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I like this book because it has girly stuff. My favorite part is when she broke her arm. Nina reminded me of me because she's a girl.
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Its not night, but I'm having a Founders Reds Rye with my lunch
Its not night, but I'm having a Founders Reds Rye with my lunch
"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption.. Beer!" -Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck
Samuel Smith Imperial Stout
Hmmm, Hendricks or Ron Zaccapa I'm feeling
Maker's Mark w/ honey and lemon chaser
once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right
rum and coconut water...not bad.
"So you want to be a vegetarian? Hitler was a vegetarian and look at how he turned out."
Thomas cooper's selection celebration ale, after a half hour bike ride home in fourty two degree (108f) sunshine. Drinking at home in a cold shower. Awesome.
taliskers 1975. 25 yr old. good lord!
I haven't lived the life I wanted, just the lives I needed too at the time.
That's what I thought, but the latest research goes more toward 'every drink could be harmful'. But that's the thing about risk - you might get away with it or you might not.
As for drinks, Coke zero and plenty of water after shlepping boxes and stuff all afternoon. Did I mention how much I hate moving?

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NAB 2015 was an experience like no other. With a chance to see today, tomorrow and the future of broadcasting radio/television audio/visual technology. I see why this event is well known & so talked about. It is a must visit
Annual holiday preview event features the latest and greatest gadgets and gizmos to satisfy everyone on the gift-giving list
With the addition of the new brushes and capabilities of Photoshop CS6 anyone can magically turn their library of photos into a gallery of painted masterpieces
I attended Showstoppers on January 8th, 2013 at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. The ballroom was easy to find and the representatives were helpful for the most part.
This is simply a fantastic camera very light to carry and the photo quality is amazing. Without any training on this new model, I set off to document my sightseeing, resort stay and runaway experiences
This year NAB Conference known for preview of tech trends to come, has scored some of the biggest names in the Entertainment Industry as well leading news makers in all aspects of communication
The importance of being healthy and aware of your body and lifestyle is steadily increasing. Taking advantage of technology and innovation is Muse
The Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless have a perfect trick, for your health. They can monitor your heart rate through your ears. The water-resistant earbuds themselves look normal, but you will notice these are not your standard in-ear buds
What can you do if your cell phone drops calls, has slow or lost internet connection, stuck text messages, poor voice quality, weak coverage, low bars, and other cell phone reception problems? You need is a cell phone signal booster
Power & Industry's Independent Filmmaker's Lounge will be Sundance Film Festival 2015. Programming that includes film screenings, comedy and live music, joined forces with Salt Lake Comic Con, the Utah Jazz and media partners Life & Style
Technology developed by ReWalk Robotics and showcased at ShowStoppers, an event held in conjunction with the International Consumer Electronics Show, is helping paralyzed people to walk
An interview with theoretical physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Mark Jackson, and his new Kickstarter campaign, Fiat Physics
The Prong eliminates the need to carry separate charging equipment for your I Phone.
Kyocera Hydro LIFE is a very smart phone. In addition to the outstanding voice recognition feature and many usual smart phone features, this phone is also shatter resistant and waterproof


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Davichi's Kang Min Kyung refutes plastic surgery rumors by providing past photos
Davichis Kang Min Kyung spoke up about the rumors claiming she received plastic surgery.
She came out as a guest on Mnets Wide Entertainment News, and addressed the issue herself. She revealed, On some show, they took a really badly taken photo of me from middle school, compared to how I am now, and said that I shaved down my chin. I was so mad that Ive prepared my own pictures. Isnt my chin really narrow?
She had brought out photos from when she was young that showed her naturally narrow chin. MC Moon Hee Jun sympathized with her and said, She must have been felt really wronged to prepare these pictures when shes busy with album promotions. If she really got her chin done, she would have hidden it all, but if she brought out her graduation album, it means she really didnt.
Kang Min Kyung let out more pent up frustration, saying, Plastic surgery rumors have been following me around for 6 years. It bothers me every year. I just hope people realize its not true.


text: Book review: The Lazy Way to Success (Verdict: Unconventional food for thought)Gina Trapani5/10/05 5:14pm0EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink This image was lost some time after publication. "Working is unnatural," Fred Gratzon writes in his book, The Lazy Way to Success. "Heart attacks, ulcers, headaches, alcoholism, drug abuse, broken families, traffic jams, insomnia and poor digestion (probably due to racing rats after eating dogs) are direct results of work. The key to accomplishing everything is doing nothing." Advertisement At first glance, you might think the self-published Fred Gratzon is a complete nutball. In reality, he's a serial entrepreneur who's founded two successful businesses - an ice cream manufacturer and telecom group - which landed him in People and Inc. magazines and serving ice cream at the White House at the request of Nancy Reagan. He's also a student and teacher of Transcendental Meditation.The Lazy Way to Success, his 215 page hardcover, looks like a child's book, replete with cartoon illustrations of Fred in his beloved hammock, reveling in the virtues of doing nothing, decrying the horrors of hard work, and convincingly selling the concept of smart laziness. Advertisement "Personally, I couldn't bear the shame if I said I had to work hard. That would be admitting that I hadn't found an intelligent way to accomplish a task," Gratzon writes. Even though it flies in the face of conventional wisdom - hard work is worshipped in our culture - Gratzon's ideas are (dare I say inspiring?) food for thought for the overworked and undercompensated.The book sells for just under $30 - and if it's not your cup of tea, they'll refund your money, including shipping costs. A sample chapter is available at the web site, and Fred says he'll include his famous ice cream recipe (adjusted for at-home use) if you mention "ice cream" with your order.While kooky and offbeat (and creative and fun), if you can get past the over-exuberant "I hold all the keys to success and happiness!" advertising, The Lazy Way to Success is a worthwhile read, one that feels a lot more like play than work. Sponsored The Lazy Way to Success


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28 Dec 2016 23:25:18
middlesbrough looking to bring in 4-5 players in next month, with Gestede close to signing, middlesbrough also want another LW and CAM with an option for attacking midfield being Badu from Udinese, the club also want another centre back with Bailey Wright of Preston looking likely.
There will also be several departures, with Mejias, Ayala, De Pena, Rhodes and Nugent all attracting interest.
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23 Dec 2016 17:15:04
Rangers want Grant Leadbitter to replace Joey Barton.
Leadbitter is the model professional and would be a perfect fit . £2 million bid will be enough for the Boro club captain.
Expected competition from Forest, Leeds and Sheff Wed.
30 Aug 2016 22:00:28
Hi boro fans hope you're all enjoying the prem. I'm a forest fan and I'm visiting to get opinions on our new signing mustapha carayol. Anyone?
23 Aug 2016 00:58:20
Just got back from Olympics in Rio the word is in the local press that middlesbrough are currently in negotiations to sign Brazil international Hulk for a reported 28 million £200.000 per week 3 year contract his agent is a friend of the club and works with our recruitment department and has been in secret transfer talks apparently the transfer will come to light after the confirmed sale of Jordan Rhodes.
