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Terms Used in This Fact Sheet
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs): Infections that are usually passed during sex. HIV is an example of an STD.
Transmission of HIV: The spread of HIV from a person infected with HIV to another person through the infected person's blood, semen, genital fluids, or breast milk.
Tuberculosis (TB): A disease caused by germs that spread through the air when a person with active TB coughs, sneezes, or talks. TB usually affects the lungs.
Undetectable viral load: When the amount of HIV in a person's blood is too low to be detected with a viral load test.
Unprotected sex: Sex without using a condom.
Viral load: The amount of HIV in the blood. One of the goals of antiretroviral therapy is to reduce viral load.
HIV is transmitted (spread) through the blood, semen, genital fluids, or breast milk of a person infected with HIV. The spread of the virus is called transmission of HIV.
Having unprotected sex or sharing drug injection equipment (such as needles and syringes) with a person infected with HIV are the most common ways HIV is transmitted.
Having a sexually transmitted disease (STD) can increase a person's risk of becoming infected with HIV during sex. The risk of spreading HIV during sex is also more likely if the partner infected with HIV also has another STD.
Women infected with HIV can transmit the virus to their babies during pregnancy or childbirth or by breastfeeding. If you are a woman infected with HIV, talk to your health care provider about ways to prevent pregnancy. If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, ask your health care provider how you can protect your baby from HIV. (See the HIV and Pregnancy fact sheets.)
Your anti-HIV medications are doing a good job of controlling your infection. The amount of HIV in your blood is so low that a viral load test can't detect the virus. But having an undetectable viral load doesn't mean you're cured. You still have HIV. Although having an undetectable viral load greatly reduces the risk of HIV transmission, you can still infect another person with the virus.
To prevent infecting another person with HIV:
Talk to your health care provider about how HIV is transmitted and ways to prevent spreading the virus. At each visit, discuss any high-risk behaviors (such as having unprotected sex or sharing drug injection equipment). Ask your health provider about testing for other STDs -- for you and your partner.
Talking about high-risk behaviors can be difficult. But it's important to be honest with your health care provider about any high-risk activities. Your health care provider can help you take steps to reduce your chances of transmitting HIV to another person.
Even if your partner is also infected with HIV, it's important to use condoms and not share drug injection equipement. You and your partner may have different strains of the virus. Your partner's HIV could act differently in your body or cause the anti-HIV medications you take to be less effective. And your strain of HIV could have the same effects on your partner.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) provides information about the prevention of HIV infection, other STDs, and tuberculosis (TB).
If you have questions about HIV transmission, call CDCINFO at 1-800-232-4636 or visit http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/.
Contact an AIDSinfo health information specialist at 1-800-448-0440 or visit http://aidsinfo.nih.gov. See your health care provider for medical advice.
This information is based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents.
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The guidelines for selecting the Most Valuable Player must have been written by a staff attorney in the Medicare Department, because they are virtually impossible to figure out.
The guidelines say that pitchers and designated hitters are eligible, but also say that the "actual value" is determined by strength of offense and defense. Pitchers have no offense in the American League. DHs have no defense.
Guideline No. 2 is "number of games played." In that case, how can a starting pitcher, working in perhaps 34 games, be an MVP? There are many contradictory clauses and the effect is something like you get when you call a big corporation and hear, "Your call is important to us. Please hold for the next available operator."
Well, if my call were really important to you, I wouldn't have to wait for the next available operator. Somebody would talk to me.
Thus, the Most Valuable Player voter is left to his, or her, own interpretations. This year, this columnist is one of those American League MVP voters.
For a while, it looked like Max Scherzer might cause a problem here, but Scherzer has tailed off a bit and is not going to finish something like 22-1. Even if he had, he would not have gotten a vote here due to the "number of games played" clause.
So, with a week left in the regular season — and only regular-season play is considered — who is in the MVP mix?
Certainly, Miguel Cabrera is once again a leading candidate as he has helped propel the Tigers to the AL Central title. No matter how good Scherzer has been, he's not even the MVP on his own team. That would be Cabrera.
Chris Davis is near the top of the list as well, and for a Boston voter who has seen him close-up 16 times already, the case for Davis as MVP is a compelling one.
If the award were Player of the Year, Mike Trout probably would be the winner. As an all-around player, Trout's abilities are unsurpassed. He is both sides of the offense-defense equation. However, how valuable could he have been for a team that is going to finish well out of contention? The Angels could have missed the playoffs without him.
David Ortiz almost won the MVP as a DH in 2005, but that was an exceptional season, overloaded with not just offense, but clutch offense. This season is not anywhere near that caliber for him, and Dustin Pedroia is probably Boston's Most Valuable Player anyway.
The Rangers' Adrian Beltre is worth a mention. So are Robinson Cano of the Yankees, Oakland's Josh Donaldson and Adam Jones of the Orioles. The Indians have had a fine season, but with no great individual performances and their MVP is probably Carlos Santana.
Because the Angels were not really serious contenders, the pick for AL MVP probably will come down to Cabrera or Davis. Their offensive statistics are comparable. Their defensive contributions are adequate, not compelling.
The deciding factor on this ballot is probably going to be the question, "How much would the respective teams suffer if they lost their valuable player?"
Would the Tigers be worse off without Cabrera than the Orioles would be without Davis?
The gut feeling here is that the Tigers would manage without Cabrera, but the Orioles would be in big trouble.
In its current form, the Most Valuable Player award dates from 1931. Starting with that season, at least one Red Sox player got at least one vote every year until 2012. That's how bad last year was in Boston. Even the 1965 Sox, who were 62-100, had Carl Yastrzemski and Tony Conigliaro get MVP votes.
This year's edition of the Sox may wind up being the best team in baseball, and Pedroia and Ortiz definitely will get some recognition. Shane Victorino and Jacoby Ellsbury are both likely to attract some attention and possibly Daniel Nava as well, which would be a remarkable achievement for him. Mike Napoli and Jarrod Saltalamacchia could each get a bottom-of-the-ballot nod.
But it likely will come down to Cabrera or Davis, and voters like this one have another week to decide.
We are not supposed to reveal our votes ahead of time, and my mind has not yet been made up, but as of right now, the selection here might be for the Birds.
Baseball Jeopardy
1. The only two active major league franchises that never have had a first-place team.
2. He managed the Milwaukee Brewers during their only appearance in the World Series.
3. He holds the Red Sox record for most times being hit by a pitch in one season.
Questions below.
Past doesn't equal post
As the postseason approaches, the issue of who matches up best with whom becomes a topic of conversation. It is a waste of breath.
As in 1998, when the Red Sox played Cleveland in the Division Series. The Sox were 8-3 against the Indians in the regular season, then lost three of four in the playoffs.
In 1999, Boston was 8-4 against the Yankees in the regular season and went 1-4 in the ALCS. And in 2008, the Red Sox were 1-8 against the Angels in the regular season — losing the final eight straight — then beat them in the Division Series, 3-1.
