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A Saint is an individual of exceptional holiness. The term originates within Christianity as one which has various definitions varying by denomination. The word itself means "holy" and is derived from the Latin sanctus which was the word used in translating hagios (άγιος meaning "holy" or "holy one") in early Greek Christian literature and in the New Testament, where it is used to describe the followers of Jesus of Nazareth. This page is for quotes referring generally to saints and concepts of sainthood.
Some say this world of trouble
Is the only one we need
But I'm waiting for that morning
When the new world is revealed.
Oh when the saints go marching in,
When the saints go marching in,
Oh lord I want to be in that number,
When the saints go marching in!
- Anonymous author of the folk song "When the Saints Go Marching In"; as rendered in one of Louis Armstrong's versions of the traditional funeral march and jazz standard.
- Variant: Oh, when the saints go marching in
Lord, how I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in.
- A saint, whether Buddhist or Christian, who knows his business as a saint is rightly meditative and in proportion to the rightness of his meditation is the depth of his peace. We have it on an authority which Mr. Chesterton is bound to respect that the kingdom of heaven is within us. … Failing like many others to discriminate between romanticism and religion, Mr. Chesterton has managed to misrepresent both Buddhism and Christianity. The truth is, that though Christianity from the start was more emotional in its temper than Buddhism, and though an element of nostalgia entered into it from an early period, it is at one in its final emphasis with the older religion. In both faiths the emphasis is on the peace that passeth understanding.
- Irving Babbitt, in response to comments in Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesterton, in "Buddha and the Occident", his afterword to his translation of the Dhammapada (1936), p. 99
- Just as painters in working from models constantly gaze at their exemplar and thus strive to transfer the expression of the original to their own artistry, so too he who is anxious to make himself perfect in all the kinds of virtue must gaze upon the lives of the saints as upon statues, so to speak, that move and act, and must make their excellence his own by imitation.
- Basil of Caesarea vol. 1, p. 17, Letters as translated by R. Deferrari (1926)
- We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
- Samuel Beckett, in Waiting for Godot (1952), Act II
- The spiritual influence that a person of higher stature exerts on the environment, which comes about through the constant encounter, purifies the environment. It lends the graces of holiness and freedom on all who come in contact with him. And this nobility of a holy grace returns after a while with stronger force and acts on the person himself who exerted the influence and he becomes sociable, abounding in spirituality and holiness. This is a higher attribute than the holiness in a state of withdrawal.
- Bokser, Ben Zion. (1978). Abraham Isaac Kook. P.232.
- The Hasid, the individual disciple, must seek to be continually in touch with the rebbe. He spends certain holy days in his court, within the radius of his direct influence (...). The radiance of the rebbe's influence is elicited especially by being within the range of his vision and the touch of his hands (...). The rebbe is in sense a redeemer - a redeemer of the holy sparks imprisoned in the world. He helps effect the reunion between God and His creation.
- Ben Zion Bokser, The Jewish Mystical Tradition, quoted after: Miriam Bokser Caravella, The Holy Name. P.186.
- As the days went slowly by he came to see that Christianity and the denial of Christianity after all met as much as any other extremes do; it was a fight about names — not about things; practically the Church of Rome, the Church of England, and the freethinker have the same ideal standard and meet in the gentleman; for he is the most perfect saint who is the most perfect gentleman. Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
- When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist.
- Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista."
- Variant translations:
- When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist.
- When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.
- No two ideals could be more opposite than a Christian saint in a Gothic cathedral and a Buddhist saint in a Chinese temple. The opposition exists at every point; but perhaps the shortest statement of it is that the Buddhist saint always has his eyes shut, while the Christian saint always has them very wide open. The Buddhist saint has a sleek and harmonious body, but his eyes are heavy and sealed with sleep. The mediaeval saint's body is wasted to its crazy bones, but his eyes are frightfully alive. There cannot be any real community of spirit between forces that produced symbols so different as that. Granted that both images are extravagances, are perversions of the pure creed, it must be a real divergence which could produce such opposite extravagances. The Buddhist is looking with a peculiar intentness inwards. The Christian is staring with a frantic intentness outwards. If we follow that clue steadily we shall find some interesting things.
- G. K. Chesterton, in Orthodoxy (1908)
- What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
- Leonard Cohen, in Beautiful Losers (1966)
- There are truly moral people who unconsciously live a life in entire harmony with the universal moral order and who live unknown to the world and unnoticed by others without any concern. It is only people of holy, divine natures who are capable of this.
- Confucius, cited in: Novak Philip, The World's Wisdom, P.120.
- You venerate the saints, and you take pleasure in touching their relics. But you disregard their greatest legacy, the example of a blameless life. ... No devotion is more acceptable and proper to the saints than striving to imitate their virtues.
- Erasmus, The Handbook of the Christian Soldier, Fifth rule, in The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 144.
- They say that the world rests on the backs of 36 living saints — 36 unselfish men and women. Because of them the world continues to exist. They are the secret kings and queens of this world.
- Neil Gaiman, in The Sandman #31: "Three Septembers and a January", Death, speaking to Emperor Norton I.
- We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night. Kropotkin was a genial man, almost saintly according to some, who promoted a vision of small communities setting their own standards by consensus for the benefit of all, thereby eliminating the need for most functions of a central government.
- Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
- Saint Theodore Guerin (Saint Mother Theodore), Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's (1848)
- Holy words, full of nectar, coming out of the mouths of the true Gurus vibrate throughout the world. (...) From every pore of their bodies blessings are pouring forth to all beings.
- Haidakhan Babaji, The Teachings of Babaji, 4 April 1982.
- The world is full of half-enlightened masters. Overly clever, too "sensitive" to live in the real world, they surround themselves with selfish pleasures and bestow their grandiose teachings upon the unwary. Prematurely publicizing themselves, intent upon reaching some spiritual climax, they constantly sacrifice the truth and deviate from the Tao. What they really offer the world is their own confusion.
- Hua Hu Ching 80, quoted after: Novak Philip, The World's Wisdom. P.174.
- It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
- William James, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), Lecture II, "Circumscription of the Topic"
- Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought. When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable in their lives. The theories which Religion generates, being thus variable, are secondary; and if you wish to grasp her essence, you must look to the feelings and the conduct as being the more constant elements. It is between these two elements that the short circuit exists on which she carries on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop-lines which may be perfections and improvements, and may even some day all be united into one harmonious system, but which are not to be regarded as organs with an indispensable function, necessary at all times for religious life to go on. This seems to me the first conclusion which we are entitled to draw from the phenomena we have passed in review.
