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Cheney takes GOP lead in attacking Kerry
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
FULTON, Mo. -- Vice President Dick Cheney, stepping forcefully into his role as John Kerry's chief critic, questioned on Monday whether the Democrat is fit to serve as president in a time of war. Democrats said the tactic is a sign of desperation.
"It's time for Dick Cheney to call off the Republican attack dogs," said Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe.
Cheney is the White House's designated attacker -- held in reserve for the toughest times and sharpest messages. When the vice president goes negative, it usually means the White House is braced for trouble.
This week is no exception:
President Bush and Cheney are scheduled to testify jointly Thursday before the Sept. 11, 2001, commission investigating whether more could have been done to prevent the worst terrorist strikes on U.S. soil.
Saturday is the one-year anniversary of the speech Bush delivered aboard an aircraft carrier celebrating the fall of Baghdad. The address, given under a "Mission Accomplished" banner, has become fodder for Democrats who question the war and argue that it's far from over.
The Supreme Court will consider today whether Cheney must release internal documents detailing the membership of a task force that met privately to help Bush develop an energy plan.
In March, amid rumors that he may be bumped from the ticket, Cheney resurfaced from a long stretch outside the public eye to question Kerry's fitness to be president. "The senator from Massachusetts has given us ample doubts about his judgment," Cheney said at the time.
That speech was part of a larger administration effort to undermine Kerry as the one-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war approached -- a milestone met with violence and voters' doubts.
Cheney returned to the theme Monday, breaking little new ground while repeating the best lines from his March speech. "The senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security," Cheney said at Westminster College, where Winston Churchill in 1946 warned against the "Iron Curtain" of communism.
Kerry has wavered on his commitment to ousting Saddam Hussein as well as his view of the Persian Gulf War coalition built by Bush's father in the 1990s, Cheney said -- backing up his assertions with Kerry's own statements.
He mocked Kerry's habit of producing confusing or contradictory explanations of his own foreign policies, such as when the Democrat said he voted for -- and against -- an $87 billion aid package for Iraq and Afghanistan. Kerry has voted to cut U.S. intelligence spending and consistently underestimates the threat of terrorism, Cheney added.
Faced with voter unease about Iraq, the White House's offensive also includes a $10 million television ad campaign accusing Kerry of opposing vital weapons.
The Kerry campaign responded with a fact sheet detailing the vice president's record as defense secretary under Bush's father, including a long list of proposed weapons cuts sought by Cheney. It quotes Cheney seeking defense cuts during the Cold War.
The Bush campaign maintains that Cheney's positions reflected the availability of a "peace dividend" after the Soviet Union collapsed. Kerry says he supported large increases in defense spending and sought only to eliminate unnecessary programs.
Both men are paying the price for positions taken long ago, many predating Bush's relatively brief political career.
While Bush has Cheney, Kerry has no No. 2. Until he selects a running mate, the four-term Massachusetts senator must rely on second-tier surrogates such as McAuliffe.
"The American people have better things to do with their time than listen to more misleading attacks from a man who has been misleading them from the day he took office," the Democratic chairman said in Washington.
The quick response from Kerry's camp reflects a concern that voters are beginning to view the Democrat in terms cast by Bush: a flip-flopping, tax-raising opportunist.
Later this week, Kerry plans to criticize Cheney's actions on the energy task force and the vice president's ties to Halliburton Co., a major U.S. contractor in Iraq.
The Democrat, whom polls show is in a tight race with Bush, embarked on a bus tour through several states hard hit by the economy. In West Virginia, Kerry was greeted by a Bush newspaper ad criticizing the Democrat's position on coal, the state's treasure.
As for Cheney, polls show him enormously popular among dedicated Republicans but with a high disapproval rating overall. Bush and his political team have quashed rumors that Cheney will be dumped from the ticket.
Cheney is not the first vice president to lead White House criticism of a rival, but he's become an unusually big target.
"What is unique about Cheney is not so much his being used to attack," said Ron Klain, who worked for former Vice President Al Gore in the Clinton White House, "but how much of what is being attacked in the administration stems from him."
Bill Kristol, who worked for former Vice President Dan Quayle, said Democrats are foolish to target Cheney instead of Bush. "Damaging the vice president is of very little importance, ultimately," said Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard.

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Friday, July 03, 2009
Ledezma forever!
Back in Venezuela, with many important endorsements from the US including from mayor's association, Ledezma has found a way to attract more attention to his plight, which is no other than our own plight since Caracas gauleiter Farias has proved herself totally unable to tackle the city problems since she was imposed on us, not even able to meet payroll for her public employees.
Taking advantage of going to the OAS office in Caracas to offer a a formal complaint about constitutional violations in Venezuela, Ledezma decided to stay and stage a hunger strike. You might think this slightly ridiculous but think again. At a time the OAS is all up in arms about alleged constitutional violations in Honduras, Ledezma points out to what are also real constitutional violations in Venezuela that the OAS under Insulza the clown is totally ignoring.
The OAS might or might not do something about it but at the very least it will be a possible embarrassment for Chavez if he keeps screaming a little too much at upcoming OAS meetings on Honduras. And certainly an embarrassment for Insulza since not only he did not do anything for the local election frauds in Nicaragua but he is not saying anything about the attacks on opposition duly elected officials in Venezuela. Wait until they receive him in Tegucigalpa and remind him of these things....
You can look at Google news and observe by yourself how effective is Ledezma in staying in the news. During last year elections in Venezuela I was the first one to predict that Ledezma could actually win the Caracas Metro office, and he did. I do not want to hazard further predictions on Ledezma but I am sure that we can all agree that 1) he is showing folks onw way Chavez can be tackled and 2) that it is a constant battle, not just a matter of appearances at Globovision talk shows. For this, even if he is not one of my favorite politicians, too linked to old AD practices, I must still admit my admiration for the man's fight. Half a dozen more Ledezmas and the Venezuelan opposition would not be in such a weak state.
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Pastor Duane Pederson
The Rev. Dr. Duane C. Pederson began as the interim pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in April of 2014, and he became the settled pastor of the congregation in November of 2015.
Pastor Pederson is married to Charlene and has two sons, two step-children, and four grandchildren. His hobbies and interests include theater, genealogy research, visiting wineries, movies, Lincoln biographies, bicycling, reading fiction, early Montana history, travel, and bacon.
Born in Kalispell, Montana, Pastor Pederson grew up on a farm and ranch, an upbringing that significantly shaped his values, work ethic, and zest for life. He attended Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, where he majored in English and Religion. He graduated from Luther Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree in 1981 and was ordained the same year. While serving Hope Lutheran Church in Bozeman, MT (1981-1985), he received a Master of Education degree in Counseling from Montana State University. He served Edison Park Lutheran Church in Chicago from 1985-1994 and earned a Doctor of Ministry degree at McCormick Theological Seminary in 1991. Pastor Pederson served First Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, WI from 1994-2007 and in 2007 was elected bishop of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin of the ELCA for a six year term. During 2013-2014, he served as interim pastor at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
As an ELCA bishop, Pastor Pederson related to over 300 clergy and lay rostered leaders, 200+ congregations, specialized ministries, ELCA churchwide ministries, the Conference of Bishops, Region V of the ELCA, the Wisconsin Council of Churches, the Lutheran church in southern Brazil and Malawi, Africa, and ELCA colleges and seminaries. He was a member of the Board of Regents at Augsburg College, the Board of Directors for Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, the bishop advisor to the Portico Benefits Board of the ELCA, a director of Mayo Clinic Health System–Eau Claire, and as bishop, Pastor Pederson was the chief executive officer of the synod, presided at Synod Assemblies, and represented the synod in ecumenical and inter-faith endeavors.
