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Food Services
Johnston Health Cafés
Buffalo Creek Café at our Smithfield campus is located on the ground floor near the main entrance of the hospital. We serve a variety of healthy meal choices for patients and visitors, including a salad bar, grill and chef station. Open 5:00 a.m. till 3:00 a.m. every day (closed 10:00 a.m. till 11:00 a.m. for lunch preparation).
Café 42 at our Clayton campus is located on the main floor near the main entrance of the hospital. With a salad bar, on-the go options, grill and wood-burning pizza oven, our patients and visitors can find a variety of delicious options. Open 5:00 a.m. till 3:00 a.m. every day (closed 10:00 a.m. till 11:00 a.m. for lunch preparation).
Cyber Cafe
The Cyber Café is located in the Johnston Medical Mall in Smithfield and provides convenient breakfast and lunch services to outpatients, HealthQuest members, or any other guests.
Open Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m.
Inpatient Meals
A full cafeteria menu is provided for patients at Johnston Health. Good nutrition will speed up recovery and improve health. A wide variety of healthful foods are available for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
While you are here, your doctor will order the type of diet that is best for you. If you have questions about your diet, ask your caregiver or dietician. The following are examples of the different types of diets that your doctor may order.
- NPO: This means nothing by mouth. It is designed to rest the GI tract and to prepare you for certain tests or surgery.
- Clear liquid diet: This diet is usually prescribed for a short time. It is used before and after procedures or surgery and when you have nausea or diarrhea.
- Full liquid diet: A diet of liquids is usually prescribed for a short time as a transitional diet between clear liquid and solid foods. This diet contains milk and milk products.
- Heart healthy, 3-4 gram sodium, low fat, low cholesterol diet: This diet helps prevent the build-up of fluids in your body and the rise of fat and cholesterol in the blood.
- Carbohydrate-controlled diabetic diet: A diet containing servings from all food groups will help to control your blood sugar and help maintain or achieve a desirable weight.
- Renal diet: A diet controlling parts of protein, sodium, potassium, phosphorus and fluids is designed for both pre-dialysis and dialysis patients.
- Soft diet: A diet of soft foods easy to digest is designed for patients who have difficulty chewing, have stomach or intestinal disorders, or who are recovering from surgery.
- Dysphagia diet: A diet of mostly pureed food is for patients who have difficulty swallowing well enough to receive proper nourishment. This diet contains no rice.


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This translated letter is from the brother of a sponsored youth, the late Santos SalomÛn, in Guatemala, from CFCAís Hermano Pedro project. The brother is writing to Santosí sponsor after Santosí recent death. Please remember Santos and his family in prayer.
"Hi, my name is Luis Felipe. I am the brother of Santos SalomÛn. I am writing you on his behalf since he can no longer write. Receive my most cordial greetings and wishes for success and blessings in your daily endeavors.
Santos SalomÛn
"The reason I am writing is to thank you with all my heart for the help you sent my brother and our family for so long. It was a blessing because all that he received, thanks to your financial support, was for the benefit of our home and especially for him because your support enabled him to study medicine in the university.
"His strongest desire was to become a doctor. Even though he wasnít yet a doctor, he visited the sick. He said that God was with the sick. He asked me to accompany him several times but I was bored. But he said there is no better medicine than God and a smile. When we were together, he always infected others with his joy. His happiness was the best doctor for me, but no more.
"We should remember that our lives are not our own, but loaned to us from God, so we must live according to his will and not according to our own. Luis knew this until the very end. One day on his way to studying, a bus on which he was riding collided with another bus. God decided that it was time for him to go. I think that God wanted someone to make him laugh.
"I experienced so many things with Santos, from talking to a girl on the way to church, playing soccer together, visiting the sick, bringing joy to the elderly, singing on our way home, and selling ice cream together.
"I was filled with pride when he did his charity work, especially with those most in need. They were small gifts, but they meant a lot. He gave ice cream to children, gave his seat on the bus to an elderly woman. I was always at his side, aware that he was preparing me for my new task.
"I understood one day in church when the priest explained that there are moments when we no longer live in Jesus. He lives in us. This teaches us to live. This is what I learned from my brotherís example. I told myself that Santos lives no more, but rather it is Jesus Christ who lives in Santos. The days he didnít go to church were because he had something urgent to do because he preferred to go to church to do his job in life. He said that God gives us wisdom to do it and without it, we canít begin our job.
"Our whole family grieves his death, but we know that he is an angel of Jesus and he takes care of us from heaven. He no longer belongs to the CFCA family, but I invite you to sponsor another child. We know that you are a great person. You will do it. May God bless you. We bid you farewell with respect, gratitude and love.
Luis Felipe, brother of Santos SalomÛn"

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New Life Pet Adoption Center, Inc. is a non-profit corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Wisconsin. The center was formed as a No-Kill center in 2000 for the purpose of placing more adoptable companion animals into loving and caring homes; educating the public and municipal governments about the over population problem with emphasis on the importance of spaying and neutering and to provide a place of safety and the humane treatment of companion animals while awaiting adoption.
New Life Pet Adoption Center is located on four acres of land at 125 Cattail Avenue in the Village of Marathon adjacent to State Highway 29 and 152nd Avenue. The first phase of the facility, constructed in 2007 consists of 5,000 sq. ft. The facility houses a reception/retail area, 2 offices, surrender room, viewing room, two isolation wards, treatment room, kitten holding room and food preparation area. The second phase will consist of expanded dog and cat areas as well as a surgical and recovery facility. The second phase will add an additional 6,000 sq. ft. to the facility and will be constructed as the need dictates and resources become available.
As a No-Kill center New Life Pet Adoption Center will provide a place where the public can surrender their family pets without the fear that they will be euthanized just for the sake of making space available. Specializing in adoptions affords narrow its focus and spend all its efforts on placing animals in a proper environment.
New Life Pet Adoption Center is managed by a Board of Directors consisting of community leaders, business professionals, veterinarians and interested individuals.
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Possummomma, being a parent, has quite a lot to say about this:
I know I haven't commented much on the recent FLDS raid or its subsequent fallout, particularly as it's practically a local occurrence. Mainly, my reaction was just to shake my head. It now appears that the state was completely punk'd, at least as far as that original phone call that led to the raid, now widely considered a hoax, is concerned. And the state's draconian approach to its raid — simply to swoop down and haul everybody off without much at all in the way of a preliminary investigation — has led to its humiliation following the court's recent ruling that the raid was just all kinds of wrong.
On the other hand, what clearer evidence do you need that pedophiliac sickness was part of these people's standard operating procedure than the above photographs, showing übercreep Warren Jeffs smooching one of his child brides? I mean, it just makes you ill to look at it.
Something clearly has to be done to put the kibosh on these little cults that victimize children — as yes, you can call what you do "spiritual marriage" all you like, but all you've done is concoct a spiffy metaphor for "rape" — and shield themselves from repercussions by saying "But it's our religion!" But the state's raid wasn't the right one. And you just know the FLDS will simply see this as a vindication of their way of life in opposition to the Satanic government that seeks to oppress and criminalize them. What to do?


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Did I mess my own settings up or is the subscription box you can check to automaticlly receive notifications that a post as been made to a forum not working?
I don't have that option/box to check when I post/respond to a post.