- William James, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), Lecture XX, "Conclusions"
- Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
- John of Salisbury, in Policraticus (1159), Bk. 7, ch. 10.
- The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater, as quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290
- I recalled the myth that I had once heard as a university student — thirty-six hidden saints in the world, all of them doing the work of humble men, carpenters, cobblers, shepherds. They bore the sorrows of the earth and they had a line of communication with God, all except one, the hidden saint, who was forgotten. The forgotten one was left to struggle on his own, with no line of communication to that which he so hugely needed. Corrigan had lost his line with God: he bore the sorrows on his own, the story of stories.
- Colum McCann, in Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: All Respects to Heaven, I Like it Here
- We belong to the Society of Friends, a community of love, a family of persons. In so far as we are not just another "denomination," we know also that the salvation of our age is in our keeping; that is, that it lies in the divine-human society which is "rooted and grounded in love." This is the unity which alone can make one world out of "one world", and not one nightmare, one hell, one burned-out cinder. We know also and in a way we respond to the fact that we have a mission, we are "called to be saints".
- A. J. Muste, in Saints for This Age (1962)
- People find it difficult to understand why one must travel to the master in order to hear the teaching from his lips (...). There is a great difference between hearing the truth from the master directly, and hearing it quoted by others (...) and reading it in a book.
- Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (1772-1810), cited in: Miriam Bokser Caravella, The Holy Name. P.172-3.
- Your own self is your ultimate teacher (sadguru). The outer teacher (Guru) is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher, that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal.
- Sri Maharaj Nisargadatta. (2005). I am That. P.51.
- In my opinion, he's a saint. If I had to deal with that level of fan dickishness, I would have already lost my shit in some spectacular way. There would be a video of me on youtube, gone all berserk with nerd rage, holding someone up by the neck, shouting "I've got your sequel right here, bitch!"
- Stay in the company of lovers. Those other kinds of people, they each want to show you something. A crow will lead you to an empty barn, A parrot to sugar.
- Rumi, Furuzanfar #630, quoted in: Helminski, Kabir (2000). The Rumi Collection. P.181.
- Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death, and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching.
- Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book One, Part III, Chapter XXVIII, Stoicism, p. 253
- Saints do not die.
It is their lot,
To die while on this earth
To all that God is not.
- Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer, translation by J. E. Crawford Flitch (1932)
- The master by residing in the Tao, sets an example for all beings. Because he doesn't display himself, people can see his light. Because he has nothing to prove, people can trust his words. Because he doesn't know who he is, people recognize themselves in him. Because he has no goal in mind, everything he does succeeds.
- Tao Te Ching 22, cited in: Novak Philip, The World Wisdom, P.153.
- The soul can only receive impulses from another soul, and from nothing else. We may study books all our lives, we may become very intellectual; but in the end we shall find that we have not developed at all spiritually (...). This inadequacy of books to quicken spiritual growth is the reason why, although almost every one of us can speak most wonderfully on spiritual matters, when it comes to action and the living of a spiritual life, we find ourselves awfully deficient. To quicken the spirit, the impulse must come from another soul. The person from whose soul such an impulse comes is called the guru, the teacher; and the person to whose soul the impulse is conveyed is called the sishya, the student.
- Vivekananda, quoted in: Nikhilananda, Vivekananda, A Biography, P.189.
- Of one hundred people who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore, beware.
- Vivekananda, quoted in: Nikhilananda, Vivekananda, A Biography, P.30.
- Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, as quoted in "Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on the ethico-religious" by Roe Fremstedal in Ideas in History Vol. 1 (2006)


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Pointers help children track words better, strengthening reading and writing skills.
Month: October 2013
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Singer and musician Alice Cooper will be hoping to hit the right notes when he joins top players to compete in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic Challenge Match on Tuesday at the Jebel Ali Golf Resort.
A self-confessed golf addict, Cooper will be paired with fellow American, Mark O'Meara, in the Challenge Match, which will also feature the likes of Lee Westwood, Thomas Bjorn, Jeev Milkha Singh, Rafael Cabrera-Bello and Henrik Stenson as they showcase their svelte swing during the nine-hole competition, starting at 3pm.
The Rock Hall of Fame inductee and School's Out hitmaker has often credited golf with helping him to kick his crippling drinking addition in the '80s.
"I love the game of golf. It's never a bad day for me on the golf course," he said in a release. "I've hit bad shots, but I've never thrown a club. I play a different course every single day."
Cooper will also feature in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic Pro Am on Wednesday.
In a tell-all memoir, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, published in 2007, the metal entertainer wrote about how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late '70s, and how he put the last nails in his addiction's coffin by getting up daily at 7am to play 36 holes.
"If there is one rock star who takes his golf seriously, I think it is Alice Cooper. His presence will help to create an electric atmosphere buzzing at the Challenge Match," said Mohammad Juma Buamaim, vice chairman and CEO of Golf in Dubai. "Alice Cooper is an inspiration to all those who want to kick their bad habits and live a healthy lifestyle. We are delighted to have him in the field and look forward to seeing him entertain the fans.
"The Challenge Match is a fun-filled affair that provides fans with an opportunity to see the game's biggest stars, along with Alice Cooper, up close and personal. The idea is to provide first-class entertainment. Cameras are allowed and there are no restrictions on autograph hunters," he added.
Via SyndiGate.info
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Now the client wants to see 3 posts per page, so I created a new
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How can I get Wordpress to give this template 3 blog posts?
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ACC Morning Five: 03.30.12 EditionPosted by mpatton on March 30th, 2012
- Wilmington Star News: Yet again we've got good and bad news out of Chapel Hill. Let's start with the good: Kendall Marshall won the Bob Cousy Award for the country's top point guard. It's tough to argue with the pick, as Marshall's ACC-record 351 assists helped lead the Tar Heels to the ACC regular season title before the team crumbled in his absence in the Elite Eight. Marshall continues the recent streak of North Carolina point guards to win the award, following the likes of Raymond Felton and Ty Lawson.
- Raleigh News & Observer: North Carolina's roster next season will have at least five players missing from this year's team, as Marshall, John Henson and Harrison Barnes all announced their intentions of entering the NBA Draft (factor in Tyler Zeller and Justin Watts graduating to get to five). Assuming the Tar Heels keep James Michael McAdoo, they'll still have a solid interior presence and a wealth of perimeter players to go next to Marcus Paige, who will likely run the point with Dexter Strickland. Still, don't underestimate the magnitude of losing four All-ACC guys (and Caulton Tudor — the writer of this article — should know, as he had all four on his first team).