During his ministerial career, Pastor Pederson has been involved in many community-oriented initiatives and groups to strengthen neighborhoods and better the lives of others: disaster relief work in North Dakota and Nicaragua, battered women's networks, PTSD therapy with Vietnam Veterans, Hmong and Somali refugee settlement, regional food bank volunteer and board chair, homeless shelter, Kiwanis, inmate counseling at state prison, state and national advocacy for the poor in Madison (WI) and Washington DC, communications instructor at technical college, and capital appeal work with hospitals, hunger organizations, libraries, and churches.
Pastor Pederson has special interest and passion for preaching, teaching biblical material, the faith development of children and youth in the first third of life, and exploring what it means to be the church in a rapidly changing and diverse culture.
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Rooted in the prophetic traditions and collective achievements of African descendants in the United States, African American Studies is an interdisciplinary minor that cultivates a rich understanding of the diverse perspectives within black cultures.
Students who complete the African American studies minor will survey and articulate the artistic, historical, social, and political thoughts and experiences of African Americans within the broader context of American culture.
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HILLSBORO BEACH — So far, police have only rounded up the suspects and called their parents to come get them.
But Hillsboro Beach Police Chief Ralph Dunn promises arrests will be made if anyone is caught trespassing at an abandoned house on State Road A1A.
Over several days, police found 17 people on the property, which is overgrown and resembles a haunted house.
Two weeks before that, officers hidden in the brush stood only feet away from two adults and two juveniles on the property. While the officers listened in the darkness, the people made bets as high as $250 that they could walk through the house alone, Dunn said.
Then the police jumped out of the bushes.
``I guess they kind of scared them,`` Dunn said with a laugh.
Dunn told town commissioners about the problem at their meeting Tuesday morning. They agreed that the police should start arresting trespassers.
The two-story house has been vacant for three years, Dunn said. Painted in pastel colors, the house must have been regal in its prime. But windows are broken now and the landscaping has grown wild.
In other business at the workshop meeting Tuesday, commissioners discussed the possibility of fining residents and condominium developments that generate an excessive number of false fire alarms.
One condominium in town generated 74 percent of the false fire alarms in Hillsboro Beach last year, according to Jim Ray, the Deerfield Beach fire division chief who oversees fire protection for Hillsboro Beach.
Ray told commissioners that the Hillsboro Ocean Club, 1155 State Road A1A, generated 17 of 23 false alarms.
Of those 17, nine were caused by an equipment malfunction and the balance were set off by workers in the building using machines that generate dust, or by people unfamiliar with the alarm system, Ray told commissioners.


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As entrepreneurs, people have to follow their own unique path to success. However, there is something that successful entrepreneurs have in common. They follow every lead. This is very important to do in order for an entrepreneur to be able to profit from his business. As a matter of fact, successful entrepreneur Adam Milstein encourages people to follow every lead they get. After all, most leads are not going to spend money on their first visit. Therefore, follow ups and contact is key to getting the desired sales from the leads that entrepreneurs generate. If the customer is treated like he is important, then he is more likely to buy from the business he visits.
One of the entrepreneurs that recommend following every lead is Adam Milstein. He is a successful and experienced entrepreneur who has learned that the key to success is in the follow through. When people start something, they should realize that it takes commitment in order for one to actually experience the success that he wants. Committing to follow each and every project through to the end is going to have a lot of benefits and rewards for people who manage to do so. This is one of the reasons that Adam Milstein recommends following through with every lead.
One thing that Adam Milstein believes and understands is that if one does not take any shots, then he is going to miss his opportunity to make a profit. Being a successful entrepreneur requires a lot of work in order to make happen. This is why it is important for people to make sure that they are willing to push forward with their goals in a very assertive and passionate way. This is another reason that entrepreneurs are advised to go after goals that mean the most to them.


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DataSF.org is San Francisco's major foray into open and transparent government; it is the city giving its vital data back to its citizens. We talked with the city's mayor, Gavin Newsom, several members of his technology team, led by CTO Blair Adams, and some of the early developers who have already built applications around the data. We've captured all of this in a new video documentary...


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When I started I could only do paintings based on photographs, but my wish to create original art has come trough a while ago with "Alice in Wonderland" painting.
Recently I took my love for painting even further and discovered new medium (to me, I only worked in oils prior to this).
Enter Watercolor. I love it's flowing nature, it gives me ability to let go and allow paint to guide me.
I am so happy with final outcome, and feel as finally things that have been locked inside of me are coming to life.
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Following the federal 2005 Combat Methamphetamine Act and the augmentation of controls of meth precursors in individual U.S. States and in Mexico, the meth trade went into a swoon. Treatment admissions, drug purity and meth lab incidents all dropped substantially. Alas, all signs are that the respite is over.
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health invariably underestimates meth use for a range of reasons, but because this measurement error is fairly systematic, NSDUH is still helpful in judging trends. The latest survey found an eye-popping 59.8% percent increase in the number of Americans reporting past-month meth use. Meth lab incident data also pose some interpretational challenges because of the large variation in size of labs, but the more than 100% increase in the past two years is simply too large to fob off as error of measurement, as the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
What happened? The controls on the purchase of cold medicine (e.g., the Methcheck electronic database) have now been subverted by armies of "smurfers". The only policy that has been shown to lastingly curtail meth labs is making pseudoephedrine containing medicines (e.g., Sudafed) prescription only. Many states are now introducing such legislation, but the cold medicine industry is responding with a flood of lobbying money to prevent the change.
Among the counter-arguments I have heard, the feeblest had been offered by some law enforcement officials who say that Methcheck helps police find and bust methlabs. Since when in law enforcement is it better to allow a crime to happen and bust someone than it is to prevent the crime entirely? Another is that reducing access to cold medicine is too much of an inconvenience to the citizenry. It is an inconvenience, but in a state such as Tennesee that spent countless millions of dollars last year dealing with meth lab explosions, every taxpayer is coughing up something worse than phlegm: Hundreds of extra dollars in their tax bill every year (and people — including a disturbing number of children — who get burned when the labs go up in flames clearly pay a much worse penalty than that)
p.s. If you want to hear a great, short reading by Nick Reding from "Methland", including a vivid account of a meth lab explosion, check out the Stanford Health Policy Forum Video Archive. Select "Methamphetamine: An American Epidemic" — Nick's reading is in the first 15 minutes.


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Stocks continued their selloff Tuesday after a dismal report on existing home sales renewed worries about the economic recovery.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 100 points as the closing bell approached, led by Boeing , Caterpillar and Alcoa , after being down almost 200 earlier.