There is no connection between the seasons, regular and post. They are not identical twins.
Inside joke
If you weren't around for the Impossible Dream season in 1967, or haven't heard all about it on the old 78-rpm record with the same name, skip this item. Some 46 years after the fact, wouldn't it be fun to hear Joe Castiglione say, "Berry, a fast man at third," and mean it's a Red Sox runner now that Quintin Berry is with Boston? … It doesn't seem to make much sense, but it may say something about their personalities that John Lackey was able to come back from Tommy John surgery as good as ever, but Daisuke Matsuzaka could not. … Been meaning to look this up for a while, and it seems as though Blue Jays pitcher Esmil Rogers is the third major leaguer whose home ballpark has the same name as him. Rogers plays in Toronto's Rogers Centre, outfielder Bert Griffith played six games in Washington's Griffith Stadium in 1924, and catcher Damian Miller was a catcher for the Brewers in Miller Park from 2005 to 2007. A bigger claim to fame for Griffith is that he was the grandfather of Matt Williams. … For all of the analysis and baseball science that went into converting the Red Sox from doormats to champions, there is still that intangible element of fortune at work. Like last Tuesday, when a botched hit-and-run turned into a double steal for Saltalamacchia and Stephen Drew. There is no way to prove this, but if the 2012 Sox tried that same hit-and-run, it somehow would have wound up as a triple play.
Jeopardy questions
1. What are the Marlins and the Rockies?
Miami has won two World Series, but never a division title. Colorado won the National League pennant in 2007, but never has finished first in the division.
2. Who is Harvey Kuenn?
Kuenn was the Brewers' batting coach before taking over for Buck Rodgers, who was fired on June 1, 1982. Milwaukee wound up losing the World Series to the Cardinals in seven games.
3. Who is Don Baylor?
Baylor is first and second in that dubious category. He was hit 35 times in 1986 and 24 times in 1987. Shane Victorino is tied for third on the list with 17 so far this season.
Catching up with...
A couple of former Sox lefty relievers are golf pros, including Mike Rochford at Mizner Country Club in Lake Worth, Fla., and Tim Lollar at Lakewood Country Club in Colorado; outfielder Mike Cameron is an analyst on Sirius XM radio.
Reggie Jefferson is an agent, and director of East Coast operations for Reynolds Sports Management; outfielder Michael Coleman owns M3 Baseball Training in Nashville; and righty pitcher John Leister remains the athletic director at Alma College in Michigan.
Contact Bill Ballouat email@example.com.

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Pendjari National Park, Benin
Pendjari is a unique national park for Western Africa, where a large number of fauna species can be observed with the same abundance and density as many of the Eastern African parks. In its conservatory role, Park Penjari protects a wide variety of plants, mammals and birds. The park represents a sound ecological example of the ecosystems in Benin.
Named for the Pendjari River, the national park is known for its wildlife, including elephants, monkeys, lions, hippopotamuses, buffalo and various antelopes and most prominently birds. Established in 1961 as a hunting area, during the colonial administration, the Pendjari Biosphere Reserves is nowadays part of the best preserved area of WAPOK (W-Arli-Pendjari ecosystem). In 1986, the change in status as a MAB Biosphere Reserve made the park one of the first Biosphere Reserves (Biosphere reserves are sites established by countries and recognized under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme to promote sustainable development based on local community efforts and sound science) and in 2007 it became a Ramsar site (Ramsar sites are wetlands recognised by the Ramsar convention as having international importance.)
The park was funded by the German cooperation for many years (GTZ and KWF) and the French Global Environment Facility (1 M €) The park is managed by the Direction of Pendjari National Park an administrative organisation of the National Center for Management of Wildlife Reserves in Benin.
Size and Location:
The Pendjari National Park (French: Parc National de la Pandjari) lies in north western Benin, adjoining the Arli National Park in Burkina Faso. It has an area of 2755 square kilometres. The park is part of the WAP complex (W-Arli-Pendjari) which is a vast protected area in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Fauna and Flora:
The park is in the form of a vast extremely flat peneplain with an altitude ranging from 150 to 200 m. The peneplain is bordered to the south by a mountain range Ataroka and north and east by the river Pendjari. A second mountain chain, Buem, smaller and parallel to the first lies within the Park.
The Pendjari River is 300 km total in length with approximately 200km in the National Pendjari Park. It has a low flow in the dry season and dries up in several places. There are many ponds/lakes formed from the main river bed. However, other permanent lakes occupy the side channels of the Pendjari River.
The rocky cliffs of the area are sparsely wooded with Burkea africana, Detarium microcarpum, Lannea acida, Sterculia setigera and Combretum ghasalense. On the deep soils of some of the summits and the Atakora escarpment one finds a greater variety of plant species with Isoberlina doka and Afzelia africana. The Pendjari River has an impressive gallery forest. The park includes both Sudan and Northern Guinea savannas, with areas of grassland dominated by Acacia sieberiana and Mitragyna inermis or Terminalia macroptera.
The park is home to four of the Big Five: lion, african elephant, buffalo and leopard. It is also home to endangered species such as cheetah, topi, giant pangolin, Lycaon and the Jabiru Senegal. There is also otter, crocodile and hippo and kob, hartebeest, Red-flanked Duiker, bushbuck, sable antelope, warthog, waterbuck duiker, reedbuck and waterbuck reed, the Oribi, the Baboon Anubis or baboon, Monkey green, Patas, etc..
The Park is renowned for its abundance of birds with some 300 different species in total. Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus) and Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) are occasionally recorded and there are a few isolated records for Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus). Fox Kestrel (Falco alopex) is not uncommon, while the African Swallow-tailed Kite (Chelictinia riocourii) is a not uncommon dry season visitor. The Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus) has also been recorded here. BirdLife notes that "the Pendjari is notable for large conspicuous species such as African Openbill Stork (Anastomus lamelligerus), Abdim's Stork (Ciconia abdimii), Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), and seasonally, flocks of up to 60 European White Stork (Ciconia ciconia). The African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) and Pel's Fishing-owl (Scotopelia peli) can also be found." Grey Tit-flycatcher (Myioparus plumbeus) has been recorded as well as several other species of the undergrowth. White-throated Greenbul (Phyllastrephus albigularis) has been recorded at Tanguiéta and the White-throated Francolin (Francolinus albogularis), a rare resident, has been spotted in farmland south of Natitingou. South of the park there is a large semi-protected zone known in French as La zone cygnetique de la Pendjari where a number of other species have been spotted.
There are 62 species of fish from 21 families. Reptiles include Nile crocodile, Nile monitor lizard, snake oil, common agama, lizard bushes, skink, and Seba python.
Threats and solutions
The area is currently at risk from a number of threats including agricultural encroachment, poaching, uncontrolled bushfires, water pollution, climate change and unsustainable timber harvesting.