- From The Rumble Seat: First, how old will Miami be next year if everyone comes back? Durand Scott and Reggie Johnson will be 22, while Kenny Kadji will be 24. Wow. I think the author touches on a pretty important point for Georgia Tech's conference success next year in wondering about the unbalanced schedule. If the Yellow Jackets get shots at the bottom tier of the conference (which should be better), they'll be closer to the middle of the pack. However, unless someone really picks up the scoring load, it's tough to project them outside of the bottom four.
- Baltimore Sun: Matt Bracken sat down with Mark Turgeon's first Maryland recruit Seth Allen. Allen is a combo guard out of Virginia who hopes to contribute right away in Maryland's backcourt by helping Terrell Stoglin with the scoring and Pe'Shon Howard with running point. The Terrapins could certainly use another consistent scoring threat (though I'd keep my eyes on Nick Faust to gain some confidence), so it will be interesting to watch Allen whose senior year was tough to evaluate because of nagging injuries.
- CBSSports.com: The first edition of Jeff Goodman's transfer list is out with eight ACC names so far: Nate Hicks (sophomore, Georgia Tech), Glen Rice Jr. (junior, Georgia Tech), KT Harrell (sophomore, Virginia), Allan Chaney (freshman, Virginia Tech), JT Thompson (senior, Virginia Tech), Tony Chennault (sophomore, Wake Forest), Carson Desrosiers (sophomore, Wake Forest) and Anthony Fields (freshman, Wake Forest). I'm sure there will be more to come.
EXTRA: Duke's student newspaper, The Chronicle does a great job in this article on Jon Scheyer coming back to the United States looking for a chance at the NBA. Scheyer got hurt during summer league after going undrafted following his senior season (the buzz was he would sign with the Miami Heat), so he went to play in Israel with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Scheyer received limited playing time, which ultimately led to his return to the US (rumors also surfaced about Scheyer being forced to complete Israel's mandated military service, but he did not comment on that). I think Scheyer will get invited to the NBA's summer league.
EXTRA EXTRA: Apparently, Tyler Hansbrough's nose is still attracting Duke elbows even in the NBA. Last weekend Mike Dunleavy elbowed Hansbrough in the face, breaking his nose and facial bone.


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Despite a solid 3-1 thrashing of Brazilian club Santos last week to open Red Bull Arena, the question still remained about which New York team would show up in Saturday's season opener.
The Red Bulls' 1-0 win over Chicago answered those questions at least for one night, thanks to a brilliant strike from Joel Lindpere that gave the hosts a feel-good opening win over their Eastern Conference rivals in front of a raucous crowd for the new stadium's official MLS debut.
Lindpere's goal in the 40th minute was his second in as many weeks in his first season with the club, tacked on to a tally in the club's 3-1 win over Brazilian side Santos in Red Bull Arena's exhibition opener on March 20. The Estonian import one-timed a bouncing ball off the head of Juan Pablo Angel and past Fire rookie goalkeeper Andrew Dykstra, and it held up behind goalkeeper Buona Condoul and the Red Bulls' defensive line.
Hans Backe won the battle over Carlos de los Cobos in the battle of coaching newcomers, but it didn't come easily. Brian McBride skipped a bicycle kick off the post in the 20th minute, and Patrick Nyarko missed a golden chance in the 83rd minute when he missed a shot wide of the post from the top of the box with Condoul well out of goal.
Coundoul made the save of the night midway through the second half on a direct kick from Fire defender Mike Banner. The Chicago youngster curled a left-footed strike over the wall and off the hands of the lunging hands of Coundoul, who impressed a boisterous Red Bull Arena for the second consecutive week.
New York picked up its fourth consecutive win in a home opener.
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NY – Joel Lindpere (1), 40th minute
Chicago: Andrew Dykstra, Mike Banner, C.J. Brown, Wilman Conde, Tim Ward, Peter Lowery, Julio Martinez (Collins John, 53rd), Marco Pappa, Logan Pause (Baggio Husidic, 60th), Brian McBride (Justin Mapp, 78th), Patrick Nyarko
New York: Bouna Coundoul, Roy Miller, Tim Ream, Mike Petke, Jeremy Hall, Danleigh Borman (John Wolyniec, 70th), Sinisa Ubiparipovic, Joel Lindpere, Dane Richards, Juan Pablo Angel, Macoumba Kandji (Tony Tchani, 90th)
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Despite the relocation, loyal Polish-born residents trekked back to Greenpoint to deposit their hard earned pay in the Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union, the largest ethnic credit union in the country and a community institution at the heart of Polish immigrant life in the city.
Now, Polish-born Maspethians no longer have to make that trip.
In late January, the Polish and Slavic FCU opened a new branch in Maspeth on Grand Avenue at Hamilton Place. The opening of the new branch, which will celebrate an official grand opening on February 21, confirms the established Polish presence in Maspeth, and the credit union's surprising success at a time when other financial institutions have been destroyed, or badly crippled, by the economic recession.
"It's surprising that it took us so long to come here to Maspeth," said Marian Ponanta, the vice president of marketing at the credit union, who, along with the Zbigniew Rogalski, the branch manager, and Martyna Florczak, a communications specialist, gave the Glendale Register a special tour of the new facility "Polish residents have been living in Maspeth for generations."
It took the credit union longer than expected to find a site in Maspeth, Ponanta said, because the institution was determined to wait for a space that would fit their needs. When they finally found a suitable building on Grand Avenue, they couldn't turn it down.
"This is a prime location for Maspeth," said Ponanta. "Anybody that does anything Maspeth comes through here."
The new branch is part of a recent expansion of the credit union just at the time when other banking companies are shrinking.
The Polish and Slavic FCU was founded in 1976 by a group of Polish immigrants to provide the transplanted Polish community with a home-grown organization to minister its finances in a foreign country.
After rooting itself firmly in the fabric of Greenpoint life ("Greenpoint is ours, we rock and roll there," Ponanta said), the credit union began expanding elsewhere in Brooklyn and Queens. Today, the institution has over ten branches in New York and New Jersey serving over 70,000 Polish and Slavic immigrants, the vast majority of whom are Polish.
Credit unions, which offer all of the same financial services as banks, differ from them in two principal ways: credit unions are non-for-profit organizations, and each member has a voting stake in electing- and the right to run for a seat on- the institution's governing board of directors.
The Polish and Slavic FCU in particular has seen such success, said Ponanta, because Polish immigrants have a remarkable propensity to save, are committed to paying off mortgages and other financial obligations swiftly, and reinvest capital in strengthening their communities. (The Polish and Slavic FCU donates to over 100 local organizations each year, and runs a youth scholarship program that will pass the $2 million dollar donation mark in May).