If the trend holds, this would be the fourth straight decline for the Dow, which has lost 2.3 percent in the past three sessions.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were both down more than 1 percent. The S&P 500 is near short-term oversold levels, according to the 14-day relative strength index, which dipped near the 30 level. The CBOE volatility index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, was above 26.
Existing-home sales fell 27.2 percentin July to an annual rate of 3.83 million units, their lowest pace in 15 years. The prior month was revised lower to show a 5.26 million-unit pace.
The market's decline had initially accelerated amid disappointing in the housing report but soon snapped back as some pockets of gains began to emerge, most notably, in housing stocks.
KB Home , DR Horton and Lennar were among the biggest gainers in the sector. Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers is scheduled to report earnings Wednesday.
"I would stay away from the housing sector right now," warned Todd Schoenberger, managing director at LandColt Trading. "You're going to have massive deflationary pressure on housing prices based on today's numbers, home sellers cutting prices big time and shadow inventory."
Instead, Schoenberger suggested investors look into the travel and leisure sector and noted that the Dow Jones Travel & Leisure index has tripled the S&P 500 this year.
David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff, went even further, using the "D" word in reference to the entire economy — not just the housing sector.
"[W]e are finally exiting the denial stage and heading towards acceptance," Rosenberg said in a note to clients. "[T]his is a depression, and not just some garden-variety recession." He argues that the Obama administration's stimulus measures aren't working and when the U.S. moves away from them, then they "will likely have much more reason to turn optimistic."
Of course, doom is a two-sided coin: Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said Europe is at risk for a double-dip recession because of all the austerity measures there, in an interview with a radio station in Ireland.
Still to come on the housing front, reports on new home sales and weekly mortgage applications are due out Wednesday. New home sales are forecast to be little changed from the previous month at 330,000 according to a consensus from Thomson Reuters.
A few earnings reports to note:
Medtronic skidded more than 10 percent after the medical-device maker reported its earnings rose but sales fell amid softness in the global health-care market.
Burger King was flat after the fast-food chain reported weaker-than-expected revenueand said business would remain under pressure.
And shares of Big Lots fell more than 3 percent even after the discount retailer's earnings beat expectations. The company also raised its forecast for 2010 earnings for the second time.
On the M&A front, Dell may raise its $18-a-share bidfor 3Par to match or exceed Hewlett-Packard's $24-a-share counter offer, according to reports.
Technology, along with financials and industrials, has been leading the market lower in its August slump.
Market pros are getting increasingly worried about tech as even sector darling Apple has struggled. Apple shares are down over 1 percent today and have underperformed in the past month.
Analyst Dennis Gartman, in his daily Gartman Letter, noted Tuesday that "since mid-June Apple has not only failed to make new highs, it has made lower highs and now lower lows. Having closed at $246 last evening, more than 10% below its all time high, the chart looks ominous."
The latest news on the Potash front is that Rio Tinto may bid for fertilizer maker, along with a Chinese partner. Potash is talking with other potential suitors in a bid to get a better price than the nearly $39 billion being offered by Australia's BHP Billiton. BHP Billiton is expected to report earningsWednesday before the bell.
Genzyme and Sanofi-Aventis are continuing discussionsabout a Sanofi takeover of Genzyme, though they still haven't agreed on a price, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Pfizer shares slipped after the company said its lung cancer treatment Sutent failed to meet its goal for longer overall survival in a late-stage trial.
Treasurys soared after the government auctioned $37 billion of 2-year bonds, which had a high yield of 0.498 percent and a bid-to-cover of 3.12.
Auctions of 5-year and7-year notes are expected on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
Oil fell below $72 a barrel, down for the fifth consecutive day. While most oil giants were lower, drillers such as Transocean , Halliburton and Diamond Offshore were up more than 2 percent each.
Shares of Borders Group tumbled following news that the company's finance chief has resigned to take another job. This followed the departure of the CEO earlier this year.
This Week:
WEDNESDAY: MBA mortgage applications, advance report on durable sales, new home sales, weekly oil inventories, 5-year Treasury note auction; Earnings from BHP Billiton, Toll Brothers
THURSDAY: Weekly jobless claims, 7-year Treasury note auction.
FRIDAY: GDP, corporate profits, consumer sentiment; Earnings from Tiffany
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Rose McGowan & Dakota Johnson: Viktor&Rolf Fashion Show!
Rose McGowan attends the Viktor&Rolf fashion show held as a part of Paris Fashion Week Haute-Couture Fall/Winter 2013-2014 on Wednesday (July 3) at La Gaite Lyrique in Paris, France.
"On the way to Viktor_and_Rolf with @camerondecades #late #traffic #hopewemakeit @salvo_nicosia," the 39-year-old actress tweeted while heading to the show.
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"Social Media for business: Why it matters to everyone", by Stephen Baker.
"The big points are that everyone needs social media, to learn, connect, respond, and be seen. I argue toward the end that a crucial skill in this changing world–and this might surprise some people–is good writing. Our words are our ambassadors."
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An excellent essay on social media by +Stephen Baker is attached. Our ability to communicate is a critical 21st century skill. This is certainly true in mathematics as well. I always remind my students, "obtaining an answer is not our only goal, we must communicate to others how we solved the problem!" So often I receive assignments that are totally unreadable — answers magically circled somewhere in the middle of a sea of scratch calculations. Would your future project manager approve of that?
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Community health care services to older people
The research group focuses on care and support issues related to older people. The group emphasizes research concerning care to older people in the community health care services. It has a strong, but not exclusive focus on patient safety and user involvement in nursing homes and the home care services. To ensure relevance for practice, research is conducted in close collaboration with the community health care services. The group is partner of Centre for Caring Research, Southern Norway; a government supported center run by University College of Southeast Norway in collaboration with the University of Agder.
The group aims at producing research results that strengthen and inform the knowledge base supporting the provision of high quality care to older people.
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The academic disciplines involved are embedded in the faculty of health and social studies at University College. Multiple qualitative and quantitative methods are used in the research.
Ongoing research projects:
- Older persons in transition (Project leader: Sigrun Hvalvik). About health related transitions among older people receiving community health care services. The studies are conducted from the perspectives of the patient-, next of kin- and health care professionals in home care and nursing homes.
- Pensioner Associations Activity Centers - something new? (Project leader: Elisabeth Aase). A quantitative and qualitative study exploring younger pensioner attitude and expectation to retirement.
- Toward a safe home living – behavioural classification as a method to detect unusual behavioural for people living alone. (Project leader: Carlos Pfeiffer and Solveig Hauge). The main goal of the project is to identify and describe the requirements for a sensor-based behaviour classification system for a safer home living of old and disabled persons living alone.
PhD projects:
- The transition of older residents into long-term care units in nursing homes - Studies of how newly admitted older residents are perceived, experienced and helped by staff and next of kin. (PhD candidate: Marianne Eika. Supervisor: Sigrun Hvalvik, Bjørg Dale og Geir Arild Espnes). An ethnographic study involving next of kin and health care professionals.
- Patient safety in Nursing Home (PhD candidate: Kathrine Cappelen. Supervisor: Karina Aase, Anette Harris, Solveig Hauge). In this project we translate and validate a questionnaire about safety culture in nursing homes.
