear and convincing evidence of his innocence — not simply create doubt," county Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh had said. "They failed."
The county prosecutor during Prade's original case was Maureen O'Connor, who is now the Supreme Court's chief justice. She has recused herself from the case.
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The test of the lab coat fabric showed it contained multiple DNA profiles. None matched Douglas Prade's DNA.
An assistant prosecutor told the appeals court in August that the findings showed a possibility that the bite mark evidence was contaminated.
"The only absolute conclusion that can be drawn from the DNA results, however, is that their true meaning will never be known," the 71-page appeals court ruling said.
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TransferWise, which launched in 2011, said Valar Ventures was leading a $6 million funding round, marking the U.S. fund's first investment in Europe.
TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus said having Thiel on board would enable the company to accelerate its expansion plans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Sunday that he had a "productive conversation" with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on efforts to reopen the U.S. government and raise the federal debt limit.
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For Immediate Release:
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Safe Harbor Act Will Help Ensure Safety for Victims of Human Trafficking
Gov. Scott, DCF, DJJ promote January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month
TALLAHASSEE— Children at risk of being sexually exploited in Florida have new hope this year with the implementation of the state's Safe Harbor Act, effective January 1.
The Safe Harbor Act, passed by the 2012 Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott, helps ensure the safety of child victims who have been trafficked for sex. The Safe Harbor Act allows children who are rescued from prostitution to get help from child welfare professionals instead of being placed in juvenile delinquency.
This allows the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Juvenile Justice, law enforcement and our local partners across the state to treat and help the victims of this abuse. They will receive intensive treatment in residential settings that are already being prepared for their safety and success.
"Children are being exploited for sex across this state and are living in constant fear," said Department of Children and Families Secretary David Wilkins. "It is a long process to free these children from the criminals who exploit them, and to provide what they will need to grow up and be successful adults."
A separate law, House Bill 7049, went into effect in July and gives prosecutors the ability to better fight this terrible crime by imposing tougher penalties. Together, the laws have made Florida a national leader in fighting human trafficking and rescuing victims.
"Florida has made great strides in protecting vulnerable children with the Safe Harbor Act," said Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Wansley Walters. "Both DCF and DJJ are exploring ways to identify and address the needs of this unique population."
Since January 2010, DCF has investigated 1,266 cases of alleged human trafficking involving child sexual exploitation. Last year, about 200 trafficked minors received services through DCF and its community-based partners.
National statistics rank Florida as the third highest trafficking destination in the country. Half of all trafficking victims are children. DCF and DJJ are committed to efforts to abolish human trafficking in Florida.
If you are aware of any child or adult in an unsafe situation, please call the Florida Abuse Hotline at 1-800-962-2873.
For more information, and to see local events bringing awareness to Human Trafficking in Florida, please go to www.myflfamilies.com/service-programs/human-trafficking. In addition, Gov. Rick Scott has signed a proclamation naming January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Florida. The proclamation is attached.
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Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Phil Coke spoke softly into his cell phone while sitting in front of his locker at Comerica Park late Wednesday afternoon. It was less than two hours before the Tigers were scheduled to take the field for Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, and Coke described a "quiet confidence" around him in the Tigers clubhouse.
Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Phil Coke spoke softly into his cell phone while sitting in front of his locker at Comerica Park late Wednesday afternoon. It was less than two hours before the Tigers were scheduled to take the field for Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, and Coke described a "quiet confidence" around him in the Tigers clubhouse.
Less than 24 hours earlier, Coke was on the mound facing his former team, the fabled New York Yankees, with two on and two out in the bottom of the ninth inning, and there was nothing quiet about it. With 42,970 on their feet, Coke threw a full-count slider to strike out Raul Ibanez, saving the game for ace Justin Verlander and staking the Tigers to a 3-0 series lead.
"It's everything you dream about as a little kid," said Coke, a Sonora High graduate who was drafted by the Yankees out of Delta College in 2002. "There's nothing better than that."