"Polish immigrants hate to be in debt. We're very likely to have conscientious members," said Ponanta. "It's a rare success story that can be attributed to immigrants who came here with nothing and took advantage of the opportunity."
When the recent real estate crisis hit, sending the national economy into recession, said Ponanta, the credit union's unique financial position, and its solid niche market, saved it from collapse.
The institution steered clear of the boom and bust sub prime mortgage market, and avoided the derivatives market entirely. As a result, said Ponanta, the credit union's assets, valued now at least $1.2 billion, actually grew substantially in 2008. "We had our best year ever," Ponanta said. "Credit unions compared to banks in this situation prove to be much safer."
Ponanta is hoping that growth will translate to the Maspeth community, where Polish residents have been waiting for their own credit union for years. "We're hoping to attract people from Maspeth that still consider themselves Polish," said Ponanta. "We're happy that we're able in tough financial times to give back to the community."


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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - February 18, 2013) - Brisbane drug discovery and development company Alchemia Limited (ASX: ACL) announced that Charles Walker has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer.
Charles (Charlie) Walker BSC (Hons) Pharmacology, MBA has accepted the position effective immediately. Mr Walker, who has been Alchemia's Chief Financial Officer for the last two years, brings 20 years' international life science industry experience to the role.
ACL Chairman Dr Mel Bridges said: "The Board is delighted to have secured the services of a talented and experienced life sciences executive to lead the Company through what promises to be a critical development period. Charlie's financial, technical and operational background and proven leadership skills will support the delivery of key milestones, while maintaining a sharp focus on delivering shareholder value."
Mr Walker originally trained as a pharmacologist in the UK before embarking on a career in the pharmaceutical industry. He subsequently spent more than a decade in corporate finance advising international technology companies, executing more than 40 successful corporate transactions including IPOs, M&A agreements and fundraisings. He also co-founded a successful life sciences investment banking firm in the UK which was sold to Nomura International plc in 2005 realising significant returns for investors.
Dr Bridges will resume his role as non executive chairman.
Mr Walker commented: "Alchemia is a fast growing, late stage drug development company with a bright, international future. The next 12 months will be transformative both in terms of clinical and corporate development and I am looking forward to building on the strong foundations already established, and continuing to work to unlock value for shareholders."
About Alchemia Limited - www.alchemia.com.au
Alchemia is a drug development company with late stage oncology product pipeline (Phase II and III), and an FDA approved drug (Fondaparinux).
Fondaparinux (a generic version of GlaxoSmithKline's Arixtra®) is an injectable anticoagulant approved in the US for the prevention and treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after knee or hip surgery. The ANDA for generic fondaparinux was approved by the US FDA in July 2011 and launched in the US by marketing partner Dr Reddy's Laboratories. Alchemia received its first profits from sales of fondaparinux in August 2011.
Alchemia's pipeline of oncology products is built on the proprietary platform technology: HyACT® (targeted cancer delivery), which is used to selectively target cancer drugs to tumours. The primary objective of the HyACT® technology is to develop a new generation of anti-cancer drugs which demonstrate better efficacy. The Company has recently announced the final recruitment for its most advance cancer drug -- HA-Irinotecan which is in Phase III for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer.
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Harvard takes to the road for a second straight week when the Crimson travels to Lafayette for a noon kickoff at Lafayette.
Both teams are coming off losses in surprising, albeit different, fashions last week. Harvard never got on track in a 29-14 loss at Brown while Lafayette fell in double overtime at Princeton, 36-33, in losing its third game of the season by less than five points.
The game will be shown live on the Lafayette Sports Network which is carried by RCN cable. The game can be heard live on the radio and over the internet on AM 1120 (Boston), 1390 (Plymouth), 970 (Sturbridge) with Bernie Corbett and Mike Giardi '94 on the call, as well as WHRB-FM 95.3 (Cambridge) with students Scott Reed and Charlie Hobbs.
Series History
Saturday's game will be the 15th meeting between Harvard and Lafayette in a series that dates to 1966. The Crimson holds an 11-3 lead in the rivalry but saw an eight-game win streak end last season in Cambridge, Mass.
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- Highlight: Marco Iannuzzi 95-Yard Kickoff Return at Brown
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Last Year's Meeting
Two first half turnovers in its own territory and three critical defensive penalties paved the way for Lafayette to score 28 first half points en route to a 35-18 win over Harvard at The Stadium.
Harvard trailed 14-0 after one quarter and 28-3 at halftime in losing to Lafayette for the first time in nine chances and losing at home for the first time in over two years after winning 11 straight since the beginning of the 2007 season.
Harvard's Last Time Out
Brown's Alex Norocea kicked five field goals and the Bears held a sputtering Harvard offense in check for a 29-14 Ivy League victory on Saturday night. It was the first night game at Brown Stadium, which opened in 1925.
The Bruins (2-0, 1-0) held possession for 39:05 and led 23-0 before the Crimson (1-1, 0-1) scored seven seconds before halftime on Andrew Hatch's 21-yard pass to Marco Iannuzzi.
Iannuzzi returned the opening second-half kickoff 95 yards to make it 23-14, but Harvard got no closer. Hatch threw his second interception, leading to a 44-yard Norocea field goal with 9:28 left in the third quarter.
Harvard also fumbled four times, losing one with 2:44 left in the quarter when Brown recovered a snap over the head of Harvard punter Jacob Dombrowski. Norocea's fifth field goal made it 29-14.
Lafayette's Last Time Out
Princeton's Jordan Culbreath scored on a 2-yard run in double overtime to lift Princeton to a 36-33 win over Lafayette on Saturday night.
Princeton (1-1) trailed 21-10 with 8:25 left in the third quarter after Lafayette's Vaughn Hebron scored on a 1-yard run. But the Tigers tied the scored at 27 with 45 seconds left in the fourth on Patrick Jacob's 24-yard field goal to send the game into overtime.
In the second overtime, Davis Rodriguez made a 26-yard field to give the Leopards (0-3) a 33-30 advantage. But Culbreath, who finished with 61 yards rushing on 11 carries, followed with the game-winning score.
Tommy Wornham completed 23 of 43 passes for 214 yards and two touchdowns for Princeton. Trey Peacock caught seven passes for 98 yards.
Ryan O'Neil threw for 283 yards, two touchdowns and one interception for Lafayette. Alan Elder had 103 yards rushing.