When the Park became a protected area, the hunting zone profited only to outsiders. This caused much resentment among the local population, creating conflict with the park authorities and smuggling and agricultural encroachment prevented the protection of the environment. The Pendjari National Park Project reversed this situation, offering jobs to local communities, game meat is sold by the villagers, profits from tourism are directly reinjected in the local economy and local authorities are directly implicated in all decisions taken in or around the protected area.
More information...http://www.africahunting.com/content/2-pendjari-national-park-benin-635/?amp;=


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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Paintbox Addict
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I love your addiction..I am not even a painter and have the addiction..That is a great tip since I am awaiting a tin bx from the UK..ReplyDelete
That little wood box looks totally interesting too Carol..
You are right about macarons..
I really enjoy L'Occitane products..I only have 2 small samples but love them..La Ferme De La Huppe..in 2008 offered them in our bathrooms..smart:)We have a store in Mtl..it's lovely..
Lovely post and you should have every paint box set on earth.
Thank you for easing my guilt...I bought a new watercolor box of Schminke pans for no good reason at all...except that I agree with you about how much better the pas re-wet than tube paint.ReplyDelete
Who made that yummy wooden box?
i'm with you on pans! irresistible!ReplyDelete
My little tin paint box came today..to my daughter's home..Thank goodness:)ReplyDelete
Anyways..I just painted the tin dk brown.. I cringed..let dry and will repeat..
I will use an old tube :) For the next few coats..Replies
How exciting! Nothing like a new paint box in the house to raise your spirits. It's a good exercise - it helps you be less afraid of wasting paintDelete
Pretty pretty paintboxes.... and the miniature one! So cute!!!!ReplyDelete
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Yes, my favorite thing and my downfall along with Parisian pastryDelete
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You might try this website: http://www.marches-producteurs.com/ My French is un petit but it looks like this site might be helpful. There was also a mention of it on Chowhound, a forum for foodies: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/782569ReplyDelete
I'm an artist in Oklahoma, love France and Paris Breakfast! Mais oui!
COLOR seduces me!!! Lovely post!ReplyDelete
Great post! Reminds me of the morning we spent doing paint testing! So many great colors! One of my favorite paint boxes is an Altoids box with 10 half pans, a travel brush, 4 pencil (subs), a pencil extender, a small tube of water, and some watercolor paper in the lid to use as a palette for sketching.ReplyDeleteReplies
But how do you mix colors in that Altoid box?Delete
Such a happy and colorful collection of images, Carol!ReplyDelete
I confess, I suffer from an addiction to cookbooks, particularly French cookbooks. ;) x KatieReplies
Oh that is a yummy addiction!Delete
I love the ones shaped like food.
I have the addiction, too!ReplyDelete
You've got check this guy out, I've just received my very special paintbox.
You can have it in any colour you like, be it
shocking pink or passion red, you name it.
His travel palette is just gorgeous.
Thanks I'd forgotten about these beautiful boxes.Delete
I used to want one like crazy but they are so pricy.
At those prices the paint should NOT bead up on the mixing surface IMHO.
but it does in the sample pictures...
So glad I popped in this morning, Carol. The rain in Paris is dismal today but now I'm looking at it positively, imagining everything as splashes of colour. So inspirational, want to buy myself a paintbox just for the fun!ReplyDelete
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Two classic episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" are about to reach an unexpected frontier — the big screen in 44 states.
On Monday night at 7 p.m., theaters across the country will screen new, digitally spruced-up versions of "Where No One Has Gone Before" (October 1987) and "Datalore" (January 1988) as well as behind-the-scenes programming as part of the silver anniversary celebration for the sci-fi series. Tickets for the screenings went on sale early last month but the event will arrive in a changed country. The "Trek" program from CBS TV and Fathom is the first nationwide event for a "fan tribe" in the wake of the Colorado movie theater massacre that left 12 dead and 50 wounded at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
It was 25 years ago this October that "Star Trek: The Next Generation" arrived with a promise of innovation — even if it was packaged in a borrowed pledge. Each week, in the opening monologue, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (indelibly played by Patrick Stewart) dramatically declared that his crew would "boldly go where no one has gone before" — another reminder of the primacy and popularity of the original "Star Trek" series, which ran from 1966 to 1969, and opened with a near-identical mission statement. Even so, the intrepid Picard and his spacefaring crew proved up to the challenge, logging seven seasons and four feature films, notching 18 Primetime Emmys, and establishing a place of their own in the pop-culture pantheon.
On Monday fans can see two of the memorable early episodes featuring Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, Wil Wheaton and Denise Crosby. The first episode involves an experimental warp engine that sends the Enterprise to the edge of the universe. The second, centers on the discovery of the android Data's long-lost twin brother (with both bots played by Spiner).
The theatrical screening will provide an early glimpse of the show's newly restored first season, cast interviews, behind-the-scenes looks at the making of the show and details on the restoration process — all of it culled from the Blu-ray release that arrives on store shelves the following day.
It's been a bountiful year so far for "TNG" fans, with the anniversary event arriving on the heels of onstage cast reunions at Calgary Expo in April and Phoenix Comic Con in May. Next month brings the Star Trek Las Vegas convention, which promises guest appearances from Spiner, Frakes, Dorn and Burton, among others.
— Oliver Gettell
'TNG': Jonathan Frakes light years past 'Farpoint'
'Star Trek': Benedict Cumberbatch lights up
'Star Trek' sequel: A galactic reunion
PHOTO: When Nimoy met Hendrix
Watch Nimoy's Shatner impression
William Shatner & Adam West toga memories
LeVar Burton engineers new career chapters
Nimoy: 'Trek' fans can be scary
Shatner: My whole career was a close call


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A master chef, film producer and Oscar-winning actor create a fantastic universe of wabi-sabi design aesthetics on the Vegas Strip.
An indulgent new addition to the Vegas scene is giving visitors new reason to sin. Nobu Hotel recently opened inside Caesars Palace (yes, a hotel within a hotel), joined by the 12,000-square-foot Nobu restaurant and lounge, and it just might be the best of both worlds. Designed and built by David Rockwell and his eponymous firm, the boutique property is an atypical, oasislike concept set in the center of the Strip, allowing guests to take breaks from the sights, sounds and overstimulation whenever they please.
It's the very first hotel project for the Nobu brand—a partnership between chef Nobu Matsuhisa, actor Robert De Niro and film producer Meir Teper—but judging by the public frenzy, it won't be the last. (There will be future Nobu hotels in Saudi Arabia and Qatar by the end of this year.) The lobby, elevator bank and 181 rooms that make up the space (a former Caesars tower that underwent a total gut renovation) were all designed by the Rockwell Group—as was the restaurant, of course—to convey Nobu's signature Japanese elegance. "That sense of curation that you get at Nobu restaurants is present," explains Rockwell. "You are coming here, you are trying food you've never tried, you are having an exchange with an amazing group of chefs and having an experience that is memorable."