Game 4 was postponed until today because of rain, but at this point it seems inevitable that the Tigers will eliminate the 27-time world champions to reach the World Series for the first time since 2006.
Coke knows all about the Yankees legacy after pitching for them in 2008 and 2009. He pitched in the final game at the old Yankee Stadium, appeared in the first game at the new Yankee Stadium and won a World Series ring when the Yankees beat the Phillies for their last championship in 2009.
The Yankees traded Coke to the Tigers in a three-team deal a month after winning the World Series. Now he's one of Detroit's most trusted relievers.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland even called on Coke to finish off the Yankees in Games 2 and 3, leaving closer Jose Valverde in the bullpen. Valverde gave up seven earned runs in his past two outings, leading some to wonder if Coke might be the Tigers' new closer.
Coke, who has not allowed a run in his last seven outings dating back to Sept. 30, dismissed those questions.
"Last I checked, that was still (Valverde's) job title," Coke said. "I'm not thinking about anything like that. That's not my job. My job is to go out there and throw the ball over the plate and get as many outs as possible. He's my teammate and I'm going to back him no matter what."
Former Franklin High and Delta standout Fred Jones will lead Morningside College into a battle of NAIA unbeatens when the fourth-ranked Mustangs (6-0) face No. 14 Hastings (6-0) on Saturday at Lloyd Wilson Field in Hastings, Neb.
Jones, a 5-foot-8, 225-pound senior running back, rushed for 147 yards to lead the Mustangs to a 34-14 victory over Hastings last season. He carried 14 times for 56 yards and two touchdowns in a homecoming victory over Dakota Wesleyan last weekend.
Jones is 14th all-time in rushing at Morningside, a small, private school in Sioux City, Iowa. He has 1,373 yards and 11 touchdowns in two seasons since transferring from Delta, where he led the team in rushing in 2009 and 2010.
Stockton native Jalen Saunders became eligible for the ninth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners last week, just in time to make two catches for 54 yards in a 63-21 victory over Texas in the Red River Shootout.
The 5-foot-9, 160-pound junior wide receiver played youth football in Stockton before starring at Elk Grove-Pleasant Grove High School. He spent two years at Fresno State, where he made 50 catches for 1,065 yards in 2011, before transferring to Oklahoma. He petitioned the NCAA for immediate eligibility because he left Fresno State following a coaching change.
"He's a very quick, shifty receiver," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said in his weekly news conference. "He's got great hands and has a great knack for that slot position. He's not a huge guy, but that doesn't matter. ... Jalen is going to bring a lot to what we're doing."
MiLB.com has named St. Mary's graduate Ty Kelly one of 11 organizational all-stars in the Baltimore Orioles' minor league system. Kelly hit .327 with 11 home runs and 70 RBI in 133 games for the Single-A Frederick (Md.) Keys, the Double-A Bowie (Md.) Baysox and the Triple-A Norfolk (Va.) Tides. He played second base, third base and left field, had fewer strikeouts (72) than walks (79) and posted a .892 on-base-plus-slugging-percentage.
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SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) — A woman charged with her newlywed husband in the murder of a man they allegedly lured through Craigslist made up the claim that she killed more than 20 people and is drawing on the escapades of television serial killer "Dexter," her sister said.
Miranda Barbour is "a master at lying," sister Ashley Dean told The Daily Item newspaper of Sunbury, Pa.
"She takes a lot of truths and puts the lie in the middle so when people talk to her they see all these truths and then they believe the lie," Dean told the newspaper.
Dean said she hasn't spoken to her sister since Barbour was arrested Dec. 3. When she heard her sister had been arrested, she assumed it was for drugs because her sister had a drug problem.
The 19-year-old Barbour was in Northumberland County court on Tuesday morning for a pretrial hearing.
Barbour is awaiting trial on charges she killed a man she allegedly lured through a Craigslist ad offering companionship for money. She and her husband, Elytte Barbour, have pleaded not guilty.