Harvard Coach Tim Murphy
In his 17th season as Harvard's head coach, Tim Murphy enters Saturday's game with a 105-56 record with the Crimson and a 137-101-1 overall head coaching record, which includes five years at Cincinnati and two years at Maine. Murphy is one of just five coaches to win 100 games since the formation of the Ivy League in 1954. Murphy has led Harvard to five Ivy League championships (1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008). He is 8-2 all-time against Lafayette.
Lafayette Coach Frank Tavani
Frank Tavani is in his 11th year on the Lafayette sideline, and he takes a 60-56 record into Saturday's game. Tavani led has the Leopards to Patriot League titles and NCAA tournament appearances in three of the last five years. He is 1-8 against Harvard.
Elite Company
With 105 career victories on the Harvard sideline, head coach Tim Murphy ranks second on the Crimson's all-time wins chart. Murphy is 12 wins away from Joe Restic's school record 117 wins (from 1971-93).
Since the formal naming of the Ivy League in 1956, just five coaches have reached the 100-win plateau with two of them being Harvard men.
Carm Cozza, Yale: 179
Bob Blackman, Dartmouth 127
Al Bangnoli, Penn: 123
Joe Restic, Harvard: 117
Tim Murphy, Harvard: 105
Prior to its loss against Brown, Harvard had won its Ivy League opener in 10 of 11 seasons with nine of the wins coming against Brown and the other coming against Columbia. The team is now 10-2 in its last 12 Ivy openers.
No Need To Panic
The last time that Harvard lost its Ivy League opener was in 2008 at Brown and the Crimson came back to win the league championship that season.
The Story Behind The Camo
Over the past two seasons, members of the Harvard coaching staff have donned camouflage hats in honor of the Crimson football players who are serving in the armed forces. Corey Mazza and Matt Drazba are currently members of the Marines.
In late September, Harvard graduate Peter McLoughlin was hired as the CEO of the Seattle Seahawks after serving in the same position for the St. Louis Blues of the NHL since July 2006.
Kickoff Returns
Marco Iannuzzi returned a kickoff 95 yards for a score against Brown, becoming Harvard's first kickoff man to return one for a score since 2006 when Clifton Dawson did it in a win against Cornell.
Rare Penalties
Harvard committed 10 penalties for 74 yards against Brown and has committed 10 penalties in consecutive games for the first time since weeks eight and nine of the 2007 season.
Complete Game Notes
For complete games notes in PDF format, click on the link at the beginning of this page.


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A good collection of information has a lot of value. However, you can't squeeze full value from a list of contacts or tasks if you can't get a quick handle on which items are important and which aren't. The Categories feature in Outlook is designed to help you distinguish what's urgent from what can wait.
Assigning a category
When you first set up Outlook 2007, you can find out what categories are available by clicking the Categorize button at the top of the Inbox screen, just to the right of the Forward button, or by choosing Actions –> Categorize. The Categorize button looks like a small, multicolored tic-tac-toe square. Several other Outlook modules also display the Categorize button; it does the same job wherever you find it. Clicking the Categorize button brings up a list of (surprise!) categories, each named after a color. If you simply want to color code your items by using the default, the process is pretty simple.
Follow these steps to assign a category to an item:
1. Click the item you want to categorize.
The item is highlighted.
2. Click the Categorize button and choose the category you want from the list.
A colored block appears in the item to indicate which category you choose.
You can assign multiple categories to each item, although putting too many on an item may be more confusing than assigning no categories at all.
Renaming a category
You can associate a name with each color so you know why you're assigning a certain category to a certain item.
To rename a category, follow these steps:
1. Click the Categories button and choose All Categories.
The Color Categories dialog box appears.
2. Click the category you want to rename.
The category you select is highlighted.
3. Click the Rename button.
The category you choose in Step 2 is surrounded by a box to show that you can edit it.
4. Type the new name you want to assign to that category.
The name you type appears in place of the old name.
5. Click OK.
The Color Categories dialog box closes.
If you change the name of a category that you'd already assigned to some Outlook items, that category name changes on those items automatically.
Changing a category color
You can change the color of a category as well as its name. Assigning memorable colors can give important clues about how your work is going or how well you're keeping up with current projects.
Follow the steps to change the color of a category:
1. Click the Categories button and choose All Categories.
The Color Categories dialog box appears.
2. Click the category to which you want to assign a new color.
The category you select is highlighted.
3. Click the Color button.
A drop-down list appears, showing the colors you can choose.
4. Click the color you want to assign.
The color you choose appears in place of the old color.
5. Click OK.
The Color Categories dialog box closes.
You can also choose None and create a colorless category. That's kind of drab, but if it fits your mood, go for it. You may want to create colorless categories because Outlook offers only 25 colors, and you may have more than 25 categories. But after you get past 25 categories, you might consider cutting down on the number of categories to reduce confusion.
Assigning a category shortcut key
You can give each category a shortcut key, which allows you to assign a category without touching your mouse. That's very handy when you want to zoom through a screen full of e-mail messages or tasks and set everything into some kind of order.
To assign a shortcut key to a category, follow these steps:
1. Click the Categories button and choose All Categories.
The Color Categories dialog box appears.
2. Click the category to which you want to assign a shortcut key.
The category you select is highlighted to show that you selected it.
3. Click the Shortcut Key menu.
The list of shortcut keys appears.
4. Click the shortcut key you want to assign.
The name of the shortcut key you choose appears to the right of the category.
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You can't assign more than one shortcut key to a category; that would be confusing. However, you can assign more than one category to an item.


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Tuna Reubens
At our annual trip to the beach last year my husband and I met some friends at a waterfront café where the specialty was fried grouper sandwiches. Instead of the restaurant's specialty, I opted for a Tuna Reuben and immediately was glad I did.
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PowerPoint is similar to a word processor, except that it's geared toward creating presentations rather than documents. PowerPoint presentations consist of one or more slides. Each slide can contain text, graphics, and other information. You can easily rearrange the slides in a PowerPoint presentation, delete slides that you don't need, add new slides, or modify the contents of existing slides.
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A presentation is to PowerPoint what a document is to Word or a worksheet is to Excel. Each presentation that you create is saved on the hard drive as a separate file.
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Drones could revolutionize police work. But privacy and security concerns could keep them grounded.
July 26, 2012
$7 Billion Plan for D.C.'s Union Station Announced
The undertaking would be one of the country's most expensive transportation infrastructure projects. But at least one hurdle remains: how to pay for it.
July 17, 2012
Weiner Reportedly Considering Run for NYC Mayor
Anthony Weiner is considering a return to politics with a possible a run for mayor according to the New York Post.