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Choosing Manchester: Will Hooksett families be allowed?EDITORIAL
August 30. 2013 12:06AM
Hooksett's school board might want a quick end to the town's school contract with Manchester, but it is not clear that so many Hooksett parents are interested in undertaking a mass exodus when the contract expires next year. Interviews with this newspaper show that many parents would prefer to keep sending their high school students to Manchester rather than opt for the 25-mile trip to Pinkerton Academy.
This should not be surprising. In addition to affection grown from generational affiliations with Manchester high schools, a lot of Hooksett parents will find it hugely inconvenient to send their children to schools so much farther away. And yet if some Hooksett school board members have their way, that inconvenience will be imposed on Hooksett families.
Geography and history give Manchester an advantage over Pinkerton Academy and other high schools. But those advantages will not be enough if most parents become convinced that their children are being given a subpar education. Do they think that is the case now? Some do; some don't. Those who don't might be forced by their school board to drive 30 minutes or more each way to get their kids to and from high school. The Hooksett School Board has entered into negotiations with Pinkerton Academy, even though the board is, per an agreement, supposed to be negotiating in good faith with Manchester.
If Hooksett enters into a tuition agreement with Pinkerton Academy that allows only 30 or so students to attend Manchester high schools, the school board is going to have a lot of angry parents on its hands.


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Cynthia Bolbach, Moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), died Dec. 12 after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer and six months after she completed her term.
A ruling elder in the PC(USA) and a lawyer with BNA, Inc., Bolbach was elected Moderator on the fourth ballot as the only ruling elder in a field of six candidates in July 2010.
Louisville Seminary alum Landon Whitsitt (MDiv '05), who served as Vice-Moderator with Bolbach, said at his installation that he felt called to stand with Bolbach when he realized that his hopes for the church matched hers.
Whitsitt, who now serves as the Executive and Stated Clerk of the Synod of Mid-America, offered this prayer for Bolbach on Facebook:
"Holy God,
by your creative power you gave us life,
and in your redeeming love you have given us new life in Christ.
We commend our sister, Cynthia Bolbach, to your merciful care
in the faith of Christ our Lord
who died and rose again to save us,
and who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever.
Goodbye, Madame Moderator."
Bolbach, who visited Louisville Seminary in 2011 as the keynote speaker for the annual Festival of Theology and Reunion Moderator's Dinner, was born and raised in Lancaster County, PA, where she was baptized and confirmed as a Lutheran. She became a Presbyterian when she joined New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where she was ordained as a deacon and elder and served as clerk of session. After moving to Arlington, VA, in the mid-1980s, Bolbach transferred her membership to First Presbyterian Church, where she was also elected as clerk of session. At the General Assembly level, Bolbach most recently served as co-moderator of the Form of Government Task Force (2006-2010).
A graduate of Wittenberg University (Ohio) and Georgetown University Law Center, Bolbach served as Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary of BNA, Inc., formerly the oldest company in the United States owned entirely by its more than 1,600 employees prior to its acquisition last year by Bloomberg.


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Fentanyl is available as a skin patch, lozenge, pills, shots, a film that dissolves in your mouth, or by IV (intravenous).
Use fentanyl exactly as prescribed by your doctor. This is very important so that you do not get too much of the drug. If you get too much fentanyl in your system, you could have serious problems that can lead to death.
Fentanyl acts upon specific receptors in your brain and spinal cord to decrease the feeling of pain and to reduce your emotional response to pain. The action of fentanyl is similar to other drugs in the morphine category (opioids).
Fentanyl is used to manage moderate to severe pain, usually in people who have chronic pain. Fentanyl is often used when your other pain medicines no longer work.
For people with cancer who are already on opioid pain medicine such as morphine or oxycodone, fentanyl works well for treatment of cancer pain.1
Fentanyl has many side effects, including:
Fentanyl should be used with caution by older adults and by people who have lung disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma.
Fentanyl can cause your body to expect this medicine daily (drug dependency). Dependency is not the same as addiction, which is a behavioural disorder marked by craving a drug.
Fentanyl can cause serious or life-threatening respiratory problems (hypoventilation). For that reason it should not be used in:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
In some people, fentanyl impairs balance, coordination, or the ability to think. Do not drive or operate any type of equipment if you are taking fentanyl. If you have severe side effects, call your doctor, and stop taking this medicine.
Do not drink alcohol or use other drugs while you are taking fentanyl.
Fentanyl can interact with many other drugs. Make sure that your doctor is aware of all the medicines you are taking.
Fentanyl should be used during pregnancy only if the benefits to the mother outweigh the risks to the fetus. If you are or may be pregnant, talk with your doctor before using fentanyl. This drug can pass through your body in breast milk and should not be used if you are breast-feeding.
When you remove your fentanyl patch, dispose of it as your doctor tells you to.
Avoid the use of heat, such as a heating pad, electric blanket, hot tub, or sauna, while you are using a fentanyl patch. Heat can increase the amount of fentanyl released from the patch, which causes more risk of serious side effects.
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Patrick T. O'Malley Sr., 57, a Philadelphia police sergeant, passed away July 23, 2013.
He was the beloved husband of Kathryn F. (nee Slutter); devoted father of Shawn (Kari A.) and the late Patrick T. Jr.; son of the late Edward J. and Rose A. (nee Farrell); loving brother of Edward J. (Barbara), Anthony J. (Teresa) and Robert H. (Patti); and grandfather of Shawn, Devyn, Brynne and Ryan.
He is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
Relatives and friends are invited to a viewing from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 26, at Visconto Funeral Home, 2031 Vista St. (Vista and Large streets; ample parking and handicap accessibility in the rear of building), and to a Mass of Christian Burial at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 27, at Our Lady of Calvary Church, 11024 Knights Road, Philadelphia.
Interment will be at Cherry Valley Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Stroudsburg.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Pat's memory would be appreciated to either of the following: Child Life Development, c/o St. Christopher Foundation for Children, 1800 JFK Blvd., Suite 1550, Philadelphia, PA 19103; or Holy Redeemer Hospice, 12265 Townsend Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154.
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Patrick T. O'Malley Sr., 57, a Philadelphia police sergeant, passed away July 23, 2013.


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PLYMOUTH - Amador County sheriff's deputies arrested two men who allegedly beat and sexually assaulted a 23-year-old prostitute from the Sacramento area while holding a shotgun to her head, authorities said.
PLYMOUTH - Amador County sheriff's deputies arrested two men who allegedly beat and sexually assaulted a 23-year-old prostitute from the Sacramento area while holding a shotgun to her head, authorities said.
Vincent Brewer, 30, of Plymouth and Michael Gunn, 38, of Martell were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, oral copulation with force and special allegations, deputies said. Brewer also was arrested on suspicion of penetration with a foreign object, officials said.
The alleged attack occurred Jan. 23 at a residence on Cosumnes Lane in Plymouth, authorities said. The woman told deputies she had been to the home a number of times in the past to perform sexual acts for money. This time, though, two men she knew only as "Vince" and "Mike" beat her, tied and bound her, and forced her to perform sexual acts at gunpoint, the woman told deputies. The men then drove the woman to Wheeler Loop and threw her out of the car, authorities said.