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Welcome to the General Electric Theater guide at TV Tome. General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and variety music. Occupying the Sunday evening spot on CBS following the Toast of the Town/Ed Sullivan Show from 1 February 1953 to 27 May 1962, the General Electric Theater presented top Hollywood and Broadway stars in dramatic roles calculated to deliver company voice advertising to the largest possible audience. The first two seasons of General Electric Theater established the half-hour anthology format of adaptations of popular plays, short stories, novels, magazine fiction and motion pictures. "The Eye of the Beholder," for example, a Hitchcock-like telefilm thriller starring Richard Conte and Martha Vickers, dramatized an artist's relationship with his model from differing, sometimes disturbing psychological perspectives. The addition of Ronald Reagan as program host commencing the third season 26 September 1954 reflecte
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British-owned Autonomy, which created the augmented reality platform Aurasma, was brought by HP for £7.1bn in October 2011.
HP has released a statement claiming it is "extremely disappointed to find that some former members of Autonomy's management team used accounting improprieties, misrepresentations and disclosure failures to inflate the underlying financial metrics of the company, prior to Autonomy's acquisition by HP".
HP said suspicions were raised by a whistleblower it described as a "senior member of Autonomy's leadership team" who came forward following the departure of Autonomy founder Mike Lynch.
Lynch, who is a non-executive director of the BBC, left the company in May alongside a raft of other senior staff including: Nicole Eagan, chief marketing officer; Pete Menell, chief technology officer; Andy Kanter, chief operating officer; Steve Chamberlain, chief financial officer; and Sushovan Hussein, president.
After the whistleblower came forward HP launched an internal investigation including a forensic review by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) of Autonomy's historical financial results.
The investigation has led HP to believe Autonomy was substantially overvalued at the time of the acquisition due to "the misstatement of Autonomy's financial performance, including its revenue, core growth rate and gross margins, and the misrepresentation of its business mix".
HP has referred the matter to the UK's Serious Fraud Office and the US Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division for criminal and civil investigations.
The tech giant has also warned it intends to "aggressively pursue" redress against various parties in the civil courts in the months to come.
In a brief statement released to Reuters, a spokeswoman said the former management of Autonomy denied the allegations.
"The former management team of Autonomy was shocked to see this statement today, and flatly rejects these allegations, which are false," she said.
"HP's due diligence review was intensive, overseen on behalf of HP by KPMG, Barclays and Perella Weinberg. HP's senior management has also been closely involved with running Autonomy for the past year."
In total HP recorded a writedown of $8.8bn related to Autonomy in the fourth quarter of its 2012 fiscal year of which "more than $5bn" is linked to the "accounting improrieties, misrepresenation and disclosure failures".Follow @mattchapmanuk


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Casinos Already Paying Out for Cuomo, NY Legislature
Big Gaming is giving big donations in the run-up to November's Casino referendum.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has received $361,500 and the Legislature has raked in more than $1 million from gambling interests leading up to the Nov. 5 casino referendum which is being challenged in court, according to a new report.


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Funeral services for Tom Traylor, age 90 of Cookville, formerly of Mount Vernon, were at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 at Bates-Cooper-Sloan Funeral Home. Burial was in the Monticello Cemetery with Bro. Michael White officiating.
Mr. Traylor was born Sept. 26, 1920 in Titus County to Tillman and Mary Combs Traylor. He served during World War II in the United States Navy and afterwards worked as a newspaper printer for the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald in the late 1940s. He was a member of Masonic Lodge #70 and the Cookville Baptist Church.
He died Sunday, Nov. 7 at his residence. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Margaret Amerson, his parents, a brother, George Traylor, and a sister, Elsie Traylor Amerson.
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Johnny Borrell fell out with his former girlfriend Kirsten Dunst when he rode a motorcycle through the house they shared during a party.
The British singer dated the Hollywood actress during his heyday with rock group Razorlight and they ended up living together in London.
However, Borrell admits the relationship was dealt a blow following a particularly rock 'n' roll moment at a wild house party.
When asked about rumors which suggested Dunst dumped him because he rode a Harley Davidson through her house, he tells Britain's Seven magazine, "The worst thing about you saying that is there was no Harley involved – it was a 1969 Triumph T100 Competition. And there's a big difference. It's a sixties British bike I was running around town as transport at the time, in London. We had a house in Islington. But yeah, I did ride it around the house – it was a party… There was a huge window, a crowded party, lots of people, and it was very inviting for a bit of brum (sic) through a sea of people. It's quite a good story – apart from the Harley aspect."


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Growth Assays
Growth hormone (GH) is secreted from the pituitary gland. Measurement of GH is primarily of interest in the diagnosis and treatment of various forms of inappropriate growth hormone secretion.
Too much growth hormone (hypersecretion) can cause abnormal growth patterns called acromegaly in adults and gigantism in children. Too little growth hormone (hyposecretion) can cause a slow or flat rate of growth in children, and changes in muscle mass, cholesterol levels, and bone strength in adults.2 Clinical disorders of hyposecretion include dwarfism and unattained growth potential.3
In the diagnosis of growth disorders, measurements of IGF-I are a useful indicator of growth hormone secretion. A normal plasma or serum IGF-I concentration is strong evidence against GH deficiency. A low IGF-I value implies GH deficiency and requires additional testing to determine whether GH secretion is subnormal. Measurement of IGF-I is also useful in assessing change of nutritional status.3
An IGF-I test is often ordered along with GH. IGF-I mirrors GH excesses and deficiencies, but its level is stable throughout the day, making it a useful indicator of average GH levels.1
IGFBP-3 is used as an aid in the evaluation of growth disorders. It is growth hormone (GH) dependent and therefore useful in the evaluation of GH secretion. IGFBP-3 is the main carrier of IGF-I in the body. Blood levels of both these proteins are controlled by GH. IGFBP-3 also helps extend the life of GH in the blood and helps control its effects on body tissues.
Levels of IGFBP-3 are highest during childhood and puberty, and then decrease during adulthood. Levels may also be affected by sexual maturation and nutritional status.4
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We pitched Steamboat and it is the first time that someone actually almost nodded off during my presentation. I am a fairly animated and by all accounts a good presenter so I could only deduce that they really were not interested. I never heard back from them which frustrates me. I don't mind being turned down but I do mind investing time and not getting the courtesy of a call back to explain the reasons why I was turned down. At least if you won't fund us, give us the opportunity to learn from the experience !!
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Sprawl threatens unguarded Maya ruins
Ironically, the biggest danger to the ancient mounds might be tourism.
MEXICO CITY — The flattening of one of the largest Mayan temples in Belize for use as road fill is just one of the latest and most startling examples of the degradation of ancient Maya sites, say experts.
The ruins of the Maya civilization, known for its great stone cities that were largely abandoned in 900 A.D., are major tourist draws in many Central American counties. But many are on private land or unguarded, and prone to destruction and theft.
"We have a lot of archaeological sites across the country and we have many archaeologists, but not enough to protect everything," said José Manuel Ochoa, director of the Maya Cobá ruins near Tulúm in Mexico.
Many of the civilization's ruins in Mexico are found in the "Riviera Maya," a longtime provincial backwater that is now one of the fastest-growing regions in Mexico. The region is a magnet for people from downtrodden areas because it offers jobs in the construction and tourism industries.
Ochoa says the laws in Mexico tend to be tougher than in other countries and the National Anthropology and History Institute — which is responsible for excavation work and maintaining Maya sites — is well-regarded.