July 12, 2012
High-Speed Rail's International Leaders Offer Thoughts on U.S. Approach
Members of the International Union of Railways came to Capitol Hill to discuss the progress of high-speed rail worldwide.
July 10, 2012
California Bill Would Allow Children More Than 2 Parents
SB 1476, a bill working its way through the California Legislature, would remove the limit of two legal parents per child. Similar legislation exists in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maine, and the District of Columbia.
July 9, 2012
Obama Signs Transportation, Student Loan Bill
President Barack Obama signed the new two-year transportation bill, which also included an extension of lower student loan interest rates Friday.
July 5, 2012
Illinois Removes Family Exemption For Assisting Fugitives
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill Thursday removing a loophole that allowed immediate family members to help fugitives escape the country without legal penalty. Illinois was one of 14 states to have such an exemption.
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Michigan county school district enacts merit-based salaries for teachers
St. Clair county became the first in Michigan to enact a merit-based pay program for its teachers.
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Pittsburgh's forestation plans bring financial savings
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he devastating storm that raced from Ohio and along the mid-Atlantic knocking out power to more than 3 million people and killing at least 17 sparked state officials to declare states of emergencies as the massive cleanup continued.
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Iowa Makes It Tougher For Felons to Regain Voting Rights
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Mourdock Jumps Ahead Of Supreme Court On Health Care Ruling
GOP Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock surprised everyone yesterday when he applauded the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most surprised of all may be the Justices of the Supreme Court, as the ruling will not come until next week.
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i have an Xo1 and i have a erevo and honestly i use my erevo brushless alot more than my xo1 my problem is i just cant find enough long big smooth road for this type of car but it seems like it would be alot of fun if i did i know this sounds crazy to maybe some of you but i have went no more than 80 mph with the Xo1 just because i didnt want to run the risk of destroying my car to pieces but ill probably do the 100 mph eventually but 80 mph is actually really fast enough in my eyes but im just looking for some opinions on how you people who own a Xo-1 feel about it i actually thought about selling mine just because i havent used it much compare to my erevo or rustler please let me know your advice thanks
i think you're in the same position many find themselves in. I believe the XO-1 to be a novelty item and hardly something you're going to fine use for...but at least you can say you own one...
yea that is true im very greatful to own one and i worked alot of extra hours at the job to get it lol... i just wish i could use it more often do you own a Xo-1?? if not what Rc's do you own and use frequently?? just really wanted to see if the Xo-1 is worth having in peoples eyes
Not worth it unless if you have the right place to drive it.
I have three xo-1 with different setup and purposes for each. I think its the best on-road out their. I have had experience with 1/16 traxxas mustang, Hpi Sprint Flux, Hpi rs4, Ofna gt2. The xo-1 design is really easy work on and maintaince its a breeze. I really recommend it.
If you can truly afford it, buy it. You don't have to make 100 MPH speed passes to enjoy this thing. I have never been past 92 MPH as I still have to find a place to run the 100, but it is fun nevertheless. If your budget doesn't allow such a large purchase, there are plenty of other things that are fun, too, at a much lower price point. For example, I also bought a gently used HPI RS4 nitro road car for $175 that goes 75 MPH (via re-gearing and tweaks), and it is pretty fun, too. I run the nitro car while the XO-1 cools down between passes. I am 48 years old, and have a big budget to buy what I want, but I still hate to waste money. I am glad I bought this, though.
I've had more fun modifying this car than any car I've ever had. Once you have an XO-1........you can burn all your other cars.
The Annihilator....fastest XO-1 on planet Earth.
While the XO-1 is extraordinarily fast, its large size also makes it stable at lower speeds; just carving through a street or parking lot below 50 is easier with its larger size, higher weight, and extra ground clearance over, say, a standard 1/10th scale electric touring car. It will never be as capable or versatile as a monster truck like a Stampede, Maxx, or Revo, or even a stadium truck like the Rustler, but as far as on-road cars go it's a sweet model.
if I didnt have a brand new roller sitting with a XL2 esc next to it I prob would of never sold it , that said I crashed mine plenty of times doing over 80-90+ and aside from breaking the A arms I never had an issue , and was the real first rc car Ive takin apart from the chassis up , but after so many hi speed crashes I feel as if the steering wouldnt center for life of me ended up selling for 200 less then I bought it . After bashing it for 9 months I dont feel like I took too much of a hit seeing as others are having hard time getting 600 for theirs lately
"but after so many hi speed crashes I feel as if the steering wouldnt center for life of me'
A $1,000 car should not have a $30 servo with plastic gears. I installed a titanium geared high-torque digital Hitec servo and it is like a new car. Centers brilliantly!
I put the mamba system on my Traxxas Rustler so i can hit high speed or I can run offroad just got to do a little modding but it was worth it..It may not be AS fast as an xo-1 but I bet i can give one a run for its money!
Your right Im sure but Im still proud to own my mamba rustler nobody around here where i live mods anything, I like changing it up and trust me i wish i could spend 1,000 dollars on an xo-1 but seems a little much for me.
You need to keep your eyes open. 3 weeks ago a NIB Xo-1 went for $740.00. A couple days ago another NIB one went for $750.00. Wish I could of got mine that cheap but mine weren't that far off of these. Check out evilbay once in a while. I would never pay $1000.00 for one of these.
I paid $1100 , probably have spent $500 just in dumb parts and replacements and sold it for $800 with a brand new painted body and extra basher body plus extra chassis and my gensace lipos those cost me $100 but at the end of the day selling it for 800 was enough just to get rid of it because of all the abuse it took lol . have brand new one parted sittin and debating to hook it up or sell it
I want to get one sometime but I dont have an ipod device to unlock it..wonder why you gotta have the app to unlock it anyway? could you just use the castle link and do it that way? or do you HAVE to use an apple device?
I'm glad I bought my XO-1. I paid 9 hundred something for it.
So the positives:
The car really does do what Traxxas claims it does and it does it remarkably well. I don't know of any other RC that you can take out of the box and with minimal adjustments (that do not require aftermarket parts), cruise for multiple miles at 80 mph plus. I have over 70km of sustained hi speed and full throttle blasts on it's odometer (GPS) and the thing still runs and drives as well as a new full size super car would with 70 km on the clock. I've even managed to hold 16 seconds of full throttle/top speed without crashing. The XO-1 is the true definition of a novelty in the spirit of the expensive real super cars it emulates either as display piece or chewing up large chunks of real estate at triple digit speeds.