Deputies found a shotgun that they said was used in the crime while searching Gunn's home on Highway 88 in Martell, officials said. Gunn admitted that he and Brewer kidnapped and sexually assaulted the woman, authorities said. Brewer denied any involvement, but he had injuries consistent with the victim's story, deputies said. The men were arrested last Friday and are being held without bail at the Amador County Jail.
TRACY - The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office is looking for a carjacker who pistol-whipped a man before stealing his truck late Tuesday night in Tracy, authorities said.
Deputies responded to reports of a carjacking in the 23000 block of South Lammers Road at 11:58 p.m. A 25-year-old man told deputies he was knocked unconscious when his assailant struck him in the face with what he believed was a gun. When he regained consciousness, his white 2005 Chevy Silverado was missing from the driveway, authorities said.
The carjacker was described as a black man in his 30s standing 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 250 pounds with a shaved head. He was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt and gray pants, deputies said.
STOCKTON - California Highway Patrol officers had to chase a parolee on foot and subdue him with a stun gun after making a vehicle stop shortly after 3 a.m. Wednesday near Filbert Street and Waterloo Road, authorities said.
Officers said they stopped a 1993 Honda Civic because it had no rear license plate. They found a loaded, unregistered 9-millimeter handgun and drug paraphernalia inside the car, police said. The driver, 33-year-old parolee Arturo Cuevas, fled the scene on foot before being apprehended in the backyard of a home, officials said.
Cuevas, who suffered minor cuts and abrasions, was arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of a firearm, parole violation, resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia, officers said. Alejandro Guzman, 26, a passenger in the vehicle who was described as cooperative, also was arrested on suspicion of gun and drug paraphernalia possession.


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Printed Electronics Sector Looks for In-Line Inspection and Failure Analysis Tools
Analysts see a $500-$600 million market for printed or flexible electronics this year, potentially exploding to a multi-billion dollar market within a few years, once some technical issues get resolved. Printed electronics makers and suppliers at the recent FlexTech Alliance workshop (hosted by SEMI in San Jose, California) highlighted the need for in-line inspection and failure analysis tools, and standard testing protocols, to move printed electronics products into volume production. Suppliers also stressed the need for workshops or roadmaps to communicate clear and common target specifications for barrier and encapsulation films, so they can focus their development effort on the right features for real markets.
One key need is online real-time inspection tools, says Dan Gamota, principal of startup Printovate, Inc., and formerly director of Motorola's printed electronics effort. He and other producers of printed electronics products at the workshop noted that the rolls of flexible substrates and barrier films they received from suppliers were not uniform enough for producing consistent results for their devices, as subtle difference in surface chemistry both within a roll and from roll to roll turn out to have significant impact on electronic performance. Current testing methods cannot make these spatial distinctions, so the films may meet the specifications macroscopically, but not be uniform across all areas.
The sector also aims to start a collaborative effort on advancing understanding of failure mechanisms and yield killers in printed electronics, by specifying the common kinds and densities of defects that matter in its products, and then looking for what kinds of tools and solutions already exist in university labs and in other sectors— from the IC industry to the high speed film processing world. "Other industries may have already looked at these issues," notes Gamota. "And transferring solutions from other industries would probably be an easier option for bringing things over faster, since universities can take considerable time to develop tools." As chair of the large area flexible electronics section of the iNEMI electronics industry roadmap, he's looking for input from metrology suppliers in all sectors for next year's edition.
Both users and suppliers argued that better testing standards and systems were also needed, including testing after integration and processing, not just on flat lab samples, as inks on the surface and rolling through presses change performance. Testing also needs to be done with conditions that reflect real conditions of product use, like flexing. Products for solar applications need to be tested under exposure to light and impure water spray, not just the typical heat and humidity. Some suggested a central standard testing lab would be useful for testing films, barriers and adhesives, since different labs tend to get different results even with the same test equipment without standard protocols.
Key Role for Materials, Starting with Low-end and Hybrid Products
So far, some 40% of the total printed electronics market is the value of materials, with inks alone accounting for some $240 million in sales, according to IDTechEx. Nanoparticle technology has made silver and now copper easily printable. Development of better flexible transparent barrier films remain key to the growth of many applications, says CEO Raghu Das. In fact, he notes, the lack of a good UV protection system is the major issue holding back flexible photovoltaics.
Most flexible electronics are currently made on metal foil, with the heat-resistant foils accounting for 84% of the substrate market in 2010, says Nanomarkets analyst Paul Markowitz. He figures polymers will grow to 26% of the market by 2013, as processing temperatures come down, and other materials like paper and flexible glass will become a significant 20% portion by 2016.
The advances in functional inks mean that simpler, relatively low resolution electrical circuits can now be produced with existing off-the-shelf printing equipment with minor customization. These tools, however, are not easy to use for small volumes or prototyping. "A lot of people doing prototyping are using spin coating or inkjet or vacuum processes," notes Das. "Since the flexo press needs 5 liters of material just to get the tool warmed up, and the nano particle inks sell by the gram."
Like most radically new technologies, printed electronics are creeping into the industry around the edges. Most first applications are either hybrid approaches that combine new solution processes or organic materials with a more conventional electronics process flow, or very simple devices that do something not otherwise practical without unreasonable cost.
The biggest potential, Das argues, is for printed electronics to enable completely new applications, such as the simple printed battery test strips, or the smart skin patches, shipping more than 1 million units a year. The current applied by smart skin patches sends 10x more cosmetic or drugs into the body than just putting the patch on the skin. Glucose sensor strips for diabetics, a market worth several $100 million a year, can now be printed with silver ink with good yield at lower cost than the conventional sputtered product, so should take over much of that market. There's also big potential from consumer goods companies looking to capitalize on the "wow factor" of attention-getting new design options to bring curves and backlighting, action and interaction, to their products, packaging, and store displays.
Flexible and solution processed photovoltaics have potential to bring solar costs down low enough to be viable without government subsidies, but most printed or flexible products so far use hybrid solutions. The analysts point to creative options that include vacuum deposition on flexible substrates (Unisolar/Global Solar), or solution-coating on flexible substrates then covered with glass sheets for encapsulation (Nanosolar). Innovalight is printing its solar film on top of silicon wafers to make high performing tandem cells. "It's faster to get to market to combine printing with conventional processes like sputtering, CVD and lithography," notes Das.
E-readers and Other Displays Gradually Get More Flexible
Flexible displays were a mere $85 million market in 2008, but will expand to an $8.2 billion opportunity by 2018, says Jennifer Colegrove, director of display technologies at DisplaySearch. The largest part of that market will be electrophoretic displays, using bi-stable low-power frontplanes like those from E-Ink, in everything from big signage two meters on a side to tiny sceens on smart cards. OLEDs will become significant towards the end of the decade, and EL products—already shipping on tee shirts, advertising signage, and curved control panels on automobiles—will also become more significant.