- E-health to the older caregiver (PhD candidate: Hilde Solli. Supervisor: Ida Torunn Bjørk, Sigrun Hvalvik, Ragnhild Hellesø). A descriptive study about the relation between family care givers health care professionals using web-forum and web-camera.
- Caring or ignoring? A study examining how psychosocial needs are emphasized in home care services to older patients with dementia (PhD candidate: Anette Hansen. Supervisor: Solveig Hauge, Ådel Bergland). A qualitative study of the psychosocial services to home dwelling older people with dementia.
- Well-being and adult development among retirees (PhD candidate: Lars Bauger. Supervisor: Rob Bongaardt, Sigrun Hvalvik, Bjørg Dale).The project is a qualitative study of recently retired individuals and their experiences with the phenomenon of well-being. The experience with this phenomenon will also be investigated in relation to a constructive developmental perspective.
Collaboration partners
Among the national collaborators is Telemark county, Telemark hospital, University of Agder, University of Stavanger, Centre for Caring Research West and East, Municipality of Skien, Municipality of Porsgrunn.


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This Instructable is about my simple Han Solo frozen in Carbonite Costume. All you need is a cardboard box the size of your body. Then, cut a hole where your face is. Get an old dress shirt and pants,cut them in half, stuff them with newspaper, then glue each half on each side. Then spay paint it silver. You might wants some silver hairspray and face paint to go with it. Enjoy!


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Sheffield's health services face a £30 million gap in finances over the next year - leading bosses to call on city residents to help them set their priorities.
The NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group revealed at its annual meeting that it is facing the worrying shortfall, partly because of a cut to its central grant from the Government.
Dr Tim Moorhead, the CCG's chairman, said a change to the way government money is allocated means the central grant will rise by 2.2 per cent - but this is lower than the average national increase of 3.4 per cent, and will mean a drop in expected funding of about £7m.
This, along with factors such as inflation and increases in demand and the minimum wage, mean the CCG will have to find savings of £30 million.
Difficult decisions will have to be made, said Dr Moorhead, but the CCG wants the people of Sheffield to help shape it's strategy.
He added: "We have to take into account that your experiences of services will be different depending on who we are and where you are in your life.
"It's quite difficult to decide what the priorities are. So we do need to have conversations with you.
"My aim is to make the health of the city better."
At a packed meeting at Bramall Lane in which The Star's editor Nancy Fielder grilled the CCG board, Dr Moorhead outlined his strategy for the next year.
He said: "We had two GP practices shut this year. We don't want any more of that. We want resilient, strong GPs.
"We want urgent care to be better. I think it's confusing in this city. People sometimes end up in the wrong place, but not through any fault of their own.
"We need to support people to recover when they come out of hospital and help them become independent again. We should think about keeping people well and not just being a sickness service.
"And we need to prioritise. We don't have unlimited resources. We have to pick the things that will have the best impact. There's still waste even though our resources are constrained."
The CCG has come up with a strategy to deal with a 'crisis' in GP care, which is based on freeing up GPs from less complex work so they can concentrate on managing the increasing number of complex patients, the majority of whom are older with long-term health problems.
Dr Moorhead added: "We can do a lot of small changes, but the time is probably right for making some much bigger changes as well."
The CCG's accountable officer Maddy Ruff highlighted a number of achievements in the last year. She talked about 'bringing care closer to home', by setting up GP allergy clinics, carrying out gynaecology tests at GP practices and making dermatology diagnoses through photos.
She said the CCG had set up individual care plans, personal budgets for families of children with continuing needs, and social prescriptions such as debt advice.
Mrs Ruff also pointed to the success of the Move More programme, which encourages people to become more active through an app.
"It's all about how we join up services and commission services where we are all working together," she said.
Mrs Ruff said the CCG had invested £1 million on children and young people's mental health services; had set up dedicated mental health for teenagers; created a new service with Sheffield Council for victims of child sexual abuse; and introduced new technology such as responsive inhalers.
And director of finance Julie Newton said the CCG had maintained a one per cent budget surplus - required by the Government - which equated to £7.5 million.
"I'm pleased to say our auditors KPMG gave us a full report saying everything was fine. They didn't ask us to change anything," she said.
"But this year we are having difficulty delivering one per cent. We have agreed with NHS England only to plan on half a per cent and we are finding that really quite tight and a challenge."
The CCG spent an average of £1,273 per person in 2015/16, although this could be anything from zero to hundreds of thousands depending on the individual.
Mrs Newton said: "It takes an enormous amount to change the system and switch one penny of our pound between the acute sector and community and primary care. But that's what we are trying to do."
The CCG in numbers, 2015/16
500,000 outpatient appointments
78,000 planned operations and procedures, including 900 hip replacements
66,000 emergency admissions to hospital
21,000 babies delivered
189,000 accident and emergency attendances
13 million prescription items
1,700 ongoing care packages
£7,738,747 spent on dementia nursing care
£1,132,704 spent prescribing paracetamol
£2,582 per cesarean birth
£195.03 per ambulance journey
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Little Rock attorney has again sued the Arkansas Department of Corrections, arguing the agency needs to publicly disclose labeling materials for an execution drug.
Steven Shults is seeking labeling for the state's supply of midazolam, the first of three drugs used in Arkansas' lethal injection protocol, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported . Shults alleges the department is violating the state's Freedom of Information Act by refusing to disclose the information.
Shults' lawsuit comes three weeks after the state announced it had obtained a new supply of midazolam, a powerful sedative. Gov. Asa Hutchinson later scheduled an inmate for a Nov. 9 lethal injection, marking the state's first scheduled execution since it put four men to death in April. Those executions were the first in Arkansas since 2005.
Prison officials rejected Shults' request for the labeling in August, saying state law bars them from disclosing information about the maker or provider of drugs used in executions. Officials said releasing the information could identify the drug manufacturers involved because labeling materials are distinctive in their shape, size and wording.
The Associated Press used labels to identify one chemical manufacturer in 2015. Lawmakers imposed the secrecy requirements regarding the death penalty drugs after pharmaceutical manufacturers and sellers said they were being harassed for selling the drugs.
Shults wants to be sure prison officials are complying with state law, according to his lawyer.
Shults also sued the department in March to see the labeling for potassium chloride, another drug used in the execution process. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen ruled in his favor, but the Arkansas Supreme Court put the ruling on hold as the state appeals.
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The most recent Nail Art Society kit is called The Great Glitzy and it is a collab with Floss Gloss. In the kit, you will receive Floss Gloss' Dimepiece or Stun, a pot of glitters (either silver or gold, depending on which glitter polish you received), a baggie of rhinestones and pearls, and an orange stick.
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Mohali: Amid intense speculation on the nature of the PCA pitch ahead of the opening Test between India and South Africa, chief curator Daljit Singh said the ageing track might be on the slower side but it will definitely be result-oriented.
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"It's a normal Mohali wicket. Our pitch is 23-year-old, so it is not the same old fresh pitch as before. It is an ageing pitch, which has not been re-laid, but it has played well in the matches that have happened in the recent past.