Investigators allege the young woman stabbed 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara about 20 times in her parked car as Elytte Barbour held a cord tight against LaFerrara's neck from the back seat and then dumped his body in an alley.
In a jailhouse interview with The Daily Item, Barbour admitted to LaFerrara's slaying and said she had killed at least 22 other people from Alaska to North Carolina in the last six years as part of her involvement in a satanic cult. She told the newspaper that she targeted people "who did bad things and didn't deserve to be here anymore."
Investigators say they have found no evidence to substantiate her claims about a cross-country killing spree.
Ashley Dean said Elytte Barbour loved the TV show "Dexter," and suggested that her sister was repeating its justifications for killing.
"If you listen to what she is saying, she is using descriptions from the show," Dean told The Daily Item.
In "Dexter," a Miami Police Department blood-spatter analyst secretly sought out proven killers and killed them to prevent them from finding more victims.
Dean's assertions make her at least the second relative to cast doubt on her tale. Barbour's father, Sonny Dean, told The Daily Item in February that his daughter was a heroin addict, a liar and a manipulator who "lives in a fantasy world."
Information from: The Daily Item, http://www.dailyitem.com


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Jimmy Franklin Hicks
Jimmy Franklin Hicks, age 65, of Prattsville went to join his Heavenly Father on Tuesday evening, December 17, 2013.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Visitation will be held Saturday, December 21 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Regency Funeral Home in Malvern.
Funeral Service will be held at Sunday, December 22 at 2:00 p.m. at Regency Funeral Home. Burial with full military honors will follow at Lindsey-Poyen Cemetery.
Arrangements are by Regency Funeral Home. You may sign the guest book at www.regencyfuneralhome.com.


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Forex trading software was first introduced in the year 1994 for trading via the Internet. In comparison to the dollar the value of Euro was more. So Euro was launched in 2002 and spread to 12 countries. Therefore, forex trading became easy for anyone have a personal computer with access to the Internet.
One needs to understand what this trading is all about. It deals with foreign exchange that is forex. It is also the principal economic center on foreign currencies handling business worth millions of dollars. Forex is an acronym for foreign exchange. This trading is a process where all the business works are done in the day itself. For example, it is like buying Euros and at the same time selling USD.
Use of the Internet on forex trading
A very small percentage of people or agents having knowledge on forex trading with the help of forex trading software do this business sitting in their apartments using a notebook.
High percentage of business dealings are carried out by big banks and establishments dealing with finance. A good amount of revenue is earned by the public. Based on the fundamental theory of forex trading one can earn huge profits. It is pertinent to note that forex trading is an activity involving high risk also. This trading is done generally through a broker.
Forecast in forex trading
Systematic forecast of prospective market activity is another important factor in forex trading online. A lot of endeavor goes behind this to find out the effects and defects.
Like the share market, the field of trade in foreign currencies, are done during the daytime. In this trade buying and selling takes place during the day though it is very risky but profitable.
How to make profits?
We have to keep an eye on the changing pattern involved in the trade. The forex trader can persistently invest till he is satisfied as no one can forecast the short term.
One can be a very rich person if forex trading is operated in the correct manner by using the genuine forex trading platforms so much so with the gainful understanding that was gathered in this business.


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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley & Nicole Richie: Chloe Fashion Show & Dinner!
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Nicole Richie, and Maria Sharapova pose for photographers while arriving at the Chloe Los Angeles Fashion Show & Dinner held at the The Brody House on Tuesday (October 29) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The three ladies were joined at the event by Zoe Saldana, Mandy Moore, Kiernan Shipka, Roxane Mesquida, her boyfriend Jerome Rousseau, and Geoffroy De La Bourdonnaye, who is the Chief Executive of Chloe.
"Beautiful collection at the Chloe show in L.A. tonight #ChloeLA #FROW," Rosie wrote on her Twitter account.
Also pictured inside: Rosie carrying a bag of groceries to her car after leaving Bristol Farms on Tuesday (October 29) in Hollywood.