11 Jul 2016 16:24:21
Boro in for 2 players coming in from Valencia striker Negrado who will be a loan with view to buy and a right back Antonio Barragan who was initially at Liverpool before going back to Spain.
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15 May 2016 13:59:08
We are after Arsenal midfielder Flamani.
15 May 2016 13:57:52
Middlesbrough after Real Madrid ex RB Arbaloa.
15 May 2016 13:56:58
Middlesbrough after Stoke striker Walters.
13 May 2016 00:47:36
Middlesbrough are interested in Arkadiusz Milik. The Poland International has scored 21 goals this season. #Boro.
01 Feb 2016 11:43:59
Still in the hunt for Rhodes, McCormack and Dorrans and Pritchard hold onto your hat going to be an interesting few hours,
29 Jan 2016 21:17:19
Boro now in advanced talks with Rhodes. According to Sly Sports.
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26 Jan 2016 11:37:30
After failing to lure Ross McCormack or Patrick Bamford to the club, Middlesbrough will look toward Sergio Leon who is currently top of the Spanish second divison scoring charts to bolster their attacking threat.
A deal for Matt Phillips is still in the pipeline.
24 Jan 2016 23:01:41
Middlesbrough are set for a big week in the transfer market with several big deals in the offing, they will look to McCormack and Bamford to bolster their attack with the hope of getting at least one of them before the deadline. Bamford has notified Hiddink that he would like to move on loan if he is not going to bre given a chance a his parent club, however the young striker would like to move to a premier league club. But in the event that a deal doesn't occur he would be happy to rejoin Boro, he wants to keep his options open as long as possible though so if a deal is to be struck it is likely to be late in the window.
McCormack on the other hand has told the Fulham boss he want to leave the club and join Middles rough, however with the club reluctant to let their star man go, the deal looks unlikely.
Bournemouth have offered Tomlin back to Middlesbrough after the attacker openly critised the club and management on social media, however Boro manager Karanka has had problems with Tomlin in the past but knows how good the player can be, with this he will meet the player and hold a meeting with Gibson on whether it is worth the risk on bringing the former Peterborough man back to Teesside.
Boro also have their eyes on a new left winger, with Matty Phillips their No.1 target, however the asking price of 7.5m is steep so Middlesbrough may be forced to look further down their list for a new wide man, with several options in Spain and Portugal, where the club have scouted extensively over the past year.
A deal with Victor Lindelof was also expected to be wrapped up this week, but with the player o the bench for Benficas last game the club are becoming increasingly worried if a deal can be wrapped, with the players agent holding the transfer back.
Middlesbrough do not expect to lose any players this month but it us down to Watford to decide on Fabbrini's future with there club unable to stand in the way if the player is happy to move to Birmingham, who have bid 2 million for the Italian.
24 Jan 2016 10:47:21
Middlesbrough will bring in four new faces before deadline day. Ross McCormack, Gaston Ramirez, Victor Lindelof and Matthew Philips. Due to the injury sustained by Friend, Husband will be recalled from his loan spell.
Outgoings will see Kike, Damia and possibly Albert Adomah.
23 Jan 2016 13:37:42
Middlesbrough look poised to offer Jordi Gomez a short term loan deal until the end of the season to end his spell at Blunderland.
20 Jan 2016 14:48:39
Middlesbrough are looking to bring in McCormack and Rhodes. Not sure on the details of the transfer but what i do know is that they want both of them.
18 Jan 2016 08:07:34
Middlesbrough football club have been linked with early enquiries to take Gaston Ramirez on loan until the end of the season with a view to a permanent deal in the summer.
They have also made enquiries to buy Callum McManaman but have scoffed at the £7M valuation.
Chelsea are considering terminating the loan of Tomas Kalas due to the lack of game time he is having and then loaning him out to QPR.
15 Jan 2016 13:15:40
Middlesbrough have enquired about the availability of Victor Anichebe from West Brom I have heard today.
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13 Jan 2016 14:20:13
Middlesbrough's intended in's and out's from now untill Feb
Kike Sola (In) Loan - Athletic Club
Dwight Gayle (In) Transfer - Crystal Palace
Aidan McGeady (In) Loan - Everton
Zach Clough (In) Transfer - Bolton Wanderers
Sam Hutchinson (In) Transfer - Sheffield Wednesday
Adam Forshaw (Out) Loan or Transfer - Unknown
Albert Adomah (Out) Transfer - QPR/ Bristol City
Kike (Out) Loan - Wolverhampton Wanderers/ Leeds United.
10 Jan 2016 09:53:29
Hearing from two usually reliable sources on Twitter that boro will be signing Ross McCormack, Alex Pritchard and a keeper called Raphael.
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ML Strategies and Mintz Levin Alert
October 24' 2013
By Alex Hecht, Steve Weiner, Andy Shin, Abby Matousek
What is the SGR?
The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula was enacted in 1992 as a statutory means of controlling Medicare spending by calculating annual updates to the Medicare physician fee schedule. The fee schedule established a fixed minimum payment for over 7,000 defined services that is updated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) each year to reflect current total per capita spending for physician services versus gross domestic product (GDP).1
When per capita GDP grew more than Part B expenditures, as it did for 1997 through 2000, payments were relatively stable. However, as the economy began to slow down after 2000 and health care costs began to outpace GDP growth, application of the SGR formula produced decreases, not increases, in physician fees from year to year.
To avoid a cut in physician reimbursement that has grown from a moderate percentage reduction to an almost staggering 25% cut in payment, Congress has acted to "patch" the SGR, either by increasing physician payment rates, notwithstanding the SGR requirements, or freezing the rates to prevent decreases.2 So while physicians were made whole or were even given moderate increases in payment, the overall cut as mandated by the SGR was pushed off by Congress to deal with in the future through one of two possible outcomes: 1) eliminate the SGR formula, or 2) allow the cut to be implemented, reducing physician payment. Unless Congress acts by the end of this year, physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries will be faced with an estimated 24.4% reduction in reimbursement.3
The SGR, and the annual (or more frequent) SGR "patches" that Congress has needed to make every year, has created a huge source of uncertainty for physicians who do not know whether or when they will receive a large cut to their Medicare reimbursement. In turn, the uncertainty creates the potential to drive down the number of Medicare patients physicians are willing to see and to impact negatively on physicians' willingness to invest in expenditures like clinical equipment and facilities. This uncertainty translated into a significant financial burden on providers as recently as 2010, when Congress went 18 days without "patching" the SGR, resulting in withheld Medicare claims for that entire period.