"It might have slowed down a bit as it is an old pitch.
Like humans, the pitch also grows old. We have repaired the footmarks that were left in the previous matches and it will certainly hold well," the former first-class player said.
Daljit hopes that the track would turn out to be a sporting one.
"The main aim of the curator is to prepare a result-oriented track and that's what we have tried. The skills of the game should come on display, whether it is fast bowling, spin or bat. So we are hoping that it turns out to be a sporting track as there is prediction of rain as well on one of the days," he said.
With the Indian team management being very vocal about the pitches not favouring the hosts, Daljit said that the whole 'home' scenario is nothing new.
"Home advantage is nothing new. But it has its limitations as well. The character of the pitch will remain the same no matter what," Daljit said.
"We have not made the pitch looking at one team and it remains to be seen how it will behave. A curator does not decide the result of the match. Our job is to prepare the track and then it is up to the players to perform on it."
Asked whether the controversies regarding the nature of a wickets only happens in India, Daljit said that it was an around-the-world phenomenon.
"It happens everywhere. See what happened in England when they lost the first Test, the second Test ended in two days.
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of people in love is also helping to refine science's grasp of love's various forms. Helen Fisher, a researcher at Rutgers University, and the author of a new book on love, suggests it comes in three flavours: lust, romantic love and long-term attachment. There is some overlap but, in essence, these are separate phenomena, with their own emotional and motivational systems, and accompanying chemicals. These systems have evolved to enable, respectively, mating, pair-bonding and parenting.
Lust, of course, involves a craving for sex. Jim Pfaus, a psychologist at Concordia University, in Montreal, says the aftermath of lustful sex is similar to the state induced by taking opiates. A heady mix of chemical changes occurs, including increases in the levels of serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin and endogenous opioids (the body's natural equivalent of heroin). This may serve many functions, to relax the body, induce pleasure and satiety, and perhaps induce bonding to the very features that one has just experienced all this with, says Dr Pfaus.
Then there is attraction, or the state of being in love (what is sometimes known as romantic or obsessive love). This is a refinement of mere lust that allows people to home in on a particular mate. This state is characterised by feelings of exhilaration, and intrusive, obsessive thoughts about the object of one's affection. Some researchers suggest this mental state might share neurochemical characteristics with the manic phase of manic depression. Dr Fisher's work, however, suggests that the actual behavioural patterns of those in lovesuch as attempting to evoke reciprocal responses in one's loved oneresemble obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
That raises the question of whether it is possible to "treat" this romantic state clinically, as can be done with OCD. The parents of any love-besotted teenager might want to know the answer to that. Dr Fisher suggests it might, indeed, be possible to inhibit feelings of romantic love, but only at its early stages. OCD is characterised by low levels of a chemical called serotonin. Drugs such as Prozac work by keeping serotonin hanging around in the brain for longer than normal, so they might stave off romantic feelings. (This also means that people taking anti-depressants may be jeopardising their ability to fall in love.) But once romantic love begins in earnest, it is one of the strongest drives on Earth. Dr Fisher says it seems to be more powerful than hunger. A little serotonin would be unlikely to stifle it.
Wonderful though it is, romantic love is unstablenot a good basis for child-rearing. But the final stage of love, long-term attachment, allows parents to co-operate in raising children. This state, says Dr Fisher, is characterised by feelings of calm, security, social comfort and emotional union.
Because they are independent, these three systems can work simultaneouslywith dangerous results. As Dr Fisher explains, "you can feel deep attachment for a long-term spouse, while you feel romantic love for someone else, while you feel the sex drive in situations unrelated to either partner." This independence means it is possible to love more than one person at a time, a situation that leads to jealousy, adultery and divorcethough also to the possibilities of promiscuity and polygamy, with the likelihood of extra children, and thus a bigger stake in the genetic future, that those behaviours bring. As Dr Fisher observes, We were not built to be happy but to reproduce.
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Saran Wrap Smush & Triangles with MoYou London Pro 02 XL
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Pretty color combo! It looks pretty :)ReplyDelete
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wow that's awesome! I have that plate so I have to try this once!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Monday, March 15, 2010
The Dangers of Cheese
I am sad to read the news, but not surprised (in fact more surprised that Nanny hasn't stopped this event before), that the Cooper's Hill annual cheese rolling event has been cancelled.
For why?
Health and safety!
Seemingly Nanny is worried about the number of people that turn up to the event.
Isn't it odd how dictatorships and Nanny both hate people congregating in groups?
Anyhoo, the local police and council didn't like the idea that 15,000 people may turn up (as they did last year), and so the event has been cancelled.
Cheese rolling had, until Nanny came along, been staged at Cooper's Hill for around 400 years.
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- Anonymous1:19 PM
I wonder how exactly they dictate how many people can safely be at an event anyhow?ReplyDelete
Is it number of coppers vs punters?
I remember visiting footy matches as a wee boy where there seemed to be more police than plebs. Strangely, it didn't make me feel any safer, especially when our lovely boys in blue started hammering their riot shields with their truncheons.
- Tonk.1:20 PM
Nanny doesn't only hate people coming together in groups, she really hates people having fun....You see, if people have fun, without Nanny supplying it, people may actually realise they don't need Nanny....Nanny often uses another technique to get events cancelled; She imposes crazy conditions in relation to insurances, policing costs and risk assessments....These usually make the would be organisers decide to go ahead with their event is too much hastle.ReplyDelete
- Tonk.2:50 PM
I'm not surprised...We had a local raft race cancelled due to Local Nanny's conditions relating to Policing, public liability insurance and a large number of qualified lifeguards being required...This event was organised by the local scouts and had been going for decades and of course, their had never been any injuries nor deaths during that time.....Give someone a hi viz jacket and a clipboard and the perceived power goes to their head.
- Archroy5:13 PM
I think I might just shade this one to Nanny. 15,000 people turning up at a site on a very sloping field with no facilities for crowds might be a bit of a problem.ReplyDelete
Now if there were more cheese-rolling events, we could all go to our local one and not have to go in a huge mob to Gloucestershire.
Could be a problem cheese-rolling in Norfolk.
- Lord of Atlantis1:45 PM
This is just typical of the jobsworths and killjoys infesting the elf'n'safety industry. There are a lot of sports which are far more dangerous than cheese rolling, such as football, Rugby, mountain climbing etc. I am not for one moment suggesting that these should be banned, far from it, but in my opinion, a lot of these people are bullies, and it's easy to pick on a relatively small group such as cheese rollers, for example. However, most bullies are cowards, so they will take little or no action against sports such as the ones I have mentioned, which have a large following, who might turn 'nasty' if they (elf'n'safety) were to shove their unwanted snouts into the way these games are conducted. This also explains why they take little or no action against the carnage on the roads. No, they prefer 'easy' victims, such as cheese rollers or those who like myself enjoy swimming in rivers and lakes.ReplyDelete


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Antioxidants 2013, 2(3), 132-155; https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox2030132
The Antioxidants Changes in Ornamental Flowers during Development and Senescence
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, Milano 20133, Italy
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Received: 11 July 2013 / Revised: 24 July 2013 / Accepted: 26 July 2013 / Published: 6 August 2013
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plant Antioxidants)
AbstractThe concentration of antioxidant compounds is constitutive and variable from species to species and is also variable considering the development of the plant tissue. In this review, we take into consideration the antioxidant changes and the physiological, biochemical and molecular factors that are able to modulate the accumulation of antioxidant compounds in ornamental flowers during the whole development process until the senescence. Many ornamental flowers are natural sources of very important bioactive compounds with benefit to the human health and their possible role as dietary components has been reported. The most part of antioxidants are flower pigments such as carotenoids and polyphenols, often present in higher concentration compared with the most common fruits and vegetables. The antioxidants content changes during development and during senescence many biochemical systems and molecular mechanisms are activated to counteract the increase of reactive oxygen species and free radicals. There is a tight correlation between antioxidants and senescence processes and this aspect is detailed and appropriately discussed. View Full-Text
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NUTR: Nutrition Science
5300. Nutrition for Wellness (3)
P: One course in clinical nutrition and one in nutrition education. Planning, implementing, and evaluating nutrition services and education in wellness programs.