FYI: Rosie is dressed head-to-toe in Chloe with a Jennifer Fisher choker. Maria is wearing a dress by Chloe, Christian Louboutin shoes, and a Ferragamo clutch. Maria is wearing Melinda Maria earrings, and rings by W. Britt and Joan Hornig. Mandy is wearing Dana Rebecca Designs jewels.
20+ pictures inside of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Nicole Richie, and others at the Chloe Fashion Show & Dinner…


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As a painter, Pablo Picasso had nothing on me. Sure, he had a Blue Period, but it lasted only three years. My Blue Period has lasted almost 25 years, and every time I've had a painting project, it's made me blue, which is the color of the master bedroom and the adjoining bathroom.
It's also made me green (downstairs bathroom), yellow (upstairs bathroom), white (family room), sea foam (hallway) and rose (living room and dining room, which puts me one up on Picasso's Rose Period).
A few years ago, when I announced to my wife, Sue, that I was retired from painting, she said, "You're not retired. You're just on hiatus."
My hiatus ended recently when I got a request to paint. But it didn't come from Sue, who has been after me to repaint the hallway, which would be the 21st such project in the 15 years we have lived in our house and approximately the 30th if you count our nine previous years in a condo.
The request came from my son-in-law Guillaume, who asked me to help him with his first painting project, a bedroom in the house where he and my younger daughter live.
I had haunting flashbacks to my many painting misadventures. Like the time I painted the kitchen in the condo. The trickiest part was painting around the ceiling fan, where the lights were situated. I worked with the lights on until I smelled something burning. It was my hair, which had come in contact with a hot bulb. I pulled one of two cords -- the one I thought would turn off the lights -- only to discover that I had turned on the fan, whereupon a whirling blade hit me in the head.
It should have knocked some sense into me, but I kept on with the painting projects, including a particularly awful one in the living room of our house, which had huge ceiling beams that Sue wanted me to remove. I initially used a crowbar that punched holes in the ceiling. Then I used a rope to yank the beams down. One narrowly missed my skull. It took me a week to complete the project.
As I told Guillaume, the worst part of painting isn't the painting, it's the prep work. This includes using a mile and a half of masking tape to cover areas you don't want to paint. Then you have to prime the walls and the ceiling. When you paint, you have to put on two coats, though if it's a hot day, you can wear a T-shirt.
The good thing about this latest project was that we didn't have to paint the ceiling. And Guillaume bought a new kind of paint that contained primer. Also, the walls needed only one coat.
The best part was that Guillaume proved to be a natural.
"When I painted for the first time," I told him, "I barely knew which end of the brush to use."
"It could have been a brush with disaster," he replied.
"I am so proud of you!" I exclaimed, knowing this project would be enjoyable because I'd be sharing it with a fellow punster. "This is going to pan out."
"We can put it on our bucket list," said Guillaume.
"It's a good thing our wives aren't here," I said. "They'd bristle at our jokes."
"Yes," Guillaume responded, "but we're on a roll."
It went on like this for most of the day. When our wives got back from shopping, they marveled at the nice job we did and approved of the light pink color.
"I'm going back into retirement now," I told Sue.
"How about the hallway?" she replied.
Unlike Picasso, I have a terrible feeling I am about to enter my Sea Foam Period.
Stamford Advocate columnist Jerry Zezima is the author of "Leave It to Boomer." Visit his blog at www.jerryzezima.blogspot.com. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Scattering Seeds
Our national government is crippled. It lurches from crisis to crisis. Immediate needs (such as relief to victims of Superstorm Sandy) and chronic needs (such as updating ancient infrastructure) go unmet, or are poorly handled.
Enormously wasteful programs and practices continue because of the vise-like grip on elected officials possessed by powerful interests represented by lobbyists. Many of these lobbyists are former government officials; all of them are large contributors to political campaigns.
Many such contributions are hidden from view based upon a warped view of the First Amendment countenanced by a heavily political Supreme Court.