The negatives:
If a person is all about hitting 100 plus with it then one must realize that it does have small wheels and only around 1/2 an inch clearance thus requires a surface that's almost perfect. Not perfectly perfect but close. This limit's most people because quite frankly there really isn't too many public places smooth and long enough to pull it off without destroying the car or something else. I'm blessed with places to take it to speed easily, that's one of the reasons I bought it.
A negative thing (for me anyways) was having to go get an I-pod to finish the package. Now I have an I-pod that sits in the controller 365 a year because I could care less about apple or "apps". Not to mention the usual internet grief of setting up accounts and downloading an app (multiple times required) to get the car unlocked. I'd have rather paid the extra money wasted on ipod to have the car just come with a controller that already has an integrated color display for the telemetry. No apps.
Another minor issue was the speed sensor was shot right out of the box. So no speed display. Don't really care however as I'd rather just use gps to know how fast it went. It's more accurate. The only thing in telemetry I find useful is the thermometer. Even though I have exceptional places to run the car it's only for 5 months a year because the other 7 months of winter cover up all the preemo pavement.
XO-1, Roadrunner Slash
I found it cheaper to build the XO-1 from the ground up, I have almost a roller and paid about $175, it needs wheels and hubs to be a roller, it shouls take about another $200 to put it on the road....
its only cheaper to build it from ground up if you have a spare motor/esc , servo and reciever , im sure most have 2 3S batts and the remote allready. But if you dont have atleast a big block motor in there you arnt gettin the full experience . Seein as theres some on ebay for $750 shipped cant beat a full ready to run with batts at that price
Hi there, its a long time ago you posted this i hope you still arround. I want to buy for my xo also the D940TW servo,do it fit like the original servo,ore do i have to do some modifications?
The XO-1 is a lot more fun geared up for playing in big parking lots rather than for long straight speed runs.
The ReglarGuy is kid tested and father approved.
I bought a used xo-1 . quit the learning experience . it seems that the previous owner put his left over parts in it . but I have learned a lot getting it going . I find ez to work on , but can be a little confusing on trouble shooting . all in all I really like it .
would buy another ............... steve
A $1,000 car should not have a $30 servo with plastic gears. I installed a titanium geared high-torque digital Hitec servo and it is like a new car. Centers brilliantly![/QUOTE]
Which model servo is that specifik?
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Good gawd and gurdy! What I could get for $800. Maybe have my tranny case gold plated and then some. Its kind of funny how i would put that plus, into upgrades, but would never straight out pay that much for a car. This hobby can get so confusing sometimes....I agree with RegularGuy. I would never look at the X-01 as being a speed runner. Maybe a drift car? Heck, I don't know!
Choose Life !!!
MHO , I like it . yes using it to get 100mph . I hit a curb at about 80-85mph & severely hurt it . but the good side is they sell all the parts & is totally disassembly & reassembly capable . when fixing my wreck I leaned a lot about the car & actually enjoyed working on it . would do it all over again .
I have to agree, this car is amazing but too expensive. As a hard core enthusiast i wanted one in my collection and love it. Everyone should have one of these in their garage. It's an expensive car but cheap to fix.


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The shootings took place after 7:15 p.m. Central time Sunday, according to several reports. The suspect, Yu Masaki, 27, was detained and arrested this morning. Contrary to several reports, Masaki was not a Planet Fitness member, according to the company.
The victim who was fatally shot was 31-year-old Juan Escamilla, according to a police report and a report by the Bexar County (TX) medical examiner's office. The female victim, who was Escamilla's girlfriend, according to reports, has been identified by police as 21-year-old Margaret McCombs.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's ruling that female inmates have a constitutional right to abortions off jail grounds.
The Supreme Court, without comment, let stand a lower court ruling on inmate abortions.
The case involved an Arizona woman who wanted a first-trimester abortion, but was refused transportation by corrections officials in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. The county appealed a lower-court decision in favor of the woman.
The county's policy banned off-site "elective medical procedures" without a court order. County officials said they provided transportation only for procedures they deemed "medically necessary." A state court ruled that was an "exaggerated response" to the inmate's request.
The Supreme Court justices without comment refused to decide if the county's policy violated a woman's due process rights.
The decision means changes ordered by a state court in 2005 giving women easier access to abortions off jail grounds must continue. A similar case in Missouri is expected to reach the Supreme Court in coming months.
The inmate in the Arizona case, listed in court papers under the pseudonym "Jane Doe," found out she was pregnant just after she had been sentenced in 2004 to four months in the county jail for driving while intoxicated.
Doe, then 19, immediately requested an abortion, but corrections officers said they would drive her to a nearby clinic only if she had a court order.
It took seven weeks to obtain the order, and her lawyers complained Doe faced "repeated obstacles."
After undergoing the abortion, Doe -- supported by the ACLU -- filed a lawsuit forcing the state to provide transportation for abortions.
State courts eventually found the county's policy placed an "undue burden" on pregnant inmates seeking abortions. The Supreme Court established that legal standard more than a quarter-century ago when when states were considering limiting women's access to abortion.
A state appeals court noted certain prisoner rights could be curtailed in the name of safety and efficiency inside a corrections facility. But the judges said that in this case, prison resources would not have been affected, since Doe had agreed to pay for the transportation and medical costs herself.
And taking prisoners off-campus is a routine procedure, the state court said.
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It's a cocktail party, presented by 5280 magazine, that's designed to drum up interest amongst the 40-and-under set for the 2010 Mask Project Gala.
Cloak & Swagger begins at 6 p.m. April 15 at Saks Fifth Avenue Cherry Creek, and the host committee for this "Night of Intrigue" is headed by Josh Hanfling. Members include Lydell Peterson, Tegan Alexander, Sean McNicholas, Dr. Anil Idiculla, Abby Berger, Jenny Platt and Betsy Oyler.
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Coach Rich Heitz had circled this two week blitz when this year's schedule was first released. With two state powerhouses sprinkled into a conference schedule that's already littered with top talent, Heitz knew this would be the ultimate measure.
Would his girls be up for a challenge against a team that swept past them in the preseason? Yes. Would they be ready to face an up-and-coming program with a star studded coaching staff at the helm? Yes, they would. How about a team that always gives them fits? Yes, even Farmington was no match for the Knights.
Southington dispatched a trio of high caliber programs last week, but Heitz still isn't ready to rest. With Coventry and Simsbury on the horizon, it isn't over yet.
"It was a hard week with a couple of tough games sandwiched in by a pesky NW Catholic team, but we knew that it was going to be difficult," he said. "I think the girls responded great. I think you can argue that Woodstock Academy is the best team in the state—at least from what I've seen in the preseason and early season. NW Catholic is well-coached by Jeanne Digiacomo, the former St. Joe's coach. Now, they have Nancy Ringrose, the former Central CT coach as their assistant. Then, Farmington is Farmington."