6000. Vegetarian Nutrition (3)
Review of available scientific literature regarding the role of vegetarian diets in growth and development and in aging, with special emphasis on the role of vegetarian diets in the prevention and treatment of chronic health conditions.
6031. Practicum in Clinical Dietetics (3)
P: Admission to the dietetic internship. Development and integration of knowledge and skills in clinical dietetics practice settings.
6032. Practicum in Community Dietetics (3)
P: Admission to the dietetic internship. Development and integration of knowledge and skills in community dietetics practice settings.
6033. Practicum in Food Systems Management (3)
P: Admission to the dietetic internship. Development and integration of knowledge and skills in food systems management practice settings.
6100. Independent Research (1,2,3)
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 s.h. P: Consent of permanent graduate advisor. Conduct independent research study on topic related to program concentration.
6102. Current Issues in Clinical Nutrition (1)
P: NUTR 4312, 4313; or consent of instructor. In-depth review and presentation of current topics and issues in clinical nutrition. Subjects and course subtitles vary. Course may be repeated for credit with different subtitles.
6105. Human Nutrition in Physiology and Metabolism (3)
P: NUTR 3105, 3106; or equivalent. Integrates normal nutrition and metabolism at cellular level with physiologic functions of tissues, organs, and systems in humans.
6110. Nutrition Support (3)
P: NUTR 6105. Nutrition support dietetics including enteral and parenteral nutrition. Stages of the life cycle and specific disease states as they modify nutrition support needs are considered.
6120. Advanced Clinical Nutrition (3)
P: NUTR 4312, 4313, 6105. In-depth study of theory. Applies medical nutrition therapy to management of specific diseases.
6200. Methods in Nutrition Research (3)
P: Graduate standing in nutrition and dietetics or consent of instructor; C: Graduate-level statistics course. Review research methodologies in nutrition and develop research proposal.
6250. Nutritional Epidemiology (3)
P: BIOS 7021; NUTR 6200. Epidemiological principles and methodology to study nutritional determinants of disease.
6400. Food and Behavior (3)
Behavior change theory and the influence of the environmental, economic, cultural, interpersonal and physiological factors on food behaviors.
6500. Pediatric Nutrition (3)
P: NUTR 6105. Advanced study of nutritional requirements during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Nutritional support of child with special problems.
6510. Maternal and Infant Nutrition (3)
P: NUTR 6105. Advanced study of nutritional needs of infants and pregnant and lactating women.
6520. Geriatric Nutrition (3)
P: NUTR 6105. Advanced study of role of nutrition in aging process. Nutrition-related health problems of the elderly and nutrition advocacy and education for elderly.
6530. Drug-Nutrient Interactions (3)
P: NUTR 6105. Examination of pharmacological and nutrient interactions, including drug-nutrient metabolism, problem identification, interpretation of scientific data and health issues, public health policy, and emerging legislative issues.
6600. Management in Dietetics (3)
P: NUTR 6200. Leadership and management principles for dietetics professionals and programs.
6610. Nutrition and Public Health Issues (3) Same as MPH 6610
P: Consent of instructor. Examines science base for community nutrition, including problem identification, interpretation of nutritional data and scientific issues, public health policy, societal and health trends, and emerging legislative issues related to nutrition and public health.
6640. Interdisciplinary Community Rural Health Practicum (3)
P: Admission to dietetic internship or consent of instructor. Prepares health care professionals for community-based practice in rural setting. Provides service to underserved rural citizens.
6900. Review of Current Literature (2)
P: Consent of permanent graduate advisor. Intensive review of current literature in selected topic. Enrollment during semester in which written and oral comprehensive exams for non-thesis program are completed.
6950. Seminar in Nutrition (1)
P: Consent of permanent graduate advisor. Review, evaluation, and presentation of current research.
7000. Thesis (1-6)
May be repeated. May count a maximum of 6 s.h.
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Water in the West / Spotlight ??? Jon Bowermaster / Closing Remarks
Turning the Tide 2010: Conversations about water rights and issues, general conservation, and the event's closing remarks.
Welcome to Turning the Tide
Brian O'Neill, Greg Moore, and Janet Lamkin kick off the 2009 Turning the Tide Conference at the Institute at the Golden Gate.
What the Ocean Tells Us
Through his National Geographic-sponsored OCEANS 8 project, writer and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster and his teams voyaged around the world by sea kayak, sail, foot, and small plane.
What's Good For You is Good For the Planet /Building Next-Generation Economies for Earth's Ecosystems /Park Prescriptions for the Outdoors
Turning the Tide Conference 2010.
Youth Speaks at Turning the Tide
Turning the Tide Conference 2009: Youth Speaks presented by the Institute at the Golden Gate


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After enduring years of government downsizing and bureaucracy-bashing, Uncle Sam is discovering he's perilously low on federal workers.
Just three years from now, more than half of the federal workforce will qualify for retirement, including more than 70 percent of experienced, top employees known as career senior executives. At the same time, the war on terrorism is forcing the government to ramp up at a speed and to a degree unforeseen before the attacks of Sept. 11.
"What has been a quiet crisis risks becoming the perfect storm," says Max Stier of Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit group that is targeting young people and mid-career professionals for government work.
Working in the government's favor is that Americans' interest in serving the public has been rekindled since the Sept. 11 attacks. In addition, the White House, members of Congress, and even academia are trying to make federal jobs more competitive with the private sector - a huge task.
"I've never been more hopeful about the possibility for reform than right now," says Paul Light, director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution here. "This is a moment in time. It's been 25 years since we've taken a comprehensive look at civil service."
Ironically, George W. Bush, who campaigned against big government in Washington, is now faced with increasing both federal spending and the size of government. Congress has approved $40 billion to reinforce the military and security, and pay for cleanup of the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
But it is asking for more. The Senate, for one, wants baggage and passenger screeners at airports to become federal employees. The US House and Mr. Bush prefer to have federal supervision of those duties, but to keep the workers in the private sector.
Still, there's little doubt that agencies need more qualified people to watch the borders, guard the airports, protect from biological and chemical terrorism, and gather intelligence.