While e-books so far have put printed flexible E-Ink frontplanes on more conventional rigid glass transistor backplanes, new display models coming out will be more purely solution processed, and more purely flexible. Colegrove notes that both Hitachi and Samsung have mobile phones on the market with displays with both flexible front and back planes for low cost and low power, though the units are on rigid handsets. Plastic Logic will introduce its solution-processed e-reader at CES in January. LG Display is close to introduction of an e-book made on metal foil, but apparently using photolithography for backplane resolution. "For new device designs, it's all about doing whatever works to get to market," says Colegrove. PVI is reportedly planning introduction of an e-book with a flexible polyimide backplane. Samsung and LG have reported low temperature 120C-150C processes for plastic substrates, though at the demo level with still some defects.
The low-end, low-cost, flexible or printed displays potentially bringing simple new displays to new places have yet to become a big market, in part because the economy has slowed all such investment in new projects. But Display Search still expects demand for displays for smart cards to become 1 million units very quickly once the economy recovers, for security, banking, and transportation tickets. Electronics shelf displays, which do offer clear long-term savings from easy central updating but require upfront investment, are now starting to appear, with bistable displays on glass from ZBD display. These are now in more than 100 stores, mostly in Europe, but also testing in Seattle's PCC Natural Markets chain. "This is just starting and penetration is slow," says Colegrove. "But high volume will come, because there's a big benefit for the stores."
Markowitz puts the flexible/printed market at $569 million currently, and projects 50%-60% growth for the next couple of years. But once more of the technical issues get solved, he figures growth will really take off, to pass $6 billion in 2014. He figures OLED lighting will be the first big application to take off, as its specialty design applications for unique sheets of lighting will allow premium pricing. But sales of flexible PV, displays, and sensors will shortly follow, with these four leading sectors all becoming roughly equal markets going forward. Displays will do well because the overall display market is so large that even small penetration for flexible units can mean big demand. On the other hand, costs for printed RFID will have to be so low that even billions of units may still add up to revenues of only tens of millions of dollars.
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Michael E. Hammond: It's time to stop the NH Senate's gun control billBY MICHAEL E. HAMMOND
February 26. 2014 4:36PM
Senate Bill 244 first came to my attention when the Concord Monitor last year reported that anti-gun forces were fishing around for ways to put "points on the board" (my words, not the Monitor's). The original idea was to strip all gun rights from persons who had guardians appointed over them or who were involuntarily committed, with or without a court order.
Since then, the horrible version that was introduced has undergone one revision after another after another. And the most recent revision is somewhat of an improvement over the monstrosity that was originally introduced.
That said, it's become clear that the process is not going to produce anything good. And I believe it's time to stop this effort to put lipstick on a pig.
Here's why:
First, the bill deals with guardianship and commitment procedures that are subject to horrific abuse. And it does nothing to address those abuses. The appointment of guardians is frequently accomplished in a "star chamber" ex parte proceeding in which neither the family nor the subject has any representation or right to be heard — in which the subject is deemed to have waived any statutory procedures prior to being stripped of all his constitutional rights.
A recent article in the Union Leader outlines many of the horrific abuses which occur. It is simply not appropriate to visit this legislative cesspool without cleaning out the sewage.
Second, the newest draft doesn't mandate the removal of Second Amendment rights as the result of unconstitutional procedures. But it doesn't prohibit it either.
In fact, Barack Obama's proposed HIPAA regs may be all that is necessary to accomplish that. And, once those rights are stripped away, the draft makes it almost impossible to restore them. There are the mandated 30-day waits, the requirements that the most personal information about the subject be disgorged, the "battling shrinks," the $10,000-$20,000-plus cost, the requirement that the person who has lost his rights prove compliance with some indefinable subjective standard, and so on, and so on, and so on.
Third, if Senate Republicans sign off on this draft, it is only going to get worse from here. Anti-gun advocates have made it clear that they are still looking for a strategy to pass the universal background check.
By the time we learn what the anti-gun House intends to do with SB244, we will have much less leverage than we do now. Fourth, if we allow (former New York Mayor Michael) Bloomberg to put "points on the board" by passing SB244, it will weaken and demoralize gun owners. It will strengthen and build anti-gun groups. And this is why anti-gun forces are so eager to pass some bill — any bill, because the fact is that SB244 is nothing more than a platform for the next call for gun control.
The bottom line: Please fight any efforts to continue this charade. Please demand that the Senate bury SB244, once and for all.
Michael E. Hammond, a resident of Dunbarton, works for Gun Owners of America and has been temporarily working in Virginia since Newtown to stop gun control legislation.


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Thank you Acting Chairman Ishimaru for inviting me to speak to you today on these important issues facing working families. My name is Heather Boushey and I'm a Senior Economist at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
For over a generation now, families have been struggling to achieve the right balance between their responsibilities on the job and their responsibilities at home. Most children—over 70 percent—grow up in a family with either a working single parent or with two parents who both work. Because both men and women are overwhelmingly likely to be working, most families do not have a stay-at-home parent or anyone available to provide care if a family member falls ill. This means that most workers are also caregivers.
The recession is exacerbating these challenges for families. In my comments today, I want to lay out how the recession is affecting families and how it is ever more urgent that we address discrimination in the workplace, especially discrimination against caregivers who can ill afford to lose a job or not receive a promotion in these tough economic times.
The recession—so far—is leading to higher unemployment among men than women: As of March 2009—which is the latest data available—men have lost nearly four out of every five jobs shed since the recession began in December 2007. As of February 2009, women comprise half the labor force (49.7 percent). This means that in millions of U.S. households, a woman is supporting the family.1
This has a number of implications for families:
These new trends, driven by the how the recession is playing out, should shape our thinking about what policies are most important to support working families who struggle to balance being a good employee with being a good caretaker.
Before I move on, I want to say a few words about the recovery plan.
The recession is turning out to be deeper and more protracted than many had predicted even a few months ago. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was a down payment on creating jobs in the months to come and laying the foundation for long-term economic growth. The Council of Economic Advisors estimates that the recovery package will save or create 3.5 million jobs and that about 4 in 10 of these jobs will go to female workers.2
In particular, the recovery package will help states avoid some cutbacks, which places some women's jobs out of jeopardy since women make up the majority of state and local government workers. But most importantly, the recovery package will get the economy back on track, which benefits all kinds of families.
The recovery package alone, however, will not be enough to close the gap completely between what the economy is producing and what our economy has the capacity to produce. Millions will remain idle until the economy gets fully back on track. As we move forward through the budget process, Congress should keep this in mind and continue to focus on programs that can stimulate the economy in the short run. Along these lines, work-family balance policies are an excellent investment in our long-term economic growth and can also provide short-term economic stimulus.