Threats often come from tourism, he adds, along with opportunist politicians who have tried to turn some sites into concerts venues — such as Chichén Iztá, where Plácido Domingo and Elton John have performed in recent years.
"It's kind of the style now," Ochoa said of taking tourist trips to Maya sites.
In Belize, construction crews flattened what was known as Nohmul, or the "Great Mound," a Maya temple on private land. The ceremonial site dates back more than 2,300 years and is one of Belize's most important archaeological sites. The crews used the ruin to gather gravel for improving rural roads.
The destruction, reported originally by 7 News Belize, appalled archaeologists whose work to preserve Maya ruins in a region extending from Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula to Honduras is hampered by ignorance, tourists and lack of oversight.
"It's a monument of ignorance and, unfortunately, that's the way it is," Allan Moore, archaeologist with Belize's archaeology institute, told 7 News Belize.
The Nohmul site, near Belize's northern border with Mexico, was one of the largest in the country and an important ceremonial site for the Maya. Some officials attributed its destruction to ignorance or laziness as the construction company looked for cheap fill instead of buying it from a proper source.
Nohmul sat 100 feet high in the middle of a sugar cane field, and lacked the even stone sides frequently seen in reconstructed or better-preserved pyramids. But Moore said there was "absolutely no way" the crew would not know that they were destroying a Maya mound.
He said that with a staff of 16 people, unfortunately his agency cannot monitor all Maya sites in the Central American country of about 350,000 people. Belizean police said they are conducting an investigation and criminal charges are possible.
Tourism of Maya sites has jumped in recent years, much of it driven this past season by erroneous interpretations of the Maya calendar, which turned over in December and supposedly signaled the end of the world — even though the Maya never predicted such an event.
Jesús Pat Chablé, a young hip-hop artist who raps in the Maya language, says young Maya have benefited from tourism by making money off it. But it comes at the expense of remembering their roots, he says.
Many Maya avoid speaking their language to avoid discrimination and "act ashamed of being from (a Maya) pueblo," he says.


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The plan for the third, final phase of the Milford Road/State Route 2001 widening remains on schedule, and little disruption for commuting residents is expected during the project.
The plan for the third, final phase of the Milford Road/State Route 2001 widening remains on schedule, and little disruption for commuting residents is expected during the project.
Contracts will be bid on June 20, according to project representatives who met for an update at the Lehman Township Municipal Building this week.
The second phase, from Bushkill Falls Road to Little Egypt, was completed last fall. The next phase continues from there to Rock Ledge Road, about a third of a mile into Delaware Township.
The $24.5 million construction project is a higher cost than the other phases because of the larger number of roads that need to be straightened and the time involved.
"The project is going well; it's still on schedule," said Kevin James, technical manager-highways for consulting engineering company Michael Baker Jr. Inc. The last hurdle is the clearance to move utility poles.
But township officials said that delayed the start of the previous phase.
"It's just the amount of time for the property owners," James said. "It could take weeks, months. But they'll work very diligently to get it done."
"Unless some unforeseen issue comes up at the last minute, everything is in line and everybody is communicating," Debbie Noone, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation assistant district engineer for design, said.
Next up, meetings with the National Park Service and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for permits.
Lynn Morris, supervisor of engineers for Met-Ed, said pole placement plans are finalized. All poles that need to be moved are on park property, none on private property. He said the company has not yet approached property owners whose utility poles may have to be moved farther back. Met-Ed also needs to get cooperation from property owners for tree trimming once poles are moved.
James said both lanes on Milford Road/State Route 2001 would remain open through the project, but some side roads would have detours for a few weeks.
A meeting will be announced for residents to get information about the project.
"The sooner, the better for all parties," Lehman Township Supervisor John Sivick said.
"It will allay fears of the community to what's going on," said Supervisor Dick Vollmer.


text: 24 August, 2010/Rome - FAO is stressing the importance of integrated fire management following the release of the report on the causes of Australia's 2009 Black Saturday fires. The Select Committee on Agricultural and Related Industries that investigated the incidence of bushfires noted that the fire management voluntary guidelines coordinated by FAO would be a good basis for a common approach to a national bushfire policy.The report contains 67 recommendations based on the extensive evidence heard by the Commission which was assembled two days after the tragedy took lives of 173 people."This broad and diverse panorama of recommendations shows again the importance of integrated fire management," said Pieter van Lierop, FAO Forestry Officer responsible for fire management. "That means not only improving the importance of fire detection systems and suppression techniques but also monitoring, early warning, prevention and preparedness."Besides recommendations to strengthen suppression of fires the Commission also highlights the importance of the awareness campaigns and that bushfire history should be taught at schools. Prevention through long-term planned burning to reduce fuel levels and removal of vegetation around the houses are also vital issues which contribute to better protection of homes in bushfire-prone areas.In areas of unacceptable high risks the Commission recommends the introduction of resettlement schemes for homes and developing plans for emergency evacuation. Among other guidelines are replacement of aging power-lines and distribution feeders to avoid electricity-caused fires.In line with FAO approach"A similar integrated fire management approach can be found in the Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines, developed by FAO and partners, which was mentioned to be of help to form the basis for sections of a national bushfire policy for Australia, a document which does not exist at the moment, but considered badly needed," van Lierop added. "It is vital to think about the fire prevention throughout a year and not only when the fire season comes to avoid property and environmental damage and reduce the amount of unnecessary deaths."Before the disastrous Black Saturday fires in Australia in 2009, Greece suffered big wildfires in 2007 which burned 270, 000 ha of forest, olive groves and farmland were destroyed in the fires and 84 people lost their lives , which made it the worst fire season in the past 50 years.In Russia alone this year due to the unprecedented heat wave with temperatures soaring up to 40ºC and winds of up to 20 metres per second the total area burned has reached more than 14 million hectares, according to the data provided by the Sukachev Institute for Forest in the city of Krasnoyarsk. Forest fires in Russia have already killed more than 50 people this summer.During the current fire season in the northern hemisphere, many wildfires are taking place in many countries.Also take also a look at: http://geonetwork4.fao.org/firemap/


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Gravitational waves unmask universe just after Big Bang
For first time, researchers see traces of superfast cosmic expansion
BICEP2 Collaboration
Editor's note: The findings reported in this story were later found to be caused by galactic dust. Read the full story here.
Astronomers have detected the earliest echoes of the Big Bang, confirming a decades-old hypothesis that describes the universe's ultrafast expansion during its first moments. The findings provide researchers with the first direct measurement of conditions at nearly the instant that cosmic expansion began, and may have far-reaching implications for physicists' understanding of general relativity, quantum mechanics and the origin of the universe.
"We now have a much stronger belief that we understand the early universe than we did yesterday," says Sean Carroll, an astrophysicist at Caltech.
For decades, astronomers have tried to understand several quirks surrounding the Big Bang, the story that describes how the


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One often-heard criticism of the health-care reform legislation that President Barack Obama has now signed into law is that it won't do enough to rein in the cost of treatment. U.S. medical spending has soared to $2.5 trillion per year (a price tag that has more than doubled in 15 years) and represents 18 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Can Obamacare begin to cope with that?
The answer is a qualified yes. Tucked inside the 2,400-page bill is an item (it's right there on page 1,617) that has generated far less attention and political heat than other parts of the White House's plan to expand medical coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans. The measure requires the U.S. to put aside $500 million or more a year for something called "comparative effectiveness research," an ungainly name for a process Obama hopes will reduce costs. The studies, designed to show which drugs, devices, and medical treatments work best, could have an enormous impact on the delivery of health care in the years ahead, scrutinizing everything from cholesterol drugs and heart stents to hospital procedures.