By 2005, Mr. Light predicts, the federal workforce will grow by 500,000 to 1.5 million people, either new employees or people who work for private companies under contract to the government. A Brookings survey released last week shows that 59 percent of the "war on terrorism" workforce say they sometimes or rarely have enough staff to do their jobs.
But how to attract applicants when US agencies don't recruit at colleges and typically take six months to hire an employee?
Last month, Sen. George Voinovich (R) of Ohio and Rep. Constance Morella (R) of Maryland announced legislation that would give US agencies many private-sector tools to hire and keep good people. For instance, they propose that the federal government pay new recruits' college loans - tax free. They would give federal agencies power to shorten the time it takes to hire, and greater flexibility to approve pay raises.
The legislation overlaps with the Freedom to Manage Act, which Bush recently unveiled. Mr. Voinovich plans to merge the proposals.
In a positive sign, Ms. Morella notes, more than 34,000 people have applied to become US air marshals; about 2,700 federal retirees have inquired about returning to work; and more than 1,400 people have expressed interest in working for the FBI as linguists. But interest can fizzle, she warns, after people get a closer look at the slow hiring process, poor pay, and lack of clear career paths.
"We must act quickly," she says, "because a great nation can't rely on national emergencies to fill the ranks of its civil servants."


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One of the goodies on the forthcoming Blu-ray release of The Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector's Edition is Christian Bale's screen test for the lead role in Batman Begins.
The audition, which can be seen below, is notable for a few things. First, Bale is already using his divisive Bat-Voice (albeit a toned down version of it) and is wearing Val Kilmer's Batsuit from Batman Forever. And reading opposite him in the role of Rachel Dawes is none other than Amy Adams, who would star opposite Bale in two future films (The Fighter and the upcoming American Hustle), and would also eventually play Lois Lane in Man of Steel.
The featurettes also confirm old rumors that director Christopher Nolan initially offered Gary Oldman the role of Ra's Al Ghul, but he turned it down. As you know, Oldman would end up playing Commissioner Gordon with Liam Neeson cast as Ra's instead.
Via Batman-News and Dark Horizons.


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Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, defined it as "the law of God, the law of good . . . " (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1). In Christian Science, God is understood to be infinite Love, and so invariably good that a clear glimpse of this through prayer has power to heal, redeem, and restore anyone.
A lifelong student of the Bible, who yearned from her youth to find deeper answers to the persistent question of human suffering, Mary Baker Eddy turned wholeheartedly to God when she experienced a critical injury in 1866. As she read accounts of Jesus' swift, powerful healings, a new sense of God, Spirit, as the only reality flooded her thought and healed her. Impelled to understand the Principle behind this experience, she continued to search for and find in the Bible the underlying laws of God that would form the basis of her teaching and practice of Christian Science.
From her time to ours, many have found that when they understand their relationship to God better through this Science of Christianity, their health is restored and character transformed. And each healing inspires a heartfelt desire to help others know and experience how loved we all are by God.
Read Mary Baker Eddy's primary work, the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Beliefs and teachings
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, outlined a few brief tenets, rather than a creed or doctrinal beliefs, that summarize the essential points of Christian Science, all of which are rooted in the Bible.
The Bible
The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is the foundation for the theology and practice of Christian Science. For Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science flowed out of an inspired understanding of the Bible, which illumined the divine laws behind spiritual healing.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy considered herself a spiritual pioneer whose work encompassed the disciplines of science, theology, and medicine. After her discovery of God's laws as powerful spiritual mandates, always present and operating to heal, redeem, and bless humanity, she devoted her life to practicing, teaching, and sharing this healing Science of Christianity.
How can I be healed?
What can we do when we feel the need for healing in any area of our life? The Bible gives us a standard of healing resting on timeless spiritual laws. Anyone can learn and apply these spiritually scientific ideas to the demands of today and find resolution that proves God's goodness.


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Unique Approach to Pain Management
We believe that traditional approaches to pain management were based on outdated models of treatment and that effective management of pain was rarely, if ever achieved by taking these approaches. At the Bay Area Pain & Wellness Center, we hope to change the practice of pain medicine by incorporating the latest care techniques in a sophisticated manner which addresses the entire person, not just the symptoms themselves.
What should I expect?
Because we are attempting to create a change in the way that pain management is practiced, we would like to provide you with some basic concepts about our process that can help you understand our multidisciplinary approach to an often-complex pain problem.
Recent Injuries or Pain
First, if you have recently injured yourself or developed pain (within the last six months), you are likely experiencing acute pain. Our approach to acute pain problems includes a full evaluation of the likely causes of your pain. This evaluation will include a review of available records and/or test results from previous doctor visits. This review process will outline which tests or treatments have already been done, other doctors' opinions and recommendations, and your response to their treatments. We will also have you complete a questionnaire before your visit.
Our evaluation will include a physical examination. At the end of the visit, we will give you our best diagnosis. Occasionally, we may reserve judgment until you receive additional testing to help us make a more informed analysis of your pain problem. Once we have established what we believe to be your diagnosis, we will then provide you with information about our philosophy of care for this problem and information about what to expect in terms of treatment. If we feel that we have a good idea of the cause of your pain, we may also recommend specific medical treatments at the end of your first visit. These treatments may include prescriptions for medications, therapeutic or diagnostic injections, and/or physical therapy. Once we have established what we believe to be your diagnosis, we will then provide you with information about our philosophy of care for this problem and information about what to expect in terms of treatment.
Treating a person as a whole also means looking out for your emotional well being. It is our experience that pain often creates huge emotional stressors for people since it disrupts their lives in terms of the normal activities of living, including family, job and financial responsibilities. We believe that these emotional consequences can intensify the experience of pain, and we also know that having support in managing the emotional and social consequences of pain can help an acute problem heal faster and more completely.
Because we attempt to treat the whole person, and not just the affected body parts, we may send you to meet with our medical psychologist as a part of the initial evaluation. By doing this, we are not implying in any way that your pain is not real or is caused by mental factors. If you have had pain for quite a while, we will still make every effort to determine the underlying causes of the pain and to remedy these to the best of our ability. Often after significant time has passed we cannot offer a quick "fix" to the problem. This may be due to several reasons.
First, some types of pain are caused by several underlying problems rather than just one cause. In these cases, a simple fix may not be helpful, and it might lead to a worsening of your pain problem.
Secondly, when pain has lasted beyond the expected and normal healing phase (usually three to six months), the body changes in ways that makes the cause of your pain more complex. In some situations, your entire nervous system becomes involved in the experience of pain, not just the area where you feel the pain. In other situations, multiple systems of the body become involved, including muscles, nerves, bones, ligaments, tendons and discs. A pain problem that is the result of multiple causes is obviously more difficult to manage from a medical perspective and often requires a shift in the way the problem is treated.
What if My Pain is Chronic?