Reform is needed if we are to be governed with rationality, and able to meet the vital needs of our nation's citizenry. Governmental devices that made sense in the 18th century need to be examined. Where the realities of the 21st century dictate, appropriate changes should be given careful consideration, always testing proposals against the bedrock principle of protecting individual rights against governmental oppression
Here are several ideas that might deserve consideration as part of a process intended to make our government more agile and effective:
• Eliminate, or substantially curtail, the use of the filibuster in the United States Senate; and
• Eliminate the process by which "safe" districts are gerrymandered into existence, guaranteeing that incumbent members of the House of Representatives have no reason to fear being ousted except in a party primary.
Those two reforms should operate to make our legislative branch considerably more responsive to the needs of the citizenry, and less in thrall to special interests and narrow political considerations.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Leaders of Minnesota's health insurance marketplace said Wednesday they might postpone next week's deadline to enroll for January coverage, after a chaotic rollout of the state program that led to the resignation of its former executive director.
April Todd-Malmlov, who had led Minnesota's marketplace since its inception under the federal health care law, abruptly resigned Tuesday without a severance package. She faced criticism for taking a vacation to Costa Rica last month amid problems with a buggy website, long helpline waits and erroneous data sent to insurance companies.
Minnesota, a historically progressive state, fully embraced the state-run health exchange advocated in President Barack Obama's signature domestic proposal. But the state's troubles with the rollout of its program in some ways mimicked problems experienced during the rollout of the federal exchanges for states that didn't create their own.
Scott Leitz, an assistant state human services commissioner appointed to replace Todd-Malmlov as MNsure's interim CEO, said the state has increased the number of call center employees in recent days. An IBM division that's one of the main MNsure contractors promised an additional 80 employees to work on-site with MNsure to tackle continued technological problems.
"We acknowledge people have struggled with the website," Leitz said. "There have been times people have been frustrated. We've had long wait times. These are operational issues that need to be addressed, and they will be."
Brian Beutner, the chairman of the MNsure board of directors, said Wednesday that it was under consideration to postpone next Monday's enrollment deadline for those who want coverage starting Jan. 1. Beutner and Leitz stopped short of guaranteeing that every Minnesotan who wants coverage starting Jan. 1 will have it, but said anyone who selected and paid for a plan can count on coverage.
In recent days, the MNsure website has been unavailable for long periods and wait times to its toll-free helpline has, at times, reached 60 minutes. In addition, Minnesota insurance companies said data they're getting from MNsure about enrollees has in many cases been either insufficient or plagued with errors.
Questions about Todd-Malmlov's leadership grew after she took a vacation to Costa Rica. Following disclosure of that trip, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton — who appointed the MNsure board of directors — notably withheld praise for the agency's leadership and called the problems unacceptable. Dayton praised the board for what he called "strong action to change immediately the executive staff leadership" and said Leitz was a good replacement.
In an email Tuesday night to MNsure employees, Todd-Malmlov wrote that her resignation "is necessary to protect the welfare and privacy of my family." MNsure spokeswoman Jenni Bowring-McDonough said Todd-Malmlov received no severance package.
Todd-Malmlov had been earning a $136,680 salary. Leitz will earn the same figure.
Eileen Smith, spokeswoman for the Minnesota Council of Health Plans, which represents the state's largest insurance companies, said insurers in recent days have finally been able to start sending out insurance cards to many people who bought coverage. But she said there are at least several thousand people whose coverage is hung up because of ongoing challenges with MNsure's systems.
She outlined an easier route for purchasers of private insurance who don't qualify for federal subsidies to pay for it: simply contact the insurance company directly and pay them, rather than going through MNsure.
Despite MNsure's problems, the agency reported Wednesday that the number of sign-ups to private insurance plans through the site grew significantly in early December.
By Dec. 14, 11,805 people had signed up for private plans — more than twice the 4,478 private policies that had been purchased by the end of November. That's in addition to 27,150 people who signed up for the state's two public insurance plans through MNsure.