By using statistics-driven research methods, its backers say, comparative effectiveness promises to bring scientific rigor to medical decision-making that is too often influenced by tradition and marketing. As such, the research is one of the few measures in the new law that has any chance of flattening America's medical cost curve, according to Boston-based health-care analyst John Sullivan of Leerink Swann.
That also means that comparative effectiveness may be "a headwind for the health-care industry," Sullivan says. "If research shows that less complex and maybe less expensive products and therapies work just as well, that is not good news" for many companies. On top of that, the new health-care reform law tightens restrictions on insurers and requires that most Americans be covered.
Comparative effectiveness is not the only tool in the law designed to pry savings out of the system, says Peter Orszag, Obama's budget director. The legislation also tests new payment systems for doctors, penalizes hospitals for high readmission rates, and creates an independent commission to evaluate which treatments Medicare should pay for, he says. "I don't think there's any one piece that, by itself, is the end-all, be-all" for slowing the growth in medical expenses, Orszag says. "Together, they work to move toward a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time."
Orszag, a lanky, high-octane economist who trained at Princeton University and the London School of Economics, has been a leading evangelist for comparative effectiveness research. As a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Orszag was perplexed that so much attention was being paid to the rising cost of Social Security, even though health care represented a far larger share of the nation's economy. Orszag eventually discovered the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, a national study on the variations in how medical resources are distributed in the U.S.
That research suggested that $700 billion in annual savings could be achieved by eliminating wide disparities in the cost of similar procedures, especially those in which pricier options don't produce better outcomes. "Huge efficiencies could be gained if we change the way we practice medicine," Orszag said in a May 2009 interview, as he lobbied for the creation of a government institute to gather the evidence.
Republican critics, meanwhile, argued throughout the yearlong overhaul struggle that the concept was a stealth effort to deny health care to people who need it. Orszag prevailed. Last year, Congress approved $1.1 billion in stimulus funding for effectiveness research. The new legislation creates a nonprofit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and charges it with setting a national agenda for the studies, as well as providing more money and disseminating results.
The institute will be run by a 19-member board of governors that must include three representatives of drug, device, and diagnostic-testing companies. The U.S. Comptroller General, a Presidential appointee, must name the board within six months.
The health-care law focuses on studies that assess effectiveness rather than compare cost. It also bars Medicare, the government insurer for the elderly, from using the research as the sole grounds for denying reimbursement for medical products or procedures.
Still, "the savings can be substantial if you're drawing a clinical study conclusion that a generic drug works as well as a branded drug," says Leerink Swann's Sullivan, who suggests that therapies used by large numbers of people are likely to be researchers' first targets. That means that Pfizer's PFE cholesterol blockbuster, Lipitor, could be in the crosshairs, Sullivan says, along with anti-inflammatory drugs such as Johnson & Johnson's JNJ Remicade, and heart stents made by Medtronic MDT and Boston Scientific BSX.
The research may spur consolidation among health-care companies, said Jeffrey C. Lerner, chief executive officer at the ECRI Institute, which does comparative effectiveness research for government and hospitals. Smaller manufacturers may not have the resources to rebut studies questioning their products' value. A 2005 study of antipsychotic medications shows that the most effective treatment doesn't always prevail in the marketplace, says Robert Rosenheck, a psychiatry professor at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. The U.S.-backed study found a 50-year-old drug that cost about $2.50 a day worked as well as newer medicines that can cost eight times as much. Sales of the next-generation antipsychotics, led by AstraZeneca's AZN Seroquel, Eli Lilly's LLY Zyprexa, and Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal, still jumped 43 percent in four years to $14.75 billion in 2009, according to IMS Health, a collector of prescription-drug data based in Norwalk, Conn. "The overwhelming weight of very aggressive marketing for 15 years shapes attitudes in ways that aren't likely to be changed by research," says Rosenheck, author of two antipsychotic comparison studies.
Comparative studies changed practices in breast cancer, where doctors ended the routine removal of entire breasts after studies found less drastic operations were just as effective, Rosenheck says. "Those are mostly (treatments) where there was no private corporation actively marketing its perspective."
Funding for comparative effectiveness in the health law is tied to Medicare's trust fund and a new tax on insurers, which should help insulate the research from politics, says Daniel Mendelson, a former official in Bill Clinton's Office of Management & Budget who is now CEO of Avalere Health, a Washington consulting firm. Companies need to realize that comparative research is now "a permanent part of the dialogue," he says.
Drugmakers, led by Pfizer, support the effort as "an important solution for better quality and ultimately better value in health care," says Randy Burkholder, an associate vice-president at PhRMA, the industry's trade group. Device companies agree, says David Nexon, an executive vice-president at trade group AdvaMed. The industry favored the legislation because it focuses on clinical effectiveness, rather than cost and because manufacturers will be part of the decision-making, he says. Device-makers hope it can speed widespread use of technologies proven better than existing treatments, Nexon says.
"It takes about 17 years until a new technology is fully accepted as the dominant practice even for something that's new and better," he says. "If you've got something that's really superior, having these studies validate that can really speed up the adoption."
For doctors, the research results will run up against years of tradition, says Devon Herrick, senior fellow at the nonprofit National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas. Doctors tend not to think about the cost of the drugs they're prescribing, Herrick says. "Quite often what happens is you go to your doctor, they pull a free sample out of the pill cabinet because people like getting something for free, but they don't know it's the highest-price drug that the companies want to promote," he says. Changing that mindset is what comparative effectiveness is all about.
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Imation Will Pay SanDisk Royalties and Enters Into Stipulated Judgment
Milpitas, Calif., February 2, 2011- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that Imation Corp. has signed a patent cross-license agreement with SanDisk to settle two cases filed by SanDisk in Federal District Court against Imation alleging infringement of flash memory system-level patents.
Under the terms of the cross-license, Imation will pay SanDisk royalties on various flash memory products, including USB flash drives and solid state disk ("SSD") drives. In addition, Imation entered into a stipulated judgment of infringement and validity in SanDisk's favor on claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,137,011, which covers the use of certain encryption technology in a memory card.
The specific terms of the agreement are confidential. The two infringement cases remain pending against Kingston Technology Company, Inc.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards - from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.
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California Parents Talk About Summertime And Summer Programs
Sacramento, Calif. -- According to a new survey by Public Agenda, six out of ten (59%) California parents say they either did not enroll at least one school aged child in any summer programs at all in 2009, or did so for less than half of the summer. Moreover, parents who sent their child to an enriching and academic program believe it helped better prepare their child for school.
Thats just one of the many new realities facing California parents based on a new Public Agenda survey, conducted in both English and Spanish, of more than 1,200 California parents with children between the ages of 5 and 15.
Notably, there is a gap between what parents want for their children during the summer and the activities in which their children were able to participate. A majority of parents say that it is important for their children to partake in a variety of activities during the summer, not only spending time with family, but also participating in enriching activities, including academics. Yet, 3 in 10 parents did not enroll their children in any summer program at all and more than half (54%) of them cited lack of affordable programs as a reason.
The lack of affordable summer enrichment programs is especially problematic among low-income, rural, African-American and Latino parents. While 65% of parents in general say they would like to know more about quality, affordable summer program options, 79% of low-income, 74% of African-American and 71% of Latino parents agree that they would be interested in receiving more information regarding local summer programs in their communities.
Summer programs are especially important because 87% of parents who did send their children to summer programs that included academic and enrichment activities agreed that the programs helped prepare their children for the school year, with 45% strongly agreeing. Yet Jon Rochkind, Director of Research at Public Agenda noted, Our study indicated that African-American and Latino families, along with low-income and parents living in rural areas, believe they are less likely to have access to quality summer programs. And, Latino parents, even more than white parents, were concerned that their childrens summer programs include some academics so that their kids dont backslide over summer.
Lois Salisbury, Director of the Children, Families and Communities program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which funded the survey, said, Overall, this study shows that Californias parents want what research tells us children need. These findings inform the Packard Foundations recent focus on summer enrichment as a natural extension of Californias unique school based after-school programs.
The survey findings will be released on March 11 at the California Legislative Task Force on Summer and Intersession Enrichment hearing, taking place in the Capitol in Sacramento. Participants will include the Chair of the Committee, Senator Mark DeSaulnier of Californias Seventh State Senate District; Jon Rochkind of Public Agenda; and Lois Salisbury of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
The State Legislative Task Force on Summer and Intersession Enrichment was created last year after the passing of Assembly Concurrent Resolution 134, authored by California Senator Mark DeSaulnier and sponsored by the Partnership for Children and Youth. The Task Force was created to address the issue of building awareness about the gap in structured summer learning opportunities for low-income children and is currently involved in producing recommendations for the Governor and the Legislature regarding the states role in addressing the education and health needs of California children in the summer.
"A Time to Learn, A Time to Grow" is based on a survey including a representative sample of 1,204 California residents who are parents of children aged 5 to 15. Interviews were conducted from September 29 to October 14, 2009, and respondents had a choice of completing the interview in English or Spanish. The margin of error for the study is plus or minus 2.82 percentage points, however, it is higher when comparing subgroups or question items that were not asked of all respondents. The survey was preceded by four focus groups conducted in Fresno, Oakland, Los Angeles and San Jose, California.
Click here to see the survey questions and answers, which are in a separate document from the pdf of the findings of our research.
Education and other issues affecting children and families are a major focus for Public Agenda's researchers and our public engagement team. Here are a few other studies and papers which might be of interest to policymakers and others considering the issues examined in and raised by "A Time To Learn, A Time To Grow."
All Work and No Play? Listening to What Kids and Parents Really Want from Out-of-School Time
A Lot Easier Said Than Done: Parents Talk About Raising Children in Today's America
A Great Education Begins At Home
Are We Beginning To See The Light? Public And Parents Buy Into The Need To Ramp Up Math And Science Education But Most Still Think Their Local Schools Are Doing Fine
A Matter of Trust: Ten Key Insights From Recent Public Opinion Research on Attitudes About Education Among Hispanic Parents, Students and Young Adults
Can I Get A Little Advice Here? How An Overstretched High School Guidance System Is Undermining Students' College Aspirations
With Their Whole Lives Ahead Of Them
Founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Public Agenda works to help the nations leaders better understand the publics point of view and to help average citizens better understand critical policy issues. Our in-depth research on how citizens think about policy has won praise for its credibility and fairness from elected officials of both political parties and from experts and decision-makers across the political spectrum. Our citizen education materials and award-winning web site offer unbiased information about the challenges the country faces. Recognized by Library Journal as one of the Webs best resources, we provide comprehensive information on a wide range of policy issues.
About The David And Lucile Packard Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private family foundation created in 1964 by David Packard (19121996), cofounder of the Hewlett-Packard Company, and Lucile Salter Packard (19141987). The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following program areas: Conservation and Science; Population and Reproductive Health; and Children, Families and Communities.
Foundation grantmaking includes support for a wide variety of activities including direct services, research and policy development, and public information and education. The Foundation does not make grants intended to influence legislation or support candidates for political office.
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For LDAP services, there are two ways to define membership of a group: statically and dynamically. Static groups enumerate their member objects explicitly. A static group is a CN and contains uniqueMembers and/or memberURLs and/or memberCertDescriptions. In static groups, the members do not share a common attribute except for the CN=<Groupname> attribute.
Dynamic groups allow you to use a LDAP URL to define a set of rules that match only for group members. In Dynamic Groups, the members do share a common attribute or set of attributes that are defined in the memberURL filter. For example, if you need a group that contains all employees in Sales, and they are already in the LDAP database under
"ou=Sales,o=Airius.com," you'd define a dynamic group with the following memberurl:
This group would subsequently contain all objects that have an uid attribute in the tree below the "ou=Sales,o=sun" point; thus, all the Sales members.
For static and dynamic groups, members can share a common attribute from a certificate if you use the memberCertDescription. Note that these attributes will only work if the ACL uses the SSL method.
Once you create a new group, you can add users, or members, to it.
For LDAP services, the Administration Server enables you to create a static group by specifying the same group attribute in the DNs of any number of users. A static group doesn't change unless you add a user to it or delete a user from it.
Consider the following guidelines when using the Administration Server forms to create new static groups:
Static groups can contain other static or dynamic groups.
You can optionally also add a description for the new group.
If any organizational units have been defined for your directory, you can specify where you want the new group to be placed using the Add New Group To list. The default location is your directory's root point, or topmost entry.
A dynamic group has an objectclass of groupOfURLs, and has zero or more memberURL attributes, each of which is a LDAP URL that describes a set of objects.
For LDAP services, Web Server enables you to create a dynamic group when you want to group users automatically based on any attribute, or when you want to apply ACLs to specific groups which contain matching DNs. For example, you can create a group that automatically includes any DN that contains the attribute department=marketing. If you apply a search filter for department=marketing, the search returns a group including all DNs containing the attribute department=marketing. You can then define a dynamic group from the search results based on this filter. Subsequently, you can define an ACL for the resulting dynamic group.
Web Server implements dynamic groups in the LDAP server schema as objectclass = groupOfURLs. A groupOfURLS class can have multiple memberURL attributes, each one consisting of an LDAP URL that enumerates a set of objects in the directory. The members of the group would be the union of these sets. For example, the following group contains just one member URL:
This example describes a set that consists of all objects below "o=mcom.com" whose department is "marketing." The LDAP URL can contain a search base DN, a scope and filter, however, not a hostname and port. This means that you can only refer to objects on the same LDAP server. All scopes are supported.
The DNs are included automatically, without your having to add each individual to the group. The group changes dynamically, because Web Server performs an LDAP server search each time a group lookup is needed for ACL verification. The user and group names used in the ACL file correspond to the cn attribute of the objects in the LDAP database.
Web Server uses the cn (commonName) attribute as group name for ACLs.
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A group object can have both objectclass = groupOfUniqueMembers and objectclass = groupOfURLs; therefore, both "uniqueMember" and "memberURL" attributes are valid. The group's membership is the union of its static and dynamic members.
There is a server performance impact when using dynamic groups. If you are testing group membership, and the DN is not a member of a static group, Web Server checks all dynamic groups in the database's baseDN. Web Server accomplishes this task by checking if each memberURL matches by checking its baseDN and scope against the DN of the user, and then performing a base search using the user DN as baseDN and the filter of the memberURL. This procedure can amount to a large number of individual searches.
Consider the following guidelines when using the Administration Server to create new dynamic groups:
Dynamic groups cannot contain other groups.
Enter the group's LDAP URL using the following format (without host and port info, since these parameters are ignored):
The required parameters are described in the following table:
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The Distinguished Name (DN) of the search base, or point from which all searches are performed in the LDAP directory. This parameter is often set to the suffix or root of the directory, such as "o=mcom.com".
A list of the attributes to be returned by the search. To specify more than one, use commas to delimit the attributes (for example, "cn,mail,telephoneNumber"); if no attributes are specified, all attributes are returned. Note that this parameter is ignored for dynamic group membership checks.
The scope of the search, which can be one of these values:
Search filter to apply to entries within the specified scope of the search. If you are using the Administration Server forms, you must specify this attribute. Note that the parentheses are required.
This parameter is required.
Note that the <attributes>, <scope>, and <(filter)> parameters are identified by their positions in the URL. If you do not want to specify any attributes, you still need to include the question marks delimiting that field.
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There is little question that parents have too little power in elementary and secondary education. In fact, they have almost no power: they can vote, but are otherwise usually relegated to being class moms, or holding bake sales, or some other fluffy "involvement" that gives them no real say over how their children are educated. Adding insult to injury, that doesn't often stop professional educators from blaming parents when students don't do so well.
To remedy the problem, the trendy thing seems to be "parent trigger" laws that would, generally speaking, allow a majority of parents at a school declare that they want to fire the staff, or bring in a private management company, or some other transformation. It's been the spark behind some especially heated conflicts in California, as unions and parents of different stripes have been doing battle with each other. It is also the subject of a New York Times "Room for Debate" exchange today.
While I sympathize—obviously—with those who advocate giving parents more power, I cannot help but conclude that the parent trigger is a very poor way to do this. For one thing, it is inherently divisive: what about the 49 percent, or 30 percent, or whatever percent of parents who don't want the changes the majority demands? They've got no choice but to fight it out with their neighbors. It is also inefficient: individual children need all sorts of options to best meet their unique needs and abilities, but the trigger would just exchange one monolithic school model for another.
The trigger, quite simply, is no substitute for real educational freedom: giving parents control of education funds, giving educators freedom to establish myriad options, and letting freedom, competition and specialization rein.
There is, however, one gratifying thing about the parent trigger: it has made historian Diane Ravitch—who constantly decries the destruction of "democracy" were we to have educational freedom—express outrage about "51 percent of people using a public service hav[ing] the power to privatize it."
Um, isn't majority rule what democracy is all about? Or do government schooling defenders really just invoke the term because it sounds so nice and is such a potent rhetorical club?
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we are currently considering OnlyOffice for a document editing feature in our legal case management software. At the moment we use the community version.
We have one problem with displaying content of one particular Word document. In the file, there is a footer with a few paragraphs. These paragraphs have the indentation set to -1 cm for both Before text and After text and are displayed correctly in MS Word.
However, in OO editor, those two values somehow gets nulled and in order to fix this, we have to reset the Left and Right values in OO to -1 cm to fix the problem.
Now I know we cannot expect everything to be displayed exactly the same as in MS Word but still - this causes a huge problem for one of our clients who has literally hundreds of documents with this footer and everytime they edit one in OO, the footer gets broken. Where should I look to fix this problem? I am a little worried there is going to be more formatting problems like this one.
The Word document causing the problem is here (I cannot upload it here): https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=F ... file%2cdoc
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I don't go to as many Ducks home games as I'd like to. Good hockey tickets are expensive (it's one of the reasons why I like going to baseball games more).
As for the Sharks and their 2-0 record, psshhh. A lot of teams at the beginning of the season have a 2-0 record, that doesn't make you special. That said, if the Ducks are doing terrible, I'll take the Sharks over the Kings any day. #LAKingsSuck
You like Hockey too?! And you're a Ducks fan! That is doubly awesome! I like the Ducks, too and I like you too. You got a Skype account? We could chat on there as well.
Heh, you like the Angels huh? They seem to own our cross bay rival, the A's, lol. Always interesting when those two play. Hint: I root for the Angels, haha.
Well, I'm not really an all around sports junkie; hockey and Giants baseball is all I really follow. Speaking of hockey, you may or may not be happy to hear that my favorite team is...the Anaheim Ducks! They play practically right across the street from the Angels, at the Honda Center. I've been a fan of theirs since around 1995, back when they were called the Mighty Ducks and Disney owned them. Been to my fair share of games down there, even went to the big party they had outside when they won the Stanley Cup in 07 with that juggernaut of a team. Living up here in SJ though, I get a lot of shit for being a Ducks fan. Doesn't bother me though.
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The division I follow, the AL West, is looking particularly tight. While the Texas Rangers lead the division, my Angels are only a half game behind the Astros for the second AL Wild Card slot. Although, we could potentially take the AL Western title since after a three-game home stand with the Oakland A's we face the Rangers at their stadium for four games. However if the Angels don't make it to the postseason, I want to the Cubs to win it.
Edit: To answer your question, yes the Mets are going to the postseason as they lead the NL Eastern Division. It's also nice to talk sports with someone else. Not a whole lot of users here on the forums are into sports. Besides baseball, what else do you like?
Hey, sorry your SF Giants didn't make it to the playoffs this year. I honestly though that they had a shot at repeating given the strong start that they had at the beginning of the season. So since the Giants are out, who do you want to see win the whole post-season run?
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It took a very long time to end the fallacy that you can't protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time. But that day has come. The nail in the coffin of the canard was delivered this week, as both the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers formally endorsed the House clean energy and climate protection bill expected to be voted on this afternoon.
Why? The AFL-CIO endorsement letter says it plain: it will spark "economic investment in new energy technologies that will create jobs for American workers."
As we speak, the right-wing noise machine — fueled by Big Oil is cranking up to spew one last belch of misinformation about how capping carbon and investing in clean energy will impact the economy. They are desperately trying to defeat the bill at the last-minute, as there still enough undecided congresspeople to leave the final outcome in question.
There is no time to lose. The vote is expected to take place this afternoon. Call your congressperson as soon as possible on behalf of working Americans everywhere. You can do so through Repower America by calling 877-9-REPOWER.


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Talk radio and Internet blogs were abuzz Tuesday with speculation about a possible trade by the White Sox for one of baseball's best pitchers, Toronto's Roy Halladay.
Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi said recently that he would consider offers for the 32-year-old Cy Young Award winner. And ESPN's Peter Gammons and some Internet blogs speculated earlier Tuesday that the Sox might be interested, if they're willing to give up such young talent as Gordon Beckham.
But manager Ozzie Guillen and GM Ken Williams pushed back on the speculation.
Asked if Halladay would be a good fit for the Sox, Guillen said, "He's good on everybody's team. I don't know if he can fit in our pocket. That's the difference between who needs him, who wants him and who can afford him. He's nice. He's one of the premier pitchers in the game. Meanwhile, I'm going to be realistic. To bring that guy here, to me one of the best pitchers in the game, we've got to give up a lot of things. And I don't think we can do that."
Williams said that although he couldn't talk about specific trade rumors, the Sox weren't interested in depleting their organization of young talent for a short-term benefit.
Williams conceded, though, that pitching would be one area the Sox looked at if they were to deal before the July 31 deadline.
Halladay has a no-trade clause in his contract, meaning he would have to approve any deal.
Bullpen help: Speaking of adding pitching, the Sox on Tuesday announced that they traded for right-handed pitcher Tony Pena from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for minor-league infielder Brandon Allen.
Pena was 5-3 with the Diamondbacks this season with a 4.24 ERA. He also had one save and eight holds in 37 relief appearances.
For his career, Pena, 27, is 16-13 with a 4.08 ERA with seven saves and 63 holds. He has limited right-handers to a .224 lifetime average and ranks fourth among all major-league relievers since 2007 with 61 holds, according to a news release announcing the trade.
Allen, 23, was hitting .282 with 16 doubles, eight home runs and 43 RBI in 62 combined games with Double-A Birmingham and Triple-A Charlotte.
Missing in action? Asked if he knew where pitcher Bartolo Colon, slated to start in a rehab assignment Thursday for Triple-A Charlotte, was, Williams wasn't sure.
"Actually, not exactly. I know where he's supposed to be right now. He's supposed to be in Charlotte right now preparing to start," Williams said. "Efforts to contact his agent have been successful. Their efforts to contact their client [have] not been so successful. The bottom line is, if he's out there and he's ready to go on Thursday, and he shows a better mix of fast balls and breaking balls ... then he's got a place here."
Gobble gone: The Sox designated relief pitcher Jimmy Gobble for assignment Tuesday.
Gobble went 0-0 with a 7.50 ERA in 12 appearances this season.


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State Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-District 45, said Thursday that he won't accept any reimbursements related to any emergency session of the state Legislature.
It seems increasingly likely that lawmakers may have to return to Columbia to address budget shortfalls, Mulvaney said.
"We're in this mess because too many lawmakers in Columbia cared more about pork than principles," Mulvaney said in a release. "That's frankly not a failure you should have to pay for."
Frederick "Smooth" Hogsett wants to bring a new business perspective to downtown Lancaster.
Hogsett, owner of Smooth's Music, Books & Gifts at 134 S. Main St., can't wait for his store's grand opening Saturday, not only to unveil the CDs, LPs, books, art and specialty items he'll be offering, but also so he can reveal his innovative approach to his business. That approach, he said, involves providing individual service to each customer.
"The biggest thing for us is customer service," Hogsett said. "We want to give people what they can't find at Kmart and Wal-Mart."
If you're visiting the first Lancaster Street Market on Saturday, you'll also have a chance to support the local arts.
The Artisan Center, a nonprofit arts center located in the former Badcock Furniture building on Main Street, is planning a grand opening on Nov. 6.
In the meantime, the center, which will provide classes in visual arts, theater, dance, music and language arts, needs funding to open its doors.
KERSHAW – The town of Kershaw is close to choosing a construction company for its new Town Hall project.
Mayor Tommy Baker said several bids were submitted and the field was narrowed to the three lowest bidders. They include PF & Perry L. Mungo Inc. of Pageland, the John M. Campbell Co. of Monroe and MCON Construction of Chester.
All three companies have been interviewed and Town Administrator Tony Starnes will make a recommendation for which company to choose at Kershaw's Town Council meeting on Monday.
Amid the current national banking crisis and a possible recession, Founders Federal Credit Union plans to reassure its members by returning $6 million in bonus dividends.
Bruce Brumfield, president and chief executive officer of Founders, said the dividends will be divided into two amounts, $3 million for savers and $3 million for borrowers.
The credit union has more than 180,000 members. The bonus dividends will be allocated to members in good standing.
With the Carter family all dressed in black behind him, a civil rights advocate for the 17-year-old charged with burning the Lancaster County Courthouse talked about the bigger picture.
At a press conference in front of the damaged courthouse Wednesday, John Barnette, the South Carolina representative for the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, said his organization has been asked to do three things for the family of Martavious Carter.
Brittany McCrosson has a unique task this season for the Lancaster High School marching band.
The junior pit captain not only plays the marimba, she's also a member of the color guard. So, during the band's 2008 show, titled "It's OK ... I'm with the Band," you'll see McCrosson tapping on percussion keys one minute and twirling a flag the next.
She has to move quickly to do it.
Fortunately for McCrosson, there's enough time in between songs to go back and forth from the percussion pit to the flags.
The city of Lancaster is closer to obtaining much-needed new heavy equipment.
City Council approved first reading Sept. 23 of an ordinance that would provide the city with a lease-purchase agreement to buy new equipment.
The proposed agreement, which totals $825,000, divides the requested equipment into two separate funds.
The gross revenue fund would receive $470,000 to buy a dump truck for $60,000, a front-end loader for $140,000 and a sewer jet vacuum truck for $270,000.
The National Action Network is conducting a civil rights investigation into the arrest of a 17-year-old in connection to armed robberies and the arson of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Area NAN representative John Barnette said a press conference will be held by the family of Martavious Semaj Carter at 10 a.m. today in front of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Carter is charged with the Aug. 4 arson at the courthouse and another arson on Aug. 7 at 6th Circuit Solicitor Doug Barfield's office.
The presidential race is spurring non-voters to register to cast a ballot for the first time.
Lancaster County election official Cassie Stump said since Aug. 18, 1,432 people have registered to vote. Some of those are likely new residents to the county, but others are people, including teenagers, who have never registered before.
"We've got applications stacked everywhere," Stump said Tuesday, describing her office.
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This summer, 10 Ithaca College students will stroll down the Champs-Elysées in Paris with iPads in hand. The City of Light will serve as their classroom and the high-tech tablets their textbooks.
The art history and computer science departments at the College collaborated to create an interactive curriculum for the summer course titled Art and Politics in Paris: Reading Power in Space and Image. Each student will have an iPad as a resource for notes, pictures, online quizzes, and interactive games related to the course.
John Barr, chair of the computer science department, worked closely with art history professors Lauren O'Connell and Jennifer Germann to add technology to the course. Barr also enlisted Colleen Muldowney '12 and David Banker '13 to help him create the framework for the iPad application used in the course. Barr has worked with students on other iPad applications before and says the project has been a learning experience for everyone involved.
"This project is interesting because it mimics what goes on in real life," Barr says. "Most of the time there's a technologist who knows the technology but doesn't really do the content."
The application will help students learn about the art and architecture of paris and what those things mean in relation to the social and political landscape of French history. For example, "When we get to the Palace of Versailles, what do we want them to learn there, and how can the iPad platform enhance their learning?" O'Connell queries.
Professor John Barr (second from left) works with (from left) Professor Jennifer Germann,
Colleen Muldowney '12, Professor Lauren O'Connell, and David Banker '13 on an iPad application.
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Using an iPad is an unconventional way to teach a course, but Barr says it's the best way to communicate a course of this nature. "Mobile is the future. This is a better way to interact with information, and we're going to be there." O'Connell adds, "I think it makes the whole experience more interactive and engaging. We get away from the idea that the teacher is just standing there in front of the building talking."
Muldowney, who has a minor in art history, worked to ensure the course is the interactive experience the professors want and the students need. She helped O'Connell prepare the art history lessons and helped Barr translate those lessons to the iPad.
"Over the summer, I did the content, and I helped Lauren and Jennifer with the research they're doing for the class," she says. "Then, I helped them restructure the class to be more interactive, instead of just spending two weeks in Paris and reading from a book."
This research project has proven successful for all parties involved. Muldowney says she loved working closely with faculty to develop the application.
"I like working with other students, but working with faculty is such a good experience because I feel that when I talk with them, I'm not only learning new things but also learning how they think."
While she's not sure where she will be following graduation in May, Muldowney is excited to make use of what she's learned at Ithaca College.