Women are increasingly the breadwinnersa
Women are taking on the responsibility of supporting families as men's jobs have disappeared in this recession. Since the recession began in December 2007, men have seen larger job losses than women, having been affected by four out of every five lost jobs. As a result, the share of adult men (over the age of 20) in the United States with a job is at its lowest point ever: 68.2 percent. While men and women had similar unemployment rates at the beginning of the recession, men now have much higher unemployment rates and the percentage point gap between men's and women's unemployment is at its highest ever. Adult men's unemployment has risen by 4.4 percentage points since the recession officially began, to 8.8 percent in March from 4.4 percent in December 2007. Adult women's unemployment has risen by 2.7 percentage points, to 7.0 percent during that same period from 4.3 percent.
Men's job losses have been higher than women's because they work in industries harder hit by the downturn. From December 2007 to February 2009, half of the job losses occurred in either construction or manufacturing. Men make up nearly all (87.5 percent) of construction workers and have lost 94 percent of the construction jobs. Likewise, men make up over two-thirds of manufacturing workers, and have lost about that same share of the jobs. On the other hand, women's jobs have been sustained over the past year by hiring in the government, health care, and education sectors.
The recession is amplifying a long-run trend of women's earnings becoming more and more important to their family's economic well-being. Between 1980 and 2006, the share of total family income brought home by a working wife has risen from 26.7 to 35.6 percent. Indeed, among married couples, only those with two earners have seen their inflation-adjusted family income grow since the 1970s. For years, the media tried to tell us that women didn't want to work, they were "opting out," and their jobs weren't important to their families. This story wasn't true, but it captured the public's imagination because if women had simply gone back home, it would have solved some of our most intractable social problems. Who should care for children after school? Should women earn as much as their male colleagues even if they've spent a few years at home raising the kids? Should employers be required to provide paid time off for family reasons?
Back in reality, families have needed Mom's earnings for quite some time. We didn't want to admit it because in doing so, we'd have to finally address how we were going to deal with all the things she used to do for us—for free—before she had a day job. And we'd need to make sure that she was paid fairly on the job.
But now, this recession may allow our economic structures to catch up to the reality that families face every day. While there's nothing good about higher unemployment, it is giving million of families someone with the time to turn that "second shift" into a first shift and assist the breadwinning wives. That's the silver lining that may help families survive these difficult times.
Policies that make sense for working families, even in a recession
Families need policies that ensure that as we rebuild our economy, we recognize and address the fact that both men and women work inside and outside of the home. Families need policymakers to recognize that having caregiving responsibilities should not preclude them from having a good job. The increased importance of women's earnings has implications for a number of other work/life balance issues.
Going back to the recovery for a moment, one policy that could get money to states while making long-term investments in working families would be for Congress to consider the Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions (FIRST) Act. This legislation provides discretionary grants to states to implement programs that provide partial or full wage replacement for those taking leave for birth or adoption or those who are taking leave to care for themselves, their child(ren), spouse, or parent with a serious health condition, as defined by the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In helping to defray the costs of setting up these programs, the federal government can encourage states to support working families at a time when families especially need the benefit of paid, job-protected leave.
Because women are supporting more families, pay discrimination has become a more pressing issue for millions of families. Men continue to earn more than women in the workplace, which means that the loss of a man's income can quickly push a family into economic hardship. In three-quarters of dual-earner families, the husband out-earns the wife. The typical wife in a dual-earner family brings home over a third (36.5 percent) of her family's total income. When her husband loses his job, they lose just under two-thirds of family income and, in many cases, the family's access to health insurance from his employer.
The lower pay of women is due to a number of factors, but key among them is that many women continue to be paid less for doing the same job as the man sitting next to them. By the most basic measure women continue to earn 78 cents on the male dollar and much of this gap cannot be explained by the kinds of jobs men and women hold or their skill levels. For example, Blau and Kahn (2007) found that 41.1 percent of the gender pay gap remains unexplained. This means that if women worked in the same jobs as men and had the same educational and experience levels, the gender pay ratio would rise from 80 to 91 percent of men's.3
Congress dealt with some of these issues in passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, but we can still do more. The Paycheck Fairness Act is still sitting in front of the Senate and passing it is critical to ensuring that every worker gets a fair day's pay. Further, the administration can take steps to ensure that the laws we already have on the books are enforced and that workers with caregiving responsibilities are not discriminated against.4
Now, more than ever, workers cannot afford to lose a job due to work/family balance challenges. Losing a job in this economy could mean significant hardship for families. No family should have to cope with a wage earner losing a job because they needed a day off to care for a sick child or family member. Workers have family responsibilities and our policies must recognize this.
In this recession, I urge the EEOC to continue to see combating family responsibilities discrimination (FRD) as an important goal. As the UC Hastings Work Life Law Center states, FRD "is a form of sex discrimination in which workers are treated worse at work because of their caregiving responsibilities for children, elderly parents, or ill relatives. Most often, FRD occurs when mothers hit the "maternal wall" at work. However, FRD also occurs for fathers who seek to participate in child care and for any worker who cares for an elderly, ill, or disabled parent, child, or partner."5
Making sure that no one is fired due to family responsibilities is especially important because the unemployed are finding it increasingly difficult to get back to work. The typical unemployed worker in March had been out of work and searching for a new job since the last week of October 2008 (20.1 weeks), and nearly a quarter (24.2 percent) of the unemployed had been out of a job for at least six months—the highest level since mid-1983. The problem is that there are many more job seekers than jobs to be had. There are more than four workers unemployed for every job available: In February 2009 (the latest data available), there were 12.5 million unemployed workers but only 3.0 million available job openings.
Establishing job-protected family and medical leave for more workers would help to ensure that no worker is pushed into the masses of the unemployed simply because they needed to care for a sick child or needed time to recover from an illness. Currently, the Family and Medical Leave Act only covers half the labor force because it excludes workers in firms with fewer than 50 employees; bringing this down to smaller employers would limit the unemployment of workers with caregiving responsibilities.
Ensuring that part-time workers have access to health care and fair pay has become more important to families. Many employers have cut hours instead of laying off workers. The share of workers who work part-time hours due to slack work or business conditions is now at its highest since the 1950s. In March 2009, nearly 9 million workers reported working less than full-time due to slack business conditions or because they could only find part-time work.
Employers are reporting that they are asking workers to take shorter hours to avoid layoffs. Weekly hours worked are at a historically low level, even as employers shed workers. The average number of hours worked fell to 33.2 per week in March 2009. This is fewer hours per week than at any other time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the data in 1964. Yet shorter hours or part-time work means that millions will be left without basic benefits such as health insurance coverage and paid time off unless employers alter their usual practice of not providing benefits to part-time workers.
The increase in part-time workers—especially involuntary part-time work—underscores how important it is to ensure that part-time workers are included in our plans to expand health care coverage. With more families being supported by a female worker who may not work full-time, access to health care benefits will become even more critical for working families.
Families are facing a tough economy. For many, the challenges of balancing work and family have only grown: with jobs scarce, workers are in greater need of family-friendly policies, especially those that ensure job protection. These policies can help to stimulate the economy in the short-term.