And Southington is the only one among them that's still undefeated.
"We've still got a lot of work to do," said Heitz, "but we're on the right track."
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The Centaurs swept past the Knights in a preseason tournament and carried that momentum into the first game of the series. On Monday, Sept. 17, Woodstock Academy blasted past the Knights in game one, 25-17.
Heitz gathered the girls between sets to steady his bench.
"They are a phenomenal team," Heitz said. "They blew out everybody down there (in Darien). They blew us out. We knew their libero Sam Forst is the best libero in the state, without question. They were the best team I saw in the preseason. They dominated everybody."
On this night, Southington held its own. They held onto a short lead throughout the second contest, rebounded from a 16-7 deficit to capture the third, and held on to win the fourth set, 25-20. Southington took the best of five series, 3-1.
"I hope we have the confidence now that we can play with anybody in the state of Connecticut," said Heitz. "This team has probably been the hardest-working team that I've had with their strength training in the offseason. We were pretty winded at the end, but we all fought through it."
Corinne Horanzy led the charge with 21 kills and 20 digs. Danielle Kaminsky distributed 38 assists and 10 digs. Sam Vitale (10 kills, 6 digs) and Caroline Barry (4 kills, 2 blocks) anchored the play at the net, and Alison McCormick anchored the back row with 16 digs.
As a team, Southington served 88 percent from the floor with 11 aces.
"We knew that they were very good, and we knew the job they did against us at Darien," said Heitz. "We were looking to catch any string of momentum at any point. We were able to grab it a little bit in the middle of game one, but we gave it up. We came out in game two and had it. I think that the big thing was that we were down 16-7 in game three and came back. Once you do that to a team, it's hard to come back."
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On Wednesday, Southington rallied for a pair of lopsided wins before Heitz began to tinker with the lineup. Southington swept past NW Catholic, 25-11, 25-14, before dropping a 25-17 decision in game three, but the Knights clinched the series with a 25-9 win in the fourth and final set.
"We were up 2-0, but we're constantly trying to find out what rotations and lineups will make us a better team," said Heitz. "We tried a couple of lineups that probably weren't our strongest, but that's okay. We're always trying to find ways to improve."
Kaminsky paced the attack with 36 assists and seven digs. Horanzy had 13 kills and 17 digs, and Barry added 12 kills. Sara Malicka anchored the defense with 18 digs. Vitale (7 kills, 5 digs), Cyndy Woolley (5 kills), Jordyn Moquin (7 digs)
On Friday, Southington continued the streak with a 3-0 win against Farmington. Once again, Southington tinkered with the lineup after a 2-0 start, but Southington held on for a three-point victory to clinch the shutout.
"We took it right to them from the get go," said Heitz.
Horanzy led the way with 19 kills and 15 digs. Kaminsky was perfect from the line (10-for-10) and dealt out 35 assists. Vitale had nine kills and eight digs. MAlicka finished with 12 digs. Barry (7 kills) and Woolley (6 digs) contributed.
Southington swept past the Indians, 25-11, 25-14, and 25-22 to improve to 5-0 (4-0 in the CCC West). The Knights will try to carry that momentum into this week's competition with another grueling week with conference matchups with Hall and Simsbury sandwiching Thursday's rivalry at Coventry.
"Coventry and Woodstock are two of the top three teams in the state. Then, we've got RHAM and Bristol Eastern as mandatory crossovers and another game with Farmington," said Heitz. "This is probably the toughest schedule that we've had."
Bring it on.
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It was a data treasure trove promising answers to a question asked by health consumers everywhere: Which doctors, clinics and hospitals deliver the best care for the best price?
But Utah's All-Payer Claims Database, a repository of all medical and pharmacy insurance claims filed statewide, has failed to deliver.
State Department of Health employees charged with building and overseeing the database have moved on to other positions in state government. The New Jersey-based vendor hired to mine the data, Care Advantage, went out of business last month. And promised reports comparing health centers on certain quality measures have yet to materialize.
It's a setback foreshadowed two years ago by Keely Cofrin Allen, then director of the health department's Office of Health Care Statistics, who told The Salt Lake Tribune: "Two things keep me up at night, a security breach and becoming a bottleneck.… We don't want to collect these mounds of data just to sit on them."
Her temporary replacement, Barry Nangle, says all is not lost.
"Care Advantage wasn't doing it for us in some ways," he said. "The database wasn't satisfying all the users who emerged since we started collecting the data. Now we're engaging stakeholders in a broader development process than was dictated by the Legislature."
But consumer advocates say what's needed is more funding.
"If our leaders are serious about market-based reform, they need to get serious about funding the tools to make it possible," said Shelly Braun, a policy analyst at the Utah Health Policy Project. "As much as we think we can do things on a shoestring budget, at the end of the day, you get what you pay for."
Utah's database was conceived in 2008 by a legislative health reform task force as means to arm consumers with the information they need to take charge of their health. It was intended to expose how much value patients receive from their insurance, how much they pay for tests and surgeries, and help them comparison-shop for coverage and medical care.
It's not a novel idea at least 15 states have all-payer databases. In New Hampshire, consumers can go to a website and enter their ZIP code and insurance plan to discover their out-of-pocket costs for a mammogram or a colonoscopy at various clinics.
But Utah's database was held out as an example of what can be done on the cheap.
While most states spent millions to get their versions running, Utah budgeted $800,000. At last count, the database contained more than 65 million insurance claims dating back to Jan. 1, 2007.
Most private insurers are submitting data. Next to be loaded are Medicare and Medicaid claims.
"We have data coming in," Nangle said. "There's another vendor doing that."
But until the health department hires a replacement for Care Advantage, there's no way to extract data. The department isn't staffed or equipped to run complicated queries, such as tracking "episodes of care," or patient outcomes from diagnosis through treatment and any follow-up, said Nangle.
He stressed data are stored in Utah, and any patient information sent to Care Advantage was de-identified and destroyed.
Last year the state paid the company $230,000, but no payments have been made since January 2012, Nangle said. "We haven't gotten a bill from them."
Health officials have fought to juggle competing demands for data by clinicians and researchers looking to test hunches and hone treatments.
Care Advantage's demise will cause delays in fulfilling such requests, acknowledged Deputy Health Director Robert Rolfs. "I wish it was planned and not prompted by the loss of a vendor. But this will free us to change directions and build a more flexible system."


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