"My education here has made me realize a lot of things about our world. I've really learned a lot here."
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Authorities say a Buford High School student did the right thing this week, but was still arrested and will be held accountable for mistakenly having two hunting rifles in his truck in the school parking lot on Monday, Aug. 20.
Joshua Aaron Horne, 17, 1084 Tryon St., was arrested on a charge of possession of a firearm on school property, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report.
Lancaster County saw a drop in its unemployment rate last month, though state and national numbers went in the opposite direction.
The county's July jobless rate was 12.7 percent, a drop from the 12.9 percent it posted in June. The county's July 2011 rate was 13.9.
Last month, of the 30,593 people in Lancaster County's workforce, 3,874 of them were unemployed, according to figures recently released by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
The United Way of Lancaster County (UWLC) is seeking participants for the Lancaster County Community Garden.
Now in its fourth year, the community garden is near the Lancaster Parks and Recreation Department at 260 Plantation Road.
Garden sites will be provided free for participants to grow their own produce. Free seeds and plants will be provided.
Applications are available at the United Way of Lancaster County office, 109 S. Wylie St. For more information, call (803) 283-8923 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
INDIAN LAND – A lengthy investigation led to the bust of a indoor marijuana grow house on Possum Hollow Road Road early Thursday.
Lancaster County Sheriff's Office deputies have seized several guns, along with hashish and marijuana with an estimated street value of $100,000.
So far, one man has been arrested. Check back later for details.
Contact Chris Sardelli at (803) 416-8416
A Kershaw man died Saturday evening, Aug. 18, after falling from a tree onto rocks along the Catawba River in the Bell Town community.
Robert Nichols, 43, was at Cedar Creek Reservoir's Stumpy Pond boat landing, with several family members when the accident happened about 6:20 p.m. Saturday, said Lancaster County Deputy Coroner Tony Broome.
Nichols was diving about 40 to 50 feet from a tree into the water, Broome said. "As he was climbing the tree, he fell down against some very sharp, jagged rocks," Broome said.
A grant by the Springs Close Foundation will allow Lancaster First Steps to significantly increase the number of at-risk children it feeds through its weekend backpack program at Clinton Elementary School.
First Steps started the meal program, which provides the school's most needy students with weekend backpacks stuffed with nutritious food, in March 2012.
KERSHAW – Kershaw Town Councilwoman Sonya Poole fears someone will one day be seriously injured by a vicious dog that freed itself from a chain.
The fear of potentially dangerous animals was discussed at length Monday evening, Aug. 20, during Town Council's monthly meeting.
Council members are looking at the possibility of a new town ordinance that would prohibit the tethering (chaining or roping) of certain animals. They say it's easy for many of them to free themselves from the tether.
York County authorities are still searching for a Lancaster man wanted in connection with attacking and holding a woman at knife point in Rock Hill earlier this month.
The York County Sheriff's Office is on the hunt for JaTaune Tyrone Richardson, 35, of 3546 Shiloh Unity Road.
Richardson is charged with aggravated criminal domestic violence and kidnapping. The charges stem from an extended attack Aug. 12 on a 26-year-old woman inside a car, at a highway weigh station and at a Rock Hill campground.
Summer is officially over for Lancaster County School District students, who returned to class Monday, Aug. 20.
An estimated 11,500-plus students woke up early, many of them nervous about starting new classes with new teachers and some at new schools.
For some, such as Buford Elementary School kindergartner Madison Mackey, it was a step into the unknown.
Still, McDonald Green second-grader Aronica Blakeney, who is an old hand at returning to class, gave the morning a big thumb's up with a thumb sculpted from modeling clay.
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Child screening is Tuesday
A free screening for children birth through age five will be Tuesday at United Methodist church, 403 Sycamore St., Peabody.
Appointments will be available from 12:30 to 3 p.m.
At the screening, development will be checked in learning, motor, language, and social areas. Vision and hearing will also be screened. The process usually takes at least one hour for a child to complete. All children are welcome, but an appointment is necessary.
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|Saas Fee's mixed overhangs
A new structure and surroundings
The fourth stage of the Ice World Cup was held on a radically different structure, both because of its construction and for its location. An overhanging granite wall was located indoors, within a 10-storey garage in Saas Fee, Switzerland, not far from the more famous Zermatt.
These two towns are completely pedestrianised, and visitors must park their cars before continuing either on foot or in one of the numerous electric 4x4 taxis. It's a strange concept initially, but one gets used to it quickly enough.
Being indoors meant that it was sheltered from the bad weather, but no daylight meant that it was a bit dark inside. After three days of artificial light, we were glad to see the sun and the world outside. But we'd come here for the competition, so there was no escape.
The Open
Two mixed lines on rock and ice had to be climbed on the first day. These really tested the athletes, for they clearly showed who had previous drytooling experience and who hadn't. As usual, the best 16 qualified for the Semi-finals.
Speed climbing
The speed climbing competition was held that same evening. As in the other stages of the Ice World Cup, the uninhibited French climbers, led by the legendary Christoph Profit, competed in great style and almost nude. More information and photos can be seen on the IWC's official site, www.ice-time.com.
The Swiss Lorenzo Lanfranchi climbed the 20m wall in just 12.1 sec, ahead of the Englishman Tim Emmet and Italian Erik Svab.
The Semi-final
Many climbers were bleary-eyed from partying the night before, but a strong coffee worked wonders. They competed on a pumpy 20m route: with its difficult footless start, rock section and overhanging finish on ice, it really separated the field. The best cruised where others flailed, and Mauro Bole even had the strength and showmanship to wave cheerily to the enthusiastic crowd before topping out.
The Final
Even more complicated than the Semi-final, the Final had in store precarious hooking on micro-edges, followed by an athletic overhanging traverse and a long, long lock-off, best done using a figure-of-four. A final overhanging ice section capped it all, leading to the finishing chain.
Much to the horror of the route setters though, this mixed combination didn't prove to be hard enough: François Lombard, winner of the first stage in Piltztal, climbed convincingly to clip the chain, while all the others had yet to climb. Surely enough, Will Gadd topped out smoothly thus, on the basis of the Semi-final result, pushing Lombard into second place. Mauro Bole and Daniel Dulac were next in line and both had topped out on the qualifying routes. It was going to be tense.
Mauro Bole seemed relaxed for once; he should be, for this year his performance on mixed routes has been nigh-on unmatched. He dispensed with the figure-of-four and cruised to the top and first place. Provisionally.
Last out of the blocks was the French boulder champion Daniel Dulac, and he too showed great preparation and determination. His top, combined with past results, secured him victory, therefore pushing Bole into second place.
The women
Just ten women competed in the Semi-final and Final and, as usual, Kim Csizmazia showed that she was in a league of her own. The German Ines Papert placed second ahead of the Hungarian Ildi Kiss, third. Worth mentioning is the fact that Kim later tried the mens routes she would probably have placed seventh!
Saas Fee was a good competition, but having four finalists reach the top obviously meant that the routes need to be harder still, as was the case in the Cortina Boulder. Congratulations to the organisers who managed to create an interesting competition in an unusual setting and who generated a large and enthusiastic crowd. It was great to be able to see mixed climbing up close.
The next IWC stages
The deciding, final two stages of the IWC 2000 will be held in Kirov, Russia 3 - 5 March and Are, Sweden, 10 - 12 March.
Stay tuned for more
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