1 Heather Boushey, "Equal Pay for Breadwinners" (Washington, DC, Center for American Progress, 2009).
2 C. Romer. and J. Bernstein, "The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan". (Washington, DC, Council of Economic Advisors, 2009).
3 While educational attainment levels lowered the discrepancy in pay between men and women, other productivity-related factors, such as experience, occupation, and industry all increased the gap. Overall, nearly a third of the gender pay gap (27.4 percent) can be explained by differences in occupations, one-fifth (21.9 percent) can be explained by industry, and 10.5 percent can be explained by labor force experience.
4 J. Williams, "Perspectives on Work/Family Balance and the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws" (Washington, DC: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2007).
5 "Current Law Prohibits Discrimination Based on Family Responsibilities & Gender Stereotyping." UC Hastings Work Life Law Issue Brief, Summer 2006 http://www.uchastings.edu/site_files/WLL/IssueBriefFRD.pdf


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Lautner began the show with a monologue that showed off his karate skills as he reenacted the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards interaction between Kanye West and Lautner's rumored girlfriend Taylor Swift, who was embarrassed when West stormed the stage at the show to protest Swift's win over Beyonce. Lautner spin-kicked a West cutout's head off, then made moves to kiss Swift's cutout -- but rejected Swift for a drag-queen version of Reba McEntire, played by Kenan Thompson.
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Between Lautner's gigs, "SNL" found ample time to make fun of philandering golfer Tiger Woods, who admitted to "infidelity" this week and announced his "indefinite" leave from the PGA Tour.
"Mistress Number Fifteen" made an appearance on "Weekend Update," hosted by Seth Meyers, while the show also featured the "final announcement" from the PGA Tour, a clip showing a company rep boozing his sorrows away as he mourned the loss of Woods' celebrity.


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Many observers have noted that lack of knowledge of military affairs is an Achilles heel for the liberal media. It occurs to me that lack of scripture knowledge may be in the same category, after seeing two rather humorous stories today. First, Senator Sam Brownback quotes Jesus, and gets accused of an anti-gay slur:
Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, a potential presidential candidate, said Monday he meant no offense to homosexuals when he used the word "fruits" in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
In a lengthy profile titled "God's Senator," the magazine quotes the Kansas Republican as criticizing countries like Sweden that allow civil unions between same-sex couples.
"You'll know them by their fruits," Brownback said, quoting a biblical passage from Matthew 7:19.
Rolling Stone writer Jeff Sharlet said in the story, appearing in the magazine's current issue, that Brownback appeared to be calling gay Swedes "fruits," a derogatory term for homosexuals.
Next, via Best of the Web, is Newsweek's misunderstanding of Jerry Falwell. Newsweek's article is about evengelical colleges' enthusiastic embrace of college debate, in which Falwell's Liberty University is currently ranked number one in the country. Newsweek says–rather ominously, I thought–that evangelical leaders are hoping to train a generation of conservative lawyers and judges. Not a bad idea, actually. Here is how Newsweek originally quoted Falwell:
We are training debaters who can perform assault ministry, meaning becoming the conscience of the culture.
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H.S. Basketball: Lebanon tops Trinity for titleBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 30. 2013 10:35PM
MANCHESTER — It was not the finish the Trinity of Manchester girls' basketball team needed.
Trinity led Lebanon by six points with 3:39 to play in the Manchester Central Christmas Tournament championship game Monday night, but allowed Lebanon to scored 13 of the game's final 15 points and pull out a 47-42 victory.
Lebanon tied the game, 42-42, with 1:11 left when point guard Sam MacDonald came up with a steal and made a layup when the Pioneers were holding the ball in an attempt to protect their two-point lead. The Raiders took a lead they wouldn't relinquish when senior forward Heather King scored two of her team-high 17 points 10 seconds later.
"Last year (King) was in the background because we had two First Team All-Staters (Moriah Morton and Emily Kehoe), but this year she's stepped to the forefront," first-year Lebanon coach Rob Marsh said. "She knows this is her team."
King, a senior who averaged 10.4 points and 7.0 rebounds per game last season, was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. She scored 32 points in a victory over Manchester Memorial, and tossed in 26 when Lebanon beat Hollis/Brookline.
"For us to be successful this year she needs to score in the 20-point range, and she needs to be in double figures on the boards," Marsh said. "Right now we're seeing that out of her."
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May 16. 2013 10:44PM
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After the third round was cancelled due to impending bad weather, the Lady Bisons finished fourth in a six-team field at the Miller Memorial Golf Course. Lipscomb fired a two-round team total of 652 (328-324).
"Unfortunately due to the weather we have not been able to play much outside on the course this winter," Lipscomb coach Buddy Harston said. "We were glad to get the first tournament under our belts, but I was a little disappointed with our performance today.
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MacKenzy Carter placed 22nd with a total of 161. She finished the day with an 81-80.
Sami Khan, the team's stroke leader in the fall, carded a pair of 83s. Her 166 tournament total gave her a 28th place finish.
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Sabrina Ferreri posted rounds of 89-82 for a 171. She ended the day in 35th. Sarah McFarlin finished just behind Ferreri in 37th. McFarlin carded a 91-84 for 175.
Murray State shot 300-300 for a team total of 600 to win the Time Warner Racer Classic. Racer Delaney Howson and Brianna Scheidler of the University of Indianapolis tied for the medalist with a 146.
The Purple and Gold will return to the links March 11-12 at the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
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AC Milan's Boateng leaves pitch due to racism
AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng walked off the pitch during a friendly match on Thursday after he was the subject of racist abuse.
Milan's match against fourth-tier side Pro Patria was abandoned when Boateng, in possession on the left wing in the 26th minute, suddenly picked the ball up and smashed it towards the stand behind him.
The Ghana midfielder then tore off his shirt and walked off the field at the opposite end. On his way, he applauded other sections of the crowd, who then appeared to react angrily towards the corner of the ground from which the chants came.
Pro Patria's Dario Alberto Polverini attempted to talk to Boateng as he departed, but the midfielder carried on walking and the rest of the players and officials followed him off the pitch.
Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri told reporters: "We are disappointed and saddened by what has happened. Milan play for the right to respect all players. We need to stop these uncivilised gestures.
"We are sorry for all the other fans who came here for a beautiful day of sport. We promise to return, and we are sorry for the club and players of Pro Patria, but we could not make any other decision. I hope it can be an important signal.''
The match was goalless at the time, with Sulley Muntari having had a goal disallowed for offside.
Later, anti-racism campaigners praised Boateng and Piara Powar, executive director of European anti-discrimination group FARE, called for the Italian FA to take strong action.
He told the Press Association: "We salute Kevin-Prince Boateng for his actions and his team-mates for their support. This is the not the first time a player has walked off in Italy - if the situation continues it may not be the last.
"Italy, as much as any country in Europe, has a serious problem of racism to deal with. Football infrastructure is in need of renewal and at serious odds with the changing nature of Italian society. We look forward to strong action by the FIGC (Italian FA).''


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