Legislative Prospects for SGR Reform
Recognition that the SGR formula must be overhauled has grown recently, spurred, in part, by projections by the CBO drastically lowering the cost of a permanent elimination of the SGR. Whereas in January 2012, the CBO estimated that the cost of repeal would be $316 billion, in February 2013, the CBO calculated that repeal would cost only $138 billion over ten years, due to lower estimated spending on physician services.4 This major decrease in the estimated cost was a key factor in pushing bipartisan cooperation, and a reason why stakeholders sense an opportunity to get SGR reform done this year.
The first major step toward reform was taken by the full House Energy and Commerce Committee on July 31st in unanimously approving the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013 (H.R. 2810). H.R. 2810 would repeal the SGR effective 2014, replacing it with annual updates of 0.5 percent, and uses a two phase plan to address the fee-for-serve (FFS) program. Specifically, the legislation would:
While the House committee has taken a first step, no Senate committee has yet to put forth a proposal to reform the SGR. However, the Senate Finance Committee has held two hearings on the subject, a May 14th hearing entitled "Advancing Reform: Medicare Physicians Payments" and a July 13th hearing entitled "Repealing the SGR and the Path Forward: A View from CMS."
At the July Senate Finance Committee hearing to consider the perspective of CMS, Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) indicated that the Committee is utilizing the comments and suggestions made by the American College of Physicians (ACP).
On the same day the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced its SGR legislation, Chairman Baucus invited members of the Senate to participate in a discussion regarding SGR reform. He and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are currently working on draft legislation, and the Senate Finance Committee is reportedly working with the House Ways and Means Committee to release SGR reform proposals by the end of this month. According to reports, the two committees will release draft bills similar to that put forward by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Outlook for the Remainder of 2013
Health care stakeholders have not been quiet about legislative efforts to repeal the SGR, spurring Congress to action. For example, the American Medical Association (AMA) has long been a vocal critic of the SGR, estimating that the SGR will cut physician payment rates by 40% by 2016 even as practice costs rise 20%, causing physicians to limit the number of new Medicare patients they treat and creating a crisis of health care access. As such, the AMA has weighed in on the Energy and Commerce proposal, noting, among other things, that any change in payment systems must be sufficient to create a sustainable practice environment, including maintaining budget neutrality related to adjustments to correct misvalued codes as part of that ongoing process. Earlier this month, the President of the AMA expressed optimism that Congress will take steps to reform the SGR, saying the momentum in Congress is "palpably different" than in previous years. To support the effort to reform the SGR, the AMA launched a grassroots campaign to urge Congress to reform the payment system.
Further, the respective Chairmen of several of the committees of jurisdiction will be leaving their roles at the end of this term. Chairman Baucus and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, are retiring and Representative Camp (R-MI) is term limited from continuing as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee by Republican caucus. This has made proposing and passing a permanent SGR replacement a personal commitment, with these key members presumably less beholden to potential political limitations.
Obstacles to Consensus
While Congress may be closer than it has in many years to moving forward with a major overhaul of the SGR, as with any complex program, there remain stumbling blocks, both technical and political, and how Congress will pay for the reform remains the focal sticking point. The CBO has recently scored the House Energy and Commerce legislation, estimating the cost of the bill at around $175 billion over 10 years.6 This score represents nearly $40 billion more in Medicare spending than simply freezing current rates over the next decade.
Acknowledging that resolving the question of offsets remains crucial to reforming the SGR, the House Ways and Means Committee is said to be working diligently to reach a proposal that scores closer to $140 billion and working to address complaints raised by industry sectors that have expressed concerns about the House Energy and Commerce proposal. For example, the College of American Pathologists has been out front to ensure that reforms include language that accounts for the kinds of quality metrics actionable by diagnostic practices, such as pathology; and the American College of Radiologists has repeatedly noted that reforms should not include broad cuts to diagnostic imaging, but rather incorporate imaging utilization management policy employing computerized decision support (CDS) tools.
Still, how these additional costs will be paid for via finding offsets is already becoming a partisan food fight, with midterm elections already on the horizon, made more difficult due to vehement opposition from industry sectors that are proposed to be targets to pay for the SGR permanent replacement. (This is reminiscent of an observation made during federal health care reform that, in the health care system, one person's savings is another person's loss of revenue.) In this context, industry lobbyists report that the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees are planning to introduce their own SGR replacement bills, without offsets. This runs counter to the earlier expectation of the Energy and Commerce Committee that the Ways and Means Committee would complement the Energy and Commerce proposal with an offset bill.
On the heels of a shutdown largely over President Obama's signature legislative achievement in the Affordable Care Act, Washington analysts are also watching how Tea Party Republicans, primarily freshmen and sophomore members in the House, approach the SGR issue. Reports indicate that the larger price tag from the Energy and Commerce bill is drawing criticism from conservative corners and there is also concern that the newer members of Congress are not as invested in the multi-decade battle to find a permanent replacement for the SGR formula. Adding to the political complexity is whether Tea Party Republicans will attempt to tie an SGR replacement with a delay or defunding of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (a line in the sand drawn by Democrats during budget negotiations leading up to the October government shutdown).
Paying for a Permanent Replacement
The Congressional committees are continuing to struggle to find pay-fors via significant Medicare cuts from stakeholders already cut as a result of the ACA, sequestration, the specter of an additional 2% across the board sequester cut coming in 2014, etc. Especially going into debt ceiling negotiations and the 2014 election cycle, offsets for the SGR replacement bill would likely come largely from the same stakeholders, who feel they cannot withstand any further cuts. As a result, these potential pay-fors carry a host of controversial political and policy implications. Their potential to impose devastating impacts on the industries they target will make answering the question of how to pay for an SGR overhaul continuously contentious.
Based on the various savings proposals and historical pay-fors in other health care legislation, the sectors that are most likely at risk to help pay for a permanent SGR replacement bill include diagnostic imaging providers; home health care; hospitals; inpatient rehab hospitals; labs; long-term acute-care; Medigap insurance carriers; and skilled nursing facilities. For example, earlier this year, when discussions of a broader initiative to reform the nation's entitlement system were in play, the House Ways and Means Committee proposed a number of changes to Medicare's cost sharing, including changes that could be used to pay for the repeal of the SGR. Among these proposed changes were:
Finding savings from the health care sector will be a challenge, perhaps ultimately insurmountable. However, lawmakers have already done more to advance a permanent replacement bill than at any time since the SGR was created. Congressional committee staff have already begun to debate how the legislation will proceed, setting up the ground rules for how industry stakeholders and lawmakers may manage this issue heading into the end of the year.
Government Shutdown Complexity
Up until the 17-day government shutdown in October, the House was expected to proceed in one of two ways: (1) Rules Committee consideration of the House Energy and Commerce proposal, during which an offset offered by House Ways and Means or House Leadership would be included as an amendment; or (2) inclusion of the SGR repeal as part of a larger piece of legislation that would submerge the cost of the bill within a broader proposal.
The deal to end the government shutdown included a timeline that, while it does not diminish the prospects for reform, complicates the process. The deal funds the government at $986 billion through a Continuing Resolution (CR) through January 15th, and extends the debt ceiling through February 7th. The agreement also requires a budget conference, with a report due on December 13th that would provide a framework for spending, taxes, and entitlements, while possibly addressing the mandatory spending cuts of sequestration.
A bill to reform the SGR could move as a standalone measure in December or as part of a broader deal to fund the government based on the budget conference to conclude on December 13th; however, with Congress' focus on budget talks, tax reform, and entitlement reform, selling a measure that would raise the deficit may become more difficult—though if Congress is able to find $140 billion in offsets the likelihood of achieving SGR reform increases greatly. As the government reopened, the CBO took up the Senate Finance Committee SGR bill, which like the House proposals, does not include offsets as staff is awaiting a CBO score before moving to pay-fors.
However, should SGR reform, or a temporary "patch," be included in broader budget talks, with the government funded through January 15th, and the physician pay cut scheduled to hit on January 1st, and assuming Congress takes up to the deadline to act, CMS could be forced to hold claims for up to 15 days. While the delay may help ensure that providers do not get hit with hefty cuts, it will complicate things and force providers to wait for weeks for an SGR fix or overhaul to be passed.
The prognosis for an SGR overhaul to be included in a December/January deal to fund the government is strengthened by the experience, in the period following a government shutdown, of "big ticket" legislative items moving successfully through Congress. For example, following the 1996 government shutdown, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the FDA Export Reform and Enhancement Act of 1996, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. With big picture issues, though, partisan politics will certainly come into play and complicate legislative efforts.
As with any major piece of legislation, the SGR fix will have stumbling blocks toward becoming law before physician payment rates are cut at the end of the year. It remains to be seen whether the offset issue will stall the advance of the legislation. In addition, with the focus on Congress narrowing to a debate on funding the government, the national debt limit and "unfunding" the Affordable Care Act, it may be that momentum is fading for SGR reform. However, with the CBO projecting that the cost of a fix is comparatively lower relative to previous estimates, bipartisan support for repeal, stakeholder advocacy, and coordinated, bicameral movement on versions of the legislation, it appears that SGR reform has a better opportunity than in previous years to actually get done.
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1 "Medicare Physician Payment Updates and the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System." Congressional Research Service. August 2, 2012. http://greenbook.waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/greenbook.waysandmeans.house.gov/files/2012/documents/R40907_gb.pdf
2 "Medicare Physician Payment Updates and the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System." Congressional Research Service. August 2, 2012. http://greenbook.waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/greenbook.waysandmeans.house.gov/files/2012/documents/R40907_gb.pdf
3 "Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule & Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2014; Proposed Rule." Department of Health and Human Services. 42 CFR Parts 405, 410, 411, et al. July 19, 2013. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-07-19/pdf/2013-16547.pdf
4 'The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023." Congressional Budget Office. February 2013. http://cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43907-BudgetOutlook.pdf
5 "Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013." H.R. 2810. 113th Congress. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20130730/101240/BILLS-113HR2810ih-HR2810.pdf
6 "H.R. 2810 Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013." Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate. September 13, 2013.
7 "Discussion Draft: Medicare Post-Acute Reform Proposals." House Ways and Means Committee. June 14, 2013. http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/pac_reform_legislative_language.pdf
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I've just been making some pretty things with it - quotes and drawings and such. By the way, these were all created by hand - with a pencil, a compass, and lots of black pens and Sharpies. No computer stuff here.
That's all. Enjoy :)
This one was my first ever large Gallifreyan project. It says "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." It's a quote from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar and was used in John Green's book The Fault in Our Stars.
This one was made in response to soulpancake's time-lapse art video on fear. I tried to film the creation, but, having never done so before, failed miserably. But here's the picture. The Gallifreyan text says "This is fear" and it's supposed to represent my fear of losing myself. Hence the maze (which is actually solvable...that was hard), the city, and snowflake letters.
I've been working on this one for a while. As you can see, it's the mockingjay symbol from The Hunger Games. The Gallifreyan says "May the odds be ever in your favor." I really liked the way it turned out, and I'm pretty proud of this one.
I'm also hoping to make a time-lapse type video of its creation. I'll post a link if I manage it.
UPDATE: Here's the link to the YouTube video of the creation of the mockingjay! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOCGJrBqBVY


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Dr. Christmas Jones: Doctor Jones. Christmas Jones, and don't tell me any jokes, I've heard them all.
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President Barack Obama: I admire CNN and their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate.
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President Barack Obama: These days when I look in the mirror I have to admit I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.
Tony Stark: Give me a scotch. I'm starving.
George W. Bush: This thaw - took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw.
Katniss Everdeen: May the odds be ever in your favor.
Rob: What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?
Michael: Why are you squeezing me with your body? Lucille: It's a hug, Michael. I'm hugging you.
Benny Rodriguez: Anyone who wants to be a can't-hack-it pantywaist who wears their mama's bra, raise your hand.
Donkey: I just know, before this is over, I'm gonna need a whole lot of serious therapy. Look at my eye twitchin'.
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Well, back in 2001 at Tasting Australia in Adelaide, Juan-Mari Arzak and Ferran Adria were invited to give a presentation for chefs and media on the Sunday morning. Being neither a chef nor in the media I should not really have been there, but some friends said that nobody would notice and so I sat through an interesting couple of hours. The air was redolent with orange essence to make you think that you were in an orange grove near Seville.
That was the start of foam mania in Australia, and many chefs who I heard laugh and condemn on that day, have since adorned dishes with a variety of foams.
Something that did not go down well at all, was the idea of using a microplane to produce shavings of cauliflower that were then presented to the diner as "cauliflower risotto". I have since seen a number of negative reviews from people being presented with such cauliflower risottos in other restaurants.
Well, I had a cauliflower in the fridge, and decided to see how it would go in the Thermomix.
Using the Reverse setting and putting just the tops of the florettes into the bowl resulted in the following product, which I then steamed in the Varoma and made a "cauliflower pilaf"
It may be something that used with milk to cook the cauliflower for just a minute or two could be used to encourage children to eat their vegetables.
There are probably a myriad of other dishes that people can make with the cauliflower "rice". I roughly chopped the remaining cauliflower stalks and put them into the Thermomix bowl and made cauliflower soup while the "pilaf" was steaming.
Cauliflower Pilaf
1 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsps coriander seeds
2cm piece fresh ginger
1 medium onion, cut into quarters
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp ground turmeric
3 Tbsp cashews
2 Tbsp currants
1 medium cauliflower
Place the cumin and coriander seeds into the TM bowl and dry roast for 8 minutes at 100°C on Speed 1. Set aside and put the ginger into the TM bowl, grate for 5 seconds on Speed 7. Add onion and chop for 10 seconds on Speed 5. Add the oil and saute for 7 minutes at 100°C on Speed 1.
Add the turmeric, cashews and currants and mix for 15 seconds on Reverse and Speed 5. Place the mixture into a bowl that fits into the upper Varoma tray.
Cut the tops off the florettes of the cauliflower off and place batches of about 150 grams in the TM bowl. Blitz each batch for 3 seconds on Reverse and Speed 5. Place each batch into the base of the Varoma dish. When finished, place tray into the Varoma and place lid on Varoma.
Place 600ml water into the TM bowl, position the Varoma and steam for 10 minutes at Varoma temperature on Speed 1. You may need to carefully turn the cauliflower "rice" over during cooking to ensure even cooking.
Once the "rice" has steamed, carefully remove the tray and cauliflower and mix together in a bowl and season with salt and pepper.
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My betta is staying at the bottom of the tank HELP I have had my betta for over a month now & he has been doing fine, but now I find he doesn't swim as much and likes to stay at the bottom of the tank. I have done the water change, but I don't know whatelse to do to make him swim a little more. Any suggestions or what could be wrong with him? |
how big is your tank? do you have a heater? (hope so, if you dont this is probly the problem) filtered? what are the water parameters? (tested with master liquid test kit) what do you feed him? does he look bloated at all? and what is your water changing schedual? sorry for all the questions, the answers will help us help you :) |
Tank size: 1.5 gallons, no heater, not bloated, change water about once a month. I have a feeling it's the PH level. |
A 1.5 Gallon ...you said you had a heater but do you have any type of filter? Even with a filter on a 1.5 Gallon tank you should be doing a 25% water change every few days..this is probebly causing your Bettas health to deteriorate ..your amonia & nitrates sre probebly really high at this point ..but heres what to do: Purchase a 2.5 Gallon (at least)but if you can't just follow these directions Purchace a nano type filter ( a Red Sea Nano or Azoo Palm filter) get a container and save a small amount of your water ( not from the bottom), dump the rest it is probebly pretty bad, rinse the gravel and tank..don't use any cleaners!,put your water in , fill with new water, Use declorinator as per the directions on the amount of water you have, get your filter running, put your heater back in, Put your fish in and then every few days change out @25% of your water be sure you suck up poo and uneaten food off the bottom with either a small piece of tubing or a turkey baster..see the "Sticky for further info on Betta care. Good Luck and welcome to the Forum |
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1st | 7-0 Tampa Bay |
7:11 | 8 plays, 54 yards, 3:59 | Earnest Graham 14-yard pass from Josh Freeman (Connor Barth kick). Key plays: Two big plays by Freeman (one pass, one rush) put the Bucs in position to score first. A 24-yard pass to tight end Kellen Winslow to the Carolina 30 on third and 10 kept the drive moving. And after a holding call forced a first and 19, Freeman picked up another first down with a 17-yard run on third and 11. Freeman hit Graham, who appeared to be uncovered, in the right flat for the touchdown on the next play. It was the running back's first touchdown catch in his seven-year career. | |
2nd | 7-7 Tie |
11:43 | 6 plays, 88 yards, 2:36 | Steve Smith 37-yard pass from Matt Moore (John Kasay kick). Key plays: Backed up to their 12 after a holding call on a punt, Jonathan Stewart earned the Panthers some breathing room with a 19-yard run up the middle. One play later, Moore hit tight end Dante Rosario for a 26-yard gain on a deep pass over the middle. The Bucs defense stiffened, setting up fourth and 4 at the Tampa Bay 37. But Carolina's gamble to go for it paid off when Moore found his wide receiver Smith cutting across the field. He hit him in stride, and Smith ran untouched for the tying score. | |
14-7 Tampa Bay |
7:43 | 8 plays, 80 yards, 4:00 | Mike Williams 35-yard pass from Josh Freeman (Connor Barth kick). Key plays: The drive appeared over as the Bucs faced third and 17 from their 25 and Freeman was sent scrambling toward the right sideline under heavy pressure. But the second-year quarterback pulled up and launch a 40-yard pass to tight end Kellen Winslow, who made a fingertip catch. One play later, Freeman hit Williams cutting across the middle, and the rookie wide receiver picked his way through the secondary for his second touchdown of the season. | ||
3rd | 17-7 Tampa Bay |
7:40 | 7 plays, 19 yards, 3:09 | Connor Barth 24-yard field goal. Key plays: For the second straight week, an interception by cornerback Ronde Barber set up a Tampa Bay score. This time, Barber stepped in front of a pass intended for Steve Smith at the Carolina 30 and returned it 5 yards. The Bucs picked up 12 yards when defensive end Greg Hardy hit Josh Freeman after the play had been whistled dead for a false start. But two short runs and an incompletion forced the Bucs to settle for the field goal. | |
4th | 20-7 Tampa Bay |
14:46 | 10 plays, 50 yards, 4:51 | Connor Barth 33-yard field goal. Key plays: Josh Freeman again hurt the Panthers on the ground (12-yard scramble) and through the air (11 yards to Kellen Winslow on third and 8). The big play was a pass interference call against cornerback Chris Gamble on a throw that floated after Freeman was hit as he threw. That gave the Bucs a first down at the Panthers 16. But three plays gained only 1 yard, and Barth remained perfect for the season. |


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Echoes is an action-strategy game. It's set in an extensive universe on a torn Earth almost three-hundred years in the future. It joins the famous real-time strategy genre with many elements from the third person shooter genre, in a side-scrolling environment.
Please note this game is loaded with action, and may load on your cpu. If you have any slow frame rates try to lower the graphic settings. Also note Echoes is a heavy story-teller, with scenes and dialogues. If you're in only for the action, there's always a skip button in the corner.
Follow echoes on facebook: http://facebook.com/echoe sgame/
More about the universe: http://echoesgame.com/
Combat mode:
- Mouse - aim, shoot
- W,A,S,D - movement
- Shift - sprint
- Q - command, drag for select units
- E - action circle
- 1-6 - activate abilities
- Z,X,C,V,B - select weapon
- Space - switch to Strategy mode
P, ESC - Pause game
Strategy mode:
- W,A,S,D - camera movement
- Shift - faster camera movement
- Mouse drag - select units
- Mouse click - order units to move
- Ctrl + Mouse click - order units to attack-move
- Hold shift while selecting units to select additional units.
- Space - switch to Combat mode.
- Ctrl + 1-5 to group a few units together.
P, ESC - Pause game
hahaha there is no cake and then you hear the sounds from portal wow its just a great game so far :D i think that itd be better if u could just make the subtitles skip only one at a time for faster reading
EPIC game but i want 2 have act 2 with the updates of paths and cover that would be gr8 for this type of game and i advise adding like air veicals that could fight or trasport units that shoot out the opening that would be awsome 2
It's really cool and inspired me greatly but the voices are to fast for the titles and movements. but pretty awesome game. please make more of the echoes series.


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- The Ticket said this morning that there was a guy in the end zone during Cleveland's field goal that read "Dime Negro." No one knows what it means.
- I'll never understand how our government can bail out entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when it doesn't have any money to do so
- I watched some of the Video Music Awards last night, but nothing really exciting happen (except for the English accented host imploring the crowd to vote for Obama during the monologue.)
- In the last two weeks, I've had to replace three of the six lights that make up my tail/brake/signal lights. Something ain't right.
- Cowboys looked great. T.O.'s touchdown celebration was odd (mimicking a sprinter getting into the blocks.)
- Every Big 12 football team won this weekend. That's the first time that's ever happened.
- We've got a report of a Fox 4 Lari Barager sighting at the High Sheriff's wedding
- I guess it's the cross country team in Decatur that I see jogging before dawn around town. They now have (wisely) little red lights that they can clips to their clothing.
- Fertilizing lawns in Wise County causes Eagle Mountain Lake to smell?
- Some how this blog got mentioned by a speaker at the 2008 Advanced Criminal Law Seminar.
- My new secretary starts today. I've been three weeks without.
- I bought an entry level GPS device (manufactured by Tom Tom). Holy cow, that thing is great. But it's a little creepy.
- Smeared lipstick is always interesting.
- Craziest news story of the morning: "A 19-year-old man dies after crashing his pickup truck through a fence and into a home's swimming pool in Coppell. The truck came to rest upside down in the pool making it difficult for rescuers to pull the teen from the cab."
- For some reason I always have to raise the blade on my mower this time of year in order for the lawn to look green.
- I just downloaded Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto
- New England's Tom Brady is expected to be gone for the year due to a knee injury. Here's the cover of the Boston Globe today. And here is a very short and very funny youtube clip of the guy that hit him him (from Hard Knocks a couple of years ago.)
- It's good that we have a change of seasons. Just the slight coolness in the air in the morning this time of year is a welcomed change.
- I've got Sarah Palin overload. (But a funny campaign sign here.)
- My fantasy football teams (two of them) are absolutely awful.
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Overload on Palin? How do you think most of us were feeling about the media's non stop coverage of Obama since the primary season started? I can't get enough of this woman. To her credit, the latest weekend poll (USA Today/Gallup) has McCain 54% to Obama's 44%. What a giant bounce!
Sweet cans!
It would be hotter if Lindsay were a lesbian and dating someone who is actually good-looking. - 8:24 AM
My Dad got a Tom Tom for Christmas. He said it was Sh*t Sh*t and took it back.
Ron Paul is racist. Read his "Ron Paul Letters" that supposedly not written by him. Only his signature is on every one.
It's a shame that whether we are discussing Obama/Biden or McCain and Palin, that we can't just talk about the people, the issues, and really get down to the truth as is best for our country. We never have been able to and I doubt we ever will, but it sure would be nice. Too many differences on what is really best for our country. Kind of like discussing religion and both topics are lit dynamite, just waiting to blow up.
There definitely IS a liberal media, extremely biased FOR Obama. That's a shame too, as they should be neutral in their reporting, but they did it against Hillary too in the Democratic primaries. This includes the three major networks and their offshoot affiliates like MSNBC. It's so obvious and blatant that it's really pathetic and they don't seem to care. - 8:50 AM
The Decatur Cross Country girls team is looking great! They placed fifth running in the 5A division at the Marcus Invitational in Denton, Saturday. Let's hope for success at State this year!
"Some how this blog got mentioned by a speaker at the 2008 Advanced Criminal Law Seminar."
Seems appropriate. This thing is criminal on so many levels
Double Fake "Racehorse" Haynes - 9:32 AM
Your grass is getting ready for winter (if you've been watering enough so that it's not just dying) Broadcast the cheapest fertilizer you can buy at about +10% the recommended rate and water it in real well- in the spring broadcast weed n feed, your yard will look awesome.
Infinitely Fake Jerry Baker Decaturs Master Gardner - 9:44 AM
- wordkyle said...
Palin gives Republicans someone to vote for, rather than just against Obama. Although there is a lot of polticking still left, McCain's choice of Palin seems to have worked so far. According to the most recent USA Today/Gallup poll, "McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote."
BTW, McCain's ten-point lead is hardly mentioned anywhere in the mainstream media. They have to kill that momentum, don'tcha know. - 9:50 AM
Although 8:22 already touched on this, the "Palin overload" statement is telling.
I was thoroughly beaten down by the medias chosen one- Obama.
Now that there's hope I want to hear more about Palin and haven't been hearing enough.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, if Obama was ANY body else he would not have lasted 15 minutes, the media would have taken them to task instead of issuing him a pass and he would have been routed a long time ago.
Don't believe me? Watch how they are going to treat Palin. - 9:53 AM
Barry, Obama should be your overload. We have to look at him everywhere. Scroll down and you will see him again.
Lindsay is a sweet girl who although has endured her share of hard times she has given so much to the world through her movies. I'm just glad she finally seems to have found true love and happiness and wish her the best.
Tina Truwell
Somewhere In The Heartland USA - 10:44 AM
"...English accented host imploring the crowd to vote for Obama during the monologue.)"
I didn't watch, so I don't know the context or intent, but it always amazes/annoys me when foreigners get involved in elections here. And they always want us to vote for the Democratic candidate.
I have seen the host, Russell Brand, on talk shows quite a few times. He is funny and quick-witted, but that doesn't mean I will take his advice concerning the upcoming. If he wants to voice an opinion, he should follow Craig Ferguson's lead - permanent residence and citizenship. I haven't seen enough of him to know which way he leans (not that it matters), but at least he is a naturalized American (and proud of it). Kudos to him. He is qualified to speak out if he wants to.
"I've got Sarah Palin overload."
As opposed to Joe Biden, the stereotypical yawn-inducing VP choice. The Democrats' celebrity candidate is being upstaged, and now they are howling about how Palin is getting too much exposure.
And I just knew McCain would get a bounce after the RNC, but hadn't heard about it til now, in this blog. That sounds like media bias
I'm just sayin' - 11:14 AM
"Palin Overload"! Come on, our girl is going to be the bestest VP ever! A degree in communications-journalism from Univ. of Idaho is exactly the type of education we need as the next leader of our country!
Well...that...AND the many life experiences gained during the Miss Alaska Pageant.
She is ready for Iran! Go Sarah! Drill Baby Drill! - 11:54 AM
dime negro= 10 black dudes
send us a picture of your new secrtary. she better be 'good'.
Do you think that Dude/Chick with Lidsay is going motor boatin? Looks like Lilo is built for speed.
OK folks who are so enamored with Palin - any guess why they won't let her answer interviews from the press? They have her sequestered learning what she thinks. (She's now got a scheduled softball talk with Charlie Gibson coming up.)
Have you hear Palin's prepared speeches? She repeats the same phrases over and over. She was against the Bridge to Nowhere (after she was all for it). She was against earmarks - although she happily acquired some $28 million in earmarks as mayor. She said that she put the state's jet up on e-bay (correct but it didn't sell). They then sold it for a $600,000 loss to a Republican supporter of Palin. McCain still can't understand that she did not sell the plan on e-bay "for a profit." And both McCain and Palin are arguing to eliminate Roe v. Wade - and eliminate a woman's right to decide for herself whether to end a pregnancy.
Palin is certainly photogenic and can read and deliver a speech. However, I'm not at all convinced that she's the most capable person available to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. - 1:13 PM
Maybe Palin needs to study up more before talking to the press...
"McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Fannie and Freddie had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, however, aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization."
Oh well, maybe she can get someone else to do her thinking for her (not a sexist remark as McCain also needs speechwriters to think). - 1:34 PM
- Adolf Oliver Bush said...
From the smelly water link:
Dick Fish, president of Save Eagle Mountain Lake, a private, nonprofit group that acts as a watchdog for conditions at the lake, said that the group is concerned about water quality and that the problem can't be fixed overnight.
Dick Fish talking about smelly water...REALLY??? - 1:36 PM
- Jarhead said...
I'm bitch-slapping the next person to use the following media words/phrases:
"in the tank"
"a heartbeat away from the presidency"
"I approve this message"
"The Fed"
"pundit" or "punditry"
...and finally, you'll earn a bitch-slap and a kick in the shin for combining the first names of any celebrity couple i.e. "Brangelina" or "Bennifer."
That is all.
Carry on. - 1:49 PM
- wordkyle said...
113 - Wow, all of that Libspeak in one breath. I'm impressed. A lot of unknowable information -- I admire your sources -- a lot of assumptions, and of course the ultimate representation of Liberal Democrats, abortion.
Obama so believes in abortion that he voted to allow minors to cross state lines for them, without their parents' knowledge, much less their permission. Obama's privilege of abortion also extends to refusing human rights to babies who were born alive, but who the mother intended to abort. He takes a pretty strong stance on a subject that he describes as "above my paygrade."
Your doubts about the Republican VP candidate are identical to our doubts about the Democrat Presidential candidate. - 2:31 PM
Here noodnicks- if you love Obama you are no lover of facts and rationality I know but, I'll try this anyway.
"New numbers released this year show Murkowski spent more than half a million dollars on travel in his last year in office, revised upward from earlier estimates.
The state Department of Administration figures show that in Palin's first year in office she spent less than $115,000 on travel, less than any governor in recent years.
The biggest factor in the decline was the sale of the jet, which cost $1,689 an hour to fly."
The difference Alaska realised in the sale of 600,000 dollars is between their PURCHASE price and the RESALE price.
When is the last time you bought a car and sold it for the same amount after putting all the miles you wanted on it for over a year?
The thing DID NOT sell on Ebay.
I don't know anything about that particular aircraft but, Westwinds were stopped being made in the late 1980s ('87 I believe)so for all we know when that deal was brokered that aircraft may have been 'broke off' in the guy that bought it.
Regardless, that sale prevented more good money being thrown after bad with annuals,storage and upkeep.
She has already saved her state more than the sale price difference by travelling cheaper than any other governers in the history of Alaska (specifically the one she replaced)
If you want to blame someone for that 600 grand, blame Murkowski.
To recap kids:
1)The "loss" was the difference between paid and resale price.
2)It wouldn't sell on Ebay.
3)If you can't reach a buyer on Ebay...
4)She has already saved her state more than the difference anyway.
5)So, every cent spent to keep that thing (even grounded would be thousands of dollars per year)would be wasted and every minute of time it would have been kept would only add to it's depreciation and ultimately unsaleability.
So, I'm sorry- where's the controversy?
It's business and aviation- both of which I know a little about.
When I have a question about welfare, repeating baseless accusations from liberal blogs and baby killing, I'll come back here and ask 1:13 - 3:11 PM
Speaking of planes and +/- a half a million bucks, that's what Obamas campaign spent to refurbish his 757.
CSPAN carried the 2006 debate for Alaska governor this morning. Very interesting. Seemed to be knowledgable about the Alaska issues. One question was about the funding for the 3 miles of road to the Bridge to Nowhere - she was for it. A second question had to do with how to fund the government if there was a big shortfall. Options: income tax, sales tax, or use the income made by the reserve fund from its investments. She chose the Sales Tax.
Tom Brady was my fantasy quarterback - ugh!
"She chose the Sales Tax."
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A homeowner in North Dakota found an intruder inside of his home around 3:30am on January 17th.
The homeowner confronted the suspect and managed to get him outside of the home.
The homeowner then fired a shot at the suspect just outside of the home.
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Last night's Panorama was an example of what the BBC can do when it puts its mind to it, but too rarely does.
In case you didn't see it (and I'd urge you to watch it on the iPlayer) the programme looked at victims of severe head injury, so severe that they are classified as being in a "vegetative state".
Except, that thanks to the pioneering work featured, it has been found that some of these people, about one in five, should not be classified thus. This group of patients may actually be aware, and conscious for differing periods, but are effectively "locked in" to bodies they cannot control.
The scientists and medics featured in the programme have even been able to establish communication with some of them. Using a brain scanning machine they ask the patient to imagine playing tennis. If this results in blood flow to the relevant sectors of the brain (indicating they are complying with the instruction) they move on to asking them to imagine moving around their homes, which stimulates a different part of the brain.
They then asked one of the featured patients a question: If you are in pain imagine moving around your home. If you are not, imagine playing tennis. The relief on the faces of the parents of the man in the scanner when the "tennis" part of the brain was activated was palpable.
It was moving stuff and as well as featuring the families of those who found their horribly injured offspring were aware, it also showed a family who were told that their son probably wasn't. Not everyone who participating was lucky enough to get good news.
A superb piece of film making then, the only downside being the irritating background piano music.
The programme also subtly raised some serious questions without either taking sides or ramming them down the throat of the viewer, as so many television producers do these days, treating their audiences as stupid.
The stinger came at the end: A number of "vegetative" - and I rather despise that term - patients in Britain have been allowed to die through the withdrawal of, for example, food and water.
What was not stated, and lingered in the mind after the film had ended, was this: What if some of those were among the group of patients who don't appear to be aware but are. Just think about that for a moment. Were they, in fact, wrongfully killed; alive, aware, but unable to communicate their distress at being starved to death. Now how do we deal with that?
One of the programme's subjects was a man who has made a miraculous recovery from a severe head trauma such that he is now able to move, and communicate by using a letter board (the patient painstakingly points at the letters on the board to spell out words).
He was able to describe what it felt like to be locked in - if my memory is correct he likened it to "screaming at a wall". And yet his joy (and the filmmakers were there) at his release from hospital and return home was obvious.
Which raises another awkward question: What if some of those "locked in" patients wanted to end their torment by ending their lives, assuming the pioneers working on the scan technique can achieve a sufficient level of communication to ask the question. Would it be appropriate to ask? If there could be a chance of easing their suffering? Or if they could recover.
There are no easy answers. And there are no right answers. Perhaps we shouldn't be seeking them so much as we should be asking more questions before taking decisions. Even decisions that appear to be "kind" and made with the best of intentions.
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The Pope has the power to excommunicate any member of the church, which is to pretty much ban them from the church. If you're banned, then you'll probably go to hell, as the church stops praying for your salvation. Few people were excommunicated, some heretics and Martin Luther, not Madonna.
The power of Interdiction is a special one reserved for the Pope to deal out. The term means suspension of church activities, meaning a priest or church can be prohibited from carrying out mass and ceremonies. A traditional manifestation is the padlocking of a church (thanx Gorgonzola. It is also a special form of excommunication put on entire countries. All church services in the said country are banned, and all the citizens are excommunicated.
It's a powerful political tool that the church used to keep kings in line, and the church strong. AFAIK There's only been 1 interdict placed, and that was on England, during King Henry VIII.
King Henry wanted a divorce, because his wife just wasn't bearing sons. Without an heir to the throne, the horrendous war of the roses between the Tudors and Plantagenets over the throne would begin again. So he asked the Pope for an annullment, a sanctioned divorce. The Pope couldn't because Anne Boulin's uncle placed troops in the Vatican to threaten the Pope. So the Pope, caught between a rock and a hard place, said "I'll think about it and get back to you."
Henry, tired of waiting for years, threw up his hands and claimed that since he was ruler of England he should be the person controlling England's churches. This was the start of the Anglican Church. The Pope, furious at Henry's impertinence, issued the order of the Interdict, saying all the British will go to hell unless Henry stopped immediately. I imagine the citizens were all angry over this, probably more at the king than the Pope.
Gorgonzola says http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08073a.htm goes on at quite some length about it.
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The aftermath of Judgment Day is now over, but Paul Heymans Coalition continues to bring the battle to the rest of the Smackdown roster.
Anybody who thought since The Coalition werent successful at Judgment Day they might back off a little, were very wrong. Paul Heyman and his band of followers seem more determined than ever, on making sure that the WWE Championship comes back to The Coalition. Last week, fresh off of Judgment Day, Heyman forced the WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero to defend his title in a steel cage match against Matt Morgan. Despite the big mans best efforts, Guerrero was able to pick up the victory, however as he was making his way up the ramp, he was taken out with a Chokeslam from The Big Show. The Big Show then announced, and Heyman has confirmed that Eddie will be defending his WWE Title against Big Show tonight. Just how many weeks in a row can Eddie pull out a big match performance and retain his title before The Coalition just becomes too much?
Whilst a majority of The Coalition seems focused on the WWE Title, Heyman has made it clear from the get go that he is none too happy with John Cena being in possession of the WWE United States Championship. The two men who have been allocated the job of screwing Cena out of the title are Rhyno and A Train. This became clear last week when John Cena went up against the WWE Cruiserweight Champion Chavo Guerrero in a champion vs. Champion match, and Rhyno cost Cena the victory. This week Cena will face Chavito again, except this week Cenas US Title will be on the line, will Cena be able to overcome the odds this week? And just what will the egomaniac Chavo do to ensure that he becomes a double champion?
Speaking of the Cruiserweight division, one man who seems ready to just about explode is Jamie Noble. He unfortunately came up short on his quest for the Cruiserweight Title at Judgment Day, and when asking Heyman for a rematch last week, Heyman gave Noble some serious attitude. Not one to take things lying down, Jamie had a crack back, and this lead to the redneck getting into a heated confrontation with Kurt Angle. Kurt Angle is one of, if not the best wrestler in the entire WWE, and everybody knows Noble has a whole lot of heart, but will that be enough for him to keep up with Kurt Angle tonight?
Much like the US Title match, we have another rematch of last week as Sean OHaire will face Paul London again. OHaire hasnt been pinned and hasnt submitted all year; however last week he did lose his first match of the year, when he couldnt put London away, got frustrated and whaled on him with a chair. OHaire, the self proclaimed saviour of Smackdown, would have continued the attack if it wasnt for Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman making the save, so London will be looking for revenge tonight. Will that motivation be enough for London to get the win, or will OHaire prove that he can beat Paul London?
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The Reality of Private-Sector Financial Aid
Pittsburgh, PA -- Figures reported for the total amount of private-sector
aid vary considerably, even among reputable sources that do not have a
vested interest in exaggerating the results. Nevertheless, there seems
to be some consensus that a total of about $1.25 billion is awarded to
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According to the 1992-93 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS)
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non-college-controlled private sector student financial aid during the
1992-93 academic year. The NPSAS surveyed a nationally representative
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enrolled at 1,100 public, private, and proprietary institutions of higher
education. The study found that a total of $1.217 billion was awarded to
735,487 students, with an average award of $1,655.72. Of this total, $920
million was awarded to 638,974 undergraduate students, with an average
award of $1,440.52, and $297 million was awarded to 96,513 graduate and
professional students, with an average award of $3,080.46. These figures
represent private sector grants from religious, community, civic,
fraternal, professional, and philanthropic organizations, and exclude
employee tuition benefits and private aid that is awarded by the schools.
The 1992-93 NPSAS also reported that 4.3% of undergraduate students
received college-controlled non-need-based grants, with an average grant
of $2,530. These grants include athletic scholarships, merit grants, and
non-need tuition waivers.
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undergraduate grant funds and 2.9% of all undergraduate aid. Private
sector grants represent 12.5% of graduate grant funds (6.8% when
assistantships and tuition waivers are included) and 3.3% of all graduate
aid. In contrast, the federal government provides 65.1% of all
undergraduate aid funds (44.1% of grants), state governments provide 8.3%
(12.8% of grants), the schools provide 20.0% (35.6% of grants), and
private employers 3.5% (1.7% of grants).
The 1995-96 College Board Annual Survey of Colleges surveyed 3,300
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schools responded to a question about private-sector aid, reporting that
their students received a total of $973,850,000 from independent sources,
including private-sector scholarships and employer tuition assistance
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source picks the student, but writes the check directly to the
The Foundation Center reports in the 15th edition of Foundation Giving
(page 74) that private foundations awarded a total of $324,658,000 in
student aid funds in 1993. This money was awarded through colleges, and
excludes grants paid directly to individuals. Of this total, $157,178,000
was for fellowships, $131,851,000 for scholarships, $25,967,000 for
grants, and $9,662,000 for internships.
A tabulation of educational grants to individuals listed in the 1993
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and the average award was $2,539.79. These figures are for grants from
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In March of 1996, the Financial Aid Information Page conducted an
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financial aid from all sources during the 1994-95 academic year,
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