The agency estimates that in all, those sign-ups translate to 97,573 people who will be covered since many plans cover more than one family member.
Associated Press reporter Brian Bakst contributed to this report.


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We know that the cheating went on from both the factories and the privateers who were just trying to do their best to level the playing field. The problem I see is if you tell the privateer he can't run because of a violation, it's not a big deal because there is probably some other privateer that could take his place on the grid. If you tell the factory team they're not going to be allowed to race, SCCA takes a lot of heat from both the factory affected and the track owner who is trying to sell tickets. It's the big name drivers who were driving the attendance and the big name drivers were only in the factory backed cars. It wasn't fair but the SCCA officials seemed to pick on the little guys more.


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400 years and countless Visitations
The Visitation Sisters of Holy Mary celebrate their 400th anniversary.
By Guest Blogger Christina Capecchi
We're in a season of celebrations--weddings and anniversaries, birthdays and graduations--and we are following along, cutting cake, blowing balloons, sealing cards.
But I'm thinking of a different celebration, a spiritual landmark of broad proportions and muted fanfare. This Sunday, June 6, the Visitation Sisters of Holy Mary celebrate their 400th anniversary. If this sounds like just another Order and just another jubilee, don't be mistaken: It's not.
This is an order named after and dedicated to a beautiful exchange in Luke's Gospel, when Mary, who has just learned she is carrying the son of God, travels to the country to visit her older cousin Elizabeth, also pregnant, having long been considered barren. At the sound of Mary's greeting, the infant in Elizabeth's womb leaps and Elizabeth exclaims, "Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
Mary responds, "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior."
And there we have the Hail Mary and the Magnificat, two of the most poetic pieces of praise the Bible gives us. What a lovely basis for a religious order, whose members and friends have humbly replicated that holy exchange time and time again, across the globe and across the centuries.
St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal founded the Visitation Order on June 6, 1610, in the mountain village of Annecy, France. They took a radical stance by inviting widows to join their order, quashing the conventional 17th-century monastic practices that precluded frail older women: sleeping on boards, keeping late vigils, extensive fasting, and perpetual abstinence from meat. Instead, they emphasized interior discipline, which "must make up for all that," St. Francis wrote. The Visitation Sisters practiced the "little virtues" of kindness, cheerfulness, humility, and gentle strength, encouraging everyone they encountered to "be who you are and be that perfectly well."
That's a line my Visitation classmates and I could recite on cue, and what an apt one for teenage girls. Every day we observed little virtues in the sisters on campus. Their soft smiles and daily prayers blanketed the sharp edges of adolescence.
Today, the seeds St. Francis and St. Jane planted 400 years ago have blossomed around the world, with 11 monasteries and four schools in the U.S., including my alma mater in Mendota Heights, Minn. The Visitation Sisters have waged a celebration that, characteristically, is equal parts cheer and humility. One of their undertakings was a keepsake book, The Visitation: A monastic way of life in the Church (available by emailing email@example.com or on Amazon). It crystallizes the order's four-century growth with historical details and vibrant pictures.
"It was one of those wonderful community enterprises," says Sister Mada-Anne Gell, who worked with Sister Mary Berchmans Hannan on the portion highlighting the Georgetown monastery. "We were all checking back and forth. It's a beautiful book."
In addition to the book, the Sisters tapped into modern media to celebrate their anniversary, launching a blog and producing a podcast that shares their beloved spirituality.
On Sunday, members of the international Visitation community will mark 400 years with special Masses, municipal gatherings, television coverage and community celebrations. The 77-member senior class at my alma mater will graduate, and the tradition will continue.
The Visitation is the second joyful mystery of the rosary, which sums up this milestone quite well. To be part of something so deep and full of grace is both a mystery and a joy.
Guest blogger Christina Capecchi is a regular contributor to U.S. Catholic. She writes a syndicated column, Twenty Something, which can be read on her website ReadChristina.com.
Guest blog posts express the views of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians.