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About Aramark
Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) is in the customer service business across food, facilities and uniforms, wherever people work, learn, recover, and play. United by a passion to serve, our more than 270,000 employees deliver experiences that enrich and nourish the lives of millions of people in 22 countries around the world every day. Aramark is recognized among the Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE and the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. Learn more at www.aramark.com or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter.
Job Summary: The cashier position is vital to achieving positive customer service and is responsible for successfully completing the financial transaction with the customer and maintaining the balance of the cash drawer at all times.
Essential Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Maintain a positive attitude and smile
- Greet customers as they approach the cash register and be polite with customers during the transaction
- Must have knowledge of cash register, credit card machines, and Aramark cashier policy in order to effectively service the customer
- Must be familiar with all menu items and pricing to effectively complete financial transactions and answer questions from customers
- Maintain an organized, neat and clean cashier station
- Stock service areas with paper goods, condiments, beverages, and food items as needed
- Count, organize, and balance the cash drawer; fill out the cashier slip; and make deposits while in the presence of a manager or supervisor
- Distribute promotional material and customer loyalty rewards as necessary
- Monitor theft in the location and report incidents to managers
- Assist with daily functions in the kitchen, food court, or dining room during down time
- Must be able to stand for extended periods of time
- Must be able to lift 20 lbs
- Ability to understand and follow directions given by management
- Report safety hazards discovered in the location to management immediately
- Involves repetitive motion
Additional Job Functions:
- Cross-train at other positions in the location
- Work at other stations and in other departments as necessary
- Completion of any task requested by a supervisor or member of the Aramark management team
Work Environment: Front-of-house, cash register station, dining room floor. Involves repetitive motion
Required Qualifications:
- Food Prep is a requirement
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent customer service and a positive attitude
- Must be able to work in a team environment
- Must have the ability to multitask and solve problems
- Experience running a cash register, knowledge of processing a credit card reader and performing credit card transactions
- Math skills for counting money and providing correct change
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- Experience in the food service industry or grocery is highly desirable
- High school education or equivalent
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text: Keratoprosthesis - Patient Evaluation and Selection Information for Referring Physicians Corneal graft failure (in non-autoimmune diseases) is the main indication for this procedure. The Boston Keratoprosthesis consists of two PMMA parts that clamp a corneal graft. The assembly is locked with a titanium ring. The graft is then sutured into the patient's cornea like a standard graft. (The titanium locking ring does not prevent MRI imaging). Patient Evaluation Patient evaluation often includes the following components. In some patients it may not be necessary to perform all the following tests; in others, additional tests may be needed. History Visual acuity, also with hard contact lens when necessary. Accuracy of light projection Slit lamp Intraocular pressure (pneumontonometry, palpation) Evaluation of blink and tear mechanism Signs of chronic inflammation Phakic, pseudophakic or aphakic Optic nerve, macula Ultrasound B-scan, A-scan Photo Patient Selection Other considerations include: Blink and tear mechanisms should be reasonably intact Vision less than 20/200 Opposite eye has reduced vision Retinal detachment or extreme optic nerve cupping must be excluded Intact nasal light projection is important to be able to exclude end-stage glaucoma Consider shunt if a patient has very advanced glaucoma (before or after Keratoprosthesis—rarely simultaneously) Keratoprosthesis surgery has an excellent outcome in patients with non-autoimmune disease, previous graft failures, and no other ocular problems. If the eye is pseudophakic, plan to keep the intraocular lens in place to prevent vitreous prolapse. Children and individuals who cannot easily be followed frequently and regularly will likely require more involved care. This should be anticipated, and the potential unknown long-term side effects should be discussed with the parents and/or caretakers. Patients with autoimmune disease (Stevens Johnson, ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, uveitis) have a much more guarded prognosis. Contact Information To make an appointment, please call 617-573-3240 Click here to view Boston Keratoprosthesis bibliography. Last Updated 2/15/2013 Contact Us Today! 617-523-7900


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Tim Walker is a photgrapher based in London. Tim's interest in photgraphy began during work experience at Condé Nast where he set up the Cecil Beaton archive. After graduating from Exeter Art College, he worked as a freelance photographic assistant before working as Richard Avedon's assistant in New York. His career as a photographer was launched when he came third in the Inpependent Young Photographer of the Year Award, and he went on to contribute to high-profile magazines including Vogue, W and Harper's Bazaar. He has also shot advertising campaigns for clients including Barneys, Comme des Garcons, Gap and Yohji Yamamoto.
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text: In a move that makes sense only to the residents of Backwards Town, today Konami released a Metal Gear Solid 4 demo on the Japanese PSN. Almost five months after the game was released. The free demo is of MGS4's first Middle Eastern stage. The game was not originally launched with a playable trial version. While MGS4 is the biggest selling PS3 title in Japan, the title hasn't yet reached the one million seller domestic benchmark, instead moving over 600,000 copies. Maybe this demo, months later, will help Konami finally reach that feat in Japan. One day. Maybe. スネーク、『MGS4』体験版の無料配信が今日から始まったぞ! [Dengeki Online]


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BABSON PARK, Mass.—Babson College (9-6) downed UMass Boston men's tennis (5-7) 9-0 Thursday afternoon in the first-ever meeting between the two squads.
The Beavers earned their fourth-consecutive victory, by defeating the Beacons in two hours and 33 minutes-despite frigid temperatures and steady winds.
Babson opened the match with an 8-3 victory at number two doubles, as Isaac Thylen and Saif Rahim knocked off Mark Grinhaus (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Eglis Bizhoti (Kucove, Albania).
The Beacons top doubles pair fell next, as Charles Lai (Boston, Mass.) and Sean Cullen (Medway, Mass.) suffered an 8-4 loss.
Davin Garcia and Dom Wysolmerski made it a clean sweep of doubles play for the Beavers, as they earned an 8-3 victory at third-flight doubles over Lyle Analetto (Belmont, Mass.) and Jack Wang (Suzhou, China).
Babson pushed their lead to 4-0, as Rahim defeated Grinhaus 6-1, 6-0 at number four singles.
Roberto Perez clinched the match with an identical 6-1, 6-0 score over Cullen at number one singles.
Brian Sou (Revere, Mass.) fared slightly better in his sixth-flight singles match, falling by a 6-2, 6-3 score to Garcia.
The Beavers pushed their lead to 6-0, when Wysolmerski managed to hang on for a 7-5, 6-1 victory over Wang at number five singles.
Thylen kept the momentum going, when he captured a 6-0, 6-1 victory at number three singles over Bizhoti.
Finally in the closest match of the day, Victor Vu pulled out a super tiebreak win over Lai at second singles to close out the sweep. Vu won the first set 6-1, before Lai answered with a 6-4 second-set victory. With the match already decided, Vu claimed a 10-5 win in the super tiebreak, to snap Lai's six-game singles winning streak.
UMass Boston will have a quick turn-around, as the Beacons will travel to UMass Dartmouth Saturday at 1 p.m. in a Little East Conference Championship rematch. The Beacons defeated the two-time defending champions 5-4 last May, to earn their first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament.


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A Chinese citizen believed he was a man, but, boy, did doctors find a hole in that theory.
The 66-year-old man went to a doctor in Hong Kong to complain about a swollen abdomen only to find out that he is actually a she.
Yes, doctors looking over him – her – discovered the pain was caused by a cyst on an ovary and quickly realized she's got more Lifetime than ESPN coursing through her blood. Their diagnosis also probably helps explain why he was the only man in history to insist on putting down the toilet seat.
As it turns out, the woman, who stands four-and-a-half feet tall, suffers from Turner syndrome, a condition marked by infertility and small stature stemming from chromosomes, as well as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which pumps up male hormones. That condition is also more commonly known as being a WNBA fan.
The patient has elected to continue living as a man, although she may get a testosterone boost while putting the "men" in "menopause."


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When recounting the deeds of the Sudanese Islamic Movement (SIM) before the final session of its 8th General Conference in Khartoum's Chinese-built Friendship Hall last Saturday the outgoing Secretary General and First Vice President of Sudan Ali Osman Mohamed Taha identified "the increase in the rate of religiosity" as its first accomplishment. Taha, a lawyer by training and devout bureaucrat by profession, borrowed from the jargon of state statistics to justify the maintenance of an organisation that has long lost its lustre as a political vanguard, an expensive feat indeed when one considers that the three days event came at a cost of around 1 billion Sudanese Pounds (over 226.5 million US Dollars) according to the conference spokeswomen, Sanaa Hamad al-Awad. Unaccounted for in this sum are the series of local and state-level mini-conferences held in preparations for the Hajj to Khartoum. The same Taha admonished the Sudanese a few months ago for spending beyond their means in order to show off among family and friends as he bullied parliamentarians from his own party into approving drastic austerity measures to counteract the loss of oil revenues in the aftermath of the secession of South Sudan.
If anything the SIM was showing off among peers in the region and beyond, in what appeared like a second act of Hassan al-Turabi's 1991 Popular Arabic and Islamic Conference, without Turabi. The 'pious and religious' of the 'Arab Spring' were all there to witness the facelift of the SIM: Rashid al-Ghannushi of the ruling Ennahda Movement in Tunisia, Khaled Meshal of the Palestinian Hamas, the General Guide of Egypt's Moslem Brotherhood Mohamed Badie, the General Guide of the Libyan Moslem Brotherhood Bashir Abd al-Salam al-Kebti, the Deputy General Guide of the Syrian Moslem Brotherhood Ali Sadr al-Din al-Bayanouni, as well as the Emir of the Pakistani Jamaat e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan, and representatives of Islamic movements from Chad, Senegal and Nigeria among other countries, each of course in an entourage of followers and assistants. Syed Munawar Hassan for instance was accompanied by five others including his wife and women league leader of the Jamaat, Begum Aisha Munawar. The list of attendants was sufficiently 'internationalist' as to ignite the suspicion of Arab Gulf governments weary of the machinations of the transnational Moslem Brotherhood. A critical tweet from the Dubai Police chief Dhahi Khalfan Tameem suggesting that the brothers were in Khartoum to conspire against the sheikhdoms of the Gulf prompted the conference chairman, al-Tayeb Ibrahim Mohamed Khair, to issue a statement declaring that the SIM had full respect for the sovereignty of individual Moslem countries. Taha, however, could not resist the temptation of the international platform. After dwelling on the religiosity rate and other issues of Sudanese relevance he broke into a shrieking staccato of sloganeering in rhyme to stumble into "no to the United Nations", "no to the Security Council", "no to the international injustice council", "Islam is coming", "from Sudan coming, from Egypt coming, from Libya advancing, from Sri Lanka coming, from Nigeria creeping, from Somalia keeping pace, from all the Ummah…". The Vice President's voice broke a little before climbing up to a finale of prayer, President Bashir was apparently amused by the performance, and the conference delegates were enthralled. Rather than bring out the composure of the statesman Taha displayed the worn out fashions of his student career as Chairman of the Khartoum University Students' Union (KUSU) during the 'leftist' seventies, a time when the SIM was a small pack of rustic youth angered by the 'cosmopolitan' vices of Khartoum.
For a moment there Khartoum seemed like a Moscow of pan-Islamic revolution. The Hamas politburo chief vowed revenge for the Israeli attack on the Yarmouk factory as Gaza was being bombed, and Taha proclaimed the 'liberation of Palestine' a priority for an Islamic international in the making. The entire fanfare had a much more immediate function though, one limited to the maintenance of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and its Islamist base. At the mighty price tag above the post-Turabi state-administered SIM managed to secure a degree of regional legitimacy that placed it on par with 'Arab Spring' counterparts. Mohamed Badie and Khaled Meshal delivered Friday sermons in Khartoum mosques praising Sudan's pioneering Islamic experiment, and President Bashir played host to Rashid al-Ghannushi, a man who has Turabi to thank for safe sanctuary and a Sudanese diplomatic passport during years of exile. A spiteful Turabi wrote an open letter to the 'brothers' from abroad renouncing the SIM of Taha as a fake and pleading for recognition as the legitimate and sole figurehead of modern political Islam in Sudan but to no avail. They dined, exchanged 'pious' jokes and posed with President Bashir while Turabi tended to his wounded pride at home, a general without an army or rather a disowned father.
The magic of an Islamic international assembled in Khartoum to witness Sudan's Islamic experiment impressed the delegates of the conference as much as it cost the treasury. Taha and Co wooed the floor into approving the draft constitution proposed by the last meeting of the SIM Shura (Consultative) Council, an inflated Central Committee of four hundred members, with no more than punctuation modifications. Over the past year, the Islamist rank has been consumed in a dispute over the relationship with the ruling NCP and the government, a rather dull remake of the conflict that ended with the break-up between President Bashir and Hassan al-Turabi in 1998/1999. Two leading figures of the SIM framed the dispute in clear terms shortly before the start of the Conference. Ghazi Salah al-Din, the 'hope and change' candidate of the younger ranks of the SIM, advocated in a brief article published in two Khartoum newspapers simultaneously for the autonomy of the SIM from the NCP and the government, a notion that one of his sympathizers phrased as "the liberation of the Movement from the state". On the other end, the SIM veteran Ahmed Abd al-Rahman called for the dissolution of the SIM as such in the NCP and claimed wide support for the idea in the upper echelons of the ruling party. In formal terms, the conflict crystallized around two clauses in the draft constitution presented to the conference, one dictating the election of the Secretary General from the Shura Council instead of the General Conference, and a second clause that provides for the establishment of a 'Supreme Leadership' for the SIM composed of its committed members in the leadership of the government, the ruling party and the 'special branches', i.e. the security services. To Ghazi Salah al-Din and his supporters the first clause undermined the legitimacy of the Secretary General, and the second stripped the office of all authority. The General Conference voted in favour of both articles adding only the qualification 'coordinative' to the definition of the Supreme Leadership. Plainly put, President Bashir and his deputies in the government and the party, i.e. Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and Nafie Ali Nafie, as well as the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Tahir, and security and military chiefs, will continue to watch over the shoulders of the Secretary General lest Turabi's ghost settle into his jellabiya.
The motley Ghazi camp came out of the second day of the General Conference defeated and bitter. Writing in al-Intibaha, one of the Ghazi's sympathizers dismissed the proceedings of the day as a 'democratic' fiasco, where numbers overwhelmed the merit requirements of Islamic shura. It was the women of the SIM, he complained, undeservingly granted equal votes to men, who tilted the count in favour of the two disputed clauses. Modernity, it seems, had caught up with the SIM rejuvenators where they hoped it would serve them better. Ghazi himself leaked to al-Intibaha the decision to withdraw from the competition for the general secretariat, an office he ridiculed as worthless with the Supreme Leadership weighing over its occupant. Elections for the Shura Council were held on the third day of the conference in a closed session that extended to the early hours of Sunday. The General Conference elected 340 members of the 400 strong Shura Council, the 'mass' complement to a safe core of sixty including President Bashir, his deputies in the Presidency and party, SIM members in the cabinet, and top 'special branches' officials. The new Shura Council convened the next day in the smaller, shabby al-Zubeir Mohamed Salih Hall in Khartoum to declare al-Zubeir Ahmed al-Hassan (b. 1955) Secretary General of the SIM, the only contender for the post after Ghazi Salah al-Din's withdrawal, and one of three nominees favoured by President Bashir. Ghazi's name was not written, to quote Adil Imam. An economist by education al-Zubeir cycled through the Sudan's Islamic banks before becoming deputy governor of the Bank of Sudan and then Minister of Finance. He left the cabinet in the recent reshuffle and currently chairs the economic sector of the NCP besides his seat in the National Assembly.
The new Secretary General of the SIM appeared the next day on the Blue Nile TV in the flowing white jellabiya and shoulder wrap of the pious Sudanese elder. He stroked a generous white-grey beard as he responded to the calibrated questions of a prudent host. Until a day before only an Ustaz, the title of the Sudanese effendi, al-Zubeir was now the 'Sheikh', a veneration that ranks him equal to the grand heads of Sufi tareeqas (brotherhoods). al-Zubeir defended the worth of his office against Ghazi's critique, and went further. In rejecting the benign notion of coordination between the SIM, its ruling party and its government in the form of a coordinative Supreme Leadership the opponents of the new constitution were attempting to lift the Secretary General of the SIM above the President, he accused. The new 'Sheikh' said he was ready to engage Hassan al-Turabi towards the greater good of unifying the Moslems. Thanks to the 1998/1999 fracture in the Movement both the government and the opposition are currently dominated by Islamist forces, added al-Zubeir with content.
Rather than "liberate" the Islamic Movement from the state the 8th General Conference consummated its 'nationalization' as it were. The rebirth and rejuvenation that Ghazi's supporters wailed about would have required the heresy of a sectarian split (I depend here on Slavoj Zizek's reading of T.S. Elliot), an adventurous and costly undertaking that neither Ghazi, who prides in being a Khartoum dandy, nor his core support base of state-spoiled young professionals, were ready to dare. The entire episode started with a memorandum, it should be noted, the plea of the 'thousand brothers', now a Facebook group chattering away their dissatisfaction.


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text: Carol A. Sigmond is a member of DBM's litigation and arbitration and real estate and construction practice groups. Ms. Sigmond concentrates on construction industry matters, including contract preparation, mediation, litigation, suretyship, bid protests, appeals and arbitration. She has extensive experience in litigation of construction disputes for public works and buildings in both the public and private sectors, as well as preparation of contract documents including design build, CM, GMP and fixed price.Memberships and Affiliations: American Bar Association; ABA Construction Industry Forum; Association of the Bar of the City of New York and New York County Lawyers Association; Member NYCLA Board of Directors, Chair NYCLA Committee on Construction Law; New York County Supreme Court Commercial Division Roster of Volunteer Mediators; New York State Bar Association; New York State Bar Association House of Delegates. Bar Admissions: Virginia (1975); District of Columbia (1980); Maryland (1988); New York (1990); United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, District of Columbia and Federal Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern District of New York, Eastern District of Virginia, District of Maryland and District of Columbia; United States Court of Federal Claims.Education: Grinnell College (B.A. 1972); Catholic University School of Law (J.D. 1975).


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The most comprehensive study ever on the link between organ donations and cancer is arming physicians with new data that could help make the procedures safer.
Organ transplant patients get new kidneys, livers and lungs that save their lives, but they face a heightened risk of cancer because drugs that prevent the rejection of new organs also weaken the immune system.
Most patients, like Jessica Protasio of Columbia, go through with transplants because the immediate risk of dying from failing organs outweighs the long-term risk of cancer.
"My option at the time was to live or die," said Protasio, who received a liver transplant in March at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
But the research from the National Cancer Institute in Rockville could lead to safer medications and procedures.
The study looked at more than 175,000 transplant patients and found they were twice as likely to get cancer as the general population. Researchers found more than 30 cancers that were more common in transplant patients than in the rest of the population.
"One of our goals is to understand why cancer develops and increase our knowledge of what causes it to occur so that we can make transplant safer," said Eric A. Engels, the lead researcher on the study.
Past studies, more narrowly defined and smaller in size, probably didn't account as accurately for less common cancers. They might look at one group of patients, such as kidney transplant patients, and have far fewer examples. Most of the studies look at kidney transplants, which are the most common.
The NCI study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, used data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, which tracks every organ transplant in the country. Researchers compared the information to 13 state databases that tracked cancer cases.
"This quantifies it better, which is really important," said Dr. Dorry Segev, the director of clinical research and transplant surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who has seen the study. "This opens the door for a lot of important questions to be answered with regards to who the patients are that are at risk and when the risk seems to emerge so we can do screening then."
The NCI study reinforced much of what had been found in smaller studies. Transplant patients are most likely to get cancers caused by viruses, which are able to break through the body's weakened immune system.
The most common cancers were non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which affects the immune system, and cancers of the lung, liver and kidney. These cancers made up 43 percent of all cancers in organ transplant patients, compared with 21 percent in the general population.
Doctors don't want to scare patients away from transplants, but use the research to better treat patients.
"It's not so common it means people should not get transplants," Engels said. "In the great majority of cases people never get cancer."
Engels said there are many theories about why cancer risk increases for transplant recipients.
The most common issue is the drugs that weaken the immune system, also seen in HIV patients. Studies have shown that HIV patients are two to 10 times more likely to get some cancers.
But from simply looking at the databases, Engels and the other researchers couldn't tell whether other factors contributed. Perhaps the very disease that created the need for a transplant predisposed the person to cancer. So the patient might have gotten cancer even without a transplant.
The NCI study found that lung cancers were most often found in the remaining original lung. Research has shown that cancers found in the first six months after a transplant could be "delayed reports of cancer found in the [removed] lung," according to the study.
Dr. Jonathan Bromberg, head of the Division of Transplantation at the University of Maryland Medical Center, applauded the new research. But he said it would have been even better if it had compared transplant patients to those who have the disease but did not receive transplants.
"If you have chronic kidney disease, if you are on dialysis, you have a higher chance of getting cancer," Bromberg said.
"Just having chronic organ failure can also affect your immune system to make you susceptible to certain kinds of tumors," he added.
Another question is what causes the cancers that are not virus-related, such as cancers of the kidney, skin and liver.
"We are going to have to do more work to sort out all of the possible explanations," Engels said. "There are a number of factors that could explain some of these cancers."
Paul McSorley was told about the potential for cancer before he got a kidney transplant in June. He said the doctors were very direct and asked how it made him feel.
"I wasn't crazy about it," said the 55-year-old who lives in Fallston. "But it's better than being married to a dialysis machine. And the other trade-off, of course, is a shorter life or imminent death."
McSorley, who needed a transplant after complications from diabetes and hypertension destroyed his kidneys, said his quality of life improved with the transplant. So far he is cancer-free.
Protasio became gravely ill last year with abdominal pain that made it hard for her to get out of bed. Testing revealed liver cancer, which doctors tried to remove surgically. But when they opened her up they discovered that the tumor was too big. A transplant was the only thing that could keep her alive.
While the transplant saved her from cancer, she knows she could get cancer again because of it.
But Protasio said she quizzed her doctors about taking drugs that could cause cancer. And she welcomes research that might help lower the risks.
The NCI research also found a decreased risk for some cancers, such as cervical cancer. The researchers' theory is that it may reflect increased screening, and therefore earlier treatment, for this particular cancer.
The risk of breast cancer is also lower among transplant patients than in the general population. This is also probably because of better screening, said David Klassen, chairman of the medical advisory board for the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland, who has seen the study.
The study did not look at skin cancers because they weren't included in the state databases.
There is a significant increase in risk for skin cancers among organ transplant patients, said Klassen, who is also director of the kidney and pancreas transplant program at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Patients are put on a sunblock regimen and given regular screenings after a transplant, Klassen said.
Klassen said the study helped reinforce much of what was known about transplants and cancer, but could still be helpful. "It might point research to other cancer therapies."
Said Segev: "It means we have better information to care for people post-transplant."


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—If there's any good news for retirees and near-retirees in the coming debate over government spending and the U.S. debt ceiling, it's that lawmakers may bypass changes to the Social Security program.
That's a good thing because, while Social Security's future shortfall needs to be addressed at some point, the down-and-dirty political wrangling expected in the next couple of months may not be the best moment for levelheaded reform of the nation's retirement system—a system that provides an essential backstop for millions of retirees. (For example, the system provides the majority of income for 65% of elderly beneficiaries, and it keeps about 14 million elderly people out of poverty.)
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"It's a very big program. It's a very popular program. I don't think anyone wants to rush through that. You're really getting into some heavy waters and a lot of political risk," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a think tank in Washington.
If, as part of the coming deficit debate, Congress and President Obama do reach agreement about Social Security reform, a number of observers said they expect the change to be adoption of the chained Consumer Price Index in place of the program's current inflation measure, used to calculate annual cost-of-living adjustments or COLAs.
Adopting chained CPI would reduce about 20% of Social Security's long-term shortfall. That's because it cuts Social Security benefits by providing a lower annual cost-of-living adjustment. With chained CPI, inflation grows about 0.3 percentage points less per year than the current inflation measure. (Put simply, unlike the current price index, chained CPI assumes that consumers react to rising prices by shifting their spending; they buy similar goods that are cheaper.)
A move to chained CPI represents a small hit to benefits in the short term, but as COLAs add up over time, the effect of the benefit cut grows. Some proposals suggest that, to reduce that hit on the nation's elderly, people who've received benefits for 15 or 20 years get a benefit increase if the chained CPI is adopted.
Also, a move to chained CPI could affect an array of government provisions currently linked to the CPI, including the tax code's annual inflation adjustments. In other words, it's a tax hike, too. Read more about chained CPI at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
If lawmakers decide to cut a deal and it includes changes to Social Security, "chained CPI is the way to do it," said Andrew Biggs, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
"It will be opposed by the left wing of the Democratic Party because it's a Social Security cut and it will be opposed by the right wing of the Republican Party because it's effectively an income-tax increase, but…they should be able to get moderates of both parties to support it," he said.
But, he added, "What I'm not sure about is whether a deal is going to happen."
Cue up a political showdown
In January, Congress delayed for two months mandatory cuts to defense and discretionary-spending programs. At about the same time those cuts are scheduled to start, the U.S. likely will need to increase the debt ceiling—or risk the U.S. Treasury being unable to pay the nation's bills. Read: Debt-ceiling debate threatens jobs, economy.
Some Republicans have said they would try to extract more spending cuts in return for hiking the debt ceiling, while President Obama has said he wouldn't accept such a deal. In other words, cue up yet another political showdown.
Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said there's a 50/50 chance lawmakers will include entitlement programs in the coming discussions. What might be likelier is that lawmakers agree to a reduction in those scheduled spending cuts, known as sequestration.
"If they can't agree to much, they might say cut [the sequestration] in half," he said. "The Republicans want fewer or no cuts to the defense budget. I can't imagine Obama agreeing to no cuts [to defense], and he's going to get a lot of pressure to keep that parity."
That is, if the scheduled defense-program cuts are reduced, the cuts to discretionary programs such as education will be reduced, too. "It wouldn't surprise me if they end up halving" the current sequestration cuts, Baker said.
A possible outcome is that lawmakers fail to reach any new deal on spending cuts, in which case the full sequestration goes into effect—hitting military, education and other domestic programs hard. But those cuts don't touch Social Security or Medicare.
Reforming Social Security
Still, some would like to see lawmakers start to address Social Security's future shortfall sooner rather than later—even if it means putting the program in the middle of a raucous debate.
"There's clearly craziness in Washington. It's hard to say I'd like to hurl this program I care about into this craziness," said Alicia Munnell, director of Boston College's Center for Retirement Research. "But I think there are some changes that probably have broad-based agreement and maybe they could be made part of this deal."
That wouldn't necessarily mean solving the system's entire shortfall, but lawmakers could make changes to bring the program "more into balance," Munnell said. Read Munnell's post on fixing Social Security, in MarketWatch's Encore blog.
Chained CPI could be one such change, she said. Other possible reforms include increasing the retirement age, and hiking the amount of wage income subject to Social Security taxes. In 2012, income up to $110,100 was subject to payroll taxes.
"Back in 1983," Baker said, "only 10% of wage income went over the top. Today, it's about 18%."


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Fallen Soldier Wright to be Celebrated Saturdayby Jim Amidon • March 10, 2005 Share:
A Celebration of Life honoring Wabash alumnus Jeremy Wright '96, who was killed while on patrol in Afghanistan, will be held in Shelbyville, Indiana this Saturday, March 12.
Wright, a Green Beret, was killed in early January while his unit was on patrol outside Kabul. Wright was an honors graduate of Wabash, earned a master's degree in biology, and had joined the United States Army in 2002, shortly after the 9/11 tragedy. He had been in Afghanistan for only two months when he was killed by a roadside bomb.
Wright's incredible life will be celebrated from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Indiana Downs in Shelbyville, Indiana. Jeremy's family invites all who knew him to bring and share fond memories of Wright, who was Wabash's most celebrated distance runner and was a summa cum laude graduate.
Wright won seven Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference distance running championships, twice was an All-American, and earned Academic All-America honors. After Wabash, he moved west, where he was a member of the United States Mountain Racing Team. As a part of that team, he competed as a Teva-sponsored athlete in international competitions. He was also a celebrated snowshoe racer, winning the North American Snowshoe Racing Championship.
The Jeremy Wright Memorial Fund has been established at Wabash College. Friends who wish to honor Jeremy's life may write to Wabash College at P.O. Box 352, Crawfordsville, IN 47933, attention Advancement Office.


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Why Angelina Decided There Was NO Working It Out With Brad
Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt after two years of marriage "for the health of the family".
According to reports, Ange had become "extremely upset" with the way Brad had been parenting their children and doesn't want Brad to have any physical custody.
So far, since reports of their split had been made public, there has been talk that Angelina believed Brad had an anger problem and was sick of him 'smoking weed and boozing.'
Ange said the children's "health" and wellbeing was the reason for the split.
In a statement, Angelina's attorney said: "This decision was made for the health of the family. She will not be commenting at this time, and asks that the family be given their privacy during this difficult time."
Brad Pitt has admitted to smoking weed in the past, but said in a chat to US show host Bill Maher that becoming a father had meant he ditched it.
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Ernestina Cady and Jeffery Hardrick announce their engagement.
The bride-elect is the daughter of the late Earl and Genelle Myhand Cady. She is the granddaughter of the late Henry and Nina Lee Myhand and the Late Alonzo and Willie Jordan Cady. She is a 1986 graduate of Geneva High School, Geneva. She is a 1993 graduate of Alabama A&M University with a B.S. in Economics and a 1997 graduate with an M.Ed. in Social Science. She is employed by Gadsden City Board of Education.
The prospective groom is the son of Lawrence Hardrick and the late Annie Isabella Hardrick. He is the grandson of Albert and Leila Pendleton and Otis and Francis Hardrick. He is a 1986 graduate of St. Clair County High School, Odenville. He received degree in Telecommunications in 1987 from John Pope Eden Vocational Center. He is employed by Honda Manufacturing of Alabama.
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Burkhead, Compton and Martinez were three of five Huskers elected by their teammates as 2012 season captains. Joining Compton on defense was senior defensive tackle Baker Steinkuhler, while senior place-kicker/punter Brett Maher was also named a season captain. Burkhead and Maher were chosen as captains for the second consecutive year.
In addition to being chosen as a captain, Martinez was also named the Team's Most Valuable Player and the Offensive MVP. Martinez was a first-team All-Big Ten choice this season and leads the conference in both total offense and passing efficiency.
Compton was named the Huskers' Defensive MVP after leading the team with 101 tackles this season. Compton was also one of four Huskers to receive a Character Award. Maher was named the Huskers' Special Teams MVP for the second straight season. The Kearney native has made 19 field goals this season, while also handling kickoff and punting chores.
Despite an injury-plagued 2012 season, Burkhead was also chosen as the winner of the Chamberlin Trophy. The award dates back to 1967 and is voted on by members of the media. A Lincoln native, Steinkuhler was presented the Cletus Fischer Native Son Award, given annually to a senior who is a Nebraska native. The award is named in honor of long-time Nebraska offensive line coach Cletus Fischer who coached Steinkuhler's father, Dean, in the 1980s.
Senior linebacker Sean Fisher also received a pair of awards at the banquet. Fisher was honored with the Bobby Reynolds Award and the Tom Novak Trophy. The oldest of Nebraska's senior awards, the Novak Trophy dates back to 1950. The Chamberlin, Native Son and Novak awards will also be honored at the Outland Trophy Award ceremony in Omaha on Jan. 10.
Senior center Justin Jackson also received two awards at the banquet. The Roca, Neb., native won the Pat Clare Award and shared the prestigious Lifter of the Year Award with sophomore I-back Ameer Abdullah. Senior defensive back Justin Blatchford was presented the Walk-on of the Year Award. A full list of the banquet award winners is below.
Nebraska conducted its fifth practice in preparation for the Capital One Bowl on Friday afternoon in Lincoln. The Huskers will take Saturday and Sunday off, before resuming practice on Monday through Thursday of next week, then taking a Christmas Break. Nebraska departs for Orlando on Dec. 26.
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Captains - Offense: QB Taylor Martinez, IB Rex Burkhead;
Defense: LB Will Compton, DT Baker Steinkuhler; Special Teams: PK/P Brett Maher
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Offensive MVP - QB Taylor Martinez
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Fischer Native Son Award -DT Baker Steinkuhler
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Lifter of the Year Award-IB Ameer Abdullah and C Justin Jackson
Walk-on of the Year-DB Justin Blatchford
Offensive Scout Team MVP-Mike Moudy
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Character Award-LB Will Compton, LB Alonzo Whaley, WR Quincy Enunwa, CB Andrew Green
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SAN DIEGO - The UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team ended its season with a 25-21, 25-15, 25-18 defeat to TCU on Saturday night to end the Turkey Time Tournament, yet still finishes the season with a terrific chance to get into the NCAA Tournament.
The Gauchos finished the regular season with a 19-12 overall record and saw their seven-match winning streak snapped. TCU improves to 25-7 overall.
UCSB hit just .094 for the match and had nearly as many errors (20) as kills (30) on the night.
Leah Sully led the way with nine kills while Chelsey Lowe led the team with 14 digs on the night.
TCU hit .303 on the evening despite not having a single player in double digits with kills. However the Horned Frogs dug 48 balls and had 10.0 blocks as a team to take over defensively.
Kara Sherrard finished with six kills and 10 digs for the Gauchos while Stacey Schmidt and Jenna Wilson each had five kills apiece. Hanna Nielson finished with 26 assists.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Congressman Dennis Kucinich will this Friday present his single article of impeachment concerning the Bush administration's deliberate and unconstitutional lies that led us to war in Iraq, putting him in tandem with the majority of the American people, yet in the cross hairs of both Neo-Cons and Democrats who have tried to block his efforts at every turn.
Kucinich should be commended for his brave and restless pursuit of impeachment. Whether Bush had a few months left in office or a few years doesn't matter one iota – the Congressman's efforts are aimed squarely at ensuring Bush rightly goes down in history as the most flagrantly criminal and anti-American president in history, while also making sure that a repeat of the debacle we have witnessed over the past eight years is not allowed to happen again.
In a preamble posted on You Tube, Kucinich explains the foundation of his single article of impeachment, the deliberate behind-closed doors scheming and lies that were told in anticipation of the pre-planned invasion of Iraq, while the charade of UN weapons inspectors and diplomacy played out in public.
Watch the clip.
Democrat elitists like Pelosi and Conyers are desperately trying to downplay Kucinich's efforts and insist that impeachment is "off the table".
When Kucinich spent four hours in June reading 35 articles of impeachment and demanding hearings, the Democrat controlled House almost instantly dispatched them for burial to the Judiciary Committee.
According to an Associated Press report, when Kucinich tried to introduce similar articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney last November, "Republicans, seeing a chance to force Democrats into an embarrassing debate, voted to bring up the resolution. Democrats countered by pushing through a motion to scuttle the bill from the floor."
The bullshit they are trying to make us swallow is that Democrats are shunning Kucinich because they think a debate about impeachment would harm their chances of winning the presidency.
In reality, as far back as November 2005, polls showed that the majority of Americans supported impeachment on the basis of Bush lying about the invasion of Iraq, which is specifically what Kucinich's single article of impeachment that he will present on Friday addresses.
Likewise, latest polls show that almost 70% of Americans oppose the war in Iraq, with anti-war sentiment swelling the longer the occupation drags on.
Support for a withdrawal from Iraq and the impeachment of George W. Bush is wildly popular with the majority of the electorate that will vote in November, so why are top Democrats doing everything in their power to prevent Kucinich from drawing attention to the matter?
Because they are nothing more than political whores for the same power structure served by the Neo-Cons, and want to advance the same agenda of pax-Americana, imperial bloodletting and domination demanded by the new world order and the Israeli AIPAC lobby, to which Pelosi and Conyers have pledged their full subservience.
Kucinich's full article of impeachment concerning the lies that led us to war appears below.
In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed", has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, illegally spent public dollars on a secret propaganda program to manufacture a false cause for war against Iraq.
The Department of Defense (DOD) has engaged in a years-long secret domestic propaganda campaign to promote the invasion and occupation of Iraq. This secret program was defended by the White House Press Secretary following its exposure. This program follows the pattern of crimes detailed in Article I, II, IV and VIII.. The mission of this program placed it within the field controlled by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), a White House task-force formed in August 2002 to market an invasion of Iraq to the American people. The group included Karl Rove, I. Lewis Libby, Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, Stephen Hadley, Nicholas E. Calio, and James R. Wilkinson.
The WHIG produced white papers detailing so-called intelligence of Iraq's nuclear threat that later proved to be false. This supposed intelligence included the claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger as well as the claim that the high strength aluminum tubes Iraq purchased from China were to be used for the sole purpose of building centrifuges to enrich uranium. Unlike the National Intelligence Estimate of 2002, the WHIG's white papers provided "gripping images and stories" and used "literary license" with intelligence. The WHIG's white papers were written at the same time and by the same people as speeches and talking points prepared for President Bush and some of his top officials.
The WHIG also organized a media blitz in which, between September 7-8, 2002, President Bush and his top advisers appeared on numerous interviews and all provided similarly gripping images about the possibility of nuclear attack by Iraq. The timing was no coincidence, as Andrew Card explained in an interview regarding waiting until after Labor Day to try to sell the American people on military action against Iraq, "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."
September 7-8, 2002:
NBC's "Meet the Press: Vice President Cheney accused Saddam of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past 14 months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms. CNN: Then-National Security Adviser Rice said, regarding the likelihood of Iraq obtaining a nuclear weapon, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
CBS: President Bush declared that Saddam was "six months away from developing a weapon," and cited satellite photos of construction in Iraq where weapons inspectors once visited as evidence that Saddam was trying to develop nuclear arms.
The Pentagon military analyst propaganda program was revealed in an April 20, 2002, New York Times article. The program illegally involved "covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties." Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recruited 75 retired military officers and gave them talking points to deliver on Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and MSNBC, and according to the New York Times report, which has not been disputed by the Pentagon or the White House, "Participants were instructed not to quote their briefers directly or otherwise describe their contacts with the Pentagon."
According to the Pentagon's own internal documents, the military analysts were considered "message force multipliers" or "surrogates" who would deliver administration "themes and messages" to millions of Americans "in the form of their own opinions." In fact, they did deliver the themes and the messages but did not reveal that the Pentagon had provided them with their talking points. Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and Fox News military analyst described this as follows: "It was them saying, 'We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.'"
Congress has restricted annual appropriations bills since 1951 with this language: "No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States not heretofore authorized by the Congress."
A March 21, 2005, report by the Congressional Research Service states that "publicity or propaganda is defined by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to mean either (1) selfaggrandizement by public officials, (2) purely partisan activity, or (3) "covert propaganda."
These concerns about "covert propaganda" were also the basis for the GAO's standard for determining when government-funded video news releases are illegal:
"The failure of an agency to identify itself as the source of a prepackaged news story misleads the viewing public by encouraging the viewing audience to believe that the broadcasting news organization developed the information. The prepackaged news stories are purposefully designed to be indistinguishable from news segments broadcast to the public. When the television viewing public does not know that the stories they watched on television news programs about the government were in fact prepared by the government, the stories are, in this sense, no longer purely factual — the essential fact of attribution is missing."
The White House's own Office of Legal Council stated in a memorandum written in 2005 following the controversy over the Armstrong Williams scandal: "Over the years, GAO has interpreted 'publicity or propaganda' restrictions to preclude use of appropriated funds for, among other things, so-called 'covert propaganda.' … Consistent with that view, the OLC determined in 1988 that a statutory prohibition on using appropriated funds for 'publicity or propaganda' precluded undisclosed agency funding of advocacy by third-party groups. We stated that 'covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties' would run afoul of restrictions on using appropriated funds for 'propaganda.'"
Asked about the Pentagon's propaganda program at White House press briefing in April 2008, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino defended it, not by arguing that it was legal but by suggesting that it "should" be: "Look, I didn't know look, I think that you guys should take a step back and look at this look, DOD has made a decision, they've decided to stop this program. But I would say that one of the things that we try to do in the administration is get information out to a variety of people so that everybody else can call them and ask their opinion about something. And I don't think that that should be against the law. And I think that it's absolutely appropriate to provide information to people who are seeking it and are going to be providing their opinions on it. It doesn't necessarily mean that all of those military analysts ever agreed with the administration. I think you can go back and look and think that a lot of their analysis was pretty tough on the administration. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't talk to
In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
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Resisting the Devil
The nineteenth century French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote that "the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist." In the providence of God, the Devil has been quite successful in persuading his followers that he doesn't …Read More
Two Kingdoms, One God
Without a doubt, the greatest theologian in the first thousand years of the church was Augustine of Hippo (354–430). His voluminous theological, exegetical, and devotional writings have had a lasting impact and continue to be studied to this day. One …Read More
The Year of Our Lord
The world is half full of half-empty thinkers, and I am one of them. Puddleglum is my patron saint. And nothing exposes the vast expanse of emptiness in the top half of the glass like listening to the evening news …Read More
The Devils Believe and Shudder
An excerpt from a sermon on James 2:19 by Jonathan Edwards. The sermon, entitled "True Grace Distinguished From the Experience Of Devils," is dated September 28, 1752. It was first preached before the Synod of New York, convened at …Read More
Nurturing the Soul
We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still; We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead, And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. It is my conviction that a very large part of mankind's …Read More


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Living history at Wayne County Museum; two live performances at The Red Room; Home and Garden Show in New Bern
LIVING HISTORY/Goldsboro
Following the December 1862 Union move against Goldsboro, Daniel Harvey Hill, brother-in-law to Stonewall Jackson, took charge in North Carolina. Hill met with frustration and then suffered a tragic personal loss. Based on actual correspondence, Doug and Terri Batson will give first person impressions of Gen. and Mrs. Hill to relate events that occurred 150 years ago this month. His website is dhill.org. The program is at 7 p.m. today at the Wayne County Museum, 116 N. William St. It is free and open to the public. Call 919-734-5023.
RED ROOM/Kinston
My Three Kilts will play live Friday, beginning at 9 p.m., at The Red Room, 220 N. Herritage St. Since 2007, the group has built a steady following on the N.C. Celtic scene from the mountains to the coast. Combining traditional Celtic influences and instrumentation with punk rock influences, ideals and attitude, the musicians play a unique brand of Celtic/Pub/Punk. Their shows are punctuated with blasts of music and interactions with the audience.
James Olin Oden will play Saturday, beginning at 9 p.m. In addition to singing, he plays classical guitar, bodhran, bones and whistles. Admission is free for both shows. Call 252-520-2000.
HOME AND GARDEN SHOW/New Bern
The New Bern Home and Garden Show is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center, 203 E. Front St. There will be demonstrations, prize drawings and samples. Other activities include a vintage art market hosted by Craven Arts Council, children�s projects and a plant and flower show. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. All events are free. Call 252-635-5658.


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After being injured in a car accident 12 years ago, Stephen Julien tried physical therapy, medication, injections and even surgery to ease his back pain. The accident had caused a herniated disc in his spine, which was bulging and causing nerve damage that was the source of his pain. But none of the treatments to repair the damage could eliminate the intense pain Stephen experienced on a daily basis.
Stephen turned to the spine surgeons at Newton-Wellesley Hospital's Spine Center and received the diagnosis and surgery that would help him return to a pain-free life. After reading Stephen's story, learn more about spine surgery at the Spine Center and contact us to arrange a consultation with one of our spine specialists.
For years, as his job moved him to various areas of the country, Stephen saw specialists to try and find relief from his chronic back pain. He was experiencing pain while completing everyday activities such as walking, sitting and getting out of bed – and it was getting worse as time went on. Stephen couldn't play with his kids or become involved in their activities because of the pain he was living with.
"As my children grew older and were involved in more complex activities and sports – the things that you want to teach your children as a father – my ability to perform any of these functions was being diminished on a daily basis," says Stephen. "I didn't know how much longer or what the options were going to be for me when I couldn't bear this pain any longer."
Stephen had heard about Scott G. Tromanhauser, MD, MBA, a Surgeon at the Spine Center at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and the procedures he was performing and decided to make an appointment.
"Stephen was told for years that there was no surgical option for his pain," says Dr. Tromanhauser. "He was never even considered a candidate for fusion for his degenerative disc problem. Although some people are not good candidates – Stephen clearly was."
Dr. Tromanhauser explained to Stephen the fusion surgical procedure that he thought might help relieve some of his pain.
"Dr. Tromanhauser told me that I needed to be committed to the recovery process," says Stephen. "He told me there is no magic answer and there has to be a certain level of effort and commitment from me for us to be successful in this, 'it's going to be a partnership' he said to me. I felt throughout the entire process that I was prepared and educated on what to expect before, during and after my surgery."
Stephen was cautiously optimistic about the procedure after leaving his appointment with Dr. Tromanhauser. Over the years, he had tried many different treatments to alleviate his pain without success and didn't want to get too excited about the possibility of living in less pain. After a lot of thought, Stephen decided to go ahead with the procedure.
"We did his surgery from an anterior approach, through his abdomen, which lessens the impact of surgery compared to the classic open posterior approach through his back," says Dr. Tromanhauser. "He had the advantage of not having surgical pain in his back so we knew that his back pain was truly virtually gone."
After his surgery, Stephen woke up and immediately noticed a difference.
"I was up and walking the day of my surgery," says Stephen. "It wasn't a long walk, but it was around the floor, around the nurse's station and back – and it was pain free. It didn't hurt when I put my feet on the floor!"
Because Stephen was recovering so well in the Hospital, Dr. Tromanhauser decided to release him a day early.
"I ran into Stephen on his way out the door of the Hospital at his discharge and he told me the back pain he had for 12 years was gone," says Dr. Tromanhauser. "He had a big smile on his face."
He told Stephen to try and move as much as possible during his recovery.
"Dr. Tromanhauser said that by the time I see him again in six weeks, I need to be walking three to five miles a day," says Stephen. "So I did. I came back home and got on the treadmill and just started going."
By the time Stephen returned for his follow-up appointment six weeks later, he was walking five miles a day. He also completed six weeks of physical therapy, started taking pilates and lost 35 pounds after his operation. The weight loss made him feel better and made it easier to participate in his favorite activities.
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Two Grad Students Earn Earth Science Awards
SOCORRO, N.M. September 1, 2009 – Two New Mexico Tech graduate students won prestigious awards from the National Speleological Society this summer.
Aaron Curtis, an incoming geochemistry master's student, won the James G. Mitchell Award funded by the National Speleological Foundation for his presentation at the 15th International Congress of Speleology in Kerrville, Texas, in late July.
Hydrology doctoral candidate Katrina Koski won the Ralph Stone Award from the National Speleological Society. The Stone Award is a $1,400 fellowship awarded to one graduate student each year, based on their past research and plans for continued research.
|Tech doctoral student Katrina Koski at the entrance to Calimmo cave in Tulum, Mexico. Photo by Dr. Tanja Pietraß/New Mexico Tech
Koski's paper, "Sediment Transport in Phreatic Karst Conduits," explains her research about particulate matter in karst-based aquifers. "Phreatic" refers to rock that is below the water table.
One part of Koski's graduate research examines the relationship between sediment size and rate of sediment movement; she is investigating how water-borne sediment transfers between the layers in a karst aquifer. The topic, which is basically internal erosion, is a little studied area that will help explain how karst systems are formed.
"Winning this award is great. I'm in really good company," Koski said.
Former winners include Dr. George Veni, the director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute, a Tech division in Carlsbad, and Dr. Diana Northrup, a University of New Mexico professor who is a frequent collaborator with Tech faculty.
A native of the Detroit area, Koski earned her bachelor's in physics from Lake Forest College in Illinois and her master's in physics from New Mexico Tech.
Koski's winning proposal is a small part of her doctorate research. With advisor Dr. John Wilson, she is examining how water moves through the Floridan Aquifer.
|Tech master's student Aaron Curtis poses with a map of the caves he studied for his winning presentation at the International Congress of Speleology in June. Courtesy Photo
For her field work, Koski will scuba dive in underground caves, drill into cave walls with a pneumatic drill, place instruments within cave walls, seal the enclosure, and return months later to retrieve the instruments and data.
"Dr. Wilson is an expert in hyporheic flow in surface streams," Koski said. "Imagine a stream, where water hits a mound of sand or gravel and flows underground, carrying nutrients, dissolved gasses and heat. Then, the stream returns to the surface. We propose that similar flow occurs around underwater caves in aquifers, introducing nutrients, dissolved gasses and heat into the rock. In order to observe the flow, we need to drill into the cave wall to instrument the rock and observe the cave water moving through the karstic rock."
Koski is a registered scuba diver and relishes the ability to combine her interest in geophysics with her diving skills.
"It's going to be awesome," she said. "We're unique in that we have amazing hydrological knowledge in our department, but we can also take samples from inside the aquifer and that has rarely been done."
Curtis's research will be equally as enterprising. For his master's degree, he will work with Tech professor Dr. Philip Kyle, studying and mapping ice caves on the Erebus Volcano in Antarctica.
The son of a foreign service employee, Curtis grew up all over the world and graduated from high school in Sweden. While earning his undergraduate degree in geography at the University of Cambridge, he found a passion for caves after joining the student caving club.
The Mitchell Award is given to the student member 25 or younger deemed to have presented the best scientific paper at the annual convention. Papers are evaluated on how well they exemplify sound methods of scientific research and presentation, and secondarily on their contribution to knowledge.
Curtis presented two papers at the conference and he won the award for his paper, "Karst Microclimate Monitoring in the Northern Alps," which was the topic of his undergraduate thesis.
"I was surprised. I felt very appreciated," Curtis said. "This research started as my undergraduate dissertation. When I originally turned it in, I got a fairly poor grade. I was able to rethink it and look at the data in a more creative way. I learned that rethinking something can have great benefit."
For his winning paper, Curtis explained the key components that affect cave climates. He said the most important result of his research was that condensation on cave walls is a crucial factor that reduces heat transfer from exterior climate to cave microclimates. Curtis's paper will be published in the German journal Die Hoehle this fall.
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Think you know everything about proper brushing and flossing techniques? Understand the basics and what you can do to promote oral health.
Your smile depends on simple dental care habits, such as brushing and flossing. But are you using the right techniques? Follow these steps to protect your oral health.
Oral health begins with clean teeth. Keeping the area where your teeth meet your gums clean can prevent gum disease, while keeping your tooth surfaces clean can help you stave off cavities. Consider these brushing basics from the American Dental Association:
You can't reach the tight spaces between your teeth and under the gumline with a toothbrush. That's why daily flossing is important. When you floss:
As long as you do a thorough job, it doesn't matter if you brush or floss first.
In addition to daily brushing and flossing, consider using mouthwash containing fluoride to promote oral health.
Also, resist the temptation to use toothpicks or other objects that could injure your gums and let in bacteria.
To prevent gum disease and other oral health problems, schedule regular dental cleanings and exams. In the meantime, contact your dentist if you notice any signs or symptoms that could suggest oral health problems, such as:
Remember, early detection and treatment of problems with your gums, teeth and mouth can help ensure a lifetime of good oral health.
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Practicum: Learn to Use Verbum
by Jones, Andrew, St. Hilaire, Louis•
Verbum 2013
Catholic Practicum is a comprehensive, computer-based video course designed for quick and effective instruction in the functions of Verbum and in techniques for their use. Verbum is built on the powerful Logos 5 engine, and shares many features with standard software. But whether you are new to Logos or an experienced user, Practicum provides you with important insights and tips concerning how to use Verbum within a Catholic Scripture study methodology. You'll see Verbum experts in action, so you learn not only what Verbum's tools can do, but also how to use them. By the end of the series you will be using Verbum like a pro!
Benefits for Your Study
Whether you are studying for your own spiritual enrichment, preparing to lead a Bible study, or writing a homily, Catholic Practicum can bring competence and confidence in your study using Verbum Bible Software. These videos will extend your range. They will teach you new skills. Go beyond your English translations with Verbum Bible Software. Pause lessons, review previous material, and move on to the next lesson at your convenience.
Real Work with Real Tools
Logos has received a number of requests to create tools that are task oriented and will work in tandem with the content we provide. For years we have taught people how to use Logos Bible Software. Now we are teaching people how use it to accomplish real work in word studies, language studies, sermon preparation, and so forth. We are embarking on a long range project to teach people how to use the power of Logos Bible Software to extend their abilities. This is empowering. This allows the user to accomplish tasks previously possible for only the experts. Many will never have the opportunity to go to seminary or graduate school. Logos brings education to you where you are.
Key Features
- Almost five hours of professional instruction
- Extensive coverage of Verbum functionality, tools, and techniques
- Instruction in Verbum research methodologies from a Catholic perspective
- Original language instruction designed for those with a limited knowledge of Greek or Hebrew
- High-definition video lets you pause, playback, and review, allowing you to set your own pace
- Unit 1
- Start using Verbum today. Unit 1 explains the homepage, the workspace functions, the basics of the passage and exegetical guides, how to prioritize items in your library, how to use the GO box, and more.
- Unit 2
- The second unit walks you through the functions of the software in-depth, from searching your library to the construction of custom layouts. It covers tagging, collections, the passage guide and the construction of custom guides, notes, clippings, and much more. This unit will teach you how to set up work spaces designed for different types of research, such as lectionary-based study or the reading of the Church Fathers. By the end of Unit 2, you'll master advanced Verbum functions, taking control of your vast library.
- Unit 3
- The third unit builds on Unit 2, but focuses on original language work. It covers the interlinear and reverse interlinear Bibles, the exegetical guide, Bible word studies, morphological searching and much more. Special emphasis is placed on using Verbum's language functionality to situate the original texts within the context of the Septuagint and the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. By the end of Unit 3, you will have a handle on Verbum's language capabilities and will understand how to use them, even if you have no Greek or Hebrew training.
- Unit 4
- The fourth unit focuses on advanced research techniques and ties the first three units together. It is organized around several large example studies, each one focusing on a different dimension of Catholic research, from the four senses of Scripture to the historical-critical method. You will harness even more of the software's abilities, and advance your study of the Faith. By the end of Unit 4, you will be a Verbum expert!
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- Instructors: Andrew Jones and Louis St. Hilaire
- Almost five hours of content taught using Verbum.
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- Publisher: Logos Bible Software
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GREENSBORO, Ga. – Georgia College golf rising senior Bryan Fox (Roswell, Ga.) earned medalist honors at the State Amateur Qualifier at Great Waters Tuesday.
Fox shot a two-under 70 at the Northeast Qualifier for the State Amateur Championship at the Reynolds Plantation Great Waters course. He bettered the field by two strokes, and was the lone golfer under par for the one-round event.
Fox now qualifies for the 2013 Georgia Amateur Championship July 11-14 at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Ga.
Fox was a leader for the Bobcats this season, posting a 74.3 stroke average (good for third on the team) and a top-five finish among his nine events.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Watching planets and stars as they appear in the sky is captivating, but gazing at pinpricks of light glistening against the celestial sphere doesn't give the heavenward ogler a sense of what these magnificent globes are really like.
Luckily we've got the imagination of photographer and avid amateur astronomer Ron Miller on our very own planet. The moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth, as Miller points out in a post at io9.com. So what would each planet look like if it were the same distance from here?
To explore that question, Miller superimposed several of the solar system's seven other planets (it would have been eight, but Pluto has been out of the running for some years now) onto Mother Earth's sky in succession.
Each shot is of the same highway stretching toward distant mountains, as if one were driving toward the planet in question. The first photo shows a full moon so as to illustrate the scale of what is to come. Then it's a parade of planets: luminous, glowing Venus; sapphire-colored Neptune and Uranus, ruby-tinged Mars. The gas giants, as one can imagine, are unimaginably enormous. Daunting, even, with Saturn's rings in particular stretching from one end of the horizon to the other.
Get the full effect at io9.com, which includes Miller's vivid descriptions of each planet, read his io9 posts here, and ogle some more of his phantasmogoric illustrations at his website, Black Cat Studios. Images used with permission.


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W.H. budget puts House Dems in bind
Democrats have used a clear and potent attack against Republicans in recent elections: Don't vote for them because they'll cut your Social Security and Medicare.
But using that playbook next year, as Democrats had planned, just got a lot more complicated.
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President Barack Obama blurred the lines this month when he embraced entitlement cuts of his own as part of his budget plan. And Democrats now fear their leader's tack to the center could blunt one of their sharpest weapons in the battle for the House of Representatives next year.
( PHOTOS: What's in Obama's budget?)
The concern is that Republicans will have a ready retort — your own president proposed entitlement cuts — and force Democrats on the defensive. The issue is critical to senior voters, who turn out in disproportionately large numbers in midterm elections.
"I think it does make it more difficult for Democrats in the next election," said Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan, who occupies a swing district in Minnesota. "I would think that Republicans will say this cycle that if you want your Medicare and Social Security cut, that's what Obama wants to do. … And I imagine that's what Republicans will campaign on."
Some of the most contested House races are expected in senior-heavy states such as Arizona and Florida.
( Also on POLITICO: Democrats: What debt crisis?)
The president's shift came after an election year in which Democrats made the GOP's embrace of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's controversial plan to overhaul Medicare a centerpiece of their campaigns. The offensive, Democrats say, helped them net eight House seats — a respectable figure but short of the 25 they needed to seize the lower chamber.