People with chronic pain problems (pain that has lasted for more than six months and is likely to be ongoing) must be managed in a very different way than people who have just been injured or have just experienced the first symptoms of pain. If a "cure" is no longer possible, we feel the best approach is to work with patients to help them learn to manage their pain more effectively. In our experience, the effective management of pain requires a very well designed plan that includes many different levels of intervention. We believe that the best way to understand our approach is to compare pain to other chronic illnesses like diabetes or high blood pressure. Both of these other conditions must be managed over time, primarily by the patient. Either of these conditions can be life-threatening if they are not properly managed. The goal of treatment is to educate patients about how to change their lifestyles so that the conditions are stabilized and do not create significant disruptions in their lives. We want to help you develop your own tools for managing pain so that you can both reduce your usual pain and avoid excruciating flare-ups.
When the physician sees you for your first visit, he or she will attempt to understand the causes of your chronic pain and whether or not your previous treatments were appropriate and sufficient. If your doctor does not feel that he has enough information, you may be asked to complete more testing and assessment. Because of the complex nature of most chronic pain problems and the often dramatic effect that it has had on your life, your care may include participation in a multidisciplinary treatment plan. This will include education (on the causes of your pain and effective ways to manage your specific condition), psychological services (to address the emotional consequences of your pain and the effect on family), and physical rehabilitation (to help you get stronger and stay fit).
At the end of your medical evaluation visit(s), your doctor may refer you to one of our psychologists for an assessment of behavioral or emotional factors that are likely caused by your pain. After your visit, your physician and psychologist will discuss your case and develop the most effective treatment plan for your particular pain problem. They may also give you educational materials to take home and read on your own about things you can do to manage your pain in addition to trying the treatments recommended by your doctor. Our years of experience have taught us that the best pain management occurs when both the doctors and the patients work together to manage the disease of chronic pain.


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Legal Services for the Poor: Access, Self-Interest, and Pro Bono
ACCESS TO JUSTICE: SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME, LAW AND DEVIANCE, Rebecca L., Sandefur, eds., Vol. 12, pp. 145-166, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009
34 Pages Posted: 12 Mar 2009
Date Written: March 11, 2009
Purpose Decreasing governmental support means access to legal services for the poor depends on the interests of private actors controlling the needed resources. Law firms are a major source of resources for non-profit entities providing legal services. This paper examines the nature of that support.
Design/Methodology/Approach Law firms are guided by self-interest. How this influences their pro bono activities is explored through a case study of legal services in Cook County, IL (Chicago). The study draws from: documentary research on over fifty private legal service providers in Cook County; interviews with thirty-one lawyers involved in legal services; and a focus group with ten lawyers involved in legal services.
Findings The interests driving law firm support for legal services do not match the demonstrated areas of greatest legal need or the stated purposes of the non-profit entities receiving that support. Instead, they reflect reasonable firm self-interest in such goals as lawyer training and marketing. Consequently, non-profits receiving support must accommodate themselves to those goals.
Research limitations/implications This study points to the need for more empirical research into the consequences of the privatization of legal services.
Originality/Value Privatization means that some crucial legal needs will never be met, and this study provides an empirical context for the debate over "civil Gideon" - whether there should be a constitutional right to legal representation in civil matters akin to the constitutional right in criminal matters.
Keywords: Legal Services, Pro Bono, Law Firms, Civil Gideon
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You have heard, no doubt, about San Diego being called America's Finest City. This was a great example of PR helping turn a real negative into an overwhelming positive. Even the most casual traveler to San Diego will read, hear or see somewhere the municipal boast of being "America's Finest City." The 37-year civic moniker isn't the product of a focus group, a marketing study or an advertising agency. Rather, it emerged from a public relations embarrassment in 1972 for a city eager to get into the top tier of convention destinations, and for a new, young Republican mayor who had a chance to climb onto the national political stage.
In early 1972, the Republican National Committee announced it was rescinding its decision a year earlier to select San Diego to host the Republican National Convention that would nominate President Richard Nixon. Miami Beach was chosen as the substitute host city. The announcement was a blow to the city's business, civic and Republican leadership. Millions of dollars had been raised to support the convention. Hotels and motels throughout the region agreed to clear rooms in mid-August (the city's most lucrative visitor month). Significant planning had been undertaken for security, transportation, events, media accommodations, and for modifying the convention site, the Sports Arena.
The city and its Republican Mayor Pete Wilson were beginning to attract considerable favorable national attention anticipating the convention. It all went up in smoke with the RNC's announcement, which suggested that the city really didn't have sufficient convention facilities and rooms to adequately handle the surge. (The truth, which emerged months later from classified federal documents, was that the Nixon White House was primarily concerned about the threat of massive protests against the President. The physical layout of Miami Beach was far superior to San Diego for limiting access to the convention area.)
The decision and the RNC's phony public explanation infuriated Mayor Wilson. It was a slap in the face by otherwise friendly White House Republicans who had led the campaign for San Diego in the first place. Further, and a bigger concern for the mayor, was the impression that would be left that San Diego was a second-tier convention city – an impression with lasting negative economic consequences. It was a visibly irritated mayor who faced a bank of local, state and national cameras and reporters to suggest that the RNC was misguided, and, worse, had misrepresented the ability of San Diego to accommodate the convention.
In fact, he said, "We are America's Finest City" and then asked his PR director to see what he could do about getting that fact known. So, while the RNC hosts its convention in Miami Beach, San Diego would undertake a large-scale civic celebration of that status. When the week came in August, hundreds of organizations – civic, nonprofits, business, military, ethnic and neighborhood – sponsored a rich variety of events: A giant parade downtown, an "America's Finest City" half-marathon, and an All States Picnic in Balboa Park, where San Diegans from different states could mingle with other like-minded citizens who had chosen to leave their home states for San Diego. An outdoor civic concert. The "Go Fly a Kite and Sail a Boat" event. Ethnic festivals. Navy demonstrations. Some of these annual events still survive, 37 years later.
It was a huge civic celebration where Thomas and the Mayor's office acted as the coordinator of events, scheduling and – most important – promotion of the event schedule. The local media gave the events great coverage, including public service announcements of the schedules. And the national media couldn't resist covering the civic celebration during the Miami Beach convention.
Mayor Pete Wilson went on to be elected to the United States Senate, and then to serve two terms as Governor of California, winning more statewide elections than any other person in state history.
San Diego would get another chance to host the Republican Convention two decades later. It was hosted in a new bayside convention center championed by Mayor Wilson in his farsighted redevelopment of Downtown San Diego that included thousands of new bay front hotel rooms. It was a tremendous success.


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The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay.
Linux provides free and open access to the source for the OS itself. Developers are free to tailor a custom Linux -- even down to the level of the kernel itself. You can trim away drivers, services, and other OS components unneeded by the task for which the custom distribution will be targeted.
[Check out InfoWorld Test Center's previous roundup of specialized Linux distributions.]
In addition, because Linux thrives on a universe of free software, developers can be choosy about the pre-installed packages they supply with their custom system. One can easily construct a user environment tuned to a specific application.
The specialized Linuxes in this roundup showcase the advantages of customizing both OS components and user-level software. I look at a pair of firewall Linuxes -- IPCop and m0n0wall -- a Linux SAN/NAS appliance called OpenFiler, and two Linuxes for musicians -- Ubuntu Studio and Musix. The final duo of distributions, Ubuntu Christian Edition and Ubuntu Muslim Edition, are targeted at members of those corresponding religions.